I'm back, to solve the mystery of the cliffhanger.

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Where?!

It was the only thing Kronos could think about. Where the hell did these kids get the strength to move like they were? Where did they find it within themselves to keep fighting?

"I don't understand!" Kronos roared angrily as he missed a punch directed at the shirtless girl, who dodged it and blasted a column of water at him, which he blocked. Only in time, however, for the pinkette to slam a fist into his face. "Where do you draw this strength from?"

"When we can't move and all hope seems lost." The pinkette replied, a devilish grin on her features. "Is when we catch our second wind!" She kicked him in the midsection and he felt himself connect with another person, the Dragon Force idiot. After a few punches and kicks to the head, He was thrown towards the redhead, who slashed him repeatedly. He landed and faltered to one knee, watching the six teenagers advancing on him.

"I..." Kronos didn't know what to say. Had he some sort of plan, maybe he'd flaunt it in their face, but there was no plan. He chuckle to himself as he struggled to stand. "I suppose I should have predicted some sort of thing like this." No one really responded to him, but he stood tall and smiled at them. "Unfortunately for all of you, this little charade will end soon. After all, I am the Master of this guild." He rushed at them again, grabbing the pinkette by the scruff of her scarf and threw her at the redhead, connecting with it and they both flew away from him. He turned in time to block a club from the Iron Dragon, slamming a fist into her face and got grabbed by the demon with white hair, and he felt his neck going cold.

"Afraid of death?" The demon hissed, watching Kronos as he laughed.

"No, not really." Kronos blasted ice from his free hand and freed himself, only in time to dodge a blast of ice from the shirtless girl. He grabbed her hair and whupped her at the Dragon Force boy, who caught her instead of getting them both hurt. Kronos whirled to try and grab the next attacker, but the pinkette was already ready, dodging his attempt to catch her punch and uppercutting him in the stomach ,sending him into the air. He was greeted by the redhead, who tried to slash him open again, managing to leave a rather large cut by his midsection. As Kronos fell, he could see the iron girl waiting, and he managed to grab her by the club, throwing her into the advancing demon.

"Mavis above." Shirtless girl said as she swung at icy blade at Kronos a few times, every time of which was blocked."How are you so strong?"

"Years of training, my dearie." he replied, grabbing the blade and cracking it in his hand, watching the girl looked shocked. Blasting her back with hell magic, Kronos got a poisoned fist to the back of the head, followed up by a swift series of punches, kicks, blasts of poison, and a roar which sent him sailing towards the pinkette, who was waiting like everyone else for their turn.

"Fire Dragon God Wing Attack!" She shouted, the swirling flame coming right towards Kronos.

"Fire God's Death Scythe!" Kronos replied, slashing the flame with the blade, dissipating it quickly. After he'd done so, the pinkette tried for a close range engagement, which Kronos had just enough strength left to block. He was about to send her flying when a pair of hands grabbed his shoulders from behind. The redhead was the one who grabbed him, and he flew back into the wall with the propulsion of heavenly light. He crawled out, coughing up blood, and stood unsteadily. Rolling his eyes at the scene before him, he began the drawing of his final plan, watching them all stare at him.

"What are you doing?" The demon asked. Kronos decided to respond once he finished drawing the seal, which glowed darkly.

"As you've already seen, I'm proficient with all the magic my guild used. I'm just using them all at once, quite similar to the Unison Raid you all performed." Kronos laughed as they all exchanged a nervous look. "Except this one will be more than enough to kill you all! Hahaha!" None of them moved, they just watched as the attack began the firing sequence. "Well, Fairy Tail, it appears your time has...!" Kronos' eyes widened in shock at the feeling, before he paled considerably.

*Hisss*

Kronos kept completely still as his magic disappeared and the hands that where cupped around his head from behind moved away. The person who had done so snickered.

"That was for Drake-sama's father" Azzie whispered in his ear as she fell backwards away from him. "Now!" She shouted, and Kronos used the remainder of his strength to turn and find the six of them rushing him together, all preparing an attack.

...

...

How...

"Grand Chariot!"

Where do they get this strength...

"Water Nebula!"

I don't understand...

"Mortality Way!"

Could it be...their true strength...

"Poison Dragon Roar!"

Does not in the form of their type of magic or weariness of human life...

"Bellowing Roar of the Iron Dragon God!"

But rather, in their sense of camaraderie...their friendship, and want to protect those close to them...

"Bellowing Roar of the Fire Dragon God!"

That's where their true strength comes from...Alone, they're susceptible to defeat...Together...

The attacks formed into one just like before, the barreling ray of defeat coming right for Kronos without mercy.

Together, they cannot be defeated...

The attack made contact and Kronos felt a searing pain spread through his entire body. He screamed in pain, but knew there was no mercy awaiting such a sound.

Olympians have mercy on my soul, I have failed them...

BOOM!

Jellal had heard all of the explosion from the airship, and could only hope they were being used to defeat Kronos. it had been quite some time since Erik had run off, so he could only hope.

"This is stupid." Sorano hissed, crossing her arms. "We were all out for the entirety of the fight and didn't get to do anything. Please don't tell me those kids did everything?"

"That remains to be seen." Jellal replied to her. "They went after Kronos." Although Jellal was worried as well, he wasn't expecting such a reaction from the rest of his guild.

"What?!" Meredy shouted angrily. "And you let them go?!"

"What was I supposed to do?" Jellal asked as the angry pinkette bore down on him. "I was wounded, they were determined...You all know what happens when Fairy Tail gets determined!"

"As stupid as your decision was, Jellal," Erigor spoke up from his spot near the tree. "you're right, Fairy Tail doesn't know what' Roll over and give up' means. it's in there nature to try until they die doing so."

"He's got a point, sadly." Macbeth said quietly, sighing and rubbing his arms to warm himself after he'd defrosted. "Fairy Tail...they're difficult."

"That's for sure." Sawyer agreed. "I've never seen a group of people agree so quickly to go and almost get themselves killed."

"It's because of their love for their guild!" Richard shouted happily, causing the others to sweat drop.

"Keep telling yourself that, Rick." Sorano said quietly, rubbing her bandaged head. "The only thing that could make this worse is if..."

"Jellal!" Jellal choked as the figures emerged from the treeline, which was Fairy Tail. "What the hell happened?" Laxus demanded as they ran up.

"Uh..." Jellal said slowly. "We, uh...crashed?"

"No shit." Natsu grumbled. "We meant how!"

"Uh..."

"Jellal." Jellal jumped at the tone Lucy used, which was deadly calm. "Where are the kids?"

"K-kids?" Jellal asked slowly.

"You know what she means." Gajeel hissed. "I smell them all over this place. Where. Are. They?"

"Uh..." Jellal trailed off at the murderous expressions he was getting.

"You can all calm down, shit." Everyone turned at the new voice to find none other than Erik stumbling out of the forest. He was beaten, bloodied, clothes ripped, and mumbling, but otherwise okay. "They'll be fine."

"Erik!" Kinana shouted in worry, running to her husband. "What happened to you?!"

"Lot's of shit." he replied, leaning on her for support. "Went to help the kids take on Master Kronos, got defeated, let Drake enter Dragon Force, and left before shit hit the fan." Erik's words left the whole group stunned, and it was Laxus who finally spoke.

"...What?" he asked Erik weakly, who's ears twitched.

"Oh, here they come now." he said, turning in Kinana's grasp to watch the treeline. Jellal turned to look as well, and found what everyone was looking for. Walking towards them, beaten, limping, bloodied, panting, almost unconscious, were the six teens in questions. None of them seemed to be in a good condition, but no one faltered as they walked forward together. They came into the clearing, spotted Crime Sociere awake, Erik, their parents, and remained silent for a minute. Finally, after far to long, it was Nashi who spoke.

"So, uh..." She said weakly, rubbing the back of her head. "Did we miss something important?" No one spoke, no one could find the words.

"No, not much." Erik replied, who almost seemed unfazed. "Did you win?"

"Master Kronos is currently lying either dead or out cold back there." Damien replied casually, and saw the parents react in shock. "What?" he asked them.

"You guys..." Erza said slowly, pointing to them. "Defeated the Master of Devil Advocate?"

"Yeah." Simon told his mother, stretching. "No big deal, right?" Slowly but surely, everyone stopped staring in shock, and began to talk to their kids in hushed tones.

"You know." Jellal turned to look at Meredy as she spoke in his direction with a hushed tone. "I think the title of the strongest team is getting passed on." Jellal thought about it for a minute as he watched Nashi get put in a headlock by her father, Drake and Erik start yelling at each other, Gajeel patting his daughters head, Simon and Erza speaking quietly, Juvia hugging Ultear closely and crying while Ultear tried to get away, and Damien getting reprimanded for Xisplate, he chuckled.

"I couldn't think of a better team to give it too."

"Well, that as fun." Azzie gave Katsuchi a quizzical look as they trudged through the forest. After Kronos' defeat, they had opted for an escape rather than go back with Fairy Tail. They had been offered a place in the guild, but none of them felt that was a good idea.

"Yeah, really fun." Tetsu agreed from Azzie's other side, his hands behind his head as they walked. "I'm surprised we survived though."

"Agreed." Katsuchi replied. "Maybe Master Kronos wasn't as bad ass as we thought."

"I wouldn't say that." Azzie interrupted quietly, causing both God Slayers to look at her closely. "It took nine of us, A man on par with our Master, and good luck. We got lucky, that's all there is too it."

"Jeez, could you be anymore depressing?" Katsuchi asked her, and she shrugged. "Well anyway, now what?" Silence fell upon the trio, as the question stayed in their subconscious. Now what? Devil Advocate had been all they knew, what where they to do now?

"Anything." Azzie finally said, a smile creasing her face.

"Huh?" Tetsu asked, his face appearing in her vision. "Did you say something?"

"We can do anything we want." Azzie replied, tears forming in her eyes. "We're free, we can do anything we want." She saw both of her friends smile at the thought, and Katsuchi laughed.

"There's a small town not far from here." he said. "Maybe w could stay there for a little bit."

"Then what?" Azzie asked, wondering what her future held for her. Tetsu laughed as well.

"It's like you said." he said wrapping an arm around her. "Anything. Right Kat?" Katsuchi nodded, putting his arm around Azzie as well.

"But no matter what we do," he said. "Let's take a page from Fairy Tail's book."

"Which is?" Azzie asked curiously, and Katsuchi smirked.

"No matter what we end up doing." he said to both her and Tetsu. "We do it together." Azzie broke into the biggest smile that had ever graced her face , and nodded tearfully.

"Right...Together."

The man sighed as he tapped his fingers against the desk, waiting for the report. It had been a little bit since he'd ordered it. No matter what, he'd knew he'd get it anyway.

"Master Zeus." Zeus tuned as he was addressed to find the man he'd sent to report kneeling before him, and he smiled dryly.

"Report, Ares." he said, and the man stood. "Have you found out about Devil Advocate?"

"Yes." Ares said, growling. "They were defeated by Fairy Tail." Zeus nodded quietly and watched the sea from his window quietly.

"And Kronos?" he asked.

"Defeated," Ares reported. "However, recoverable. Shall I give the order?" Zeus thought about it for a minute before he nodded.

"Yes, recover him. His Arc of Time can use much improvement, perhaps he could even use that spell we've been crafting."

"Are you sure, Zeus?" Zeus nodded at Ares' question, who sighed. "Anything else?"

"Yes, actually." Zeus turned to glare at Ares. "Do not make a push for Fairy Tail, not yet."

"Why not?" Ares asked angrily, his face glowing with rage. "They're weak! if we attacked now..."

"She is not at full power yet, you know we need her as strong as she can be." Zeus shouted back, causing Ares to go silent. "If we cannot access the power within, she is worth nothing to us."

"yes, but..."

"I will give that order in due time." Zeus interrupted, not interested in whatever Ares was trying to say. "In the meantime, contact Apocalypse."

"Whatever for?"

"Tell him it is almost time. He'll mobilize as soon as he can."

"Yes, Master Zeus." Zeus heard Ares leave the room, and he sighed. So much pressure. If one part of this plan went wrong, it'd all go to hell. However he knew what he was after, and when he needed it.

"Just wait a little longer, comrades." Zeus murmured as he watched the waves from below assault the mountain face. "I know when we must mobilize, after the Grand Magic Games in seven months. Once that time has come to pass, we can take her. Once we have her, we can use her to destroy Earthland..."

"No matter what, I will have Nashi Dragneel."

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