Seeing as things are getting hype, I see no need to make you guys wait. And these last two chapters have clearly been very popular, so...

Enjoy!

BOOM!

Apocalypse flew through another wall and fell down on his face. When he looked up, he found he'd actually flown through at least six walls all fifteen feet thick. Looking through the holes, he saw it.

That demon.

Nashi was standing where he'd been only a millisecond before, watching him through the holes. The bright blue that was her eyes watched him mercilessly. She stepped forward, and the thick steel wall melted in her wake. the horns made of fire were pointed back, and her arms looked as if volcanic craters had formed up and down them, her hands as black as brimstone. She took another step forward, and the heat wave slammed into Apocalypse, almost knocking him out. he scrambled to his feet and took off through a door to his left, just trying to get away at this point. he sprinted as fast as his body allowed him, taking any turns that put distance between him and whatever the hell Nashi had turned into to. Hearing a strange sound, Apocalypse looked over his shoulder at what it was.

Just in time to get a blast to the face.

How did she...?!

Apocalypse once again sailed through the air and through a wall. The beam of energy faded away, and Apocalypse looked up as he cradled himself on his knees.

She was at least two hundred feet away, staring at him from the area she'd been in before, but her aim had been dead on. She slowly lowered her black hand and started to walk towards him once more, but Apocalypse didn't know what to do. He stayed where he was, rigid with fear, as the raging, demonic inferno that was the silent Nashi Dragneel reached him. He felt as though he was melting as he looked up at her. the blue light shining from her eye sockets showed no emotion.

"What are you?!" He shouted, enraged. She did not reply. "WHAT ARE YOU?!" Again, she did not reply. He slowly stood and glowered at her. Again, she showed no reaction. "You...You have no idea what's in store for you..." Snapping his fingers, the same number of rapture circles that had incapacitated her appeared all over her body. "You won't be able to take this, not in your body's state!" The circles glowed, and Apocalypse smiled.

She didn't even flinch.

Apocalypse stared as the girl slowly looked down at her exposed stomach, where one of his rapture circles was. She placed her open palm over it, and Apocalypse watched as the circle grew bright red and exploded into dark red fire.

She'd blown up his rapture circle.

"That doesn't even make sense..." he whispered. What had happened to her? Just what the hell did Etherion exposure do to a human?

...Or was this what Zeus had been after?

It hit Apocalypse like a ton of bricks. Zeus had wanted to strike the Etherion cannon on the Fairy Tail guild hall specifically to cause this girl to be exposed to Etherion. Apocalypse had just watched her throw herself into a swirling mass of it and eat it.

Nashi had done it a different way, but the same result had happened.

"Nashi Dragneel..." Apocalypse whispered as the girl once again took aim with her open palm.

"Is awake."

There's random magic bursts," Ken reported. "On the scale of a small Etherion strike. I don't know what the hell is happening down there, but whatever it is..." His words cast silence among the group. They all knew what that meant. Whether or not they liked it, that was Nashi.

"Let's just hope she knows what she's doing." Simon muttered.

"She doesn't." Drake hissed. "And the fact that we're sitting here and doing nothing while she's about to get herself killed is PISSING ME OFF!" Drake's outburst startled Ken, who hadn't been looking.

"You want to go out there and try to find here?" Ultear demanded. "And get yourself killed in the process?"

"I'd rather die trying to find her than live with the knowledge I could've saved her and didn't!" he shot back. Drake moved for the door, but Damien got in his way. "Damien..." Drake growled.

"Don't be a retard." Damien told him matter of factly. "You're not thinking straight."

"How?!"

"What about us?" Damien fired. "Do you think we like sitting here on our asses while she risks her life?! DO YOU?!" Drake remained silent, and Damien composed himself. "We all feel the same way. All of us, even those not in our guild. Stop being a selfish prick, you're not the only one who worries about her."

"You think I give a fuck if any of you feel the same?!" Drake shouted, pushing Damien back. "I couldn't care less how you feel about this! I want to save her, so if I'm the only one who'll act on it, then...!

Damien punched Drake in the face.

The Poison Dragon flew back and hit his back on the wall of the Christina, falling and landing on his side. Damien strode up to him and grabbed him by the collar of his coat, and hoisted him into the air.

"You're so full of shit." Damien hissed. "Stop acting so high and mighty! if I was as stupid as you, I'd already be out there! If we all went by your fucked up logic, we'd all be looking for her! We aren't being illogical, we're trying to MINIMIZE THE LIVES TAKEN!" Drake's nose was bleeding, but he reared a free hand back and coated it in poison, swinging it at Damien. Ken watched as the blow temporarily freed the younger mage, who dodged Damien's attempt to grab him again and delivered a kick to his stomach.

"You want to go a few rounds, Dreyar?" Drake hissed. "Let's see how stack up."

"Fuck you, you cyanide eating prick." Damien took over into a demon form, and Drake threw his coat off to the side, his arms turning red and scaly. They both charged at each other fists raised, ready to deliver a blow.

A blast of Heavenly light flew past Ken's head, causing both to stop mere inches from each other and turn in the attack's direction, as did Ken.

Simon radiated raw rage.

"Stop it." he commanded. Damien started to object, but Simon sent him a rage fueled stare which silenced him. "We all feel the same way. We're pissed off that we can't help her, but we're not going to do anything but put more lives at risk. So stop fighting, or I'll fucking drop the both of you." Silence enveloped the bridge before Damien sighed, returned to his human form, and walked away from the fight. Drake remained stationary, glaring at the ground.

"...Sorry." he finally said.

"It's fine." Damien replied. "Happens to the best of us." After this short exchange, Winter blew her bangs from her face.

"Fuck." She stated. Mami sighed.

"Pretty much." She agreed. ken sighed and rubbed his face with his hand. He'd been sweating far more than he thought.

"At this rate, we're going to kill each oth..."

An alarm cut Ken off, and is stomach dropped. he slowly turned back to his Archive and read the alert. He gulped.

"...What?" Terra asked.

"...The ether-nano levels in Silverridge are off the charts." he replied. "That...That has a handful of meanings, so to say."

Apocalypse was spread eagle on his back, staring up at the roof of the chamber. Judging from how his body reacted, he wanted to say he was back in the Etherion chamber. With the sound of melting metal, Nashi also made her presence known. Slowly looking up, he found himself sitting on the metal bridge that crossed the gap over the Etherion. Nashi was standing on the opposite side then when she'd thrown herself in, but she did not advance. Merely watched. Looking down, Apocalypse wondered what would happen to him should he throw himself in the Etherion as well.

No, she's a slayer and a monster...She was built to absorb elements...

He laughed and threw his head back as Nashi slowly approached.

"It's been a while since I've been thrown around like this." he said, sitting up. "And of course it'd be too you." No response, just the slow advance of a monster. Apocalypse slowly stood and snapped his fingers, causing several rapture circles to appear all over her body. Just like usual, the activation did nothing. he snorted as she got closer.

"You'd think with all that Etherion in your system it'd do more to you." He said flatly. Too some it may have seemed like Apocalypse was strangely calm at the moment. There were several reasons for this. For one, it no longer mattered what happened to him. This was thanks to his second point.

The cannon had finished charging, and was currently honing in on Magnolia. He only needed to last a little longer to succeed in taking out her family. He'd die, but he was alright with that. He'd been expendable for so long it no longer mattered. he smiled at Nashi, who took no notice of the small notion.

"Just wait Nashi." he said. "It'll all be over soon!" Apocalypse snapped his fingers to form another rapture circle on her, but she was one step ahead of him. She bolted right to him in the span of time it took him to raise his arm to snap his fingers, and reached forward.

In one swift movement, Nashi Dragneel ripped his right arm from it's socket.

Apocalypse could do noting but watch as Nashi took his arm and raised it above her head. One explosion of hell fire later, Nashi deposed of the useless appendage into the vat below them.

"Wha..." Apocalypse tried as he watched his arm sail into the Etherion he felt queasy from all the blood coming out of the hole in this body.. "You...Bitch!" Raising his left fist, Apocalypse gathered rapture magic around it, which would cause to explode the second it touched anything magical. Nashi was faster. She dodged the blow with ease and was now below Apocalypse, who looked down.

He was greeted by a hell fire supernova, which was forming on the knuckles of the brimstone colored fist which belonged to the demon.

"What does that mean?!" Ultear asked. "is the cannon firing or exploding?!" ken typed faster than he ever had before, trying to find her an answer.

"I don't know!" he shouted in a panic. "It's just a lot of magic eneg...!"

BOOM!

The entire Christina shook from an explosion, which knocked everyone to the ground. Once they recovered somewhat, everyone looked towards the city.

They saw one dot sailing high into the air.

Another dark red one flew upwards to meet it.

"Is that..." Simon started.

"Nashi?!" Elise shouted.

SLAM!

Everyone jumped and turned to find the door of the Christina had been kicked open.

Drake was missing.

Looking back towards the city, Drake was sprinting full speed towards it.

"That idiot!" ken took with everyone else and bolted from the Christina after Drake, trying to stop him. "He's going to get himself killed!" Simon roared.

"Come on, we can stop him!" Elise shouted.

"DRAKE!" Drake ignored Ultear screaming his name and ran top speed for the city, not taking his eyes off of the two dots in the sky.

Come on, come on...

His lungs begged him to stop, as did his legs. his brain tried to make him regulate his air intake, but he didn't. He couldn't focus, not in a situation like this.

What did he plan to do when he got there?

How was he going to help her?

Was he seriously thinking he could do a damn thing?

That wasn't what mattered.

He had to do something.

No matter what, even if it was nothing but dying from stupidity, he had to do it. He ignored his friends screaming his name, and brought his eyes back up to look at the black and red dots. The red dot had caught up with the black one.

And did a one eighty and started to descend. Drake's eyes widened as the joined dots picked up speed.

He wasn't going to make it.

Not in time.

The dots were going to fast. As they disappeared behind the skyline of the city, Drake stopped running.

"NASHI!" he screamed, as everything faded to white.

The heat was unbearable.

He'd lost to much blood.

As Apocalypse sailed through the open air, he had time to think.

What had he done?

Just what had he unleashed upon the world?

As Nashi reached him seven hundred feet in the air and she grabbed him, he realized it.

This was why the Olympians wanted her.

She was every bit as powerful as them, maybe even stronger. As he felt her volcanic hands grab him by the neck and start to speed downwards, Apocalypse had no time to wonder just what they had planned.

All that he knew was that whatever they had planned, it better have been worth it.

Nashi Dragneel...

Apocalypse felt his body submerge in Etherion, and he slammed into the bottom of the vat. Looking up, she had slowed her own descent slightly to time her own. She descended at the speed of light, another supernova ready to go. She sped through the open ground and the roof of the underground chamber, rearing back to slam the fist into him.

What the hell are you?

And with a slow fade to white, Apocalypse the former torturer of Phantom Dove, the man who awakened Etherious Nashi Dragneel, died not knowing the answer to his question.

Nothing.

That was all Drake could feel. He was surrounded by nothing. His entire body ached from the wrath of the explosion. Slowly, he brought his head up from protecting it with his arms and looked ahead of him.

Silverridge was gone.

Completely obliterated. Drake slowly stood and observed the smoldering wreckage, all of it still alight.

"Holy shit..." Drake heard Elise murmur from behind him.

"Nashi..." Ultear whimpered.

Nashi.

Drake's emotions spiraled out of control. he heard Ultear tearing up, and Simon comforting her. The others tried to hold in their tears, but they were failing. He clenched his fists angrily as images if the girl passed through his mind. Anger driving him, he started to walk towards the remains of the city.

"Drake..." Damien started. "There's no point, there's no way she could've..." Drake ignored Damien and passed through the destroyed archway into the city. Activating his sound magic, he tried to wipe the tears from his face so he could focus on listening. he passed building after building, fire after fire, but he saw nothing.

"Please..." Drake croaked. "She has to be here...Even if it's a body..."

He heard nothing.

He saw nothing.

...She was gone.

Drake collapsed to his knees as tears began to fall.

"Please!" he shouted. "She has to be...She can't be..." Drake looked up, and he noticed it. up ahead of him in the center of the city, was a huge crater. Hollow inside, Drake managed to climb to his feet and walk towards it slowly. Tripping over a piece of rubble, Drake made it to the edge of the crater and collapsed on the edge, his arms hanging uselessly over the side of it.

"Nashi..." He whispered. Tears streamed from his eyes, and he cursed himself. He'd failed her.

Drake heard a hissing sound. Looking up, Drake looked down into the center of the gigantic crater about one hundred feet deep, and gasped.

There, standing in the center of the abyss, was a pink haired, shirtless, Dragon Slayer.

"Nashi!" Drake jumped to his feet and slid down the side of the crater without a second thought, slipping halfway through and tumbling the rest of the way down. He finally made it and jumped to his feet, staring at her. "Nashi!" he shouted.

Slowly but surely, she turned to look at him, and Drake's blood ran cold. Bright blue energy radiated from her eyes, she had horns, and her arms were covered in volcanic craters, while her hands were black. She watched him lifelessly, and Drake feared for his life.

"Drake..." her voice escaped her lips after thirty seconds, sounding raspy and weak. After another moment, a smile graced her wrecked face. Slowly, blue magic began to flow out of her being, and dissipating into the air around them.

"Nashi... Drake started, walking towards her. Nashi slowly blinked once, and coughed weakly.

"I got him." She said. With this, her eyes closed and her body fell forward. Drake rushed and caught her, cradling the limp and injured body of his friend.

"Nashi?" He asked weakly, shaking her. "...N-Nashi? Hey, come on..." Shaking her did nothing, so Drake focused on his hearing to listen to her, looking for a heartbeat. Drake's eyes widened.

Not only was Nashi's heart beating, but it was going at three times the rate it should have been her brain was convulsing, causing her lungs to breath in and out in short bursts, far to short to get any air into her.

She survived an Etherion blast...Just how strong are you, Nashi?

And the End of the World comes to completion! Just like I promised, this arc has some serious development behind it. I'm really sorry this arc has taken so long to complete compared to the rest of the story. He started this arc before summer and e're only now finishing it.

Worth the wait, I say.

Also, the next chapter will be some cool down, buildup to GMG, and we'll go from there.

I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get fifteen for the of of EotW!