AN: SO here is the next chapter of God of Fairies and it is quite a bit longer than the last ones. Have to say I was pleasantly surprised by how people have been responding to this story.
So yeah I hope you all like it and leave a comment or a review at the end.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Percy Jackson.
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(Last Time)
Angel rolled her eyes as she saw their childish antics, before she performed a forced closure. The twins vanished in a flash of golden light, waving goodbye to the bald Wizard Saint and their user as they did. Angel quickly focused her attention back on Jura.
"Ichiya is only unconscious…? Why did you not kill him… when you had the chance?" Jura groaned out as he felt the effects of fake-Ichiya's attacks seeping through him, paralyzing both his body and magic.
"Don't tempt me." Angel replied mockingly, though Jura was able to see she was lying. She had the opportunity to kill Ichiya and stop him from ever interfering in her plans and yet she didn't, just as she had the opportunity to strike him down now. These were not the actions of a truly Dark Wizard; he knew from reports that she had of course killed before when fighting other wizards, but it seemed she wasn't capable of cold blooded murder, how interesting.
"Now then, where was I? Oh yes, I was just about to knock you out of the game." Angel said, oblivious to Jura's thoughts as she raised her high heeled boots and slammed her down onto his skull with a thudding sound, knocking Jura out as she did so.
"Now we just have this Percy to deal with and then we are in the clear." Angel muttered to herself as she uncorked another of Ichiya's red vials and dropped it next to Jura's head so it would keep him incapacitated. She had already found out their plans and reported it to Brain, just as she had sent the alliance's airship to where some of the Dark Guild's loyal to Oración Seis were waiting, these Guild's would hijack the airship so it could be used against their enemies.
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Chapter 3
(With the Alliance Members)
Ignoring the shouts of Gray and Lucy as they chased after him, Natsu continued to run through the North Woodsea Forest, shouting out challenges and trying to use his superior senses to find the members of Oración Seis as he did so. It was he was starting to think, a mistake to run off alone into the forest. But he had been so caught up in the excitement he had not stopped to think properly, now though as he continued to lope through the forest he began to realise he had perhaps been a bit premature in leaving the Blue Pegasus mansion and the rest of the alliance.
Slowing his pace down so as to allow Gray, Lucy and whoever else was following him to catch up. Natsu was aware that at least those two were behind him, he had after all, previously been ignoring their, figuring that as long as he could hear them, then he knew they were keeping up, which meant he had no reason to slow down. It was with that in mind that he slowed his pace down to a walk so that he could wait for them to catch up.
It appeared that he had made the right call, as upon slowing down, he suddenly caught the scents of five unfamiliar people nearby. It didn't not take Natsu long to come to the assumption that these five people could be from Oración Seis.
Stopping completely now, a guarded look appeared on Natsu's face as he waited for his back up to arrive. He might be loud and a bit hardheaded at times but he was not stupid, he knew that he wouldn't have a chance of beating five powerful Dark Wizards at the same time, even if the thought of fighting against such odds was exciting. All the same he knew the mission should come first, which was why he waited for Lucy and Gray to catch up.
"God damn it flame brain!" Gray shouted as he ran up to Natsu, an irritated expression on his face. "What were you thinking running off like that?!"
"Gray not so loudly." Lucy said nervously behind Gray as she looked around the forest, a bit creeped out by how dark and quiet it was. "We don't know where the Dark Wizards we are supposed to be fighting are."
"Well I think there are five of them in the clearing just up ahead." Natsu said nonchalantly as he once again sniffed the air, his eyes fixed ahead of him where he could see the trees had thinned a lot.
"What!" Lucy said, a look of shock and horror spreading across her face.
"What's the problem?" Lyon said as he caught up to Natsu, Gray and Lucy. With Sherry and the Trimens following after him, as he hurriedly caught up to the others.
"Natsu says he has sensed the enemy up ahead." A tense Gray replied with a frown on his face, as he looked in the same direction as Natsu, the trees were thinning and their looked to be a slight rise in the ground up ahead, a perfect place for a trap or an ambush.
"How many of them?" Hibiki asked a thoughtful look on his face as he noted that there were eight Alliance Wizards here.
"I can smell five people over there." Natsu replied pointing in the direction he meant.
"Five of them and eight of us" Hibiki said warily. "Normally I would be happy with those odds, but Oración Seis is one of the most powerful Dark Guilds in Fiore, it is very likely each of their members are at least high A-Class or S-Class Wizards. It might be better to wait for Ichiya, Perseus and Jura to catch up."
"We should attack now while we have the element of surprise." Gray said resolutely coming to a decision.
"If they are as powerful as Hibiki says, I think it is likely they know we are here just like we know they are there." Lyon spoke up a frown of concentration on his face. "It might be better if we regroup and follow the strategy."
"The strategy relies on routing them though, that means we will have to fight them eventually and make them retreat to their base." Gray replied as he glared at Lyon, pissed off that he was arguing with him in a moment like this. "Why not attack them now when they are not at full strength and whilst we have the element of surprise?!"
"Well if we are going to fight them, we might as well do it now while we are together. The rest will catch up to us." Natsu said decisively his hands balled up into fists.
"There are only five of them, I think it is likely that the leader sent them out to find Nirvana or if he knew about our mission to oppose us. That would mean that Brain their most powerful member is not here, if we attack now and incapacitate at least some of them then it will make it that much easier for Ichiya, Jura and Percy to mop up the rest when they arrive." Eve said his brows furrowed in concentration as he tried to think about the situation logically.
"Christina should have been here by now," Hibiki said as he looked up into the sky, expecting to see the Magical Bomber approaching, yet he saw nothing but blue sky and clouds. "Until Christina arrives we will just have to do the best we can."
"Alright fine, if we are to attack we go together as one. That means that Fairy Tail doesn't break formation and go it alone, we will all need to work together if we are to take down Dark Wizards of this caliber." Lyon said as he gave both Natsu and Gray a significant look.
"Don't worry you can count on us!" Lucy said determinedly with a nod of her head as the others all gave their own signs of agreement.
"So let's go fight them then" Natsu said with a grin getting a nod from the others as he turned and dashed towards where the Dark Wizards were. The others fanning out behind him as he did so, with the Blue Pegasus members taking up his right flank, Lyon and Sherry on his left flank and both Gray and Lucy at his back. As they charged forward the two groups at his flank broke off and began to go round the sides.
Both Hibiki and Lyon having independently come up with the decision to use a pincer movement in an attempt to flank the Oración Seis members from both sides whilst the Fairy Tail loudly attacked them from the front, drawing all of their attention. This would box the five Dark Wizards in between all four Light Guilds, which would allow for the Light Guilds to quickly overwhelm them.
Sliding to a stop as he reached the clearing Natsu scowled at the five people casually waiting for him and his group, the reason for his sudden stopping was the blast of blackish green magic that tore up the ground in front of his group and the other two groups, halting their advance and completely taking away their 'element of surprise'.
It appeared Eve had been wrong; the five people waiting for them within the clearing consisted of Brain, Midnight, Racer, Cobra and Hoteye. All five of them did not look at all surprised by the arrival of Natsu and his group, in fact judging by the fact Brain spoke to them before they even left the trees, it was very likely that Lyon had been right that they had known where they were all along.
"Welcome to the Woodsea, our home." Brain said loudly in a calm and courteous tone, as he first looked at Natsu, Gray and Lucy, before turning his head both left and right looking at the Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus members who had been trying to pincer him. Three of the other four with him were standing ready; their magic blazing as they each faced a group of mages, Midnight for some reason was still sleeping on his magic carpet. "To what do we owe the pleasure of having mages from the outside enter our humble abode?"
"To think the fools though they could take us by surprise?" Racer said with a confident sneer as he gave both Sherry and Lyon a dismissive look.
"Indeed it appears their arrogance knows no bounds, but what else is to be expected from those who hold their moral and beliefs over the only truly important thing in the world, money and power?" Hoteye said as he inspected the Blue Pegasus group he was facing, the ground around him had already softened, causing the three Trimen's feet to beginning to sink into the ground like it was quick sand. "Such weak willed mages will never hold a candle to those who embrace the truth of this world we live in, power and money."
Cobra who was standing just in front of Brain opened his eyes as he looked at the Fairy Tail members. "These three in front of me truly believed that they would take us by surprise, I can hear it. They were hoping to take us down before the others got here, all in some misguided attempt to prove themselves, each of them for their own selfish reason."
Natsu, Gray and Lucy tensed as they heard that. Natsu instantly lit his enclosed fist on fire, lowering his body to the ground so he could leap forward on the attack at any moment. Gray slammed his closed fist on the palm of his left hand, the air getting colder around him as he prepared to fight. Lucy already had Taurus's Celestial Key in hand; the blonde was prepared to summon her first spirit Taurus at any moment. The other Light Guild mages also prepared themselves for a fight.
"I will give you one chance, Light Wizards, one chance to leave this forest alive. This is a generous offer and not one that I give out often, take me up on my offer by leaving this forest and returning to your Guilds, do this and you will live." Brain said magnanimously, his arms raised, his skull headed staff held aloft as he looked around the clearing, meeting the gaze of every single member of the alliance there, "If you do not however, then you will be interfering in our business and I will have no choice but to end you."
"Like hell we will back off now. We've been given a mission to take you bastards down, and that is exactly what we are going to do!" Natsu yelled as he slammed his flaming fists together in front of him before he launched himself forward, trusting as he did so that his comrades would have his back.
"Wait for me flame brain." Gray shouted as he joined Natsu, an icy blue magic circle appearing in front of him as he used his magic.
"Ice Make: Cannon!" Gray shouted, a long barrel of ice forming in his hands, taking the shape of a large shoulder mounted cannon, the large ice cannon proceeded to rapidly launch a frozen projectile straight at Brain.
Seeing this as the sign to act the rest of the Light Mages leapt into action.
"Open Gate of the Bull!" Lucy shouted as she slashed her golden key through the air. With a flash of golden light an anthropomorphic black and white bull appeared with a loud roar. Taurus stood at close to seven feet tall, with large muscles and a double bladed battled axe in his hands, with a unique war cry he charged towards Cobra "For Lucy's booooobbbbbsssss!"
Lucy looked distinctly embarrassed as she heard that, clutching her busty chest self consciously as she did so.
"Ice Make: Eagle!" Lyon said as he swiftly slammed his own fist onto the palm of his hand, creating a similar magic circle to Gray. From the magic circle erupted a flock of over a dozen eagles, all of them completely made out of animated ice, and all of them heading for the still sneering Racer.
"Doll Magic: Roots of the world!" Sherry shouted as she created her own pink magic circle, using her magic she animated the patchy ground at racers feet, taking control of it as she controlled it like she would a doll. Large root like tendrils of earth and wood erupted from the ground around Racer, all of them swiftly moving to bind the man's arms and legs.
This action wiped the sneer off of Racer's face as a look of faint surprise crossed his features, the confidence however remained.
"Don't forget about us." Eve from Blue Pegasus said, as he thrust his hand out in front of him, creating a silvery white magical circle in front of him. "Snow Magic: Arctic Tundra!"
A wall of icy wind exploded from Eve's magical circle, only the wind was not aimed at Hoteye; instead it was aimed at the rapidly softening ground at their feet. The icy wind froze the ground, covering it in a thin layer of frost and snow, giving all three Trimens enough leverage to pull themselves free.
Hibiki instantly backed away, his own magic was useful for support and strategy, he didn't wield the type of magic for straight up fighting.
Ren however did, raising his own hand and creating a light green coloured magical circle, Ren quickly shouted out his own spell. "Air Magic: Luminous Wind!"
Green tinted wind exploded from the magical circle picking up clods of frozen earth and chunks of ice, hurling it all at Hoteye.
"Do it." Brain said to his underlings and uncaring expression on his face as he turned his back on the oncoming ice projectile.
"With pleasure" Cobra said as he lunged forward, his fist enshrouded in toxic reddish energy, his large poisonous snake Cubelios following after him. With a swing of his fist he slapped Gray's ice bolt out of the air shattering it, before he met Natsu and Taurus's charge, a feral smile on his face as he used his own magic, both his 'Listening Magic' and his 'Poison Dragon Slayer Magic'.
Racer hearing Brain's command grinned, as he shot forward, avoiding Sherry's grasping earthen tendrils and Lyon's conjured ice eagles with ease, as he suddenly with no warning appeared above Lyon and Sherry, so fast it was almost like he teleported, both mages. Twisting their heads to the side, both wizards were surprised to see the man floating upside down between them, a vicious grin on his face as he lashed out, his foot aimed at Lyon's face even as his fist was aimed at Sherry's sternum.
"This will be quick," Racer said a smirk on his face as he sent both wizards stumbling backwards, Sherry falling to the ground all the air knocked out of her lungs, whilst Lyon clasped a hand around his now bloodied nose.
A smirk spread across Brain's face as he saw how the Light Wizards were being overwhelmed. He had personally taught all of the members of Oración Seis since he first took them under his wing after they fled their imprisonment in the tower of Heaven. He had handpicked each one of them and had put a lot of time and resources into making his tools as powerful as they had become. These Light Wizards spent so much time messing around helping the commoners and not nearly so much time honing their magic and gaining experience. Already Brain could see just how much stronger Oración Seis was than these average mediocre wizards.
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(With Percy)
It didn't take Perseus, Wendy and Erza long to catch up with the others, but if the explosions, gouts of fire and shouts were an indication, then it appeared the others had run into Oración Seis or at least one of its subsidiary Guilds.
Entering the clearing turned battlefield, Percy scowled as he saw how the Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale mages were doing a valiant job trying to hold off three of the six members of Oración Seis, with Brain throwing his own overpowered spells in as support for his Guild.
Lamia Scale's Lyon and Sherry had both nearly been utterly defeated by Racer, who's supernaturally fast movements had overwhelmed them; their magic had not been able to keep up with his apparent speed which had left them defenseless. Already Sherry was unconscious, with a bloody and bruised Lyon standing over her creating a three hundred and sixty degree orb of spiked ice as a shield, protecting him and Sherry from Brain's occasional blasts of magic and Racer's attempts to finish them. This meant they were both safe from Racer who was outside of the shield, but it also meant that they could not fight back or help any of the others,
Leaving the tree line at a quick pace, Percy took in the states of all the Alliance Wizards; there were a lot of bruises and cuts but nothing that looked immediately fatal. Turning to look at the enemy he could already tell why the alliance members were losing, the Oración Seis members were fighting as one, with both Racer and Brain acting as support, keeping the Light Wizards off guard so Hoteye and Cobra could finish them. They were also more fluid, as they would help one another out if their battles crossed over. Overall they were fighting well together, showing an experience and synchronization that the Alliance members lacked.
The Alliance members were fighting back poorly, they had stayed in three distinct groups according to their Guild, none of the groups were working together and they were even sometimes getting in the others way as their battles moved around the clearing, it was also to note that neither the Fairy Tail members nor the Blue Pegasus members had though to free the members from Lamia Scale so they could once again enter the fight.
It took Percy a few seconds to analyse the way the members of Oración Seis were fighting as well as the way the Alliance Wizards were fighting.
Hoteye was controlling the earth creating formidable shields that defended against blasts, wind and ice from Blue Pegasus, before he retaliated by sending out tsunami's of earth to envelop his enemies knocking them down for the count. It appeared the Dark Wizard's magic was based around softening the earth and then molding it to do whatever he wanted.
Cobra meanwhile was going close quarters with Gray, Natsu and the Celestial Bull Spirit Taurus he was somehow dodging every attack being sent his way. He wasn't using any speed-enhancing magic to do so though, instead he was somehow predicting their movements, which meant he had either enhanced senses, which judging by his mocking comments of how he could 'hear' what they were doing was pretty spot on, or he was able to read their minds. On the other hand he was also counterattacking, his hands and arms surrounded by a toxic purple magic, similar to how Natsu wielded his flames. Luckily the three he was fighting seemed to realise they should not let him hit them with it and had avoided any counter strikes so far.
Racer was constantly darting around the field, striking the Alliance members when their backs were turned, disrupting any attempts to work together or create combination attacks, just as he was also keeping guard on the trapped members of Lamia Scale. The man wasn't using speed magic, Percy could tell that from a glance, Percy had fought against speed magic users before and could tell; it was the way he moved, it did not matchup with a speed magic user, despite what the man claimed. He wasn't teleporting either; if he was he would have teleported within Lyon's ice dome and attacked them while he was defending Sherry. No, Percy wasn't sure exactly how he was doing it, but he already knew how to defeat people who fought like him.
The mysterious Midnight was still somehow sleeping, so Percy couldn't begin to guess what he could do, or why he hadn't been woken up so that Oración Seis could quickly end the fight. He was looking forward to finding out though. Brain however was obviously a tank in terms of magical power, he was throwing powerful blasts of dark magic at the Light Wizards, giving them no reprieve as they were constantly hassled and kept off guard, giving them no chance to reform or make a plan.
So yes, overall Percy was impressed with the way Oración Seis fought; they had come up with a way of fighting larger numbers. They split the enemy forces, using their own specializations to help the others as they constantly kept the enemy on edge, whittling them down and not giving them a chance to counterattack or retreat. It was a brutal and systematic way of approaching a fight and only something that would work against those who are weaker than them.
Unfortunately for them Percy was here.
"What are we going to do?" Wendy asked nervously as she looked up at Percy, the girl was obviously scared, no doubt this was the first bit of true magical combat she had ever seen.
"Do?" Carla snapped out irritably as she and Happy finally caught up. "We should leave, this is far too dangerous for you child!"
"We should give them aid." Erza said decisively a frown on her face as she looked to the three beleaguered group wondering who she should help first.
Both the Lamia Scale members and the Fairy Tail members were in a stalemate, the Lamia Scale group had only one conscious member and were trapped behind a shield of their own making. Though even as they watched they could see the shield was cracking and Lyon was struggling to maintain it as Brain sent another blast of magic at it. Natsu, Gray and Lucy were fighting Cobra, but although he was not able to land a blow on them due to the three of them helping each other, they could not land a blow on him either. Though it did look like the man's large snake familiar had just entered the fight again, which could break the stalemate in Cobra's favour. A few seconds later saw Gray on the ground with a bloody wound on his shoulder, it appeared the stalemate had been broken.
The Blue Pegasus group was the worst off though; already they had just been trapped under a mound of earth, courtesy of Hoteye, whether they would be able to escape Erza was unsure of, this could prove fatal for them.
"I will go help the Trimens, Percy you go help Lyon and Sherry." Erza said as she summoned her 'Re-quip Magic' her form glowing golden as she donned her black wing armour. It was sleek set of black, metal plate armour, though it was quite revealing as it accentuated her breast and her slim, muscled abdomen, two bladed wings also protruded from the back, these wings giving her the ability for small bursts of flight. Held in her had been a very sharp, long black sword. This was one of her stronger armours, her 'Black Wing Armour', which vastly increased her strength, reflexes and attack power.
"No Erza wait" Percy said a frown on his face as he idly played with the pommel of his sword, his eyes darting across the battlefield quickly as he came up with a plan he thought would work. "I want you to free the Trimens, whilst help the members of Lamia Scale, and then I want you to lead the other and get Gray, Natsu and Lucy, deal with Cobra while you are there. Once that is done I want you to concentrate your attacks on Brain and Midnight, try to overwhelm and rout them, once I have finished off the others I will join you."
"What of the other two members of Oración Seis?" Erza asked with a frown on her face.
"I will deal with Hoteye and Racer" Percy said confident that he could defeat the two upstarts quite quickly, which would then allow him to back up the rest as they take on Brain and Midnight. He was concerned that Angel the last member was missing; he always liked to know who and where his enemies were when he was going into a fight. "Circumstances might have changed but we can still turn it around. Jura and Ichiya will be here soon, as will the Magical Bomber Christina."
"Very well." Erza said with a resolute nod of her head, she didn't have a doubt in her mind that Percy would lose. With that said Erza blasted forward, her sword raised as she made her presence on the battlefield known.
"Wendy I want you to wait here for now." Percy said as he began to walk into the battlefield, the girl was inexperienced and two young for this kind of fighting, he knew it would be much better for her to stay back as support than for her to bring her into an active battle zone. "We will need you fresh in case any of the others need healing."
"Right!" Wendy said with a nod of her head, understanding why he wanted her kept back.
"Cats, stay with her and make sure she comes to no harm." Percy added on as he quickened his pace, breaking into a light run as he went to aid his comrades, a smile spreading across his face as he felt the familiar feeling of his power beginning to well up inside of him and the call to battle singing in his ears.
"We are not cats, we are Exceeds you brute!" Carla shouted after Percy a glare on her feline face.
"All I know is you are 'Exceedingly' beautiful." Happy cooed.
"Quiet you foul alley cat." Carla snapped in reply, as she turned her full fury on Happy.
Percy hearing this as he went off into battle, could only chuckle to himself in amusement.
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(With Brain)
Brain's stoic expression broke into a slight smile as he sent a blast of corrosive green magic from his staff, the jet of energy crashing into the icy shield one of the wizards had created to protect him and a friend. The ice cracked and shattered in places, but whatever damage was done soon repaired itself as the caster poured more magic into it. Already he could see the young man was flagging, soon he would be too exhausted to protect himself.
Turning on the spot he sent another blast of magic at the mages fighting Cobra, seeing it coming the blonde busty one screamed at the others, telling them to move. Luckily for them they managed to dodge the main strength of the blast, but all three of them were sprayed by shards of rock. Taking advantage of this Cobra darted in, his fist covered in poison magic as he slammed it into the throat of the Celestial Spirit Taurus. With a crash the spirit was sent flying backwards, his form already glowing as he was sent back to the Celestial Spirit World, clearly he had take too much damage to remain on the mortal plain.
Racer darted in soon afterwards, delivering a kick to the half naked, Fairy Tail ice wizard's back. This sent the man sprawling forwards, Cobra's snake, Cubelios took advantage of this as she lunged forward, her long fangs digging into the man's shoulder. Drawing blood and injecting him with her potent poison. The man's scream of agony was like music to Brain's ears.
Turning away from the sight, he instead looked to where Hoteye was slowly suffocating the Blue Pegasus mages; all three of them were trapped within Hoteye earthen grasp, all of them nearly out of magic as they expended it all on trying to escape. Already he could see Hoteye was compressing his earth dome slowly crushing and suffocating the mages trapped within.
Brain very much doubted that Hoteye would need his assistance. These Light Wizards offered little challenge to them; they were too divided to defeat Oración Seis. Already their forces were being whittled down, soon enough they would all be dead and he could get on with finding Nirvana.
Smiling slightly to himself at that thought, Bran's eyes flickered to Midnight, his adopted son; the boy hadn't even needed to fight, or to wake up. Brain was soon knocked out of his thoughts however when he sensed the presence of three powerful yet unfamiliar people approaching. Turning to look for the source, his eyes locked on the three people who just left the woods.
One of them was a scarlet haired mage, the famous Erza Scarlet he realized, who used her 'Re-equip Magic' to don a set of 'Black Wing Armour' within a few seconds of leaving the tree line. Narrowing his eyes, Brain saw how after a brief conversation with one of her companion she charged rapidly into the fray, heading for where Hoteye was suffocating the members of Blue Pegasus.
The next was a tall man with messy black hair; the man didn't look like much of a threat as he easily surveyed the battlefield. The amount of power Brain could feel emanating from him said another thing though, Brain had an inkling that this was the 'God of Fairies' Angel mentioned, which would may mean he would have to wake up Midnight before dealing with the man personally. That man like the woman before soon joined the battle; seconds after his scarlet haired companion did; only he headed for where the Lamia Scale mages were barely holding out.
The last person he sensed was a young girl, one who had long blue hair and was wearing a somewhat tribal like get up, narrowing his eyes Brain could just about see the Cait Shelter Guild mark on her arm. Seeing it Brain's eyes widened as he realised who this was, it was the 'Sky Maiden' Wendy Marvel, he had heard of this girl from Angel, a practitioner of the incredibly rare 'Sky Magic', a magic that could be used to heal. Seeing her here Brain could already feel that the search for Nirvana was about to get a lot easier.
Before he could make any immediate move to get the girl however, he was distracted by the other two mages entering the battle.
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(With Erza)
With a shout of challenge Ezra entered the battlefield, already she could feel the magic flowing through her body, strengthening it as she closed in on Hoteye.
Hearing her challenge, Hoteye turned to look at her, his eyes widening as he drew on his magic.
Instantly Erza could feel how the earth beneath her softened, taking action she leapt into the air, using the wings on her armour to propel herself forwards her feet no longer in contact with the earth as she headed straight towards Hoteye. Who upon seeing her action, created a large earthen wall in front of himself.
A quick smile passed across Erza's face as she saw him fall into her trap, using Hoteye's wall as a springboard, Erza changed direction as she darted for the trapped Blue Pegasus members, her sword arcing down and carving through their earthen prison.
Giving the now broken prison a kick for good measure, breaking down one of its walls, Erza spun on her heal releasing a crescent shaped arc of magic at Hoteye, forcing the man to once again defend himself to avoid injury.
"Erza?!" Hibiki gasped as he and his fellow Guild mates pulled themselves free. "You saved us."
"Yes, so now you can help me. I want you three to come with me and help Natsu, Gray and Lucy finish off Cobra After which we are all going to concentrate our attacks on Brain and Midnight." Erza said quickly and without pause as she lunged forward, grabbing Eve and Hibiki by the collars, lifting them into the air as she felt the earth at their feet try and suck them under.
"What of this one, and Racer to?" Ren said as he created a dome of air magic, lifting himself into the air and away from Hoteye's chosen element, whilst he was there he sent a few dozen sharp crescents of wind at Hoteye, forcing the Dark Wizard to once again defend himself.
"Perseus will deal with them!" Erza said as she looked over to see that Percy had entered the fray, somehow shattering Lyon's ice shield with a flick of his finger, even as he created several tendrils of water from the shattered ice, using his new watery appendages to life Sherry and Lyon into the air as he moved towards where Erza and the Trimens were standing.
"Erza!" Percy said as he approached, the space around him shimmering as he solidified the moisture in the air into a fluid shield of solidified water, one that rebuffed a number of attacks by Racer as he tried to stop Percy. "Take these five with you and help out Natsu and the others. It looks like Gray is bleeding out."
"Sherry's unconscious though!" Lyon said tiredly, sending Percy a thankful look as he set both him and Sherry on the ground, the tendrils of water that had previously been lifting them instead flowing into the shield of water Percy was creating to protect the group.
"Well not anymore." Percy said as he covered his hand in what looked like silver fire before he placed it on Sherry's head.
With a start the pink haired woman awoke, a gasp of surprise leaving her lips as she felt, her cracked sternum knit back together and her aches and pains vanishing.
Both the Lamia Scale and Blue Pegasus mages eyes widened as they realised Percy had healed all of Sherry's wounds with just a touch, somehow using some kind of silver fire to do the deed. Before they could comment on what Percy had just done though, both Racer and Hoteye attacked again.
Swinging her blade Erza released another crescent of magical energy that shattered the spikes of earth Hoteye sent at them. Even as Percy reformed his shield into a wall of spikes, which stopped Racer's charge as he instead had to leap back to avoid being suddenly impaled. With a growl he landed next to Hoteye.
"You six go and help Nastu and the others." Percy snapped as he kept his eyes on his two opponents.
Erza nodded at that, before she shot the others a harsh and uncompromising glare. "Come on with me!"
With another nod to Percy, Erza led the members of both Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale over to where the others were fighting Cobra. Conscious as she did that Brain had stopped his barrage of dark magic; in fact when she looked over at where he had been stood previously she could only see the now awakened Midnight sat there a bored look on his face as he gazed off into the distance.
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(With Percy)
"Racer go after those mages whilst I deal with this one." Hoteye said as he eyed Percy warily, his fingers twitching as he prepared to leap into action at any moment.
Racer snarled at that "Don't tell me what to do you fat shit."
"This is not the time for your antics Racer." Hoteye said as he watched Percy begin to approach, his sea green eyes glowing faintly and his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword as he leisurely stalked his way towards them. "This man is dangerous."
"Who this guy?!" Racer said with a sneer on his face as he looked down his long pointy nose at Percy "He's a joke, what chance does he have against me if he is not fast enough to see me."
"Be wary Racer, I sense a lot of power coming off of him, and remember Angel did report that the Light Guild Alliance had a very strong wizard with them, the God of Fairies." Hoteye warned, as he began to draw on his magic, preparing himself to fight at any moment.
"Who him!" Racer said with a snort, before he suddenly vanished, using his magic he appeared behind Percy his foot already raised to deliver a brutal kick to Percy's skull.
Seeing Racer disappear from where he was before, Percy's eyes narrowed as he extended his senses through the moisture in the air, feeling the movements of everyone around him. Channeling some of his power into the blade sheathed at his side Percy decided to use one of his favourite tricks for dealing with people like this.
The sword at his side was his blade, Backbiter, also known as Kronos's Scythe. Through the many years it had been in his possession Percy had come to learn all of its tricks. The blade could cut through just about anything, any wounds dealt by the blade also damaged the person's soul, and if someone was killed with the sword their souls would be destroyed. These were all of the swords standard abilities, but through years of practice and experience Percy had leant how to use the blades latent abilities. The weapon had previously been the Symbol of Power for the Kronos the Titan Lord of Time; as such it had been imbued with the Titan's domain. Which Percy, with enough power and control, could draw on when using the blade, with it he could either slow down time or speed up time around him, depending on his desires.
This meant that when Percy began to channel his power into the blade, time in a twenty metre diameter area around him slowed, everything including the people around him. Turning around, Percy scowled as he watched Racer very slowly appear in front of him, his face still holding the confident sneer. Lashing out with his fist, Percy made time return to normal as he delivered a brutal punch to Racer's face, shattering his jaw as he did so.
Letting out a scream of agony, Racer reactively lunged for Percy again. This time Percy dealt with him more permanently as he pulled the water from the air and earth around him and created a whip of water with but a thought. Then with a flick of his fingers Percy lashed out with the summoned whip.
Racer let out a louder scream this time as he felt a sudden burning pain in his legs and fell to the floor. Quickly looking at his legs, Racer's scream became even shriller as he saw that Percy's water whip had cut off his legs just above the knee. Strangely though in Racer's panicked and terrified mind he noted that the stumps that had once been his legs were not bleeding as badly as he thought they would.
"Don't worry about bleeding out" Percy said casually as he turned away from the hyperventilating and screaming Racer, his water whip breaking apart as it created an orb of water floating just above Percy's right palm. "I used my power to manipulate your blood; the wound is completely clotted, though you might want to get it wrapped up soon to avoid getting an infection."
Maybe it was the nonchalant way Percy crushed him, or his shattered jaw, or the fact that he had just had his legs cut off, but Racer's mind couldn't take anymore as collapsed backwards, his vision going dark as he passed out.
"Well that was a bit messier than I intended but he should really have stayed down the first time." Percy said as he turned to face the now nervous looking Hoteye.
"Why did you do that?" Hoteye said warily. "Aren't you supposed to be a Light Wizard?"
"True, which is why I broke his jaw instead of decapitating him, it's his own fault he lost his legs, he should have stayed down." Percy said with a shrug, the man would live. Besides he was a threat to members of Percy's Guild.
"Tsunami." Hoteye shouted as he caused the ground around Percy to turn fluid and rise up.
Percy rolled his eyes as he saw Hoteyes display, stamping his foot on the ground, Percy drew on his demigod powers and released a localized earthquake.
Instantly the whole area shook as members from all Guilds stumbled around and fell. Hoteye's earthen creation also broke apart as Percy's earthquake tore through it.
Hoteye's eyes widened as he felt his control over the earth slip as Percy caused a powerful earthquake to roll across the area with just a stamp of his foot. He already realised that 'Earth Magic' would be useless against this man, if he could make earthquakes with just a step he could destroy and disrupt any earthen constructs or spells Hoteye could use, with ease. This meant that the man was effectively Hoteye's worst match up, add onto that. the fact he was somehow fast enough to catch and crush Racer and Hoteye knew he had lost.
Raising his right hand, over which the orb of water still hovered, Percy didn't say a word as he once again drew on his demigod powers. The orb of water flowed over Percy's hand, even as he extended his first two fingers, making his hand look like a gun.
Hoteye seeing this stumbled backwards as he summoned up a wall of earth, despite knowing how futile the gesture was.
Percy with a single though controlled the water around his hand and started sending bullets of water at Hoteye, the bullets moving so fast they probably would have broken through Hoteye's wall, had Percy not already caused it to crumble by creating another localized earthquake.
The red haired man let out a shout as he felt one of the water bullets ripping through his shoulder. Staggering backwards he let out another cry of pain as another bullet shattered his elbow, then another broke his femur a fourth punctured his lung. With a gasp of pain Hoteye collapsed to the floor, blood frothing at his mouth as he looked into the sky. Seeing as he did so the arrival of a large airship, the Blue Pegasus's Magical Bomber, Christina.
( - )
(With Erza)
The arrival of Erza, the Trimens, Lyon and Sherry quickly turned the tide of the fight against Cobra and his snake immensely.
The maroon haired man's eyes widened as he heard the approach of Erza, alerting him to her presence. Moving quickly Cobra dodged her black blade, before once again ducking under the flaming fist of Natsu. Springing back as he did so, he had to move again as the others made their presence known.
"Ice Make: Snow Tiger!" Lyon shouted as he slammed his fist on the palm of his other hand, creating a blue magical circle, from which sprang a roaring tiger, made completely out of animated ice.
"Dolls Magic: Stone Doll!" The now recovered Sherry shouted as she created a purple magical circle. The stone around the clearing became filled with magic energy which attracted the stones to one another and formed a massive stone doll, the stone warrior then tried to crush Cobra beneath its closed fist.
Cobra however dodged the ice tiger, and then ran up the stone dolls arm, using it as a spring board as he leapt into the air.
Before any of the others could attack him, a large pair of wings exploded from his large purple snake, Cubelios, as she took to the skies, allowing Cobra to land on her back as she took the both of them out of the fight.
"That snake can fly?" Natsu shouted in shock as he saw Cobra flee.
"Well obviously yes." Erza replied as she looked away from the fleeing Cobra and instead ran towards the unconscious and badly bleeding Gray, joining both Lyon and Lucy as they knelt at his side. "Come on, we need to get him to Wendy, she can use her magic to heal him."
Lyon looked too stunned to speak, but Lucy nodded as both she and Erza grabbed Gray and lifted him off the ground. They didn't make it two steps though before they both nearly fell as a sudden earthquake hit the area.
Looking over at where Percy was fighting, Erza could see that Racer was already down and Hoteye was about to be finished off, she could also see that Blue Pegasus's Magical Bomber was approaching. "Come on we need to get back to Wendy, reinforcements are about to arrive, we can regroup and re-strategize later."
The others looked up at that, before they nodded, as one they all followed Erza as she headed towards where they had left Wendy, back at the tree line.
As she led the way, Erza's eyes widened as she saw that Wendy was not alone. In fact there stood above her, a stoic expression on his face was the leader of Oración Seis, Brain. Passing Gray over to Lucy and Natsu, Erza re-equipped her armour, replacing her 'Black Wing Armour' with her 'Flight Armour'.
This armour gave her an intense boost in speed, with barely a though she sped towards the white haired Dark Wizard, a pair of short swords in her hands as she moved to strike him. The ground at her feet shattered as she exploded towards where Brain was, she was too late however, as when she got within feet of the two, Brain grabbed Wendy by the shoulder and teleported her away.
Twisting on the spot with a snarl, Erza's eyes quickly focused in on Brain as he appeared next to Midnight. There was a smirk on his face as he met her eyes, before he reached down and grabbed Midnight by the shoulder, teleporting both himself, Wendy and Midnight away as he did so.
Before Erza could even contemplate trying to follow Brain, she was distracted by the arrival of Christina. The gleaming Magical Bomber hovered over the area, a proud Pegasus figurehead displayed on the front.
Looking up at the Magical Bomber, Erza's eyes widened as she saw someone she recognised standing on the prow. It was Angel from Oración Seis; it appeared the woman had hijacked Christina.
Percy to it appeared had also seen who was on Christina as he ran over to the group, a terrifying look on his face as he glared at where Brain had just been standing before he fled with Wendy. Why he would go out of his way to kidnap the young girl was unknown, but all that mattered was they get her back and punish Brain.
"Everyone get down!" Erza shouted as she re-equipped, changing from her 'Flight Armour' into her most defensible armour, her 'Adamantine Armour'. Set of heavy plate armour made out of adamantine, which had two half shield attacked to the arms. This armour was so strong it had once withstood the blast of a Jupiter Cannon, Erza was confident enough that it would protect her from Christina's payload, hopefully the others could protect themselves to.
She did not have any more time to think as the Magical Bomber, started to drop its bombs. Christina literally carpet bombed the entire area, releasing hundreds of lacrima infused bombs, which tore apart the ground and anything it hit.
This included both Racer and Hoteye, who Brain and Cobra had left behind when they fled; neither of them was able to defend themselves from the death that was falling from above.
AN: So that is the chapter, hope you all enjoyed it. Already we can see how both sides have taken some hits. Brain's actions have been thus far unpredictable to date, which has meant that Percy and the others had been unable to plan for what he was up to.
But already his forces have taken some hits as a third of Brain's Guild are down. But also members of the Alliance have taken some hits. What will happen next?
So yeah I hope you all enjoyed it, I enjoyed writing it. Have had some spare time recently as I wait for a few chapters that are with my Betas whilst I plan out a few others, so I thought I would give this story another update whilst I finish planning out and writing my Dead Man Walking chapter and Harry Potter: Gods and Angels chapters.
I am thinking of putting my Percy Jackson story Eternity up for adoption if anyone is interested. I have kind of lost interest in that story; I did about half of the next chapter before I just lost any enthusiasm for writing it. If anyone wants to take it up just ask.
So other than that I hope you all leave a comment or a review and I will start working on the next chapter. I do like hearing from people and I do end up taking reviews into account when I am writing the next chapter and planning out the story.
See you all next time.
Seagate.