Team Fairy Zeal or Team Zeal for short is the new team name for Harry and Natsu's team.


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Recap: "Harry, go after Natsu!" Gray ordered, making the young wizard turn his attention to him with a tilt to his head in question. "I need you to keep an eye on him, so he doesn't bring the temple down on top of everyone while he's fighting," he explained.

Harry nodded in understanding. "Right, I'll try my best." He points to him. "You just make sure you win and not die doing so." With that said, Harry turns on his heels, and leaves the room.

Harry didn't have to wait much longer for Natsu to appear. One moment he was studying the demon again, and the next, the wall not that far away from him is blasted inward with Natsu flying through it. Shortly after Natsu comes through, Zalty jumps in with an orb floating next to him.

The two don't seem to realize that he's there, so Harry and Fawkes make eye contact, and Harry says, "Well, they're here. I'm guessing we're just going to watch and make sure they don't make the building fall on top of our heads, right?" Fawkes nods in agreement. So, the wizard and phoenix turn their attention back onto the fight in front of them and Deliora.


~With Gray and Lyon~

"Did you know that Natsu and Harry were going to stop me?"

"No, I didn't think the fire breather would be foolish enough to step in front of it. The other guy, I didn't know what kind of powers he had to be able to stop you."

"So, you were just going to stand there and take it?"

"That was the plan," Lyon said with a smirk. "After all, I knew I would be rescued at some point. We're on an island that allows the use of moon drip. My comrades would have gotten me out."

Gray bowed his head. "Right… I forgot… Ice Shell is useless here. I was too rash."

"So, do you still want to fight? You know you can't –" Gray cuts him off.

"Let's stop."

"What?!" Lyon asks in shock.

"Just give up on Deliora."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Does your guild have someone pulling out your fangs?"

'More like sharpen them if you're Natsu…' Gray thought in slight humor. "Lyon, listen to me. Ur is not dead." This seems to have shocked Lyon if his eyes widening is anything to go by. "When Ice Shell is used, the caster's body is turned into ice. The ice that you have been trying to melt is Ur. She's still alive, just in the form of that ice."

Lyon had a look in his eyes that Gray would have seen were murderous if he had looked up, but he did notice the magic in the air.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you before, but I made a promise to Ur…" He thought back to what she said. "If he learned that I became ice; I bet he would spend his whole life trying to undo this spell." That is what his master told him, so he made sure to never tell, but it would seem that Lyon in trying to undo the spell anyway.

"Gray…" Lyon said, but when he looked up, he was about to repeat with telling him that they should stop fighting, but he couldn't because he got stabbed with ice. "I already knew all of that." Lyon's face had a look that could only be described as insane. "But that's not Ur anymore. It's nothing more than a chunk of ice," he said all of this with an evil smirk.

Gray was in shock that he got stabbed, and that Lyon already knew about Ur, but just didn't care. He was more shocked at the latter than the former. He fell over onto the floor, grasping his injury that is on the right side of his abdomen. He struggled to get back up, and while doing so, he heard Lyon start talking again.

"You can't possibly believe that Ur is still alive, are you? Grow up already." Gray didn't really care what Lyon just said, he was still on the fact that Lyon knew, but didn't care.

"You knew… and yet you still did this?!" He growled out angrily while glaring with a burning cold fury that would even make Erza shudder in fear. He sprang up from the floor, no longer feeling his wound, and punched Lyon so hard in the face that his fellow ice mage spit out blood.

"How? How can't you move with that injury?!" Lyon demanded.

"I've had enough. I was trying to save you, but now I'm fed up with it," Gray muttered, but it was loud enough for Lyon to hear. He made a bow out of ice and three arrows, and fired them at his ex-friend, now enemy. The arrows hit, but Gray knows better than to believe that they would be enough to take Lyon down.

After Lyon was about to get back up from the attacks from the arrows, Gray kicked him twice, and then punched him into the wall; only then did he allow Lyon a breather.

Lyon got up looking angry and disbelieving. "I can't be bleeding because of Gray… I didn't want to waste my magic on you, so I'm going to have to make this quick. Ice-Make: Snow Dragon!" Gray didn't have time to react, giving the dragon plenty of time to grab his upper body in its jaws and throw him into a wall. "You should stop struggling, Gray. Deliora will be revived soon, and no one will be able to stop it," Lyon said, still with that insane smile on his face.

"I'll…stop it…" Gray said, but struggled to speak.

Lyon takes his cloak off. "You say that, even though Zalty is finishing up the moon drip while you're having a hard time standing?"

Gray smiled mockingly, and with a hint of fondness. "Don't underestimate Natsu. You have no idea how many people have done that and lost." Gray got back up, but then he felt a bit of a shake in the ground and walls. "Why is everything shaking?"

"It would seem that you weren't able to stop it after all, Gray." Gray didn't like the sound of that. He couldn't do anything about it now anyway, because Lyon started to fire eagles at him. Some of them hit, but Gray created a shield, which had the rest of them destroyed when they hit it.

"I don't have time to deal with you. So, let's finish this, before Deliora gets free and decides to kill us all."

Lyon grinned. "Sounds good to me," he said, and then threw something at him, but Gray was able to block it with his arms, but he gritted his teeth in pain. He glared at Lyon while thinking how he couldn't believe how disappointed he was at him. But before Gray could send his own attack, Lyon was in front of him with an ice wolf, but this time he was able to dodge it.

Gray kicked Lyon in the gut, shoving Lyon back, and then created a sword. He swung the ice weapon, but when it hit its target, Lyon's body broke, showing that it was an ice clone. Gray paused in wonder; wanting to know where his enemy went.

"Ice-Make…" Gray heard from behind him. "Tiger!" Gray jumped up above the ice creature.

"Ice-Make: Prison!" He trapped the tiger within the cage he created, and it tried to get out. "Is that all you got, Lyon? Your beast is pathetic!"

"What nonsense! I'll just smash through!" Lyon tried to get his tiger to do just as he said, but it wasn't working. He couldn't understand why, but Gray did.

"This is why you're supposed to use both hand when using ice-make magic. One-handed is unbalanced. That's why you're not able to use your full power at times like these," Gray explained, making Lyon's face morph into shock. "Now, time to finish this." Gray brought his hands together. "Ice-Make: Ice Cannon!" He fired the weapon, and ice cannon ball made of ice hit its mark sending Lyon through walls and floors.


Harry and Fawkes are watching as Natsu attacked Zalty while his whole body is covered in flames, but the small man dodged it. The black-haired wizard wonders just what kind of magic the man has, and why does he have a floating sphere? Said sphere was sent at Natsu, hitting him in the gut. He grunted from the blow, and landed on a lower platform.

"What is with that orb?" Natsu questioned. This made Harry lean in forward.

"I use lost magic," He replied, but it didn't answer Natsu's question.

"Lost magic?" Natsu voiced what he and Harry were thinking.

"Magic that is long forgotten. Just like your dragon slayer magic," Zalty explained, and then threw the orb at the slayer again.

Natsu was ready for it this time, punching with his hand covered in flames, and smashing the sphere to bits. Harry can see Natsu grinning, but then both their jaws dropped when the orb is put back together like it never happened.

{Oh, it's Arc of Time magic,} Fawkes said, mostly to himself, but if that were the whole case, Harry wouldn't have heard it then.

"Arc of Time? What's that?" Harry asked while only glancing at his familiar for a moment before going back to the fight before him. Natsu was just hit from all sides with the sphere, but since Harry was paying more attention to Fawkes explaining Arc of Time to him, he didn't notice Zalty doing the same for Natsu.

{It's a type of time magic. It allows the caster to move an object forward in time, or backwards. What he did just now was move the orb into the future, which is why there looked to be many of them.}

"I see… Wait, you said objects. Does that mean that this magic doesn't work on people?" Fawkes nodded to confirm.

{Or any living creature really.} Harry went back to watching the fight, and saw that Natsu was losing. He couldn't seem to be able to get around the sphere so he could get to Zalty. The orb made it look like it was acting as a barrier or protector.

A thought hit Harry, just as Natsu was thrown through a few rocks. "So that's how he was able to fix the temple. He used his Arc of Time to make the pillars go back to the way they were," said Harry in realization, but then he sighed. "We need something like that to fix the village."

Fawkes trilled in agreement. {I would make things easier,} he said. {And it would seem that Natsu isn't doing any better.} To prove his point, Harry saw Natsu smash the orb again, but it fixed itself, and the ceiling fell on top of him.

Harry thought he was going to have to help Natsu out of there, but Zalty rewind time on the ceiling to put it back in place. Natsu got back up looking angry.

"You're such a cheater!" he exclaimed.

"I'm not a cheater. You just suck!" Zalty laughed, only making Natsu angrier; therefore, giving Harry an idea.

"HE'S RIGHT, YOU DO SUCK!" Harry called out, making Natsu jump and yelp, and Zalty flinched in surprise. Harry guessed it had something to do with them not knowing they were there to begin with.

"Harry?! When did you get here? And WHAT DO YOU MEAN I SUCK?!" Natsu exclaimed.

"I've been here the whole time!" he replied. "It's not my fault that you were too busy getting your flames put out to notice!" Fawkes made a laughing chirped that was soothing to the ears, but Natsu knows that they were both mocking him.

"Are you saying that I was losing?!" Natsu demanded.

"You tell me, because it sure looks like it from up here!" Harry said in a mocking tone still. "As a matter of fact, you look to be losing worse than Gray when he first fought Lyon!"

This seemed to hit a nerve, because even from where Harry was standing he could still see a vain pulse on Natsu's forehead in rage, and his whole body went up in flames.

"LOSING?! I'LL SHOW YOU WHO'S LOSING THIS FIGHT, AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE MEEEEEE!" Natsu shouted loudly, making the walls around them shake from the sound waves. Harry didn't know if it was the echo of the walls, or if Natsu's voice sound like a demon's, or it was the roar from Deliora, who is almost out of his ice prison. Wait… that WAS Deliora roaring, but it seems that only he and Fawkes noticed. He doesn't know how no one else is hearing it, because he had to cover his ears from how loud it was.

Natsu smashed through the orb and went straight for Zalty. His right fist is covered in flames, and he slammed it right into his face, sending him flying through the air, and passed out on the cold, hard ground.

"Yeah!" Natsu cheered. "Did you see that, Harry? I kicked his butt!" Harry jumped down from the rocky platform that he watched the fight on and ran over to the pink-haired dragon slayer.

"I can see that! But I don't think we should relax just yet! Deliora…" Harry couldn't finish explaining, because the ceiling caved in above them. They looked up to see Lyon and pieces of ice falling down followed by Gray. Lyon landed with a heavy thud, and just like Zalty, passed out, and Gray landed not much better. He landed on his feet, but he fell over onto his left side so he didn't land on the wound on his right.

Harry, Natsu, and Fawkes could see that Gray was gritting his teeth, but he looked up to see them when he heard Harry ask if he was okay. He nodded his head slowly due to feeling weak and in pain. "Yeah, I'll be fine, but I have to ask: was it just me, or did anyone else hear a roar not too long ago?" he asked.

Harry shook his head. "No, I and Fawkes heard it, but Natsu didn't even notice because he was yelling at me at the same time it happened," he explained, and then looked over to Lyon's fallen form. "I guess that you defeated him?"

Gray nodded in understanding and for answering Harry's question. He looked over to Fawkes next. "Think you could help heal this?" He pointed to his injury. "Because I don't think we have a lot of time before…" Now it was Gray's turn to not be able to finish his sentence, because Deliora roared again. Harry, Natsu, Gray, and Fawkes covered their ears.

They looked up to see the ice has melted away from the demon's head and arms now, allowing it the ability to roar all it wants or even swing its arms.

Natsu, Harry, and Gray look to each other again and voiced, "This isn't good."

TBC


It would seem that I like to have people flying through walls. Ah, who care? It's fun! :) I hope you guys like the fight with Natsu and Zalty. The fight for the most part is the same as in the anime, so I didn't show much, and changed how Natsu really won. Hope you liked it! ^^' I also hope you guys liked the little touch of Deliora roaring at the same time Natsu…technically did too.

Natsu: I love it! XD

Zeref: The roaring at the same time as my de…um…Deliora's roar?

Voldy: Were you just about to say, "my demon"?

Zeref: No, I was about to say, "my demonstration".

Voldy: *not looking convinced* I'll let it go for now. *goes back to eating ice cream*

Harry: I still can't believe this is where he's been hiding.

Enj/Dark: I know… Here we are thinking he's gone to go on a killing spree, only to find him in the kitchen eating ice cream. *takes a bite of ice cream, and turns chibi* Not again… T-T

Voldy: Aww…You're sooo cute. *evil smirk*

Enj/Dark: *starting to get worried* Um…I think I should leave…Yeah…BYE! *runs for it with Voldy chasing me*

Harry: Well, they're gone. Should we go after them?

Natsu: I don't know if she still has her powers while in that form.

Zeref: Then we should go just in case.

Harry&Natsu: *nods their head*

Zeref: Please review! *takes off to go after Voldy and Enjali, followed by Harry and Natsu*