Chapter 395: The Dragon of Revelation vs The Dragon of the Apocalypse Part 3
"Please win Dante, we can't lose you" stated Mira to herself with tears in her eyes. Somehow Dante had to find a way to beat Acnologia and then maintain his sanity, he couldn't die.
The ground continued to shake from the force of Dante's breath attack crashing into Acnologia. The black dragon roared in pain as the attack crashed into him but was still clearly able to continue fighting. Righting himself with his wings, Acnologia started to fly towards Dante. Dante was still recovering from using a massive amount of magical power so he didn't react in time. Acnologia crashed into Dante, digging his talons into Dante's dragon body.
Dante internally was thankful for the pain of Acnologia tearing into his flesh, the pain was grounding for him. The pain was helping Dante maintain his sanity, his semblance of reality. As Dante continued to struggle and fight against Acnologia, he saw flashed of memories that were not his own. The flashes of memories were images of pure death and destruction.
Experiencing the flashes of death and destruction, Dante again had to question who he was. The longer he spent in this form, the more Dante felt like he was losing his sense of self. It was hard for Dante to remember his own name, or the fact that he was a human that took the form of a dragon. A strong part of Dante thought that he was the dragon of revelation, the dragon that was meant to bring about the end of all things. Focusing back on the pain radiating through his body, Dante roared at Acnologia as he prepared to counter attack.
Using his multiple heads, Dante beat Acnologia away from him. The black dragon flew away from Dante, his talons dripping with Dante's blood. Channeling his magical power, Dante opened his multiple mouths and breathed hell fire towards Acnologia. The hell fire flying towards Acnologia while charged with magical power could hurt the black dragon since it was infused with draconic power. Seeing the attack flying towards him, Acnologia flew out of the way. The hell flames crashed into the ground, setting a large section of the city on fire as the two dragons continued to battle.
"We have to do something about those flames or else the entire city will be burned down" yelled Erza, seeing that the hell flames were already spreading. Nodding his head in agreement, Gray stood up as he started to speak.
"Damn the heat from those flames are intense, I can feel it even from here" stated Gray, impressed that Dante could produce flames that burned hotter than Natsu's fire. As Dante continued to battle against the black dragon, Erza and the others were working to control the burning inferno that threatened to burn the city to the ground.
Flying into Acnologia, Dante felt a fresh wave of rage fill him. The influence from losing his sense of self was overpowering, he wanted to kill everyone and everything. As the dragon of revelation is was his destiny to destroy the world and Dante was going to start with Acnologia. While Dante used multiple heads to snake and coil around Acnologia, Dante aimed his two remaining heads towards the black dragon. Channeling his magical power, Dante once again started to breathe hell fire. Since he was holding Acnologia in his grasp, the black dragon didn't have anywhere to run as Dante breathed hell fire. Acnologia roared in pain as the hell fire burned through his touch scales, searing the flesh underneath.
"Yah that's how it's done! Show that lizard what a real man is" yelled Elfman with a smile as he watched Dante cook the black dragon alive.
"Elfman stop watching the fight, we have a job we need to do" yelled Erza as she continued to battle against the raging inferno burning through the city. Channeling her magical power as she summoned another tidal wave, Juvia started to speak.
"These flames are strong. Even Juvia's water does little to slow it down" responded Juvia in a strained tone as she pushed herself to continue channeling her magical power.
"We have to keep trying" responded Lucy, dressed in her Scorpio star dress as she tried to extinguish the hell fire burning through the city. As everyone battled against the hell fire, Dante continued to burn Acnologia alive. After a few more moments Acnologia let out a mighty roar as he swung his razor sharp tail at Dante. Dante didn't avoid the attack in time, one of his heads were severed as he jumped away from the black dragon. Feeling pain shooting across his entire body, Dante flew away from Acnologia as his severed head crashed into the ground. Turning her attention from the burning hell fire to Dante's severed dragon head, Mira was filled with horror as she screamed out.
"NO! DANTE" yelled Mira with horror in her voice, fearing the worst as she looked at Dante's severed dragon head. Turning her attention towards Mira, Erza started to speak to her.
"Mira it's fine. Look, master is still alive and fighting as we speak" responded Erza as she pointed towards Dante who was still fighting against Acnologia. Using his magical power, Dante breathed fire onto his severed head in order to cauterize the wound. Focusing his attention back onto the black dragon, Dante roared at him as he prepared to fire his next attack.
Using his remaining six heads, Dante fired a powerful breath attack towards Acnologia. Acnologia responded with his own breath attack, the two attacks colliding midair. This time, however Dante was the one that was overpowered since he was missing a head. Acnologia's breath attack crashed into Dante, who roared in pain as immense magical power collied into him. A large magical explosion enveloped Dante, blocking everyone's view of him as he roared in pain. Seeing Dante take such a massive magical attack, Mira had tears running down her face as she started to speak.
"Please be okay Dante" stated Mira in a hopeful tone, praying that her husband was still alive. Standing next to Mira, Juvia started to speak.
"Juvia's beloved will be okay, he promised" responded Juvia in a confidant tone, choosing to believe her love for her beloved would give Dante the strength he would need to win. Just after Juvia said these words, Dante roared as he flew out of the large plume of smoke in the air. Flying towards Acnologia, Dante crashed his body into the black dragon. Crashing into Acnologia, Dante kept going until they collided into the ground. The ground shook as the two massive dragons crashed into the ground, a large crater had formed as a result of the impact.
Standing up, Dante roared at Acnologia as he continued to wrestle against him. The two dragons shook the earth from their massive weight as they continued to struggle for dominance. Swinging at Dante with his iron sharp talons, Acnologia torn into Dante's dragon body. Feeling searing pain run through him as Acnologia tore into him, Dante stumbled backwards as he continued to battle within himself.
It was getting harder and harder to continue to maintain his sanity. The only thing that was grounding Dante was his intense need and desire to kill Acnologia. If he failed to kill Acnologia then all of his loved ones would be in danger and Dante would not let that happen. Pushing back his strong desire to destroy the entire world, Dante prepared his next attack. Slamming his claws into the ground, the ground tore apart from Dante's massive strength. As the ground tore apart, Dante moved his wings so the massive debris from breaking apart the ground started to fly towards the black dragon. While the debris flew towards Acnologia, Dante breathed more hell fire. With now burning debris flying towards the black dragon, Dante continued to flap his wings in order to trap Acnologia in a powerful gust of wind.
Acnologia roared with pain, unable to move as he was assaulted by debris set aflame with hell fire. Each piece of burning debris slamming into him burned Acnologia, the black dragon filled with a rage as another dragon dared to challenge the dragon king. After taking Dante's attack, Acnologia broke free of the strong gust of wind and rushed towards Dante. Crashing into Dante, Acnologia sunk his teeth into another of Dante's many neck. Tearing at Dante's flesh, Acnologia ripped another of Dante's heads clean off his body. Breaking free of Acnologia's grasp, Dante stumbled backwards as he cauterized another gaping wound.
Internally Dante felt like he was drowning in a sea of pain with having not one but two of his heads severed from his body. While Dante had plenty of magical power left, he knew that the more power he used the quicker his process of losing himself became. Deciding that he didn't have the luxury of holding anything back, Dante drew more magical power from his draconic form. Feeling a fresh surge of magical power fill him, Dante let out a devastating breath attack.
The breath attack crashed into Acnologia who wasn't prepared for Dante to respond with more strength after losing another head. Dante's attack tore into Acnologia, the black dragon stumbling as pain radiated through him. Seeing that Acnologia was stumbling, Dante rushed over to the black dragon. Slamming into Acnologia, Dante started to use his five heads to bite into the black dragon. Tasting blood, Dante's teeth sank into Acnologia as he tried to end the black dragon's life. Roaring in pain, Acnologia let out a massive breath attack that hit Dante directly. Dante was blown backwards from the breath attack, he crashed into serval buildings. Struggling to stand back up, Dante channeled more of his magical power.
Channeling his magical power, Dante started to conjure multiple massive balls of dark energy. The balls of dark energy grew in size until each of them darkened the surrounding area. The back balls of dark energy totaled seven once Dante was done charging his attack. Erza and the others were standing serval hundred feet away from Dante and Acnologia and yet they could feel the immense magical power from Dante's attack.
"Master can't be planning to fire that attack near the city, if he does then the entire city will be destroyed" stated Erza in a worried tone, hoping that Dante was still sane. Erza and the others had just finished putting out the hell flames burning the city and now it looked like their efforts could be in vain as Dante continued to charge his attack. As the massive balls of black energy floated in the air, Dante flew towards Acnologia. Crashing into Acnologia, Dante collied his five heads around the black dragon. Holding onto Acnologia, Dante started to use his wings to fly high into the air. Seeing what Dante was planning on doing, Mira screamed out.
"DANTE NO! DON'T DO IT" yelled Mira, horror in her voice as she watched Dante fly into the air with Acnologia. Understanding what Dante was about to do, Lisanna started to speak.
"PLEASE DON'T DO THIS BIG BRO" yelled Lisanna, shaking with fear as she watched Dante fly high above the city with Acnologia. Once Dante was high enough in the air with Acnologia, he used his magical power to direct the massive balls of dark energy towards them. Acnologia struggled to break out of Dante's grasp but failed to do so since Dante was using all of his strength to keep the black dragon still.
The massive balls of dark energy collided into Dante and Acnologia, the sky being swallowed in a flash of energy as an earth shattering explosion occurred. Erza and the others had to take cover again as a massive shockwave tore through the city, serval buildings collapsing from the shockwave. Everyone looked into the sky, hoping that Dante would be okay. A massive mushroom cloud stood where Dante and Acnologia just were, blocking everyone's view of the dragons. As the shockwave continued to devastate the surrounding area, Mira started to speak.
"Please be okay Dante" begged Mira, knowing that she couldn't live life without her big brother, husband and father of her child. Mira along with everyone else continued to watch the mushroom cloud, each of them praying for Dante's safety.
End of Chapter 395