I'm back again! Excited for the final battle? I sure am, seeing as I know what happens.
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Kronos looked up as an explosion shook the building. he sighed as he stood from his desk and walked out towards the exit, shaking his head.
"Really Taisho?" He called as he walked down a flight of stairs, stroking his beard. "I understand that you are excited you won, but there was no need to blow the entrance up." Taisho knew it was Taisho who had entered, who else could it be? He had lost contact with the airship crash site after a huge explosion, so he honestly had no clue who had one or not. However, there was no way that either the fairies or Crime Sociere had found the entrance, so he knew it was the demon. "I'm making you pay for the damages you bastard..." Kronos got to the entrance, and waited as the smoke cleared.
He was not expecting a pink blur to dash through the smoke and punch him in the face.
He flew back and dodged a fireball thrown by the same pink haired girl, who landed near the entrance.
"What the..." he was cut off as eight more beams of magic blasted through the doorway behind her and straight towards him, taking all eight head on. When his vision cleared, he could see six fairies and three recognizable figures standing before him. He chuckled darkly. "I see, so Taisho lost. Surely not the outcome I expected, but..."
"Keep it to yourself, asshole." The white haired man growled. "We're here to kick your ass."
"Oh?" Kronos asked. "And how exactly do you plan on doing that? By attacking and hoping?" he cast a glance at his three former underlings, who winced at the look. "Surely these three fuckheads told you how big of a mistake you've made."
"It doesn't matter what they said." The redhead hissed, a sword appearing in his hands. "What matters is that we don't intend to give up until we've breathed our last."
"Big words coming from a wounded mage." Kronos hissed, balls of white magic appearing in his hands. "Let's see what you can do, fairies!" he wasn't ready when the orbs in his hands disappeared.
"Now!" Azzie shouted." Without warning the other eight charged head on without a second worry about their own personal well being, an assortment of fire, iron, poison, death, light, ice, water, and swords flying straight at Kronos. He managed to skillfully avoid all of these attacks, but the teenagers had already set themselves up. The pink haired girl was right behind him.
"Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" She shouted, slamming the fireball into Kronos' back. He flew into the air where he was greeted by the shorter black haired girl.
"Iron Dragon Sword!" The sharp blade dug into Kronos as the girl brought it down on his face, sending him towards the ground in the span of two seconds, where the bandaged maroon haired kid already was.
"Poison Dragon's Twin Fang Thrust!" he roared, the latches of poison attaching to Kronos and sending him flying to the entrance, where the taller black haired girl was waiting.
"Water Nebula!" Trying to get a breath while being blown away by water was a difficult task no doubt, but he managed to get one right in time to be greeted by the redhead, equipped with very spiky looking armor.
"Heavenly Blast!" The light blinded Kronos as he stumbled backwards from the hit, and felt two hands on his back. he turned to find the white haired one from before waiting there, now looking much more demonic then before, decked out in blood red armor.
"Evil Explosion!" The raw evil blasted from the demon threw Kronos into the air once more, where a familiar blonde God Slayer was waiting.
"Fire God's Death Scythe!" he shouted, the fiery blade cutting through Kronos' robes and throwing him back to the earth, where Tetsu was already waiting.
"Iron God Club!" Both clubs hit Kronos right in the face, flying back to where Azzie stood stationary near the door. She reared back, fist enveloped in white light.
"Dispelling Blast!" The white magic made to dispel wrapped around Azzie's fist, and when she hit Kronos with it in the stomach, he felt pain shoot up his back and into his head from the sudden dispelling of magic, causing a miniature explosion that sent him flying back into the wall. He could tell the enemy was waiting,so he chuckled as he got up out of the debris.
"My my, it would appear these fairies have fangs." He mused, a smile on his face as he reveled in the lack of damage. "And obviously I trained you three too well, but not well enough to prevent a mutiny."
"One more time!" The pinkette shouted. "All together!" The others seemed to agree, and Kronos watched with an amused smile.
"Fire God's Bellow!"
"Iron God's Bellow!"
"Dispelling Blast!"
"Water Nebula!"
"Grand Chariot!"
"Soul Extinction!"
"Iron Dragon Roar!"
"Poison Dragon Roar!"
"Fire Dragon Roar!"
The nine attacks sailed through the air, merging as one supernova of an attack halfway to the target, and Kronos smiled.
"Well, I suppose they've had their fun..."
Nashi watched the attacks form together, in one huge, unstoppable attack right at Kronos' face. The attack made contact, and another gigantic explosion went off, which caused more than just her to lose their balance temporarily.
"Did we...?" Damien asked, not daring to finish his sentence.
"No way..." Ultear panted, as was everyone else.
"There's no way he stopped that." Katsuchi hissed through labored breaths. "That was... that was a nine way Unison Raid..."
"I think we did it!" Elise said happily, before a deep voice chuckled darkly from the smokescreen.
"Don't get your hopes up, lovely." Nashi watched in complete disbelief as Kronos appeared out of the smoke, arms crossed, completely unharmed.
"No fucking way..." She hissed through gritted teeth, causing Kronos to laugh.
"Did you all honestly think that I, the Master of Devil Advocate, would lose in one, weak, pathetic, last ditch attempt by nine teenagers with nothing left?! You've already lost if you thought I was that weak." Nashi, unintentionally, dropped to her knees from fatigue, causing Kronos to frown. "Oh, don't tell me after all you said and did to get here, and that huge combined attack, that you're all out of steam?" he grinned darkly, an evil aura surrounding him. "The fun is just getting started, kids."
"This is bad..." Simon growled, doing his best to remain standing even though his face was still very pale. "We threw everything we had at him, and he's not even scratched..."
"I told you this was a bad idea." Katsuchi replied angrily, also gasping for air. "Kronos is to us like transportation is to Dragon Slayers." Nashi didn't appreciate the comparison, but it was true. Kronos was far more powerful than she had anticipated, which was obviously a terrible mistake on there part.
"We need a plan." Nashi said, managing to stand. "or we're in a lot of trouble."
"Are we not close yet?!" Laxus rolled his eyes at Natsu, who was currently having another hissy fit. After discovering the strange absence of six certain teenagers, and confirming with Mira that they hadn't taken a job when no one was looking, some got curious. That number increased and went from curious to worried when communications could not be established with Jellal or the airship. Laxus had decided to take a small party consisting of the kids parents to go out in the direction of the airship to look for them, when he felt it.
That dark, evil presence.
That everything he loved was going to get ripped away.
Accompanied with the darkening of the sky and evil, deadly magic swirling in the distance, they had all broken into a sprint to get to the location, ditching the magical vehicle that had gotten them that far.
"Calm down, Natsu." Levy advised, "We aren't even sure that Jellal knows where they are." Laxus went against his instinct and didn't bring up the Xisplate takeover from before, which confirmed to him Jellal knew.
"Isn't a little weird that we couldn't get through to him though?" Kinana asked worriedly, bringing up the rear. "I mean, it doesn't seem like Jellal to have malfunctioning equipment."
"No, it doesn't Erza agreed, who was standing next to Laxus. "What do you think Laxus?" He didn't hear her right away, he was too deep in thought. In took a jab in the side and Erza repeating her question for Laxus to get it.
"I don't know." He finally replied. "I mean, I'm sure they're fine if they're with Jellal, but..."
"I smell smoke." Everyone paused an turned to Natsu and Gajeel, both of whom were sniffing the air. "And metal, and debris."
"The airship?" Lucy asked worriedly, which caused both to shrug.
"Can't tell." Gajeel said slowly, rubbing his head. "Might be."
"Uh, is that smoke over there?" Everyone turned at Levy's question, and confirmed for their own eyes. That was indeed smoke rising in the distance.
"Shit." Laxus growled, clenching his fists. "Did they crash or something?"
"Can't be too careful." Natsu replied, taking his turn leading the group, heading right for the smoke with a purpose. If the airship had crashed, it would be a miracle for everyone to survive.
If anyone survived that is.
Nashi watched helplessly from her spot on the floor as Simon was thrown into the wall, and collapsed into a heap.
"is this really all you people can muster after such a show?" Kronos asked, shaking his head. "I was expecting more, honestly." He picked Azzie up by the hair, causing her to shout out in pain.
"Put her down!" Tetsu roared, anger seeping from his form.
"I think I'll start with the traitors." Kronos said, a sword made of black fire appearing in his hands, placing it at Azzie's neck. "Does that sound like a good idea to you, Azzie bear?" Azzie couldn't reply, she was either in too much pain or out cold. "I guess it can't be helped you're to weak to stop me, you always were." Kronos brought the blade back to swing it, fully ready to cut Azzie's head off.
"BASTARD!" Nashi turned her head to see Katsuchi on his feet, rushing at Kronos with his scythe in hand. Kronos dropped Azzie and brought his own sword to meet the scythe, fire flying everywhere as the blades met.
"My, is this rage I detect Katsuchi?" Kronos asked in a mocking tone. "You were always so quiet and reserved, too."
"Touch one fucking hair on her head again." Katsuchi hissed, applying more and more of his already sapped strength into the scythe as he leaned forward. "And I'll cut your fucking head off, got it?" Kronos rolled his eyes.
"More protective than I realized, obviously." He hissed, easily pushing Katsuchi back. "Have you forgotten where you learned how to use that magic, boy?! I taught you with my own two hands!" It was true, Kronos had already showed expert usage of all the types of magic his guild had specialized in: God Slaying, Retrogression, Dispelling, Hellenization, and Ice. he'd already explained that he couldn't use Taisho's takeover because that was an ability unique to the deceased psychopath. Katsuchi was thrown back by an explosive show of such Hell magic by Kronos, and landed face down next to Nashi. He didn't move.
"Katsuchi?" She croaked out, but the blonde still didn't move. Nashi didn't have any time to check if he was dead or not, she had to roll away from him to avoid a blast of ice directed at her.
"This is getting tiresome." Kronos said with a sigh. "You're too weak to fight back, and yet you won't let me kill you and get it over with. I mean really, when does your crazy last itch plan come into effect?" Nashi knew something that she was terrified Kronos himself already knew.
There was no plan.
Their plan had been the initial assault that failed miserably.
There was no one in the room that had the strength for any plan anyone concocted anyway. She was more than certain some, like Katsuchi and Azzie, had already lost consciousness.
"I'll be honest, I'm impressed you got this far." Kronos said, a smirk on his face. `To be able to get through people like Icas and Taisho...truly impressive." Kronos began to draw a white magic seal in front of him as he spoke. "But honestly, I think I'm tired of this. Arc of Time Lost Art: Redirected Offensive." Nashi paled as she recognized nine different magics swirling in the depths of the magic seal, all aimed at her and the others.
"Isn't that..." Drake hissed. "How the hell..."
"It is, don't worry about it." Kronos replied as the attack charged. "The reason your attack failed from before was because I sent it into the future. The future where I send it back at you with ten times the previous strength."
"That isn't even possible." Ultear growled.
"It seems you are unaware how Arc of Time works." Kronos said. "As it has yet to happen, an infinite amount of futures are all possible, no matter how insane or ridiculous. I simply sent it to this future, that's all." No one could do anything but watch the attack charge up, which took longer than Nashi was comfortable with. "The reason I'm not charging it past ten times as destructive is because I'll still need this guild hall after I kill the lot of you, so any higher and I'd need to rebuild." Now he was being conservative? This was the worst day ever, Nashi had decided that. She heard a chiming sound resonate throughout the hall, and Kronos smirked. "It would appear that is complete."
"Shit..." Damien hissed, attempting to stand but to no avail. The magic began to combine into one gigantic burst, before it created a deafening sound upon firing. The blast was at least forty feet both ways, with no way of escaping. Nashi was in no condition to try and roll out of the way, and even if she did it wouldn't do her any good. She began to write her will mentally was the blast got closer, but the sound caused her to close her eyes and wait for the worst.
"POISON DRAGON ROAR!" Nashi looked up to find a blast of dark red magic meet the nine way redirected Unison Raid head on, both blasts fighting for dominance. They fought for about ten seconds before both exploded against each other, throwing Nashi and her friends all over the place. Once she regained her senses, Nashi could hear someone chuckling, not Kronos. then she heard footsteps, walking past her and her friends.
"So, you decided to show?" Kronos asked.
"You idiots are just like your parents." The voice said, disapproval apparent in his voice. "Running in without a backup plan in case 'run in and fuck shit up' didn't work." he chuckled again, and Nashi looked up as he passed her. He wore a blue Crime Sociere cloak, and had spiked maroon hair. Nashi now knew why she recognized the scent he gave off.
"How did you..." Simon whispered, obviously in awe.
"You kids sure are lucky I got here when I did, huh?" He asked, still not looking at them. "Any later and I'd need to do some explaining I'd rather not."
"Now this has gotten interesting." Kronos said, spreading his arms in a welcoming matter. "Don't you agree, Cobra the Poison Dragon?" Cobra growled.
"Cobra doesn't exist anymore." He hissed. "That man died a long time ago." He turned slightly to the side, so that Nashi could see his tanned face and scar over the eye he'd lost long ago. "My name is Erik, remember it." Kronos nodded with a grin on his face.
"So be it, Erik the Poison Dragon." Kronos became enveloped in a black aura. "Shall we see if you hold up to the strength of your second generation brother Laxus?" Erik laughed.
"You're underestimating me if you're comparing the two of us." Erik replied casually, poison leaking from his figure. "Even so, I'm more than enough to kill you."
"We shall see." The magic stopped flowing from both of them, and silence fell over the room.
"Dad..." Drake began weakly, voice full of disbelief.
"You keep your trap shut, kid." Erik replied. "I'll let your mother figure out your punishment for this." And with that, Erik broke the ground under his feet as he rushed at Kronos, slamming a poison covered fist into his own black coated fist.
And just like that, their last hope, the first Poison Dragon, engaged in combat with the Master of Devil Advocate.
hehe, cliffhangers. What'll happen? I know, but you have to wait to find out. I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!