Chapter 12: Sakura VS Greed

"Fairy Tail" Regular Speech

'Fairy Tail' Regular Thought

"Fairy Tail" Flashback

"Fairy Tail" Dragon/Demon/Spells

'Fairy Tail' Dragon or Demon thoughts

Fairy Tail - Stating of the year or a place

Summary: I was born into this world alone, knowing nothing but fear and despair. All that changed when he found me; he took me in and gave me a purpose, a reason to live for. It was because of him I was able to become strong, it was through his teachings that I might be able to achieve greatness. He was my teacher and my father, the dragon of lightning, Anorak.

Karinga Forest - Year X784

Sakura and Greed battled in the clearing outside of the cave each matching each other blows for blow. They two entered into a deadlock in the middle of the clearing where they look each other in the eye and broke apart each catching their breath. "I'm quite happy that I choose to fight you girly, out of the entire group you had with you I believe that you're the only one that could've put up a fight against me." Greed laughed before he continued his onslaught, "Requip: Iron Fist" Greed fist were replaced with iron plated gauntlets that ran all the way up to his forearm. "My iron gauntlets increase my attack power tenfold while enhanced with my power augmentation magic." He punched the floor underneath him to demonstrate this new power and upon impact the ground beneath him caved in and left a huge crater with him at the bottom. "Hah, do you see now the power you face." Greed walked up the crater slowly almost as if he couldn't walk as fast as normal; it was at this moment that Sakura noticed something.

'When he swung his fist downwards, for a split second he seemed slower than before almost like the gauntlets are weighing him down. I'll have to use this to my advantage.' She waited for Greed to get out of the crater and as he charged him she changed her kimono, "Requip: Lightning Queen Kimono." Sakura's green kimono switched from green to yellow as lightning crackled off of her. Greed looked at her and smirked before he rushed at her with his fist held high. She waited till he was right on top of her and as he brought his fist down she moved at the speed of lightning to move out the way of his attack and landed three successful strikes on her opponent before backing up. Greed growled before he turned around to see that Sakura's sword was no longer in her hand.

"Do you think you can beat me in hand to hand combat?" Greed charged towards Sakura before she raised her finger to the sky, he looked up to notice that the sky had turned black with clouds as lightning began to rumble around the forest. "Humph, I guess using spells is the only way you'll be able to beat me since your body itself is weak." Greed realized he had struck a nerve when Sakura pulled her sword out of the sky through some unknown force and the cloud around the forest began to disperse. Sakura requipped out of Lightning Queen Kimono back into her normal outfit.

"You really want to go there meathead." Sakura began to get angrier as her face darkened and her magic power began to spill out of her body in a pink aura. Greed looked at this before releasing his own magic power which was red in color. The two walked up to each other standing only a few feet away before Sakura brought her sword down on top of greed who blocked the attack with one hand only to fell a sharp pain from his hand. He pulled his hand back to see that blood was trickling down his hand as the sword had cut through his iron gauntlets. He grinned and licked the blood from his hand before smiling and launching a right hook at Sakura who blocked his strike with the flat side of her sword but in return for blocking the strike was sent skidding towards the cave entrance. She looked at the cave before remembering that her friends were still in there. 'I can't fight here or we might end up caving them in, I'll have to bring this fight to another area.' Sakura waited till Greed arrived and ran towards the north side of the cave going deeper into the Karinga forest, she could hear Greed laugh as he spoke about her begin a coward. 'I'm not a coward I just want to protect my guild mates.' As she continued to run she ended up at a lake that was about half as big as Karinga City. 'This will be perfect and now that I've calmed down I can use this to my advantage.' Greed appeared out of the forest behind her running full speed knocking down a tree that stood in his way as he ran towards Sakura.

"Power Augmentation X3" Greed's body began to increase in his size along with his muscles that grew to an unnatural size as he picked up the tree and threw it at Sakura. "Die sinner" The tree came at Sakura at a steadily increasing pace as she held her sword in front of her.

"Requip: Water Queen Kimono, Water Whip" Sakura's kimono changed into a blue color while her sword became a whip made out of water. She moved the whip around the tree wrapping it up before effectively pulling on the base of her whip crushing the tree into splinters in the process. Greed roared in anger as he rushed Sakura while her requipped back into his iron gauntlets, Sakura jumped onto the lake as she stood on the water. "Greed, you believe that those who use requip magic are sinners which you see yourself as am I correct."

"Yes that is correct and I will show you the errors of your ways in becoming a requip wizard." He ran towards Sakura somehow running on top of the water but before he could reach him she jumped into the air.

"I'm sorry to say but you've fallen into my trap, Whirlpool," Sakura's sword began to absorb the water in the lake almost draining the entire thing and had created a giant mass of spinning water above head where she held her sword. She looked down to see that Greed was still in the water slightly shocked by the current development but he quickly stood at the bottom of the lake before launching himself as her.

"Power augmentation X20," Greed's body began to bulge his muscles turning into an almost painful size as he roared at Sakura. She swung her sword down launching the giant whirlpool at him sending him crashing back down into the lake he lie in the water for a few seconds out of breath before rushed to the surface to breathe, he looked up to see that Sakura's kimono had changed colors as it was now a bright yellow color.

"Lightning Queen Kimono: Thunderstorm Helix" Sakura raised her sword in the air as thunderclouds began to surround the lake and forest area. She threw her sword in the air as lightning began to crackle from her sword, a few second later lightning bolts began to rain from the sky landing in random areas on the lake shocking the water and making Greed scream in pain from the lightning coursing through his body stronger than normal due to being in the lake. After the lightning had stopped her sword fell out of the sky into her hand as she looked down to see that he was still looking at her with hate in his eyes as his body was burned he had sears from where the lightning struck him directly and one of his eyes were burnt.

"Sakura Skyheart, I see that you are a strong wizard but I will not die till I obtain the ultimate power and right now beating you will help me obtain that goal. He looked at her for a few seconds before speaking again, "My body is slowly degrading itself because of using the power augmentation X20 but when I use this ability I gain the power to use one of my strongest requips "Requip X20: Demon Blade Adramalech." Greed screamed out in pain as his right arm began to burn turning black and having cracks in it as a sword began to materialize in his hand; the sword was made of pure black metal as it turned into a curved great sword with demon runes in the middle of the blade as the blade continued to transform the blade near the hilt suck inwards leaving a depression in the blade where part of it stuck outwards while the other part was a giant curved blade at the top. Sakura gasped in shock from seeing the demon blade.

'I didn't think that the demon blade actually existed, the fact that this man has it means that I can't let my guard down, not for one second.' She looked at Greed as he jumped up from the water and flew towards her. "Thunderbolt Dragon," Sakura raised her sword in the air as a dragon made of lightning crashed down from the sky heading straight towards Greed, he looked up and smiled before moving his sword at an almost lightning speed and used it to slice the lightning dragon in half as the bolt exploded on both sides of him. 'Dang, he's even faster than I heard about." She kept looking at Greed until he blinked out of her vision and reappeared in front of her with his sword raised. He brought down his sword lightning quick as she barely raised her sword in time to block it. The moment there swords collided Sakura was sent flying crashing into the ground, as the dust cleared from her landing Sakura looked back up to where Greed was to notice he wasn't there before he sensed something was behind her. She ducked and spun out of the way of Greed's swing before releasing a wave of lightning at him from her sword. He swung his sword downwards crushing the blast of lightning before rushing towards Sakura with his sword dragging towards her and slicing upwards sending a shockwave towards her. She blocked the shockwave with her sword but was kicked in the back as Greed ran behind her. She flipped out of the kick and sent another blast of lightning before turning into lightning and appearing behind Greed. She sliced his back in an x pattern and summoned another lightning dragon that crashed down on Greed's back slamming him into the ground.

He got up before laughing, "Is that all that you can do Skyheart, I'm actually quite surprised that the wielder of the Soulblade one of the three holy swords could be this weak?" Sakura backed up stunned by what Greed said as she thought about her armor and weapons.

"I've heard of the three holy swords, Caliburn, Soulblade, and Anduril, but I do not own any of the holy swords." Greed was confused when she said this as he looked her up and down.

"I can sense the sword on you, due to me using the demon sword I have the ability to sense when the one of the holy swords are near me and you my enemy have it under your control. Now don't hide it from me any longer or I might just finish you now." Greed looked at Sakura while he sensed something coming from Sakura, 'So the blades still hidden insider her huh, looks I'll have to force it out of her." Greed Put his sword on his back and disappeared from Sakura view before appearing behind her. "Show me the power of the holy sword," he swung his sword downwards across Sakura's back before being blown away by silver light. He picked himself up off the ground and saw that Sakura was no longer wearing a kimono but instead a suit of armor. The armor covered her entire body revealing only her face; the armor was dark silver in color and it had golden markings on the arms and chest plate, in the middle of the armor a golden dragon head with a ring in its, mouth was placed on her stomach. The bottom half of the armor was more like a skirt but under the dragon head a red cloth flowed down extending all the way to her ankles. She was also given a helmet that had long flowing red fur that extended all the way down her back stopping at the point where her knee bends; a portion of the fur was put up into a pony tail. Her sword transformed to a thicker Katana also growing in size almost similar to a masamune, a bright white light flowed from the sword. Greed laughed as his eyes began to turn feral like, "There it is, the holy sword Soulblade, now I'll destroy you and take it." He disappeared again this time appearing above Sakura with his sword high up above him, "Demon Blade Hell Slash," dark flames covered the demon blade as he swung his sword downwards at full force. Sakura pulled her sword upwards in one fluid motion successfully parrying his downwards thrust sending his sword sliding harmlessly off to the side while the flames from his sword went exploded into the ground making rocks fly everywhere, they flew at Sakura who stood there before moving the sword fast enough to create a blur behind her strikes. The rocks that were flying exploded into dust around her before she looked back towards Greed; he was smiling.

"Why are you smiling, can't you sense the difference in our power now can't you." She looked at him as he continued to smile before speaking.

"I can see the difference in power but I'm sure you know that when two sword masters fight the difference in power is the smallest factor, the real difference is their skills in battle and their experience, and I'm positive I have more experience than you." He raised his sword up and sliced in Sakura's direction sending a wave of hell fire at her. She raised her sword up deflecting the strike before disappearing from his sight, Greed raised his sword up behind him blocking Sakura's strike as he pushed her back away from him. "You're strikes are precise but you lack the instinct to kill, that my young swordswoman is the real difference between our strength. I'll kill with a moment's notice while you hesitate right before you could strike the decisive blow between victory, or defeat." Greed walked towards Sakura as she thought about it before the two looked each other dead in the eye. "The way of the sword is not one that can be walked without the blood of your foes being spilled upon your blade."

"I don't believe that, the of the sword can be traversed multiple ways and in many directions, there is no clear cut path to becoming a better swordswoman, and while your path is covered in blood my path will be covered in the light of my spirit which in the end will make me stronger than you." When Sakura was finished speaking she noticed that Greed's eyes had turn dark and a red light was shown from within them.

"You think that your path is right, there is only one path and that is the path of blood and I will show you this path whether it's with your blood or mine." Greed yelled this at while sprinting towards her with his sword held high in the air. Sakura disappeared from his vision moving at high speeds but anticipating this Greed spun his sword in a wide circle making contact with Sakura's sword sending her flying into a tree. "I won't fall for the same trick twice, now show me your full power, and show me the true strength of the Soulblade." Sakura got up from her place in front of the tree as she stretched her back in pain. She looked at the blade as greed began to run towards her slower than he was before. "Is his transformation finally catching up to him, she began to look at her sword searching for an answer before hearing a voice in the back of her head.

'Sakura I know you can hear me, You haven't unleashed my full potential yet, I'll teach you a spell but it will use up all of your magic energy everytime you use it until you learn how to unleash my full potential." Sakura looked around searching for the voice before she looked down at her sword again.

'So you can talk inside my head huh, well then what's the spell I can hadle it.' She grinned at her sword as she avoided Greed's attack sidestepping to the left kicking him in the side sending him skidding to the side before he placed his sword in the ground, "whatever you want to teach me you might want to do it quick, I think he's about to release all of his magic power right now.' Greed roared as the ground around him began to crack and lava began to shoot up from the cracks.

"The attack I'm about to tell you is easy to use but needs a few seconds to charge so I''ll be quick, it's called Single Sword Soul Dash, you should see how to do it in your own soul." Sakura had her eyes focused on greed as she saw the attack in her mind she jumped in the air and as she fell she began to hold her sword at an angle from her hip facing towards Greed, her eyes began to glow a silverlight as her sword shined bright.

Greed's eyes began to shine a dark red as the lava surrounding him began to explode frequently and in large burst, "Demon Sword: Hell's Armaggedon, it's time for you to die Skyheart, feel the flames of hell as the burn your body to ash." The flames around Greed exploded upwards surrounding an almost quarter mile wide radius. Sakura floated downwards towards the flames as her body begant to shine brighly.

"I won't die today, my life isn't over yet, but for you I would say you're running short on time so best use it wisely, Single Sword: Soul Dash" The light around Sakura began to shine as bright as the sun as she shot downwards blasting through the flames towards Greed, the light around her streamed behind her looking like a silver comet, he shouted in denial at this as Sakura's attack connected with him making the lava dissapear and vanish. Greed lied down on the ground with his face looking at the sky as he breathes slowly without speaking. Sakura stood looking at him before noticing that she was back in her normal outfit and noticed that Greed's body was also back to normal.

"Aghh, aghh" Greed cried out in pain as his body began to burn from the prolonged transformation. Sakura began to rush over to him until she fell over from exhaustion. "Hah, looks like were both down for the count, which means your friends are out of luck." She stared at him with a fire in her eyes as Greed began to cough up blood. "Don't worry, out of all the people here, I'm the second strongest one here, you're friends might get lucky and end up fighting her tow versus one less they have no chance of winning." Greed coughed up more blood as his body began to burn with even more pain until his arm caught on fire.

"You're weak Saiga, you lost to a user of the holy sword even with the help of a demon sword, I'll have more use out of the girl then I will you." Saiga's flaming arm lunged towards Sakura as she cried out in pain as his hand burned a mark on her arm. She rolled away from his as she threatend to pass out from pain and exhaustion.

"The sword has touched its next victim and now the cycle of hate and rage continues and you too will soon walk down the path of blood." Saiga laughed as Sakura passed out before he looked into the forest seeing a dark figure began to walk towards them, he stopped laughing as the shadow looked down on him. The person was a man and while he looked at Saiga he turns around beginning to walk towards Sakura, he picked her up and began to walk towards the cave., he looked back at Saiga before speaking to him.

"Saiga, you shall rot in the pits of hell for your sins, I hope you know this, repent in hell." The man shot a dark beam from his finger that pierced Saiga through his heart, he looked at the man in extreme pain before his eyes glazed over and his life slipped from his body. The man turned around and with Sakura in his arms he began to make his way towards the cave, 'time to make sure that everyone is safe.'

(A/N: Ok guys, I would like to apologize for the extremely long wait, life has been knocking on my door for a while so I had to answer it and since I'm about to be a Senior after this summer I've been working on alot of School work so that I'm sure I graduate and so that i can go to college, last week I was focusing on taking the Sat which took alot of time out of my schedule and due to basketball staring up soon I won't have as much time but I'll try to get writing in during the morning since thats when I'll have time to write and during the summer things should be a bit less hectic here so i should be definetly getting more going then. So once again I apologize and hope you are all doing well.)