Hey everyone, been a while since I updated and I'll let everyone know why at the end of the chapter. Now before we begin, I only have one thing to say. I just got done reading the most recent chapter of the Fairy Tail manga and I can't wait to see what happens next. I won't spoil anything for those that haven't read it yet or just watch the anime, but for those of you that have kept up with the manga, did any of you expect HIM to be the emperor? I mean really, HIM of all the people lead twelve people on the same freaking level as God Serena. Did anyone see that coming? Anyways on with the chapter.
Naruto, Gray, and Elfman appeared in a flash of red lightning in a large open room. Naruto looked around and saw a large damaged lacrima with Natsu standing on top of it. Natsu saw his brother and guild mates and jumped down and landed in front of the trio. Naruto turned to his brother after finishing looking around the room.
"Where's Happy?" Naruto asked not finding the blue cat anywhere.
"When we got here there a guy who control flames guarding the lacrima. Happy and I knew we didn't have time to deal with him so Happy snuck up behind him and flew him out of here while I destroyed the lacrima." Natsu explained just as Happy flew back in and landed on his shoulder. "You alright buddy?"
"Aye Sir!" Happy exclaimed.
"So what's the plan Naruto?" Gray asked getting everyone's attention.
"There are three members of the element four and Gajeel left, plus Jose. First, we look for the Gajeel and the other three and make sure they are out of the fight. After that, Jose is mine and mine alone." Naruto explained.
"Where do you think they are located at? They should just come out and fight us like real men." Elfman asked.
"While I hate to admit it, Jose is smart. After the beating I gave Gajeel, he more than likely doesn't want his members fighting us by themselves anymore. They are probably grouped together right now waiting for us." Naruto explained before a scent caught his attention.
"You smell it too aniki?" Natsu asked.
"Yeah, that's definitely Gajeel's scent. Seems like they aren't too far away either. Let's go guys." Naruto said before leading the other three mages and one cat toward their targets.
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The four mages and one cat busted through a set of large wooden doors and into what appeared to be a large meeting room. Across the large open room stood four of Phantom Lord's strongest members. The three remaining members of the element four and their ace Gajeel Redfox, the iron dragon slayer.
"Took you scumbags long enough to get here." Gajeel said with a smirk. "I want a rematch Uzumaki."
"Sorry Gajeel, but I don't have time for you all. I need to find you master and make him pay for what he has done." Naruto replied.
"I'm afraid I cannot let you anywhere near Master Jose." Aria said as tears fell from his eyes before he seemed to disappear from sight.
"Where did he go? Come and fight us like a real man!" shouted Elfman. What he didn't notice was Natsu and Naruto's smirks as they sniffed the air.
"Aniki."
"Yeah I smell him. Gray, behind us." Naruto said causing Gray to bring his hands together and a magic circle appeared.
"Ice make: wall." Gray said as he moved his hands apart and a wall of ice appeared behind the Fairy Tail mages.
"Just because you seem to disappear from our sight, doesn't mean you can disappear from our smell." Naruto said as Aria reappeared by his teammates from his failed attack.
"Now it's my turn." Naruto said as he was surrounded by red lighting and a blue ball of magic appeared in his hand. Before anyone could blink, Naruto was in front of Aria with his hand out stretched. "Rasengan!" shouted Naruto as Aria was sent flying into a wall behind him before slumping to the ground in defeat.
Naruto vanished again dodging the attacks from the remaining three Phantom mages and reappearing next to his teammates. "I'm going after Jose. I leave these three up to you all." Naruto said as he headed for the door they had busted through. He stopped and looked back at Natsu with a smirk on his face. "And ototo, don't be afraid to go all out. I know you haven't mastered it yet, but I will let you use it this one time." Naruto said getting a smile and a nod from his little brother.
"What's the blond bastard talking about? What are you going to go all out with?" Totomaru asked.
"You'll find out soon enough." Natsu said as the three Fairy Tail mages rushed the three Phantom Mages. As the three Fairies closed in on their targets, a large ball of flame was launched at them. Gray acted quickly and made another ice wall to block the ball of flame.
Natsu was in front of his teammates and his hand was soon covered in flames. "Fire dragon's iron fist!" Natsu shouted as he punched his way through the ice wall and connected with Totomaru's face on the other side. The fire mage was sent flying backwards several feet before finally coming to a stop. No one noticed Sol emerge from the ground behind them.
"You three have no chance against us. We know your strengths and weaknesses, we have been watching all of Fairy Tail for quite some time now. We know everything about you pathetic Fairies." Totomaru said with a smirk.
"Big brother Elfman!" came a voice from behind the three Fairy Tail mages that made them freeze. Turning around they saw Lisanna standing there smiling at them. All three of them stood there for a few silent moments before all three of them gave a small smile.
"You think making a fake copy of my little sister will help you. That night haunted me for the longest time, day and night. But thanks to my family and friends, I got through that. Lisanna would never want me to sit around blame myself for that night so I used that to push myself to get stronger so I would never do something like that again. Take over: Beast Soul!" Elfman shouted as his body was surrounding by a bright light. When the light died down, the three Phantom mages were shocked to see he still had control of his take over. "This guy is mine." Elfman said before rushing Sol.
"I'll take care of Totomaru, you handle Gajeel." Gray said getting a nod from Natsu. Gray brought his hands together as he rushed the fire wielding mage. "Ice make: Gauntlet." Gray's right hand was covered in ice and grew to double the size of his normal hand. Gray dodged each flame sent at him until he was close to Totomaru. Once he reached him, Gray drove his ice covered hand into Totomaru's gut knocking the wind from him and sending him flying.
Gray wasn't about to let the Phantom mage have a second of rest and pressed the attack. Once again bringing his hands together, a blue magic circle appeared above Totomaru's head. "Ice make: Hammer!" Gray shouted as a large ice hammer came crashing down on top of the fire mage's head effectively knocking him out.
Gray turned away from the fallen mage and saw Elfman walking up to him. "Where's Sol?"
"Laying in a crater over there." Elfman said jabbing a thumb over his shoulder. "Should we help Natsu?"
"Nah, flame brain can handle Gajeel. We should go back and help the others until Naruto is done with Jose." Gray said getting a nod from Elfman in return as the two went to help their family.
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Natsu and Gajeel were putting everything they had into their fight. Both mages were launching spell after spell at the other. Both were bruised and their bodies were littered with cuts everywhere. Natsu was hoping to end the fight and jumped into the air away from Gajeel. Both his hands were covered in flames and he brought them together over his head.
"Fire dragon's brilliant flame!" He shouted as he launched the fire ball at his opponent. Gajeel didn't have time to dodge but he did activate another one of his spells as his body was covered in iron scales. The fire ball connected with Gajeel causing smoke to arise. Natsu, thinking he had won, turns and starts walking away only to be hit in the back with Gajeel's iron club.
After Natsu slowly picks himself up, he Gajeel's scales. "Should've known you wouldn't be taken down so easily." Natsu said with a small smirk.
"You can't win while I have my iron scales active. I'm a lot stronger now plus this will hold up against even your flames." Gajeel laughed.
"Then how about we take this up a notch? Your iron scales against my dragon force and see which one of walks away from here." Natsu said as he started gathering more magic energy. "Fire Drive." A shockwave of magic energy flew from Natsu and pushed Gajeel back a bit. His body was covered in scales and his teeth and nails grew a little longer.
"What the hell is that?" Gajeel asked looking over Natsu's new appearance.
"This is Dragon Force, a dragon slayers strongest ability. I haven't mastered it yet like Naruto-nii has, but I can use it for just over five minutes which is more than enough time for me to kick your ass. Now you face the power of a real dragon!" Natsu yelled as an apparition of a large red dragon appeared behind him causing Gajeel to take a few steps back as one thought crossed his mind.
"What the hell did I get myself into?"
(Earlier with Naruto)
Naruto was walking along the halls of the Phantom guild hall looking for Jose. He behind every door he came upon and still hadn't found him yet. Coming to a set of large wooden doors, Naruto was tired of looking for Jose the way he had been so he decided to knock his way. He coated his foot in solid rock and kicked the doors off their hinges and sent them flying into the middle of the room where they landed with a loud thud. Naruto walked into the room and was met with the sound of clapping.
"Good show of strength, but you could've just knocked like a normal person." Jose said from where he was sitting on the other side of the room on a throne.
Naruto pulled two kunai from his pouch and held them so it only looked like he had one. "Do me a favor and hold this you jackass." Naruto said as he threw the kunai as Jose's head.
"Dead wave." Jose said as he held out his hand and a purple beam of magic flew from it. He managed to destroy one of the kunai, but by the time he saw the second it was too late. Naruto flashed to his kunai and buried his knee deep in Jose's gut. The blond then flipped backwards and kicked Jose in the chin snapping his head back against the throne.
"For one of the ten wizard saints, I thought you would put up more of a fight." Naruto said as he looked at the downed form of Jose.
Jose slowly pushed himself to his feet before looking at the blond. Suddenly a purple aura of magic energy surrounded the guild master as he stared Naruto down. "Let's see how well you do when I use my full power!" Jose yelled in rage.
The two stood staring the other down for a few minutes waiting for the other to make the first move. The two mages soon felt a burst of magic energy that had an evil feel to it. "Looks like Gajeel is finally getting serious." Jose said only to be silenced by the next burst of magic that was slightly stronger than the first. "What the hell was that?"
"That would be my little brother. Now it's my turn to go full power." Naruto said as his magic began rising.
"Is that the best you got? You aren't even equally matched with mine yet." Jose laughed out at the blond before noticing said blonds smirk.
"That's only part of my power dipshit. Maybe you should let me finish raising my power before you talk." Naruto said as he magic power shot up even with Jose's causing his eyes to widen. "Just wait, it goes even higher. Element Drive!" Naruto yelled out as his body was surrounded by a red aura with lightning crackling around him, his body was covered in scales, and his eyes became slits. (Just picture his version one chakra cloak but with scales and lightning added in.)
Jose stared at the blond in front of him in slight fear. He was one of the ten wizard saints and this boy in front on him had completely surpassed his power. Jose took a few steps back as Naruto started moving towards him, the air around the young blond crackling with every step. "Stay away from me. Dark Wave!"
Jose sent the wave of dark magic at the blond who simply side stepped to avoid the attack. Naruto stopped walking as he brought his hands up in front of him and a ball of light appeared between them. "You attacked the guild, you attacked my family, and more importantly you attacked those that are precious to me. No more Jose. Fairy Law, Invoke." Naruto pushed his hands together as the light flooded the area.
When the light finally died down, Jose was lying on the ground looking pale and unconscious. Naruto looked out the window to the shade Jose had created disappearing and the Fairy Tail members cheering in victory. Naruto made his way out of the room and headed back toward the guild to check up on his girls and wait for Natsu to finish with Gajeel.
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Natsu stood across from Gajeel, both dragon slayers panting heavily from exhaustion. Natsu knew he didn't have but only a few minutes left with his dragon force. He had small cuts and bruises all over his body from the iron dragon slayer, but he had returned the damage just as much as he had taken. You could see small patches where Gajeel's iron scales had been removed and the skin underneath slightly burnt.
"Your time is just about up fairy." Gajeel replied with a smirk.
"Which just means I need to end this now. Dragon slayer secret arts: Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu yelled as he swung his arms as Gajeel creating a large torrent of flames that hit Gajeel and sent him flying into the air.
Natsu then appeared above the iron dragon slayer with a smirk of his own. "This is for hurting my friends and family. Fire dragon's sword horn." Natsu's body was covered in flames as he rocketed towards Gajeel at incredible speed and head-butted him in the stomach and sent him crashing into the floor below.
Natsu landed and looked to where Gajeel had landed to see that he was unconscious. His dragon force deactivated and he started to fall backwards but was caught by Happy. "Way to go Natsu."
"Thanks Happy. Let's head back to the guild and check on everyone else." Natsu replied with a smile.
"Aye Sir."
Not as long as my other chapters but I hope it will do for now. I may go back and have a few flashbacks explaining the training and stuff that Natsu and the others went through at a later date. And before anyone complains about Aria not putting up a fight, just remember in the anime he wasn't much of a challenge for a weakened Erza, so a healthy Naruto would end it quicker.
next chapter will start the tower of heaven arc, but there will be some extra characters in it this time. mainly a few extra Naruto characters. hopefully you all will enjoy what i have planned.
Anyways, I am currently working two jobs to support my family right now. My wife has been very sick lately and not able to work. Between work and taking care of my wife and daughter, it doesn't leave me with a lot of time anymore. However I will hopefully update at least once a month until I can get everything settled out in life. Thank you for your support and patience with this story and as always leave a review.
