Chapter 32

Together

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters, only my own OC's, Energy Magic and my Ideas

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Frea passed under the trees slowly, arms hooked behind her back and eyes halfway closed. She had decided that she had been sitting under that tree too long a few minutes ago, and decided a little walk would do her good.

The trees were thick near the top and the ground was cast in almost constant shadow.

She wasn't heading anywhere in particular, and she wasn't really paying attention either. Her thoughts were swimming around her head, why would Zeref be on this Island? Is he still here? Why was Jynx acting strange? Why did Master seem put-off by the ghost girl? What would Jynx want to talk to her about? And the most pressing of all her mixed thoughts:

Where have I heard someone talking about the One Magic before?

That was bothering her the most, why did it sound so familiar and who had said it to her? It was worse because she felt as if it had been something important too.

Frea shook her head furiously as if to clear her thoughts, if she didn't figure it out soon she might go crazy.

She came to a stop as a low sound echoed over the trees and she glanced up. It didn't sound again and it was so low it might be far away, she tilted her head a little. She waited silently for it to come again, but the woods grew silent.

She cast one last glance at the sky, before walking again, letting out a low sigh. It was so quiet not even she could place what it was, but something about the noise made her feel as if she had heard something like it before.

"Damn... Today is just full of mysteries..." She mumbled. But she did become a little wary when it seemed the forest grew even quieter.

Odd..

"Master." She perked up when the voice reached her ears and she recognized it as Erza. She began to head in the direction of the voice and stopped when both Master and Erza came into view. She stopped under the deep shadow of a tree, and leaned against the trunk with her shoulder, arms crossing over her chest.

"The boat's almost ready to leave..." Erza told him. Master had his back facing the red-head from where he was sitting on a sharp rise in the ground, a few inches taller than Erza's head. "But... What about Laxus?" Erza asked and Frea blinked in surprise at the question.

"I have nothing to say to him!" Master replied quickly. Erza's eyes sank to look at the ground,

"I see..." She murmured. Frea glanced away from the pair, even that seemed a little unfair.

"He's got balls, setting foot on the Guild's Sacred ground, without permission and while still in exile..." Master told her, still not turning her way.

"But that's..." Erza murmured.

"Yeah. I heard about his battle with Hades. Seems he saved your lives by shielding you." Master said. "I must acknowledge his efforts. And I am grateful. But still, they were the actions of a person whose unaffiliated with the Guild."

Erza looked away from his back to look at the ground once more, "That's a harsh judgment." Frea found herself agreeing with Erza, she could tell Laxus wasn't the same man that he had been before getting kicked out of the Guild.

"We'll sure..." Both Frea and Erza jumped slightly, Erza turned around while Frea glanced to the side. Laxus was leaning against a tree, arms crossed over his chest as he listened to the conversation. "That's how he's protected the Guild all these years." Laxus told Erza. "I just lent a hand here."

Frea was fairly sure none of them had seen her listening in yet, even though she wasn't exactly hiding.

"I got no other purpose." Laxus murmured, his eyes were resting not on Erza, but the back of his Grandfather.

"Laxus..." Erza murmured.

"Don't worry about me." Laxus cut in, looking away from Master and closing his eyes for a moment. "I was traveling in the area and only dropped by on a whim. I never intended to stay long." The Lightning Dragon explained.

Frea sighed silently at his words, knowing that what he said couldn't be all true.

"Hey Old Man!" Laxus called and Master slowly turned toward him, slight frown spread across his face.

"Hmm?" Master grumbled.

"There it is. That face..." Laxus murmured. "I think I had to see that disapproving look one last time." He murmured, "We'll, I'll be going..." He stepped away from the tree as began to turn away.

"Laxus!" Erza called him back and paused, opening his mouth as he was about to speak, only to be cut off by a rumbling echoing through the air, louder than it had been before.

Against her will, Frea's body froze at the noise, eyes widening. She knew that sound... It had been so low earlier, but now she was sure.

Frea closed her eyes for a split second as she let her senses cast out as far as she could without a spell, and the blood in her veins ran cold.

A huge Energy Signature was approaching the island, strong, powerful... And full of Negative Energy.

Another sound echoed over the trees, growing louder. She had heard a sound like that before, and with the Energy could feel, this wasn't good.

Without even stopping to think she stepped out from under her tree, eyes fixed on Master.

"We need to go back to camp, now!" She told him quickly. For a moment they were all stunned by her sudden appearance, before Master nodded and he got to his feet. Frea turned around and started to quickly make her way toward camp, Laxus had stayed still and she grabbed his shirt as she passed, pulling him along behind her.

No one POV

They all followed the rushing Energy Dragon who lead them through the trees, Laxus stumbling along behind her as his shirt was held in her solid grasp. Her knuckles were turning white from her strong grip, and her eyes were narrowed, a bead of sweat rolling down her face.

They had never seen her looking so serious before.

Another noise rang over the forest, this time so loud it shook the trees.

"What is that?" Erza asked, eyes sweeping over the trees above her.

"Oi! Frea, what is wrong with you?!" Laxus snapped, not exactly pleased she was dragging him and wouldn't let go. She didn't look back at him but her grasp on his shirt became harder, and he blinked in shock to see her silver eyes glittering with mixed emotions, none of them he could quite place. But the one he knew for sure, worry.

"I really hope I'm wrong..." She muttered, biting her lip after she said it and sweatdropping a little. "If I'm not... We're in trouble." She hissed.

"It couldn't be that, could it? What Gildarts fought with?" Master asked as he kept up with Erza behind the Energy Dragon at the front. He looked worried and he sweatdropped too.

Frea's eyes closed for a minute and her teeth clamped down, her hand grasping into Laxus' shirt tighter as she sped up more.

"I think it is." She hissed and they broke through the trees as another roar echoed over the Island, wind picking up from the force of it.

The camp lay before them and their eyes turned toward the sky to see a giant black winged creature flying over the island, blue markings covering its body.

A Dragon.

"Tch... Damn it..." Frea hissed an she finally let go of Laxus' shirt. Her silver eyes were fixed upon the Dragon.

"S-Seriously?" Gajeel stammered.

"A real Dragon..." Wendy murmured.

"So there are still Dragons alive after all..." Natsu murmured. All the Mages who had lived with a Dragon before, were all frozen with wide eyes.

"The Black Dragon of the Apocalypse..." Master murmured. "Is this the one called Acnologia..?" His gaze was fixed on Gildarts who turned to face him.

"Yeah..." Gildarts replied, face serious as he looked back at the massive creature in the sky. "That's the one."

"You! Do you know where Igneel is?! Grandeeney, Metalicana and Chaitanya too?!" Natsu yelled to the sky.

"Enough Natsu!" Gildarts hands came down to rest heavily and the young Fire Dragon's shoulders. "Don't provoke it! I know I told you how I got this arm... No, how my whole body got like this!"

Acnologia suddenly dove down toward the Island, "It's coming down!" Freed yelled.

"That's not the kind of Dragon Natsu and the others love!" Happy exclaimed. "This is an Evil one."

The ground shook violently as Acnologia hit the ground and the wind rushed past them with rubble in its cool grasp.

"Yeah, your right about that." Gildarts muttered. "This Bastard is humanity's enemy!"

"Then are we gonna fight it?" Natsu asked.

"No. Your looking at this the wrong way Natsu. It's not about winning or losing with this one. It's like how are we going to escape from it." Gildarts told him, and his eyes narrowed. "No, more like, which of us are gonna survive?"

Everyone froze at Gildarts words, eyes widening in disbelief. "Your saying this thing is gonna kill some of us?!" Natsu asked, eyes narrowed in fury and fangs showing as he yelled at Gildarts.

One of Acnologia's clawed feet came down and the ground shook as the Dragon let out a deafening roar.

"Everyone, run!" Gildarts ordered, one of his arms sweeping out to the side. No one had time to move, before Acnologia let out an extremely loud roar and they were forced backwards, and a few were blown away as giant pieces of land were torn up and thrown through the air.

Frea POV

Frea was pushed back a few feet as Anologia let out the roar. She ducked low so she could avoid the rubble flying past, and her eyes narrowed.

This was bad.

She had asked Gildarts what had happened on his mission when she had caught him alone since he had returned. She hadn't been expecting the truth at the time, but he had told her what really happened. He found Acnologia, and this Dragon was the reason he had come back so injured.

She was forced to close her eyes when dust streamed past in big gusts, and she heard Natsu talking when the attack was over.

"What the hell...? The whole forest is just... Gone." Natsu murmured and she opened her eyes to see it was true. The trees that had been surrounding them were gone and the ground was torn up.

"I don't believe it..." Elfman muttered.

"How powerful is that thing?" Levy asked.

"So Teach... She lived with one of these?" She heard Chase murmur from somewhere to her left, where she could see him crouching on the ground.

Frea straightened up and let out a hiss, this wasn't going to end well, she could already see it.

"What is this? It did that with its roar alone? What is that Monster?!" Cana asked in disbelief as Gildarts hovered over her.

"What, is it admiring its work?" Gildarts growled. "I guess that was its way of introducing itself, for now..." Gildarts growled and Frea frowned. "Hey! We're all still alive right?!" Gildarts called out behind him. "There's no time to be scared! We gotta get off this island right away!"

Acnologia let out a tremendous roar as it lifted off into the sky in an instant.

"Here it comes! Get your asses to the boat!" Gildarts ordered.

"Run! We're all going home together!" Erza ordered as she waved a bandaged arm in the direction of where the boat was. "Fairy Tail!"

Frea waited a minute to let a few members get past her, before she turned and started to run with them.

"Wendy! I thought you said you could talk to Dragons!?" Carla asked the Sky Dragon Slayer as they ran and Frea glanced over he shoulder when the white Exceed said it. "Can't you do something?!"

"It's not that only I can talk to them!" Wendy huffed. "All dragons have a high level of intelligence!"

Frea skidded to a halt as Acnologia landed down again and they were all split up by one of its giant feet. She glanced from side to side, she had been split up from the others and was huddled together with Wendy, Natsu, Lily, Carla, Master, Gildarts, Cana, Laxus and Master.

"Why?!" Wendy yelled. "Why are you doing this?! Answer me!" Wendy yelled and she tensed as Acnologia's piercing gaze rested on them. They had to jump apart as Acnologia brought one of its feet down at them. Earth was sent into the air as the ground was crushed, and Frea grabbed Wendy and Carla, pulling them to the side before they were crushed as Acnologia lifted one of its feet again.

"This Dragon doesn't want to talk to us..." She hissed while she released Wendy and Carla.

In an instant the three of them were separated once more, and Frea was thrown back to land on the ground and hiss in pain as she hit the earth. She jumped to her feet to narrowly avoid the path of Acnologia's tail as it hit the ground just where she had been.

She came to a stop as she caught her breath and she sweatdropped when Natsu was thrown away, flying straight through the air toward her. She grabbed his shoulders as he got near and they were both pushed back a little as she caught him.

Natsu got to his feet and they both stared in shock as Master grew to a huge size, and grabbed Acnologia in a head-lock.

"Gramps!" Natsu yelled.

"Run to the ship!" Master ordered.

"Ridiculous! There's no way he'll win!" Gray yelled, Frea glanced sideways to see him standing close by with the rest of the guild and Juvia on his back.

"Master! Please stop! If something happened to you, the guild would..." Erza yelled.

"Run!" Master cut her off.

"Don't you dare make light of Fairy Tail!" Bickslow yelled.

"We're gonna crush you!" Evergreen yelled. Everyone else yelled their approval while only two of them stayed silent. Frea's eyes were narrowed to the long where they were only slits, and standing a little to her right, Laxus was staring up at his Grandfather with wide eyes.

"Are you going to ignore your Master's orders even to the end?!" Master roared and Frea stiffened at his words. "You damn BRATS!"

He didn't honestly mean...?

"The end...?" Mira gasped as she brought a hand up to her mouth. Frea could hardly believe the words came out of his mouth.

"Tch..." She glanced sideways to see Laxus with his eyes shut tight.

"I'm a Dragon Slayer! If that's the enemy-" Natsu yelled but in an instant a hand grabbed onto his scarf and started pulling him along.

"Run, Natsu!" Laxus ordered as he began to pull the young Fire Dragon away.

"Laxus, what are you-?" Natsu froze and so did Frea, both their eyes widened as they caught sight of the small tears flung into the air as Laxus turned around quickly.

Laxus... Was crying...?

She stared in shock, before she finally noticed everyone had started to run past her. Frea looked back up at Master Makarov who was struggling to hold the raging Dragon back.

He wanted them to leave him behind...

Frea looked away as her eyes shut tight for a moment, before she raced after her retreating Guild-Mates.

She shook her head furiously to cast away the small tears that appeared at the corner of her eyes.

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Natsu rushed toward Acnologia as the black dragon held Makarov down.

"Give me back... Gramps!" Natsu roared. Dust was sent up as Acnologia flung Makarov away and the Fairy Tail Master shrunk back down to his normal size.

Erza appeared in front of him; and he stared up in shock at her. "Erza... You too?" Master murmured.

"I was against it." Master's gaze snapped to the side and his eyes widened to see Laxus standing in front of him too. "But do you think the people in your guild would run away," Laxus turned and cast his grandfather a smile. "Leaving a senile old fool behind?"

Erza drew a sword and pointed the smooth, sharp metal at Acnologia. "Bring it!" She ordered as all of Fairy Tail rose up behind her and Magic blazed everywhere as Fairy Tail retaliated.

"Hey, morons! All the power you have!" Laxus yelled as Lightning began flash around him, brighter and stronger than ever. "Anybody who says, 'I don't have any more than this', I'll kick your ass! Combine your puny Fairy Tail powers with my Lightning Attack, and lets knock this bastard for a loop!" Laxus ordered and everyone smiled as they looked his way.

Frea smirked upon hearing Laxus yell out, and she let her Magic flow more freely.

"Hey Natsu! Get outta the way!" Laxus ordered.

"Laxus! Now!" Erza ordered.

"Raging Bolt!"

"Heaven's Wheel: BlumenBlatt!"

"Super Freeze Arrow!"

"Water Nebula!"

"Solid Script Fire!"

"Sagittarius, now!"

"Evil Explosion!"

"Blue Energy Stream!"

"Energy Dragon Roar!"

A spinning stream of magic flew out toward Acnologia, several different colors and types of Magic circled inside of it. The Dragon was engulfed in a dome of that Magic and Frea jumped back to avoid being caught in it, landing right beside Laxus who was keeping it going.

"Damned Monster! You took everything we got and your still grinning?!" Laxus growled. "You guys, last chance to take him down! Go, Natsu!"

Wendy, Gajeel and Natsu streamed through the air with the help of their Exceed Partners. All three of their breath attacks combined together and Acnologia was sent flying, crashing into a large hill and into the ocean. A geyser of water was sent up into the air,

"Did we beat it?"

"No. It's not using the power it did when it fought me." Gildarts growled. "It's just playing with us!"

The ground shook as Acnologia lifted off into the air again over the Island.

"Bastard..."

"Even though we gave it all we had... We had the combined attack of three Dragon Slayers, and the concentrated force of the Guilds power..." Wendy murmured.

Frea looked away and closed her eyes, "Tch... "

Acnologia's mouth opened as it began to suck in air and water up with it.

"Breath attack!" Gajeel growled.

"Don't tell me it means to wipe out the whole island?!" Cana gasped.

"Maybe it's all hopeless... Is it gonna end for all of us here?" Lucy murmured as her shoulde shook and he hands covered her face.

"Everyone who can use Defensive Magic, go full power!" Erza ordered.

Frea glanced the redheads way, she highly doubted anybody would have enough power to defend against the next attack.

"There's no time to draw any runes." Freed muttered.

"There's plenty of other kinds of Defensive Magic you can do with Letter based Magic!" Levy told him.

"T-that's right." Freed murmured.

"That's our Levy!"

"Everyone, focus all your Magic Power on Freed and Levy!" Lisanna called out.

"Everyone hold hands!" Mira ordered.

"Everyone join your Magic power together! Lets show this creature the bond of our Guild!" Gray yelled.

Frea took Chase's hand as he took Wendy's and her other hand met Gajeel's. She smiled a little when Master teared up as Laxus offered his hand to his grandfather.

"That's right! Lets all go home together!" Master called, tears streaming down his face.

They all stood hand and hand assembled in a circle as they looked toward the sky. "To Fairy Tail!"