Chapter 53

Graveyard

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Unison Raid.

That was their plan, they were hoping the power of the Unison Raid would take Natsu down and leave them victorious. A Unison Raid wasn't something just anyone could do, it was near impossible for even the strongest Mages. But they were doing it, and it wasn't just some half-assed, hardly put together attack governed by luck alone.

It was strong, concentrated and amazingly in tune with both Sting and Rogue as their Magic fused together.

Ever since Gajeel was pushed into that cart by Natsu, leaving the Fire Dragon alone to deal with Sting and Rogue, Natsu has been dominating the game. Most people could hardly believe Natsu was winning all on his own, Fairy Tail was cheering their heads off with the exception of three people up in the stands, and many could see that the Unison Raid Sting and Rogue were preparing to use was a sort of last resort.

It was a last resort that failed, Natsu was stronger than Sting and Rogue were giving him credit for, and his 'Crimson Lotus; Exploding Flame Blade' easily destroyed the Unison Raid, sending the flames and the two Saber's Magic back at them. When the dust cleared, both Rogue and Sting fell, the match was over.

"Lets fight again someday, ok?" Natsu grinned at the two.

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Moon POV

That's how Fairy Tail had taken First Place by one Point, one point many could remember Gajeel telling Sting not to complain about when the Games came to an End, when the White Dragon Slayer had forfeited in Chariot.

Frea followed slowly at the back of a group heading under the Arena. Chase was at her left while Moon was on her right. Ahead of them were Natsu, Wendy, Happy, Carla and Lily, while Gray and Lucy were behind them and Gajeel was leading the entire group.

The Iron Dragon Slayer had showed up not that long after the fight, but they could all tell he was being unusually serious and the fact that he had asked for all the First Generation Dragon Slayers to come with him, didn't suggest anything good.

Gray, Lucy and Chase had followed along because they had been curious in Lucy and Gray's cases, or very unnerved by the underground of the Arena like Chase was. The Exceeds came along because they wouldn't leave their partners behind, but no one seemed to mind the onlookers at the moment.

Though, Frea and Chase weren't exactly paying attention to the others.

Both Energy Mages were walking along, eyes narrowed, frowns spread across their faces and eyes darting from left to right as they scanned the walls of the tunnel they were in. They both seemed on edge, Moon could see it clearly even if no one else could tell.

They had seemed on edge since the floor of the Arena collapsed, and the tension of the two was rising the longer they followed Gajeel. Chase and Frea didn't even seem to register that the others were talking around them, they seemed too focused on something else to notice the others around them.

"Why are you dragging us here anyway?" Natsu asked Gajeel who didn't look back at him. "And why did you ask for Dragon Slayers?" Natsu pressed.

"It's something I think Dragon Slayers should see, and we'll be there soon enough." Gajeel huffed back and Natsu frowned in irritation at the vague answer.

Everyone looked up as an opening in the tunnel appeared from which they could see pale light coming from. Most people just blinked in surprise, wondering what was up ahead.

Frea and Chase slowed down a little as they neared the tunnel, sweatdropping a little and eyes narrowing more. Moon cast a confused look up at the two, she couldn't figure out why they were being like this. She had drawn up a little when the two Energy Mages slowed down and she blinked when Lily dropped back to walk at her shoulder.

"You noticed the behavior of those two, right?" Lily asked quietly and Moon nodded, glancing his way. Lily had his paws crossed over his chest and eyes set ahead, but he was frowning a little too.

"They're on edge." Moon replied, Lily nodded at the comment and she tilted her head. "Do you know where Gajeel is taking us?" She asked.

"No." Lily replied. "But I have seen this reaction from Frea before." He told her with a small flick of his head back at Chase and Frea. "Chase is an Energy Mage like her, so it makes sense he would be acting like her too. Frea took a job with Gajeel and I some time ago, and she was acting like this too." Lily's small frown deepened. "Both of them, they can feel emotions, things in the air, they're sensitive to it with Frea even more so being a Dragon Slayer. The last time she was like this, she had a very good reason, and it wasn't pleasant."

Moon watched him carefully as he spoke, before she looked away and closed her eyes. "Do you mind, Lily?" She asked and he blinked, turning a confused look on her. Moon opened her eyes and looked his way. "Could I see what happened? On the mission with you, Frea and Gajeel?" She asked, reaching out a paw toward him with a neutral look spread across his face.

Lily nodded solemnly as he placed his paw in hers and Moon closed her eyes again.

No One POV

Just before Gajeel could step out of the tunnel via the entrance, both Chase and Frea stopped dead, not looking to thrilled with going any further. Gajeel seemed to sense the two had stopped, even though his back was turned to them, and everyone stopped as well.

"So you can feel it?" Gajeel muttered as he turned and fixed his gaze on Frea and Chase, arms crossed over his chest. They both nodded, "I'm guessing from how tense you two have been, you were put off even before we entered the tunnels."

"What are you talking about?" Gray asked.

"They're saying that these tunnels don't feel right." Wendy murmured. "I noticed it the more we walked in, the air feels a little off."

"Yeah... Now that you mention it something doesn't feel right around here.." Natsu mumbled.

"It's not something I'm going to like, is it?" Frea asked lowly as she looked right at Gajeel, eyes torn away from the opening in the tunnel. Her face was pulled into a frown with her eyes narrowed.

"No." Gajeel huffed and turned around, "Come on." He called behind him, his tone leaving no room for argument from anyone else. Chase and Frea hesitated a moment, before stepping forward and following Gajeel through the opening.

Everyone came to a dead-stop when they saw what lay before them.

Natsu, Wendy and Frea's eyes widened in sheer horror at the sight, while everyone looked on the scene with shocked expressions, but not nearly as horrified as the Dragon Slayers were.

Before them lay a huge cavern filled with the bones of countless upon countless Dragons.

"These are all..." Lucy whispered.

"Dragon Bones...?" Wendy breathed.

Frea stepped back a little as her horrified expression turned to a very deep frown with her eyes narrowed and a bead of sweat dripping down her face at the sight.

"It's a graveyard..." Natsu murmured.

"But... Why is it here?" Lily asked as he looked to Gajeel.

"No idea." Gajeel grumbled. "I ended up here after Salamander pushed me into the mine cart."

"But for so many Dragons to be in one place, you have to wonder..." Lucy murmured as she eyed the dusty bones near her.

"Why?" Gray finished for her.

"Frea? Chase?" Moon spoke up suddenly as she looked at both Energy Mages. Everyone glanced over, Chase had his eyes closed and finger pinching the bridge of his nose as he sweatdropped.

Frea seemed to have taken a few more steps away from the cavern full of old bones, eyes shut tight and hand pressed to her forehead.

Everyone blinked at the two, Gajeel, Lily and Moon frowned, knowing exactly what was wrong with them. Wendy stepped forward with a worried look on her face,

"Are you ok?" She asked.

"Yeah, what's up with you two?" Gray asked.

"This cavern... It's filled with so many negative emotions..." Chase muttered, "It's horrible..." The young man told them and groaned a little.

"This is worse then Jogenen was..." Frea hissed. "The air is laced with it... All of it..." Her hand slid down from her forehead to cover her mouth as her eyes opened slightly. "It's disgusting..."

Everyone stayed silent as they took in what the two said, before looking away and sweeping their gazes over the cavern.

"So what did happen here...?" Carla asked.

Frea POV

Frea closed her eyes again as she tried her best to block out everything around here as much as she could. Her head was starting hurt with all the Negative Energy and Emotions hanging around.

Chase couldn't be feeling much better than she did right now, though he could block everything out completely if he wanted too...

He would probably do that, cut off his connection with Energy for awhile so he could withstand being here. Frea cursed herself, damn her own inability to cut off her ties with Energy and block off her senses for a time, even if only for a little!

Not being able to block the Energy around her out had proved to be a challenge, and she had no idea why she couldn't do it. That simple stupid issue with her had been a pain in the ass for so long she was getting tired of it.

She reluctantly followed the small group as they headed farther into the cavern of bones, though she would have rathered to just leave.

The entire cavern was filled with fear, pain, rage, hate, suffering, despair... There wasn't a happy emotion inside at all. But she had to wonder why all the emotions were so strong, all the dragons in here were dead, were they not? So why are their emotions hanging around and so strong?

Her eyes darted to the right when she caught sight of some faint movement, but looking now she couldn't see anything. She quickly looked left when she saw something like that again out of the corner of her eye, but again she couldn't find anything.

Her eyes locked onto the dust filled ground in front of her as she followed the others in. She let her senses open up more, and she was immediately hit with the more force of all the Negative Emotions in the air. It was so much she felt like she was going to throw up, but she forced her senses to search for anything else in the cavern.

Anything beside her fellow Mages, and the emotions in the air.

There was definitely something else in the cavern with them, she was sure of it. She knew it wasn't human, and her heart raced a little to find that it was the Energy Signature of a Dragon in the graveyard with them.

It was faint, almost undetectable. She stopped trying to block out her senses completely, and just stopped herself from gagging at the full force of the Negative Energy in the cavern, as her head started to pound.

Now that she could fully feel everything in the cavern, she got a full picture of exactly what it was. It was a soul if she had to guess, the soul of a Dragon hanging around the old bones. It was ancient, old, and weak from lingering to long in this world. She was aware of a few more, but they were hardly there she couldn't be sure how many were still around.

But it had to make sense, with all the pain and rage, the fear and the suffering... Something horrible happened here and the Souls of some of these old Dragon Bones were still hanging around.

Frea stopped searching and let her mind block off a small part of her senses, being all she could do to try and lessen the effect all the Negative Energy in this cave was having on her.

She came to a stop with Chase at her shoulder as everyone paused, they had to be in the center of the cavern now, and Frea let out a low groan. Her head started pounding as they continued in and it only got worse, her stomach was staring to churn too.

It didn't help that she could smell the death and blood in this place, the air was full off the horrible smell.

"You don't think... Igneel and the others are...?" Happy whispered, but he was quickly shut up from a whack on the shoulder by Moon.

"Happy!" She scolded and the blue Exceed gave her an apologetic look.

"Sorry..." Happy mumbled, Moon, Carla, and Lily shook their heads at him.

"They're not here." Natsu told him.

"No, look at the bones." Wendy said as she gestured toward some of them.

"Our Dragons disappeared fourteen years ago, these Dragon Bones have been here for much, much longer." Gajeel explained.

"So then why are they here?" Gray mumbled, almost to himself.

"Milky Way." Wendy said suddenly and everyone glanced her way.

"What's Milky Way?" Natsu asked her.

"It's one of the Spells that Porlyusica gave me." Wendy explained. "Listen to the voices of the dragons, connected to the river in the sky..." Wendy tapped a finger to her chin as her eyes narrowed in thought. "I thought it was an attack type of Magic.. But maybe its this. Milky Way might be a magic used to listen to the voices of Dragons who became souls."

"What?!" Gajeel looked we way in shock.

"No way..." Natsu murmured. Frea looked at the ground and closed her eyes.

"If we can hear the voices of the Dragons lying here, we might be able to know what happened. And maybe we might find out something about our Dragon's too..." Wendy told them.

No One POV

"Do you think that will really work?" Lucy asked.

"I'm not sure, but I might as well give it a try." Wendy answered as she picked up a stick on the ground and started to draw a circle around herself.

"It'll work." Frea said quietly as she opened her eyes up again. Everyone glanced her way on surprise and Wendy paused.

"How do you know?" Gray asked.

"From what I can tell, there's at least one recognizable Energy Signature in here besides all of yours." Frea answered as she gestured at them all. "I think its a soul, and if Wendy can lock on to it, we should get some answers... But I don't know how long the spell will last for, we'll just have to see." She murmured and they all blinked at her.

They looked surprised she could feel a soul in here, hardly believing even she was that sensitive. Chase even looked over at his old mentor in shock, he hadn't been able to pick up on any other Energy Signature's in the cavern. Now, he was reminded of just how good Frea was at picking up on Energy Signatures, she was outmatched, even by himself.

Wendy had gone back to drawing the Magic Circle as quickly as she could, murmuring under her breath as she did so, eyes narrowed in concentration. Everyone positioned themselves around the small Dragon Slayer to watch her work, but Moon followed Frea as the Energy Dragon Slayer walked away.

Moon POV

Moon kept close to Frea as she followed her partner a little ways away from the others. Frea's eyes were hardly open, and she stayed silent. Moon felt a little on edge being in here, perhaps it was the every figures of looming Dragon Bones all around, but she had to account some of her unease due to Frea's own tenseness at being here.

Frea was on edge like everyone else, but the silver-eyed Mage was even more tense about it than the others were.

It must suck to be in here and be able to feel all of the Energy and Emotions all around you...

Frea stopped just in front of the huge figure of a Dragon's skull, it was pale and deathly white as it seemed to glow in the faint light of the cavern. The huge ghost of a once proud and noble creature, now left to dwindle away and be choked with dust, its existence unknown to every single person who sat above it in the arena.

Frea reached out a hand and placed it on the smooth surface of the skull, eyes closing as she let out a long sigh.

"I'm not sure I want to know what happened here..." Frea said quietly and Moon blinked.

"But don't you think it would be better to know? Don't you think that it must be something important?" Moon replied and Frea's eyes opened as she pulled her hand away from the skull, but didn't look down at her.

"There's that question again, what's important?" Frea mumbled. "It's a question that I often find myself asking, and I'm getting rather tired of it." Frea muttered and Moon tilted her head a little.

Moon looked away and bit her lip, thinking what Frea said over. She knew that Frea seemed rather busy and preoccupied even if she had only been with her for a short time. Though she had thought it better to not ask a lot of questions of the Energy Dragon Slayer.

But she had to wonder, could Frea have a lot more things on her mind than she was letting on? Moon already knew about the 'Magic Phenomenon' that Fiore had seen, she knew why it showed up, and who cast it.

Though she still found it surprising to know Frea had been the one to do it, it would take an extremely large amount of Magic Power to create something like that, and ten-times more to do what she had done.

Changing a Human Soul into a Celestial Spirit Soul, and Creating a Celestial Key; Who could have ever thought that was possible?

Moon glanced up in worry as she saw Frea sway a little on her feet, and press a hand to the side of her head, eyes shut tight and teeth clamped together.

"Frea, are you ok?" Moon asked as she sprouted wings to float up near her partner.

"Y-yeah... I'm fine... Don't worry about me, I just hope we get out of here soon..." Frea mumbled and Moon frowned worriedly at her.

"All done!" Wendy exclaimed behind them and Moon glanced over her shoulder. "Please step back." Wendy instructed a she waved a hand at everyone around her. Around her, Wendy had drawn and elaborate Magic Circle and now the small Dragon Slayer closed her eyes and raised her hands above her.

No One POV

"Wandering Souls of the Dragons, I am Ready to Receive Your Voices."

"Milky Way!"

Wendy's magic glared up around we as she settled down on her knees and ripples of magic and stars began to flow out above her. Everyone's eyes widened in awe at the sight, although Frea didn't even turn to look toward the others.

Around them the bones started to shake and rattle, everyone glanced around in surprise.

"The bones!" Lucy squeaked as she jumped away and hid behind Gray.

"Is this ok, Wendy?" Gray murmured.

"I'm looking for the souls of the Dragons, the residual auras wandering in this place are extremely old, and small..." Wendy replied. Wendy's eyes opened as she quickly clapped her hands together in front of her, "Found!"

Magic startled to spiral in the air before Wendy, far up above their heads and it started to materialize. Most people's eyes widened in utter shock at the sight, realizing what shape the soul Wendy had found was taking.

A huge Dragon appeared before them, its massive head swung up and it let out a roar as it roared, many rows of pointed teeth showing. The Dagon was making an exceptional amount of noise, and in between roaring, as it did again when it leaned down and snarled at the Mages on the ground, receiving yells of shock in response, another sound was intertwined with its roars. It was all jumbled together and distorted, but the Massive Creature was uttering things in the Dragon Language, but it sounded gurgled and jagged in the mass of snarls and roars it was letting out.

They were all to shocked to move as they stared wide-eyed at it, and Wendy had her eyes closed as she sat unmoving on the ground as she kept the spell going. The gurgled and jumbled noise echoed around the cavern even more as the Dragon looked down at them.

Without a word Frea whipped around and stalked right up to where the others were standing before the Dragon, eyes narrowed and fists clenched as she bared her fangs at the Dragon.

"Futerol!"