Hey guys! Firestorm40 here with a new chapter. Anyway, we are nearing the conclusion of the Dark Roxas Arc, enjoy.

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Chaos had fallen on Magnolia, with Roxas unable to control himself; he had lost all reason and restraint as he had carelessly attacked his friends. Luckily, there was one person left that stood in his way.

"I won't hold back Roxas!" Natsu roared as he sprinted to the Fox Slayer, his hands engulfed in flames. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" His right first was engulfed in flames, but Roxas, who was still in his Fox Cloak, held Natsu back with a huge gust of air. The amount of wind he put out was also able to put the flames on Natsu's right fist out.

Roxas shot two 'tails' forward, hitting the Dragon Slayer, forcing him backwards into the ground. Natsu got back up with some small rips in his waist coat. He jumped to his feet from his back.

"Is that all ya got?" Natsu taunted. Roxas took this as a challenge and slammed his fists onto the ground, causing three columns of twisted earth speed towards Natsu, but Natsu engulfed his fist in flames and punched the earth protrusions to pieces. He saw Roxas slowly rising into the air. Natsu took advantage of the time Roxas had given him and sprinted to Roxas once again. His right hand was engulfed in his flames yet again. "Fire Dragon's..." Roxas raised his cloak claws  and used them to guard his face; this forced a smirk from Natsu as his punch impacted Roxas' arms but the flames had fizzled out. Instead, Natsu powered up his flames on his right foot. "...Talons!" He swung his leg to make contact with Roxas' gut, sending him to a building where his back made a loud impact. "Are you ready to snap out of it yet?" Roxas got to his feet while breathing heavily. "So that's a no."

Roxas took a deep breath. "Nine-Tails' Crimson Howl!" He expelled black, crimson flames from his mouth.

Natsu retaliated with his own fire breath. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Both fire breaths collided making a cloud of steam. Natsu charged through the cloud after they ceased their attacks. Natsu was engulfed in flames before spearing into Roxas and colliding into his stomach. But as he was pushing Roxas back, the Fox Slayer's feet dug into the ground slowing down both of their momentums. Roxas clasped his cloak claws over his head and use them to slam them down onto Natsu's back.

Right after the Dragon Slayer hit the ground, a 'tail' propelled him high into the air. Roxas shot into the air and sped towards Natsu. When he saw Roxas getting closer, Natsu hatched an attack. "Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!" After engulfing both his hands in fire and forming a colossal fireball, he then chucked it at Roxas. Making an explosion that made Roxas stagger in the air, he fixed himself up to keep from falling but Natsu, his face distorted in rage, speared into Roxas with orange jets of fire discharging from his feet.

Both battlers were speeding through the air as they headed for the East Forest. "They are going to crash into the East Forest!" Happy cried, seeing the sight.

"Then that is where we will go.," Erza said after she re-quipped back into her regular armor.

"We're coming with you," Lucy said with Ariel and Gray and Happy beside her.

"Fine," Erza agreed. She looked back at the others to see Cana and Levy helping the wounded.

"We're fine here you guys can go ahead," Cana said, holding an unconscious Mira over her shoulder.

Erza nodded and she, along with the others that agreed to go, followed her.

"Cana, you think Natsu can beat him?" Levy asked.

"Here's what I think. If he can't then we have no choice but to kill him," Cana replied. "Of course that itself is no small feat, but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that..."

"Me too..." Levy looked to the ground before perking herself up. "But I believe in Natsu."

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A ball of tremendous energy was seen speeding to the East Forest and landed with such tremendous force that it made a gigantic crater, pummeling some of the trees that used to stand there.

"Now that we are here, I don't have to hold back!" Natsu declared. Right after he said this, he took a deep breath. "Fire Dragon's Roar!"

As the huge stream of fire was speeding to him, Roxas took in as much air as he could and prepared his attack. "Nine-Tails' Gusting Howl!" A burst of crimson flames combined with a vertical cyclone of air made a vertical fire cyclone speed through Natsu while canceling out his flames. This huge burst of flames made a large line of destruction as many trees were either burnt to ashes or on fire after the attack.

Natsu however looked completely unharmed. He raised his arm to his mouth and rubbed his fist past it. "Thanks for the meal, Roxas!" he said with a smirk. His fists were quickly engulfed in flames. When Roxas figured out that fire wasn't going to beat Natsu, he switched to a different tactic, but not before Natsu struck first. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu sped to Roxas with fire over his right fist.

Roas arms became covered in crimson fox-fire. "Nine-Tails' Sacred Fist!" his right hand that was covered in the fox cloak made contact with Natsu's fiery fist and both combatants flew back as the attack made an explosive shockwave. Natsu shook his right hand after making contact with the iron fist, but he saw that Roxas wasn't close to done with him. "Nine-Tails' Beam!" Roxas shot a massive beam of crimson magic towards Natsu and the Fire Dragon Slayer was engulfed in it forcing him back even further.

Natsu jumped upwards after Roxas' attack; both his arms were covered in long whips of fire. "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" He brought the long whips of fire down towards Roxas who shot himself in the air by slamming his 'tails' in the ground. Natsu created a huge ball of fire. Roxas saw this and began to create a crimson ball of fox-fire around the same size. He threw it down to the oncoming fireball which managed to put it out, resulting in a huge explosion of smoke. When it cleared, a huge blast of air shot through it but Natsu was able to avoid it and jumped onto a tree branch. He saw Roxas and jumped towards him with a fiery fist. The Fox Slayer turned his head and he used his cloak claw to collide into Natsu before he hit the ground.

The Dragon slayer landed on his feet, while sliding back. Natsu gave a wide grin. "You sure ain't pullin' any punches are ya?"

Roxas sprinted towards Natsu and appeared in front of him in a flash. He forced an a powerful punch into Natsu's gut sending him flying back, and then adjusted himself in the air and landed on his feet as Roxas sent a boulder towards him. Without activating his flames, Natsu threw a punch at the boulder, shattering it to pieces. As the bits of rock fell, Natsu directed a furious glare towards Roxas. "I'm done bein' pushed around," Natsu growled as he engulfed himself in flames. "Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" He raced towards Roxas.

But Roxas wasn't going to let him finish off the attack. He swung his arms, sending a huge gust of wind that stopped Natsu's momentum, forcing Natsu to hang onto the ground to keep from being blown away. The flames surrounding him were fizzled out by the winds. After seeing that a direct attack was useless, Natsu ejected himself into the sky before engulfing his feet in flames. "Fire Dragon's Talons!" As he sped back to the ground, Roxas grabbed a broken log from the ground to block Natsu's kick but it shattered to pieces. Once Natsu hit the ground, he gave a kick with his left foot that sent Roxas speeding to a tree, upon impact he let out a painful grunt.

Natsu loosened his stance a little in case Roxas would return back to normal, but that didn't happen as rocks were thrown in Natsu's direction. He dodged them, and for the ones that he couldn't avoid he punched to pieces.

"Wake up, Roxas! Don't you see what you're doing!?" Natsu roared before he threw a fist that connected with Roxas' fist, creating barriers of fire around them. Both battlers jumped back and Roxas had clenched his claws.

"Nine-Tails' Claws!" His arms were covered in heat before thick, crimson, sharp animalistic claws made of fox-fire stretched from his forearms and past his hands. He launched to Natsu and threw slash after slash, but Natsu made sure to avoid the scratches, and he engulfed his entire body in flames just to make Roxas stagger back from the brightness. Once this was achieved, he punched Roxas in the face making him stagger back further, as his crimson claws vanished.

"Fire Dragon's Sword Horn!" He shot towards Roxas and collided into him while covered in raging fire. The duo flew past various trees, all the while Roxas taking substantial damage.

Looking down at the fight from a raised area of the forest was Porlyusica watching with a distasteful look on her face. "Fairy Tail's Dragon Slayer and Fox Slayer are clashing... Are those two trying to cause a disaster? At this rate, those two will destroy the entire forest."

Natsu was flying upwards after being hit with a cloak tail. Roxas had flown upwards to keep the attack up. After pushing Natsu high into the sky, he shot him back down to the ground with a powerful punch. Natsu got back up and he shot a stream of fire from his mouth, but the Fox Slayer knock the flames away with his cloak claws. He then multiple crimson beams from his mouth that sped to Natsu. When the attack hit Natsu, many explosive lines of destruction were made that spread across the forest.

Natsu was inside a small crater with plenty of destroyed trees; he weakly got up and saw Roxas speeding down towards him with his arms covered with his cloak claws. Natsu crossed his arm to block a punch from the torpedoing Fox-Slayer, the impact making the crater deeper making a huge cloud of smoke. Attacks of fire were seen through the smoke cloud. Both Natsu and Roxas were speeding through the forest while throwing blinding punches and kicks made of fire and dark fire. As their feet hit the ground, Roxas swiped his leg across both of Natsu's legs, and before he hit the ground, Roxas shot a strong cloak claw punch that hit Natsu's chest forcing him to fly backwards into a boulder.

After Natsu crashed into the boulder, pieces of rubble landed in his hand. He quickly crushed the rubble into dust. "I promised that I would stop you if this happened...I'm going to keep that promise!" He was completely covered in fire. "I hope you can hear me Roxas! 'CAUSE I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!" he screamed with veins appearing on his muscles.

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Erza, Gray, Ariel, and Lucy with Happy flying beside them were going into the forest where the fight was taking place.

They heard explosions all around the forest. "I'm worried..." Lucy said. "Roxas made short work of everyone else - I'm scared."

"You know you should never underestimate Natsu, Lucy," Gray said.

Ariel backed Gray up. "I agree, Natsu may be the biggest child I've ever met, but I was there when he, Gajeel, Roxas and I faced Laxus. He was unstoppable. When Natsu gets in the mood, nothing can stop him!"

"You just haven't seen Natsu when he's serious," Erza said. "But, I have." She thought back to when Natsu and Roxas teaming up to beat Jellal. "Natsu has mastery of power that very few in our entire world can hope to comprehend. Once he unlocks the true power of the Dragon, all adversaries will fall in his wake."

"I've seen his power first hand..." Happy added. "It is nothing like I've ever seen before."

"I guess you're, but that still doesn't ease my worry." Lucy said truthfully.

Before the conversation could continue, they heard an explosion of fire. "...I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASS!"

"Natsu's getting serious!" Happy stated.

"Then we have to hurry." Erza said.

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"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu threw a powerful punch but it was quickly blocked by a cloak tail from Roxas. "I'm not going to hold back anymore!" His fist knocked it away and met with Roxas' face, sending the Fox Slayer rocketing through the forest. After Roxas landed on the ground he got back up and prepared to cast another spell.

"Nine-Tails' Blazing Barrage!" Roxas then unleashed multiple red-hot crimson spheres out of his mouth, shooting them at Natsu.

"Back for more, come and get it!" Natsu yelled. Despite the storm of crimson sphere speeding towards him, Natsu stood tall. The barrage engulfed Natsu. Soon Roxas ran over to Natsu, cloak claws ready to strike. But before he could punch Natsu, his fist was grabbed by Natsu, who forced it out of the smoke. From inside the dust cloud, red orbs were glaring at Roxas' figure. "Is this really the best you got?!" Natsu roared. He and Roxas were engulfed in flames before the smoke blew away. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" Natsu shot flames from his mouth; Roxas blew a powerful gust to Natsu's flames but he couldn't smother them, and Roxas jumped back while Natsu glared at him.

Roxas readied his cloak claws and charged at Natsu. While speeding to Natsu, he swung the claws in quick succession but it was avoided as Natsu ducked under it. Roxas saw the opportunity and smashed his claws into the ground after Natsu rolled away. The resulting ground impact sent a huge line path of power down most of the forest which was destroyed instantly.

Natsu saw that he had an opening and instantly took it. "Fire Dragon's Talons!" his flame covered right foot swiped into Roxas' face, sending Roxas digging into the ground.

Roxas growled and shot into the air. Natsu began running up a tree to meet with Roxas, so the Fox Slayer made crimson fox-fire cover his right arm and cloak claw and red magic seal appeared in front of his fist. "Nine-Tails' Sacred Fist!"

"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" both of their fists made contact making an explosion that completely shattered the tree under them to pieces. They both slid backwards away from each other. "I'm gonna have to eventually put you down, so I'm going to make this quick!" Natsu declared, his hands had orbs of raging flames surrounding them. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art!" he ran towards Roxas with his fists ablaze.

Roxas still had the crimson flames surrounding his arms before making them bigger.

"Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon's Fist!"

"Nine-Tails' Rapid Punch!"

Both of them met in the air and were through relentless punches at each other; Natsu's punches were throwing off fireballs and creating smaller explosions while Roxas punches was hurling off explosions that went flying across the area. Both battlers were screaming their lungs out as they let their attacks go off. It was like watching a massive dragon and nine-tailed fox tear into each other.

The group arrived at the part of the forest where their fight was taking place. Lucy had her hand over her mouth in shock to see how Roxas was still fighting off Natsu, she had never seen him fight with such intensity.

"We have to help Natsu!" Lucy exclaimed before she took out one of her keys, her arm was grabbed by Ariel. "But...Ariel..."

"Give him a chance, knowing Natsu he wouldn't kill him, but he is our best option in defeating Roxas right now."

"Then shouldn't it be more important to help him!?" Lucy argued.

"Natsu would want to do it by himself..." Happy seriously stated.

"That's how that idiot wants it; we all had our chance to fight off Roxas. We should let him get his." Gray said.

"Watching this makes me feel uneasy." Lucy admitted.

Erza looked at the battle closely; even she couldn't tell if Natsu could stop Roxas' rampage... so she hatched a backup plan. "Happy, I need you to fetch Warren. It is very important."

"Aye sir!" Happy flew back to the city as fast as he could.

"What was that all about?" Ariel asked.

"It's a backup plan..."

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Back with the fight both Roxas and Natsu landed on the ground panting, but it looked like Roxas had taken a lot more damage as bruises and many cuts were all over his shirtless body. "You're still up, I told you I was going to end this!" Natsu saw Roxas blasting a beam of crimson magic from his mouth. "This ain't nothin'!" Natsu exclaimed as the beam covered him. "I WON'T LOSE TO YOU!" He ripped off his vest as flames surrounded him; the roar of a dragon was heard as he was screaming. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" He sprinted to Roxas while he landed a punch on Roxas' left cheek. As Roxas slid back, two magic seals appeared in front of him.

"Nine-Tails' Crimson Howl!" He shot crimson fox-fire flames through an black magic circle, turning the flames black and making them burn anything on contact.

Natsu stayed still, and as he began sucking up the black fire into his mouth, his stomach expanded. "Haha, that was the darkest fire I've ever tasted... a bit too dark if you ask me." He laughed and he swiped his fist over his mouth with a grin on his face. "Thanks, Roxas. Now that I've eaten, I'm all fired up!" Flames appeared on his right fist, and on his left fist... black burning flames surprisingly covered that hand. He jumped up high into the air as the different flames on his hand began to grow to a large size. He slammed them together and a large black fireball with four orange fire rings surrounding it was created. "Fire Dragon's Inferno Flame!" Natsu exclaimed and threw the huge ball towards Roxas.

The Fox Slayer reacted quickly and raised his cloak claws. Natsu's attack slammed into the claws making a black shockwave, kicking up a huge cloud of debris. There was a circle of thawed ground around Roxas, beyond that was a small radius of burned tundra. Roxas then shot his cloak tails at Natsu who was too slow to avoid it. He soon jumped back up to his feet after he was hit. Natsu surrounds himself in a vortex of fire while Roxas's cloak tails swung.

Lucy eyes Natsu with shock evident in her eyes. "I can't believe it; the both of them are putting out so much power. It's actually scary..."

"Let's just hope Natsu can pull it off." Ariel said.

Roxas shot towards Natsu, but his momentum was stopped when Natsu quickly kicked him to the ground with his foot. Roxas got back up, but was punched in the gut as Natsu had flames shooting out from his elbow. "Still standing? Not for long!" Roxas made two powerful blasts of wind that Natsu was only slightly pushed back by it. "Back off! Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" he punched Roxas, making him stagger slightly, but Natsu wasn't going to give him a moment to attack again. "Elbow!" he swiped his right flaming elbow past Roxas making him step back even further. "Talons!" he spun in the air and forced his flaming right foot down on Roxas who blocked by crossing both his arms, the impact making a small crater in the ground. "Fire Dragon's Wing Attack!" he ignited two streams of fire from his hands and swung the streams around to make a huge blunt force of fire that had shot Roxas upwards. "This nightmare ENDS NOW!" Natsu bellowed while engulfed in a fiery aura. "Dragon Slayer's Secret Art! Crimson Lotus: Exploding Flame Blade!" Natsu exclaimed. Long whips of fire surrounded his arms and he swiped his arms in a circular fashion creating powerfully destructive flames in a large cyclone that kept barraging Roxas. While in the flames Roxas was seen taking huge damage, the flames shot him high up into the air as they began to go out and create smoke.

Roxas hit the ground and he didn't look to be getting back up as the fox cloak had finally disappeared and the glow faded from his eyes. They had no pupils which showed his defeat...

Lucy and Ariel were completely speechless while everyone else looked in shock.

Natsu begins to slightly limp to the ground. "Haha, I told ya I could handle him." He falls to his knees and starts to catch his breath.

"Take it easy Natsu..." Ariel said. "That was some fight you had." She helped Natsu up to his feet.

"Sheesh!" Gray said. "You two idiots went overboard; the entire forest was nearly destroyed thanks to the both of you."

Ariel shrugged her shoulders. "Eh, it's better than destroying the city. I bet gramps would totally freak out!" Ariel's eyes quickly grew wide in shock as she sensed something coming from Roxas' direction. "No!" she whispered frantically.

"What is it!?" Gray asked.

"Impossible... Roxas... is getting back up!" Ariel exclaimed.

They all looked to where Roxas fell and saw he was getting back up, and he was back in the Nine-Tails State.

"There is no way!" Gray exclaimed. "How is he still standing!?"

Everyone gasped as the figure of Roxas slowly crawled onto his hands and knees, but what shocked them the most was his appearance. While the cloak was forming again on his body, the left side of his face was completely covered in a crimson mass that resembled a Fox, with his eyes and mouth glowing white and teeth as sharp as knives while his right side showed pieces of his skin began to flake off and evaporate, revealing the same red mass of energy underneath. His non-monstrous eye was a glowing blood red, glaring murder at the group before him as his human sized is his face grinned darkly. Soon, a fourth tail began to emerge with the others.

"What has happened to him!?" Lucy asked horrified.

"I had a feeling this would happen," Erza said. This caused the group to look to her. "It would seem that while his body is permanently stuck in the Nine-Tails state, his body is starting to succumb to the effects it plays inhospitable body. But while his power is becoming more unstable, he's still fighting for control."

"Erza... what's going to happen to him?" Lucy asked/demanded with drops of tears falling from her eyes. "What are you saying!?"

"Unless we stop him, or he gains control, his magic will destroy him from the inside out. Killing himself in the process will basically make him a ticking time bomb that could kill us and destroy the town in the process."

Lucy felt her entire world crumble around her; the information had hit her hard like a ton of bricks. It couldn't end like this, could it? The others were also shocked as well, was Roxas really going to die from this?

"Erza!" this was the sound of Happy as Warren was following behind him "I brought Warren like you asked."

"P-Please..." Lucy muttered. "Please tell me there is something we can do?" she asked with tears strumming down her cheeks.

"There might be... I believe if Warren can link to his mind, we may be able to help him and put a stop to all of this." Erza said. "If we can talk to him in his mind, we may get through to him."

"Can you really do that!?" Lucy exclaimed.

"I haven't done anything like that, but I can certainly try; though I'm not sure what we're getting into... it may be difficult to go into a mind like that?" Warren replied.

"Roxas is worth the risk, just please." Lucy pleaded.

Warren stared into Lucy's tear filled eyes, before glancing around to the scared yet determined faces of Gray, Erza, Misty and Happy. Warren then turned to the fighting boys as Natsu gave his breath attack while Roxas ran through it with a high pitched feral screech, his action become that of someone who was absolutely insane. 

Warren's hesitant look melted away to one of up most seriousness as he nodded. "Alright, I'll do it. If I can form a safe and stable connection with is mind I'll connect you all to it." He placed his fingers against his temple as he stared at Roxas dead on. "Wish me luck."

"Please..." Lucy whispered as she clenched her hands together. "Get him back..."

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(In Roxas' mind)

When Roxas woke up, he found himself on the ground in the middle of the darkness. He slowly regained himself as he rose to his feet, the floor beneath his was so dark, that the only way he knew it was there was from the water-like ripples made from his motion. Looking about, he could see nothing but darkness.

"There's nothing but darkness here." Roxas muttered, looking about.

"That's because our union wasn't finished." A voice said from behind him. Roxas turned and saw his dark self floating down towards the ground. "Your body submitted, your mind succumbed...yet your heart resist. Why even bother? Because in the end, as they say, 'I am thou, and thou art I'. We're one in the same! I am your true inner self! I am Zervik! Submit to the darkness, submit to rage and hatred, submit to me and we will show the world what true fear is!"

Roxas looked down, hearing Dark Roxas, or now known as Zervik's words, then he curled his fists as he said, "....Just submit, huh?" "So you understand what to do." Zervik responded, narrowing his eyes, "Set the darkness in you free, and you will no longer fear a thing." He raised a hand to Roxas, as if he was welcoming him to the power of darkness.

"...Zervik." Roxas addressed his dark self, "You say we're one in the same. But as you grew stronger, so did my negative emotions. Don't you see? That's half the reason I still feel like this. After allowing darkness into my heart, am I still fit to even call myself a mage? Even after locking you away, here you are, haunting me again. So I get it now. There's no point in trying to hold the darkness back." "At last, you see clearly." Zervik stated with a hint of happiness in Roxas' words, still holding his hand up in welcome.

"You know...when I look at you...it makes me think of what I would've become if I never met Lucy or the others." Roxas stated, looking at the palm of his right hand, seeing the faces of Lucy, Arceus, Natsu and everyone else in Fairy Tail, "It was because of them that I was able to keep moving forward and not go down a dark path. One of the reasons I won't ever turn to darkness...is 'cause of them. My journey continues here, and now."

He then engulfed his hands in blue flames, getting into a fighting stance. "I'm going back to the real world, and then to Lucy's side." Roxas declared, and Zervik lowered his welcoming hand. "That...is your answer?" Zervik growled. "Yes. I know the way." Roxas replied, "Consume the darkness, return it to light." He got into his fighting stance, ready to do exactly that for Zervik.

Dark Roxas, or now known as Zervik, laughed hysterically as he gained a crazed gaze. "Just give up and give me control! Because of all the things you've done, your so called friends would rather want to face me over you!"

Roxas glared at Zervik as his hands formed in fists encased in Fox fire. "You are not me! You'll never be me! And I won't let you win!"

It was quiet for a sec, as they both felt a vibration run through the air. Both of them recognizing the magical energy it gave.

"Warren..." the boys muttered, but as one sounded scared, the other sounded statistically amused.

"Roxas! Can you hear me!" The sound of Warren's voice echoed through the landscape.

"Warren...! How did you...! Nevermind that! You need to listen to me-!" Roxas began to shout, but Zervik's evil chuckle stopped him as he formed a shadow red orb in his hand.

"Sorry to interrupt, but this is a private conversation. Didn't your mother tell you never to eavesdrop or but in where you don't belong?!" Zervik sneered.

"Who are you?! Are the one who is controlling Roxas? Get out of our friend!" Warren snapped back, but Roxas shook his head.

"Warren, tell the others I'm sorry. I never should have kept this a secret from anyone! So tell Natsu, if things go to far, I want him to be the one to end it."

"Roxas, no-!"

"Please Warren! I don't want anyone else hurt or even killed by my hands! I'm going to fight my darkness, but if I lose then I'd rather die!"

"You heard the boy, now time to go~" Zervik scoffed, as the orb in his hand expanded. "Good luck trying to kill me!~" Zervik then crushed the orb in his hand as he punched the ground below them, both knocking Roxas back and sending Warren blasting back into his own body.

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Into the consciousness world of Natsu in the process of sending Roxas' body backwards with a kick, with everyone else standing around him.

"Warren, are you alright?" Ezra questions as the man sits up with a haunted look on his face.

"What did you see?" Misty wondered in concern.

"Its Roxas... And there was someone else in there with him... he liked like Roxas, but his hair was black, he he radiated pure evil..." Warren then looked up at the two boys fighting it out before them. "And Roxas told me..."

"He told you what?" Gray pressed.

A look of horror was on Warren's face, that made Lucy's heart clench as she had a decent idea what he was about to say. "Warren... he didn't..."

The telepath nodded. "He said that if he can't beat this man, and completely loses control. Then he wants us to kill him."

"....WHAT!?"

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Roxas climbed back up to his feet and glared Zervik who smirked. "Now that the distraction is gone, we can finally settle things once and for all." Zervik said, emanating crimson flames from his body.

Roxas stood up straight, before getting into a battle stance himself surrounded by white/blue fox- fire. "I'm not losing to you. You're part of my heart! Part of the light!"

"Ever the fool, bastard!" Zervik growled, before they charged at each other with battle cries.

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Next Time: Dark vs Light: The Final Battle!

With everything now on the line, Roxas faces off with Zervik in a epic showdown. Will the light conquer the darkness or will the darkness rule over the light?