Natsu vs Azula

Both Azula and Natsu angrily ran towards each other. Natsu's flaming fist crashed into the hand that Azula's flame was generated from. The impact created huge pillars of their fire that shot into the air. They quickly separated from each other and Natsu's cheeks puffed and he looked right at Azula.
"Fire Dragon Roar!" Natsu's draconic flames spewed from his mouth. Azula watched the flames getting closer to her, and she managed to cut through Natsu's flames with a long blade of blue fire, leaving Natsu open. When Natsu saw her coming he lit his fists on fire. He went for the punch but Azula ducked under him and she had swept Natsu's legs forcing him to the ground. She stood back and remained her firebending stance while she looked at Natsu who was getting up.
"What's wrong? Weren't you supposed to teach me a lesson or something?" Natsu glared at Azula. "Well here's my lesson to you, Natsu." Azula had generated her lightning. "Never stand in my way!" she shot her lightning bolt right at Natsu and he quickly dodged it. "You probably already know my lightning nearly put down the Avatar, so I'd be very careful if I were you."
Natsu chuckled. "And your cold blue fire can't hurt me; you're not so invincible yourself." His flames grew again. "Ever since I've heard about you, I've wanted to see how strong you are for myself!"
"Am I supposed to be flattered?" Azula then smirked. "Then again, no one has ever wanted to fight me before. I never had a target on my back before, but even so, I'm going to put you down!" She rushed to Natsu with flames shooting from her feet.
"I'll just eat it remember!?" Natsu yelled.
But he was surprised when Azula had only used her momentum to land a powerful kick to Natsu's face, the speed of the attack boosted by Azula still shooting flames from the back of her feet. Azula was obviously outmatched when it came to literal firepower, especially since Natsu couldn't be hurt by her flames, so she only had three weapons at her disposal; her speed, agility and her lightning. But she needed to figure out Natsu, which meant… she needed to stoop to his immature level.
"Wow, I didn't realize you were that slow." She mocked after landing back on her feet.
"How this for slow!" Natsu yelled and he leaped up. "Fire Dragon's Wing Slash!" he generated tremendous whips of fire that he planned to use to completely scorch Azula. After the flames covered her, a sharp burst of blue fire shot out from the same spot, spreading Natsu's fire outward in an explosive force. Azula remained unharmed. She looked down from the ceiling she and Natsu were fighting on.
"If I can figure out his move-set… then all I need is one opening… but I can't be reckless about it…" She saw Natsu speeding to her again looking to punch her with a flaming fist. But she couldn't stay within close quarters for very long, the last thing she wanted was to get in a fistfight with Natsu, which she would inevitably lose. She bent down and when her hands touched the ground she lifted her feet and kicked Natsu's chin. She flipped back to her feet.
"If you want to take me down a notch, you're going to have to keep up first!" she leaped down to a lower building then to the ground. When she looked up she was shocked to see Natsu speeding down towards her while engulfed in flames. She was shocked and watched him crash into the ground that she formerly stood on. The crash forced large amounts of rubble in the air and made a small dust cloud. "ARE YOU INSANE!?" Natsu rose up as the dust cleared.
"You ain't running away from this!" he exclaimed.
Azula stood her ground as Natsu approached her; she dodged another downward punch that had made a large hole in the solid ground. They both stood along with a neighborhood of apartments, one of them being Lucy's funnily enough. Azula looked to the river and she formed an idea in her head. She ran over to the river and she was dodging a couple of large streams of fire that was aimed at her.
After Natsu watched Azula leap into the river he had followed her inside, and after making a splash he emerged from the water and he looked around. "Where'd you go!?" he saw Azula hugging the walls of the river and she used her incredible balance to stand on a small rock platform that kept her from falling into the water.
"Right here." She had shot a lightning strike into the water, electrifying the river and anything that happened to be inside it. Unfortunately, Natsu was in that river and he faced a tremendous electrical shock. Azula watched as Natsu's body was floating in the river after the attack ended. She leaped out of the river's edge and she smirked to herself. "Heh, that went quicker than I thought." She watched him float down the river and her eye's widened slightly when he formed a fist. "No… Impossible!" There was a fiery explosion in the river and the water around Natsu evaporated, making small steam cloud.
His familiar grunted screams were heard as he shot out of the river. Azula was caught by surprise and she took a punch to the face and she had flown into the wall of Lucy's apartment. When she recovered she saw Natsu was panting with steam rising off of him, there were a couple of burn marks on his body where the hot lightning struck.
"Haha, you definitely got me there." He said with a slight laugh.
"T-that should have killed you, or at the very least left you very injured. How the hell are you still standing?!"
Natsu smirked. "You're not the first lightning fighter I've fought against." He said. Natsu thought back to Laxus and how powerful his lightning was, and also how he lost to him over the years while he was at Fairy Tail. He thought back to when he, Aang, Zuko, and Gajeel fought against Laxus during his so-called fighting festival. "And his lightning stung for sure, and your lightning could have killed me, but I've had practice dealing with it!"
Azula's fists were clenched and she glared at Natsu. "You think this is funny, don't you?" she had flame daggers on the sides of her fists. "I've come all this way, done so much, I've always struck fear in whoever I faced. Heck, even my own 'friends' were scared of me." She said, with the term 'friends' used to describe both Mai and Ty Lee. "And I'm not going to be beaten by some pink-haired imbecile!"
"You've always had things go your way huh, so when that stopped happening you started complaining, you sound more like a brat to me."
"Shut up!" being provoked by Natsu she kicked a burst of blue fire to Natsu, but her eyes grew as she realized what she had just done. Natsu had sucked in the flames and he gulped and he wiped his mouth as if he had just hastily eaten a meal.
"Thanks for the meal, now I'm all fired up!" Both his hands were engulfed in flames. They were blue for a moment before they changed back to their regular orange. Azula had cursed herself for that mistake and she immediately retreated by sprinting into an alleyway. "I told you, you ain't running from me!" he combined the flames generated by his hands and he formed a huge fireball. Fire Dragon's Dazzling Blaze!" he tossed the fireball into the alleyway and before it could steamroll through Azula, she managed to split the flames, making them burn the walls instead of her. Natsu lost sight of her, but still having her scent he decided to follow that instead.
He leaped up to a roof where he saw Azula standing in a defensive stance. "I've got you now!" She swung her arms and shot another bolt of lightning to Natsu. There was a loud scream from Natsu as he was struck in the chest and he held his hand to his chest. Azula smirked as she watched the Dragon Slayer stumble on his feet. He wobbled to the edge of the roof and he fell right off and he crashed onto the ground. Azula smirked as she looked down to Natsu.
----Soon after Ping threw down her Grand Graviton on Erza, she gently landed on her feet. "It's over… I finished off the mighty Titania…" Ping then smirked. "I thought I would never catch a break with these fools…!" when the dust was starting to clear she was shocked to see a silhouette behind the dust and her eyes grew wide. "It can't be…" she saw that Erza was in her Adamantine Armour, the same armor which blocked the beam from the Jupiter cannon aimed at Fairy Tail all those months ago.
"WHY!? H-HOW!?" the large shoulder pads, making the shield that blocked the Grand Graviton suddenly separated. There were several cracks in the armor.
Erza looked up at her opponent. "I can't let you beat me… not here… I despise what your previous Fire Lords have done! The genocide of an entire group of people, and what Ozai did to his own family, his own children, I will make sure he pays for what he did!"
"And what could you hope to do? It's none of your business what happens in our world!"
"You right, but it became my business the moment Aang fell from the sky and into our world! He is a part of our family, and we as a part of Fairy Tail, will help him in his goal to put a stop to Ozai's reign!"
Ping chuckled. "You can try, but I won't let you! And our greatness will spread to this world!" Erza's armor had faded and she fell down to her knees and was strained form blocking Ping's attack. She was reduced to her buttoned shirt and blue skirt. "Haha!" Ping had dark purple energy flames surround her, her hair stood up and she laughed. "Look at you, down on your knees, at my feet. Where you belong you tomato haired peasant" Erza had her head bowed and refused to look at Ping. She saw the Fire Nation's swordswoman had generated an illusion blade. "Any last words, Titania?"
Erza smirked. "Remember what I told you about Fairy Tail being a family?"
Ping rolled her eyes. "Ugh, you're going to go on your 'Fairy Tail family crap'! If you ask me, 'Fairy Tail being a family' is a poor choice of last words. But to be fair…" she pointed her blade at her. "That's far from the worst thing that's come out of your mouth today!"
"Then you're going to hate what I say next… TY LEE!"
"Wh- why are you!" suddenly Ty Lee appeared and she shot jabs onto Ping's right arm and leg and stomach. "Ugh… what you…?" suddenly Ty Lee was in front of Ping and she threw a punch to Ping's gut, forcing her to clutch her stomach with her left arm. Ty Lee then swung her leg into Ping's face and she rolled back.
Ty Lee took a deep breath and looked at her hands. "Wow, I really just did that…" her hands turned to fists. "Maybe I can ask Natsu to teach me a few moves." She then remembered the reason she came there. "ERZA!" she ran to Erza and helped her to her feet, and had her hand over her shoulder. "Are you ok?"
"Y-yeah… I was stalling so you could get your hits in."
Ty Lee blinked in surprise. "O-oh really…? Good thing she talks a lot."
"RRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"
"…And apparently, she doesn't go down so easily!" Ty Lee said as an explosion of purple energy exploded around where Ping rolled to and the energy outburst she created, made a small crater.
"TY LEEEEE!" Ping screamed with the energy surrounded her; she was on one good leg and her right arm was dangling at her side.
"Ty Lee…" Erza said standing up fully. "You must run, I can handle her."
"NO!" Ty Lee's defiance shocked Erza and she looked to the acrobat with a surprised expression. "You're not pushing me out of this, you said we're a family right? Well, family should help each other no matter what, right?"
Erza smiled. "Heh, you're right." Erza then re-quipped and she was wearing red pants with gold flames patterns on the bottom with black outlines. Her upper chest was covered by white bandages and her hair was tied up in a high ponytail with a green headband.
"Whoa… you think I can get clothes like that?"
Erza then generated a pair of katana blades on her hands; she held then tightly held them. "Ty Lee let's go!"
"Right behind you!"
Ping had glared right at both of them. She generated an illusion sword on her good left hand. "I am sick of being overlooked! I am sick of failing! AND! I am SICK. OF. FAIRY TAIL!" she aimed her sword forward, her eyes became purple and they were surrounded by a glow of the same color. "I'll cut you two to shreds until there is nothing left!" she barely stood up and she then planted her very shaky right foot down, tore off the clothing that covered it and it was revealed that her right leg had turned a sickly black color. Her right arm had the same black color and she looked like she could move it freely. "RRRRAAAAAAHHHH!" the bright purple flaming energy blazed around her, and there was even a heatwave surrounding her. She sprinted to both Ty Lee and Erza, a black illusion sword formed on her right arm. "I'LL KILL YOU BOTH!" her blades clashed with Erza's and once they stopped moving, Ty Lee sped to her, but before Ty Lee could do anything. Ping headbutted her hard causing Ty Lee to fall back. There were drops of blood that fell from her nose. Ping expanded the fiery aura which pushed Erza back. She then ran to Ty Lee, but the Acrobat leaped over her and kicked off of her back and landed back far away from Ping. The saw that Ping was about to move towards her and tried to slash her. But Erza shot toward her and she kicked Ping in the chest before she backflipped in the air and landed on her feet.
Ping looked to her left and then to her right and saw that Ty Lee and Erza were standing at her opposite sides. "Heh, even you can't beat me alone Erza. How pathetic! The mighty Titania needing help, and who else to come to her aid than the circus freak herself!?" Erza tightened her stance and the grip on her katana blades, Ty Lee was ready to leap in any direction as soon a Ping attacked. Ping stuck both of her illusion blades the in the ground hard and this forced a wave of black energy to both Erza and Ty Lee. Erza had to narrowly avoid the blast as it sliced through the ground, while Ty Lee had less trouble avoiding it as she leaped up high.
Erza was sprinting to Ping and their blades clashed. "After all that you have done, you will go down with that bastard Ozai!" Erza exclaimed.
"That's Phoenix King Ozai to you!" they both separated. "And once we are done tearing your pathetic 'family' to shreds, we shall move on to conquering the rest of this backwater world."
A smirk formed on Erza's lips. "Good luck getting past the council."
"We will run over anyone who gets in our way!" Ping yelled as both she and Erza were attempting to slash each other. Their blades clashing as the intensity of their sword fight rose.
"Not today!" Erza declared as she leaped back. "HAAAAA!" she sprinted to Ping.
"RAAAAAAHHHH!" Ping leaped to Erza in retaliation.
Their swords had clashed and this made a tremendous shockwave of white, black and purple energy grew right from the center of their battle, it reverberated around the city.
----Deeper in the city, Hen was having trouble with Gajeel as he couldn't match him for strength. This was proven when he was thrown into a wall. He had a shiner on his left eye, he spat out some blood and he put his fists up. "What's the matter, Dragon Slayer? I didn't hear no bell!"
"Gihi, you must really be out of your damn mind if you're enjoying the beating I'm giving you."
"I'd like to think of it as experience for when I come up against strong opponents in the future, did you two really think I'd be satisfied with an easy victory. Why else did I slingshot those useless soldiers out of our hair?"
Toph shrugged her shoulders as she was sitting on top of a rock, watching the two of them go at it. "Eh, he's got us there."
Hen stomped hard on the ground. "Besides I think I'm getting the hang of this lavabending thing!"
"Then stop this!" Gajeel's right arm turned into an iron pillar. "Iron Dragon's Pillar!" Gajeel shot his iron pillar right to Hen. The earthbender made large walls in front of the rushing pillar but it only broke through.
Hen smirked. "Gotcha" he magnetized rocks to his hand and he turned the underside of his hands to lava and he used the hands to stop the pillar.
Gajeel's eyes grew. "YAAAAAHH!"
"Hot hands!" Hen sang. He saw Gajeel retracting his pillar and his arm returned to normal. "Hey Gajeel, you ever played 'hot potato'?"
"What's the brat going on about?"
"HOT POTATO!" he made a rolling earth ball that grew as it rolled and magnetized more rocky chunks to it, but the rock was melting into magma. The large lava ball was rolling to Gajeel.
"OH CRAP!" a line green magic seal appeared under his feet, he covered himself in iron scales. Hen's quote 'Hot Potato' attack steamrolled to him and Gajeel took the attack head-on. "AAAAAHHHH!" he yelled in pain. His iron scales had melted onto his skin, and Gajeel glared at Hen as globs of liquid rock had stuck to his body.
Toph let out an impressed whistle. "Wow… That sounded painful. I'm impressed Hen!"
"Who's side are you on!?" Gajeel yelled.
"Aww, is the poor widdle dwagon slayer afraid of a little lava?" she mocked with a playful smirk on her face.
Gajeel growled at her.
"So uhh, are you tapping out, because if you're pooped I can fight Toph if you want?" Hen offered. "I can wait."
"Don't underestimate me brat!" Gajeel shook off all the dry rock off his body. "Iron Dragon's Sword!" His right arm turned to a jagged iron blade and he glared at Hen. "You're done mocking me!"
Hen glared back at Gajeel, "Well believe me; I'm taking this extremely seriously." He made two lava balls and he turned them into two, five-pointed, curved lava stars that hovered beside him.
Gajeel leaped up and he lifted his blade above his head and slammed it down. It shattered the ground below him, Hen rolled away, and he raised two earth pillars and he shot needles made of sharp rocks to his target.
Gajeel saw the attack and he threw his left arm forward and a pale green seal appeared in front of him. "Iron Dragon Lance: Demon Logs!" sharp, rapid-fire iron shards fired to counter Hen's attack.
Both shards of rock and iron crashed into each other, shattering on impact, creating a dust cloud.
Gajeel rushed into the dust, and he was close to Hen and swung his sword and Hen had avoided the swing, Gajeel ducked under one of the lava stars that Hen threw to him. Hen launched back with the help of a lava pillar and he flipped in the air and landed on his feet. Hen spun kicked the air and this motion threw his lava star to Gajeel.
The Iron Dragon Slayer was quick to defend, the spikes on his sword moved around it like a chainsaw and he used the spinning iron spikes to block the spinning lava star. Gajeel slashed through it, but this gave Hen the opening to make three rock pillars hit Gajeel's stomach, forcing him off his feet and onto his back.
Hen wiped his mouth with his wrist and he smirked. "I don't know about you Black Steel Gajeel, but I'm having the time of my life."
The Iron Dragon Slayer stood up. "Gi hi, you're putting up more of a fight than I thought you would." He said with a smirk.
Suddenly Hen was pushed back by an earth pillar made by Toph, his lava stars fell to the ground, and he angrily sat up. "Ow… hey, wait your turn will ya!"
"As much as I hate to interrupt this bromance you two have. We kind of have to beat you."
"What did you do that for?" Gajeel asked. "I could handle him fine on my own!"
"What? I'm not going to let you hog all the glory. Besides, I'm the greatest Earthbender in the world, if he wants a crack at that title, then I'm going to defend it!"
Gajeel looked amused. "Hehe, you're one weird little girl, you know that."
"Coming from the guy who cried about not having a kitty-cat?" Toph retorted with her arms folded.
"Kitty? What?" Hen asked.
Gajeel comically konked Toph on the back of her head and she fell to the ground. "I deserved that…"
"Though I have a question for ya. You ain't like these fire chumps, kid. Why are you with them?" Gajeel asked.
Toph was rubbing the top of her head that had a growing bump on it. "Yeah, you're not evil are you? Cocky? Sure, but not cruel like them."
Hen was getting to his feet after Toph's attack. "You want to know why huh?" he said with a sigh. "Well the reason is slightly complicated, but as for right now…" He thought about Chun and he thoughtfully looked to the sky. "I've got a friend whose life is depending on this. So whatever happens today, we're both going to leave this whole thing behind forever. But until then…" he made the ground below him had a crack and large spiderweb-like cracks spread all over. He had two lava stars to his sides. "I gotta fight! This isn't just about me having the greatest fight of all time, but it's also about me protecting someone I care about. Cause if I let something happen to her, then I wouldn't forgive myself."
"That's surprising coming from you; you got a girlfriend or something?" Toph asked.
Hen blushed in response. "NO… I dunno maybe? Things are kinda up in the air right now. But…" he took one step forward and the ground shook underneath the three of them. "I'm not going to hold back, not when the stakes are this high!"
"Heh, I'm starting to like him too," Toph said. "Right then, let's see how you handle two on one!"
"Give me all you got!" Hen charged right to both Gajeel and Toph, restarting the battle between the three of them.
----As the fights were going across the city, most of Fairy Tail, led by Sokka, Cana, Mira, and Suki, were still marching their way through many of the Fire Nation soldiers in their way. Sokka was leading them. "Keep going, the sooner we take down their main forces, the sooner we can beat their main forces!" he yelled.
"You heard him!" Suki yelled.
Suddenly there were komodo rhinos standing in front of them, blocking their path. "This madness ends now!" one of the soldiers said.
Suddenly they were all surrounded by armed soldiers from all sides. "Uh, you guys sure about this?" Suki asked.
"Don't underestimate the power of the Fire Nation, we have more than one way to defeat you lot!" suddenly they hear Mira yelp.
"Mira!" Cana yelled.
One of the Fire Nation masked guards had a flame to Mira's face, and he held her in a chokehold with his elbow. "I'd give up if I were you, or your friend here will perish."
Almost unsurprisingly, no one looked to be surrendering. Suki looked to Cana. "You want to tell them or should I."
"Tell me what!" the soldier demanded.
"That of all the choices for a hostage, you chose wrong buddy," Cana said with a smug look on her face.
"A hiiiilariously wrong choice!" Sokka said with a chuckle
"What are you-"
A surge of magical energy was suddenly being built as a black magic seal was below Mira's feet. Suddenly Mira was in her Satan Soul and she turned her head to the soldier that held her. "Who were you saying was going to perish?" she asked with a deeper, intimidating voice. Her eyes let out a menacing glow.
"M-m-mother please help me…" the soldier from inside the mask squeaked.
He was suddenly thrown to a building. "S-she's some kind of freak!" one of the soldiers yelled. "Attack her!" they all charged to her.
But as they got closer to her, she was making an orb of dark purple energy in her demonic hands. "Uh oh, Everyone, get down!" Cana yelled.
"Soul Extinction!" there was a tremendous explosion of dark purple energy that made a growing black shockwave that covered a huge radius.
When the energy cleared, many of the soldiers were down on the ground. Sokka got up and coughed up dust. He could see that only two soldiers were conscious and they both were cowering in fear. "Man, warn us when you're about to do that next time!" Sokka said.
"We're still alive, so we should just move on already," Cana suggested.
Sokka rubbed the dust off of him. "Right,"
"What about Natsu?" Suki asked.
"Judging from how he hasn't come back yet, and that Azula hasn't come here to deal with us herself, I'd say Natsu had already gotten to her," Sokka said. "And is probably giving her the beating of a lifetime!"
"Natsu knows what he's doing… I'm just worried about Lucy." Cana admitted. "I can only hope she's handling herself."
----Loke was running towards Chun, his fist was glowing as he tried to land a punch on her. She ducked under it and she looked to the ceiling of a roof. "Here goes nothing!" she shot flames from her fists and feet and propelled herself up to the roof of the small building. She looked down at Loke, who only just noticed that she flew up. She glared as Loke and shot powerful, angered jabs of bright purple flames to him. She quickly figured out she wasn't going to win in a close combat match with Loke, so she needed to keep her distance from him.
The lion spirit was doing a good job of avoiding the flames; he quickly got into his casting stance by bending his right arm, with his fist pointing to the sky. He grabbed his bicep with his left arm and looked up while Chun fired another blast of fire. "Regulus… Grant me your strength!" his fists shone brighter and his fist made contact with Chun's flame and he forced his magical energy through it, causing both attacks to explode in a shower of bright pink and yellow sparkles.
Chun's pupils shrunk. "H-he can block my fire!? No… I can't hold back, not now… cause if I lose right here… then everything is over. I can't run, so if I can win… then maybe I have a chance."
"Fine then…" Chun leaped off the roof and shot out flames that slowed her fall. Doing something that was insane to her, she ran right to Loke and when the spirit took the bait, he arched his fist back. Chun leaped up and while she was in the air, over him, she swung her leg and three balls of purple fire rained down on Loke.
Chun landed on her feet and she saw Loke rushing to her, with lines of purple fire leaking off his suit. In a panic, she shot a stream of fire to Loke, but this also propelled her away from him. "What do I do?" she looked at her shaking hands. "W-what would someone like Azula do?" she looked at Lucy's concerned face. "N-no I can't! I can't do it!" she was conflicted with the options she had, it looked as if Loke was way too powerful for her to beat. Not even a well-placed Lightning attack would be enough because he'd just dodge it. But in her hesitance, she left herself open and Loke managed to strike her in the stomach. And the attack sent her flying back far.
"L-Loke!" Lucy yelled. "Don't hurt her, this wasn't her choice to do this!"
"But, isn't she trying to hurt you, to destroy Fairy Tail?"
"It's much more complicated than that."
Carla was standing next to Wendy who held an unconscious Happy. "You still choose to be naïve even after she struck down the He-cat."
"Carla," Wendy said.
The white cat looked to her partner with a serious face. "Didn't you say you wanted to defend Aang, defend this guild? Well here is your chance, Wendy!"
Wendy yelped when she realized what Carla was telling her to do. "But, I can't fight Chun… we're friends…"
"Would a friend do what she is doing now?"
"But…"
"She is beyond reason now, trying to help her would only be a detriment."
They all saw Chun getting back up and there were some minuscule scratches on her body. She glared right at Loke. She felt her instincts flare up again. She could feel them as if they were speaking to her. "This pain is nothing, they don't care about you. You must fight; they can't save you, only you can! Do you want to lose everything!?" Soon all Chun could hear was a high pitched whistle, and she found her vision focus on Loke, she forced herself to block out all thoughts of Wendy and Lucy. They would only hold her back.
Chun could feel all the frustration that she has been bottling up well up inside her, and she glared at Loke and she angrily shot out a tremendous purple blast of fire from her mouth, similar to a Dragon Slayer's roar.
Lucy, Wendy, Carla, and even Loke were shocked by this. "Regulus Impact!" a bright yellow seal appeared in front of him and a bright yellow energy Lion shot out of it. The flames made contact with the energy lion causing a huge explosion and black smoke covered them for a moment.
When the smoke cleared, Chun watched Loke give her a serious look. "Not good, if he hits me with that once. I'm done."
Loke's hand continued to glow. Chun shivered as she couldn't see a way out of this. 'Unless I attack Lucy…' "No!" she exclaimed. "I won't become… like her!" she declared out loud. She kicked a shot of purple fire to Loke, who easily dodged it. His pace quickened as he aimed to end this battle quickly, but he was surprised to see Chun leaping on and off the walls to avoid him. "What do I do! What do I do! My instincts are telling me is to attack Lucy… but I… I can't do that. If I do, then I am no better than them." Suddenly a second option had opened up to her. "That is, I've just got to run. If I can just-" She watched Loke leaping chasing behind her. "But to do it I have to…" She turned around to see Loke close in on her. "Sorry about this!" she quickly generated lightning in both her hands and she clasped her hands together and pointed both her fingers, letting the electrical energy leave her fingers.
Loke watched it move past him, but to his horror so it was on course for hitting Lucy. So Loke panicked. "LUCY!" the bolt of lightning had missed, crashing into a wall behind her, but only making a small scorch mark on the wall. The only part of Lucy that suffered any damage was the minuscule bits of her blonde hair that was singed. Lucy flinched and comically shivered.
Loke stopped to check on Lucy, but this momentary stop allowed Chun to escape.
Both Lucy and Loke ran to her. "Lucy, are you alright?!" Loke asked in a panic.
"I-I'm fine I think. That didn't hit me at all."
"I don't get it; I thought Chun was our friend?" Wendy said.
Carla hovered beside her. "Why can't you get it through your head? She isn't someone who can be trusted. She almost shot Lucy."
"Yeah… almost…" Lucy thoughtfully said, placing a hand under chin indicating that something was on her mind. "Wendy, can you catch her scent."
Wendy had sniffed the air and her closed eyes opened as soon as she recognized the familiar scent. "Yes, I know where she is."
"Could you lead us to her?" Wendy though looked hesitant. "I don't want to fight her either, but we can't let her get to Aang. The others are doing their part, so we have to do ours."
Wendy gained a determined expression, she remembered what this was really about and it was protecting Aang. She remembered him inviting her to join Fairy Tail, telling her that even if everything you care about vanishes before your eyes, there will always be someone to help you. In Wendy's case, it was Fairy Tail. Maybe Chun needed to hear that. "Yes, I will help!"
----Kobu had stood behind Juvia, remaining in his stance, as he moved Juvia to his side like a puppet. "You know, if the Rain Woman hadn't shown up, then you two would have had a good chance against me," He said to Gray and Katara who remained in their defensive stances. "But I suppose that what you get for getting too attached to someone."
"Gray-sama…" Juvia had said with a scared tone.
"Don't worry yourself, Rain Woman; I'll make sure this is quick."
"Coward!" Gray spat. "That's all you are, can't beat us on your own, so you do this!"
Kobu smiled slightly. "Say all you want, but this is warfare, not a battle of pride! And since you two have gotten in my way, you two will pay the price!" he swung his hand forward and Juvia's arm was shakily moving up.
"Juvia, stop! You have to fight it!" Katara pleaded.
She tried to still her arm as it was turning to water.
"Tch! You're only making it worse by resisting!" Kobu had thrown his other arm and Juvia had shot a blast of water to Katara and Gray. Kobu froze the front of the stream of water and it crashed in between the spaces between Katara and Gray.
Once they were separated, Gray had placed his fisted hand into his open palm. "I've had enough of you! Ice-Make: -"
Kobu suddenly moved Juvia in front of him. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. You see you're not in any position to dictate this battle. Not when your girlfriend is on my side!"
But from his side, he saw a wave of water snake towards him. He growled and swung Juvia in front of him to take the hit for him. Once Juvia was dropped to her back, Kobu had used the water Katara attacked him with, to rise from the ground in the form of tendrils in order to strike both Gray and Katara if they both tried anything.
Juvia was slowly getting to her knees after taking the attack from Katara. "Get up!" Kobu ordered. Juvia's legs turned to water and she was forced to get up quicker.
"How could you do this!?" Katara asked. "You're water tribe, aren't you?! How could you team up with Azula and do something so terrible."
"How quickly you forget, hypocrite. You teamed yourself with that scarred prince Zuko, Ozai's flesh and blood I might add. But worst of all, you allied yourself with the Avatar."
"Why? What did Aang ever do to you!?" Katara yelled.
"It doesn't concern you, so I'll just go with my primary plan. Taking you two out so I can end the Avatar myself,"
"So much hatred… he's exactly like her…" she looked to Kobu's grin and could only see Hama's face. "No I don't care what your reasons are anymore, you plan to hurt Aang, and you're hurting Juvia. I won't let hurt my friends anymore!" she blasted large bullets of water Kobu.
Kobu laughed. "Please, it's like you don't know what my next move is!" Juvia's completely turned into water and she stretched her arms out wide and she absorbed the water, adding it to her form, expanding her water mass. "Now!" Juvia with a scared expression had twirled and made the water form a large whirlpool around herself and Kobu. A massive, spinning wall of water surrounded the two and expanded.
Gray froze the water as soon as it touched him, making an ice barrier, Katara on her end had made the water open like a curtain, letting her through.
"You two don't know when to give up do you?"
Katara then looked at Juvia. "Juvia, listen to me, you have to fight him! If you don't them Gray and I can't help you."
"Ugh, here we go again. Juvia, shut her up!" a spout of water suddenly shot Katara up into the air. Juvia created that spout and she was teary-eyed.
"Katara…" but before Katara could hit the ground Gray caught her.
"I gotcha!" they both saw a jet of water rushing to them. Gray quickly put Katara down and outstretched his hand and froze the water jet on impact, making a long bar of ice.
Katara ran on this bar with thin water streams at her sides. Kobu saw this and turned the bar back to water, but Katara had frozen the bottom of her shoes so she could surf on the water.
She stepped off and sprinted towards Kobu. "Juvia, turn yourself to water!"
"Huh!" Kobu grunted.
"Katara, Juvia can't –"
"JUST DO IT!" Suddenly, against Kobu's will, Katara had run through Juvia's watery form and she splashed the small water streams into his eyes, blinding him temporarily. Katara swung her leg, and after sweeping Kobu off his feet, he hit the ground, relinquishing control of Juvia.
"Good, you're free! Now we just have to-" she was cut off when Kobu had shot a jet of Water to Katara's back.
"Defy me will you?" he had wrapped Juvia in tendrils of water and made it so she couldn't turn to water to escape. "You've given me enough trouble!" Juvia though glared at Kobu.
"No! People think they can control Juvia, just to hurt my friends!" she thought back to Vidaldus controlling her to fight both Lucy and Katara. "Not anymore!" suddenly the water Kobu was controlling was being suctioned by Juvia's body. She turned herself to water and made a wave of water that engulfed Kobu.
The waterbender rolled on his back and coughed. "Fine, I'll just end your useless life right here!" Juvia was still in her water form.
"Juvia won't let you!" she flew to Kobu aiming to finish the battle.
Katara noticed a slight smirk on Kobu's face. She gasped and realized what he planned to do. "Juvia, don't!"
"Heh," suddenly, Kobu had thrown his hands forward and as soon as they touched Juvia's watery form, there was a tremendous flash of light. When the light faded, Juvia's body was crystallized in ice. "Now disappear!" he swung his hand and to Katara's horror, he completely shattered Juvia's frozen form. Katara had her hands over her mouth as tears lined the bottom of her eyelids. "That was extremely foolish," Kobu said while ice crystals were falling like snow.
"JUVIAAA!" Katara cried. "YOU MONSTER! How could you do that!?"
Kobu looked at her, seeming very unfazed by what he had just done. "You fail to understand, this is a war. Inevitably, people die in war. Juvia was just a casualty in this one." Katara had fallen to her knees and started sobbing, she covered her face with her hands, completely broken up by what Kobu did. "You're going to cry, in the middle of a battle?" Kobu got in a stance. "Seriously, grow up!"
"So you're serious eh?" both Katara and Kobu followed the sound of Gray's voice. The pair were both equally shocked when they saw Gray was holding Juvia bridal style. The latter was blushing madly.
"I don't understand. H-how did?"
"I pulled her away at the last second, and then when the second you touched a bit of her water, I made the ice in front of you. That Juvia you just froze was an ice clone I made."
"Tch, so that how you did it." Kobu spat.
"You're one twisted kid. No wonder you're with the Fire Nation, you're just as dangerous as Freed said."
"Excuse me, don't lump me with those war-obsessed demons!" Kobu yelled. "I'd sooner take the Fire Nation down myself, but first I have business with the Avatar."
"But why?" Katara asked. "Aang tried to help the world in every way he could. Why would you… someone from the Water Tribe no less have so much hatred for Aang. He even fought against the Fire Lord."
"'Why' She asks. I'm no fool, girl. I'm aware of the Avatar and what he had to do. But you really want the reason?" he paused and Gray and Katara waited to allow him to explain himself. "That reckless monster killed my family!"
Katara gasped while Gray and Juvia looked shocked. "N-no, you're lying. There is no way Aang would-" Kobu had shot a water bullet to Katara, forcing her off her feet and to the ground.
"But the twist is that he did. It was back at the Northern Tribe, the story was he fused with the Koi fish, and then he formed that giant watery form of his. He used his power to destroy the Fire Navy ships. But that wasn't the only ship in the water." Kobu looked away, a pang of sadness looked to hit him. "The waves of water had drowned their boat. None of them waterbenders, accept for me." Katara had her hands over her mouth. "Oh, is that a sad story to you, how do you think I felt?"
"Kobu… I'm so sorr-"
"I never asked for your sympathy! But that only confirmed something to me, that the Avatar is reckless. No one person, let alone a child should have that much power. His reckless behavior only brings about destruction. Look at the Water Tribes right now! I heard the Southern Tribe don't have waterbenders anymore, I'm guessing you were the last one." He said looking at Katara. "And we don't even have to talk about what happened to the North. My family wasn't the only casualty. We also lost Princess Yue, and I'm willing to bet she'd still be alive today if the Avatar hadn't brought his war with the Fire Nation to our front door. The Water tribes are nothing but jokes in the context of the Earth Kingdom's might and the Fire Nation's prowess.
"And you've become allies with the Fire Nation, trying to bring down the one person who is trying to save the world. How in any way is that going to help the water tribes huh!?"
"I am trying to make things right, yes after I kill the Avatar with my own hands, Ozai will be next, and since I have their trust, it won't be too difficult to pull off. But I won't end it there, I'll build my own force, pull some wizards from this world if I have to. With it, we will destroy every last man, woman, and child in the Fire Nation! Give them a taste of what they did the Air Nomads, sounds fair to me. And when all of that is done, when the dust settles, I'll lead the Water Tribes into a new era, where our name will strike fear into all those who have and will oppose us!"
"B-but… if you do that… You'll be just as bad as them." She thought back to when she had gone with Zuko to avenge her mother. "Avenging their deaths isn't going to bring them back, and would your family really would have wanted their son to turn into the next Fire Lord?"
Suddenly Katara was wrapped very tightly in water tendrils. "You talk as if you know my family!" he angrily said. "And you know what?" his pupils shrunk and his eyelids became sharp. "You're really starting to piss me off!" he tightened the grip around her, forcing a scream to escape her lips. "Here's a thought, I don't think I want to kill the Avatar just yet. Maybe I'll kill you first!" he yelled. Gray growled as he put Juvia down. "When that happens, he'll understand… UNDERSTAND THE PAIN I FEEL!" He shot four ice tipped tendrils to Katara but Gray stepped in front of her and formed an icy shield in front of them both, blocking the icy tips from impaling them.
He froze the tendrils around Katara and broke them. "You again!?" Gray turned to him with an angered expression. "Why don't you just-!" Gray had slid to Kobu and gave him a straight punch in the gut, forcing him to his knees in a coughing fit.
The ice wizard only looked half-way at him. "You ask me, this whole thing is just an excuse for you! I don't know what you do in your tribes, but Aang is still a part of Fairy Tail, and he's my friend, anyone who threatens my friends will regret the day they were born!"
Kobu got up to his feet and glared at Gray. "Is that a threat?"
"More than a threat, it's a Fairy Tail Promise! I'll take you on right here, right now!"
"Fine, I'll just eliminate you first!" water tendrils formed on Kobu's arms, he used them to shoot jets of water towards Gray.
Gray stood his ground and let the water hit him and he froze the end of the water jets and he broke it apart, making two blades of ice on the ends of his arms. Kobu shaped the water on his arms into blades and ran towards Gray with a loud battle cry. Gray ran towards him and their improvised swords met, but Gray noticed Kobu's thin water blades were slowly cutting through his ice blades. He backed away and prepared another spell. An icy aura was forming around him.
----Azula had jumped down to where Natsu had lain motionless. "To be honest, I did expect a much harder battle, but I suppose that is the difference in our skillset, Natsu!" Natsu's eyes suddenly opened up and he glared at Azula. "What, NO… how!?"
Natsu slowly got up. "Ouch, that really packed a punch huh…"
"Explain… now!"
"I told you. You're not the first thunder throwing bastard I've had to deal with. And thanks to Laxus, I can eat your lightning for breakfast!" Azula's eyes widened while her pupils shrunk.
"NO… Impossible… he's lying." Azula had swung her arms and generated a much larger lightning strike but instead of striking it at Natsu, she shot the ground where he stood. The force of the blast shot him far back, he crashed on his back and got up with a dazed expression. Azula sprinted to him with circles of lightning surrounding her hands. "This time for sure, I'LL BRING YOUR LIFE TO AN END!" as she closed in on him, she thought about putting her two fingers on his chest, putting a high level of amperage through his heart.
But before she could execute her plan, Natsu's strong hand had gripped Azula's wrists. Azula still released her lightning and created an explosion, separating the two. Azula rolled onto her feet while Natsu slid on his back. When he got up, he saw Azula chuckling to herself. "Hey, what's so funny?"
"Nothing, it's just that I find your title of 'Dragon Slayer' to be… amusing. See you're not the first 'dragon slayer' I've come across."
"What are you talking about?"
"See, in my world, if a Fire bender managed to conquer a dragon. They would receive the title 'dragon' in their name. By now you would have heard that my foolish Uncle was called the 'Dragon of the West.'"
"And…? What's your point?"
"It's always been a dream of mine to see a dragon since I was very little. But now, I want to see one, just to kill it!" This only made Natsu sneer angrily at her, as the heat around his body intensified.
"You're going to wish you hadn't said that!" Natsu growled. He launched off to Azula who shot flames from her hands to fly into the air. "You ain't gettin' away!" Natsu's fists lit fists in flames, he shot flames from his feet to chase after her,
"Heh, he's angry, good. I can use that against him!" she landed on the roof of Lucy's apartment. As Natsu was closing in, she was charging her lightning.
"You won't get it this time! Fire Dragon's Wing Slash!" he swung his arms sending waves tremendous whips of fire to Azula which was big enough to engulf her.
Azula growled, she used her free, left hand to form a cyclone of blue fire to surround her, to defend herself from Natsu's flames. She flung her right fingers forward through the flames, sending the lightning bolt and Natsu just avoided it as it veered past his left eye.
Right as he landed on the ceiling, Azula rushed towards him. His fists lit up but Azula leaped over him and off the building. Natsu expected to hear her feet hit the ground but she heard a window shattering. He looked over the roof and saw that Azula had kicked herself into Lucy and Katara's apartment.
Natsu climbed down and he stood on the edge of the windowsill and saw Azula inside the apartment, ready and primed to fire a shot of lightning at Natsu. "Don't you know it's rude not to knock when coming into someone's home?"
"You didn't knock eith-" He was shot with Azula's lightning again causing him to lose his grip on the wall and fell to the ground on his back. As soon as he hit the ground, Azula was falling towards him, her knees were aflame as she tried to crush his gut with them. Natsu surrounded his entire body in fire and he head-butted Azula.
Azula slid on her back, when she sat up she felt the mark under her chin. "Ow! You've got quite a lot of nerve, peasant! Standing up against me."
Natsu looked serious and cracked his fingers. "Get over yourself; you're not as high as you think you are!"
"You just don't get it. Ever since I was born, I was destined to rule! I am the strongest Fire Bender in existence, in the strongest nation in the world. I was born to be ruthless, to be a ruler, a leader, and a conqueror. And no pathetic guild with a 'so-called' slayer of dragons will get in my way!"
"Shut up!" Natsu suddenly punched Azula in the face sending her rolling on the ground.
After getting up she felt the mark on her cheek. "How dare-"
"All that stuff you said, that's the biggest load of crap I've ever heard! Just who the hell do you think you are!?" Azula kicked Natsu in the face and leaped away from him.
"Who am I? I'll tell you, I am Fire Lord Azula, Daughter of Phoenix King Ozai. I am the strongest Fire bender ever, you can't even comprehend the fear my name drives into my enemies!"
Natsu laughed her off. "Heh, please. You ain't stronger than Aang, you only ever beat him that one time by shooting him in the back! You're no warrior, you're a coward!"
Azula's eye grew wide for a second before her eyelids sharpened. "Excuse me, I don't think I heard you. What did you just say?"
"You, Ozai, Azulon, Sozin, and all you clowns are cowards! I don't see great leaders, they're all just a bunch of bottom-feeders!" Natsu yelled.
"Enough!" Azula exclaimed. "I thought you were just an idiot, but you're even more than that. You're an insufferable swine who has no idea what he is talking about. I won't let you stand there and make a mockery of my nation's legacy!"
Flames starting surrounding Natsu, "What legacy!?" he exclaimed as his clothes were being pushed by the flames he generated. "Cowards don't make legacies!" he then ripped off his shirt, leaving his scarf the only item on his upper body. "I know the difference between a ruler and a bully like you who just abuses her power! You may be royalty, but you have NO right to walk over people! I ain't afraid of you, or your dad! Because you two aren't even worth being afraid of!"
Azula shot a glare at Natsu, she threw off the Fire Nation armor covering her upper body, leaving just her pale red undergarments.
"You know nothing about war, and neither does your pathetic guild! We have the biggest military might in the world and you have the gall to call us cowards!?" Flames of blue fire were surrounding Azula. "You seem to not know your place, Natsu Dragneel! Well as Fire Lord of my world, and soon to be this world! I will put you in your place. And your place, Natsu… will be you… on your knees… BOWING AT MY FEET!" she sped to Natsu, propelling herself with fire from her hands and feet. She swung her arms, forming lightning arcs in her arms. She was going to shoot from point-blank range.
Natsu did the same and surrounded himself in his flames. They both collided, as huge pillars of blue and orange fire had shot up into the sky. Azula came out the worst of that attack as she saw Natsu's flames were raging and they took the form of a dragon. She swore she could also hear Natsu roaring like a dragon.
"N-no… impossible… I threw everything I had as that!"
She only could see a red glow from Natsu's eyes, and instantly her body froze up as she hadn't felt fear like this in a fight before. "Somebody should have kicked your ass a long time ago! So I'm gonna do it right now!" he yelled. "Picking a fight with Fairy Tail was the BIGGEST MISTAKE YOU'VE EVER MADE!"
----Aang who was last seen in the infirmary fighting for his life was starting to wake up. His eyes slowly opened and he saw he was in a bed with no one but Porlyusica watching over him. "Ugh… what happened?" he suddenly panicked. "Wait, the Fire Nation is here, and they-"
Porlyusica had pushed him back down. "Relax, the guild is fighting them off as we speak."
"Oh, then I have to get out there and help them."
"No you won't!" she said still holding him down. You just survived a poison that not even that tiny girl's magic could heal. You still aren't fully recovered."
"Oh man, but still-" he heard an explosion in the distance possibly caused by the fighting.
"Plus it's no secret that the Fire Nation is no match for Fairy Tail, but of course you already knew that didn't you?"
"But still if it's Azula we're dealing with… I just need to be sure."
Porlyusica sighed. "You're even more stubborn that Makarov, you know that? Fine if you want to see for yourself, then let me help you up."
----Zuko woke up on the rooftop where Natsu had knocked him out. He got up and nursed the bruise on his stomach. "Ow… dammit Natsu!" he looked out and he could see many explosions going around the city. "Guess this battle is in full swing." He also heard Natsu's loud screams and he could see his flames chasing disappearing spots of blue fire. "Heh, he can deal with Azula. Right now I have to find the others to make sure everyone is alright. Plus I need to check on Evergreen."
Zuko climbed down from the rooftop in order to reunite with the others from the guild. But he could feel that the war the Fire Nation declared against Fairy Tail, was reaching its climax.