Race Against Etherion

Aang was looking down to where he had kicked Fukuro down with his own air. He knew that he would survive a fall like that but there was no way he was getting back up immediately. Simon looked at Aang as he still had a serious face after beating Fukuro.
"Avatar Aang. It seems you are far stronger than the information we gathered would imply. I could say the same for Gray Fullbuster." Aang, Gray, Zuko and Simon were on the same cage.
"Quickly, we have to save Erza-" Gray felt a very sharp pain in his torso he looked and saw a cut across his stomach that was glowing magenta.
"Crap! She got me…" Gray thought as he remembered what happened. Before Gray got the first strike with his Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance. Ping managed to get a slash on his torso before Gray's attack annihilated her. He fell to one knee and held his injury, while sweating.
Meanwhile Happy was trying to wake Natsu up as he just came out of Fukuro's stomach. "Natsu! Wake up!"
"The world is spinning…" Natsu said in his dazed state.
Aang looked at Gray's wound. "If only Katara were here…" Aang wondered aloud.
"This cut is nothin', Aang." Gray said adding a smirk to his face but was clearly in pain.
"Hate to cut the victory party short, but we're not even close to finished." Zuko said.
Aang looked down. 
"I know. Zuko can you find everybody and get them to Appa, if Etherion is going to fire. We don't want the others getting caught in the blast. Happy and Gray will get to Appa first, then can I trust you guys to get everyone out of here?"
"We'll try, but what about you?" Zuko asked.
"If Jellal wants to fight me so bad, then I'm going to give it to him."
"You lost against my father! What makes you think you can take him on?!" Zuko yelled.
"Think about it, if Jellal is treating this like a game, then he set things up for us to have a showdown anyway after we took down his allies. I won't be totally alone, I'll have Natsu and Simon with me, as things stand we can't afford to let everyone else get hit with the Etherion."
"Aang you may have to kill this guy, just defeating him might not be enough. You know that right?"
Aang nodded. "I'm not going to make the same mistake twice; Natsu, Simon and I are going to beat him." He gave Zuko Appa's bison whistle.
"Fine, but don't get killed out there." Zuko said before they both clapped their right hands together and locked them for a few seconds. Zuko jumped to the exit of the room and sprinted to find the others.
"Happy, you take Gray to Appa. Then wait for Zuko to blow his bison whistle, then Appa will take you to where Zuko and hopefully the others are waiting. After that you guys will fly you guys out of here. Natsu, Simon and I will meet up later with you guys.
"Aye." Happy said as he walked toward Gray.
"Jellal… I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I will stop you… and that's a promise." Aang said within his own thoughts.
----At the council, preparations were being made to fire the Council's weapon, Etherion. A huge hole in the ground opened, four pillars with different colored gems on top of them rose. From the huge hole moving in between the four pillars was a large diamond that was radiating a bright white colour. Alarms were going off in the background as they prepared to launch the Satellite Square.
At the same time, Lucy, Katara and Juvia were still in the room where they had defeated Vidaldus. All three of them were on the ground as they now had used up so much of their energy. "It's no use…" Lucy began within her thoughts. "I can't even lift a finger." She looked towards Juvia and Katara. The former was unconscious while the waterbender was breathing heavily. "And that Firebending girl from before seems to have left us. What are we going to do?"
She heard a voice and it started by saying 'Nya' "We had our butts licked good…" A girlish voice said.
"Oh, some people are knocked out over there." A deeper male voice added.
Lucy's face now had a comical scared expression. "It's them!"
It was Wally and Millianna, they stood above the three and Wally stated that they had found them. Lucy's heart was beating fast. "Wait, we're not your enemies anymore… Is what I would have liked to say, but I'm too scared…"
Katara stirred awake and she still felt fatigued from the earlier fight. "How long have we rested?" She thought. Her eyes widened as she saw Wally and Milliana looking down at Lucy. "You again! From the resort!" Katara got into a fighting stance but she realized her water skin was empty. Nevertheless she maintained a brave face ready to face whatever the two had planned for them.
...
Etherion meanwhile was charging as a combination of green, red, gold and blue lightning bolts danced around the huge diamond in the middle of the town while the town's people looked up at the spectacle. Inside the control room, talk was heard of how they could let it get to this situation, another stated that this cannot be helped.
"Do not worry Org." Michello began as he looked to be an old man with a cat like haircut, similar to Millianna, he was also quite short with light brown hair along with a mustache. "Even if we are attacking another country with magic unprovoked, we can justify it under clause 27, paragraph 4 of the National Security and Safety Act.
"This isn't a matter of law…" Org began. He was much taller than his pseudo feline companion, he had a long beard, had a figure of what looked like an owl on his head, and had grey hair and a long beard. "We are about to fire Etherion. We are doing evil."
"Zeref is the true evil here. We can only pray that Etherion will be our saving grace and destroy Zeref."
Siegrain was looking over the preparations for the firing of the weapon. Ultear walked up to him. 
"It's almost ready Sieg." She said. Siegrain responded with a nod at her statement. "The dream you've had for eight years will finally become a reality."
"Are you afraid, Ultear?" Siegrain asked.
"No, not even a little." She replied. "Because I always have complete faith in you Lord Sieg."
"I suppose so. There is no danger to your life." Behind a pillar, a ghostly figure of Yajima was watching them. "I am shaking a little. If this fails I will be annihilated." He said which caused Yajima's ghostly figure to question what Siegrain is meant by that. "But this is very much worth risking one's life for." Yajima's eyes shrank as Siegrain began to finish his monologue. "Because this is my dream." To which Ultear agreed.
...
Jellal, who had the figure of the Satellite Square above his chess board assessed the situation. "Another 25 minutes, then?" In saying this he uses Aang's piece to knock down Fukuro's. "I'll never see you again. Siegrain."
----"Jellal!" Sho angrily yelled at the top of his voice as he ran down the hall. "Damn you! Damn you! Damn you!" Erza tried to get his attention by yelling his name from the card she was trapped in but he simply ignored her. "You hurt Sister!" he continued. Erza demanded to be let out of the card but Sho said that he would be the one to protect her.
Far behind them Sokka and Toph were chasing after the two by themselves. "Amazing how one nut-job manages to ruin the entire plan?" Toph said, clearly annoyed by Sho's actions.
"There's nothing we can do about that, all we can do is try and stop him and free Erza from that card." Sokka said.
"Or we can just kick his butt, then free Erza and the three of us will go after Jellal!"
Sokka's head grew as he began to yell at Toph. "Are you crazy! You want us to just go after him!?"
"It will be three against one, four if you count Sho the crybaby. I don't care how ultra-powerful that guy is, as long as we have numbers on our side, we can't lose."
"Yeah, but there is something else, he knew about Aang. There is a good chance that he also knows about us too."
"Those Fire Nation goons told Jellal everything about us. Are you surprised?"
"What we know for sure, is that he wants to sacrifice Erza to this Zeref guy, and he wants to fight Aang. There is just something about this guy that I don't like. He seems way to in control of the situation and to top it off the whole place is going to blow up if we don't beat him fast enough."
"Is there a point to your rambling, Sokka?"
"That weapon is going to hit, and he's going to do nothing about it. The main aim of a game is to win, whether you break the rules or not." Sokka said now putting his hand to his chin. "The only way he can win is if he carries out Erza's sacrifice, the only way we can win is if we stop him from doing that. Then something that destroys everyone and everything means that the game is over and that there are no winners. Essentially, it becomes an eternal tie, which can't be broken… unless he has a way to break that tie."
"He said it himself. Neither he nor Aang can survive a blast from that Etherion thingy. Unless he lied…"
"Exactly, there is just too much we don't know about all of this. Taking Jellal down early would be good, but it is not without its risks. He sound extremely powerful."
"No worries, that jerk is going to wish he hadn't messed with us!" Toph punched her right fist into her left palm.
Sho ran into a peculiar room as it had a wooden bridge with water below it, and rocks behind it, Sakura petals were raining from the trees. He was panting after running for so long.
"Hey! Get back here you idiot before you get yourself killed." Toph yelled, she and Sokka followed behind Sho. They would hear wooden sandals on the wooden bridge. "Crap!" Toph yelled.
"What?" Sokka asked.
"We're on wood, Sokka. We're in big trouble. I'm blind out here!"
"Funny, weren't you blind to begin with?" Sokka chuckled.
"Hahaha." Toph sarcastically laughed. "Boy did I feel that burn." She continued.
The woman in the wooden sandals with huge heels stopped. Sokka's eyes widened. "My name is Ikaruga. Who are you?" She asked with a smirk.
"Outta my way! Who is this crazy broad?" Sho said preparing to use his card.
"I'll tell you who she is, she's hot!" Sokka exclaimed.
Toph sweat dropped. "Boy Suki going to love this, and she just said her name is Ikaruga ya knuckle heads."
"Oh my, are the three of you unrefined?" She asked.
"What does that even mean?" Sokka asked scratching his head.
"It means: Just hit her already!" Toph yelled.
"I don't have any business with you!" Sho yelled as he threw his cards that multiplied in number when they went through an emerald green magic circle. They shone bright yellow and sped to Ikaruga, at the fast speed they were heading to her, the woman was able to pull out her blade and slice the attack completely in a swift motion, in the blink of an eye, she was putting her sword back in its scabbard. Sho's cards meanwhile were cut in half with demonic precision. 
"I-Impossible!" Sho exclaimed.
"Whoa, I have got to learn how to do that." Sokka said in awe as he unsheathed his own blade.
"This is not the time to be impressed Sokka." Toph said.
"There is nothing which I cannot cut."
"What are you, some street performer?" Sho asked as he prepared to throw another flurry of cards at her, but before he could attack her a second time. A huge cross appeared at his feet. His cards shattered. "What is this, why can't I move my body?" he asked as he fell to his knees.
"I severed your nerves without cutting your clothes or flesh." Ikaruga explained. "That is the essence of the New Moon School. She quickly notices Erza inside the card. "So that is where you have been hiding Erza."
"Sho, you have to let me out of here! She is not an opponent you can defeat!" She exclaimed.
"Don't worry… That card is protected. There is no way anything from the outside could harm you." Sokka and Toph stood in front of Sho while glaring at Ikaruga.
"Oh… that sounds like a challenge." Ikaruga responded as she began to unsheathe her sword.
"Sho, get me out of here!" Erza yelled. "That is not a normal sword she has!"
"The only challenge you have to deal with is us." Toph yelled as she cracked her knuckles. Sokka noticed an Asian lion statue.
"Toph, there's a stone statue to your left." Toph slowly walked to the statue and felt it.
"Hey Ika-crazy! Eat this!" Toph punched the statue towards Ikaruga. Unfortunately, the statue was shattered to pieces as soon as Toph punched it to her. "Is she down!?"
"Uh… not really…" Sokka added now with fear in his voice. "I think we have to get out of here!" Sokka said.
"And run from a fight? Not gonna happen. Point me to another statue so we can take care of this crazy person." Sokka looked behind him, what he saw gave him an idea.
"Toph. There are rocks at the bottom of the bridge when we came in."
Toph remembered what Sokka meant, she was able to feel those rocks before she walked onto the wooden bridge. "I follow." Toph ran to where she was able to feel the vibrations in the earth, which allowed her to find the rocks Sokka was describing. "Whoever you are, you're going to wish you hadn't seen this face." Toph made five rocks speed to Ikaruga.
The woman who was the target of the attack had her eyes closed simply opened her eyes, as she did, bright blue sword slashes easily cut through all of the boulders Toph sent to her, they landed in the water below and some onto the bridge. "You cannot see me can you? How unfortunate, I am the worst opponent you would have had to face, Toph Beifong. You can't attack me when you are on the bridge because you have little earth to manipulate. Not that it matters. My Mugetsu-Ryu and my spell, Yasha's Empty Flash will crush your feeble attempts to defeat me." Toph grit her teeth. She made two boulders rise beside her. She ran onto the bridge while the boulders flew beside her. Toph thrusts her left arm forwards sending the boulder on her left side to Ikaruga, which she was able to slash easily. When the rocks fell to the ground besides the woman she saw Toph was still running towards her. Toph tossed the second boulder at Ikaruga, and when she did it was sliced to tiny pieces too. When the rocks fell to the ground, Ikaruga's eyes grew as Toph was in the air right in front of her. The Blind Earthbender gifted the pink haired woman with a hard punch to the face while her right fist was covered in a coating of rocks.
When she quickly recovered from the punch it was revealed that Toph had both her arms covered in rocks, she was still close to Ikaruga and ran to throw both her fists into her but she felt the rocks around her knuckles being sliced off, which made her punches less effective. Ikaruga triple slashed Toph three times in less than a blink of an eye. The Blind Earthbender fell to her knees before collapsing to her stomach.
Sokka was on top of one of the bridge structures while holding Erza who was still imprisoned in the card. "Sokka! Both you and Toph get out of here, you don't stand a chance against her!" Erza said sternly in a whisper.
"Oh and you do? You can't do anything if you're trapped in that card, and the only person who could have let you out is lying down there, defeated. Now let me handle this."
"You have a plan?"
"Of course I do. My guess is she can only block attacks that she can see…" Sokka pulled out his orange and grey boomerang. "So, we'll just hit her blind spot!" he threw his Boomerang as hard as he could but a bright blue slash was seen before the Boomerang could hit her. It was speeding back to Sokka before catching it. Ikaruga turned around to see Sokka above her. "Well since she can already see us!" he jumped off with Erza's card tied to his belt. He directed himself towards Ikaruga to stab her with his sword, but predictably Sokka felt sword slashes all over his body, he dropped his sword before crashing and sliding to Ikaruga's high sandals. Once he opens his eyes and sees her right in front of him he screams and cowardly backs on his butt while grabbing his sword. "How are we going to get Toph and Sho out of there, Erza?" his question went un-answered when he realized that the card Erza was in was on the floor of the bridge he ran from. "Erza!" her card was floating in the air. Ikaruga was trying to slice through it but Erza from inside the card was seen blocking her sword strikes. "Oh Crap!" Sokka ran back out into the bridge. "Hey! I got a present for ya!" Sokka yelled while charging to Ikaruga. Suddenly a huge flurry of sword strikes had struck the entire bridge. Sokka was hit by them and crashed into a pillar. He saw a transparent yellow sphere form, Erza appeared out of the sphere. "Okay… I'm just going to move here, so I don't get in your way…" Sokka said as he backed away from Erza who was now glaring at Ikaruga. He dragged Toph over to his side of the bridge where Sho was watching
"Thanks to you, your sword made disruptions in the space. That's how I was able to get out." Erza said.
Toph got up and saw Erza was out of the card. "So… Red managed to carve her way out… of course she did. She's freaking Erza for crying out loud!" Toph thought while she was on the other side of the bridge.
"So, you called yourself Ikaruga, yes?" Erza asked. "I have no use for you, begone!"
"In lieu of an introduction." Ikaruga replied. Suddenly Erza's Heart Kreuz Armor shattered into pieces
"That didn't just happen!" Toph thought.
"Oh did you perhaps not see it." Ikaruga said before she began to recite her poem. "That at which you gaze... beyond the mist, could it be... a mononoke." "Trying so hard to find Jellal, you will no longer see the flash of swords all around you." Erza shot a persistent but serious glare at her; this is also noted by Sho.
"Hey, you have no idea what you have just brought upon yourself." Toph said smirking at Ikaruga who didn't acknowledge the Earthbender.
"I am no mere passerby."
"Really? That is how it seems." Erza replied.
"And a creepy one at that." Toph added.
Erza requipped into her Heaven's Wheel armor. "You are an enemy."
"Come at me." Ikaruga said holding the hilt of her long blade. Erza charges at her aiming to give the first strike, but Ikaruga blocks this easily, forcing Erza to fly up. She conjured swords around her in a circle
"Heaven's Wheel: Circle Sword!" Erza chanted with a slash which sent the swords flying to Ikaruga.
"New Moon School." She simply said with her eyes closed before slightly taking her blade out of her scabbard. In the blink of an eye, Erza's swords were completely cut down and the remains of those swords rained all over Ikaruga without hitting her. "Demon Flash." She threw a slash to Erza. Cracks began to appear in the wings of her armor before the Heaven's Wheel Armor shattered to tiny pieces accompanied by a pain filled scream from Erza.
"Sister!" Sho said in concern.
"Garuda Flame!" Ikaruga chanted and this sent huge flame explosions surging towards Erza. She had just requipped into her Flame Empress Armor in time before the attack engulfed her. "The Flame Empress Armor? That armor has the ability to do well against fire attacks, yes? You do so well to requip in such an instant." The dragon like wings on the back of the armor shattered causing Erza to slightly lose her footing. "You mustn't let his lordship see you looking that, yes? What will you do? Will you don your strongest armor soon?"
"Damn monster!" Sho said.
"What's going on over there? If I didn't know any better, I'd say that I think Erza is losing…" Toph thought.
A maroon magic circle appeared underneath Erza's feet. "You'd best repent! Purgatory Armor, requip!" Erza was now seen an armor that covered most of her body, was black and had shoulder armor spikes as well an on the arm gauntlets. Her eyes were now glowing red right after her armor was revealed. A maroon magic circle appeared before she summoned a huge yellow glowing sword that she spun around almost as if it was weightless. "There is no one that can stand when faced with this visage." A huge cyclone was formed as Erza dropped the huge, spiky, hulking weapon onto the surface of the bridge. Toph was even able to feel the vibrations from that weapon signaling how heavy it actually is.
"Is that your strongest armor? Come at me!" Erza jumped high up in the air while spinning the sword twice, once she got to where she could slash Ikaruga on the bridge, the block was made from Ikaruga's sword, the shock wave blast from the two swords colliding flew off of the bridge into the water and impacted the walls behind making as explosion. Erza spun her sword several times to make a shock wave that would hit Ikaruga, but the target was jumping backwards from them before she decided to slash the waves therefore making them hit the bridge around them causing huge damage but leaving Ikaruga unscathed.
"Hey Erza! We're still here y'know!" Toph reminded after she avoided rubble hitting her.
When Erza tried to smash the big, hulking sword onto Ikaruga but she easily avoided it before using the sword as a springboard, her scabbard was grinding on the blade before she unsheathed it and sliced Erza in quick succession which left Sho and Sokka speechless.
Erza now found it difficult to lift her sword, before it and parts of her armor shattered just like the rest. When Toph heard her screams of pain it was now apparent that Erza was on the back foot.
Ikaruga landed far in front of Erza. "Don't you understand yet? No matter what armor you don; you cannot win against my sword." Erza weakly got up after momentarily collapsing to the ground.
"She can't win." Sho began to repeat this in his mind.
"Erza getting tossed around like a rag doll out there. I even wonder if there is anyone that can beat this crazy girl!?"
Toph stayed unusually silent after Erza's armor was destroyed again. "C'mon Erza. You're the only one who has a chance at beating her…" Toph thought.
Erza then glared at Ikaruga before requipping into a different outfit that wasn't armor. Instead her hair was held back in a ponytail. Her only form of clothing on her torso were white bandages covering her chest. She had red pants with yellow, black outlined flames at the bottom of them. She was bare foot and held a sword in each hand.
"What armor is she in this time?" Toph asked.
"That's the thing. It's not an armor, she's going to take her on without any." Sokka figured.
"Erza! You're no good to us dead, you know! What are you planning!?" Toph yelled.
"What are you trying? Ikaruga asked. "That outfit is nothing but cloth. Are you trying to say you think less of me?"
"Sister! What are you doing!?" Sho asked screaming in fear. "You have plenty of strong armor left, you're stronger than this! Sister!?"
Toph weakly got to her feet. "You're really going to just accept defeat and die? Huh is that what you want, Erza? If so then what was the whole point trying to save you? If you won't even save yourself!"
"Toph that's enough!" Sokka scolded.
"I am… I am not strong." Erza said. She thought back to when she was first talking to Gray when they were children. She thought to how in her mind that she wasn't strong enough to protect the lives of everyone who died at the Tower of Heaven when they made their escape. She also remembers how Gray said that he wasn't crying. Really she was the one crying inside, but no one could see it because she hid it in her armor and gave others the impression of how strong she was. "I always wear armor because I am weak!" she declared. "I could never take it off. I always believed it will protect me, but it shut out my heart from those I am closest to. Fairy Tail taught me, how close people are to one another… How warm they are…" In saying these words Erza flashed back to all of her happy moments with the guild. The last moment was when she told Aang that there were things she was afraid of. "I am no longer lost. I will turn all of the strength I have and turn it all on you!" Erza now had an angry but very determined look on her face.
Both of them were glaring as they locked their vision to one Sakura petal that was falling towards the bridge. Once it hit the ground, the two women charged towards each other in a very fast motion, a loud clang was heard from the clashing of their swords. After the clash they stood a fair distance from each other, back to back. The blade Erza was holding on her right hand cracked and shattered to pieces. This brought a scare to both Sokka and Sho.
"Did she lose?" Sokka asked.
But Toph had a smirk on her face, which hinted towards the alternative. "Watch…"
Ikaruga did a slight chuckle before saying: "The battle is over." In which her blade grew cracks on it and then shatters to pieces leaving a small part of it left. "Impressive…" were her last words before collapsing to the ground.
There was a deafening silence before Sho spoke out. "Wow! You really are amazing, Sister!"
"Yeah, that was amazing, I had no doubt you were going to win." Sokka lied.
"Really? When you were busy crying out… 'Did she lose? Did she lose?'" Toph mocked.
"Knock it off!" Sokka yelled.
"Are any of you harmed?" Erza asked.
"N-no. I'm fine." Sho replied.
"Same here for the most part. And hey before we jump to another subject. If you could take her down in a sword showdown, why didn't you?" Toph asked.
"I just always thought my Armor would protect me, but it was only keeping me away from those closest to me. I was hiding inside it like a shell, just so I can feel comfortable all of the time."
Ikaruga was lying face up on the ground. "This is the first time I lost since entering the guild, but you and Jellal will all lose…" she began to raise her right arm into the air.
"What are you talking about?" Sho asked
"Fifteen minutes." "The light of justice... will rain down from the heavens... and kill everyone." Ikaruga sang as she recited her made up poem. "That poem was dreadful…"
"I'll say." Toph said folding her arms.
"Though if we want to write a hate filled card to the Fire Nation, we'll come to you." Sokka said.
"Is she talking about Etherion!?" Erza wondered aloud.
"Now that you mention it…" Sokka began to think. "Jellal said we had to defeat five of his bodyguards to get to him, if this woman was one of them, then the other four must have met with the others." He explained. "That would mean that Jellal is all that is left, and we have to take him down fast before that… Ether-… whatever kills us."
"There is no 'we'." Erza muttered.
"Huh?" Sokka looked to Erza with an orange question mark floating off him.
"Sokka, Sho, Toph. Take Simon and the others, plus all people from Fairy Tail, and get away from this tower."
"B-but…" Sho began
"Wait, are you for real?" Sokka asked.
"This is no time for you to play the hero Erza." Toph said cracking her knuckles. "If we go up against Jellal together, there is no way we can lose." Toph pointed out.
"Please, the others won't be able to leave the tower in time unless you do as I ask. We all can't be pawns in Jellal's little game." Erza said. "Don't worry, Toph. I'll make it out."
Toph blushed from embarrassment and quickly turned around before folding her arms. "What do I care if you do kick the bucket?!"
Erza smiled at her. "Sokka, Sho. Will you do as I say?"
"Y-yeah sure." Sho said.
Sokka conceded to do what Erza said. "Alright, we'll round up everyone and get everyone out of here."
"Thank you."
"Where are you going, Sister?" Sho asked.
"I'm going to finish this…" Erza said in a dark tone.
"Well I certainly don't want to get in the way, let's go." Sokka said. Sho and Sokka began running off the bridge.
Toph didn't move as her feet stayed static on the bridge "You guys go on ahead I'll catch up." She heard the footsteps of Sokka and Sho die out. "Hey, I didn't mean what I said back there. So try not to die… I can actually relate to you. Lucy's a softie, Natsu's a pinhead, and Gray is… like Zuko's twin or something… so you better come back."
"Don't worry Toph… I will…" Erza promised.
Toph turned around but forgot one thing. "Oh… and Erza…" The armored wizard turned to face Toph. "Go kick his ass!" She said with a smirk. This made Erza smile and she watched Toph run to catch up with Sokka and Sho
----The Sun was setting outside the tower, going on the stairs outside it were Natsu, Aang and Simon. Simon was carrying Natsu while Aang was leading them up the stairs. It was seen that Natsu was still nauseous from Fukuro's earlier attack. He groaned as he began to stir awake. 
"Natsu? Are you waking up?" Simon asked.
"I remember I was caught by some weird moving vehicle and…" Natsu began getting sick again from just remembering what happened to him.
"STOP!" Simon yelled, annoyed at the Dragon Slayer's weakness. "You can't get nausea from memories!" Simon began to explain what happened to Natsu. "After that you were eaten by Fukuro, and Aang had to save you."
"Aang? Where is he?"
"He's in front of us, Gray and Zuko were also there, they both fought off Ping."
"Ping? Who's that?"
"She was one of the agents sent by the Fire Nation to eliminate Aang. From what Aang was told me."
"Oh I remember Zuko saying something about that, so where are they?"
"Gray took a lot of damage from Ping." Simon said.
…
Meanwhile Happy was flying Gray away from the Tower by wrapping his tail around his stomach. Momo was following them. "E-Erza." Gray muttered as it appeared the wound was slightly making his condition worse.
"Man, you're heavy Gray. Have you been putting on weight?" Happy complained while sweat dropping as he looked to have trouble carrying Gray.
"Shut up, cat!" Gray quickly said.
"And I have to carry your fat body all over the place."
Happy and Gray saw that the all the guards in the Tower of Heaven were now leaving because they got word of the council preparing to fire Etherion. 
"Oh no, the ships are leaving." Happy said. "How will he get out of here?"
"What about Aang's flying bull?" Gray asked.
"Oh right! I forgot Aang told us about Appa." Happy said as they flew to where Appa was sleeping as he floated on the water's surface. 
"When they landed on him inside the seating." Happy collapsed on to his back.
"How did Aang fly this thing?" Gray asked.
"He said something to make him fly…" Happy remembered what Aang told him. "Now I remember… no wait… was it chop-chop, yah-yah, fish?" Happy tried to remember.
"Are you good for anything you stupid cat!" Gray exclaimed.
"It was YIP-YIP!" Happy yelled. Appa began to levitate into the air. "Yay, we're flying… now what?"
…
Simon told Natsu that Happy was carrying Gray away from the tower. "What about Zuko?"
"He's off to find everyone and help them escape on Appa." Simon said.
Natsu began to scream in frustration. "You mean I lost and Aang won!?"
"You didn't really lose. You were eaten."
"Gray is going to hold this over me for a month! He's really petty like that! Dammit!"
"Oh come on." Simon said.
Natsu was now in a fighting stance. "There is only one thing to do! Revenge! I'll fight that bird brain over and over until I beat him!"
Simon dragged Natsu by his scarf up the stairs. "We have no time for that."
Aang stopped walking and decided to go back to the both of them. 
"Hey, who are you?" Natsu asked.
"Simon. An old friend of Erza's."
"Oh, okay. Nice to meetcha." Simon held his stomach in pain. 
"Are you injured?" Natsu asked.
"Don't worry about me. Aang, Natsu listen carefully. Wally sent me a message before, He said he found Lucy, Juvia and Katara collapsed, along with a defeated member of Trinity Raven."
"Lucy."
"Katara? Are they alright?" Aang asked with concern.
"Yes, Simon and Millianna didn't know what was going on so they took them outside the tower.
…
Wally was carrying Juvia on his back while Millianna tied Lucy up in her tubes and dragged her across the floor. Katara was behind all of them but she looked very fatigued. Millianna was able to explain the situation to them.
"Weren't these guys the enemy?" Wally asked.
"Nya… But Simon says they are our allies." Millianna replied.
Lucy was still conscious as she was being dragged. "So then, why is she tying me up and dragging me?"
"Also, I want to see that dark haired Dragon Slayer again, he was kinda cute. Nya." Millianna swooned thinking of Zuko.
…
Simon also told them that Sho contacted him to let him know that all the members of Trinity Raven were defeated. "Right now I told both Wally and Sho to meet up with Zuko so they can flee the tower."
"I didn't do a thing!?" Natsu exclaimed.
"All that is left is Jellal."
"And Erza is going after him." Aang said. "She wants to end this battle all on her own." Aang began to clench his fist.
"Those two have been connected by fate for eight years. Their destiny may be to do battle." Simon said. "However, Jellal is too powerful. Please, the both of you save Erza."
Aang and Natsu answered at the same time.
"I will." Aang defiantly said.
"Hell no." Natsu said in a simple tone.
"WHAT!?" Aang and Simon yelled in unison.
----Meanwhile Jellal moved the chess piece of a knight, representing Erza towards himself. "My, oh my. Is the game over already?" Jellal calmly said. He saw Erza with her single sword enter his room.
"Is playing with people's lives so fun for you?" Erza angrily asked.
"It is fun. Birth and Death after all are the origins and focus of all emotions. Or to put it the other way around, nothing is more boring than living on its own." He turned to her while he still had his hood on his face. "It's been awhile, Erza."
"Jellal…" She angrily said. "I will liberate my past friends." They both stood facing each other from a small distance away.
"Do as you like with them, I have no use for them. The Tower of Heaven is complete."
"Even though it will be destroyed in less than ten minutes?" Erza asked while pointing her blade at him.
"You speak of Etherion." Jellal began to chuckle.
"Such confidence, so it was a bluf?"
"No!" Jellal said removing his hood. "Etherion will rain down."
"Hearing that relieves me, if I can delay you for ten minutes, then this will be over!" Erza said preparing herself for a fight.
"You plan to take me on alone? I have to be honest, Erza. I am disappointed that Avatar Aang is not with you. I was looking forward to seeing him."
Erza tightened her grip on the grip of her sword. "Don't bring Aang into this! I will not let you lay a finger on him, you hear me Jellal!" Erza sternly said.
"You are protective of this boy, why is that Erza? He can move mountains, create hurricanes, maelstroms, and burn objects at his will. The most powerful person in his world, and he can also use magic from what I know, and you still want to keep him away from me?"
"You have no idea of the suffering he has had to go through, and all of the pain he has had to endure. If you know about Aang then you must know about the Fire Nation, they killed all the Airbenders, he was the only one left, and he lost to the Fire Lord. Both we have been through similar sorrows in this tower, but Aang has suffered enough I don't want him anywhere near you! This ends now!"
"No. You will be annihilated as Zeref's Sacrifice." Jellal's right hand was being covered by dark flowing energy. "That has already been decided. That is your fate. Your destiny!" he yelled. A purple sigil formed his eyes."
----A roar was heard and Appa was flying from the tower. 
"Damn it!" Gray said. "Turn this thing around!"
"We can't do that." Sokka said who was now on Appa's reins.
"We were told to get you out of here." Millianna said.
"But Erza is still inside." Lucy said. "Natsu and Aang too."
"I'm sure she will be fine." Sho said.
"Plus Aang is the freaking Avatar!" Sokka exclaimed. "There is no way he won't get out of there alive."
"Still we can't leave her to just those two!" Gray said.
"There's nothing we can do about it." Zuko said.
"Simon is also with him, they'll handle it somehow."
Katara glared at Wally. "Somehow!? What's that supposed to mean!?" she yelled.
"Don't yell at him!" Millianna yelled back.
Happy was sitting near the back looking at the Tower.
"Everyone just calm down!" Zuko yelled.
"Hurry up! Turn this furball around! I have to save Erza!" Gray exclaimed.
"We're running out of time!" Katara added.
"Aang told us to get as far away from here as we can." Zuko said.
"So we let the others die!?" Lucy asked.
Katara looked down. "That's it! I can jump down and surf ourselves back to the tower who's with me!?"
"Katara are you crazy!?" Zuko asked.
"No way am I swimming back there again!?" Toph yelled. "I don't wanna drown!?"
"Hey, we're just trying to save our friends!" Gray said.
"At the cost of your own lives? When you know that you're as good as dead when you get back there!"
"This is ridiculous! I'm getting out of here!" Katara said. As she was about to jump off Appa, she felt Millianna's tube wrap around her stomach.
"No! We can't go back!" She exclaimed.
"I still don't use magic you moron!" Katara reminded. "Sokka turn him around!"
"Not gonna happen!" Sokka yelled back.
"SHUT UP!" they heard. This came from Happy as he was standing near the back still. "What's with all of you?! I want to go back, too! But I know there is no point! Etherion will fire any minute! I just know that Natsu and Aang will bring Erza back!" Happy began to cry. "Simon told me (sob)… If Salamander's true power awakens and if Aang has the Avatar State, even Jellal wouldn't… (sob)... Jellal wouldn't..." Happy tried to finish as his crying was interrupting him."
----At the same time Aang forced Natsu into the wall but making small pillars rise from the stairs and bring Natsu to the wall. "How could you!?" Aang started. "You're saying that you're not going to help save Erza!?" Aang asked glaring at the Dragon Slayer.
"Erza needs to defeat her own enemies." Natsu replied. "It's not something I can just butt into."
"No." Simon said. "Erza cannot win against Jellal."
Aang released the pillars off Natsu. "We cannot let her take on that psychopath by herself!"
Natsu then glared at the both of them "Don't put her down!"
"That's not it!" Simon yelled.
"Huh?"
"I'm not talking about magical power here! Erza is still trying to save Jellal. I know that she could never truly hate Jellal. He is clever. He will use her emotions against her."
"And we still have the Etherion to worry about! If that hits, then we're all goners!" Aang added
"According to Sho's message we only have 10 more minutes until it hits."
"What!?" Natsu said.
"Only ten minutes!?"Aang gasped.
"She headed to face him alone after telling everyone to evacuate. I don't want to believe it, but she may be trying to use Etherion to take Jellal with her…"
"Y-you're kidding me!" Aang said.
"Why didn't you tell us that first?" Natsu angrily asked. Flames circled around his feet. 
"WHERE IS ERZA!" He yelled.
Aang glared near the top of the tower. "No… Erza you wouldn't… you would. Anything to keep your friends safe." "Natsu! We have-"
"You don't have to tell me Aang." The three began running up the tower at a faster pace to stop Erza from her achieving her plan.
----"Seven Minutes, until Etherion rains down on here. Let's have some fun in the next few minutes Erza."
"Right now, I fear nothing." What looked like to be dark goop with dark red lines in it began to grow from Jellal's right hand. "Even if Etherion comes, I will still be satisfied to take you with me!"
"Oh? Take me with you?" Jellal asked and the goop engulfed his hand as was growing into something scary. "Go ahead and try!" the goop shot tendrils towards Erza, she promptly slashed them into pieces. She ran to Jellal but he grabbed her right hand stopping her whole body. He shot a powerful beam from his hand that sent Erza through the floor of the room and she was falling out of the tower.
Luckily she saw a huge piece of falling rubble to jump off of. She used this to jump back into the room. As she did she rushed to Jellal. "You finally finished the tower, and now you're destroying it? Don't you care, Jellal?" He avoided her slash and shot another beam of light purple energy, when he missed Erza jumped onto the huge crystal lacrima in the middle of the room, she charged to Jellal, she missed but she sliced his chess board making the pieces rain to the floor.
"Ha ha. A pillar or two are nothing but decoration."
"Sho and the other believed in you so they could make those decorations!"
Jellal lightly smirked. "Stop complaining about every little thing I say." He had an orb of the same goop in his right hand while his left hand was resting in his pocket. "The important thing is the R-system. These eight years were for that. And that… is complete." When he crushed the orb tendrils surrounded Erza's legs. She was now trapped in a huge sphere made out of that energy. "It does seem you have improved a bit, but I guess that's your limit."
Erza who was inside the ball saw a black haze around her. She began to recall the times when she formed a team with Natsu and also when she talking with Aang and how he called her the strongest person he has ever met, she remembered her times in the Tower of Heaven with her friends. She finally remembered Natsu saying that if they get back from a job he must fight her. Erza from inside the orb smirked.
Jellal began to walk away fromt it, but he heard a sword slash and when he did, he turned around in shock to see Erza outside of the ball. He scarlet red hair was no longer in a ponytail.
"I thought I'd told you… Right now, I fear nothing!" She rushed to Jellal and slashed his stomach causing him to fly across the room.
"Is this the same Erza?" He thought. He now saw Erza put her sword to his neck and she was on her knees as she was now prepared to finally end his life.
"What is your real goal?" Erza asked while aiming her blade over Jellal's neck. "You haven't really completed the R-System, have you? I haven't been doing nothing for these past 8 years. I researched the R-System itself. It's true there were no errors in the construction or theory of the blueprints back then. But there is a special component missing from the R-System."
"I told you. You are the sacrifice, remember?" Jellal said with a smirk.
"A problem more basic than that." Erza corrected. "The thing you lack is magical power! To activate something like this you would need an extreme amount of magical power. Even if you assembled every wizard in the continent, I'm sure it would not be enough. So there is no way that the magic power of an individual would be enough. Furthermore, you know about the Council's attack, but are not trying to escape. "What are you thinking!?"
"Three minutes before Etherion fires." Jellal reminded still looking extremely confident.
"Jellal! Your dream is over! Do you simply wish to die like this!?" Erza was now tightening her grip on his arm. "If that is the case. We will go together. I won't release until the final moment!" she yelled.
"Sure… That doesn't sound too bad. My body was possessed by Zeref, no words can reach me." Erza now had a surprised look on her face. "I'm nothing but a puppet used the purpose of resurrecting Zeref.
"Possessed?"
"I wasn't able to save myself. No friends could save me. There is no Heaven… There is no freedom, anywhere. Everything was over before it began." Erza now looked slightly hesitant from taking Jellal's life
…
Chun was running outside of the tower. "Ping! Where are you!?" she yelled. "Damn…" she cursed under her breath. "As much as I want to leave her to die in this tower… I can't bring myself to do it." She heard breathing nearby. She saw Ping nursing a cut wound on her right forearm while sitting behind a boulder. She was seen with right diagonal slash through the chest of her outfit. "Man, what happened to you?"
"Damn Gray Fullbuster , the Ice wizard. You must really be enjoying this aren't you?" Ping rhetorically asked with anger.
"After what I've just been through, I'd be glad to be alive." Chun replied recalling her battle with Lucy, Katara and Juvia.
Ping began to chuckle. "It doesn't matter, if the Avatar decides to fight Jellal, both of those fools will be wiped out by Etherion. Then we can find a way to return to the Fire Nation with our heads held high."
Chun clenched her fists and Ping didn't notice this. 
"Who says I want to stay with the Fire Nation." She muttered.
"Did you say something?"
"Must be your imagination. Anyway, we have to get out of here! I'm not ready to die, and I'm going to feel bad if I left you here." She helped the older girl to her feet and slung her arm over her shoulder and they both began to walk to find a way to get far from the tower.
"So you're helping me? It wasn't long ago you were threatening to kill me."
"I considered leaving you… but…" Chun flashed back to when Lucy had saved her from Juvia's attack, and when she offered her to join Fairy Tail. "I had a change of heart…"
"You are weak." Ping said with a smirk. "If I were you I would focus on your own survival rather than concerning yourself with other's survival. This saving people stuff sounds like Avatar crap. "
"Why are we trying to kill the Avatar again? I mean he was trying to end the war that Sozin started. Azula told me The Fire Nation wanted to expand to take over the other Nations, so… essentially. We are the bad guys here if you put the pieces together, and yet everyone in the Fire Nation is either living in blissful ignorance, knows what's really going on, just don't care about it, or are so far up their own butts that they really think that the Fire Nation is untouchable."
"Correct me if I'm wrong but weren't you the one who promised Azula that we wouldn't fail?"
"It was an act! I would rather not have the new Fire Lord killing me on the spot thank you." Chun exclaimed. "But what choice did I have, Azula recommended me for the job, and either I play the part of the good solider or my brother either disappears or is killed, because that how the Fire Nation works now." Chun said with annoyance.
"You're lucky we're trapped in this stupid world or you would have been forced into an Agni Kai with one of the Fire Nation Generals."
"…Or Azula, or Ozai… depending on who I disrespected right? Don't forget. I'm doing this to save my brother. I couldn't care less about The Fire Nation."
"Which begs the question: You're saving me because?"
"So I don't feel bad about it later. Unlike you, I have a heart."
Ping lightly laughed again. "Yeah, let's see where that heart of yours gets you."
They saw a boat on the dock. "C'mon let's take that boat and get out of here." Once they both got on, Chun started rowing. "So, what happens if we succeed and the Avatar is dead? How do we get back?"
"We'll figure that part out later. We can just hire a guild to find a spell for us if it comes down to it."
Chun looked to the sky and was surprised to see Appa flying from the tower. She swears she could even see Lucy on Appa looking down at her. Surprisingly the blonde mage smiled down on her. Chun quickly looked away with a frown.
Ping who was trying to sleep heard Appa flying through the air. "Chun, did you hear something…?"
"N-no nothing." Even if she told Ping the truth, they wouldn't be catching a Sky Bison with a row boat, even on their best day. Chun thought back to what Lucy had said to her. "This person you're trying to save, say you pull it off. If he finds out you killed others to bring him back. How do you think he would feel?" "Ping?"
"What is it?" she asked in an annoyed tone.
"N-never mind. You really wouldn't be the right person to ask."
----Meanwhile Etherion was preparing to fire and final preparations were being made finalize the firing of the magical weapon. The council were now preparing to deploy the Satellite Square.
All of the council members began praying as the weapon was preparing to fire. Yajima looked at Jellal's back with a very angry expression.
The huge diamond now turned into a huge mass of magical energy.
By the tower. Appa continued to fly from the tower. They all saw the light from the sky.
"That light…" Lucy began.
"You don't think that-" Gray began
"That's it, the super weapon Jellal was talking about." Zuko said.
Happy looked at the tower with tears in his eyes. "Natsu, Erza… hurry up and get out of there."
Katara locked her eyes on the tower and held her hands to her heart. "Please Aang, come back safely." She lightly said to herself before a tear fell from her right eye.
…
The ceiling in the room where Jellal and Erza were fighting was now shaking. Jellal's voice was heard. "I knew the R-System would never be completed in time. But Zeref wouldn't let me free. I'm the broken engine of a car that he's driving. Erza, you win. Please put an end to this. That is why you came, yes?"
It was now seen that a huge magical targeting system was aimed at the Tower of Heaven from above the atmosphere.
As the room continued to shake Erza lightened her grip on Jellal. "There is no point in ending this. The Satellite Square is deployed above. It is over, for you… and for me." Erza dropped her sword on the floor where is disappeared in a bright yellow flash. Jellal was slowly getting back to his knees.
"Always the awkward one."
"You are also a sacrifice to Zeref, aren't you?" Erza asked not looking at Jellal.
"My heart wasn't able to handle the huge gap between dreams and reality."
"Didn't you have friends to fill in for those weaknesses?"
"Erza…"
"I am also repenting for my sin, for not being able to save you."
The two were now close to each other. "I was… saved."
Jellal and Erza then hugged as the vibrations around the room got worse. A bright light now shone in on many parts of the room suggesting Etherion was extremely close to firing.
…
Etherion was now being fired. Org lifted his staff. "Let us pray to the holy light! Release Etherion!" the mass of magical energy shot into the sky to meet with the Satellite Square.
A huge light was now shining on the Tower, the water below was now raging.
Everyone on Appa was looking at the tower. "Here it comes!" Happy gasped.
"NATSU! ERZA!" Gray yelled.
"No… AANG!" Katara cried as four elemental magic circles appeared on the Satellite Square. A huge beam shot from it and if fell towards the Tower.
Simon was left in a hall by a window where the light shone through. "This light… They didn't make it."
Natsu and Aang were running up the stairs to the floor where Jellal and Erza were located. "ERZA!" Natsu yelled.
"We didn't make it in time… I'm sorry everyone… I failed." Aang thought.
The beam descended further to as it began to engulf the tower. Flashes of everyone on Appa, Chun and Ping on their boat, Jellal and Erza, Natsu and Aang, and Simon were shown.
"It is over…" Simon thought as the beam engulfed the tower
Huge waves were made along the sea. Chun and Ping's boat got caught up in the waves and they fell into the water. Appa's group watched the tower's destruction from a safe distance. Gray and Lucy gasped while Katara fell to her knees. Tears could be seen falling from Toph's eyes, by everyone's reactions, she knew that they didn't get out.
…
At the council they are confirming a hit on the target with Etherion. Members of the council now looked grim. "I wonder how many people were in that tower?" Org asked.
"It was to stop Zeref from being resurrected." Michello said. "Their sacrifices were not in vain."
"Whether or not what we did was right or wrong. That will not bring peace to the victims' families."
A smoke cloud covered the entirety of the tower from the outside. Erza and Jellal were still hugging each other. Jellal got up and Erza remained kneeling on the ground.
"I'm alive. Jellal, what happened?" Erza asked as a smirk was seen on his face and he was chuckling evilly. "Jellal?" He began laughing as if in victory.
At the council they were detecting something that was not right with the area Etherion fired in.
From Appa the smoke began to dissipate.
"Crystal?" Sokka asked.
"No. It's magic crystal." Gray corrected.
"But what does that mean?" Katara asked.
"It's Lacrima."
"Hey, they're okay, right?" Lucy asked. "Natsu, Erza, Aang and Simon too?"
Chun and Ping had just gotten back onto their boat and Ping's eyes grew when she saw the tower. "What the…? It's a giant crystal?" she asked.
"Does that mean whoever is on it is still alive?" Chun asked.
"Jellal? What did you do!?" Ping asked with a growl
Elsewhere on the tower Natsu and Aang were shaking as they assumed it was over but they saw they were alive.
"This… doesn't look like the Spirit World. Does that mean I'm alive?" Aang asked.
Natsu looked slightly annoyed at the revelation. "What the hell is going on?"
Simon was also alive as he was leaning near the Lacrima. 
"Etherion fired… So why am I still alive?" He asked.
Jellal who was still laughing had stopped. "This is it! The R-System is a giant Lacrima."
"Why you…" Erza said in disbelief.
"And thanks to the attack by the Council's Etherion, It has absorbed a huge amount of magical energy. Now the R-System is complete!"
…
At the council it was seen that the giant Lacrima has absorbed all the magical power from Etherion.
Yajima angrily stepped towards Siegrain. "Sieg… What is the meaning of this?" as he asked his question Siegrain vanished from his sight. Behind him Ultear looked at him with a smile.
…
Siegrain now appeared on Chun and Ping's boat. "J-Jellal?" Chun said backing away to the far back of the boat.
"Hey, you're that guy from the council!" Ping noticed. "Okay! I want answers! What the hell is going on!?"
"A great moment in history is about to come into fruition." Siegrain said.
Chun remembered what Jellal said in the tower. "Moment in history… you don't mean… Z-Zeref… You're really…"
He looked to the both of them. "Ping, Chun, thank you for all your help. Your services are no longer required."
Siegrain then disappeared from their boat. 
"Hey! I'm not done with you! Come back you tricking bastard!" Ping angrily screamed
Chun looked at the tower with wide eyes. 
"Ping… What have we done?" She asked.
"It's not our business. Siegrain… Jellal… one or both of them tricked us, and I hate being tricked!"
"What are we going to do?"
"Let's just hope Jellal does our work for us. We were nothing but pawns in his stupid game. Let's go, we have no reason to remain here."
"What happens now?"
"We have to find a way to contact the Fire Nation. Once we do, Fairy Tail will be history." Ping said maintaining her angry face.
…
At the peak of the Tower Erza was looking at Jellal with disbelief. "You tricked me!?" she asked.
"You looked cute there Erza." She heard. She looked behind her and saw Siegrain with a confident smile on his face. "Jellal was not able to produce his true power. He was in mortal danger so he had no choice but to trick you."
"Siegrain!" she gasped. He began to walk to Jellal. "Why are you here?"
"Remember the first time we met Erza?" Siegrain asked
"That time you came with Makarov to deliver a written letter of apology to the council, yes?" Jellal continued.
"You mistook me for Jellal and attacked me."
"Well, we look identical, so it's to be expected."
Both Jellal and Siegrain looked at Erza. "After you heard we were twins, you finally were pacified." Siegrain said. "However you always treated me as your enemy."
"Obviously!" Erza began. "Instead of behaving as an older brother should, you tolerated what Jellal was doing! Or rather, you were spying on me!"
"Yes." Jellal simply said.
"That was my mistake." Siegrain admitted. "I should have said something like: 'I will find Jellal and make him stop, no matter what.' I had finally become a member of the council, meeting you was my biggest mistake."
"The lies we tell in an unplanned moment cause us the greatest pain."
"So you two really did plot this together." Erza deduced
"Together?" Jellal said.
"No." Siegrain promptly followed.
"That's not it, Erza."
Erza quickly gasped as she figured out his plan. "We are a single person! From the very beginning!" the both said in unison. Siegrain became see-through and walked in front or Jellal and merged with him. When this merge happened Jellal's magical power increased exponentially as a rainbow aura surrounded him.
"No…" Erza said, filled with shock. "A thought projection?"
"Yes. Siegrain is me."
"So you, yourself, fired Etherion? That is why you infiltrated the council!?"
"Did you enjoy your fleeting freedom, Erza? Everything went according to plan for Zeref's resurrection."
Erza's fists were clenched as she showed a face of anger. "You fiend… How many people have you deceived in your life?" Erza yelled.
"Power… my magical power has returned!" Jellal said as a bright purple outline surrounded his body.
…
Meanwhile at the council they had just discovered what happened to the Tower of Heaven. "We were had." Yajima said as he moved his hand to touch the railing but it soon collapsed upon his touch. This was also happening to the rest of the building as it structural integrity was diminishing at a fast rate, almost as if it was… aging...
Org quickly realized this was the result of a Lost Magic. "Lost Magic. Time Ark?!"
Yajima saw Ultear with a white magical seal that looked to be held up with her hands, she was slightly levitating as well.
"Ultear?" Yajima said.
"Everything is for Lord Sieg… I mean, Lord Jellal." She chanted as it looked like she was the source for the collapse of the building around them. "Right now, his dream is being fulfilled."
…
Appa stopped flying and floated in the air, looking at the tower. 
"That's the R-System?" Sho asked.
"R What!?" Sokka asked.
"Yes, that is the true form of the R-System we built, got it?" Wally said.
"It's activating…" Millianna said.
"Activating? What do you mean?" Zuko started. "You mean it's going to resurrect Zeref?"
"I don't know; we've never seen it operate." Sho truthfully said.
"And Natsu, Erza and Aang are inside of it?" Gray added.
"Simon as well…" Toph said. "And, Jellal…"
…
At the peak of the tower. Erza was sent flying across the peak of tower as she bounced on the ground "What happened to your previous strength? Did you use up too much of your magical power with Ikaruga?"
Erza slid back on the floor scratching the surface of the lacrima with her hands as she stopped her momentum. She slammed her right palm on the floor summoning a huge sword she quickly jumped back to Jellal to counter-attack. "JELLAL!" she yelled. He blocked her sword strike and side stepped away from her. When Erza saw that she missed she summoned another huge sword with her empty left hand. She swung both swords at him and when they missed she kicked him in his face which caused him to stagger back slightly, she tried slashing him with both blades, but missed as they slammed into the ground.
"Right now the council should be paralyzed. I must be grateful to Ultear. She did well. She said: 'If in heaven all are seen as one, then we need not fear even death.'" Ultear was shown destroying the building using her Lost Magic. "For my ideal, for my dream, she said she'd gladly lay down her own life. I truly must be thankful to be given stupid women!" he smugly said as he landed on a platform.
"You fiend!" Erza charged to where Jellal was standing and sliced it with her swords as Jellal jumped away.
He landed on another platform that was higher this time. "I should also thank Ping and Chun. All I had to do was tell them that I know of a way they can kill the Avatar and they came to my side without a second thought. I have also learned that the Fire Nation is nothing but a dictatorship of fools. Their world is heavily segregated and the Fire Nation wants nothing more than to take over it. They made themselves a target to anyone who didn't want the world under their control. They gave away a world of tranquility for one filled with chaos that is under their control."
"How are you any different from they are!? You're just as bad as Ozai!" Erza spat.
"No, Erza. I am different, for one, I would see Aang as an opportunity not an enemy. If I had come across Aang before any of you and your friends have. He would have been on my side for all this time. I would have used him just as I have used all the fools around me!"
"You should die from the curses of all those you've used!" As Erza slashed through the air a snake hiss was heard. On the left side of her back a snake pattern appeared and moved to her right arm. "What is this!?" she asked as she dropped her sword that her right hand was holding.
"Bind Snake. I put it on you when we hugged before." The Bind Snake spread to her left arm forcing Erza to disarm, it soon spread all over her body. This was causing massive pain so much that it caused Erza to scream out. "I have the magical power to activate the R-System." Jellal said. "All I need is the human sacrifice to resurrect Zeref." He walked towards Erza while she continued to scream out. "I have no more time to play with you, Erza. The tremendous amount of magical power this lacrima now stores, will be fused into your body. Your body will be deconstructed and then reconstituted into Zeref's. Jellal made a huge crystal shard grow out of the ground. He pushed Erza towards the crystal which was revealed to have liquid like properties as she was being dragged into it. "I loved you, Erza."
"Damn! Damn it!" Erza screamed as she was being slowly sucked into the crystal.
Jellal now looked away from her and began to chant. "O Great Zeref. I give to you this woman's body!"
"Jellal!" Erza yelled trying to get Jellal to stop this. She yelled his name again and when he didn't hear anything from Erzam he turned around, his eyes grew wide at what he saw. Aang was pulling Erza out of the lacrima.
"I won't let that happen! Jellal!" Aang angrily said.
Jellal heard a battle cry coming from Natsu and his fist was engulfed in flames. He threw a punch which made contact with Jellal but he crossed his arms to block it at the last second. He slid back a fair distance from them.
"Erza is a Fairy Tail wizard." Natsu said. "You can't have her!"
Natsu ran to where Aang sat on his bottom and he held Erza's arms. "Aang, Natsu?"
"Are you okay, Erza?" Aang asked with concern.
"Sheesh!" Natsu said with a smirk. "What are you doing. We need to get back and do some work or the rent won't get paid this month. Lucy and Katara's rent that is."
"Sorry. I can't move." Erza said.
"Is that so?" Natsu asked. The Dragon Slayer began to tickle her and Erza couldn't stop laughing."You used to work me over pretty good! So take some of this!"
"Knock it off Natsu!" Aang said with a stern tone.
"Don't be a killjoy. I was just having some fun."
"We almost got killed, now we found Erza and the first thing you wanna do is tickle her?"
"Yeah so?"
Aang chuckled slightly. "What am I going to do with you?"
Erza turned to the both of them. 
"Natsu, Aang get away from here as soon as you can." She warned.
"Not a chance." Natsu said.
"If you are in not state to fight Jellal, then we'll fight him for you." Aang said.
"Stop. He's got the advantage. You don't know enough about him."
Aang glanced at Jellal. "I don't want to know more about him than I already know."
"Are you sayin' we can't win unless we do?" Natsu asked.
"Please listen to me." Erza pleaded as a tear fell from her left eye.
Natsu lifted Erza to her feet. "Erza, I don't know anything about you either, but… We can win!" he punches Erza in the gut which surprises Jellal and Aang who had a stupefied look on his face.
"What did you do that for!?" Aang yelled now screaming in Natsu's face.
"She would have gotten in the way. We can't have that."
Aang pointed a finger at Natsu "Well… fine I see your point." He turned to Jellal. "Well you wanted to meet me so bad? Here I am! Now tell me something Jellal. Why would someone as brave as you, someone committed to freedom, and a close friend of Erza's turn into such a monster?"
Jellal gives an evil smile. "Alright Avatar Aang, I'll tell you what happened. Back when Erza and I were slaves in the Tower of Heaven and I was in a cell by myself. I was approached by Zeref, who revealed the truth to me, the truth that there is no freedom in the world. The same statement could be said for your world."
Aang got in a fighting stance. "Shows how much you know. The Airbenders have always felt free, we were a peaceful society."
"And where are they now, Aang? Aren't you the only one left now?" Jellal asked with a smirk. Aang didn't give an answer as the Avatar looked away.
"Hey, don't pick on him like that!" Natsu warned.
"You are an interesting case Aang." Jellal confessed. "I would like to ask that you let me continue my plan to resurrect Zeref. I am eager to see two opposite forces clash." He pointed to Aang. "You, Avatar Aang: The protector of life. Against Zeref, the Black Wizard: The destroyer of life. It truly will be a historic event wouldn't you agree Aang?"
Aang clenched fists. "You really don't know me do you?" Aang said with a slight smirk. "There is no way; I would ever let that happen! Also I won't let you get away with all that you have done Jellal, whether you are under Zeref's influence or not!"
Natsu then turned to Jellal. "Erza was crying." Natsu ignited his right fist. "She was giving up… and her voice was shaking. I don't want to see Erza like that. Erza should be strong an ferocious!"
"To me, Erza was one of the strongest people I've met. That is the Erza I know." Aang made a small cyclone of air around his body.
"I want her to be her usual self when she wakes up from this nightmare." Natsu said.
"Erza is suffering. All because of what you did… it is because of this that…"
Natsu and Aang both got in fighting stances as a mixture of fire embers and small cyclones surrounded them. "WE WILL FIGHT!"
"Interesting. Natsu Dragneel! Avatar Aang! Show me the extent of your powers."
"Aang, you ready for this?" Natsu asked.
"Erza is in pain because of him. Her pain is our pain. So that is why we have to beat Jellal for her sake."
"Good answer." Natsu replied.
Both Aang and Natsu charged to Jellal, yelling their battle cries. Their battle against Jellal had finally begun.