Erza vs Jellal: Destiny

Gray stood triumphant over Fukuro; he smiled before falling over. "We don't have time." He was able to get out.

"Gray Fullbuster." Simon said.

"He's more powerful than my investigation led me to believe." Simon said. "Is it possible his concern for his friend made him stronger."

Gray said.

"We have to." He stopped to catch his breath. "Rescue Erza." Gray said before he passed out.

"No." Happy called out.

"You can't pass out too." Happy said as he tried to wake Natsu up. "Come on, Erza needs us."

Simon chuckled. "You found some great friends, Erza."

In Era, the magic council chamber began to transform into a satellite square to fire an etherion blast; the frog people ran around as the four giant pillars appeared and began charging into a single crystal.

Meanwhile, Lucy and Juvia were still wiped out from their fight with Vidaldus.

*'Man, I can barely move.'* Lucy thought to herself. *'It looks like Juvia is out of it too.'*

"Meow." A voice called out.

"Someone did a number on this place." The voice belonged to Millianna, and behind her was Wally.

"Oh no." Lucy said.

"Look." Another voice called out; it belonged to Wally. "It's a good thing we found these two dames."

'oh no, what should I do' Lucy said. 'I don't have the strength to tell them we're not the enemy anymore."

Meanwhile, Org watched as the etherion was being prepared to fire. "What a critical decision to make, and while the chairmen are on leave due to his ailing health.

"Yes," Leiji said, "and as the nine remaining council members, we have to do what it takes."

"I know you're worried, Org." Michello said. "But we were protected under article four of the national security section." Michello said, trying to reassure the man.

"The legality of this is not my concern." Org admitted, "It's the fact that innocent civilians may be caught in the blast." He looked to the side, noticing that master Makarov and Cosmos had arrived at the location. "Something to say Makarov."

"No." He said, looking at the Etherion cannon. "Nothing at all."

"if Zeref is resurrected, many more will be in danger." Michello told him. "It's a risk we have to take."

Siegrain and Ultear stood over their work on the other side of the room.

"The time has finally come, master Siegrain." Ultear said. "For your dream to become a reality."

"Yes." Siegrain said, smiling, "I must ask you, are you afraid."

"No." Ultear told him. "I trust you wholeheartedly." Ultear said. "I know you will not fail."

**[##Jellal theme##]**

"Yhat's easy for you to say." Siegrain said. "Your life isn't on the line." behind them; Yajima was listening in on their conversation. 'If I fail, I'll disappear." which confused him, "But my life is but a small risk." Siegrain smiled. "My destiny awaits."

Ultear smiled. "Yes."

Jellal smiled in his tower.

"Only twenty-five minutes left." He said aloud. "I guess it's time for us to say our goodbyes, Siegrain."

"How could you!" Sho shouted as he ran through the tower. "I can't believe you, Jellal," Sho said, "You lied to us all these years."

"Sho, you need to calm down." Erza said, still trapped in his card. "Let me out of here now."

"I'm sorry, but it's for your protection." Sho told her. "I won't let him hurt you."

"You're going to need my help." Erza called. "Don't be stupid,"

Sho ran into a room with a large tree with a bridge covering water, the pink leaves falling around him as he ran across.

**[## Ikaruga theme ost ##]**

Sho stopped when he saw someone walking up to him; Ikaruga, the leader of Trinity Raven. She smiled as she noticed Sho.

"Konnichiwa, I am the one they call Ikaruga." the woman said. "And who might you be."

"Out of my way." She shouted at her. "I don't want to hurt you."

"My, what a bore." Ikaruga said.

"I warned you." Sho shouted before he launched a card attack at her Ikaruga smirked before slicing through the air and destroying all the cards in one motion.

"How." Sho said, awestruck.

"My sword can cut through anything with extreme precision." Ikaruga explained.

"Yeah, well, your sword won't scare me." Sho said before he felt a gust of wind, then the ground underneath him shattered as his cards cut in two.

"I can't move." Sho said as he fell to the ground.

"Sho." Erza called out. "She's too powerful for you." Erza said, "let me out of here."

"Don't worry." Sho said.

"I cast a shielding spell around the card." He explained, "No one can hurt you in there."

"Is that a challenge?" Ikaruga said before she sliced at Erza's card, the attack bounced off, revealing that Erza had used a sword to repel.

"She can cut through the dimensional rift?" Sho asked, "Sister."

Ikaruga smirked at this and began furiously attacking the card until shattered Erza appeared from the smoke, smiling.

"I suspected your attack would weaken Sho's spell." Erza said as she stood up. "Allowing me to cut right through to freedom."

*'A sword that cuts through dimensions is cool enough.'* Sho said to himself. *'But her ability to turn that into an asset for herself is just what makes her more amazing.'*

"You said your name was Ikaruga." Erza stated.

"Sorry, but I'm not here for you." Erza told her coldly. "Now get out of my way."

"Sorry." Ikaruga said. "But I'll think I'll stay."

Before Erza could react, her armor broke apart, shattering to pieces on the ground before disappearing.

"What." Erza exclaimed.

"You seem surprised." Ikaruga said. "A skilled warrior like yourself should have seen that coming." The two stood there glaring holes into the other before Ikaruga began to sing.

"Can you feel its gaze, the depths of the night mist, the Mononoke." She smiled as she looked at Erza "your single-minded focus on Jellal, has left you a novice completely unaware of my Katana swinging around you." Ikaruga smiled as Erza glared at her. "There's the look I wanted, you have no chance against me."

"You are my enemy." Erza said. "And I will defeat you," Erza called out before changing to her Heaven's Wheel armor.

"I'd like to see you try." Ikaruga said as Erza charged. Swords clashed, sending a massive shock wave through the area Erza jumped back. **"Circle Sword."** Erza said as she summoned an army of swords and struck them at Ikaruga, who didn't flinch.

"Mugestu style." All the swords broke and landed around Ikaruga, who smiled. "That was my Yasha's Empty Flash." She said as Erza landed before her.

"She cut through the swords." Sho said in awe; before long, Erza's armor broke, sending her back into a pillar.

Ikaruga smiled. **"Mugestu Style: Garuda Flame."** Ikaruga then launched fire from her sword while Erza blocked it with her Flame Empress armor.

"I see." Ikaruga said, impressed, "The Flame Empress armor; I'm surprised you could requip fast enough to block it." After Ikaruga finished, Erza's armor broke again. Ikaruga stood facing Erza.

"You should be embarrassed, so inappropriately dressed in that young man's presence, I would suggest you adorn yourself in your strongest armor." Ikaruga told her.

Erza stood up before her armor changed again. She appeared in black armor that took on a metallic dress; the armor was a dark slate color with a lighter gray trim. The shoulder guards are pale gray with a significant spike protruding from them. The arm guards bear a simple weaving pattern with three spikes jutting out, each smaller than the last. The leg greaves start below her hips with three progressively smaller spikes protruding, beginning at the knees. Around her neck is a small necklace of black, diamond-shaped jewels. A single horn works its way out from underneath her hair atop her head.

"This is my Purgatory armor!" Erza shouted. "Any opponent it faces hasn't lived to talk about it."

Erza then charged Ikaruga again; their blades clashed, destroying the entire room as the swords sang; Ikaruga jumped back and closed her blade. Erza's armor then shattered to pieces as she fell to the ground.

"I'm sorry." Ikaruga told her.

"You made a valiant effort." She said.

"But there is no armor in existence that my katana can't cut through." Ikaruga told her. "Admit your defeat."

"What a monster." Sho said as Erza managed to stand up; she let out a sigh before a light went around her again; however, this time, Erza appeared in a different outfit with a red with some gold, black, and white. The outfit consists of a white sarashi around the upper chest and a red hakama with a gold flame-like pattern at the bottom with black highlights, tied by white strings. Erza's hair is tied up in a high tail at the back by a green headband.

"What are you doing?" Sho asked.

"Are you trying to mock me?" Ikaruga asked. "Why would you trade armor for regular cloth?"

**[##Tsuioku Mezameru Tamashii Ost##]**

"You have to have tons of heavy-duty armor, right!" Sho shouted as Erza ignored his pleas. "You have to stay strong."

"I can't do that." Erza admitted. "Cause I've never been strong."

"What?" Sho asked.

"It's all been a lie." Erza said.

"I could never protect those I loved cause I wasn't strong enough." Erza said. "So I wore armor to fool those into thinking that I was strong." Erza said. "But when I'm alone, I can't help but let them come out." Erza said. "I never wanted to let anyone inside."

"Armor or not." Ikaruga called out, "I'll cut you down just the same."

"I thought it protected me, but it did me more harm." Erza said.

"I became distant from everyone I met." Erza smiled. "That is till I met Natsu, Gray, and Lucy." Erza smiled as she remembered everything she and her friends had been through together. "They were so warm and caring. The armor started to crack."

"Sister." Sho said with tears in his eyes.

"I can no longer rely on my armor," Erza said. "And I can't afford to lose here." Erza said. "Now come at me." Erza and Ikaruga stood before cashing again Erza landed on the ground, a gash on her right shoulder. Her swords broke as she started to walk away.

Ikaruga laughed at this.

"This battle is over." She said before her sword broke a large gash, then appeared on her shoulder before she fell to the ground, defeated.

"Sho, are you all right?" Erza asked.

"I think so." Sho said.

"In all my years." Ikaruga said, now lying in a pool of her blood.

"I've never tasted defeat, just sweet victory." She laughed before turning to Erza. "You and Jellal are doomed to fail." She let out a violent cough. "The light of justice will rain down from the sky and kill us all."

"What a wretched haiku," Erza said.

"The etherion blast," Erza said. "Sho, find the others and get far away from here as possible."

"What?" Sho asked.

"Please, will you do this for me?" Erza asked.

"Okay." Sho said.

"But what about you?" He asked.

"I'm going to end this." Erza said. "Once and for all."

Outside the tower, on the stairs, Simon was carrying Natsu, who had just regained consciousness.

"Where am I?" He asked, his stomach still in knots.

"The last thing I remember was flying around in circles." Natsu said.

"Aw, you're awake." Simon said; he looked back to Natsu, who was about to vomit.

"Seriously, just the memory makes you sick," Simon said. "Well, after that, you are eaten by that bird villain, but Gray was able to save you."

"Man." Natsu said. "Now I owe him one."

Simon chuckled. "He managed to defeat him but was badly injured; I had your friend Happy take him somewhere safe."

Happy flew with Gray by the tail, who also just woke up.

"Man, you're a lot heavier than I thought; you need to lose some weight." Happy said.

"Shut it, and you dumb cat." Gray said. "Where are we."

As Happy flew, several ships managed to leave.

"Oh no." Happy said as the boats left.

"Look down there." Gray said.

"Oh, cool, I found a boat." Happy said.

"No, I showed you the one we came in on." Gray told him.

"I lost to that owl freak, but Gray beat him!" Natsu shouted.

"I wouldn't say you lost; more like it swallowed you." Simon said, trying to calm down the angered teen.

"Still though." Natsu said.

"He's going to hold that over my head for a month." Natsu said. "And when Cana finds out, she'll never let me live it down."

"Um."

"Damn it!" Natsu shouted before Simon grabbed him by the scarf.

"We don't have time for this." Simon said before he stopped.

"You all right there, man?" Natsu asked.

"I'm fine." He said. "I heard from Milliana and Wally; they found Lucy and Juvia. It looked like they took out a member of Trinity Raven all by themselves," Simone told Natsu. "And I heard from Sho that Erza took down the last member."

"I didn't get to do anything." Natsu said.

"Erza went off to face Jellal." Simon informed Natsu.

"by herself?" Natsu asked.

"She has a grudge to settle." Simon said.

"It is as if she and Jellal are destined to fight each other." Simon said. "I beg you, you have to help her."

"Not gonna happen." Natsu said, which shocked Simon.

Jellal sighed as he moved the last piece.

"Don't tell me the games are already over." He said as Erza approached him.

"Do you enjoy toying with people like this?" Erza asked.

**[##Jellal theme##]**

Jellal scoffed as he stood up.

"Life is just an endless game?" Jellal said.

"Nothing but living day after day." He looked at Era. "It certainly has been a long time, Erza."

"Yes, it has." Erza said as she pointed a sword at Jellal.

"Sho, Wally, Millianna, and Simon are no longer under your influence." Erza told him.

"That's fine." Jellal said. "The tower is now complete, so I have no use for them."

"You don't sound too worried." Erza said, "it'll be destroyed soon."

"You mean Etherion?" Jellal asked.

"The way you're talking, I could assume you're bluffing." Erza stated.

"Oh no." Jellal said, removing his hood.

"Etherion will rain down on us." Jellal said.

"Good." Erza said. "Then all I need to do is keep you occupied for the next ten minutes."

"Oh, Erza." Jellal said. "When etherion comes down, you will be sacrificed to Zeref; you can't escape fate, Erza; this is your destiny."

"Come on, guys, we need to turn the boat around." Gray said.

"Not gonna happen, so close your head." Wally told Gray; the group had managed to reach the boat and were now sailing away.

"Erza told us to get as far away from the tower as possible," Millianna said.

"But now she and Natsu have no way to leave." Lucy argued. "They're stuck."

"They'll be fine." Sho said.

"They can't do it alone." Gray said, trying to stand up. "They're going to need Lucy and me there to back them up."

"Don't worry." Wally said. "Simon's with them, so everything should be real dandy."

"Well, everything won't be dandy if they end up dead!" Lucy shouted.

"You don't need to be so mean about it." Millianna said.

"We shouldn't be fighting like this." Sho said.

"Just turn this damn boat around!" Gray shouted. "We gotta go back for her."

"I'm with him; turn it around." Lucy said.

"I told you it ain't happening, so forget, will ya." Wally told them.

"Will you just shut up." Happy shouted, scaring the whole group.

"I'm worried about them too, but etherion could fire any minute now." Happy said, tears falling down his face. "Natsu is going to save Erza, and we're all going home safe and sound."

"Happy." Lucy said as the cat turned away again.

"Good luck, buddy." Happy said. "I won't be there to bail you out this time."

Simon slammed Natsu into the wall.

"How can you claim to be her friend, yet you won't help her?" Simon asked.

"It's her fight." Natsu said. "She'd never forgive me if I'd but in like that." Natsu told him.

Simon sighed before letting Natsu go.

"Jellal is too strong for her." Simon said. "She can't win."

"She's stronger than you give her credit for." Natsu told her.

"I don't doubt her magic power." Simon told Natsu.

"No, it's just, I know deep down, she probably still wants to save Jellal." Simon explained. "Jellal is cunning; he knows how to bend her feelings to his will" Simone turned to face Natsu.

"And that's not the only thing working against her, right now the magic council is preparing an Etherion blast." Simon sighed. "She told all of us to leave the tower, which could only mean she's going to sacrifice herself." Simon said angering Natsu.

"What." Natsu said. "Why didn't you start with that?" Natsu said. The air started to swirl around him. "Tell me where Erza is now!"

"In seven minutes." Jellal said.

"That's how long we have until Etherion fires." Jellal smirked. "When that happens, we'll take our final breaths; why don't we spend these last few moments together."

"I'll have you know I've cast aside all my fears, even death." Erza told him.

"I'll relish in it 'cause I'm taking you with me!" Erza shouted as she charged Jellal; he blocked and sent an attack from his palm, sending her flying out of the tower Erza flew back and jumped back up. "You'd destroy the very thing you worked so hard to complete; what's the point."

Jellal laughed.

"why would I care about a pillar or two." Jellal told her, "They're just decorations."

"Yes." Erza said. "But they're here because the others built them for you."

"How is it you find fault in everything I say?" Jellal asked. "I didn't force them to work; they chose to." Jellal laughed. "They knew it was important to me, and at long last, it's been completed." Jellal slammed his hand, and a light, blind-sighted Erza soon found herself in a giant bubble.

"While it's evident you've honed your skills over the years." Jellal said as he walked away. "You're still no match for me."

Erza struggled as she attempted to escape; she soon thought of her friends and how they would fight alongside her no matter what. *'I'll miss them.'* Erza thought before she calmed herself.

**[##Erza Scarlett theme##]**

As Jella walked away, the bubble busted open, and Erza landed on the ground, her hair now free. "This is it." She slashed Jellal, causing him to fall on the floor.

"This-" Jellal said as he landed on the ground. "This isn't that same scared little girl."