Final Clash Part 1

In an area of Magnolia, runes were lining the ground around the figures of both Aang and Chun, but they soon faded freeing both battlers. Aang had an idea of how the Runes faded. "*Freed was beaten…!*" he however saw that Chun wasn't running. "Your game finally ends… but first!" his eyes led him to his opponent who had determination all over her face.

Chun had clenched her fists knowing that this would be her only opportunity she would get to capture the Avatar. Defeat was not an option. "*I won't run!*" Chun thought. "*This is my only chance… I have to take it!*" She leaped towards Aang before firing two bright purple fire missiles at him from her fists. Aang immediately took evasive action by jumping forwards avoiding the explosive force of the attack; he formed his air scooter and looked to be speeding towards his opponent. Chun was ready for him, she fired a powerful fire stream at Aang's air scooter, but the Airbender jumped off it in the nick of time. He leaped over her head and when he landed on the ground he began running, Chun realized that he was trying to flee. "WHAT!?" "*No! I can't lose him like this! I've gone through too much!*" she threw off her flats before igniting the bottom of her feet causing flames to shoot from them. She flew into the air and saw the Avatar causing a dust cloud where ever he ran.

Chun glared at the dust figure before launching herself at the target.

As Aang was running he heard a fiery discharge in the air, when he looked behind him, he saw Chun speeding to him, and being too slow to react she punched him in the face sending him flying across the street he was running through, and into a small shop through the glass and wooden doors. He got up and saw a bright purple stream of fire rushing to him, he had a panicked face and blocked the attack by forming a circular wall of air in front of him which only pushed him further into the store. Chun got to the blown open doors. "I suggest you leave!" she warned while igniting flames above her hands. The people of the store panicked and left.

Aang slowly got up… "Well I guess you are different… If you were like Azula, you would have scared everyone instead of warning them first."

"I'm not here to make small talk!" Chun angrily said. "I'm not going to let this chance slip by my fingers!" she made two flame whips speed to Aang but he made a blast of air that had enormous force behind it this shot Chun out of the store, she rolled but ended up on all fours she made a huge flaming arc that traveled on the ground, Aang avoided it in time before it destroyed the shop in an explosion. Aang cringed at the sight but he saw Chun speeding to him. Aang made an earth pillar launch him into the air, once he was high enough; he formed Air scooters on his feet as he made another attempt at an escape. Chun shot herself into the air by shooting flames from her feet once she was in the air she threw fire balls at Aang but he was avoiding them.

The Avatar landed on a roof, thereafter he made cube like rocks rise from the building's roof and threw a couple of them at Chun. What he didn't expect was her agility as she avoided two of them and she actually jumped off one of the cube rocks thrown at her, this forced her higher into the air in which she raised her hands above her head creating a huge, bright purple fireball, she threw it to Aang who had to dodge the attack by jumping to another roof. When her huge fireball hit, it destroyed the roof of the building in a fiery explosion. She landed on the same building Aang was on.

She suddenly heard a child crying; she looked down and saw a little boy being comforted by his mother. Chun frowned as she could have destroyed their home. "*This is wrong… I'm overdoing it…*" Her thoughts were interrupted by a burst of air hitting her gut causing her to fall off the building. Chun shot a stream of fire to the ground to slow her decent, she landed on the ground hard, but the damage was lessened. She saw Aang jumping down to her, he landed a small distance away and when he hit the ground he made earth columns speed to her which shot Chun out of the alley and out onto the street.

Aang walked out of the alley.

"What's your problem?" Aang asked. "You say you don't want to fight me, yet here you are doing it… and this would be fine on any other day, but right now I have bigger things to worry about…"

"You think I don't?!" Chun yelled. "But you'll never understand!" She shot several flaming arcs to Aang which he avoided and countered with multiple blasts of air.

"Yeah… well Lucy understands…" Aang said.

"Lucy…" Chun began before she shook her head. "N-no! Stop trying to get in my head!" She shot two powerful streams to Aang but he made a vertical air swipe with his arm which split the flames causing them to go into different directions. Aang made another earth wave that moved to Chun, but she avoided it and ran as fast as she could and made bright purple flame like daggers, she tried to slash Aang but she missed as Aang jumped up high. While he was in the air he shot a stream of his own orange fire to Chun, but she made a comet of fire forced his flames away from her. Chun ignited flames on the bottom of her feet and speared into Aang while in the air.

While Aang took the attack he made Air scooters on his feet and stopped the momentum Chun had created, he kicked her back down to the Earth where a small crater was made. She saw Aang was firing fire jabs to her on his way down, she rolled backwards to avoid the attack. Aang landed on the ground and chased her. Chun quickly made a wall of her flames which made Aang stop in his tracks.

Soon he found himself getting kicked in the chest by both of Chun's feet which sent them flying across the street. Chun created fire streams from her hands to boost their speed. They both slammed into an empty wooden shop with Aang taking the brunt of the impact. The Avatar was now hurting as Chun got up and looked down at him.

Aang knew he couldn't allow himself to lose so he spun on his back while shooting air from his feet, this pushed Chun back outside of the shop. Aang made an earth ramp in front of himself which he ran off of bringing him to higher ground as he surrounded himself in a sphere of air and was falling to Chun.

The Firebender was surrounded by a ring of bright purple flames and shot a huge stream at Aang's air sphere causing a huge explosion as they both took damage. This made an explosion and a shock wave that reverberated around the city.

…

Zuko stopped in his tracks when he heard the explosion. "Something wrong Zuko?" Erza asked.

"N-no it's nothing, at any rate we have to keep moving… we don't have much time."

They both continued running to find Laxus.

…

Both Aang and Chun were a fair distance away from each other and they were both panting. Chun got up revealing that her dark red pants were torn around most of her legs and she had some scratches around her whole body. Aang meanwhile had tears in his puffy black pants while his bright orange shirt had two scratches and was blowing in the wind.

"I'm sorry to do this…" Chun softly said.

"Sorry for what?" Aang asked.

Chun moved her arms in a circular motion, before long bright blue, hot lightning was being generated. She shot a bolt of Lightning to the floor Aang was standing on, the force of the attack sent Aang up in the air, Chun capitalized and sent a powerful fireball to Aang. The Avatar blocked the Fireball with a circular barrier of air but it proved not to be enough as Aang flew back and slid on the floor. Aang saw Chun walking up to her. "*She's pretty tough… I'm not sure I can beat her…*"

"***What the hell Aang!?***" he heard. He flashed back to when he was with Natsu back at the guild. "***You're tellin' me you're givin' up!?***" Aang slowly got up. "*No! I can't afford to give up… I still have to help Natsu and Gajeel fight Laxus… I can't lose to her!*" Aang jumped back onto his feet ignoring the pain all over his body. "I won't lose to you!" Aang defiantly said.

"I won't either!" Chun yelled. She sprinted to Aang and shot a stream of fire but this missed, because she was close, Aang was able to force her off her feet by tripping her, but before she hit the ground an earth pillar shot her up into the air, she landed on the ground with pain all over her body but got back up.

Aang got in a fighting stance and he held his right arm out and moved his fingers to provoke Chun into attacking head on. This works and Chun sprinted to him, she was going to use her fire daggers, when she was close, she tried to slice Aang but she was missing because he was using his airbender agility to avoid her strikes. She dropped her guard, Aang grabbed her arms and he fell to his back forcing Chun to fall with him. He performed a circle throw and when he was going to kick her off in the stomach he shot a powerful air blast from both his feet which made Chun fly to a solid wall right at the end of a street which made a small dent in the wall.

Aang got to his feet and saw Chun wasn't moving. He walked to her and saw tears in her eyes.

"I-it hurts!" She screamed.

"Oh… uh… sorry I guess…" Aang shyly apologized while scratching the back of his head. "Listen, Laxus is really dangerous so if there is anything that you might know about-"

"I know where he is…" She weakly said. "You've beaten me, so I'll tell you this much… He's in a big church like building… you can't miss it…" Chun described.

"Thanks… for what it's worth… I'm sorry things turned out this way…"Aang apologized.

Chun looked away from him. "Just go!" She angrily said. Aang ran to find the place Chun had described. The Firebender slowly got up to her feet. "*I should have escaped! I let my desires get the better of me… There is no time to get both Hen and Kobu out of here before those things in the sky go off…*" Chun slowly rose while holding her right arm that was in pain. "*Laxus… must be stopped… and I have to help somehow…*" She began to follow the route that Aang was taking to find Laxus.

Lucy, Toph, Mai and Happy were now running through some empty streets of the town. Suddenly runes appeared in front of them. "Everyone, look at this!" Happy said.

"'Freed vs. Mirajane: Both removed themselves from contention?'" Lucy read.

"So what, they took each other out?" Mai asked.

"So that light from before… I knew it." Happy said.

"The Demon…" Lucy began. "I kinda wish I'd seen it, but then again maybe not…"

"I wish I could have been down there… If Mira took down Freed, then she must be pretty badass!" Toph said

Mai who stood next to her gave a slight nod with a faint smile. "But that doesn't change things for us right now… we still have the main issue to take care of."

"Mai's right." Happy said. "The Thunder God Tribe has been wiped out!"

"Oh right…" Lucy realized. "But then there's the Thunder Palace: Thunder lacrima that will attack the entire city… What should we do about it?"

"As long as they are protected by the Body Link magic, attacking them will end up damaging ourselves." Happy explained.

"So if we destroy just one of those things, it will do the exact same damage we did to it, lighting anyone up like a fancy light show?" Mai figured.

"You could have worded it differently…" Lucy said with a sweat drop. "Even so, there's not much time left either. And not being able to get the people in the city to evacuate…"

"Then the answer is simple… we find Laxus and make him shut this thing down!" Toph said punching her fists together.

"The four of us?" Mai questioned. "I'm all for trying to stop the guy… but I'm not going to fight him head on to do it… it took all of us, plus Loke to take down one of his cronies… If he is that powerful on his own… do we even stand a chance?" Mai asked looking at her right hand.

"Not with that attitude we don't!" Toph said. "But as it stands I don't think there is a choice in the matter. It's either we fight or give the guild up to Laxus and I don't know about you, but I don't want Fairy Tail to be led by a power mad freak of nature."

"Since you put it that way… I guess I help take Laxus down with you guys."

"Just imagine Laxus is Azula."

"With the lightning magic he's been throwing around, it would be pretty hard not to." Suddenly another result appeared above the result that showed Mira and Freed's battle. "Look another battle."

Lucy read the result. "'Aang vs. Chun. Winner: Aang. Chun: Out of Action.'" Worry was evident in her voice as she read it out.

"So… she's one of those guys that are trying to hunt down the Avatar… well she got what she deserved." Mai coldly said.

"*Chun…*" Lucy thought. She flashed back to when she was attacked by her on the Train during her and Aang's first job together, and to when she offered Chun the chance to join Fairy Tail, and when she saved her life. She looked at the result with concern. "*Chun… I hope she's okay…*" Lucy thought.

"Hey… we need to keep moving!" Toph yelled as Lucy was getting left behind.

"R-right!" Lucy ran to catch up with the group.

Elsewhere Natsu was screaming in frustration as he ran through the city alone. "Where are you Laxus!"

Erza was running through empty streets with as Zuko and yelled out for Laxus to show himself.

Levy meanwhile was still at the guild, she was trying to take in the current situation. "The Thunder Palace… Rendering the judgement of the god of thunder. There is only 10 minutes left. Is Laxus really serious?" she later perked herself up. "But it'll work out, right? We still have Erza, Natsu and Aang… and Gajeel's there too! And wasn't Mystogan and Thor around too…" a sweat drop appeared on the side of her face. "Although I've never seen him…" Levy saw a shadow approaching the guild. "Huh, who is that?" walking through the open doors of the guild was Porlyusica.

"Where is the old fool?" She asked.

"P-Porlyusica! What are you doing here?" Levy asked.

Porlyusica turned away from the bluenette before repeating her question and not answering Levy's. "I asked you where he is."

Levy pointed in the direction of where Makarov was. "H-he's in the clinic." With nothing but a very slight grunt, the old woman proceeded to the clinic. "Um, excuse me but… Right now he's…"

"I know." She responded. "That's why I came."

"Wait, you came to treat the master?" Levy caught up with Porlyusica before stopping a slight distance from her. "Uh…" Porlyusica resumed walking to the infirmary before Levy sighed with blue lines to her sides.

Porlyusica got to Makarov's bed side and saw he was asleep. Levy had followed her into the room. "Bring Laxus here." Levy was now confused. "Bring that fool of a boy who's playing around while his grandfather lies gravely ill."

"Gravely ill?" Levy asked fearing for Makarov's health. "You're not serious, right?"

"Just bring him here… please." Porlyusica turned to Levy and tears began falling from her eyes. "He doesn't have much time left." Levy was shocked at what Porlyusica had just said.

Laxus was currently by himself in the Kardia Cathedral sitting on the bottom steps inside the building. He was remembering when Makarov wanted him to watch the Fantasia festival with him when he was a kid, and also when he introduced him to Fairy Tail. "Why am I remembering these stupid things now?"

…

He had a flashback when Makarov confronted him about not going to the Fantasia festival. Laxus' response was that since he was little, everyone has seen him as his grandson. He wanted to step out of Makarov's shadow and be recognized for his own accomplishments. Makarov asks him if anyone gets recognized for their own accomplishments anymore. Laxus went on about how Makarov shamed someone in the guild; he then asks Makarov why he expelled his dad, Ivan from the guild. Makarov's reasoning was that Ivan brought harm to the guild. Laxus defends him and reminds Makarov that Ivan is his son.

Makarov explained that even if they are family members, he can't allow those that threaten the lives of their comrades to remain in the same guild. He says that is how the second Master of Fairy Tail protected him.

Laxus asks Makarov to kick him out as well so that he can join his dad's guild and crush Fairy Tail. Makarov was surprised that Ivan had started his own guild. He then asks Laxus if he knows his location. Laxus claims that Makarov doesn't care. But Makarov tells Laxus that Ivan left the guild in possession of information that would harm the guild, he says he has to find him or else Fairy Tail will be in danger.

Laxus says that he will surpass him, not for his dad, but for himself. So that he will be recognized and become his own man.

…

When Laxus had finished reminiscing he now looked more determined to achieve his goal. "The time is ripe. Old man, I will surpass you!" Laxus gets up and looks at the runes floating in the building. "6 minutes until the Thunder Palace activates… Is he not going to step down? Stubborn old fool, as usual." He suddenly heard footsteps walking into the building.

"You know, stubborn old men don't back down so easily." A voice said. Laxus turned his head to see Iroh, Mystogan and Thor walking into the building.

"Oh? You came, Mystogan?" Laxus said with a bit of excitement. "And look, you brought another one of those weak benders. I didn't think you'd be participating in this game Mystogan!"

"I would hardly call threatening the lives of thousands a mere game." Iroh said with seriousness in your voice.

Mystogan began to talk in his muffled voice. "If you call off the Thunder Palace right now, it is still possible to pass this off as merely entertainment."

"So blissfully ignorant… Haven't you heard the rumors figuring who is the strongest in Fairy Tail, you or me?" Laxus asked

"So is that it, you want to prove yourself huh?" Iroh figured.

"Although I don't really care, aren't you forgetting Erza and Aang?" Mystogan asked.

"Them? Not a chance." Laxus replied. "Erza is on the right track, but still weak… and that kid, he has the power to potentially beat anyone, yet I hear he always holds back… The so-called Elemental Wizard is nothing but a coward."

Mystogan slightly chuckled. "Erza, weak? Aang, cowardly? Are you truly that blind?"

"True power does not come from pure strength alone, Laxus." Iroh added.

"All I am saying is that I recognize Mystogan's skills. Between the two of us, I wonder which one of us is really the strongest in Fairy Tail?"

"If that is all your eyes can see, I wonder who is the one so blissfully ignorant?" Mystogan said

Iroh chuckled slightly. "It would seem you are the one who is being stubborn, you remind me of my Nephew… or rather you remind me of how he was…"

"You sure know how to talk old man, but can your old bones keep up with Mystogan and me? Let's settle this! We'll decide who's the strongest!"

"I'm warning you Laxus, call off the Thunder Palace, if you keep treading on this dangerous path, things will not end well for you!" Iroh warned.

Laxus glared at Iroh. "Shut your mouth, you old man!" he shot a powerful stream of yellow lightning from his hand towards Iroh. However the Firebender was prepared and absorbed Laxus' lightning into his left fingers before redirecting it through his stomach resulting in his hair standing up, before shooting it through his right fingers and back to Laxus. Mystogan swung one of his staffs before discharging a bright purple energy beam from it. Laxus countered with another lightning bolt shot them which were now clashing between Mystogan's beam and his redirected lightning. This caused a huge explosion, crumbling many of the pillars in the cathedral and causing a huge explosion that could be heard from a large distance away.

…

Natsu, Erza, Zuko and Aang were able to hear the explosions and began making their way to the Kardia Cathedral.

"The Church?" Natsu questioned.

*'Of course. The Cathedral. It's the tallest building in Magnolia and Laxus considers himself stronger than everyone else in Fairy Tail.'* Erza thought, recalling what Ash told them outside the building she and Zuko stood outside of earlier.

Aang saw the explosions. "So she wasn't lying… but why would she help me…? That doesn't matter now." Aang ran to the direction of the explosion

…

When the dust cleared it was seen that many of the windows inside the cathedral were shattered. Mystogan kept his stance while Iroh took a deep breath and gave a glare towards Laxus.

"Where did you learn that?" Mystogan asked as he sensed a powerful energy inside Laxus.

"Oh? That's quite rare to see you panic… Where did I learn it? Who knows? Maybe I'll tell you if you beat me."

"I'm afraid it is too late for you Laxus." Iroh said.

"You will now witness magic that you have never seen before." Mystogan declared.

"Ooh scary!" Laxus mocked. "Give me your best shot. I'll show you how different we really are!" Iroh closed his eyes before he opened them again, he dashed towards Laxus, in response he jumped back and shot balls of lighting at Iroh causing a huge cloud of smoke. Laxus began to laugh. "You should stay out of our business, weak old man. Mystogan and I have no time to deal with weak Benders like you." He saw a shadow moving through the smoke. "Huh?"

Iroh emerged from the smoke with his usual smile. "So you really are quite powerful, huh Laxus. I can see why many people in the guild hold you in such high regard."

"You think you can talk to me like that!?" Laxus bellowed he ran to punch Iroh, but his punch was quickly caught.

"However, you still have much to learn." The former Fire Nation general swept Laxus' legs causing him to fall but before he hit the ground. Iroh lifted Laxus and tossed him to the stone throne he was sitting on before.

"How dare you treat the new Master of Fairy Tail like this!" he shoots a powerful stream of Lightning to the Firebender, however he stood his ground and took the attack while managing to redirect Laxus' lightning back to the floor Laxus stood on which forced a shock wave to push Laxus back. "You stand there and take my lightning like it's nothing, how?"

"This is a technique that was made to specifically redirect lightning in any direction. It was meant to be used against Firebenders, but I can see it works perfectly on you."

"The same thing that messiah brat did? That is really annoying."

"I should know. I created that very technique." Iroh chuckled but he soon formed a small, compressed orb of fire that looked similar to a fire cracker. He threw the compressed ball to Laxus, when he guarded against it, a tremendous explosion was made it was so huge that it threw Laxus to the higher wall of the cathedral. When he landed back on the ground he saw Iroh wasn't finished and saw that he was charging a huge comet of fire, Iroh let it roll on the ground, steamrolling towards Laxus. The attack looked to have hit its mark as a hole was now made in the back of the cathedral and Laxus wasn't seen. "Oops… I guess I got a bit carried away." Iroh chuckled to himself.

Mystogan quickly noticed something. "Behind you!" Laxus was a thunderbolt and appeared behind Iroh he arched his right arm backwards as he aimed to punch him. Iroh wasn't about to lose to Laxus and countered with a punch of his own. Both of their fists collided and a combination of lightning and fire was being generated around them which caused a huge explosion, quickly afterwards Iroh was throwing punches to Laxus which created flame missiles that were speeding to him, but Laxus was avoiding them quite easily as he was engulfed in lightning and was dodging the attacks. He sped to Iroh and threw a punch to his face which made him slide back.

"Give up, before I break your bones old man."

"You should learn to respect your elders, Laxus. Unlike you… I thought ahead!" he gave a nod to Mystogan who jabbed one of his staffs that was shaped like a monster's mouth at the end onto the ground. A bright purple energy formed below Mystogan.

"**Tower of Babel**!" Mystogan calmly said. A purple magic seal formed in front of him. Laxus felt a surge of huge purple energy rising below him ready to strike, soon the floor grew and it exploded. From outside the Kardia Cathedral was engulfed in a huge bright explosion.

"What the… Impossible! The entire Cathedral!" were the words Laxus could say as he was being lifted up into the air away from the city. The huge white energy formed a white pillar that was lifting Laxus higher and higher into the air. Laxus now looked like he was in the endless void of space and suddenly, two hands rip through the reality of space and a red eye shines when it sees Laxus. Black tendrils wrapped around Laxus' body, restraining him. The creature continued to rip through the reality and more of its face could be seen. It had two shining red eyes with teeth that stretched out of his upper mouth, he also looked to have spikes that may have been all over his body. The monster appears it was dark green in colour and had a frill over his head. It reached out to grab Laxus.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THIS MAGIC?!" Laxus looked terrified as the creature was closing in on him. He instinctively became electrified as sparks were growing all over his body. He broke out of the tendrils which also allowed him to break out of the space, revealing that Mystogan's spell was nothing more than an illusion. "What a joke!" Laxus mocked with an evil smirk on his face. "You thought this illusion would actually work on me, Mystogan?"

"Impressive." Mystogan praised. "But you noticed just a bit too late." He said. A bright purple beam shot down onto Laxus and, brown, blue, red/orange, purple and indigo magic seals were stacked onto of each other as Mystogan was performing another spell. "**Sleep. Five Layered Magic Circle, Sacred Song!**" he pointed a staff that aquatic frills at the end of it, the frills were glowing indigo.

Laxus however remained confident. "Which one of us is the one who didn't notice?" Mystogan looks down and sees a yellowish gold magic seal on the ground where he was standing. Electricity was surging through the magic circle and Mystogan was engulfed in a huge electric burst. Laxus meanwhile taking the huge attack from Mystogan's spell. Both spells exploded revealing that both Mystogan and Laxus were still fine. Mystogan was floating upwards while Laxus looked at him with a smirk.

Suddenly he was punched in the face and was sent sliding back. The punch was from Iroh and it left a bruise on Laxus' face. "You didn't forget that I was here did you?" Iroh asked with a smirk.

"I'm getting tired of you!" Laxus shot a huge electric blast to Iroh. He responded by taking a deep breath and he shot flames from his mouth which reminded both Mystogan and Laxus of a certain Dragon Slayer. The flames collided with Laxus' lightning. Iroh's flames were slightly getting beaten and an explosion of fiery lighting occurs and Iroh is blasted close to the entrance of the cathedral, he bounced off a wall and landed on the floor. "Ha! You should have minded your own business, old geezer! Huh!?" he remembers Mystogan is still fighting him and as he floated in the air. Purple tendrils of energy tried to ensnare Laxus but he became cloaked in lightning and dodged the attack.

"He slipped out?" Mystogan said. Laxus' laugh was heard and he saw that he was moving around in his lightning form he crashed into Mystogan. Laxus landed on the ground with a huge energy of lightning surrounding him, when it disappeared Mystogan appeared from a smoke cloud a fair distance in front of him as he disappeared to avoid Laxus' attack.

"Ha, you ain't bad!" Laxus complimented with a confident smile.

"LAXUS!" Mystogan and Laxus turned to see Erza, Zuko, Aang and Natsu standing at the doorway of the Kardia Cathedral. "Erza? Zuko?" Natsu said, surprised to see Erza at the Cathedral.

"Natsu? Aang? You got out?" Erza asked.

"Yeah, you can thank Levy for that." Aang replied.

The four of them saw Mystogan.

"Erza, who is that?" Zuko asked.

"Mystogan!" Erza revealed.

Mystogan after seeing Erza tries to cover his face. "You let down your guard!" Laxus yelled, he shot a thunderbolt to Mystogan's face blowing off his head gear and bandana in the process. As he was heavily breathing, the four of them saw the familiar blue hair and the red face tattoo, immediately Natsu, Aang and Erza had shocked faces. Mystogan turns around revealing himself to have the face of Jellal.

"Jellal!" Erza gasped.

From an alleyway not far from the Cathedral, Chun saw Jellal's face. Her eyes grew wide and she immediately covered her mouth and her eyes showed absolute fear. "*No doubt about it! Its him! The wizard who gave Ping her Darkness Magic… J-Jellal!*"

Natsu and Aang meanwhile glared at him.

"You're…" Natsu began.

"What are you doing here!?" Aang asked with slight anger. "Well?"

Tears were beginning to form in Erza's eyes.

"Jellal… you're alive." She silently said.

"Oh, a familiar face?" Laxus said.

"What's going on?" Natsu asked. "Are you Mystogan… or Jellal?"

"Jellal." Erza started.

"Erza, I especially didn't want you to see." He sees Erza's tears falling from her eyes. "I'm not Jellal." He revealed. "I know of him, but I am not him."

"I don't get it, you say you're not Jellal but you look just like him… unless… you really had a twin… but then Siegrain was…" Aang who was trying to figure everything out now had smoke coming from his head, suggesting that his brain was unable to figure out what was going on.

"I guess I never had the pleasure of seeing him face to face." Zuko said.

"I apologize…" Mystogan began. "I leave the rest to you." He then disappeared in smoke and Aang and Natsu both scream at him to come back.

"Now I'm all confused…" Natsu said.

"You're telling me." Aang added.

"But I'll deal with that later. Laxus, I came here to fight! Erza, Aang, you'll let me handle him, right?"

"Wait… alone… I mean we're all here, why don't we just talk this out." Aang suggested.

Zuko pinched the bridge of his nose. "You must be joking… please tell me you're joking!" Zuko said with a sweat drop forming on the side of his face. He saw that Erza looked troubled.

"Erza, what's wrong?" suddenly she was shocked by Laxus' lightning which gave frights to Aang, Natsu and Zuko.

"Don't go making ugly faces, Erza! Now come at me!" he punched her, forcing her to the ground.

"LAXUS!" Natsu bellowed as he now got mad. "I said that *I'd* fight you. You bastard!"

Laxus smirked at the opportunity Natsu was giving him. "Huh? Oh, you're here too Natsu?" Laxus mockingly asked. Natsu looked comically hurt by the comment as his whole body turned white.

"I wouldn't underestimate me!" Natsu's right hand became engulfed in flames.

"Shouldn't we help him?" Zuko asked looking at Aang.

"If Natsu wants a chance to beat Laxus on his own… I don't want to be the one to take it from him." Aang replied.

Laxus drops his coat and takes off his headphones as Natsu jumped up to punch him with a fiery fist. "Now fight me, Laxus!" he missed as Laxus dodged his attack with very little effort. Erza was starting to get up and she saw that Natsu was fighting him.

"You are so annoying, always charging straight in!" Laxus said as Natsu was flying towards him. "Get lost! Small fry!" he blasted a stream of lightning to Natsu but the Dragon Slayer avoided it, as he was now high above Laxus. The Lightning wizard smirked and charged lightning in his right hand again but Natsu was coming at him too fast.

"**Fire Dragon's Talons**!" Natsu yelled as he kicked Laxus on the arm, the Lighting Wizard was able to block Natsu's fiery kick. Soon after this he used the same arm to throw Natsu away from him which caused him to fly a distance away from Laxus, he slid on the floor as his right hand dug into it to slow his momentum.

"Natsu!" Erza worriedly said.

Natsu chuckled. "Don't worry about me!" With Natsu being distracted by Erza, Laxus took full opportunity and kicked Natsu in the chin with a foot engulfed in lightning. As Natsu fell back Laxus grabbed his arm.

"You ain't getting' away, see?" He began punching Natsu with an electrified fist continuously.

"Natsu!" Zuko worriedly said he was about to intervene but Aang stopped him and shook his head.

As Natsu was getting punched, he used his arm that Laxus was grabbing to take hold of Laxus' arm. He smirked while Laxus looked angry. "You think I was running? This is a chance to take the top spot!" He punched Laxus in the face with a fiery fist. As Laxus fell back his grip on Natsu's arm tightened and he produced an electric shock which weakened the Dragon Slayer, he went on to again punch Natsu repeatedly with his free hand. But soon after Natsu's hand twisted around Laxus' arm and it tightened and he threw a fiery punch back to Laxus. The exchange of fire and electric punched went on briefly before Laxus arched his arm back.

"I'll crush you!" he tried to punch Natsu with a charged electrical punch but Natsu engulfed his feet in flames and tried to slide Laxus' legs but the Lightning wizard jumped over them and his right foot was now covered in a growing electrical sphere. He stomped on Natsu's head forcing his head to smash through the floor. He charged another electrical punch and this forced Natsu away from Laxus, however he still looked pumped and ready to continue fighting. But soon he was forced to the ground by Erza.

"Huh, Erza?" Laxus said.

"*I must forget about Jellal… I mean, Mystogan for the time being…*" She thought. "*Right now, It's Laxus!*" "**Requip!**" Erza said covering herself in a bright light. She was now in her Black Wing armor. "Zuko!"

"Right!" Zuko left Aang's side and charged to Laxus alongside Erza. She tried to slash Laxus with her sword but Laxus blocked it with an electrical energy that was covering his left arm. Zuko shot two powerful fire streams at Laxus but he simply jumped away from them.

Both Erza and Zuko stood next to each other. The former pointed her sword at Laxus.

"What are those things floating in the sky, Laxus?" Erza asked.

"It's the Thunder Palace." Laxus answered. "Haven't you heard of it?"

"You're seriously intending to attack Magnolia, you fiend?"

Laxus laughs in response to her question. "Wiping out lives for you own selfish gain is funny to you!?" Zuko yelled.

"It's a new rule… It really pains my heart…"

"Yeah, I'll bet!" Zuko sped to Laxus to punch him but his fist was caught by Laxus' left hand.

"You vile fiend!" Erza spat, she tried to kick Laxus but her foot was caught, just like Zuko's fist.

"Only two minutes left." Laxus reminded.

"Natsu, Aang! Destroy all of them!" Erza said.

"I can't!" Natsu comically yelled.

"He means that if we do, then we'll get destroyed ourselves." Aang explained. "The Thunder Palace will do the same damage back to anyone who attacks them."

"What?" Erza gasped. "So that means, Body Link magic?"

"Yes, not one can touch those Lacrima!" Laxus said with a smirk.

"You coward!"

He engulfed both Zuko and Erza in lightning. "I'll destroy the both of you with my lightning as well!" he slammed both Zuko and Erza together and threw them back, Erza back flipped while covered in a bright light while Zuko bounced on the floor and back onto his feet while smoke was coming off his body.

"**Requip**!" Erza was now covered in a new armor that was pale blue and yellow, it covered her chest and below was a white fabric that had a yellow outline, and the symbol of the moon also appeared on it. Her arms were covered by spiked gauntlets that had the same design as the rest of the armor, she also had shoulder guards that went from her shoulders to her forearms. Her legs were covered in dark blue boots while them had pale teal armor on them as well. On the back of her outfit were long fabrics that had dark blue balls on them, her scarlet red hair was now tied in a long braid with a ribbon head band with bows on top of her head. In her right hand she held a spear with a circle on it and a white ribbon on it as well.

Laxus chuckled while sparks were flying off his hand. "Lightning Empress Armor? You seriously think that'll protect you from my lightning?" he shot another beam of lightning to Erza which she swiftly dodged.

"It's not just about defense, Laxus!" Erza said. She spun her lance before the blade split into two and shot a teal electric bolt at Laxus. The Lightning Wizard flew from the attack in his lightning form. Erza landed on the ground and stuck her spear onto the floor and made a teal coloured barrier in front of her.

"Try and block this Erza!" Laxus blasted a lightning burst at her with both his hands, it was successfully blocked and the four fabrics on the back of Erza's outfit each blasted teal coloured beams of lightning outward.

Aang and Zuko were watching the battle intently.

"So that's Lightning Empress Armor?" Aang asked.

Zuko nodded. "It is supposed to significantly lessen the effect of Laxus' lightning attacks." He figured after seeing what Erza's Flame Empress Armor can do in person.

"Not bad." Laxus praised.

"When two wizards of the same type clash, the factors that determine the outcome…" Erza started

"…Are who has the highest magical power, and their technique and experience, right?" Laxus finished.

"And, their heart! You should have learned this from the master!"

"Oh I learned…" Laxus began with a smirk. "I learned that the most important thing is power."

"It's villains like you who-"

Natsu stood up and faced Erza.

"Erza, stop getting' all fired up!" Natsu said. "I told you, I'll be the one to take on Laxus!"

"Not alone though!" Aang began. "This isn't just your battle Natsu, I'm going to help you and you can't stop me!" Erza looked at both Natsu and Aang determined faces and noted the battle scars on their bodies.

"Don't forget me!" Zuko said getting up. "Laxus has gone too far… The three of us will take him on."

"I guess I'll believe in you then." Erza began to run out of the building.

"Hey! Where are you going?" Natsu asked.

Aang quickly realized what she was thinking. "No… you're planning to stop the Thunder Palace? Aren't you?"

Laxus laughed. "You don't have a chance. Just destroying one risks your life. And right now there are countless lacrima up there, there's no time either…"

"I will destroy all of them at the same time!" she declared.

"Erza! That's insane!" Zuko yelled. "Even if you figure a way to do that, you won't survive."

"The weakling bender is right Erza. It is impossible." Laxus said.

"…But the city would be saved…" She began to run out of the Cathedral while Laxus was shocked at this outcome. "You three, stop Laxus!"

"Hey!" Laxus yelled. "Are you going to break the rules of the game?!"

"Guess I should believe in you too, Erza." Natsu said.

"I know you'll come back, you don't die for your friends, remember that!" Aang yelled.

Erza stopped running for a second and smiled before continuing on. "Aang, Natsu… Mine is a life that you saved. I won't go throwing it away."

"I guess it's time I make my leave." Iroh began walking out of the doors.

"Uncle!? When did you…?"

"Zuko, help Natsu and the Avatar with Laxus, I'll help Erza with destroying the Lacrima."

"But, Uncle. You heard what they said!" Zuko cried.

"I will be fine Zuko, you worry about Laxus… we'll take care of the rest." He left the building and followed Erza.

Chun who was still in the alleyway clenched her fists, and without saying anything she rushed off to follow Iroh and Erza.

"Damn it!" Laxus cursed. He charged to Natsu, Aang and Zuko.

"**Fire Dragon's Roar**!" Natsu shot huge flames from his mouth, through a fiery magic circle. Aang shot a powerful blast of air while Zuko did the same with his flames. This made an explosion that forced Laxus away.

"We will defeat you!" Zuko said with a face of anger.

"You little brats!" Laxus said.

"Wait!" Aang said standing in front of Zuko and Natsu. "Listen Laxus, this has got to stop. Turning the girls into stone statues, threatening the lives of everyone who lives here? Where do you draw the line? I don't want to have to fight you Laxus."

"WHAT!?" Natsu yelled. "But I *want* to fight him!"

"I want to end this peacefully, we don't have to fight. Laxus, call off the Thunder Palace, and I won't fight you." Aang made sure to keep a serious face when saying this to Laxus.

Laxus chuckles before he breaks out into hysterical laughter. "Now that's funny! You mean after all this? Even threatening to blow up the entire town, you still think there is another way!?" Laxus continues to laugh at Aang's attempt to defuse the situation with non-violence. "I can't decide whether you're really naïve or just plain arrogant!"

"We can all walk away from this without getting hurt… just do the right thing, Laxus." Aang pleaded.

"Ha! You know, when I first met you, my first impression of you was just some weakling crybaby; but then, I started to hear some things about you. You can control the four elements, even redirected my own Lightning. But what really caught my interest is that you can even use magic now; Ice-Make And Dragon Slayer Magic. Not only that, but you managed to hold your own against Jose, one of the ten wizard saints. I'd say that puts you in the top 3 for Fairy Tail's strongest wizard; me, Mystogan and you. But only one of us deserves the title, the question is which one?"

"What are you saying?" Aang asked, but he already feared that Laxus wasn't going to listen to reason.

"You may not want to fight me; but I wanna fight you! Lets see who's the strongest, Elemental Wizard?"

Meanwhile Erza was out in the streets in her Heaven's Wheel Armor and had several blades in front of her. "Blades, lend me the power to protect the city of Magnolia, and also to everyone in Fairy Tail lend me your power."

Elsewhere Lucy felt a presence while Happy was flying next to her.

"Hey, did you just hear Erza's voice?" Lucy asked.

"Yeah, I heard it as well." Happy said.

Toph raised her hand. "Yep, I heard too…"

"Strange, so did I?" Mai added. "Why is that?"

"She said to lend her our power." Lucy said.

"Well what are we doing just standing here; we've got a job to do!" Toph said.

"Aye!" They all responded, Mai quickly covered her mouth and a sweatdrop appeared as she blushed in embarassment. "I can't believe I just said that…" she said in a sort of depressing voice.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail." Toph said with a wink.

…

Gray weakly got up from the alley he was defeated in. "She wants us to help her? That's not like you Erza!" He looked to the many Thunder lacrima that littered the sky. "I see… If I can get Erza's voice to reach everyone like it reached me… for that I need Warren's help. Gray weakly walked to find Warren.

Elsewhere Chun was on a roof of a building and she somehow also heard Erza's plea for help. "That must be my imagination right? Even if that was real… why would I be hearing this… I am their enemy after all…" she remembered the words Lucy said to her. *"**Those who shed tears for their friends will never be rejected from Fairy Tail***.*"* "*I can't dwell on that now. I have to do what I can to stop the Thunder Palace... but will I alone make a difference…?*"

Natsu has his arms engulfed by flames. "**Fire Dragon's Dazzling Blaze**!" he shoots a fireball to Laxus who easily counters with a powerful lightning bolt which more than easily destroys the attack making a huge smoke cloud. Natsu slid back this allowed Aang to quickly speed to Laxus and he made a twisting pile of collunms from the ground speed to Laxus, but he simply destroyed them by expanding his Electric energy. "Is that all you got, huh? Avatar." He sees Zuko above him and he throws long flames whips to engulf Laxus but he dodges them. Zuko speeds to him and places his hand on his stomach, Laxus does the same thing to Zuko. Laxus charges and makes an explosion of electrical energy on Zuko's stomach. Zuko performed the same action with his firebending. Both were sent backwards but in Zuko's case he slid back while his body was giving off electrical sparks.

"You should realize this, Natsu, Aang!" Laxus yelled. Natsu was confused by what Laxus was saying. "Don't you see how pitiful this guild has become?" He make a powerful ball of lightning in between his hands and throws it at Natsu and Aang who manages to dodge it by going off in different directions. Laxus was currently surrounded by electrical sparks. "I will change the guild!" both Aang, Natsu and Zuko were dodging Laxus' lightning that was travelling on the ground, after Aang avoided another lightning attack, he made wide earth pillars that lifted him, Natsu and Zuko off the ground. "And to do that, I must become the Master!"

Aang who was on the pillar made rocks magnetize to his right arm and surrounded it in air. He jumped off the pillar and flew to Laxus. "I WON'T LET YOU!" Aang rocky, air fist collided with Laxus' electrical fist but his earth gauntlet suddenly shattered and Aang fell to his knees. Laxus kicked Aang to a pillar with an electric foot. The Avatar bounced off the pillar and was falling to the ground. When he hit the ground Laxus looked down at him with a smirk. "Is that really the best you've got… huh you little runt?" Aang weakly looked up at Laxus.

Lucy, Happy, Mai, and Toph were running through one of the many streets in Magnolia. "Where is everyone?" Happy asked

"Now out of all times, we can't find anyone…" Lucy said. "Toph… can you sense anyone from Fairy Tail close by?"

"Not yet, we gotta keep moving."

…

Gray meanwhile in mixed in with a small crowd of people.

"Warren Rocco!" He yelled. "Are you there, Warren?"

Inside the Cathedral Natsu was heard screaming and he raised a fiery fist to punch Laxus but his attack was countered by Laxus' electric fist and in this dual Laxus was on top and he grabbed Natsu's head and threw him to the ground where he made a huge hole in the floor. While Zuko was glaring at Laxus, the Lightning Wizard looks at the runes that represented the timing of the Thunder Palace.

"Still a minute and thirty seconds until the Thunder Palace activates? What the hell are you doin' old man. Don't you know what'll happen to the city?"

"I wouldn't worry if I were you, no matter what happens, you're not gonna win." Zuko said.

"What do you mean?"

"You can blow up this whole town, but you'll never get your hands on Fairy Tail, and even if you do, you still won't be satisfied." Laxus' eyes widen as he is shocked to hear this. "You know as well as I don't that it's not really what you want; you chose your path, but now you're upset because you've already come this far and you can't back out of it!" Laxus grits his teeth and glares at Zuko. A growing flame forms above Zuko's hand. "Besides, Magnolia's gonna be fine, Erza's taking your Thunder Palace down." He begins to run to the Lightning throwing maniac. "It's not so easy sticking to a cause you don't fully believe in, is it Laxus!?" the flame grew into a short fire whip and prepared to throw it to Laxus while preparing to punch him afterwards.

"SHUT UP! LIKE YOU HAVE A CLUE!" A surge of electrical energy forms in Laxus' fist as he arched it back to try and punch Zuko.

…

Meanwhile outside, Erza is summoning many different swords and axes using the power of her Heaven's Wheel Armor. When she summoned about seven swords at a time, next to the already high amount she's summoned she starts to become weak but manages to keep using her magical power. It was revealed that a magenta magical circle on beneath Erza and also that she had summoned a huge number of swords to use on the Thunder Palace. She grunted as she had to summon more blades. "One hundred!" she exclaimed, she panted heavily and looked to the Lacrima. "Not enough!" another blade is summoned.

Before long the Lacrima start sparking as they began to release yellow electrical energy but not on the town yet, this indicated that the Thunder Palace was close to activating. Seeing this, Erza instantly summoned a dozen more sword in a second.

…

Lucy, Toph, Mai and Happy were running find anyone from Fairy Tail and Gray was running to find Warren.

…

Back to the battle, Zuko is knocked back to Aang and Natsu but he quickly gets up. Aang glares at Laxus. "LAXUS!" he furiously yells as he had a compressed ball of air in his hand as he ran to meet Laxus.

The Lightning Wizard likewise charged to Aang with his entire arm surrounded by his yellow Lighting, both attacks hit as a huge mixture of air and lightning surrounded them.

…

Erza had a huge portion of the Thunder Palace in her sights from the ground. She looked as if she was concentrating really hard. She had just summoned 198 swords so far to destroy as many of the sparking Lacrima as she could. She had summoned two more swords in slow succession to make a total of 200 swords all aimed at a portion of the Thunder Palace. Yet she was panting very heavily. "If I want to destroy them all at once, I still need more…" Erza fell to her knees in fatigue. "*I'm out of magical power… and also out of time.* *What should I do?*"

…

While in the Cathedral, Laxus and Aang were still clashing in that one attack, but Laxus easily overpowered Aang and sent him crashing through three pillars. "Is that seriously all that you have, kid? Perhaps that fight against the Firebending Girl has significantly weakened you. Aang made a curve of columns shoot out, but Laxus jumped back from them, he was surprised to see Aang speeding to him on an air scooter. Laxus shot lightning from his open palm but he was missing and Aang rode his air scooter on the curving rocks he made earlier which made him dodge an attack from Laxus, Aang was speeding to Laxus and he jumped off his air scooter. He was now a high distance above Laxus and he made a grunt before slamming the ground right in front of him which made a huge pillar slam into the Lightning wizard's gut that sent him flying to a wall.

When Laxus got up he saw Zuko firing multiple fire arcs. Laxus was soon cloaked in his own lightning and easily dodged the attack. He flew fast to Zuko but he ducked down and Natsu jumped over Zuko and decked Laxus in the jaw with a fiery fist. Laxus' cheek was smoking from Natsu's flames he rubbed it and looked as Natsu, Aang and Zuko were standing together against Laxus.

"You really think you can stop me, there is not even three minutes until the Thunder Palace activates! What can you three possibly do?"

Natsu was first to respond. "Ain't nothin' gonna happen!" He sped to Laxus and tried to kick him in the face with his fiery right leg, but Laxus easily blocked it by guarding the side of his face with his arm.

"Shut the hell up!" He exclaimed. He punched Natsu in the face which sent him flying back to the open entrance.

"Aang!" Zuko yelled. The Avatar nodded in response. They both shot a huge fire stream that made a firewall in front of Laxus. The firewall soon began to form a circle around Laxus, he then noticed the flames were moving faster and getting wilder. Outside it was revealed that Zuko was adding to the fire cyclone while Aang made a low powered tornado that made the flames stronger. Zuko forced the flames to engulf Laxus which made him scream out and sparks were seen exiting the cyclone. The attack caused an explosion of white smoke. "You were warned, Laxus." Zuko coldly said.

Through the smoke, a spark was seen which Aang noticed, he saw a figure obscured by the smoke behind Zuko. "Behind you!" Aang yelled but Laxus got to Zuko first as he slammed the side of his fist into Zuko's side, forcing him to make a sizable dent in the wall he crashed into. He slowly walked to Aang.

"You warn me, huh? You must really think you are all that don't you!?" Laxus primed a Lightning fist towards Aang, but the Avatar crossed his arms and made a rock barrier rise from the ground that was made to protect him, however it proved to be useless as Laxus slammed right through it, several seconds after it came up. Laxus' punch connected which made Aang flip through the air three times before arriving at the wall causing a dent. Aang began panting as Laxus laughed.

…

Erza had summoned another sword and looked physically tired but knew she had to keep going. "Unless I have another 100 blades… I can't simultaneously…" she looked up at the still sparking Thunder Palace. Suddenly…

"***Hey! Can everyone hear me!?***" A voice yelled and the voice sounded like it was coming from inside their own heads.

"Warren?" Erza wondered aloud.

"***This is an emergency! Look up at the sky!***"

"Is it my mind…Telepathy?" Erza figured.

"Wake up you lazy bums!" Warren yelled. The Fairy Tail members that had just gotten up, like Droy, Jet and Macao had looked up at the sky and were surprised by what they saw. "And if there's anyone still fighting, hold up for now!"

On top of a castle-like roof were Lucy, Mai, Toph and Happy.

"I must seriously be hearing things." Mai remarked. "It's like there is a voice in my head."

"Yeah, I hear it too." Lucy said. "Why is that?"

"That's Warren's telepathy." Happy explained. "He can speak into everyone's minds."

"So, what's the plan going to be?" Toph asked.

"We're probably just about to find out." Mai said.

Soon other members like Max and Nab were coming to. "Listen up, everyone! We gotta destroy those things floating in the sky with all the power we got!" It was revealed that Warren was on top of a very tall tower in the city. "It's a magic spell from Laxus that'll attack the city! There is no time! Everyone do it!" Warren had two fingers in front of his forehead. Gray was holding onto his left shoulder.

"What's this?" Wakaba asked.

Laki was next to see the Thunder Palace. "Those are Laxus'!"

Erza who still had her swords above her, asked Warren a question. "Warren, why do you know about the Thunder Palace?"

"That voice? Erza! You're okay***?***" Warren asked seeming surprised.

Warren quickly let Erza know that Gray told him the whole situation. The Ice wizard mentioned how long it took to find Warren.

Soon other voices could be heard and everyone could communicate through Warren's telepathy. "Erza, you're not turned to stone…" Droy asked. "So, if Erza's okay…"

"…are the others? What about Levy?" Jet finished.

"Everyone is safe." Erza answered. "Worry not."

Also Mira, Cana, Katara, Suki, Juvia, Elfman, Sokka and Ty Lee had made it back into town. "Juvia and Katara are alright." Elfman said.

"So is Bisca, Alzack." Mira said, wanting to let Alzack know that Bisca was safe.

"I see…" Alzack said as he begun to lean back on the wall. "Thank goodness… Really…"

"So Freed is taken care of, what about the other guy?" Sokka asked.

"The guy with the dolls, we took care of it." Toph said.

"*Sorry! My Telepathy can't reach all the way to the guild. We'll have to do it with the people who can hear me. Destroy those things in the sky**!***"

"Damn you Warren!" Max cursed. "Did you forget what you did to me?" he angrily asked.

"*Max! I'm sorry man. I was, like, really trying to save Erza and the others, so…*"

"This is Droy! Can you hear me, Alzack?" Droy asked.

"I-I hear you. I'm sorry about before." Alzack apologized.

"You think that's going to cut it!? You hit me with a sneak attack! And you too Wakaba!"

Soon arguments over Warren's telepathy were happening. One of the girls that Laki beat said that they aren't going to forgive her.

While everyone was arguing Toph had a dark look on her face. She then did the only thing she could think of to stop all this. "HEY! STOP FIGHTING EACH OTHER YOU BUNCH OF MORONS!" Toph yelled which slightly hurt Warren's ears.

"YOU'RE ONE TO TALK!" they all yelled back.

"YOU REALLY THINK THAT MATTERS RIGHT NOW!? THE LACRIMA HAVE GOT TO GO DOWN!" Toph sighed. "It's like talking to a bunch of children." She muttered.

"WE HEARD THAT!" They yelled now hurting Toph's ear drums.

Despite Toph's words, the arguing continued among the guild members. Lucy had her right hand to her chest and she clenched it.

"Enough!" Ryu shouted to get their attention, stopping the verbal shouting match. This wasn't a good time to continue bickering.

"Everyone, listen!" She yelled. "We all have to work together to protect the city of Magnolia! If we combine our powers, we can accomplish anything! That's what I've learned after coming here." Many of the guild members were now thinking about Lucy's words, even Mai who stood a distance from her was taking her words to heart. "I know I just joined Fairy Tail recently. But my feelings for this guild are as strong as anybody's! Fairy Tail has since been my dream. It has always been my goal."

"Alright. In less than three minutes the Thunder Palace will blow Magnolia to Kingdom Come unless we stop it. Time for us to prove we're not as weak as Laxus thinks we are."

Chun who was also in Warren's telepathy range was hearing her words. "*Lucy… do you really feel so strongly about this guild…?*"

Lucy now had tears developing in her eyes. "So please… everyone, let's protect the city, and our guild!" Erza who like everyone heard every word, had a slightly surprised expression. "And if that won't convince everyone!" Lucy pulled out her whip and prepared to use it. "I'll destroy all the lacrima myself!" All the guild members who heard Lucy now began either smiling or smirking.

Chun who was alone on a rooftop simply smiled and clenched her fist as she remembers how she previously doubted herself in destroying enough Lacrima to save the city. "*I get it now… It's not a question of can or can't. It's about doing all that you can to protect those closest to you… Hen… Kobu… I'll bring you back alive… no matter what it takes!*

The blonde mage felt a hand on her left shoulder and saw Mai was standing next to her."I'm impressed… you really know how to make a statement." Mai pulled out all of her knives as they were between their fingers. "I'm with you all the way!" she said with a smirk.

"Maybe you're not so useless after all." Toph said to Lucy. "Even if we're getting electrified to hell and back, I'm gonna help you take those things down." Toph smirked before she began yelling… "So, who's with us!?"

Cana smirked. "Hey everyone, you really gonna let the newbie one up you like that?"

"She's not new anymore." Gray began. "She's got more Fairy Tail spirit than any of us!"

"Yeah! Lucy's right!" Sokka yelled. "Now who's with us!?"

"We got your back Lucy!" Ty Lee yelled.

"You guys…" Lucy said as she began choking up.

Erza meanwhile had an impressed look on her face.

"Warren, we'll settle this after those things are destroyed." Max said.

"Macao, you can't handle this! Take a nap!" Wakaba mockingly yelled.

"Oh yeah, Wakaba! You sure prance around a lot for an old man."

Lucy had just wiped the tears from her face. "Let's go Happy!" Lucy said.

"They have Body Link magic protecting them!" Happy reminded. "If you attack them, you'll get damaged too. It's gonna hurt!"

"Even if it hurts, I'll do it! I always looked up to Fairy Tail… And I've gotten to be such good friends with everyone…" she begins to flash back to all of her moments in Fairy Tail. Where she was caught by Natsu, also when the whole guild stood up for her when her father hired Phantom Lord to attack them, and to the moment where she cried because of their kindness. "Sure, a lot of things have happened. But everyone has always been so warm. This guild is my home. My heart yells out 'This is where I should be!' So I'm going to fight. Because it was Fairy Tail that made me strong!"

Happy looked to be thinking about his decision till he finally came to a conclusion. "Right on!" Happy cheerfully said.

"Thank you… Lucy…" She turned back to see Chun's smiling face from a distance and she also had tears that were resting on her cheeks.

"It's… you!" Lucy whispered.

"What did you say?" Toph asked.

"Did anyone else here a strange voice?" Mai added.

"N-never mind! Let's go happy!" Lucy yelled.

"Aye sir!" Happy was flying her across the city to meet with one of the Lacrima.

Suddenly from a huge distance away the generation of blue lightning was seen, it was being generated by Chun. She was aiming it at one of the Lacrima that was closest to her. The lightning bolt made its mark and it managed to overload the Lacrima which cause it to explode. Soon energy from the destroyed Lacrima resulted in a yellow lightning bolt, the same strength's as Chun's was speeding to her. She was engulfed in the yellow lightning but she outstretched her right pointing fingers after her left fingers absorbed the energy. "I… won't… lose… TO THIS!" She yelled. While all of her hair was standing up she redirected the energy to a second Lacrima which caused it to explode instantly. Chun was panting and she had some minor burn marks on her body. The second counter by the Lacrima struck Chun but this time she redirected the lightning bolt into the sky where it hit no target. She lied on her back while heavily panting… "No… I'm not finished yet…" she muttered to herself. "…Still a lot of work to do…" she stood up on one leg and saw Lucy on her way to one of the Lacrima

Meanwhile Erza was preparing to use her swords against the Lacrima. "I'll handle the 200 to the North! The rest of you destroy all the ones around the South!" she commanded.

Gray was preparing an ice attack. "Don't leave a single one out! **Ice Make Lance**!" he shot eight javelins made of ice, up towards the Lacrima.

Toph who was still on the same roof had many bricks and building foundations floating to her sides. "You sure you won't miss them?" Mai asked.

"I can hear them sparking, trust me, this will be a piece of cake! But what about you, how are you going to get closer?" Toph asked. Suddenly she heard an all too familiar roar. Appa appeared next to them with Katara at the reins, and Momo on her shoulder. "Never mind." Sokka, Ty Lee and Suki were on his back.

"Quick Mai, get on!" Katara said.

"We don't have that much time." Ty Lee added.

"Alright." She jumped onto Appa to join the three.

"You sure you'll be alright Toph…?" Katara asked.

"I wouldn't worry about me, just go!" Appa flew to the direction of the Southern Lacrima.

Mira, who was currently in her Satan Soul was charging an attack. "**Demon Blast**!" A purple energy ball with a white energy core grew in her hands till it shot in the form of a powerful energy blast.

"**Light Dragon**...**Roar**!" A huge burst of light aimed up to the sky disintegrated several Lacrima. Ash was joining in the effort to save Magnolia.

Elfman threw a stone pillar. Cana threw different energy colored cards at the targets. Juvia shot a sharp bullet of water, Alzack shot using his magic pistols, Reedus painted a cannon on his stomach and it fired a cannon shell.

In the air Appa was flying to the sides of the Lacrima. "Let's go!" Ty Lee cheered. Showing no fear she jumped off Appa and was heading to the one of the Lacrima, she landed on it with a hard kick that damaged it and caused electricity to crackle, she had both of Mai's sai in her hands. She jumped off the Lacrima before she swiftly headed for another one, she used the sais to cross slice it before going to a third one and throwing a huge slice with one of the sai. She jumped off and Appa then caught her.

"Are you crazy!?" Mai yelled. "I was worried that-"

"Hey, there was only one way I could think of destroying them."

Katara made Appa stop a small distance away.

"Everyone ready?" Sokka asked. Katara, Mai and Suki nodded.

Meanwhile on the ground Erza was now prepared to attack. "Now, go forth my blades!" She chanted, the swords became engulfed in bright yellow energy and were flying to the 200 lacrima Erza had targeted.

Happy and Lucy flew to a Lacrima where Lucy was dropped and she attacked the Lacrima with her whip while doing a battle cry. Happy flew to another hoping to destroy it on his own. "**Max Speed Attack**!" He yelled as his wings glowed green and he flipped several times in the air as he increased his speed towards the lacrima. He headbutted it, causing a spider web like cracks to spread from the impact point.

Iroh was on the ground and he took a deep breath before shooting powerful flames from his mouth which was speeding to a Lacrima.

From Appa, Katara made a long water whip with ice on the edges, she swung her arms and it sliced past four Lacrima. Sokka on the other hand had his new boomerang in his hand, he threw it and it sliced past two lacrima. Mai threw five blades which pierced through the same amount of Lacrima. Suki threw one of her fans in an attempt to slice one of the lacrima.

On one side of the city many different coloured magic attacks directed towards each of the lacrima could be seen.

Toph threw ten bricks into the air and they were heading for the Lacrima on the South side. One of her bricks hits the lacrima and caused a crack.

After that, all the Lacrima which made the Thunder Palace soon exploded into dust one after the other. Shiny sparkles were now falling to the ground as remains of the Lacrima.

Once the citizens of Magnolia saw the particles they began to wonder if it was some kind of firework show. One person commented on how Fairy Tail keeps doing things that get flashier every year.

Erza looked up to the sky and saw that the Thunder Palace was destroyed. "We did it."

Toph smirked as she saw the explosions. "Ha! Take that Laxus!" She yelled.

Everyone was smiling at the fact that they managed to save Magnolia from almost a gruesome fate. But that was short lived as everyone who attacked was now surrounded by yellow sparks of electricity. They were all soon faced with a powerful electric shock. First Gray and Warren, Mira and Elfman, Cana and Juvia; In the sky on Appa; Katara, Sokka and Mai, Ty Lee then finally Suki. Erza was next, Lucy and Happy got to the ground and after a brief moment they got shocked too. Toph felt the powerful electric current forcing itself through her body.

Thunder bolts were falling on every single Fairy Tail member. This agonizing pain only went on for about 16 seconds for everyone.

All the members who were shocked had a similar expression which showed they were singed and their eyes had turned white… even Mai…

…

"Everyone, Are you okay?" Erza asked using Warren's telepathy.

"Define okay, Erza?" Toph said as she could barely move.

Erza soon chucled. "You people are so reckless."

"What do you expect?" Ryu asked, smirking. He had dropped down to one knee.

"Birds of a feather, you know…" Gray said.

"Speak for yourself…" Mai said. "Ow, that was really stupid…"

"Mai, are you okay?" Ty Lee asked, showing concern.

"Yeah, I'm fine, thanks." Mai thanked with a smile.

"We really are a great guild." Erza said.

"You bet!" Toph said. "But it'd be a whole lot better if Laxus could just take a chill pill."

Wakaba give a huge sigh before he chuckled. "You can say that again kid."

"Well since we officially can barely move… is everyone still alive…?" Mai dryly asked.

"Man, even when we win you still find a way to bring us down." Toph commented.

"…Just doing my job." Mai smirked.

On top of a nearby roof, Chun heard the conversations that took place since she was also in Warren's telepathy range. "*Fairy Tail… they all seem so happy. Maybe if I had accepted Lucy's offer instead of hiding away, I could be with them right now… they are definitely more lively and happy than my family… My brother was the only one who brought happiness into my life… The Avatar is my enemy, but that doesn't mean Fairy Tail has to be… I will save my brother, but I won't destroy Fairy Tail to do it…*" she closed her eyes. "*Maybe I'll rest here for a moment.*"

At the Kardia Cathedral, Laxus saw the runes for the Thunder Palace, disappear. After they did, Zuko began to speak. "What did I tell you?" Zuko said. "So, what's plan C? Huh, Laxus?" Zuko mockingly asked.

"What part of this guild needs to be changed?" Natsu asked going into a fighting stance. "We're all in the same circle of friends. You never even tried to join that circle! How're you gonna become the master, Laxus?"

Laxus' eyes were not seen and he did a loud yell before he made a powerful thunderbolt engulf him, this sent shockwaves that were pushing Natsu and Zuko back. Aang used Earthbending to plant his legs into the ground.

"How am I going to become the master, you say?" Laxus said. "By force!"