Earth Land, Ishgar, Bosco, Unnamed Mountain Range.
August 17, x791.
"Damn it!" Jackal shouted as he was sent flying by the explosion caused by the three [Dragon's Roars]. "I'll blow you all to smithereens! Just you wait!"
"Yeah, that's not gonna happen!" Gajeel shouted as he dashed in from in front of Jackal. "[Iron Dragon's Sword]."
With that, Gajeel drew Metalicana from his back and slashed at Jackals' chest.
Reacting quickly, Jackal covered his arms and hands with his [Bomb Curse] and blocked the blow.
*Crack!*
*Boom~~~~~!*
While Jackal was once again sent flying by the power behind Gajeel's blow, he also set off an explosion that completely engulfed the Iron Dragon Slayer. On top of that, with his magic power coating his arms, he took very little damage from the blow. Though, he was certain that one of his forearms had fractured. Though, that was a small price to pay to get rid of one of Fairy Tail's strongest wizards.
*Slurp~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!*
"Hahaha!" Jackal, despite flying through the air uncontrollably, laughed loudly in triumph while ignoring the strange slurping sound he could hear from the direction of his explosion. "And that's why you foolish humans should have just known your place and let yourselves be crushed under foot!"
*Zap!*
"You talk too much." Laxus, flashing in the path of Jackal's flight, said coldly. "And you're too damn loud. So, why don't you shut up for a second? [Lightning Dragon's Heavenward Halberd]."
Like Gajeel, when Laxus appeared, he also drew his [Soul Armament], Elexion, and swung it at Jackal. However, instead of sending him flying in the opposite direction, he swung his halberd upwards, sending Jackal flying into the air.
"Ahh~~~~~! Damn you!" Jackal shouted as he reoriented himself near the peak of his flight and aimed his hands at Laxus on the ground. "You'll pay for that!"
"Hey! Salamander! What the hell are you doing?" Gajeel, no longer engulfed in flames and donning his [Iron Dragon Scales], shouted.
"Huh?" Jackal, surprised to hear the voice of someone he thought should have been dead, turned to look in the voice's direction. "How is this possible? You should be little more than charred pieces of flesh at this point!"
"Do you really think your little explosions are strong enough to break the scales of an Iron Dragon?" Gajeel asked in a smug tone.
"We'll just have to put that to the test, then!" Jackal shouted angrily as he turned his hands towards Gajeel instead.
"Not so fast!" Natsu, falling from above Jackal, shouted with his right hand reeled back and wreathed in flames. "[Burn Everything, Igneel]. [Fire Dragon King's Destruction Fist]!"
{A/N: I forgot Natsu's release command and somehow the file I had with all the release commands got corrupted. So, if anyone remembers it, let me know.}
"What!?" Jackal shouted in surprise as he turned his head to look behind him.
When he did, the only thing jackal saw was a fist flying towards him engulfed in extremely intense flames.
"My fire can even burn explosions!" Natsu shouted just as his fist slammed into Jackal's face.
*Boom~~~~~~~!*
With that, the flames around Natsu's fist rapidly combusted when they interacted with Jackal's [Bomb Curse]. At the same time, Jackal, burned and smoking, was sent hurdling towards the ground at high speed.
"[Bow Before the King of Lightning, Elexion]." Laxus chanted as his halberd's staff split in the middle, a chain connected the two sides, and a second head appeared on its butt end. "Lightning Dragon King's Lightning Chain]."
*Boom~~~~~!*
Then, just as Jackal slammed into the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust and debris, Laxus hurled the two ends of his chain halberd into the dust cloud. With the chain extending in both directions, Laxus felt it when the chain wrapped around the figure in the cloud. And when the hooks at the head of each halberd sank into the figure's, Jackal's, flesh, he sent a surge of lightning through the chain, whose center he held in his hands.
"Ahh~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!" Jackal screamed from the pain of having his flesh pierced while being electrocuted. "[Explosion]! [Explosion]! [Explosion]!"
*Boom~~~~~~~~~~!* *Boom~~~~~~~~~~!* *Boom~~~~~~~~~~!*
With Jackal's screams, he set off several massive explosions. In fact, the explosions were so powerful that Laxus was forced to release him from Elexion's grasp.
"Damn... Just how did Alfonzo and Elicia deal with this guy so easily?" Laxus asked angrily.
"It doesn't matter!" Gajeel shouted as he rushed forward. "[Crush Them with Claws and Fangs of Iron, Metalicana]. [Iron Dragon Incarnation]."
Like Laxus, Gajeel's weapon transformed as he spoke his release command allowed, the blade of his bastard sword gaining saw-like serrations. On top of that, they began to roar as they rotated around the edge of the blade. Meanwhile, an iron armor that resembled a small Metalicana materialized around Gajeel. And when it was complete, Gajeel flapped the wings on the back of the armor as his speed increased explosively. Then, with his blade leveled at Jackal, who he could sense thanks to Magic Power Detection, he charged into the aftermath of the explosions.
*Splatter!*
A moment later, a blur rushed out of the smoke before slamming into a pile of rubble. When it did, the blur was revealed to be Gajeel pinning Jackal to the rubble with his sword, serrated edge spinning, stabbed through his abdomen.
"Damn... you..." Jackal said weakly as he reached out for Gajeel's head with is hands.
"Hmph!" Gajeel only snorted while watching the hands of the Etherious inching towards his face.
"[Fire Dragon King's Roar]."
"[Lightning Dragon King's Roar]."
"Looks like that's the end." Gajeel said with a sneer as he pulled his sword out of Jackal's abdomen before jumping back.
In the next instant, torrents of fire and lightning slammed into Jackal and the pile of rubble he was slumped against.
"Damn you~~~~~~~~~~!"
"Boom~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~!*
And with the power of Laxus' and Natsu's combined strength, Jackal, the rubble he was leaning against, and several yards of the surroundings were completely obliterated, leaving nothing but a smoldering crater in their place.
"Well... That was... underwhelming." Laxus said as he walked towards Gajeel.
"I thought he would be stronger." Gajeel replied as he dispelled the [Iron Dragon Incarnation] and resealed Metalicana.
"That's because Fairy Tail is the strongest!" Natsu shouted triumphantly as he approached the other two.
"Things wouldn't have been this easy if Alfonzo never created all those training chambers for the guild, though." Laxus pointed out. "Just imagine if we were as weak as the other versions of us we saw after the Grand Magic Games."
While Natsu wanted to deny Laxus' statement, claiming that it was because of the guild's hard work, he could not find the words to do so. Though, that did not really surprise anyone thanks to his universally understood low IQ. Even so, Natsu also knew that Laxus was right.
Gajeel also agreed. Not only had Alfonzo created the gravity training chambers. But he had also created the [Soul Armaments], which were able to push the wizards strengths to another level.
While pondering that, the three Dragon Slayers suddenly looked up towards the sky in the north where Bosco bordered Isvan after feeling a huge magic power fluctuation in the distance.
"What is that?" Natsu asked in a solemn tone.
"I don't know... It's outside of my MPD range." Laxus replied in a solemn tone of his own.
"Yeah..." Gajeel said in an equally solemn tone. "But whatever it is, it's bad news."
Going back a few moments, Fried, Gray, and Erza were engaging Ezel.
"[Dark Ecriture: Pain]." Fried chanted as Erza forced Ezel into Fried's line of sight.
"Argh!" Ezel roared as pain racked his entire body.
Even so, Ezel was not rendered incapacitated by the flood of pain. Instead, he swung his right arm at Erza, who was charging towards him to take advantage of his pain-filled state.
"[Otenta]." Ezel chanted, causing a concentrated slash formed from his curse power.
In response, Erza immediately stopped her approach and wrapped the wings of her [Ataraxia Armor] around herself, using them as a shield.
*Shing!*
The sound of the sharp energy grinding against the wings made from swords screeched across the area, the force of the blow pushing Erza backwards while her feet left trenches in the ground.
However, before she could be pushed too far back, Erza spun in place while extending her wings. As a result, Ezel's slash was sent flying in another direction while Erza managed to stop her momentum.
"What?" Ezel exclaimed in confusion.
However, before Ezel could begin questioning how it was possible that Erza was able to stop his attack, he felt the temperature around him beginning to drop drastically.
"[Ice Devil's Laughter]."
Hearing that chant, Ezel looked up to wear he heard it coming from. When he did, he found Gray, who had leapt above his head, in midair with is arms spread and large shards of ice forming to either side of his outstretched arms.
"Do you think that will be enough to defeat me?" Ezel asked as he crossed his four arms in front of his chest. "No matter how cold or hard your ice is, I can cut through anything. [Onimaru]."
With that, Ezel swung his four arms in an X-pattern. As a result, he sent an X-shaped slash in Gray's direction, the arms of the X growing wider the further away from the center point they were, to clash with the ice shards Gray launched at him.
*Boom!*
The resulting collision caused the both the curse power slash and the ice shards to explode, ice dust filling the air and refracting the light into an aurora. However, as beautiful as the sight was, the battle continued to rage on.
"[Requip: Black Wing Armor]." Erza chanted a she approached Ezel from his left. "[Black Wing: Moon Flash]."
"[Dark Ecriture: Destruction]." Fried, approaching from Ezel's other side, chanted with his sword drawn.
Noticing the attacks coming from each side, Ezel, though unable to bring as much force to bear as he would have liked, swung the arms on his left and right at Erza and Fried, respectively, gathering as much of his curse power on his arms as he could in such a short time.
*Shing!* x 2
In the next instant, both Fried and Erza flashed past Ezel, switching positions, both standing in their post attack postures. As for Ezel, he stood between the two wizards, one arm on each side of his torso having been severed.
Feeling the pain in his arms, Ezel did not have to look down to know they had been severed. On top of that, as he looked to either side, the two arms spinning through the air served as additional proof of his disarming.
"Argh~~~~~~~!" Ezel roared in both pain and anger after having his arms cut off.
Yet, before he could say anything, a surge of magic power drew his attention to the front.
"[Ice Devil's Resentment]." Gray said calmly as his surge in power reached its peak. "[Ice Blade: Seven Slice Dance]."
With the second chant,an [Ice-Make] spell, sharp ice blades formed on Gray's forearms. Then, he began to spin and swing his arms at high speed with the first five slashes, each a single, accurate slash, aimed at Ezel's four remaining limbs and his neck. Then, with both arms crossed over his head, Gray brought them down, slashing in an X-shape across the Etherious' chest.
"And that's done." Gray said calmly. "Let's go and see if anyone needs our help."
As he spoke, Gray turned away from Ezel, who was frozen in the position he had been in after his lower pair of arms were severed. Gray then started walking away at a leisurely pace.
Seeing how confidently Gray was leaving the battle, Fried and Erza exchanged glances. Then, they both reverted to their base forms before following behind him.
*Crack!*
After the trio took around a dozen steps away, the sound of cracking ice could be heard from where Ezel stood frozen. In the next instant, his arms fell away from his body. Shortly afterwards, his head slid off his neck. Then, his torso and legs, above the knee, fell backwards.
*Shatter!*
Finally, when Ezel's torso hit the ground, it divided into four pieces, divided by the X-shaped wound Gray left with his last two slashes. And if one were to take a closer look, they would see that all the cuts were completely smooth. On top of that, other than the stumps left by Fried and Erza, none of the other wounds were bleeding. Instead, it was easy to see that they were all frozen over.
Around the same time the pieces of Ezel hit the ground, Fried, Gray, and Erza all looked in the direction of the Bosco/Isvan border.
"Such immense magic power." Fried said breathlessly. "My Magic Power Detection doesn't reach far enough to identify it. Yet, I can feel just how overwhelming it is."
"Indeed." Erza replied, a grave expression on her face.
"But what in the world is it?" Gray asked solemnly.
"There's only one thing it could be..." Erza replied. "And I'm sure you both already know what that is. Anyway, let's hurry and bring all the battles to an end. We can't deal with that and the demons at the same time."
"There's no guarantee we can deal with that even if it's by itself." Fried replied. "But our chances are a lot better if it's alone."
And with that, Fried, Erza, and Gray rushed to assist the others before what they were sensing could enter their ranges of detailed detection.