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"Coral!" Makarov yells as he arrives in the throne room, the highest chamber of The Great Reef's fortress.
The woman leaps forward, raising the right hand and firing a beam of green Magic Energy at him.
He mirrors her with a beam of golden Light Magic. She grits her teeth and focuses, stopping his attack from overwhelming her, bringing them to a stalemate.
They continue the clash, pushing and pulling against each other, and Makarov forms a few more Magic Circles at his back. From them, streaks of Light Magic fire and curve through the air to attack her, but Coral forms golems from Magic Energy beside her, making them leap into the attacks and defend her.
"Damn it! You could have been such a great role model for this coming era, why did you do this?!"
They unleash more attacks while maintaining the main tug of war, releasing enough Magic Energy to stir up powerful winds and begin shaking apart the fortress. "For what? To always serve under stupid politicians? Power is all that matters in this world. Power is freedom, and I will be free of anyone telling me what to do!"
"You're already a damned Wizard Saint, don't give me that crap about freedom. This is about conquest and control."
Coral smiles, then narrows her eyes at the man. "Well I figured I should practice the speech now for when I take over."
"Such a shame, so young and already this powerful. One day you could have surpassed everyone, maybe even God Serena himself. But you've dabbled in evil Magics, so where is it?"
"I don't know what you're talking about."
"Where is the Book of Zeref?! We know you have it. Hand it over so we can end this, any longer and there could be a Cataclysm!"
Coral slides back, but digs in her heels and holds her ground. "Cataclysm. Two Mages at the level of a Wizard Saint can cause such a thing when they clash, but, that assumes we're evenly matched."
Her entire body glows green, putting all her efforts into overpowering the man, but Makarov surprises her by increasing his output to overcome her. Coral's eyes wide as her understanding of his absurd power deepens.
And before she could adjust the plan, the air around them is saturated with Magic Energy. The clashing beams cause a devastating explosion that blows the roof of the fortress off. Ethernano from both their Spells collide in the atmosphere, still charged with the properties of their Magics.
Above the fortress, the polarized air reacts to the Ethernano, latching onto either Makarov's Light Magic particles, or Coral's Great Reef Magic particles. They cause the energy to fuse and dance from one particle to the next, creating massive arcs of golden or green lightning that dance across the sky.
The arcs descend onto the base before spreading out to the surrounding landscape, bringing hurricane winds with them and heating the air. A Cataclysm, a natural disaster that can only be formed when two absurdly powerful Magics collide, or when one Oberon Alkwan releases too much energy.
Neither Wizard Saint pauses to appreciate this event, instead, they rush in and battle fists against fists. Makarov uses his Giant Magic to constantly alter his proportions and strength, dominating in close quarters combat until Coral forms living spike armor on her body, impaling his left wrist.
He quickly snaps the spike, leaving it in his wrist before kicking her aside, and the woman ignores the aches in her bones, sensing that her strongest allies have fallen. They fight with violent fervor for a while longer, until Coral summons a Magic Circle onto herself.
"Great Coral Golem!" A shroud of green Magic Energy surrounds her as the body of the golem forms, towering over the fortress and breaking it under the immense weight. And floating where the last remnants of the throne room are, Makarov looks up with a bored expression.
He scoffs and flies toward its head while the golem punches down, breaking away another part of the fortress as he deftly moves around its fist, rising into the sky as a mote of golden light.
"The worst possible move," Makarov says as he activates his most infamous Magic. "You should know not to challenge me in this manner…"
Golden light shines across the entire valley as he grows to be head and shoulder taller than the Coral Golem, unleashing Fairy Tail's fables Light Titan. His shirtless body boasts rippling muscles and the Fairy Tail emblem on his chest, and each movement causes the battlefield to shake and shift.
Raising his right hand, he enhances his strike with Light Magic before bringing his palm down on the golem's head, shattering it and the entire body instantly before following through and palming the ground beside the fortress, flattening a few buildings in the process.
Thanks to his Giant Magic, his body has disproportionately high super strength and durability, making him a true Light Titan. The Magic Energy he exudes while fighting as Light Magic shakes the area around him, breaking apart anything unfortunate enough to persist in his presence.
Looking down at the barely standing remains of the fortress, he sees the bloodied and battered Coral land in the throne room, lying on the floor. Shrinking back to his usual size, he doesn't bother to Requip his coat back while floating down to her.
"Where is the Book of Zeref?" he asks, glaring down at the broken woman.
She reaches up to point at him, and feeling her Magic Energy flowing to her finger, he quick-fires a Lightshot, destroying her hand. Coral seethes in pain, glaring up at the man. "The Four Gods of Ishgar, should be five…"
"I don't do this for fame, only to protect people. Now hand over the book. I can assure you the Magic Council's methods won't be this polite."
Coral closes her eyes, sensing her people dropping one by one outside, and Rune Knights already scaling the crumbling fortress to come apprehend her. So she steels her will, and decides to bet everything on one bold move.
"I'm not spending my days in a box!" The Book Of Zeref is Requiped onto her chest, and before Makarov can grab it, the cover flips open.
Coral bet that she, a great and powerful Wizard Saint could control a Book of Zeref, and as many in both past and future shall learn, only Zeref can accomplish such a feat.
Her body is instantly consumed by flowing black ichor, beaded with glowing red eyes. In the same instant, it rushes to Makarov, the greatest source of Magic Energy nearby.
He instantly moves away, firing Light Shot at it, but the black liquid happily drinks in his power, growing and surging forward even faster. Before he can escape, its eyes become a mix of red and green, having completely assimilated Coral's life.
It grabs onto him as he's moving away. 'Get away from the fortress be—' his communication is cut off. The ichor blocks his ability to use any Magic, ripping the energy from his body.
The ichor launches into the sky like a geyser, reaching high above and forming an army of glowing red and green eyes in its sea of blackness, staring hungrily at all the people outside, brimming with Magic Energy and life force.
Makarov is being slowly pulled toward it but digs his feet in, struggling against it as the entity contracts and becomes dense, happily assimilating and adapting to its newfound volume of energy.
"Damn it! Let go of me!" As the ichor is flowing up his injured hand to his wrist, slowing aiming to consume his entire body, the two Rune Knight burst into the room and rush to his side. "Don't use Magic!"
He stops them from attacking the ichor, and instead they rush to his side and begin pulling him away, but its strength is too much for them.
"Get out of here, now, both of you!" Makarov commands, but the men continue to pull, ignoring his command.
As they're pulled closer inch by inch, loud footsteps sound behind them.
"Master!" Gildarts appears and helps them pull Makarov away, instantly realizing what's going on. "Did it bind to you?!"
"Feels like it!" Makarov yells as he feels like Gildarts is going to rip him in two. "Get these two out of here. This thing absorbs—"
Oberon rushes into the room and stops beside them, raising his uninjured right hand and chopping down on the ichor connected to Makarov's hand. It instantly breaks the connection, sending the entity into a frenzy.
The ichor around Makarov's hand falls to the floor and flies back to the main body as Oberon grabs him and Gildarts takes the two Rune Knights, leaping away.
"How did you do that?!" one of the Rune Knights asks, looking at Oberon, who is flying beside him.
"I can't do that for everyone," Oberon says while holding Makarov in his arms. Gildarts glances over at the boy, seeing his left hand in a Light Magic cast, holding his hand together. Oberon notices his concerned look, but they both decide to ignore it for now.
After all, there is a tidal wave of black ichor, filled with glowing red, green, and now golden eyes chasing them through the base.
Gildarts leaps between the buildings and turns around, getting a look at the situation behind them, then returns to previous orientation before landing.
"Laxus! Get everyone in a huddle! Everyone! Now!" He then glances at Oberon. "Can you do it?"
"In theory, yeah."
"That'll do," Gildarts says, and Oberon immediately slingshots him with Gravity Magic over the entire base, toward where the Rune Knight has set up their siege base to hold captured enemies.
He lands into a roll, injuring both the Rune Knight, but nothing they can't walk off after a few days of rest. He then turns and looks up to see Makarov descending toward him, leaping up and capturing the guildmaster as softly as possible.
"Master, you need to regain your strength, fast. I can only think of one thing that'll fix this," Gildarts says while letting the man sit on the ground.
Makarov immediately assumes the meditative position, even as a war zone continues around them and more and more people crowd in, so closely packed in that prisoners, Rune Knights, and Fairy Tail Wizards are all bumping into each other.
"Get closer!" Laxus yells as people keep piling in, then notices some of the Great Reef Wizards unsure of what's going on or what to do. He uses Lightning Transportation to appear above them, and points to where everyone is gathered. "Go join the huddle if you want to live!"
They look at the floating boy, then atop the hill where everyone is gathered, and finally at the wave of death moving toward them, then immediately follow his commands.
One of the Great Reef Wizards uses Telepathy Magic to call everyone in, helping everyone get along for the sake of survival.
Laxus gets everyone he can to the muster point, packing them in so close that some people were literally on top of each other, but they were always careful not to bother Master Makarov in the middle of their formation.
Gildarts stands at the front, anxiously looking around. "Where the hell is—" he sees a dozen people hurtling toward them from above.
Beside him, Wakaba and Macao use their Magics to catch the Great Reef Wizards as they descend, realizing they were all either unconscious or far too injured to escape without help. And a moment later, Oberon flies above the buildings, moving toward them with a man who is now missing both legs.
At his knees there was black ichor falling away before flying back to the wave, and everyone understood what had just happened. Oberon throws the man toward Wakaba, who easily catches him and adds him to one of the piles.
Then as he's approaching, he forms a golden light in his uninjured right hand, they see its radiance, then through his shirt the emblazoned Fairy Tail Emblem on his right shoulder glows with an identical radiance.
Oberon increases his speed, easily arriving at the muster point ahead of the wave, then turns his back to them and raises his open hand.
Calming his mind, he relaxes his Magic Energy, dispelling the cast keeping his right hand together and numbing the pain, allowing Gildarts and some others to see the injuries he'd sustained.
Gildarts reaches down and places a hand on Oberon's shoulder, helping him fulfill one requirement of the Spell, the most difficult of them all for his situation.
A massive golden Magic Circle appears above everyone, boasting the Fairy Tail Emblem in the middle, as Oberon unleashes another of the Ultimate Fairy Magics.
"Fairy Sphere!"
CHAPTER END---
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