A Railgun in Fairy Tail Book 3: Bridge Between Worlds

Laxus vs Meltdowner

Freed Justine strolled through the alleyways of Academy City, taking special care to keep to the shadows. The battle had been escalating to the point of devestation in his opinion, especially since nothing had gone the way he planned it from the moment he began fighting Meltdowner one on one.

Freed felt he should have suspected this. He knew that when Mikoto was only using her esper powers, her strength actually almost equaled that of Erza. He should have been suspected that the esper that was only ranked one beneath her in power would probably be able to put up almost as much of a fight.

But he had underestimated Shizuri Mugino. He didn't set as many ruins as he should have. If only he had created ruins in both the sewers and the areas above ground, he might have been able to beat Meltdowner sooner. Every time that girl came to one of Fried's ruins, she would blast a hole in the ground and use the sewers and underground passages to bypass Freed's ruins. Much like how Bickslow had hid his dolls in the sewers for his advantage.

Freed sighed. "Darn...my magic power is almost completely empty. I probably used up most of my energy casting Dark Ericture earlier."

Freed had stopped wearing the demon-like armor he had previously cast upon himself to conserve his energy. In an effort to slow Meltdowner down, Freed had cast several more ruin barriers around the area. Now all he could do was keep walking, and waiting.

"ZAAAAMMMM!!!" a blast of energy blew up a wall near Freed's location, disintigrating a dumpster nearby into nothing but a small melted puddle. Freed turned around cursing. He hadn't expected Meltdowner to tear her way through the buildings themselves.

"My, you really neglected your homework on this area haven't you?" said Shizuri coming out of the smoking hole in the wall. "You should know by now that I would use my greater knowlege of this area to my advantage...your kind of magic is mainly dependent on setting rules and traps for your opponent. Unfortunatley, I have a tendency to break rules.

Freed pointed his sword at Shizuri. "You think you've won? The battle is far from over."

"Unfortunately it is over." said Shizuri smiling maliciously. "You magicians from Fiore are all limited by the fact that you only have a certain reserve of magic within your bodies that needs to regenerate over time........Esper abilities aren't bound by such pitiful laws, as long as our body remains intact, we can continue to use our abilities to our heart's content."

"That may be true..." said Freed. "But you have failed to account for one thing."

"......?"

"What if....I was helped by somebody who had a full reserve of magic power at his disposal?"

Suddenly, a blast of yellow lightning struck the ground in between Shizuri and Freed. When the smoke cleared, The blonde Laxus Dreyar was standing there with a grin on his face, his black coat flapping in the wind like a cape.

"Hello..." said Laxus. "Meltdowner right? How about I show you a real fight?"

Shizuri backed away gritting her teeth. "Laxus Dreyar I presume......I thought you were supposed to be on some sort of mission."

"Well obviously keeping Tree Diagram from being revived is my mission." said Laxus as electrical sparks jumped in arcs all over his body. "Your ITEM informants are getting rusty."

"In any case.." said Shizuri as green spheres of pulsating energy formed around her body. "I can't let you leave!!"

The energy spheres shot out powerful thin beams of ionized electrons, powerful enough to break down matter any kind of matter to dust. Laxus immediately changed into pure lightning which shot out of the way and struck right behind Shizuri.