Forget Me Not- NaLu

Protection

Chapter 6: The Protection Driven Energy

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Kurai forced herself up. In the distance, she saw Gray collect himself and start to stand. She sent him one look and he nodded. He then quietly dragged himself, bloody and torn, to Erza's half dead body.

Kurai stood. She needed to get Malus as close to the Barrier as possible. Maybe Natsu could finish him off, but he didn't look like he had enough Magical Energy.

Still, Kurai concentrated. Malus watched her with amusement. He seemed interested in what she was doing.

She stood and looked at him.

"Twice you've tried to kill me. This is the third. If I remember correctly, you told one of my friends that you were God. That was what you said to the spirit before you absorbed it, no?" Kurai put her arms in front of her, a good distance apart. Malus seemed to understand what she was doing. "How does it feel, god? When the devil shall strike you down?" She yelled the last part and he glared at her.

"You wouldn't! It'll kill you!" He looked at her to see if she was bluffing but she only smirked and smiled.

"It can't kill me if I'm already dead." She clapped her hands together, calling on her energy and feelings. She knew it wouldn't be enough so she put more into it. Her dreams, her hopes, everything she had loved and hated. Her life and soul, her good and bad, she put it all together. She put herself into it.

"Sonic Electrical Shock!"

The air crackled with thunder and the electrical static made everyone's hair stand on end. A booming sound erupted from the clap, forcefully pushing against Malus, who struggled against it's tremendous power. She sent her attack, the thunder just being the outburst of the power, like a nuecular bomb.

A thunderbolt, blue and jagged, shot from her combined hands and straight to Malus, whose eyes shone in fear. The lightning bolt didn't hit him. Just before it hit him, it curved, flowing into the sky.

Malus gave a shaky laugh. "Looks like you missed, girlie."

"Don't be too sure." Malus frowned and stared at the sky where dark thunder clouds had begun to form. He watched with astonishment as blue lightning swam through the clouds, diving low enough for them to occasionally see the electricity. Lightning flashed, and a thunder bolt crackled in the sky. Thunder boomed above them. Malus' knees began to shake as Lightning started to join in one point. The blue lightning surged like light balls as they formed a center right over Malus.

A large thunderbolt, bigger than Kurai has ever made, came crashing down to earth. It hit Malus with such speed. He screamed, but he couldn't be heard over the loud thunder, which made everyone's ears pop. Even though Kurai summoned this lightning, even though it was her own power, even though all her hope was riding on this spell, it terrified her. Her knees shook as she looked away from the blinding light.

Malus screamed as he felt his body turn inside out with shocks and movement. It felt like his body was breaking into pieces.

The force was enough to send him flying and this time he wasn't recovering. His eyes rolled into his head, his body smoking.

He skidded a few yards, farther than Kurai thought possible, but less than she had hoped.

She staggered, then collapsed from the sudden drainage in her energy, knowing that she might never get up a second time.