"Gray." Natsu called, not looking away from the pair in front of them. "Ah?" Gray asked with a raised eyebrow. "I will take care of these guys. Take the girls and Happy, and get the prisoners out." Gray frowned and was about to snap at Natsu, but the look on the dragons face stopped him. "I can't let you fight alone." Lucy suddenly said, unhooking her whip as she stood beside him. "We're counting on you guys." Natsu grinned over his shoulder at his friends. "You lot are nauseating." Aerith groaned, Ronan making a gaging sound.
Natsu growled and rushed forward, Gray and Wendy ready to make a run for it. "Fire Dragons Roar!" The tunnel of flames engulfed the twins, who stood motionless. As the flames died away, only smoke and ash were left behind. Natsu gaped for a moment before laughing as his friends made their way deeper down the hall. "These guys weren't so tough!" He continued to laugh. "Brother, his voice is grating my nerves." Natsus laugh cut off as Aerith spoke, her body forming out of the smoke. "Let him have his fun sister." Ronan spoke, a column of ash rising from the floor before revealing the man. "Who are you?!" Lucy demanded.
Aerith smirked. "We are the god slayer twins, Aerith of the smoke, and Ronan of the ashes." She said lazily. Natsu and Lucy gapped as Aerith turned to her brother. "Ronan, their friends are getting away." The man smirked and held out his hand, ash forming and spilling onto the ground. "Don't worry your pretty head." He said almost sweetly. The ash formed into the shapes of roughly a dozen men, all featureless and silent. Ronan motioned to where Gray, Wendy and Happy ran. The ash beings disappeared down the hall. Aerith turned back to the two mages before her. "Let's end this quickly." Ronan hummed in agreement before moving.
His body sank into the ash itself, quickly moving along the ground. Natsu shot out a blast of fire, but it did nothing to the ash before the man was in his face. Natsu back peddled before Ronan shot his hand out, "Claw of the Ash God!" Ash surrounded his hand, forming a claw with razor points. The claw swiped inches away from Natsus chest, catching and ripping his coat. "Smoke God's Poison Below!" Aerith shouted, a magic circle forming in front of her mouth. A tunnel of solid black smoke blasted forward, smashing into Natsu and Lucy. Their skin burned and smoke choked their lungs. "Its... It's hot!" Natsu gasped. It had been many many years since he had felt heat, and it was never this excruciating.
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Gajeel ran ahead of the three women following him, Pantherlily by his side. He had only one thing on his mind, and it distracted him from everything around him. Including the blast of fire that shot down from the ceiling. "Gajeel!" Lily shouted, quickly morphing onto his larger form and grabbing a hold of his shirt. Gajeel stumbled backwards, the fire barely missing his boots. A high cackling laugh echoed through the room, it sounded like that of a mad woman.
Another blast of fire hit the ground in front of the group, the flames solidifying over a tall frame. A woman stepped forward, the flames still clinging to her body before slowly dimming. Her skin was nearly golden, and black eyes held a slightly crazed look. Her pastel blue hair nearly swept the ground as she rocked back and forth on her heels. "Greetings Fairy Tail." She said with another mad giggle.
"You must be here for that little brat." She hummed slightly, either ignoring or not seeing the look of rage Gajeel sent her. "Where is she?" He spat. The woman paused in her thinking, finger on her chin. "Oh, she's above us. Sypress and Vyra should be starting her last magic drain before the ceremony shortly." She stated, as if she was discussing the weather. "But! No need for you to worry! You will not be getting past me, Embriora the living flame!" She laughed again, her arms wide. "Like hell we wont!" Gajeel lunged forward, his arm an iron club.
Embriora stood there with a smirk on her face. When Gajeels fist should have met her face, her body burst into flames, allowing him to pass through. The woman resolidified with a laugh. "You can't lay a finger on me!" A high pitched scream suddenly echoed down from above, and Gajeel felt his heart stop. "Oh what a beautiful sound!" She sighed, hugging herself. "How often I have fallen asleep to her pained music!" A roar echoed through the room, but it did not come from the dragon slayer.
Juvia lashed forward, her water slicing through the fire mage. The water hissed on contact and evaporated. "Go get her!" Juvia shouted. Erza and Levy were shocked, they had never seen such anger or hatred on the rain womans face. Gajeel wasted no time sprinting for the next flight of stairs, the two women soon following after him. Embriora smiled at Juvia, her arms turning into living flames. "I have never lost to a water mage." She said, tilting her head to the side. "You will lose to Juvia." She said darkly. Embriora let out another crazed laugh, "I don't think so."
Their elements took over, Embriora little more than the flaming figure of a woman with a sick grin. Juvias form was solid water and translucent, and outside the sound of rain could be heard. Juvia threw out her hands and shouted, her voice sounding like it was under water. "Water lock!" The bubble formed around the flame, and no sooner had it formed, it exploded in a burst of steam. Juvia gasped, "How-" "My flames," Embriora stepped forward, water evaporating where ever she stepped. "Burn so hot, that water can not touch them. You WILL lose, rain woman." That sick grin curled onto her flaming face once more, before lashing out.
{Are these chapters too short? If they are I will try to make them longer}
