13 chapter 13 : confrontation
At that moment, the Jupiter cannon of the Phantom Lord's mobile castle had finished charging its first magic shot and Erza wanted to sacrifice herself by wearing her diamond armor with her large shield to stop the devastating shot before the eyes of the others who begged her not to do so because her life would be in danger but she moved forward courageously.
"Erza STOP!! »
"IT'S TOO DANGEROUS ERZA!! »
"ERZA, NO!"
Erza: I WILL NOT LET YOU DESTROY THE GUILD
The huge beam was about to hit her when a shadow appeared in front of her and she saw Gray appear with a Enchanted Sword she had never seen before and with a single swipe of this sword on the beam, the latter stopped before to suddenly go in the opposite trajectory to hit the mobile castle head-on.
Erza: Gray!!!
"Look, Gray is here…"
"FUCK YEAH, GRAY!!"
Natsu: It's about time! CAN WE KNOW WHERE YOU WERE?!!
Gray: Get off me, I had better things to do but these guys crossed the line. Why did those bastards attack us?!
Erza: Gray, they want Lucy.
Gray: Who is Lucy?!
The others: THE NEW GIRL!
Natsu: You really have a rat's memory, that's the one I was on a mission with.
"It's me...I...I'm sorry. This...it's all my fault..." Lucy said on the verge of tears.
"GRAY FULLBUSTER, THE PRODIGY!! YOU DESTROYED MY CANNON AND ALMOST DESTROYED MY CASTLE!! FINISH THE GAME, PUT LUCY HEARTFILIA BACK OR GET KILLED BY MY GHOSTS OR MY MEN" José's voice was heard as several hundred specters appeared as well as several Phantom Lord mages.
José: My specters can absorb life force upon contact with the enemy, they will exhaust you to the point of death. Makarov will only find the corpses of his little fairies, AHAHAH!
Gray: José, you attack our guild and also want us to give you one of ours? A member of our family?! I swear that today I will take your life. You threatened my friends with death, didn't you ?! Fine, I'm going to play on this pitch too.
José: YOU DIRTY INSOLENT LITTLE BOY, I'M GOING TO ANIHILATE YOU ALL WITH THE ABYSSAL SPELL.
The robot castle's arms began to trace a magic circle in the void but with a wave of Gray's hand, the entire castle was frozen especially in the joints with the complete impossibility of moving.
"Ice magic?!!"
"Gray could use that?!"
Natsu: This bastard!!
"This is his basic magic, he may have learned other forms of magic but this is the magic he knows best..." Ur said calmly and the others realized that she was there wondering who she was.
Gray: Master, I'm counting on you to help my friends. I'm going to clean up inside.
"He called her master?!!! »
"This woman is Gray's master?!!! »
"She must be really strong!"
Ur: You can count on me.
Gray: Natsu and Erza, with me...things are in good hands here.
Erza: I follow you.
Natsu: Why are you the one who gives the orders first?!!
Gray: I'm not giving you any orders, it's an invitation. I could take care of these losers alone but they attacked our entire guild. WILL YOU BE SATISFIED THAT YOU DIDN'T MAKE THEM UNDERSTAND YOUR FURY IF I TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING?!
Both: NEVER, WE COME WITH YOU!!
They left in front of the others while Mirajane looked at them with emotion.
Mirajane: Here it is, the birth of the most powerful team in Fairy Tail.
Lucy: The strongest team?! It's true that Natsu is really strong and...Gray...he sent back the ray from earlier...
Mirajane: They are three S-rank mages, Natsu and Erza are really powerful and of approximately equivalent strength but Gray...Gray is...(sighs) You'll see...
Lucy:…
Ur: Well, friends we don't have time to get to know each other but we have work to do. Get ready for battle.
The others: WOOOOOOOOOOOOH
"Rose Garden…" Ur summoned huge ice flowers with living-looking thorns and the brambles moving like whips at enemies causing huge damage wiping out the majority of opponents, it was so powerful that Ur herself- even was surprised.
Ur: So much power in this body, I wonder what my disciple could have done, I can make my rose garden very big but to animate it as I want with this size is... incredible.
"This woman is strong…"
" What a power !! »
"Besides being too beautiful, she's strong..." Macao said as he and the others had hearts instead of eyes.
Ur's current power was incomparably stronger than before and it was for a completely unusual reason, Ur had become a living lachryma.
The absolute ice that made up his body had unique magical properties that gave him exceptional strength and durability.
In addition, Gray had placed an ethernano collection seal on his back.
With the new nature of his body and the permanent supply of magic, his body itself gradually transformed into a receptacle, a battery that charged and filled again and again.
The limits of a low-level human mage's magic core in terms of the amount of magic and lachryma were incomparable.
If a basic Human mage core had the capacity of a bathtub for example, that of a very high quality lachryma could be an Olympic swimming pool and a lachryma of the nature of absolute ice had an unknown storage capacity.
The others joined the fight instead of letting her do everything herself, they were angry and determined to make Phantom Lord pay dearly for the affront.
Natsu, Erza and Gray walked inside the castle where they saw several people injured and unconscious due to the ray that Gray had sent back, they met no resistance until they passed 5 people on their path.
It was actually Gajeel and the gang of four elements who were waiting for them. Aria, Sol, Totomaru and Juvia were S-Rank mages themselves and while the boys were excited at the idea of facing other S-Ranks, Juvia began to lose her temper and began to shiver in seeing Gray.
Compared to the original story, Juvia was even more in love with Gray in this reality.
In addition to being more handsome and strong, Gray was very famous and appeared very often in Sorcerer Magazine and his calm but detached personality added even more charm to him.
If someone went to Juvia's room, that person would see posters of Gray everywhere, stuffed toys with his image as well as sheets and other merchandise.
Gray: Are you Phantom Lord's gang of four elements!? (To Gajeel) You, the asshole in the back, you're the one who attacked Levy, Jett and Droy. Can I know what it felt like to beat and then crucify a defenseless, sweet and innocent girl?!
Gajeel: Ahahahah Gray Fullbuster the prodigy!! They say you're big but not many people have seen you at work and I've been itching to kick your butt for a very long time. Do you want to know what it felt like to have attacked and humiliated the girl with the two puppets?! Well know that I really had fun ahahahah.
Natsu: GAJEEL, WE HAVE A FIGHT TO FINISH!
Gajeel: I'm waiting for it salamander but between you and the prodigy I can't decide.
Juvia: Juvia...Juvia has nothing to do with the attack on the Fairy Tail guild and the aggression...Juvia only obeys Master José and it's Lucy Heartfilia he wants. Juvia...Juvia doesn't want to fight Gray...
Gray read his recent memory and looked at it.
Gray: You, I can see that you're not a bad girl but you're in a very bad guild, anyone who hangs out with corrupt people gradually ends up becoming one. You haven't done anything serious yet so I'm giving you the chance to leave now and look for a better guild, Jose is going to die today and I can't guarantee the rest of you will survive with everything you've done.
Natsu: GRAY YOU'RE WASTING TIME TALKING, I'M BURNING UP...
Gray: Shut up...I want to separate the adversary from the enemy if I don't want to have a bad conscience afterwards.
"He said Juvia wasn't a bad girl...he said that about Juvia...?! » Juvia was prey to hesitation and it was seen by her comrades.
Gajeel: TSK! I had completely forgotten that this idiot was completely crazy about him. (looks at Aria) She's in our way.
Immediately, Aria disappeared into thin air only to appear behind Juvia to attack her with her METSU attack which nearly killed Makarov and sucked all magic from his body.
Juvia could do nothing to escape the attack and as pain invaded every cell in her body, Gray suddenly appeared near her to carry her at arm's length as the attack took hold. is immediately arrested.
Everyone was silent as he walked towards the exit with Juvia who realized he was carrying her and turned red before he put her down.
Gray: Go, find a guild where your comrades won't try to kill you, it's not too late for you yet.
Juvia: Gray-sama...Gray-sama saved Juvia's life...thank you...
"Leave and don't look back..." He said as he left and she walked towards the exit, as for the others, they were looking in shock at Aria's headless body on the ground and Gajeel didn't know why but a great fear began to germinate within him.
Natsu: You...you killed him...Gray, did you kill that guy?!
Gray: Do you think the cannon attack earlier was to tickle us?! It's this bastard who almost killed the master, if you want to play with them then go ahead but I'm not going to forgive anyone who wants to harm the lives of members of my family.
Erza: Gray, go find Jose. Natsu and I will take care of the rest...I understand you but José is the main enemy...
"I trust you on this one. (To Gajeel) You're going to pay for what you did to Levy, I'll leave that to Natsu for now..." He said before disappearing and Erza breathed a sigh of relief before engaging in the fight with Natsu against Gajeel , Sol and Totomaru.
She knew very well that in Gray's current state, he wasn't going to hesitate to kill these three but while she understood, she wasn't entirely comfortable with it because that wasn't what Makarov would have liked.
She expected Jose to cause more trouble so that he could be stopped at the right time, but she terribly underestimated Gray's abilities.
