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(Natsu's POV)

"Ok Happy drop us off here!" Once I had said this Happy let me and Gray down on the giant cannon barrel. The second I was on the thing I grinned and lit up my hands with my fire and started pounding on the metal of the barrel. But as I hit it more and more my grin lessened as the stupid metal refused to dent.

"Bro," Said Gray from my side as he put a hand on my left shoulder, "You are not going to do any damage that way, well at least in time." As if to taunt me a robotic female voice boomed from the tower beside me and my brother.

"Eleven minutes until Jupiter is fully charged."

We both frowned at the voice, we needed to hurry. Gray spoke before I could, "We can't damage the cannon itself but," He paused and gave me a wide grin, "maybe we can damage the thing powering this. And would you look at that, they gave us a straight line towards it."

Soon my face matched my older brother as I gave him a matching grin. With the help of Happy we were able to get into the barrel of the cannon and run down it. Soon we came to a large room with a large magic storing lacrima that had four magic transceiver lacrimas that were sending magic toward the orb in the center of the room. Other than that it was simply a large circular room with a watch background on the ceiling which looks like it was counting down to when this thing could fire again.

Gray and I jumped down to the floor and were about to make our way towards the main lacrima when I stopped, having noticed for the first time that we weren't alone in this room. At the base of the large lacrima was a man with weird half black and half white hair that was tied into a ponytail. He wore a long red-orange robe with deep red fluff around the collar an black pants underneath it. He had a strange sword of some kind by his hip and weird black marks under his eyes.

"Well, well, well," Said the weird guy, "I guess I owe Gajeel 10,000 jewels, I didn't think any of you fairies would be smart enough to try and take out the source of the Jupiter cannon." He pauses as he looks at us with a wide grin.

"But first I should introduce myself, shouldn't I? I am Totomaru of the Conflagration, member of Phantom Lord's Elemental Four." He spread his arms as he said this, giving us a wide pose while doing so. But as he did all of this I could only think of one thing.

"What...what is a Conflagration?" I asked hesitantly. My question caused the newly named Totomaru to falter and nearly trip. Beside me, Gray put a hand to his chin as he seemed to be thinking about my question.

"I think it's like a really big fire or something?" Said Gray as he spoke with an unsure tone.

"YES," Shouted Totomaru with an annoyed look, "It's a big fire! Why does no one know what that word means!?"

I just shrugged at the weird guy, "I mean it not like that word is used a lot. In fact, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I'm hearing about it. Why not use wildfire or inferno?"

Totomaru seemed to get even more annoyed at this as he stomped his foot on the ground and snared at us. "I didn't choose this name! You know as well as me that it's sorcery weekly that is in charge of giving out the titles! I tried to repel it but they refused!"

Once more I just shrugged, I guess I felt bad for the guy but he's a member of Phantom Lord so he probably deserves it. Speaking of that, I lit my right hand on fire as I smiled at the weird guy. "Well, I don't care about your dumb name right now! I feel all fired-" Before I could finish I felt some unseen force take hold of my hand and force it to punch my face, forcing me to fall to the ground. In the background, I could hear Happy shout out in confusion at my move.

"Bro," I heard Gray shout before turning to our opponent and holding out his hand."Ice-Make: Cannon" A large cannon made of ice appeared before Gray but before he could load it with anything Totomaru reacted.

"Yellow Fire" A stream of yellow fire, which smells really strange, made a beeline for the cannon and instantly evaporated the thing in less than a second and pushed Gray back a bit before it disappeared. Afterward, Totomaru let out a loud laugh as I got up off the ground and Gray got back beside me.

"Hahahahahaha, oh this is too much! Not just a Fire mage but an Ice mage as well! Oh, you two are in for a tough time let me tell you! My Yellow fire can take out any ice no matter how strong and I have complete control of any fire even my opponent's. If it wasn't for losing my money to Gajeel I would think this is my lucky day hahaha!"

I frown as I got into a battle stance, Gray doing the same beside me. Even if we were at a slight disadvantage we couldn't give up. That cannon needed to be taken down and it was up to me and my brother to do so, no matter what!

Totomaru seemed to notice our stances and stopped laughing to get into one of his own. He gave us a savage grin as he spoke," Well then come on you two! I see that fire in both of your eyes! Give me a fight to remember you fairies!"

"Eight minutes until Jupiter is fully charged."

(3rd Person Battle POV)

Natsu was the first one to make a move. The Slayer charged forward with his fist raised to punch his enemy, during this process, he almost set said fist on fire on instinct before remembering what had happened just seconds before and stopping himself.

Totomaru reacted instantly by easily dodging the punch and then using his sheathed katana to knock Natsu off to the side. But before the Multi-colored Fire mage could follow up on this Gray attacked.

"Ice-Make: Battle Axe" a crescent bladed of ice flew through the air toward Totomaru who was forced to quickly roll to the right to avoid the attack, it was too fast for him to use his flames. The monochrome haired man grinned at his opponent as he held out his hand and prepared to fire off a spell of his own in retaliation.

"White Fire" a sphere of white flames appeared in Totomaur's hand before swiftly shooting towards Gray much faster then the Ice mage would have thought possible. In this surprise, Gray was hit and sent crashing into the circular wall of the room. The Phantom let out a little laugh before speaking.

"How do you like that Ice Mage!? My white fire moves at the speed of sound! Now how about a taste of your own cold medicine." Totomaru finishes his words with another raised had as he once more prepared a spell.

"Blue Fire" A sprout of blue fire shot from the Phantom Lord mage's hand and made its way over to the still slightly recovering Fairy Tail mage. However, before it could hit its mark Natsu jumped in between it and his brother. Just as the cold flames were about to hit the Slayer mage took a huge breath and said flames were quickly devoured. Totomaru viable frowned upon seeing this.

"Great, you're not just a Fire mage but a Slayer as well. Which means that near any fire I produce you're going to eat. And anything you or the other guys throws at me is either going to be melted or used against you. Just one big fucking standstill then. Guess that means that I just have to use my martial arts then to win."

As Totomaru was saying this Gray made his way to Natsu's side and glared at his opponent as the Slayer mage adjusted to the weirdly cold fire he had eaten.

"Six minutes until Jupiter is fully charged."

Upon hearing the robotic voice Gray turned his eyes from the Multi-colored Fire mage and towards the more than halfway full lacrima in the center of the room. He frowned before turning to Natsu and speaking. "Listen Natsu, as much as I would love to beat this guy black and blue we came here for a reason and in six minutes that reason is going to become null in void. We need to take care of that lacrima. How about we go with plan 3?"

Upon hearing his brother words Natsu nodded in understanding before pausing and tilting his head in slight confusion. "Plan 3? Ohhhh the one where I distract an opponent and you get to whatever the goal of the job is!"

Upon Natsu saying this out loud, there was a pause in the room as Totomaru and Gray looked at Natsu with utter deadpan looks. Eventually, the samurai looking mage broke this pause, "Really? You just said you plan out loud for me to hear?! How are you that dumb?!"

Natsu in response snarled at his opponent before raising his fist. "Just because you know what the plan is doesn't mean you're going to win! Let's go, Bro!"

With that said, Natsu charged forward once more with the intent to punch his opponent in the face. Once more Totomaru used his greater speed to avoid the punch and swing his sheathed katana into the Slayer's side. Only this time said Slayer was prepared for hit and ducked under the swing and responded with an uppercut that his opponent jumped back from.

Just as Totomaru was about to attack the Fire mage he notices Gray standing before the energy gathering lacrima preparing a spell. In response to this, the Phantom held out his hand. "Orange Fire" An erupting of orange flames shoot towards Gray but Natsu moved to intercept, much to Totomaru happiness.

With a powerful inhale Natsu sucked in most of the orange flames before pausing and going wide-eyed. For the first time in Natsu's life, the act of eating fire made him feel utterly sick as he stopped his eating and held his hands to his throat, trying to keep his stomach contents in said stomach.

Totomaru let out another little laugh at his tactic before rushing towards Gray, along the way passing by Natsu and hitting him with his still sheathed katana and causing the still recovering Slayer to lightly crashing into the ground. Just as Totomaru was about to reach his opponent, the Ice mage cast his spell towards the huge lacrima.

"Ice-Make: Spear Barrage"

From Gray's two hands dozens of large spears of ice emerged and were shot in the direction of their target, each one with the intent on piercing and destroying the magic glass orb. But before they made it far Totomaru reacted swiftly with a spell of his own.

"Yellow Fire" a wall of yellow fire came from Totomaru's hand and was raised between the many spears of ice and the large lacrima. Many of the spears that would have hit instantly perished and a few that were largely off the mark flew by the wall of yellow flames and the target and landed on the floor.

"Four minutes until Jupiter is fully charged."

Gray frowned at both the robotic voice and at his failed attack. Before he could make another attempt Totomaru was upon him, this time with his katana unsheathed. The Ice mage was forced to dodge backward as he tried his best to avoid the sharp cutting edge of his opponent's blade. Eventually, he had enough time to perform a quick spell.

"Ice-Make: Sword" Swiftly a blade of ice was made in Gray's hand which he used to block a swing from Totomaru, said man paused for a second and considered using his Yellow Fire before shrugging. He had not had a sword fight in a long amount of time so he might as well make use of the opportunity. Soon both of them were engaged in a dance of blades with the monochrome haired mage was very much leading. That said Gray wasn't doing too bad and was, for the most part, holding his own. Let it not be said that he didn't pick up a thing or two from both Erza and Bishop when it comes to sword fighting.

Eventually, Totomaru delivered a strong downward swing that Gray blocked and the two were locked in a bind as the two blades pushed against each other. Totomaru found himself confident he would win this bind and so he proceeded to taunt his opponent. "Come on now do you really think you can beat me in a sword fight? And for that matter do you also think I would let you damage any part of the Jupiter cannon!? Man, your dumb!"

When Totomaru finished he expected his opponent to snare back at him and lose his focus on their clash. Instead, Gray just smirked and stepped back before twisting around behind his opponent has said opponent recovered from the abrupt end to the bind. The Phantom Lord mage turned around expecting to defend from a slash but instead, he found his opponent pointing his palm to the ground and smiling at him as he prepared his magic.

"Ice-Make: Prison"

Soon a small cage of ice appeared around the two of them much to Totomaru's confusion.

"Two minutes until Jupiter is fully charged."

At hearing the voice Totomaru looked towards the lacrima and paled at what he saw. Off to the side stood Natsu, having recovered from the disgusting fire, with one of the scattered spears of ice in his hands. And from the looks of it, the monochrome mage could tell the Slayer was about to leap toward the center lacrima.

"Plan 3," Said Gray from behind Totomaru as he tackled the latter into one of the walls of their prison, " I distract the enemy while Natsu gets to the target. It begins with Natsu making the enemy think the opposite."

Totomaru's eyes widened at hearing he had been tricked but before he could call upon his Yellow fire to free himself, Gray all but threw himself at the Multi-colored mage in order to keep him pinned down. Eventually, though the Phantom got the Fairy off and with a quick hand movement cast a spell.

"Yellow Fire" In a second the prison was annihilated by the yellow fire but unfortunately for the user of that fire, he was too late. Natsu put all his strength into a huge leap as he hurled toward the huge lacrima and violently shoved the ice spear into the orb, creating a hole on its side.

The magic gathering lacrima, which at this point was less than a minute away from being full, glowed slightly as the magic within poured out of the hole and exploded from the magics release. The moving fortress shook a little from the explosion and by the time the dust from the blasted cleared there was nothing left of Jupiter's core.

The two brothers were quick to celebrate as Totomaru stared with growing rage at his failure. But before anyone could make a move something else decides to move. To be more specific the castle started to move.

Jose quickly realized what had happened and after a few curses ordered his console mages to enact Phantom Lord's backup plan. The castle shifted and reassembled itself as the land that had been on its bottom fell to the ocean. The process of this displaced mages all over the headquarters, in particular, caused a certain group of Fairy Tail mages to separate.

By the time the castle stopped the shifting and changing the old headquarters of Phantom Lord was no longer a castle on legs but instead a giant fucking robot with a castle aesthetic. One that soon started making a magic circle much to the horror of the still fighting Fairy Tail mages outside of it who quickly realized what exactly the new mech was trying to do.

Soon the forbidden spell "Abyss Break" would be cast and along with it, the entire Fairy Tail guild would be gone. Of course, none of the Fairies inside the mech knew this as pretty much all of them were trying to regain their balance.

Gray found himself trying his best to help Natsu overcome his sudden motion sickness from whatever the castle had done. Off to the side, Totomaru had just gotten back to his feet as he gave a few seconds thought about his guild master having the building shift so quickly and without warning. He did not linger on this long as he turned with his katana toward his opponents, only to pause as he took in the sight before him of a person going through motion sickness and another awkwardly trying to help them.

"Does...does he have motion sickness?" Ask Totomaru a slightly confused by how a powerful mage could be brought down by such a...mundane condition.

Gray took his eyes off of Natsu and turned toward the monochrome haired man, "Yes is a-Wait! Doesn't your Dragon Slayer have motion sickness too?"

Totomaru got confused by the Ice mage's question. "Gajeel? No, he doesn't to my knowledge. I mean maybe he does but just hides it well but I've never seen him get sick while in a moving object."

"Really?" Said Gray surprised, "I remember Bishop saying something about all Dragon Slayers having motion sickness. I wonder…" Gray trailed off with his last word as he thought about why Gajeel wouldn't have motion sickness this thinking was interrupted by Natsu standing up, having recovered from the war that his stomach had raged against him.

Totomaru upon seeing the Fire mage was up silently cursed himself for not attacking when one of his opponents was down. Not like it mattered, with Jose switching to plan B he needed to end things quickly and he had just the thing to do that. "Well as much fun as it's been I'm afraid that I'm ending it here and now!"

With that said Totomaru raised his right hand up into the air and prepared his magic for the next spell. Both Natsu and Gray tensed upon feeling the large amount of magic that the Multi-colored Fire mage was pulling out. With his magic primed the Phantom Lord mage cast his spell.

"Rainbow Fire" the magic that Totomaru had primed was now being rapidly being converted into flames of many different colors. Red, blue, white, orange, yellow and more color were on display upon the flames as they swirled around they're master and was quickly forming a sphere on top of said master's raised hand.

Both Natsu and Gray's eyes widened at seeing the swiftly forming orb that would be used against them. "Um Bro," Said Gray with a nervous voice, "You can eat that right?"

Natsu looked at the flames with a slightly sick expression, especially when he saw some of the orange flames that were mixed in. "I'd like to say yes but I still haven't gotten that horrible taste out of my mouth from those orange flames from before. Eating all of that might just destroy my stomach and that's assuming I can eat it all before getting too sick."

Gray grimaced at what his brother said and at the fact that the sphere was complete now. He turned to Natsu and said, "I think we should use that new magic that we discovered. We've practiced enough so it should work." A nod from his brother told Gray all he needed as the two got into position.

Gray and Natsu stood side by side as they mirrored each other. Both of them their knees bent and one arm stretched out with the hand taking the form of a fist, soon magic was flowing from each of them as they prepared.

While his opponent's prepared Totomary was looking up at his very colorful orb of fire with a wide grin. It wasn't often that he got to use this spell, his grin turned into a frown when he remembered why he didn't use this attack very often. Due to the nature of his color fire when they combined like this it made them very volatile and deadly, as a result, it usually ended with something dead.

Totomaru was many things but a killer wasn't one of them. If he used this on his opponents though then they will most likely die. He struggled internally for a few seconds before remembering his Guild Master's words to him and the rest of Phantom Lord's S-class mages. "I know none of you like killing but were going to be fighting a war here. If you fight a fairy then kill them. I know it's a rather grim business but that's unfortunately what happens when you fight a war. You need to do this for Phantom Lord"

With his Guild Master's words in his head, Totomaru steeled his resolve and threw the sphere at his opponents. Unfortunately for the Phantom Lord mage the few seconds he took to do his internal struggle was all the time Natsu and Gray needed.

Due to their sibling relationship, Gray and Natsu would often go on jobs with each other. This was one of the reasons that they got titles that were reflections of each other. And it was about a year ago that the two went on a job where they nearly did. Some mage with some surprisingly strong Armor magic nearly killed the two. But last-minute the two were able to perform a rare type of magic together that ended the fight with a single hit.

After that job, they have been practicing the magic together to perfect it and now it was time for that practice to pay off. As the Rainbow Fire sphere hit the ground and made it's way over to them, Natsu and Gray unleashed this magic.

"Unison Raid: Onslaught of Ice and Fire"

The two brothers united their mage together as an inferno of flames erupted from Natsu and a storm of ice flew from Gray. The two forces not only mixed together but truly fused to form an unholy mixture of fire and ice that increased to an insane volume. The tidal wave of ice and fire met the sphere of Rainbow Fire and the two forces found themselves in a struggle for dominance as they pushed against each other.

Totomaru along with his opponents were giving it their all as they push their attack forward, trying their best to overcome each other. In the end, however, it was the monochrome haired man that lost as for a second he stopped pushing at full force in order to regain some balance and ended up giving his opponents an inch.

Natsu and Gray took a mile.

The tsunami of fire and ice engulfed the orb of multi-colored fire as the flames were absorbed into the mixture of ice and fire and the onslaught swiftly made it's way over to its target. Totomaru eyes widened to near comical portions as he stared at the oncoming wave of pain. He tried at the last second to use his pyrokinesis to control the fire part of the attack but a mixture of the willpower put into the attack and the ice gave him no chance to control it. All he could do was close his eyes as the tidal wave hit him.

Instantly the wave carried the S-class mage with it as it slammed him into the wall and erupted around him. Totomaru screamed in pain as fire burned him and ice cut into him until eventually, he lost consciousness from the pain alone.

By the time the attack ended the entire room was filled to the brim with scotch marks, scattered fires, frost, ice, and in some cases ice that was somehow on fire. At the end all of it all lay Totomara defeated, his body was covered in burns and frostbite but still alive. Seeing this Natsu and Gray let out a sigh of relief at the battle ending in their favor.

"You need any of those potions?" Ask Gray. Bishop had made sure a few years ago that Gray and Natsu, along with their sisters, had at least one red potion and custom vail of Stone Flesh on them. At first, Natsu had laughed about it but after he had gone on a mission without them and got decently injured. Bishop had made his displeasure known for the Dragon Slayer.

Natsu shook his head no and Gray nodded at that before speaking, "Well then as much as I want to catch a breather we should probably move. I'm willing to bet that Erza will lead a party into this place after us and we need to head out there and help."

At this Natsu let out an annoyed sigh but agreed with his brother and soon the two were off, Happy right behind them as the blue cat and made sure to watch the battle from a safe distance. Unknown to the Fairy Tail mage on both the inside and outside of the giant mech that the speed that said mech was creating Abyssal Break had slowed down.

AN: And that's that. So it was mainly Gray and Natsu vs Totomaru. Speaking of the Fire of Phantom Lord, I tried to go for a bratty samurai for his personality and other than that I tried to have him be a bit more powerful then he was in the anime. Hope it worked well and I'm looking forward to the next chapter.

volfwildman wasn't able to Beta this chapter due to a surgery that he had this week, he's fine but just thought you all should know. This week's shoutout goes to Psychoman13 for creating a TVtroupes page for this story, check that out if you're interested. And lastly, a thank you to TouchMeNona for being my first patron.

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