Mikoto and phantom Laxus looked at each other from across King's Cross Station. Mikoto took a deep breath.
"So the final phantom is you Laxus...somehow I always knew it would be you.." Mikoto murmured.
Laxus chuckled. "The Gate of Thundaarix, the nature of lightning. Well of course. I am a logical choice out of all the friends and foes you have ever met.."
"So what are you testing me on?" Mikoto asked.
"Testing you on?" Laxus raised an eyebrow. "Does this have to be some sort of test?"
"Every time I've come up against you phantoms, you've tested me." Said Mikoto. "Erza tested my will, Mira tested my ability to overcome my inner darkness..what do you test?"
Laxus nodded. "You're learning Mikoto. I can see from the memories of Laxus Dreyar that you were actually mentored under him..he taught you well. So you want to know what I'm testing on?"
Mikoto nodded.
Laxus grinned again. "Very well. Mikoto Misaka..would you call yourself the strongest member in Fairy Tail?"
Mikoto shook her head. "No..You, Master, Gildarts, and Accelerator are the strongest four."
"But the nature of battle says otherwise!!" Laxus said. "However many enemies you defeat, there will always emerge a stronger enemy to take it's place. Sure you can train to get stronger..but sometimes you must use the constant battles you face everyday to increase your strength..that is the nature of survival!! Will you be able to overcome someone leagues above yourself and become stronger!?"
Mikoto clenched her fists and her wings burst to life. "Time to find out.."
"A battle between two Thunder Dragons.." said Laxus as his body began epel powerful yellow lightning. "However there is only room in the sky for one of us to stretch our wings...who rise and who will fall? Well..SHOW ME RAILGUN!!!!"
Laxus and Mikoto both launched themselves at each other at the same time, both their fists engulfed in powerful lightning, one bright light blue, the other a bursting yellow. The fists collided with each other and a massive explosion of electricity exploded outwards from the two, causing the ground beneath them to blast back with power.
The rails on the tracks of the empty station bent and crumpled upwards from the extreme surge in electromagnetism.
Mikoto and Laxus both engulfed their entire bodies in lightning and leapt back, then began dashing along side each other, throwing punches and kicks at each other as they went along, letting explosive charges of lightning out of their body trail behind them. A normal human would have gone deaf just standing nearby from the crackles and booms of the lightning roaring through station.
Mikoto suddenly ducked under one of Laxus's punches and pulled back, letting Laxus dash ahead of her. She let out a yell, and her wings morphed into mulltiple electric tendrils that arched over and stabbed at Laxus like multiple spears.
Laxus turned into a pure lightning bolt and blasted out of the way as the tendrils smashed into the ground with explosive dust trails.
Right before Mikoto's wings reformed, Laxus suddenly reformed right behind Mikoto and let out a powerful punch.
Due to her wings still reforming, Mikoto was forced to cross her arms together to block the punch. The explosive power of the lightning engulfed fist vibrated through her bones. Mikoto flew backwards and exploded through several stone support beams. As she did, part of the station's cieling collapsed in her wake.
Mikoto got up panting. But Laxus wasn't resting. He lunged forward as Mikoto was still recovering and smashed his lightning engulfed fist straight into Mikoto's gut. Mikoto coughed up some blood as she flew back again.
Several meters later, Laxus appeared right above Mikoto even before she hit the ground. "JAWS OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!"
Laxus put both his fists together and mashed them right into Mikoto, plowing her into the ground. An explosion of lightning lit up the entire as an earthquake shook King's Cross with the power of the most ferocious dragon.
Mikoto closed her wings over herself as Laxus began to punch repeatidly at her. She gritted her teeth as the fists continued to explode against her wings while the ground around her ruptured further and further from the residual force.
Y-you're stronger then me.." Mikoto gasped as blood began to drip out of her mouth.
Laxus kicked Mikoto in the side and she flew along the ground until she smacked right into a toll booth in an explosion of lightning.
Mikoto picked herself up as she clutched her side with one hand..her body bruised and her clothes torn.
"You say I'm stronger then you.." said Laxus walking forward, his body still crackling with energy. "But did you ever let that cloud your judgement when you faced Diablo Etwatia? He is much stronger then Laxus Dreyar..stronger then Natsu Dragneel...stronger even then Kanzaki or Acqua of The Back...yet you fought him regardless."
"He was hurting my friends.." Mikoto said.
"And more people will become hurt including all your friends if you don't defeat me!!" Laxus exclaimed. "It's time to wake up to the real world!! Protecting friends..family...all those things precious to you...it can't be done without understanding and accepting the true nature of battle!!!"
Laxus engulfed his entire body in lightning and flew at Mikoto, his muscles bulging with incredible power, his eyes lit up with glowing yellow like the very electricity that cloaked him. "SWORD HORN OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!!!"
There was a collosal boom of lightning and a massive hole was blown in the cieling of King's Cross Station as all the clouds were blasted apart from the sheer force of the blow.
The station was filled with dust. But when the dust cleared, it showed Laxus Dreyar standing there, with his head lowered in the headbutt he had performed earlier, blocked in one hand by Mikoto who was standing there with a determined look in her eyes.
"The nature of battle huh?" said Mikoto. "What did you say that was?"
Laxus's eyes widened in shock. "Y-you.."
"You said the nature of battle is the ability to defeat opponents stronger then yourself and become stronger because of it.." said Mikoto. "Well then..I better get to it!!!"
Mikoto engulfed her fist in lightning and gave Laxus an uppercut that exploded against his chin, causing the phantom Dragon Slayer to fly back and explode against the ground. Mikoto dashed forward, her wings spread with magnificent glory. "CLAWS OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!!"
Mikoto lashed her hands out and tore them at Laxus in mid air like a ferocious dragon lashing at it's prey.
Laxus blocked the blow with his arms, but still as he fell into the ground with a crash, Mikoto jumped over him and let out a lightning shrouded kick into his gut. More shockwaves shook the entire station with every blow as the entire station continued to crumble from the sheer power of the battle that was taking place.
Mikoto then turned her wings into two ginormous fists. "MASSIVE BARRAGE OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!"
The giant electric fists exploded into the ground as Laxus turned into pure lightning and bursted out of the way, he then reappeared behind Mikoto and prepared the mash her with his electric fists, but before he could, Mikoto's body turned into pure bright lightning and shot out of the way before she reformed her body behind Laxus and let an earth shattering kick into the side of his face.
"Sorry Laxus..but the real you already taught me that trick." said Mikoto as Laxus regained his balance by dragging his hands in the ground.
"Yes!!" Said Laxus. "Show me more!! It matters not how powerful your opponent is..only how much stronger you can get because of the opponent!!"
"Yeah.." said Mikoto. "So how much stronger do you think I can get!!?"
Laxus grinned and puffed up his cheeks. "ROAR OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!!!"
As the raging powerful beam of lightning raged towards Mikoto, she let a massive bolt of lightning soar from her bangs and fuse with Laxus's roar attack so that it was a now even more powerful.
"What?" Laxus said. "She's increasing the power of my attack?"
Mikoto opened her mouth..
"No.." said Laxus with realization. "She only fused her esper electricity...that means...she intends to eat it!!?"
Sure enough, the mega fusion of Laxus's magic power and Mikoto's esper power all sucked itself into Mikoto's mouth like a vacuum. The moment that happened..Mikoto's wings gave a tremendous burst and grew even larger and began to solidify till they were six feathered angelic wings, each feather sparked with a tremendous charge of the electricity that comprised it.
"Dragon Force!" Laxus exclaimed.
"Secret Art..." Mikoto looked up at Laxus as her eyes began let off trails of sparks. "HEAVENLY JUDGEMENT OF THE THUNDER DRAGON!!!"
Mikoto flew forward, her Thundering Arch Angel spread out with sheer power as massive spears of lightning exploded out from Mikoto's body.
The entire world lit up with a powerful light as the lightning exploded throughout the entire station, ripping through half the building and demolishing it with the might of Thundaarix, Queen of Thunder Dragons..Lord of the Sparking Skies.
Then there was a sudden explosion of more lightning as Phantom Laxus shot into the sky, amid a flurry of fists from what looked like a heavenly angel made of pure lightning. Mikoto's body had changed to where it now looked like it was comprised of pure sparking light, her six massive wings were shooting out lightning, each of which could blast through several thousand layers of titanium.
The flurry of energy fists then stopped as Mikoto pulled back an arm, charged up more power..and then let the rest of it out in one ginormous electric blast.
There was an explosion of even greater light, and once more, as with all the other phantoms, Mikoto felt her vision white out.
When she had opened her eyes, Mikoto was standing on a tremendous ancient stone pedestal surround by a black fog..Laxus Dreyar was standing on the other end.
Laxus merely nodded at Mikoto as she felt the familiar burning sensation on her chest, and the yellow lightning tattoo joined the flame and demonic face.
"It is time." said Laxus before he dissapeared in burst of golden dust. The pedestal shook, and the tattoos peeled themselves off of Mikoto's chest and soared into the air and swirled around each other glowing powerfully. Finally when the glowing stopped, a purple glowing rock the size of a baseball appeared in the air, and floated gently into Mikoto's outstretched hands.
Mikoto could feel a small heartbeat from within the glowing rock..each pulsating beat sounded vile and evil...just a small piece of the most terrifying and dangerous dragon that ever lived.
"It's done.." said Mikoto. "Finally..."
And then Mikoto's surroundings seemed to sweep away as if in some tremendous wind, and she was standing in the old house again, the piece of Dravis's heart in her hand.
Natsu, Lucy, Happy, and Elli rushed over to Mikoto.
"Mikoto!" said Lucy. "You look like you just got thrown back to Earth from Academy City's Space Elevator!"
"Feels about right.." Mikoto groaned. "What happened?"
"Ya dissapeared." said Natsu. "Then there was a whole bunch of earthquakes and stuff."
"Yeah." said Mikoto. "That was probably me and the phantom version of Laxus destroying King's Cross Station.."2
"WHAAAATT!!?" Natsu exclaimed with a look of jealousy. "You get to fight Erza, Mira, and now Laxus!!? You and I need to fight next!"
"Not the time Natsu." said Elli as she flew to her spot on Mikoto's head. "So..is that it?"
"Yep." said Mikoto holding up the heart peice. "I feel sick just holding it..so it's got to be it."
"We have hope.." said Lucy. "Finally, we can beat Dravis!!"
At that moment...out of warning, the house was suddenly blown apart...the world and rubble and all sorts of things spun around Mikoto's vision before she finally hit the ground hard, her friends splayed out next to her...
Mikoto looked up..from the ground as the dark clouds around her began to thunder and rain began to beat down. She looked up at the hulking armored Diablo Etwatia who stood before her. "You.."
"Not just me.." said Diablo. "The whole invasion force is here..."
Mikoto looked behind Diablo from where she knealt and saw around 8 other individuals all standing in the rain with deadly purpose..with a flash of lightning in the sky, Mikoto could make out Noiress Blackout, Jackal, Plasmoid (whose glowing body required no other light source to see), Slither, Aurumnus Rager, Argentumias, Ghost Slumberer, Zvesda of The Dark Mirrors, and finally the tall hooded figure that stood next to Diablo....
"Black Whisper..." Mikoto said. "I thought Hydra Head had more members.."
"They are on other missions." said Black Whisper. "But I have chosen these to represent us in your destruction."
"Y-you bastards.." growled Natsu as he got to his feet shakily. "You won't stop us...you can't...we.."
Diablo pointed a finger at Natsu, and a tremendous black beam of molten energy collided with him, throwing him into the ground with a collosal crash.
"I'm afraid it's over for you.." said Black Whisper. "The end of the world is nigh..behold! Dravis approaches!!"
The sky suddenly grew dark.....very dark...so dark, that every whisper of the wind sounded like a fearful phantom..and every breath sounded like the Grim Reaper himself...so very dark.....there was no shockwave of power or burst in magic energy to tell you he was here...you just knew he was back by the sheer chill creeping up your spine...and the massive purple eyes glowing in the sky.
The darkness then cleared slightly to reveal a massive black dragon in the sky. Before, when Dravis had been at half power, his wings hand been the size of mountain ranges...but now...just one tooth looked large enough to pound an entire country to dust...there was no need for clouds to block out the moon and sun now...Dravis's entire body obscured the world, his purple eyes glowing down, being the only light needed, making the surrounding area look eirie and ghost-like.
"I will not extend my greetings too long.." said Dravis in his ancient horrifying voice that was heard by every being on the planet. "But consider this the end...the end of all things....."
"Now..do you see?" said Black Whisper spreading his arms out as if in worship. "You will never win...Dravis is here..and so are some of Hydra Head's most powerful members..."
"Actually!" shouted a voice that made Mikoto's heart leap with an unforseen hope. "You're forgetting one member!"
A flaying shape was thrown out of the darkness to reveal a deathly looking creature with spindly bladed legs and bulbous eyes that had been bruised from an apparent intense beating. Just looking at the beaten up abomination made Mikoto want to puke.
"I'm sorry masters..." wheezed the creature. "They thwarted me.."
"Plague!?" Black Whisper exclaimed. "HOW!? Who are you!?"
And out of the darkness, stepped out Touma Kamijou..and from behind him came out Erza Scarlet, Laxus Dreyar, Accelerator, Gildarts Clive, Cana Aberone, Wendy Marvel, Charle, Gray Fullbuster, Markarov...followed by every other single member of Fairy Tail...every single member...even Misaki Shokuhou and Gunha Sogiita...everyone was here..1
"You wanna know who we are..?" Touma growled. "...WE ARE FAIRY TAIL!!!"