Final Battle! (1)

Watching the fierce battle below, Blue Meow Meow softly asked, "Um... Natsu, can we retreat now?"

"Hmm... wait a little longer. Maybe something fun will happen!" (Fire Dragon doing an eyelid dance)

"Got it... got it!" (Happy smiling knowingly)

"Enough!"

A deep rumble rose from beneath the water. Then Golden Softie rode a blue-white pillar of water into the sky, coming face-to-face with the dragon-cat pair.

"Hi!" (Fire Dragon happily waving)

"Aye, sir!"

"Hi my ass! Hurry up and save me~~"

With a long trailing cry, Golden Softie, wearing an anti-gravity skirt, plummeted toward the sea.

"What do we do?" (Happy)

"Put me down. Lucy is counting on you!"

"Aye, sir!"

As soon as he spoke, Blue Meow Meow released her paws and vanished into the sky as a streak of blue light.

"Damn it! Couldn't you at least warn me before letting go?"

His angry curse echoed through the sky, but Blue Meow Meow had already flown too far away to hear it. (Well... even if she had heard, Blue Meow Meow would only have rubbed salt in the wound. She definitely would not have felt sorry.)

"Huh?"

Watching another falling object rapidly approach him, the veins on Gajeel's forehead instantly bulged, writhing like countless green snakes.

"Will this ever end?!"

"Iron Dragon's Roar!"

"Whoosh!"

After rubbing his eyes and confirming that he had not seen wrong, Fire Dragon instantly became excited.

"Dragon Slayer Magic! It's actually Dragon Slayer Magic! I never thought that, aside from me and Old Man Sordil, someone else could use Dragon Slayer Magic. That means..."

"Hehe!"

At the thought of that possibility, Fire Dragon's grin grew wider and wider. At the same time, his stomach visibly swelled.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!"

"Whoosh!"

"Boom!"

An orange-yellow pillar of fire collided head-on with an iron-blue