Author's Note: Again, I deeply apologize for these late updates, thanks a bunch for those who waited patiently. Anyways, I hope you enjoy this chapter.

Reddrick's dark aura surrounding him disappeared, leaving only his evil smirk on his face. "Which one of you shall get it first?" He chuckled about as he picked his next opponent.

"Tch!" Regardless of his choosing, reckless as always, Natsu charged at him with fire already lit around his right fist. "Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!"

Without much effort, Reddrick caught the punch mid-air near his face with his right arm. "Pfft, pitiful."

Natsu continued his attack with his other fist, engulfed with fire once more. "Hiya!"

Again, he grabbed his other fist with his left hand, this time near his chest. "If the first one didn't work, what makes you think the other might?" He asked.

Having used both his hands to block both punches, Gajeel used this opportunity to attack. "Iron Dragon's Sword!" He launched at him.

Tightening his grip around Natsu's hands, Reddrick simply countered by throwing the pinkette at the Iron Dragon Slayer. "Eat this!" He said as both Natsu and Gajeel crashed each other's body.

With the distraction of both Dragon Slayers, Gray entered the battle. "Ice Make: Ice Bringer!" He dual-wielded both small swords and swung at Reddrick from left to right.

"You're just gonna keep swinging those sharp things at me?" As swift as Gray was, Reddrick was almost able to sidestep, duck and dodge his sword attacks.

"You're getting on my nerves!" He continued with his barrage of swings, even if none manage to hit his target.

Both Natsu and Gajeel quickly joined on the attack, the Fire Dragon slayer took Reddrick's right while the Iron Dragon Slayer took his left.

"Crimson Lotus: Fire Dragon's Fist!" Like in their first encounter, both Natsu's fists were engulfed with fire and started his barrage of punches.

"Iron Dragon's Scales!" Gajeel coated his body with iron once more. "Iron Dragon's Hard Fist!" He followed with a barrage of his own punches.

"Three on one, eh?" Even with all three combined, Reddrick continued to dodge their combined attacks. "Seems hardly fair doesn't it?"

"You handled the others by yourself," Natsu retorted back at him. "Didn't think it would take the three of us just to put you in a tight spot."

"Shut up and keep attacking!" Gray told him.

Even after several minutes of evading and dodging their attacks, neither side was giving up. "Fuck this." Reddrick jumped off the floor, spinning his body and punching both Natsu and Gray and kicking Gajeel, all in the same area in the chest, knocking them back.

"This guy is fucking quick," Natsu said, wiping a bit of saliva that dripped from his mouth. "Any other good plans?"

"This wasn't even a plan, fire-brain," Gray said, getting up from the dirt. "You just charged right at him!"

"At least it was better than nothing, Ice Princess!" Natsu butted heads with Gray as usual.

"Are… they serious?" Reddrick sweat-dropped at the current situation between the stripped Ice user and the dimwit Fire Dragon Slayer. "HELLO!? BIG BADDIE STANDING OVER HERE!" Reddrick tried to get their attention.

"Over here!" Gajeel started the offense once more. "Iron Dragon's Club!" Gajeel's right arm extended, hitting him with a ranged attack.

Just as Reddrick was able to react, water like chains from before held him from moving. "What the-?"

"Water Pillar!" Aquarius, still in the battlefield, used her magic once more to chain him up and immobilized him. Although, Lucy was almost drained from her magic and continue to rapidly go down with the use of Aquarius still summoned.

Even with the chains though, Reddrick was still able to move his arms, quickly grabbing the Iron Dragon Slayer's attack. "Don't think we're out of the game yet!"

Natsu and Gray seemed to have stopped their bickering and continued on with the battle against Reddrick. "Fire Dragon's Roar/ Ice Make: Ice Cannon!" Both Natsu and Gray fired their long ranged attacks as well.

"Agh!" Reddrick broke free from the chains due it becoming weaker and quickly swung around Gajeel like a bat. "Eat this instead!" He blurted out as he used the Iron Dragon Slayer as a weapon, swinging it and hitting both mages and cutting their magic work short.

Although, Terry wasn't fighting alongside the three other mages, he could see that even at their best, they couldn't do much against Reddrick. Sweat came down his forehead, nervously looking at the fight while being concerned at his own bag. "Hey Christi…" He exhaled out loudly, before reaching into his bag.

"W-What are you doing?" Her breathing was excessively

"I'm going to need you to hold this…" He held a small thing in the middle of his fist, giving it to her in her palms to hold on to.

"It's not what I think it is, is it?" She couldn't extend her arm towards her face to see what the man had given her. After the punch Reddrick gave her to her stomach, the damage done to her was far exceeding that of broken ribs; the force of the punch managed to dislocate some of her bones in her spinal cord and had done some significant damage to some of her major arteries, hence her heavy breathing. "T-Terry!?"

"No time to talk!" He got up from his seated position next to her and continued on with what he had planned.

"Hey Terry," Natsu called out to the healing mage just as he and his two other Guild-mates got back up from hitting the floor. "You can butt in any time now, ya know!"

"I'm trying to heal your friends, give me a minute here!" Terry walked towards Erza now after tending towards Christi. "Here, hold on to this." He reached into his bag and grabbed a charm of some sort, handing it over to the scarlet haired woman.

"What's this for?" She looked at it closely; the charm resembled a seashell.

"Just hold on to it," he walked towards Lucy now. "Here." He took out another seashell charm, giving it to the blonde.

Unlike Erza, Lucy held the charm in the palm of her hand. "I'm running out magic here…" She tried her best to continue to summon Aquarius.

"Stubborn girl…" Aquarius commented on her willpower.

As the battle continued between the two dragon slayers, the ice mage and the menace, Terry continued to put the seashell charm on the palm of everyone's hands, including the unconscious Juvia, Levy and the small air dragon slayer, Wendy. "Here you go… and here…" And then his attention was faced towards the trio of Exceeds. "And why aren't you helping them?" He asked the dark Exceed.

"I ran out of magic, I can't transform into my big form." Pantherlily explained his situation.

"What about you two?" He said as one of Natsu's fiery explosions was heard in the background. "Can't you transform like him?"

"Nope." Happy answered.

"For a bunch of cats, I thought most of you would be useful in this kind of situation…" Terry sweat dropped. "Anyways, take this then." He gave Pantherlily the last charm in his bag.

"Exactly what is this for?" The three Exceeds somewhat huddled up together and asked the Mage.

Terry turned back to look at how their battle was going. Natsu and Gajeel continued to press on with their melee attacks while Gray switched to ranged attacks with an ice bow and arrows. "No time for idle chat!"

The mage quickly took his place in front of the injured pack, sat down in a meditation form and placed his palms together under his face. With this, the charms began to glow as he did so as well. "Whatever you're doing Terry, do it now!" Natsu said, as he gets thrown on to the floor.

"Forbidden Healing Arts…" He calmly breathes in and out.

"What is he-" Reddrick's sentence was cut short with a punch from the Fire Dragon Slayer to his mouth.

This spell is going to kill me… Terry closed his eyes and thought to himself. But in return, it should give these people their magic back and heal all of their wounds… His thoughts wandered off to his early years and that off Christi. Christi… We had a good run, eh? He smiled as he continued to meditate. I never got to tell you how I felt about you? Ha-ha, you probably already knew… He opened his eyes and saw Christi once more, laying on the floor. Even with the damage given to her, she managed to turn her head towards Terry's direction. That I loved you…

He continued his calm state as did the others to distract Reddrick. "… RESTORATION ENSHROUDMENT!" His body and the charms shrouded him and the others holding the charms in vibrating yellow color.

Erza felt her magic coming back to her, as did Lucy. Not only was their magic being restores but their scratches, bruises and other physical abuse disappeared, even fixing cracked and misplaced bones along with other internal damage anyone has received, healing them completely. "Whoa…" Erza looked at her right fist were the she placed her shell, surprised at the properties it was giving her.

"He's healing all of them!?" Reddrick looked at them. He could see what the boy was doing to them. His gaze was suddenly cut short when, again, the fiery pinkette punched him in the jaw once more, this time knocking him back a few feet.

The glowing stopped, finally done with healing all of them. "I… did it…" From his synched breathing to heavy panting, Terry stopped meditating. His magic was rapidly fading, causing him to fall back to the floor.

"Terry!" Christi quickly got up from her laid position and took her partner's side as he did with her. "Terry! Why would you use that spell!?"

"I… I healed everyone…" He tried to keep himself awake.

"T-Terry…" She could see his youthful appearance turn to that of an old one. A small tear escaped her eye, streaming down her left cheek.

His once physical prime became that of an old frail body, his hair swiftly turns from dark brown to that of gray. The mere moments that passed were the last few moments of his life. "I… It's okay…" His voice was wither.

"How is this okay!?" More tears escaped her eyes, streaming down both down her cheeks.

"Fire Dragon's Roar!"
"Iron Dragon's Roar!"
"Ice Make: Ice Cannon!"

The three synchronized their attacks combining their elements together to bring a ferocious explosion, hitting Reddrick right on target, and like Christi's explosion from earlier, the dust and dirt in the air was centered once again near the mountainside. "Did we get him?" Natsu panted, putting more of his magic into that attack than any of his earlier ones.

"I don't know…" Gray panted as well, exhausted at taking a heavy beating from Reddrick.

"He did survive that one explosion earlier…" Gajeel remarked, panting in the same manner as them.

"Because…" Struggling to keep his magic up, Terry's body continued to become weak. "I… know you can defeat… him…" He could feel the tears come down in his chest. "I… believe you can…"

"T-Terry?" Christi could see his body glow once more.

"The spell is taking… its toll on me…" His magic finally drained out. "Goodbye… Christi…"

His body dispersed itself from her hands, leaving her with magical matter of his once dense body.

Like a soldier who heard a loud explosive ringing in his ear, Christi's loud cries were inaudible to her. Birds flew from out of trees, other animals scavenging for food stopped and turned to look at the direction the cries came from, and the other mages surrounding her could only stare, feeling the pain going through their ears and going up and down their spines like goosebumps.

An everlasting cry echoed through the trees in the forest they were in, even making its way towards Saturn Town.

Her cries turned to sobbing. "You… idiot…" She muttered underneath her breath.

"Are you going to be okay?" Christi didn't realize that Erza had stood right in front of her.

"Y-Yeah." Christi got up from her knelt position, wiping away the remaining tears that streamed down her cheeks.

"Aquarius, you're dismissed." Lucy sent her celestial spirit back to the spirit world and, along with the Exceeds and the three bluenettes, headed and regrouped with the other girls.

"Yo!" The three male mages were the first to regroup back with their guild mates and the mage freelancer/

"So, everyone is healed up?" Gray asked, observing the girl's wounds that were once there.

"Juvia feels that way." Juvia, referring to herself in third person as always, was the first to respond to the Ice mage.

"Yeah, my magic was almost all up before…" Lucy didn't really want to explain the events that just happened.

"It's okay, you can say it." Although, Christi's voice didn't want to hear it, her words meant another.

"Before Terry healed us all." Lucy finished her sentence after receiving the go.

"Tch, it didn't heal us," Gajeel said, crossing his arms across his chest. "Yo, shrimp, how about you cast me and Salamander a power-up?"

"Do I look like a vending machine to you?" Levy asked the big brute.

"If you were, I'd eat you out by now." Gajeel remarked.

"That sounded like a bad sexual innuendo." Happy clarified.

"Do you always have to think like that Happy?" Even though she was at a small age, Wendy knew what the small blue cat was talking about.

"You don't have to listen to the idiot, Wendy." Carla clarified to the small girl.

"We shouldn't be acting so carefree right now." Erza remarked at the current situation.

"Maybe you should requip back to your usual outfit." Lucy told her.

Erza looked down at her attire, not realizing that she still had Natsu's vest like jacket. "Oh, right." She took off the vest, revealing her naked body, making everyone rather nervous. "Requip!" She changed back to her standard steel-plated armor, while holding Natsu's vest with her right arm. "Thanks for… the vest."

"Y-Yeah, no problem." Natsu scratched his head, grabbing his jacket.

"Why you so flustered, Natsu?" Happy began to tease the pinkette.

"Flustered?" Natsu didn't know the meaning of that word, I mean, Igneel didn't really teach him all the words from a dictionary. "What are you on about?"

"The majority of us know why you wanted to find Titania, Salamander." Gajeel added, hoping the hints were rather cleared up a bit.

"Oh," Natsu now realized what his blue furry companion meant by that. "Ooooh."

"Hmm? What are you guys talking about?" Erza felt sort of left out.

"Nothing," Natsu's rather feign laugh didn't convince Erza to drop the conversation. "Nothing that really concerns you."

"Sure." His guild mates' sarcasm wasn't helping much either.

"He liiiikkkkeeee-" Natsu put his hand over Happy's mouth, stopping him from saying anything else towards the scarlet haired mage.

"Like I said," Natsu continued to put his hand over Happy's mouth. "Nothing."

"R-Right…" Erza didn't want to take it too far into the conversation.

"And I thought Salamander was the dense one…" Christi lowly said to herself.

"We're still not done here," Natsu advised them, staring back at the huge smoke that was concentrated near the mountainside. "The bastard is still kicking over there." He turned back to look at them. "And since everyone is healed, including Erza, that means we outnumber him now."

"Right." All of them agreed to that.

"You know," Reddrick, with the use of both his hands, blew away the smoke around him. "That conversation was rather filled with lots of details." He walked out of the crater that was made with the combination of Natsu's, Gajeel's and Gray's magic. "It'd be a shame if somebody used it against you."

"Do you have like some type of delayed onset awareness or something?" Natsu asked. "It did take you a long time to get out of there."

"D-Did I not just say what I was doing?" Reddrick questioned whether his words literally went through on ear and escaped through the other with the pinkette.

"He's like that sometimes." Gray prepared his next casting.

"Oh ok," Reddrick then saw Titania back at full strength. "Oh, looks like the great Titania is back on her feet now, is it? How delightful."

"We're not going to go down any time soon, Reddrick!" She retorted back at the menace.

"Let's see," Reddrick took note that he was outnumbered. "You have three dragon slayers, a girl with heavy explosive magic, another girl with some freaky type of water magic, an ice mage with a weird stripping habit, a girl with magical fucking keys, another girl who can make words appear out of thin air, three talking cats and one of them can transform to a bigger one, and then there's you, Titania." He had no more fingers to count with. "Seems rather fair don't you?"

"I am linked to the path to the world of Celestial Spirits, now! O spirit, answer my call and pass through the gate!" Lucy grabbed one of her golden keys, summoning one of her celestial spirits once more to aid them. "Taurus!"

"Oh, well would you look at that, now there's more of you than I can count…" Reddrick facepalmed.

"Well you're missing one more!" Natsu clarified.

"And who might that be!?" Reddrick asked.

"His name was Terry," Natsu said, while taking an offensive position like the rest of his friends. "And he's pretty pissed!"

Author's Note: Well, hope you like this chapter. Thanks for waiting patiently. Also, if you haven't checked up on it yet, my other story, At the End of the Tunnel (which is also a Natza/Nerza fanfic) has a new chapter, in case you've missed it. Also, Everything's Fine, Right? Is another Natza/Nerza story, so if you want, you can check that up too. I'll be uploading more after Christmas so yeah, Happy Holidays. Bye now.