Prologue

Natsu was climbing up the side of a building, trying his hardest to reach the top. Any second now, a grimm dragon was about to fly over the structure.

"I won't make it!" Natsu thought to himself.

The building was too tall, but that was also why it was his best chance at latching on to the flying beast. On the back of the dragon itself, Natsu's friend Ruby was confronting Cinder, the woman responsible for this whole chaos. He knew this wasn't something she could handle on her own.

Cinder's newly acquired maiden powers made her extremely powerful, to the point which she was even able to control this colossal beast. The town was in mass panic. Atlesian soldiers were trying their best to evacuate the civilians, and save them from a horde of the creatures of grimm. Several structures were lit on fire, illuminating the streets at night. Roaring of beasts, gun shots and screams of people could be heard throughout.

As Natsu kept struggling to climb up, white circular glyphs appeared on the side of the building, forming a straight path to the top. He was taken by surprise, his mind needing a moment to realize what had happened.

"Hey, this semblance is..." he turned around quickly to glance down below him.

In this whole mess, Weiss was one of the huntresses that fought nearby. She was wounded and beat up, using her rapier as a support to stand on her feet; this was probably one of her last acts for the night.

"Go, hurry, you'll thank me later."

Natsu briefly nodded back.

He focused back on the building, her glyphs now allowing him to scale it in a matter of seconds. After he made it to the top, just a mere second before the dragon flew over the structure, he leapt and managed to grab on to it's hind legs. He gave it his all to not fall off and make his way up towards Ruby.

"This is futile, you know that?" Cinder was mocking Ruby in an attempt to discourage her.

After a barrage of bullets had proven to be useless, Ruby was trying to attack her up close with her scythe, but Cinder's aura was at a level where she could effortlessly block all of Ruby's attacks without a scratch.

She tried attacking the dragon itself to throw it off balance or stop it somehow, but the scales were too thick; Ruby couldn't do anything to it. The beast had continued to fly on its masters orders, completely ignoring the people on its back. Moments later, Cinder had overwhelmed Ruby with a barrage of fiery missiles.

Her maiden powers were just too formidable, unfair even. Ruby was doing her best to deflect as many as she could, but she was still getting hit by more than a handful. Her aura was running out. Cinder decided to end what she perceived to be a mere waste of time in one fell swoop. She started charging up an attack, this one seemingly intended to be a huge wave of flames.

"If I get hit by that, I might die for real." Ruby was panicking, she was running out of options.

Due to the dragon flying around constantly, it was tough for her to keep a sure footing, so dodging a huge attack was not really an option. Not to mention there wasn't much space to maneuver in the first place. The last thing she wanted to do is run away, she knew there was too much at stake.

"This is the end of the line for you." Cinder said.

Just before the blast left her palms, someone climbed up from the side of the dragon. In a split second, he dashed in front of Ruby, a moment before the blast hit her.

"You got it all wrong..." Natsu took the brunt of the fiery wave, shielding Ruby with his own aura. "This is the end of the line for you!"

END

Author's note: Thanks for reading, i hope you enjoyed this. Feel free to leave me a review. Chapter 1 will be uploaded tomorrow, however from then on the plan is to do them weekly, so expect chapter 2 next Sunday.