Author's Note
After nearly a week of college work, TheSavageMan100 is back after a big break to produce the sequel to Erzahontas! This is the moment every Erzahontas fan has been waiting for: Erza officially shipped with Jellal, secrets revealed, and the main villain finally uncovered! Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seat belts in the exciting conclusion to the story of our beloved Fairyndian princess!
Erza Scarlet sets off to the Kingdom of Fiore with Jellal Fernandez to meet with King Toma on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. Meanwhile, the evil Prime Minister Jiemma hatches a scheme to set sail for the New World and take over, and he'll stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.
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The Kingdom of Fiore rose from the cold mist in the dark of the night, stone, brick, and steel columns symbolizing the height of civilization's achievement. In between ran ribbons of asphalt, where some souls walked, jogged, or drove to their livelihoods, while others slept peacefully in their beds. The kingdom hummed to a nightly frequency, and every law-abiding citizen harmonized with it in their sleep. The signals from the lampposts and candles provided a safe light for anyone walking around at night.
On a single apartment building, a small light emerged from an open window on the tenth floor, leading to a desk with a map and several spoils from the New World left there. A familiar 19-year old man with spiky blonde hair and his accomplice, a dark brown Exceed, sat on the desk and read the map. It would appear that tonight would be a quiet night for those two. That is, if they had to stay that long.
"Alright, two of a kind!" the Exceed cheered. "Let's do this!"
The young man responded, "Really? Only two guys for this job? Technically, we're the only ones left. We were once seven, until the one who planned it all out came along and took five of us away."
The Exceed snorted, "The Prime Minister thinks he can catch us. Well, he's got another thing coming, 'cause nobody messes with the greatest White Dragon Slayer alive today."
The young man replied, "Man, with all that crazy mess going down with Minerva and the Magnolia Company six months ago… The Prime Minister's placed a bounty on our heads! Rogue, Rufus, Orga, Yukino, Dobengal… they're all arrested! Taken to the Tower of Heaven, Fiore's biggest dungeon!"
"Except for Fingers and Minerva," the Exceed interjected. "They disappeared when the guards tried to take them in. I swear, somebody must've been planning something to make us take the fall for the crime!"
The young man nodded, "Yeah. They think we're the ones who killed Minerva. We've been running away from the authorities for six months now. It's only a matter of time before he'll finish where Minerva left off—"
The crashing of multiple windows and the front door interrupted the man's sentence, and he and his Exceed friend took cover. They've got some uninvited guests: the Cherry Blossom Holy Knights, under orders from King Toma E. Fiore himself, to capture the fugitives for crimes against the kingdom.
Three guards searched the room they suspected the two fugitives hid, only to find them missing as the candle illuminating the room blew out. A guard exclaimed, "He's gone!"
"Well, don't just stand there. Find him!" the captain of the Holy Knights, whose name was Arcadios, ordered. "The fugitive couldn't have gone far!"
BAM! The sound of a small explosion sent a few knights flying to the floor. The young man landed in front of the knights, revealing himself to be Sting Eucliffe, the White Dragon Slayer and captain of the Magnolia Company's crew that explored the New World six months ago. Alongside him was Lector, Sting's Exceed friend and partner. Having recovered from a severe injury in his chest at the end of the expedition, Sting was sent back to Fiore to be given a speedy recovery. He's never felt any better now that his chest has been fully healed.
"Uh-oh!" Lector worried. "The army's surrounded us!"
"This must be a party," Sting smirked. "What, we didn't get an invitation? Or are we the party?"
Arcadios took out a royal proclamation from the King and read, "Sting Eucliffe, in the name of the King, you are under arrest for treason in the Sabertooth settlement, the incitement of rebellion within the Magnolia Company, and the murder of Governess Minerva Orlando."
"Treason? Rebellion?! Murder?!" Lector cried defensively. "You've got the wrong guy! My best friend would never do such a bad thing to anyone! Sting's a good guy deep inside!"
Sting agreed, "Yeah, that's right! You must be looking for the guy who framed us!"
Arcadios denied, "I've had enough of this nonsense. You can confess your crime to the King in person. Guards! Take him!" The Holy Knights circled Sting and Lector, intent on capturing the last of the explorers that incited "mutiny" against the kingdom.
"White Dragon's Roar!" Sting breathed a stream of holy light from his mouth, blowing away the surrounding guards in one swipe. He cried, "Get us outta here, Lector!"
"Yeah!" Lector yelled, before he spread his wings and lifted Sting up. The two flew out of the window, soaring above the roofs of multiple houses.
"They're getting away!" Arcadios shouted. "Stop them!"
Lector flew Sting across the town, passing by rooftop to rooftop. Just then, the guards fired their guns or arrows or magical attacks against Sting and Lector, but the Exceed managed to dodge every attack with ease. However, one such attack struck Lector, causing the two to fall onto a rooftop. Lector cried in pain, his back and left wing scorched.
Sting shouted, "Lector! Fly us up!"
"I can't!" Lector cringed. "My left wing's hurt! I can't fly!"
Worried at the state his Exceed partner was in, Sting grabbed him in his arms, "Hang on!"
Carrying the injured Lector, Sting ran from the guards, jumping from rooftop to rooftop. Just as the Holy Knights were about to close in, they unknowingly ran past the White Dragon Slayer, who hid behind a house's chimney.
Sting smiled, knowing that the guards lost him. However, multiple guards appeared and swiped at him with their swords, but Sting dodged every strike, countering by dealing blows of his own. "White Dragon's Claw! White Dragon's Punch! White Dragon's Roar!" Sting unleashed three White Dragon Slayer spells to decimate the guards and send them flying off the roof.
"See ya next fall," Sting joked. "Anyone else care to join him?"
"Less joking, MORE RUNNING!" Lector screamed frantically.
"Don't worry, I'll hold them off," Sting assured. "But it's gonna be bumpy!"
Sting readied himself and activated a few spells to fight off the increasing number of guards. "White Dragon's Holy Breath! White Dragon's Punch! White Dragon's Holy Ray!" Every guard was devastated by Sting's destructive magic, but with every guard taken down, two more seemed to have taken a fallen one's place.
Fatigued from battle, Sting held tightly onto Lector and ran to the next roof with the amassing army in full pursuit. He then stopped as he saw more guards on the other side of the roof, approaching him. It would appear that the White Dragon Slayer was in a slight disadvantage.
"Cut him off!" Arcadios ordered. "We got him now!"
There's only one thing left to do at a time like this; take a leap of faith. Still gripping onto a terrified Lector, Sting jumped with all his might to another rooftop.
"Look!" Arcadios exclaimed. "He's jumped!"
Unfortunately, the rooftop was far beyond his reach as he ended up slipping and falling right off. Sting grabbed the ledge, desperately hanging on for dear life.
Lector screamed, "STING! HOLD ON!"
Sting cried, struggling to get up, "I'M TRYING!"
In the midst of this turmoil, the two heard footsteps approaching. Out of the fog and darkness emerged a tall, elderly man with a massive, extremely muscular physique with a thick beard and a mustache, and wearing a fashioned black long-sleeved dark purple tuxedo and a black metal crown.
"Prime Minister Jiemma," Sting recognized.
"Captain Sting Eucliffe," Jiemma greeted mockingly, bowing in a false show of respect. "It is an honor to finally meet you in person." He grabbed Sting's hair, pulling the wincing White Dragon Slayer up to his level. "I remembered when my daughter sailed with you and the Magnolia Company to the New World in search of the gold to present in favor and respect to the King... and myself."
Sting remembered six months ago when Jiemma sent his daughter, Minerva Orlando, as leader of the expedition to search for any trace of gold in the New World. Desperate to find the gold, Minerva deceived the colonists to get what she (mostly her father) wants, even getting into a pointless war the Fairyndians. In the climax, Minerva shot Sting with a Yagdo Rigora spell, while trying to shoot Makarov, the Fairyndian Chief. Her men turned against her and she was captured as a result.
But despite the failure of his daughter, Jiemma wasn't willing to lose; he convinced King Toma that the explorers were traitors and conspirators against the kingdom, and Sting murdered Minerva at the end of the expedition. The national newspaper informed the whole kingdom of the troublesome news afterwards. However, King Toma was unaware that Jiemma manipulated these events to carry out his own plan regarding the New World and its gold.
Sting argued angrily, "I told you a hundred times, there is no gold! It doesn't exist in the New World! The Fairyndians said so!"
Jiemma scoffed, "In any new world, there is always new adventure, new territory, and new spoils. That includes gold as well."
Sting growled, "There are some places that don't have any gold! Why don't any of you believe me?!"
"Because King Toma believed me," Jiemma answered simply, gesturing to himself. "He was inspired by my ideals, and thus he shared those ideals to the Kingdom of Fiore. The New World HAS gold… and the King's decree made it so." He narrowed his eyes, "You have betrayed that principle, and thus you have betrayed the kingdom. You aligned yourself with the Fairyndian insects. Embraced a pathetic cause."
"Take that back!" Sting snarled. "The Fairyndians aren't savages! They can help us! You forced your daughter to find all the gold and start a pointless war so that you can keep all the glory for yourself!" His rage festered, "You used Minerva from the very beginning, didn't you?! HUH?! DIDN'T YOU?!"
"That's enough, Sting," Jiemma held his hand, interrupting Sting. "It's time for you to join your friends in the Tower of Heaven. Your treachery will be punished." He then smirked, "Pity. I was so looking forward to seeing a White Dragon Slayer in action."
Sting glared dangerously at Jiemma in response. Smirking, the Prime Minister's body pulsed with immense magic, and he raised a glowing purple fist aimed directly at Sting. With a single swing, Jiemma punched Sting at the chest, a powerful shockwave created from the impact. Coughing blood from his mouth, the White Dragon Slayer fell unconsciously into the river below, with Lector screaming in Sting's arms.
"STTIIIIIIINNNNNGG!" Nothing Lector could do can wake him up.
And thus, the White Dragon Slayer and the Exceed splashed, disappearing into the river, its visage smothered by the fog. Jiemma chuckled in satisfaction. The first phase of his plan was complete.
The next day, Jiemma was sobbing (well, pretending to) in front of two people sitting on their thrones. One was an elderly short man with white hair and wearing a blue royal collared shirt with a red royal jacket used as a cape. His name was Toma E. Fiore, King of Fiore. Next to him was a young woman with long green hair and wearing a short white dress, long sleeves covering up to her elbows, a tiara with seven gemstones, and a blue necklace. Her name was Hisui E. Fiore, daughter of Toma and Princess of Fiore.
Jiemma explained, pretending to cry, "I did everything I could save him... but he was gone for good." He went over to Toma, "And that is the death of Sting Eucliffe." He then kissed Toma's hand, but the king shook it away in annoyance.
"I wanted him ALIVE!" Toma snapped. "How am I supposed to hear his side of the story when he's dead?"
"My sincerest apologizes, Your Majesty," Jiemma apologized, backing away and kneeling in front of Toma. "I did want him alive, but he refused to give in. The Fairyndians had indeed corrupted Sting. They turned him and his fellow crew against us. At this point, you don't need him to confirm what I've already told you."
"Before we take action, we must wait until Jellal Fernandez returns with the Chief of these Fairyndians," Hisui suggested, with her father nodding in agreement. "At least we should give them a chance for negotiations, Prime Minister. That way, they may prove they aren't as brutal as you said they are, despite having never even met them."
"The Chief will only tell you more heathen lies," Jiemma interjected, taking out a scroll. "If diplomacy fails, war is the only way. Since my daughter failed to finish her mission at the New World, I shall continue it in her stead."
Toma took the scroll and read it; it was a request to dispatch an armada to Magnolia and attack the Fairyndians. He nodded and said, "Very well, Jiemma. Prepare your armada, then. But we will await the return of Jellal and the Fairyndian Chief."