Original story: kunashgi448

Revised by Conbolt Is Fire


Prologue: Black Truth

March 21, X794

Things seemed the same as if the guild had never dissolved, as if there had never been a war, as if peace remained in the Kingdom of Fiore.

Unfortunately, life has cycles.

"The Age of Magic is over." explosions erupted all over Magnolia, or what remains of the city, a crimson sky, black smoke everywhere, it was the perfect environment for the final battle.

"They were right about that... I just wish things would have gone differently." The words of a teenager resonated in the deafening silence between explosive blasts. He stood on one of the last crumbling pillars that once supported the only place he could have called home.

"Calm down, once we finish the game, you can meet with Natsu and the others." The silhouette of a girl appeared behind him. She was sitting on the cathedral, now in ruins.

"It's because of this stupid game I lost several loved ones! This has to end when we established the new government!"

"Ah…no one can deny the will of God, you know that the blood on our hands was planned from the start."

Rooooooooaaaaaaaaarrrr!

The ground trembled, damn it, it wouldn't be long before that thing breaks the seal. The girl smiled when she saw that giant seal in the sky.

"We don't have much time, what if someone dies before that thing kills us both? I hate draws, but you already know that don't you Fire Warrior." A shot rang out across the battlefield, the boy had moved his head slightly, dodging the bullet, it continued its path destroying a flag, the last symbol of Fairy Tail. The flag slowly drifted down into the rubble that was once the guild showing that as it had fallen so to was the famous stubbornness of fairies doomed to fall as well.

"My name isn't Fire Warrior, it's Romeo Conbolt. Let's put an end to all of this, Water Warrior." He turned around and looked into those dead blue eyes, which he once believed belonged to a comrade, ready to put an end to this stupid game. Romeo took his weapon with the only arm he had left while clenching his teeth around a piece of rusted iron, and he launched himself towards that Psycho, who waited anxiously, on the last day.

January 7, X793

It would not make sense to narrate the final day without knowing its context. So, we will start with one of its principal authors, OK?

"Thank you, my son. I promise not to waste it"

"Whatever you say old man" Romeo was leaving the guild, weaving through the chaos, just like any other ordinary day. Dodging tables and anything else that could be thrown was routine for those who dare enter Fairy Tail, but now he needed to rest, the last mission was very long because he was by himself but at least now he could perform solo missions.

"As if nothing had happened" Romeo murmured to himself as he saw the last traces of construction in Magnolia, the scars left from of the Alvarez war were almost gone, it was truly a victory for Fiore, and now peace was returning to the kingdom.

The 15-year-old fire mage enters a small library, where he studied with his former teacher, Totomaru, who is continuing to teach about fire magic, and some of its variants.

"Good afternoon, Totomaru-sensei" salutes Romeo with respect.

"Ah, and a good afternoon to you as well my best student, how was your mission?"

"Tiring, finding those invisible lizards took me longer than expected, the only good thing about it was the reward for taking care of them," answered the young man with a tired voice.

"The most important thing to gain is experience, but right now I have a gift. I have the spell book that I promised you last month, but only for five days" his teacher gave him a large book, that looked very old judging by the faded ink texts.

"Thank you, once I get home, I'll read everything needed to improve with the gray flames" Romeo gently put the book into a bag. He knew he had a long way to go before he could call himself an expert rainbow fire mage, so he trained constantly. He only wore light clothes despite the cold, in order to learn to circulate the heat throughout his body.

"How is the training going with Natsu?" asked Totomaru, curiously.

"Good, I've learned all of the exercises that he left for me, so now I just have to wait for him to return with the others. It should be while though because they have to make a stop in Crocus, Erza-nee needs to talk to the king, while Wendy and Chelia have a concert there." the latter occasion brought a sly smile on Totomaru's face.

"So Chelia-chan will be coming also?"

"Let's not start this again."

"Come on Romeo, you obviously have those girls in the palm of your hand, you just have to decide who and make a move!" Romeo and Wendy weren't really friends until the incident with the Ichiya Zombies, and he will never let her forget that she almost said his name wrong. Chelia came into the picture during the celebration after the war, the younger mages were gathered together at a table to talk with each other about their experience. That led to becoming friends with Beth from Mermaid Heel, and a guy of Quatro Cerberus called Zen. While the whole group kept in contact with each other, he saw Chelia a lot more often because of her friendship with Wendy.

"You don't know what you're talking about. We're just friends." of course Romeo understood Chelia's hints and the looks Wendy would give him when she thought he wasn't looking. Come on, he was at that age where hormones were raging, but it's easier to pretend to be dense, after all, he had learned that from the best. Although now Natsu seems to begin to understand his feelings for Lucy, and the other couples are coming around to the idea of dating, but for now, only Alzack and Bisca had an official relationship in the guild.

"Fairy Tail can beat anything that comes their way, but when it comes to love, no one makes a move," thought Totomaru but he couldn't blame them.

The teacher and the student talked for a while longer on a few more trivial things, before Romeo left to the park to read his book, relaxing his body under the shade of a large tree.

"Concentrate your mind on the figure and it will be easier to manipulate the gray flames," read the young fire mage, it didn't seem that complicated, so he was going to perform the exercise when a familiar melody rang out throughout the city.

They had arrived.

"I can't believe that they get a whole song just for walking into the city just like Gildarts. Then again, they are already just as big or bigger than Gildarts." thought Romeo, getting up to go to the guild, some people left their house to greet team Natsu, characterized by the large quantity of luggage that they brought and the almost classic scene of a quarrel between Natsu and Gray, while the great writer and model Lucy, the imposing Erza, and the young sky duo walked behind them.

Romeo ran to a nearby avenue because he wanted to get to the guild to greet them. For just a moment it was if time had stopped, perhaps if he had moved on and continued his path, the future would have changed, but he didn't, instead, he stopped suddenly to look at the girl he was going to run by.

It was an albino hair girl, whiter than the Strauss siblings' hair. The long white hair was covered by a gray mountain hat, while she wore a dark blue blouse with one long sleeve, wrapping around her left arm, black jeans, and brown boots. She was reading a book, but after feeling observed, she looked up, revealing curious orange eyes, briefly hidden behind fog from her breath coming in contact with the cold.

"I'll call a city guard if you keep staring at me, pervert!" warned the girl severely.

Shit.

"No... what happened... was, well," Romeo's stammers were silenced when he was suddenly struck in the face by the book in her hands, the tense environment was quickly diffused as if it was nothing, but the girl did not bother to laugh.

"Liar, but if you wanted to fuck me, you could have just asked." the girl mockingly said, getting up from the ground to pick up her book.

"It's not that...it was your appearance that drew my attention" at that moment Romeo noticed the white insignia on her right arm "Are you a member of Fairy Tail?" asked Romeo. That was weird since he didn't remember her being in the guild.

"Yes, I am from the heap that joined after the war, my name is Yuna Toketsu, I use snow magic."

"I'm-"

"Romeo Conbolt, aka Natsu Dragneel's leech, I already know who you are." Despite how annoying she might be, Romeo kept his manners and reached out for a handshake.

"Well Yuna-san, what are you doing here?" Asked the fire wizard to create a conversation, and make the situation less uncomfortable.

"The same as you, I like to read outdoors, it's impossible to concentrate in the guild. By the way, you're running to see him, aren't you? You're so obvious, Romeo-kun." She leaned in with a smirk causing Romeo to diverted his gaze a little ashamed at what she said, he was getting accustomed to being known as a fanboy of the Fire Dragon Slayer.

"Just go to the guild, they will surely make another party before going out again" whispered Romeo to himself as he walked away, there was no response from Yuna, but she followed him with a happy skip in her step.

It was uncomfortable for a few moments because it was strange to walk with someone you just meet, especially with the personality that Yuna had, so the boy decided to take a look at the book she had in her hands to start talking about anything other than himself. What he saw surprised him.

"How did you get that book? I know the author is hard to find."

"Obviously. The author is from the Iceberg kingdom, the book itself has spells for cold magic, such as snow, ice, hail, even cloud" commented Yuna.

"I'm reading a book by a family member related to that author, but it's about fire magic and I could only find this really old edition." Yuna stopped cold, Romeo turned around wondering why she stopped with a smile on her face as if she had waited for his comment.

"How about this, leech? I know an old man who has these books in Bish, a community two hours from Magnolia, and if my memory isn't failing me, there is a very low-paying mission in the area. We make a team, complete the mission, and on the way back, we get the magic books you want, deal?"

"Hmm, I don't really need them now, besides I have plans. Wendy and Chelia have invited me for a walk."

"Relax, I'm sure they'll both want to be with you even after they hear how you participated in that operation with Max. What was it called again? Mission Bra?"

Fuck you Yuna.

"My old man forced me! It was against my will!" screamed Romeo, he was barely spared from the punishment that Erza and Mira gave to those responsible for stealing bras in Fairy Hills two months ago.

"What will be more convincing, your statement, or a sweet girl with photographic evidence of the crime?" Yuna showed a picture where was Romeo running out of Wendy's room. He forced her to put away the photo so that nobody nearby could see it. Yuna sticks out her tongue and winked.

"You win okay? We're going on that mission today, so calm down. Why do want to go with me anyways?" Romeo asks with his arms crossed.

"Because only you and Wendy Marvell are around my age, but since she's famous and you're a nobody, I can gain experience without having to worry that you're busy." an imaginary arrow pierced Romeo's chest, formed by the words "a nobody"

"Let's just pick up the mission and finish it quickly" they both followed the road to the guild, eventually walking inside and dodging the celebratory fight of Team Natsu's return to take the mission off the quest board. The mission was just delivering an old Magnolia wand to a town called Torst.

"Hey Mira, we'll take this mission," Romeo said, putting the paper on the bar top.

"Ara, ara, I never thought you would live up to your name, not just one girl but three? RoWen, RoChe, and now RoYu! This means that we have to add another pair to the guild's betting pool." Romeo blushed and looked down at the ground, Yuna just starts to laugh at the situation.

"Slow down Mirajane, he only offered to help me to get extra money, you know I like to hang out with people my age," said Yuna clarifying the situation.

"Also, you should be making plans for turning Natsu-nii and Lucy-nee into a couple, not to mention the others," Romeo said, trying to change the subject of discussion.

"Well, it takes time. You know that mistletoe won't work, so I need to think of more creative ideas. Anyways, be careful, come back before nightfall, and remember that Macao will be mad if you're late."

"Yeah, yeah." Romeo and Yuna were walking towards the door when someone stopped them. He should have known he wouldn't have been able to just come and go now that they were here.

"Are you going somewhere, Romeo-kun?" ask Chelia, with Wendy popping out from behind her.

"I'm going to help Yuna-san with a quick mission," Romeo said calmly, trying to ignore the jealous looks on both of the girls, seriously, what had he done to earn so much affection?

"Relax, I'm just taking him out for a moment, then you can rape Romeo between the two of you for as long as you want." It hasn't been even an hour since he's met Yuna and yet he already knows that she clearly isn't afraid to say whatever her weird mind thinks.

"Shut up. It's not that!" Wendy and Chelia shouted in unison, totally flushed.

"Hey Yuna-san, enough with your remarks."

"You're right. Actions speak louder than words, go for it." Yuna pushes Romeo forward with a kick in his back causing him to fall onto the sky duo. Romeo had one hand holding Chelia´s breast, while the other hand, touched Wendy's crotch, in a flash someone took pictures.

"I have them!" screamed a random guild member.

"Pass me the photos later, friend!" said the snow mage, ignoring how the aura of an individual redhead women was focusing on Romeo. Yuna took his hand so he could escape the swords now flying his way.

"I'm so proud of you, my son." thought Macao, weeping with secret pride.

Yuna leads Romeo to an alley, safe from Titania's wrath, for now.

"Why did you do that?!".

"You should thank me. I'm sure both of them will have quite an erotic dream of you." Before Romeo could say something Yuna moved a canvas, revealing something great.

"Are those Magic Skateboards Z45?!"

"Yup, a little Christmas present, and here, with this, we'll get there even faster" she handed him the other skateboard, with the addition of a bracelet, the technology would use the magic of its user to be a flying skateboard. It was currently very popular among young mages.

"Even with this, I still hate you" with that comment from Romeo the pair headed for the mission, having fun with these toys along the way.

The mission itself took less than two hours, in exchange for 40,000 jewels, which is a meager reward for a regular Fairy Tail member, but what mattered here were the books. Romeo followed Yuna, who knew the direction, but she stopped, in the middle of the forest.

"Is something wrong?" asked the Fire wizard, because her mood had suddenly changed.

"I want you to see something." She asks him to hide the skateboards, and as he approached they found that there was a rune wall in the way. Yuna put her hand on the barrier, somehow destroying the wall, in a flash there was a light blizzard of wind, shattering the illusion and revealing something frightening.

"What that hell?" There were dozens of people, visibly poorly nourished, doing heavy work, including a child being beaten by a man in black to the point of seeing blood.

"We have to get help...Yuna?" She had thrown herself into action, knocking down the man who was beating the kid, while simultaneously creating a blizzard of snow to keep the reinforcements away.

"Alright, then Fairy Tail style it is." Romeo also launched to help her, it was relatively easy because there were very few guards, so he just needs his purple flames to knock them out.

"Looks like that was the last of them. We should ..." He turned and was silenced by what he saw. For the first time, a scene that will become commonplace in his near future played out before him, Yuna had pierced through a guard's heart with a sword made of snow. The body slumped off the blade and now lied lifelessly on the ground with a small pool of blood slowly seeping out from it.

Romeo's body was shocked by the gruesome sight and his heart hammered in his chest from the cold grip of fear.

"You shouldn't have killed them! What's wrong with you!" His hands gripped tightly around Yuna's collar, pulling her in close as he yelled in her face. "If you think life in prison will change these types of people then you're a child. That kind of animal deserves to be dead" that was an unbelievably cold answer and if it wasn't from a girl, he would have punched her already.

"No one has the right! It's a human life! This isn't how things are supposed to happen!"

"It's not my fault that Fiore has a strong taboo with murder, it's something so normal for the rest of Ishgar, but let's see what you think after this." Yuna tore off Romeo's hands from around her collar and kicked him, sending him into the side of a wooden house. When he felt a warm red liquid seeping between his fingers, he saw the real hell.

"And worst of all, this is not the work of a dark guild" another gust of wind blew through the forest, revealing the logo of the Kingdom of Fiore, and that those guards, were really royal soldiers "This is reality, Romeo. They gave all of these people a painful death."

"..." Romeo's eyes widened in horror as he could not speak at the sight of such a scene, the mutilations, the hanging bodies, and all the blood everywhere. "We must inform the master!" His voice shook with fear and as he tried to run away a blast of snow took him to the ground. Romeo tried to get up, but Yuna pinned him to the ground with her magic. Snow slowly engulfed his body leaving only his head uncovered while the rest of it was completely immobilized. She walked up to him and before he could make a move she stepped on the back of his head, shoving his face into the snow.

"Gah!"

"Understand something friend, Fairy Tail is simply a puppet of the kingdom, surely they will invent a story or something to pass the blame onto a dark Guild, you will soon understand of the friendship between Master Makarov and the king, Toma E. Fiore, or the pumpkin bastard."

"Liar!"

"Seriously? Then tell me, why the pumpkin king himself commands Team Natsu to international missions, in Stella, in Seven, in Alvarez, that group is the image of Fiore, whether you like it or not."

"Shut up!"

"They are deluded, calling Alvarez's attack a war when no one died, that's not a real war, it was just the whim of an emo with superpowers. And Acnologia, that lizard was so depressed that he was defeated by *The Nakama Power* come on, it's pathetic!" Yuna exerted more pressure, digging his face deeper into the ground.

"Who are you?"

"Good question, I'm a spy. I joined Fairy Tail to understand more of the relationship between the guild and the kingdom. Makarov took very little time to figure out my intentions, so I had to be quick, but now I have what I need."

"Now so do I." An eruption of fire exploded from his body, melting the snow prison while also sending Yuna flying in the opposite direction. He slowly stood up taking in deep breaths as steam rolled off his body.

"Damn you really are hot." Yuna smiled while brushing off Romeo's surprise attack. "I need to get back to the guild and tell them what's going on." He thought to himself before Yuna took a few steps forward. "She knows what I'm thinking. Looks like I'm going to have to do this the hard way."

"This is wrong Yuna. I'm taking you back to the guild, now." His voice rang out of the snowy forest but it appeared to have fallen on deaf ears. "That's not happening and you know it, leech." The forest grew colder from Yuna's magic. Romeo let out a sigh before taking a fighting stance, more steam rolled off his body as he rose his internal temperature even higher to match Yuna.

"My name isn't leech." Bright orange flames erupted from his fists and his eyes sharpened. "My name is Romeo Conbolt." He dashed forward trying to cut the distance between them to turn this into a close-range fight but she had other plans.

"White Fury." Yuna brought up her hand and released a small snowstorm at Romeo who continued his momentum and narrowly avoided the blast by sliding on his knees and bending backward. Now face to face, he unleashed a sudden fire punch at her head but she just moved her head enough to avoid the blow.

He threw punch after punch trying to land a blow as Yuna backpedaled with a grin on her face as if to say "is that all you got?" Romeo wasn't growing upset at her silent taunting but instead waited for this moment. When she got too comfortable.

"Gotcha'" Yuna narrowly avoided another punch to the head but rather than pull his arm back to try again the flame around his fist grew suddenly and erupted into the side of her head. Orange flames briefly blocked her view of Romeo so in that moment he rotated his body into a powerful fire-enhanced back kick right into her stomach.

"Gah!" Yuna cried out as the blow connected and sent her flying into a nearby tree. Her body slumped against its trunk as Romeo walked up to her. "We're going back to the guild now-" He stopped talking as the Yuna that was lying there transformed into a pile of snow.

"Snow Clone. Ever heard of them?" The taunting voice came from behind him and caused him to grit his teeth. "She must have swapped places with her clone while I turned my back for the kick." Romeo thought to himself.

After that thought, Romeo leaped back into action with a blast of fire erupting from his feet. His fists became a blur as he released another fiery barrage at her, eventually, she caught his fists and he smirked.

The Romeo in her hands diffused into an orange flame as another Romeo launched through the embers of his clone to smash his fist into her face, sending her tumbling backward into the snow and skidding across the forest floor.

"Fire clone. Ever heard of them?"

Yuna jumped back onto her feet with a playful smile on her face and gave him a look that told him that she was…having fun?

"Not bad, let's have a good time, alright little firefly?" She slapped her hands together and Romeo watch as her magic suddenly spiked causing the snow at her feet to fly away from her.

"Snow Bomb!" Several giant snowballs formed in the air and were now racing towards him. In response, Romeo slammed his hands into the ground and a purple flame erupted from his hands. "Purple Flare: Wall!" A large defensive wall appeared between him and the giant snowballs.

He stayed crouched behind the wall channeling magic into his wall so it could hold as Yuna's thunderous barrage collided with his defense. One after another a ball would explode against his wall breaking it down, but just as quickly Romeo would rebuild it again and again. This happened over and over as his visibility grew worse and worse due to the snowy debris from the remains of Yuna's attack fluttering around.

Suddenly a shadowy figure blasted out from the right side of the wall so Romeo instinctively faced it only to find it was a small snowball.

"Shit!"

His eyes widened as he felt Yuna appear behind him and before he could completely turn around Yuna hit him with a vicious kick to the body, slamming his head against his own wall. Romeo's vision blurred for a moment as Yuna created a snow sword to slice him.

She lunged forward with her blade as the ground beneath her shattered apart, another Romeo emerged from the snow gripping her arm with one hand as the other hand pulled back into a blazing fist.

"This must be the real one!" Yuna thought as she summoned a snow sword into her other hand, thrusting it forward towards his chest.

"Indigo Flame: Exploding Clone!" The Romeo holding onto her glowed a bright blue color before exploding in her face. The forest shook as azure flames flooded between the trees. The real Romeo never lost sight of her as Yuna's charred body was sent flying into the air.

"Get back here! Purple Flare: Whip!" A thin purple colored flame wrapped around her leg and pulled her through the air until Romeo slammed her into the forest floor. "GAH!" Her body bounced up almost like a rubber ball but he wasn't done yet.

Romeo jumped into the air and clenched his teeth on the purple whip still connected to Yuna. He then slapped his hands together to channel his magic into this next attack. He leans his head back taking in a large breath, his chest swelled as fire gathered into his mouth, and then he immediately expelled all the fire stored in his chest for a violent final attack!

"Red Flame: Fire Bullet!"

A large, bullet-like stream of dark red fire raced down the purple flare whip and engulfed Yuna in an unavoidable blast that scorched the surrounding forest to ashes. Trees were blown away, steam flooded the surrounding area as his attack suddenly evaporated the snow, but what Romeo was looking at now was the charred body lying still in the epicenter of his blast. The steam slowly dissipated as he made his approach.

He carefully walked towards it in deafening silence, the only sound now was the crunching of burnt leaves underneath his feet. Romeo crouched beside her and reached out to pick her up and carry her back to the guild.

"I promise I'll get you healed once we're back in the guild and then I'll get the answers I need." He slowly moved his arm to pick her up in a way to avoiding doing more harm.

"You're so sweet Romeo-kun." A charred hand grabbed onto his arm and pulled him into a stunning knee to his stomach. "Gah!" Romeo almost threw up from the surprise attack but instead, he looked up in shock to see her blackened skin slowly fall off her body and gently drifted down towards the ground as if they were snowflakes.

*Cue Music*

"Snow…armor?" As the last of it fell off it revealed a seemingly unharmed Yuna. She disappeared in front of him before her taunting voice resonated in his ears. "Impressed?" He felt a surge of magic behind him so reacted as quickly as he could.

"Red Flame: Emperor's Clo-" He could not finish his spell fast enough, now he felt a stabbing pain in his chest. He looked down to see Yuna's snow blade now clearly through his chest. Romeo coughed out blood, splattering his life force onto her sword.

His body was failing as he was being frozen from the inside out but, he weakly latched onto the blood spotted sword to pull it out. "You must be so confused, but don't worry, you'll soon understand everything," said Yuna, leaning her body to the side, smiling naturally.

"...Tch."

"Shh, don't talk, you'll ruin the moment." Yuna was now in front Romeo, with her sword still in his bosom, she lightly pulled his face to hers, knowing that Romeo was about to losing consciousness as his eyes lost focus.

"You're going to forgive me for lying, aren't you? Because you're going to be my new friend." those orange pupils, surrounded by black contour, were the last things Romeo saw, before darkness consumed his vision and his body collapsed sideways onto the burnt forest floor.

At that time my normal life ended and soon the bloody war would start, after all, that night was the first time I truly saw magic kill someone.

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"So, you choose him as a partner" in the background, she heard a thick voice, Yuna turned around to see the shadows carrying Romeo as if he was a sack of potatoes.

"Yes, from what I know, with this we will end up forming the final pairs, 8 teams, 15 future deaths, and only one survivor."

"I wonder how you will stay in Fairy Tail, with the kingdom coming after both of you."

"Instinct and being cunning, that's it. I hope God is happy with this new game, after playing with Zeref for 400 years."

"Of course, God Ankhseram will be happy to see the Ishagar fall, while enjoying the Element Taisen. After all, the origin of the magic is dark and rotten." Yuna went back to an unknown destination with a final remark.

"I've always believed that to be true."

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C.I.F. A/N: The music in this chapter is "Everybody Knows by Sigrid" I think it fits wonderfully with that part and I would recommend re-reading that part as the song plays in the background. I also want to thank kunashgi448 for letting me be his beta and join in on this adventure with you guys. Have a nice day!