[Book does not entirely relate to Fairy Tail's manga or anime current arc in sequence. Please do not spoil anything for other readers.]
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Carrier of E.N.D
Chapter 0: The Beginning
The story begins when it's almost the end of the current world, the most struggling battle that Fairy Tail has engaged in. With the fall of their father, Makarov Dreyar, the guild finds them struggling to maintain their composure as they start to run around not knowing what to do.
Every powerful wizard are unable to take control of the situation as they struggle to fight to the end of of their own internal battle, and our main protagonist finds herself holding onto Natsu's life in the form of a very powerful book.
On her knees as she looked over her shoulder, she was unable to think properly with Gray and Happy looking at her in worry. Confusion swirling in their eyes as they looked at her biting her lower lip, they remain silent as the resonance of the distant battles roared like dragons in war. They all didn't know what to do, and their friend's life is all within her shaking hands.
"What are we going to do?" Happy cried as he looked at Lucy. His eyes looking at the blonde with some hope in his eyes, he hoped that the girl has something in her mind that could protect his fatherly partner.
Lucy nibbling on the bottom of her lip, she slowly opened the book. A massive wave of power and energy releases from the book, she gasped in surprise. The magic, it was so powerful but depressing.
Tears rolling down her cheeks, she embraced the saddening sensation flowing through her body. As if the book was crying, she painfully pushed her magic out of her exhausted body. The only thing that she could do now was to rewrite the laws within the book - The connection between Natsu's life and the book.
"I can do this..." she whispered to herself as the words ran through her head madly as she switched words around and adding new things. Gritting her teeth as she felt the searing pain of the words etch themselves onto her skin where it gets absorbed into her bruised body, she continued to control the words with every ounce of power that she had left in her body.
She could hear her friends trying to tell her to stop. "If you cannot do it, don't force yourself! It's too dangerous!" Gray's voice yelled with Happy crying in the background in concern of Lucy's wellbeing.
Shaking her head, she continued to change the words. Doing her best to ignore the pain that could knock her out, she pressed on while watching flashes of the demons' memories.
Watching the demons fall to their loss where they're forced back into the book after being finally free, she raised a shaky hand up and wiped away her tears.
"Lucy!"
Without her knowing, she placed the wrong word into book where it repelled her, throwing her into a building where she sank onto her knees and palms. Feeling weak as her body wasn't able to support her weight, she dropped onto her stomach and blacked out. Her head ringing, she felt as if her connections with her spirits were slowly getting cut off.
"Lucy!" Gray yelled out again as he took a few steps forward towards the blonde on the ground. Stopping when he felt immense power building up behind him, he turned to look over his shoulder where he saw E.N.D glowing brighter and brighter. Staring at the book that was hovering midair, he watched it fly away from sight where he turned his attention back to Lucy.
If the book flew off, doesn't that mean that she failed?
"Move it Gray!" A thunderous voice boomed where the raven-haired wizard looked over his shoulder to see a girl with crimson hair sprinting towards him with two knights running after her. The girl gritting her teeth, she jumped into the air, landing on one of the knight's open palm where he threw her into the air. The other knight jumping high into the sky, he grabbed onto the crimson's outstretched hand.
"I didn't go on a quest to only get called back for this! The old man must be crazy - Fall then back up again," The crimson growled where her body began to shine bright. "Acnologia!" she then yelled as her body morphed into a dragon.
Gray and Happy watching everything happen in front of them, they questioned how a person was able to shift into a dragon before noting that the two knights left behind were replaced by two large wolves. "Crimson hair..." he whispered where the dragon with crimson scales gave out a loud and threatening growl.
"You've forgotten that I still exist!" the dragon roared before soaring towards the black and blue dragon in the distance.
The two boys not knowing what to do, the wolves opened their jaws to speak. "We're here to regroup you with the guild," the silver-white wolf said. "The fight still continues but from what we think, he'll be trying to eliminate every Dragon Slayer out there so before anything happens, we need to regroup and find a way to stop them," the jet black wolf then said.
"We will carry you back. Hurry," the silver wolf then hassled, lowering his back where Gray picked up Lucy and sat on him. Happy snuggling into the most safest spot in between them, the wolves bolted into the distance where they last saw the guild gathered.
Everyone watching the crimson dragon battle out with Acnologia, they quickly hurried where all Dragon Slayers vanished out of no where. Exceeds crying as partners were yelling frantically as they tried to find their close friends, Gray arrived to find everyone exhausted and stressed out of their wits.
"Wolves... Ahhh, Drancer and Knight," Makarov gasped as he weakly looked at the wolves dropping off his three children. The wolves bowing their heads, their ears twitched as they snapped their heads up to see the crimson dragon struggling to hold Acnologia off from their current location. "Is that Sakura?" he questioned.
Drancer and Knight nodding their heads, they were about to bolt over to where their favorite crimson was battling until she was bitten on the shoulder where gave out a hurtful growl. Being thrown towards the gathered group of people, she shifted back into her human form where she slammed into the ground with a sheer amount of blood coming out of her mouth. Weakly pushing herself up, she held onto her shoulder and slowly got onto her feet where she fell onto one knee with her teeth gritted in pain.
"I can't sense the elements," the crimson gagged where she coughed out more blood. Her eyes wide as she saw how Acnologia was starting to destroy the city, she flinched when she saw his tremendous power. "Igneel..." she whispered, not knowing what to do where she looked over her shoulder to see everyone looking at her in bewilderment.
Her eyes to the old man, she saw how wounded he was and narrowed her eyes. "You all..." she noted before slowly turning her head to watch Acnologia continue his destruction.
If it continued then, everyone would die.
"We should do Fairy Sphere! Like... What the First did to protect us all. That way, maybe we can stop him," a voice whispered where every head present turned to face the blonde being supported by Gray. "But we'll need to go and find it in the guild library!"
Everyone looking at Lucy in disbelief, they all looked at each other in horror. To trap the dragon and hopefully stop him.
"But how can we do that?! Only the First knows how to perform the spell! He's already here and searching it will be too time consuming!" Cana asked, her finger pointing to Acnologia who continued to bellow in madness.
The girl with crimson hair gritting her teeth, she raised her hand weakly. "I know the spell, but it's too powerful -" She was interrupted by Lucy. "If you know the spell, then if everyone can lend their magic then maybe it'll be enough to stop him," Lucy encouraged where the girl clicked her tongue.
A crazy plan, but this was Fairy Tail. The power of bonds will overcome everything when everyone is in sync.
Sighing in defeat, the crimson closed her eyes. "Alright. As long as he's within my sight, I'll be able to do it," she whispered where everyone tensed up as they felt a surge of energy released from her.
Lucy nodding, she began to yell out instructions. "Everyone! Please form a circle and hold hands! No matter what happens, don't let go and think about the people you want to protect!" she cried out, ignoring how her previous attempt of helping out everyone failed as she found herself waking up in Gray's arms with Juvia looking over her in complete worry. "Hurry! We cannot let him get any closer to us!"
The crimson watching everything, she nodded her head to Makarov as he brushed by her. Shaking her head as she ran her fingers through the fur of her wolves, they stood in the middle of the two circles and jumped high into the sky where she shifted into her dragon form once again. With one hefty bellow to push Acnologia away to create some distance from everyone, she shifted back into her human form where she closed her eyes and began to chant.
This was the spell that she never wanted to use even though she knew and learnt the words. Her heart was in Fairy Tail, but she was hardly there to share and experience the bonds of friendship that her fellow members have been through - The spell could backfire, but as long as she still carries the pride of a Fairy, then perhaps it may work.
"Give us the power to protect everybody - Fairy Sphere! Activate!" the crimson yelled where she felt the force of the magic consuming her.
Everyone thinking about their loved ones and their families, they called the power from within them, hoping that they'll have enough power and hope to protect everyone that they held so dear in their hearts. To end their lives now without living to the fullest - They didn't want that!
The smiles. The tears. All of the hardships that they've been through together. It was far too soon to end their journeys right now without experiencing the rest of what has to come next.
Lucy hoping that her plan would work out, she prayed that everyone would be able to connect and feel their emotions reach each other as their wishes become in sync. While they were all fighting against the damn beast, she knew that Natsu was still fighting along with the Dragon Slayers wherever they were.
And as a sphere of magic engulfed the black and blue dragon, their hopes were shattered as Acnologia began to pound against the sphere.
"It's going to break!" Pantherlily yelled out.
Lucy opening her eyes were she began to panic, she didn't know what to do as she sank onto her knees in defeat. "Was our magic... Not enough?" she questioned where she felt a hand tap her shoulder where she watched strands of crimson hair flutter against the wind.
"The old damn thing just needs to understand that we're not going to lose," the crimson said with a wink before Meredy appeared with a smirk. "If that's the case, then why won't we just simply unite everyone from across the continent?" she chuckled before winking back.
"I've connected everyone. Let's do this once more shall we?!" Meredy said out loud, pointing out to the crimson who jumped into the air and shifted into her dragon form once again where she gave out a powerful roar that was loud enough for everyone nearby to hear.
The roar sent a message that vibrated through everyone's soul. "Protect and survive!" Another barrier forming around Acnologia that was red, the dragon in crimson growled. "I won't let you escape!"
"Fairy Sphere!" Lucy yelled as she felt the overwhelming gathering pressure of magic surround them. Another large sphere forming around Acnologia, the dragon began to painfully wail out loud before his disintegrated into the air.
The crimson dragon giving out a victorious bellow, she transformed back into her human form and fell from the sky where her wolves caught her in ease. "Geez. I wasn't expecting myself to hold him back where another person had to lead the battle," she chuckled where she snuggled into her wolves.
Everyone celebrating as they determined that the Dragon Slayers had won the battle somewhere which was the reason why Acnologia vanished, they began to cheer out loud as tears of relief and happiness were shed. The unknown girl looking up to the sky as she felt something shifting in the air, the sky shattered where she watched the missing Dragon Slayers fall down.
"So this is the power of Fairy Tail... I just thought that they're a bunch of reckless people that shared the same goals and dreams of living as a family," the girl whispered where she watched everyone unite with the Dragon Slayers. Getting up from her spot weakly, she swayed and fell, colliding into a warm chest where she sighed.
Snuggling up into the chest where arms wrapped themselves around her, she closed her eyes in comfort before opening them to watch the blonde girl that happened to achieve Fairy Sphere hug Igneel's son with tears in her eyes.
"That girl..." she whispered.