Chapter 3
*Seeing so many people loving this story fills me with Determination*
DC- Hey readers, welcome to chapter 3 of Celestial Tale, I'm glad so manyof you seem to enjoy this story, and I hope to continue holding your interest. Anyways, I'm here with Undyne this time. Say hello, Undyne.
UD- Sup nerds!
DC- Right... So tell me, do you think people are gonna enjoy this chapter?
UD- Hah, of course they will. Though, I gotta ask, why haven't I made an appearance yet?!
DC- Chill Undyne, geez. You'll make your next appearance soon. You don't need to worry.
UD- Hmph, I better, punk. Otherwise I'll suplex you like a freakin' boulder.
DC- -_- Uh-huh, you do realize that I have Gaster as a friend, right? I might not be tough enough to beat you, but he could demolish you easier than you can demolish boulders.
UD- ... Ok, I'll calm down.
DC- Good, now that that has been taken care of, I have a special plan for this chapter. Inspired by the animation Megalomaniac by Camila Cuevas. I thought the idea was cool so I decided to impliment it in the story, but I do NOT own this idea, it is Camila Cuevas' idea after all. Now, Undyne, would you like to do the Disclaimers?
UD-... Alright fine. Darkus_Cyril does NOT own Fairy Tail nor does he own Undertale, they belong to their respective creators.
"Talking"
"Chara talking"
'Thinking'
'Telepathy'
Spells and Incantations
"Celestial King Speaking"
'Celestial King Thinking'
Sans sighed as he watched Frisk sit on her bed and start talking to herself. No, not herself, to Chara, since the spirit was still in her body, that meant that they apparently were capable of trading places in a flicker. However there were two changes aside from physical appearance, Frisk's stick, and the bandages wrapped around her arm would suddenly become a heart-shaped locket and Chara's knife when Frisk switched places with Chara. Sans at first was weary of Chara, but that changed one day when Chara noticed Sans and seemed to shrink in on herself, as if afraid of him. Sans frowned slightly and sighed. Sans turned and saw Asriel standing at the end of the hall. Asriel shifted his foot slightly,
"U-um, Sans. I-I need to talk to you." Sans blinked and nodded as he followed Asriel outside and to the backyard of his, Toriel's, Frisk's/Chara's, and Asriel's home. Sans put his hands in the pockets of his new jacket. It was blue like the old one, but the white fur along the hood had seven lights along it, Red, Green, Yellow, Purple, Orange, Deep Blue, and Light Blue in color.(A/N: This is a refrence to my friend, UGSans's, AU of Undertale called Underglow. If you want more info on that, you'll have to be patient on that as she's still figuring out all the details herself.) Sans stood in front of Asriel, who was looking nervous. He sighed and put a hand on Asriel's shoulder,
"Kid, take a deep breathe and go ahead and get whatever is on your chest, off." Asriel nodded and took a deep breath before, to Sans' shock, seven crystal hearts appeared around him,
"Sans, when Frisk did her first 'run through' in the Underground, I'm not sure if you remember, but I gained the six souls captured by my father, so in otherwords, with Chara's soul, that was still within me when I attacked as demonic Flowey and my own which was revived by the power of the seven human souls, I had eight souls in my body. Sans, I want to give you one of these souls, so that you can prevent something like this from happening again." Sans blinked in surprise,
"Whoa kid, what exactly are you saying? Why do you want to give ME a soul? Why not Toriel? Or Undyne?" Asriel looks down slightly before looking up at Sans again,
"Because, you need it more than any of us. You are our guardian after all. So take one." Sans blinked and tried to think of a way to convince Asriel to hold onto them or give them to someone else, but the look of determination on the child's face made him sigh and nod. He could tell that he wouldn't be able to convince the kid to change his mind, that much was certain to the skeleton,
"Alright kid, you win." Asriel smiled and nodded before the Souls lined up in between the two,
"Go ahead and choose one, it doesn't matter which you pick as it'll just give your current powers a boost to the level that Frisk and Chara have." Sans nodded and reached out.
Inside the house...
Toriel was sitting in her chair, reading one of the many magic books of Earthland, given to her by Sans when he last visited Earthland, having borrowed them from a human by the name of Levy. Toriel looked uop and smiled softly, she wanted to meet this Levy girl, if she had books this interesting. She turned and smiled as Frisk walked into the room. Suddenly a heavy THUD was heard outside and the two looked up and ran outside to see Asriel standing in front of Sans, though he was pushed back quite a bit if the drag marks made by his feet were any indication. Meanwhile Sans turned, his eyes closed. Toriel stepped forward,
"Sans? Asriel? What happened?" Sans simply opened his left eye, revealing the blue, flaming iris. Suddenly, his right eye opened, and it too had a flaming, blue iris. Toriel and Frisk gasped in surprise,
"Sans. Your eyes. Both of your eyes are glowing." Sans looked down at his hand and closed it and opened it again before muttering,
"So, this is the power of a human soul. I gotta make sure I can control it." Toriel and Frisk went wide eyed, and Toriel stepped forward,
"A human soul? Where did you get one?" Asriel stepped forward and six Crystal Hearts surrounded him, making Toriel and Frisk blink in surprise, however, Frisk noticed that one soul was missing, as she knew Asriel had seven human souls, since he had absorbed Chara's soul before he died,
"You had the six souls? How did you get them after the first Reset?" Asriel looked down sadly,
"As Flowey, when you Reset after saving me, I remembered exactly where they were stored when father revealed them to you. I immediately went after them and when I got them I went back to confront you when I noticed Chara's astral projection hovering over you. Then I noticed your soul becoming infected. It seems the reset as well as my Hyper God form saturated the Underground with enough energy to wake up Chara's spirit. Since Chara's spirit was made entirely of Determination, she was able to resist the memory wipe of the Reset ability you two have." Frisk looked up and to her right, presumably where Chara's spirit was hovering, before looking back to Sans and Asriel,
"So, what Soul did you get?"
"He chose my Soul." Frisk looked up at Chara in surprise,
"Your soul?" Chara nodded,
"Can't you see them, Frisk? Behind Sans?" Frisk looked at Sans and then she noticed two things behind him and her eyes widened in surprise,
"The Save and Continue!" Everyone, minus Chara, looked at Frisk after her outburst and Sans turned to where Frisk was looking and saw two floating words in a black box, 'Save' and 'Continue'. He blinked and looked at Frisk,
"So, this is what you used to Reset the timelines back home?" Frisk nodded,
"And Chara too. Wait, Chara, if he took your Soul, how are you still here?" Chara didn't hesitate to reply,
"Because I bonded to you Frisk. Your Soul is also my Soul now, but because I'm only tethered to it, I can only be seen by you and that's also the reason we can switch places in an instant. Though, now, the switch has to be voluntary on both ends, I can't exert my will over you anymore, not that I would want to. I will only do so to save your life Frisk. I care for no one else, just YOUR safety." Frisk nodded slightly, before explaining what Chara said to her to Sans, Asriel, and Toriel, minus the depths of Chara's obsession with protecting Frisk. Sans nodded in understanding, along with Toriel, while Asriel absorbed the Souls again. The group walked back into the house to discuss what had happened and eventually moved on to different topics.
Fairy Tail guild hall...
It was decided, Fairy Tail was going to enter the Grand Magic Games. But first, they needed to get some training done. They had only three months and two weeks before the tournament, and the guilds biggest hitters were seven years out of practice compared to the rest of the world. So they decided they would go to specific places of their choosing to train for the three months before heading to the capital of Fiore for the Grand Magic Games(GMG). The usual team of Gray, Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Wendy, Charla, and Erza, as well as team Shadow Gear went to a tropical island to train, but spent about an hour doing nothing but goofing off before they finally started training. Meanwhile, Elfman, Lisanna, and Mirajane went into the mountains in order to train as well. Meanwhile, Laxus, the Thunder Brigade, Gajeel, and Pantherlily went to train in different locations to prepare themselves. As for the rest of the Guild, they went off on their own to train as well
With Natsu, Gray, Erza, Lucy, Wendy, Charla, Happy, and Team Shadowgear, a few days later...
Lucy was busy meditating under the instruction of Capricorn. Nearby was Sans, who was drinking some ketchup, though Lucy was unaware of this as he summoned himself to see the sights. Charla and Wendy were near a tree, reading a book given to Wendy by the Edolas Grandeeny, who now went by Porlyusica. Natsu was running around, dragging a couple of large rocks tied around his waist. Gray was using his Ice Maker magic to freeze as much of the warm ocean as he could. Juvia was stalking Gray and cheering him on silently as he trained, as usual. Erza was practicing her sword skills as well as speeding the summoning of her armor and weapons. Sans looked up and vanished in a light just as Virgo appeared to deliver a message to Lucy. According to Virgo, the Celestial Spirit world was in grave danger, and the Celestial Spirit King granted the group passage to their world to help. After gathering everyone and explaining the situation, they all agreed, and looked towards Virgo, who nodded.
Soon the group, minus Jet and Droy, were transported to the Celestial Spirit world. Despite being told by Virgo that it was in danger, they found out the masochistic spirit had lied to hide the fact that what was really going on was a surprise party for the group and they accepted it happily. They spent the whole day partying with the spirits. While there, Lucy spoke to Sans and Papyrus, whom she had summoned a week after she met Sans. Soon Aries timidly joined the conversation and Lucy smiled at the shy girl, introducing herself and easing the spirit of her nervousness. As the party was drawing to a close, Sans looked at everyone with a smirk,
"Welp, guess it's time to head out. By the way, I hope you didn't have anything you needed to do. Time moves slower here in the Celestial Spirit world after all." Lucy blinked, suddenly very nervous,
"U-uh, how much slower, Sans?" Sans thought for a moment,
"A day is about 3 months in the human world... Welp, see ya." Everyone froze in shock as they vanished and appeared in the human world. Suddenly Jet and Droy ran up and began questioning the group. Unfortunately, they were still frozen in shock as they muttered to themselves about the three months. The two self-proclaimed #1 fans of Levy looked at each other in confusion before everyone in front of them collapsed in defeat. Sans appeared and sighed,
"Sorry guys. I did try to tell them to hold off on that little party. But they were determined to throw it, and once Paps got word of the party being planned, well... It was gonna happen no matter what anyone said." Sans looked to his right at Jet and Droy,
"Sup." Sans blinked as everyone started going nuts to train for the last few days when a bird suddenly landed on Erza's head with note telling them to go to the broken suspension bridge farther inland on the island. They decided they didn't have anything better to do so they left for it.
Ruined suspension bridge...
When they got there, they looked around. The area appeared abandoned. Natsu growled,
"They probably high tailed it outta here, the cowards." Sans raised an eyebrow at Natsu,
"Are you always burning for a fight?" Erza had her arms crossed,
"It seems no one is here. Well, we had best not waste anymore time. Let's get-" Suddenly the bridge started creaking as time seemed to reverse on it and it was repaired. Sans frowned slightly but shrugged as he walked forward. Lucy gasped and reached out,
"Wait, Sans. It might be dange-" Sans simply turned around as he was halfway across the bridge already,
"I doubt whoever did this made the bridge in perfect condition to kill us. They seem to want a private setting to talk or ambush us if they have negative intent towards us. More likely the former of the two options, but you never know. Now lets get going, and we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Sans chuckled as everyone groaned and facepalmed. After walking in the woods for a few minutes, Erza suddenly stopped them as three figures came into view, their appearances blocked by their hoods and sun light shining behind them. The figures approached as Sans teleported away and into the trees as the figures stopped before them and pulled their hoods off. As the hood was falling, the one in the center spoke,
"You came. Thank you. It's nice to see you again." The hoods fell off to reveal Jellal, Ultear, and Meldy. Jellal made a comment about his prison break, which Ultear was apparently the instigator of. They had formed an independant guild by the name of Witch's Crime, which was tasked with searching for dark guilds to take them down and locate and destroy artifacts of the dark wizard Zeref. They got to the reason for calling them out. To find out if the rumors of Fairy Tail entering the GMG were true. When the Faiy Tail group confirmed it, Jellal and Ultear told them about a mysterious dark magic that saturated the air around the arena every year since the formation of the GMG. They had asked Fairy Tail to help locate the source of the unusual magic energy. Of course, like any job, Ultear and Jellal intended to pay for their help, but not in the traditional sense of monetary payment.
No, Ultear's magic had grown so strong over the past seven years, that she had succeeded in learning how to awaken the Second Origin. A portion of every wizard's magic container that goes untapped unless awoken. She told them that this process would increase their power exponentially but the process to awakening it was extraordinarily painful as it would also force their magic containers to grow as well. Sans smirked as he walked out of the woods and looked at Jellal,
"Sup." Jellal looked at Sans and blinked in surprise,
"Who are you?" 'And what is this power coming from this being? It feels as if he could wipe me out with little effort.' Sans smiked,
"Name's Sans, Sans the skeleton. I'm one of Lucy's newest Celestial Spirits." Jellal nodded slightly,
"I've never heard of a spirit such as yourself." Sans chuckled slightly and chuckled,
"That's because we're new Celestial Spirits." Jellal nodded in understanding,
"I see. That is most interesting. How many of new spirits came with you?" Sans thought for a moment,
"Hmm, seven or eight. One is a dual souled spirit so I don't know if I should count them as two or one." Jellal looked surprised,
"A dual souled spirit? Fascinating." Sans chuckled,
"Yea, the kid's definitely an interesting one, that's for sure."
Later that day...
Lucy, Happy, and Gray were standing on the beach as Natsu writhed in agony, his body covered in glowing red symbols as Ultear focused on the awakening process for Natsu's Second Origin. Wendy and Levy were cluthing each other in fear as they watched the process and Charla was sitting next to the two while they watched. Sans was chuckling as Jet and Droy 'snuck' away. Sans looked at Ultear and watched her with a blank expression. Watching like a hawk in case she tried to pull a fast one on them. Happy was standing in front of Natsu as he reached an arm out,
"Hang in there Natsu." Sans smiled at Happy's faith in Natsu. Soon, the rest of them began once Erza had returned from her conversation with Jellal. Sans smirked at how Lucy was trying her best to get stronger,
'Heh, this girl is full of determination. It'll be interesting to see how she reacts to meeting Frisk and Chara.' Sans looked up and smiled as he thought about the human-turned-Celestial Spirit that he had adopted, alongside Toriel. He was surprised that only six months had passed in Fiore since he, and the others, were contracted to the blonde wizard. He definitely looked forward to these Grand Magic Games. Sans looked out over the water, as the sun set and the shadows of the cliffs stretched. Reminding him a bit of Gaster when he was found in a secret room in Waterfall. Sans looked up as he returned to his original train of thought,
'I look forward to helping Lucy out in these games, and put Fairy Tail back on top. And anyone who plans to make an enemy of Fairy Tail... Will have a very bad time.'
DC- Alright, there's ch. 3 of Celestial Tale. Now, I need to mention one thing, Asriel does have the same number of souls as he did when he was revived(excluding the souls of all of the monsters) since he absorbed Chara's soul, that was where he got the Determination to live as Flowey, and he then absorbed the other six souls and that allowed him to have 8 souls in total since his soul was brought back by the combined Determination of the seven human souls. So while he doesn't have eight anymore, he can still use his God form, but his Hyper God form will be unavailable for him as a result, and the use of the God form will have a side effect. I won't say anything else on this though, spoilers and all.
UD- Huh, interesting. Anyways, I noticed that some parts of it seem a little rushed.
DC- Really? Well I guess I did type out the Party in the Celestial Spirit world out a bit faster than I thought, but that shouldn't be too big of a problem, right?
UD- Eh, I don't know, depends on the punks reading this, I guess.
DC- Undyne, cut it out, they are not punks, they are readers. Get it right.
UD- Ok, fine! Geez.
DC- Anyways, I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. I'll try to have the chapters out at a much faster pace, but with for my home town's school district's spring break and, a few weeks after that, summer coming up, it'll be pretty difficult since my job will keep me busy. Still, I will do my best.
UD- Hah, of course you will! Your passion for this story is like a flame, burning high into the sky! You imagine the challenge as your greatest enemy and take it out with ease!
DC- Uh, sometimes these stories can be harder than you think Undyne. So tone it down a bit.
UD- No way! You need the encouragement to do your best!
DC- Then I'd ask Papyrus, he's calmer than you and can still give as much motivation, if not more.
UD- Hehe, you got that right, his confidence is definitely impressive. He's pretty tough, too. Almost Royal Guard material, if he wasn't so innocent.
DC- Hehehe, Yea, but I think he's stronger than he let's on. He's just too kind to go all out.
UD- Really? I don't know, maybe.
DC- Anyways, thank you, everybody for reading this chapter. I hope you enjoyed it and I hope you enjoy the future chapters too. I'll see you all in the next chapter. You can decide who joins me next time. If no one has any idea, I'll have Gaster join me again. Say good-bye Undyne.
UD- Later punks! Enjoy your day with a burning passion!
DC- Hehe, later everybody.