Three Eyed Fairy
Chapter 4
Grimoire Heart and a Dragon
Hiei and Wendy were walking along a cliff-side with sharp rocks on their way to Mavis's grave when Carla and Lily came into view. "How are you doing on the trial Wendy," the white cat, Carla, asked.
"Not too bad we are currently on the second one so if you could can you head back to camp, I don't want us to be seen as cheating with more people than what we should have." Was her reply, and the white cat felt a little pride at the fact that she didn't want to have been thought of as cheating.
"Well, we just wanted to see how far you made it, we will head back to camp," just as Lily said that, they saw a red flair be shot up and into the sky.
"That is the signal flare, that means that there is an enemy attack," Hiei stated before thinking, 'did they find father.' 'I need to contact Yukina, Yukina are you there,' he reached out telepathically.
On the other side of the island with Gray and Yukina, she was getting a message from Hiei in her mind. 'Yes I am here,' she immediately thought since he sounded so distressed and also saw the signal flare.
'I know you saw the signal flare, where are,' he asked so he could determine if they needed any help.
'I am with Gray, we decided to go exploring and just found Cana and Lucy when the flare was signaled,' she replied making her brother worry less.
'Tell them to go ahead and head to the emergency meet point, I will see to Wendy and than go check on father in secret,' he thought back and cut the connection.
"Wendy, you, Carla and Lily go to the emergency meet point and stay hidden so you can heal any wounded, I have to go and make sure the master doesn't need any help," Hiei called out to him and left with blinding speed.
"Well that was rude," Carla huffed.
"That isn't even the worst of it, we have ships from the magic council incoming as well," Lily said as he flew up and done a quick scout of the area.
"Let's get moving before something bad happens," Wendy said and started to run.
Hiei was currently running through the trees in an effort to make it back to where he last encountered father in the woods. He made it but the black wizard was nowhere in sight, and to make matters worse, he just felt a wave of magic he knew was from an Amaterasu spell. "That is not good, if they get past master than I will have to go all out," he said to himself as he raced to find his father.
Zeref was currently walking and trying to find one of those that started this conflict. He found one muttering to herself about her long journey and how her soul can be cleansed. He decided now was the tie to step out and reveal himself, "who are you," she asked as she turned.
"You've been searching for me," he started as he walked closer to her with rage in his eyes. "I see, you must be one of those sowing the seeds of conflict and death. It's tragic, for you have made me quite angry," he finished looking her in the eye with his crimson red eyes.
They stayed in silence for a few moments while the woman kept thinking on how she found her lord Zeref. "You people have come here because you desperately seek my power," he said before she kneeled before him.
"It is your entire existence we seek, lord Zeref," she said in a shaky voice.
"I won't involve myself in mankind's affairs, not for the remainder of this current era," he stated after a few seconds of silence. "I have no desire to see people rage war and die, I order you to stop the attack on this island and leave at once."
The woman seemed stunned at the words, as though she was expecting to be rewarded for the death she has caused. "Your presence has made me angry," he said with rage filled eyes looking upon the woman.
Hiei chose at this time to finally show up in front of his father, "father, you need to go, now." He said in a panic that could only come from a rushed state of mind.
"Calm down Hiei, I was just in the process of killing one of those that have come here to sow the seeds of conflict and death," Zeref said calmly.
"Wait, did that boy just call you father," the woman asked as Hiei turned to face her. "Wait, I know you, in the council's records, you are the three eyed fairy, Hiei Vermilion."
"Yes, well I couldn't really take my father's name and be known as Hiei Dragneel with uncle Natsu around, now could I," he said with a smirk.
"That means that Mavis and Zeref were your parents, and you said Dragneel, what is going on," the woman screamed out in frustration.
"Nothing you need to concern yourself with, now begone or you will face both Zeref, and his son," Zeref said while growing a black ball of death.
Now the woman was truly terrified of what she got herself into, if her lord was strong when in his sleep from the power she felt earlier. Than what kind of monster is his son supposed to be. "No, you were supposed to lead us to the Grand Magic World," she yelled in defiance.
"I have no clue as to what in the seven hells you are referring to, now leave and keep our secret and you may live," Zeref ordered out as he threw the black ball at her.
She barely was able to dodge the thing and stand before facing them again. Zeref readied another black ball before she used arc of time to shatter the rock behind her and send it to him. The resounding clash made her fall to her knees almost like she was groveling for mercy. Then she used her magic to speed up the plant growth around Zeref and trap him in it. However, before she could say victory, he lost control and sent a torrent of death all around him. She was barely able to use her time orb to absorb the energy before it reached her, and after all the energy was absorbed into it, it cracked and fell to pieces. She briefly looked over and say that Hiei was unaffected by the power at all.
"How are you not affected by that death energy," the woman yelled out as she breathed heavy and he crossed his arms.
"I am the product of the curse that gives him the power, therefore I am not affected by his little outbursts of death," Hiei said smugly.
She thought of using one last spell to try and at least take out Zeref in his sleeping state. "Arc of Time," she called out and the orb quickly reformed and went into her hands. She through the orb into the air and called out, "Luminas Minus," and the orb divided into a multitude of them and glowed before sending laser like lights straight for him.
"Impressive, not many can take on father, even in his weakened state, but you have no power when it comes to me," Hiei said as he got in front of her. Suddenly he felt an aching pain in his head and then blackness since he was unconscious.
"I don't know why nobody knows of you, but since you are his son, I will let you live, but I will take my prize," she gloated at the unconscious man.
He finally regained his senses when he felt something that should not be, the Tenrou tree, it was falling. 'The tree, why is it falling,' he thought as he was able to regain more sense. He finally remembered that the woman from before must have knocked him out. "Damn, I let down my guard because she fought with father in his current state of mind," he said to himself as he stood up. "I would like nothing more than to chase them down, but first, I show the one that tore down the tree what a demon truly is."
Hiei took off in speeds no normal demon should have and arrived at the tree just in time to see Erza get burned in her purgatory armor with a column of fire. She was in the process of getting up when the one who burned her stood on top of a root in front of her. Then the two felt an overwhelming power, a power that Erza only felt one other time. The time she fought with Hiei when he was ten, and when she turned around she met the face of a severely pissed demon.
"I will kill you," was all the demon said as he disappeared from the view of the combatants and appeared behind the man with glowing red eyes. He sent a huge torrent of flames towards the man and he had no choice but to take it. Hiei then took this time to run straight past him and kneed him in the spine. Then he raised both his hands and double ax handled him in the face sending the man down and slamming through several tree branches before the demon speed under him and uppercut him in the jaw and sent him streaming up threw a few more branches.
This was the pattern until Hiei had enough of this fight unwrapped his clothed arm to reveal a dragon tattoo circling his arm. The was the end for out of the arm shot forth a power like no other the man had ever felt before. Hiei channeled his energy for his strongest attack, "Dragon of the Darkness Flame." He screamed with full force and sent a massive black dragon of death darkness and destruction towards the man.
The dragon was so big that all of the others could see it, which was good for them because they knew what that attack was and who joined the battle. "So this is what happens when you anger a demon, not a demon created by Zeref, but a true demon," Erza thought as she saw him finish his attack.
"I haven't used that much power in a while, I think I am getting out of shape," Hiei said as he felt the need to sleep overtake his desire to find that time woman. "Erza, take my body back to the guild so I can sleep, okay," he asked of her before he let sleep claim him.
She looked to him and saw that he was indeed sleeping, "rest my friend, I will finish what you started." With that she picked up Hiei and looked around just in time to see the light of the power that the man, Azuma, had in him set out and through various parts of the island and she assumed her friends. "With his body disintegrated, the magic must have been sent to its original sources," she said to nobody in-particular.
When Hiei finally awoke, it was due to the sensation he loved to feel, the sensation of his magic returning when the Fairy Tail emblem on his right forearm mixed in with his dragon glowed a bright black light. He felt new life in his body and was instantly up and about and looking around. Hiei saw Lisana, Elfman, Freed, Bickslow, Cana, Levy, and Yukina all standing with glowing emblems as well.
"They did it," he said as he saw the tree of Tenrou standing proud like it should always be.
"They did what," Yukina asked as she noticed her brother up and about.
"They defeated whoever was leading this dark guild to attack us," Hiei said as he began to walk in the direction of team Natsu. "What are you fools waiting for, an invitation to congratulate the team," after that, everyone followed to go see the team.
As they walked, he got the full story from his sister about what Grimoire Heart wanted and about why they wanted their father. Hiei couldn't say he was surprised that his father was found here or some lunatics decided to make up some stupid story regarding his revival or whatever. "Those fools thought they could control someone like the black wizard, pathetic," he stated as they arrived at the destroyed ship just in time to save them from foot soldiers.
Hiei quickly burned them alive with a quick, "Fist of the Mortal Flame," to each of their faces.
"Hey gramps," Natsu exclaimed with his bruised face smiling away.
"Everyone is here," Lucy said with a smile.
"Master, Hiei, everyone is better," Wendy also said with a smile.
"Good to see you guys," Gray said as he puffed out his chest.
"Indeed," Erza added, "the Tenrou tree has returned to normal, and so has its blessing."
The cats were also cheering while Laxus caught the eyes of Makarov glaring at him. Everyone couldn't help but celebrate though, as the invasion of Grimoire Heart was now over.
Makarov walked over to where Laxus was sitting and said, "I am proud of you for coming back." Then his face exploded into a giant one and said, "Is that what you were expecting me to say? How dare you set foot on Tenrou island after i kicked you out of the guild? What were you thinking, you are still expelled you know?"
"You are going to have a heart attack one of these days old man," Laxus deadpanned. Before the thunder legion jumped on him welcoming him back like a bunch of overzealous fans.
"Now, let's get back to the trials," Natsu exclaimed. "The second round was interrupted by Grimoire Heart so it doesn't count. I say we simplify things and have an all-out battle," he finished while still punching the air.
Gajeel went and shoved his face directly into Natsu's, "You must've been hit in the head one too many time if you think you can stand a chance against me when you are all busted up like that."
"Whatever, it will be a synch cause I am a lightning flame dragon," that was all he got out as he felt the fatigue and stress of the day take their toll on his body and fell over unconscious.
"I think it is about time we head back to base camp," Wendy suggested so there would be no more fighting for the day. Everyone quickly agreed and left without too much trouble. Hiei noticed that Makarov hang back to talk with Hades but he decided that he didn't need to hear what they talked about so he left them to it.
He just didn't think that when he got back to camp, his uncle wouldn't snore so loudly. He thought of many ways that he could use to shut him up, but Lisana putting pig tails on him was not one of them. Although, Hiei did think it was funny for a minute and let loose a nice little smile at it.
Then he saw Laxus and remembered how he got expelled, so he went over and talked with him. "I heard that you got expelled spark plug," Hiei said smugly while said man visibly winced.
Turning his head nervously he looked back at the demon and said, "oh hey man, I didn't think that you would be here this year, or that I would run into you."
He smirked and said, "or were you hoping that I wouldn't so I wouldn't beat you ass like I always do."
"Are you telling me that Laxus is scared of shrimp over there," Gajeel yelled from where he was getting healed by Wendy.
"He is our best enforcer when he is here," Erza said with pride in him.
"That reminds me, I still need to punish team Natsu for that little S-Class adventure they went on," Hiei reminded them making them all go pale.
"You can't be serious, after everything that happened," Gray yelled as he was shaking.
"Well he is our enforcer of the rules," Erza said as she got a nice smile on her face.
"I am glad you agree Titania, because you will also be punished," Hiei said with an evil smile.
"Why I am being punished," she question as she was sweating.
"Yours is for being too rash in all those stories that I have been hearing since I returned," he said with the evil smile never leaving him.
"Who told him about every detail about what we have been up to," Erza yelled out as every single person gave an obviously guilty look.
"Looks like you have been left out to dry, I look forward to seeing you on the course when we get back," Hiei said while his skin got a green tint to it.
Then a commotion was heard and reveled to be Juvia returning from trying to find Zeref. 'Good, father has escaped to safety,' Yukina mentally told Hiei through his telepathy.
'Yes, but we should still find him just to be sure,' he replied back getting the silent okay from her. Now Gildarts was found out to also be ripping on Laxus for him getting kicked out as well. Right before he pounded down a challenging Natsu to the ground as well. Hiei looked to his looked over and found Wendy hard at work healing everyone else that can be.
Then he saw that Erza stepped in to take over for a while but wound up getting every other male to form a line. Of course Hiei didn't get in line, but he could see the appeal. "Thank you for taking down that guy that stole our magic," he looked to his right and found Wendy there.
"It was no trouble at all, just vengeance for what he did to the tree," Hiei said with a blank look on his face.
"Still, thank you," Wendy said with a blush before she basically disappeared.
"That was quite strange," he muttered to himself as he looked at how everyone was having a good time. It was as though the invasion was in the distant past, and that was just what he loved about this place.
A few minutes later and he is over it, because Makarov just announced that he canceled the exams. Hiei wasn't really that mad about it, mainly because he understood his decision. He looked over and saw that Wendy was now the saddest he'd seen her in his short time knowing her.
He walked over and asked, "what is wrong, is it that I am not S-Class this year?"
"Not just that, but now you have even less of a reason to stay here so you'll probably go back to that other world," she tried to say quietly but came out loud enough for everyone to hear. Everyone became quiet after that, because they truly did hate this arrangement where he would leave and show up at random times.
"You people must have terrible memorize," Hiei said with a smirk as everyone turned to look at him. "I already said that I am as tired of the arrangement as everyone else, and that me and Yukina said that we will be moving here permanently."
"That is right, we just need to get some affairs in order over there and we will be all set to stay," Yukina said brightly. Now that lifted everyone's spirits and soon they went back to doing different things. He and his sister had to talk though, and that is what they left to do.
"We need to find father, you know what could happen if he is agitated too much," Yukina said in deep worry.
"I know, I have been trying when nobody is looking with my Jagan, but I haven't found him on the island," Hiei said with his back against a tree and arms folded.
"What do we do, we can't get everything ready than return here in time to stop him from doing something stupid," she said with a thoughtful look.
"Preparing to leave won't matter at all if we don't find father in time to stop him anyway," he told her as he felt something cold and dark. Like something just crawled up his spine and died, a feeling of despair. Him and his sister knew what that was, their father told them to run if they felt it. Don't try and fight, don't expect to live, but just run, even if you have to leave friends behind.
"Acnologia," Yukina whispered to her brother and they both knew how he was here.
"Those fools in Grimoire Heart must have summoned him without even realizing it," Hiei almost shouted in anger. "We have to get to the others and get off this island, it won't be here tomorrow." They left to find everyone and found most of them gathered just in time to hear a roar worse than anything they ever heard. They than just seen that Cana and everyone else came back when Gildarts felt pain from his old wounds.
"Are you okay," Cana asked worried for her father.
"My wounds are starting to burn like hell there's no doubt, that dragon is getting real close," he said ominously.
"Look up in the sky, something's coming this way," Lily said as he pointed to the sky. Everyone turned and saw the black dragon of the apocalypse, Acnologia.
Everyone was shocked and felt despair, not fear, not hope, but despair for the first time in all of their lives, they felt true despair. He came down with winds like a hurricane and landed like the gods themselves were stomping.
"I am afraid that is Acnologia, the black dragon of the apocalypse," Makarov informed them all.
"Yeah, it's definitely him," Gildarts confirmed.
"That sounds bad, what the heck are we going to do," Lucy asked as if they had a chance.
"Hey dragon, you know where I can find Igneel," Natsu asked him stupidly.
Gildarts rushed over to him and grabbed him by the shoulders and said, "stop it Natsu, you do not want to provoke him, did you forget what happened to me? How I lost my arm and my leg, hell I am lucky I didn't lose my life that day."
"So are we going to fight it or what," he asked defiantly.
"We can't, you don't understand the situation, because it's not about winning or losing a fight," Hiei said walking up to them deathly serious. "This is about getting away with our lives, and that means that not all of us will."
"Are you trying to say that this thing will kill some of us," Natsu asked as the dragon roared and prepared to attack.
"Everyone run, now," Gildarts screamed out as the dragon prepared to just breath. The breath was massive and destroyed the trees across the island, as well as crush the earth beneath them to nothing more than rubble.
After everyone recovered they couldn't believe it, a single roar was enough to reduce the forest to nothingness. "Listen, if you want to stay alive run, don't think of fighting, just run for your lives," Hiei roared as he began to lead others off their feat to run. They were all running, trying to get to a safe place before they could be killed. The dragon, however, was on the move and started to fly straight for them and attacked Freed and Bickslow first. This effectively cut off their escape route, and basically forced them to go around it.
"Why are you doing this, please answer me," Wendy screamed for it to hear her.
"That won't help you Wendy, he views us as nothing more than insects and you wouldn't strike up a conversation with a bug would you," Hiei said from beside her. 'This is bad, we don't have a prayer of surviving against this beast,' he thought to himself as a tail slammed into Elfman, but was caught by Evergreen. Only for a huge claw to be slammed down onto them, and just sending more fear into their hearts.
This is where Makarov stepped in and grew, and grew, and grew until he was as big as the dragon so he could fight it. "Get to the ship," he yelled as he grabbed the head of Acnologia to hold him in place.
"No master, the guild needs you to stay alive," Erza yelled.
"I will fight by master's side," Freed exclaimed proudly.
"No lizard is going to tear this guild apart," Bickslow said with conviction.
"I will stay with you till the bitter end," Evergreen said with Elfman agreeing.
other sounds of staying were also heard, but the master would hear none of it. "Will you brats just shut up and honor your master's final wish and get out of here now," Makarov roared as he struggled to hold the beast.
Everyone was shocked they all wanted to stay, but they knew that this was their only chance to escape. All save for Natsu knew they had to go, "I am a dragon slayer wizard grams, this is what I train for." His roar was not heard by many, and as he was about to charge he felt someone grab him by his scarf. He turned his head to see Laxus, and out of the corner of his eyes, were tears falling for his grandfather that he would have to leave there to die, just so everyone else could live.
Everyone ran, but nobody wanted to, and yet they knew that they must so they could live. Every survival instinct that Hiei had told him to do so, his father's words echoing in his brain. His other persona in the other world would do it, but not this one, this one would stay and fight.
With his mind made up on what he had to do, he ran into the fight just as master Makarov was about to be killed by the dragon's claw. Taking his sword and channeling as much energy as he could into it, he used his, "Sword of the Darkness Flame." He blocked the attack just as the other wizards came in to help him out. The first was Natsu, and with his lack of thinking grabbed onto the dragon's arm. While the dragon was trying to get the slayer off his arm, he swung it at the master and slammed him into some rubble.
Erza and the rest came in after the smoke cleared and tried their best to help out. All of their strongest spells they could muster were used, and all that to try and weaken him for Gajeel, Wendy, and Natsu to fly in and deliver a huge breath attack. All this while Hiei was gathering enough power to unleash the largest attack he as ever unleashed upon any world. "Dragon of the Darkness Flame," Hiei roared to the top of his lungs and unleashed a massive dragon upon Acnologia. The dragon was so massive that it engulfed half the island in its flames, and all for the hope to defeat the terrifying beast. He was left there standing covered in burns and scorch marks all over himself from the power of the attack.
"Did that work," Erza asked as she didn't see it when the smoke cleared.
"Of course not, he isn't using half the power he used when he fought me," Gildarts said as he appeared with Cana.
After that was said, the ground erupted and out came the dragon soaring into the sky and hovering over the island.
"We gave everything we had, three dragon slayers and a dragon of the darkness flame, and it still wasn't enough," Wendy said as she began to cry.
"He is preparing for a breath attack," Gajeel yelled out in warning.
"Are we all going to die here," Lucy asked to no one as she was crying.
"Defense users bring out your most powerful spells," Erza instructed.
"But I don't have the time to write an enchantment," Freed said.
"Script magic has plenty of other defensive magic that we can us right now," Levy said with hope.
"Everyone, concentrate your power into Levy and Freed," Lisana yelled out.
"We are going to live," Hiei said as he tried to help Wendy up. "We are going to live, and we will do it the only way we can, together." With that said, everyone joined hands and felt their power flow through them all.
Their tears fell, and everyone had them, but nobody was frowning. They were all smiles as Makarov said, "Let us all go home together, to Fairy Tail." While all the tears fell, the roar fell with them, and with it came the ending of one era, and the beginning of a new.
