36th Moment:
When Lucy heard the voice, her head shot up and she saw someone she hadn't met before. She had short black hair and green eyes behind black glasses. She had a sleeveless trench coat that was red at that the top and faded into white and white capris. Over her coat she wore a red sleeveless kimono top that was held together with an golden obi and a yellow scarf tied in place over it.
But what drew her attention was the fairy tail guild mark on her forearm.
"Gladiola!" they exclaimed.
37th Moment:
It was through teary eyes that Lucy finally met the Gladiola that she had heard so much about. When Gray told the explosive mage about the situation and the girl pulled her into a hug and merely said "Welcome to the family. We are going to protect you."
Lucy watched on as she pulled away and Gladiola pulled her compact communication and pulsed her magic into it. After a few moments, Laxus picked up. "Gladiola? You're calling early, are you alright?"
'Is that… concern in Laxus' voice?' Lucy asked herself
"Yeah, I'm fine. I heard someone attacked Fairy Tail. I came to see if everything was alright but… big brother, Grandfather is in a serious condition."
"Glad-"
"I know you don't like working with Erza… or Mira, or Natsu and you barely tolerate Gray 'cus we're friends and everyone is just like white noise for you," she began to say in a hurried pace "But I need your help! Grandfather took me in, I can't protect everything he loves without your help. Please."
Lucy watched as the other blond looked at her and sighed. "I'm on my way."
Suddenly the ground began to shift.
"Gladi!" Laxus yelled through the Lacrima once he heard his sister scream, only for the device to smash on the ground after she dropped it.
38th Moment:
Everybody ran out of the building and stared at the giant Phantom Lord guild hall that made its way toward them. After a few moments, a canon began to come out of the building and then it glowed. "It's a magic convergent canon! Is he trying to destroy the city?!" Gladiola exclaimed
"Everyone! Get down!" Erza ordered as she ran out and requiped adamantine armour on in an attempt to fend off the magic cannon.
But just as the magic was about to hit her, a large glowing orb appeared ahead of her and exploded, sending a gale force wind throughout the area but protected the guild and Erza. Turning, they all saw Gladiola standing with her arm extended and a golden magic seal at her hand.
"You don't stand a chance," Porla began, only to pause when he saw Erza and the guild were still standing.
"You insignificant insects! We will fire an even bigger and stronger Jupiter! Now struggle for 15 minutes in terror until it's reloaded!"
39th Moment:
Gladiola quickly took charge with her quiet voice as Jose's . "Everybody, get everything ready. Teams Necrom, Luzis and Vena, you'll be taking up the rear. Any other defensive mages will be joining them. Natsu, Gray, Erza and Elfman, you will be at the front and will go straight into enemy lines, let's ruin their canon. Everybody else, will be acting as a distraction. Do what you do best, cause mayhem. Lucy, you'll be with me."
"Yosh!"
As everyone else ran and started attacking the shade, Erza walked up to her and said "Master put me in charge,"
"I'm sorry," Gladiola glared "But even if he did, I trusted my family in your care. Unfortunately, I was wrong. A guild hall is just a building, the people is what makes the guild. Throwing yourself in front of the cannon when you know my magic could have countered it, didn't help anyone Erza."
"You're magic is uncontrollable,"
"No, it isn't! And even if it was, it's been a year since you saw me. We are meant to be family, trust me for goodness sake!"
40th Moment:
The second Gladiola's back was turned, she lost Lucy.
Then Natsu succeeded in breaking the jupiter and when things finally started going well, Phantom Lord's guild hall got larger and started making abyss break.
"WE HAVE 10 MINUTES EVERYBODY!" Gladiola roared.
41st Moment:
A magic seal formed under her black boots and Gladiola sent herself flying with a well done explosion. Using various other explosions, she propelled herself forward through the air and smashed through the a window as Elfman saved Mirajane and the speed at which abyss break was slowing down.
Pausing in a moment, as she came across Gray she instructed for him to go for the two remaining members of the Element Four. After continuing, she came across Erza and told her to try and find Lucy. "Who was the one that hurt my grandfather?"
"Aria of the Heavens…"
"He's mine!"
42nd Moment:
She came across the mage that had harmed her grandfather as he was attacking Natsu. A Small explosion, put a line of seals in front of Natsu and they suddenly exploded as Aria's Zetsu attack collided with them. "Gladiola!" he exclaimed in shock.
"Hey kiddo… Lucy ran off… I think you'd have better luck finding her with Erza. Is he the one that hurt Grandfather?"
"Y-yeah…"
"I see. You'd best be off, Natsu."
"Right!" he affirmed before shooting off to find Lucy.
Assuming that Gray dealt with the water mage, Gladiola had at least ten minutes to defeat this mage at the rate it was going. "I am Ari-" the airspace mage began before a boom sent the girl flying towards him, then she disappeared.
Turning over his shoulder, he saw her above him and aiming a kick at his face that was strengthened with an explosion that propelled her foot forward. Shooting away, she landed in a crouch away from him as a glowing seal was formed under her hand. Raising an open palm at her, he activated Zetsu once more only for her to raise her own hands and counter the air balls with her own explosive orbs.
"Allow me to introduce myself to you Aria. I am Gladiola of The Explode. I am a Fairy Tail mage, and you harmed my grandfather. I am here for payback, and I will get it. I have some new techniques, you know. This is the first time I've used it in combat. I call it ECHO!"
A glowing seal appeared on the growing bruise on his face that she had kicked. In the blink of an eye, an explosion from it sent him flying. "Pinball!" she roared, and various explosions threw him around like a ragdoll.
Raising a palm, he activated Zetsu again, "Stop being a one trick pony!" she yelled, unaware of the air balls that formed behind her. One hit her straight in the back and sent her straight to the ground. "As you wish," he complied, pulling off his blindfold. He lifted his hands, the right one on top and the lower down, with their palms facing the girl who slowly got to her feet despite the screaming pain in her spine.
"Zero!" he announced, as air began to spin around his airspace. Sending his magic forward, he began to suck the air out of her arms. Her arms began to go red and cracks were heard from her bones. Her mouth opened in a futile endeavor to scream but not a sound came out.
As the cracks continued, he couldn't help but say "Sometimes, the loudest screams are the ones you can't hear. Isn't it sorrowful?"
43rd Moment:
By the time Laxus arrived at the location where he last sensed Gladiola's magic, the girl was crying and writhing as Aria mockingly spoke over her body that lay on the floor. Shooting forward with his lightning magic, he punched the man and sent him flying. Laxus walked toward his sister as Aria tried to get to his feet. "Gladi…" he mumbled. Stroking a hand through her dark hair, he watched as she fell into unconsciousness. Removing the two heavy beaded bracelets she wore, he felt them resonate with her magic.
Forcing his own magic inside, the beads glowed and began to vibrate. Tossing them into the air, they began to hover. "I always wanted to try this… She always said it was too dangerous… At least this way, she can still help kick your ass!" Laxus roared
"Explosive Lightning Ring!" he cried
44th Moment:
Fairy Tail mages outside in the battle stopped, staring as a tower of lightning shot from it skyward and through the giant robots ceiling. Fairy Tail mages outside in the battle stopped, staring as the tower exploded. For a second it was silent, the the winds forced them all to their knees and they all felt the combination of Laxus and Gladiola's magics. 'Was that their true power?' they all thought.
45th Moment:
Then Makarov showed up. After all of it, the old man had dealt with it easily with fairy law. The man was so distracted by what was happening, that he didn't even realise that his granddaughter was in so much pain. Picking his sister up, Laxus walked her out of the Phantom Lord guild building to Porlyusica's.
46th Moment:
"What did Porlyusica say?" he asked
"She fixed my arms up…"
"But?"
"But what Aria did… he deadened most of the sensory nerves in my arms, Lax!" she sobbed "I c-can't get th-them to s-stop shaking!"
Pulling her into a hug, he just let her cry. So much similar to that day ten years ago with the vase. He just stroked her hair and let her cry.
47th Moment:
Fairy Tail's mage stared quietly as Laxus raged at the guild master, all pausing in their work to rebuild the guild hall.
"How couldn't you have noticed, old man?!"
"Laxus…"
"She's your granddaughter! My sister! And apparently everybody else's injuries, injuries that weren't as serious, garnered more of your attention!"
"She will heal Laxus,"
"Do you even know the extent of damage Aria did to her? Do you?! She will never gain full feeling in her arms! They will never stop shaking! Yet a simple sprain is more important!"
"Brother!" she exclaimed from her position behind him "The past is unchangeable. Yesterday is gone."
"We must move on, we cannot do more…"
Turning to the other guild members, she said "Quit standing around, we have work to do."
On an honest note, I quite like Erza. In fact, I find her kind of cool. I just wanted to convey in this, is the fact that she's to focused on rules and taking everything on herself, which Gladiola brings up and is not something Fairy Tail preaches. Similarly, Makarov is the guild master. So unless someone told him (which is unlikely since the only one who knew aside from Gladi is Laxus), he most likely didn't know about what happened until the 47th moment. Poor guy has so much work to do, he probably doesn't realise all this, including the reason behind why Laxus became an ass.
Therefore, I have nothing against the two people. If anything, I admire them. But this needs to be brought to light.
(I'm putting Gladiola through hell with what happened)
In terms of Gladiola's new 'spells', they aren't. They are all generally the same spell just used in different ways. The technique she learnt with the Igamba tribe is seals based. Instead of just using simple orbs, she uses seals to make them more precise in terms of accuracy. So technically, she only learnt one spell, she just uses them in different ways.
Echo: uses the seals to create an explosion in the last place Gladiola has had physical contact with.
Pinball: uses the seals to create delibrately chosen places to send the target flying like a pinball. Like the name suggests.
Thank you for all the people that now follow and favourite the story! I would love to hear your opinions on what I've done with this, I'm having so much fun writing this!
