Elsewhere, a carriage on it's way towards the one guild easily causing more problems then any dark guild could ever hope to achieve carries the current and recently coronated queen of Fiore.

Hisui stared down at the paper in her hands. She sniffed as she read over the poster. A job worth 75 million... She had wanted to plead for their help in person. Darton had of course expressed his thoughts on her plan, calling it reckless and dangerous.

Which is why she snuck out. It was fine. The driver was Arcadios. She had nothing to worry about, she knew even if Erigor had come back to finish the job Arcadios would take care of him.

Besides the castle hadn't exactly protected her father.

She blinked as she stared outside the window. There was a man walking along the pathway. He was tall, lean and had hair far longer then the girl had ever seen.

"Arcadios, stop." She commanded, the knight wasting no time as he obeyed the order as he stopped right next to the stranger.

The stranger in turn stopped a moment later as he turned towards Arcadios.

"Yes?" He questioned bemused.

Hisui opened the carriage door, quickly gaining the man's attention.

He seemed to recognise her as he offered the barest minimum of a bow.

"What is the princess of Fiore doing all the way out here?" He questioned, a twinkle in his eye.

It was then she noticed the book he seemed to hold close to his chest.

"Queen." Arcadios's firm voice washed over the rest.

The stranger momentarily turned towards the knight before turning back. He tipped his head slightly.

"You have Ma-my condolences," He briefly stopped as if to correct himself.

Hisui frowned slightly but shook her head, something felt off. "Who are you?" She questioned, it was odd he would walk such a long distance, the nearest town was miles away.

"Just a travelling mage," he answered.

"Where you headed?" She could practically feel Riana's disapproval on her lack of formality.

"Fairy Tail," He smiled.

"Really?" She questioned surprised.

He nodded, "There's something there Ma-I simply must see for myself," He once again seemed to stutter, the smile though, never left his face.

"Good," She nodded. "We have no idea where the guild is," She admitted to Arcadios's chagrin.

He tilted his head to the side slightly, "My, my, the stars do align,"

"What?" She questioned confused.

"You have a job for them?" He questioned, curious.

Arcadios's attention turned towards him. "We need them to hunt down some trash," He growled.

The man nodded, "Yes, we can't be having subjects do such things to kings... There are rules in place," A glint seemed to enter the man's eyes. "Though I do hope you brought your payment with you... M-I have a feeling you're going to be paying upfront." He chuckled once again at something.

"You can lead the way then." Hisui remarked.

"I suppose I could..."

"It wasn't a question," Arcadios once again joined, a glare set on his face at the man before them.

That only seemed to amuse him.

"Oh very well, we are headed in the same direction," He chuckled as he entered the carriage. His eyes quickly snapped towards the other passengers. My, my, the leader of the Garou knights... How intimidating! He felt tempted to laugh at the thought. He didn't recognise the woman next to the princess.

"So, what's your name?" Hisui questioned him as the carriage started moving again.

"Oh, my name?" He smiled at the girl, amused at her frustrated look as she waited.

"Well?" Hisui questioned in a huff.

"Mard Geer."

...

-SI-

I woke up to a blonde face, still feeling the backlash of what had occurred earlier.

"What happen?" I questioned her. It was only then did I notice the look of horror on her face. "Lucy?"

Her lips trembled, tears easily flowing. "They're dead... Everyone that was outside the station..."

The sentence quickly sent the area into complete silence. "Natsu? Gray?" I questioned. I couldn't lose focus now. I could wallow on it later, after Fairy Tail came out of this alive...

She shook her head, "They're fine... The wind-wall didn't let any of the flutes melody enter..."

I nodded numbly as I got up. "Erigor?"

"Fighting the others..." Lucy answered absentmindedly.

Fighting? Still? Something felt off... I turned towards my party interface and my eyes widened in shock. Natsu and Gray were both out for the count... Erza was barely at 20% of her life... What the hell had happened?

"How long have I been out!?" I quickly stood up.

Lucy's eyes widened, "I-I don't know... Natsu told me to come out as soon as he left after Gray! It's been 10 minutes since..."

Minutes!? How? How were they already unconscious!?

I grit my teeth.

"Zeres?" Lucy suddenly questioned fearful. "What happened? Is everyone alright?"

"Stay here..." I remarked as I quickly activated Accelerate and sped off away.

"Don't just leave me here with the-" She gulped down something, unable to say the words.

"Go back inside!" I yelled off without turning.

"That's no bette-" Her voice trailed off near the end...

I really hoped that wasn't what it sounded like...

...

I arrived in an empty Id. I wasn't willing to risk getting caught out for the second time. When I saw the state of things however...

Kageyama was dead. That was the first thing I noticed... The shadow user had a giant gash going down the length of his chest, his eyes lifeless. His mutation had never disappeared...

Natsu and Gray were bundled up together, both of them out of it. I wasn't sure if they ran out of mana or were simply knocked out.

Erza was on one knee, holding onto her sword in an attempt to stay upright.

The train tracks surrounding the mages had long been destroyed. And, steadily walking towards Erza Scarlet was a smiling Erigor.

How on earth had he managed to beat her? Had Kageyama teamed up with him? Had they been too much?

"Hahahaha! I told you you worms never stood a chance!" Erigor's voice filled the air, his right hand grasped his scythe as he steadily walked towards Erza, in his left was... A damaged flute?

Still, standing there, facing Erigor. Watching him slowly raise his scythe in an attempt to give Erza the finishing blow. I knew what I had to do.

"Empty ID." I broke the current instance, bracing myself as Erigor locked eyes with me.

"Huh? You again? I am surprised you're still alive," His mouth then slowly took on the form of a grin. "I am glad you decided to show up!" He suddenly started chuckling. "Do you have any idea how many people have died today because of you!?"

He seemed to love trying to get a rise out of me. That had stopped been an issue the moment he decided to punish civilians out of spite.

I couldn't lose focus. Instead of replying, I threw both of us into another Blank ID. Only this time I distorted the time in the instance. 1 minute there was the equivalent of 2 in the real world.

Why? Simple. I wanted to test something out. If I could only power up for five minutes... Could I try to go around it by messing with time?

"This again?" His smile suddenly disappeared, "Didn't you learn your lesson the first time!? Do I have to give you another demonstration!?"

I am guessing he didn't like repeating himself. I didn't care at this point. I opened up the inventory and took out one of the ten limited T.A.N.S.O.M crystals.

Knowing what I knew about Erigor and his potential return... And considering he's twisted personality.

Someone was probably going to die.

Erigor's eyes had narrowed at my lack of response. Then he sighed, "As marvellous as today has been... I have a goal to get back to. Any last words?" He questioned with a bored look.

I tilted my head at him and smiled.

"There Are No Strings On Me."

And everything went clear. All the worries, all the pent up stress I'd manage to grow, even the despair at realising I'd practically pushed Erigor to mass murder... All of it disappeared.

For some reason, Erigor seemed to notice the sudden shift.

I couldn't blame him. My level had just temporarily skyrocketed to match the highest person in my party. Erza Scarlet. Even I hadn't expected that... Just below I could see the counter begin. 5 minutes.

Erigor had yet to move, "What did you do!?" He suddenly questioned panicked.

I broke the blank ID, pleased to see the counter double in time. I was probably going to to have some serious side effect for it later.

"Zeres! What are you-" I heard Erza start to speak as she made to get up. Erigor in return turned back to her with a snarl as he raised his scythe once again.

I moved forward a few steps and landed a fist on his face.

He crashed through three trees.

-1000 damage-

Just in front of me sat a gaping Erza.

"Zeres?" There was a worried tone to her voice.

I ignored her as I opened up the stat screen and changed everything into Strength. I turned back to Erza and asked to borrow her sword. She nodded wordlessly, I picked it up just in time to counter one of Erigor's scythe attacks, there was a look of pure rage marring his face.

By counter I mean he was once again sent flying.

-5000 damage- It was extremely difficult trying to control the damage output at this level.

He got back up slowly, a shocked look on his face as he felt the blood on his side.

"What the hell is going on!?" He roared.

...

Strength was unsurprisingly one of the more supportive attributes, what I mean by that, it's job was to affect and boost any physical aspects of spells I create. Sounds simple? It is. I was surprised I hadn't realised it sooner. For example, I hadn't realised that strength lowered the total cost per a second of 'Accelerate'. Strength affected my stamina. It also made pissing off Erigor so very easy.

"Zeres?" Erza called out from side.

"Don't worry, I'll handle the rest," I shrugged.

Erza looked down, "You might have to kill him,"

I turned to stare at the recovering wind mage, he had a snarl in place. He'd stopped trying to go for physical blows with me.

"I figured," I sighed as another prompt appeared.

"Stop ignoring me!" I heard him yell.

I created another 'Kienzan' And sent it off towards him.

He quickly flew off. The last time he tried to take that head-on resulted in his scythe snapping in two.

"Wind cyclone!" He created another storm of cuts.

I grabbed Erza and 'Flash' stepped out of the way.

Flash step: Teleport in any direction within 'dex' amount of metres. 100mp per metre covered. Far more costly compared to Shadowstep but far more useful in close quarters.

He simply turned to face me as he prepared another. He was running out energy. Of course he could've tried to attack Natsu and Gray who were further away in another direction.

It's just, the last time he took his eyes off me, he almost lost three limbs.

I watched absentmindedly as another prompt appeared. What was I doing? Creating skills. The fight quickly leaned in my favour early on, only I couldn't take him out, any time he got remotely close to losing a large amount of health, he crushed the flute in his hand a little further and restored his life. I was waiting for the stupid thing to completely break at this point. So I stopped wasting time with the inevitable and focused on creating more skills. It pissed him off enough to actually have him make mistakes.

Though his biggest one was refusing to surrender.

As he gathered more energy into his hands, in some fake attempt to create a wind cannon of sorts. I outstretched my hands. Hundreds of small energy blasts suddenly filled my vision as they rocketed towards Erigor, surprising him quickly. He grit his teeth as he cancelled the move and flew on to another direction.

I really didn't like that move. The first time it hit me head on, I was prompted to create another skill.

That move literally hit me so hard it gave me the epiphany to create 'Mana shield'.

Speaking of mana, Intellect heavily boosted the total amount I could use. In fact, it boosted the total amount I restored per seconds as well. It's main affect however was how easy it made shaping mana. Literally, Int combined with Vit let me create clones! Half-assed clones who probably wouldn't last more then a couple of seconds... But still! Clones!

But yes, Int boosted how quickly I could manipulate mana. The constant switch in stats meant that I was fluctuating in the total mana I had. How did I solve that? I created a skill called 'mana bank' What that did was simple, it drained my mana out completely and held it in a storage of sorts, flying just behind me. While I slowly restored my mana back to full, I could use that 'bank' as if it were regular mana. At it's level right now, I could only create a single one and it didn't last longer then an hour. It still gave me the option to prepare what amounted to twice my total mana before a fight.

Shape manipulation of course wasn't the only thing I am referring to. The 'Kienzan' relied heavily on it to be fair, the name itself was rather self explanatory. But I could also change it's form... To anything, it simply required a ton of mana and a high level in Wisdom.

I looked up in time to see Erigor create another tornado. I suppose that made for as good an example as any. I flash stepped beside him, surprising him quickly. He made to fly higher before I grabbed his leg and threw him down into the middle of the wind tornado. Shaped my magic into fire and turned into a storm out of hell.

I quickly reappeared by Erza's side, amused at her gaping expression.

"How...?" She questioned as she turned to me.

I moved a bit more of the mana from the floating bank behind me and urged her to use it to restore her own energy. By that I mean she ate it. Mana was to mages what fire was to Natsu.

"It's temporary." I answered to her confusion.

Wisdom had possibly the simplest explanation and the most important. It made creating skillls, particularly high level complex ones far more easily. How much Wisdom am I talking about? It was closer to the thousands then hundreds. I was extremely glad Erza was such a high level. It was also a requirement for the higher star'd abilities. Single star abilities didn't have any requirement. 2 star'd ones had a range between 0-75, three star'd, ranged between 75-300 and 4 star'd presumably the rest, I wasn't sure. I hadn't actually managed to create one yet. Skills improve in stars, also resetting to level 1, once they reach a certain level.

The amount of level ups I've had in the past 5 minutes caused me to turn the bloody thing off.

"Enough!" Oh great... His angst's come back... Annd? Yup he's back to full life.

"This can't be happening!"

"Could always surrender." I offered for the thousandth time.

He glared at me. "You can go to hell!"

"Would I find the rest of your family there?"

I could literally hear something crack out of him. He stared at me and grabbed the broken flute in one hand.

Oh? What was he planning-

"Jesus!" I yelled off, he'd just stabbed himself in the neck with it...

He was probably going to transform...

I'll cut this short, Dexterity affected the speed my spells moved at.

Why was this important? Well, it's simple. If your Wisdom is high enough you can essentially create a passive.

Not just any passive either. When I found out what each attribute did, I quickly realised there was one ability, this early on? Right now? That could be immense help and later on, at max level, be entirely broken by any standards.

Now, I knew I couldn't replicate it perfectly but... I didn't really want it to be perfect considering the downsides, which by the way were possible to replicate aswell, go figure. This specific one was also the easiest to actually replicate it.

Sorry Law, but strings were a lot easier then rooms.

The prompt finally appeared, it took putting everything into Wisdom and an immense amount of mana but it finally paid off. It was naturally 3 stars considering it involved each of the five attributes. Vitality affected how sturdy it would be.

'Joker' Because of course I was giving him credit.

"Zeres!" I heard Erza bellow beside me, she was back on both her feet. She got herself into a combat stance.

I couldn't help the stare, the amount of damage this woman has managed to shrug off has shocked me. That's not even taking in the utter thrashing she'd managed to give Erigor, who was only 15 levels lower then her by the way, at least with Lullaby affecting him. Far more durable though considering the constant heals.

"Zeres! Focus!" She remarked staring at me.

I smiled and turned towards Erigor, or well, Lullaby at this point. He'd finally completed the transformation.

"So he's made a bigger target out of himself, big deal," I shrugged to her confusion.

"You're not worried?"

"We'll be fine," I smiled at her.

"Observe," I remarked as I stared at Erigor.

-Erigor/Lullaby (Weakened) Lvl 250, 2 stars-

"2 Stars huh... I supposed that meant I'd need a 3 star ability..." I remarked as I closed my eyes and started charging up. This was the first spell I'd created, simply because of how much I'd loved it the first time I'd seen it.

"Stay back," I warned Erza.

Erza looked at me before nodding and moving on towards the others.

It looked like Natsu was back up...

"AH! What the hell is that!?" Natsu suddenly bellowed when his eyes landed on Lullaby's form. He quickly turned to Gray and started slapping him across the head in an attempt to wake him.

"Oi Gray! I need fire!"

"Piss off Natsu..."

"Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"

"5 more minutes..." Gray turned away.

I couldn't help the snort as I kept stealing glances at Lullaby, it looked like Erigor was using the time to attempt to take control? Or just rest. I could see Erza suddenly place herself in front of both of them, likely telling Natsu to calm down. When she turned back to me her eyes widened in surprise.

Couldn't blame her, yellow particles were slowly flowing into and around the blade.

"Hahahaha!" Erigor suddenly started laughing, "This is the willpower of a demon of Zeref!? I am disappointed!" His yell seemed to wake Gray out of his stupor.

I am pretty sure the guy is about to go into shock considering his history with demons.

"Don't worry!" I suddenly yelled off to get Erigor's attention "You'll be dead soon enough!" I gave him a thumbs up.

Those crystals really did something else entirely to my head.

He twitched, opened his mouth and fired off a beam.

I flash stepped on his shoulder.

"The fu-" I think that was Gray.

"Yea..." Erza just shook her head.

Erigor tried to punch himself in an attempt to get at me. I quickly teleported away again.

I landed in front of Erza.

"Do-Dont bring him here!" Gray suddenly bellowed.

Erigor turned towards us with a distorted looking grin as he opened his mouth and fired off again.

I raised the sword brimming in holy energy and parted the cursed beam.

It still fucked up the environment to the side. I probably should've taken that into consideration.

Natsu was literally gaping at this point. "Why didn't you do that to Gajeel!?"

"If magic won't work then I'll crush you!" Erigor's voice suddenly filled the air as he jumped towards us.

I split all my points equally between the attributes. Balance provided Luck and Luck heavily affected everything in ways I had yet to understand. Probably just made everything less costly. Who knew. No one ever really explains Luck to you, you just want a lot of it. To get an extra point there I needed 20 points in each stat. So one luck point cost 100 points overall.

I could see Erza about to run, the only thing stopping her was my reaction.

I turned around, put my hand up in the same gesture I'd seen used every time Doflamingo appeared and froze Lullaby on the spot in midair.

Even with the Crystal's power up, this power was far far too costly. I could see my, 1000+ int induced, bank quickly deplete.

I pulled my hand back and flung the oversized demon away.

"Stand back," I remarked. The sword skill was ready.

Erza to my fortune quickly picked up the protesting mages as she forced them away.

Erigor stood up once again, a roar escaping his mouth. When he saw the amount of magic brimming around the sword though... He actually turned and made to flee.

I couldn't risk him changing his mind the moment I turned back to normal.

I pulled the sword back to my left, grabbed it with both hands, I turned it downwards to the ground. The tip barely touching it.

I pulled up and swiped diagonally right to the sky.

"Excalibur!"

...

Erza could only watch in open awe as the golden light filled the world in front of her, could only watch as it enveloped the demon responsible for thousands of death, in a brilliant shower of golden energy, the demon roared as he quickly returned back down to his human form. The resulting explosion didn't really reach her as she stared down at the result of such wonderful magic.

It was the most beautiful spell she'd ever seen.

...

I flash stepped towards Erigor's prone form, the magic of the crystal fizzling away as my senses returned back to normal. I had to wince at the destruction caused. I supposed the clear frame of mind had been temporary.

I stared down at Erigor.

"You didn't have to die you know?"

"I am not supposed to die..." Was his reply. "The shinigami isn't meant to die. He can't die..."

"Should've read Death Note,"

His eyes never even reached me, could he even hear me? He was watching the clouds separate as light filled the desolate area. The forestry within miles had completely vanished.

"Such a shame... This world had just become so beautiful too..."

When he closed his eyes, I received another prompt.

-Quest Updated: E.N.D- My eyes widened at the words. -Accept sub-reward?-

I clicked yes and literally felt my heart beat as a strange white glow had suddenly filled me.

I blinked at the numbers... -+37-

Holy shit.

I opened up quests and found the title of E.N.D had changed, or well, it now included -(1)- right next to it.

I opened it up and was surprised to see it respond. There was no new information except the word Lullaby which was now crossed out. My eyes widened at the -+100000- written besides it.

100000 exp? for killing Lullaby?

I turned back to the others and was surprised to see their own confused looks. When I looked at the numbers above them I realised why.

Erza had gone up 4 levels... Gray had gone up 12, putting him at 92. Natsu went up 14, putting him at 81. Though he looked a little out of it...

"Oh..." He groaned as he got onto his knees. "I don't feel so good..."

I swear to god if Thanos was in this universe...

...

So, for some odd reason, Natsu seemed oddly transport-sick which considering we'd mostly walked, didn't bode very well.

It didn't last long, it only delayed our return by two days at most. Erza had decided to spend some time in an inn, paid out of her own pocket.

Honestly, I was starting to really like her. It was refreshing to see someone who could act like an actual adult. Though when she tried to make Natsu feel better... Yea... Neither Gray nor I were getting involved. That looked extremely painful... I'd say it might've delayed Natsu's recovery but considering that he'd literally pulled a 180, one second he was sick, next he was full of energy, I figured it didn't really do anything...

It looked like a status effect of sorts.

Still we'd finally returned and here I was already getting thrown around for things I had no control over. Levy was trying to tell me something over all the noise. Apparently my little 3 star skill had made the news.

I was just glad they weren't calling me Zeref's second coming or some other nonsense.

I was grateful for been pulled to the side, not so grateful at the look the stranger gave me.

"The queen demands to see you." Oh right, this shitstain. He'd been on my ass about paying the right respects to the girl but considering I was neither a native nor obligated I didn't bother.

Hey, Makarov backed me up on it.

"What about this time?" I questioned with a huff.

He narrowed his eyes at me, before a small smirk came over his face.

"Your reward. Do you not want it?"

I blinked before smiling. "Erza was the leader of that operation, she can deal with it," I patted him on the shoulder and teleported away.

Then Makarov appeared in front of me.

"Zeres, come here for a moment," He whispered, while pointing to the side.

I blinked at him and turned towards where he was pointing and saw someone hidden by shadows.

"That's Mystogan isn't it?"

Makarov nodded amiably.

"Edolas?"

"Edolas."

"Great-" Now I was honestly just about to get up and follow the man. I figured a small conversation wouldn't hurt.

Then someone else entered that caught my attention.

I definitely knew who this one was... What on earth was he doing here though? Not to mention the fact he looked bloodied... His arm looked limp as it hung to his side. His entrance had literally quieted down the entire room.

Makarov seemed to notice the shift in my eyes however. "Perhaps later..." He remarked as he turned towards the newcomer.

I tapped him on the shoulder.

"Yes?"

"Can you ask him to help us?" I pointed towards Mystogan. "I'll tell him whatever he want's to know so long as he helps us out with this one..."

Makarov stared at me for a moment before he nodded once. He took guild safety extremely seriously. If Mystogan was needed then he would get called on. And I doubted he'd even mind. I supposed with both Erza and Mystogan, odd's were I wouldn't need to waste a crystal this time.

"Lyon!?" I heard Gray suddenly bellow. "What are yo-"

Lyon sat, or more like crashed, on one of the tables. "I... I need your help... I- Gray, I fucked up..." He wheezed, barely able to breath.

...

Author notes: To anyone that want's a character sheet for the SI to see what he can do, let me know and I'll send you a link to a spreadsheet.