AN: Shout-out to my boy, kaizero6! Stay awesome, dude!
Chapter 9
Everything hurt.
And, to be quite honest, the fact that she couldn't see anything didn't help her situation in the slightest. She thought she knew darkness, being a Shadow-Magic Wizard, but this was another form far beyond her understanding of it.
How did I get here…? Oh yeah…
June could vaguely remember the events leading to situation and could recall why she did it. She, like Blaise, had become a traveler of the void; slowly falling victim to losing hope.
How could you let this happen to you?! You knew what would happen if you didn't move! AND LOOK AT YOU! Blaise is probably dead because of you! You were too weak to protect him! But what if he did make it back? What if they're fighting the Oración Seis right now? Did we win? Did we lose?
….. at this point, should I care anymore? This is where I'm going to be for the rest of my life…
Her train of thought was rudely interrupted by the howls of a couple of spirits directly behind her. June's blood froze as she heard their screams get closer and closer. She shuttered when one of the spirits lightly grazed her back, its touch was cold as ice. June almost yelped out in surprise when one of the spirits lightly grasped her tail and slowly caressed it. She slightly opened her eyes and could hardly make out the events in front of her. They seemed to circle around her, like they were inspecting her. She could feel the cold hands let go of her tail, and she glanced backwards to see where the spirit would go. The spirit had flown in front of June, noticing her looking around. June looked forward, and quickly shut her eyes from the demented and warped face. She could feel the cold presence get closer and closer to her body, as it began to gargle. When, suddenly, two freezing fingers started to tap on her eyelids.
What is it doing? Would it quit touching me?
The one touching her eyes groaned a bit, like it was annoyed with her.
Do they want to see my eyes? Is that it? June hesitantly opened her eyes and saw both grayed spirits looking back at her. The one on the left flew towards her immediately after she opened her eyes, only stopping mere centimeters away from her face. Its hollow eyes gazing into her golden eyes. The spirit in front of June turned to the other spirit, who promptly flew next to its partner. After receiving the same examination, the two spirits turned to each-other and seemed to converse with themselves. The spirit on the right, the bigger one, turned to June and did something that shocked her: it spoke to her.
"Is your name Sapphire?" it asked telepathically, with a somehow familiar voice of a young man.
Somehow finding the strength to reply, June told it, "I'm sorry, my name is June."
The spirit seemed to grieve a bit from her statement, turning to its partner, "it's not her."
The other spirit, which was the one who touched her tail, seemed to have an even more familiar voice, and also more feminine than the other one, "are you sure? How is she able to communicate with you?"
The other spirit's head rose, "you're right!" It turned to her, "do you remember where you came from?"
"No, not really. I was in a dark guild since I was very young, an infant really, I don't remember anything prior to that. Or are you asking me where I was before I got here?"
The feminine spirit inched closer to the two, "well, you see. We lost something very dear to us a long time ago. Our village was attacked, and the survivors were sent here to this hell."
June looked at the spirit, "what did you lose?"
The masculine voice replied, "we lost our child. Our daughter to be exact. When we were sent here, we couldn't find her. So we assume they took her."
June's eyes widened, "I'm sorry for your loss. Wait, do you think that I am the reason for your grief? I did not do anything!"
"We know… you do not bear the mark of that guild. Instead you bear the mark of Fairy Tail," the feminine spirit said.
"The guild responsible, was Fem Fatale," the masculine spirit stated.
"What?! That was the guild that took me in as a child!"
If the spirits could look surprised, they definitely would be. The bigger spirit turned to the smaller spirit hastily, "it has to be her! She can speak to us through the shadows, she has your eyes, she has my looks, and she said that she was taken in as an infant by the exact guild that took our daughter from us!" the male voice exclaimed.
"That seems to be the case, but there is one thing that I want to see first." The smaller spirit flew closer to June. "We had a framed-quote on one of the walls inside our house before it was destroyed. I would always read that quote to my baby girl every-day." The spirit began to laugh, "funny thing is, I thought by doing that, she would at least learn something from the terrible parents we were… It said, Even if the world hates you-"
June interrupted, "your family will still be there at your side… now that I think about it, kinda complicated to tell your child, isn't it?"
"It is her…"
June did not know what to say, where these two spirits once her parents? Before she could even think about saying anything, the two spirits wrapped themselves around her, as if they were hugging her. June was unable to move her whole body due to the pain, and it didn't help with the spirits turning her skin into ice.
"Gah, you're freezing me. Please stop!" June pleaded, the two spirits happily obliging.
"Sapphire, your mother held an extraordinary power. However, when it became apparent of our fates, she was forced to give some of it to me in hopes of avoiding the magical power catching their eye, therefore it being absorbed into a lacrima and taken away by the dark guild. We couldn't let her power fall into the wrong hands, so we made it seem like she barely had any magical power at all."
"Wait, if your power was incredible, why didn't you fight?"
The spirits said nothing.
June finally realized what the two were implying, "oh, I see."
"We didn't have a choice then, but now we do," the male spirit said.
"What are you trying to say?" June asked.
"We want to give you our combined magical power, so that you can escape."
"But what about you? Why should I leave my mother and father?!"
"Do not worry about us. Our life is fulfilled. Our only hope was for our daughter to be safe, and when you leave, we can finally rest in peace," the mother spirit said.
Realizing she did not have a choice in the matter, June broke down into tears, and slowly nodded her head.
"Remember, Sapphire, only use this power when you absolutely need it," her mother explained. The two spirits held hands, and her mother reached a wispy hand to her forehead. When her hand touched June's forehead, everything went black.
June awoke inside a pitch-black cavern, but June could see through it clear as day. It was the cavern that Blaise and herself were in during their fight with Midnight. She stood up and immediately fell back to the ground, feeling an unbelievable pain on her rear end. She went to see what it was, and found something missing. After waving her arm through air several times, she realized her tail was gone. She ran her bloodied hand over the area and didn't feel a stump. Whatever it was that took her tail off, did a very good job.
Unbeknownst to her, her parents had given everything they had to get her out. However, after transferring her mother's power to June, they could only keep the tear in the rift open long enough to get her body through, not her tail. The tear closed on her tail, forever closing off Earth-land and the Void.
June made her way out of the rubble and onto the surface, where she saw a giant fish in the sky.
Deep in the forest, far away from any sort of civilization, a man sat alone with a small wounded animal. The animal, in question, was the animal that belonged to Obra at some point. The creature sat on the man's left shoulder as he smiled to himself.
Suddenly, a presence appeared behind him. "I thought I sensed your presence at the Grand Magic Games, Zeref. Did you watch?" it asked.
Without turning, he replied, "I neither hear you speak nor see your face my dear Mavis. Thought I do know you are somewhere near looking down on me with big disdainful eyes."
Mavis lowered herself closer to the ground, "it's been seven years now, since the two of us have been this close to each other."
Zeref smiled, "it's been seven years now, since the two of us have been this close to each other."
"Why do you persist here? Searching for a place to die?" she asked.
"The place of my death has already been decided. I've been around for a few centuries now, Mavis. Born witness to the rise and fall of many kingdoms. Human conflict, hatred, wickedness… with the dawn of each new era, I had always hoped these things would pass. Until at last I finally realized, no matter what changes, the depravity of man is a constant."
"There are always those that fight for something better," Mavis calmly interrupted.
Zeref turned to Mavis, voice filled with confusion, "come, now, those Idealists are the worst of them. Lying to themselves and to each other with every breath they take." Zeref putting as much spite as he could in last sentence.
Mavis looked down, "and you won't wait any longer?"
"Yes, that is correct. For seven years I have been making up my mind, and I've come to the decision that since the world has rejected me, I have no choice but to reject the world."
Mavis furrowed her brow, "Fairy Tail accepts this world for all its flaws."
Without warning, every living thing around the two began to die and the air turned cold. "This shall be my gift to no one, Mavis. A brand-new world, purified and sweet."
Mavis started to get worried, "I assume that there will be fighting?"
Zeref looked at Mavis, eyes filled with contempt, "no, more like a one-sided annihilation. Not a man, woman, or child will be spared."
"I swear that Fairy Tail will stop you. They will wipe your stain from this land," Mavis rebutted, glaring into Zeref's eyes.
Zeref began to laugh.
Confused to his laughter, Mavis was a little thrown off, "what are you laughing about?"
Zeref smiled at Mavis, "everything is going to plan, you see. To be honest, I didn't think anyone would've found that spell. Think of it… a spell that could potentially provide limitless power, all for my own devices. But, that one only furthers my plan more than anyone could ever imagine... out of all the guilds he could've joined, he joined Fairy Tail. That guild will be destroyed from the inside. Now, the time has come to summon him. He shall remember his place in this world."
Zeref snapped his fingers, and Mavis finally realized who Zeref was talking about.
Blaise awoke with a startle, scaring every one of his friends riding with him.
"What's wrong, Blaise?" Erza asked.
He held his head, "I don't know, I just have this killer headache."
"Agh," Natsu complained, struggling to keep his composure through his motion sickness. "First Gray sees something, now Blaise is freaking out. Clearly something is up."
Lucy glared at Natsu, "I highly doubt that. Let's just worry about getting back, now."
Blaise seemed to be in a lot of pain. "I'm going to just go back to sle- UGHH!" His words were interrupted by a sharp pain in his gut, forcing him to throw up in the middle of the wagon. After some clear voices of disgust, the cart stopped and Blaise was led out to the grass. After some quality time in fresh air, Blaise was brought back in the carriage, and the group continued their trip back to Magnolia. Once they arrived back, they were met with a plethora of people cheering them on. On top of that, they received their old guild hall back, free of charge.
Of course, Blaise missed all of it.
The sound of the front doors to the nearly empty guild hall were heard echoing across the walls.
"The whole place is cleared out!"
"Weird, where did everyone go?"
"It's like a graveyard in here."
June was sitting hunched over at the bar, slowly swirling her liquor in her cup, when she heard the sounds of Natsu, Lucy, and Happy arriving back at the guild. She closed her eyes and downed the rest of her drink in a single gulp, struggling to keep the alcohol she consumed inside of her.
"You know, you'll end up like Kana if you keep doing this…" Mira puffed as she stood there wiping down a glass cup.
June groggily looked up at Mira, eyes full of stress and exhaust.
Mira sighed, "he hasn't gotten better, has he?"
June just looked down.
"Hey, look at the bright side. At least your hair looks pretty nice!" Kinana whispered, leaning over the counter.
June raised an eyebrow at Kinana, "I haven't been able to take care of it for the past few days, does it really look good, or are you trying to make me feel better?"
June shifted in her seat, and rearranged one of the straps of the purple tank top she was wearing.
Natsu walked up to the group of ladies, hands behind his head, "hey, is everyone else out working or what?"
Mira grabbed a plate and began to clean it off, "yeah, between this weather and the natural disasters, folks have been hurting out there."
"So, naturally the guild has been just about buried in job requests," Kinana explained.
"Oh yeah! I'm great at disasters!" Natsu yelled with a smile.
"This is perfect, my Celestial Spirits were pretty much born to put nature in its place! They'll rock this! Just point me to a town that is overheated and I'll get Aquarius to flood it all with cool water!" Lucy exclaimed.
Mira smiled, "there was a place like that, but Gray and Juvia already beat you to it."
"Hm, okay well is there… blah blah.. blah…."
June's attention to Lucy faded away as she looked at her empty drink. She could only think of Blaise, and how his condition had deteriorated. Of course, she was worried about him since day one, but she could only watch in horror as he continued to get worse. Every time she walked into the Infirmary, a piece of her heart breaks. Wendy offered to help Blaise as soon as they got back, but her magic didn't seem to help. Fortunately, Wendy got help from her new friend: Shelia. However, like Wendy's, Shelia's attempts were for naught.
This wasn't anything that anyone had ever encountered before. It wasn't anything magical that was causing Blaise all of this suffering, which would've been solved by Wendy. Nor was it anything physical, which would've been solved by Shelia. June continued to ponder what it was that was causing Blaise this much pain. She had to be forgetting something. In the meantime, she had to suppress her emotions and move forward.
June lifted her empty cup slightly off the counter and began to shake it, "another one."
"I've think you have had enough," an elderly man's voice echoed throughout the hall.
June turned her head to see Makarov standing next to her, wearing a flamboyant yellow shirt with red flowers adorning it.
He continued, "I can't sit here and watch my children fall into disarray. You are not like Kana, you can't control what you drink."
Mira leaned in towards June, "you've passed out for several hours. Natsu, Lucy, and Happy had already left to go to a job request. Now, they're back, and they have something terribly bad to tell everyone."
June grunted as she turned her chair, and faced her friends. Everyone could see the way she looked outright screamed of fatigue. She half-heartedly smiled, "I'm listening."
Lucy and the other Celestial Wizard, Yukino, began to explain everything about the Celestial Spirits going rogue to June. They planned on sending everyone out to help them stop the madness, but June just shook her head.
"While what you say is indeed worrying, my intentions have not faltered," she slurred, slamming the empty cup on the table. "Sure, I'll stop drinking… Hiccup… But I'm staying here. Blaise is still sick and I still need to be here for him."
Of course, everyone knew about Blaise's condition. However, they were more taken aback to see the drastic changes to June's condition from what was happening. Erza sighed, crossing her arms, "I see. Well, you need to get some rest. You look like you need it."
June nodded as a response to Erza, and made her way towards the Infirmary. But before June could get away from everyone, Lucy had grabbed her arm. Lucy had immediately regretted grabbing it due to the aroma of alcohol orbiting June.
"June, before you go, I need to know if you're okay."
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes… Please don't worry about me, and worry more about everyone else. Natsu, in particular." June sighed, "speaking of Natsu, it seems he took a little trip."
Lucy's head jerked up and looked to where Natsu had been, "he didn't…"
June swore she heard Natsu whooping and hollering on his way to the Celestial Spirit World.
June made her way through winding hallways, and to her destination. Upon reaching the sign that said, Infirmary, she opened the door. The only occupant in the far corner of the room. June took a deep breath, and closed the door. As she walked towards the bed, she grabbed a wooden chair from one of the desks in the front of the room, and dragged it across the floor. Once she was at Blaise's side, she placed the chair right next to the bed. She sat down in the chair, and looked at Blaise. The light coming from the window behind her shone-on Blaise, creating a shadow on his body. The bright afternoon light a complete polar opposite to how Blaise looked. Blaise wasn't moving, but she knew he was still alive. June clasped his left hand with two of her own, feeling the warmth of his body, and confirming that he was indeed still with her.
June was overjoyed, he was still alive. A faint smile was seen on her face as she began to cry. She began to bawl as she slumped her head over his hand, cradling it. June wiped the tears from her eyes with her left hand, and she put Blaise's hand on top of her ears with her right hand. Remembering the times when Blaise would scratch the back of her ears, which was one of the best feelings in the world, for some odd reason. She leaned forward, placing her arms and her head onto Blaise's bed, and finally fell asleep.
June awoke livelier than she had ever been over the past week. That sensation was quickly gunned down when a murderous migraine appeared. She figured she needed to drink water, because it was obvious that she was having a hangover. June didn't feel Blaise's hand on top of her head anymore, nor did she feel his presence at all. June immediately glanced over to the bed, only to find it missing. Blaise was no longer in his bed.
"What?!" June yelled out in surprise, jumping out of her seat. If he had gotten better, he would've woken her up.
Where is he?
June began to smell the room around her, following his scent. It appeared that he walked out of his bed and out the door, from June's instincts. June followed the trail, which led all the way to the guild hall. What she saw next robbed her of her breath, and she fell to her knees.
Everything was destroyed. Walls had various-sized holes in them, tables were broken in half, the stage was destroyed, the giant front doors were blown open, the air still filled with black smoke, and her friends were strewn about; all beaten and bruised, like a sick display of a serial killer.
June got up and sprinted towards the destruction, grabbing the first person she could find: Lucy. A warm hand was placed on June's shoulder, and she turned and saw the face of Virgo. June had met Virgo on a few occasions since the Tenrou Island Incident, and couldn't find any sort of way to befriend the Celestial Spirit. What resulted was a mutual respect, or you could call it a friendship, of common interests and goals. Of course, June would die for her friends, the same applied to all of Lucy's Celestial Spirits. Right now, Virgo seemed to be moving Heaven and Earth to help Lucy.
"Where did you come from?" she asked.
"I came on my own accord, ma'am."
"Well, that figures," June sighed. Confused as to why Virgo was just standing there, looking at her, she asked, "could you stop standing there and help me?"
"Sorry, mistress. I was just admiring your hair..." And with that, Virgo dug herself into the ground. Appearing seconds later with dozens of her guild-mates with her. June could barely make out the rainbow of hair in the tunnel that Virgo had made. "Sorry for taking such a long time, but I have saved almost everyone that was trapped beneath the rubble," she said. "…Will I be punished for my inadequacy?"
June was not in the mood for this, "I don't know?! Maybe after we get everyone out?"
Virgo became excited, "yes ma'am."
"Uhm, okay… now we're both on the same page, I have an idea," June stated.
The two worked non-stop to get everyone out. The two formed a mutual relationship, where Virgo would pull the people out, while June located them with her nose. It seemed to work, because they achieved their task in less than a few hours.
The two stood in front of all the guild-members laid about in neat, ordered, rows. June stood next to Virgo, hands on her hips and breathing heavily, "say, Virgo, last time I remember, you guys went rogue, apparently."
Virgo nodded, "that happened to be the case, though most of the Celestial Spirits do not recall us doing anything, we were acting without thinking. What I do know, is that after everything was over, your friends were sent back to Earth, with no time taken from them."
"So it was like they weren't even gone?"
"That is correct."
June walked over to one of the destroyed tables and sat on it. "What happened, Virgo?" she asked, looking towards the Zodiac that helped her.
"From what Big Brother told me…" Virgo said, grabbing the bottom of her dress.
She calls the Lion-dude "Big Brother?" Where have I heard that name before? Oh yeah, he was a character in one of the books Blaise told me about. Damn, how could I forget about that? What was the book's name? Um…
"Mistress? Have you been listening to what I just said?" Virgo interrupted, voice filled with annoyance.
"Sorry, did you say something?" June asked, falling out of her own thoughts.
"Yes. I just said that Blaise is the one responsible for all of this."
"WHAT?!" June screamed, leaping off of the broken table.
"Did you not hear me? I said that Blaise did all of this."
June's face formed an angry smile, "I'm sorry, Virgo. But that's… that is the biggest amount of bullshit that I have ever heard!"
"I'm sorry, but it's true. If Big Brother's injuries didn't hinder him coming back to help Lucy and the others, he would be with us in a heartbeat. But Blaise put a lot of damage onto most of the Celestial Spirits Lucy called upon."
"D-did anyone die?" June mumbled.
"Thankfully no, no one has seemed to have been killed by him. Honestly, Aquarius became petrified when Blaise shrugged her attacks off like they were nothing."
June couldn't believe what she was hearing, Blaise attacking her guild out of the blue? No way. There was no way he could've even had the power to do that, let alone do all this damage. But if he did, what had gotten into him?
Suddenly, a yawn interrupted her thinking; Natsu's yawn to be exact. Before the two could say anything, Natsu jumped onto his feet and yelled, "WHERE IS HE?! COME ON AND FIGHT ME!"
After several seconds of silence, Natsu finally realized the fight was over. Once Natsu lowered his arms, June saw something sticking out from the back of his neck: a syringe. June walked over to Natsu and pulled the syringe out, making Natsu cry out in pain for a brief second. June thoroughly examined the object, knowing exactly what it was. Blaise put Natsu to sleep? Why? June thought. She looked at Natsu, and noticed that he was the only person that didn't look hurt.
Why was Natsu spared but the others were not?
However, Natsu was thinking of things completely different. Angrily, he walked over to June, grabbed her arms, and yelled in her face, "WHERE IS HE?!"
"W-what are you talking about? I don't know where he is! I don't even know what happened!"
"I don't believe that for a second! You are closer to Blaise than anyone else! How could you not know?!"
"I really don't know… Did Blaise really do all of this?"
Natsu was more serious than June had ever seen him, the burning pits of hell were in his eyes, "yeah, and he's gonna pay for what he did…"
So many emotions were flowing through June. She didn't understand anything anymore. How could Blaise do something so cruel? Why did he do it?
June searched for Virgo, but Virgo seemed to have disappeared. She probably returned to the Celestial Spirit World to inform everyone on recent events. June, then, looked to her right, and saw the unconscious figure of Princess Hisui lying next to Arcadios.
Blaise, what did you do?!
June felt like a prisoner in her own house, all of her friends' eyes peering into her very soul. She was sitting down, looking up at all of her glaring friends. It turns out, that as soon as they had gotten back from the Celestial World, Blaise had appeared from the Infirmary and started to attack everyone. They were so caught off guard, that no one could properly fight back.
Thankfully, some of the members from the guild, Lamia Scale, had come to Fairy Tail's aid when the news broke out. Shelia, Lyon, and Yûka had come to help the wounded. In reality, Shelia wanted to make sure Wendy was okay, Lyon came specifically for Juvia, and Yûka had nothing better to do. Also, members from Sabertooth had shown up when they heard that Yukino had been hurt.
While the guilds had gathered for different reasons, they each had something that bound them all together, common ground so to speak. That thing, was Blaise.
"WHAT ARE YOU SAYING THAT YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE HE IS?!" Sting screamed at June, ferociously being held back by Rogue. "YOU EXPECT US TO BELIEVE THAT YOU HAD NO PART IN THIS?! WHY WEREN'T YOU HURT, HUH? YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS ALWAYS RIGHT NEXT TO HIM!"
June began to cry, it was blatantly obvious that Sting had feelings for Yukino, and that he cared for her well-being.
"Well? We're waiting…" Lyon stated, glaring at June.
June continued to cry.
"Wasn't she in a dark guild before coming to Fairy Tail?" Rufus asked.
Lucy nodded, "yeah, yeah she was."
"Well, I guess we'll have to beat the snot out of her to get her to talk," Gray suggested.
"I'm afraid that won't be necessary," a familiar voice said underneath everyone.
Suddenly, a mound of dirt erupted from the ground, and out popped the head of Virgo.
"While it does seem like she had any part in what Blaise did, I can assure everyone that what she is saying is true." Virgo pulled herself out of the tunnel she created, and dusted herself off. "As soon as she found everyone, she immediately did everything she could to get everyone to safety. I know, because I was helping her in that task."
Lucy's eyes widened, her Celestial Spirits can appear near her even when she isn't awake. Oh, hopefully Taurus doesn't get any bright ideas.
Virgo continued, "there is also something you all should know. And this is the most important thing I have to tell you."
Everyone got silent.
"When Big Brother recovered, he gave me insight to something he noticed while fighting Blaise."
"That is?" Gajeel questioned.
"Big Brother noticed that Blaise was having more difficulty fighting him than others, like Erza and Natsu."
Lucy smiled, thankful that Loki had actually done something good, "so, what you're saying is that it's harder for Blaise to beat Celestial Spirits?"
"No," Virgo replied bluntly.
"What?" Lucy was confused.
"Tsk, it's brutally obvious," a stern voice said behind the group.
"Erza, you really shouldn't sit up. You're still quite hurt," Shelia informed, her hands still working her healing magic. Shelia was determined to close up the bullet holes in Erza's body.
"I know."
Erza walked to the front of the room, holding her gut all the while, right next to where June was sitting. "What Virgo is trying to say, is that Blaise hardly knew Loki, therefore he had no recollection of any attacks he would enact. Unlike me… I mean look at me… Blaise took me down in only 4 blows… four blows! He knew me and my attacks like the back of his own hand."
"I'm not following," Natsu groaned.
Yûka got annoyed, "look, idiot. It's like using fire magic against grass, and using water magic against fire. He can use whatever he likes to counter what we do, and what we know. As long as he knows our magical capabilities, we can kiss the dream of beating him goodbye. Out of all of us, I stand the biggest threat to him; I can subdue his magical capabilities with ease, that will allow you all to strike while you can."
"No… you still don't understand. He knows what type of magic you use, if he is able to get a few seconds to summon something, it's all over," Erza said, shaking her head. "Dammit… I should've told you guys this a long time ago… but… Gray, Lucy, Natsu, and Happy, remember when I first told you about Blaise? And how he got to this world?"
"Yeah," the four unanimously replied.
"Well, I wasn't entirely truthful…"
The four were very confused, "what do you mean you weren't "entirely truthful"?" Gray asked.
"Well, whenever I said that the spell used to bring Blaise into this world was used to "only gain strength." What it was truly for… Was to build an army for Zeref."
Makarov angrily grew a giant fist and slammed it into the ground, "AND YOU DIDN'T TELL ANYONE?!"
"My dearest apologies, master. I should've told everyone what he told me." Erza looked to June, "…did he tell you?"
June slowly shook her head, "he said that Zeref ruined his life, but that was pretty much it. Which doesn't make any sense. If he was serving Zeref all of this time, why would he destroy anything that would follow in his master's footsteps?"
"Oh, come on, now. Haven't you guys already figured it out?" Laxus teased, sitting on a broken bar-stool. He got up and walked through the crowd of wizards, "what is clearly going on, is that it's a "Sleeper-Agent" sort of thing."
"That would make sense," Princess Hisui murmured.
"Princess! You should be getting rest, you are in no such condition to do anything at the moment!" Arcadios pleaded.
"I'm fine, Arcadios," she stated.
It was bad enough that Blaise attacked his fellow guild mates, but attacking Princess Hisui was even worse. Fairy Tail, fortunately, did not fall under scrutiny when the Princess informed her fellows about what really happened.
June's left ear perked up, which was the one closest to Laxus, "so, he has no control over what he is doing?"
"Pretty much."
Yûka crossed his arms, "great, not only is he super powerful, but he can't control himself too. You know, I could've stayed home toda-" BOOM!
Yûka's words were cut off by a loud explosion that echoed throughout the guild hall. Once the echoing ceased, the next thing to be heard was Yûka's body hitting the floor with a loud thud; a massive hole in his head. Everything brain related was sprawled across the floor. Everyone quickly turned around and saw the silhouette of Blaise in the blown-open doorway, a rifle in hand. Blaise got rid of the rifle and started to clap. Slowly, yet each clap sounded like thunder. Then, he started to walk closer to the group.
When he was merely 10 feet from the group of wizards, everyone could see his face, more specifically his eyes.
They were red.
Why were they red?
"I did as you asked of me, my master," Blaise said, kneeling to Zeref.
"You eliminated the entirety of Fairy Tail?"
"Everyone except the one you requested, Natsu."
Zeref smiled, "you have done well, my servant… See that, Mavis?" Zeref turned to his left, unable to see her, yet he could feel her presence.
Mavis said nothing. She looked at Blaise, and the man in front of her was not Blaise. Giving herself enough time, she could peer into the man, and could barely see Blaise. He was clinging on for dear life in that little mind of his.
"Well, why is Natsu still there? You were supposed to bring him to me."
Blaise looked up at Zeref with confusion, allowing Mavis to see his red eyes, "Master? I'm not sure I understand."
"When I ordered you to eliminate the Fairy Tail guild, I wanted you to bring Natsu to me. Instead you left him there."
Blaise's head sank back, "my apologies, I must have misheard you, I will bring him back to you."
Blaise got up to his feet, and walked away from Zeref.
"Alright, I'm going to do this nice and simple. Hand Natsu over, and I'll give you all enough time to get out of the city before I blow it sky-high. Oh, yeah, by the way. That ugly fucker with the hole in his head is right. He was really the only person who actually stood a chance against me," Blaise said, with an evil smile.
"I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF THIS. HOW CAN YOU TURN ON YOUR FAMILY?!" Natsu roared, jumping up in the air and preparing himself for an attack.
"You must be thinking of that other guy, unfortunately I'm not the same person."
Only a handful of people could hear a little dart being fired and saw Natsu get hit by the dart. Natsu fell to the ground unconscious and slid a few feet towards Blaise. Blaise chuckled and picked up Natsu from the ground. He threw Natsu over his shoulder, and tipped an imaginary hat. "Good day," he said.
Blaise spun on his heels and walked out of the guild hall, leaving the beaten behind.
"GAH, GET BACK HERE!" Sting yelled, running towards Blaise.
Blaise turned his head back, and rolled his eyes, "looks like I've changed my mind, now."
Blaise snapped his fingers, and in the doorway, appeared a giant, bulbous, metallic device that blocked off the giant hole. Sting, evidentially, ran into the device, and started to pound on it, "HEY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?! WE'RE NOT DONE WITH YOU!"
June recognized the device, and her ears flew up, "STING! STOP HITTING THAT!"
Sting, still not trusting June, turned to her with a confused-angry look, "what do you mean?"
"That's the most powerful thing he can summon, if my memory holds up. Even if we ran, we would still be vaporized by that thing."
"Well, what is that thing?" Shelia asked, still tending to a restless Kana.
"It's…. the Tsar Bomba. Let's just say that it creates an explosion so massive that it touches space itself."
"How do we get rid of it?" Gray asked.
"Blaise is walking away with your friend and this is the thing you think is more important?!" Lyon berated.
"I'm sorry, you're not fully understanding the severity of the situation!" Gray yelled back.
"NO, it is you that doesn't understand! Yûka is dead!" Lyon yelled, a small tear rolling down his right eye, pointing to Yûka.
"AND WE WILL BE TOO IF WE DON'T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!"
Soon, the entire room began to argue, their words fueled by fear.
June looked at the palms of her hands, the sounds of everyone around her dulling. What kind of power did my mother have? Should I try and use it now? Will it be enough to save everyone? …. Please, mother. I ask that you show me how to use the power you've given me. I need to save my friends…. I need to save Blaise.
Just like a flick of a switch, a spark went off in her head. Power untamed flew through her body, her brain unable to process the amount of power. The only thing she could see is everyone's eyes all looking at her, and she could only feel herself getting stronger.
For everyone else, the loud roar of black waves flying out of the shadows and coalescing around June shut everyone up. Everyone watched June's eyes spurt out black fire as she continued to draw in more power. Then, black lines began to form across her body, as if she was drawing war paint on herself. Her face was slowly being covered by black lines too, however, instead of the symmetrical black lines on her body, these lines gave the impression that she had clawed her eyes out (but instead of red streaks they were black). She clenched the fist she was looking at, and closed her eyes.
But before anyone could even move, June and the device had sunk into the ground, and out of sight. Suddenly, June reappeared in front of the group, and she was soaking wet. Once she regained her senses, she continued to draw in more power from the shadows.
"Um, what did you do?" Lucy asked.
June turned to Lucy, "I had to put the bomb somewhere."
As if on cue, the ground shook with a violent tremble, and bright light shone through the cracks of the walls, blinding everyone for a moment. Everyone turned to see what was happening in the ocean, and bore witness to an explosion. But this explosion was nothing that they had ever witnessed before. Big couldn't even describe how massive it was. However, everyone was paying too much attention to the explosion, that they didn't see the giant ring of clouds expanding towards them. June was the first to notice, "EVERYBODY GET DOWN!"
As soon as the ring of clouds passed over them, a wave of air crashed through the guild hall, toppling the giant structure known as the Fairy Tail guild hall, and any building near it. Everyone held on for dear life as the blast of air continued its relentless onslaught. Seconds felt like hours as the winds began to die down. Allowing everyone let go of what they were clinging to, and finally took deep breaths.
"OH NO, THE GUILD HALL!" Makarov cried.
"The guild hall should be the least of our worries, master," Laxus coughed, pushing a broken table off of him.
June stood up and walked over to where the front door was, and watched Blaise continue his way down the streets of Magnolia. Her flaming eyes glaring at him.
"What did you do?" Erza said from behind her, still holding her somewhat-healed gut.
"I used my mother's power. She gave it to me."
Unsure of what to say, Erza asked, "what kind of power?"
June looked at her right hand, examining the little wisps of black flying out of her body (like solar flares on a star), "I didn't know before, but now I do… we can't let Blaise escape with Natsu." June closed her eyes, and put her palms together in front of her like she was praying, "SHADOW GOD SLAYER SECRET ART: DIMENSION OF DARKNESS!"
That got everyone's attention.
Suddenly, the horizon was eaten up by darkness, slowly covering any source of light; whether that be the massive explosion over the ocean, or the sun. Everyone watched the event while they stood in the ceiling-less building. Within seconds, the entire sky was covered in a massive black cover, in the shape of a giant dome, over the entire city of Magnolia. All sounds coming from outside Magnolia ceased to be heard, creating an eerie silence. Fortunately, the covering of the sky did not impede on anyone's vision.
Thoughts were racing through June's head.I don't understand, mother. If you had all of this power, you could've easily saved me from them…
"Shadow God Slaying Magic?" Shelia said out loud.
Rogue felt entirely different than he had ever felt before, seeing black smoke emit from his hands, "I… feel incredible… what did you do?!"
"This is our world now… you're welcome," June replied. Unexpectedly, her right arm sprouted out several shadowy tentacles. She stuck her arm through a black portal to her right, and seemed to grab something. With a loud yell, she pulled two people through the portal: Natsu and Blaise. June quickly separated the two and threw them apart from each other. She glanced at Natsu, and some of the tentacles pulled the sleep dart out of Natsu's neck and smacked him across the face, waking him up. Blaise, on the other hand, was pretty angry.
"That was some neat little trick you pulled on me, for a moment you had actually surprised me for a moment there," Blaise growled.
"FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" Natsu hollered on the ground, wasting no time in attacking his enemy.
Blaise's eyes widened as he was blown backwards by the attack, and was sent flying into the city. Natsu was about to give chase, until June put her hand on his shoulder. When Natsu turned to look at June, his grimace immediately turned into a face of shock. One look from her shook his soul down to the very core, "yes ma'am, sorry ma'am!" It was a look that said, I'm fighting him, and if you are going to fight him alone, I will kick your ass. His reaction was something he only did with Erza, which shocked everyone.
BOOM!
A massive explosion went off right where Blaise previously landed, leveling the buildings hundreds of meters around him; killing anyone who was caught in the blast. Blaise stood in the rubble, and he was pissed.
"I have an idea, you guys," June stated. "And it's going to involve the dragon and god slayers."
Natsu, Laxus, Gajeel, Shelia, Sting, Rogue, and Wendy all stepped towards June, eager to hear what she had to say.
"Alright, here's the plan…"
5 minutes later…
"Do you know when the time will be right?" Natsu asked, arms crossed.
June turned her head back to the destruction, and narrowed her eyes at Blaise. "You'll know when." She looked at Rogue, "I'm trusting that you can handle your task," as she sunk into the ground.
June emerged from one of the destroyed houses, and made her way over to Blaise. June hadn't noticed this, but she looked like she had a smoke machine inside of her that shot out black smoke; the reason being the massive amounts of magical power bestowed upon her, with the addition of the Secret Art she conducted (one that boosts her power, speed, and durability). As she got closer, the ground underneath her went from rubble to dirt. The explosion had created a flat area of land in a certain radius, blowing all the debris to the edge of the blast zone. As soon as June was around 30 meters away, Blaise rubbed his hands together, a malicious smile on his face.
"You know, it's rude to make someone wait like that."
June grimaced, "seems like you have all the time in the world, though."
"Oh, I can assure you I'm on a tight schedule."
"Really?"
"Yeah, my master has made very important plans that I have to be a part of. And they include Natsu."
June began to walk in a counterclockwise circle, Blaise following suit.
"You really expect me to just hand him over?"
"Apart from your little surprise you pulled, I would reckon no. But I am giving you the opportunity to hand him over, before I show a little surprise of my own."
"Sorry, but I don't negotiate with terrorists."
Blaise smirked, "so be it."
Blaise's smirk soon turned into an open mouth, his teeth in a position to bite something. June raised an eyebrow as Blaise raised his right hand to his mouth. She had no idea what he was doing, which worried her.
Then, he bit down on his thumb.
A massive explosion of air threw June back, and orange-colored electricity shot out from Blaise's body and into the sky. June hit the ground several times, and managed to get a hold of a bent lamp-post. She did her best to cover her eyes from the bright light.
After several more seconds of chaos, everything began to die down. June was finally able to walk on the ground again, and she was able to see. As soon as she wiped the dirt from her eyes, she became paralyzed. She was frozen in shock to the image that laid before her.
It was like Blaise had grown 7-8 times his original size, because she could measure him to be 15 meters tall. On top of that, she noticed he wasn't wearing anything; which is odd, considering the fact that he did not have any genitals at all. But what scared her the most, was the fact that he did not have any cheeks. All of his teeth were viewable from any side view. Slowly, but surely, Blaise turned to June, allowing her to see his distorted face. The only recognizable features June could resemble were: his hair, his face, and his body posture.
He looked up into the sky and screamed for several seconds. His scream frightened June due to how demonic it sounded. After he was done screaming, he glared at June and ran at her. June almost did what she would normally do in this situation: run. But she stood her ground and summoned a shadowy sword in her hand. When Blaise was close enough, she launched herself at his giant feet, and sliced through them. Blaise fell to the ground; both of his ankles were amputated from his body. June thought she had the upper hand, but saw hot smoke pouring from his wounds. Within seconds, Blaise's body had regenerated new feet, and he was quick to use them too.
June had no idea what to do, she had no idea how to fight this thing. She couldn't find any strength to move when Blaise raised his newly-formed foot over her head. Before Blaise could get the finishing blow on June, a green blur flew by between the two, grabbing onto June. The figure in green pulled June with him as they flew through Magnolia. Through the sound of rushing air, June could hear the sounds of cords shooting out and latching onto objects. When the two finally reached the Cathedral, the green figure set a startled June down.
After regaining her senses, she turned to the person that saved her. The person still had his hood up, but she could still see the light-brown leather jacket he wore, along with the white pants that were adorned with leather straps. The most noticeable thing were the two rectangular boxes that he had, one on each side. Each box had numerous slits in them, probably for storing what seemed to be reusable blades.
Then, the figure put his hood down.
June looked at his face, and immediately drew parallels to the physical descriptions of a certain type of people, known as Japanese, that Blaise taught her. He had a stern face, and he seemed to have shaved all sides of his head except for the top, letting his black hair grow to his ears. From his body posture, June could easily tell he held some sort of authority. Breaking the silence, she asked, "who are you?"
The man looked at her with an emotionless gaze, "you can call me Captain Levi. Captain of the Special Operations Squad in the Survey Corps."
Shit, this isn't good. This isn't good. DAMMIT, WHY CAN'T I DO ANYTHING?!
I'M LIKE A SPECTATOR WATCHING A SPORT, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING!
Everything is flying by me so fast, I'm having trouble keeping up…
Is this the end for me? Eternally being a passenger in my own body? Christ, why did this have to happen? FUCK! It's too late to bring that Lamia Scale guy back. Too much time has passed. Oh my god, what am I doing?! NO, NATSU DON'T FIGHT ME! YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED LAST TIME! PLEASE!
Oh no…
C'mon! Someone stop me, please! Wait, what's that?! June?! How did she do that?! OW FUCK! Haha, way to go, Natsu! Kick my ass!
Wait a minute, did June just say Shadow God Slayer?
WOULD YOU SHUT UP?! I CAN STILL HEAR YOUR BABBLING!
FUCK YOU, YOU SON OF A BITCH! GIVE ME MY BODY BACK!
Sorry, my master has already made the final decision, I will follow his orders.
Hold on, don't you dare… DON'T YOU DARE BRING THAT SHIT TO THIS WORLD! THAT WORLD HAS ENOUGH PROBLEMS, DON'T BRING THOSE PROBLEMS TO THIS WORLD!
The only problem, is you. You keep getting in my way. You prohibited me from annihilating that girl from the Infirmary. What was her name? June, was it? Oh you care so deeply about her, pity. I want to hear your cries when I snuff the life out of her, then I will destroy what's left of you!
Fuck… I gotta do something…
OH MY! This is so much fun, being a Titan and all.
I am going to make you regret that.
Sure you will… WAIT, WHERE DID SHE GO?! WHO WAS THAT?! WHAT DID YOU DO?!
Sure, you might have control over my body, and things from my world, but you will never learn to control things outside of my world… no matter how hard you try. You are going to lose, and there's nothing you can do about it.
"So yeah, now you know why I'm here. And honestly, I'm surprised he has that much power for how little control he has. That must be hell, being a passenger in your own body," Levi stated.
June sighed, scratching the back of her head, "well, do you have a plan on taking him down? I cut his feet off, but they grew back."
"You have to cut off a certain part of his neck, but don't worry, leave that to me. Remember, he summoned me for a reason." Levi equipped new blades, "if the other Blaise plans on using the Attack Titan's power, then I should be able to cut off his hands, that way he can't go into any Titan form."
"What?"
"You see, when a person with a Titan Power gets injured, their body immediately focuses on regenerating their body. So when they want to go into Titan Form, they can't, because their body is focused on healing, like I have said before. You can't transform if your body is healing."
"Oh," June frowned.
"That plan of yours, I should be able to make it work again."
June's ears flew up, "really? How do we get him back to the clearing we were just at?"
Levi turned to the sound of an approaching Blaise the Titan, "we'll make it work."
Levi jumped off of the Cathedral, and flew towards Blaise. When Blaise attempted to throw a punch at Levi, the Captain simply dodged it, and spun like a wheel. Levi could technically be called a saw at this point, due to how fast he was cutting up Blaise's arm. Soon enough, Blaise's arm fell limp.
Levi attempted to attack his nape, but Blaise covered it up with his working hand. Blaise ran towards the Cathedral, and crashed through it. For a brief period of time, June could see that his entire hand looked like it was made out of diamond. The sound of feet hitting the ground was heard next to June. She turned her head and saw Captain Levi looking through one of the holes in the ceiling.
"Wait, why aren't you attacking?!" she questioned.
Levi just looked at her, "do you think I'll be able to fight in a closed space with hardly any lighting? Especially against a person controlling a Titan?"
"Wait, do you mean it's pitch-black in there?!"
Levi nodded his head.
"Well, watch and learn, Captain," June teased, walking past him. June approached the hole Levi was looking through, and jumped through it.
Rogue, if you hear me, there's a change in the plans…
She is crazy… Levi thought.
Seconds, the sound of the Cathedral falling apart forced Levi to jump onto another rooftop. When he landed on the roof of some sort of café, he turned and saw the Cathedral crashing to the ground. In the chaos, he saw Blaise being held down by giant shadowy tentacles. All of his limbs were being held down, thus exposing his neck. As the rest of the Cathedral was crashing down, Levi took the opportunity to conceal himself in the falling rubble so Blaise wouldn't see him.
Levi latched onto one of the shadowy tentacles, and flew towards Blaise's nape. He spun around and sliced at Blaise's neck, making a perfect cut. Blaise's Titan started to evaporate, creating a giant plume of hot steam. In the steam, Blaise's head popped out, but was immediately grabbed by a shadowy tentacle. The tentacle ripped him out of the deteriorating corpse, and other tentacles grabbed his other limbs and held him down on the ground.
Once the Titan corpse was completely gone, Levi was immediately turned into little golden fragments, and flew up into the sky.
"Cough... Cough…Great, more surprises," Blaise frowned.
"That sounds like fun," June retorted.
"That's easy for you to say," Blaise said, sinking his head.
Blaise was being held down on his knees, his arms spread far apart from one another.
"Well, we're not done, yet."
Blaise looked at June, "what are you planning in that little brain of yours?"
June's response was a finger snap.
FAIRY TAIL'S "MAIN THEME" SUDDENLY PLAYS FOR MAXIMUM AWESOMENESS.
It was as if a veil had been removed, surrounding Blaise was all of the Dragon Slayers and God Slayers; all were spread out evenly, creating a circle around him. Rogue was able to conceal everyone without Blaise noticing, even moving everyone to another location in seconds when June's original plan backfired. Blaise looked back to June, and watched her nod to Shelia, who was to her left. One by one, in a clockwise motion, the various Slayers started to prepare their attacks.
"SKY GOD…"
"SKY DRAGON…"
"IRON DRAGON…"
"LIGHTNING DRAGON…"
"SHADOW DRAGON…"
"WHITE DRAGON…"
"FIRE DRAGON…"
"SHADOW GOD…"
In the brief period of silence, Blaise could hear multiple magic circles open all around him. He looked around and saw a black portal in front of every single Slayer, and then his attention was turned to a loud hum above him. He looked up, and saw a much bigger black portal, which could only mean one thing.
Blaise put 2 and 2 together, and figured out that they planned on creating one big attack from their smaller attacks. Just like a Unison Raid, which involves two people, they planned on using seven people. Blaise knew he wouldn't come back from what laid ahead.
Blaise sighed, "well, it seems like I've failed."
You did indeed fail, Zeref berated Blaise in the back of his head. Because of your insubordination, I have to rework my whole plan.
Then, all of the wizards surrounding him completed their spells, and they all said in unison,
"RRRRROOOOOAAAAARRRRR!"
All of the various Roars flew towards the black portals, and disappeared from sight. Suddenly, a small amount of light was seen coming out of the giant portal in the sky. Blaise looked up, and his eyes widened. Within milliseconds, all 8 of the various Roars combined into one attack and made contact with their target.
Blaise screamed, "NOOOO!" as he Fortified his body, turning his skin gold. Although he would take 50% of the total damage placed on him, the ability would only last several seconds. Once those seconds were up, however, Blaise felt the full fury of the Dragon Slayers and the God Slayers. Blaise gritted his teeth from the continuous pain, and the deafening sound, as the attack never ceased. Then, Blaise blacked out.
"THAT WAS AWESOME!" Natsu yelled, running towards the center where everyone else was going.
"Is that it? Is it finally over?" Wendy asked.
"I would confirm that, we beat him unconscious, didn't we," Sting smiled, high-fiving Wendy.
"I wouldn't be so sure," June stated.
June walked over to the unconscious body of Blaise, and looked at her right palm. Within seconds, her entire forearm was turned into smoke. She looked back at Blaise, and stuck her arm in his chest.
"What the hell?!" Gajeel yelled.
Rogue's eyes widened, "I think I'm going to be sick…"
June seemed to struggle with something. Everyone's suspicions were confirmed when she yelled, "ARE YOU JUST GOING TO STAND THERE?! HELP ME PULL, DAMMIT!"
The first one to react was Laxus, quickly taking June's left hand and pulling her back. After some loud grunting, the two flew backwards as whatever June was pulling came free.
"What is that?" Natsu asked, pointing at the thing June was holding.
"Oh this?" June rebutted, pointing at the flimsy shadowy figure. "This has to be the thing that took over Blaise. Look how pitiful and weak it is."
Everyone began to study the skinny shadow-man, seeing no resemblance to Blaise at all. The creature began to shiver, it was afraid.
June smiled at the creature, "oh, what happened to the bad boy attitude. You seemed so much more confident earlier. But that doesn't matter now, what does, is that your existence is going to be erased forever."
The shadowy creature's red eyes widened.
June lifted the creature into the air, holding it by the neck, "you are forever banished to the void…"
The creature seemed to shake its head, like it was pleading for mercy, but no mercy was going to be given. Behind the creature, a black portal opened up, suddenly, hundreds of grey spirits flew out of it. The spirits grabbed onto the creature, pulling it with them. June's serious face showed a hint of a smile when she noticed two very familiar spirits leading the charge.
Once the creature was pulled into the portal, and all of the spirits were gone, the portal closed. Without warning, a loud angelic hum was emitting from Blaise's unconscious body. Everyone turned and saw Blaise's gold bands start to glow. But, as they continued to glow, the golden glow quickly turned into a white glow. As the Slayers were looking at the spectacle in awe, they watched some of the white light enter his veins and travel across his body, and they saw the bright white lights on his wrists start to dim. As they continued watching, it seemed that the light was being transferred from the bands into Blaise.
Once all of the white light had fully passed through his entire Circulatory/Cardiovascular System, the golden bands stopped glowing, revealing crude, black, bands. The glowing in Blaise's arteries and veins ceased too. Everyone was speechless, since the bands were just gold moments ago. But as they were lost in thought, the black bands broke apart like handcuffs, falling to the ground with a thud. Revealing his mangled wrists.
What the group had actually witnessed, was the purified magical energy passing onto Blaise. Before, Blaise got his power from the golden bands on his wrists, gold being that little reminder of human greed, but since June took the darkness out of Blaise, his magic became purified. Because he was wiped clean of any "sin", greed couldn't contain the power he had. Therefore, the magic held within the confines of the bands had passed into Blaise's body, giving him the ability to use magic like his fellows. In truth, he was more like Edolas' version of Jellal rather than any Earth-Land wizard. But now, he was more like an Earth-Land wizard than anyone from Edolas.
"They were shackles," muttered June, loud enough for everyone to hear.
Suddenly, Blaise started to cough. June instinctively walked towards Blaise in a timely manner, and knelt down next to him. She watched him sit up straight, and wipe debris from his eyes. Once he finally got all the junk stuck in his eyes, he blinked a few times before looking at June.
June gasped, his eyes were blue.
Not only were they blue, but they were crying. Before June could process what was happening, Blaise was already upon her, hugging her tightly. June was in shock as his tears flowed down her back like a waterfall. She heard him mumble, "you freed me," multiple times along with, "thank you" as well.
June was at a loss for words, she had not prepared for this moment. So, she was motionless. Blaise noticed this and said, "don't worry, it's me…"
"How do I know it's really you?" she enquired.
Blaise whispered in her ear, "remember I made a promise..." Noticing her reaction to the information, Blaise broke the one-sided hug and started to wipe a river of tears from his eyes, "I'm sorry…. I-I failed to keep that promise, however …Sniff….. I understand if you don't trust me anymore… I destroyed the lives of my friends, their homes… and most importantly… I was not there for you, and for anyone…"
His head sunk.
June's ears perked up, the Blaise she knew was the only one who knew about that promise, "what are you talking about?" June grabbed his hands, surprising Blaise. "Even though you had no control over your actions, you were still there with us all along. If it wasn't for you, I would've been dead."
For a brief period of time, Blaise cracked a smile through the tears, "yeah, I guess I did."
The two stopped talking and gazed into each other's eyes, soon enough the two closed their eyes and began to embrace one-another. The kiss seemed to last forever, until June laughed and pushed Blaise onto his back. Blaise opened his eyes, and on top of him, saw June slowly prowling up his body with a mischievous smile, as if she was a predator stalking its prey in the night. Once their faces met yet again, he could see the absence of the black fire, and in its place, was her natural golden eye-color. The two smiled and went back to where they both left off, continuing the memorable kiss. Slowly, but surely, the lines adorning June's body started to disappear; as well as the Secret Art June had conducted, ceasing any smoke emittance from her body and Rogue's body.
All seven of the individuals watching the scene quickly turned around, giving the two some privacy. Fortunately, it gave them a perfect opportunity to see what was happening around them; the city was rebuilding itself. The destruction started to undo itself, like someone recorded the fight, deleted all of the people, and reversed the footage. Everything from the Cathedral to the countless homes that were obliterated were restored; including the guild hall. The giant spire flew up from the ground and rebuilt itself. Citizens exited their homes, and were wonderfully dumbstruck. Gratefully enough, the citizens (who were unfortunate to be in the wrong place at the wrong time) walked out of their newly reformed homes like nothing had happened, like they weren't dead just minutes ago.
Back at the guild hall, everyone watched the whole scene play out. From the whole fight to the end, where Blaise was finally released from his bindings. Everyone watched in awe as the city repaired itself, and the sound of creaking wood and the pounding of stone started to be heard all around them. The guild hall had repaired itself over everyone. When the sounds dissipated from their ears, the next thing everyone heard was a man groaning in the back. Everyone turned and saw Yûka get up off the ground and hold the back of his head.
"Agh, why does my head hurt?"
The only response he received was Lyon hugging him, Yûka was quite confused. "What are you hugging me for? Get off of me."
"I'll explain later," Lyon replied, a small tear in his eye.
Suddenly, a bright light shone into everyone's eyes. Erza made her way outside the guild hall, and saw that the giant shadow dome that covered the sky had disappeared. The stunning sky was flamboyantly flaunting its beauty again. Erza had turned around to see the bright light, but this light didn't come from the explosion that went off earlier, it was the sunset. Not only did any trace of fighting vanish, but the bomb that went off disappeared too.
As Erza gazed into the beautiful sunset, she smiled. It was over.
So, as Fairy Tail, and the other guilds, celebrated their victory over Zeref, there was another that was angry with the outcome. That person was Zeref himself.
Could you blame him? His plans were introduced with a new Trump Card, but when he based his entire plan on that Trump Card, shit hit the fan. Not only did he have to create a new course of action, but Zeref wasn't able to get Blaise back fast enough to end his life. Now, a person with unimaginable power was fully dedicated to the opposing side.
Zeref grunted, "this is just great… How am I going to deal with Acnologia now…"
AN: HOLY FUCK, if you made it this far, then oh my God that info-dump.
I hope you have a wonderful day!
-DMS
