Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, not t even Crimson's newest enemy... Feel free to make your own conclusions.
Crimson's eyes snapped open, his eyes darting in each direction before looking straight up at the starry sky, "Anima" Crimson breathed as he brushed himself off and extricated himself from the pile of white... was that sand?
He wasn't sure, he turned his attention to the Anima,
'The Anima sucked up Magnolia, which was helpful because I finally fell asleep, wait does that mean...?' He stared at his shaking hands. 'Yes, the Crimson Dragon's power is fading, that means it's only temporary,' Crimson thought as he crouched down and carefully channeled his magic.
{CRIMSON DRAGON WING BURST} Crimson shouted as he burst upward toward the glimmering star that was the Anima's center. As he passed through a flurry of colors and lights, he felt his reserves wane.
'With Edolas having such low accessible magic, my abilities are being negated. Dang that's high' he thought, his fiery wings dissipating as he entered the other side of the Anima.
His stomach lurched as gravity took hold and he fell towards the floating islands of Edolas.
TWENTY HOURS LATER
"This sucks!" Crimson said as he trudged through the jungle landscape. He was trying to find a Distortion in this forest, but he figured it was trying to hide from him with some kind of illusion. Hey, that gave him an idea!
"ONCE I SAW A STRANGE TREE!, IT WAS A STUPID TREE!" Crimson sang, as he took another few steps forward. He abruptly pivoted to the right and punched through the oddly colored tree next to him.
The tree shattered in a flash of light and in its place was a Distortion. "Take that, illusion! Sound doesn't lie!." Crimson said as he reached forward and pressed his hand against the Distortion, and the world went black.
Crimson blinked as a bright spotlight penetrated the darkness. Another spotlight shot down a few feet away, then another, and another until a pathway was formed. As Crimson walked along the indicated path a echoing voice reached his ears.
"Crimson… Do you really think you have what it takes? You don't even know yourself, much less the true extent of your mission..." the voice started to get closer, worming its way into his thoughts as he followed the path of light through the darkness.
"If you do not question, how can you grow? If everything is how it seems then how do you exist?"
"Who are your family? Who are your friends? What did you do before that truck hit you?"
With each question Crimsons chest tightened, 'No, don't listen to them!' 'But what did I do before this?' 'No! Don't listen, it must be a trap' Two voices were warring in his mind, one was looking out for his well being, the other was questioning the existence of the events before the truck, then a third party joined, it was a dark slimy thing that wiggled around inside his mind disrupting his thoughts. "Get..out..of..my..head!" the last word was roared as Crimson doubled over and expelled the force that was speaking out into the darkness around him. Evil laughter ensued as a dark figure formed out of the shadows. It was a mirror image of Crimson, all except for the eyes, each of which was made of a pool of darkness that swirled hungrily with every moment, and the mouth, which was twisted into a sadistic grin. Crimson ran through the facts, coupled them with what he could feel, and came to a dark conclusion.
"It was you, you were the reason that Ethernano is attracted to me enough to destroy plants!" Crimson shifted into a fighting stance. "You're the one who took my body when I was fighting Archfiend.
You're going to pay for that!" he roared as he charged at the Shadow, but it simply dissipated and reformed some feet away cackling maniacally, "So you've finally figured it out, huh? Well, if you won't submit to me, then I'll have to kill you and take your body for myself!" The Shadow lunged at Crimson extending an arm wreathed in darkness, Crimson slipped underneath the outstretched arm and brought both his arms around the neck of the Shadow and performed something that looked like a suplex.
The Shadow's head dissipated as it hit the ground, and the rest of the body soon followed, swirling around Crimson. He leapt up from his former position and caught a hold of the Shadow, which had reformed above him.
He spun his arm and launched the shadow into one of the spotlights on the path of light. "GHRAAAAAHHH!" the shadow roared as it smoked and steamed in the bright light. Gathering its essence, the shadow righted itself, breathing heavily,
"You… haven't won yet. I will return, I will find a new host, then I will come to destroy you…" the shadow dissipated, leaving only the smell of sulfur in its wake.
A bright light started to shine in the darkness, slowly forming into the shape of a woman, "Crimson, chosen one of the Crimson Dragon, you have proved the strength of your will, for passing this trial I bestow upon you, the BLACK ROSE DRAGON.
The remaining three signers are waiting at crucial points in this world's history but you must hurry, the forces of darkness are stirring before their time, be wary of this, Champion," the figure said as the light faded and revealed her to be none other than Akiza Izinski.
Out of her outstretched hand floated the glowing card of her dragon. Crimson reached out and grabbed the card out of the air. He winced at the pain of the signer mark burning itself into the top of his hand and turned his attention the now fading ghostly image of Akiza. "Can you tell me where the final signers are?" Crimson asked the now transparent Akiza. "I only know one of the remaining locations. You may be familiar with it. It's underneath the guild hall of the guild Fairy Tail…"
The voice drifted off as Akiza dissipated in a glimmer of sparkles, leaving Crimson standing in a jungle with seemingly no way out.
Suddenly Crimson started to glow and float upwards, as if he was suddenly free from gravity's hold, he glanced upward and saw giant streams of golden yellow light snaking upwards from the islands that made up Edolas,
'So, this is it, the end of the arc. Funny, how time flies when you're fighting for your life. Goodbye Edolas!" he thought as he floated farther and farther away from the land beneath him and towards, what he was surprised to be considering his new home, Fiore.