Palace
In the guts of the palace, a double sided door creaked open accompanied by the sounds of metal boots hitting the ground as it walked out of the doorway and into a large hallway, guarded by four guards with two on each side by the opened door. The sound belonged to a knight donned heavily in white armor with no exposed skin except from his mouth, small curved beard and the eyes which can be seen through the helmet.
"Ch…chief Arcadios!" One guard took instant notice of the man in the armor.
"What…are you doing here?!" The guard next to him said next surprised. "You should be exiled form the kingdom…"
Arcadios took no notice of their words and went straight to the point. "The Princess…where is she?" He asked.
"Ummm…well…the thing is…" the first guard hesitated. Before he could say any more he was shot at by Arcadios's menacing stare that made the four guards sweat nervously.
"Where…is she?" He repeated with impatience and authority in his speech.
"Top….floor…." the first guard gave him his answer, and saw Arcadios walk away down the hallway silently.
"Why did he…have the White Lily armor?" Guard three asked collaborating with the other three.
"It's to only be donned for battle… Are we heading into battle?" Guard four replied.
Walking by himself he thought, 'There is something I must confirm. A con artist would not shed such poignant tears.' He recalled listening in to the talk among the Fairy Tail kids when that girl from the future shed her tears about her part of the story about the Dragons invading. 'The person deceiving us…must be the Princess…'
He continued on with his walk to the top floor where Princess Hisui would be. Hallways and rooms were passed to get into the living room that belonged to the Princess.
"Princess! PRINCESS!" Arcadios called out her name twice with the latter louder and demanding to get to show her face. No voice or sound was heard after. Arcadios looked behind him through the door he came through. 'Don't tell me…she's already over at the Gate!?' He thought annoyed walking out of the room and toward the Gate where Princess Hisui plans to open to commence the Eclipse plan 2.
Under the Palace
"You decimated the soldiers…to save us?" Lucy asked slowly to the new form of Rogue standing before the group.
"You seem different compared to before," Natsu said next calmly.
"Why have you come back?" Carla asked sweating nervously thinking that Future Rogue might be somehow connected to the city's downfall during the dragon attack.
"To open, the Gates." He replied with an uninterested look upon his face. "There as you might not know, are two ways of using the Eclipse gate. One is to travel through time, and the other is to use as a weapon: the Eclipse Cannon. The weapon is the only means we have of defeating ten thousand Dragons."
'Ten thousand dragons?' Future Lucy thought horrifically with widened eyes.
"Guess that makes it simple then. So we're actually allies!" Natsu cheered grasping his fists with a possible victory over the mass horde of dragons.
"Yay! We can beat the Dragons!" Happy shared the same mood with Natsu and the rest. He was jumping in indescribable joy.
"We can save the future!" Wendy blushed clapping her hands together.
"Unfortunately…it's not that simple," his serious tone and bad news shot down the joy in the hallway. "I come from a future 7 years from now. In 7 years…Dragons will have already conquered the world. Not even a tenth of the human population survived…and of course, the Eclipse doesn't hold anywhere near as much power as it does now." The faces of the Fairy Tail team were showing shock and fear, except Gamu who remained calm continuing a suspicious stare at Future Rogue. "If we don't stop the Dragons here…this world is doomed.
Natsu shrugged the news off his shoulders as if it were nothing and waved his hand back and forth. "Alright, so we'll just bust the Gates open! No worries~
"But 7 years ago, in other words, now…someone stopped is from opening the Gates. Because of that, the gates were not opened, and we couldn't fire the Eclipse Cannon at the horde of ten thousand Dragons. That person brought destruction to this world. That is why I am here, to stop that person from closing the Gate." Future Rogue added before lowering his head. "Truth be told, at such an important 'intersection of time,' words alone cannot control it. Even if they were too change their minds with simple persuasion, it's already decided that they would close the Gates."
"It's decided?" Lucy asked.
"An inescapable destiny, in which the ones meant to live on, and the doomed ones, perish. As long as they're alive, the ones destined to close the Gates will do so without fail…" Future Rogue twisting the minds of the Fairy Tail team with confusing words.
"You're losing me...who's this dude you're talking about anyways?" Natsu asked completely confused and wanted to get to the main point about who is going to stop the Gate from remaining open and where they would be.
Opening his left eye with a sharp and unsettling stare, "It's you…Lucy Heartfilia!" Future Rogue threw a shadow sword right at the present Lucy. The girl was too confused and tried to absorb that information; she was left motionless and watched the sword come closer.
"Lucy!" Natsu snapped Lucy out of her daze as she realized the dagger was almost to her, and was too shaken to move. Lucking for her Gamu was nearby and with quick reflexes he appeared in front of Lucy with quick speed, held up his hands and erected a Ki barrier, deflecting the shadow sword from Future Rogue before it went to Lucy.
"Grr," Future Rogue grit his teeth hating to have to face off against the pink fun machine.
"Gamu…" Lucy said relieved Gamu came to her aid when death was at the door.
"No one harm Lucy!" Gamu teleported in front of Future Rogue and punched him in the face, sending the shadow dragon slayer through the brick wall in the hallway. "Stop gate now!" Gamu yelled as he turned to the rest.
"But what about you, Gamu?" Lucy cried back to the Majin.
"Me beat up man who tried to kill Lucy. Go now!" Gamu yelled as the group stood silent for a bit, before shaking off their dazes, and ran past Gamu and to find the exit of the palace. From the dark hole in the wall, a shadow slithered out towards Future Lucy from behind. Gamu noticed he was slithering away and using the same technique Future Rogue just did, Gamu ran a few steps forward before turning himself into shadows and slithering on the ground fast to catch up to Future Rogue.
The two slithering shadows were side by side now. From the right shadow, Gamu's hand could be seen coming out of it and grabbing onto the other shadow, lifted itself up and brought out Future Rogue's head with Gamu's hand firmly attached to his shirt. Out of the right shadow, Gamu popped his head out and head-butted his head, then threw him up into the air, out of his shadow.
BANG
Future Rogue hit the roof with his back. Gamu flew upwards to send himself and Future Rogue away from the group as they dug up into the palace, floor by floor until they popped out of one of the upper floors, which was the Throne room. From the air of the empty Throne room, Gamu dropped down to the floor with Future Rogue hitting the red carpet on his back.
"Tsk," Future Rogue sat back up, whipping the blood from his mouth with his hand. "Gamu…you were the last thing I wanted to fight against." Future Rogue huffed standing back up. "Your display of skill and talent make you a foe not to be reckoned with, but as soon as that Gate opens and a horde of Dragons come out, you will be powerless to defeat any of them, including me with the Dragons at my beck and call. You are no Dragon Slayer…that I know for sure. I will not wait around until that gate opens to defeat the so-called conqueror of Pandemonium!" Shooting his right hand out, he created a white flash from it that temporarily blinded the Majin.
"My eyes," Gamu covered his eyes with his big hands. When the sign of the light fading away some time later, Gamu lowered his hands and saw Future Rogue had gone. That sneaky bastard had pulled of a Solar Flare & Run technique. "Me not allow you to harm Lucy!" Gamu ran out of the Throne room to catch up to Future Rogue, wherever that slithering jerk went off to.
Crocus Central Square
"…And that is the current situation. We know it must be taxing for you seeing as you've just participated in the Grand Magic Games Tournament, but right now…our Kingdom is in grave danger. Or so I was told," the King of Fiore started with a speech as he stood on an elevated platform in the Central Square, standing in front of a large blue lacrima and before a large crowd consisting of all of the guilds that arrived in Crocus before the Grand Magic Games commended.
"Ten thousand Dragon…" Makarov raised his eyebrows and began to sweat.
"We couldn't do anything against Acnologia alone…"
"But wasn't that one…unique?"
"But still…we're talking about ten thousand."
Some of the Fairy Tail members recalled their first encounter with the Black Dragon of the Apocalypse. It was a tough beast to bring down, despite all off the magic power four Dragon slayers could dish out, and leave Acnologia without a scratch on his scales. A truly terrifying moment for Fairy Tail.
"As of this moment, we've decided on executing a plan of a grand scale…the Eclipse Plan. We intend to wipe out the ten thousand Dragons in one fell swoop. However…considering the sheer volume of the enemy, several, if not several hundred, are expected to survive the initial onslaught. Mages of all guilds, I beg of you, to lend us your power. Please…use your power to defeat the remaining Dragons. That is all I ask. I beg of you…save this country." The King finished his speech and awaited the answer from the mages below.
Loud roars of determination came from the guilds below, as Guild flags were waved in the air in rally.
"Oorah!"
"Of course!"
"We'll take of the leftovers!"
"Like we'll be done in by some monsters!"
"This country which lives hand in hand with magic…"
"This is our country!"
Bowing with deep gratitude, the King unleaded his waterworks. He could never repay the guilds enough. The other guilds were chatting with their guild and others, hyping each other for a battle of a lifetime. "Thank you… Thank you… Thank you…" The kind repeated, earning shocked stares from the guilds that went silent from his constant appreciation.
Eclipse Gate
"Princess!" A man ironclad in white armour approached Princess Hisui and the Minister of Defense standing in front of the Eclipse gate.
"Arcadios! You are unharmed?!" Princes Hisui cried noticing the man in the armour is Arcadios.
"Uhh… Commander…" The minister started. "About the whole incident with Abyss Palace…you see…It was mostly due to my tunnel vision…"
"It's water under the bridge as far as I am concerned," Arcadios shook off the excuse like nothing. He turned to the Royal soldiers and anti-magic division mages. "Are all the people gathered here aware of the truth behind the Eclipse 2?" He asked without looking at Princess Hisui.
"Yes…as we speak, those soldiers still in the dark are being brought up to date. Hopefully word travels fast to the Garou Knights as well. Those words from that person who travelled back in time are coming to fruition. From this point forward, we're moving the Eclipse plan into the second phase. " Hisui explained.
Arcadios looked back to Hisui and down at her. "Then…we're going to abort the first phase and not annihilate Lord Zeref?"
"No…but we must first take care of the immediate threat lying before us." At that moment when Hisui finished, Arcadios reached for his sword, and gave it to Hisui, who held it in her hands and he forced her to tap the tip of the sword against his neck. This suicide act earned gasps from the troops, who covered their eyes and looked unnerved.
"A knight should never doubt the words of his monarch... When your words bear fruit…I shall relinquish my life… By being suspicious of your motives…I have brought great shame to you…I am prepared to pay that transgression with my life."
Hisui began to sweat at his bold and sacrificial words looking into his devoted eyes.
"You bastard! Have you gone mad?!" The minister exclaimed at the foolish man's actions and words.
"Princess…please be forthright with me… I have met the person from the future that you speak of. She is none the wiser about the Eclipse 2. She shed tears as she lamented the impending doom because she did not how to remedy the situation.
"That can't be…" Hisui argued. "That person made it abundantly clear to me as what had to be done.
"Are you telling me that the person from the future is lying? I can't think of anything that she'd gain by deceiving her comrades!" Arcadios retorted making Hisui widen her eyes.
"She...?" She muttered in disbelief. "That person who traveled back in time and gave me that advice…was a man."
"There are two people…from the future? One is Lucy, who came to warn us of the coming dangers…" Arcadios said.
"And the other is here, to bring harm to Princess Hisui?" The minister asked confusingly.
"No, both came for the reason of saving our country. I wouldn't be surprised if there was even a third or fourth person." Hisui directed the sword away from Arcadios's chin, to point up upwards. "If you truly are a knight, then you should point your blade where it needs to be. " She let go of the blade. "I'm opening the Gates. In order to save this country, I'm drawing my blade." Hisui then walked towards the Gate past Arcadios and turned around to raise her right hand. "In response to the impending Dragon attack, we commence the Eclipse Cannon firing sequence, now!" She ordered.
The pillars on the gate started to rattle, as the lock on the right side of the gate pulled back, being followed by the others.
Princess Hisui gazed upon the large gate. "I pray we can eliminate them all with one strike. It will take many years for us to amass such a quantity of magic again. Little did they know the remainder of the Fairy Tail team hid behind bushes not too far from the gate itself.
"They're about to open the Gates…" Future Lucy said softly.
"We need to keep them open, right?" Natsu whispered.
"There's no need for you to hide. Show yourselves," Arcadios said aiming his eyes at the Fairy Tail group. The minister and Hisui looked at Fairy Tail too hiding in the bushes.
"Fairy Tail…" Hisui said slowly. The guards nearest to the Fairy Tail members herded them like sheep and escorted them to the Princess.
"My humblest apologies for what transpired. Given our predicament, we'll issue a formal apology as a later date." Hisui said turning to them.
"Why are you opening the Gates? The Dragons aren't here yet." Lucy argued.
"They know about the Dragons?" Hisui asked herself.
Arcadios heard Hisui talking herself. "Yes, they are aware of everything." He informed looking at her, before turning back to Fairy Tail. "Speaking of which, where's Gamu?"
"He's off kicking the ass of the man who came here from the future to kill Lucy from stopping her from closing the Gate!" Natsu exclaimed in a bad mood.
"That man…tied to kill you?" Arcadios asked.
"You'll interfere?" Hisui asked not very pleased.
Lucy shook her head a few times in denial. "I would never! It's just that I don't understand why you're opening the Gates before they arrive!"
"It's simple…" Hisui looked back to the large Gate. "It takes time to charge the cannon. We wouldn't make it in time if we simply waited for them to appear.
"Can that thing really take out ten thousand Dragons?" Future Lucy asked.
"I cannot say for certain…as you may not know, His Majesty made preparations for a worse case scenario: to ask for the guild's help to take out the Dragons not wiped out from the Eclipse Cannon.
At that moment, the Gates opened pushing back fog from the white light that appeared through it. The light looked something from a portal. Everyone looked astonished at the door what was supposed to be used as a cannon to destroy the Dragons. They were all speechless. Lucy remained still, gazing at the Gate before taking a couple of steps forward.
"Hey….Lucy?" Natsu asked his friend what was up.
"No…this door must be closed this instant! You mustn't let the doors fully open!" Lucy pleaded. "Please! Close that door at once!"
Hisui extended her hand out in front of Lucy while giving her a cold stare. "Not happening! This is the only weapon we have to fend off from the horde of Dragons! Closing this door right now means we won't get a second chsnce to use the Eclipse Cannon!"
Lucy got right up to the face of Hisui and pointed to the opening door. "It's not the Eclipse Cannon! That door is siply a portal that connects to different timelines!"
"Releasing the cumulative magi power that's been collected is the Eclipse Cannon!"
"You're wrong! I'm telling you that's not the weapon you think it is! That door is connected to 400 years in the past!"
Shakes could be felt from the ground, as they all could notice it. The tremors stopped, and then started again as if something large was coming. They all gazed at the black shadow visible through the gate and widened their eyes with horror. What came thought he Gate…was a real life Dragon.
"A Dragon…just walked through the door!" A guard yelled ready to run for his life.
"ROAR!" The Dragon roared loudly, blowing everyone nearby away, even the statues. After its thunderous roar, slammed its right claw on to the ground hard, creating a shockwave in a line throughout the city from the Gate. It then proceeded to walk out of the Gate, allowing another Dragon, this time entirely made up of fire to walk through.
"I…I've sealed this Kingdom's fate…" The Princess said horrifically being clung onto Arcadios. She quickly realized she regretted opening the Gate and had to pay for her mistakes.
"How do you close the Gate?" Lucy asked the Princess placing her hands on her shoulders pushing and pulling her back and forth to get her to snap out of her fear. The Princess, while still horrified, pointed to a pedestal just to the left of the Gate. One by one, Dragons kept coming out of the Gate slowly, being the ginormous beings they are. Their feet hitting the ground shook the ground heavily.
Lucy made it over to the lever and tried to push it down to close the Gates manually. However, by the time the next Dragon came though, it blew the Celestial Spirit away. Forcing the Gate closed was useless. Natsu tried to come over to her aid and shit it together, but even with the Fire Dragon's help, to was fruitless
But then, a voice rang out from the Palace.
"Don't forget about me!" Yukino shouted at Lucy as she ran with Mirajane behind her.
"Yukino!" Lucy exclaimed with happiness.
"Take out your Golden keys!" She yelled. "Combined with mine, we'll use all twelve to seal the Gates!" She informed, chucking her two Golden Keys into the air, as did with Lucy when she threw her ten up. Together with the Golden Keys in the air, they formed a circle.
Kneeing down in front of another with their foreheads touching, their hands grasped in each other, they started to chant. "Oh Celestial Spirits of the Twelve Golden Paths. Lend us the power to seal this evil! Open…Twelve Gates of the Zodiac!" A bright yellow light surrounded the two girls as the 12 Zodiac Spirits came to live, and stood side by side. Then like yellow shooting stars, they flew towards the Gate, six on each side of the door and pushed it closed. The Gate was shut and the Dragons yet to come though, were not able to. They celebrated in victory, but Arcadios shot the party down, exclaiming the amount of Dragons that had come though the Gate.
Seven Dragons who managed to come through the Gate roamed the skies.
"You had to stick your nose where it didn't belong…Lucy….Yukino." A familiar and hated voice was heard from here the Fairy Tail team had hidden to surveillance the Gate. It was Future Rogue. "But seven will be enough. To be hones, controlling ten thousand would be a nightmare, so you did me a favor." He grinned.
"Rogue!" Natsu spat the name of the Shadow Dragon slayer.
"Where's Gamu?!" Lucy asked worried for her friend.
Future Rouge ignored the venom and questions, raising his left arm in the air as if he was already victorious. "Listen well, foolish citizens…from this moment forward, the human race shall become extinct… Now begins…the era of the Dragons." He looked up in the air to look at his Dragon allies. "For a start, find all the mages in the town. And eliminate them. "
"Bad guy!" Gamu shouted running out of the Palace. His friends were relived he was alright.
"You're too late, pinkie. The Dragons are already here," Future Rogue said as a Dragon flew low and held out its hand like a platform. Future Rogue jumped up onto the hand extended out by the Dragon. "See if you can copy my Dragon Manipulation magic now, fat bastard." The Dragon holding Future Rogue in its hand flew up into the air.
"Dam that Rogue! Happy!" Natsu exclaimed asking Happy to prepare to fly him up to the Dragon with Future Rogue now on it, but Gamu held out his hand before Happy could spread out his wings.
"You stay with Lucy, I go," Gamu told the Fire Dragon as he flew up to the Dragon.
"Gamu…" Natsu said slowly.
Future Rogue looked down below to see the Dragons spawned from the Gate causing havoc among the town, not only implementing damage, but fear into the Human's hearts too. "Good…" he smiled joyfully. His time had come. "Go wild, go and run rampant!" Future Rogue exclaimed again. But, his joy ended when Gamu landed on top of the Dragon, facing off against Future Rogue. "You're still persistent…" Future Rogue spat, turning around to the Majin looking at him.
"Now…you're really on my nerves!" Future Rogue grunted as he grit his teeth. Little did he know, another Gamu landed behind him.
"Bad guy say he use manipulation, Gamu cannot copy magic," Gam shot Future Rogue a scary stare. "But me steal magic!"
"What?!" Future Rogue asked raising an eyebrow, and grit his teeth. Them, he could feel something wrap around him. "Get off me!" He struggled to break free, but it was useless. The thing that tightened around him was Gamu's arms. "Y-your arms?" But how can you be there and behind me?!" Future Rogue demanded to know looking up from the arms to Gamu, unaware of Gamu's duplicate ability.
Future Rogue could feel something gooey cover his back, as if it was devouring him. "What…? Future Rogue looked around, as saw Gamu holding him, turning into a large piece of wobbly gum that was about to devour him. "Get off me you blasted-!" Before he could say anymore, he was devoured by the gum.
Gamu opened his eyes, sending the blob of gum ka-splat on him. The gum covered his body, face and arms. But then, suddenly the gum started to mix in with Gamu. The wobbling gum devoured Gamu whole too, waving up and down, side to side, slowly morphing into a tall humanoid shape. This figure was still a piece of wobbly gum. It slowly molded into a clear, more detailed figure that was tall and thin.
Track Play – Scary Buu Theme
After the gum had molded a brand new thing, it had black boots, long legs with longer white pants covering them. A shirt just like Future Rogue, except the sleeves went to the elbows instead of the hands. On the wrists were black wristbands with yellow trim. The head was a lot thinner and human-like too. There were wholes around the skull, three on each side. The long pink antenna was formed from four small ones to one that grew from the back of the head like a ponytail and arched its way down, separating into four more antennas which spiraled down to the lower back.
This new form felt improved, stronger and much more perfect. Clenching his fists, the new figure looked to them impressively, giving off a joyful grin. This figure felt like he could sing a song with all the happiness he is feeling right now…but, a simple rhyme would suffice.
"Roses are red… Violets are blue… Sayonara Gamu the joke… Hello to the mightiest and formidable being in the universe… Future Gamu, the Shadow Majin Dragon Slayer!" The figure now known as Future Gamu said in a mature, and adult voice instead of an immature, illiterate and high-pitched voice.
"Hmhmhm…hahahahahahahaha!" Future Gamu laughed victoriously.
Track End
So I finally did, it I made it to the scene where Gamu absorbs Future Rogue to become Future Gamu. I did have a hard time thinking what scenes to have as many played out in my head and I was going around in circles but now I found one path I didn't have in mind and competed the chapter. Also, the name convention for the new Gamu was a pickle too. I wasn't sure of Super Gamu or Future Gamu would be a wise fit, so tell me which name Gamu should have now:
Future Gamu or Super Gamu. Let me know!