Hey guys, Flipkicks here and today I bring to you is a new chapter for "The Reaper's Memories" thank you guys for checking out the story and what you all thought of the 1st chapter.

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Phantom Lord Arc
Part 1

Magnolia: Outside Lucy's Home,
Later that Night…

After learning the guild had been under attack by one of the guilds, Phantom Lord, the group decided to be around Lucy's home for the time being.

"Hm… I had no idea that another legal guild would do something like that." Lucy thought aloud.

The guildhall, for the remainder of the day, had consisted of Natsu pouting, Zero trying to calm him down while simultaneously considering action himself, Gray sulking in an opposite corner in an effort to calm himself, Erza trying to maintain order, the master drinking, and Mira continuously serving people whatever they requested since the majority of the food and supplies were actually located in the basement. All in all, the only thing out of the ordinary was the location.

Well, that wasn't necessarily true. The mood was extremely different than the usual rowdy sense of comradery that almost always coated the building's atmosphere. On any normal day, Lucy would want it gone, but now that it was she preferred how it was as opposed to the current gloomy disposition everyone currently shared.

'Also, that guild… I remember hearing about them when I had thought of joining. They weren't ever first in the rankings, but they are usually just behind Fairy Tail.' Lucy thought.

Still, she'd never change the guild that she had chosen to join. Fairy Tail was where she belonged, and, though she would never admit it, she thanked god every day that she met Natsu and was able to successfully join that particular guild.

That's why it pained her in some ways to see someone get away with hurting her extended family. The blonde wasn't one to allow her emotions to get the better of her when it counted, but now was a time when she was struggling to do so. However everyone seemed that way, more or less.

"I was surprised that we aren't doing anything… but still, the master knows best I suppose." Lucy said to herself as she approached her home.

The very second that the entrance to her rented living area was within her eyesight, she took note that a certain orange-haired teen was sitting down, his back leaned against the wall directly next to her door with a bored expression present on his face. Oddly enough, though, he had a book in his hands that she never recalled seeing him with beforehand.

"Hey Zero, whatcha readin'?" Lucy asked curiously, stopping directly in front of her door in expectation of what was to come. Her question, or rather the nature in which it was asked, caused the orange-haired teen to release a quiet gasp of surprise before he chose to answer.

"It's a book on Magnolia's guilds… um, you seem pretty calm right now. Since I'm here, you should know who else is, right?" Ichigo questioned in a confused tone, prompting the blonde to shrug her shoulders in response.

"Meh, it doesn't really surprise me that Natsu and Happy are here. I'll just yell at them when I get in." Lucy mused, after which she made to open the door.

"But it's not just…" Zero began, though it was far too late to warn his friend.

The celestial spirit mage opened the door only to be greeted by the sight of Erza, Yoruichi, Orihime, Yuzu, Karin, Gray, Natsu, and Happy each sitting at the living room table with somewhat cheerful expressions on their faces.

"Oh, hey Lucy, how're ya…" Natsu said.

"Who said you could come in?!" Lucy shouted, kicking the dragon slayer directly in his cheek and effectively sending him across the room.

Zero just watched the pink-haired teen release a tired groan and simply not move, himself being confused as to why Natsu had been the first target of her rage. Even right now, she still appeared to expect an answer despite the fact that the fire mage wasn't able to currently give one.

"You have a lovely home, Lucy. It's quite nice." Erza stated before taking a sip of her beverage from a little wooden teacup.

"Why are you all here as well?" Lucy questioned in an exasperated tone.

"Calm down, they actually have a good reason. By the way, I did tell you this is exactly what would happen if you just broke in." Zero sated, looking towards the scarlet-haired woman as he walked over to pick his comrade up off of the floor.

"If Lucy is truly bothered by it, then she may…" Erza began.

"…strike you down if she wishes?" Zero finished, cutting the redhead off and prompting her to glare lightly at him.

"It's rude to interrupt people." Erza stated matter-of-factly.

"It's also rude to walk into people's homes when they aren't there." Ichigo countered.

"Noted… but I still don't see why it matters in the grand scheme of things." Erza replied.

"Well sure you don't care, but Natsu's the one who got hit." Zero said as he puts the unconscious Dragon Slayer on a chair.

"Anyway… the reason for our being here is because at the moment we can assume that members of Phantom Lord are in town. Therefore I believe it would be safer if we stick together in case they choose to attack us as individuals." Erza explained, getting back to the topic at hand.

"They'd attack us?!" Lucy exclaimed fearfully.

"Yeah, and by now they probably know where everyone lives." Gray added.

"If that's the case, then I guess she's right…" Lucy replied, now being inwardly thankful for her female companion's foresight.

"Sure, after she almost knocks me out ya explain it to her." Natsu complained as he cracked his jaw.

"If you had waited outside with me in the first place then you wouldn't have gotten hit." Zero stated matter-of-factly.

"You just think you're so clever, don't you?" Natsu asked rhetorically.

"From time to time…" Zero replied with a small smirk.

"So who is Phantom Lord?" Yuzu asks them with Karin and Yoruichi wanting to know as well.

"Phantom Lord is our 'neighboring' guild in Oak Town, about 30 miles up north from our town." Erza started, "The guild master is Jose Porla, one of the Ten Wizard Saints like Master Makarov."

"So gramps is one of them?" Karin raises an eyebrow, "Are they the top wizards?"

"That they are Karin." She answers her question and continues, "The Ten Wizard Saints are the most powerful mages in all of Fiore. To become a member of the Ten Wizard Saints, a Mage must be granted this title by the Chairman of the Magic Council. There are different types of Mages who hold this prestigious title, though a few are known to be S-Class Mage of their respective guilds or even Guild Masters In fact, some members of the Ten Wizard Saints do not even belong to guilds and can even be a part of the Magic Council."

"So you can be one of them Ichi-nii." Yuzu said with glee to which made Zero do a spit take.

"I think she may have a point though." Yoruichi added, "You are the strongest 'mage' here." She decided to mess around with him.

"Oh hell no!" Natsu says with anger in his voice, "If anyone is the strongest, it's gonna be me!"

"Natsu, have you faced someone that could destory the world as they see it?" She questions the Dragon Slayer, asking from first hand experience along with Orihime and Zero's perspective. The room got extremely quiet from her question as everyone in the room felt the intense pressure. Natsu began to sweat like a monkey as he really hasn't faced someone that could do that. "Being boastful is something but don't be boastful when you haven't."

"Would you mind telling us about what happened?" Lucy asks them and is hoping to understand from their perspective view.

Yoruichi sighs heavily as she knows that this is a heavy subject for them, especially for Zero as he learned many revelations of who his mother was and his true powers. She would then explain the main points of the 1,000 Year Blood War with the return of Yhwach from his slumber to Zero learning his true powers and his heritage, Rukia and Renji learning their Bankai state and Ichigo being the one to stop the Quincy leader from changing their world.

Everyone's expression changed from her talk. No one knew that this Yhwach guy would be able to change the world, more importantly on the cycle of life and death. Natsu kept quiet now after hearing all this as he didn't expect his friends to go through all that hard time.

Lucy's Home: Main Bedroom,
Some Time Later…

"Hm… is it… brown?" Natsu asked curiously.

"Nope." Yoruichi replied.

"Is it… red?" Natsu inquired.

"Yes… a specificshade of red." Karin replied, trying to lead the pink-haired teen into the proper guess.

Thus far the night had gone by in a fairly uneventful manner. Gray had just sat on the bed with a tired expression on his face, Erza had been going through Lucy's clothing, despite the blonde's protests, and Happy alongside Plu were eating various types of candy. Natsu, Yoruichi and Karin, however, were currently playing I-Spy in an effort to kill the current state of boredom. Who it was that requested the game be played need not be said.

"I got it, Lucy's panties!" Natsu exclaimed, his tone giving off the impression that he believed this was the case.

"How do you know what color my underwear are?!" Lucy shouted angrily.

"I told him." Happy chirped.

"I'm going to kill this cat!" Lucy proclaimed, glaring at the object of her ire all the while.

"More importantly… Karin, why were you looking at Lucy's panties?" Erza asked, a dark aura emanating from her being.

"What the hell is wrong with you people?! I wasn't talking about Lucy's underwear, I was talking about Erza's hair! I didn't even know what color they were in the first place!" Karin exclaimed.

"Oh… well I suppose that isn't deplorable." Erza thought aloud, her anger seemingly vanishing.

"Ya think?" Gray asked rhetorically.

"What was that?" Erza growled out warningly, having picked up on the raven-haired man's slight insult.

"N-Nothing!" Gray instantly replied and hoping not to feel her wraith.

"That's what I thought… however right now we have a serious issue to discuss. Natsu, Gray, you boys' hygiene… I refuse to stay in the same area with boys who refuse to bathe. Go take a bath at once!" Erza ordered.

"Nope." Natsu simply replied, simultaneously shaking his head.

"Meh, I don't feel like it…" Gray said through a yawn.

"Don't sleep on my bed!" Lucy shouted in an annoyed fashion.

"Why should we have to take a bath anyway?" Gray asked, ignoring the blonde's demands.

"Yeah, and why don't you get on Ichigo's case too?" Natsu added.

"Because, unlike the two of you, I shower every day and don't smell like a forest." Zero stated uncaringly.

"I don't smell like a forest… much…" Natsu trialed off.

"I don't either… I think. At the very least I'm not as bad as Natsu is." Gray mumbled in an unsure tone before crossing his arms and took up an expression of consideration.

"But yes, Zero does smell fine… most likely because strawberry's have such a wonderful natural scent." Erza stated, eliciting a round of laughter from most present save for the actual target of her joke.

"I swear, one more time Erza…" Zero trailed off warningly, obviously not being content with his namesake being insulted so continuously.

He never did understand why people happened to get it wrong in the first place. After all, there really wasn't a person on the planet that would name their child after a fruit. Not in this one, or the one he was born on.

"By the way, I still ain't getting a bath." Natsu scoffed, after which he went back to his favorite pastime of being bored and doing nothing in the blonde's bedroom.

"Me neither." Gray stated.

"Now, now boys… if it helps, perhaps we can take a bath together like when we were kids." Erza offered with a sly smirk, knowing full well what the effects of her words would be.

That instantly accomplished several things in quick succession. First and foremost, Gray and Natsu turned the color of ghosts and gained a sudden interest in personal cleanliness. Secondly, both Ichigo and Lucy looked at the redhead with an expression of absolute disbelief.

"Nope, we're good!" Natsu and Gray replied instantly, running towards the closest bathroom a split-second thereafter.

"What the hell is wrong with you?!" Karin exclaimed, clearly shocked by what was just said.

"I have no issues bathing with two people I consider to be brothers." Erza replied blankly.

"Is that supposed to make it better?" Zero asked in a tone of disbelief.

"Doesn't it?" Erza countered.

"Well… yeah, I guess, but it's still really damn weird!" Zero stated.

"Agreed." Lucy piped in.

"Aye!" Happy chirped.

Each of the remaining three sat at the table within Lucy's bedroom in silence for some time while Happy and Lucy's technical pet continued to eat candy they had somehow managed to find in the house. In the silence, however, a certain orange-haired teen noticed something he hadn't before. During all the commotion it somehow escaped his view, but he felt it was odd enough that he needed to address it.

"By the way, Erza, I just noticed something… this is the first time I think I've ever seen you without your armor on." Zero thought aloud, somewhat shocked that he didn't notice it prior.

True enough, the scarlet-haired woman was currently wearing the same attire on her lower body but as opposed to her traditional armor she was currently wearing a sleeveless collared shirt with a blue ribbon tied just above her breasts.

Actually this had been the first time he had gotten to see her true appearance when she wasn't about to fight, and she really did have a rather nice figure. In fact, her breasts were about as big as Mirajane's, not that he was comparing the two directly mind you.

"Yeah… wow, Erza, you really do look different." Lucy commented, sounding equally surprised that she too had yet to notice.

"Yes… but I believe this attire is not quite appropriate for the occasion." Erza thought aloud.

A moment later her body was engulfed in a bright light, showing that she had used her requip magic in order to take on a new appearance. When the light had died down, it was revealed that she had opted to put on a pair of pink and purple pajamas with crosses pattered throughout the garment.

"There, that's better." Erza sighed out.

"Wait, is that really how you change your clothes?" Yuzu asked, sounding somewhat confused.

"Yes, indeed it is. To me it seems so much more efficient and since I have the room in my magical space I don't see why I shouldn't use my magic in such a way." Erza reasoned.

"Fair point." Yuzu replied.

Some Time Later…

"Now was that so hard?" Erza asked upon the missing two members of their group returning from the bathroom.

The two made no verbal reply, rather they simply grunted out of annoyance and crossed their arms in an agitated fashion. Still, neither of them really had the guts to go against the redheaded woman in such a confined area where escape wouldn't be possible in a short amount of time.

"I thought not. And now you don't reek of sweat." Erza stated.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah…" They mumbled in unison before sitting back down on the table.

"Hey Erza, can you answer a question for me?" Lucy inquired, sounding rather pensive as if what she was about to ask was something she had been meaning to for some time.

"Yes, you may ask away." Erza permitted.

"Why would Phantom Lord attack us like they did? I don't really see a reason, so I just want to know if you had any idea." Lucy stated.

"I can't say that I really know the answer to that question. We have had our fair share of scuffles with them in the past, but never on anything of this sort of magnitude before." Erza replied.

"Tch… if gramps wasn't so scarred of them we could wipe out those punks for good." Natsu griped.

"Come on, you know the master isn't afraid of them Natsu. He's one of the Ten Wizard Saints, remember?" Gray stated from his seated position at Lucy's desk.

The raven-haired teen raised a good point, which was clearly illustrated when the dragon slayer just huffed in response. Still, two individuals present within the room didn't quite know the meaning behind Gray's words.

"Wait, what's a… hey, I never gave you permission to read that!" Lucy exclaimed, taking immediate notice that the ice wizard currently held the novel she had been writing within the palm of his hand in a nonchalant manner.

Almost immediately thereafter she grabbed the collection of papers from his hand, much to his disappointment and Erza's confusion given that she didn't know what the pile of papers even was.

"Hey, you can't just snatch that outta my hands without at least tellin' me what happens next." Gray said reaching towards the papers that were currently being gripped rather tightly by the blonde-haired woman.

"Yes, I can. Besides, I promised Levy that she could be the first one to read it." Lucy replied.

"Oh, I didn't know you and she had gotten to talk yet." Zero said, interjecting into the conversation.

"Yeah, she's a nice person and she was really supportive when she talked to me about it. She really loves books too, so maybe she can give me her opinion when I finally finish writing my novel." Lucy stated.

"Hmm…" Erza trailed off in an attempt to gain the blonde's attention.

"You're not getting to read it either!" Lucy exclaimed upon turning towards the woman and seeing that she was gesturing a hand as if to say she wished to be given the collection of writing.

"By the way, you seemed like you wanted to ask something before you started to yell at Gray." Zero commented.

"Oh yeah… I wanted to know what the Ten Wizards Saints are supposed to be." Lucy stated.

"Well they're the ten strongest wizards in the magical world, at least the legitimate ones. The master's one of 'em, and the rest of the Wizard Saints are just as strong as he is, if not stronger." Gray answered.

"That just means he's being even more spineless than I thought." Natsu sneered.

"Not at all, Natsu. From what I've read about Phantom so far, it looks like their master… Jose, I think his name is, is also one of the Ten Wizard Saints. That means that if we went to war with them than we'd definitely cause more harm than good. That's also just assuming that both of them fight it out. If everyone else got involved… I can't think of the damage it would cause." Zero stated.

To him, at least, this was a very straightforward issue and the old man's decision, for now, appeared to be the best one. No one had been hurt, and should the two guilds essentially go to war that would not only bring about all forms of chaos but also put innocent lives in danger during the process. Then there was the fact that the Magic Council would likely become involved and above all else Zero desperately didn't want for them to get the impression he was here to start trouble.

"Zero is right, Natsu, we can't go to war with Phantom over something like this because the risk would be far too great. Should anything else happen, then we will give it special consideration, but given that no one was hurt and the master is against any form of retaliation our hands are tied." Erza said in agreement.

"Tch, figures…" Natsu scoffed.


Unknown Location

"When should we make our move Yehudah?" Hananel asks the leader of the remnants.

"Soon Hananel." He says in an assure tone, "For now, we are to get most of these Ethernano for his tower." They all nod their heads to his words and he continues, "King, Hananel, why don't you all head to Magnolia and see if Kurosaki Ichigo is indeed awaken." Hans and Hananel nod their heads and Hirenkyaku their way to Magnolia.

"You sure that is wise?" Abia questions the spiky black haired leader.

"I'm sure Abia. For now, My incomplete state needs to know if he has truly awaken his memories. If he indeed is awaken, then the reunion will proceed to the next stage."


And that ends the chapter guys! The group is staying at Lucy's house for the time being while the remnants sent to of their agents to see Ichigo 'Zero's progress.

Their plans will be revealed in the Tower of Heaven Arc.

I hope to hear what you guys think of the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.