Chapter 21:Search for the 12 warriors of Density.
January 13, X390
A week passed since the attacks against Isvan, Zen and Fiore, an unknown demonic force has been attacking the continent of Isghal, we yet to know their intentions or their goals however what seems to be the common areas they've attacked was churches, temples and religious shrines. My surviving family members i'm closest to are in stable condition after the mysterious mist poisoning Grandeendy states it would be a week before she can take some of that mist and make it into an antidote with Venomisky, Venomisky and Grandeendy's division are with Altas Flames in Zen to protect the country from invasion.
Victor's entire Zentopian Legion Corp was killed in the Zentopian City bombing, Anna and Veronica were able to survive with him but the forces were devastated and morale was severely damaged. Igneel and his division is with Minue from Mermaida using her forces to back up security efforts across the country in case Crocus were attacked.
However, the worst-hit area Ivsan was in dire need. Musica Fullbuister, the closest thing to successor and the son of Rey was only 9 and was grieving with the mother Katerina Fullbuster, Katerina Fullbuster was forced to be interim Queen until her son reached Mature age. The Kingdom was having a mass funeral Viking style for the thousands killed by Dielroia's attack. Rey was declared lost in the sea with Deiloria frozen in an enteral prison. Metalicana and Zuesei were sent to guard that country with a good amount of forces concentrated around the peninsula in case of a repeated attack.
Countless funeral ceremonies were held throughout the week, the first one was to the victims of the Temple Massacre by the demon Tmepster, the second held was the Grand zentopian Chruch Funeral and Viking funeral within Ivsan, we attended the funeral and said our final passing of our comrades.
Heartfilia Korzen
We had a major assembly within Heartfilia Korzen for their meeting stating it's the meeting grounds.
"There have been over 100 attacks in towns across Isghal in the following week.''Victor explained to the group as he highlighted how severe the situation is.
"100 demon attacks?" Ernejack asked him shocked at such a high number.
"That's insane, demons are starting a war with us, seems like something out of a folklore story." Erenjack stated.
"We thought the Demon race was barely a threat given the last Holy Wars thousands of years back, how are they making a resurgence?" Anna asked.
"Whoever these monsters are, they're going to pay for putting my family in a near-death state." I replied as was fuming with rage, I want to make those demons pay the price for hurting my family, I couldn't forget the horror Ii saw a week ago.
"How are your relative's fairing?"Anna asked me concerned about my family's well being.
"Better now thanks to Grandeeney's medical skills but far from out of the woods, she's working on the antidote as we speak. Any intel of where these demons are appearing?" I explained to Anna while asking about the whereabouts of those Tartaros demons.
"So far no one can find their precise location, all the scouts searched, they can't find their fortress or castle anywhere." Victor said to me explaining how they're yet to be found.
"Damn it! If they want a war, we'll give them a war" I shouted.
"That's ill-advised, whatever this demon army is, their force is too small to waste resources on. We don't even know they're location is so amassing a large army against a small army we can't find would be a waste of time." Victor explained to me lecturing me on how unwise to use a large conventional army against a small army of demons we can't find.
"Did you forget these demons almost took me out, took you out and killed the Three Kings of Isvan?" I shouted at him furious at what the demons did to all of us.
"We have no clue of their location yet, it's pointless to amass an army to an enemy you can't find the location of yet."The Pope replied noting how unwise it was to rush headfirst into battle.
"You propose we do nothing?" I asked the Pope.
"What we need is a small enough force to scout and find where these demons are attacking and where they're amassing their forces, it's clear the enemy is using Aysmeical means to attack us, likely fearing they lack a large enough army to directly attack. What we need is a small army of Holy Knights to attack."Veronica said to the two of us to agree with
"Problem is that after the attack on Zentopia City, we lost the Legion corp in that explosion and we lost a good amount of elite troops as well who were evacuating the civilians."Victor stated explaining the scale of his losses.
"Then how do we combat this threat?"I asked the Pope of Zentopia.
"The bible might give us a clue...In the Passage of Revelations, it's stated that the Chosen one would emerge with 12 holy warriors from the kingdom of Heaven to battle the evil that is engulfing the world, we need to assemble the most powerful and holy warriors of the world, then we must make sure that the infinity Clock pieces are protected" Victor explained to everyone here his plan to combat the growing threat of Taratos.
"infinity Clock? What's the infinity clock, why do these Tartaros demons want it so badly?" I asked him wondering why they would go through so much trouble over a clock only to see the faces of Anna, Victor and Veronica turn as white as ghosts.
"A terrible secret that shall never be opened!" Victor replied with the most ominous reply the atmosphere of the room got cold by the mention of that.
"The Infinity Clock belonged to Zentopia a long time ago and it was sealed away after it was proved to be a dangerous artifact, able to unleash chaos into the world. The Infinity Clock was dismantled into 6 pieces, with each of them scattered and hidden in abandoned areas." Veronica explained to me about the Infinity Clock.
"The locations of the Infinity Clock are changed every generation of the church, Father was the last generation who changed the pieces around them in different locations. To prevent the risk of other nations using it for their own agenda, we keep this a secret amongst the higher echelons of Zentopia. You're probably the first Non-Zentopian elite we've even told about this secret." Anna explained to me about the clandestine origins of this.
"That explains why my uncle never knew about it."I replied remembering when the demon was attacking us.
"As much as it pained me to keep secrets from a good friend and fellow colleague, it has been an official church policy for centuries. The Infinity Clock is a destructive weapon originally created by the Heartfilla Family in an attempt to achieve the One Magic, it almost destroyed the whole world. This is all the more reasons we need to bet these demons to the punch by changing the locations of the clock pieces.''Victor explained to me about the dealings of this secret weapon.
"Where are these clock pieces?"I asked him.
"I will tell you in due time, we need to first assemble a gathering of 12 powerful warriors, whatever this demon army wants with the clock pieces, it's no coincidence all their targets have been Holy sites. The plan is to create a 2 man cell of the 12 strongest warriors to relocate the Clock Pieces, we will then use this cell to lure the demon leaders out, we will then capture them alive and force them to give us a location, then when we get their nest and send a large force to wipe them out and end the threat once and for all." Victor explained his plan which was out to purge out the demon forces attacking our civilizations.
"The Tartarus demon me and Rena killed stated there were 11 more like them if we consider the one Rey Fullbuster killed at the cost of his life and there were several that attacked these areas, we can assume they have at least 10 demons that can destroy entire countries, Such a power I only thought possible with Dragons." I said to the group explaining the threat of the demons.
"That's correct, the good news is that we have half of the 12 warriors we need to carry this though, everyone in this room are powerful enough to aid in fighting these Demons, the bad news is that we're 6 short of amassing our counterattack and securing the very doomsday weapons from them. I know however a way to fix this." Victor explained to me his plan to take out the threat that was the Tartaros demons.
"You do? Who?" Erenjack asked me.
"We should get Kanzkai Mikazuchi here, she should be very strong at this point. I've yet to defeat her in a single sword duel." I suggested, she had to be pretty powerful at this point as the Samurai within Gappione were an extremely formidable force.
"She's at another side of the world, we have to cross pass Cina to get to her which isn't on the most friendly terms and even if we have the way around them, it would take too long to reach here, let's maintain our search within the Isghal Sea region."Victor said to me having shot down the idea but he was right, Cina was not on friendly terms as they were a pro-Dark Dragon Tribe nation who have become increasingly paranoid of Dragonv since our occupation of Gabe.
"You have a point, that would take too long."I replied frustrated on how bad of an idea I proposed.
"I know a place to start, we can go to. The desert kingdom of Egitto.'' Victor said to us as he found a place for the first warrior.
"Eggito? Why there?" I asked him.
"Back in the Dragon War, I fought within the Egitto where fought alongside the current Pharaoh of the Kingdom Tukaman calberona, he was a powerful mage who lead a rebellion against the ruling titles within the Askehrhamni backed Farrakhan Caliphate which ruled over Egitto for over 1,000 years and returned Eiggto back into the original era of Pharaohs and the gods that existed 5,000 years ago, Zentopia wanting a foothold in Middle Earthland backed the rebellion and have bases in the land which protected the Middle Earthland Zentopians that faced persecution for centuries in the country. His power can help bring a tie to the war." Victor explained to us about the elite Calberona family, an extremely powerful family who rebelled against the order of the kingdom previously.
"You told me of this within the bedtime stories of a powerful Pharaoh that ruled the kingdom,I never thought you met your war buddy all this time."Anna stated.
"Sounds like the guy is legendary." I said to the Pope praising the Pharaoh.
"He uses a unique form of magic known as Monster Cards in which he can tame monsters and spirits to use in battle using Ancient cards, they used the cards to keep evil spirits at bay and also for power, only the royals can use this." Victor explained to us as he refers to the rare ability to use celestial spirit like cards. "There's also my fellow comrades who aided me in the battle of Celo, Cheney and Jason Eucliffe."
"That's my cousin from the Kknightwalker family." I affirmed him about my family.
"Seriously how large is your family Irene?" Anna asked her.
"Remember my parent's funeral, I had over 6,000 relatives from all over the world. I have a relative for almost every creed and kingdom at this point." I replied.
"The Dragonvich bloodline is one of the largest bloodlines in history, it can rival the Heartfilia bloodline which spans from here to the Great Country of Gupta. It's been ages since I've heard of their fathers however I heard that their sons are just as powerful and legendary as them who have become known heroes within Bosco having recently done several missions in Middle Earthland, protecting the silk road trade." Victor explained to us about my cousins.
"My Cousin Jacob mentioned them as being even stronger than him, that solves that problem. Also, may I make a suggestion of a powerful mage?" I asked him.
"Go ahead!"Victor answered.
"Linda Lockser of the Lockser clan" I said to them much to Erenjack's horror.
"Wait her?"Erenjack asked nervously.
" Is there a problem Erenjack?"I asked him on the subject.
"Oh, nothing..." Erenjack replied sweating.
"The Locker Clan are well renowned for being virtually indestructible, they were a potential wildcard to defeating even dragons if they have a large amount of water to drown them in." I explained to everyone about the vast potential of the Lockser Clan.
"Just don't have her paired with me..she can be a bit clingy."Erenjack stated not exactly digging the clingy princess of the Lockser clan.
" It's not my call, we need to wait to see how Victor maps this out. Beggars can't be choosers, now suck it up." I replied coldly scolding him for his inability to put his personal issues over the business.
"Speaking of clan leaders, the current head of the Dreyar Clan could be a good pick to help us out.
"No way, I refuse to deal with them, our Clans have been at war for centuries. They're nothing but a bunch of psychopaths who want to remove weak people, they go against our very doctrines as a nation." I said to the Pope of Zentopia, protesting the idea of working with those savages within South Dragonv.
"What's with your family's hatred of them? We're able to have a treaty amongst the Vikings who are far more savage than the Dreyars and we've made ground securing a treaty with the Jerchioans whose culture is about violence and warfare, not to mention the Amazonians and Andoans in Southern Isghal, you're telling me the mighty Dragonv can't solve a conflict within their own borders?" The pope asked me why I can't solve the problem of South Dragonv.
"Ever since the Xlaus coup attempt after the New Crusader wars and the brief war between the Lightning Dragons and them, our families have been at not good speaking terms with each other. Southern Dragonv has been a semi-autonomous region for decades, one we fear could defect to Khangora or Cina if we pushed a conflict with their currently." I explained to the Pope, stating that the Dreyarvich and the Dragonvich family's history of conflict.
"Why would a fellow Dragonivnain go against the government?" Anna asked me about the history of our kingdom's quarrels.
"Long story, to say the least Xlau wasn't happy about the fact we didn't rule the entirely of Middle Earthland with an Iron Fist, this led to a 3-month long rebellion which required Zeusei to break up and my grandfather, Since that coup, Southern Dragonv within the Southern Dragonvian Desert has been reluctantly part of the country," I replied stating that we have been in civil unrest since then.
"Perhaps it's time you unite that part with Dragonv as a whole." Victor said to me.
"Like that's even possible? We tried everything to ally them to our side." I answered back noting they're extremely stubborn.
"Your mother was able to get Fairies to side with her in the last Dragon War, if she can do that, you can bring Southern Dragonv to your side." Victor said to me as the room went silent as everyone heard the bombshell about the Fairy race.
"You're saying Fairies are real?" I asked him shocked by the revelation.
"I was hoping I never had to break the code of silence but yes they are real." Victor replied with his usual stoic tone.
"Mother told me that their race died out hundreds of years ago." I explained to him what I know about the fairies.
"You're telling us they actually existed?" Lena asked them.
"Had not for the Fairy Race, we would've lost the Dragon War. Us humans are ill-fitted to fight a single dragon, it would require a small army of highly skilled human mages to stand up to even a low-class dragon, the Fairy Race could fight against the dragons and use their own form of magic which can kill even dragons." Victor explained to us about the power of the Fairy Race.
"You're saying that they can beat dragons that easily?" Erenjack asked him.
"How did they end up near-extinct if they could fight dragons?" Lena asked.
"Due to changing climates that affected their habits as a result of centuries of wars with dragons and then being hunted by Humans and dragons, many of their hidden kingdoms in various large forests worldwide were destroyed. Part of Dragonv's founding was not only to protect its borders from the Khangorain Army but also to stop what would become the Dark Dragon Tribe from stealing the magic of fairies and becoming an unstoppable army. At the time a small nation of Dragonv fought against the mighty empires of Zentopia, Zen, Garbiel, and Khangora, ending the One Magic War and protecting what was left of the fairy race. Dragnov with its deal with the Fairies, protected the Fairy Race for hundreds of years, however as noted, the world changed and became much harder for the fairy race to thrive. By the time your mother came to power, the fairy race that one thrived in the millions was regulated to several hidden kingdoms with at least several thousands of them."
"That doesn't explain how you found them yourself." Lena asked him.
"As for how i came in contact with them it was merely luck. During the war, I was deployed to head to the Eigtto kingdom however due to an intense storm, my unit was lost in the sea, we faced a tragic shipwreck due to a powerful Water Dragon having attacked my crew, I was the sole survivor of the shipwreck. The fairies were friendly towards me however they had grown to despise Dragons due to the fact they drove their race to near extinction. Luckily around the same time, the Queen of Dragons was on the island negotiating a deal with the Tenoruians. She was able to convince them of the threat of the Dragons to the world and to the last surviving kingdoms of Fairies were in danger of becoming extinct. I was fortunate enough to see your mother and she got me off the island with her ship and with the fairies help they were able to turn the tide of the war which was dire at that point."Victor explained to us about the existence of Fairies long said to be a secret to the world.
"Why didn't you use a dragon to fly off the island, it would've been faster. Why didn't mother use one?" I asked Victor.
"Fairies are hostile towards dragons and would shoot at them on-site, your mother used a ship to avoid getting dragons killed. Faires processed incredible magical power and said to be closer to the One Magic than any other being said to be strong enough to defeat even Dragons thanks to using pure Anti Ehterenao, the one magic even dragons aren't immune to for the most part. While they're physically weaker than Dragons, they were, for the most part, more intelligent and wield more powerful magic." Victor explained to us about the existence of the fairy race.
"And your idea is to recruit them into our force?" I asked him.
"That sounds like they can greatly benefit our army, especially against demons." Erenjack stated.
"With them using slimair magic to our Holy Magic and then being demons, they can help greatly against Demons." Anna replied.
"We will get to the last, let's first deal with the requirements at your doorstep first. To get to Teneoru Island, you would need a ship that would take us there. From Hargeon, it should take us 5 days to arrive and 5 days to return." Victor said to his team as they ready themselves to head to recruit the strongest mages within the continent.
Thudergoila,Dragonv
January 14,X390
The land was dry and arid much like the deserts of Middle Earthland but with far more mountains and far colder this time of year, this harsh landscape was lacking in vegetation and water. Bordering the counties of Gabe and Khangora, it was understandable why the southernmost region of the dragon was a giant desert.
We arrived at the province city of Pesok Veter, the capital of the Oblast, a small city where the 20,000 strong Dreyervich clans held in. The buildings were made of rock formations carved out by the Dreyers, the crudely formed rugged buildings fit what you expect from a muscle bond clan, what wasn't crudely built was the castle they had, it was a large castle with a garden and oasis.
I met the mother and father of Lexiel and asked them where their son was. Before I knew it I heard a rumbling as we saw a mountain-moving, it was Liexel, shocking us all
"Ahh, those were some good exercises."Lexiel said nonchalantly as he clapped the dust off his hands.
"Great this asshole has to show off!" Erejack glared at the brute.
"Oh Erenjack, came to have your rubies taken again?" the brutish man said to him.
"It won't be like last time asshole, bring it on!" Erenjack shouted as he was about to approach him face to face but I held him back.
"Enough, we have no time for childish games!" I replied scolding them.
"Oh hey your majesty, might I say you're looking fine, what are you doing on our soil? I thought we made it clear that we would not follow the weakling rules of your society." Lexiel said to me with his typical dickish nature.
"We're not here about that, we're here because.."i tried to explain to him but he kept interrupting me.
"Let me guess, you need our help. What did you morons make another stupid alliance with those Middle Earthlanders? Are the Khangorains giving you trouble or perhaps you need a real man to satisfy you."Leixel chuckled as he was being hard to work with already.
"Again we have no time for your mockery Lexiel, we got an unknown demonic threat attacking various parts of the world." I replied to him getting straight to the point.
"And, how is that our concern? Why should I give a damn what happens to other countries if we don't occupy them?" Lexiel stated, having little interest in helping us without a deal.
"Innocent people have been killed by these Demons."Anna pleaded to him but it fell on deaf ears.
"Serves them right!" Lexiel coldly replied not showing any empathy for the fallen. This enraged everyone, especially Veronica.
"How could you say such a terrible thing?" Anna shouted.
" The problem with humans is that they rely too much on others for help, had they trained themselves and depended on themselves and not on religions, institutions and kingdoms, they wouldn't be so pitifully weak." Lexiel explained to us his twisted, rigged ideology based on might.
"How can you just scoff at humans? You're a human too."I shouted at him.
"Maybe so but we Dreyers go beyond our human limits, you of all people should know this miss Dragonvich, in order to battle and defeat dragons, we must push ourselves beyond the limits. I have no tolerance for weaklings, weaklings are shunned from the clan, besides don't you have your army of dragons?''Lexiel explained to us his ideology while mocking us.
"You know very well our army is preparing for the Dragon War itself, besides our forces are stretched out especially protecting ally nations from invasion from our enemies, we need to fight this new threat with a small mobile force and find out the cause of these attacks." I explained to him trying to not blow up on his taunting.
"And what do I gain out of this? Usually you Dragonviches give us something in return for assistance. Your grandpa granted us Semi Autonomy, your mother granted us more imports of fresh food to our region, what can you possibly give us what we don't already have?" Lexiel asked us to demand something in return. As much as I didn't like the Dreyervich clan, the Dragonvich clan has always given them what they wanted to maintain the peace but I had nothing to offer right now...well except." Leixel explained to me as he was not easy to negotiate, however before he can finish his sentence.
"What if I grant you marriage to me?" I asked him probably the most controversial question igniting the ire of everyone.
"IRENE!"Anna shouted, being the loudest to shout at me.
"DON'T DO IT!" Erenjack yelled, being the second loudest to protest this.
"Quiet you two! If you help us out, I will agree to marry you!" I said to him...In reality, the Deryavich clan contained the strongest warriors in the world. Besides a political marriage was bound to happen in my lifetime, especially in this era.
"That's a lot more like it, count myself in your group." Lexiel replied as he shook my hand. What the hell did I just do is abetter question? I just offered my body to him in exchange for getting him to join sides, the very Deryarvich family I hated.
Later on, we were resting in a tent together, I was talking with Anna and Erenjack who were in my tent while Victor was with Veronica and there I was getting a scolding.
"Have you lost your mind? Marrying that brute, how could you?" Ana shouted at me, she was red in the face.
"I had no choice, I had to think of something fast to appease him." I replied defending my decision.
"Why not beat the crap out of him and force him to join? You're the Queen of Dragons?" Erenjack asked me if I could win against him.
"Did you two not forget my family history with them? Fighting the Dreyervich clan isn't exactly easy. They have the power to turn into Titans, to start a conflict with them, it would take months to get them into line and we don't have that time to fight them. Hence, for now, we have to put pride aside, besides I want to avenge my cousin and aunt and Uncle, I can't do that by maintaining my pride. If marriage is what we need to secure his position, so be it. Besides you guys know how powerful he was, remember the Gabe incident, he easily defeated a dragon and saved my Aunt and Uncle, I kinda owe him already. In all certainly , I doubt even I could beat him at my current level." I explained my actions to my friends. In truth, I lacked the confidence that I could beat him.
"Still, marrying that man would risk dethroning the entire Dragonvich line, not to mention the fact that slimebag would be the one to..." Erenjack growled at me angry that someone like him would be with me.
"Listen I got this handled, I will keep my word as my mother did if Lexiel tries something I would stop him. As queen, I'm willing to make sacrifices of this caliber, besides it's inevitable I would have to find a man to rule as King and Queen."I explained to them justifying my crazy idea.
"Marriage is something sacred Irene, I don't like the fact you're willing to just hand yourself to him however if that's how it has to be, so be it...Just don't let that man control you okay."Anna said to me as she hugged me, i was wondering why she was protesting this marriage, political marriages were extremely common
"Don't worry, I'll find a way to get out of the marriage, besides the rest of the Dragonvich family would probably oppose it and it would probably be Nullified anyways. After all your father is the Pope, combined with my Uncle being the King of Zeniths and our alliance with several powerful religious figureheads, we can find a way to get out of the marriage but we'll deal with that in time. Now then tomorrow we go to Lockser's palace." I responded trying to calm down my friends upset over my reckless decision.
"Oh great..."Erenjack replied rolling his eyes at the thought of dealing with Linda.
Terra Lake Oblast
January 15, X390
Just a few hundred kilometers northwest of our home. The frozen lake that rivals Mount Zonia and the Arctic continent in terms of its annual permafrost temperatures is where the Lockser Clan hailed from. This lake was the final battleground for the first Dragon War where my mother fought King Morton, the Lockser Clan were instrumental in that war as they've been with every war. The Lockser Clan was formed within Central Dragonv during the foundation of Dragonv. The Lockser Clan has owed its service to the Dragonv family for centuries. They housed the Ice Dragons and Water Dragons within their massive Oblast that takes up A good amount of the Northwestern region of Dragonv.
The region was very remote, aside from the city neighborhoods it being Zehelezenodorozhnyy Gordo, the region was only sparsely populated with 400 members of the clan in the middle of the lakeside having made a town within the permafrost layer of ice in the middle of the arctic lake. The Lockser Clan heavily relied on fishing as they lacked fertile ground to grow crops and rely on imports of corps as they were on a giant ice sheet barely 10 meters thick above the lake.
The Lockser Clan was renowned as the third most powerful magical clan in the world, aside from the Dreyers and the Dragonvich clans. Having control of water itself, they could drown most dragons with a large volume of water they can control, bypassing their magic resistant scales with the only exceptions being Water and Ice Dragons.
I arrived at the Castle town where the Lockser resided, it was one giant castle made of Dragonvian Ice, a special kind of ice that won't ever melt with the hardness of solid stone. As expected, it was extremely cold so we all wore fur outfits with thick fur coats and Ushanka hats where we met Linda and her family members including her mother Margaret.
"Welcome Queen of the Dragons, what brings you to this humble castle? Queen Margaret asked me.
"We require your daughter, we heard she has been training to take the position of the head of the clan." I answered her.
"She's training out within the courtyard of the castle with her father."Margaret answered.
We walked towards the courtyard of the castle despite the permafrost land, flowers were growing within the garden, flowers specifically able to grow within the snow, those flowers were a beautiful blue hue. I saw her controlling the water so great she was levitating large squares of water in the air.
"Such control!"Lena said, impressed with her skills with water.
"That's Linda for you, a child prodigy in her own right."Erenjack replied notably nervous around her.
" Erenjack!"Linda yelled as she rushed to hug him with Erenjack looking flustered and annoyed.
"Hey, Linda we need your..." Ernejack asked only for Linda to reply with her answer.
"Count me in, I'm loyal to my queen and loyal to you."Linda replied, joining us without hesitation.
"That was easy!" Anna replied with sweat on her forehead.
Parish,Bosco
January 16, X390
We arrived within the capital of the city Parish, a city that has existed for centuries since Bosco became its own nation. I went to the Royal Palace of Delurve within Parish when I talked to the king about the whereabouts of my cousins.
"Greetings King Francis!" I said to him,
"Greetings Queen of Dragons, Pope of Zentopia, what brings you to our fine kingdom? I mourn the lost of the Grand Zentopian City your eminence." the king said to the Pope.
"We're here for the whereabouts of Eric Cheney and Rick Effilcue. We need them for the crusade against the demons." I asked the King.
"Those two were arrested last week for allegations of Homosexuality." The king bluntly replied.
"Homosexuality? You said that they're alleged, meaning they're not actually charged. Where are they right now" I asked them.
"At the town Square." The king answered.
"You freed them already?" I asked him hoping they were free.
"Nope, if anything they're about to be executed for the crime of lying with another man." the king bluntly replied, it was then I snapped and grabbed him.
"IRENE!" Anna shouted as she tried to grab me to get the king off my grip.
"What are you thinking, put him down!" Victor commanded with his booming voice.
"NO, you're going to kill my fucking cousins over a false allegation?" I shouted at the king.
"They degenerate, they have to burn." the king replied coldly.
"BULLSHIT! You didn't even give them a trial, how can you just kill them without them defending themselves." I responded with a glare towards the king.
"We need to kill these guys to ensure public order and to show that the church still has power. after the destruction of two Holy cities and the near-death of two Monarchies, we needed something to get their morale back up, hence we rushed the trial of these two and didn't review their case." The King explained to me, enraging me further, my cousins are going to die just for a show trial.
"Put him down, Irene!" Victor commanded me, he looked very pissed, the last thing I want to do is incur his wrath.
"Fine!" I shouted as I dropped him onto the ground and ran towards the center of town.
"Has she lost her mind?" Anna shouted as she ran after her.
At the town, sqaure was the two men accused of homosexuality. One of them was a slim, yet muscular, toned young man of average height with spiky blond hair, which is kept in strands jutting outwards in every direction, and the other was a slim young man of average height with rather messy black hair, which almost reaches down to his shoulders, along with some strands pointing upwards on top of his head and a prominent tuft.
both were stripped naked and tied to a stake. a crowd of people chanted slurs and curses at the two accused of Homosexuality. The climate of fear and paranoia was strong within here, having heard of the destruction of Zentopia City and demons roaming around that they were witch-hunting anyone they thought were doing witchcraft, homosexual acts, and other wicked things. In this era, being Homosexual was a near-instant death sentence if you were caught.
"We are here to purify the land of degeneracy by punishing these wicked men who lie with another. It is said within1 Timothy 1:9-10 9We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious, for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, 10for the sexually immoral, for those practicing homosexuality, for slave traders and liars and perjurers-and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine. Hence we will put the wicked to death." the executioner proclaimed as he threw his torch onto the oiled up stake.
"We're innocent, we didn't lie with another man." Eric grunted as he slowly saw the fire come towards him.
"It's no use... They're out to punish anyone they think is wicked... It was nice knowing you." Rick replied as the flames were about to engulf them.
"Same, we did have good times together." Ercis said as his final words as the flames were about to touch his feet.
Both were about to submit to death as the flames reached close to their feet however with a single swipe of my sword, I cut their stakes down, away from the direction of the flames and cut them free.
"Cousin..." Eric said he was shocked to see me.
"Queen?"" Rick asked confused to see me here.
I was pissed beyond belief. The guards surrounded me, Eric, and Rick with Victor and Anna appearing pissed along with Veronica.
"You really did it now, what you did was absolutely unacceptable!" Anna said to me madder than a nest of hornets.
"Acceptable? We're killing people who didn't commit a crime." I shouted.
"Homosexuality is a crime, punishable by death, it's one of the most wicked sins in the bible." Anna said sternly looking very mad.
"Even so, you haven't proved they committed the sin." I replied defending the honor of my cousins.
"Doesn't matter, you defied orders of a sovereign nation and attacked the king of the country and freed criminals, Do you not think about your actions for a single second?" Victor scolded me." Such an action could easily have provoked a major war."
"I can't have my cousins die over something that is not even proven to be true over something trivial just for a show trial." I stated stating how unfair it is they're being killed over the allegations they're homosexuals.
"You call lying with a man a trivial crime? It's a sin, Irene." Anna shouted pissed that I dismissed something like Homosexuality as trivial. Back in those days, it was hard-pressed to find any culture tolerant of gays, even our kingdom.
"What's the big deal? As disgusting as something like that is, is it really worth killing them, especially when they are valued, warriors. We don't put dung farmers to death for merely doing something disgusting right?" I countered explaining how petty it is to kill someone over something so petty, oh boy my views i had back in those times so wouldn't fly in the modern era but at the time they were far more tolerant than most other cultures on the topic.
"Don't compare shit grabbing to homosexual degeneracy. Dung Farming is necessary sanitation job and duty a peasant has to do, Homosexuality is a degenerate sin equal to murder in the bible. equal to rape." Anna replied, she was having no tolerance whatsoever, as expected from a Zentopian Archbishop.
"I don't see why not, why kill them for merely doing something disgusting? I'm sure our monthly cycles are disgusting too, doesn't mean we kill women for that. Hell i'm sure there are plenty of men who commit the sin of Masburtation" I explained to her trying to rationalize with her about other disgusting things not instantly put to death by law, however trying to negotiate with her was impossible, she was pious and incorruptible so talking to her was like talking to a brick wall.
"I had just enough of this. What you did was unacceptable, get out of our way and let us kill these degenerates." Anna responded as she was ready to fight.
"Make me " I replied as I drew out my sword "These aren't merely some homosexuals you're burning, they're my family and I'm willing to protect my family, even if they're degenerate homosexual shit eaters. I already nearly lost my family in Exodus, I won't lose them here. " Normally I wouldn't care about them but the family was family, even if they were gay, I would protect them from an unfair trial like this.
"Sorry Irene but as a woman of faith, the first woman appointed to the rank of Archbishop, i can't afford to compromise my principles, if it means fighting you to do my duties,I have no choice!" Anna replied unflinchingly as she took out her keys.
"THAT'S ENOUGH YOU TWO!" Victor shouted at the two of us glaring with us with his aura." I as Pope of Zentopia agree with the queen of dragons that these two haven't been given a fair trial to prove their innocence. Once Zentopia City is rebuilt, we would bring them to the Grand Zentopian Chruch for a proper trial to see if they committed any homosexual vices, until then they would remain free but under our supervision and suliverance.
"But father..." Anna pouted sounding defeated.
"But nothing, as Pope of Zentopia, I have the final say in who should be guilty or innocent here." Victor replied sternly. It's true, all decisions are to his ability and much like a king or president, he could pardon or commute sentences that are unfair.
"Why not just let them come to my country instead? So what if they're gay, if they're gay, they're gay. Why waste two lives of people who can be of vital help to us?" I asked them, iI was so desperate to protect them I was willing to risk my own popularity on the world stage for them.
"Because they're in a Zentopian Country Irene, if they committed their sins in your lands that's one thing but we have to enforce the law here." Victor answered.
"Even if they're gay, can't you guys make them straight? After all, if God is all-loving and merciful, can't you guys find a way to make them into straight Zentopians? After all, you have some of the best magic spells in the world." I stated, again looking back at all this, the world was a very different place from the modern mage era, what could be seen as an act of mercy and kindness can be seen as cruel and inhumane nowadays.
"I suppose you have a point Irene, you really seem to care for your cousins to defend them even with a high-class sin like this." Victor said to me not exactly thrilled i'm giving criminals sanctuary but also proud i'm willing to protect my family.
"I apologize for attacking the King and violating the coutnries rules but they're my family and I would protect anyone in my family the same you would. Even if they're gay you can't really disown blood right?" I asked the two, Victor had a strange look on his face, having some regret and second thoughts, Anna, on the other hand, seems unflinching.
"We have Irene, Dad had my nannies killed for being homosexual and frankly I would do the same. Such a sin can spread like wildfire and the next thing you know, you would be thinking about marrying a woman." Anna started looking very red in the face of the idea of homosexuality becoming commonplace.
"That's you, I frankly don't mind people doing what they want as long as they bring no harm to others." I replied as I hugged my two cousins.
"Uh...Neither of us are gay." Eric replied looking confused.
"Yeah, we were accused by this woman we both dated as being Homosexuals, the only time we were in bed was with the woman between us." Rick explained to us, they weren't homosexuals, they were men who loved..sharing a woman. Urrgh, yes they were into double-teaming women, they were degenerates but not the gay klnd. Oh boy, what did I get myself into?
"How Vulgar... You guys admitted to degeneracy." Anna shouted.
"Hell of a good time! We had the best ale that day and the best sex. Don't know why she accused us of lying with men, we rather fight an army of angry Cabrian Scorpions than fuck another man." Eric explained to us confessing his sins.
"You are aware premarital sex is still a sin "Victor glared at them with both of them being nervous."We will review that case when all set is done, we have far more serious matters, as you heard demons are roaming the world and we need your prowess to help aid us., If you help us with fighting the demons, I might give you a pardon for your degenerate orgies with women you admitted to and will drop the investigation and inquisition into your alleged homosexual affairs."
"Father, that's completely unacceptable, we can't just let people get away with sins. Isn't that the reason you appointed me as , to let them continue to sin is a front to the chruch." Anna shouted.
"THERE IS NO CHURCH STANDING RIGHT NOW! Daughter, we have to secure the Infinity Clock pieces, if it means letting them off with this, I will do anything to make sure that the Infinity Clock isn't resurrected. If we kill these two now, we will waste too much time trying to replace them and that would bring the Taratos demons much closer to getting the clock pieces and then there would be no world in which we can enforce our laws on.
"I suppose I see your point father. Still, I feel you're becoming too soft." Anna stated not approving of clemency for the two.
"And I feel you're being too harsh Anna, I appreciate you want to maintain the rules but sometimes you have to do things you're not proud of, trust me when you become of my age, you would come to understand that." Victor replied, looking down on himself, he certainly had skeletons in the cloest.
Cleo, Eggito
January 17, x390
We had several people recruited with us, we had my distant Kinghtwalker blood cousins, The heir to the Lockser family, the current head of the Lexiel family and now we seeked the Pharaoh of Eggito. Capital City wasn't too far from the great Dragon Pyramids built by Sand Dragons with thousands of human slave labor over 5,000 years ago. I visited this country back when I trained for 4 years within the Zen Kingdom. My uncle explained that the Chosen One helped the Zenith People escape the Eigittoans oppressive rule by parting the Scarlet Sea and a series of events lead to Zen over 3,000 years ago.
Victor on the way explained that the current ruler unlocked the power of ancient cards which made him so powerful that he was able to overthrow the previous Pro Dark Dragon Tribe Government and the Caliphate over and created a country where all religions could thrive in peace and end centuries of religious wars and persecutions, a country where Zentihs, Askehrmanis, Zentopians, and the Native Raamunsis reilgion which is combination of Ancient Eiggto religions.
We arrived at the royal palace, a palace that existed in Eiggto since the peak of the Pharaoh's powers., We met the man within the throne, he was a tan-skinned man with a long beard and long brown hair wearing clothing typical of a Pharaoh. The Great king Tukaman Calberona!
"Queen of Dragons, long time no see" The Pharaoh said to me as he greeted me.
"Greetings King Tukaman." I greeted him back
"What brings you to our holy nation?" King Tukaman asked him.
"We need your help!" Victor answered before I could.
"You need our help, is the war brewing already?" the king asked us.
" A force independent our alliances consisting of demons have to form and have been attacking major cities across the world, We need your power to help us crush this newfound threat." I explained to the Pharaoh of the nation
"As much as i'm willing to help you out, I cant!" the man replied with a look of disappointment for himself.
"What you mean you can't? You signed an alliance with Fiore and Dragonv, you can't turn against your obligations now." I demanded him to join our side fearing he
"You misunderstood, I myself can't help you. Monster Card magic is an extremely powerful form of magic passed down by every powerful monarch and royal since the beginning of this ancient kingdom. To use this magic, it comes at the cost of shortening your lifespan and health." King TUkaman explained to us as he was not fit to fight in combat anymore as he shows us a glyph that depicts his heal with only one heart that was divided in half and 5 stars. "If we're to draw even one card in my feeble health, I would die, it has been over 2 decades since I've fought in a battle and the last summoning I used cost me most of my lifeforce.
"Most of your lifeforce?" I asked him.
"Monster Cards come with over 100 different types of monsters of varying degrees ranging from demons to gods as well as various races of beings such as Vulcans, Wyrens, elves, orcs and even humans, some cards even come with the sprits of Dragons themselves. These cards are specially created with magic that puts the souls of fallen beings into the cards themselves. The summoning is based on what we call stars, the higher the star level of the card, the more powerful the summoning is, however it would cost you're more of your lifeforce when a card is destroyed. Our Lifepoints are represented by Magic Power, the higher one's magical power to the card, the more damage would be done to the user.
"Whoa, so that's like Monster taming magic but on a higher plane." I said to him.
"It's a double-edged sword ability that allows me to summon powerful monsters that act as powerful servants that fight for me. The monsters I have. vary in power but I can make then stronger. It's a drawback is that much like Victor Angel Magic, it takes a cost to use. It costs around One star's worth of magic on average to use the cards needed for weaker monsters, Two stars worth of magic for stronger monsters and for the strongest monsters over 3 stars My counter here shows me how much points I have here.
"So what does the half of heart mean?" I asked him both curious and concerned for him.
"If I were to summon a card even a one-star one, it would prove fatal to my body. it's a complex magic magical ability that takes strategy to use. Only those within the Royal family descended from the ancients can use this power right, any mortal who tries to use it without the right magic, not only dies a horrible death but is cursed and put into the card itself to be used as a card."Tukaman explained to us the rules of the magic.
"Whoa, such a harsh harsh fate."Erenjack replied bluntly.
"So it's kinda like Celestial Spirit magic if you misused it?" Anna asked the king.
"One's star level varies on their magical power level, going by my current star level, my magic power is roughly 5 stars however my lifeforce is at half a star Magical cards also take that much more of a toll on my body, if my monster is destroyed, it would the amount proportional to that of my Lifeforce. Meaning if I were to pick a monster that used Six Stars, in proportion to my Lifeforce, it would kill me." King TUkaman explained to us.
"Then we came here for nothing?" Victor stressed as we wasted a whole day here.
"Dread not, for I have passed the torch to my eldest daughter, Princess Kitana Alberona. " he replied as he called forth his daughter who walked out to greet us. She was wearing a traditional garb that Eigttoan women wearing a white body length dress with a Eiggtoa Headress, despite it had a small cleave window with it, the woman was a giant, towering even over me who was taller than an average woman. Like most people in this region of the world, she was of tan skin tone and she had very large cleavage easily around my size.
"Who are these outsiders father?" the princess asked us.
"That would be the Queen of dragons with an old friend of mine.
"So you're Irene, been a while since I saw you, you look different."Kinata said to me, we briefly interacted with each other.
"You know her Irene?" Lena asked me.
"Of course I did, during my training in Zen,I visited here every now and then, looks like we both did some growing up.
"Nice meeting you again, looks like you grew a bit! " the princess replied as she looked off.
"Is she drunk?" Anna asked the king.
"Forgive my daughter. She likes to party alot. Daughter, what did I tell you about getting drunk in the afternoon?" Tukaman said to her getting upset with her.
"Sorry dad, it was one of our traditional holidays yesterday. I might've drunk at least 20 barrels of that improted Ale." Kinata said to everyone
"20 BARRELS!" Erenjack shouted.
"Is she even human?" Veronica asked looking at her.
"You have to be joking king, we can't take a drunkard into combat. If this is a joke, this isn't a funny one." I scolded the king with the king sighing in embarrassment.
"Please forgive me, Queen of dragons, she's a lot more competent and skilled than she looks."
"Yeah lighten up queen, perhaps you need a massage!" Kinata smirked as she gropes me from behind, catching me off guard. She was so drunk that she was doing degenerate shit to me. In response to the sheer disgust of her touching my breast, I swung my fist at her but she proved to have the reflexes to dodge it and appeared behind me again and groped me some more, this time enraging Anna.
"YOU DEGENERATE !" Anna shouted as she goes to attack the drunken woman however she was able to dodge her strikes and block the Archbishop of Zentopia's strikes, holding her own against Anna and even besting her with a palm strike. She then gropes Anna in retaliation "AHHHH!" She grunted as her face turned red.
"ANNA!" Veronica shouted as she goes to attack Kinata to save Anna but she slid under the with the haired mage and then groped her ass and then heir boobs"AHHHH!" Veronica grunted
"Linda is very confused right now, what is she doing?" Linda asked the men watching but they too busy perving at Kinata's degenerate antics
"I'm so glad we joined this group." Eric said to Rick being perverted about this situation.
"Indeed, I think we found a perfect girl to party with later."
"Quit being preverts, this is serious!" Erenjack shouted at my two cousins.
"Don't act like you don't find a woman fondling women hot." Eric smiled preving at the catfight.
"Uh..." Erenjack was speechless as he blushed, he also had a noticeable rod in his trousers.
"We can see your sword bulging through your trousers, still pales in comparison to my claymore boy" Leixel replied making fun of Ernejack making the latter glare at him with the mixed emotions of embarrassment as the large man shamelessly had his massive bulge coming through his trousers. If Ernejack had an average size dagger, Lexiel was wielding a two-hand broadsword.
Lena then looked at all the girls, all of them had far bigger breasts than herself and she sighed as she was flat-chested. Meanwhile, the 4 girls groped by her try to hit her with punches and kicks enraged by the groping however Kinata dodges every strike and parried with a counter , however, was unamused by such antics however he was able to quickly deduced what Kinata was doing.
"Impressive, she's doing the Drunken Fist technique, I thought only the Cinanese learned this. When did you teach her this?" Victor asked.
"I didn't, one of the of Consorts of Cina taught her this, the one she's currently engaged to." the King of Eiggto explained to the Pope of Zentopia.
"Engaged to? Cina isn't part of the allied naitons, last time I checked they opposed Dragonv's teachings of the Manga Carta." Victor stated not thrilled at the idea Eiggtto was allied to Cina.
"I know,Ii opposed the relationship myself however if my daughter can get the country to not side with the Dark Dragon Tribe in the upcoming war, it would be good, besides the Gorh family opposes the ruling Olrand family support of the Dark Dragon Tribe.' Tukanman explained to us about a possible ally we can obtain for the war,
"Where's this Consort of yours? We can use him too?" Victor asked him, someone, that power could be useful against Taratos.
"In Cina with his family, currently his family are busily acquiring more estates there to expand their influence into the country. The Gorh family invented the Durken Fist fighting style thousands of years ago and are said to be one of the most powerful families in Cina." Tukaman explained the history of the fighting style.
"To think your daughter has mastered that style despite not being in that kingdom.'Victor stated.
"Mastered? It's merely a pale imitation, her teacher and possible Fiance Jach Lee Khan Gorh's drunken fist is far superior to that." Tukaman replied stating she was only in a novice level.
"Shame he's in Cina, besides I doubt that's even her specialty, she's more of a holder mage than a brawler mage, that move is mainly defensive." Victor stated.
"Very observant Victor, then again you always have been.'Tukaman replied.
Kinata was surrounded by all 4 grils pissed at her inculding then goes back to normal. ablet still drunken.
"Geez can any of you girls take a joke? I was merely testing your reflexes ."Kinata said to them.
"That doesn't excuse groping us like a fucking degenerate, you're a disgrace to ryotiality"Anna shouted.
"Not a bad display of martial arts, however, your fighting style lacks offense, no matter how skilled and fast you are, you can't win if you can't hit with enough force."I explained to her that she was doing more defensive strikes than offensive ones.
"Looks like you caught on quickly, my boyfriend, a Cinanese consort named Jach Lee Khan Gorh taught me his Durken fist martial arts to defend myself in case I lose my monster cards or if I couldn't use them. Now how about we get serious and actually fight for real. I challenge you to a Duel." Kinata asked me.
"Very well then bring it!" I replied as I drew my sword only to be stopped.
"Not that kind of duel, monster card duel." Kinata answered.
"But I don't know that magic" I stated.
"It's a mock duel, you don't need to know that magic, just follows me to the dueling chambers." Kinata replied.
We arrived at a room in which there were two glyphs at the side of the room engraved into the floor.
"All we need is to step on the glyph runes and focus our magic there and hence we can do our own mock duel." Kinata said to me.
"I see, so it's kinda like a game of Chess with using magic." I asked her.
"Something like that!" Kinata answered.
A glyph appears with a hologram of Hearts and stars much like with the king. On my side, I had 4 Hearts anf 4 Stars nad on herself it was the same with her.
"Those are indications of our power and summoning limits, if you summon a creature higher than your limit, you lose a heart depending on how high the limit is. If your monster is destroyed by an equally powerful monster, you only lose half a heart, if your monster is destroyed by a star level monster higher than the stars you have, you lose a heart, more depending on the gap of the monster's health. We both start off with Six Cards, you can spark it by swiping your hand to draw your deck, got it?'
"Right!" I replied, a bit confused by this unodortox battle.
"How about you make the first move?" I asked her.
"Very well then." I replied as I went to draw my card, a saw an image of a Lizardman with a 1 star on it meaning it was a weak lizardman and drew it. Before I knew it, a illusion of a large Lizardman with a sword and shield appeared before me.
"My turn, I draw my card." Kinata replied as she summoned a large red orge who had two stars, the orge appeared and easily overpowered the Lizard and destroyed the Lizard in one hit. I saw my glyph of the screen lose a single heart in that one move.
"Now then time for me to draw again!"I responded as I go to summon a Level 2 Wryen with two stars, the orge, and the Wyren battle each other stalemating each other.
"Now it's my turn to draw!" Kinata replied as she draws a card and summons a Level 2 Armored Kinght. The Kight and Orge stalemate the Wyren but the Wyren fired a powerful blast of wind at them from the air, killing the two of them, talking about half a heart total in damage to Kinata.
I was down a heart and she was down a half a heart. I was starting to get used to the rules now. This makes the risk of summoning 4-star creatures much higher as our hearts diminished, Monster Card magic was indeed a fierce double edge sword. The main drawback is that cards are randomly drawn and I can't predict what she pulls,I get Lucky. We get 6 Cards per deck draw, you have to make good use of those cards in battle to make the best use of them.
After battling for a while, I lost handly to her, she only lost a half of a heart whereas I lost all my hearts in the duel, it was a decisive defeat on my part. Had I been playing a real duel, I would've been dead. True to the rumors of the Claberona family, everyone is impressed by the battle, well almost everyone.
"Man that was a hell of a duel." I said to her worn out, despite it being illusions, it did drain my magic a bit "I lost so badly, I never was defeated so decisively."
"Have I convinced you all that I can hold my own?" Kinata asked.
"You're still a drunkard, if you were in Fiore, you would be jailed for your Hershey" Anna shouted.
"Nice card battle but how would that help you in battle, not like the enemy is going to wait its turn to attack you. Lexiel skeptically questioned the battle.
"Simple, I give commands to the cards that Imanifest and they do the fighting for me. For example." Kinata replied as she summoned a large T-Rex with the glyph appearing it to be 4 Stars
She summons a Level 4 T -rex summoning which goes to smash a pillar outside and creates a powerful shockwave into the sky parting the clouds,.She then summons it back with no cost to herself.
"As I said, these cards are hard to use and require a great deal of luck, skill, and planning, depending on the deck,I can get an extremely weak summons or extremely strong ones with stats boosting them to some degree." Kinata explained to us showing her power.
We were now 11 out of 12 warriors, we just needed to get one more and she would be the most difficult to recruit.
To be continued
(A/N: And that's all for now. Yep, the final Fairy to be recruited would be a fairy. Yep were confirming the existence of Faires within this fan fiction, now the question is, do Faires have tails? More on this mysterious fairy later and her connection to the plot, anyway we got our cast of mages who would play a pitoval role within future arcs and this Arc.
As you can guess Lexiel is a very unsubtle reference to Laxus Deryar, even having the same dickish personality and arrogant personality of Laxus within the beginning of the seires. Much like Laxus in canon pre-Teneoru Island, he's an arrogant asshole amped up to 11 as the leader of the Deryavich clan, which would be the origin of the Dreyar family. Unspurnsignly he's the powerhouse of the team, even stronger than Irene but below Victor Heartfilla overall. He can use the clan's signature Titan Magic you saw used during the Gabe Conflict where he effortlessly bodied C class Dragons so he's the big muscle here literally. When Irene invents Dragon Slayer Magic much later in the story, he would become one of the 7 Original Dragon Slayers of the Dragon Slayer Protection Sqaud trained by Zeusei to become the very first Lightning Dragon Slayer while Lena becomes the first Sky Dragon Slayer thanks to Grandeeney and Erenjack becomes the first-ever Iron Dragon Slayer under Metallicana.
Linda Lockser is unsurprisingly based on Juvia Lockser and is Juvia's ancestor. Given Dragonv is a country based on Scandinavia and Russia and based on the world of Skyrim to some extent and Juvia's attire within the seires is based on Russian Attire, I made her ancestor from the land of Dragonv, even foreshadowing her within the beginning of the seires where she and her friends based on the Element Four were present throughout the Princess of Dragons Arc and her family was present within Queen Eclcarte's funeral. Like Lexiel, her personality is pretty much much like her descendant, just replace her obsession with Gray with Erenjack and yes Juvia's ancestor was crushing on Gajeel's biological father. Where would I go with the romance idea, only time would tell however this is a play on the close friendship Gajeel and Juvia have in canon that is purely platonic and not romantic, almost as if they were distant cousins.
As for Eric and Rick, it's very obvious who I based them on, They're based on Sting and Rouge of Sabertooth. Eric is the Sting here, Rick is the rouge of the group. Both are the biological fathers of Sting and Rogue. Eric's perosnality is based on Sting Post Grand Magic Games but with a bit of Roshi and Jiariya mixed into it. Rick is the straight man to the whole thing much like rouge but also a pervert. I put them as perverts to liven up the mood of the fanfiction and give some comedy relief. Despite their more comical personalities, they're masters at Enchantment Magic with Eric being a master Archer who uses Silver Holy Arrows, an obvious play on Sting's love of eating Silver Arrows and Rick is a master swordsman on par with Irene who uses a Katan engraved with demonic energy, unsurprisingly these two would be the students of Wesslogia and Skiadrum and become respectively the first Light and Dark Dragon Slayers.
As for Eric and Rick being accused of Homosexuality, it was to add some drama within the fan fiction. Also, note that i'm pro LGBT, I apologize for some with the harsh language or portrayal of homophobic themes within the chapter but keep in mind we're basing the story within Midevidal Europe in which they were far less tolerant of Homosexuals than modern standards, the views expressed here don't represent my views n the slightest, it's meant to parody the views of homosexuality within this time period. This is also not to offend any Christan viewers here as this viewpoint doesn't represent all Christians either.
Also no not going to make Ana and Victor Heartfilla suddenly bad guys because they have questionable viewpoints, this isn't a Woke Fan Fiction, if you want that horseshit, go to Batwoman on CW. While Irene is not entirely against homosexuality like the two here, considering the time period, she's not exactly what would be seen acceptable by modern standards comparing Homosexuality to gong farming, she's still liberal enough compared to them to allow them sanctuary in her kingdom but even then she would want them converted to straight people which is hardly liberal by modern standards, so yeah just to clarify this in case anyone jumps on my ass on either side of the politcal spectrum about the portrayal of the LGBT or Christians here. This fanfiction takes no political sides nor does it endorse any politcal viewpoints expressed here.
If anything this is to show how complex Zentopia is and to give some moral ambiguity to the fanfiction and to show that even the best and most moral people have some views that others would see as evil, i hope the readers of the fan fiction can see what i'm trying to do here. It also has a lot more bearing to the plot much later on.
Also, there's a whole other reason I bring up the theme of Homophobia here, it has to do a lot with Anna's character as well being a strict follower of Zentopia, even stricter than her father to clash with Irene's much more liberal views on the subject but there's more to that that would play much more to Anna and Irene's character development much later on.
No points awarded who I based Kinata on, Yeah much like the others here, Kinata is Cana's Ancestor who I granted very powerful magic known as Monster card magic, a play on the Yugi Oh seires and also expanding on the idea introduced within the Eclipse Gate Arc of Fairy Tail where Cana played Monster card battle with Eclipse Scorpio. Monster Card magic is ancient magic that is carried over by the Roal family, only s class tier beens can use it in fear of lesser beings being trapped in the cards forever and requires extreme skill, extreme magical reserves and also extreme luck to use properly. This makes Kinata a literal wildcard for this arc and the next arc coming up as the cards can range from the power of a Rookie S Class mages like that of the Tenoeru Island S Class qualifying mages such as Tneoeru Island Natsu and Tenoeru Island Gray to the power level equal to August and Irene in the Alaverz Arc with 7 Star Card spawning something equal to Ancologia or the 5 Dragon Gods. Here are the Monster Card tier list
Attack/Defense points
1-Star = class(1,000-10.000 MPF)
2 star=10,000-15,000 MPF
3 Star=15,000 MPF-20,000 MPF
4 Star=20,000 MPF-40,000 MPF
5 Star=40,000-80,000 MPF.
6 Star=80,000- 140,000 MPF
7 Star=Over 140,000 MPF
The inverse is also true with hearts, the higher the power level of a character, the more hearts they have. To give context to this, everyone within Fairy Tail Pre Skip minus S Class mages would be lucky to summon a 1-star card with a 2-star card likely to kill them out of exertion as 1 star=1 Heart, a Rookie S class Mage like Pe Skip Erza or Mirajane can summon at best 2-star cards if they max all the way out and would die instantly if they summon a 4-star monster card, Post Magic Games Erza could summon a 3-star car with little problem, however, will die if she tries to summon a 6-star Monster card as it would cost her all 3 of her Hearts, Marakov could summon between 4 and 5-star cards with little effort depending on his health at the time and would only lose 2-3 hearts summoning the strongest monster card and Gildarts can go up to 6 Stars with no harm to his health and can easily summon a 7 Star beast with only one of his six hearts token as a cost. Theoretically discounting Imortotally which makes it impossible to die anyways, only someone on the level of Zeref can truly summon a level 7 card with zero effect on his hearts as he's just that powerful. The Monster cards can also be used as an Ancient Power level gauge to measure the power levels of each character within the villains and characters alike, as a ancient MPF gauge. Expect this to be part of Late seires Cana's arsenal.
As for Kinata herself, she's engaged to marry Cinanese consort Jach Lee Khan Gorh who taught his Durken fist martial arts to defend herself Yep, the name is a play on Bruce Lee and Jackie Chan , the latter having actually done Durken Fist Martial Arts movies and the former just added for badassery. Also, he's also the ancestor of Bacchus Gorh, the mage in Qautaro Cerberus who fought Elfman in the Grand Magic Games. Yep Kinata is so drunk, she can use drunken martial arts, something i don't think it's too far fetched for Canon Cana to learn as Cana seems to love getting into brawls and bar fights as implied within Early Fairy Tail as she's willing to go hand to hand with Natsu of all people, she also knocked out Brandish, one of the Sparrigan 12 with a single karate chop(ablet the latter was off-guard) and she's a countrybusting monster of power, people tend to forget Cana is a surprisingly strong woman, then again she's 6-foot amazon who towers over even Erza in height so not surprisingly she's quite for the implied civil war looming in Cina, that was to add some extra lore into the series as well as foreshadow events to come.
As for the origin story of Faires, yep remember the whole premise of Fairy Tail is to know if Faires existed and do they have tails. The first part, Yes, the second part not so sure. Yep, the fairy race is a thing here and playing by Pokemon Logic, in this seires, Fairy Magic is the only magic aside from Dragon Slayer Magic that can hurt dragons. None let's not mistake pure Fairy Magic with that what Evergreen uses which is a pale imitation, by comparison, this one uses Pure Etheranao silmiar to that of Etherton, hence able to damage dragons via overload of Etherano. What they can do, just tune in next time to find out.
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