Chapter 109: Dangerous Projects
Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. Now I know many of you are excited and let me tell you these next to chapters are gonna have you on the edge of your seats. Sorry about the wait, but I had a lot of details to work out. I hope you like what I have planned. Please Review and Enjoy.
At Fairy Tail's hotel, Sora, Riku, Kairi and Namine were hanging out with Fairy Tail as they celebrated getting first place in the games.
"Looks like tomorrow it'll come down to you guys or us." Sora said.
"Sounds like fun. I can't wait to beat you guys again." Natsu smirks.
"Not a chance. You guys have to get past both our teams this time." Riku smirks when the door opens to reveal Gajeel and Laxus.
"Hey guys glad you're back." Kairi said.
"Geez what took you so long? You guys just up and left." Natsu said.
"Yeah because our teammate sent us down a minecart!" Gajeel growls.
"Do you have any idea how long it took us to get back?" Laxus growls.
"You guys better step back." Gray said.
"We'll beat you up later Salamander. We found something you guys need to see." Gajeel said before turning to Sora, Riku, Kairi and Namine. "You guys better come too."
"Us?" Namine said confused.
Meanwhile at Sabertooth's hotel, things were not cheerful as Jiemma sat in his chair looking at Sting and Rogue.
"Well Sting, Rogue. What should do with you two? I thought you two were true Dragon Slayers. You never stopped reminding us you were the epitome of strength. So imagine my surprise when one Keyblade Wielder wiped the arena floor with you idiots. What do you have to say for yourselves?" Jiemma asks.
"You spelled it out clearly. We lost. The power of the Keyblade is far stronger than any of us." Rouge admits causing him to walk up to them.
"That sounds like the whining of a weakling. I didn't recall asking for your opinion and I also didn't recall asking you to disgrace our name." Jiemma roars sending both of them smashing into the walls. "Get out! I never wanna see you two in Sabertooth ever again! We are strong because we have no room for losers!"
"Aw come on master Sting and Rogue tried their best isn't that what matters?" Lector asks getting his attention. "I mean sure they lost but Sting gave it his all and I'm proud of him. If you ask me sometimes you need to lose in order to get stronger."
"Who the hell let this furball into my guild?" Jiemma asks.
"What do you mean? I'm a member of Sabertooth." Lector said revealing the guild stamp.
"Who dares defile the name of my guild by giving its mark to a worthless cat?!" Jiemma roars as he blasts Lector horrifying Sting.
When the light died down Lector was nowhere to be seen.
"No…LECTOR!" Sting sobs.
"Sweet Fairy godmother!" The Male narrator said.
"The monster!" The female narrator said.
"Quit your whining it was just a stupid cat." Jiemma said when Sting blasts Jiemma in the chest in rage shocking everyone.
"Shut up! Is that all you care about? Strength?! We're the strongest guild but you seem to be one who always hides behind the rest of us while we do all the fighting! If you ask me you're the real weakling!" Sting snaps.
"You'll regret this Sting." Jiemma growls before passing out.
"Oh no he won't and if he wants to see his little buddy again he better fight like that tomorrow." Minerva said getting his attention.
"What?" Sting asks confused.
"I opened a pocket dimension before my father's attack but if you want your little friend to come back unharmed you'll have to win tomorrow." Minerva smirks.
"She's evil." Brooke said.
"No arguments there sweetie." The female narrator said.
At the Hearts of Light hotel, everyone was having a blast.
"So wait, besides you I'm literally the one worthy enough to lift that hammer?" Roxas asks.
"My friend you have no idea how lucky you are." Thor laughs.
"You have no idea." Roxas mumbles.
"To Roxas for finally putting those stupid Sabertooth jerks in their place!" Lea laughs as everyone cheered.
Suddenly the doors swung open and they saw Perry the Playtpus carrying a groaning Warrior of Light on his little shoulders.
"What the?" Xion said as Perry put him down on a table.
"Quick someone get this man an Elixir!" Apple said as Briar ran over with one.
"Here open up." Briar said pouring the golden liquid down Warrior of Light's mouth healing him.
"Ugh thank you." He groans sitting up.
"What happened to you?" Roxas asks.
"And who is that?" Rosabella asks pointing to Perry.
"Is that a platypus?" Hunter asks.
"Perry the Platypus." Warrior of Light said as they all gave him confused looks at how he knew that. "It's on his collar." He points as Perry showed it to them.
"Oh convenient." Sparrow said.
"Please, the Guilds are in trouble. Xemnas is planning an attack. I found out his plans and was just barely able to escape." Warrior of Light said
"What do you mean?" Lea gulps.
"A Facility, Xemnas plans to turn all the wizards in this city into nobodies on the 5th day of the games and add them to his army." Warrior of Light said horrifying them.
"What?!" Roxas gasps.
"Oh this is bad, this is fairy fairy bad." Brooke gulps.
"This night is getting crazier and crazier." The male narrator said.
Underground, Gajeel was leading Natsu, Wendy, Lucy, Gray, Sora, Riku, Kairi, Namine, Happy, Carla and Lily through a cave.
"So what did you find down here?" Wendy asks.
"Pipe down and keep up." Gajeel said.
"Why did you only bring us?" Natsu asks.
"I wonder if he found something that has to do with Dragon Slayer magic." Happy said.
"Possibly." Lily said.
"If that's so why did they come along?" Carla asks looking to Sora, Riku, Kairi, Namine, Lucy and Gray.
"Hey we were curious." Sora said.
"This is it." Gajeel said leading them to the dragon graveyard surprising them.
"Look at all those giant bones." Wendy said.
"Those aren't just normal bones, they're dragon bones." Natsu said.
"Look at all of them." Sora said in shock.
"I guess dragons really did exist in this world." Riku said.
"But why are there so many?" Kairi asks.
"Let's find out." Wendy said getting their attention. You see I learned a spell from Ms. Polyrusica called Milky Way which might help us."
"Well what are you waiting for? Let's see it." Namine said.
"Here goes, Wandering Souls of the Dragons I am ready to receive your voices, Milky Way!" An array of stars shot out of a rune circle and danced around Wendy.
"Pretty." Lucy said in awe when suddenly the bones began to shake.
"Wendy what's happening?" Kairi asks.
"I'm looking for the souls of the dragons. The residual auras in this area are old and small. Found it." Wendy said as a massive green aura of an alligator like dragon appeared and roared at them.
Screaming Lucy jumps into Natsu's arms.
"Dang Lucy, you're heavy." Natsu said struggling to hold her.
"Shut up!" Lucy said.
"Ah ha ha ha. It's always funny to see your stupid human faces when I do that. I am Zirconis, where is Grandeeny, that was her spell that summoned me."
"Uh that was actually me." Wendy said.
"Oh a cute little dragon slayer. I look forward to eating you." Zirconis said.
"Oh no you don't!" Sora said as he summoned his keyblade.
"Wait a minute, you're ghost." Kairi realized.
"Wow thanks a lot killjoy." Zirconis grumbled.
"Uh Mr. Zirconis why are all these skeletons here?" Wendy asks.
"I don't talk to humans." He said.
"But I'm a cat." Happy said.
"Fair enough." Zirconis admits.
"That didn't take much." Riku said.
"It was about 400 years ago, during that time dragons were divided into two groups, those who wanted to coexist with humans and those who didn't. I obviously didn't." Zirconis explained.
"Why am I not surprised?" Gray whispered as everyone else nodded.
"We got into a huge civil war and my side was winning that is until the traitors started teaching humans dragon slayer magic, despite the cost." Zirconis said.
"What kind of cost?" Natsu asks.
"Your humanity. If a human uses dragon slayer magic too much they turn into dragons." Zirconis said.
"What?!" Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel gasp.
"So much for hoping to learn it someday." Sora mumbles.
"Now despite the edge, several humans decided to test their merit by slaying the very dragons that empowered them. One human in particular was the worst. He empowered and killed myself and all the dragons you see around me until he became a dragon himself." Zirconis explains.
"This guy got a name?" Namine asks.
"Acnologia." Zirconis said as the look of horror appeared on all the members of Fairy Tail.
"Fairy Tail fought that monster with everything we had, but we couldn't even faze it." Lucy said shocking the Keyblade wielders.
"You guys all lost to one dragon?" Sora asks.
"Dragons here must be on a whole different level." Riku gulps.
"All of this happened in the past, but you—" Before Zirconis could finish he disappeared.
"Hey get back here! We're not done with you!" Gajeel said.
"What happened?" Kairi asks looking to Wendy.
"I'm sorry that's all he was willing to say." Wendy said upset.
"Still to become a dragon just by using your own magic." Namine said as Natsu, Gajeel and Wendy started freaking out.
"Quite the story." A male voice said as they saw a man with brown hair in a suit of armor, this was Arcadios of the Royal Army. And next to him was the former Sabertooth wizard Yukino.
"Who are you?" Sora asks.
"And what do you know about this?" Natsu asks.
"So you're the famous keyblade wielders I've heard so much about. Sadly your keys are not the keys I've been looking for." Arcadios said walking down. "You see our research shows that Acnologia was created by the dark wizard Zeref and with your help we can end this threat before it even begns." He said stopping in front of Lucy.
"Sora, I got a bad feeling about this." Kairi said nervously.
"Me too, Kairi." Sora said.
"Perhaps my actions will speak louder than words. Follow me." Arcadios said leading them out of them to the castle.
"So, this is where you ended up after Sabertooth?" Lucy asks looking at Yukino.
"Yes, they were very happy to have me." Yukino nods.
"You see the Grand Magic Games has been a ruse these past few years in order to take some of the magic from each of the participants, but when Hearts of Light entered we ended up getting so much more than we could ever imagine." Arcadios said.
"You've been stealing magic from the contestants? That's messed up." Natsu said.
"No kidding." Sora agrees.
"I understand your opinions but I believe this justifies the means." Arcardios said leading them to a giant gate.
"What is that?" Namine asks.
"The Eclipse. The door that will change the world." Arcadios said. "Without massive amounts of magic power it could never have been constructed."
"It's even bigger than the door to light." Sora said.
"But what's on the other side of this door?" Riku asks.
"When the 12 Zodiac keys are used we will use the Eclipse gate to go back in time 400 years and destroy Zeref before he gains immortality." Arcadios explains.
"Time travel? No, those never end well." Namine said speaking from experience on the Forever After Fighter's first mission.
"Think of what we are doing. This could save so many lives." Arcadios said.
"Or make things a million times worse." Namine said when suddenly they heard footsteps. Soon all of them were surrounded by Royal guards.
"I would listen to the keyblade wielder, she seems to know what she's talking about." A small man with a cap and robes said walking in. This was Darton.
"Darton what is the meaning of this?!" Arcadios asks.
"You are under arrest for treason and abusing power. And take the Celestial Wizards too!" Darton orders.
"What? You can't take Lucy!" Kairi said.
"I've done nothing wrong!" Lucy said as the guards captured her and Yukino.
"We aren't with this guy you can't just lock them up because we know him." Sora said.
"I can and I will for the safety of Fiore." Darton said.
"Hang on Lucy! Fire Dragon—" Before Natsu could finish the Eclipse gate absorbed all his magic causing him to fall to the ground.
Outside, everyone was glaring Darton down.
"Give me one reason why we shouldn't take you all down." Gajeel said.
"Please understand I'm doing this for everyone, but if Fairy Tail is able to win the games I will grant you a private audience with the king. Who knows maybe he can even pardon your friends. I wish you all the best of luck." Darton said walking away.
"Sora any ideas?" Kairi asks.
"We better get the others." Sora said.
At the Fairy Tail Hotel, Fairy Tail, Hearts of Light and Warrior of Light were comparing notes on what happened.
"They kidnapped Lucy?!" Apple gasps.
"Well that is so not just right." Blondie said.
"They can't do something like that." Humphrey said.
"We gotta break her out." Holly said.
"Yes! I'm with them." Natsu agrees.
"But why didn't they take the rest of us hostage?" Gray asks.
"Because you guys are in first place and we're right behind your guild, if we didn't show up tomorrow people would get suspicious." Riku said.
"And the last thing this king wants is to make an enemy of everyone in the city." Namine said.
"But how can we be sure he'll keep his word and let us meet with him?" Gajeel asks.
"We don't, for all we know this could just be a way to distract us." La said.
"The King is many things but he is not a liar." Warrior of Light said.
"So to add to our problems we have this Eclipse Project and the Nobody Facility." Raven sighs.
"We can't let them get away with this. We have to stop them both." Kairi said.
"And how do you guys plan to do that? It's not like you can just wish yourselves out of the games." Laxus said giving Roxas an idea.
"Actually we can. Whisp!" Roxas said as the genie appeared next to him surprising everyone.
"Was beginning to think you forgot about me." Whisp smirks.
"Whisp I need your help. I wish Hearts of Light A and B were taken out of the games and the scores were changed so nobody but the guilds in the games knew were in it." Roxas said.
"As you wish." Whisp said granting his wish.
"Did it work?" Gajeel asks.
"I think it did, look at the scoreboard." Erza points as they all turned to it.
1st: Fairy Tail 45 points
2nd: Sabertooth 44 points
3rd: Lamia Scale 40 points
4th: Mermaid Heel 40 points
5th: Blue Pegasus 30 points
6: Quattro Puppy 15 points
"Wow that's quite a drop in points." Goofy said.
"Guess without 10 teams they didn't need all those extra events." Amora said.
"Why would you kids willingly take yourself out of the games to help us?" Makarov asks.
"Because somethings matter more than winning." Roxas states causing Makarov to smile.
"Alright say we do win, who's to say they'll keep their word?" Gajeel asks.
"Alright with Hearts of Light helping we might have a chance. We can send our team in while one Hearts of Light and small group of our own go to save Lucy." Darling said.
"And the other team comes with me and my ally Perry the Platypus to stop the facility." Warrior of Light said.
"Hold on if you kids are involved with this you all could be labeled criminals and forced to leave this world and never come back." Makarov said.
"I can live with that." Merida said.
"Wouldn't be the worst thing to happen to us." La said.
"You can't talk us out of it. We're helping you guys whether you want it or not." Cupid said.
"You kids have strong hearts. I wouldn't mind having you all in Fairy Tail." Makarov said.
"Sorry but you guys are too wild for us." Lea smirks.
"Alright my team will go save Lucy and stop the Eclipse Project." Sora said.
"I guess that means my team is going to take down the Facility." Roxas said.
"Hold on." Cana said walking over while shuffling a deck of cards. "I've seen you guys in action but I don't think the teams you guys have now are the right matches for these situations."
"So how do we decide who does?" Mickey asks.
"Like this." Cana's cards glow as a light from each member of the Forever After Fighters enters the deck. Shuffling them around Cana gives half to Sora and half to Roxas. "Tomorrow these will be your teams."
Roxas and Sora flip the cards over and grin clearly liking what they were given.
"I can work with this." Sora smiles.
"Oh yeah this is some good cards." Roxas nods.
"You think you can teach me that?" Lizzie asks.
"Get Lucy back and we'll talk." Cana said.
"I am ready to help anyway I can." Warrior of Light said walking up to Roxas.
"Hey I've been wondering something you call yourself Warrior of Light but what's your real name?" Roxas asks.
"That is my name, sadly I don't know what my real name is." He admits.
"Well maybe we can help. Since light seems to be your thing what if we called you Hikaru." Sora suggests.
"Hikaru that means shining brilliance…I like it." Warrior of Light smiles while Perry chirps giving him the thumbs up liking it too.
"Alright kids, tomorrow we make our move. May your hearts be your guiding keys." Makarov said as all of them prepared their plans for the big battle ahead.
Wish Counter: 5/13
