Hello once again everyone! For those that have read the small updated I posted a few nights ago, not to worry here is the new chapter! I'll be deleting that one as soon as I post this chapter but it's essentially me apologizing for updating this story after so long, which I hope you can forgive me despite it happening a few times over a couple years now. I have said that I'll continue the story and I'm doing my best to do so.

Usually replying to reviews would be a thing here, and I know I said this in Chapter 64 I would to it next time but after so long it does feel kinda pointless... but I have taken them into account from the last chapter. Aside from a few new ones that have only read several chapters in the beginning which are uh, *ahem* over five years old, which even I cringe from whenever I read those earlier chapters. Think it happens to alot of writers.

I am sorry for the long update and I hope that old and new followers of FTXV will continue reading. Also, important notice about the future of FTXV after this chapter, so please remember after reading this chapter.

Onward!


As Caprico arrived at the back of Grimoire Heart's ship, he released his magic as the rest of the Kins appeared on the flat metal surface of the vehicle. All of them were feeling deflated, but Zancrow in particular walked away from the a bit.

"Damn it! I want to kill her!" The blonde shouted, a bit of his black flames leaking around him.

"Well, you sure tried proving that the first time you attacked her." Rustyrose calmly said, adjusting his glasses.

"Then maybe I should kill you instead!" Zancrow shouted again, turning around towards him.

"Then before you do, go kill those fairies first." Ultear spoke up, standing up along with a conscious Meredy, who winced from the injury she did on purpose that was now all bandaged up. "We have more important matters to worry about. That fly won't last long against Master Hades. I'll look for Zeref. In the meantime, the rest of you handle Fairy Tail. It seems they're all gathered here in one spot."

The rest of the kin stayed silent for a moment, quietly agreeing. Ultear glanced over at Meredy, who was looking rather sullen.

"Don't exert yourself like that anymore." Ultear chided lightly.

"I'm sorry Ultear… I won't." Meredy replied, looking up at her. It was only for a moment before she saw Rustyrose walk past them, and towards the edge of the platform they were on.

"What is it?" Caprico asked, also seeing the pompadour-haired man walk off.

"Was it really just that one girl doing this much? It's hard to believe." Rustyrose said, looking down past the ice. As several others of the kin joined him, they looked below as well with slightly widened eyes.

Looking past the solid ice, they could see that engines that the ship had at the end were completely destroyed. It wasn't cut, it wasn't smashed, but from what they could tell almost an explosion occurred, breaching into the ship itself.

"It should be the least of our worries for now. I'm heading off to find Zeref. Caprico, if you would. I would imagine he wouldn't be out here in the fight." Ultear said.

"Very well then, leave it to me." Caprico nodded, raising an arm as the raven-haired woman began glowing before shrinking to a small orb. Off to the side, the goat-like humanoid brought up a jetpack he collected while coming outside, and put it on. "I will come back to the fight as soon as she is dropped off."

"Heh, by the time you come back they'll be dead. Count on that, hahahahaha!" Zancrow cackled.

Without a response, wings sprouted out of the pack, and Caprico flew off with Ultear in hand while carefully staying away from the battlefield, and into the forest.

Flames erupted from Zancrow's hand as he laughed again. "Time to kill some fairies!"

"I suppose it's time to show them all Eden." Rustyrose said, adjusting his hair in place as he turned around.

"I-I-I-I'mready!" Hikaru quickly and nervously said.

"...right." Meredy said with a nod.

As the rest of the Kins looked ahead at the icy field past the ship, none of them noticed a figure slowly floating down behind them. The figure spoke, immediately surprising the Grimoire Heart members.

"Hmph, you'll all only lose to them with the strength you bunch have right now."

All four mages turned around to see a dark, dusty skinned color figure with black spiky, wild hair going in several directions, dark blue armor that showed off his muscular arms and legs. He had his arms crossed while wearing a grin across his face towards the Kins.

"Who are you?!" Meredy demanded, immediately going on guard. However, black flames brushed past her towards the figure, completely engulfing the person hovering in the air in dark fire.

"Heh, got him." Zancrow said with a smirk.

"Did you now?" The new voice said.

"Wha-?! Gah!"

A thump was heard, and as Meredy, Hikaru, and Rustyrose looked to the source, they saw Zancrow pinned on the floor with the unknown person sitting on top of him.

"Don't be so rash now. I figured I'd help you lot with what you need." He said, his grin still intact. But the only thing a bit different now that in his hand, he was tossing and catching a dark orange to red color ball with bumps on it.

"Why should we accept?" Rustyrose cautiously asked.

"Because you'll lose against your enemies. You don't want that happening, do you?" He said in a rather sad, but provoking and mocking tune that was enough to annoy both Rustyrose and Zancrow.

"Hah?! You think so, do you?! I'll kill you here right now!" Zancrow struggled underneath the man, the combination of his flames being brushed away two times today annoyed and angering him.

"Well if you're going to act like that, perhaps I should kill you here right now." The man said, standing up from Zancrow. When the fallen mage tried standing up, he was hard stomped back on the ground, enough to make a dent on the ship as he coughed up blood while curling his hands into a tight fist. The armored man smirked, and with that the item he was playing in his hand, he simply dropped it in front of Zancrow.

The blonde-haired Grimoire Heart member eyed the round object cautiously, and blinked a couple of times.

"Don't be shy. Eat up… eat, and grow stronger than you'll ever imagine possible." The dark-skinned figure said.

Giving in as soon as the sentence was finished, Zancrow took the fruit as he got up on his knees, and took a bite out of it. He chewed a few times before swallowing, noting the very faint sweetness and tang of flavor before he suddenly dropped, gasping a few times.

"Z-Zancrow…?" Meredy cautiously called out.

"I knew it, it's poisoned somehow! You're here to kill us!" Rustyrose shouted, extending an arm. Before he could use his Lost Magic, Zancrow suddenly screamed, and he snapped his head towards his direction.

An explosion of dark magical energy erupted around Zancrow, and he started cackling uncontrollably towards the air. Meredy, Rustyrose, and Hikaru all took a step back, sensing the sudden power up from him and… the unexplainable vile feeling that was almost stomach clenching from a fear creeping up on them.

"Haha…! Hahahahahahaha! I feel amazing! I feel like I can kill every single one of those in Fairy Tail now!" Zancrow laughed, and his black flames erupted around his feet with his eyes glowing red. As impatient as they knew him, the rest of the Kin members saw him jump, eliciting sounds of surprise as they saw him leap far and high towards the battlefield.

"Well now, you've seen it for yourselves. Why don't the rest of you join him?" The mysterious man said, looking back at the rest with three more of the fruits in his hand.

"... I-I don't know about this…" Still feeling uneasy about it, Meredy shook her head. But before she could say anything further, she and Rustyrose saw Hikaru briskly walk up to the man before snatching one of the fruit and began eating it.

Eating the entire thing, Hikaru stood for a moment staring at the distance before he closed his hands into a fist and slouched forward slightly.

"O-Oooh!" Hikaru shouted, spreading out his arms as dark magical energy began swirling around him as well while his eyes flashed red. With a low voice, he started laughing until it got louder and louder. He took one step forward, shaking the entire ship before he jumped high as well towards the icy field.


Marissa gasped and looked up at the sky through the broken glass ceiling, seeing one purple cloaked figure overhead, and followed by another a few moments later. Dread came upon the Earthling as she sensed them going over to the ongoing battle where her friends are.

'Towa is doing her thing, right now?!' She thought in slight panic. From the side her eyes caught a glimpse of magical chains coming towards her, and she cartwheeled backwards to avoid being touched. Standing up right once more while keeping weight off her injured leg, she saw Hades will the chains to disappear once more. 'I need to go help them…!'

With two fingers raised, Hades began writing in the air before he pointed towards Marissa, formulas of magic writing in bright purple suddenly appeared around the Earthling. Her eyes widened, and she quickly placed her fingers on her forehead as she disappeared where she stood the same time the spot she stood in resulted in an explosion. Appearing behind Hades, Marissa brought an arm back as Ki charged within her hand. Hades turned around with a cautious look from his eye, and she shouted as she launched her arm forward with the energy blast towards the older man.

Colliding with the attack, Hades was launched where he stood to the opposite end of the room where Marissa was previously at. She looked up again and sensed any more abnormalities aside from the two higher energies she felt just now. Narrowing her eyes, Marissa sensed another just nearby, on the ship itself.

"I'll have to deal with him later…" Marissa muttered as she looked towards the dust plume where Hades was, and took to the air and exited out of the ship.

Almost unscathed, Hades grunted as he sat up, slightly surprised to be taken off guard so easily. He looked up in time to see the young girl out of sight, and huffed while standing back up.

As Marissa went high enough in the air to take a glance at the icy battlefield, she spotted two figures currently imbued in the dark aura she had seen too often in her line of work, and feeling frustrated she looked around more to see anything else out of the ordinary until she turned around behind her. Remembering the other abnormality she sensed, her eyes widened as she saw a familiar shape of black hair, but she knew better. The dark blue space armor with a brown tail wrapped around their waist and the darkened skin on the person was all else she needed to identify the enemy.

"Turles!" Marissa shouted from above, catching the mentioned Saiyan's attention as he looked up with a grin. Just past him, she saw Meredy and Rustyrose holding something in their hands. Upon closer look, she gasped as she saw the familiar orange fruit. "The Fruit from the Tree of Might?"

"It appears I've been found out." Turles said with his grin still intact, looking up at Marissa while his vision was partially covered by the red scouter over his left eye.

"Whatever he's giving you, don't eat them! You won't be normal if you do!" Marissa shouted from above.

"You've seen the power they can grant you. Would you really let that go?" Turles said persuasively, looking back at the two remaining Grimoire Heart members.

As Meredy looked at the fruit pensively, she looked over towards Rustyrose who eyed it with little conflict on his expression. She turned to face him, a frown more prominent than before.

"You're not thinking about eating it, are you?" Meredy asked worryingly.

"You've felt what came over Zancrow and Kain. How can I not?" Rustyrose replied, his grin widening as he went ahead and took a bite off the fruit.

"No!" Marissa yelled out.

It only took a few chews as Rustyrose's eyes widened and he lurched forward with closed hands. He growled at first before it turned into a scream as he was seen shooting his upper body back up, dark purple energy swirling around him with his eyes flashing red. Feeling power through his entire body, Rustyrose's grin grew with his eyes widening even more as he began laughing.

"This is amazing!" The glasses-wearing man shouted in glee.

'No… this feels wrong…' Meredy took a fearful step back, seeing the crazed look on her companion's features.

"I think it's time to kill some of those fairies!" Rustyrose gleefully announced, and looked towards the icy battlefield and jumped towards it.

As Rustyrose was in the air, Marissa suddenly appeared above him with her hands above her head. With a grunt, she slammed him down into the ocean below as the water splashed high upwards.

'Hm, it seems these ones I've given them aren't as potent as the riper ones. Matters not, they'll have their fun for a short time.' Turles idly thought as he looked down at the spot Rustyrose plummeted to, and glanced back at Meredy who was still looking down at the fruit, seemingly ignorant to the fact that the pompadour-hairstyle Kin was intercepted. "What's the matter? Surely you'd like to join in on your friends for the fun."

"N-No… this is too unnatural. I don't trust you!" Meredy declared, dropping the fruit on the ground and looking at Turles defiantly.

"I see. That's a pity." Turles said, aiming a palm at the small girl as Ki lit up in front. "Most likely they won't be noticing one person in their ranks."

Meredy took a step back, and as she saw the grin on his face widen, he quickly wiped it away as his eyes darted to his left, leaning his body back to evade a kick from Marissa as she zipped by from the side. She forced her body, twisting it so that she rotated counterclockwise and kicked Turles in his face, throwing him away from them. Stepping down, and on the fruit, crushing it, she teleported above the enemy Saiyan with her right fist coated in bright Ki.

"Argh!" Marissa yelled as she struck Turles right on his cheeks, sending him towards the ocean below.

With gritted teeth, she forced herself to pull back her same arm once more and dived down towards him, striking the Saiyan in his abdomen. Water surrounded them, blown away by the Earthling's sheer power as she saw blood coming out of Turles' mouth before she nimbly kicked him away and shot to the air, out of the ocean.

Marissa took a few deep breaths as she looked back towards Meredy, who looked back with widened and surprised eyes with her mouth slightly agape. Looking towards the battlefield made out of ice, she frustratingly narrowed her eyes seeing two people with dark purple energy around them and teleported towards them.


Magical attacks of all sorts have been flying constantly from both sides of Fairy Tail and Grimoire Heart.

Most prominently from Natsu as his fire attacks were excessive on the front lines, taking out the enemy grunts with flames from his mouth, fists and legs. Around him Taurus summoned by Lucy, Gray, Loke, Gajeel, Elfman, Mirajane and Lisanna were on the front while Cana, Evergreen, Levi, Juvia stayed behind with Makarov to fire off ranged attacks.

As Natsu punched away another grunt, off to the side he caught something flying in the air. He wouldn't have given it a second thought if he saw it was Marissa, however the person itself was a male, and had a pack that was able to allow himself to move in the air, towards the forest.

"Who is that…?" Natsu questioned under his breath before swinging his arm around encoated in flames to knock out another grunt before seeing the blue Exceed. "Happy! Let's go!"

The fire Dragonslayer sprinted towards the forest with Happy in tow, causing a few confused eyes towards him from his guild members.

"Natsu! Where are you going?!" Gray shouted before hearing a grunt from behind him and freezing them in place.

"Don't worry about him, he should be fine!" Loke called out, lighting his fist in light and punching a grunt away.

"What is he thinking?" Lucy said with narrowed eyes seeing him retreat to the trees.

"Go with him, Lucy. I don't trust anyone to fight alone with Grimoire Heart here right now. Make sure he doesn't get into any trouble." Makarov ordered, only looking ahead.

"Yes, Master! Taurus!" The blonde called out, and the spirit acknowledged as he easily swung his axe towards a few grunts and followed just behind Lucy, into the forest.

"Is that really okay?" Cana asked worryingly, throwing more explosive cards far past her friends on the frontlines, a line of enemy soldiers blown back.

"It should be enough, a majority of their forces are here that we can focus on. They'll be fine." Makarov confidently declared, having faith in the kids he loved so much. He continued observing the battle up ahead, they had the upper hand so far. The soldiers of Grimoire Heart more or less fell to them.

Until something fell from the sky and onto the icy battlefield, cracking the frozen water. Black flames erupted from the spot, catching some of the Grimoire Heart soldiers, and the Fairy Tail members that were in the middle swiftly jumped away in time from the fire. The icy white smoke was blown away as a figure with long blonde hair, coated in a dense purple aura as his eyes flashed red.

"It's Zancrow!" One of the dark guild soldiers said, relieved.

"Ahahaha! Burn in hell!" The blonde-haired Kin cackled, and the black flames around him expanded outward… indiscriminately catching anyone in flames.

"W-Wha-AH!" A grunt cried out, his outfit and armor on fire before he started rolling on the cold ground, trying to put them out.

"Zancrow, wait, watch it-AHH!" Another soldier shouted, also catching on fire as they started flailing their arms around.

"Get back!" Gray called out, leaping backwards, away from the enemy flames.

Everyone else on the frontlines did so, either making the same maneuver Gray did or in Mirajane's case, flying up high in the air to avoid the fire. A large body of water suddenly rushed between their legs as Juvia willed it towards the black flames, combating it as it produced steam as a result.

"Black fire…? What in the world…" Makarov muttered in slight confusion and surprise.

"I'll make sure every single one of you ends up in ashes!" Zancrow shouted as he laughed hysterically, and placed his arms above his head as black fire began expanding rapidly in between in his hands, quickly covering over them.

FIRE GOD'S KAGUTSUCHI!

He threw the large black ball of fire towards the Fairy Tail members all the while still laughing, easily breaking away the icy floor.

Thinking quickly, Gray put his hands together with mist forming around him, and slammed them to the ground.

ICE MAKE: WALL!

A giant wall of dense ice was formed immediately in front of the ice-make mage, and took Zancrow's magic head on. But a few moments later, Gray could feel the ice cracking, and he gritted his teeth as he poured more magic into the shield to withhold it.

The water surrounding the battlefield of ice suddenly rose from the ocean, shadowing over a majority of the Grimoire Heart soldiers as they looked back in shock, and the water cascaded on them and rushed towards Zancrow. The Kin clicked his tongue in annoyance and leaped in the air, avoiding the salty liquid that soon overwhelmed his attack, mostly extinguishing it.

With deep breaths, Gray relaxed as he felt the pressure off of him, and looked back to see Juvia heavily panting with her arms crossed in front of her before she collapsed on her knees.

"What the hell is that power of his…" Gray said through his breaths.

"Hey, look! He's floating in the air!" Elfman pointed out, looking above to see Zancrow looking down on them with arms crossed.

"Annoying fairy flies, if you think you can stand up to flames of a god, then I'll make sure all of you end up in ashes! Hahahaha!" Zancrow beckoned, and spreaded out his arms once more as he was about to use his magic.

Until a moment later, he was kicked in the face and sent down in the air, crashing into one of the broken ice blocks and into the ocean. Mirajane let out a breath she was holding, and quickly dropped in front of her friends that were fighting in the front.

"Is everyone okay?" Mirajane called out, glancing back while lowering her wings.

"I'm alright, sis." Elfman responded.

"Same here." Lisanna nodded.

"So are we, though it looks like Gray needs to rest a bit." Loke said, glancing to the side towards the ice-make mage.

"I'm fine… I can still fight." Gray answered, putting a hand on his knee as he stood back up.

As she heard the confirmation of safety from her friends and siblings, Mirajane continued staring down into the ocean, sensing Zancrow underneath the waters. She shivered a little, sensing a feeling of dread and something dark as she witnessed the Grimoire Heart Kin battle, knowing the dark aura and red glowing eyes seen on him.

That was seen by Ann when she first came to this world and fought against Yusuke.

'Are those people really here? Now?' Mirajane worriedly thought, and those thoughts stopped as she heard a shout from above and looked up. She widened her eyes as a large, gray skinned man dropped from the sky, also coated in a dark purple aura as his eyes flashed red.

"It's Hikaru!" A grunt called out from the opposite side of the Fairy Tail mages, a clear breakage of ice with the ocean being shown in between them.

"Woo-Wee!" Hikaru cheered, pumping his arms into the air as a force of power was let out around him for everyone in the area to feel.

More of the ice broke apart and the trees on the island, while not uprooted, were still being blown away by the power the large Kin let out. Mages from both sides shielded themselves with their arms, and while those from Grimoire Heart were blown away into the ocean behind them due to Hikaru being so close to them, those from Fairy Tail held their ground while keeping away from the debris of ice.

Amidst Hikaru's power up, the ocean waters in the middle of the battlefield shot up with Zancrow revealing himself and landing near his Kin companion. A feral grin creeped upon his features as he began laughing, power erupting around him as well.

"They're both like the people Yusuke fought before, be careful!" Mirajane warned through the winds.

"What?! How are we supposed to fight them then?" Gray shouted.

The winds stopped, and the mages saw Hikaru Kain lifting his arms up as dark Ki charged in his hands, and launched it towards the people of Fairy Tail. The dark purple Ki wave travelled fast, and with quick thinking, Mirajane joined her hands over each other as a black sphere began forming in between them.

Mirajane watched as the enemy attack grew closer, and with gritted teeth a white aura exploded.

EVIL EXPLOSION!

She launched her magic towards the Ki wave as it drew near with a shout, colliding her attack with theirs. A moment of struggle passed, and an explosion was seen in between both sides as fumes littered the air as a result. From within, the smoke blew away, and dark, spherical blobs were seen shooting towards Mirajane.

As Elfman and Lisanna called out to her, their older sister was suddenly thrown to the side. Marissa appeared out of nowhere as she pushed Mirajane away and took the hit head on. The Earthling was blown back from the ground and landed on her back with a loud grunt.

"Marissa!" Mirajane called out as she looked back at her.

"Nng…! My leg is injured because I got too careless, and now my body feels heavy as hell…" Marissa said to herself through her teeth and slowly stood up while being careful to not put pressure on her injured leg. She quickly noticed she was enveloped in a dark purple miasma smoking around her, and her movement had slowed significantly. "Great…"

"Are you alright?" Gray called out where he was at, still on a knee and catching his breath behind his broken wall of ice.

"Could be better…!" Marissa responded, standing up fully but could feel herself being sluggish as she took a few steps forward.

"Marissa… are they…?" Mirajane didn't finish her question as she looked back at the two members of the Kin of Purgatory.

"Yeah, but luckily Towa isn't the one handling things behind the scenes… it's someone else. And that someone isn't too adept at handing out powers. You can sense it too, right?"

Mirajane briefly closed her eyes and felt the people around her. But her mind immediately zoned towards Hikaru and Kain, their strength very prominent than the enemy soldiers. However, while feeling the two Kins, she shot her eyes open in slight shock when she came to a conclusion.

"They're… not as strong as the others before." Mirajane realized.

"Hm. Guess that fruit wasn't too ripe…" Marissa said to herself amusedly. But it vanished when she saw water from the ocean shot up to the sky, and a figure emerged from it before they quickly arrived at the battlefield in a matter of a few seconds to which the Earthling narrowed her eyes dangerously.

"No way… he's back…?!" Gray shouted in surprise from behind, fully seeing Turles and the familiar wild black hair in the air as he observed the battlefield with crossed arms.

"Is… is he…?" Lisanna shakily asked, taking a few steps back.

"Calm down… it's not him. They might look the same, but they're different." Marissa reassured, glancing back at them before looking back at Turles.

'Perhaps I really did pick those fruits a bit too soon..l. You learn something new everyday I suppose.' Turles thought in his head, aimlessly floating down as he went closer to the ground but still stayed afloat and glared at the Time Patroller while feeling the stinging in his cheeks. "I'll make you pay you damned Patroller."

"Let me give you another one then, on the house." Marissa taunted hautighly.

"I guess one good thing about letting them eat that fruit is that they're easy to use." Turles said with a grin, and bringing up a hand, he snapped his fingers. "Sic' em."

The powered up Zancrow and Hikaru charged forward from Turles' command, heading straight towards the Fairy Tail members.

"I'll let you handle them, Turles is mine!" Marissa said to Mirajane before teleporting away, appearing in front of the enemy Saiyan with a kick from her right already in motion, to which Turles managed to block, but not without some effort.

"Gotten slower have you? How fortunate of me." Turles commented, and brought back an arm to punch at her to only be blocked, and the both of them separated, their feet skidding on the ice.

"No problem, I'll still put you down." The Time Patroller responded while holding a martial arts stance, wincing a bit from her leg.

Zancrow and Hikaru continued charging forward towards the Fairy Tail members. Mirajane took the initiative and dashed forward, with the bigger opponent being the closest and she attacked with a kick from the side. Hikaru put up a palm of his hand to block her leg, and with his opposite arm he reached towards the take-over mage's head.

Narrowing her eyes, Mirajane forced her upper body back so she was upside down and used her opposite leg to kick the Kin upward. As she did so, she spotted Zancrow looking straight at her with a dark grin. He began inhaling through his nose as his chest puffed out along with his cheeks moments after. Mirajane widened her eyes slightly, sensing the magic gathering from him, and saw lurching forward.

FIRE GOD'S BELLO-!

As Zancrow was about to spew out his fire, Erza suddenly appeared above him with a sword in both of her hands above her head, and slammed him back down into the ocean.

'Erza…!' Mirajane came out of her slight shock, and with her tail, she wrapped it around Hikaru's leg and threw him back down on the ice as her body came upright again in the air.

"Everyone!" Wendy called out, emerging from the trees along with Carla and Pantherlily behind Makarov and the other mages that were firing ranged attacks.

"Wendy!" Cana looked back, after seeing Erza appear out of nowhere when knocking down the enemy.

"Is everyone alright?" Carla asked.

"Just about. There hasn't been any serious injuries so far from any of us." Levi responded.

"Master… about Mest…" Wendy started saying, but the guild master quickly spoke up.

"Don't worry about him for now, Wendy. In the meantime, be ready in case any of us gets hurt." Makarov said.

"Right…!" The sky dragon slayer nodded in response.

Erza and Mirajane landed near each other while being in the very front of their friends. They kept their senses out for Zancrow in the waters below, along with keeping an eye out on Hikaru who was knocked down in the air ahead of them. A loud boom was heard from above, and everyone looked to see Marissa and Turles in a clash before the Earthling swiftly punched the Saiyan in the face, bringing the both of them back down on the icy battlefield.

"Tch…! Annoying brat!" Turles cursed, rubbing his cheek with gritted teeth.

"It's not fun being this slow…" Marissa quietly muttered to herself, the dark smog surrounding her body still as she kept her guard up.

"Marissa." Erza called out from behind her.

"Erza, you made it." The Earthling responded, quickly glancing back at the redhead before back to Turles.

"Is that…?" Erza took a cautious glance at Turles, and unconsciously swallowed a lump in her throat.

"They might look the same, but she assures he's not him." Mirajane said.

After hearing her words, Erza took a long moment looking at Turles before looking back at her hands that were holding the hilt of her sword. She caught herself trembling slightly and tightened her hold on her weapon before gritting her teeth.

You actually wish to face God with such weak power? Truly, a foolish mortal.

Erza shook her head slightly and hardened her eyes as sweat dripped down her face. 'It's not him…'

"Ha!" Marissa shouted as ice broke around her with her white aura coming to life, and dashed towards Turles once more before quickly angled up in the air and angled down towards him. "Hragh!"

The Earthling initiated with a straight punch at Turles before he brought both his arms above him to block, causing the ice below to crack by a large margin. Marissa shouted loudly once more as she punched with her opposite fist towards his arms, completely destroying the surrounding ice below them as they fell into the ocean waters.

"Marissa!" Erza called out, and the water shot up once more. Hoping to see the Earthling in one piece, unfortunately Zancrow was the one who was revealed with a glare towards Erza as he landed back on the ice.

At the same time, Hikaru has fully risen and was back on both of his feet while walking right next to the Fire God slayer. Both were seen with a few scratches on them as their eyes flashed red once more with the dark aura surrounding them.

Just then, the ocean waters in the distance were seen rising up as well as another figure was seen coming towards them. In a matter of seconds, another person with a dark light surrounding them arrived on Grimoire Heart's side. He sported a pompadour-like hairstyle with silver colored hair, and as he looked ahead towards the Fairy Tail mages, his eyes flashed red through his glasses.

"Rustyrose…!" A few of the soldiers called out.

"Did he really come out of the ocean…?"

"Hey… don't the three of them seem… off? Who was that other person earlier too? Seemed like he was on our side, but…"

"Another one…" Mirajane murmured, seeing three of the Kins emitted the dark aura around them.

"They don't seem like the previous ones Yusuke has fought." Erza commented.

"Yeah, we should be able to take them on. Let's hurry and do so." The she-demon said with a slight grin.

Shaking off a slight fear within her, Erza grinned as well as she propped up her sword higher. Despite the occurring surprises, both sides were still ready to fight, with several of them fully catching their breaths. Grimoire Heart was the first to move, as the three powered up Kins dashed forward and the soldiers behind them charged in as well. Seeing the enemy move, Fairy Tail retaliated.


"Natsu! Happy! Slow down!" Lucy called out, still chasing behind the duo.

"Grimoire Heart might be up to no good going this way, we have to find out why!" Natsu shouted ahead.

"Aye!" Happy cheered.

"At least let me catch up!" Lucy said through her pants, and she saw Natsu stop in his tracks. Rather thankful and surprised thinking he listened, she caught up a moment later while catching her breath.

"Shh." Natsu quickly motioned to Happy and Lucy to stay quiet with a finger to his mouth as he nose began sniffing. The Exceed's wings dissipated as he landed on the ground with no sound, and Lucy forced her breathing to even out.

They began crouching on their hands and knees, crawling under the bushes with Natsu leading the way until he stopped and laid flat on his stomach. Happy and Lucy soon followed, arriving next to him so that they were all looking at the same thing.

"Why are we here, Natsu?" Happy hushly asked.

"I smell someone familiar… who was it again…?" Natsu replied quietly.

"Someone from our guild?" Lucy questioned, but he shook his head in response.

"I remember their scent from a while ago… I think it was when we were on Galuna Island."

"Galuna Island? That really was a while ago… just who-" Lucy stayed silent when she, Natsu and Happy heard feet dragging on the dirt. They looked ahead to see two people, a female who was carrying an unconscious male on her shoulder as they slowly walked on the dirt path.

"That's… the person I saw earlier with Happy… and made my scarf black!" Natsu harshly said in a hush tone.

"Is… is that Zeref?" Lucy cautiously asked, staring at the man over the woman's shoulders.

"It might be… and this woman…" Natsu sniffed with his nose, but as he did, he caught a new scent and quickly looked behind him.

There, Natsu saw a tall figure under the shadows of the trees, and he immediately went on alert as they outstretched an arm towards them, the palm of their hand lighting up.

Natsu immediately grabbed Lucy and Happy in his arms and rolled out of the way as a ki blast was shot out where they were at, destroying a small portion of the area.

"That's the reaction I was expecting, I was starting to get bored." A deep voice said.

Natsu stopped rolling a few meters away where the ki blast destroyed the small area, and he looked to see as a tall, green figure with two antennas on his bald forehead as he wore baggy clothes of a yellow cloak, orange scarf, boots and glove, purple pants and a leather cross-belt over his chest and around his back with a blue jewel in front. A scar decorated over his left eye, and he looked over to the Fairy Tail wizards with a grin.

"W-What happened?!" Lucy asked in confusion.

"Who are you?!" Natsu demanded with a shout and a glare.

"That's a good look on you, brat. Might even pose more fun than the people in the ship out in the ocean near here." The tall figure said in a deep voice.

"You, are you with Grimoire Heart as well?!" Lucy questioned, getting out of Natsu's grasp and stood up fully along with the dragonslayer, both of them on guard with Happy just behind the both of them.

"I don't belong to anyone." The figure said as his grin was gone from his face, and his eyes began to glow before two beams shot out from them.

Natsu grabbed Lucy's head and forced the both of them to crouch down, evading the attack as two, moderate sized holes now littered the ground behind them. The cheeks puffed out from the fire dragonslayer's mouth as he breathed out his fiery roar towards the tall figure, engulfing him in flames

However a moment later, a green arm extended out towards Natsu, grabbing him by the throat and forcing him back towards a wall of rocks. The dragonslayer began choking with his air taken out of him, and he grabbed onto the green hand that gripped his throat. The flames dispersed, revealing the figure with little scorch marks on his clothing but came out mostly unscathed.

"Natsu!" Lucy cried out.

"Let go of him!" Happy shouted, and flew towards the figure's face from the side.

Irritated, the enemy caught Happy in his hand and threw him towards a nearby tree as the Exceed collided against the trunk, eliciting a loud, painful yelp from him.

"Happy…!" Natsu continued struggling to breath as he saw his best friend being tossed away, and as anger began swelling up, the ground underneath him and the enemy suddenly collapsed.

Natsu suddenly felt his breath coming back to him as he quickly looked around to see darkness surrounding him aside from the light of the setting sun above him.

"Natsu…!"

The Dragonslayer looked to the side to see Virgo and Lucy holding a dazed Happy in her arms.

"Lucy! Is Happy alright?" Natsu worriedly asked, looking at his friend.

"He's a little out of it, but he should be fine. Natsu, we need to get out of here, that… person just now, it might be someone only Marissa can handle." Lucy said.

"What? Why do you think so?" He incredulously asked.

"It might just be a hunch, but back when Yusuke, Ann, and Marissa were at the guild after that big battle they had, they were given something to watch. I was there, and I saw people just like him in the background. If that's the case-"

"No…! He did this to Happy! I can't just run away after that!" Natsu heatedly said, seeing the surprised expression from the blonde.

"Don't be ridiculous Natsu!"

"I'd do the same for you! And anyone else in the guild! Happy got hurt, that bastard isn't getting away with that!" Natsu retorted, and saw Lucy widening her eyes briefly before sighing.

"You're too much… fine. I'll support you, but don't do anything reckless! Not this time!" She scolded, pointing a finger at him.

"Don't worry, I won't." Natsu responded with a small grin, and looked one last time towards Happy before turning around and jumping onto the edge of the hole and out of it.

As Natsu came back out, he saw the green-skinned figure floating above a hole under him with arms crossed. His scar decorated face held a smirk as he stared down at the fire Dragonslayer's glare.

Off to the side, behind several bushes, a woman with raven colored hair was crouched on her knees as she looked past the leaves, observing the scene ahead of her. Ultear had been surprised by the sudden ambush, thinking she was caught off guard and quickly hid in the shrubs a few feet away with a man in tow. That man, Ultear looked to her left to see the Black Wizard Zeref, unconscious from their battle just a short while ago.

'Luck must be on my side… I need to get Zeref back to Master Hades.' Ultear thought in her head, moving towards the Black Wizard and getting ready to carry him once more.

However, as she went to grab Zeref's arm, the green-skinned figure spoke up.

"Just having you won't be as entertaining, why don't we let more join in?"

As those words were said, Ultear snapped her eyes back towards him, only to see his arm aimed at her while his sight was still towards the Fairy Tail members. Light emitted in his palm before a beam shot out of it. Instincts on full alert, the Time Mage grabbed Zeref with both of her hands and rolled away, only for the impact of the Ki blast near her to accelerate her movement with dust and debris surrounding her.

Natsu was caught off guard, seeing the green-skinned person fire off a blast away from them, only for him and Lucy, who peeked her head out of the hole, to see Ultear rolling out of the blast with an unconscious Zeref with her. Parts of her clothing were torn and a few scratches on her body were seen. Startled, she shakily stood up with a glare towards the bulky man that had shot the blast.

"Perhaps now it'll be a bit more entertaining." The green figure said boastfully, turning to the side to look at the Fairy Tail members and the lone Grimoire Heart mage. "I wanted to face that one Time Patroller by the shore, but that bastard Turles got to her first. And here I was, hoping for more of them to face."

"Time Patroller?" Natsu repeated.

"Then, you're with the Time Breakers!" Lucy called out, fully getting out of the hole from the ground.

"I have said I affiliate with none! I am the mighty Lord Slug!" The person, now revealed as Slug, shouted as winds were felt from him on both sides. "So entertain me in the meantime."

As Slug's grin was seen from both sides, another person suddenly appeared that Natsu noticed right away to his right, away from everyone else.

"You, you're that guy from the council!" Natsu shouted, accusingly pointing a finger at Doranbalt, who was heavily injured with cuts and bruises and most of his clothes torn.

"Mest wasn't a part of the guild in the first place…?" Lucy quietly said to herself.

'What bad luck, this monster is here as I arrive…' As a heavily panting Dornbalt gritted his teeth at the sight of Slug, he directed his eyes towards the Fairy Tail members. "I can get you all out of here, this island is unsafe with him here!"

"No way, this is our guilds sacred grounds, and if guys like him are gonna come and trespass, then we'll fight them!" Natsu said, refusing Doranbalt's offer.

"... you're insane." Sweat dripped down the council member's face before he saw the Grimoire Heart member at the corner of his eyes, and slightly gasped. Not too surprised at seeing the previous high member council member Ultear, but his attention was mostly on the unconscious black haired man next to her. 'I'm getting an eerie sensation from him… who is that…?'

"Hm, now I remember. You were one of those people in the ships near here. It seems several of you survived." Slug said with his grin still intact, looking at a seemingly random direction that wasn't towards any of the groups.

"We had a couple of ships with several of our soldiers a few miles away from the island… he came out of nowhere and started attacking us. In just a short time, our ships were destroyed, but a majority of us somehow survived." Doranbalt said, keeping a wary eye at Slug.

'The Magic Council was near us…. Why? That might not matter currently, but it really just tells how dangerous this person is.' Lucy thought to herself, quietly observing Doranbalt before looking straight at Slug, and past him, Ultear. 'If we're going to get out of this safely…'

The ground cracked around Slug, and as a bright aura surrounded him, his grin only widened as the three groups prepared themselves.


The ocean waters shot up once more in between the broken icy battlefield, revealing Marissa and Turles once more with the Earthling's knee firmly into the Saiyan's stomach. Marissa grabbed a hold onto the shoulder of his armor and threw him down to one of the broken ice blocks. She landed a few blocks away to see Turles flipping back up with a glare and clenched teeth.

Marrisa's eyes suddenly snapped towards a direction where she felt another large energy signature along with Natsu, Lucy and a few other people she couldn't recognize.

'What…?' She thought in surprise and worry.

'It seems he got impatient.' Turles thought, looking in the same direction where Marissa eyed before he glanced back at her. At the same time she narrowed her eyes, paying attention back at Turles.

"Who else did you bring?" Marissa demanded.

"Who knows, it might be another enemy we don't know about." Turles shrugged, feigning ignorance.

"Bastard…" The Earthling cursed under her breath and glanced back at the mages battle that was happening around her.

While Erza and Mirajane were able to keep up with the powered up Zancrow, Hikaru, and Rustyrose, the rest of the wizards were continuously going back and forth. However, Fairy Tail easily had the upper hand against the Grimoire Heart soldiers.

'I don't have to worry too much about them… Erza's and Mirajane's training really are paying off against the enemy.' Marissa observed in her mind.

As the battle continued, the area around them started to shake even the waters they were standing on. Mostly everyone stopped in wonder until a very large tree trunk sprouted from the both sides of the cliffs above the beach and icy field. With magic in the works, the trees met in the air above the battlefield, melding their ends with each other until it was formed into one. Everybody watched as a person appeared out of the tree trunk with crossed arms, and he was revealed to be a dark skinned man, looking down at the battle below him.

"It's Azuma!" One of the Grimoire Heart soldiers called out.

"He's the one from earlier…" Erza muttered under her panting breath.

"He's strong as well… but compared to them…" Mirajane said, looking at the newly arrived Kin before back to the others influenced from the fruit.

'What is going on here…? Our ship is practically wedged in the ocean and ice, all of our soldiers are losing ground, and those three…' Azuma thought, looking at Rustyrose, Hikaru, and Zancrow who displayed odd behavior. 'What happened to them?'

"Is he on the enemies side as well…?" Marissa muttered, glancing behind her.

"Pretty confident to take your eyes away from me, aren't you?" Turles voiced out, and the Earthling redirected her sights at him just in time to leap away. He jumped while bringing both his hands in front of him as a large ring formed from his Ki began expanding all the while having static around it. Marissa saw this with a small gasp, and brought out her arms as Turles fired off his Kill Driver towards her.

Marissa crashed further into the ice and back to the side Fairy Tail was in front of several of the members, feeling her body being more numb than before she was hit previously.

"This is so annoying…" Marissa said through her teeth, shakily trying to get up. She winced a bit as she also felt pain from her left forearm, and held a skin torn wound with her opposite hand. 'First my leg now my arm, cool.'

'Who is that? He seems to be against Fairy Tail but doesn't appear to be with us.' Azuma eyed Turles carefully, observing his armor, scouter, and the grin on his face as he paid attention to Mariss with crossed arms. 'But if he is fighting against Fairy Tail…'

'I guess I can take it up a notch. It's going to hurt a bit though.' Marissa thought as she was now fully standing up. She took a deep breath, open and closed her hands repeatedly while getting used to the pain in the left leg at the same time as she stretched it a bit.

KAIO-KEN!

Red aura erupted around the Earthling as she gritted her teeth. With a glare towards Turles, she dashed towards him with immense speed, kicking the Saiyan straight in his abdomen with her right foot. Surprised, Turles was caught off guard, and spat out saliva as he was sent flying back towards several groups of Grimoire Heart soldiers and into the ocean once again through the ice.

"Interesting, to think there was someone like you with this much power in them." Azuma called out, trying to hide the surprise in his voice as he just witnessed a strength from a young girl.

"And who are you?" Marissa asked, looking to her right towards him as her maroon aura dissipated.

"I am Azuma. One of the Seven Kins of Purgatory of Grimoire Heart." Azuma introduced.

"Marissa." The Time Patroller simply responded cautiously with narrowed eyes towards him, her senses still keeping track of Turles underwater. She still held her left forearm while keeping her left leg slight lifted up to avoid any further pain.

'Marissa… I do not sense any magic within her, but the person Ultear described was a male by the name of Yusuke Yasai that had incredible strength as well without the use of magic. She never mentioned this person.' Azuma thought in his head, observing the Earthling calculatingly.

Shouting and yelling can be heard and several looked to see Zancrow, Hikaru and Rustyrose continuing their attack against Erza and Mirajane. At the same time, water shot up from the ocean once more to reveal an angered Turles, glaring daggers at Marissa with clenched teeth.

"I'll kill you…!" Turles shouted, prompting Marissa's attention away from Azuma and fully back at the Saiyan.

'Zancrow, Hikaru, and Rustyrose are acting strange… ' Titania' Erza Scarlet and 'The Demon' Mirajane Strauss, their magic power is more incredible than I imagined. However…' With closed eyes, Azuma let out a quiet sigh as he referred to an internal timer in his thoughts. "It's almost time…"

A large shaking occurred within the surrounding area which soon grew larger that some had to balance themselves. Slowly, several of the Fairy Tail members grew weak in their knees until some had to collapse on the ground.

Within Tenrou Island, the large tree seen from afar began to collapse.


Trying my best to get more creative the more I diverge from the canon. Some aspects in canon will be taken into account, it's just a matter of incorporating it the next few chapters alongside the xenoverse attribute as well. Hope you enjoyed!

Now, regarding the future of FTXV.

Despite it being so rarely updated nowadays, I try to say to myself to work on this every day, and when I do, it's only a few sentences and lines and I'm trying to get that spark back. I do still have motivation up until the Grand Magic Games, and I do plan on going that far. So if, by chance, anyone is worried that FTXV might be ending way earlier than that, don't be. On the days that I was not able to sit down for a few hours writing up this chapter I thought about what to go about the GMG arc and before that and that has kept me wanting to continue.

And it will.

But before that is the story after the Tenrou arc. A few years ago I wanted to try my take on a RWBYverse sequel but that fire has died down, and that idea is scrapped. I'm hoping to get some feedback for this since it's something new I wanted to try that can potentially get me updating more frequently. With this talk of going into another verse after the Tenrou arc, you might have an idea of how I'm going about this but I won't say too much since I've had this idea from the start, but the other type of thing to make as a sequel would be this one thing I want opinions on.

Dragon Age: Origins

I have thought about how to go about it involving, uh, certain time patrollers into this after the Tenrou arc and I feel like I could make it work. But the idea of splitting off from the FTverse will most likely happen. I do want to get one thing straight as well:

The seven year timeskip in Fairy Tail will still be happening.

I'll admit I am kinda guilty with playing some Dragon Age: Origins a few months back but after playing it, 2 and DA:I, I want to dive into it. But just Origins. Some things might get taken out, in a Dragonball-esque viewpoint, and I have a layout to go about it already in my head. After doing so, then we go right back into the FTverse and continue on from there. It WILL be canon to FTXV when I do this and how I want to go about with the future of this story. So hopefully, some readers and followers can nod their head at this and ride along the journey with me.

Also, if anyone remembers my OCs Grusbalesta and Lilias from that small arc I did in chapters 48 and 49, they were originally going to be apart of that RWBYxXV sequel but it's no problem involving them with the DA:OxXV story as well, so they will be in it.

Another idea would have been Bleach, but I'm on not sure if that would be a good idea.

Anyway, that's what I wanted to say and hopefully I get a good amount of feedback for anyone still reading my story up to today. I'm sorry once again for such a long update to happen in this story and once again, I'll do my best to get the next chapter out soon. Thank you so so much to those following and favoriting my story and those who still enjoy it, I really appreciate all of you.

If I could, I really do wish I could make this whole COVID pandemic disappear, it's really killing the vibe from everyone around the planet. I sincerely hope the rest of you are safe out there in the middle of all of this!

Until then.

Timestamp: December 7th, 2020.