Chapter 22: The flames of Density
(A/N: Fixed a power level error with Victor Heartfilla from the last chapter, i had his "Bloodlusted '' power level when he's beyond enraged, yeah big mistake there on my part. As you know Victor Heartfilla is stronger than you think and you would find out later.)
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail
January 31, X390
Irene's POV
A whole week passed and there has been an outbreak in demon attacks across Ishgal. Almost demon experts like Veronica Staruss, most demons that exist live secluded away from humans either in faraway places like Galuna Island or in Demon realms normally impossible to reach by humans. The demons were comparably smaller as an army to that of Dragonv or Fiore's Army but they made up for it in power, even the lowest class of demons were exponentially stronger than a normal human, however, what was making them resort to guerrilla-style tactics is the fact that the demon race has been weakened for hundreds of years and was now weaker than dragons and Dragonv was the one country keeping the demons at bay for the moment.
I was unable to return to Dragonv due to Noah's poisoning causing a major detour with the 12 warriors to have Belserion take over my position leading in my absence. I sent several speed pigeons to Dragonv requesting for 500 dragons to form a search party for the demons and to suppress demon attacks across Ishgal, the draconic senses should help sniff out these demons and we can deal with them assuming the dragons don't kill them off by the time we're there. Demon attacks are occurring across the continent, we need to protect those innocent people while also finding their base of operations. Get Igneel and Metaliciana scout out and find the location of where the demons were coming from. Send Zeusei as muscle to protect Fiore in the absence of their queen Sabre, also send Skidadrum and Wessilogia were sent to protect Grandeenedy and Vemonsiky in Zen. Altas Flames will remain here to protect this country with you."
Bei Kingdom, Fiore-Seven-Bosco Border
All of the Fiary 12 gathered together within the village of the Bei Tribe, the small village would eventually become the country's capital. Noah has been within the village for the last few days. We were recovering from the battle as well. The Tarartus demons were far stronger than I was expecting. I got a letter from Zen about family recovery. They've worked on a cure so far and it seems like my family might be out of the woods.
"How's your family doing?" Victor asked me.
"In good hands thanks to Grandeeney, had it not been for her medicinal abilities, they would be long dead," I answered back at him.
"My prayers go out to them, may god protect those souls." he replied hoping my family makes a breakthrough. "Any luck on Noah?"
"Not much, the healer of the village has been gathering herbs at the mountainside, the healer should be back soon." Victor answered.
"Gathering herbs within the Boundary Forest? That's very dangerous.
"She has her security detail with her, powerful warriors of the Bei Tribe protect her daily. For now, we need to make sure more innocent people are protected.
"So what's the plan, Pope?" I asked him.
"The demons are attacking churches across the country, they're searching for the clock pieces. Going from the intel I gained from the intel divisions, they're trying to find the locations of the Six Clock Pieces, which we have hidden deep within the churches. Our priority is to hunt down the demons, intercept their attacking armies, destroy them and capture any remaining to get intel of the enemy location. Once we do that, we're going to go to the Six churches where the clock pieces are at and relocate them to more secure locations."Victor explained the game plan to us,
"We should be trying to get back the sacred tenrou orb first." Nel said impatiently.
"In due time, we can't get that back until we find the location of the Tatarus demons." Victor replied.
"These bastards are going to pay for stealing the sacred orbs." Nel shouted.
"Calm down we're going to get it back, we need to find out where they're at, dad any clue where they might be located." Anna asked her while trying to calm down Nel.
"What will we do until then?" I asked them.
"We gotta wait until Noah recovers in order to pursue Tartarus. Stay in the village, for now, interact with the locals, we're going to be relaxing and gathering supplies for now." Victor answered.
We then encountered a middle-aged man at the gate of the village. He was a man with a golden crown on his head with shoulder-length brown hair and was wearing oval-rimmed glasses. He also wore dark robes under a pale cloak. He also wears gold bangles on his right arm.
"Hello Victor, welcome to the future kingdom of Bei." the elder said to him.
"Glad to meet you again Kalard"Victor replied.
Little did we know the enemy was planning to target this village and we were walking into a trap.
Meanwhile in the Cube.
3rd person POV
Torafruzar lies to the cube on top of one of the demons to give them an intel message
"Boss we failed to find the location of the Clock Piece, However, we have recovered the location of one of our two sacrificial pieces, we also found the location of the ancient sealing stone called the Phoenix Stone and are looking for a pure-hearted human sacrifice" Torafuzar explained to the Demon Lord Mard Geer.
"I also was able to take one of the Fairy 12 out of the fight as well, the strongest one to my memory that is. The forces are recovering from the battle within the town too."
"Excellent job Torafruzer and Brandman, with that we can further put our plan into action. With the Bei Tribe princess as a sacrifice to the Phoenix and with the Heartfilia Heiress as a sacrifice to the Infinity Clock, we would combine the power of both of them and use the Tenrou Orb to control both powers to create our Ultimate weapon….END." Mard Geer explained his motives to his army.
"What is the next plan of attack?" Seliah asked him.
"Using the Hench Demons is a waste of time, the Tenrou Island fight proved they're too powerful for these hench demons, those hench demons could be killed potentially by a High-Class Mage alone, instead it's time we all attack as one and show them the might of the Tartarus Guild." Mard Ger said to his guild as the cheered the idea.
Bei Village, Bei Kingdom, Fiore-Seven-Bosco Border
3rd Person POV
The Bei Kingdom was a small kingdom that was undergoing major construction at the time. An area roughly the size of Crocus was being under construction has been in play for the last few years. Wooden constructed houses were sprawling near the infamous Boundary Forest. It's believed that the Bei Kingdom had a large number of Monster Tamers and hence why they've been protected for hundreds if not thousands of years from outsiders.
The main village which was becoming a city overtime was the village of Runio, the village at this point was barely bigger than Rosemary village with roughly 1,500 people living there, however, the city was expanding rapidly, there was a development area surrounding the village roughly the size of was a castle being constructed as well to make it an official kingdom, it's believed that within 3-5 years, Bei would resemble the typical Ishgillain Kingdom as opposed to a small collection of isolated Native nomad villages.
At the center of the village stood the ceremonial stone circle known as Bei Circle. Within this circle were two ring-shaped stones, the arce wide religious gathering was said to exist for over 5,000 years dating the Bei tribe over 5,000 years making them one of the earliest civilizations in Isghal. Until now they lived in isolation here. The flame that burns at the center of the shrine is said to be the flames of the Phoenix, a legendary mythical creature that was the god of resurrection.
Various accounts of what occurred that day played within my memory on what the others were doing. Eric and Rick were flirting with the girls within the village, being the perverted duo they're known for and getting themselves in trouble of course.
"Hey, ladies, plenty of us for all of you" Eric said to them while drunk.
"Somebody better call God, because he's missing an angel. Rick said to the village girls only for Anna to hit them both on the head.
"Behave, we're in a country and culture different from our own. I don't need you guys getting killed here." Anna said to the two.
"I knew you cared for us"Eric said to her as Eric groped one of her boobs angering her. She looked him in the eyes and kneed him in the balls" he grabbed his balls before falling to his knees, "why?" his voice several octaves higher
"I saved you because it would be a shame you die before you went to trial in Zentopia, remember you degenerates are under investigation." Anna replied harshly to them.
"Sorry, couldn't resist those massive melons, i love to be the lucky man to have their heads between those sweet bossoms." Eric stated with his shameless perversion , he then felt a glaring aura as Victor appeared behind him glaring at him with blue demonic eyes
"Did I hear a degenerate trying to go with my sweet princess?" Victor said to him only for Eric and Rick to turn pale as they've seen ghosts.
"No sir, not at all!" both of them said under fear they're going to be killed on the spot.
"Thanks, dad, buffoons like this is why alcohol should be outlawed." Anna said strictly.
"If we ban alcohol, we have to ban wine as well and wine is the blood of the Messiah." Victor said to his daughter.
"You have a point, still Wine is the blood of the Holy one, these people are drinking Satan Juice." Anna replied.
"Lighten up, nothing wrong getting drunk every once and while" Kinata said to Anna as she appeared with several bottles of hard liquor"The Beis really love drinking" she said to them as she drank down a whole bottle of Whiskey in seconds.
"I sooner be dead than drunk!" Anna replied back to her as she drank her tea.
"She has a point,'' says Irene coming up behind them you really need to loosen up a bit. You're too strict, too much stress would cause you to become sick." Irene said to Anna as she grabbed her hand and danced with her.
Anna and Irene were both dancing with each other.
"It's a bit weird dancing with a woman." Anna said to the Queen of Dragons.
"We're like sisters, it's okay, would you prefer to dance with those perverts?" Irene asked her as she pointed at Rick and Eric both dancing with Kinata.
"You boys are both good on the groove, i gotta be careful before you snatch me from my fiance." Kinata giggled as she teased the two men while she danced with them.
"Point there, still where's this Princess at? we've been waiting all day for her and she's yet to appear." Anna asked her friend.
"She should be coming here any minute." Irene replied only to be proven right as the people stopped dancing and the folk music stopped playing.
"My daughter has appeared." the village elder said to us as she walked into the village
She was a slender young woman of average height with amber-colored eyes. She had moderately brown hair which extends down her back and is normally tied up at the back while her forehead is framed by several bangs. She wore an outfit that was a traditional custom of the Bei tribe designed with a primarily scarlet color scheme while framed around the side with a yellow, white and orange pattern-like design and a white choli worn underneath. Her body is adorned with jewelry such as golden bangles worn around the wrists of both her arms, gold brassards worn on the middle of both her upper arms as well as gold anklets worn above her ankles and brown sandals. These jewels were worth at least a small fortune .
"Greetings travelers, welcome to the Bei Kingdom." said the young woman.
"Princess Eclair, we meet again." Victor said to her.
"Nice to meet our friends from Fiore,Anna nice to meet you again." eclair said to Anna as she shook her hand. Anna was speechless.
"Something wrong Anna?" Victor asked her.
"Nothing dad, just a bit tired out. It's been years since we've seen each other, you're grown up quite well." Anna said to her.
"Same to you Anna Heartfilla, I heard of your adventures. I wish to learn Celestial Spirit Mage since I was a kid. Hearing how you surpassed the legendary Celestial Spirit Mage Jade Leona is a testament to your legendary skills.
"Sadly i can't teach you how to be a good celestial mage, being a good celestial mage takes time and patience and also takes a strong bond with the spirits you have. Besides you're still a great mage on your own thanks to your unique healing abilities.
"I see, you came here for a reason. Who needs healing?" she asked them.
"Noah Clive, a mage that came from Fiore." said the Village elder.
"Very well then, let me come to him and heal him." She said to them as she went into the tent where Noah was and saw him in pain due to the poisoning." Looks like he's pretty bad, how did he survive so long heavily poisoned? This man is unlike anyone I've seen before. Anyways time to do this." Eclair said to them as she put her hands over his chest and went to exert a green aura around his body, the same way Grandeeney heals her patients.
"She's healing the same way as Grandeenedy," I said to them.
Noah was feeling better however he was still down.
"I can only remove so much poison, the poison is unlike anything we've dealt with before." Eclair said to us.
"Is he going to be okay?" Victor asked her.
"For now, however, I need to work on making an andiotie of the poison, otherwise he would struggle with this poison again. I only suppressed the poison for now." Eilciar said to us.
"I see, thankfully I know someone who's dealt with this poison already. I'll send a carrier pigeon to Grandeenny to give her the message that once she's done treating my family of the poison, she can fly here to give Noah the antidote " Irene explained to Eilcair.
"What poisoned him this badly?" she asked the queen of dragons.
"It was demons beyond anything we fought known as Taurus."Victor answered over Irene before she could answer.
'"I thought demons were dormant ."Kalard said to Victor.
"These demons were man-made, they've been created to develop a superweapon capable of threatening the world." Irene explained to the princess.
"That can't be good, should we worry?" Eclair asked them.
"These demons are stopping at nothing to get to the point to destroy humanity, thankfully as long as we know the locations of the Infinity Clock pieces. Once we get Noah cured, we're going to intercept and relocate the clock pieces. I thank you all for helping us at this time of need."
"You're welcomed to return anytime." Kinard replied.
"We're probably going to be here for a few days, let's hope we make it in time." Victor replied.
Meanwhile, Nel was alone just thinking about nothing but getting the orb back. Where Irene appears.
"What do you want Dragon Bitch?" Nel said to her with a growl.
"Want a drink?"Irene asked her offering her some wine
"Sure." Nel answered as she took the wine skin and drank from it."What do you want?"
"What's so special about that Tenrou Orb ?" Irene asked her.
"It's the life source of the entire Island. It hides our Island to outsiders unless they've been blessed by a Fairy Monarch, it also provides us with near-infinite Ethernano that keeps the Tenrou Tree it absorbs Etenerano and bestows divine protection to faires, in short, we're virtually immortal and can't die of old age and as long as we're on the island with the Jade, we would be hard to kill while at the same time enhancing our Magic Power, allowing us to grow stronger the more energy we absorbed. It also repels evil and absorbs Evil energy away from the island."
"Sounds like an incredible Orb, no wonder Tararus is after this." Irene said, shocked by how much power it has.
"I only care about getting the orb back, once we destroy those demons don't expect us to be friends after this. I refuse to fight for Dragonv or dragons." Nel stated as she was unwilling to be friends.
Meanwhile, Linda was watching Ernejack and Lexile arm wrestle when Veronica appeared.
"You really love Erenjack don't you? Why do you want him so badly?" Veronica asked her.
"Because he's an incredible man, he saved my life when we were doing the Magical certification exam to become a mage recognized by the government. We were in the dreaded Agia forest, the land of the Cerberus Bears, when I got lost in the forest, he came and saved my life by beating down those bears. That was over 9 years ago. Since that day me and him have been best friends but I want to be even more with him." Linda explained her feelings for Erenjack.
"He does seem like a very nice man, when we make it out of this situation you should confess your love to him, I would love to be the one to take your wedding vows." Veronica stated.
"You would?" Linda asked her.
"Of course, I always wanted to do a wedding ceremony." Veronica stated.
"I would love to have you at the wedding." Linda replied.
Meanwhile, Erenjack and Lexiel are arm wrestling each other, Erenjack was at the losing end.
"Pttt, you're pathetic, you can't ever hope to tap that queen's ass." Lexiel laughed at him as he was close to pinning Erenjack's arm.
"What do you mean tap her ass? She's not a piece of meat asshole, besides we're just friends." Erenjack replied, denying any feelings for Irene.
"Don't lie, I've seen you looking at that perfect heart-shaped ass, admit it you would tap that." Lexiel started with his blatant perversion.
"You're a real piece of shit, you don't deserve to marry her!" Erenjack shouted.
"Tough shit, once this is all over, I'm making the Queen of dragons my bitch. Hell might throw that big boobed goddess Anna into the Harem once I get strong enough to beat that Pope and maybe muscle out that Cina fiance of Kinata's, so I can have 3 wives to sit on my throne. Hell maybe we throw in that Linda bitch, she won't be too shy once she's on my d..." Lexiel said with his crude language. This enraged Erenjack as out of nowhere, he punched Lexiel with his left arm.
"You're a real piece of shit. You can bully me, treat me like shit, even take my coins but when you treat my friends like pieces of meat, I can't let that slide."Erenjack glared at him, however, he sees Lexiel stand up really enraged.
"You have some nerve punching me you pitiful man." Lexiel replied as he punched Erenjack much harder into a table."You see, women don't want weak nice guys like you, they want a real man who would put them in their place." Leixel lecherous stated as he laughed at Erenjack.
"You're wrong, no woman wants a lecherous asshole like you who only sees them as your personal toys.." Erenjack replied as he punched him back, surprisingly Leixel with the force of his punch as he's knocked back.
"Didn't know I got it in you, did I strike a nerve with you? Was it when I mentioned I was going to plow my hoe into that whore?" Lexiel laughed,
;'I'm done having you as a teammate, we fight!" Erenjack shouted as he summoned his hammer.
"You need your toy to fight me, I don't need weapons unlike you puny fucks in Dragonv." Lexiel replied as he flexed his muscles making his arms twice as big.
"Enough you two!" Victor glared at the two of them."We're supposed to be teammates, save your quarrels for when we finish fighting the Tartarus Army, otherwise, I have to discipline both of you." Victor said to the two of them scaring both to stop fighting. Erenjack was visibly frightened whereas Lexiel was stoic and played it off acting as if he wasn't scared.
"Whatever, this isn't worth my time old man. One day I'm going to take your daughter and make her my wife along with the Dragon Queen. Once we're done with this war, I'm going to battle you for your daughter's hand in marriage."Lexiel said to the Pope.
"You disrespectful brute, remember I'm the one who decides which marriages are valid. You would never marry anyone as long as I'm Pope." Victor shouted at him.
"Too bad I don't follow your pathetic religion with your weak messiah who let himself get killed by puny humans. If it was our god, he would've burned that fucking country down to the last living being." Leixel replied only to be slapped by Anna herself.
"You are not worthy of ever holding Irene's hand or any woman's hand." Anna shouted at him as she left.
"Whatever i'm getting sleep, once i'm done with this shit, i'm getting myself my harem sandwich." Lexiel replied as he walked away.
Victor regained his composure and walked to Irene along with Anna as well as Erenjack.
"You can't marry that man!" Anna shouted at her.
"I know, though i don't know how to get out of this." Irene repiled.
"You should've thought of that before fucking doing it, thanks to you, you're stuck with that asshole." Anna shouted.
"Let's worry about the mission before anything right now, with all of us along with Noah, we can get him off me anyways. He's not foolish to start a war with several countries at once." Irene stated.
"You're unbelievable Irene, you're reckless knows no bounds"Anna shouted as she walked away from her.
"I apologize for losing my temper." Victor said apologizing for his temper, the normally stoic pope had too much of Lexiel's shit.
It's okay Pope, there's a limit to how much we can tolerate from people."I replied.
Anna meanwhile was alone feeling down from the idea Irene is forced to marry Lexiel, decides to enter the springs to relax When Eclair the hot springs.
"You look down."Eclair said to Anna as she stripped down naked.
"My Best friend is going to marry some asshole prince who doesn't deserve it."Anna answered as Eclair entered the hot springs.
"You care for her don't you?" Eclair asked her.
"She's a fool who acts before she thinks but yes I care for her alot. One of these days, she's going to create a problem that she can't fix and will ruin her life forever and there would be nothing I can do to help her." Anna said she was concerned for her best friend.
"She seems like an incredibly brave woman, much like you."Eclair said to her.
"We've been so close to each other, since the day we met, i felt like we were like sisters from separate kingdoms. Perhaps even closer than that!" Anna explained to her only to see Eicliar behind her holding her close from behind making Anna nervous .
"You're such a beautiful woman, I can see why you two are close." Eclair said to her only to be pushed off.
"You're way too close! People see us, this would be a very bad look. I'm not going to be falsely acussed of being a homosexual." Ana said to her upset she was behind her.
"My apologies, you were giving off a vibe when you said closer than friends. I was merely testing if you were open to the idea." Eilcair said to her.
"I don't know how things work in your kingdom but in Fiore, it's unholy to be with another woman. You're far too good to be a degenerate." Anna stated disgusted by the idea of being with another woman.
"My apologies, I just wanted to hug you that's all. I don't want to risk any diplomatic issues with our differing cultures. Is that okay?" Eicliar asked her.
"I guess a hug won't hurt, after all we're closely connected culture-wise," Anna replies as she goes to hug her with both their boobs pressed against each other causing her to blush, she then pushes her off. "Maybe not!" Anna said nervously as she was red in the face. She can't stop staring at Ecilair's body "I gotta go to the owl house." Anna said to Eiclar as she rushed out of the hotsprings.
In the woods near the village, Anna was feeling heated.
"No, no no, this can't be happening. Why me of all people? Did I for that brief moment desire the flesh of another woman." Anna said to herself as she prayed alone in the woods"Oh God almighty, protect me from the devils trying to take my soul." Anna said to herself as she prayed to herself when all of a sudden she heard a voice.
"What you're doing master," said a woman with her deep voice.
She sees the woman, it was a busty, voluptuous woman with massive breasts, long Pink hair with bangs covering her eye with a whip in her hand with her medieval brothel outfit exposing her cleavage with no bra on with very thin panties that are showing from the miniskirt while having long leather boots and leather gloves.
"Virgo! What the holy hell happened to you, Virgo? You didn't look like the same person before. Why do you look like Irene? Hell, why do you sound like Irene? " Anna shouted shocked to see her.
"Don't you remember, I take the desire of anything my master desires to remember? You desire a very sexually dominant woman who is shameless and loves doing forbidden stuff " Virgo said to her with a Corlanto tone similar to a certain mage.
"No, i can't be gay! I just can't be! It's wrong ! Turn into a man !" Anna panicked.
"Sorry but that's not how my powers work. Unless you desire a man, you can't turn me into a man. Besides isn't this the kind of woman you prefer? " Virgo said to Anna as she grabs Anna to try to kiss her but pushes her off with two crosses in her hands.
"I compel you demon!" Anna shouted.
"Oh how kinky!" Virgo smiled as she licked her lips.
"I can't be gay...I'm the daughter of the Pope" Anna shouted panicking right now.
"Listening to yourself is only going to hurt yourself in the long run. How long do you intend to run away from who you are? To be a true Celestial Spirit Mage, one must be truly inbound with their Celestial Spirits. Don't deny who you are Anna" Virgo smiled at her as she got closer.
"You filthy degenerate, how dare you accuse your master of the worst crime possible? lying in bed with someone who has the same genitals as you is how you get killed. Also, what would my father think?" Anna shouted as she was frightened.
"Dragonv exists for a reason, conveniently the woman you love also runs it. They turn a blind eye to this kind of stuff." Virgo explained to her.
"But I don't wish to leave my friends and family in Fiore, besides I can't break my faith with Zentopia. The Great Messiah is how good things come to be." Anna replied.
"Oh don't make me laugh with this religious can't hide what's inside you." Virgo said to her.
"HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY FAITH? You can deny god when you're a fucking Celestial Spirit?"Anna shouted at her.
"Temper, I thought you were a church-going woman, what's with the profanity? Do I have to spank you." Virgo replied teasing her.
"My apologies but keep in mind i saved you from sexual slavery did i not?" Anna said to her, reminding her.
"You forget I'm a masochist right? I love being dominated and mistreated. Granted that establishment was terrible and i didn't like how they abused other women but i don't mind being beaten up and choked, hell those things get me off. Since I was so disrespectful, how are you going to punish good old me ?"Virgo said to her master as she bent down to get spanked.
"If you insist! Repent for god Heaton " Anna replied as she took out a paddle and slapped her ass with it, she kept hitting her with the paddle but her face turned red and then she dropped it.
"Come on church girl, do I have to show, how to do it myself? Because whether it's me dominating or dominated, I enjoy this side of myself."Virgo replied.
"I'm sending you back!" Anna replied embarrassed at what she went through, however, she realizes Eclair was observing her.
"So you really do desire her?" Eclair asked her.
"How long have you been watching me? "Anna answered with a question.
"Enough, listen I won't pursue you anymore. I know you have someone special in your heart however don't be afraid to tell that person your feelings." Eicliar explained to the Archbishop.
"It's just not right, there has to be a way to fix this! I'm Cardinal of Zentopia, being gay is a sin. How can i be gay?I pray every day, i do everything right, how did the gay get me?" Anna said as she was having a meltdown panicking.
"But if I'm correct, the Messiah would forgive you for your sins. Am I correct? " Eiclar asked her.
"It's not that simple.I killed countless people like me, if they found out, my life would be over, my father would disown me, I would lose my career, my job, my family. My followers would hunt me down and rape me before killing me. Everything is going to shit." Anna shouted as she cried, fearing coming out."I failed, I'm not a pure soul. My soul is damned to hell." Anna shouted as she was really breaking down.
"I have a way to cure you, just stand still!" Eclair said to Anna as she blew some powder on Anna and knocked her out with the spray. "I apologize for bringing out feelings you didn't want outed, when you wake up, this entire conversation and your secret would just be a horrible nightmare."Eclair said to the now passed out Anna.
She takes Anna to a house and puts her in bed there and tucks her in and walks out of the house where Victor appeared.
"Have you seen my daughter?" he asked Eclair.
"She's asleep in that house there, she got tired of being in the hot springs." Eclair answered.
"I wanted to ask, does anyone within the village know how to fight?" Victor asked her.
"Sorry, but we don't have much in the way of forces. We just have a basic security force mainly for hunting and gathering and a small police force to capture criminals, the Bei Tribe dislikes fighting altogether. The divine Phoenix protects the village from monsters and they haven't had to worry about anyone for thousands of years."Eclair explained to Victor.
"Get Anna up, we're about to do the village ceremony, your father wants you to do the Phoenix dance."Victor stated.
"Right!" Eclair replied as she went to wake up Anna.
"Wake up!" Eclair said to Anna as Anna woke up.
"What happened?... Oh god, I had a terrible nightmare. .What's up?" Anna said to her shaken by the "Nightmare".
"It's time for the Phoenix ritual."Eclair said to her.
"Okay then, thanks for waking me up, those hot springs always put me to sleep." Anna replied as she walked into the Bei Circle where the ritual began.
Minutes later we were all within the sacred Phoenix Fire within the Middle of the village attending the flames were so hot that while the rest of the village was covered in snow, the Bei Circle was warm as not an inch of snow was around the Bei Circle.
"Welcome our guests to the Bei Circle, you came within the right day as this is the 5,001st Anniversary of the formation of the Bei Tribe and Bel Circle to honor the spirit of the Phoenix that has protected our people for over 200 generations. Princess Eclair, do the ritual dance." Kalard said to the guests as Eclair came out within a golden helmet shaped like an eagle with some feathers coming out as she did her dance.
The music played as she danced with such rhythm and grace unseen by anyone before.
"She moves like the wind!" Irene said to everyone.
"I haven't seen anyone move like that,"Anna said to them.
"This is the type of ritual passed down for 200 generations, watch as you witness history." Victor replied.
Irene saw Lena there and she looked sad.
"Something wrong Lena? You been too quiet all night." Irene asked her.
"I miss my family, I miss my tribe...I wish they were all here." Lena anwsered.
"It's okay Lena, we're you're family here. I miss my parents as well." Irene said to her as she hugged
"I wish there was a way to bring them all back. Damn us for making Nirvana, I curse the fact we ever made that infernal weapon."Lena said to them as tears come down her eyes.
"If there's anyone to blame, I should be the one to blame, I gave Robual the idea for the weapon. In our effort to give ourselves the weapon to help prevent wars, we almost ended up desotrying the one of the many sisns and burdens within my long life." Victor explained to Lena as he looked down on himself.
"It's all the more reason we can't let Tarartos sucedeeed with END, If we had anything close to as bad as Nirvana, we're all in trouble."Anna replied.
"I won't let anyone face the despair that I faced when I lost the Nrvirt tribe. we will stop Tararos" Lena repiled with conviction and codifence in her tone.
Meanwhile up on a hill away from the village, the Tartaros demons assembled
"So what's the plan here?" Kyouka asked.
"Let's wear them down a bit!"Selaih answered.
"Why not just come and blast them to bits?"Jackal stated.
"We can chop them all up." Ezekiel said to them agreeing with Jackal.
"Fools, there are far too many powerful mages there, if we try to go in without a plan,we can get killed like what happened to Tempster, speaking of which how you're doing Tempester.?" Torafuzar asked him.
"I don't remember anything that happened, all I know is that I was able to regenerate." Tempster replied as his mind was virtually blank.
"Sadly the same can't be said for Deiloria, that fool charged in blindly, getting himself killed to the point there's no chance we can ever revive him. What a fool." Lullaby said to the rest.
"We can't afford to take any chances, Seilah, get the Bosco Knight Corp to attack the village, we would wear them down, once we do so, we're going to swoop in and take the two targets and leave, kill as many as you can if not all of them. We need to do this quickly before Dragonv sends reinforcements." Mard Geer said to his minions as he gave the orders.
"Very well then, time for me to have some fun here"Seilahh replied. as she closed her book.
Back at the festival
People were dancing when suddenly a man dropped to the ground.
"What the?"Irene shouted only to see a rain of arrows come towards them.
"We're being attacked!"Anna shouted as the arrows rained down,killing dozens of people at the Bei Circle.
"What's happening?" Eclair shouted in horror.
"Get back princess we'll protect you!" said one of the guards as they shot fireballs towards the Boscan Knights attacking Only to be attacked and cut down too however Irene slashed down the Boscan Knights.
"Why is Bosco attacking us? Aren't we allies?" Irene shouted as Victor.
"Something isn't right here, there's something off about those soldiers."Erenjack started as the soldiers had only a blue glow to their eyes.
"Sand Wave"Lena chanted as she blasted the soldiers with a wave of sand however they still kept charging at her despite being injured."These guys are being enchanted and mind controlled "
"It's like the Berserker enchantment someone's trying to kill us. Those soldiers are being forced to fight." Irene shouted. "Get everyone to safety,we're going to defend this village." Irene said to Kalard and Eclair.
"We would!" the both replied as they went to escort the innocents out of her.
"So we're dealing with an army of enhanced soldiers? " Eric stated.
"Any plans?" Rick asked the queen.
"Whoever is controlling us is trying to spark a intentional incident with our neighbors This is much like the Human Subordination Magic in Bosco almost a year ago, we gotta beat them unconscious without risk killing them.
"Screw that, they killed people, I say we kill them back." Lexiel stated.
"Now's not the time, we must avoid more war than we need, we have enough to deal with."Victor repiled.
"We need to render their efforts useless, I find the real caster of the spell and take them out, with my spirits they can resist any human subordination magic so i'll attack them , you guys hold out the front, Irene you do what you can to protect Princess Eclair and her father King Kalard." Anna explained to us as she drew out Virgo, Cancer, Aries and loki, Virgo still resembling a certain redhead."You changed your look Virgo?"
"Like it, master?It suits me well, doesn't it?" Virgo asked her.
"Looks like we're fighting side by side," Sir Loki said to Aires.
"Uh yeah, hopefully i do alright, I'm a bit clumsy," Aires repiled.
"Loki you come with me as defense, Aires you help slow down the enemy forces doing what you do best, Cancer, disarm and disrobe as many enemies as you can, Virgo, dig through any defenses and weapon installments and take them out." Anna comannded her sprits.
"Right" the spirits replied as they split up.
Anna and Loki go to search for the source of the mind control. Meanwhile, Aires is using her wool walls to slow down enemy advancements and weaken the enemy, Aires uses her hand to hand skills to take out dozens of soldiers while civilians flee.
"Hopefully that slows them down enough!" Aires said to herself as she built a wall around the village that is 30 feet high of magic draining wool wall to protect the village and keep advancing soldiers out.
Meanwhile outside the village were several Trebuchets and Ballistas fully loaded and launching giant spears like flaming arrows and flaming boulders into the village. Virgo uses her digging powers to tunnel under them and collapse the ground and destroy them preventing further destruction to the village.
"That took care of them!" Virgo stated relieved.
Meanwhile Eric and Rick see a battalion of soldiers coming at them , the ones that were already within the city before Aires build the walls
"Ready?" Eric asked.
"Ready." Rick answered as both put their hand seals.
"O Magni(Latin for Great Sleep)" both of them chanted as they created a fairly large radius around them of sound waves which put hundreds of brainwashed soldiers to sleep. "That should do it!" both of them said to each other.
Meanwhile, Linda and Veronica are fighting off soldiers together as they fight them hand to hand.
"Water Dome" Linda chanted as she nearly drowned 50 soldiers, passing them out and disengaging the water lock.
"Dream Knock" Veronica chanted as she used a sleep spell to knock out 50 soldiers as well.
Meanwhile, Lena is fighting against 50 soldiers.
"Raml Sayf"Lena chanted as she sent sand bullets from the air to knock out 100 soldiers. Some soldiers try to attack her from behind but Kinata stops them
"Card Dimension!" Kinata chanted as she trapped the soldiers into her cards.
"Thanks!" Lena said to Kinata only for Kinata to slap her ass.
"No problem!" Kinata repiled.
"Hey!" Lena blushed.
Meanwhile, Lexiel and Erenjack were fighting soldiers trying to one-up each other.
"Giant Wrath" Leixel chanted as he unleashed his aura, knocking down and knocking out 100 soldiers at once.
"Metal Make Canons" Erenjack chanted as he shot small metal projectiles from canons at low speeds, knocking out soldiers with the force of a slingshot, the canons rapid-fire the small projectiles, knocking out 100.
Meanwhile, Victor Heartfilla was surrounded by 200 soldiers with swords drawn around him.
"I didn't think i would need to fight so many of you at once. I summon Thy, Raguel.''Victor chanted as he summoned a white angel that possesses two giant pairs of wings, and four long, four-fingered arms. Raguel's legs are similar to the legs of a hooved animal, and it possesses one large, eel-like tail and two longer, thinner tails on either side, with what appear to be small oval fins at the end. Raguel also has two wing tattoos on its collar bone,Raguel has many heads, five in front, two in back, each holding a veined horn with an arm of its own. Two large columns of hair rise upwards from between the top two heads and then curl downward. An additional curl at the top loops in the shape of a halo, just like the one on Angel's head. " Knock them out" he commanded as the angel created a shockwave knocking out the soldiers.
Meanwhile, Irene was running with Kalard and Eclair where they see some Monster tamer mages struggle to fight off an army of the soldiers, irene leaped ahead to fight the soldiers, there were at least 150 remaining fighting 30 monster tamers using 30 large monsters, Irene uses her speed and strength to defeat the soldiers with ease.
"You're so strong!" Eclair said to the queen of dragons.
"Thanks, now get to safety, that should be everyone."
Meanwhile, Ana goes to the center of the village again to check if everyone fled when she sees Seliah reading a book.
"So you're the one controlling all those soldiers?" Anna asked her.
"Wasn't easy, to think you defeated all of them while barely breaking a sweat despite me increasing each of their strength, very impressive."Seilah said to her, clapping slowly.
"Why are you here? "Anna asked her.
"Simple, we're here for you!"Seilah replied as she revealed all the other Tartaros Members standing on the Bei Circle with Mard Geer.
"And your other friend!" Mard Geer replied as he walked closer to Anna.
"Over our dead bodies!" Irene shouted as the rest of the Fairy 12 arrived, minus Noah Clive who was still recovering.
The Fairy 12 stood staring at their opponents, all the members of Tartarus minus Deloria who was lost in sea for an entirety, this was the first time we encountered the Tartarus Guild and around this point, it would be the time we experienced their overwhelming power.
To be continued.
(A/N: And now comes the first fight of Tartarus vs the Fairy 12 and as you catch on, things aren't going to end up good for the first half of the outcome. Without Noah being at 100%, this isn't going to go their way, in fairness Deiloria is gone so it's now the 11 Demon Gates as opposed to the 12 Demon Gates, no guesses on how in X791 they became the 9 Demon Gates though.
Yeah, basically this arc is mixing the lore of the Key to the Starry Sky Arc with that of the Phoenix priestess movie lore for this original arc of the Past Tartarus Arc. The Tartarus Arc of the past is essentially their attempt to create END, to do so, they need the Phoenix of the Bei Tribe along with the Infinity Clock to help them get enough power to create END. Unbeknownst to Tararus, they're creating not a potential world-destroying weapon but our later main protagonist Natsu Dragneel.
As you can guess the Bei tribe is a renamed Fire Village tribe from Phoenix Priestess, Fire Village was a fairly unoriginal and uncreative name for the tribe so I changed it to have a much more ethnic name such as Bei. As you can tell, i maintained the same look and attire they had in the movie but gave them more of a Stonehenge /Ancient Britain/Ancient Irish theme especially with the Bei Circle being the Stonehenge of the Fairy Tail world. The circle was built to honor the Phoenix God which we'll get more into that later on.
As for Anna, as you can guess, the homophobic bible dragger turns out to be Homosexual, who could've saw this one coming? Keep in mind in this time period, this could be a death sentence at her point, especially given how pious Fiore is, Unsurprisingly you can guess what would gradually occur overtime between Anna and Irene and it's obvious these two would never be truly together, after all if Irene went with Anna, not only would Erza not be born but Irene would avoid the catrasphoic mistake she made in canon marrying Rung and history would be far different, then again considering the existence of transformation magic in Fairy Tail and the Japanese Futanari culture, maybe Erza would still exist but have a very different dad.
Anna is hardly the only one who wants Irene, as seen with my brief smirisk between Lexiel and Erenjack, Erenjack also wants Irene as well, however, being below her rank and born into a lower noble house, he's too afraid to admit those feelings, of course much like Anna he can't go with Irene either after all Irene needs to inevitably marry Rung for the plot to advance, also if Erenjack married Irene, it's also unlikely she's going to become the Scarlet Despair, also it would make Gajeel and Erza siblings so you can only guess why Linda Lockser is around.
As for Lexiel, he's not going to marry Irene(SPOILERS), He's pretty much Laxus during the Fighting Festival arc, a massive jerk who is disrespectful to everyone, including women and Irene only agreed to marry him to get him to join their side against Tararus given his immense raw power. Obviously, by the time this arc is over, Leixel won't get what he wants, now how Irene gets out of marrying him, well you gotta wait and see for that one. Also, expect Lexiel much like Neliel to get better over time with some well-needed character development as well as Anna Heartfilla when it comes to people who don't conform to her ideology.
Now for Eclair, she would be playing a much bigger role here in this story than she did within the movie when she was merely a plot device for the movie sake and get a bit of character development as time goes on Yes i made her openly lesbian, for several reasons
A) To kickstart Anna Heartfilla's own questions of her sexuality which would set up for conflict between her faith and her love for her best friend Irene
B) Because basing her on Pre Chrsitanty European and Native American cultures which the Bei Tribe is essentially based on, they were a lot more accepting and even partcited homosexuality pretty openly with the Greeks, Romans and a lot of Pre Christan societies openly participating it with and Native Americans were also very accepting of these attitudes
C) She's canonically never shown any interests in men in either the past or present and the only person she seems interested in is Lucy Heartfilla so in my headcanon, she's pretty gay or at the very least Bi-Curious
D)Let's admit it, half of you are visualizing Yuri of Eclair and Anna right now.
As for the role, she would be the primary healer for the Dragon King Festival along with Grandeeney and eventually Lena, i don't plan to make her much of a fighter but will give her some offense but more on that later.
Stick tune to next chapter where shit's about to get real.
Lena Marvell(Age 19/Post Training)20,000 MPF base, 23,333 MPF full power base, 18,666 MPF using Enchantments, 28,996 MPF using Sands of Death.
Seilah controlled soldiers: 10,000 to 20,000 MPF
Linda Lockser(Age 19) 24.666 MPF base, 31,332 MPF full power, 37,998 MPF water rage mode.
Erenjack(Age 19/Post Training): 24,666 MPF base, 31,332 MPF Redfox Armors
Eric Cheney and Rick Effilcue( Age 26): 19,166 MPF base, 30,832 MPF full power enchantments
Noah Clive: 66,000 MPF base
Irene (Age 19/Without Hoshigami No Satsuki ): 23,760 MPF base, 24,639 MPF using Enchantments,34,266 MPF using full power base, 35,405 MPF full power base+Enchantments, 40,653 MFP using Advanced Enchantments base
Nel Vermillion(Age 19 without Fairy form)124,666 MPF base, 37.998 MPF using Fairy Shooting Star
Veronica Strauss(Age 19) 17,000 MPf base
Lexiel Deryar(Age 23) 25,166 MPF base 31,882 MPF powered up, 38,498 MPF Titan Mode
Kinata(Age 19) 17,666 MPF base card magic, varies with Monster Card Magic
Anna Heartfilia (Age 19)140 MPF physically, 21,667 MPF using Cancer, 22,000 MPF using Virgo, 22,000 MPF using Starirtgus, 23,333 MPF using Aires, 24,000 MPF using Spcorio, 26,666 MPF using Taurus, 28,333 MPF using Loki, 28,333 MPF to 30,666 MPF using Aquarius, Varies with Gemini which copies opponents up to 30,000 MPF, 30,666 MPF potentially using Uno Materia
Victor Heartfilla(Rusty): 37,332 MPF base, 48,000 MPF full power base, 63,333 MPF using his strongest Holy Magic
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