A: N (I don't own fairy tail, Fairy Tail/Creator Hiro Mashima does)(i update irregularly)
POV: Natsu
How did Xavo win 10 million Jewels?! I was hella jealous, to say the least as the crowd was carrying him on their shoulders! Imagine all the meat that I can buy with that amount of money. Natsu went into a food daydream before suddenly being trapped by cubes? He was stuck by arms and legs by a guy made out of cubes? "Where's Erza?" He asked Like I'm going to tell you! I yelled at him. "So be it." The room goes dark, and suddenly a gunshot is heard.
POV: Before the shot, each of the team's view, 3rd person
Grey and Juvia were getting along swell! That was before a man with an eyepatch and an odd-looking metal jaw armor appeared to them and exploded the bar. Fortunately, The 2 have disappeared, somewhere? Meanwhile, Erza and Lucy were sitting at a card table, Erza was having a winning streak, but nothing like Xavo when suddenly the card dealers changed. The new dealer was black with blonde hair. He dealt cards like normal, but when Erza saw her cards they spelled out DEATH. "I want to play a game, but instead of gambling money, It's our lives." The dealer then looks up and suddenly Erza recognizes him. Sho?! He only chuckles before suddenly it all goes dark. A gunshot is heard and suddenly a new person appears. She has cat ears and brown hair with 2 red triangles on each cheek that suddenly binds Lucy. They are introduced by Erza as Wally, Sho, Millianna, and Simon Before Wally shoots a sleeping bullet into Erza's back. She suddenly goes unconscious and they leave with Erza and Happy, who was given to Milliana but not before Lucy and Xavo gathered that they were old friends of Erza.
POV: Xavo
Bruh, I get 10 million jewels, and suddenly Happy and Erza are kidnapped?! WTF Happened and what are they going to do to her? I managed to not be bound as I blended with the crowd, aka I was covered by the crowd when suddenly the said crowd became cards? I saw Lucy being indeed and then I saw the group leave with Erza and Happy. I decided to try and help Lucy first, but it turns out that Lucy got freed by the Mascot of Akane Resort. Lucy asked, "How are you not bound?" "Either they saw me as a civilian, or they just didn't notice," I replied. "Let's go and find Grey!" We both ran towards the bar and saw him, but he was still sitting? I touched him and HE CRUMBLED?! Oh, shit don't worry Grey, Me and Lucy will fix you back up! I panicked along with Lucy, then suddenly we see grey coming from inside a woman? She had blue hair and apparently, she was able to Absorb grey and wait, hold up. "Grey who is this?" I asked. He replied, "This is Juvia, 1 of the element 4 before Phantom Lord was disbanded." Ok… So you were inside Juvia, righttttt? I asked with a shit-eating grin on my face. It took them a bit to figure it out, but boy was it worth it. "Hold up I didn't do THAT with her, you perverted Golem?!" Grey shouted. Juvia however was turning red at this implication and she was very happy. "Speaking of which, wheres Natsu?" Grey asked while simultaneously shedding his shirt. Suddenly a cone of fire is released and we see an angry Natsu roaring how rude it was to fire a bullet in a person's mouth. I and the rest of the group told him that it would have taken down a regular person for good. He shrugged, then we went into a boat. On the boat, I split with Naxion. Juvia was surprised that I could do that, but I chuckled about it. Meanwhile, the rest of the team looked impressed at Naxion's upgrade. Grey was honestly shocked at Naxion for growing that fast, but after I explained that it was the upgrade pod he calmed down a bit, although I swear that I heard him shiver when Naxion grinned. Lucy's perspective was sort of the same, except that in her mind, she wondered if the Zodiacs had a locked form. Natsu was happy that there was a mechanical serpent with them, as he liked dragons. Happy thought had a different question to ask. "Naxion, with the teeth that you have, can you eat actual food? He replied, Yes Happy, and I'm going to eat all your fish!" and laughed maniacally. Happy clutched his bag of fish tightly and screamed while everyone chuckled or laughed in Grey's case. "I'm kidding Happy, I don't eat fish that much." Happy sighed in relief and after Natsu pointed the direction, then getting sick again we went to Erza!
POV: Erza
On the way to the tower… In Sho's ship, I was bound by Milliana's cat ropes to a pole. Suddenly Sho comes. "Why did you kidnap me?" I asked calmly. Sho calmly replied, "You're gonna be the final sacrifice for the Tower of Heaven, and you know who we are resurrecting." I shuddered, Zeref.
POV: Erza
"I'm the final sacrifice? But why?" That was all that came out of my mouth. Well, It's sorta obvious. You betrayed Jellal, I didn't want this to happen, but it's too late. Sho then hugged me sobbing. Sho…
POV: In the past, (The Tower of Heaven)
Around 15 years ago, The Tower was a lot less tall, but there were screams. Screams of those who were sacrificed. This was where Erza was forced to grow up after being captured by slavers. It was only 2 choices, Work, or Die. When the break came it was like a blessing, a small blessing, but a blessing nonetheless. Erza did have a few friends, being Simon, Milliana, Sho, Wally, and finally Jellal. She also had a mentor in Rob, another slave who was kidnapped. Other than that though it was everyone for themselves. Jellal was a leader of the group and this was where it all started. One of the guards found out their plans to escape and screamed "Who was the masterminds?!" Jellal courageously said that it was him but the guard decided that it was Erza. Even though it was Sho who had the idea, Erza accepted the punishment trembling with fear but also smiling, to assure the others that she was not afraid. Losing an eye was painful and permanent, but nothing could've prepared her for what happened next. Right after removing her eye, her friend Jellal arrived to save her and told her they had to fight to survive, but then was caught by another guard and received a beating, while Erza was sent back to her prison. Then, Jellal was possessed by what he believed was the Dark Mage Zeref, which greatly altered his former kind personality to a more violent one, making him almost completely insane. No longer able to take the abuse, Erza attacked the guards and started a revolution which at its inception appeared to be successful, but as the presence of Mages, however, began to dampen the slavers' chances at victory, and all seemed lost the moment a Magic blast came towards Erza, until Rob, her mentor, interfered, saving Erza, but sacrificing his life while doing so. To see Rob, who had nurtured her in the manner of a grandfather, blown to dust in an attempt to save her life seemed to unlock something inside of Erza, and as she remembered Rob telling her what is Magic and that it came from the heart, she awakened her Magic. In a vengeful fury, she manipulated all kinds of weapons and tools like pickaxes and shovels in her proximity and sent a barrage of steel at her captives; in that moment of rage, she ended the revolution, defeating all her enemies. She then turned back to go save Jellal, however, things went, really bad. Already possessed by Zeref, Jellal attacked Erza, telling her he was going to complete the R-System to resurrect Zeref's body to find his "true freedom". Jellal easily finished off the guards who were torturing him, despite Erza's attempts to stop him, and even attacked Erza herself with Darkness Magic. Erza remembers Jellal telling her not to tell anybody about the tower or he would kill everyone, and she then woke up on another island, crying about the events she had just witnessed. There she vowed that she would confront Jellal, and try to save him, and if not, kill him quickly and painlessly.
Flashback end.
Erza woke up tied to a rock in her old prison, she remembered it all too well. "What are you going to do now?" I asked devoid of emotion. I was very calm, as I knew that it would keep me alive for the moment and not give my old friend any emotional advantage. All he said was, "You will be kept here until the ceremony is ready for the R-System. "Don't resurrect Zeref, please! You know what he will do to the world!" Sho then smiled, and Erza saw it, this wasn't a smile for a friend, this was a psychotic smile. "I know, Jellal will use the R-system to revive Zeref using your body, from there…only then will he show us Paradise, and we will rule together! "You deluded…" Before I could do anything Sho suddenly untied me? "Run, fast…. The eyes have stopped, we need to find your friends, fast!" I nodded and ran fast with him, through the secret tunnels, that we used for the escape all those years ago."
Pov:none
The emergency crew aka Lucy, Natsu, Gray, Juvia, and Xavo landed at the Tower of Heaven.
"So where do we go?" Juvia asked. "We split up, I'm going to the bottom, you guys go to the top, id. "Why do you only go to the bottom?" everyone asked. "There might be someone else down there that we might need to rescue, and I can tell that it gets tougher the higher we go.
Will you be alright Xavo, because if these people can kidnap erza, then-" Xavo said, "I beat Laxus, I'll be ok." Alright, let's go. Everyone said, then they split, with Xavo going to the bottom floor and the rest going up.
POV: Xavo
I remembered the hint, which was in my notebook, "In Heaven's Tower, at the deepest level in the center lies the one whose light has faded." I decided to go in from a different entrance, that is if there was one. Fortunately, there was a tunnel, albeit a small one. I used my drill to drill into the said tunnel, making it bigger. It went well, down until I popped out somewhere very dark. I turned on my armor's light function making me see better. There was nothing, but it seemed like someone, or something used to be here. I used my flashlight to look around and I sniffed. Yuck, it smells like darkness and rats. There was a crystal and a pole? It looked like someone used it to have someone tied there with the very old and rotting rope many years ago. I looked around until I found a necklace?
Necklace of Forced Servitude.
This necklace can convert someone to your side unwillingly or not, forever with its ability. (!)
Quest Item!
New quest, to free a soul who was forced to serve.
The current master didn't want to build the Tower but was forced to by mind control. You must break this necklace, but how? Reward, possible new member?
Huh, so the current master was forced to serve? That must've sucked. Well, stairs are leading down, Xavo went down, ignoring the warning that meant death.
Pov:?
I was thrown from my dimension to another… how, and I'm stuck in a damn Pokeball?! God this is bull- wait, I can… talk? Well, at least this world is something interesting. Being stuck here was awful, no light at all, I was forced to eat the light from souls, turning them into zombies for many years, ugh. My memory has been, hazy in this graveyard. Wait, who is that? It's light, it's intense… I MUST HAVE IT!
POV: Xavo
I walked down towards, well whatever it was, as it got darker I turned up the light. Finally, I hit the bottom and- OH GOD WHAT THE FUCK?! There were skeletons, EVERYWHERE. Big, Small, and in all shapes sizes, and more. I nearly barfed at the stench, it reeked! But in the middle, I saw it. A Pokeball, what is that doing here? I took it and decided to go up. It was shaking, but I'm not letting it out until after we get out of this freaky place and Its stench.
POV:Team Natsu plus Juvia
We went up the Tower, as there was no one, fortunately, we went up floors pretty fast. "Isn't this too easy?" Grey asked while holding a very Red albeit happy Juvia's hand. There were no guards until the next floor, where they had a whole hoard of guards and animals eating. "Welp, I knew it was too good to be true," Grey said while the rest get ready to fight, then out of nowhere Erza along with Sho and Simon appear and take out the guards. "Erza!" Everyone shouted that was before seeing the other 2. "What are they doing here?!" Grey and Lucy yelled. Natsu already left to find Happy before Erza could stop him. "They 'attacked us but they are on our side," Erza said. They then sat down and ate what was left of the feast on the table. After they finish a very exhausted albeit Xavo runs up, panting hard. "Xavo? What are you doing here?" Erza asked while Xavo splits with Naxion. "I'm *pant*, fine. Naxion however has something to give you." Naxion then throws a cube at Erza which expands into the Nightwing. As it covered Erza it revealed its true form. The jet wings had 3 thrusters on each wing, and the swords lighted up, making them longer and sharper, the helmet took on a valkyrie form, and finally, her armor had covered her whole body with jet boots and cyber lighting like Xavo's. Overall she looked like she could bomb the entire tower within a few seconds and actually take it down! "I approve of this new armor, so much, but let's test it out after I tell you what happened in the past in this damned tower."
An hour later
Bloody hell… Everyone said, they were either cursing or trying not to vomit, they were also shocked at Jellals 180 shift into the dark side. Suddenly Xavo pulls out a necklace. I think that this caused the 180 change, a necklace of eternal servitude. Erza then grabs it at an insanely fast speed and looks at it. I know how to break this, but it will be complicated. "How will we break it?" Xavo asked, he is already interested until, "You have to have the person controlled destroy the necklace by magic, multiple times due to how it was crafted." Erza said solemnly, also there's the fact that the victim might not survive due to being affected for so long. Everyone solemnly nodded, this became a destroy and rescue mission for a new person now.
POV: Natsu
I ran around looking for happiness and taking down any guard near me. Eventually, I found this pink room? It had, cat everything! A cat couch, a cat cup, a cat bed, hell even a cat sword! As I Walked around I saw this cat head, might as well try it out before I leave! I put it on before anyone saw it. I played around with the hat until I decided to take it off. That was when I realized it wouldn't come off. I yanked it so many times until I heard a gunshot. It was cube man again, but it seemed that he was stopped by a cat woman? She was tugging at cube man whose name was revealed to be Wally as he was the one who shot me but the catgirl revealed to be Millianna was the one who stopped him. This happened another time as I dodged until Wally convinced Millianna that I was a fake. I invoked my Secret Move: Kitty in Distress! Millianna then started to believe me and finally, I found Happy. With his help, I got this hat off and beat them with a single Fire Dragon's Wing attack. I then with Happy ran back to where Erza and the others were.
POV: Jellal
It seems like the team has reunited and beaten 2 of my own already, although I wonder why Xavo has come as well. Time to bring the reinforcements. 3 people show up, 1 is a woman with pink hair in a kimono with a long sword, the other is a white-colored man with a classic rockers style outfit, and finally a muscular owl man? "We are Trinity Raven. Our names are Ikaruga, Vidalus, and Fukaro." They all reply to me. I greet you, and thus I ask you to take down the intruders. They nodded and left, I knew that my other is conspiring in the magic council with 1 person left to vote on firing Etherion. I grinned. "Time for this game to continue."
So looks like Xavo found the 1st entity from another dimension. R&R and as always thank you for reading!