Fairy Tail in Azeroth: Into the Cataclysm
Hey everyone this is Shadowwolf1997 with a new story, which I just couldn't keep out of my head after reading Count Chaos's Fairies in Azeroth. The early chapters might resemble his a little but I will definitely try to make it original. I do not own Fairy Tail or World of Warcraft, they belong to Hiro Mashima and Blizzard INC respectively. My story is set during just before the Cataclysm to Mists of Pandaria and may go on from there and as for Fairy Tail, I'm making it about two months after Tartaros but the guild wasn't disbanded, why you ask? Because it's fiction and I can.
Magnolia, a peaceful town in the country of Fiore. Residing within the city was the number one guild on the Ishgar continent, the most rowdy, destructive, and lively guild, known as Fairy Tail. The guild was full of hustle and bustle as usual, but were there was usually a brawl or major argument raging, there was now a furious cleaning and tightening up as the various members of the Guild were working overtime to finish up the week long cleaning spree to make sure the Guild Hall was clean and set to order before they left. The Midsummer's Eve Festival was unlike the other parades and parties the Guild hosted.
The Midsummer's Eve Festival was a time when Fairy Tail annually stopped accepting jobs, closed down for a few weeks, and let its members go off on vacations, either as individuals or in groups. Most of the guild had already left for their said vacations. But the rest were about to set off on an all expenses paid vacation sponsored by the master and several residents of Magnolia as a thank you for all the good the Guild does for the city and its people. Many of the core members of the guild were going to attend, even Gildarts had returned in time to be part of the celebration.
They even invited the Sabertooth, Lamia Scale, Mermaid Heel, Blue Pegasus, and Quatro Cerberus Guilds, but do to hosting their own guild events, Blue Pegasus and Quatro Cerberus could not attend. But still representatives from the other three guilds were due to arrive at any time.
They had even invited Crime Sorciere to the Midsummer's Eve Festival, but only Meredy could attend as Jellal had something of great importance to complete and thus he could not make it to the celebration, much to Erza's disappointment.
In the meantime however, said Fairy in particular was making sure that the preparations were going off without a hitch. "Jet, Droy, once you've finished cleaning the rooms I want you to place this banner in front of the Guild Hall. Once you've done that you're free to finish your packing." Erza Scarlet, the strongest female wizard in the Guild spoke with a strong tone of authority in her voice as she "directed" her guildmates to their tasks.
"No worries Erza, me and Droy just finished with the last room. We'll have that banner up in no time." Jet said with a smile as Droy picked up a banner that had "Fairy Tail is closed for the Midsummer's Eve Festival, no jobs being accepted" written on it. Jet and his old friend left to complete their last assignment before they could finish packing.
At this Erza smiled and looked around the guild hall to see her other friends finish their own tasks. Laxus, Elfman, and the Thunder Legion had finished gathering all the luggage while Mirajane and Lisanna had just finished cleaning the bar and were gathering the last of their things together. Meanwhile Levy McGarden and Lucy Heartfilia were finishing sorting out gifts the guild had received from the townspeople as one more thank you for all their hard work.
The peace of the moment was destroyed by the sound of a crash followed by two shouting voices that Erza knew very well.
"Watch where ya going stripper, now look at what you made me do."
"How is this my fault flamebrain, you were the one not looking where you were going?"
Releasing a sigh of exasperation and anger, Erza turned around, and with a glare that would have frozen the blood in even a dragon, focused on the Fire Dragon Slayer and the Ice Make Wizard along with Natsu's best friend and partner Happy, all three of whom had stopped arguing and were looking like they were staring the devil in the face. Right next to them was a pile of crashed suitcases and bags that the two wizards had been holding before they had literally run into each other.
"Natsu, Gray!" Erza's tone definitely didn't sound very cheerful at that moment, "I specifically told you that there will be no fighting before we leave on this trip. You will behave or I will be forced to "remind" you of your promise to at least hold off until we reach our destination."
In response Happy, Natsu and Gray all responded with "AYE" before they ran to pick up the fallen luggage and carry it over to where the rest had been gathered.
Smirking at the display Laxus walked over to Erza and said, "Now all we need is for Gajeel and Lily to comeback with the tickets and we're all set."
Smiling at the progress Erza replied, "That's good to hear, and knowing those two they should be back any minute now."
There's an old saying, "Speak of the devil and he shall appear," and at that moment the doors to the guild opened wide as Gajeel Redfox, Pantherlily, Juvia, Wendy, Carla, Romeo and Cana entered through the guild doors. Gajeel and Lily were carrying nearly three dozen tickets for all the mages and exceeds from their guild and the accompanying guilds how had been invited. Juvia, Wendy, Carla, and Cana had arrived to the guild with a few more gifts from the townspeople and their own luggage for the trip.
"Hey Titania me and Lily got the train tickets just like ya said. And unlike Salamander we didn't blow anything up." Gajeel said with his signature smirk.
Of course upon hearing this, Natsu turned his attention towards the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"What was that metalhead? You want me to come over there and turn you into slag?"
"Just try it flame brain, we still got time before the train leaves for me to still kick your ass."
Before the two Dragon Slayers could start their next grudge match, Erza but a stop to it and with three very simple words, "Knock. It. Off."
"Yes Ma'am." was the only reply that left the two Dragon slayers mouths as they went utterly still and were currently sweating bullets.
Order having temporarily been restored to the guild, the rest of the fairy tail mages went about putting the finishing touches on cleaning their Guild Hall. Cana went to speak with her father and the master, Laxus and the Thunder Legion finished gathering and putting the newly arrived luggage into the already giant pile, eighty percent of which was Erza's stuff but no one was stupid enough to point it to the strongest female wizard in Fairy Tail.
Juvia had almost immediately attached herself to Gray's arm and started gushing over her "beloved Gray" much to the Ice Make Wizard's unease. While this was going on, Wendy and Carla went over with the Straus Siblings to help Levy and Lucy finish sorting all the gifts for the guild.
As Makarov watched his guildmates finish up the preparations, smiling as they worked hard to get everything in order, he looked up at the clock. Thoughts of the Alvarez Empire still troubled the old Guild Leader but he was determined to enjoy one last Midsummer's Eve Festival with his beloved guild before he would disband the guild to meet with the Alvarez Emperor. It may not be the smartest thing to do all things considered, but Makarov felt he owed it to his guild for one last happy memory before he was forced to break their hearts. However today was to be a happy day and Makarov would see it through to the end of the vacation for his children.
They still had a good two hours before their train departed and it would take no time for the guild and its guests to make it to the train station. Now at any moment the representatives from the guilds that had been invited would show up and then they could get on their way.
In fact, just as Jet and Droy came in from hanging the banner in front of the guild, the doors once again opened to reveal five figures, three were obviously people, and two were definitely cat shaped.
"HELLOOO Fairy Tail." Sabertooth's new master Sting shouted as he, Rogue, Yukino, Lector, and Frosch entered the guild hall all of them carrying their luggage.
Smiling Natsu walked to meet the White Dragon slayer, giving him a high five, "Glad you guys could make it, when we get there we can have a real party."
"Yeah no doubt, and thanks for inviting us to this, means a lot, especially after what happened at the games." Sting said, being completely genuine about it as well.
"Don't worry about it, that's all in the past besides you guys were a big help with Tartaros. For now let's just focus on having a great time." Natsu shouted eagerly, with Sting and Lector both eagerly joining in.
While this was going on Yukino went up to Lucy, a carefully wrapped gift in her hands, "This is Sabertooth's gift to Fairy tail as a thanks for inviting us. We are very grateful for you including us in your celebration."
Lucy smiled as she took the gift from Yukino, "No problem, it's our pleasure and thank you for the gift Yukino." Yukino smiled at Lucy's comment and the two began to talk about the upcoming vacation.
Rogue went up to Gajeel and shook hands with the older dragon slayer, a small smile on the Shadow Dragon Slayer's face and a smirk on the Iron Dragon Slayer's face.
"What Sting and Yukino said, it's a pleasure to be here." Rogue stated, actually sounding happy as he spoke.
"It'll be good to have ya along kid." Gajeel said, surprising many people in that he was genuinely happy to have Rogue come with them.
"Fro thinks so too!" The little green exceed in the frog suite said, causing everyone to laugh.
"Well looks like we have arrived just in time, the party looks like it may start any minute now." A familiar voice spoke up, causing Gray to look toward the entrance to the Guild Hall and smirk. "'Bout time you got here Lyon, here I was just starting to think that you had gotten lost."
Standing in the doorway was Lyon Vastia, one of the strongest mages in the Lamia Scale Guild, in his hands his luggage for the trip. Smiling at the taunt Lyon responded with one of his own, "What and let our master's junior student go around making a fool of himself? Ur would never forgive me for something like that."
Smirking the two gave each other a high five as Jura Neekis and Chelia Blendy then walked into the Guild, both also carrying their luggage. "It's good to see everyone in such high spirits." Jura's deep voice resonated through the room.
Then he turned towards Makarov and offered him a gift, "From Lamia Scale to the Fairy Tail Guild as our thanks for your most gracious invitation."
Smiling as he accepted the gift Makarov responded, "And the Fairy Tail Guild gratefully accepts this gift of goodwill from our friends the Lamia Scale Guild."
While Jura, Makarov, and Gildarts all began to talk among themselves, Chelia went over to Wendy, the two sky slayers embracing each other as the spoke of how excited they were for the trip.
"Looks like the two of us arrived last." A new voice coming from a pink haired woman who stood in the entrance to the guild.
"So it would seem." A deeper voice came from her companion, her violet hair flowing down to her back. At her side was a sword in a white sheath. Their bags were held in their hands showing they were all ready for the vacation.
"Kagura, Meredy you both got here just in time." Erza said, a smile upon her face as she looked at the two female wizards who had just entered the guild hall.
A small smile upon her face Kagura turned to face Makarov and also handed him a present, "This gift is a symbol of Mermaid Heel's appreciation for being invited to attend your celebration, we are most honored."
Taking the gift with a smile Makarov responded, "And Fairy Tail gratefully accepts this gift from the ladies of Mermaid Heel."
As Makarov was taking Kagura's gift, Meredy was handing her gift to Juvia with a smile "Hey there Juvia, long time no see, this is me and Jellal's gift for Fairy Tail. He also wants to apologize for not being here right now but something came up."
Smiling at the one woman she was sure wasn't trying to steal her beloved Gray, Juvia responded, "It's alright we understand."
Watching the whole exchange was Lyon, who had brought a gift for Juvia but he noticed one certain thing about Meredy, 'She's cute' being the only thought going through his head as he stared at the pink haired girl.
"Here let me take that present for you Lyon." Wendy had come up to the frozen ice mage, who dumbly nodded as he continued to look at Meredy and handed the gift to Wendy, still staring at Meredy.
As everyone was getting ready to leave as the finishing touches were being made in the guild, Happy flew in with another present. This one was different from the others however in that the wrapping was slightly worn and didn't look all that impressive.
"Hey master, someone left one last present for us outside." The blue exceed said flying up to the short guild master and handing in the package. Looking at the package Makarov was not really sure what to make of the semi beaten package, but simply shrugged his shoulders and was about to set it down with the others when Happy spoke up again.
"Hey master since we're about to leave any way and we have so many presents already, why don't we open that one. Since it was the last and it's right there we can do it real quick."
"Now Happy the train is going to leave soon, and we don't want to miss it…" Makarov began only to be interrupted by a pink haired dragon slayer.
"Come on Gramps what's the rush, we still got over an hour before the train leaves, one little present ain't gonna make us late." Natsu had on his trademark grin as he gave a surprisingly logical reason to go ahead and open the present.
"Might as well Gramps, after all you know how he can get. Let Flame brain open a present now so we don't have to hear about it later on." Gray said.
"What was that Stripper, you wanna go?" Natsu angrily shouted, lighting his fists on fire.
"You wanna try me Flamebrain? Well I'm right here." Gray said, assuming his Ice Make stance.
Now they immediately felt the shadow of fear passover them as Erza glared at them, "Stop. It. Right. Now." With those four words another brawl was avoided as the two wizards froze in fright.
Pinching the bridge of his nose and taking a deep breathe, Makarov made his decision, "Fine Natsu and Happy, you can open the present, and only that present and then we are going to leave so we can make it to the train station and load our luggage before we leave."
Grinning in excitement, Natsu and Happy both tore the wrapping off the package, and then removed the lid from the box. By this point everyone had gathered to see what was in the box. When Natsu took the lid off the box, the contents were revealed to those gathered.
A large book lay in the box, obviously old as its red cover was worn with a few small tears in it, while the corners were covered in gold that gave off a bright glow and were completely unscathed. What was really attention grabbing was the stylized Raven with its wings flapping towards the viewers and red rubies as eyes that stared unblinkingly at those looking at it. Under the Raven in a stylized script was the title of the book. The title read "The Book of Medivh."
"Aww man, just an old book, I thought it was going to be something good." Natsu groaned in disappointment. Happy however looked like he was going to cry, "I thought it was going to be a fish." The blue exceed spoke in distraught tone.
"Why would it be a fish, that doesn't make any sense?" Carla spoke with an annoyed expression as she slapped her fellow exceed in the back of the head while Lily looked on shaking his head at the antics of the younger exceeds with a smile on his face.
Before anything else could be said, Lucy grabbed the book from Natsu. As Lucy looked at the book, Levy and Yukino appeared at to either side of her. All three literature lovers were looking at the old book in confusion.
"What about it Shrimp," Gajeel asked as her turned towards Levy, "you know anything about this antique?"
"I don't think I've ever heard of a book of that title before." Levy said as she looked at the old tome. While she was easily one of the most well read people in all of Ishgar, she knew she hadn't read every book, but she should have at least heard about such an old book.
"Nor have I ever heard of this Medivh before. You would think that when a book is named after someone that their name would be known." Yukino said in confusion as she stared at the book.
Lucy also shook her head, "Sorry guys I'm lost too, I've never even heard of anyone called Medivh, let alone a book written by someone of that name."
"Levy might I see that book please?" Makarov asked as he held out his hand. Levy passed it to the old master, who began to inspect it as soon as it was in his hand. "Hmmm… I must say I too have never heard of anyone by the name Medivh and usually when a book is titled after someone it is usually because that person was rather well known the book was written by said person and they were of great importance." Makarov said as he scanned the book wondering who this Medivh was.
"What do you mean by someone of great importance master," Elfman asked the short guild master who continued to scrutinize the strange tome.
"What he means Elfman is that the book could be a grimoire of some kind written by a powerful or perhaps a treatise of military strategies compiled by a great general or something of that effect." Gildarts put in his own two cents while also proving he wasn't an S-Class wizard in terms of strength alone despite his sometimes goofy demeanor.
Makarov nodded his head at Gildarts's explination before also adding, "But that in turn adds more layers of mystery to this book. If it was a spellbook of a powerful mage, especially one containing great powers it would be far more well known. Even the books of Zeref, despite their dangerous and forbidden knowledge are far from obscure, and even books written by fairly weak mages could serve as well known guides for younger and less experienced wizards. And most military stratagems would of course be more well known, especially if they have tactics that have proven effective on the battlefield. So for all that it is strange that none of those present have heard of the book or its author before today." Makarov was no frowning somewhat as the mystery of this Book of Medivh deepened before him.
However as he was distracted Makarov didn't notice Natsu walking over to him until the Dragon slayer reached out and grabbed the book and with a smile said, "Well what's the point in talking about what could be in it and why not just open this puppy up and see whats inside?" The young mage said with a somewhat simple minded if not surprisingly practical solution to the problem.
Sting smiled as he walked up to Natsu, "Natsu's right we can stand around talking about this thing all day but that won't make us figure out what this thing is any faster. So I say we open this thing up and see what's so important about it."
Both smiled as they opened the book to some of the first pages and began to inspect the contents of it.
"W-wait you can just open that thing!" Lucy screamed as she ran up to Natsu, Yukino fast on her heels as she stopped in front of Sting, " Lucy's right Sting… we don't know if any dangerous or defensive enchantments have been placed on the book if it is indeed a grimoire or spellbook. You could accidentally trigger a defensive mechanism designed to prevent people from reading it." The two young celestial mages were attempting to prevent the reckless dragon slayers from causing a catastrophic incident.
Lisanna and Rogue were attempting to back the two celestial wizards, "They're right Natsu as long as we don't know what that book is it could be dangerous." Lisanna spoke trying to reason with her old friend while Rogue turned to Sting, "I know it seems overly cautious but in this situation it may be better the er on the side of caution while the book remains a mystery to us." But in their haste to try and talk down Natsu and Sting, they had failed to notice everyone else in attendance moving closer to get a peak at what the mysterious tome had within its vast pages.
And they all stopped what they saw what was written within the book, or that is to say if you could call what was in there writing from their perspective. Many of the words were written in some strange form of writing that many of the wizards couldn't place, even ones such as Freed who could read several other alphabets to utilize his runes couldn't make out much. And the letters the mages could recognize were all scrambled and not in any foreseeable pattern, with words and sentences seeming to abruptly end and then restart and some words seeming to have capital letters in places such as the middle or end of some words.
"You know, I'm aware that I'm not the best guy at this sort of thing but most of this is like any alphabet I've ever seen, and what letters I do recognize look like they've been turned into letter soup." Sting said as he continued to try and make sense of the context of the book, a deep frown on his face as he continued to come up with nada.
"Well all that worrying for a book that ain't even readable. Maybe that's why none of us have heard of this Medivh guy… maybe he comes from some far away country or this is just some pretty elaborate prank someone's given us. Cause that's either another country's alphabet or gibberish someone made up" Gajeel said with a surprising amount of deductive reasoning… ya know if it wasn't completely against his nature some of the others would have been inclined to believe he was some kind of detective.
"Man that's not fair, either there is something cool here and we can't read it or someone's messing with us. One of 'em disappointing and the other get me all fired up to find the guy who thinks it a good idea to mess with Fairy Tail on the Midsummer's Eve Festival." Natsu said with a groan as he was trying to decide between which emotion, disappointment or anger, he should be feeling right now.
Hold on Natsu," Levy said suddenly as she took the book from the dragon slayer's hand as she began closely inspect the tome, she smiled to herself before exclaiming, "I knew it this book isn't written or in a foregin language or alphabet… it's been magically encrypted." That statement got everyone's attention as they stared at Levy.
"Hold on how do you figure that Levy?" Bickslow asked as he tried to make heads or tails of the book.
"Well when I was learning solid script magic I learned many ways to encrypt books and how to distort the letters to make a normal letter look like a strange symbol. This happens to be one of the more advanced ones I learned and one I use myself sometimes to keep some people from prying into my favorite books." she said that last part teasingly as she glanced at Gajeel who turned away and muttered something like 'can't prove anything Shrimp' while Lily glanced at this partner a smug expression that read 'busted'. "And besides we could read the title…if this was a book in a foregin language, I doubt that the title would be something we'd be able to read as well." With that bit of logic dropped Levy continued in to how she knew it was encrypted.
"And anyway, while it's hard to notice at first some of the words are normal but they're lost among all the strange symbols and mishmashed words that you don't really notice them, its like hiding a piece of quarts in a mound of diamonds… you get so distracted by all the shiny and attention grabbing jems you fail to notice the more familiar stone right in front of your face."
"I guess that's a good way to keep people from noticing not every word's gibberish but if you know what to look for sounds a little easy to crack." Cana said from her position near her father, who was also looking a little curious at the artifact.
As many of the others present were digesting that information, Happy asked the one that was on everyone's mind, "So can you unencrypt it Levy?" The blue exceed asked with a great deal of excitement.
Levy looked down at the exceed before smiling and saying, "You bet I can just sit tight and give me a second." and then began using her hands to write a series of strange runes in the air while saying some kind of incantation.
"H-h-hold on Levy, if someone went to the trouble of encrypting this thing it stands to reason they didn't want people looking at it." Lucy said trying to get her friend's attention and reason with her, but to no avail as the small blue haired mage finished the incantation, and the book glowed a bright red color as the words and symbols began changing and rearranging themselves. In fact on of the pages changed completely with all the words vanishing and a map now appearing on its page, and it was a map none of the wizards had ever seen.
On it was four continents to each of the cardinal directions with a few large islands and smaller land masses towards center, and in the center seemed to be a representation of what must have been a MASSIVE whirlpool if the spiral shape that was larger than some of the islands stood for what he thought it stood for. And on the bottom of the page with the map there was a word: Azeroth.
"Wow," Natsu said as he peered over Levy's shoulder to get a better view, "you think this is a part of Earthland we haven't heard about yet."
"I don't know Natsu," said Erza as she came over to look at the map, this seems to expansive to be to the east of Ishgar and Alvarez is to our west. "Maybe this is just some sort of fairy tail and Azeroth is the setting and Medivh is the hero of the story."
"I think that would be a good theory Erza," Lyon spoke before adding, "except it seems Levy's spell didn't have a total effect. Look most of the words on the next page are still illegible and make now sense." And true to his word Lyon was right, most of the wording on the next page was not legible to the wizards, all the strange symbols were gone, but now it did resemble a different language, but not one any Fairy Tail or the other guilds were familiar with."
"Hold on Lyon not all of them," Natsu spoke out as he pointed to the top left corner of the page next to the map, "we can read this part right here." Grabbing the book from Levy Natsu then proceeded to read the sole line he could make out, "By the power of the Guardian we beseech thee to return us to Azeroth."
Rubbing his head in confusion at this Gray said, "Ugh… well if this is a story like Erza said must be out of order if the characters are asking to be returned somewhere in the first few pages."
Before anyone could comment on this however the book began to glow a deep scarlet that illuminated the entire guild hall as the book shot out of Natsu's hands and began floating in the air, the pages rapidly turning as the glow grew larger and larger.
"Everyone get back!" Makarov suddenly shouted as he began to gather his magic power, Gildarts and Jura right behind him as all three were cursing themselves for not being more on guard and getting ready to destroy the book. But none of the three could attack, as many of the younger wizards had beaten them to the punch and where now in the way. But before any attack could truly comence, red ropes of light shot out of the book latching certain wizards together and somehow shutting of their magic power.
"What the hell is going on" Natsu shouted as he, Lucy, Romeo and Happy were tied together by one of the light ropes. Across the hall a similar scenario was playing out as more and more of those present were lashed together by the seemingly unbreakable ropes of scarlet light. "Natsu what the heck is going on?" Romeo shouted as he desperately tried to break the rope, "No idea little buddy but keep fighting it." Natsu said as he tried to also snap the rope.
Gray and Juvia were the next group to be bound, and given the circumstances not even Juvia was happy despite being so close to Gray.
Wendy, Carla, and Chelia were all bound to Erza, all trying to break the powerful magic that had them bound.
Gajeel, Levy, Lily, Droy and Jet were the next group rounded up, with the Iron dragon slayer doing his damndest to break free with help from the others.
Next were Lyon and Meredy tied together while Cana and Laxus found themselves in the same predicament.
Bickslow and Freed were lassoed by the same light as Gildarts while Evergreen was tied with the Strauss siblings.
Makarov and Jura found themselves struggling to break free of the rope that bound them together while Yukino, Sting and Lector were caught as Rogue, Kagura, and Frosch were in the same boat.
The bright scarlet light that had engulfed the guild hall was now growing in strength and was now swelling to consume the entire building.
"GRAAAAAH… DAAAAAMMMMNNITTTTT" Natsu shouted as he and everyone else were consumed by the light.
And then everything went dark as the light faded and the book landed with a thud… in a now deserted and empty guild hall as in the distance as train station sounded a last call to leave.
Far away from the town of Magnolia in Fiore a lone figure rested on hill in the middle of a tranquil meadow of bright oranges, golds, and even blues, meditating while also just taking a moment to appreciate the beauty of his temporary resting spot of this distant planet. However the serenity of the figure was disturbed as he felt the pulse of power from one of his few tomes of power he had created of his many long decades, specifically the one he had left behind in Earthland after and extend stay in that strange but wondrous planet.
He however could not stop his quest through the Great Dark and his study of the Twisting Nether in his bid to find ways to foil the machinations of the enemy, or enemies as he corrected himself.
Besides how could he help those who had unknowingly triggered one of his spell books, before amusing himself with the idea of them reaching Azeroth and contacting him from his beloved world. Letting himself smile at the admitted pipe dream the old magus stood up before continuing on his way.
As he continued on his way, Medivh wondered how the people of Earthland would fair on his world of Azeroth, and how it would change them. He also pondered as he began walking through the meadow how they might change Azeroth.
AN: Well this is finally done… been sitting on this one for years. Any way for the folks of my other stories worry not I have about four papers for school to write this month and that has gotten the creative juices flowing for the first time in years. No my homework will come first, otherwise I will answer to my dad and that is NOT a conversation I want to have but I think a few other stories will be getting an update soon. Thank you all and don't forget to leave a review if you're so inclined I enjoy looking at them and seeing if I can use them to improve.