So here is chapter 15 finally! It is a longer chapter so please enjoy it. Now i saw someone ask me how many chapters this story will have, and i decided I need to discuss that with all of you. I have no definitive end for this story. I plan on the main part of it ending at the end of the grand magic games, so probably slightly less than 30 chapters if that. After that point i will start work on the third story, but i will not stop writing this one. Every so often a new chapter will come out for this story for the other arcs of fairy tail, as Mikoto is a member of the guild, so every so often she will return to help out the guild. There will be a visible break in the third story, where Mikoto goes to earthland, and then back to earth once again. I plan on making it a common thing. Also those chapters will not be necessary for the third story, but are extra chapters you can read if you like. Most of the time their will be a chapter where she arrives back to earth and thats where the third story will continue from. So kinda like a time skip, but a very short one. anyways that is all i believe so please enjoy this chapter and have a good week!
The thought of how they were going to get back to earthland truthfully frightened Mikoto. She did not know of a way to get back, and she also knew that if she did not return to earthland she could have no way of returning to her own world. Thats when she noticed a strange light surrounding her and the rest of her guildmates. In fact the strange light was also pulling magic out from anything that contained any magic.
Something is taking all the magic away, including people that have magic inside of them. I bet this is the work of Mystogan! I am going to hope that he is sending all of it to Earthland!
As Mikoto was pulled up into the air because of the magic inside of her, she noticed Natsu being dragged away from where he had been defeated by Mystogan. Mikoto could only guess what had happened, but she assumed that Natsu made himself seem like the evil goer to get the people behind Mystogan as their new leader.
I have to give Natsu credit. When he wants to use his brain and think, he can be very smart. I bet he also gave Mystogan his farewell from the guild. Amazing quick thinking and awareness Natsu.
She looked around and saw all of her guild members flying into the air, but she also noticed Lisanna from the Edolas fairy tail being dragged up into the sky. This sight caused Mikoto to remember reading that the earthlands Lisanna had been taken to edolas, and would return to earthland after all of this, so Mikoto realizes that is something she is going to let run its course as it normally would. It didnt take long for a bright flash of light to momentarily blind her, and then she realized she was falling. She looked around and realized she was once again in Earthland. She made an easy Landing just next to where Natsu and the others crashed roughly to the ground.
"Well it looks like we are home," Erza states, forcing her way out of the pile.
"Yes but is everyone okay?" Lucy asks, referring to their guildmates that had not been participating in the earlier battles.
"We should go and check on them," Gray agrees. They were about to go off to their guildhall when a voice spoke from above.
"We already did! Everyone is fine!" The group looks up to see all of the exceeds in the sky above them. After a brief explanation of what was going on, along with an apology from the queen and the elder exceeds to Carla and Happy, the truth of why the exceeds were sent to earth. It was revealed that the eggs were sent to protect the soon to be born exceeds from a dark future. During this discussion it was revealed that both Carla and The queen share the ability to predict the future. This combined with their shared looks caused Mikoto to realize that they were mother and Daughter. She also realized she was the only fairy tail member to realize it so she kept her mouth shut. After the discussion ended, the exceeds took off to explore the world.
"Hey! Where is my cat?" Gajeel asks in annoyance, looking around for Panther Lily. As if summoned, Panther lily stepped out from behind a bush.
"Im right here!" He says drawing everyones attention. He continues, "I want to join the guild that my prince was a part of. Gajeel! You promised me you could get me in!"
Gajeel only smiled and once Erza gave him a nod he leaped forward, tackled Panther Lily while crying as he welcome him into the guild. After they separated, Lily Dragged in another person who was revealed to be Lisanna. After the groups shock, Lisanna managed to shake free from her bindings and tackle Natsu in happiness. After a quick moment of hesitation from Erza who remembered that Lisanna from Earthland had died. Lisanna then explained what really happened, that the anima had taken her to Edolas. This was enough to convince the group and they welcomed her back. They took her to the church, where Lisannas brother and Sister were mourning her "death" two years ago. Lisanna runs over and reunites with her family, to the happiness of the group. Together they all return to the Guildhall. Nearly the same thing happens there, but the guild asks for no explanation, they just welcome Lisanna back in happiness.
"Erza, no need to explain everything today. You can tell me what happened another day. Today we celebrate the return of a lost child!" Makarov states, beginning the celebrations. Mikoto walks around, happy to see everyone having fun again when she feels a hand grab her own. She knows immediately who it is, and she turns her head to see Touma next to her. She gave him a smile and she noticed two things. One, he had the look of pride in his eyes, as if he knew that she had a hand in the guilds successful return from Edolas. But she also so worry in his eyes, and she noticed his eyes kept glancing to her left arm, which was still tightly wrapped up.
"Something happened in edolas and some dragon slayer magic flowed into me, creating strange markings on my left arm. I dont completely know what is going on with it, so until then I will keep it covered so nobody knows about it," Mikoto whispers to her boyfriend.
"I think you should tell someone else, what if it causes you harm because of a conflict between the dragon slayer magic, your own magic, and your power?" Touma suggests.
"I guess your right, I will tell Makarov another day, just not now. Dont want to replace todays happiness with worry." Mikoto agrees. They join the rest of the guild in the celebrations, and it wasnt long till like the rest of the guild they were passed out in the guild hall. The next morning was eventful in many ways. First of all, it was chaotic with everyone waking up in such a confined space. Natsu managed to step on Gray, which pissed Gray off and the two started fighting. This woke up the majority of the guild, causing a full out battle. Mikoto and Touma had avoided the majority of this, as they had slept in a corner away from all of this, though the noise did wake them up. The fight was stopped not by Erza nor Makarov, but Gildarts randomly walking in. Just the sight of him walking in was enough to draw the attention of everyone involved in the fighting away from the person they were upset at.
"So, a brawl was happening and nobody invited me?" Gildarts asks. Of course Natsu took that as in invitation of its own, and leaped up to attack Gildarts.
"Your always invited to fight me Gildarts!" Natsu exclaims, trying to attack Gildarts, who effortlessly knocks Natsu away. The guild thought that this was the end of it, until they saw Mikoto walking forward to stand infront of Gildarts. There was a couple of things that made Mikoto decide to do what she was about to do. First of all she had noticed that Gildarts had gotten his damaged body parts with Mechanical replacements, meaning he could now fight at full power again. Secondly she had seen him talking with Makarov the previous days and she knew that they were planning out the S class trials. She knew she needed to prove what she has been saying, that she was the strongest member of fairy tail. She needed this proven so that she could ensure herself a spot at Tenrou Island. She knew what was going to happen at Tenrou, and she needed both herself and Touma there, or else what she wanted to change will not change.
"Gildarts! I challenge you to a battle! Lets see who is truly the strongest in fairy tail," Mikoto challenges. The guild went quiet, none of them having thought that someone would seriously challenge Gildarts like this.
"Are you sure you want to do that?" Gildarts responds, half surprised, half having expected that.
"Yes I am. I keep preaching how strong I am, without really showing it all to much. Also I like to get to know those I will be working with, and fighting them is the best way to find their limits," Mikoto responds.
"Well then I accept. Though be warned, im not good at holding back," Gildarts warns
"Im fine with that. I want you to go all out. Meet me at the open field outside of the town in a little bit. Its far enough away that i think we can both go all out without causing damage to the town." Mikoto states.
"Okay, let me talk to makarov about something then I will meet you over there," Gildarts replies. Mikoto dips her head politely and walks away. About an hour later they meet at the open field, Mikoto standing at one end and Gildarts at the other. The rest of the guild was standing on the outside edges, ready to watch this battle happen.
"This is your last chance to back down Mikoto, I dont want to hurt you," Gildarts says for the final time.
"No way in hell am I backing down, I have looked forward to this since i came to this world." Mikoto responds. She puts an earbud into her ear so she could listen to some music, and then she looked back at Gildarts. He was slowly walking towards her, confidence in his steps, yet she could tell he was weary of what she could do.
This is going to be a tough fight. Im going to have to be careful of how to handle this.
To start of the fight, Mikoto leaped forward at lightning fast speed, swinging a punch at Gildarts face. But he saw it coming and blocked perfectly with his own fist. The collision caused a small shockwave to go through the area and now the fight was on. At first it was a contest of speed and hand to hand combat. Mikoto jumped around, swapping from punches to rapid kicks, and Gildarts was either blocking or dodging them. So she decided to play him. She purposefully made the mistake of over committing in a punch, leaving an opening for Gildarts to strike, which he took. His punch sent her backwards, and when she looked up, he was upon her. Now she was on the defensive, and that is where she wanted to be. She immediately recognized his fighting style, along with its apparent weaknesses. He rarely tried to land a blow with his feet, unlike Mikoto who was trained to use every limb as a weapon. Also his blows packed alot of power, and could only be meet face on if Mikoto put her power behind her own strikes. Also she notices he was slower than her, and advantage that she would take a huge advantage of. She dodged under a strike, flipped on the ground and knocked his feet out from under him. As he fell backwards, she spun vertically to land an open palm strike to his chest, sending him hard into the ground. Then using the strike as leverage she pushed herself into a series of backflips to get some distance. Gildarts was quick to his feet, as Mikoto expected. A strike like that was not going to be enough to defeat someone of Gildarts caliber. But even the short amount of time it took him to get up was enough for Mikoto to begin to second part of her plan. Gildarts looked over to see Mikoto in her summoning position.
"Summoning Magic! Raptors and Rex!" Mikoto yells out. Multiple magic circles spawned around her and then from them 8 raptors and a Rex. The raptors used their immense speed to rush around Gildarts, distracting him long enough for the Rex to hit him with its tail and knock him into a tree. But again Mikoto knew this was not enough to beat Gildarts, as it was about to be proven. Her summons tried to do this again, but when the rex came in to attack, Gildarts countered with his own magic, Crash, which destroyed the Rex. The raptors leaped in from all angles, but again Gildarts got out of it. His skill in hand to hand, combined with his magic, easily destroyed the raptors, and because they were summons, they were not made into many little versions of themselves.
"This is amazing Mikoto. I never known a human who could give me this much trouble," Gildarts compliments.
"Thats not all im capable of!" Mikoto yells out, as the song Lucky strike played in her ear. She leaped forward using her ability to move at tremendous speed. Gildarts thought she was going to attack head on again, but when Gildarts went to counter, she transported behind him and dealt a hard blow to his back. Then as he was now off balance, she transported to a different side, and attack from there, repeating this multiple times. Everytime he would go to strike her, she would appear in a different spot and attack from there. Finally Gildarts got tired of the little game, and used an omnidirectional attack. The blast from the attack sent Mikoto flying, with her landing on the ground, using her feet and arms to slow her backwards movement. She ended up with her right hand on the ground, and her left on her knees in a crouch. Since the blast contained Gildarts Crash magic, it had also deteriorated her shirt, which crumbled into dust once her momentum was ceased. Mikoto looked down, realized just how happy she was that she always wore a highly resistant sports bra under her level 6 clothes, as that would have been a very awkward way to end a fight. She was also happy her shorts were made of the same material as the bra.
"I am so sorry about that!" Gildarts exclaims in embarrassment, not wanting to be called a pervert that declothes his opponents in battle.
"Its all good," Mikoto replies. Without another word she launches her next attacks, this time going all out at level 5. She leaped forward again, but now a few more things were apparent. First Mikoto was now Gildarts equal in every way, and that was only at her max in level 5 form. Her power was just as strong as Gildarts Magic, and she was way faster. They were equal in hand to hand, yet Mikotos speed gave her the advantage. She quickly dodged another strike, and landed a hard one of her own that sent him backwards. He ran back at surprising speed, and finally Mikoto used one of her trump cards. She used her electromagnetism to force Gildarts to be unable to move. Since half his body was now covered in metal because of his wounds, she could control it. Then she used her power to create a ball of iron sand, with Gildarts at the center. With her power holding him down, she believed it was only a matter of time till he had to give up or get seriously hurt. Thats when gildarts surprised her. He leaped out of the iron sand right at Mikoto. He had been able to overpower her electromagnetism. He landed an uppercut into her stomach, then elbowed her back, which sent her hard into the ground. A small crater was created by her impact, thats how hard he hit her. The hit had also caused her ball of iron sand to dissipate. Everyone went silent, then an uproar was heard as they all thought that Gildarts had won. He turned to walk away from Mikoto, when suddenly the ground began to shake. He turned back to Mikoto, and saw her on her hands and knees.
"Give up! No need to push this further!' Gildarts yelled out.
"I WILL NOT LOSE!" Mikoto yelled in response as her anger finally broke through. Large amounts of electricity gathered around her as her hair began to flash electric blue. She stood up, her eyes now totally dark as she was about to transform to level 6. The air around them began to circle violently as Mikotos power began to increase. A storm built up in the sky, with lightning bolts crashing down. Then at the last possible second, Mikoto regained awareness. Instead of Transforming to her usual 20%, she took it to 3%. Now she had never gone this low in level 6, and now she knew why. The form was very problemsome at this low of a percent. First of all, it was requiring more energy to sustain then it put out. Also she had to fight against going even further than this. Her hair was constantly flickering between normal brown and the electric blue, signalling that it was not a complete transformation. But it did still give her a power boost, and this meant she was 3 times stronger than before, enough to beat gildarts. She moved forward and delivered a flurry of punches so fast nobody could even see her move. Then as if she teleported she was above him, preparing a Railgun. Huge walls of electricity rained down, blocking all possible escape paths as Mikoto prepared the railgun. A ball of metal built up around Mikoto, then once it was the size of a basketball, Mikoto fired the massive Railgun. The Ball was propelled forward in the massive Railgun, and Gildarts tried to block it with his magic. At first it seemed to be a dead even draw, then suddenly the Railgun Broke through in a huge explosion. As the smoke cleared Mikoto landed and went back to normal. Once it cleared, a huge sigh of relief could be heard. Gildarts was lying on the ground, defeated but not means that Mikoto had won the battle. Then she noticed that Gildarts was not unconscious like she originally thought, but instead awake and smiling slightly. She uses her magic to get herself a new shirt then Mikoto walked over and helped him get to his feet. Then to the surprise of almost everyone she bowed down slightly to him.
"I guess we are equals. I can tell you could have kept going even after that hit," Mikoto says.
"No we are not equals. You would have beaten me if that fight went any longer, i can see that, I only decided to end it before it went longer than it needed too," Gildarts response.
"Well Im just happy neither of us got seriously hurt," Mikoto responds.
"So am I, and now I have a reason to get stronger," Gildarts responds. That was the most exciting part of the day, as the rest of the day was spent by the guild either talking to Mikoto or Gildarts about the fight. By the end of the day Mikoto was so exhausted that making it back to Touma and hers apartment was challenging. Once inside it wasnt long till she passed out in the bed, thinking about what was coming next, the day she meets her reason to come to Earthland.
Everybody in the world are you with me?
It's too late to try to run, we run the city
It's my time, it's your time
Held me down, now it's don't give a fuck time
It's go time, it's show time
Sing it with me everybody let's go
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
Let me see you start a war, start a riot
When there's nothing left to burn, hear the silence
Hate me, you can't escape me and you ain't ever gonna change me
I can't stand it, I've fucking had it, I'm about to blow
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
'Cause it's one, it's one, one for the money
Two, it's two gots too much for the show
Three, it's three, three get ready
Are you ready motherfuckers? Are you ready? Let's go!
Are you ready? Let's go!