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"CobraAssassin": I've given it some thought and I'd probably either use Travis Willingham who voiced Mustang in the anime Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood or Reuben Langdon who voice Dante in the game Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening for Yusuke's voice. As for Ann, most likely Kari Wahlgren who voice Lady, also in the game Devil Mary Cry 3: Dante's Awakening. Then as for Marissa, I'd choose Kara Edwards who voice Kid Goten, even today I think. I can imagine her coming up with a voice best suited for Marissa and her personality. Thank you for the compliment as well, hope you enjoy this chapter!
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Onward!
'What is he even doing…?' Yusuke thought as he flew through the city.
It hadn't been long when the male Saiyan left the castle, and thinking that the others will be safe as long as Ann and Marissa were there, he had to go see what the Iron Dragonslayer was up to.
Flying over to where Gajeel was at, he recognized the area when he first arrived with the group, the area where the large lacrima was out in the open plaza.
Floating above the plaza, Yusuke could see Gajeel destroying his surroundings and knocking away soldiers from the lacrima. The next thing the mage did was leap in the air, and formed his arm into a sword with his magic. Bringing up the iron sword, Gajeel swung his arm down at the lacrima, surprising Yusuke.
"What the hell is he doing?" Yusuke muttered. He made an action to dive down, but what caught his eye next stopped him once more.
As soon as Gajeel was finished attacking the lacrima, the giant blue crystal began glowing brightly in the middle of the plaza, and the male Saiyan was frozen in place, watching the scene.
The light that covered the entire lacrima was reduced down, and Yusuke made a sound of surprise to not see the large lacrima, but two people.
"That's…!" Yusuke sensed down below, recognizing the two people that suddenly appeared in place of the lacrima, and grinned. "Gray… and Erza!"
He silently gasped when he saw Gajeel let out his roar towards some soldiers, and Erza firing off Ki blasts while Gray stood in his place, keeping his guard up.
Flaring his white aura, Yusuke instantly dived down towards the plaza. Along the way, he extended an arm out, and fired off multiple Ki blasts at the soldiers below him.
Yusuke's energy attacks touched the stone ground, and large plumes of smoke was created. He landed in front of Erza, surprising her.
"Yusuke!" Erza exclaimed.
"Go grab Gray! I'll get Gajeel! We're flying out of here, hurry!" Yusuke yelled.
Erza quickly nodded and ran over to Gray. She grabbed his arm, and they both flew up in the air. Yusuke went over to Gajeel, and went to grab his shoulder.
"Hey!" Gajeel shouted, but gasped at seeing Yusuke.
"Ready or not, we're moving!" Yusuke yelled, and lifted Gajeel up into the air.
Yusuke brought his other hand over his head, and Ki shined at the top of his palm. He threw his hand down at the plaza ground at a spot where there were no soldiers present, and a large smoke cloud was formed, engulfing the entire area with little visibility on the ground.
"We should be good, follow me!" Yusuke shouted towards Erza, and she nodded.
Erza saw Yusuke bring out his white aura, and flew away from the plaza. Copying him by bringing out her own white aura, she quickly followed after him.
Flying down into an empty alleyway where there were no people around it, Yusuke set Gajeel down, and Erza shortly arrived after, landing down with Gray.
"Honestly, it's pretty good to see more people are safe." Yusuke said, turning around to face the three new Fairy Tail members with a smile.
"Then you guys mind telling us what is going on?" Gray asked.
"First, how are you here?" Gajeel asked, pointing at Yusuke.
"I should be asking you that, since I sensed your energy for the first time in this world since you were going gungho back there." Yusuke said, crossing his arms.
"Wait, then you two weren't with each other?" Gray questioned.
"What do you mean, in this world?" Erza asked, crossing her arms.
"We're not in Earthland at the moment. We're in another world called Edolas. You can practically label this world and Earthland as twins or something."
"What do you mean by that?" Gray asked.
"Well, for one-" Yusuke stopped talking, and looked to the side.
"Yusuke? What is it?" Erza asked.
"Come on out! I know you're hiding there." Yusuke called out.
Everybody else looked towards the direction Yusuke was looking at, and out from the corner of a building was man in a suit and bowl hat.
"My, surprising that you were able to find out where I was. Even more surprising when you swooped in as well back there!" The man said, walking up towards the group of four. When he arrived near them, he lifted up his hat, and smirked at the group, revealing his face.
"What the-?!" Gray exclaimed.
"Two Gajeels…?!" Erza inquired.
"Yes! I am the Gajeel of this world." Edolas Gajeel introduced.
"Gihi! This guy is pretty useful! Wouldn't you say that he's reliable with a face like that?!" Gajeel boasted with a smirk, and placed an arm over his counterparts shoulders.
"Why are there two Gajeels?" Erza asked Yusuke.
"Remember how I said you could call this world and Earthland twins? That's why. There are other versions of people from Earthland here in Edolas." Yusuke answered.
"Does that include us as well…?"
"... I think they're ignoring us other me." Edolas Gajeel said.
"How rude!" Gajeel yelled.
"Ha! They don't give a crap at all about your guys' face." Gray said with a grin, and both Gajeels quickly grew disappointed.
"Yusuke, what is going on?" Erza asked.
"A lot. Magnolia got sucked up into a portal and into this world." Yusuke said.
"The entire city?!" Gray exclaimed, and the Saiyan nodded.
"Every building, and almost every person in the area. The only ones that weren't caught were Marissa, Ann and I. As well as Natsu, Wendy, Lucy, Happy and Carla. In this case, I suppose Gajeel is included in that as well now."
"Where are they now?" Erza questioned.
"Captured." Yusuke simply answered.
"What?!" Gray, Gajeel and Erza exclaimed.
"We were going to infiltrate the castle to try and get everyone else back to normal with Carla's planning. But they somehow knew about it. So they surrounded and caught us in a mine under the city that was connected to the castle."
"Wait a second, couldn't you have stopped that?" Gajeel asked.
"We could have, but we chose not to. We wanted to get into the castle without as much trouble as possible, otherwise if we did, then we thought there was a risk of not getting everyone back safely. So we decided to let ourselves get caught. Well, Marissa, Ann and I at least."
"How are you out here then if you're suppose to be at the castle?" Gray asked.
"Because they think I 'died'." Yusuke smirked, gesturing his fingers in air quotes. Though he had an uneasy look next towards the redhead. "Though to be more specific, the Erza of this world is thinking she killed me."
"What?!" Erza, Gray and Gajeel shouted once more.
"Ah that's right… Captain Erza Knightwalker of the Second Magic Regiment of the Royal Army. Also known as the Fairy Hunter." Edo Gajeel explained.
"The Fairy Hunter?" Gray questioned.
"She's widely known to kill members of the Fairy Tail guild after the Kingdom announced that magic guilds need to be disbanded to preserve the dying magic in Edolas. Some guilds have disagreed, but were ultimately rid of. The Fairy Tail guild still exists, but with limited members now as Captain Knightwalker constantly hunts them down."
"Dying magic?" Erza asked next, but definitely did not ignore of the actions her counterpart has taken.
"This worlds' magic isn't like Earthlands where people can use magic with no limit." Yusuke answered.
"And because of that, the King has resorted to absorbing parts of Earthland for magic to use." Edo Gajeel said.
"In this case, Magnolia…" Erza concluded. "Then, they're here in Edolas?"
"In a way yes… however the city itself isn't. It's supposedly a very large lacrima." Edo Gajeel said.
"A giant lacrima?" Gray asked.
"Just how you two were back there until Gajeel somehow restored the both of you." Yusuke said, surprising Erza and Gray.
"Oh, that's right…" Gajeel reached behind him, and took out a bottle full of maroon pills. "It's best if you two take these."
"What are those?" Gray asked.
"These are called Ex-balls. They're said to be medicine of this world so that you're able to use magic." Gajeel explained, and walked up to Gray and Erza, giving them a piece.
"So this is how you were able to use magic then…" Gray said, and took in the pill.
"'Said to be' you say?" Erza questioned the dragonslayer.
"I got 'em from Mystogan." Gajeel answered, shaking the bottle.
"Mystogan…?!"
"Learning more about this world now, I can see why Mystogan is heavily involved in all of this… though for what reason and goals I don't know." Yusuke commented.
"How so?" Gajeel asked.
"He's really Jellal, but different from the Jellal we mostly encountered back then. Mystogan is another person entirely, and seeing how there are other versions of people from Earthland in this world, then it would make sense that he's probably from Edolas."
"I'm assuming you ran into him as well?" The dragonslayer asked, and Yusuke nodded.
"Yeah, after we saw the entire city being absorbed we saw him over there. He only briefly explained to us what happened, and asked us to come here to help everyone. What did he say to you?"
"It looked liked he was in a hurry, but he basically gave me the pills, told me what was going on and said that there were others already coming here. He also said that my Dragon Slayer Magic will be useful on those lacrimas."
"...which turned out to only be Erza and Gray." Yusuke added in.
"Then…!" Gray started.
"Yeah, the lacrima we saw back at the plaza was you two."
"We thought that giant lacrima would have been the mages that the Kingdom had absorbed, but seeing how it was merely just you two, I can only imagine how much larger the real lacrima really is. Plus, now that I think back on it, there was a cut on the corner of it, so it must have been chipped off to show off for the people." Edo Gajeel explained.
"...if Dragonslayer magic can revert can revert people back from a lacrima…" Yusuke said in thought, but gasped when realizing two other people able to use Dragonslayer magic. "Damn it…"
"What is it?" Gray asked.
"Natsu and Wendy… when we were all caught, they didn't put them in the same cell as the rest of us… if they know something about Dragonslayer magic and what it could benefit them…"
"Then they might do something to them!" Erza exclaimed.
"I already sense Ann and Marissa taking action over at the castle… I guess something must have happened over there. We should hurry too… but Gajeel, I think it's best if you stay behind."
"Hah? What are you implying?" Gajeel asked, crossing his arms.
"I haven't flown much around this city, and I don't know if the rest of the lacrima is within it. If you can find it and use your magic on it, then we can save as many of them as we can."
"It's possible it might be in the city." Edo Gajeel said.
"Then it's settled, I'll go around to see if I can find it, GihI!" Gajeel said with a smirk.
"I'll be going with him too then." Gray said.
"What? Why?" Yusuke asked.
"You and Erza can fly, you'll be able to go to the castle a lot faster and I'll just be slowing you two down. I'll support Gajeel in finding everyone else, the both of you make sure the others are safe." The Ice Mage explained, and started to walk out of the alley with the dragonslayer.
"...alright. Make sure the both of you stay safe too, got that?"
"Yeah, they better hope they don't get too banged up by us." Gajeel said with a smirk as he glanced behind him, and he ran off into the streets with Gray just behind him.
"What about you?" The Saiyan asked Gajeel's counterpart.
"I have a meeting with someone I have to inform." Edo Gajeel said as he tilted down his bowl hat, and turned away from Yusuke and Erza. "Fighting isn't what I specialize in, just gathering information."
"Well it isn't any of our business then." Yusuke said, and turned his head towards Erza. "You ready?"
"Yes." Erza nodded.
Both Yusuke and Erza brought out their white aura's, and flew away from the alley, making their way to the castle.
The both of them flew side by side of each other, and occasionally, Yusuke would glance at Erza. Too much in fact that it was very obvious for her to catch on.
"Yusuke, is something the matter?" Erza asked, looking over at him.
"It's nothing… just, glad you're safe and sound. That's all." Was Yusuke's response, and he kept his head forward.
Erza blinked with her mouth slightly open, but was formed into a fond smile towards the Saiyan.
"Thank you Yusuke." Erza said, and his eyes glanced over at her while he smiled. Though Yusuke saw her smile fade away, her face forming into a stern look. "...it seems that I'm the enemy in this world."
"Yeah, she's… different." Yusuke replied.
"...I can't imagine myself having the thought to hurt or kill anyone from our guild. Much less you."
"She's not you, and you're not her. You have to know that." Yusuke said, and then grinned. "But it'll take a lot to bring me down Erza."
"You're right." Erza grinned back, and looked ahead towards the castle. "Let's hurry."
"You got it."
In the prison cell where Ann, Marissa and Lucy were currently residing in still, Ann opened her eyes as soon as she felt a shift in her rival's energy.
"Where the hell is he going…?" Ann muttered, now sensing Yusuke fly away from the castle.
"That's weird…" Marissa said.
"What's going on?" Lucy asked.
"Tarok is moving, but he left the castle." Ann answered.
"What? Where is he going?"
"It feels like he's flying away from the city…" Marissa said, continuing to track him. "Wait…wait…"
"He stopped." Ann said.
"I think I feel someone else there too...someone that pretty much stands out too." Marissa said, feeling another high energy level to all the people residing in the city.
"Any idea who it is?" Lucy asked.
"No...I wish. I still haven't gotten everyone down in my mind yet. Familiar, but I can't point it out."
"What's happening now?"
"Tarok is just staying still… as for the other person, their energy is rising...probably fighting." Ann said.
Both Marissa and Ann hardened their eyes as they sensed a familiar presence near their cell door, and Lucy caught on to their gazes worryingly.
"W-What is it now?" Lucy asked.
"Erza's back…" Marissa whispered.
"She's not alone either apparently…" Ann muttered.
The cell doors unceremoniously opened up to reveal Knightwalker walking in. She looked over at Marissa leaning against the wall, and walked over to her.
"Don't get too comfortable." Knightwalker said, reaching out to grab the Earthling's vest and forced her to stand up.
"Gah!" Marissa stumbled past Knightwalker when she was pushed, and was held in place by soldiers that grabbed ahold of her arms.
Knightwalker destroyed Ann's cuffs, briefly allowing the female Saiyan's arm to rest but the collar on her black jacket was grabbed by Erza's counterpart, forcing her to stand up as well.
"Grr…!" Ann growled audibly, but Knightwalker ignored her and pushed her a lot more easily than Marissa who still had the large stones chained up to her ankles.
Exactly like with Marissa, another pair of soldiers held Ann's hands behind her in place and was wrapped in the holding substance that was used on the group who attempted to infiltrate the castle. The female Saiyan felt weight on her ankles, and she looked down with narrowed eyes as the soldiers just finished up connecting more heavy stones to her.
"A-Ah!" Lucy yelped and had her eyes closed as Knightwalker also destroyed the wooden cuffs around the mage with her spear. The blonde cried out again when she was grabbed by her hair, and forced her to stand up. Knightwalker grabbed Lucy's arms and placed them behind her back, making Lucy uncomfortable.
"Move." Knightwalker commanded, and placed the tip of her spear near Lucy's neck, causing the blonde the shriek in fear once more.
The soldiers that held the Time Patrollers in place began to walk, forcing them to go along while the heavy stones were attached to them.
Walking outside into the hallways, the Patrollers could see more soldiers with chained stone orbs.
"Why are there more?" Marissa questioned.
"Is it not obvious?" Knightwalker said, walking out with Lucy. "There are three of you, and like I have mentioned before, I will not be taking any chances until the end."
"What…?!" Marissa and Lucy exclaimed.
"She can't fly! We can promise you that!" Ann exclaimed, narrowing her eyes dangerously.
"She's right, it's only the both of us that are capable, you'd be torturing her even more if you put those on her!" Marissa shouted, shaking around.
"Oh? And what makes you think I'll believe you?" Knightwalker asked.
"You've seen us being able to fly, but have you seen her?" Ann reasoned.
"I-I really can't…" Lucy nervously said.
"She might not have had the chance to do so, and she might not be too keen on thinking so. Either way…" Knightwalker motioned the soldiers towards her, and the Captain moved Lucy so that the soldiers met her halfway, and locked the braces on the blonde's ankles as well as holding her arms in place. "It doesn't matter to me."
'This bitch…!' Ann gritted her teeth, feeling her anger rise, and glared at Knightwalker.
"Lucy…" Marissa muttered.
"Now walk." Knightwalker commanded the mage.
"I possibly can't…" Lucy uttered, looking back at the chains on her.
"I said walk!" Knightwalker grabbed Lucy by her shoulder, and pushed her forward.
"Ahh!" Unable to have the strength to even budge the chained stones, Lucy fell forward on the stone floor. She winced from the stinging pain on her now scraped knees and on her right shoulder.
"Lucy!" Marissa exclaimed.
"Tch." Knightwalker's arm went to grab Lucy by her hair.
"A-Ah!" Lucy cried out again as Erza's counterpart pulled the celestial mages hair, and Lucy had eyes shut tight from the added pain she felt.
Ann couldn't take it anymore, and forcefully flared out her aura.
"...we can be friends can't we?" Lucy's words rang in Ann's mind. She clenched her teeth and glared hard at Knightwalker's surprised face. "HAAAH!"
Surprising everyone else, Marissa included by the instant rise of energy in Ann, the female Saiyan's power cracked the walls and the floor around her. She shouted, and broke apart the restrains on her arms. Keeping her glare towards Knightwalker, Ann extended a palm towards her and growled, letting out a force of her energy to knock the Captain back, and letting go of Lucy. Ann dodged the grabbing arms of the soldiers that were on either sides of her, and went to punch one into a wall, and another into the ground, rendering them unconscious.
Ann went and separated herself from the chained stone balls by breaking apart the anklets on her with her hands. With a quick dash, she was crouching beside Lucy, and gently lifted her up by her left shoulder and right waste so that she didn't harm her anymore on her right shoulder, and laid her against the wall.
"Mari!" Ann shouted back towards her friend as she glanced behind her.
"Alright, alright! I guess we're doing this now." Marissa shoulder bashed the soldier on her right who was the nearest against the wall, and he crashed, knocking him out.
"You little-!" The other soldier on the other side to swipe at Marissa with his spear, but the Earthling dodged by ducking down. She spun around with her right leg, and collided the large stone against the soldier, knocking him down on the floor, unconscious.
"Are you alright?" Ann asked the blonde, and she broke apart the braces on Lucy's ankles, relieving her of the weight of the stones. After doing so, she coated her hand in her Ki, and tore away the substance on her hands.
"Yeah... thanks a lot." Lucy said with a small smile. She took Ann's hand that was offered and stood up.
"Alright, I guess we should be getting out of here now, try and come up with something on the spot while we're at it…" Marissa said, running up to them with her hands and and ankles still bound.
"Mari." Ann pointed towards the chains.
"Oh, uh, right. Hehe." Marissa struggled for a moment before breaking apart the restrains on her hands.
"Alright, let's get out of here." Ann began to walk, however, she looked back at a rise in energy she felt.
SILFARION!
Knightwalker dashed towards the group of three with an angered look on her face, and pointed her spear straight towards Ann until Marissa phased in front of the Captain, and caught the handle of the spear near the arrowhead.
"Ya know, I think I got dibs on her. You two can go on ahead, I got this." Marissa said with a grin, keeping her eyes towards the glaring Knightwalker.
"If you say so. Lucy, let's go." Ann said, and began running towards the opposite end of the hallway where Marissa and Knightwalker were clashed against.
"Wait up!" Lucy ran after the female Saiyan, leaving Marissa and Knightwalker by themselves.
Marissa kept a grip on Knightwalker's weapon, and felt a tug on it as the latter tried to pry it away from the Earthling. Keeping her grin, Marissa casually let go of her weapon, and they both leaped away from each other.
"Do you really think you can hold out on your own while being chained?" Knightwalker taunted.
"Pfft, Erza, did you not see me go from point A to point B earlier?" Marissa said, and began walking towards the Captain, unphased.
"What…?" The counterpart of Erza widened her eyes a bit when Marissa was casually walking towards her, by clenched her teeth and readied her spear.
With her spear still in its Silfarion form, Knightwalker dashed towards Marissa at high speeds, but in the Earthlings eyes, she dodged before the Captain could touch or see her move. Marissa grabbed the spear once more with both of her hands, and pinned Knightwalker against the wall while using the weapon to hold her in place against her neck.
As Knightwalker blinked, wondering what had happened to her with a perturbed look, Marissa stared at her with a stern look, not budging with her grip.
"This behavior really doesn't suit you Erza…" Marissa said.
"...what are you talking about?" Knightwalker asked.
"I know you from Earthland. In fact, you're part of our guild, Fairy Tail."
"...what?!" Knightwalker exclaimed, widening her eyes.
"Ironic isn't it? You're looked up to by the members there, but looked down upon here. If it were really up to me, if you weren't acting like this, you'd be a lot better off."
"I am not the Erza you know of, and I am not her. I will stand by my ethics and my beliefs of who I am and what I do." Knightwalker stated.
"So getting rid of others for your own gains is what you will stand by? Using my friends to reach your goals?"
"It is necessary for the Kingdom, it is necessary for Edolas!" Knightwalker went to knee Marissa, but the Earthling blocked with a hand. Seeing just a single hand on the spear, the Captain gripped one hand on the weapon and used her opposite hand to push Marissa away from her.
MEL FORCE!
Knightwalker's spearhead changed once again, and she directed it towards Marissa. The blade glowed, and and a force was let out. Marissa crossed her arms, and Knightwalker's attack connected to her, forcing the Earthling to crash through the walls.
Two men walked through the hallways that were near the chambers where prisoners were held at.
One of them was a young man with purple hair, but one of his locks on the right side of his face was white in color. He wore a large white coat with gold trims with gold trimmed shoulder guards. Beneath his coat he wore white pants and a dark shirt with green crossed lines designs on it. Most distinct feature about him are the arrow shaped eyebrows that resembles the hands on a clock as his eyebrows.
The other man was a tall individual with blonde hair that was styled into a pompadour, had long sideburns that extended down at the ends of his face. He donned pink armor that was equipped onto his chest, arms and his legs, but the pelvis part of his armor was left out and he was instead wearing black briefs as a substitute. Finishing his looks, he wore a white cape and had a sword with rose as a guard, and the blade was double-edged, and resembled a part of a fan.
"Man, it's like, such a waste to kill those prisoners! A lot of that magic, gone!" Hughes, the one with purple hair and white lock, exclaimed.
"Mmm… we can't deny the Exceed Queen's orders. It's unfortunate but it's absolute. But we at least have the Dragonslayers." Sugarboy, the one with the pompadour said.
"We coulda just saved them when we had the means to extract magic from them. That would have been like, so worth it!" Hughes said, clenching his hands in excitement. "The dream of having infinite magic is so close that I can almost taste it. It's gonna be like, so amazing!"
As both Captains of the Royal Army continued walking, they both stopped all of a sudden as an explosion occurred a ways away ahead of them, and several soldiers of their army came out of the dust, crashing on the floor and the walls.
"What in the-" Sugarboy started.
"Whoa! What's going on?!" Hughes shouted, and both he and Sugarboy could hear running footsteps.
"Do you know where you're going?!" A female voice shouted.
"If I blast through everything enough!" Another female voice shouted.
The footsteps became even louder and soon, Hughes and Sugarboy saw two women come out of the side of the broken hallway with blonde and black hair looking around where to go next, but made sounds of surprise when they saw the two Captains.
"Hmm… now this is interesting." Sugarboy said, grabbing his weapon..
"Those are the prisoners! How did they like, get away from Erza?!" Hughes exclaimed.
"More trouble!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Argh! We don't have time for this, we need to get out of this god forsaken castle!" Ann took Lucy's wrist and ran the opposite way.
"Man, like, what a pain." Hughes said, and ran after the two women.
"Hmm… I wonder what Erza is doing at this moment to let them escape." Sugarboy said, and brought out his Rosa Espada. He ran just behind Hughes, also in pursuit of the two prisoners.
Ann and Lucy turned several corners as they both ran, passing several soldiers who were out in the halls. It wasn't until they ran to a point where a wall was in front of them, but there was the option to turn either left or right, that Ann was at her limit.
"God damnit to hell! I can't take it anymore! Forget about stealth!" Ann shouted, and outstretched an arm towards the wall.
"I don't think we were being stealthy at all…" Lucy sweatdropped and panted, and looked back to see the soldiers that had weapons with them run towards her and Ann.
"HAAH!" Ann shouted once more, and fired off an energy blast at the wall in front of her. Debris of stone blew in every direction, and large pieces of it tumbled on the floor in front of them.
Both Fairy Tail members could see light in front of them, and they both saw an open hallway with several pillars supporting the ceiling above them.
"You can't be serious! It was right next to us!" Ann exclaimed.
"At least we can get out now!" Lucy looked back at the soldiers that were closing in on them.
"C'mon!" Ann wrapped an arm around Lucy's waist and Lucy allowed one of her arms to wrap around the Saiyan's shoulder.
Ann crouched, ready to leap, however a large figure immediately blocked her vision. They both looked up to see someone with their arms over their head, and they swung down, swinging a large sword towards the Fairy Tail members.
Ann moved the both of them to avoid the collision, and fell to the ground. Lucy and Ann looked up, surprised to see a tall muscular being with black fur, chest armor, a metal helmet with an orange mane and a large beige colored cape around him. The sword he wielded was very large, but grew smaller in size so that it was appropriate for indoors as he lowered his arms.
Pantherlily towered over the collapsed Fairy Tail members and sheathed away his large blade behind his back, and soldiers that were already within the hallways and outside surrounded them.
"Oh come on…" Ann said in exasperation.
"You can do something about this, right?" Lucy asked.
"Kind of hard to do when I'm trying not to kill at the moment…" The Saiyan said with a hushed voice.
Hughes and Sugarboy came up from behind the soldiers to stand near Pantherlily.
"Oh sweet! You caught them!" Hughes said.
"Hmm, I guess we weren't needed." Sugarboy said, putting away his sword.
"Where is Knightwalker? She was suppose to handle their execution." Pantherlily demanded.
"Dunno, we haven't seen her." Hughes shrugged.
"Hm… in any case, let's take them back." Sugarboy said. He snapped his fingers, signaling soldiers with the spears to hold the prisoners in place.
Ann and Lucy stood up, with the latter standing behind the former. Ann blinked once, and eyeballed to the side, sensing Marissa closing in fast.
The moment soldiers stepped towards the two, Ann grabbed Lucy and they both fell on the ground. At the same time, the wall next to everyone exploded, catching the soldiers that were nearest to it and everyone else off guard.
Mostly everyone coughed from the dust, and more light was shined into the hallway as more of wall that was connected to the outside walkway was destroyed.
Ann, while still having Lucy with her, took the opportunity to leap away from the enemy and landed outside. There she saw Marissa, still having the large stones chained onto her, facing against Knightwalker across from her with an annoyed look.
"You guys are still here? I'd have thought you left already." Marissa said, looking to the side towards Lucy and Ann.
"Well… we ran into some complications." Lucy said, looking back at the dust cloud with the soldiers and captains within.
"Oh, I guess Ann is just having her moment."
"Mari!" Ann hissed.
Growing annoyed, Knightwalker gritted her teeth and her spear began to change forms once more. The spearhead turned into a shape of a red triangle with the sides of it being wavy from the bottom but straightened out when meeting at the tip. Knightwalker leaped towards Marissa with her spear over her head.
EXPLOSION!
Knightwalker forced her spear down towards Marissa, and the area around them exploded. It blew away any remaining dust that were in the hallways behind them, and the sudden impact once again caught the Royal Army's attention.
The smoke receded where Knightwalker slammed her spear at Marissa only to gasp and widen her eyes to see nothing but a broken floor.
"Sorry, ya missed by a mile Erza." Marissa called out from behind, and the mentioned Captain looked behind her to see the Earthling next to her comrades.
"Tch! How…?!" Knightwalker growled.
Marissa bent down, and grabbed the ankles around her. She broke apart the braces that were chained with the large stone balls, surprising Knightwalker, the three other Captains and the soldiers. Grabbing the chains, Marissa grinned and began to spin one of the chains, further surprising Knightwalker, as well as the captains and soldiers behind her.
"Hyah!" Marissa hopped in the air and threw one of the chained balls towards Knightwalker, now out of her shock, and leaped away from the thrown object. Turning around, Marissa threw her other chained ball at the soldiers in the hallway. However, Sugarboy came up front with his weapon and held it up. The moment his sword and the stone orb connected, the ball itself began to deform, almost turning into a liquid from the eyes of the Earthling, and she gave a cringed looked. "Ew, what the hell just happened?"
"Mari, we're going!" Ann called out, and Marissa looked to see her holding Lucy, and already out of the castle and in the air.
"Bye boys!" Marissa saluted to the army and hastily took off, meeting up with the other two, and the trio flew away.
The rest of the soldiers and captains came running up to see them fly away from their location. As Knightwalker's eyes were shadowed by her hair, she continuously gritted her teeth, and tightened the grip on her spear.
"...after them!" Knightwalker ordered.
"Alright, so I guess it's time to head back to Bro." Marissa said.
"Yeah… and ask him what the hell he was-" Ann started but was interrupted by a familiar voice from above.
"You guys!"
Lucy, Marissa and Ann, who were still above the castle grounds, perked up at the voice, and looked up to see Happy and Carla flying from above. They quickly arrived near the women with relieved faces.
"You're safe, thank goodness!" Carla said.
"...where's everyone else?" Happy said, looking around.
"Happy! Carla! You have your wings again!" Lucy chirped.
"We just had to believe in ourselves again… right Happy?" Carla said with a smile towards the other Exceed.
"Aye!" Happy cheered, but looked at the three women, his smile waning. "Where's Natsu, Wendy and Yusuke?"
"Yusuke is fine… I think. But…" Lucy began, and looked down worryingly.
"B-But what?"
"As far as we know, Tarok should be up and about. As for the other two… they should still be somewhere within the castle." Ann said.
"They weren't with us when we got captured, we don't know why though." Marissa said.
"It's because they're Dragonslayers… they're going to be used because of their magic. We have to find them!" Carla explained.
"...Bro did say they were at the opposite end from where our prison cell was at." Marissa looked back at the tower they were at before. "If we were there then…"
"They must be in there then." Lucy pointed over at the West tower. "But what about Yusuke?"
"What about him? He'll be fine wherever he's at. Although he's not alone still." Ann said, sensing where he was currently at.
"Yeah… they feel familiar too…" Marissa said, also sensing where the male Saiyan was currently at. While sensing five signatures, he recognized three others apart from Yusuke, and gasped. "Wait a minute, I think I know who he's with! I think that's-!"
"Fire!"
Everybody made sounds of surprise as they looked below to see Knightwalker pointing her spear towards the floating group.
Above and below Knightwalker, a flurry of arrows was seen being fired off, targeting the five in the air.
Marissa went to grab Happy and Carla, and both her and Ann flickered out of sight to escape from the attack.
As both Time Patrollers appeared near their same spot, they saw managed to see more arrows rain down on them from above.
"Hang on!" Marissa flared her white aura out, and flew all the way to the side to evade the arrows once more. Ann followed suit as she brought out her aura as well, and followed after the Earthling.
"I-I don't think my stomach can take this…!" Happy managed to say, having swirls in his eyes.
"I-I'm getting dizzy!" Lucy yelled out.
"Oops, sorry you two." Marissa let the Exceeds in her hands go, and they both brought out their Aera's
"HAH!" Knightwalker leaped towards Marissa, seeing an opportunity as she was near a structure.
"Uh oh!" Marissa dashed to the side to dodge the Captain, but not far enough for Knightwalker to be able to grab hold of the younger girl's hair. "A-AH!"
"You're not getting away this time…!" Knightwalker said through her teeth, and managed to wrap an arm and her legs around Marissa. With her other arm, she readied her spear.
"Geez, lighten up, will you?!" Off to the side, Marissa could see the glint of the Knightwalker's weapon with her eyes. She saw the Captain lift up her weapon, and swung it down at her. Marissa moved her head, avoiding a hit from Knightwalker, and caught the spear with both of her hands.
"Let go…!"
"Kind of hard to listen to you when you're trying to kill me Erza!" Marissa flew backwards, and collided herself and Knightwalker against a wall of a building. Knightwalker gasped in pain, and her hold on Marissa was loosened. Marissa grabbed the Captain by her arm and threw her down at a walkway nearby. Spinning the spear, the Earthling threw Knightwalker's weapon down at her, piercing the ground next to her.
"If you're done playing, I think it's best we leave now!" Ann called out from above.
"Coming!" Marissa went to fly up to Ann, where Carla and Happy were also currently at. However, as she flew up to her, Marissa stopped her ascent, widening her eyes. She pointed a finger up past her friends. "...what is that?!"
"Huh?" Ann and the Exceeds turned around and all four gasped, seeing hundreds of Exceeds flying down at them.
"T-They followed us!" Happy exclaimed.
"What did you guys do?!" Lucy asked.
"It's not safe in the air anymore, we have to get to that tower!" Carla shouted.
"I definitely second that, because they're getting more arrows on us!" Lucy pointed out, looking to the side to see more soldiers with arrows on their bows.
"Let's go!" Marissa shouted and flew towards the West tower. Not a second later, Ann, while holding Lucy, Happy and Carla followed after.
Knightwalker groaned and woke up in time to see them fly away to their destination. She immediately stood up and grabbed her spear that was next to her.
Several soldiers came running up to her, and Knightwalker's glare towards them forced the soldiers to halt.
"Fortify the defenses at the West Tower immediately! The intruders must not pass through there!" Knightwalker ordered. Not wanting to further anger her, the soldiers took off as soon as they heard her to comply with her demands.
All of a sudden, trumpets blared out loudly for everyone in the castle to hear, and banners, each with a different symbol on them, were raised on the embrasures of the walls all around the castle.
"...Code ETD?!" Knightwalker exclaimed with widened eyes.
The Fairy Tail members who were flying in the air all looked around them at the rising banners and large light projectors were seen arriving on the embrasures, and soldiers directed them towards the Exceeds.
"That's not for us, is it?" Marissa looked back and forth from the soldiers and the Exceeds in the sky.
"I'm sure we don't want to see and found out. Let's hurry and find Natsu and Wendy." Carla said, and began diving down towards a building near the West Tower.
"Carla! Wait up!" Happy called out, and followed after her.
"Code ETD, activate!" A soldier shouted, and every single light projector that was seen instantly projected bright blue light towards the Exceeds that were flying down.
The Fairy Tail members made sounds of surprises and looked up to see the large army of Exceeds being engulfed in the light. They all stopped in the air, and cried out in pain.
"What's going on…?" Ann looked with careful eyes at the large light.
"Why would they go against the Exceeds? Don't they practically worship them?" Lucy asked with wide eyes.
"This may be a good opportunity for us at this moment. We can use this advantage to rescue the others." Carla said, and already next to a building, she flew inside into a hallway through an opening.
Seeing the white Exceed move further to their goal, the others quickly went inside the building as well, and immediately ran with Marissa in the front to lead them.
"They're down below, I can feel them!" Marissa said, reaching to some staircases that travelled downwards.
The entire group continued running down the stairs of the tower. As they were running, Ann glanced back behind her.
"Those were Exceeds in the sky before? I don't feel them anymore." Ann said.
"I wonder what happened... from what I've researched, it's kind of hard to believe that the humans would go up against them..." Lucy questioned.
"It doesn't concerns us whatsoever… both sides have their darknesses. Let them fight it out. Our main objective is getting Wendy and the rest to normal." Carla said.
"Everyone stop." Marissa halted her running as they neared the end of the stairs that led to a hallway, and held out an harm to signal everyone to slow down.
"What is it?" Happy asked.
"Erza and more soldiers are here already…" Ann muttered loudly enough for the rest to hear as she sensed more energies up ahead.
"Again…?!" Lucy shrieked.
"Yeah… this is honestly starting to get on my nerves…" Marissa sighed irritably, and began walking forward into the hallway, and the rest shortly followed with Ann now going near the Earthling.
As they arrived in the a clearing in the hallway, the Fairy Tail group saw Edolas' Erza and soldiers behind her, ready to intercept.
"Not one of you shall pass here!" Knightwalker announced.
"I dunno why you're still bothering with us, aren't you suppose to be out there or something?" Marissa said, pointing a thumb behind her.
"Don't think just because I'm down here, it is simply for you lot." Knightwalker said, and the corner of her lip turned upwards slightly.
"What?"
"AAAAAAAHH!"
"GRAHHHHHH! STOP IT!"
Every Fairy Tail member widened their eyes at the screams of Wendy and Natsu respectively. Happy and Carla started shaking at the continued screams of their partners.
"What the hell are you doing to them?!" Marissa demanded.
"Code ETD has been activated… and because of that, the extraction of magic from the Dragonslayers are required. It won't be long now." Knightwalker explained with a smirk.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" Wendy's agonizing scream was heard once more.
"No… stop it!" Carla pleaded.
"This is where you will all die here, once and for all!" Knightwalker shouted, raising her spear to attack.
Marissa and Ann perked up and looked above them at the ceilings.
"You feel that?" Marissa said with a grin.
"Yeah… about damn time." Ann scoffed.
"Huh? What are you guys talking about?" Lucy wondered.
All of a sudden, the ceiling above them exploded, and parts of it came crashing down in between the group of Fairy Tail members and Knightwalker and her group of soldiers.
"...what?!" Knightwalker exclaimed, looking up.
Two figures came landing down from the dust created. As Marissa's grin widened and Ann crossing her arms, the smoke was suddenly blown away from the middle, revealing a male and a female, who the Fairy Tail members recognized instantly.
"Yusuke! And Erza!" Lucy exclaimed in joy.
"Was wondering when you'd be back." Marissa said.
"What the hell took you?" Ann asked.
"Something came up, and I'm glad that I went to it. I knew you'd guys would be fine." Yusuke said, looking back at the rest. He looked back towards the shocked face of disbelief on Knightwalker and her soldiers and smirked a bit. "Starting the party without us? How rude."
Yusuke and Erza walked away from the debris, and went towards Knightwalker and her soldiers.
"No matter who it is, those who dare raise their weapons and harm those part of Fairy Tail will never be forgiven." Erza stoically said, but was glaring towards her counterpart.
"Now," Yusuke's smirk vanished and he began cracking his knuckles. "You're all in our way… why don't we change that?"
Dun dun dun! Getting pretty hectic now!
There has been ALOT of changes compared to the canon scenes in the main series, and I had fun creating them in my head, hoping that it'd workout. Hope it did for you guys!
I want to thank all the people who have been favoriting and following my story since my last few chapters, we're nearing 250 favorites and followers, so let's keep it up!
Now unfortunately, college does start back up for me in a couple of days, but I do promise to work on this throughout all of it. It really gives me a nice stress reliever next to listening to music and coming up with ideas and scenes. Hopefully, it won't take me another month to update like I have been in the last few chapters, besides this one of course.
I've also been keeping up with the latest Fairy Tail chapters. This recent chapter, 517, it's giving me more ideas as well in the future of this story. The whole arc anyways, but I won't spoil anything!
Anyway, thank you to all of you! If I could, I'd honestly bring up minimum wage and not have inflation happen (if it will happen, most likely), here in the US. More money is cool, but the rise in prices ain't.
Until then!
Timestamp: January 15, 2017.
