{Author Notes}
Okay, one of you said this, and obviously did not understand what I wrote. Perhaps that is my fault, but I want to state this clear right off the bat.
I said specifically that the device on Kain's wrist was very much like a Power Rangers/Super Sentai and that Kain himself thought it was like it in many ways, but it is not an actual power ranger Morpher. It is heavily based on it, but it is in no way similar to it story-wise (Kain is not leading a five-man team in the future, and there is no Mega Zord that will fight monsters every week) In fact, since I have a feeling that you might misunderstand me, only Kain is currently going to have this device which has its own plot down the line.
It is heavily inspired by Power Rangers/Super Sentai, but its origin is based on Fairy Tail and my own design.
This is not a crossover. This is a story trying a few different elements to really bring out how chaotic a world full of 'magic' can and will get.
I don't know why there was a giant mouse in a dress trying to attack Lucy. Damn it magic. I never not get surprised at how bizarre these situations become.
But it was super cool to have Ignis swoop down and pin down the giant rodent into the sand like Randy Orton, who was known for out of nowhere knockouts.
Lucy seemed like she was just in a stamina-draining fight with that other girl since it looked like she was roughed up a bunch. As she saw me and Ignis, a wide smile appeared on her face as she ran up to us.
"Kain! Ignis! Man, am I glad to see both of you here!"
I laughed nervously since during the dive… someone jumped off. "Great to see you too, Lucy. But umm? I suggest you come back to the guild with us before I resort to Plan E, please?"
The celestial mage seemed surprised at that before realization hit her. She must have realized I was here to bring her back. However, I could tell that her brain started to crank; while I alone had the highest chance of convincing everyone to come back, I didn't have any way to force everyone to come with me and Ignis if they refused. I'm assuming in her mind, the only possible way for Makarov to send me here to get everyone back as if there was someone else with me who was stronger than Natsu.
Then the look on her face seemed to pale when she figured out that 'Plan E' was standing right behind her.
"Lucy," hot damn that's one scary glare. Erza is very different from that tender moment I saw a while ago. "I assume you know why Kain, Ignis, and I are here."
The blonde mage was doing her best impression of her shaky Plue as she turned back with all the speed of a broken stoplight that could only go green and red.
"To take us back?" That's the general statement yes. "Promise you won't hurt me?" That last sentence echoed in the open a few times as Erza remained silent.
The only other sound on the beach was Ignis landing down without anything seemingly bothering him.
Well that, and the fact that after how pathetic that last echo sounded, I spoke up. "Yeah… that's going to depend on you." Out of all the times I wished I was a mage since I got here, I now don't want to be Lucy and-slash-or Natsu.
It was then I looked up to see Happy flying towards us in the distance. "Lucy, I was worried for you a second there. Oh, Kain!? You're here now!" The cat was much like his namesake. It appeared he was overjoyed to see me just like Lucy was. However, just like Lucy, he then tilted his head just a little to the right to notice there was someone else here.
To give the little guy some credit, he lasted ten seconds before Erza caught him.
Even though half of our job was already done, Lucy seemed desperate as she spoke to Erza and practically begged for them to stay even though they disobeyed the rules. She even told us what had happened, but despite me feeling bad for these people, Erza was adamant about bringing them all home.
"K-Kain, say something!" It seemed like I was their last hope in convincing Erza to not bring them back yet.
While Erza was indeed scary and at this point near impossible to talk out of her determined state, I did feel for Lucy's plight with those people. Maybe we could just finish the quest while 'in the process' of getting Natsu and the others back.
"Please tell me you aren't actually considering what they said." The red-haired woman strictly corrected. "We are to bring them back to the guild, no questions asked."
"True, but we can't leave yet without Natsu and Gray, so let's find them first." I was careful not to talk about anything else since there was a possibility to still convince her out of leaving everyone here to fend for themselves when Lucy and the others have already done so much.
It took us a while, but Lucy was able to guide us towards this town of demons or rather where they had set up since their town was currently destroyed. We had found out that Gray was being cared for and he would wake up probably in the morning.
However, this meant that Lucy and Happy had the unfortunate circumstance of being tied up by Erza and told to stay in that state through the night due to disobeying guild rules. I was told to watch over them to ensure they wouldn't escape while Erza searched around nearby for any sign of Natsu.
I had a feeling that facing the S-class mage was the only thing keeping them tied in a rope. I for sure couldn't get them to stay like that if I tried.
"Kain, help us!" Happy was bawling his eyes out as he begged for any way out of this. "I was forced to go: it was all Lucy's idea."
"No, it wasn't! Stop trying to sell us out to save yourself!" Lucy hysterically yelled as Happy was still crying. However, she then looked over at me. "Hey, Kain? Why didn't you come with us? I noticed Natsu was down when I asked about you coming along."
I felt shame after hearing that. "He was that upset about it? I guess I do owe him an apology and a few free meals for that." I looked over to Lucy. "I didn't want to go because I was afraid, Lucy. I'm not even a real Fairy Tail mage, so something like an S-class mission that could kill even mages easily… would no doubt put me in far more harm than the Lullaby event. Unlike now, I at least have Ignis to help me, but other than him and a few party favors I have… I don't contribute much."
"That's not true!" Lucy and Happy perked up.
"Yeah, I know." I quickly responded before either could repeat what Erza said to me. "But while I contribute, it's never really in a direct fight. I can be killed so easily here that I'm just afraid that I might die or just drag you down when it comes to these dangerous adventures, and I don't want that. I believe you guys don't want me in harm's way as well."
We were all silent after that.
"Hey, that doesn't mean that if you guys are in trouble, I won't hesitate to help you in any way that I can just like you guys would for me. I'll find a way to actually help out more in these adventures. Erza helped me realize that on the way here." I tried to say to lift their spirits. It was true that I was more of a liability, but this meant I had to do much to stop being one.
I had more than a feeling that even finding out how I got here would be nothing but dangerous, but I couldn't rely solely on these guys to get home. In a place full of magical warriors, there had to be some way to get me able to be more capable to survive here. The device on my arm is one, but it still doesn't seem to be working. Is there a key or some kind that needs it to work?
However, I brought up a bowl. "Now, can you guys explain to me how you guys ate here for the past day with nothing but bugs?!"
Some of my 'food' the villagers presented me was currently trying to escape my bowl. I've seen countries eating bugs before, but those were even dead sometimes, not have all live grub.
"Uhh no? I don't think they even offered us food." Lucy claimed.
Giving up on eating, I went towards a prepared cot. "Well, I'm going to sleep. Good night guys."
"That's not fair! How come you get to sleep on a cot while Erza made us stay here and kneel for the whole night!?"
I glanced back to Happy with deadpan. "Because I followed the rules?"
"We offered the same thing to you, traitor!"
"Yeah, and I said no. I definitely don't regret it now." I said as I laid on the comfy pillow and warm blanket beneath me.
Huh, who knew I could sleep so soundly to the sound of other people's sorrow?
Meanwhile, high above Galuna island…
"… Deliora…. This is very opportunistic."
After Gray's rather tense confrontation with Erza, we all got on to Ignis as he flew us towards the temple. As we did, Gray explained his tale of how he and Lyon, the Cold Emperor and Douche Bag of the Week, were trained under Ur and how she came to seal herself within the ice that now traps the demon, Deliora, who also destroyed his home.
However, after he finished, I noticed something off in the distance. "I see the temple, but it's a lot more slanted than I imagined it to be."
Gray looked over my shoulder. "It wasn't like that before you guys got here. Natsu must have done it, but whether he did it on purpose or not, the temple can't perform Moon Drip like that."
It was then I heard Ignis growl slightly at something below. He suddenly snapped his neck and blew a flame breath downward.
"Whoa! Ignis!" I yelped in surprise at the sudden movement before I saw Erza stand up from the large saddle.
She pointed her blade down, where I noticed melted arrows and other weapons had fallen, and in that direction, there was an army of purple cloaked cultists.
"It seems our welcoming party is here to greet us. It would be rude of us not to meet them, but we are in a hurry. Kain, bring Gray closer to the temple, I'll handle the ones below."
"Wait, Erza!" We looked to see Lucy asking for help from Happy. "We'll come too!"
"Are you guys sure?" Gray seemed shocked at the offer while Ignis flew as stationary as possible for a winged creature in flight.
The scarlet haired mage turned back to Gray with a smile. "You have to settle things with Lyon, don't you?"
I looked back down while she was talking and instantly noticed something. "Guys, they're firing another volley!" I mean, their first one did jack squat, but I felt like I had to contribute something to this somewhat heartwarming and epic moment. I just wish I had better lines.
"We'll handle them!" Erza yelled as she fell around twenty feet in the air with relative ease. "You head for the temple!" She screamed as she descended on to her opponents. The poor bastards.
Happy and Lucy descended too, opening the way for Ignis to fly freely back towards our destination.
As we got to the entrance, Ignis landed and Gray got off.
"Gray," I spoke up to the half-naked mage. "Kick his ass, alright?"
The statement made the man seem surprised. "What are you doing?"
I pointed up, "I'm going to see more about this Moon Drip and see if there's any way we can dampen it from up there."
"I see…" There was something else about Gray now that there was some moment of peace between us. He seemed oddly determined. Almost as if…
"Gray, why do I have a feeling that you're planning to use Iced Shell on Lyon?" And with how he visibly winced, I struck fool's gold.
"How did you know I was going to do that!?" It was obvious by how he yelled at me that he wasn't expecting me of all people to figure him out so quickly.
I leered at him when he admitted something like that. "Because you sounded oddly desperate to stop Lyon from releasing Deliora. I had a feeling that your emotions might make you do something drastic, but not something that stupid."
I saw his eyes widening with anger as he threw his arm out. "It's the only way to stop him!"
"That's bull shit, and you know it!" I yelled back at him. "May I remind you that we're in the one place in all of Fiore where Moon Drip can be performed!? Iced Shell is practically useless here; you'd be killing yourself for just a few damn years! I doubt Ur taught you to do something as useless as that!"
Gray snarled as he took a step forward and yelled, "What did you say!? You don't know her!"
"That's right, I don't! You do! Would she really think that would be how she wanted you to settle that!?" I was not going to let him go down that road. "I may not be a mage, Gray, but I know when a friend of mine is being stupid, and as a good friend just did to me, I'm making sure you don't think like an idiot!"
Gray opened his mouth, but words seemed to fail him as he realized that Iced Shell was indeed useless here.
I saw him look away and clench his fist to the point it was twitching hard. "But he beat me…"
"So?" he turned to me with confusion. "Then get back up until you kick his teeth in. He has to kill you to win, and all you have to do is beat him up hard and good once. I'm sure even Natsu will agree you can do that much."
I then gave him a thumbs-up and a smile. "Your teacher sacrificed her life for you, so show Lyon the same trust she had for you when you were being stubborn and stupid."
Gray inhaled and sighed. "Damn it, you're right. Doing Iced Shell here would be pointless…. I owe you one again."
"I can't take all the credit. Erza helped me out before we came here and I basically paraphrased her." However, after the talk, we felt the ground rumbling. To our surprise, we saw the temple form straight back up after being slanted.
Instead of being surprised like Gray, I just sighed deeply. "Magic is such bull shit sometimes." I looked back to the ice mage. "Ignis and I will try to slow down Moon Drop. You face your friend and maybe find Natsu. He's probably still in there after all."
"Right, good luck."
"You too." With that, Gray sped in leaving me to look up at the giant moonbeam in the sky.
Well, not completely alone.
I rubbed Ignis' head. "Alright buddy, let's be cautious. You're cool and all, but who knows what kind of mage is up there with some deadly power like Erigor or Fero."
While I was feeling cautious, Ignis landed on the top and roared with all the glory a creature like him could muster.
It scared everyone… every… one dog-man-person… thing. That's it, I'm asking for a fauna book list from Master Makarov when I get back.
"W-What the!? A wyvern!? Here!?" The dog-man-thing cried out in shock.
"Uhh yeah! So stop Moon Drip and surrender you… werewolf reject?" Sorry, I'm still too stunned at his presence to really think of some witty banter right now.
"Werewolf!? I'm a dog!" The half-naked dude angrily growled.
"You do realize that's significantly more mundane and less threatening, yeah?" Ahh there we go; now the banter is kicking in. I'm so proud of myself.
"My name is Toby Horhota!" And suddenly he… made claws come out of his hand?
"The hell? I thought your thing was a dog, not a cat. At least have some semblance of thematic consistency." I mean despite how stupid it looked, I should be careful at what this guy could do.
He didn't bother with my insult this time, but I had a feeling that he had no idea what I just said with all the large words I used. "Ha! These are my Mega Jellyfish Paralyzing Claws," That is a needless long spell name. And I've heard Natsu's attacks! "You'll never guess what these guys do!"
Okay, he might be a complete idiot that even puts Natsu to shame… or he's deliberately trying to lull me into a false sense of security.
"I'm assuming paralyze your opponent?" I answered cautiously as I prepared for anything that might make him look competent.
"What the hell!? Is Fairy Tail full of Espers or something!?" Unfortunately, it seemed like I might have been right in assuming that he was the former idea than the latter.
Still, it never hurts to be too safe. I think we should test that hypothesis though with a simple question. "How do you pick your nose with those nails?"
He seemed genuinely curious as he looked at them. "You know, I never thought of that until now. I wonder—GRRRAAAAHHHHH!?"
The idiot actually tried to pick his nose with them and knocked himself out by doing that.
I stared hard at his unconscious body, waiting for any sign that he was completely faking and going to turn into a competent mage of my nightmares at any moment right now.
"…"
Ignis looked up to me in confusion since I wasn't making any move to stop Moon Drip that still seemed to be going on.
"Screw it. I'm not looking a gift horse in the mouth for this." I jumped off and asked Ignis to tie up the guy somehow, which for the wyvern language translated into him dropping a bunch of trees on him. I guess that was as good as any rope.
However, as I viewed the magical moonbeam thing, a thought occurred to me.
"How the hell am I going to stop this?" I turned towards my wyvern friend who in response tilted his head slightly in confusion like a puppy would.
I waited a second before asking again.
"Do you know how to stop a magic beam from the moon?" Ignis titled his head further with a confused whine. It was cute, but it wasn't helping this situation at all.
Curious, I slowly moved my right hand out to touch the beam. At the slightest touch, I pulled my hand back as I felt a sting that felt worse than static shock. So much for the idea of using Ignis to go up and block the light with his body since there are no clouds for miles…
I did nothing but sit there and wait until I heard a powerful and inhuman roar coming from below.
"Of course." I sighed as I stood back up and continued to view some way I could stop the spell. Despite that roar, the spell was still going which meant that there might still be some way to stop another demon like Lullaby from getting loose.
Yet by this time, Toby had woken up and demanded to be let go. But considering Ignis was lying on top of the trees placed on top of him, he wasn't getting out and it seemed like his nails weren't strong enough to pierce wyvern scales.
Soon after, I spotted Erza and Lucy run up to here. "Oh thank god, you two are here! I have no idea how to stop this thing!" I pointed over to Moon Drip.
Erza seemed surprised before looking at Tobi futilely trying to escape Ignis. "You already took him out? But Moon Drip should have halted when you stopped the channeling mages!"
"Wait what?" I looked around, seeing no one else besides the guy Ignis and I took down. "Is there someone else here then?" I turned to Ignis, who currently had the sharpest senses of our current group. "Can you sense anyone else nearby?"
The wyvern acknowledged my question as it sniffed the air around us since it previously didn't do so. However, it suddenly got off Toby and growled dangerously. His eyes sharpened to slits as he stood between me… and a large bush?
"Something isn't right. That's a different reaction from what we've seen so far." Erza took out a blade as she pointed a sword once more to point at the shadowy shrubbery. "Come out and surrender peacefully!"
The air suddenly turned sour as the patch of wild grass started transforming, all leaves instantly dying as wood twisted and expanded into…
No.
NO!
WHAT IS HE DOING HERE!?
"I refuse." Lullaby, had appeared before us. The same demon that escaped almost three weeks ago was nowhere on an island where another Demon of Zeref was about to be resurrected.
Needless to say, the phrases, "over our heads" and "out of the frying pan and into the Earth's molten core" are nowhere near strong enough to describe the situation we are now in.
"Lullaby!" Erza didn't hesitate to re-equip into a powerful black Armor. "What are you doing here?!"
In response to the threat, Lullaby did not react. In all fairness, it took everyone to finally hurt the large wood demon and seeing how we were down Natsu and Gray, I doubt we could do as much as we did last time. I also doubted I could come up with a new plan right off the bat in how to blindside this jerk.
He pointed over to me in response to Erza, which did not bode well. "Use your mind to hypothesize my ambitions here. I found that not many people use such gifts." The way he said that second sentence made my stomach drop. I always feared what Lullaby was doing while he was out there, but as of that moment, he confirmed my suspicions. People were hurt or worse because of me.
However, he then quickly started to transform, his entire body untwisted itself and poured into a crack like water until he was fully gone from sight.
I then realized what he was planning to do when the purple beam turned into a different color, signaling its finish. There was really only one thing on the island he was after.
I hurriedly looked at the girls and Happy.
"He's after Deliora!"
Natsu was in no way going to let Gray cast Iced Shell on this thing. He stood between him and Deliora to ensure that. That pervert is going back home with them.
The dragon slayer readied himself as Deliora towered over them. However, all of them noticed how weird it was when the freed demon look upward rather than acknowledge they existed. There was an explosion from up on above and as the rocks fell harmlessly into the water, Gray, Natsu, and Lyon looked up to see something slowly levitating towards Deliora.
"No. What's he doing here!?" The ice mage, in utter shock, stopped channeling Iced Shell as he saw what had just come in.
Natsu took a step forward and barked at the creature. "Lullaby!? What are you doing here!?"
The levitating demon had his back turned towards them and slowly floated towards Deliora.
"Look at you Deliora, near death's door. I almost pity you at this state if I was capable of it."
Deliora suddenly fell to his knees, gasping for breath as cracks started to appear over his body with light shining out of it.
"What the…" Gray and the others looked on with astonishment at the freed demon.
"Of course," Lyon gasped. "That's what the book meant in that Iced Shell weakens its target by draining its magic: all this time, Deliora has been dying inside it, and now it's close to death even when freed."
"Well yeah, but what's Lullaby here for?" Gray and Natsu tensed themselves. On one hand, there were two Demons of Zeref right in front of them. On the other, they were all able to beat one, and the other was near death. The situation couldn't possibly be worse.
"This is your last breath, Deliora. Unless," Lullaby floated closer and offered a hand to him. "Take my hand. I came here originally because I sensed a familiar presence, but this opportunity can benefit us both."
The dying demon gave a weird sound that seemed like a weak roar and a grunt of confusion combined.
It seemed like Lullaby still understood what his fellow demon was doing. "It's simple really. Between the two of us, you are stronger in terms of raw power, but I lack the power needed to accomplish our mission. So I suggest a simple solution to our problem…"
Lullaby made his hand touch his chest.
"Fuse with me."
They were wrong. They were wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Those three words were all it took for Gray and Natsu to realize how bad the situation really was.
"Like hell, we'll let you!" Natsu roared as he and Gray fired instantly—only for a giant wall of wood to appear before them and block their sight from Lullaby and Deliora.
Gray and Natsu wasted no time at all trying to punch and blast through the wall, but despite their efforts, the wall was only being destroyed too slowly.
Lullaby turned back to Deliora where the cracks and light on his body grew more with each passing second.
"Ultimatum time, Deliora: die here pathetically, or be reborn with a new purpose." He reached out his hand back towards the dying demon.
Deliora seemed to grunt with annoyance as if he didn't like the idea… before reaching out to the other demon with the last of his strength.
"Natsu, Gray!" Erza yelled out as we flew on Ignis into where Deliora was being kept. Instead of the demon, we all saw a large wooden barrier that Gray and Natsu were desperately trying to break.
Gray turned back to us with something I had never seen before on the proud ice mage's face: desperation and fear.
What he said next pretty much made me feel those emotions tenfold. "Erza, help us! Lullaby is trying to fuse with Deliora!"
I was so spaced out and shocked at what he said that I hadn't realized a few seconds had already passed and Erza was already desperately trying to break through the wall just as Gray and Natsu were.
Lullaby was made out to be a powerful cursed artifact who had brought countless lives to death since Zeref's time. Deliora was a demon of unparalleled destruction who left devastation in his wake wherever he went.
For both demons to… fuse together… their combination could spell the end of countless more lives to their already horrifying body count.
I heard Lucy calling my name before I looked back at her with worry across her face. "Kain! Kain, snap out of it!"
"Wh-What?" I then noticed a person who I was assuming to be Lyon was brought up with us by Ignis' tail and made to sit along with us in the saddle. Was I that out of it to not notice even Ignis moving?
"Let me go!" Lyon said even though he barely could bother the red wyvern in his state. "T-This is perfect! What better way to surpass Ur than to fight a demon even stronger than Deliora! Hurry up and come, so that I—GAAAK!?" Ignis then wrapped his tail around the man's waist again and whipped him down into the ground head first to shut him up before putting him back in the saddle.
There was then a sudden hum as the light started forming from inside the cracks of the wall.
"No! It's starting!" Erza cried out before all three Fairy Tail Wizards hurried their progress. A few seconds later, they had made the wall of wood shatter into fragments due to their combined efforts.
No matter how fast they were, I heard it: the humming died the second before the wall shattered. I prayed to whatever being up there that I was just imagining it.
My prayers were unanswered.
As the walls crumbled, we realized both Deliora and Lullaby were gone. In their place where Deliora once stood was an eight-foot tall, dark-skinned man with purple runes all across his bulging muscles. He was wearing some kind of black pants that looked tied up as a monk with a white sash covering his waist, but as he turned towards us, he had hair black as a raven and his face was covered by what looked to be Deliora's crown now used to cover him like a faceplate.
At least, I thought it was a faceplate. I didn't expect to see three eyes open right on top of it.
The giant eight-foot man with runic muscles raised his hands slowly. As he did, electricity crackled around him and the water around him was being pushed away by his presence alone.
I would be lying if I told you the air did not change at that instant. I found it suddenly hard to breathe as if something thick was in the air.
He then turned towards us, looking at us with those three, glowing, pale eyes of his, and spoke.
"A form from the demon of songs, and the demon of destruction," His voice sounded like silk going through our ears which only repulsed our very cores. "We—no—I am Symphony the prelude to the end."
No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't help but believe his words were nothing but the truth.
"I don't care who you are!" Natsu unleashed a powerful amount of flames around him. Yet, even I could tell he was still sweating nervously despite his brave talk. "You're going down!"
He made the fires boost him at great speeds right to the newborn demon and punch him right in the face. The punch followed through and made the demon crash into the other end of the cave.
"Not so tough, are you!?" Natsu smiled as he got a heavy punch in.
However, Symphony didn't seem to flinch at all as he simply pulled himself out of the wall and started walking back to Natsu. As he walked, he cracked his neck by moving it on both sides, and there was no trace of damage on him.
"You're kidding me. He's not even scratched!" Gray gasped in horror.
Symphony stood in front of Natsu. We all waited nervously as the demon raised his arm… and motioned his fingers to come at him again.
From surprise, the pink-haired mage's face turned to rage as he wailed on to Symphony kick after punch after punch after kick.
Yet… Symphony did nothing to defend himself. He let all those blows and fire connect easily… and much to our horror, he wasn't getting injured.
Natsu yelled as he punched right for Symphony's stomach… then recline his fist and yelp in pain as he held it out.
We all stared in horror that Natsu of all people got hurt from punching someone else.
"You bastard," the dragon slayer snarled with anger. "Stop looking down on me!" he quickly jumped and with a magical circle of fire behind his ankle, he performed a rocket roundhouse kick right into Symphony's head.
The impact gave a shockwave that was seen even in the water. But Symphony still did not seem bothered by the powerful blow.
In fact…
"Aaahhhggh!" Natsu yelled again as he retracted his foot and started hopping around.
"N-No way! Natsu got hurt from attacking!?" I was just as afraid as Lucy as she said such a thing. We were soon starting to realize how far the power gap between us and the fusion demon now was.
"Natsu!" Gray yelled as he held a large ice bazooka towards Symphony. "Get out of the way!"
The Dragon Slayer did so as several magic circles appeared in the front of Gray's bazooka. "Ice-Make: Laser!"
A giant beam of energy hit Symphony… and whatever was unfortunate enough to stand behind him, including the walls of the temple.
As the light died down, a large missing chunk of the earth was missing as Gray fell to his knees exhausted.
However, as seconds passed, utter disbelief was the only thing that remained on his face.
"No… I gave my all in that spell!" The raven-haired stripper cried out as Symphony stood untouched even with everything else behind him obliterated by a large amount of magical energy.
"I would challenge the scarlet haired mage," Symphony began as he walked towards us again. "But by now, we'd all understand how that would work out."
"Don't be so sure!" Erza charged at Symphony with a show of weapons, skills, and abilities.
There was a stabbing sound as, after a while, one of the blades Erza used had pierced through Symphony's skin.
Symphony eyed the blade lodged into him as Erza jumped back and pointed another blade right at him. "You've been far too careless! I've noticed those runes glowing each time Gray and Natsu attacking you. All I need to do is attack you until you drop the magic of your runes and take you down."
"She noticed that, after a few attacks?" Lucy cried out with some shred of hope. "M-Maybe we can win this!"
"Lucy," I spoke out at last as I looked closer to the fight. "Symphony isn't even bothered that Erza saw through his defense."
She looked again towards the scene and indeed, despite finally hurting the demon, Symphony showed no signs of losing his cool.
He grabbed the blade, and instantly it turned into a black katana with a low purple glow around it. He swung the sword several times around like a curious child until his swings started to gain form, precision, and now he was swinging it around like a swordmaster in under a few seconds.
"I too have learned much from watching you. You have excellent form, and by practicing what I have seen, I now know how to use a blade." He held the onyx blade near his face as he stared at its reflection.
And just like that, what little hope we did have was suddenly dwarfed at the realization that Erza wasn't the only one observing and learning her opponent, Symphony was as well.
"So what!?" Natsu yelled again. Leave it to him to keep fighting even in front of a powerful enemy. "We only attacked you one by one, but this time, we're all going to kick your ass!"
That seemed to cheer up Gray and Erza as they soon joined Natsu in a combined attack on the demon.
Yet… all Symphony did was bow his head down slightly. "I believe it's my turn to attack."
That was all it took before in one instant, a large purple magic circle encompassed the entire area. I noticed all the magic the top three were gathering had suddenly vanished while they were all mid-air. The trio looked in surprise but had instantly forgotten who they were flying towards.
Symphony didn't hesitate to kick the three of them back towards us.
Ignis got out of the way as the three of them crashed into the wall.
Lucy, seeing our strongest members taken out, took out one of her keys to help support them. "Open, Gate of Taurus!"
…
"Huh!? Taurus, come out! You don't usually ignore me!" Lucy stared at her key with growing panic. However, I paled as I recognized the magic circle we were still under. It was the same one I spent minutes trying to figure out how to undo.
I turned to the blonde mage, remembering something she told me and Erza earlier that day. "Lucy, didn't you warn me that moon energy could nullify magic, which was why Moon Drip existed?"
The celestial mage started to shiver as she seemed to be figuring out what I was saying. "W-What are you saying?"
I looked back down at everyone getting back up. Despite being able to stand, I noticed that they all seemed to be looking at their hands in confusion.
"Symphony has canceled our magic!" I yelled out, my mind was working into overdrive as I pointed to the leftover water still in here even after Gray's attack. "Ignis, burn the water!"
The wyvern wasted no time at all as he shot a flame breath right into the water, instantly covering steam around the area. I yelled to the wyvern to grab Erza, Natsu, and Gray before we all flew out of there as quickly as possible.
"What the hell, Kain!? Get us back in there!" Natsu yelled as Ignis brought his tail up to drop all three mages onto his saddle.
"Hell, no!" Kain yelled back as Ignis flew back into the open and was led back towards the village. "You couldn't even harm Symphony with magic! That nullifying area he has makes it practically impossible to hurt him even with that weakness Erza found! We have to regroup and plan a different idea," the brown haired teen looked back at Gray. "And no, Gray! You are not using Iced Shell!"
"Are you kidding me?! That thing took my strongest attack like it was nothing! Even I can tell this guy is even stronger than both Lullaby and Deliora!"
"Then we make a better plan! Attacks do hurt him, but not while his defenses are up!" The muggle cried back to the ice mage as Ignis flew faster towards the town.
Even though they were all flying, they all suddenly noticed the area around them turn purple like back in the cave.
"He caught up to us already!?" Erza looked around for any sign of their enemy while continuing. "Kain, move in a different direction, we can't let Symphony get near the vill—"
There was a deafening boom that hit Ignis on his side, causing everyone aboard to scream as the wyvern crash-landed and flung everyone he was carrying into the ground like someone spilled chips.
The first to get up was Erza as she stood up on her feet and looked around for her team members. "I-Is everyone alright!?"
Kain's voice reached her first "I-I am somehow… oh. Uhh, Gray? I think Lyon cushioned my fall… and his arm is bending in a way that doesn't look possible." Double-jointed doesn't begin to explain how his left arm is bending like that.
"To be honest this is all his fault anyway. A broken arm doesn't really make me feel bad." The resident Fairy Tail stripper got up and creaked his neck. "Besides, he'll just get a healer to look at it and in a week, it'll…." He trailed off as he saw the arm in question. "…and in a month or two he'll be fine." he corrected.
Natsu got up as if falling from a wyvern didn't bother him at all despite the dirt all over him. "Where is Symphony? I'm going to kick his ass for attacking us in the air!"
At that, Kain instantly looked over and screamed, "Ignis!" before running up to the weakened wyvern laying on the ground with smoke coming out of him.
"Please be alright!" The young man yelled as he checked for the creature's heartbeat. To his relief, he could still hear it, but the red beast was out cold.
"We have to be on our guard, Symphony can be here any minute!" Erza said as she looked around for any sign of where Symphony might be among the now purple forest.
"A town of demons. How curious." The entire group looked over to Symphony facing the direction of the village with his back turned away from Fairy Tail. "They are… docile. Domesticated. I'm supposed to be the same class as them, but we could not be any more different."
"Don't you dare touch them!" Natsu roared at Symphony before running towards the newly fused demon.
Symphony looked back without any form of emotion. "I don't have to."
As soon as he said that, the bushes and trees around them started to move and shake. No one was expecting the people to come out was the entire village of Galuna Island running towards Fairy Tail like mad dogs. The closest ones didn't hesitate to pin Natsu to the floor.
"W-What the hell!? Guys!? Get off me!" He yelled as the Village Chief was snarling at him and forcing him to the ground. More of the villagers ran for the Fairy Tail mages, surprising them and pinning them to the point of immobility.
Kain was one of the first to notice something about a demon pinning him down to the ground. "T-They don't have pupils! Symphony is controlling them!"
Symphony started walking towards Fairy Tail after that statement was heard by everyone. "It is only natural that demons have some animalistic trait. They obey the alpha, which in this case is me." he threw his hand out and pointed to the ground in front of him. "Get them aligned."
Soon, despite everyone's best attempts, while also being hesitant to hurt the people they were sworn to protect, they were all put to kneel in front of Symphony with the demon towering over Kain first.
The young muggle in particular seemed to start hyperventilating as the demon towered over him. He looked like a scared little boy in front of an executor.
"Kain Reynolds, I believe this might be what is called utter gratitude. Had I not met you as Lullaby, I would have never been so close to reaching my goal. As such," he took out the blade he had stolen from Erza and transformed into a black katana and held it high over Kain's scared face. "your death shall be painless."
The man from another dimension himself had his eyes widen in fear as he just stared like a deer staring at a fast-moving car about to hit him.
Everyone else was horrified to hear such a thing and struggled harder to get free from the grasp. Natsu especially was motivated to move like nothing before.
"KAIN!" To the surprise of everyone, Natsu powered through and tossed the demon civilians off him, and punched the guys pinning Kain to the ground.
"Run, Kain! Run!" he yelled before turning back to Symphony with a battle cry that sounded almost desperate.
Kain got up in shock as he saw Natsu punching down the demon civilians as he made his way towards Symphony. However, Symphony easily swatted Natsu aside with his backhand and turned to look back at the non-magic user.
His look alone made Kain shiver in fear. Kain wasn't a powerful mage; he wasn't a warrior; he was just an ordinary person who was so scared… that he started to hyperventilate and gasp for air frantically.
"Kain, run!" "Run, you idiot!" "Kain, get out of here!" "You must flee!"
Kain looked around as Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Erza shouted him to run before Erza and Gray got up and freed Happy and Lucy.
Happy activated his wings and grabbed Kain in an attempt to get him out of here while the others relied on their close combat to ward off their mindless clients. However, even with their skill, Gray and Erza held back tremendously in order not to hurt their employers too much. The fact they held back only made it worse for them due to the fact as demons, they were far more resistant to normal attacks.
"I'm curious, why are you fighting so hard to protect someone so weak?" Symphony asked before he snapped his fingers, making trees shoot their branches out and snag Happy mid-air, causing them both to crash near Ignis.
"He's our friend! And we won't let you hurt him!" Natsu cried as he punched Symphony in the face, but as he made contact, Natsu was the one wincing as the runes activated and made it so that Symphony would feel nothing.
Symphony pinned the dragon slayer down before snapping his fingers, making large sprouts of wood come out and ensnare everyone else except Kain and the hypnotized civilians. He then snapped his fingers again, causing his wooden restraints to gag all those ensnared and unable to speak.
"Very well, you will be the first to die then." Without missing a beat, Symphony raised his sword.
Kain on the other hand was already crying as he stood back up and could only watch in horror. He was going to die—worse, he was going to cause everyone to die because of what happened with Lullaby. This was all his fault and he could do absolutely nothing to stop it.
Stop it.
Stop it.
"STOP IT!" Kain desperately yelled as he saw the blade rise higher and higher.
Symphony sighed in boredom before putting his blade down. "Fine, I shall indulge you since I still want to test more of my new powers. But I rescind making your death painless."
"I-I…" Kain clenched his fist so hard that it started bleeding. Words couldn't come out but tears and frustration did.
"If you are wondering why I didn't trap you it was because I knew you couldn't do anything. But I will allow you one last sentence, make it count." Symphony was arrogant, callous… but how could he not be? He had taken every single precaution away from his enemies, their magic, their clients, for one of them, even their will to live was near shattered. Nothing but a miracle could save them now.
Kain absolutely hated himself, he hated how it came to all this. He wanted anything—anyone to help him out of this…
But it looked like no one was coming.
It was just him. All alone as he watched his stronger friend suffer and about to be put closer to death.
No one would save him this time.
And strangely… after all of that… he was starting to get really, really pissed.
It wasn't fair! He tried so far to help, and this is what he got for it!? No! His father… his father was always hard on him, saying that life wasn't fair in the slightest, but he had to be stronger, he had to move on and make choices to be better—circumstances be damned!
There was one thing left after all! One thing that had the potential to change this horrible situation!
Kain gritted his teeth and shouted so loud that even the heavens could hear the cry of a desperate yet determined young man.
"Please! Work!"
He swung his right arm, the one with a wyvern armlet, right in front of him as he slammed his left hand down right into the button of the device, which was the wyvern head itself.
As soon as he made contact, the device glowed with scarlet light before a giant flash of crimson light blinded everyone looking at the boy. The entire light that previously turned the forest and moon purple was now filtered into red.
Symphony, despite shielding his eyes from Kain, saw the change of color around them and the sky. "What!? What is this!? It can't be magic, I'm nullifying it!" He said as he felt his senses blare with something foreboding coming his way.
The crimson light snapped the demons out from Symphony's control and the wood restraints on the Fairy Tail mages had dropped and shattered into dust.
Everyone present, and the very few spying from the distance, looked to the light, and as it died down they all could not believe what they were seeing.
Kain was now clad in full crimson armor much like a knight, but his helmet had the designs of a wyvern head, with small horns perturbing outward as it did with Ignis. He had a long red cape that flowed in the wind but was revealed to be parted in two, and his helmet also had a faceplate that looked sharp and had a black visor made of glass-like substance that spanned over his eyes.
Later on, Kain would quote to himself that he looked almost exactly like a Power Ranger in armor instead of spandex. (Much later on he found out that he was only power ranger like in appearance, everything else was different but that will be elaborated on another day.)
But to everyone else…
He looked like a Wyvern Knight.
Inside the armor, Kain had momentarily lost all form of thought. However, it was instantly replaced with his instincts that somehow knew what to do with the armor….
Along with blinding rage.
"HAAAA!" Everyone heard the filtered and angry scream of the knight before he started to run—run faster than Symphony and anyone, himself included, expected to—and punched him right in the gut with so much force that there was a visible shock wave from the impact along with a loud bone-crunching crack sound followed by a loud gasp of both shock and pain.
To Symphony's surprise, it hurt a lot. He was not expecting his defeated enemies to fight back with this much ferocity and success. He had obviously played with his enemies because he assumed that there truly was no way for them to get out of this situation. However, he had obviously let his guard down and had now made a huge mistake.
After the attack, the fused demon backed off a safe distance from his new opponent and glared at the red knight now standing before him.
The red knight threw his cape away from the front of his body as he showed a clenched fist to Symphony. "That was for Happy!"
He stomped on the ground and with another burst of speed, maybe even faster than the first time, and rushed for Symphony a second time.
Again, Symphony was not expecting him to be so fast, but this time he powered up his runes across his body. Surely they would—
"GAH!?" Symphony flew as he was punched with something that felt like the force of ten wyverns! But something was wrong besides the amount of pain he was feeling. He knew he activated his runes, but why didn't they work!?
"That was for Lucy!" What!? Symphony turned his head mid-flight. How was he already behind him!?
Kain kicked Symphony back with an impressive roundhouse that threw Symphony's new body through several trees. However, the fused demon landed on his feet and slid to a stop.
"That one was for Gray," The red wyvern knight started walking towards him with a dangerous glint shinning off his visor. "This one will be for Erza."
"This can't be happening!?" Symphony whispered to himself as he gathered energy into his arms and several magical circles appeared in front of him then suddenly a large beam of magical energy shot out of it like a cannon.
The knight ran right for the beam much to the shock of everyone involved, including Kain himself as he trusted his instincts. As the beam came close to the armor, something strange happened again: the magical energy dispersed upon contact, not even harming the armored boy in the slightest. Symphony and everyone stared in bewilderment even when Kain ran right in and uppercut the demon high into the sky.
With a powerful leap, Kain caught up to the demon in the sky and brought his hands together.
"And this one is for hurting Natsu!" With every ounce of force he could muster, he brought his hands down and slammed the demon into the ground like a meteor.
Kain landed down in front of Fairy Tail and the island locals. Everyone was in shock at the sight before them and a large number of them were confused beyond their minds.
"K-Kain?" Lucy managed to speak out to the knight in red. "A-Are you in there?"
The figure in crimson turned towards her before slowly looking at himself. "Yeah… I… I… did I really all do that?" The voice that came out was in utter disbelief, but it sounded exactly like the Kain they knew.
"Whaa! How on earth are you wearing armor like that!?" Natsu ran up to look at every corner of Kain in the suit. "I've never seen something like that before in my life!"
"I just… I just…" it seemed like Kain himself didn't know what to say.
"I have made mistakes."
That voice suddenly turned the mood back into something grim as out of the dust, Symphony walked out of the crater. There was a sound of hissing that made everyone look towards his wounds that all seemed to be reforming back to perfect shape despite all of Kain's unbelievable attacks.
"No way, even after that, he can just heal himself!?" Lucy gasped at the same time shivered in fear.
"Alright, you punk, round two!" Natsu screamed as he tried to power up… but he realized that Symphony never lifted the purple—now red hue covering the area, meaning they still couldn't use magic.
"Kain," Erza yelled, making the knight look at the S-class mage. "You're the only one who can fight him! Hold him off while we evacuate everyone!"
"R-Right!" While he was unsure how he did all that, Kain was now going to make sure that he would help out and fight… somehow.
While Erza and the others tried to herd the villagers away from the fight, Kain ran up again to punch Symphony, but the demon was more than prepared this time. The humanoid demon sidestepped the attack before tripping the knight into the ground and kicking him into a tree.
"Magical based attacks don't work on you, but physical ones do." Lullaby darkly noted as he suddenly shifted into a fighting stance. "This is payback for a while ago."
As soon as Kain got up, Lullaby wasted no time in rushing for the boy, unleashing a devastating combo of punches and kicks on to the knight. Kain, while he was bracing the blows much better thanks to the armor, the realization came to him that he couldn't fight at all. It was obvious as night and day that those hits Kain scored earlier were nothing but sucker punches when Symphony's guard was down. The fused demon unleashed a strong right hook that knocked Kain to the ground and forced him to slid back a good distance.
Soon after, the other Fairy Tail mages all ran up to their friend when they made sure the other villagers were safe from the battle.
"Kain! Are you alright!?" Gray cried out to him as they all gathered around him. Erza in particular knelt to see if there was any way he was still conscious.
They all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard Kain groan in pain. He was hurt, but not out.
"So much for your last hope," Symphony stalked over to them and raised his arm. The sword he dropped during Kain's attack flew right back into his hand. "I will not be making that same mistake again."
Things weren't looking good. Kain was their last hope, but as of right now, he stood no chance against the raw power of the fused demon.
"Damn! If only we could use magic!" Natsu cried out as he clenched his fists.
"With or without them, we will fight you!" Erza cried out as she stood up to protect Kain. Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Happy were quick to join her in facing down Symphony.
Symphony slowly put himself into a stance after he heard this. His sword rose skillfully and pointed to his targets. "Then die."
Kain got back up as the demon said this. With speed, he shouted out loud, "Actually," which caused the fused demon and his friends to look at him with confusion.
"Let's beat this guy with magic." With that, Kain jumped back from everyone and lifted his fist high… then punched the ground as hard as he could. The red color around them started to crack all around them until the entire color shattered like glass, returning all the other colors to normal.
Natsu instantly checked his fist, and as he did fire came back to his arm. "Oooh yeah! Now we're talking!"
"You broke the moon essence!?" Kain would always remember the look on the demon's face as he said this from then on. He had no idea he could make powerful demons look with shock and surprise.
Kain smiled inside his visor as he walked back to his friends who were now powering up. "You said it yourself Symphony: I seem immune to energy-based magic. Wasn't your field of Anti-Magic something like that?"
The knight now pointed to the fused demon. "Now you're going to feel the true wrath of Fairy Tail's greatest team! Team…!" Kain froze mid-sentence as everyone looked at him with some amount of worry. The knight put down his hand and looked at everyone else. "What do we call ourselves, anyway?"
"Team Natsu!"
Gray was quick to turn to his best enemy friend. "Over your dead body, flame farts!"
"Both of you stop it!" Erza barked, causing both Gray and Natsu to drop glaring at each other instantly. "It's obvious we are Team Fairy Tail!"
Lucy scratched her face at her teammate's rather simple name. "Actually, that's kind of redundant." She shook her head and pointed at Symphony. "Can we please focus back on the topic of the super demon in front of us!?"
The fused demon was tired of being looked down upon and quickly went for Team (Name Here). All mages and Happy scattered as they avoided the blow. Natsu was the first to jump back in with fire blazing his fists.
"That will not work!" Symphony declared as he powered up his runes.
However, when Natsu punched him, he felt the stinging burn… and the touch of someone behind him!
Symphony quickly pushed Natsu back before turning his head to see Kain was already touching his back.
"It looks like you can't activate those annoying runes when I'm touching you!" The red knight screamed out.
Symphony roared as he raised his sword hand to cut the knight down. However, his hand was then caught by a whip that prevented him from following through. He hurriedly glanced down the whip to see Lucy pulling as hard as she could along with Happy to prevent the blade from touching their friend.
Then Kain grabbed on to Symphony's waist and calmed on tight. "Now!" The red knight cried out as he seemed to tense and brace himself.
When the demon turned around, he was faced to face with Gray wielding an ice enhanced blade and Erza wearing her Black Wing Armor. The two unleashed a powerful slash a second after Kain got out of the way. The energy of the two sword attacks blasted the demon away.
Symphony flipped mid-air and slid to a stop. He stood back up and he slammed his fists together and suddenly, a dozen magical circles appeared. They all fired energy blasts at the team, making everyone move to avoid them and leaving a few for Kain to get in front of Lucy and Happy to dissipate some of those blasts.
The demon angrily roared as he then stomped into the ground, instantly shooting out a large number of vines towards Erza and Gray.
Natsu sped past the two of them, fire burning brightly as he yelled and unleashed a powerful flame that blasted through the wooden spikes.
Symphony kicked his leg, sweeping the fire away from him, but then Erza, Gray, and Natsu had closed the gap.
He activated his runes to up his defense. However, to the demon's surprise, all three of them froze.
Natsu, Gray, and Erza smirked before they all jumped out of the way for Kain to come in at the speed of a bullet and smash his fist into Symphony's gut a second time. The armor broke through the protective magic of the runes and made the demon stagger, gasp in pain, and let go of the protective magic. As the red knight backed off, that was the cue for the other three to unleash hell on the downed demon.
Even with his runes down, Symphony still seemed to take in all attacks. He braced himself and stood strong despite the attacks while quickly gaining energy.
"Enough!" Symphony, in a burst of energy, blasted Erza, Natsu, and Gray into three separate directions. However, Kain was immune to this blast of energy and now stood alone in front of a towering Symphony.
Using his blade, Symphony ran for Kain and tried to slash him into pieces. Kain; however, was fast enough to avoid cuts so sharp that the air was cut whenever and wherever the demon swung his blade.
It was then that a loud cry came from behind Symphony which made the large demon look behind him. He swung his blade back to block a giant axe that was used by a humanoid cow.
"How dare you hurt Ms. Lucy, three eyes!" The cow cried out as he backed off the clash and swung his axe horizontally at the fused monster. However, the demon ducked under it and then unleashed a heavy punch right into the jaw of Taurus and sent him flying through several trees from the impact.
Symphony realized Kain was still behind him and quickly turned around. However, his three eyes only caught something red quickly ducking just beneath his view.
Symphony's sight followed his opponent—but only saw a fist rising to blackout his sight.
Kain had jumped and punched Symphony upward with every ounce of strength he had left. The resulting impact created a loud, resounding cracking noise coming from Symphony's jaw before he was sent like a rocket up high into the sky and causing the demon to drop his blade a second time.
During the fight, Ignis was slowly getting back up and as he saw his friends winning, he roared back to life as he fought through the pain and fired a large orb of flames towards Symphony. Erza and those that could also use launch long ranger attacks fired them at the airborne Symphony, causing a massive explosion for the entire island to see.
Symphony's burning person fell into the ground like a boulder. He rose back up to his feet, his wounds still healing from all the damage he took.
"I will grind you all beneath my fee—" The fused demon stopped mid-threat. A red knight was missing among their group and all of his enemies were looking up with varying levels of shock and elation.
Before he could even process what that image meant to him, a shadow descended on him, forcing Symphony to look up… and see Kain holding his blade!
"HAAA!" Kain followed through with the slash, shredding through Symphony's torso and leaving a huge gash on it.
Symphony roared with deafening pain. He staggered backward and clutched the wound with his hand.
However, unlike all the other wounds, this large scar was not healing! Symphony looked up, spotting Kain wielding the blade.
In his hands though, the sword began to transform again. In a bath of red light, the katana transformed into a sleek red broadsword that matched Kain's armor.
The pain from the sword was not healing. In fact, he could feel it dampening his healing factor and making his new blood boil over mysterious energy that felt different from regular magic. It was enough to make him fall into his knee and gasp for breath as he tried in some way to lessen the burning sensation across his chest.
He lifted his head, anger featured over his demonic visage, "You will pay for this!" With his vengeful yell, team (name here) got prepared for anything, but they weren't expecting Symphony to grow wings and start flying!
Flying…
… He was flying away…
A few seconds passed. It was then that Lucy seemed to shout out in cheer after seeing no sign of Symphony returning. "We won!"
Everyone gasped as the threat finally left them. Kain in particular dropped the blade—which vanished instantly—and then dropped to his knees. In a flash of red light, he was back to normal with the device on his right arm glowing faintly before stopping.
"Kain! Are you alright?!" Natsu was the first to see if the young man was alright.
The brown haired boy looked at the dragon slayer and started laughing weakly. "Natsu, I am sorry for how I acted these past few weeks. But please, don't choose another S-class quest for at least half a year."
A huge grin appeared on Natsu's face before he also started laughing though far more genuinely.
His giant laughter was contagious as everyone else soon started to laugh as well, including Ignis.
They all earned it though. After this night, they wanted to do nothing but go home.
…
…
Erza was the first to stop laughing as she also sighed. "As much as we should celebrate. We still have to finish the mission." Everyone looked at her with disbelief as the composed armor mage continued. "We came here to cure the villagers, not fight off Lullaby and Deliora. Do you not all remember this?"
At the mention of that, Kain wisely added to the situation and said, "Well shit."
Then he promptly fainted on the spot from sheer exhaustion.
…
Elsewhere, watching Fairy Tail in the distance…
"Did you see that, sir?" A masked figure whispered to a floating crystal orb.
"Unfortunately, I only saw the last part when the young lawyer broke the magical essence preventing magic from working properly." The voice from the crystal responded with curious interest. "These turn of events are unpredictable, to say the least."
"I can only imagine. I never expected Lullaby to appear and fuse with Deliora even in my wildest dreams. Should we now move into trying to control Symphony?"
"That will take too many resources to do. Symphony seems to be in a level beyond both demons, and the only reason why he lost was due to the fact he was still learning how to use his new body." The voice impassively explained. "But I don't believe we have to worry about Lullaby. However, do keep an eye on Fairy Tail's new lawyer. Even when the moon essence stopped, his image was static-like the entire time the orb observed him."
"It was?" The masked stranger asked curiously.
"Makarov did report that they potentially stumbled onto something in the oldest and widest spread 100-year-old quest. If the rumors and legends are even half true, the lawyer has stumbled on to something that will without a doubt play an important role in the future."
At this, the masked strange gave a wide smile. "Would you like me to add a new note along with the Salamander file?"
"Oh yes, please. I want everything on this new player."
What the two silent conspirators didn't know at the time: Symphony could still hear them while he was leaving the island.
The injured fused demon was currently stationary a few hundred feet above the sea as he turned back towards the island, hearing the entire conversation even miles away.
"Hmm, it appears I can still hear voices through remains of my wood magic that was scattered throughout the fight. A new power that I must note," He clenched his fist. "That outside voice was correct. I underestimated my enemy and myself, causing this scar in the first place." He traced a hand on the scar the young armored knight now made across his chest. "I must be more efficient to prevent such a lackadaisical mistake in the future."
All three of his eyes glowed brightly as he looked out into the sea more determined than ever.
"I must train to become stronger in body, mind, and spirit. Only then can I even begin to start my main objective: to kill my master, Zeref."
Edit: Okay, thankfully, my notes needed some new context because I was power scaling things wrong the first time. Instead of just comparing, I'll leave you all to guess how powerful Symphony is since I made the mistake of thinking Second Origin was not as powerful to me as it is to most people. He's strong, but not "Enemies past the Seven Year skip" strong. That should scale things down better since the first notes here, I imagined him around the same level as those guys from that demon guild when they were more powerful than I remembered, leading to some misconceptions on power scaling.
(You guys can call the Morpher a Deus Ex Machina. As much as I would have liked it to not be like that, certain things about the Morpher won't really be explored yet until the Nirvana Saga and any time to explain it now would make very little sense and seem out of place and not organic for my story when the characters don't know how it works.)
And now, boom! Kain has a way to fight back by becoming a POWER RANGER!
Go-go power rangers!~ Doo Doo doo do doo~
In all seriousness, the design closely resembles a power ranger, but I've tweaked it a bit so it's something else completely here in the world of Fairy Tail. (It's even got its own tie into the overall plot of this story, according to my notes I wrote when I was dying of the flu.)
I'm so glad this chapter is done. Now Kain does have a way to not die as easily as before and at the same time, he still isn't a mage! (Ha! This title is not lying to you!)
I always find loopholes in stories fun as heck. If any of you decide to write, try to challenge yourself and write odd stuff, it is fun I swear!
But before I end, I'm so excited! I can finally start an ORIGINAL ARC!
That's right folks, the first original arc is coming soon! I'm so excited to write it, I hope you guys will be too!
Oh and one more thing I need to ask you guys.
How is the story? I would very much like reviews that aren't telling me to pair characters together in almost every single chapter. (Why are those the only reviews I'm getting? I'm getting a few about the story and characters and those aren't much.) I'll work on pairings later. It isn't the purpose of this story.
Anyway, that's enough for now, see you guys later, and thanks for reading!
All across the planet of Earthland, several devices sparked to life…
The first one only sparked a maddening conclave of a million roars among a sea of clad pink creatures.
And then, there was a scream to silence all monstrous shouts in a second, one so powerful it could make the bravest of men weep in fear by just hearing it.
With a low growl, the creature stared into the horizon, sensing something was coming, something big, even if his animalistic mind could not comprehend it. Something was drawing him, him, and his 'clan' but he could not pinpoint where it was coming from.
These 'thoughts' would have to wait. A stronger instinct was overriding every other one at that moment.
Hunger.
The creature clad in pink then jumped into the air, followed by a swarm.
It was time to feast.
The second and third ones were together, spotting their hands as a blue and yellow glow enveloped them.
"I sense red even though the colors are the same as they have always been. The Crimson Bohemian has been activated."
"My lord," The other said. "Do you know what this means?"
"Of course. Prepare our forces, the war for a new god shall soon be upon us!"
And the last one, a black glow came on the wrist of a man in a dark room.
"Hahahaha," He laughed in a calm and eerie manner. "Mr. Kain Obadiah Reynolds, you magnificent son of a gun. You're accelerating my plans better than even I could have hoped for."
…
"Huh?" Happy looked up to Kain while the residents of Galuna were flying around happily at the return of their memories. "Jeeze Kain, I didn't know you were such a softy to start crying over this."
"Wha?" To Happy and Kain's surprise, the young man turned to the blue cat with confusion. "Crying? I'm not…" Instantly, he felt something in his cheeks and put his hands on them to find they were indeed wet.
However, he wasn't expecting the tear to be filled with four different colors.
Kain wiped his tears dry and looked at it again, seeing that the tears were back to their normal color. It confused him, but he didn't exactly know what to make of it. Perhaps he was still exhausted from the battle with Symphony?
Neither the young man nor the blue cat noticed Kain's armlet glowing four different colors before fading back to normal.
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Ignis knew this and turned away as soon as he saw the light fade. While resting from his injuries, the red wyvern simply looked beyond the happy demons and glanced towards the moon. If anyone had decided to look at the crimson dragonic beast at this moment, they would have noticed how old and sorrowful his eyes truly were.
The red wyvern then gave a simple yawn and fell asleep, taking in all the peaceful slumbers it possibly could.
On this day, two powerful forces were born on Galuna Island.
One would destroy the world,
And the other would save it.
However…
The one you most expect is the least likely to gain their title.