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?(Future Mysterious Character): Be advised. The brightest of days comes after the darkest of nights. And here? The sun is slowly setting... whether it will rise again; however, is the real question.
They say that stories, the most fantastical one, always have inspirations from real life itself.
It's hard to think that, especially since in the past, both the founding members of Fairy Tail and those in the present watched what should have been just a simple bed time story for wonder-filled toddlers—now exist and stand before them while they were all in a cell of a crazed city.
"Arf! Arf!' The horned malamute, or Uni-Malamutt as it was known in Earthland, barked a rather happily bark towards the wooden giant that was wearing a large white cloak.
There was a distinct sound of wood clacking on concrete as the puppet walked towards the puppy. A long, wooden hand reached out for the puppy and indirectly, a frozen Precht, and the hand just… petted the little pup. The little toys that Lara made from the bobble-heads also waved at the larger puppet.
The Wandering Myth turned to them and gave a thumbs up with his other hand while everyone in the cell and those watching in the present were still stunned speechless.
"He vent zis way!" A harsh cry came from where the puppet crashed in. The silly designed puppet tensed, fixed his patched up top hat then moved forward towards the end of the cell. Yuri got out of the way and the living fairy tale placed a hand on the wall. Instantly, the wall opened up and gave way for the puppet. There was no magic circle, or anything like the matter—it looked as if the earth itself allowed the puppet through as if it was as natural as running water!
With speed no one expected, the Puppet raced through the exit and with a single bound, jumped high into the night sky, his body flying into the air as one of his hands clutched tightly onto his top hat all the while his large cloak that almost looked like a giant blanket, fluttered from the movements in the air. He landed on the roofs and disappeared from everyone's sight.
As soon as he did, another blur past through the hole, a man wearing what looked to be a pilot hat from the 1950's of Kain's world, googles, and a long red scarf with some kind of golden symbol with a blade crossed with a sickle etched into the flowing end of the red scarf.
"Vere is it!? Vere did ze puppet go?!" Kain noticed the obvious German accent to the man as he looked towards the founding members.
He then noticed the hole in the wall and without another word, he sped past them all, revealing that he was some kind of speed mage.
"Holy shit! He was actually real!?" Yuri cried out again as the events that played out finally caught up with everyone.
Mavis shook her head violently. "Everyone! We're going after them!"
"What?"
"This is our chance! We came here to find and capture the Wandering Myth in the first place and this is our time to shine!" She blinked as she saw the rather confused look on her friend's faces before decided to use more unorthodox methods. "Our would you all rather stay here in this cell?"
"We're with you till the end, Mavis!" That made all four of the other members stand up with renewed vigor. And then all five ran out of the cell and after where the Wandering Myth ran.
"How are we getting these cuffs off?!" Yuri cried out before to his and the others; surprise, one of the mini bobble heads grabbed onto each of their cuffs.
"These things stop channeling our magic, but I can still order around the bobble-heads!" Lara said as each one of them stabbed their hands into the key holes and unlocked the items from all the Fairy Tail members. Also, Lara herself was removing the faulty footwear she was forced to wear previously while trying to keep up with the others.
"Well that's one less thing to worry about! Good job, Lara!" Yuri cried out.
"I feel that I should also state out that I recognized the symbol on the pursuer's scarf," Precht cried out as they ran the streets. "It's the symbol of a rather infamous Dark Guild known as Steel Reavers."
"A-A Dark Guild!?" Lara cried out in surprise.
"They're known to be almost uncaught in any arrest attempt and the Magic Council has them ranked in such a way that even an S-Class mage would have trouble taking down the guild on their own." The one eyed man said seriously while trying to care for the puppy attached to his torso. "But why are they after the Wandering Myth?"
"I think a better question is how are we even going to find any of them? There's no way we could catch something that seemed to be using magic that just felt supernatural and a speedster!" Warrod said as he ran behind everyone, taking extra care about the towel that was the only thing keeping him form going full commando.
At that very moment, the puppy that Precht was talking care off started barking towards the group's right.
Mavis quickly understood. "Of course! The puppy has the scent! Everyone follow Barfy's nose!"
"Did you just name it?!"
"Less talking, more running!" Mavis cried out, ignoring Yuri's question, and running fast. A few feet into their sprint, something exploded not to far from where they were.
Precht motioned the rest to stop before quickly pushing his body up to a wall, it didn't take long for everyone to realize that he was trying to stay out of sight but look at what happened.
As they all turned the corner, they spotted a ruined plaza… and in the center was the Wandering Myth, restrained by over a dozen magic circles and surrounded by a colorful group of people with the same sword and sickle symbol.
The speedster who passed by the Fairy Tail members walked closer towards the giant puppet before turning back towards the other mages.
"We have him! Hurry up and transport him to ze base!" The man wearing pilot get up cried out before the others all moved at his words.
"Whoa. I know we're mages, but those magic circles look like some high class stuff." Yuri started to sweat as he looked at the many circles binding something stories say was filled with ancient magic.
"I think I've seen those symbols before," Mavis added in. "Those are high class magic runes. It's called a Prismatic Soul Seal, it's a very powerful, preparation based seal—you actually need to let the runes absorb three months worth of sunlight and moonlight before it could even activate. This guild either bought this, stole it, or have been very patient in trying to capture the Wandering Myth, but why?"
It was then that Mavis froze. As she was viewing the spell, her eyes happened to fall onto the face of the large, wooden puppet. His googling eyes, while silly looking, were directly looking towards her. Even though it should haven't been possible…
"Hey," Natsu looked closer. "Did the puppet just… wink?"
Kain turned to him. "You have sharper senses than most of us here. Did it really blink with glued on googly eyes?"
The young man's question went unanswered when a voice pierced through. "They're all starting to move, should we go in?" Warrod opened his palms, slowly raising his magic levels but Precht quickly stopped him.
"Are any of us in clear fighting condition?" Out of how badly off the four of them were, Precht happened to motion to the one piece of article preventing him from going full natural. "If we really are going after them."
"We are! We have to save him!" Mavis determinedly whispered for her group to hear.
"Then we should be stealthy about it." Precht finished after purposely pausing for Mavis to input her command. "Follow after..."
"ARK!" At the moment when they were all meant to be silent, the puppy that Precht was forced to carry around suddenly hacked, coughed, and barfed.
This act made the Steel Reavers all look towards the founders.
"Of course..." Yuri groaned before all the dark mage grunts pointed a hand towards them with varying levels of magical circles.
When the speed mage dressed like a plane pilot saw them, in one instant, he vanished, taking the chamber of the Wandering Myth with him.
Mavis cried out and pointed. "Ah! He's getting away!"
"Finally, something to hit!" Warrod regained his vigor as he charged in, towel swaying in the wind. He, slid before punching the ground and a huge pile of thick tree trunks bursted out of the ground to give the others more cover fire.
Droy cried out and pointed towards Warrod. "Oh wow! He's a plant mage like me! Does this mean I can be a strong as him!?"
At that question, everyone in the guild, including his best friend, started to laugh as wildly as they fight.
"HEY! ASSHOLES!" The plant mage slammed his fist on the table, though no one could hear it due to the laughter and the sounds of shooting.
However, while the attack was impressive, there was a scream that caught everyone's attention.
"KYAAH!?" Lara shrieked and was quick to grab on to Mavis and clamp a hand over her eyes, making the first guild master confused. The inventor's face was bright red despite it being night and her eyes were shut tight.
When some of the Reavers tried to flank from around the barrier, they all froze and gapped at what they saw. But they were also red in the face, maybe as not as much as Lara, but it was still easy to spot from a distance.
Yuri and Precht gapped and stammered as they pointed towards the plant mage.
While Warrod just looked confused. "What? Hey, what's going..." He then felt a breeze flow between his legs.
At that very moment of realization, Warrod's mind stopped everything it was doing to realize one thing.
"Oooooh," Kain winced as he almost turned fully away from the sight. "I was wondering how that towel stayed on for so long."
"It's a good thing Macao is still healing in the hospital, otherwise Romeo might have been here." Wakaba softly commented.
"Lara? Let go!" Mavis cried out as she tried to pull away her friend's hands, but didn't really have the strength to do so.
"Oh crap!" Warrod cried out and reached for the towel, having to bend down and do so, giving the attackers a full view of the second moon that night.
Yuri then blinked and then pointed a hand towards the stupefied group of attackers. "Precht! They're distracted!" As soon as he said that, a bolt of lightning shot out of his hand and shocked the attackers.
Precht also moved, the spot he was standing in turned into a blur as he sped in with magical chains surrounding him and whipping onto the dark mages of Steel Reavers.
The fight was easy to get into to forget about what had just happened.
It was also a chance to change the subject very quickly.
"Oh hey, you have the same magic as your great grandfather, master." The displaced boy commented off handedly about that coincidence, making sure to do his best to forget what he just saw.
Others were quick to jump on that lifeline out of talking about what they all had just seen. "You know, I do hear stories about how descendants are almost direct copies of their ancestors sometimes." Levy also commented.
"Yuri, above you!" Precht's voice rang out as the blonde mage looked up to see some kind of large lizard jumping right for him. But just as fast, there was a chain made of magical energy that quickly circled around the maw of the creature. Those fast enough, saw Precht yanking over the falling creature, changing it's trajectory towards the one eyed man as he threw one hand behind him where the light quickly condensed and exploded into the shape of a claymore. In a movement faster than a blink, Precht slashed the large creature in half with one slash. Erza Scarlet was obviously impressed that the second master had excellent form.
However, even with their teamwork, the make shift shield that Warrod made suddenly bursted open by the pressure of attacks.
As the three males raised their magical energy, Mavis stepped in with an obvious golden glow around her.
"Sacred Guardian Beast! Descend From The Heavens!" She cried out as she shot her hand out where the light around her lifted up and started to take form of a giant wolf with trees growing out of it's fur with piercing emerald eyes.
"Sirius!" The powerful wolf unleashed a guttural roar that froze the attacker in their tracks and made the bravest among them start to sweat.
One of the Steel Reavers didn't seem as scared as his allies and pointed towards Mavis. "H-Hey! Wait a second! Sirius is a Desirto Great Spirit of the forrest! And she's definitely not a shaman!"
Unbeknownst to most, Nab Lasaro twitched at the name of the country.
"Ooh?" Mavis tilted her head as she looked at the grunt in question. "I'm surprised: you're the very first person to see through my illusion by being culturally sensitive to a different country's lore. Now I feel a little bad about distracting you all if some of you are more educated than you look."
Mavis snapped her fingers, and the wolf disappeared, revealing that it was indeed just an illusion, but behind the illusion was something very real: Lara who was holding a… Kain had to rub his eyes… she somehow had a massive (mini) gun that already had it's barrel rotating at a high speed and glowing with bright blue lights.
"Mavis, move!" Lara reached for a lever and yanked out a large lever into the device, just a second before her pull reached the height, Mavis winked and vanished from sight, revealing that the girl talking just a few seconds ago was also a mirage and was actually behind Lara with the other founders.
The Minigun fired, and out shot over half a dozen laser beams that scattered into the sky and spread out to hit every single dark mage in the vicinity, the blasts all slammed each target through objects/trees/and walls. After firing, the magic minigun stopped and looked over heated. A second later, all of it's parts split up open and flew back into Lara's satchel.
"I always find it impressive how you can make almost anything from broken pieces of metal, Lara!" Mavis clasped her hands together and looked towards the taller girl.
"O-Oh, it's just a skill that comes with staring at a million blueprints and using my telekinesis to bend each metal object into their proper shapes..." The girl nervously laughed.
"We have more pressing matters. The speed mage long left with the living fairy tale." Precht spoke up as they all got together.
This was true. How could they catch up with someone who could get to the next city by the time their battle ended? However, there was a snap of fingers that made the founders look to Lara, who had a look of realization on her. "Wait a second, Mavis, you said the magic they used to capture the guy was pretty specific, right?"
"Yes. I recognize the key lines. They are laced with moonlight and sunlight energy beams, so it's a rather powerful magic."
Lara started fishing her satchel again. "The point is if it's powerful it might be complex, and if it's complex, it should be giving off a specific energy that's hard to miss..." She took out a pocket watch looking device that opened up. As she seemed to press something on the glass, a hologram appearer of the are around them. "I might be able to track it! And here it is, not too far from Gorge Valley!"
Yuri put his fists together to signify him connecting the dots. "Of course! They must have had a base of operations. The speed mage is one thing, but their grunts couldn't have made it here as fast and leave as quick."
"Ah!?" Lara cried out as the signal in the zoomed out map started to move.
"They're already on the move. How can we catch up?" Precht noted dangerously.
"Arf! Arf!" The horned puppy that Precht was still carrying around was barking towards a specific direction that made the founders and those watching all look towards.
"Oh my..." Lucy gasped in shock as she put hands to cover her mouth.
"That place has those!?" Elfman looked on as he felt his head starting to sweat.
At that moment, Mavis squealed like the little girl she truly was with a smile so wide, her cheeks threatened to break at any second—not that she cared when she screamed, "Alicorns!"
Kain blinked, recalling the term his younger half sisters used when they watched that famous TV show with the talking ponies. True enough, there were indeed horses with wings and horns all kept into a stable, where one of the grunts Lara knocked out had blasted through one of the fences, but the horses in them didn't seem disturbed in the slightest, one was even eating the straw that had fallen on the grunt's head.
Everyone quickly made their way towards the flying animals until...
"Wait," Lara began. "Wouldn't we be… stealing though?"
At that moment, someone came out from the door next to the pen. "Yeesh, whoever starting a fight this late better have money..."
And then everyone realized it was the very first person that meet with the Fairy Tail members when they first set foot in Gogre Valley.
"Heeeeyyy…. Friends!?" The conman laughed nervously. "Uhh… you guys look like you need a place toOOKFF!?"
And at that moment, Warrod decked the man in the face and knocked him into the ground. He turned back to Lara, "We're stealing."
No one wanted to argue, in fat they all looked like they wanted to steal even more, even Mavis had a dark look on her face.
"You guys go ahead. I need some much needed revenge." Warrod, who was usually so jovial and kind-hearted, said this with a look of venom and bitterness in his face before dragging the body around the corner.
As everyone quickly saddled up some of the alicorns, Warrod came back, wearing the long black thawb the salesman was wearing.
"It's kinda small, but it beats being clothed in only a towel." Warrod spoke out; the large robe like clothes still seemed tight as some of the sleeves seemed ripped, unable to contain his physique.
Precht looked over towards the tracker of this group as he jumped on a blue alicorn. "Lara, how far are they?"
Lara, who was already on a white alicorn, took out the device once more. "They are going south for some reason. But that's better! They'll have to go to a mountainous region, and we can cut them off with flight!"
Yuri pointed towards the night sky. "Well you heard her, Warrod! Get on! We have a Fairy Tale to catch! Can you imagine what kind of rep we'll have if someone is able to prove Fairy Tales are real and the guild, Fairy Tail isn't the one to do so?"
"Yuri is right everyone!" Mavis threw her fist in the air as her alicorn still kept eating hay. "Today's the day we catch a real faire!"
"Well you heard the master, let's go! Hyah!" Yuri cried out and all of them started flying into the sky.
As all the founders raced along the night sky, those in the present now had time to really think about some things that didn't make sense.
"… Hey, don't you think it's odd?" Lucy spoke out as the founders all flew in pursuit of the dark mages.
"What is?" Gray asked out, while already being naked.
As Mirajane whispered to her friend that he was shirt and pants less again, Lucy continued on. "Well, it's just that this Lacrima holds proof that a fairy tale is as real as us. Even the founders say that capturing it would make anyone famous."
Levy seemed to be picking up the point where Lucy was going. "Hey yeah! If the founders not only saw and proved something so outstanding was real, why did they hide this? Or why haven't we heard anyone about this at all?"
"Wasn't it because of those embarrassing moments?" Gajeel spoke up. "Hell, I wouldn't want anyone to see me near naked and scammed out of every jewel I had."
"While that is a good reason, it doesn't explain the fact they were also not the only ones who found it. Why would a dark guild be silent about this?" Juvia added in.
Before she could say much more, there was a cry from the memory Lacrima. Lara was pointing ahead while all of them were still in the night sky. "According to this, we're catching up with them! We should be able to spot them in the plains after this forrest!"
"Alright, do we have a plan of attack?" Precht cried out.
"What? Just hit these guys from above! There's no way they expect an aerial..." As Yuri looked up ahead in the ending forrest, the words died quickly in his mouth.
Up ahead was a trail of noticeable smoke, and following towards where the smoke came from, Fairy Tail of both past and present witnessed a massive, fort like building that was moving along with giant, mechanical spider legs and moving at a rather impressive pace.
"Is anyone else getting Phantom Lord flashbacks?" Kain asked out loud before a second passed and he realized something. "No offense meant towards the two ex-members of Phantom Lord."
"Uhh what the heck is that!?" Warrod cried out as the five started flying towards the moving fortress.
"Still think we can take'm from above?" Yuri blanched when he heard Precht's dry retort on his earlier suggestion.
"Wait. Lara," Mavis began before looking towards the inventor. "You're the expert inventor, do you know what that is?"
"Well on first glance it looks like somebody created a mobile base! I'm convinced they have walls made of the dead carcass of Whale Beasts because it almost looks like the building is breathing and thinking out loud, it would be the perfect hard substance to help regulate heat and smoke throughout the building while being able to withstand natural forc—"
"Lara, as interesting as that all is, I think Mavis meant if there was some kind of weakness on it." Warrod soberly said.
"R-Right! Right." The raven haired girl scanned the moving fortress and started to fly left and right. "I think there's a balcony we can land in, but it's heavily guarded and if we fly in to close, they'll probably activate their defense systems and try to blast us from the sky."
"Buuuttt!" She continued before pointing towards the very top of the base where a massive, chimney "If they are relying heavily on steam power, or if my guess is correct, volcanic geostones—"
"Oh of course!" Mavis slapped her head. "There's no way coals could power up something that massive why'd I forget about that?"
"Please get to the point." Precht said, bringing the focus back.
"What I was trying to say was that there is more than one exhaust point that the massive one on the top of the base, design wise, to properly vent something this massive, there should be another large exhaust point under the belly of the guild. It'll be large enough for us to enter, but we can't take the alicorns with us."
"You know, now that she says all this, I recall the main Phantom Lord base had a similar design for it's mobile mode." Juvia commented.
"The words she's saying do sound familiar when those architect and engineers nerds were talking to me." Gajeel agreed, recalling that mumbo jumbo the nerd girl just said did sound familiar when the mobile base was being explained.
Back in the memory, Yuri got pumped up. "I think we can handle things from there. Let's go!"
Yuri flew ahead, using the cover of the smoke was all five soon stealthily reached towards the bottom of the moving base. Where there was indeed a huge vent of hot air, but no smoke coming out.
"Careful, the heat in these vents is going to be really hot, and dangerous if we stay there too long." Lara warned as she raised her hand and the screws and the vent itself started to get disassembled.
Mavis spoke up. "Don't worry, I think I know a spell which should protect us from the heat." She put her hands together in which a soft green light started to expand around her and her guild members. "This protective bubble won't last long, so we do need to move."
"I got it!" Lara finished opening the vent. "Get in! All of you!" All the human mages of the group jumped inside of the vent.
"Bark! Bark!"
They all looked down to see Barfy on the Alicorn that Precht was ridding.
"I couldn't take him with us." The usually stoic man tried to defend himself.
"Barfy, you take the others and leave! We'll come back for you all later, be safe, okay?" Mavis called out. While it was rather strange, it seemed like the horned puppy got what she was saying and they all soon left from the area.
Yuri turned to Lara. "Can you still detect the Wandering Myth from here?"
Lara took out the device. "According to this, he's near the top of the building. We're going to have to work up, and find a vent that should lead us to the boiler room."
"We should hurry!" The first guild master cried out, and also made the group start moving. "Who knows what they could be doing to that poor wooden creature!"
"We should also come up with another plan. We're in unknown, enemy territory and we have no idea what our opponents are capable off." Precht was quick to say.
At that very moment, Natus, Gajeel, and Laxus had their eyes snap wide open. The action was noticed by nearly everyone, but before they could ask what they could have possibly sensed, the vent the founders were all in suddenly started shaking violently.
"W-What!? AHHA!?" Mavis and the other cried before the memory Lacrima showed the vent suddenly trapped them all in a box.
"They knew we were here!" Precht yelled before everyone in Fairy Tail watched what happened next.
The vent switched upside down fast then started spinning rapidly, making everyone inside tumble around like toys in a shaken box. When it stopped, the walls around them soon started to morph into bars and no longer were the founders in the vents, but in a large, circular room where they were in the center of a hundred men with magical arms all aimed right at them from varying levels of platforms.
"And just like that, I can't believe I miss the jail back in Gogre Valley." Lara whispered in a way that was heard by all her friends.
"Intruders," A voice of calm, yet dangerous tone echoed around the room. The sea of gunmen parted to the side to let a man briskly walking with his hands behind his back in towards the room. "You have a lot of nerve trying to break in to the Steel Reaver's HQ."
The man had just entered into the room, and everyone, even the watchers of this recorded memory, could feel themselves tense. His presence alone commanded power, and many could see why this guild was ranked dangerously that even S-class mages would have trouble with.
He towered a little above seven feet tall, his eyes were a like the sea in the darkest of nights, his dark green hair was swept back and he had a beard and side burns that almost made him have the visage of a lion. He wore a fine, red uniformed shirt with a black cloak that had armored shoulder pads that depicted the symbol of the guild.
"Nerve!? You captured the Wandering Myth!" Mavis screamed out loud as she went towards the open bars of the cage.
In response, the giant of a man only glared harder, instantly killing whatever rising courage the first guild master had. Silence filled the air and everyone could feel the hundred of gunmen slowly twitch towards their triggers.
"Men," The leader began before turning around, "Terminate them."
Those were only two words needed before a hail of magical blasts and bullets all shot into the cage. Fairy Tail of present could only stare… as the bodies of the founders were turned into cheese and each fell into the floor in a pool of their own blood.
"Wait, this can't be right!" Freed cried out.
"It has to be some kind of ploy! None of them died there!" Cana, who was so engrossed with the memory that she even stopped drinking for a second, screamed out and pointed to all of the founders. "If they did, none of us would be here!"
"Calm down, everyone." Erza spoke out. "We have to have faith."
The master of that guild walked out of the room. "Clean up the bodies." giving one last order to his men as he did so.
The gunsmen put their arms down and walked closer towards the cage as it was put down.
As one reached for Precht's body, the one eye'd man's hand suddenly shot out and grabbed onto the man's hand, causing him to scream for half a second before he was punched so hard, he bowled into a dozen of his other comrades.
"What!? How are they ali—?!" Another didn't have time to even finish that sentence as he was kicked in the stomach by an electrical kick to the stomach.
All the founders got back up, much to the surprise of Present Fairy Tail who didn't understand how people with multiple holes in their head and chest could be fighting as if they never even seemed hurt.
After a few more seconds of people being cut, shocked, crushed by plants, and thrown into walls by telekinesis, the five of them came back together and Mavis waved her hand, making all the holes disappear.
"Quick thinking there, Mavis," Yuri sighed in relief as he pulled out the collar of his dumb shirt. "Telling us all to lay on the floor while you put illusions of us standing up. It was still kinda surreal seeing ourselves die..."
"Better that than actual death." Precht then looked over to Mavis. "You're getting better with your illusions. You can do sounds quite properly."
If those watching in the present hadn't figured it out the first master's magic then, they do now. Illusions, while they are impressive, don't really seem like a prominent magic for the first Guild master.
"Thank you, Precht. But now we have a problem! It's the master of Steel Reavers: he had a powerful magic to him. He even outclasses Geoffrey from Blue Skull."
"I mean, we've all grown as mages since Geoffrey, but yeah. That guy was powerful, and I don't think he even flexed his magical power in front of us in the slightest!" Warrod began. "We had to distract Geoffrey and never actually beat him, how are we going to face someone like him?!"
However, Mavis smiled. "Actually, it is still the same principle, but we need to move before anyone comes to check—"
Suddenly, Precht moved fast, pushing Mavis out of the way and summoning a shield in front of him, and not even half a second as the barrier was summoned, a powerful flying kick was blocked by the speed mage earlier that night and he backflipped before landing some distance away from Precht's move.
"You are far more cunning zan we realized." The speed mage took an Olympic running stance and placed his googles over his head. "But you have messed with ze wrong guild!"
On the opposite side of the room, something drooped from the roof, revealing a big man with a large, round body and hat reminiscent of Kain's vikings from his world.
"Well nae!" The man hiccuped before chugging down a barrel he was carrying—everyone in the present turned towards Cana who indignantly cried out "What" before the memory continued. "This be a sight for sore eyes! How would som of you fin' lasses share a drink with ol' Biscuit here?"
"Biscuit, for the love of god, both of the girls seem underage." Everyone paled when they saw the very guild master that just left, walk back in the same way he left. Despite how restrained his movements were, the sharper warriors could tell the man was beyond pissed off.
"Nae, boss! Aye was talking to dat beautiful blonde and de one eyed enchantress ovar dar!" With a horribly flushed face, he pointed over toward Yuri and Precht
Warrod greatly fought the urge to snicker when his other two friends both cried out, "We're men!"
"Ya are?" The round man with a long beard and a flushed face tried to squint his eyes towards the two men. "Ya bot are very pretty for laddies, ain't ya?"
Maybe it was because the man was drunk, or maybe it was because Precht and Yuri still wore pink clothing from their previous run in with the inhabitants of Gogre Valley, either way or maybe both, but it really didn't help the two men that the girls of their group were cupping their hands to poorly hide their sniggers and smiles. Even in a dangerous situation, it seemed like the day was not done insulting them when they were down.
"Can we please fight them now?" The leader of Steel Reavers spoke out with irritation.
Mavis looked back at the guys. "Can you hold them off as long as possible?!" Without even waiting for an answer, Mavis grabbed Lara's hand. "Come on! I need your help to pull this off!"
The first master ran, and Lara soon followed after her. Lara raised her magic and opened up a hole in the wall for the two of them to run into.
"After those two—" The guild master cried out before a shock of lightning forced him back.
"You deal with us." Yuri defiantly said before all three of them attacked the best that Steel Reavers had to offer.
"Hey!" Natsu cried out as the orb followed after Mavis and Lara, effectively leaving the room where the male founders were battling with the others. "I wanted to see that fight!"
"Sadly for us, we could only imagine how that fight went..." Erza spoke out as Present Fairy Tail could only continue watching as both Mavis and Lara kept running into the hallway.
"Kinda wishing I went with the girls!" Yuri screamed before jumping out of the way of a speeding opponent that smashed the floor he was in mere seconds ago.
"Oh suck it up, at least you're wearing clothes that fit you!" Warrod slammed his hand on the floor and instantly branches shot out of a green magic circle and all raced towards the heavy drinking viking. However, to Warrod's surprise, the large man's skin suddenly turned silver and when the wood spikes hit the man, they all shattered into pieces.
"Ya gan'e haf to do better than dat, laddie!" Biscuit chugged all of his drink and with speed that didn't match his body, tried to ram down Warrod.
This left Precht with the master of the Steel Reavers. The older man threw off his cape, letting it fall to the ground. With one hand folded behind his back he started to walk. The one eyed mage returned this gesture by walking in the opposite direction, while their friends were firing magic blast after magic attack, these two were slowly circling each other, looking for a potential weakness in their opponent.
For Precht, he was under much more stress than he dared show. The master, with just a few words and not even using his magic once, already felt leagues above Geoffrey. Where Geoffrey was arrogant and mocking, Precht's opponent viewed him like a hunter about to pounce on a prey.
This circling was already causing him mental stress already. As much as Precht wanted to attack now, that would be bad for him to do so while his opponent still seemed unfazed. (He has to be playing mind games on me on purpose! Damn, I'm either over thinking this, or hes just lucky, either way this is looking bad for me if I don't…)
His opponent stopped walking. Precht was caught off guard at the sudden action, until a large bark of wood was shot in between the two. The one eyed mage's mind knew that this was Warrod's attack, but his battler's instinct suddenly flared the instant the attack obscured his view of his opponent.
There was a shockwave that blasted a large chunk towards the future second master of Fairy Tail, who in haste, summoned a blade of energy and cut right through the trunk piece. However, the second he cut it to avoid it from smashing into him, his eye instantly noticed the distinct lack of the enemy's presence where he was standing not even more than three seconds ago.
His instincts moved faster than his mind as Precht recognized his left arm rising to block an incoming punch from the man who had closed the distance without the second master of Fairy Tail even noticing!
The fist connected, and Precht's world blurred. His sight re calibrated and he found himself flipping into a slide. However, his right hand was bleeding like a broken bucket. There was a huge chunk of his skin that looked like it exploded and instantly, Precht's mind received the signals his body was sending him.
"Precht!" Yuri and Warrod cried out as they saw Precht fall to his knees with just one blow. However, they were under attack by their respective opponents and couldn't get to him in time.
If it was anyone but Precht, they would have tried to cradle their arm while screaming in pain. However, this was not the case. To stop the bleeding, Precht quickly encased his bleeding arm in a magic armlet to cover the gapping hole and stop the bleeding. Next, he was going to hate this next part: he caused his own magic to burn his arm and to reinforce the cracks he could feel in his bones. It wasn't ideal, but he could now use his arm despite it's horrible pain.
He looked back up, only to see the Master of Steel Reavers glaring silently at him.
Precht narrowed his eyes. He stood back up and raised his good hand. Light gathered in it and a blade of white energy appeared for him to grab. As he swung it to the side, he suddenly stepped forward, shooting out his broken left hand and firing five spiked chains at his opponent.
The dark green haired man punched away two with enough force to shatter magic chains that were thrown at him, and side step to avoid the rest. However, Precht then pulled hard, causing the remaining three to pull back something else they were attached to.
The tall man instantly turned around, only to see the metal roof of the vent/cage heading towards him from the pull of Precht's chains. He no longer had time to dodge, and so he punched the vent roof, causing it to split open, but as soon as he did, he felt a pain at the back of his legs, his calves.
Precht's attack was multilayered. He threw those chains to aim for the vent roof in the first place and made it look like he was aiming for his opponent. When he pulled back, the vent came sailing through the air towards the master of Steel Reavers. By the time he realized what the one eyed mage was really aiming for, it was too late, and he was forced to break it by turning his back on him. That was the opening Precht needed to fire energy daggers right into the leg calfs of the guild master, causing him to stagger and struggle with his own footing.
"Boss!?" The members of Steel Reaver called out and tried to get to their leader. However, it was Warrod and Yuri's turn to return the favor and prevent either of them from getting close.
Yet even with that, the taller man was still staying tall, in fact, he was able expel a large burst of his own magic that quickly cracked and destroyed the knives digging into his calfs like glass. But he looked to Precht and glared harder.
The man didn't even bend when his leg muscles were cut. Precht inwardly started to worry that not only was this guildmaster powerful, he could even take punishment just as well as he could give it.
(Mavis, Lara, hurry! We might not be able to hold them off much longer!)
Precht dashed, summoning another sword on his weaker hand, ready to slash the guildmaster. The leader of Steel Reavers saw this, and despite having his leg muscles damaged, was still able to run at incredible speeds with equals amount of ferocity towards Precht.
Meanwhile, up on the higher floors, Mavis and Lara were running down the hall, towards the room in which they were keeping the Wandering Myth.
"Something doesn't feel right!" The smaller blonde girl cried out. "Where are the others?"
"Didn't we beat them all up?" The black haired girl huffed in between breathes. She would note to herself to exercise more later if she was barely keeping up with Mavis.
"That would have been at least a majority. Seeing as how we barely saw anyone on our way here, I can assume that the rest of the guards are watching the Wandering Myth."
"W-What!? Mavis, you and I aren't even good at battling!" The steam punk dressed girl cried out.
The girl from the woods gave a confident smile. "Trust me, Lara, I can just use another illusion to trick them into going to a different area. But I'm going to need your help to break the seal."
"O-Okay." Lara pointed over towards a door at the end of the hallway. "He's behind that door."
Mavis put a hand up as it started to glow. "I have a illusion set up. Open the door!"
Lara did as she was ordered to—
Mavis dropped the illusion. Lara gapped in shock, all of present Fairy Tial could only stare in disbelief.
It was a large room filled with guards… who were all sleeping soundly.
And in the cent of the room, surrounded by glass, and the exotic and complicated magical circle seals…
...was an empty spot.
"W-Wh-Where did he go!?" Mavis cried out as she ran in, with Lara not to far behind her.
As soon as they got close, they indeed confirmed what their eyes told them: the Wandering Myth was no longer captured by the complicated magic circles. The seals were right there! It looked like they weren't disturbed at all, but the target they were meant to seal was no longer there.
"D-Did they already do what they needed to do?" The inventor looked down towards some of the knocked out men of this room.
"No, it doesn't make sense on why they would be asle..." The first guild master of Fairy Tail paused mid sentence. A memory played back in her mind: the scene where she could have sworn something with googly eyes just winked at her.
And then the large base shook violently.
{Author Notes}
This took a bit to make. Mostly because I wanted a break and I was feeling tired. It didn't help that I had some very stressful and busy weeks recently.
So I'm calling this Arc: Fairy Tail chases after it's Tale, or something else that's clever wordplay I can figure out later.
I don't really have anything more to say this time, so just… have a good day folks. Thanks for reading.