Under the blood-red sky and stolen moon, this man forged from the dust slowly opened his eyes… all three of them.
"Oh, that is just all kinds of wrong," Kageyama muttered as he took a step back with Éclair and the fliers. However, as he did, this man of dust turned all three eyes towards them, which prompted the other dancers to flee down the stairs.
The tri-eyed man made a step forward, but his foot hit the cracked crystal orb that was left behind. He kneeled to pick it up. Yet as he rose, black sand started to float towards his hand and surrounded the cracked orb. The sand covered the crystal orb, turning it into a color similar to fresh blood. The sand formed a three-pronged scepter—or rather, three claws held on to the orb while the staff part looked barely longer than the length of a cup and seemed broken off.
The man spoke, and it was like hearing the voice of a king of lions, not that of a man. "Where are the other pieces of my staff, chosen sealer?" As he said this, he looked directly at Éclair who seemed frozen with fear.
Kageyama learned his lesson with Horus and used his shadow magic to catch everyone and get out of there before the three-eyed man could even use his magic.
The three-eyed man stepped forward and behind him, the black sand started to form that of a centipede that was the same size of a twelve-story temple. The man jumped atop the black sand construct as it started to move. He looked across and saw all of the city. "Time has passed and changed my home, yet my hatred for it has only grown in what only feels like a moment for me."
His third eye on his forehead, one that was black with a white pupil glanced down and made his normal two eyes follow the view. It was a shadow that was quickly darting away. The three-eyed man raised his free hand not holding a broken-off staff. "Dust from the world without life, go fly and tear through the skies like that of thunder's knife!" Black sand from the construct rose beside the sealed sorcerer and then sailed through the skies with speeds like that of the end of a whip. Three tendrils of black sand did something no one else expected, they dug into the moving shadow like it was water and they pulled Kageyama and the others out of his spell.
"What the hell!? That shouldn't be possible!" Kageyama tried to attack the black sand that now entrapped the five of them. However, it was made of seemingly sturdy stuff and the energy of this bizarre black sand felt… wrong to him. As if it wasn't even meant to be here in this world. However, that was the least of his worries as the black sand started to pull him and the others back towards the mysterious three-eyed man.
The man atop the centipede construct looked to his left where a stream of steel and fire blasted the tendrils and exploded, freeing those captured by the black sand.
"Over here!" He followed the voice to two young men smiling even though the sky was stolen.
Natsu and Gajeel both walked up and sized up the giant black sand construct along with the man atop of it. "Hey, Salamander, didn't the brat say that we're not allowed to hit anything unless it threatens the other serving girl?" He pounded his fists together.
Natsu swung his arm and moved his neck around. "Yep! And that triclops over there is doing just that!"
"Which means..." Gajeel took a fighting stance with some of his skin hardening and turning to steel.
"Which means..." Natsu repeated as he took his own fighting stance with his fist forward and lit aflame.
"IT MEANS WE CAN KICK YOUR ASS!" Despite the fact they were obviously facing something with a large amount of magical pressure, and ridding atop of something that would intimidate or even traumatize most sane men, Natsu and Gajeel ran with energy akin to children racing for their morning Christmas presents towards the new unknown baddy.
Yet, the tri-eyed man saw that Kageyama was taking the chance to escape once more with Éclair and the others flying behind him. He wasn't going to let them go that easily, but instead, he made his move, jumping off from the centipede and landing with a stomp before rushing for the incoming dragon slayers while the black sand construct gave off an unholy sound before chasing after the moving shadow, bursting through buildings as if it wasn't there. This forced the dragon slayers to take their incoming opponent seriously if he could fight even when his construct of something that magnitude was still capable of chasing Kageyama and the others.
Gajeel moved first, jumping to the air and firing a sword variant of his dragon slayer fist. The punch—turned into a long-range sword stab raced to the face of their opponent. But the man pushed forward with his palm and the black sand shot out and caught the point of the blade and pushed back with enough force to send Gajeel sailing backward. Natsu raced forward though, getting in closer to his opponent—yet the triclops was able to get an overwhelming amount of black sand to surround and attempt to swarm the flame dragon slayer. Yet, Natsu smiled and slammed his hands together, shouting out one of his only defensive spells, Burning Ward. Before the sand could overtake him, an orb of fire surrounded him and instantly repelled the force of the attack and reflected it back to the three-eyed sorcerer. Natsu didn't let up and rushed forward to deck the man in the face while he was staggering from the rebounded force.
Natsu's fist made contact—but it was like punching air. The piece of the tattooed man's face shattered and exploded into the very same black sand he was using and avoided Natsu's enflamed fist. Natsu was caught off guard and his momentum made him keep moving forward, only for the triclops to form into sand and slip behind Natsu and press a reformed palm at the back of the pink-haired mage's head.
There was a spike of magical power coming from the palm that Natsu had no time to react to—but then there was a pillar of metal that crushed the sorcerer and blew away Natsu from the force of its landing. With a roll, Natsu looked back up to see Gajeel regrouping with him.
However, even crushed by one of the same pillars that destroyed the original guild building, black sand started to fly beneath the pillar and the black robed man's body started to reform. It started reforming from the bottom to the top and even though the legs formed first, it was shown to be walking towards the dragon slayers until the two Fairy Tail Dragon slayers noticed even after their attacks, the sorcerer didn't even look annoyed by them.
"What the hell is that kind of magic?!" Gajeel took another fighting stance, but this time his excitement was gone, and a little part of his brain was starting to warn them that something was horribly wrong with this opponent.
"If I have been forgotten by time," The sorcerer spoke with a low tone but kept his glare at the two dragon slayers. "Then I shall repeat my name so this land may remember my fury and the fear I succumbed it to so long ago. I am Arjuna, the Apostle of Mahika—He Who Is The End."
The name, 'Mahika' had a reaction both Dragon Slayers weren't expecting. They—they both felt like that name was familiar to them, but they felt an overwhelming sense of danger in that name.
"My soul is free from the seal that sailed the skies of beyond, and I return to ensure this wasteland becomes more barren than it already is!" Arjuna broke into a sprint. Gajeel and Natsu both powered up—Gajeel with his Iron Scales buff and Natsu with his White Flame mode to face this new threat, hoping that the chill of fear was just nerves and nothing more.
"It's still chasing after us!" Momon, Happy, and Carla flew in the air while Kage followed them through a shadow. However, the centipede construct was just ignoring everything in its path to get them, granted, nothing in its path like vehicles, stands, or even buildings could do anything but fall to the grand construct.
The centipede gave off another inhuman sound before tendrils from its antennae shot out for the shadow blob with both Kageyama and Éclair still inside it. Learning his lesson from before, Kageyama jinked left and right to avoid being pulled out of the shadows again by the black sand. He then went to try something and broke off from the three fliers. His suspicion was confirmed when the construct raced after him and ignored the three fliers. This was both a good and a bad thing. A good thing because Momon, Carla, and happy were now safe. Bad because the centipede had increased its speed and intensity of attacks meant to fish Kage out of the shadows.
One of the tendrils was about to hit it's mark—until it was shot by a high impact bullet. Kage jumped out of the shadows with Éclair and landed nearby Bisca, Levy, and Lucy.
"What is that!?" The blonde cried as she turned into the star dress version of Sagittarius. However, unlike before, it was far more practical now: with boots, pants, and green tunic—similar to actual hunting gear. Regardless of her new style, her bow and arrows were still the same. When Lucy let loose an arrow, it split into over a dozen arrows and seemed to impede the centipede. However, it wasn't enough as the giant construct rushed for them. Carla and Happy swooped in to pick up Bisca and Lucy respectively while Kage this time used his many shadow hands to pick up Levy and Éclair and move out of there like a spider.
"Whatever it is," Kageyama yelled as Momon flew nearby and he and the others avoided more tendrils aiming for Éclair. "It's not stopping chasing after us!"
"Not to mention it's huge! The amount of magic this thing must be putting off is insane!" Lucy cried out.
"Guys, we can't lead this thing towards other people evacuating the city!" Levy cried out. "We need to change directions!" A tendril sped right for the blue-haired script mage until an arrow and a bullet shot it down.
"It's going to be hard to avoid something as massive as this!" Bisca screamed while she and Lucy continued to fire bullets and arrows at the incoming tendrils that aimed for Kageyama. The centipede roared and rose up somehow. It was then that all those being pursued realized that its body was shooting up to the sky—then started to fall down right on them with its massive body encompassing their entire area!
"Shit!" Kageyama had no choice and grabbed everyone before descending into the shadows. When he did, the centipede construct performed a massive body slam into the area and caused the ground to shake along with a powerful shockwave that completely blew away whatever building was nearby.
Inside, Kageyama's shadows, everyone could see only white outline versions of themselves. However, soon, they could see red outlines of the tendrils now chasing fast after them—it was like a dozen or so back in the surface, now it was like hundreds of tendrils racing for all of them. The Shadow mage acted fast, pulling everyone and moving fast. However, the red tendrils were all combining and slowly catching up to Kage's speed.
Kage raced upward, hoping to find a place he could release everyone that wasn't under the centipede construct, but with him dragging everyone along with him at his max speeds his stamina was draining faster than he wanted and the sea of red was catching up even faster.
One of the tendrils had shot ahead of the rest and pulled on Éclair's leg, stopping Kageyama and by proxy snagging everyone else. Everyone panicked when they saw the color of red about to wash over them—
Something white—like a dove—flew past Kageyama with the speed of a hawk and exploded with light between them and the red energy. A second later, everyone was expelled out of the ground. Instead of hitting the hard ground, they were all caught by small sand storms that eased them all into standing.
"Are you alright!?" Nab, wielding his totem staff, walked to the rest and was followed by Wan and Max.
"We saw a massive Centipede body slam a good portion of the city then Nab's necklace started to glow and out jumped out a spider and a dove!" Max pointed over to Nab who indeed have some kind of shadow being in the shape of a spider was perched atop Nab's right shoulder. A second later, out of the same ground that everyone else came out off, a bright white being in the shape of a dove landed on the other shoulder.
"Barsookum lùek, Nyame? Anasi?" Nab spoke in some unfamiliar tongue to the two creatures on his shoulder before looking back to the others. "That attack they used to pacify the construct won't work a second time. The spirits here are telling me that we need to get out of here. Nyame here was only able to disorient that old magic—it'll come back and chase after us in a few seconds!"
"We can't outrun it though!" Momon cried out. "And if we do, we might make that beast head towards any civilians still evacuating!"
"Bishulak-krumäviatirare!" The two beings atop of Nab's shoulders started barking in a strange tongue. They all didn't need to understand what they were saying as in the distance, they could hear and see the giant centipede starting to move again.
They were all starting to panic. They couldn't keep running through the city forever, and they couldn't escape well enough—especially without the others. What could they—
"I-I have a plan!" Levy screamed before everyone looked at her. She was gasping for breath, looking somewhat scared, but she inhaled and looked to their shadow mage. "Kage, Éclair, I'm going to ask a lot, but can you guys buy me three minutes baiting that thing in circles away from other people!?"
"I'm a little winded, but I think I can pull it off." Kage declared.
"Okay, everyone, support Kageyama and Éclair! When I'm ready, I call you through this!" Levy threw something with her magic at Lucy, who caught it and saw that it was a physical word known as 'Link'. Levy then ran away and not a second after, the Centipede started to move towards them with the same ferocity as awhile ago.
"You heard her, everyone, let's go!" Max cried out before everyone raced away.
Levy ran past the corner and took out something from her purse. There was no way she could do what she was about to do: create a large Jutsu Shiki large enough to trap the colossal construct. At least, if it was her normally.
Against her deeper feelings, she fished her purse and found what she was looking for.
It was a blue runic dagger.
It was Kero Pierre's blue runic dagger.
It belonged to the madman that almost destroyed Magnolia with little effort, and little magic, but horrifying efficiency. Levy recognized it as the blade that almost killed her friends.
When they finished the Fantasia Parade, something caught the script mage's eye while passing by an alleyway. As she pushed past some rubble and trash, she saw her reflection on the blue dagger. She recognized instantly what it was: her first thought was to throw it into the sea, never to be seen again. However, as she reached for it, something felt like it was clicking into place something that was long lost. She then looked closer at the dagger and found out something she couldn't believe even though it was right in front of her. The dagger wasn't a blade, it was composed of many interwoven and overwritten runes!
The entire dagger blade was created entirely of miniature words!
Levy had spent the next month studying the blade, but the more she studied it, the less she understood! The 'dagger' itself was impossible, tying together almost a million or more script magic spells all together, but never activating unless the user wills specific words into what it stabs or cuts. Levy consulted many forms of books and even advice from Master Makrov, but she couldn't figure out how Pierre could create something that was so above her concept of what her type of magic was capable of! She loathed to admit it, but perhaps Pierre might have been the most brilliant script mage in the entire world. But this dagger was the key for her plan: Justsu Shiki that would have taken months to make can be done in mere minutes with the help of this dagger.
However, it did come with a drawback. It was obvious the dagger was so in tuned with Pierre's magic as he was able to summon and even move rune scripts at will. Levy found out the blade could 'harmonize' with a script mage's magic. The bad thing was that she could never figure out what this 'harmonizing' process was, only that it existed. Without it, the blade would simply be a simple dagger, unable to access the many script spells locked inside.
What she did find out was the blade had a backup option. It just required 'ink' to make the words and writings she wanted.
Levy reached an area that the Centipede had broken through. It was large, empty, but it would be the perfect place to set up her trap.
She held the blade up. She stared at how it seemed to glow, how it was like it was alive like it's former master, laughing a laugh as destruction and chaos were around it. It felt like she was about to make a deal with the devil.
But here's the thing, lives were at stake if she didn't. She needed 'ink' for the blade to write: the blade needed blood.
Levy slid the blade into her palm and with a slit, felt her skin sting. The blue dagger started to glow and Levy stabbed the tool into the ground. As it did, she quickly tried to bandage her own wound with her own magic and watched as the blade created script she never saw that seemed to write itself faster than any other script-based mage ever could match.
She sighed as she saw the seal she wanted start to form and opened up her 'link'. "Lucy, I'm done! Get everyone to this area!" She picked up the dagger and wrote 'fireworks' in the sky above her. Not a second later, the words shot up and exploded with light, much like the ones in the Fantasia Festival.
It didn't take long before she could feel the familiar rumble of the construct centipede. However, now that she was standing still, she could now feel like something like a mobile earthquake coming right for her. A split second later, everyone came flying through and Kageyama picked up Levy as they all crossed the script line.
The centipede rushed after them—then slammed into a barrier created by Levy's Justsu Shiki. The creature gave another inhuman roar as it tackled the barrier, causing the earth to rattle under the force as it continued to bash into it repeatedly. As it did so, the line that Levy created started to expand and write itself faster, racing fast to encircle the whole length of the giant centipede. Even though the barrier seemed to be working, the being didn't seem to stop, it started to attack the barrier, sending out tendrils to attempt to pierce through the barrier, but even that didn't seem to work.
"D-Did you do it?!" Kage asked they watched the Centipede make no progress in attempting to break through the barrier.
"Yes!" Max clenched his fist and threw it into the air. "We did it, great job, Levy!" As he and everyone turned to the blue-haired girl, they noticed instead of accomplishment, the girl was gasping, even cupping her hands over her mouth.
"Levy? What's—" Lucy looked back to the barrier and saw what had caused that reaction. The Centipede was no longer trying to break out of the barrier. Instead, it was now trying to climb over the barrier. It started to raise its body, climbing higher and higher. As it did, the intensity of the barrier looked weaker and weaker.
They all hear the sound of a wolf howl and saw Wan Chanzi making one incredible bound to the sky. His hand started to glow until they formed to that of steel wolves. The height of his jump allowed him to be directly over the black construct and at that point before his fall, he slammed his two hands together—and with a burst of magical energy, his two hands formed together to form a giant wolf head made of electricity. The wolf head gave a howl that sounded like a storm before descending down on the climbing Centipede.
The force of the attack knocked over the creature back into the barrier. However, there was a problem: Wan landed inside the barrier trapped with the Centipede. The centipede started to reform itself, making it face down the silent Fairy Tail member and rushed headlong for him. Wan didn't really have any space and summoned his giant wolf fist again that clashed with the giant construct. However, not even one second in, and Wan quickly fell on one knee, buckling under the clash.
He barely had any time left!
"Levy, get him out of there!" Max cried out, only for Levy to start running up to her Justsu Shiki.
Nab held on to a different skull in his necklace as he saw the Centipede reform and now face down Wan. "We need to assist him! Alliyorum-BoraĶum, sariekmian, Ole!" Nab slammed his staff. The dove and the spider flew back into his skull necklace while something seemed to appear in the ground beneath the staff. Something opened up the ground beneath Wan and swallowed him whole, letting the Centipede rush into the barrier and then get repelled back with the same force. The earth opened up again and Wan crawled out along with a being of brown light in the shape of a mongoose.
"Yukiroin bazdamurrakka?" The mongoose looked to Wan before tensing into a stance when the Centipede got back on its legs. The beast rushed for them once more, but the spirit stomped its tiny foot and the ground in front of them turned to quicksand, making the large beast sink its legs into the earth.
Levy rewrote some of the runes, allowing an opening to appear behind Wan. "Wan, get out of there!" She cried out as the glasses-wearing mage did so and sprinted out with the mongoose not too far from him.
With the obvious earth spirit not there, the earth returned to normal and the centipede didn't hesitate to rush for the opening. Levy was fast on the script and forced it to close and made the barrier shrink around the creature. This time, it couldn't climb up anymore and the beast thrashed and thrashed.
"This is the end!" Levy focused the magic and stabbed into the runes with the dagger one more time. When she did, they all watched as the barrier became smaller and smaller eventually stopping into a small orb half the size of a baseball and then being shattering into more harmless dust.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief as they saw the creature finally go down.
"Guys!"
The rest of Fairy Tail turned to see Kain, Wendy, and her robot guardian, Pla head towards them.
"Sorry that we're late! Wendy and I had to help the local police secure the civilians' escape!' Kain spoke as he looked around. "I saw the giant Centipede—where is it?!"
"We took care of it!" Max huffed with pride before saying, "With all of us working together, we beat it!"
Kain and Wendy seemed impressed. Yet, Kageyama pointed back to the temple. "Wait! Natsu and Gajeel are fighting the guy who made that centipede monster! We need to help them!"
There was another explosion, and out of the ruined buildings, Natsu was seen rolling on the ground like a skipped stone and landing with a horrible groan of pain.
"Natsu!" Lucy and Happy cried out before running up to the fire dragon slayer. Before Wendy could get to healing, everyone, even the non-magic users could feel a dark chill in the air.
From where Natsu was thrown from, the dust started to settle. Arjuna was seen, walking through the parted clouds as his hand clutched Gajeel's skull while the steel dragon slayer seemed too weak and pretty beat up.
"Gajeel!?" Levy and Kageyama screamed before Arjuna tossed his body over to Fairy Tail. Kageyama acted fast and used his shadows to catch the former Phantom Lord mage and place him next to Natsu.
Fear gripped the hearts of all the current members. Natsu and Gajeel, some of their heaviest hitters, barely made a single scratch on their opponent! Not only that, he was the one who made a single construct that had drained so many of their stamina and resources! Who was this man to them!? Or rather what was that thing standing in front of them that looked like a man?
Arjuna then pointed over to Éclair. "Hand over the chosen."
"We won't let you near our friend!" Lucy cried out before taking out a gold key, "Open, Gate of Leo!" In a flash of light, Loke appeared in a stylish pose and his eyes closed.
"You called Lady Lucy—" As soon as Loke opened his eyes, he was met with the sight of Arjuna. His eyes widened, and his jovial nature switched 540. "You!"
Arjuna eyed Loke with some amount of interest, "One of the Celestial Spirits. I suppose your kind is still around." Yet he still sounded the same as before.
"Lucy, everyone!" Loke whispered but he made no move to turn away from the three-eyed man before him. Still, that didn't stop the fact that his fist was trembling hard. "We need to run, now!"
"Are you sure, Loke?" Bisca aimed her sniper rifle right towards the head of their opponent. "There's only one of him and almost a dozen of us!" All she needed was one shot, and maybe she could end this here and now, but even then a piece of her wasn't sure with how Gajeel and Natsu were defeated and how Loke seemed to be almost begging them all to run.
"And you there," Arjuna spoke towards Nab of all people, not seemingly listening to the conversation between Fairy Tail. "Are you a shaman?"
Nab only remained silent as the mongoose earth spirit, Ole started to hiss. "Likkruandium barsuk jirakmeñ!"
Arjuna made no reaction to what was some kind of threat or insult in the spirit's tongue before pointing to Gajeel and Natsu.
"Those two. I do not know how, but they wield the magic of dragons. I know time his cruel, but fate seems to have a strange sense of humor." Everyone was confused as to why Arjuna said that, everyone but Loke. "All that's missing is… him. But then again, he hailed from a different land. Who knows how much his place has changed when I do not even recognize my homeland." Arjuna's third eye looked over to Wendy, causing the girl to squirm and freeze under its gaze. "You also are touched by a dragon, are you not?"
Kain stepped in front of Wendy and powered up his armor. "Back off!" The red rider exclaimed as he brought out a red blade and the Omni Tool as a shield—
"That shield!" Arjuna spoke as all three of his eyes widened and he took a step forward—which made everyone take three steps back. "I know that shield! Its form can be changed, but I recognize the same weapon that ran through my heart centuries ago!"
Kain was getting a very, very annoying sense of déjà vu. "I really wish I gave this weapon back to Erza." He whispered to himself.
Arjuna pointed to Kain. "An armored warrior from afar wielding the same weapon! You must be Horus' descendant!" Kain didn't have time to deny that as Arjuna threw his hand to the sky. "Now, fate's cruelest joke is completed. All those that played a hand in my defeat centuries ago now have their descendants and replacements stand before me!"
"What did he just say?!" Nab cried out before they felt the earth start to shake even worse than when the Centipede was chasing after them.
"Hear my cries from across the prison of the land! Hear me O deity who shall smite all of man!" Thunder boomed across the red sky as the three-eyed sorcerer began to chant.
"That's a lost spell chant!" Levy cried out before everyone else fired a long-range magic attack on the man in front of them. However, all of their attacks were warded away by a barrier that seemed to come out of the cracked orb from the broken staff Arjuna was wielding.
"Your servant beckons and walks your path! Bring forth the aids who represent your wrath!"
As he shouted out the last word, the ground shook even worse and in the distance, more giant Centipedes made of black sand burst out of the ground like daisies—only far more gigantic and infinitely more destructive.
Fairy Tail paled at the fact that now there were even more monsters that took nearly everyone to take down only one!
Arjuna then pointed towards Fairy Tail. "If you will not hand me the chosen, I will claim vengeance for the sins of your past blood!" As he exclaimed this, all of the centipedes surrounding them rushed right for them without any trace of stopping.
"Kain, Levy! We could really use a plan right about now!" Max cried out as he could hear the sounds of what felt to be a thousand giant legs stampeding right for them, it was almost as loud as everyone else's heartbeat.
Sadly, the two in question were drawing blanks—until from above an energy blade fell and planted itself between Arjuna and Fairy Tail. The black light energy blade then multiplied and circled all o Fairy Tail before a figure fell from the sky in a brown cloak and slammed his hands together.
In a flash of black light, all of fairy Tail and the stranger disappeared and the centipede giants all crashed into one another and formed a tower of black sand.
Arjuna remained silent at what had happened before him. Instead, he looked down in his hand, where he held the incomplete staff and the black crystal. He turned around and beneath him another, bigger centipede started to move and carry him away from the city.
"Fine, it does not matter. I will finish what I started so long ago." Arjuna breathed as he brought and left destruction in his path.
A second later, in the middle of the desert, next to a small oasis, all of Fairy Tail appeared out of thin air, accompanied by black blades that were now disappearing, signaling the end of a mass warp spell. They all watched the cloaked figure turn to them and even though this stranger saved them, they were all very wary of this new person.
"I see some familiar and new faces! It's truly great to see Fairy Tail again!" The cloaked figure spoke with hand gestures that showed that the man seemed familiar with them.
Everyone looked between each other before Kain stepped forward. "Who are you?"
"Oh right!" The cloaked figure began. "It's me—" He didn't get to finish as everyone heard the sound of a dog barking.
They all turned to see an English Sheepdog running up to the cloaked figure and looking rather happy at the return of the cloaked figure.
"Wait a second!" Lucy gasped while Levy and Kain's eyes were widening. "That's Audolf, The Shepherd Bronze Spirit! Which means!"
The figure laughed and rubbed the head of the dog before pulling off his hood, revealing the familiar, red-haired, and blue-eyed zombie: Jeremiah Archibald the Seventh.
The smile of the fresh-faced undead faded and with a sigh, he told them, "Well, Fairy Tail, your ability to land yourselves in trouble might have put all of you over your heads this time."
{Author Notes}
This is the first time, in a long time that I was able to finish a chapter a day after posting the last one. Unfortunately for those reading this, a week or more will have passed before I'm ready to post this.
We get to see some returning characters and references from previous arcs like Jeremiah from the Isle of the Undead and a reference to Pierre from the Civil War of Fairy Tail Arc! Some of the things I built up has been leading up to this arc, even though it's an original arc, it's somewhat pivotal to the whole story of Muggle Among Mages as is the next arc. That's why it's adding from previous arcs onto this one.
I also thought it was a cool idea to 'buff' Levy up for this arc. Originally, I didn't even plan her to be in it, but the more I thought about it at the last second, the more I thought that maybe it was time for her to develop more than just Gajeel's love interest. (Not that it's bad mind you. I just thought well, some things can be developed more.)
Wan Chanzi of course is having his time to shine as I've given him more screen time than all of Fairy Tail Cannon and Fanfiction combined!
Whoa, wait. Did I just break a record?
If someone else in fanfiction or anywhere else in other sites have Wan Chanzi in their story and play an important role, I'm all ears—heck I'd probably read it and bookmark it. If not, I think I did just make Fan Fiction history here in Fairy Tail.
So yeah, one of my reviewers made a review that really showed me his passion for mythology. Guestic 2, your review made me smile. However, I am currently mixing some amounts of Egyptian and Hindu influences for this arc. But I am definitely keeping your suggestions for potential future use. I appreciate reviews based on mythology!
And with that, I'll sign off for today. Next time, we get to see what's really going on in this arc and the cause of it all.