Campfires were supposed to be fun. Granted, being alive and not crushed to death by giant magic centipedes was considered to be fun at least in comparison to the alternative. Still, it was hard to feel joyous even under a clear and normal night sky under the cool weather of the desert night because of why all current Fairy Tail members where there.

Jeremiah, the fresh looking Zombie that some had not seen in a while, sat down as everyone gathered around his make-shift campsite. He looked over to Loke next to him and offered a hand. "I want to say, it's an honor meeting the leader of the Celestial Spirits."

Loke gave a smile. "No please, the honor is all mine when I finally get to meet Sir Audolf's partnered human. Your legends are passed down to all celestial Spirits."

There was a blush coming from the zombie as he put a hand behind his head. "What? That doesn't sound right."

"No it is! You inspire the bronze spirits and even the gold spirits that they can be more than what they were designed for! Master Audolf is seen highly even by the gold spirits for his accomplishments you and he had done!" It was weird to see Loke fanboy towards a man of all people considering he had a 'record' with women.

Kain made the sound of him clearing his throat. "I really do hate to interrupt pleasant bonding, but I think it's time to get down to business: what are we dealing with?"

The mood shifted again as Jeremiah seemed to take a second to collect his thoughts. He then looked over to Éclair and said, "Have you even wondered why Gomorah was after you specifically in order to revive his dead loved ones?"

As he asked that question, everyone could only respond with silent thinking.

"I didn't say beforehand because we were all focused on getting home and me handing over some of his work over to you. When you all had left and I made my way off the island, I suddenly realized that I forgot to explain why we aimed specifically for this woman here."

Momon looked over to his friend then asked, "Why did you aim for Éclair?"

Jeremiah eyed the girl with intensity before speaking. "It's because she's immortal. Gomorah needed an immortal body as a basis for his family's new body. He happened to find out about you, miss."

Everyone was shocked at the dropped word.

"I-Immortal!? You mean, someone who can't die!?" Lucy gasped out what everyone else was being surprised about. Even Éclair couldn't believe something said about her, and she was so desperate to relearn about her self!

"T—That can't be true!" Kageyama yelled.

"Yes, because a Lich doing centuries worth of magic and research and preparation so obsessively to the point of reanimating dead mages like us would be wrong in calling someone else immortal." Jeremiah may have been sarcastic, but his string of logic was indeed true. Even Kageyama witnessed the ancient and raw magic used by Gomorah, The Lich. Heck, even when he was trying to undo his revival spell, it was the first time he saw magic constructed together in that fashion. So it stood to reason that his claim may not be as outstanding as he thought to be—especially considering what had just happened almost an hour before.

Éclair raised a hand to her chest. Her eyes seemed to show that she had millions of questions running through her mind, but only two words came out of her mouth. "How? Why?"

Jeremiah hummed and put a hand on his chin. "Perhaps that was a bad place to start this conversation off." He then looked over to Loke and said, "You should start things off, Master Leo, you and the Celestial Spirits did play a roll in the history of this country."

Everyone looked over to Loke who seemed deep in thought and stared at the fire. After a second, he stood up and looked to his friends. "Before I begin, there's something all of you should know, just like Aquarius, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Libra, and Pisces, I too was one of Lady Beatrice's friends and partners. So I knew her and fought with her and by proxy, Master Horus a brave and noble knight."

That was a small surprise, the ghost that Lucy fought had six keys etched into her weaponry. She didn't know around half of her current spirits worked under the beautiful celestial knight. However, with how Loke still seemed to hesitate, it seemed like there was more he wanted to say.

"Are you alright, Loke?" Lucy asked her friend.

"Sorry, it's just this is kind of a huge secret among the Celestial Spirits, but in order to stop Arjuna, you all need to know. I just ask that you keep this secret with you all to your graves."

A secret? One that even Loke was hesitating to speak about? What secret was it?

"See the thing is that even though 'I' know of her and remember her, we never actually met." Everyone was horribly confused at the wording of that sentence.

Jeremiah seemed to be the only one who wasn't confused and spoke out, "In other words, Master Leo's previous incarnation knew all this, not his current one."

Kain's eyes widened. "Wait; did you just say incarnation, like reincarnation: the process of being born again in a new body? Are you telling me that Celestial Spirits reincarnate?"

Everyone looked with equal amount of shock and confusion at Kain before Loke gave a soft laugh. "Can I just say it's really nice to see someone pick up things so fast especially since I'm not always that good at explaining things? Yes, the Celestial Spirits, especially the gold ones, have the ability to reincarnate."

"You know!" Kain pointed. "I was always confused to the fact that even though you guys were said to be spirits born during the early days of Earthland, all the gold spirits I've seen and heard off seemed far too young when some of Lucy's silver spirits look older!"

"You reincarnate!?" Lucy cried out in shock since she didn't know that! "I was told Celestial Spirits were immortal!"

"We are immortal, but we aren't eternal except maybe the King." Loke explained. "The reason why I'm telling you all this was because it was my previous incarnation's memories that I'm going to use. I'm going to use a spell that will allow you all to see his memories through his eyes and when I do, you'll all notice that I was a different man all together. I didn't want you all distracted by this to understand the threat we're now all facing."

Everyone looked at each other before they all gave a silent nod at what was to come.

Loke understood what needed to be done. He created a golden sphere and fired it into the camp fire. It then exploded, encompassing everyone in a golden smoke that soon surrounded and blinded everyone.

"Sir Leo, drink before your tea gets cold." They didn't understand what they were looking at. All they could see in front of them was Beatrice of Horus' army. Except currently, she wasn't in her military uniform, she was in extravagant victorian red dress.

"I just don't understand why you drink something so… bitter?" The voice that came out of the person sounded nothing like the Loke they knew. It sounded, gruff, old, and as deep as the ocean floor. It took everyone a second to see a massive hand—that even had thick gold fur on the back of it to bring up the tea, and even though the liquid was shaking, many could see themselves looking back at a man that had hair growing all over him like a lion's mane.

"That's why I offered you sugar cubes to the side." They all saw the point of view of this old Loke look down on the cubes of sugar."

At that moment, someone wearing what looked to be soldier gear stepped into the balcony the two were sitting in. He stomped and saluted. "High General Beatrice! Lord General Horus has urgent news! There is an invading army through the north and he request you and your forces for back up!"

"Finally!" The previous reincarnation of Loke screamed as he stood up fast, and tipped over the table. In one instant, the table and all of it's contents froze mid air before carefully being placed to the side with Beatrice looking slightly annoyed. "A battle! Tell lord Horus, we shall be there post haste!"

The green haired celestial mage looked over to the soldier. "I swear this kingdom is just a hotspot for everyone to invade! Last week it was the navy of the Stella Isles, which army is attacking us this time?"

"It not an army, High General! It's a large swarm of giant black centipedes that we've never seen before!"

"What?"

"Oh ho!" Loke huffed his massive chest. "Now that's interesting! Come, Beatrice, summon the others and lets enter into the portal stone!"

The memory played forward, and through the old Loke's eyes we saw that he was now in a war council with many familiar soldiers that Horus used against Fairy Tail such as Flora, the Ice Princess, Oberon the Arms Master, and some younger looking Celestial Spirits Lucy didn't quite recognize outside of Sagittarius and Aquarius. Kain noticed that a lot of the army seemed based of Egyptian themes like those looped crosses and other such symbols. They also had the same color scheme as the Magic Council, which did make him wonder if he was technically looking at the Magic Council before it became the Magic Council.

"There's far too many of them. Everyone one we break, seven more take it's place, we've never lost ground so fast." Horus spoke as they looked towards a map of the area. The map was magic as it animated symbols and forces together. However, it soon showed an overwhelming and almost tidal wave like number of black pieces swallowing the blue pieces. "What's more disturbing is that these centipedes seem to be made of material we've never seen before."

At that moment another soldier came in and saluted. "Sir, word from our scouts. Several neighboring kingdoms and countries are all under attack by these swarms. It's not just us under siege."

"It's not just us?" Oberon looked around in confusion.

"Soldier, have you pinpointed where these attackers are coming from?" Flora asked the messenger.

The soldier stepped forward and touched the map it zoomed out and the soldier pressed on a country north of what the people of the present knew as Fiore. "It's a Country called Veronica, it's nothing but desserts there though."

"There has been nearly nothing from them even during all these wars raging across Ishgar. Was that country just bidding it's time to perform such a mass scale invasion such as this?" Beatrice spoke up. "A great strategy on their part."

"No, I don't think that it's them even though it's coming from them." Everyone looked to Horus before he elaborated. "When I first encountered the attackers, it was because we had seen a distress signal from a fleeing nomadic tribe from this country. The country is deeply rooted in it's tradition and religion and some of the survivors kept calling the centipedes, "Servants of Mahika" —basically a god of malevolence and death. I was skeptical at what they were telling me, but the amount of magic behind this massive, swarming army, and the way it almost feels otherworldly… there might be some truth to what they're saying."

"What, you saying an actual god has appeared in Veronica? Gods are just what our ancestors used to explain what everything else was happening to them and justification to have kingdoms and power over others."

"Careful Master Oberon," The old Loke spoke up. "My King is technically a deity himself and he very much exists."

"You're Celestial Spirits, you didn't ask to have some religions made about you." Oberon shrugged his shoulders.

"Considering how I almost died against the king of machines, I don think we should dismiss any lead." Horus brought the attention back to him. "The nomad's elder taught me that 'items touched by moonlight' can ward away Mahika's servants."

Beatrice raised her brow. "Items touched by moonlight? What do they mean by that? I doubt it's us since most of us do go out and walk under the night sky."

Horus took out something from his pockets and placed it on top of the map: it was a silver coin.

"Veronica values Silver more than it does gold for those same religious reasons. When some of the Centipedes attacked the nomad group, they seemed frightened and scared of silver. When a braver man brought a silver blade to cut one of it's massive legs that very leg exploded and the creature gave off a cry of pain."

"So these things have a weakness then? Silver? Why haven't we been using them earlier!?" Oberon raised his brow.

"Oberon, we're a small kingdom, and silver trade is not one of our kingdom's defining traits. I already tasked the Queen with gathering all the silver she could and forge them into weapons. There's only enough for around 200 hundred soldiers against these overwhelming numbers." Horus then gave a long exhale. "That brings me to the crux of this war council."

He then motioned to the map and it started to change. There was this huge, flashing—like that of a sonar— circle in what looked to be the center of Veronica. "We've detected a massive spike of energy here, which even some of our best agents have deduced is the direction these bug bastards came from. I tasked some of our portal masters to set up a siege point as close to the center as possible."

"I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record, brother, but are you trying to tell me you want us to storm a stronghold we don't even have an idea of what it looks like and know even less about it's defenses; also that is no doubt filled with even more of these annoying bastards than there already are; then finally only counter attack with two hundred soldiers?"

Horus was silent for a second before giving a few quick nods. "Pretty much."

"HAHA!" Oberon laughed and slammed a fist to beat his chest. "Then count me in!"

"A wondrous plan, Lord Horus!" Loke agreed as well as he chuckled. "This battle shall no doubt be legendary!"

Although he said that, although the generals all seemed rather interested—showing that a piece of them were all lustful for challenges—Horus kept a solemn look. All of those in the present could tell, there was something more to this, he didn't know what it was, but he could tell it was bothering him.

Horus then smiled but shook his head once. "Alright, gather forty of you best soldiers and meet me at the Warp Stone Gate in 1800 hours."

And with that, the memory started to change once more. Fairy Tail watched as Leo saw the 200 soldiers be armed with silver equipment and stood in the front line along with Horus and the other High Generals. They passed through a massive blue tone gate and entered into something that made Fairy Tail's previous encounter look nothing more than a preschool bully.

The first thing they saw was something akin to a sea—an ocean of black giant centipedes surrounding the same temple that the others found Arjuna in. Only, the structure wasn't actually a temple—it was some kind of living monstrosity that felt stolen out of HP Lovecraft's works. It looked to be the shape of a the same stair temple, yet instead of stone there was some kind of bizarre organic skin over it with two eyes the size of houses floating on each side. Atop of it was some kind of light that was shooting up towards the sky...

If that wasn't surreal enough, back with Fairy Tail, when they encountered Arjuna, they saw the moon stolen and marked with a red spider.

Here? There was no moon, the beam atop the tower moved upward and where the moon should have been, in it's place was some kind of… tear through the fabric of time and space where the moon should have been. It seemed to lead to some black and white place… wait. They weren't looking through a place.

It was a giant eye—similar to that of Arjuna's only it looked to even dwarf the size of a whale even though it was so high up in the sky.

They eye looked at the entire army, before the two giant eyes glanced over to them. Horus chanted some kind of spell before a silver dome shield appeared cast over his small army. The instant he did, a barrier that looked to be made of a river of blood erected itself between Horus' army and that of the temple.

"Whatever they're doing," Horus turned and screamed to his men. "We cannot allow to happen!"

They all agreed. No longer was this air of cockiness or thrill-seeking. There was something wrong with this—all of this. And if they ignored it, it would mark the end of more than just their lives and kingdom.

Horus dropped the field and sped first towards the barrier of blood, Fairy Tail watched through old Loke's eyes as he turned the Omni Tool into a silver sword and stabbed the river of blood. The silver disrupted the barrier, turning it into the color before it exploded. However, when they did that, all eyes of the temples and the swarming Centipedes froze and moved all towards their direction.

Horus' response was to point his blade at them and place on his helm. "No more."

Horus charged, as did everyone else in a battle cry as the Centipedes rushed for them. Fairy Tail watched the older Leo make an impressive leap nearby Horus and with a single punch, knocked back one of the centipede constructs right into the others. His eye caught something and he pointed over for Horus to see.

"Sir Horus, look beyond the monstrous tower! There are other barrier walls of blood!"

Horus performed a single slash that cut a dozen Centipedes in half—really showing how much powerful he was at his prime when it took around ten Fairy Tail mages to deal with just one of those creatures. "If the barriers reacted like that to us when we arrived—that means we might have others like us trying to stop this! Well spotted, Sir Leo! But we're all too far to go all the way there and use the silver weapons to break them."

"You don't need too!" Beatrice's voice came through a link. "Those eyes on the tower, some of our scanners are saying they're the one erecting the barriers of blood. If we reach the tower and destroy them, we may have potential allies backing us up!"

There was an unholy scream coming form above. The tear of time and space was widening and some could almost see fingers trying to slip out of the opposite side.

Horus and those closer made a mad dash for the Tower. When they stepped on it, several other beings—this time humanoid shaped but wearing cloaks attacked Horus and his general friends. However, Horus was able to slip past one of them and stab one of the giant eyes with his Omni Tool taking the form of something silver.

As the eye exploded, one of the giant barriers to their east fell and behind it was another fight just as hard fought as those of Horus' army. Yet, Fairy Tail couldn't believe it. Behind that barrier, it wasn't another human army facing off against scores of giant centipedes, it was—

"Dragons!?" Loke's voice cried out as he witnessed dragons now flying in and unleashing a torrent of elements at the giant unearthly insects. "They're here too?!"

There was a sudden chill felt all across Loke's body before Hprus moved and got him out of the way of a giant spear of black sand destroying the area around them. Loke got up to see Horus facing up against—they couldn't believe it. It had three arms on each side, and four legs with a body that dwarfed even the most muscular and giant of men they all had met. It stood ten feet tall, it had three faces, one in the front and two at the side, with each face looking more like a mask of a demon than something human Only the front face had three eyes—that of which everyone recognized as Arjuna and in his hand was the same broken scepter he was wielding. Except now it was fully formed and radiating with power that did not look even remotely normal.

"Loke, the other eye!" Horus said before jumping and clashing against Arjuna. Loke made a motion to run to the opposite side of the temple, but one of the stray attacks from Horus and Arjuna's duel destroyed his path and the leader of the Celestial Spirits was forced to climb higher into the temple. There, as he reached the top while avoiding the battle between a demonic Arjuna and that of Horus, he saw in the center of the temple was some kind of glowing Jade being with multiple hands as well. It was chained and entrapped by a red spider web and it almost looked like the same statue that was broken before Arjuna's appearance.

The being trapped in the web looked up to Loke, and without a word, they could all hear the weakened whisper for help. Suddenly, the web turned black from the corners and raced to the center all across the jade being who gave off a silent cry, but writhed in pain. The light shooting up to the sky behind the being increased it's intensity, making the rip and tear even larger before, and now starting to reach the ground.

Loke made a move forward, but was stopped by black sand appearing and knocking him back. He was then pulled by something and avoided a blast of arcane magic that made his body feel a cold chill despite all the adrenaline pumping in it. That something was Horus pulling him out of the way with his weapon and standing in front of his ally to continue fighting against Arjuna.

"No. Further. Stranger!" Arjuna spoke and several overlapping voices.

Horus only prepared his blade—but then his eyes snapped open and he created a dome over himself and Loke. As he did, even though it was muffled, they heard a powerful dragon roar and felt the impact of the attack on their temple. Arjuna screamed before a powerful sonic boom was heard and they could feel Arjuna's magic presence skyrocketing away from them. When Horus put the shield away, he smiled and stepped forward to the red dragon that had put some fire around their area.

"Never expected to see you here, Igneel!" A certain dragon slayer had his eyes widen to see Igneel there, in all his glory—although a bit beaten up- standing in front of Horus among the enflamed area—except near the webs at the center of the temple.

"Horus! So you were the ones who broke that annoying barrier!" The Fire Dragon exclaimed. "Glad to see it was some runt I knew!"

"Not that I'm not glad to see you but," Horus looked back to see the dragons seemingly making progress in pushing back their attackers before glancing back to him. "What are you doing here?"

"A sage dragon named Belserion came to me and warned me of the revival of cast out and fallen deity. He foretold these nasty bugs would come in and flood the entire world if I and my army didn't come and stop them." Igneel looked over to the being trapped in the web. "He told me that freeing that 'being ensnared in black webbing' is the key to stopping the dark deity from being summoned."

The three looked towards the entrapped being at the center of the webs. To their horror, there were this spider like talons that came from between the gaps of the web that stabbed into the being. There was a scream and the rip grew even larger.

Horus and Igneel made a move to break the black sand barrier, but everyone felt a chilling magical spike and when they looked—Arjuna came flying back in and punched Igneel with force enough to send a massive dragon flying into the ground.

Horus looked to over to the previous Loke. "Free the being, I'm helping Igneel!" The lord General sped after the demon and his dragon friend.

Loke glanced over to the black sand barrier and attempted to strike it down with a blast. However, even though a massive amount of magic was put out, the black sand still warded the spirit away. At that moment, more tendrils appeared and stabbed into the being, causing a sound that almost made Loke and those witnessing his emotions feel their eyes start to tear up. The being faded into a small—but familiar jade crystal. But no one focused on that, mostly because the rip in the sky tore open and there was this creature that was bigger than anyone had ever seen—maybe twenty times the size of Deliora. It's head was like that of a spider, but it's body looked somewhat human. There were like a thousand arms behind the being all as black as coal and behind held back by white chains. One of them broke and a hand reached out of the portal and grabbed one of Igneel's dragons. The instant it did, that water dragon trashed and soon it's entire body turned to black dust and form that of a Giant Centipede.

It gave off a roar that felt like those listening where having their brains being stabbed by a thousand daggers.

Loke shook his head and looked up, seeing a dragon he didn't recognize fly towards him.

"Leader of the Celestial Spirits! I am Belserion, the Sage Dragon! We have failed to contain the fallen one of the Veronica Pantheon! We must flee!" At that moment, something crashed back to the temple, revealing it to be Arjuna who slowly eyed the two. At that moment, Horus came from above and attempted to bring his blade down on the demonic messenger. However, Arjuna threw his staff and the two weapons clashed in an impressive blow of magic. It wasn't long before the two continued to fight against each other with speed and ferocity that event hose in the present could feel their skins gaining goosebumps.

"Belserion!" Igneel's voice came from above, making the two look to see the battered Fired Dragon King. "Gather the rest of the dragons! The dark god still hasn't left his portal! We can slow him down from fully entering into this plane!"

"What!? But there's no way to stop him forever!" Belserion cried out.

"Horus told me he has a plan!" Igneel cried out. "And I trust that small bastard!" Without another word Igneel gave out a roar that was heard through all the battlefield. It called the other dragons, with Loke spotting even the likes of Metalicana and Grandeeney following after Igneel as he flew to attack whatever arms that were trying to escape into the material plane.

"Loke!" Horus's voice reached the ears of the leader of the Celestial Spirits. "Destroy the other eye, we need more allies to pull this last plan of mine off!"

"I will not let you!" Arjuna screamed as his two upper arms raised giant black spears and attempted to stab them into Horus. The Egyptian themed knight crusader sidestepped both stabs and performed a rising slash before kicking into the front face of Arjuna. At that moment, the memory shows Loke gunning for the second eye and using his magic to slash the remaining eye. When he did the other barrier of blood dissipated and to the surprise of many, they saw an amazing impossibility: trees the size of Kain's Redwood Forest, or perhaps bigger?

Instead of an army, a lone figure raced past the barrier, causing more trees to appear that busted out of the sand as if they were daisies, it tore through the centipede armies and eventually landed near Loke.

The old incarnation could help but bow before the being: a wolf the size of a house with beautiful light green main and eyes that glowed like the vastness of space. Loke could help but feel a presence similar to that of The Celestial Spirit King.

"Great Guardian Spirit, Sirius." As the word escaped his lips, many people recognized the name. It was the illusion of the massive wolf that Mavis used to try and scare the Steel Reavers, but through Loke's eyes they could see the real thing in front of them. It looked nothing like a real wolf, even though it was obviously in the shape of one. It seemed to be like most elemental spirits, a creature of pure energy shaped into an animal and looked even bigger and more majestic than ferocious as Mavis' illusion took form.

The Great Spirit then howled that was head through out the area and as a hand from the large being—who Fairy Tail in the future assumed must be the Mahika—broke a hand free and tried to grab onto the two spirits. At that moment a large tree shot up and grabbed and pushed the hand backward. Sirius jumped atop the tree and with a bite on the wrist, a new shackle was made over the shattered one and the hand was being pulled back through the portal.

However, even with the dragons and Sirius working together, more hands were breaking free and attacking and grabbing on to dragons faster than they can try to contain them.

At that moment, Loke was forced to look back when he heard the voice of Beatrice. She was injured and bleeding—with how Loke ran to her with worry across his face, it was almost like he never saw her like that before.

"Lady Beatrice, what happened?!" Loke moved in closer as Beatrice seemed to lose her footing and the muscular man was forced to hold up his friend.

"Sorry, one of those followers were… stronger than I expected. Flora and Oberon are taking out the last of them but I… got careless." There was an inhuman sound coming from above, Mahika was breaking more chains now more than several dozen hands were holding on to the edges of the portal and pushing it further open.

The Dragons and the spirit tried to slow them down, but for every hand they removed, two new ones replaced it. And a chain around the spider heads' neck was starting to shatter.

"W-Where's Lord Horus?" Beatrice asked while holding on to the side of her waist that was soaked in blood.

"He's fighting against Arjuna." Loke looked over back towards the top where there was a large amount of stray blasts clashing and missing each other. "He says he has a plan, but whatever it is, its' not working fast enough! The dark god is breaching the portal and the Dragons and Great Spirit together isn't enough!"

"Then let's summon another god." Loke blinked as he felt Beatrice stand up on her own, her eyes lit with intensity he had never seen of her before. As the old Loke looked into her eyes, he knew what she meant.

"You mean the Celestial Spirit King? It might work then!" Loke slammed his chest. "Break my key and use it's magic to summon him! I wasn't any help to you in the last battle, and this is my chance to repay for that mistake."

Beatrice reached for her blade and took out Leo's key. She pointed it at Leo then gave a soft smile. "I am going to miss you, Leo."

Leo only gave a laugh. "Miss Beatrice, I won't die. I'll just be in the Spirit World longer than I'd like. But if you do not, there won't be a world left to for the others as well."

Beatrice still had a smile as she pointed the golden key to Loke of old… then with a whisper, golden chains surrounded and entrapped the man, forcing him to his knees.

"W-What!? Lady Beatrice?!"

"That goodbye wasn't for you old friend," Beatrice removed her hand holding her bloody waist and wiped her blood on the key. "I invoke the oldest of oaths, the price for miracles."

Everyone, especially Lucy watched as with the blood on the key, it started to form that of a golden dagger with Leo's symbol embalmed on it's cross guard.

Old Loke struggled greatly when he saw that. "W-Wait Lady Beatrice! Do not use that method of summoning the King! You can break my—"

"You told me that if I were to break one of the keys to summon the Celestial Spirit King, the amount of time he would need to stay in the material plane is parallel to the amount of magic I have left. I barely have enough magic to summon another spirit along with you anymore, old friend. He would at most last here for a second or ten." Beatrice interrupted with a soft voice even among the war raging around them. "But you did teach me the second way of summoning him, one that doesn't involve breaking the keys at all, and allows him almost a full day of being in this world."

"NO!" Loke struggled greatly, but the chains that bonded him forced him to his knees, unable to move. "But the price for that summoning is your life, Beatrice! You'll die! I won't if you please just break my key!"

The two were distracted by the sound of something shattering, something akin to the sound of hearing someone's last breath before they pass. They both looked up, the chain around the neck of the spider-god was shattered and the first foot stepped out of the portal. When it did, the sand beneath it's feet started to transform and the great trees Sirius, The Great Spirit created in his wake all withered and died almost instantly, save for the few nearby the spirit himself.

Beatrice looked to Loke and smiled one last time. "Tell Lord Horus, thank you. For everything."

Before Loke could open his mouth, Beatrice stabbed the dagger into her heart and an explosion of light flew out of her stab wound. In the corners of Loke's eyes, they could see a massive figure of light appear, but he was too focused on Beatrice's corpse, now bleeding out in front of him with a smile on her face.

Old Loke lost it, and cried and wailed—not even paying attention to one of the hands of Mahika being cut off and falling right on top off him—

The Memory ended.

Fairy Tail and the others were back under the oasis in the desert.

"W-Wait!? It ends like that!?" Max shouted and pointed to Loke who only rubbed the bridge of his nose.

"I'm sorry. At that moment, my previous self died under the energy of the Mahika hand. When I was reborn in the Celestial World, The Celestial Spirit King informed me that he was summoned and tried to push back Mahika back into his world. Lord Horus was able to win against his battle with Arjuna by stabbing him in the heart and stealing his staff. Using the staff, Lord Horus closed the giant portal while the Earthen Spirits, The Celestial Spirit King, and the dragons all made sure that Mahika didn't put a second foot into this world. It was the first time that several factions of Earthland banded together against a common enemy." Loke was seen wiping his eyes. It seemed like that even though he wasn't there, he still retained the memories and the emotions of his predecessor. He must have felt the same heartache as if it was till fresh despite it being so long ago.

"But that doesn't explain some things!" Nab shouted then motioned to their friend. "What does this have to do with Éclair? Or why did that all happen!?"

"No one seemed to know how that happened." Loke looked to the flames as he said this. "The King told me no one knew how it came to that point in the first place, only that it was desperate enough for four different groups had to come together to stop it. I don't know what it has to do with Éclair either."

"Now that part I can answer better," Jeremiah pointed a finger up. "After that ferocious battle, Lord Horus destroyed the staff into three pieces and had the country's remnants scatter it across their land. Arjuna and his apostles had foreign unholy magic flowing through them, and instead of death, they were sealed away by their country's most elaborate magic that was capable of sealing someone's body up beyond the stars in the form of a comet, but that was reserved only for Arjuna while his followers were sealed elsewhere. The thing was though, every one hundred years a ceremony of dancing in the moonlight, along with the necklace of their fallen being that was sacrificed to open the portal, was used to renew the power to keep Arujna away from returning into his world."

Everyone in Fairy Tail soaked all of this information, though some still couldn't believe what they were hearing. Levy was the first to ask something else. "How do you know all of this?"

"Sir Horus told me the story once, secondly Lord Gomorah claimed that he was there during one of those century performances five hundred years ago." Everyone, especially Éclair waited as Jeremiah continued to speak. "While looking for a way to revive his loved ones, he heard rumors of your people' praying to a god of death—the Mahika—and thought it was possible to use it's power to take back his loved ones. Lord Gomorah was there when five hundred years ago, the ceremony meant to seal away Arjuna was interrupted by invaders. Lord Gomorah told me that he witnessed the main dancer with the necklace get stabbed through the heart, then a few moments later, have her necklace shine as bright as a star in the night sky and had her standing up with her wound completely gone. Lord Gomorah watched as the invaders ran right for her, while some of her people rescued her and stole her away from the attackers. It was at that moment that Gomorah found the power he was looking for and had spent his time searching for you since."

At that, Jeremiah breathed in deeply. "Miss Éclair, you are a five hundred year old woman, who couldn't complete the renewing sealing ceremony five hundred years ago, and because of that it gave you an immortal spell that put you in this state until it was fixed. The seal is impressive to last at least four more centuries without you, but even something as fantastic as that eventually had to break because of the mark Lord Gomorah made on your necklace."

The amnesiac couldn't quite believe what was being said, but at the same time, it did explain why her memory—while gone—felt vast for some reason. And as he explained certain events… she could feel as if they were indeed correct. She took out her necklace and looked at the pedant end with the cross mark atop of it.

"That is all I know about you, and the enemy you now all face."

After Jeremiah, a silence filled over the air as people hear nothing but the campfire crackling. There was a sigh and everyone looked over to Kain as he spoke up. "Alright. So what I basically got from that is that creepy guy is more than likely after his staff so he can re summon a dark god into this world. Which means we need to get our hands on the rest of his staff before he can to prevent it from happening. Another plus side is that I bet he's far weaker than in his form in the memory as he only summoned a few of those Centipedes when compared to all those numbers from before, and lastly: silver is the bastard's weakness. We need silver weapons to harm this dastard."

His words seemed to rile up Fairy Tail. It was true, they lacked an army of dragons, the power of a Great Earthen Spirit, the Celestial King Spirit, and an army of powerful mages, but at the same time, Arjuna had lost many of his advantages that made him such a threat in the first place. If they could get the staff pieces away from him, they might have a chance.

Kain looked over to Jeremiah. "Is that why you're here, Jeremiah? Where you looking for the staff pieces?"

The fresh zombie could only smile. "Are you sure you aren't a descendant of Gomorah, boy? You're strangely observant, but yes. After I left all of you, I began trying to search for clues in this country where the pieces of Arjuna's staff were located in hopes I could take away the items if the seal would weaken—which I wasn't expecting to be yesterday. The City of Vilish was indeed a place where the first part of the staff was, but I only got there yesterday. Other hints I've found state that there may be a piece of Arjuna's Staff in Baimum, the Principality of Veronica's Capital City, and somewhere hidden in it's royal castle. It was the first hint I've found, but for obvious reasons, I didn't want to check that place throughly."

"What about the third piece?" Momon raised his wing.

Jeremiah could only shake his head. "I found nothing on that one yet. I was hoping Vilish would hold clues for the third piece, but seeing as what Arjuna did to some of the city… but there might be another hint I can check elsewhere, but it's in the opposite direction of Baimum. I think it's in our best interests for me to go search for the third while you all search for the first part in Baimum."

Kain looked around, even though it sounded reasonable, everyone else seemed drained. There was much to take in, especially after what had happened.

"Okay, it's getting really late. We can all rest for now and decide more what to do later. Jeremiah, if it's not too much to ask, by any chance do you have some food?"

"Well I hunted a sand shark some time ago, I can go get it and your dragon slayer friend there can help me cut it."

And with that, everyone feel into silence.

Yet, many could feel as if this silence was simply the calm before the storm.

{Author Notes}

Now here we go. An Exposition Chapter, explaining what is going on what needs to be done this arc. Fairy Tail is now in a race to find the last two pieces of Arjuna's staff, or else they risk another coming of a dark god. Can this mismatched batch succeed where four main parties of Earthland almost did not?

… Oh who am I kidding, they're all screwed.

As you all can see, I've pretty much re-written the First Fairy Tail movie. There's also a lot of callbacks in this arc because I have been planning this arc for a while with the mind of it during previous arcs. It's sort of building atop what I've already made. Anyway, I just bought a new game, so uhh... I might take a tiny little... break? So if I suddenly and 'mysteriously' upload slower. It may be because of something else.

I even made a short to tell you all what currently distracts me now.

{Non Canon Extra: House Teacher}

"That does it!" Makarov slammed the papers into the bar counter. "You all are too damn unrestrained! Even Kain's having trouble filtering all the complaints!"

They all looked to the lawyer of the guild who was just glaring at all of them. It was half scary, and half 'I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed in you'. So no one wanted to look in the brunette's general direction.

Laxus walked in. "However, we do have some good news. Kain was able to get the entire guild off around sixty percent of our recent damage claims as long as we go through a recreational—"

"All of you are going to night school." Everyone snapped their head towards Kain who just interrupted Laxus. "I'm not sugarcoating it. We're having a specialized Teacher come over to the Guild and they will be teaching you mandatory classes on ethical and magical basics."

"What!?" "We have to go to school!?" "What do you think we are? Kids!?" Many of them cried out.

Kain stepped forward. "Oho?" They didn't like how they could almost see a vein on the young man's forehead. "Does this mean you all are going to be adults and pay for all the damages you guys did recently?!"

Silence was his only response.

Kain put a hand on his head before he noticed the dragon slayers all look towards the door. The lawyer seemed to take that as a cue to start walking to it. "Alright everyone, the teacher is here. You all better behave!"

The lawyer opened up the door to meet the person. "Hello! Thank you for coming all the way here in Magnolia. I head that the Officer Academy and Church of Serios might be different than what you expect of this guild." He turned around and gestured to the door.

"Everyone, please greet your new teacher! Mr...?"

"Byleth." The green haired man with a blank stare wearing mercenary like clothing walked into the guild. "Now, I know it's our first night, but I was told that we must begin classes immediately."

{Author Notes}

So yeah, I got my hands on Fire Emblem Three houses (AKA Medieval Teacher Simulator/AKA Teacher X Student Romance Simulator/AKA Medieval-High School Waifu-Husbando Simulator.) So while I try to get my Waifu of this game, I'm just going to leave you all with this little what if tidbit.

Thanks for reading, see ya guys soon!