Endeavor was not faring well at all with these shadows. He had a feeling that the fairies were taking out all their annoyance on Hawks and he couldn't help but think it was justified. Like everyone else, he also didn't believe any of the fairies' words of caution. He had heard how the scarlet haired woman sent the villain back to authorities with a scowl and a warning. No one would have thought that his plant minions could be summoned at such large quantities, nor the fact he had control over shadows as well.
It didn't help that these shadows also messed with his and the other heroes' shadows. Once any of the heroes made the shadows seep into the floor and more shadows went to attack them, the shadows on the ground would grab onto the heroes' shadows and try to pull them to the ground or put them off balance. Mirko had arrived a little after Hawks had left and she wasn't faring any better. The shadows pulled down on her own before she could jump into the air for some arial advantage.
But just before the shadows and plants could fully bring down the tired heroes, a heavy aura began to grow closer to the chaos. Upon feeling the strong energy, the villains looked around to see where the power was coming from. Azazel, recognizing the presence well, gnashed his teeth while groaning, summoning his plants to come closer to his protection as he looked around for the mages he should be worried about. When Endeavor, Kamui Woods, Mt. Lady, Ryukyu and Mirko looked up, their eyes just widened.
Flying above them was Wendy with spirals of wind forming around her and Carla. The white exceed knew what her dragon slayer was going to do and immediately raised the young girl higher while she just smirked. Bringing her hands back, wind began to form from her fingertips and swung them forward, casting her spell. "Sky Dragon's... Wave Wind!"
Strong winds collided with the ground and the villains, the plant minions and heroes can feel themselves being pulled off the ground while the shadows were forced to let go of the humans. Both heroes and villains cried as they could feel their stomachs churn uncomfortably as they spun around in the large tornado. The wind wasn't strong enough to destroy any buildings, but it certainly broke off any signs and billboards close to it. And when the tornado dispersed, the heroes were separated from the villains.
Regaining their composure, the heroes used their quirks to back away from the villains and stay away from the shadows. Endeavor, thanks to the tornado, was now cool enough to use his fire to fly again. Kamui Woods used his wood to pull him and Mt. Lady to a nearby building's roof. Ryukyu transformed into her dragon form and brought her and Mirko to another building adjacent to the one that Kamui and Mt. Lady stood. All of them staring at the young girl that had stalled the villains' havoc.
"Gray! It's your turn!" Carla cried as she flew herself and Wendy back to give the ice mage space.
The heroes turned to face where Wendy and Carla looked to and Endeavor was shocked to see the man who possessed ice powers, like his wife, look so much different and so much darker than the last he had seen him. He was holding onto the hands of the scarlet haired woman, who was also flying in the air, with his hair was slicked back and half of his torso and face was covered in some sort of black ink. He watched as the raven haired man took a deep breath and staring down at the falling villains and many planet minions.
"Ice Devil's Rage!"
A large beam of cold air, ice and snow left Gray's mouth and the freezing temperature of the spell left cold chills down the heroes' spines. Dabi had used his fire to blast a protective fire barrier between him, Toga and Twice's body as the spell ran by and froze the plant minions into thick forms of ice. Even while passing by, Dabi's fire froze into a thin layer of ice but at least he and the other two villains were okay. Azazel had long since landed and was safe from the ice but he groaned upon watching his plants freeze.
"Natsu! Go now!" Erza commanded.
"Heh! This is all I gotta burn!? This is nothing! Lemme show you how it's done!" The pink headed dragon slayer declared while licking his lips, he and Happy flying at a much higher height than Carla and Wendy. "Lemme go, little buddy!"
"Aye sir!" The blue exceed cheered as he let go of Natsu.
The pink headed man's body was then completely surrounded in flames and lightning, the heroes' eyes widening except Endeavor. When Natsu met eye contact with Azazel, he couldn't hold back his smirk and pulled back his arms to attack - his left hand surrounded in lightning and his right hand surrounded in flames. Azazel knew that Natsu's power was troublesome and already prepared to protect himself at the right timing. He was just having fun, he wasn't going to let the fairies ruin it for him so easily.
"Watch how a real fire dragon does things!" Natsu cried as he brought his arms forward. "Lightning Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame!"
Fire and lightning mixed together and the heroes watched in utter shock of the sheer power of Natsu's attack. The spell causing a bright light to engulf their vision as sizzling could be heard down below. When the light died down, Natsu landed on his feet with ease. Erza set Gray down on the ground before landing herself. Carla setting down Wendy and Happy joining the group next to Carla. The shadows had been completely destroyed and all that was left on the street were two large plant buds.
Realizing that Azazel was not as big of a threat as Hawks made it out to be, Wendy dismissed her Dragon Force and Natsu dispersed his lightning. Once the leftover lightning left the area, the two plant buds withered and revealed that it had protected Azazel in one and protected the other three villains in the other. However, that did not mean that the buds had fully protected them. Smoke rose from the three villains' clothes and hair while the lightning and fire had burnt off a bit of Azazel's mask and beanie.
He was breathing heavily now, angered that not only were his plant minions gone, his shadows had been completely obliterated. "Damn fairies... You just had to go and ruin my fun. Again."
Erza stepped forth and raised her sword pointed toward the mage. "You should be grateful that we even allowed you to have as much time as you did." She said calmly.
Hawks soon arrived, seeing that the shadows and plant minions were all gone and the other five heroes away from the four villains. His eyes were wide with shock at how quickly that was. Neither he or the other pros could get rid of the shadows like the fairies just had. Locking eyes with Endeavor, the first and second top heroes went to join Kamui and Mt. Lady on the building they stood on. The four other heroes analyzing the fairies in awe.
"I gotta say, I was hoping for more of a challenge!" Gray taunted, cracking his knuckles. "That bird guy really made it sound like you were a tough one."
"Yeah and who are those three over there? They don't look anything like your posse from back home." Natsu added, pointing at the three villains who made their way to Azazel.
Said mage scoffed and narrowed his eyes, not liking how he knew he would have to use a ton of magic power just to keep up with Team Natsu. Especially with the lack of ethernano in the air, he was not ready for another throw down with the Titania. Taking in the faces of the fairies, Azazel noticed something. "Where's your other friend? The blonde cheerleader looking girl?"
"Why do you care?" Natsu asked darkly.
"She's the one who has the book and is the one who can open the portal." Azazel pointed out. "Once I kill all of you, I'll get her to bring my gang here before tearing her to shreds!"
"Over our dead bodies!" Erza cried, tightening her hold on her sword when she saw Azazel summon his vines to attack.
In a swift motion, she jumped in the air as the vines were about to come into contact with her body and requipped into her Japanese Cloth armor, slicing the vines to shreds before dashing straight to Azazel. Dabi, Toga and Twice took this as their chance to contact Kurogiri so they could escape but were blocked when Natsu, Gray and Wendy surrounded them before they could go anywhere. The three mages smirked and Wendy jumped into the air to cast a Sky Dragon's Wing Attack.
Dabi immediately went to use his fire to try and repel her air but before he could, Natsu began slurping up the blue flames like a vacuum and eating it all up quickly. The scarred man stared at the pink headed slayer with wide eyes before he and his comrades got caught in Wendy's attack and got blown away to a nearby wall. Once Natsu was done chewing his food, he let out a burp and satisfied sigh while rubbing his belly, fire surrounding his fists again.
"Oh yeah, that fire is waaaaay better tasting than the other guy's." Natsu noted, earning an eye roll from Gray.
"Of course, you'd fill up your appetite than beating up the bad guy. That's so like you." Gray said in a disappointed fashion, shaking his head which made the dragon slayer angry.
"The hell you said, Ice Princess!? I'd like to see you do one better!"
"Oh yeah? Just watch me! Unlike your sorry ass, I'll freeze them in one cold shot!"
Using his Devil Slaying magic, the raven headed mage created a large bow of pure ice in one hand and created another ice arrow in the other hand. Pulling back the arrow, Gray aimed straight for the three villains as they slowly recovered from their hard collision with the building behind them. Twice was the first to notice Gray's actions and he began to shake Dabi awake for dear life. Just as Gray released the powerful arrow, Dabi recomposed himself and immediately used his fire to make a wall, a black portal appearing beneath them.
The pro heroes watched speechless as Gray's attack pierced the building wall and the arrow soon becoming a spiky array of ice. The villains also completely gone from sight. "Holy crap..." Mirko said in astonishment.
"Just what kind of quirks do they have?" Mt. Lady added breathless.
'Even that young girl is more powerful than even Uravity and Froppy.' Ryukyu thought, recalling her two interns.
Their eyes then turned away from Natsu and Gray's argument (Wendy, Happy and Carla were trying to get them to calm down before they broke property) and looked to how Erza was faring against Azazel. To their surprise, though it really shouldn't be anymore, Erza was slicing both shadow and plant that Azazel threw at her without much struggle. She jumped over the vines he summoned and then went above his head, only for him to block with a shadow that she sliced easily.
Dodging another one of her attacks, Azazel summoned a cluster of shadows aimed straight for the scarlet haired mage. But Erza only smirked, transforming into her Morning Star armor and using her twin swords to release a blast of light onto the silhouettes. They fizzed away and she instantly changed into her Flight armor and dashed behind him, sending a powerful kick to his back that sent him to the middle of the road closer to Natsu, Gray, Wendy, Happy and Carla.
Realizing that the three villains escaped, Azazel cursed under his breath and dodged another swing from Erza's sword. Jumping far enough so that he could have time to kneel down and slam his hands on the ground beneath him. "Damn you fairies... you're gonna pay for that! So pay up with this!"
In his fury, Azazel brought forth hundreds of shadows and plant minions all at once. All of them heading straight for the fairies, some even aiming for the pro heroes on their respective rooftops. The heroes resumed their struggle with the plants and the shadows once again, quickly looking to see if the fairies were doing anything, only to see them calm as if there was nothing to fear. Which was completely understandable with what came next.
As if right on cue, a bright light shone from above and many streams of light came in contact with shadows, destroying them. This blinded Azazel, who had looked up directly at the light while everyone else covered their eyes for protection. Once the shadows were gone, so was the light and the fairies and heroes quickly destroyed the plant minions before looking up to see a large hole in the sky. It overlapped with one of the taller buildings on the street and standing atop its roof waving was Lucy in her Sagittarius Star Dress.
"Hey guys! Did you wait long enough!?" Lucy shouted loudly so they could hear her.
The six fairies just smirked or smiled back at her and gave her a thumbs up. "Nah Luce! You're just in time! Glad to see that your plan worked out!"
The pro heroes immediately went down to the ground and would have went to subdue the blinded villain if it weren't for the protesting yell that came from his way. When the fairies and heroes turned to where Azazel stood, he was already on his knees as a white headed woman in a maroon dress put some strange bulky cuffs on him - much to Azazel's displeasure. The fairies looked relieved and didn't seem to mind her while the pros couldn't stand by with a woman like herself dealing with such a nasty villain.
"Ma'am please, let us handle this villain." Hawks said.
Mira looked at the Winged Hero while she continued locking the cuffs properly and shook her head with an innocent smile. "Oh don't worry, I heard he's been more than enough trouble for you guys here. I can handle him."
Azazel only scoffed and rolled his eyes. "Of course Fairy Tail would make a woman such as yourself do their dirty work." He said distastefully. "It's another reason why they're weak."
At his words, the Takeover mage smile twitched and a dark aura (similar to that of Erza's) began to surround her body. The pro heroes stared at Mira in shock as her body was surrounded in light and they watched her transform into a terrifying version of herself. "Disrespect Fairy Tail again and I will not hesitate to destroy you and the rest of your gang."
That threat not only shut Azazel up, but it also rendered the heroes speechless yet again. Recognizing the name Fairy Tail, the six quirk users only let out an exasperated sigh. 'Just what kind of people are in Fairy Tail?'
While the pros watched as Mira knocked Azazel out, they and Team Natsu turned to hear voices calling out to them from down the street. Turning their heads, they saw Midoriya followed by Bakugo, Todoroki, Kirishima, Iida, Uraraka and Yaoyorozu. Lucy had come down from her position atop the building thanks to Happy and somehow she got the portal to follow her. Once she met up with the rest of Team Natsu, the portal floated above them and was probably six feet higher from Natsu's head.
The seven students skidded to a stop upon seeing Mira throwing Azazel over her shoulder while still in her Satan Soul takeover. They were afraid at first and thought she was a villain from Earthland but was shellshocked to see the white haired woman call out to Team Natsu in such a casual manner. "Erza, the Rune Knights are waiting for him."
The scarlet haired woman nodded in acknowledgement as Mira sprouted wings from her back. "You go on ahead, Mira. We'll be follow you once we settle things here."
Mira hummed in response before lifting herself off the ground. "Alright then, but please hurry. Master has been worried sick about you guys for some time now."
"When does Gramps not worry?" Natsu asked like a little kid after Mira disappeared through the portal.
"Not since losing his hair because of all the destruction you cause, Flame Brain." Gray retorted sarcastically.
"Oh you're really asking for it now, Ice Princess!"
Before Erza could interfere and stop Gray and Natsu from causing any more destruction, a booming voice came from the portal and an elongated arm and enlarged fist hit both the pinkette and raven headed mages heads. The heroes and hero students just looked up at the hole to see the silhouette of a large head and angered eyes that looked like Bakugo's whenever he was yelling. The female fairies and Happy seemed calm but Natsu and Gray immediately froze up upon meeting eye contact with the person.
"Natsu Dragneel! Gray Fullbuster! Do you have any idea how worried the guild has been since finding out you kids went missing!?" Makarov scolded in a deep booming voice. "It's amazing that I even still have hair left on my head!"
The six pro heroes shivered at the man's voice, much like Natsu and Gray were, but turned dumbfounded when Wendy and Lucy greeted the silhouette with a kind smile. "Master, I know you're stressed but it was accident! Don't be too harsh on them!" Wendy pleaded, which softened the harsh look on their guild master's face.
'That's their master!?' Hawks and Endeavor thought in disbelief.
After the guild master relaxed, a soft glow surrounded his silhouette and his large face began to shrink until he was about the same height as Happy and Carla. The pros getting a good look at the calm face of someone they would have assumed to be a kind grandfather they'd have likely seen walking down the street of a quiet neighbourhood. He seemed to be a completely different person compared to the image he had given himself just moments ago.
"Heh don't believe what the old man is saying, Salamander." A gruff voice spoke. If the pros didn't know any better (which they should by now considering all that had happened), they would have thought that the black headed man full of piercing before them was another villain if it weren't for the fairies' unbothered expressions. "I, for one, was glad you lot were gone a few days."
"Nice to see you too, Gajeel." Erza replied to the iron dragon slayer.
"What'd you say Iron Face!? You trying to pick a fight!? Well come at me?" Natsu demanded as he lit his fist on fire again.
"GRAY-SAMAAAAAA~!" A crying voice screeched from beyond the portal. A blue haired girl appeared next to Gajeel and everyone sweatdropped upon seeing a large and dark rain cloud looming above her and soaking her clothes. "How could you leave Juvia here all by herself!? If you were planning on taking a vacation, you should've brought me along with you!"
"Juvia for Mavis' sake stop making it rain in the guild hall!" Gray panicked as he watched the girl starting to melt into her water form.
"You know Big Sis Lucy, when we opened the gate and briefly met your guildmates back at the school... they didn't seem this... uh..."
"Chaotic?" Uraraka asked, finishing Midoriya's sentence.
"Yeah! Chaotic!"
Lucy laughed and dismissed her Sagittarius Star Dress. "We were in a rush, Izuku. I promise to introduce you guys properly next time."
"That's it, Metal Head! You're gonna get it!" Natsu declared as he turned to Happy. "Happy! Let's go!"
"Aye sir!"
At that moment, the blue exceed carried the fire dragon slayer through the portal in record time. The next to go was Wendy, running right behind the former duo as Carla also carried her through the portal. Erza and Gray facepalmed and said a quick goodbye to the seven 1-A students before the scarlet haired woman brought Gray and herself through the portal. Leaving only Lucy, the students and the six pro heroes on the street. The blonde girl sighed and rolled her eyes at her team's short attention span.
"How do you stand them again?" Bakugo asked with an annoyed tone.
The celestial mage laughed sheepishly as they could all hear the amount of destruction going on in the guild hall. "Hey, don't forget we're the strongest guild out there. If you can't even hold your own against that rogue mage, then good luck dealing with any one of our members."
"Okay! All other things aside, can you explain what the heck is going on here!?" Endeavor asked while Hawks just whistled nonchalantly behind him. "I think we'd all like to know why there are U.A students here and why there is a hole in the sky!"
Lucy, upon hearing the Flame Hero's voice, smirked and turned to him with a Natsu-like look in her eye. She then placed her hands on her hips and leaned slightly so that most of her weight was on her right side. The heroes, besides Endeavor and Hawks, hadn't met the rumoured 'secret quirk users' until now so they were obviously taken aback at the sheer power they all had, just as everyone else who had seen and met them in the past few days.
"I think it's only fair that I receive an apology on my team's behalf before explaining anything." She stated with a very serious tone, causing the heroes (except Hawks) to choke on their spit (the 1-A students have already seen enough to be immune to Lucy's boldness).
"E-Excuse me?" Mt. Lady cried dumbfoundedly. "You want us to what!?"
"Luckily, she doesn't mean all of us but..."
As Hawks' voice trailed off, his head turned to look at Endeavor while the rest of the heroes followed his gaze. The Flame Hero already knew from the moment Lucy requested an apology that she was talking to him. Once he was informed that Aizawa had successfully retrieved Azazel from Erza the day before, her message had also been passed down. Everyone in his agency tried to reassure him that it was an empty threat, that the villain wouldn't escape, but he couldn't help but keep the warning in mind. And look what happened.
To everyone's surprise, Endeavor stood up straight like a soldier and bowed at a ninety degree angle to Lucy, his eyes closed and his head to the ground in shame. He is the number one hero now and he made it a goal to act like it. He had no excuses and also made a note to himself to tell the Hero Public Safety Commission as well. Along with the amount of destruction that was caused by the villains, Natsu, Gray and Wendy, a long discussion was definitely in order.
"Please. Forgive me and the authorities for not taking your warnings seriously or carefully." He apologized with sincerity laced with his words (even Todoroki couldn't help but look at his father with shocked eyes). "There are no excuses. Without you and your team's help, a lot more people would've gotten hurt."
After a few moments of silence and a few dropped mouths, Lucy relaxed from her stern expression and smiled in satisfactory. "Thank you and I, too, would like to apologize."
"Apologize for what, Lucy?" Kirishima asked.
The celestial mage sweatdropped and gestured to the destruction behind her. Fire hydrants had been pulled out from their place, creating a makeshift fountain gush from the ground. Surrounding buildings were missing walls and shop windows were completely shattered. Traffic lights had been completely ripped of their wiring and the poles that they had been attached to were wrecked to beyond fixing. Not to mention to ridiculous amount of scorched pavement and the frozen geyser of ice on a brick wall.
"I can just look at the destruction and know that this was all thanks to Natsu and Gray. And I can only guess that Wendy went a little overboard on her Dragon Force amongst other things."
"Dragon Force?" Ryukyu asked. "Is that the young child's quirk? I thought she was a healer."
Lucy sighed, hating to explain everything for what seemed like the hundredth time since she had come to this world. However, before she could open her mouth, an incoming laugh from a certain card mage reached her ears and her reflexes kicked in. "Watch out for the booze!"
Almost instantly, she pushed the seven hero students away from the portal while a huge barrel that was just shooting alcohol from a hole at the top fell out of the portal at a rapid speed. Once it collided with the ground, the booze having spilt all over the ground, the 1-A students immediately got dizzy at its strong smell and the pro heroes looked up at the portal to see a drunk girl clad in a bikini top stick her head out while drinking from a flask.
"Aww man... there goes my twentieth barrel..." Cana whined in slurish speech, making the heroes drop their jaws again. "Hey Lucy! Hurry it up already! You know we can't hold up the portal forever~!"
Once the brunette mage disappeared, Bakugo looked at Lucy with a need for explanation at who was that and why was she drinking such strong alcohol from barrels rather than bottles, her twentieth barrel for that matter. "Believe it or not, Cana is a very strong mage and twenty barrels is nothing in comparison to what I've seen in the many years I've known her."
"Your master seriously allows his members to behave and act in such a manner!?" Iida exclaimed.
"Master is actually worse. Cana hasn't drunnk to the point of drunkness even during drinking competitions. I've only seen her drunk once when she went up against this other super heavy drinker..."
"Okay seriously! Can someone explain now!? We're kinda being left in the dark y'know!" Mt. Lady complained. "What the hell is that thing up there? Who were those people just now and what do you mean that your master is worse at drinking?"
'Was the last question really necessary?' The other pros wondered.
Lucy just laughed as she looked at the portal. It was slowly becoming smaller and she knew that the magic energy keeping it open was surely running out - she wouldn't have time to explain everything. Instead, she turned away from the pros and towards the seven students next to her. She brought them all into one big group hug, much to Bakugo's displeasure since he was being squished in between the damn nerd and half n' half bastard (but he wouldn't dare complain in Lucy's face).
Once the hug was over, Lucy unwinded her whip from its hook on her waist and extended it out. "I'll leave it to you guys to explain the whole portal thing to these guys. The portal's closing so I need to get back now."
"So soon?" Yaoyorozu asked with a disappointed tone to which the blonde just nodded.
"Aw man... we were kinda hoping you guys could stick around for a little longer before you had to go." Kirishima added sheepishly, scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah... and it's going feel a little empty in the dorms now since you guys are gone." Uraraka noted.
"Sorry I couldn't have stuck around to say goodbye to everyone else, but hey I'll come to visit whenever I can - celestial mage's honour!" She reassured as she turned to look to her two childhood brothers. "As for the two of you..."
"You don't have to worry about us." The ash blonde boy cut in with a scoff as he crossed his arms. "I'll make sure the nerd doesn't do anything too stupid before we go to your world."
"Kacchan..." The greenette said while sweatdropping. "He's right though. We'll keep training hard until you open the portal again and we can go visit your guild!"
The celestial mage gave a firm nod of pride to her two childhood brothers and pulled out a medium sized pouch from her back pocket. "Here, give this to Aizawa for me." She said handing the bag to Iida. "I found out that these are worth something here so tell him to use it however way he'd like - a thanks for allowing us to stay in your dorms."
"I'll relay the message to him without fail." The navy headed boy replied.
"We shall await yours, and your team's, return Heartfilia." Todoroki added.
"Thanks." She said as she pulled her arm back and threw it in the direction of the portal, able to wrap around a nearby pillar. "I expect to hear good news once I come back! See you guys!"
Tugging on her whip, Lucy held tightly on its handle as someone pulled her back effortlessly through the portal. Once she was through, the hole closed almost instantly and just like that, was gone. The 1-A students just stared where the portal was for a bit, kinda sad that the rowdy team of fairies was gone. But they knew they would see them soon and knowing them, it would be a very unexpected and very loud reunion for both their class and the fairies.
Midoriya was the first to snap out of it and turned to face the pros who kind of just stood in their place awkwardly. It would take awhile before authorities and such came to the scene since the heroes had to report that the threat had been cleared but the problem was explaining where Team Natsu and Azazel went. After everything that has happened, Endeavor realized that revealing the truth about magic - if it was too much for the other pros with him to understand, there was no way for the public to understand it either.
Only Class 1-A knew of the fairies' existence and knew about their world along with the U.A staff, anyone else just believed that the mages were an elite and secret group so it would probably be best for people to keep believing that. It was a good thing that they had Lucy explain everything in order for them to understand but there was no way they would be able to explain and reassure the public of magic without someone of her intelligence.
"Care to explain how that thing got here?" Hawks spoke up, breaking the silence. "I left a little before you guys did everything so..."
"Oh right!" Uraraka said as the rest of the seven students snapped out of it. "Our bad! So here's what happened..."
"Wait wait wait! Lemme say this in unscientific and non-magical terms for a second!" Kaminari said as Lucy had everyone from Class 1-A form a circle in front of U.A's front gates.
After Hawks and the two representatives from the Hero Public Safety Commission left shortly after all of Team Natsu dashed to the battlefield, Lucy reassured the U.A staff present that she didn't need anybody else other than all of Class 1-A to help her with her part of the plan and had all twenty students follow her out the gates for more room. Unfortunately for a lot of said students, the celestial mage's explanation on what they were to do flew over their heads with the amount of unknown terminology she spouted.
"You want us, to join hands with you, and somehow send the energy waves or whatever, that come from our quirks, to you!?"
The celestial mage simply nodded her head while her face made it seem like all that made the most sense in the world. "That's kind of an easier way to explain it, yeah. Do you guys need a moment to gather your strength for you quirks or...?"
"How would that even work? Like some of our quirks aren't really like that you know?" Sato asked, referring to the students with mutated quirks.
As if a bell went off in Lucy's head, her expression brightened upon seeing the confusion. She was lucky that for this portion of the plan, Lucy had Principal Nezu's help to figure out how to generate enough magic power in addition to her own to open a long lasting portal without making her pass out. Before All Might had come to get Team Natsu, the fairies had decided that when Azazel escapes, everyone would go subdue him while Lucy tried to open the portal and meet them where the fight would be.
Standing up, the celestial mage brought out Gemini's key and had a reassuring smile on her face. "Actually, you won't be holding hands with 'me' personally." She stated as a glow came from her golden key. "I'm going to spread my magic to each one of you and you're basically going to use the strength from your quirks to make it stronger."
Once Gemini passed through their gate, they immediately transformed into a copy of Lucy. Unfortunately for the blonde, that copy was still of her in just a towel. While the girls didn't seem all that startled, there were mixed reactions from the boys. Many covered their eyes or turned around as blushed dusted their cheeks while there was Kaminari (who had a nosebleed) and Mineta (who was ready to jump on the barely naked celestial spirit whilst drooling). Of course, Gemini only punched his head hard into the ground.
"Miss. Lucy! We're ready when you and everyone is!" They said with an innocent smile.
"FORGET HELPING FOR A SECOND AND PUT ON SOME APPROPRIATE CLOTHES ALREADY!" The blonde mage cried.
After that was all dealt with, Lucy changed into her Gemini Star Dress and had everyone form a circle around her while being connected to Gemini. When Lucy nodded at her carbon copy, the celestial spirit nodded in return before taking a deep breath a closed their eyes. A golden glow surrounded their body. It shined like a soft lamp light and slowly, it began to spread to the rest of the 1-A students as it surrounded each and every one of their bodies like a protective body suit.
Still confused on what to do next, Midoriya looked to Lucy with a raised eyebrow to ask on behalf of the class. "So what now, Big Sis?"
Satisfied that Gemini's magic was able to spread to everyone, Lucy turned to the greenette. "Think of it like you're meditating standing up." She instructed. "Close your eyes, take a deep breath and feel your blood and energy circulate through your body. Then send that energy out. It wouldn't increase my magic much if it was just a few of you but with all of you, it should make Gemini's magic grow."
The twenty students nodded and did as they were told. They focused on their breathing and immersed themselves in feeling the energy that radiated off the magic power that surrounded them. Lucy and Gemini watched as the waves of magic grew centimetre by centimetre from the students' bodies and knew that the hypothesis created from Lucy and Nezu's assumptions was working. So Lucy got into her stance and waited for Gemini to send the magic power her way.
Summoning her own aura, Lucy began to chant the rewritten spell she made with Nezu to open a portal to, hopefully, Earthland and more importantly, Fairy Tail. Gemini then started collecting the magic spread to all of Class 1-A and send it towards Lucy for her to absorb. The teens began to feel the strong energy leave their bodies and they opened their eyes to see Lucy absorbing the magic and a large magic circle the size of their own circle forming underneath her.
A couple of meters away, a few of the U.A teachers: Aizawa, All Might, Present Mic, Snipe, Midnight and Nezu, were all watching in awe as the celestial mage's hair began to float in the air as she raised her hands above her and a large circle began to form a couple feet above her and the students. No matter how many times they see magic in action, Aizawa had shown the rest of the staff his students' little spar with Natsu, Lucy and Wendy, it was still breathtaking to see.
"Absolutely amazing..." Aizawa murmured.
Class 1-A broke their hand held circle and joined at Gemini's side behind Lucy as the portal grew bigger and bigger, as big as the magic circle beneath Lucy's feet. They couldn't see anything beyond it yet but they could all feel the air thicken as Lucy almost finished chanting the spell. They all watched, holding their breath while hoping that the spell was successful, as the portal stopped growing and the blonde celestial mage opened her eyes and spread her arms apart once she was done chanting.
Gemini took that as a sign to return to the celestial world and everyone gasped as a ripple spread out from the portal and the light began to fade away. Slowly, Lucy's unsure expression to one of relief as she could see the familiar ceiling of Fairy Tail on the other side of the portal. The spell had worked and her magic power wasn't totally drained! She could feel the ethernano from the other side leaking through the portal and her body began taking in as much as possible.
Bakugo and Midoriya stepped up since Lucy hadn't moved an inch since she finished her spell or after the magic circle faded away. They were about to say something, but then Lucy dismissed her Star Dress and used her hands to cup the sides of her mouth. "Levy! Mira!" She called in a loud voice. "Can you guys hear me!? It's Lucy!"
No one replied at first and many thought the spell hadn't worked but then, a petite woman with blue hair pulled back by an orange headband poked her head through the portal. She had a skeptical look on her face but then it changed to a large smile upon laying eyes on the celestial mage. "Lu! It is you! Thank Mavis you're alright!"
"Levy!"
"Hold on!? Lucy's actually down there?" Another voice asked a white headed woman peaked though the portal. "Oh my! Lucy! You had everyone in the guild worried!"
"I'm glad to see you too, Mira!"
As Mineta and Kaminari drooled over Levy and Mira's looks, their spines soon shuddered when a white headed man, who was more bulky than Hound Dog, Endeavor or even All Might in his muscle form, appeared behind the two females. "Surviving in some unknown place like that is a very manly thing to do, Lucy!"
"Oh that guy knows what's up!" Kirishima said at Elfmen's wording while Lucy and many of the 1-A students sweatdropped.
Meanwhile, Midoriya was losing all sanity in his head at the sound of the Takeover mage's voice. 'His voice sounds like All Might... HOLY HE SOUNDS LIKE ALL MIGHT! HE-'
More and more guild members began to peak through the large portal and the U.A teachers had moved so that they stood behind their students. Lucy was greeted and she greeted back each of her guildmates that expressed their concern and relief about her disappearance. The students and teachers, on the other hand, took in the appearances of each individual member of Lucy's guild and couldn't help that they just looked like regular residents for the most part.
"Say Lucy." Romeo asked after everyone was done greeting her. "Why are you with a bunch of kids? Where are Natsu and the others?"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING 'KIDS' WHEN YOU ARE ONE, DAMN EXTRA!" Bakugo immediately yelled at Romeo's question. "YOU'RE LOOKING AT A FUTURE PRO HERO, BASTARD!"
"Whoa, he definitely sounds like Natsu if you ask me." Max commented, which only made Lucy sweatdrop. "But seriously though, where is this place and where are the others?"
"I'll explain the finer details when we go back. But first we need to get Natsu and the others." The blonde said. "They're dealing with the rogue mage that was sadly transported with us to this world."
"Hold on!? Another world!?" Laxus asked as the fairies' eyes widened.
"I said I'll explain later! But first!" Lucy threw the time space book to Levy, which she was able to get thanks to Gajeel catching it. "There's a page I bookmarked on there. It should help with the moving of this portal to where Natsu and the others are."
"Got it!" The bluenette replied.
"...And that's about all that happened before we caught up to you guys." Midoriya finished.
"Heartfilia basically had Midoriya carry her since avoiding Bakugo's explosions wouldn't have been ideal for her." Todoroki continued. "Iida carried her the later half of the way once Midoriya started feeling tired."
"You should've left out the bit about my explosions, Half 'n Half!" Bakugo shouted.
"Oh and as soon as we got close enough, Heartfilia used her whip to fling herself to a building while the portal followed her!" Yaoyorozu added. "It looked like seeing a scene from those old superhero mangas my grandparents had in their attic."
"We hope that you guys don't mind keeping this all a secret though." Kirishima spoke up. "Those guys didn't want any of all this crazy magic stuff to get out in the first place anyway and it would be too hard to explain anyway."
The pros turned to one another and gave each other knowing smiles. Mirko, who was at the forefront of the heroes, then turned to the students and nodded to their request. After all, the entire incident was partially their fault as well for being unable to subdue the villain if it weren't for the fairies' help. Once that had been taken care of, the heroes suggested that the seven students leave quickly since the sound of sirens was coming closer to which the seven teens complied.
Uraraka used her quirk on herself, Yaoyorozu and Kirishima, the three of them grabbing onto either Iida, Midoriya or Todoroki so that they could all speed back to the dorms without getting caught by the media. When they did come back, their entire class, Aizawa and All Might stood at dorms front doors waiting for them. They were a little sad to hear that Team Natsu had left after the battle but they knew they would come back soon. They were just glad that the villain would be in proper hands from now on.
While everyone celebrated inside for dinner, along with Aizawa and All Might, Iida gave Aizawa the pouch Lucy had given him before her departure after he finished his food. He informed the black headed teacher that he did not know what was in the pouch except that it definitely held some weight. Aizawa opened the pouch and his eyes widened as his mouth hung open. Curious, All Might and Iida peeked from behind the hero's shoulder and even they couldn't believe what they saw.
In the pouch were several gold coins and some small jewels that sparkled like the stars and a note squished to the side. Apparently, Lucy had Virgo find a gift to pay Aizawa for the trouble he had to put up with taking in the group of fairies and apparently, the celestial spirit had come back with gold coins and jewels from the Celestial Spirit World. Before All Might or Iida could regain their composure, Aizawa slammed his free hand on the table in a rush and quickly held the pouch tightly with care.
The rest of Class 1-A turned to see what was up only to see All Might and Iida's mouths open and Aizawa glaring at his students. "If any one of you try to take away this precious gift, there will be detention and a crude workout in your future." He warned.
None of them particularly cared about what was in the bag (Iida wisely chose not to say anything about its contents for his own life's sake) but when they had asked Present Mic why Aizawa seemed so cheerful lately, they found out about the treasure and was even more dumbfounded to hear that when the rest of the U.A staff tried to take even just one gold coin, Aizawa had immediately tied them up with his scarf and wouldn't let them go until he left the room WITH the bag in hand.
"Said something about how he's finally getting the pay he deserved." Present Mic added whilst sweatdropping.
The twenty students couldn't help but just keep their thoughts to themselves. 'Yep... that sounds like sensei.'
A couple of months had passed since the Team Natsu had left U.A and the Quirk Society all together. In that time, Midoriya had manifested a new quirk from One for All and Bakugo had finally received his Provisional Hero License. Both he and Midoriya had been hoping Lucy would have come to check on them in that time, but no portal had ever shown up. They wondered if it was because it was hard to find their universe. If they were one universe, there were probably a lot more out there as well.
Nevertheless, both boys and the rest of the class worked hard for when the group of fairies come back. They didn't know when the whole implementing 'Work Studies at Fairy Tail' would be or how communication would even work, but none of them wanted to miss the chance to visit the other world beyond their own. If anything, the entire class hoped that their next summer training camp (if they have another summer training camp) would be in Earthland since it would be more of a hands on training than anything else.
So after the New Year, while everyone was thinking about where to go for their next work studies, they didn't expect to be blinded by a a flash of light mid P.E class. Everyone had stopped what they were doing to shield their eyes but as quickly as the light came, it vanished and in its place was a large hole in the middle of the track field with three women and two men standing in front of it, scanning the area. When the group of five took in the climate, they shivered in distaste.
"Is it just me or... is it kind of cold out here?" The first woman asked with a slurish voice.
"No... of course not." One of the men replied with sarcasm in his tone. "It's not like there's snowflakes falling from the sky."
"Now now, the climate patterns in this place is probably different than back home." The second woman said, an extremely large duffel bag hanging off her shoulder.
"Forget the climate, where's Blondie's brat anyway?" The second man asked, taking in the appearances of each and every one of the student's appearances.
"I don't see anyone who could resemble Love Rival here." The final woman noted.
"Oi! Which one of you kids are related to Bunny Girl!? We know it's gotta be one of ya, we recognize some of your faces from last time!"
Aizawa had his students gather behind him, worried that these strangers before him were villains but when he realized that they didn't seem to be there by evil means, he slightly relaxed. But that didn't mean that he was going to let his guard down, the same went for his students. When no one said anything since they didn't recognize the five strangers, the three girls chuckled when they let the second man's question settle in.
"What heavy metal over there means is, you're the brats that Lucy and the others stayed with a couple months back right?" Cana asked, waving her bottle of beer around.
Upon hearing the celestial mage's name, the quirk users all relaxed and brightened immediately and finally took notice of the Fairy Tail mark on Gajeel's left shoulder and on Juvia's pin. "You guys are from Fairy Tail!?" Many said excitedly.
Levy nodded before shivering at the cold air. "I'm Levy, a solid script mage. That's Cana, a card mage; Gajeel, the iron dragon slayer; Juvia, a water mage; and Laxus, the lightning dragon slayer."
"No way! You're the guy with the crazy lightning magic that Wendy told us about!" Kaminari cried in awe as stars of admiration filled his eyes along with Kirishima.
The five mages all smirked, glad to know they didn't just appear before a random group of kids and their teacher so they went back down to business. "Yeah and we came here because we just found out some pretty interesting information from the flaming pyromaniac back home." Laxus said.
"And that would be?" Aizawa asked.
"We heard that Love Rival has a younger brother in this world thanks to a mishap when she was younger." Juvia explained, sending jolts through Bakugo's spine. "Natsu had told us he quite the person."
Gajeel crossed his arms, his smirk only growing wider at the thought of meeting his younger brother or Lucy's. "When Salamander mentioned that brother of Bunny Girl's, Shrimp here opened up a portal so quickly. Then again, Gramps wanted some of us to come here eventually."
"Gajeel, I told you to stop calling me Shrimp." Levy whined with a pout.
'Love Rival? Bunny Girl?' The entire class thought since it was obvious that both water mage and iron dragon slayer were referring to the celestial blonde.
After a second of silence, Cana in her tipsy state, began walking up to the students and complimented how cute and young they all looked. Bakugo made it a point to stay out of sight and out of the mages' way. He was not about to allow these people to baby him just because he was Lucy's younger brother. But he couldn't help but take in Gajeel's explanation on why they were there. Forgetting about how he wanted to stay out of site, Bakugo began to speak.
"Hold on, you guys just opened the portal just like that?" He asked.
The solid script mage turned to face the boy and nodded with a smile. "Of course, it was a simple spell to cast once Lu gave me the book to read. Though, opening a portal from here to Earthland is still tricky."
And just like that, the information sunk in within the many students' and Aizawa's heads. "If that was the case, then why hasn't Heartfilia and the others come back to visit after all these months?" Todoroki asked.
The five mages' eyes widened in realization for a second and they all reacted sheepishly, chuckling to themselves of what they had forgot. "That's right. You don't know." Juvia said.
"Know what?" Midoriya asked.
"Natsu dragged the entire team on a job request once they got back from this place." Laxus began to explain. "Made them take an a hundred year quest."
"A... A HUNDRED YEARS!?" The class cried.
"Yep, that's Natsu for you~!" Cana said as she sat in the snow, not even seeming to be cold despite her very light clothing. "The guy had been begging Gramps to give his team that job so it's about time."
"B-But a hundred years..!" Yaoyorozu began to protest. "You don't honestly believe that they could finish a mission that long, do you!?"
The right corner of Bakugo's lips raised slightly at the rich girl's words. Resting his hands behind his head, his posture became cocky and he eyed the portal. "Heh, pinky probably thought he could do it but if he took a job like that, no doubt he's struggling."
Gajeel and Laxus smirked at the ash blonde's words while Juvia seemed to have steam pumping out of her ears in anger. "ARE YOU SAYING THAT JUVIA'S GRAY-SAMA CAN'T DO SUCH A JOB!? HOW DARE YOU-"
"I like that kid." Gajeel said as he began to chew on an iron block that Levy made for him. "Even he knows that Salamander is full of talk."
"About time someone else said it." Laxus agreed. "Sometimes Natsu forgets he didn't beat Acnologia alone."
As Levy and Cana tried to calm Juvia down and prevent her from putting Bakugo in a water bubble, especially since it would probably freeze after a couple of seconds. Meanwhile, Midoriya and Kirishima tried shut Bakugo's mouth from spewing more bad things about the fire dragon slayer. Unfortunately for everyone there, the iron and lightning dragon slayer's ears perked up and they looked straight at the portal... wisely parting a clearing for the nearing newcomer.
The pitter patter of rapid footsteps became louder and soon everyone was eyeing towards portal with raised eyebrows. The three female fairies soon got the message upon seeing Gajeel and Laxus' annoyed eye rolls. They all laughed empty laughs and moved out of the way as well, without the notice of Class 1-A. Eventually, to no surprise of the fairies, a large column of passed through the portal and melted a good amount of snow - scaring the students whilst making them break out in sweat.
With a big stomp of his left foot and a flaming body, Natsu sported an enraged yet annoyed look on his face. His fist was brought up to level with his face and he continued to melt more snow that was in the area, making it feel like summer the closer anyone got to him. "WHAT DID YA SAY, EXPLOSION BOY!?" He exclaimed. "WHY DON'T YOU SAY THAT AGAIN TO MY DAMN FACE!?"
"Natsu!" Many students cried at the sight of the pink headed dragon slayer.
"Huh~! I didn't think I would have to repeat anything to you, pinky!" Bakugo retorted without a second thought. "With those dragon ears of yours, you'd think you'd be able to hear anything without repetition."
"OH SO YOU DO WANNA GO!"
"Hey Pyro, don't just go and run into random portals like an idiot!"
As soon as those words left the raven headed mage's mouth, more relieved looks appeared on the hero students' eyes and an even more admired look on Juvia's face. "Gray/Gray-sama!"
"Huh?" The ice mage said as he smiled at the sight of familiar faces. "Hey, nice to see you lot again! Been awhile!" Before he could say anything more, to his surprise, Juvia pounced on him, which brought him to the ground.
"Natsu! Gray! Are you okay- GAH! It's so cold!" And in just a few more seconds did Wendy, Happy and Carla show up. Smiles forming on their faces out of relief and excitement since they were glad that it wasn't some random portal that their two teammates went through and that their friends from U.A were on the other side.
'I don't get paid enough for the amount of headaches I get daily.' Aizawa groaned in annoyance as he watched Wendy, Happy and Carla greet his students. He then turned around to the five mages who initially came in the first place and approached them. "You said your master wanted to lot to come here eventually. For what purpose?"
Levy turned to the underground pro hero and as if a bell rang in her head, she immediately reached for something inside the large duffel bag she carried. "Oh that's right! We came to give you these." Out came a large crystal orb attached to a stand made of gold, the colours of the rainbow showing on its surface. "In our world, they're called communication lacrimas and we brought three."
"Communication lacrima?"
Levy nodded. "Lucy told our guild all about this work studies thing with your students. Our master liked the idea and we decided that it would be better to give you these for easier communication between our worlds. We made it so that it would be easier for you guys without magic to operate and I've written the instructions for easy usage."
"Oh and don't worry about paying us back." Cana reassured as the solid script mage handed Aizawa the duffel bag. "Think of it as a thank you gift for taking care of our most troublesome team."
Liking the sound of that, Aizawa gratefully took the bag with no question. However, the good mood didn't last long when he heard loud but small explosions erupting for his student's palms. 'And there goes my good mood.' He thought with a groan.
"If you're so ready to fight me, you might as well start pinky!"
"That's it!" Natsu yelled in resolve. "I wasn't planning on hurting you since you're Luce's little brother, but you're SERIOUSLY getting on my last nerves kid!"
At Natsu's words, the five other fairies', who didn't know Bakugo's relationship with Lucy, eyes began to glimmer in a scheming matter. Many of Class 1-A noticed the shift in the fairies' moods and could only guess at the next event, Midoriya silently thanking the universe that Natsu hadn't rat him out either. On the other hand, Gray, Wendy, Happy and Carla prayed for the ash blonde's life. Especially since Levy and Cana in particular would be somewhat a challenge for Bakugo in their own crazy way.
In a flash, Gajeel and Laxus wrapped one of their arms around Natsu while Levy, Cana and Juvia stood menacingly behind the explosive boy. "So you're Lucy's little brother, aren't you~?" Cana asked as she took another big gulp of the flask in her hand. "Thought you could get away from us, hm~?"
Almost immediately, chills ran down Bakugo's spine. For whatever reason, the three women behind him gave off the same feeling as his own mother when she was truly angry at him for something. And for that reason alone, he could feel his body tense up slightly. "I... I have no idea what you're t-talking about."
Bakugo's stuttering, in that moment, caused many different reactions from his classmates. Some had their jaws hanging wide open. Others looked like their eyes were about to pop out of their eye sockets and a few acted as though nothing was out of the ordinary. Midoriya in particular, was very awestruck. He never knew his childhood friend to even stutter to anyone. Not to All Might. Aizawa. Not even to any authoritative figure. The entire concept was foreign to him.
"Why so tense?" Juvia asked. "Juvia and friends just wanna know a few things from you."
"Why didn't you say anything sooner, Salamander?" Gajeel said with a teasing smirk as he looked towards the ash blonde teenager. "We could've found Bunny Girl's brother quicker."
"Though I didn't expect Blondie's brother to be so... like you." Laxus added.
"HAH!? DON'T COMPARE ME TO THAT KID!" Natsu protested as the fire around his body had been long since put out, though his body heat was more than enough to melt the snow surrounding his feet.
"Don't be shy now! We came here to talk to you, y'know!" Levy pressed on.
'Poor guy.' Gray, Wendy, Happy and Carla thought. 'There's no way those three are letting him go anytime soon.'
"NATSU! GRAY! WENDY! HAPPY! CARLA! HOW DARE YOU JUST GO INTO A PORTAL WITHOUT THE MASTER'S PERMISSION! MUST YOU ALWAYS MAKE SUCH BRASH DECISIONS!?"
"No fair Levy~! You can't just open the portal when I haven't even gone to visit yet~!"
Two females spoke as they passed through the portal. In no time at all, Midoriya and Bakugo dashed so quickly to the latter woman, making her stumble as they tackled her into a hug. Again, making the students of Class 1-A gape in total shock of Bakugo even giving the blonde woman the affection a hug could convey. The fairies just looking at the trio with wide and taken aback eyes. Aizawa, as usual, didn't seem all that interested but he had to admit it was nice sight to see one of his most uptight students relax.
Lucy herself was freezing at the cold wind that followed her two acclaimed brothers when they tackled her after passing Erza, but that coldness was replaced with warmth as she was brought into their group hug. Blushing slightly in embarrassment, she chuckled and hugged them back before ruffling the hair on the back of their heads. Even though Team Natsu was in the middle of a big and important mission, she had thought about wanting to visit her little brothers from time to time. She missed them just like they did her after all.
"Hey you two." She greeted. "Miss me?"