Chapter 21: The challenge
(Skipping to entrance to the mine everything else is the same as the anime so I won't go over it again this will proudly be the last time as other events in the story differ)
The group of Earthland fairy tail wizards preceded though the secret passage to the kings chamber relaying on Carla's map to navigate the passage they can upon an empty cavern, "this looks more like a craven than a tunnel" asked Lucy "yes and I believe this craven is directly under the castle" Carla answered "I don't understand how you're doing all this but I'm glad you're on our side" Lucy stated "I'm perplexed as well, but as I said the map gets more and more filled in" "your amazing Carla" "well being able to find our way through here will be the easy part, what would be truly amazing will be getting in and out of the kings chambers undetected, as defenceless as we are now" Carla said plainly "now don't forget we can use my magic if we get into a pinch" Lucy bragged "so your gonna save us, Wendy is more likely to do that" Natsu stated "what are you saying the whole plan relies on Gemini" slightly aggravated "yeah yeah" he replied "is everything ok happy" Wendy asked "aye" happy answered, then before they could continue on Lucy was grabbed by something when everyone turned to look in shock Natsu was also subdued, before they were surrounded by a group of guards before the Edolas version of Erza approached them "so these are magic users from Earthland" when the five saw her they were stunned "it's amazing how much you resemble the outlaws Natsu dragneon and Lucy Ashley, take them away" "yes mam" the solders responded as the two of them were dragged away, happy Wendy and Carla then proceeded to go after them before they were stopped by Erza "great exceeds" she said before everyone started bowing "I'm horned to welcome you home" "I don't understand what's going on" Lucy said "mmm" was all Natsu could say "who are you happy and Carla I thought that you were our friends" Wendy said "we've most grateful for your help capturing the intruders" Erza said "why Carla, how could you" Wendy said as she started to lose herself in pure rage and giving off waves of magical energy "oh yes my lady, I forgot about you" the Edolas Erza said "the king has issued a challenge for a game" haring this Wendy's vampire side resided, having been over stressed she passed out "Wendy" Carla said as she and happy lost conciseness.
(everyone else wakes up where their suppose to)
When Wendy regained conciseness she was slightly confused as to where she was, she was sitting in a nice queen sized bed in what appeared what she could only guess to be the Edolas place "why aren't I looked up somewhere" she asked herself before being answered "because you are very important Wendy" recognising the voice she looked up to see Mystogan "Jellal is it really you, oh I'm sorry it's Mystogan isn't it" she said and he answered her "yes Wendy it is me and to fully answer your last question you are here because of me, you see I am the Jellal of this world but also its prince when I saw what my father was doing to this world in a desperate attempt to restore its magic I could not stand it so I travelled to Earthland to help stop him, I have come up with two ways to stop him, the first was to use the Anima in reverse and strip this world of its magic and the second was something I discovered later on and that is you" "me" she replied he then continued "yes you see the reason my father began to change was because of the fact that Edolas began to have its magic run out but there is a way" "how" she asked "as a vampire you are a magical generator and right now your mere presents has already given this land enough magic to run at maximum for 80 years" he said "how I'm not that powerful" she asked "the lack of magic in this world increases your bodies limitations because your magic power is constantly being drained by this world, it's not damaging you in the slightest and as such the king of this world has set forth a game to you, don't get me wrong I'm still ready to go with plan A if he wants to harm you in slightest but I think it would be wise to hear him out, draining this world of magic while a valid diction has the potential to cause chaos and confusion" but as he finished his explanation one question came to her mind "how did you know" she asked "know what" he replied "what I am" as she finished he didn't know what to say because it had to do with a mistake he made seven years ago.
(Flashback)
The young Jellal had just put his young companion Wendy Marvell to sleep with worry on his mind 'we've been traveling together for about a month and she still hasn't eaten anything, I'm beginning to worry. should I go to someone I can't take care of her by myself' as he was thinking but what he didn't notice was that young Wendy was stirring in her sleep, when he looked over to her he noticed that her skin was going pale "that can't be good, Wendy" he said as he rushed over to her when he got to her, he scoped her up in his arms 'now her hairs turning black, is something wrong, what do I do' as he was holding her eyes snapped open glowing red "Wendy what" he started to say but before he could finish she had pounced on him pining his arms, he tried to escape her grasp 'she's five years old how is she this strong I can't even move, what is she even doing' before anything else she had bitten into his neck and began to drink his blood, when she finished she passed out on top of him as he noticed she was passed he slowly pushed her off of him and to tried to stand but when he couldn't he rested himself on a tree unable to comprehend what happened, when he looked over he was still bleeding 'no I'm not ready to die yet, there still so much I need to do, I can't die yet' "Jellal" he heard a his name screened when he looked he saw Wendy looking like she had when he had put her to sleep, if it wasn't for the blood smeared on her lips he would've thought he imagined it, when she approached him he tried to back up further "no get away from me" Wendy ignored him as she wanted to heal him but as she got closer he struck her said and she started to cry, Jellal regaining his nerves thought about what happened 'what's going on she just attacked me and now she's crying, don't get it' he then went over to comfort her "it's okay, I'm sorry are you ok now".
A day after that he came to the concussion that he couldn't look after her, he didn't know how and not that he likes to notice he was unable to be at ease around her, so he left her at a village and went on his way. as time went on Jellal learned more about Earthland he began to go by Mystogan, as Mystogan went on to become an S class wizard his mind often went back to his young traveling complain Wendy the more he thought about her the more questions about what happened plagued his mind, that one incident of near death always caused him to shake when he thought about it. One mission Mystogan was sent in to wide out a vampire terrorising a town with that Mystogan went to researching what vampires were, when the master of fairy tail found out that one of his guilds S class wizard didn't know what vampires were, he called the entire guild to give the information on vampires and their dangers, he did make sure to make vampires sound as dangerous as they were so that none of their more brash members would take vampire job requests before they were ready, as was Jellal was keeping out of sight listing his mind was back to Wendy, as he heard more about vampires and that little girl he left behind to fend for herself, after the explanation and the request all Jellal did for mission requests were on vampires missions, part because the vampire requests were high paying allowing him to focus more on dealing with Edolas and the Anima, but also because of the vampire girl he left behind, it wasn't until years later that he finally met her again and it wasn't what how he expected it to be either, sadly he was expecting to find her on a job because she had gone too far or wasn't the same child he travelled with long ago and was now a psychotic monster, but when he saw her standing as a new member of Fairy tail the same way he remembered her, he was relived.
(Flashback end)
"A long time, I'm sorry I left you behind back then" he said as they continued to walk "but if there is anything you want to know just ask" at this Wendy was thinking about what she wanted to ask him "Mystogan I found out that S class wizards are the ones manly summoned for vampire requests, Mira know about a few things about vampires so I was wondering what do you know" she asked with this Mystogan thought about what he'd know and what Mira wouldn't "well let's see, how about the origins of vampires, pureblood families, blood surrogates and vampire slayer magic, do you know about those" Wendy shock her head as he went on "well first let's start with the origin of vampires, it isn't agreed when but the story is the same for the first vampire, a man who lost the love of his life prayed to Ankhseram for a way to bring her back to which Ankhseram gave, vampirism was the cost the being that if the man wanted to be above death then he would be a being beyond it which is why vampire purebloods have so many abilities it however to compensate for the power to be immune to death magic and bring people back to life plus the boost to other abilities, the pentiles of vampirism are the partial immortality and having to feed off other people to maintain themselves was the punishment that went with it, three individuals were made this deal, the games were introduced as a way for purebloods to fight each other without coming to a tie the dark however they can only be entered by one of the participants being a pure-blooded vampires. Next the vampire pure blood families names they are the Nosferatu, the Akhud and the Vermilion. Next the blood surrogates when a pureblood drinks the blood of a person there in love with the person turns into a blood surrogates which basically binds their life to the pureblood, basically the person won't die until the pureblood dies and any child they have together will be a pure-blooded vampire. Lastly vampire slayer magic it's basically the same as other slayer magic except if left can turn them into a pure blood however vampire slayers can only be people who have a hatred for vampires" he finished his exploitation to her she was contemplating the information she had received when the pair arrived at a door "well it's just though here, you ready" he asked her "yes" as they went through the doors.
