Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or Fate Stay Night, any resemblance to any other Fairy Tail or Fate Stay Night fan fiction is coincidental and plagiarism is not intended. No flames please, constructive criticism only.
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Team Natsu (though Lucy insisted they be called Team Lucy) were currently at Akane Resort, Fiore's most popular vacation spot. It had an amusement park and adjoining hotel which were rated first class. One visit to its white sand beach was said to make any visitor want to come back again and again. The resort overlooked the ocean water, which sparkled as far as the eye can see. Loki had given Lucy tickets after helping him return to the Celestial Spirit world and on a whim she had invited the team.
Ever since Phantom lord had been dealt with the team had noticed that her mood swings were occurring more often. She could be kind and sweet one day and arrogant and harsh the next, then a random pause would occur before the swing back or forth. But right now she had been kind and gentle ever since they arrived at the resort, and she was attempting to spend time alone with Erza. Attempting being the operative word, Natsu and Gray weren't making it easy.
'I really had a great time today,' Erza thought to herself lying on a chair upon a balcony in her room which was bathed in the light of a golden sunset., 'It was wonderful.'
'Don't you see? There's no freedom in this world…'
Erza abruptly woke after falling asleep in her deckchair, half rising out it from shock at the memory that decided to haunt her dream. Her gaze fell upon her wrists which used to be bound with shackles.
"Just a dream… I must have fallen asleep without realizing it…"
Getting up from her chair she walked back inside her hotel room and stopped before the mirror and froze. Reflected in the mirror, her left eye was green instead of brown, a shade of green only present in reflections of memories she had been surpassing for years. Indeed, the left side of her body was different from the right, the hair was blond and done in a familiar bun style, her clothing consisted of a blue dressed covered in silver-white and azure armour including gauntlet upon her left hand, greave on her left foot, half a breastplate, and long tassets shaped like a skirt which covered the dress.
"N-no." Erza shook her head but the image remained, she shut her eyes and fear crept in as images of a battlefield with littered with the corpses of knights and swords standing the in the ground near them forced its way into her mind's eye. "LEAVE ME ALONE!" Erza screamed punching the mirror and shattering it.
She took a few deep breaths and opened her eyes, the image in the mirror fragments which now littered the floor began fading away and back to normal, but in the green eye before it faded completely was a look of disappointment.
"You seem upset." Erza looked at the source of the voice to see Lucy standing in the doorway. "How about you forget whatever this is and come have some fun, Natsu and Gray are downstairs, playing games."
"That's right, there's a casino here isn't there, in that case," her armour began to glow as she reequipped into a dress. "So how do I look?"
"Worthy of a king, now come. There are games to be won." Lucy declared marching out of the room.
Erza glanced at herself in the mirror again, she knew those four where downstairs searching for her. She knew that Jellal would come of her eventually, instant she sensed them in the park she had bought an extremely powerful sleeping drug. It was the only hope she had of subduing Lucy. The memories that leaked through the strongest told her that the King of Heroes only cared about himself, even if in this new life she was gentler she couldn't risk Gilgamesh screwing with her plant to save Jellal. By the time Lucy woke up she would already be on her way back to the tower.
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"Seventeen come on!" Natsu cried joyfully
"Don't be mean seventeen!" Happy cheered.
The numbers flashed and blinked and just as it ticked to seventeen it skipped over.
"Waah!" groaned Natsu and Happy, clearing enraged with the machine.
"What's the big idea!" Natsu yelled slamming his fists on the buttons.
"Curse you seventeen." Happy shouted shaking his paw in the air.
"Sir please don't hit the machine." One of the staff members pleaded coming over,
"But it acted like it was going to give me my number!" Natsu whined "It's not fair!"
"No fair!" Happy mimicked.
"Uh, crying won't help sir…"
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"Man they are such sore losers," Gray muttered under his breath as everyone at his table watched the duo make a commotion.
"Gray, my darling?" Gray turned back to stare at a blushing blue-haired woman. "I'm Juvia, do you remember me?"
"Yeah you're that chick from Phantom!" Indeed, before him was Juvia Lockser of the Phantom Element Four.
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"Come back seventeen, I'll do anything!" Natsu yelled punching the control panel crying.
"Sir please don't do that!" the worked tried to reason with him.
"Cool your jets boy, either play nice like the rest of the grown-ups or hit the bricks, you get me?" Natsu and Happy looked to see a man whose whole body form consisted of geometrical shapes and resembled blocks. He had black hair, an oddly-shaped chin, and has thick lips. He wears a royal blue suit with a white collared shirt and red necktie. He also wears black, oval-shaped sunglasses, a boater hat, and a white scarf can be seen hanging loosely around his neck.
"Square?"
"Block head?"
"Now I'm gonna give you some friendly advice pal, in life you've got one of two paths to take." The strange man said,
Before Natsu could even blink blocks trapped his arms to the large glass dome behind him.
"Natsu!" Happy cried at seeing his friend in trouble
"You can either live a dandy life or die a jealous poser, see?"
His hand shifted into a gun and aimed it directly into Natsu's mouth
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Meanwhile at a poker table Erza and Lucy were playing a round, or at least they were until Lucy took a sip of a drink Erza gave her and fell asleep on the table. She felt slightly bad at taking advantage of Lucy's feelings in order to drug her, but she needed to do this. Though before the drug kicked and put a stop to her attempts at sweet talking her Lucy's tone had changed to one of arrogance. In that tone Lucy had said gave Erza the chills; 'You really should stop repressing and start using your Noble Phantasm soon, we aren't the only Heroic Spirits who have reincarnated after all.'
Setting down her cards she moved away from the table as the game resumed until a sudden tremor caused the table to shake.
'So their finally here.' Erza thought to herself as she felt a familiar presence approaching the table.
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"I heard Phantom was disbanded, that must've been rough on you."
"Yes but now I'm a free wizard and I can join any guild I want."
"I see… and I take it you want to be a member of Fairy Tail, huh?" Gray asked rhetorically as she saw a golden necklace in the shape of the Fairy Tail logo around the water woman's neck."
"Oh yes! Very much so!"
"Well I don't know, after everything that just went down, I personally don't mind but I don't know what the master will say."
"I promise I'll do anything they ask!" Juvia's eyes began sparkling gleefully.
"If I were you I would be careful about making promises like that." Gray said with a chuckle.
"Gray Fullbuster?" Gray and Juvia turned around to see a tall and muscular young man, with his overly large arms and hands appearing even larger compared to his extremely thin legs. His mildly long dark hair possessed two prominent bangs curving outwards on the front, framing and partially covering the upper part of his face. He has a single dark eye and a wide, rectangular face, with a flat nose. His left eye was covered in a simple, dark eyepatch, held up by an extremely slim rope, with a thin scar emerging from under it and going down diagonally on his cheek. His massive jaw was obscured by a metal a skeletal jaw. The top of his head was covered in a light cloth wrapped around it, tied on the back, where a pair of long wrappings were left hanging over his neck, with another one hanging on the right of his face.
A dark magic circle suddenly appeared over his visible eye and the bar exploded.
"Juvia!" Gray, glaring at the large man who just attacked Juvia. "What do you think you're doing, buddy?"
"Where is Erza?" the man demanded.
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"Looks like todays my lucky day." Erza said smugly crossing her arms at seeing she had a straight.
"Dealer change." A voice Erza found familiar said.
"Erm, right." With that the Dealers changed.
"I've got a special game for you folks tonight." The Dealer said dealing out some new cards.
Erza looked unaffected as the card before her spelt out: DEATH.
"And while we're at it, what do you say we raise the stakes a bit higher sister?"
"Do you think that scares me Sho?" Erza asked raising an eyebrow.
"So you do remember me." Sho was a young man with blond hair, arrange in a wavy look with fringes hanging above his forehead and tan skin. He had somewhat dark beady eyes and a small 5-shaped tattoo can be located below his lower lip. He also had an earring with diamond ornaments attached on his left ear.
"I never forgot you or the others, I always intended to come back to the Tower of Heaven one day." Erza stated calmly.
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"Now where is she?" The man demanded of Gray.
"You think I'd tell you, huh?"
"I won't allow you to so much as lay a finger on my beloved! You'll have to go through me first." Juvia said quickly reforming in front of Gray.
"Juvia…"
"Erza needs your help right now, I fear she is in grave danger."
"You're right." Gray agreed.
"Ah, you've located her" The man put a finger to his head, clearly receiving a telepathic message. "Yes I see, so I should clean things up here. Understood."
Juvia and Gray were caught off guard as in an instant everything became pitch black.
"What happened to the lights?!"
"It's magic of the dark lineage. Dark Moment!"
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"Hey what gives? Who turned out the lights?" Natsu shouted now unable to see.
"I can't see!" Happy cried. "Where are you?"
"I'm right here! Wherever that is."
"Goodnight, boy," the Blockhead chuckled.
"Nuh-uh, no way!" Natsu growled
"NATSU!"
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"A gun shot…" Erza suddenly shielded her eyes as the lights came back on. "What is going on? Where did he go?"
"I'm right here sister…"
Erza turned around to see Sho now behind her, he threw two handful of cards into the air, peoples voice echoed from them as they fluttered to the ground.
"Card Magic, this display supposed to impress me."
"How arrogant, you're not the only one with powers anymore."
"Meeoow."
Suddenly a strange orange rope, flew past them and was quickly sliced to pieces as Erza requipped one of her swords.
"Nice try Millianna." Erza said looked at her old cat obsessed friend.
"It's been a while, Erzy-werzy," Millianna grinned.
"I'm willing to bet that Jellal gave a warning to you and the others 'Whatever you do not try to fight the girl with long blonde hair, Erza is your only concern' Am I right?"
"How did you know that?" Sho demanded acting as though Erza had read his mind. "You act like you knew we were coming."
"Of course I knew you were here, I sensed you four the minute you set foot in this park." Erza told them. "I put Lucy to sleep, so that she wouldn't kill you when she found out you were planning to take me back to the Tower of Heaven. I know Jellal's been watching me, so he could prepare an ambush for you, I'm not an idiot."
"So what is she to you?" Sho asked pointing at Lucy who was still sleeping rather soundly despite the commotion.
"She's a friend." Erza replied.
"Meow, a friend huh?"
"We used to be friends of yours too, remember?" Sho said accusingly. "Good friends, we were very close… at least we were. Until you decided to betray us."
"Why don't you cut the dame a little slack pal." Blockhead said as he appeared beside Sho. "Keep those emotions in check and everything will be real dandy. Very nice, life on the outside, it's been good to you, huh doll?"
"Hello Wally." Erza greeted
"I've gone through some changes myself." Wally said. "Ol' Mad Dog Wally you grew up with has seen a lot since the old days. You see, I'm much smoother now."
"So you have magic as well."
" It's not that hard once you get the hand of it," The large man boomed as he appeared from nowhere. "Of course you already knew that, didn't you?"
"Simon…"
"I take you have boat, let's go." Erza sighed "I always intended to go back to the tower, like I said."
"Well that's just Dandy, it makes things much easier. Oh by the way." Wally said holding out Happy to Millianna. "I scored something for you."
"Aah! A kitty of my very own! He's such a cutie wootie!"
"That's enough!" Simon boomed loudly. "Tie Erza up."
"What about her?" Sho thumbed to the sleeping Lucy.
"Jellal ordered us to avoid a fight with her, and that is what we are going to do." Simon stated as Millianna conjured an orange tube restrained Erza's hands.
With that the five plus Happy all left the casino, leaving the rest of the team behind.
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Lucy found herself within a familiar white void like space. The only other occupant was the golden armoured man opposite her, her male counterpart. Gilgamesh, or the part of her that the arrogant king. They were both part of the same soul that made up the existence called Gilgamesh.
He was the arrogant hero king. She was the person that Child Gilgamesh may have become if he had not become so arrogant and self-centred, and had taken to calling herself Lucy when confronting her other self like this, just so she could be less associated with him. How the two personalities existed at the same time was unclear, but nevertheless they did and they barely agreed on anything. Hence why the personality of their new life, Lucy appeared to swing back and forth. Neither of them knew why the two of them existed in the same body at the same time, but they had learnt to roll with it, even if they hardly agreed.
"What the hell was that?" Lucy demanded
"What are you babbling about?" Her male counterpart sighed.
"That crap about Saber's Noble Phantasm." Lucy elaborated still furious "I was on a roll, if you hadn't interrupted she could have been closer to being ours."
"It was necessary." Gilgamesh replied conceitedly. "More Heroic Spirit reincarnates are popping up, if she doesn't start embracing her heroic side soon she will be in trouble."
"Why couldn't you have saved it for later instead of when I was to seduce her!" Lucy yelled angrily. "I bet she drugged us because of you."
Gilgamesh was about to reply when both felt something, and a new voice intruded.
"Lucy, hey Lucy wake up." It was Gray.
"It looks like the Ice mongrel is trying to wake us up."
"We'll settle this later." Lucy said as they regained consciousness.
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At the Tower of Heaven, in the throne room in the very top. Jellal Fernandes sat in a throne, another robed man stood at the foot.
"Master Jellal, we've received word that the mission to retrieve Erza has been completed. They are returning as we speak."
The cloaked man smirked and continued resting his head upon his hand.
"I must ask, what are we to gain by capturing that traitor? Disposing of her would have been easy work for someone of your power."
"A rather pedestrian approach to solving the problem, in my opinion."
"Yes, Sir."
"However with the Tower of Heaven now complete allowing her to live would prove to be a thorny issue indeed. So the time has come, Erza Scarlett is the perfect sacrifice to ensure my dreams are made flesh."
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"Are you saying that it still exists?" Org demanded shocked. "But that's impossible!"
"About a decade ago construction began on the R-System, a system designed by a cult of black magic users."
"But we had all seven of those towers destroyed! There shouldn't even be any ruins left," Michello declared.
A large orb appeared in the middle of the chamber showing everyone on the Council the Tower.
"Evidently there was an eighth tower that we missed in the water near Caelum." Belno stated.
"How did we miss it? Is the structure close to completion?" Org inquired pressing for details.
"I'm afraid I don't know, our team mysteriously vanished after sending these images." Belno replied clueless.
"Well it looks finished to me…" Ultear commented.
"Why would they revive the R-System after all this time?" Michello wondered.
"The Tower of Heaven, it's not the R-System, it's the Tower of Heaven to be clear." Seigrain corrected.
"It makes no difference what it's called, it utilizes forbidden magic," Org growled with annoyance. "There would be chaos if word got out that it even existed."
"We'll have to find a way to subdue them, why not send in the military?" Belno suggested.
"That's not an option," Leiji said dismissed the suggestion.
"What do you mean?"
"We'd be putting out solders in danger because we don't know who we're dealing with." he explained. "According to our latest intelligence the black magic cult thought to be responsible for the R-System is no longer occupying the tower."
"They're not?" Michello said. "Just who is then?"
"It's a group of wizards, apparently lead by a man named Jellal," Leiji replied.
"Jellal?"
"But that's the name of your twin brother, right Seigrain?" Org asked.
"Yes unfortunately, that would be him." The blue haired man replied with a sad sigh.
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"Where the hell are we?" Gray demanded as he looked out to the ocean that surrounded them on all sides.
They had taken a boat after Lucy had woken up and were following Natsu's nose to the people who had taken Erza. Lucy had been unable to summon the Vimana due to the drug still being her system, it was pretty powerful and she risked sending them to the other side of the planet or crashing into the ocean.
"I don't know; we've been following Salamanders lead."
"MAN! We're relying on your sense of smell! Pull it together!" Gray complained as they turned to see Natsu suffering from his motion sickness again.
"How dare you disappoint my love with your childish actions!" Juvia scolded the motion sick dragon slayer.
"Geez, I can't believe how easily they were able to knock us out and kidnap Erza and Happy… we're pathetic." Gray grumbled.
"In our defence, they must have been pretty powerful wizards to beat one as strong as Erza." Juvia said trying to lighten Gray's mood.
"What?" Gray shouted became angry "They didn't beat her. Quit talking like you know her, because you don't!"
"Gray I have a headache from the drug and I swear if you don't shut up I will throw you off this ship." Lucy threatened glaring at the Ice Make wizard.
The glare was enough to silence him.
"I just got a weird feeling." Natsu said as he suddenly sat up.
"The birds are dying?" Lucy observed as the birds fell into the water floating dead upon its surface.
"Not the fish too." Gray gasped as fish were indeed floating belly up beside the birds.
"I've never seen anything like this." Juvia commented.
This is wreckage from a Fiore Naval Ship." Gray said looking at the flag of destroyed ship floating in the water amongst the debris.
"Hey what's that?" Natsu asked, pointing farther ahead of them at a large tower that stretched high into the sky.
"I'm guessing that's where they've taken Erza." Lucy commented.
"Hey now that I think about, it, the people who were trapped in those cards said something when I talked to them." Gray stated "Something about the Tower of Heaven."
"Hmmm….Tower of Heaven….that sounds familiar for some reason." Lucy commented trying to think through her still addled thoughts.
"I'll protect us; my Water Dome will keep us from being seen." Juvia said creating a dome of water to camouflage them from being seen as they approached.
"Adequate work I suppose." Lucy grumbled still trying to shake off the effects of the drug as she tried to recall where she'd heard about the Tower of Heaven.
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Meanwhile Erza had been taken off the ship was at the doors of the Tower of Heaven.
"So you've completed the Tower." Erza said looking up at the spiralling tower.
"Indeed, we've been working on it since you left ten years ago." Simon stated cutting off Sho who was about to speak.
"It's amazing how much you've all changed in ten years." Erza commented as she was led back into the Tower she spent her childhood helping construct.
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"I can't take it." Natsu complained as the rocking of the boat exasperated his motion sickness.
"We're almost there." Lucy said.
"That's it next time we take him somewhere we're knocking him out first." Gray stated with annoyance.
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Erza found herself taken to a small cell, her hands tied above her head using Milliana's bindings.
"The Ceremony will take place later tonight. You'll be staying here until then." Sho told her.
'So they really plan to activate the R system.' Erza thought.
"Jellal is giving you a special honour." Sho said "He's chosen you to be the sacrifice for the ceremony. I'm sad I won't ever get to see you again, but you're going to help us get to heaven."
"Oh you're trembling." Sho said looking at her bound hands. "Are you afraid of being sacrificed? Or does this cell bring back mem-"
"Enough Sho." Simon ordered stepping into the cell.
"What do you want Simon?" Sho demanded.
"I have special orders from Jellal to place this within Erza." Simon withdrew from his pocket a small lacrima sphere about the size of a pea.
"What is that lacrima for?" Sho asked backing off as Simon walked past him and close to Erza.
Simon's face got close to Erza's own and he touched the lacrima to her forehead.
"Forgive me my king, but without your Noble Phantasm, you cannot defeat Jellal." Simon whispered to her quietly so Sho couldn't hear, she gasped at his words before the lacrima glowed and sank into her forehead as though it were water.
Simon stood back and merely watched her with an indifferent look on his face, though through her clenched eyes she could see the pain his actions brought him. Erza felt a pressure building inside of her head. It became too painful to bare and she let out a long and loud scream which echoed throughout the tower. "AAAAAGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"W-whats happening to her?" Sho asked taken aback at the loud screams.
"It's the memory lacrima getting to work." Simon told him. "Normally she'd have such a high magic resistance that a simple lacrima like this wouldn't be enough. However, she's suppressed the memories of her past life for so long that mental barriers have formed keeping the powers, physical attributes and memories from the life locked away. Now those barriers are being torn down thanks to that lacrima, the pain is beyond any magic torture. Jellal deemed it a fitting way for her to suffer until it was time for the Ceremony." Simon began walk out of the cell and up the stairs to leave.
"Hey where are you going?" Sho yelled after him.
"I have other matter sot attend to, you are to stay here and make sure she doesn't get free." Simon replied not looking back. "If you can't stand the screaming then put on some earmuffs or something."
In a matter of seconds Simon vanished from sight, teleporting to another part of the tower. Sho walked back into the cell and watched Erza as she kept screaming in pain, sweat dripping from her forehead as old memories now flowed through her mind's eye unimpeded.
On a hill of swords and corpses the knight opposite her fell as the spear Rhongomyniad was pierced through Mordreds chest. "Father" Mordred pleaded as the helm that concealed the traitorous knights face fell away. Looking identical to the King her blood soaked hands reached out to try and touch her. "...Father"
She tried to shoved the memory down but the lacrima wouldn't let her. Another one forced its way into the fore.
She was looking down from a balcony for the sake of appearances Guinevere was to be burnt at the stake. The execution had begun, the pyre was lit and the flames began to burn.
Suddenly a knight in familiar black armour burst through the gates.
"Stop Lancelot!" Two Knights barred his way, Gareth and Gaheris, but he easily cut them down.
"Is that magic energy?" Sho asked as he saw magic energy beginning to swirl around her body which was contorted in pain. "But Milliana's bindings should make that imposs-AGH!"
Sho was sent flying as Erza let out another scream and the magic power that had swirling around her body burst outwards tearing the cell apart and flinging him into the cell directly opposite the destroyed one Erza was in.
After the dust settled Erza felt her wrists where the bindings had been. The pain and memories temporarily subsided and exited the cell reequipping into her Heart Kruez armour.
"He's fine just unconscious." Erza said looking at Sho was now unconscious in the other cell but otherwise unharmed aside from a few bruises and burn marks from the blast.
She was suddenly struck by another jab of pain as more memories began emerging. "Damn it, with these blasted memories intruding now of all times I won't be at my best. But I still need to reach Jellal and stop him, when I free him of that spell there will be hell to pay for whoever cast it on him."
As she stumbled up the stairs had Erza seen her reflection, she'd be able to see that her brown left eye was now green, with the colour now bleeding into her artificial right eye.
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Back at their meeting hall the Magic Council was in disarray over the knowledge that the R System still existed and were trying to figure out what to do about it.
"We must do something to stop Jellal!"
"We should gather information!"
"Dispatch the military!"
"You ignorant fools!" Seigrain yelled with annoyance.
"Seigrain!"
"How dare you."
"Only fools would send in the military and risk the lives of hundreds of innocent soldiers, I'm telling you it's far too dangerous." Seigrain stated.
"What do you propose we do?" Org asked sternly looking down on the wizard.
"This is a precarious situation." Seigrain said crossing his arms. "If we want to stop him we will have to completely destroy the Tower of Heaven, and there is only one way to do that… Etherion."
"Are you insane?" Org yelled.
"That's cross dimensional destruction magic!" Michello cried.
"We can't!" Belno objected with horror.
"Do you know how much devastation it would cause? That weapon has the ability to obliterate an entire nation."
"Etherion is an absolute last choice, it is more dangerous than the R-System itself!"
"Just hear me out!" Seigrain yelled cutting across them. "The satellite square can pinpoint a target anywhere in the region. If we focus it directly on the tower, we can cause less collateral damage and destroy the structure."
"I vote to fire." Ultear said raising her hand, agreeing with Seigrain.
"Not you too, have you gone mad?" Org asked despairingly.
"Three more in favour will give us the majority, but we can't let deliberations delay us. Time is of the essence! I urge you to vote with me, we cannot allow Jellal to activate the Tower of Heaven!"
"But along with destroying the Tower, an Etherion blast will no doubt kill your brother." Org stated softly.
"I realize that… however, it's a sacrifice that must be made."
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Meanwhile back in his throne room atop the Tower Jellal watched as the Fairy Tail wizards decimated the guards who were protecting the passageway that they had reached by going underwater.
"Master why are you inviting them into the tower?" Vidaldus Taka asked as on the screen he saw the entrance open for the intruders.
"As I said before this is all one big game." Jellal answered tired of Vidaldus questioning. "They were lucky enough to clear the first stage but they still have a ways to go. I'm just trying to make things interesting."
"But shouldn't we concentrate on the ceremony?" Vidaldus pressed "It's only a matter of time before the Magic Council catches onto our plans."
"Now Vidaldus how many times have I told you not to worry about them." Jellal said with a dark smirk "The Magic Council only wishes they had the power to stop me."
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"I vote yes." Leiji stated reluctantly as he shakily raised his hand, voting to fire Etherion.
"Leiji not you too." Org cried
"There's no other choice." Leiji answered clearly still shaken over his choice.
"Two more votes are needed. Please trust me on this." Seigrain pleaded trying to sway his fellow councillors.
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