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Lucy Heartfillia sat now in the great library of the Tower of Heaven, massive shelves of books lining the walls. Her seat was a finely decorated throne that she'd brought out from the Gate of Babylon. In her hands was what she'd been looking for the Book of Zeref that she knew had been in this tower.
After removing the magical protections on it, she had opened the book up and her eyes shone. Inside were notes, diagrams and details about the Tower of Heaven and how to construct it.
"Hmmm….the ritual to sacrifice someone in order to resurrect the dead looks pretty straight forward," Lucy commented as she perused through the notes. "So why did Zeref…." Then she saw something else, the magic energy requirement in order for the tower to be activated. "Ah, that explains it Two point Seven Billion Edeas worth of Magic Energy? No wonder Zeref abandoned this thing not even all the Wizards on Ishgar and Alvarez combined could come close to that much magic energy so the how does Jellal…." Lucy looked outside at the sky and it came to her "Oh course, Etherion how clever."
Closing her eyes for a moment Lucy let her drift and then suddenly stood up as she saw what Sha Nagba Imuru was showing her. She closed the book and stored it and the throne away in the Gate of Babylon.
"I see, it seems Natsu and Gray have finished his fight with the owl man and Juvia has caught up." Lucy sighed and began walking towards the door. "But it seems Saber is about to face that gate bound Assassin. I suppose I should rescue her, without her Holy Sword she stands no chance I guess I have no choice but to force hand and give her no option but to use Excalibur."
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"How are you here?" Erza asked gripping her head in pain as images of fighting the false Assassin flooded her mind.
"It seems that even though I am merely an anonymous swordsman given the mantle of Kojiro Sasaki by the Holy Grail I was allowed reincarnation just like you." Ikaruga replied with a smile."Why? I can't say, who knows what the conditions for us being reincarnated are. You know you don't look very well, I heard from my employer that you have been fighting yourself, trying to desperately not to embrace your past self. That memory lacrima has left you in no condition to fight right now, boy what is your name? Sho was it?"
"Yeah, now get out of my way!"
"How about a duel, just like knights of used to settle a dispute," Ikaruga told him with a smile. "You see my contract obligates me to stop you but I can tell you really are determined to save your friend, so I propose a duel. If you can even break my skin I will gladly step aside. We will even take it in turns, neither of us can attack or counter attack while it's the others turn, you can even have the first move if you like."
"I accept let's do it!" Sho yelled preparing to attack.
"Hold it." She cut across him "In the Death's Head Order guild failure is not tolerated so if by some miracle you actually win they'd have me killed. So seeing as I am wagering my life you must wager yours it's only fair don't you think?"
"Alright fine, I just need to cut you a little in order to win anyway," Sho growled impatiently.
"No Sho don't please, she's too powerful she'll kill you!" Erza cried trying to stand up but failed as another wave of pain shot through her, images of fighting Assassin on the steps of the temple raged in her mind.
"King of Knights as you can see your friend is wagering his life of his own free will think of this as a special offer because he's a friend of yours," Ikaruga stated placing her hand on her katana. "Now then Sho let us begin."
"TAKE THIS!" Sho yelled creating a magic circle and fired twenty glowing cards at the assassin.
Ikaruga merely gave a small smile and gripped her Katana as the cards impacted and exploded, shaking the room and kicking up a cloud of dust which obscured the woman from view.
"Did I do it?" Sho asked breathing heavily as the attack had drained his magic energy.
The sound of a platformed sandal stepping upon wood was heard. The whole room fell silent, the water stopped rippling, the leaves in the trees seemed to stop rustling, it was like that sound had stopped time itself. Each step caused the fear in Sho to grow more and more, until out of the smoke stepped Ikaruga.
"It was a nice try for one of your level of skill but it is my turn now." She said.
"No way we had a deal, if I cut you then you'd step aside and I have," Sho yelled pointed to a tear his attack had made in Ikaruga's kimono sleeve.
Glancing down at the tear she let out a sigh and shook her head. "If you remember I said if you can break my skin then you win, but you've only torn my kimono, my favourite kimono I'll have you know. So now it is my turn."
"Wait but how did you block that, you said you wouldn't do anything until it was my turn." Sho protested.
"I said I would neither attack nor counter attack I don't remember saying that I would not defend myself." Ikaruga told him her words causing Sho to tremble "Set up defences if you like, if you manage to survive my attack it will be your turn again and you'll have another shot."
Sho quickly threw up his arms and conjured several cards which stuck to his body and emitted a pale yellow light making a force field which covered his body.
"Card Magic: Light force Barrier." He conjured more cards, this time they stuck to body covering barrier completely before becoming metal. "Card Magic: Steel Card Armour."
"I see, layering yourself with a solid barrier and magical one in order to protect yourself." Ikaruga said tilting her head slightly "But it won't be enough."
Sho gulped, as Ikaruga took slow methodical steps towards him he felt a sense of fear as if with each step death itself was approaching, a fear coiling around his insides his instincts screaming at him to run, and only just able to prevent himself from doing so.
She stopped a couple of feet away from him and drew her sword, the sound of the blade leaving its sheath caused his fear to rise even more now his metal armour rattled as he trembled with fear from within it.
"What you gave me was your best shot, so it would be rude of me not to return the favour in full." Ikaruga took up no stance, merely prepared her sword and uttered the words Erza dreaded "Concealed Sword: Swallow Reversal"
Sho even behind his defence was shaken it was like she had performed three attacks simultaneously. But somehow it wasn't like she was fast but more like she made all three at the same period in time. Three attacks that, when used together, left him with no path of escape.
Dreading for her friend Erza fought through the pain used the one magic that might make a difference.
"Strike Air."
The sound of the clash of steel against steel and metal against air echoed through the room.
"I thought the King of Knights would have more honour than to interfere with the duel of another," Ikaruga chided as she finished her attack and looked at Erza. "But the only difference you've made is to extend your friends suffering, I was aiming to grant him a swift death but thanks to you he will suffer for another minute, say your goodbye's nothing short of a miracle can save him now." The Swordswoman sighed and walked back over to the gateway she had been standing watch over.
As she walked away Sho's metal cards and the barrier beneath them shattered like glass. The boy himself flew backwards a bit before landing near Erza, three gashes all of them fatal, but none of them immediately so were bleeding out.
"Sho!" Erza stumbled over to the boy who was now dying on the ground and lifted him partly into her arms. "Hang on, Sho just hang on."
"I-I so hard, but in the end, I was too weak." Sho stammered coughing up blood onto Erza's hands "I'm sorry."
"Sho please don't go." Erza cried tears falling down onto the boy's face.
"Rob wasn't your fault, he protected you because he believed in you, just like I should have." Sho weakly clasped his hands around Erza's own. "You h-have the s-s-strength to beat Jellal…." Another cough, more blood the light was fading from Sho's eye's rapidly "You just need to….b-believe in yourself…..you know who you are. You were always….different." With that, Sho's grasp on her hands became slack as his eye's closed for the last time.
"SHO!" Erza's cry out of sorrow for her friend echoed throughout the Tower of Heaven.
Ikaruga said nothing, choosing instead choosing to close her eyes and keep a respectful silence while offering a prayer the dead boy who had challenged her so bravely. She opened her eyes upon hearing the sound of magic.
"You will pay for this Assassin," Erza growled re-quipping into her Heaven's Wheel Armour.
Letting out an angry roar she charged at Ikaruga. Blue sparks rained over the bridge as Erza and Ikaruga's blades clashed, breaking the deadlock and flying into the air above her adversary. Erza summoned a dozen magical swords. "Heaven's Wheel: Circle Swords!" The swords began spinning rapidly in a circle and flew at Ikaruga.
"Hmm…you hold back against me even now. Mugetsu Style," Ikaruga said calmly as she swiped her katana in a pattern, effortlessly shattering all the swords sent against her, the fragments piercing the wooden floor around Ikaruga, not a single one touching her.
"That was my Yasha-senku," Ikaruga explained with a tone of disappointment. "It allows me to cut what is before me even without touching my sword."
Erza landed back on the bridge when she did Ikaruga swiped her katana in front of her. Suddenly, cracks appeared on Erza's Heaven's Wheel Armor spider webbing over it until the armour exploded into pieces. Erza cried out in agony as she stumbled back a few meters, landing on her feet.
"Mugetsu Style…" Ikaruga chanted as an orange light illuminated underneath her."…Karuda-en!" A blaze of orange flames formed around Ikaruga the assassin, and then ripped down the bridge, leaving a creating a charred trench in it.
When it cleared Erza quickly re-quipped into her Flame Empress Armor and crossed her arms in front of her to shield herself from the inferno; however, she was unable to block the force behind the attack sending her skidding back across the bridge. The S class wizard was still on her feet however as the flames dispersed.
"That's Flame Empress Armor," Ikaruga observed, "it's highly resistant to flame attacks, is it not? But it matters not, it still isn't enough."
Suddenly without warning the large armoured gauntlets on Erza's arms shattered, causing her to clench her teeth in pain.
"If you insist on insulting me by not drawing your Holy Sword then I suggest you adorn yourself with the most powerful armour you possess."
A red magical seal appeared under Erza's feet as light consumed her body. When it died away, she was clad in a black armour that was covered in spikes. Her hair was styled in very prominent spikes pointing outwards in every direction, a shadow obscuring her face.
"Purgatory Armour!" Erza shouted with glowing, enraged red eyes. "You'll regret what you've done Assassin, No one has seen this armour and lived to talk about it!"
Another red magic circle appeared and in Erza's hand appeared a large black mace that has the same spike-like design as the Purgatory Armor. The mace was larger than Erza herself with six large spikes running down the edge, getting progressively larger as they reach the hook end of the weapon.
"This is the most powerful armour in your collection? Such a brutish weapon as well. You don't seriously expect sheer brute force to defeat me do you?"
Erza leapt at Ikaruga, letting out a thundering roar. She lifted the mace over her head and brought it down, however, Ikaruga easily jumped backwards, dodging the attack. Part of the bridge was ripped apart while a wall of water from the pond below was thrown up from Erza's powerful slash.
Titania slashed the weapon down in front of her, sending a strong gust of air at Ikaruga. The woman simply sighed with disappointment and slashed her katana at the gust causing the wooden boards of the bridge to be ripped apart and reduced to splinters as the attack was deflected.
"You are letting your emotions rule you, you charge at me like a wild animal instead of a trained warrior."
Erza growled and leapt into the air letting out a battle cry as she came back down at Ikaruga, intending to strike her. However, Assassin responded by swiftly swiping at Erza before landing behind her opponent. The Fairy Queen screamed as her Purgatory Armor shattered into pieces, leaving her with only a few tattered articles of black cloth as she fell to her knees.
"Even after the death of your friend, you continue to hold back. Why? What is it that makes you hesitate to draw your holy sword even now?" Ikaruga inquired, although she seemed to be talking mostly to herself as if not expecting an answer "I can sense fear, but fear of what exactly?"
"If I draw that sword, I'll be acknowledging that I am a king again," Erza replied, unsure as to why she was even talking to the Assassin. "But I've failed as a king so many times before, what if I fail again?"
"I will give you some modified advice I once gave you on those temple steps. When it comes to blades and life do not let your mind wander to what comes later." Ikaruga told her "You are so busy fretting over your past and fearing over the future that you are incapable of focusing on the present and it has made you someone I do not wish to fight."
"What do you mean by that?" Erza demanded angrily, she looked shocked as Ikaruga put her sword away. "What are you doing? Stand and fight."
"Do I have your permission to leave this place?" Ikaruga asked.
"No, stand and fight me."
"Fighting you would be like picking on a crying child in a sandbox, frankly, this battle makes me feel like a bully rather than a warrior." Ikaruga sighed "So how about it?"
"Yes, you may leave." Erza turned around at the familiar voice and saw Lucy standing at the entrance she and Sho had come through.
"Hey wait." Erza protested as Ikaruga ignored her and walked past Lucy making to leave.
"Etherion is to fire in about fifteen minutes, I have no desire to be killed as an Assassin." Ikaruga stated, "In this new world of possibilities I intend to write my own legend and earn my place in the Throne of Heroes that way, that is the goal of this new life granted to me."
Ikaruga paused as she came shoulder to shoulder with Lucy.
"She is on the very edge of the knife; I cannot give her the push she needs but perhaps you can provide it," Assassin said in a low voice. "What's this?" The assassin inquired as Lucy handed her an envelope with a golden seal on it.
"An invitation to work for Lady Kin, she'd be a far better employer than a dark guild. I think she can provide you with a weapon that could become your Noble Phantasm." Lucy replied.
"I see, thank you perhaps I shall take you up on that offer," Ikaruga said with a smile as she made to leave the Tower.
"Assassin come back here-AGH!" Erza made to give chase but was sent backwards as a nameless sword impacted on the bridge in her path and exploded.
"Sorry, my dear but you should know that when I see something I want I have no problems taking it," Lucy said with a smirk as the Gate of Babylon opened up behind her, countless weapons ready to be fired.
Sha Nagba Imuru had told her that the Saber before her had come from the Fifth Grail War where the Faker had fallen for Tokiomi's brat. This meant that while she had a chance to capture Saber's affection's she could not afford for her to keep weakening herself, this meant she had to be cruel to be kind.
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"I was wondering when you were going to wake up," Simon said to Natsu as he carried him up several flights of stairs heading ever upwards towards the throne room where Jellal was waiting.
"The last thing I remember is flying around in circles," Natsu said suddenly looking like he was going to puke.
"Seriously? Just the memory makes you sick!?"
"Bleh."
"Well after that you were eaten by the owl. Luckily Gray was able to save you."
"Ah great."
"He defeated the owl but he was badly wounded during the fight. You friend was taking him to a safer place."
"No way you gotta be kidding me! I lost to that owl freak but Gray was able to beat him?!"
"I wouldn't exactly say that you lost…it's more like you were swallowed."
"It doesn't matter what happened he's still going to hold this over my head for at least the next month! Man, this sucks!"
"You're missing the point.."
"I won't stand for this! I demand a rematch! Bring that bird brain back and let me show him what I've got!"
"We don't have time for that kind of nonsense right now."
"I don't want to be rude but do I know you?"
"I'm Simon, I was friends with Erza back when we were kids."
"Oh, in that case, it's nice to meet ya." Natsu greeted him. "Hey, are you ok big guy?" Natsu asked as Simon clutched his side.
"Don't worry about me I'm fine, that owl managed to get a lucky shot in, I'm not the warrior once was. I just got word from Wally, he and Milianna found Juvia wandering around, she's fine but she was looking for Gray." Simon informed him. I sent a telepathic message to the others to take Gray and Juvia and get as far away from the Tower as possible."
"I didn't get to do anything!"
"But I've heard nothing from Sho, so I don't know about Erza nor can I tell where Lucy is."
"I'm sure you aware that she and Jellal have quite a history. It's as if there destined to fight each other. I'm worried about her because Jellal's stronger than she knows and with his apparent insanity that been able to take root in his mind for all these years he's unpredictable."
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"Lucy this is not the time get out of my way!" Erza demanded.
"Just how do you plan on making me?" Lucy asked aiming the gate's weapons at the Fairy Queen. "You refused to draw your Holy Sword against even that Assassin when she cut down your friend right in front of you, so either you friends aren't that important to you or your weak, the way I see it this is a golden opportunity for me to secure you and make you my bride, I'm sure after few years of torment you'll come around."
"Never, I will never submit to likes of you-ack!" Erza tried summoning a sword only for it to be shot out her hand by one of the Noble Phantasms from the Gate and then sent to the ground by another sword which scraped her chest.
"Those worthless scraps of metal cannot stand up to my treasures. I thought you would have learnt this by now." Lucy smirked folding her arms.
Erza growled at the smug expression on Lucy's face as she pulled herself to her feet. She tensed as she saw more weapons at the ready, a golden glow enveloping them.
"Do your best to avoid them, if you do well, they will only impale your arms and legs."
"Ku-gah…!"The Noble phantasms rain down upon her, creating small wounds and great pain nothing crippling or fatal.
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In the throne room, Jellal knocked over the piece that symbolised Ikaruga.
"So Ikaruga has decided to quit the game, but it seems Lucy Heartfillia has decided to pick up where she left off," Jellal commented looking at the battle.
Erza could be scene trying to re-quip swords only to fail as they were destroyed by the Noble Phantasms that Lucy kept shooting at her. She even tried coat one with the Invisible Air to try and get it to withstand the barrage, but it only lasted a few seconds longer before it too was destroyed.
What confused Jellal was the Heartfillia girl's intentions. She didn't appear to bear any malice towards Erza and yet here she was using an attack that could kill if a single mistake was made on Erza's part. As the battle went on Erza dodging more and deflecting, but the weapons seemed to become more numerous.
"This does make things far more amusing; the game would be so dreadfully boring without diversions like this."
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Erza found herself on the ground, waves of pain crashing through her body. She had failed dodge but a single weapon and this had caused her to be impacted with many others creating more wounds on her body. Even so, she fought through it struggling to stand once again.
"I think the only way to make you submit is to crush your spirit completely." Lucy sighed approaching Erza "To do that I think I need to show you the extent of my power tell me have you seen Ea before?"
"Ea?" Erza wracked her brain, none of the memories of Saber could tell her of any weapon with such a name.
"It is my ultimate Noble Phantasm far superior in power to your Excalibur whereas you may only destroy fortresses Ea has the power to destroy an entire world."
An Anti-World Noble Phantasm? A bluff….no for this golden knight there was no need to bluff, beyond the Gate of Babylon were treasure's beyond count so the existence of such a weapon was not impossible.
"Here I'll show you it's power." Lucy knelt and placed her finger upon Erza's forehead "I'll show you a memory of mine which took place in August of the Year X777 during the Alvarez invasion."
Erza had heard of the invasion of course but it was short lived, the Council had stopped it with threats of Etherion and another secret weapon which forced them to retreat. Pain shot through her brain, a memory came into view it was like she was watching a movie rather experiencing it from a point of view but that made it no less real.
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The soldiers of Alvarez all laughed to themselves as they stood one of the Fiore's beaches. Leading the expedition was one of the members of the Spriggan 12 known as Meros. He was famed for his impenetrable barrier magic. There were no wizards on record who had ever managed to penetrate his barriers.
"Sir." a soldier came to Meros and saluted. "We've secured the beachhead."
"That's fine," Meros smirked. "MEN SOON WE WILL MARCH ON MAGNOLIA AND FAIRY HEART WILL BE TAKEN FOR EMPEROR SPRIGGAN!"
The soldiers of Alvarez all cheered thoughts of glory and praise from the emperor filling their minds. Above them on a cliff stood a little girl, no older than eleven clicked her tongue in annoyance at the rabble below her. Her waist length golden hair swayed along with her plain white dress.
"How annoying." while her voice was not shouting, it was loud enough that it got the attention of the some of the soldiers on the beach, in turn, their comrades looked to see what the fuss was about.
"Hey, get lost you little brat!"
"Yeah you wanna die kid?"
They yelled threats and insults, but the girl was not fazed in the slightest, after all, what did the mighty have to fear from yapping dogs whose bark was far bigger than their bite.
Meros sighed looked to see what was going on. He saw a little girl atop a cliff just in time to see the sunhat on her head be carried away by the wind. She had piercing eyes the colour of blood. This unnerved him for a moment but ultimately he chose to ignore her, the men could do what they wanted to some brat who was too curious for her own good.
"I did, in fact, have other plans today." Her voice stopped Meros from going back into his tent. "My mother and I were going to climb the highest mountain in our estate together. Instead, I am here, cleaning up trash that has washed up on this beach."
'What is she talking about?" Meros wondered 'Doesn't she know who we are?'
"For the sin of interrupting my daily plans...you will perish here." She spoke with a confidence that didn't belong to little girl...and yet Meros couldn't shake the fear that her words inspired in him. Like a god or royalty had sentenced him to a death he couldn't avoid.
A golden ripple appeared next to her head, out of it appeared a golden hilt. The girl grasped it and pulled out a sword. It had a grip, handguard, and is the same length as a longsword, the "blade" itself and the tip of the sword, spun in a spiral shape, are dull. It has the shape of a cylindrical, drill-shaped pillar made up of three independently rotating segments engraved with crimson cuneiform lettering that spin slowly in alternating direction like querns, the middle segment spinning clockwise and the top and bottom segments spinning counterclockwise.
"Now awaken and exterminate them Ea." She gave the command and the three sections of the sword began to spin faster and faster. "Begone from my sight insects, ENUMA ELISH!"
A red vortex of energy steadily approached the beach, affording no escape to souls trapped on it. Meros unbreakable barrier shattered like glass before it. The star which split Heaven and Earth continued consuming the beach and the army upon it.
Eventually, the power vanished from sight, leaving nothing. No remains, no debris, no corpses, there was no evidence that a beach even existed in the first place as the ocean rushed in the reclaim the space left behind.
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The Fairy Queen was left stunned upon exiting the memory. That sword had utterly decimated that army and wiped the beach they were standing upon out of existence.
"I have no intention of using it on you of course," Lucy told her walking away from the fallen fairy. "No, my target will be this tower and all those within."
"You wouldn't!" Erza cried as an image of the tower being destroyed by the red vortex of energy and killing Simon, Jellal and the others burned itself into her mind.
"Oh but I will, and I won't stop there in order to destroy your spirit completely I think I'll destroy Fairy Tail as well."
"What!"
"Yes they've run their course and now I'm bored of them, plus killing your close family will be more than enough to crush your spirit and make you my broken bride," Lucy said letting out an evil cackle as she walked to the other end of the bridge. "And no one has the power to stop me, certainly not you rejecting yourself as you do, they'll just be more failures to your name made worse by the fact that you are too afraid to even try."
From behind her Lucy heard the swirling of magical energy, like a tornado. Looking behind her she saw a whirlwind had completely enveloped Erza.
"I should thank you," Erza said from within the torrent of air. "You've helped me to gaze inside my own soul thinking I would find nothing but fear and regrets but you were wrong."
"Then you clearly have gazed in the wrong place!" Lucy said to her loudly, she suddenly covered her eyes as the swirling air exploded outwards.
Now in full view was Erza but she was wearing a shining armour silver like armour with an old style dress, made from old-fashioned blue cloth underneath. The Fairy Queen's eyes which were once dull and between colours now shone like emeralds, solid and with no fear or hesitation, in her hands, was Excalibur, shining the light of the room not sheathed in the Invisible Air.
"When I was king no matter how hard things got, no matter how powerful the foe I never flinched or ran away because they might be stronger than me. I protected Camelot and my people without regard for myself. I think it's only fair that I afford these new people that I call family and friends the same courtesy!" As Titania said these words Lucy's eye's widened as an image of the blonde haired Saber and Erza Scarlet merged into one. It seemed as though Erza had now completely accepted herself. Yet there was still a small chance of her going back, so Lucy had to see this through to the end.
"You draw your piece of Fairy made junk and think you've won!" Lucy roared opening the Gate of Babylon "ONLY I THE ONE TRUE KING HAVE ANY RIGHT TO SAY WHEN IT'S OVER!"
A few weapons fired from the Gate but Erza was already sprinting forwards and batted them away with the Sword of Promised Victory which now had a golden shine to it.
"EX-"
Lucy's eye's widened, a chakram is easily sliced apart, a sword deflected and even a shield which would withstand blows from monsters is shattered to pieces. As Erza got within striking range Lucy's only thought was.
'I'm going be feeling this tomorrow.'
"-CALIBUR!"
The golden sword was swung down, the armour protecting her crumbled before it as it left a large gash across Lucy's chest sending the King of Heroes smashing into the railing and leaning back on it as she fell to the ground.
"See I knew you could do it." Lucy said as she coughed up some blood "You just need a push and now look at you, you can finally face Jellal with nothing holding you back."
A gasp and look of realisation it seemed Erza had caught on.
"This was an act?" She asked kneeling down to examine Lucy's wound.
"Of course, it was, but I needed to make it convincing hence the memory otherwise you might not have gained the courage to accept yourself," Lucy told her with a smile as blood dribbled from her mouth.
"Your wound." Erza paused as she saw a jewelled flask protruding from a small ripple in the air.
"It's a healing potion, do you mind?" Erza obliged and opened the flash pouring its contents into Lucy's mouth for a few seconds before a golden hand stopped her.
"Take the rest for yourself, best to be at full strength when fighting Jellal," Lucy told her.
The large gash on Lucy's chest began steaming and slowly shrinking away. Nodding Erza drank the contents of the flask and her own wounds began to disappear, her magic energy was also replenished.
"I was wrong about you," Erza said as the flash returned to the gate and she began walking away to go up to the top of the Tower. "You really are human King of Heroes."
"Hmph that's mean, I have never stopped being human." Lucy mumbled I reply "The difference between me and other mongrels is that I embrace all of humanities aspects the beautiful and the ugly, the good and the bad. There is no one more human than me."