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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Lucy, Erza, Natsu, Gray and Happy finally returned to the guild. They had been distracted by a village which was under attack by bandits so they decided to stop there and deal with the problem. Of course dealing the idiots had been easy, but they were forced to leave when Natsu and Gray blew up about half the village with one of their brawls.
The Guild Hall had been fully rebuilt but was very different four-story building that strongly resembled a castle, having battlements on top of its two upper floors, while the ground floor had a more Western-looking roof that consisted of many small, square tiles of different size. Over the battlements several large torches were lined up.
Topping the building and the last floor was a small, tower-like dome containing a large bell, which had a pointed roof made of tiles; two more towers were present on both sides of the entrance, these having elongated glass windows running through them and weathervanes shaped like Fairy Tail's symbol on their tile tops. The front part of the top floor housed a large banner with the Guild's symbol on it, while two smaller banners had been placed at its sides.
The team stood at the gates of the new Guild Hall, which now had a stone fence topped with a decorated railing surrounding it. Natsu, Gray and Happy stared at the stone, castle-like building with surprise.
"Finished Just as I thought it would be." Lucy smirked folding her arms under her chest, "Truly my skill at motivation is second it none."
"They finished building it!" Natsu and Happy yelled simultaneously.
"So this is the new guild hall huh?" Gray commented before seeing members lounging in an outside café complete with dozens of tables, benches, and striped umbrellas. "Are you kidding me? We've got a café now?"
Natsu's eyes widened and his jaw dropped at how drastically the Guild Hall had changed. Lucy glanced to the left and sweat dropped at what she saw. There was a small gift shop composed of bricks and sported a wooden counter. It displayed a variety of items such as shirts, coffee mugs, toys and other souvenirs. 'Fairy Tail Goods Shop' was emblazoned on a wooden sign on top of the small store.
"And a gift shop apparently." Lucy shrugged before walking, the man at the counter was Max Alors. A slim, young man with bowl-shaped, beige hair. He was in charge of handling the Guild's social activities and specialised in a Sand Magic known as Sandstorm.
Ignoring Happy Lucy went in through front doors to the building. The first floor did resemble the old building a bit, but it was much larger in size with more tables, benches and several long beams that supported wooden mezzanines on both sides of the hall. A long counter stretched down the right side of the wall, and above it was a large banner bearing both the Guild's name and insignia.
The Request Board was to the right of the doors, while an information desk was to the left. A few meters in front of them, there were two dozen restaurant tables that stretched across the length of the room. The tables end at a large, wooden stage that had four staircases behind it on both sides. Two of the staircases led upstairs and two of them led downstairs. In the upper right-hand corner of the Guild, there was a rest/shower room. The building also had a kitchen, library, and a large, interior swimming pool behind the stage.
On the fourth floor as promised were Jacuzzi's, enough for everyone in the guild. Lucy had personally financed that bit.
"I could get used to this," Erza commented.
"Hey man, what's wrong?" Gray asked Natsu who was sulking behind his scarf. asked.
"I'm not good with change." The Dragon Slayer grumbled.
"You're all back." Jet said.
"Say could you do something about Levy?" Droy requested. "She's been translating that book you gave her nonstop."
"Yeah, she only stops when we really need some cash." Jet stated folding arms. "We're getting kinda worried."
Looking over at where she was sat, indeed, the blue haired girl was hard at work. A pile of notes stacked higher than the girls head was next to her as she continued to scribble down more notes, the book Lucy had given her was sat open in front of her.
Occasionally Levy would pause to glance at a paragraph in the book and then return to scribbling down her notes.
Lucy smirked, she had made the book so that when Levy had translated a heroic legend all the writing on the pages of said story would change to English, forcing Levy to move on to the next story. It also made it more difficult for her to reference words she'd previously translated.
"You guys can relax," Levy said dismissively. "I'll be entering the Ms Fairy Tail Contest tomorrow, if I win that'll more than make up for the time we've lost. If I don't then I promise we'll go on a high paying job together. I need a break anyway, someone keeps flipping the translated pages when I'm not looking so I lose my place."
"She'll be fine," Lucy said waving them off.
"That reminds me, do you guys know who took my translations?" Levy asked the duo.
"What?" Jet and Droy looked at her in confusion.
"Yeah the translated pages for two of the heroic spirits have gone missing, their legend's basic info, the biography it's all gone," Levy stated with annoyance.
"Nah sorry Levy." Jet told her apologetically.
"I would have lent them if someone had asked," Levy grumbled and got back to work. "Never mind I'll just rewrite them later."
"Well, I'm glad you dunderheads made it back safely." Master Makarov said walking over to the team.
The group turned to the old man and were slightly surprised to see Juvia standing by him. Her appearance had changed a white and blue dress and matching hat with white stockings and gloves that covered her arms, and her hair had been cut shorter.
"I'd like you to meet our newest member, Juvia." Makarov introduced. "Isn't she a cutie?"
"I can't wait to work with you," Juvia said bowing formally.
"So you actually made it in, huh?"
"Thanks for helping us back at Akane Resort." Erza thanked.
"No. I should be thanking you," Juvia replied happily, "because now I found a new Guild."
"We've also added another new member to the Guild." Makarov proclaimed. "Someone you might you recognise."
"I wonder who it is," Happy said.
They turned around and immediately appeared on their faces dropped. While both Lucy and Erza had scowls on their faces.
"What!?" Gray yelled. "Him?! Are you kidding me!"
Indeed, the iron dragon slayer Gajeel Redfox was sat at a table not far away, scowling at the group with narrowed eyes.
Natsu and Gray got in fighting stances, both glaring angrily at the Iron Dragon Slayer.
"Gajeel!" Natsu shouted with anger.
"Why'd you let him in here, gramps?" Gray demanded.
Juvia got in-between the Dragon Slayer and Ice-Make wizard, holding her hands up in a placating manner.
"Calm down! I asked him to come along with me." She assured.
"I don't mind Juvia, but he's the one responsible for destroying our Guild Hall in the first time!" Erza stated giving Gajeel a harsh glare.
Gajeel merely looked away and scoffed.
"Now, now," Makarov intervened trying to calm the situation, "remember what I taught you. Yesterday's enemy can be today's friend, right?"
"There ain't no way! I can't work with someone I can't trust!" Natsu yelled pounding his fist onto the table Gajeel was sitting at.
"What's the big deal? It's not like I wanna be your buddy." Gajeel remarked with a smug smirk.
"Man that's cold!" Natsu remarked.
"The only reason I'm here is to get work," Gajeel stated standing up and returning Natsu's glare. "I hate this stupid Guild and everyone in it, but times are tough so I had no choice but to join."
"Shut up, loser!" Natsu yelled, clenching his fists.
Gray glared coldly at Gajeel while Juvia was sweating bullets as she held up her hands in defence.
"I'm sorry, but Gajeel was having a hard time finding work and I just couldn't turn my back on him." Juvia cried starting to freak out. "But I don't want you to think I have a crush on him or anything!"
"I know you kids don't like it, but as the master of this Guild it is my duty to help those who have gone astray find the right path." Makarov declared. "Give him a shot, you might find out he's a nice guy." He then looked away and muttered, "At least I hope so."
"Well, I may not agree with you but I will respect your decision," Erza replied.
"Regardless," Erza frowned and glared at Gajeel once more, "I warn you, I will be keeping a very close eye on him."
"Fine" Makarov relented sweatdropping.
"They act more like dogs than dragons." Macao joked, holding up a mug of beer. "Don't yah think?"
"Aye, sir! You might wanna break out the muzzles to be safe." Happy chimed in chewing on a fish.
"Man," Natsu sulked as he walked away. "This new Guild Hall just doesn't feel right."
All of a sudden, the lights went out and the room was shrouded in darkness. Then, the spotlights above the stage came on to reveal Mirajane sitting on a stool holding a guitar and a microphone with bird-like wings hovering in front of her mouth.
Murmurs echoed through the Guild Hall as everyone turned their attention to the white-haired girl on stage.
"Hey! We made it back, Mira!" Natsu called out to her.
"Good to see you," Mira said over the mic. "I'd like to dedicate this song to Fairy Tail's strongest team, and congratulate them on their safe return."
Mira strung a note, causing the crowd to break out in excited applause.
"Knock 'em dead, Mira!" a man shouted.
"Yeah!" One wizard held up his mug.
"We love you, Mira!" another added.
"As I walk past your room…" Mira sang with an angelic voice, "…my shadow walks through your door…One more day you're not here…"
As Mira continued singing, a few men in the crowd whistled while the rest simply listened. The team sat at a table together, listening to Mira's beautiful singing voice with content smiles; except Natsu who laid his head on the table, still grumbling over the new Guild Hall.
Makarov looked around at all the happy faces of the Guild members.
'I can't believe how fast my Fairy Tail children are growing up. Maybe it is about time for me to start thinking about…retiring.' Makarov thought to himself.
A moment later, Mira finished singing her wonderful song. The crowd stood up and rewarded her with a thunderous applause.
"Awesome!" Macao shouted. "Who's up next?"
The spotlights went off for a moment as a figure obscured in darkness appeared on stage. When the lights came back on, Gajeel was sitting on the stool wearing a white tuxedo outfit, a white fedora, and a pair of onyx sunshades. He held a heavy metal electric guitar in his hands.
Immediately, the jaws of everyone in the crowd fell to the floor as their bodies went pale from shock.
"Huh? What the…" Natsu trailed off, dumbfounded.
"Wrote this little ditty that I call 'Best Friend'," Gajeel said over the microphone. "Would you like to hear it? Well, here we go."
Unsurprisingly, a round of 'boos' echoed through the crowd as they started throwing various items at Gajeel.
"I ain't listening to you!" One wizard yelled tossing something at Gajeel
"Yeah! Get off the stage, ya bonehead!" Another added throwing some food at him.
"Sparkling, colourful, shoo-bee-do-ba! You caught my eye like…"
Though not everyone found him to be terrible. Elfman, Juvia, Macao, Wakaba and Max all shouted out in support, but Juvia was most likely out of old comradery than anything else.
The rest of Fairy Tail however still disagreed as they were still throwing random items at Gajeel.
"Sha-la-la…one bite is never enough…"
As Gajeel continued to sing, a vein throbbed on Natsu's head as he covered both ears.
"OH MAN! This has got to be the worst song I've ever heard!" Natsu remarked covering both ears, only to be suddenly smacked with Gajeel's guitar.
The man in question had a vein throbbing on his forehead and ended his song with a tune from his harmonica.
"You wanna piece of me?!" Natsu roared, enraged.
Instantly, Natsu and Gajeel jumped in the air and exchanged powerful kicks.
"Shoo-bee-do-ba!" Gajeel said trying to irritate Natsu further.
Everyone paused and watched as a dust cloud formed around the two fighting Dragon Slayers.
"Enough sho-lee-be-do!" Natsu demanded.
"Shoo-be-do-ba, ya moron!" Gajeel countered.
"Please! Stop!" Makarov begged not wishing the new guild hall to be trashed so soon after being rebuilt.
Natsu was just about to punch the iron mage until a beer mug slammed into his face. He turned to the direction it was thrown from, his expression distorting into a scowl. "Alright, which one of you threw that?! HUH!?"
Gray sat up from the table, fed up with Natsu's antics; however, the ice mage unknowingly bumped into Erza and caused her to lose her grip on her plate of strawberry cake, and accidentally knock her strawberry smoothie mug off the table.
"Natsu! Would you quit screwing around already!" Gray shouted unaware of what he had done.
"If you were real men you would take this outside!" Elfman proclaimed loudly.
"Watch it, you oaf!" Erza yelled kicking Elfman in rage.
Within seconds, an all-out brawl broke out in the Guild Hall. Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel were trading blows and Erza was terrorising anyone close to her out of rage from losing her precious cake and smoothie. The rest were either using magic attacks or exchanging punches and kicks; some of them were doing both.
In the midst of the battle, Master Makarov could be seen crying in dismay as his new Guild Hall was quickly becoming a wreck.
Natsu looked around at the brawl taking place around him.
"Now it's starting to feel like home," Natsu said with a toothy grin pausing the battle only to receive an iron club from Gajeel to the face.
"Quit smiling!" Gajeel yelled as the fight resumed.
Lucy meanwhile simply shook her head and slipped out unnoticed.
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Far away from Fairy Tail, in a large mansion stood Ikaruga the reincarnation of the fictional hero Kojiro Sasaki, better known as the false assassin of the fifth Holy Grail War.
Kageyama had taken her to the throne room where she was looking at a tapestry of the zodiac constellations. After a few minutes, she was directed to the back of the room where a woman sat upon a large golden throne wearing a flowing white dress her face was obscured by the sun, but even it was not Ikaruga could tell this was just a thought projection, this Lady Kin was not really here.
"Ikaruga, I am Lady Kin, it is a pleasure to meet you at last." The woman greeted her politely.
"You are Lady Kin? I must ask do you why hide your identity so?" Ikaruga inquired.
"Because it would be such a bother to have to deal with the rabble bothering me in person." Lady Kin replied with a sigh. "Now then I wish to offer you a job, come and work for me."
"Such an offer, but why ask me of all people?" Ikaruga inquired "I was part of an assassin's guild, after all, it would tarnish your name if that was found out."
"Maybe, but a heroic spirit reincarnate is far too tempting to pass up." Lady Kin answered causing Ikaruga to gasp. "You aren't a true heroic spirit but rather a fictional one, I offer not only a job but the chance to forge your own legend. In this world, you can become a real hero. Ah, but what is a hero without a Noble Phantasm."
Lady Kin clapped her hands and out of the ground in front of Ikaruga rose a white pedestal which rose up her waist. Out of the pedestal rose a katana and sheath just next to it both floating over the pedestal.
The katana itself was strange, the blade's sides were lighter and darker from each other. On the darker side was the kanji for Demon, while on the lighter side was the kanji for God.
"I had this sword made especially for you, you are aware of Dragon Lacrima yes?"
"Yes, when implanted they can grant an individual artificial dragon slayer magic," Ikaruga replied.
"Good, I had lacrima made with God Slayer Magic and Devil Slayer Magic, then imbued that power into that sword." Lady Kin told her "Now whether the opponent is a god or demon that sword will not fail to cut them."
"Does it have a name?" Ikaruga asked awed at the sword.
"No, you may give it whatever name you wish if you accept my offer merely take the sword."
The chance was too much to resist and so without hesitation, she took the sword and the sheath.
"Good I have an assignment for you." Lady kin told her "Near Acalypha Town is the Headquarters of the dark guild 'Devil's Horn' I have intelligence that they are planning to attack the town and raid it they have a demon on their side. Go there, slay the demon destroy the guild then find the Book of Zeref which is hidden in their headquarters and bring it to Kageyama, who will await you in Oak Town."
"Why would you want a Book of Zeref?" Ikaruga asked very curiously.
"They are rare and I happen to like rare things." Lady Kin answered simply.
Ikaruga made to ask for more but paused as Kageyama put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head.
"Trust me, you're not gonna get any more out of her," Kageyama said with a sigh. "She's careful about giving out any information that could identify her."
Ikaruga Sasaki folded her arms and closed her eyes, pondering on her choices. On one hand, if she accepted the offer she was given then she would be serving a person's whose identity, appearance and motives, except alleged greed, were completely unknown to her. Ikaruga may not be a true heroic spirit but she was still stronger than most common wizards in this world. So accepting the offer would grant this 'Lady Kin' a powerful tool in order for the woman to use her acquire whatever she wanted.
But on the other hand, she couldn't deny that becoming a true heroic spirit was beyond tempting. To have the opportunity to write her own legend was something both she and her past life had wanted desperately. They could be more than a wraith summoned to take the mantle of the fictional Kojiro Sasaki. Ikaruga Sasaki could be a legend in her own right, with the sword offered to her, her Noble Phantasm could be capable of slaying gods and demons alike.
This could be her last chance to walk away and try on her own. The choice was obvious.
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In a small room, dark room at the local inn in Magnolia three individuals waited. They were Freed Justine, Evergreen and Bickslow better known as the Thunder Legion, Laxus Dreyar's 'bodyguards'. They were very Loyal to Laxus and willing to do anything he said. Hence why they awaited him at the Inn instead of at the Fairy Tail guild Hall.
Freed sat pouring through two piles of papers.
"Man Freed it's been a week since I stole those notes from Levy so why are we still here?" Bickslow whined.
"Because we don't want to give ourselves away." Freed replied not looking away from the pages which were separated into two distinct piles "Revealing ourselves before the time could give away the element of surprise."
"I'm back," Laxus stated coming through the door carrying a wooden box.
"Ah Laxus, I've gone over the stories and the plan should work," Freed told him confidently.
"Good." The Lightning Dragon Slayer said grinning down at the box.
"What plan?" Bickslow asked, "I know about the whole battle we're gonna spring tomorrow but what plan are you talking about?"
"It's simple, our plan partly hinges on having the girls in the Ms Fairy Tail contest tomorrow as hostages. But Heartfillia and Scarlet both have a high-level Magic resistance that puts a major wrench into the works." Laxus told him "But with what's in this box I have a method of taking their magic resistance away."
"Really you have something like that? Where did you get it?" Evergreen inquired.
"Well as it turns actually doing the job right and not blowing stuff like an idiot makes you friend on the magic council, especially in their special projects department," Laxus replied holding the box higher so everyone could see it.
"I've gone over both legends and according to the tale of King Arthur, Erza's incredible magic power comes from the 'factor of the dragon' within her granting her the vast magic reserves of a dragon as well as high Magic Resistance." Freed told them.
"So that means-"
"Even if Scarlet gets free and finds me she'll be vulnerable to my dragon slayer magic." Laxus chuckled "Tomorrow, will be the dawn of the new era for Fairy Tail."
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AN: Ok so Originally I was just gonna skip the whole Battle of Fairy Tail Arc because I had no ideas on how to make it different from canon. But Warmachine375 persuaded me to try it. So after procrastinating for a couple months and leaving this chapter half-finished I've finally come up with a couple of ideas. It may not be amazingly different but I hope you'll enjoy what I have nonetheless. Personally I can hardly wait for the Oracion Seis arc, we will be meeting a new reincarnate then.