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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The aura that concealed his identity had dissipated when Laxus had destroyed his helmet, thus leaving Mystogan's identity completely open.
"But Jellal, how are you here? You were taken to prison." Erza gasped looking stunned to see the man.
"Oh, so you know this guy?" Laxus wondered with a smirk.
"Erza, I'm sorry I was afraid you'd see this. My name is Jellal but I am not your Jellal, nor 'your' Sir Lancelot." Mystogan told her with a look of shame on his face "This should be proof enough."
There was swirl of magic energy and in his hand appeared a sword similar in appearance to Excalibur, the fairy letters carved into it were proof that it had not been forged by mortal hands, but unlike the sword possessed by the Jellal she knew, its blade was a clear blue like lake water, the sword was still a holy sword.
"But….how..I…" Erza was stunned, unsure of what to say.
"I am not the Sir Lancelot you know, but I have heard of him. In my lifetime, I never turned on my fellow knights, so my Arondight never became blackened, and never lost its status as a Holy Sword. To put it simply I am from another timeline where events went very differently for Britain and Camelot." Mystogan stated.
'Erza, can you hear me?' Mystogan's voice asked in her head, she realised he was using telepathy 'Keep asking questions with your voice, listen carefully, there is a dangerous foreign magical power coursing Laxus, we need to get him to use up all his magic energy fast. The problem is that if we can't somehow get him to use all of his magic power at once the power will continue ravaging him, and eventually kill him.'
"A different Sir Lancelot, do you even hear what you're saying?" Erza yelled 'But how can we do that?'
"It's the truth you have to believe me!" Mystogan protested 'I have it on good authority that Laxus knows the Fairy Law spell."
'Fairy Law?!' Erza seemed shocked at this 'You want him to use it on us?'
"Yes, If we can get him into a state of mind where'd he use it we can provoke him into pouring all his magic energy into the spell then it would simply be a matter of knocking him out. I have no doubt that even low on magic power he'd try to keep fighting otherwise.'
"How could I possibly believe you now?" Erza yelled 'If know about Fairy Law then you what kind of spell it is.' Erza replied 'It might finish us off if he uses it.'
'I have faith' Mystogan replied 'How people act and how people truly feel are two different things, I believe that deep down Laxus inherited our Master Makarov's heart.'
'His heart…' Before Erza could think any more on the subject, a blind white light began filling her vision.
"That was easier than I thought." Laxus laughed as his lightning bolt impacted, having engulfed his two foes. "Letting yourself get distracted in battle is always a grave mista-GAH!"
He was suddenly forced to jump back, as a red and black stone pillar suddenly impacted the ground where he had been standing. Looking up he Mystogan cling to the ceiling looking down at him.
Laxus dodged again as his danger sense went off. Erza came in from the side swing her invisible sword at him. He dodged the first three swings and then, found himself flung back as she swung at him again, almost as if she had struck him with a hammer.
He impacted the wall behind him, created a hole I the wall as he did so.
"You're no match for the two of us Laxus, so just stop this now." Erza yelled at the cloud of dust which now obscured her view of the hole.
"How's this for stopping it?" Laxus suddenly asked from behind her.
Erza quickly snapped to see Laxus behind her with his hands together in a tight fist above her.
"LIGHTNING DRAGON JAW!" He brought the fist down upon Erza smashing her into the ground zapping her with white lightning, and creating a crater. But it didn't end there another larger bolt struck her from the sky further damaging her and causing her to scream out loudly.
"Dragon Slaying magic?" Mystogan gasped.
"Oops, looks like the secrets out." Laxus chuckled "I don't normally use it because I hate the old man's lectures, honestly I didn't know whether this would have the effect I thought it would on you, I had to be sure even with Levy's notes telling me about the Red Dragon factor inside of you," Laxus gave Erza another jolt which caused her to cry out "I needed to know for certain that my dragon slaying magic would affect you, hence the poison. It's essentially Dragon Slaying magic in liquid form. When it worked, I knew my dragon slaying magic would be able to take you down, you see when you regained the power of a hero you regain the weaknesses of one, in this case, you are weak dragon slaying magic."
Laxus made to strike again but was stopped by Mystogan who grabbed hold of his arm and punched him in the face. He responded by smashing Mystogan with an electrically charged headbutt knocking him back, only to be caught off guard by a sudden burst of wind from Erza's invisible air.
He backflipped and regained his footing a short distance away from the pair, even as Erza quickly got back to her feet, her unseen sword pointed in his direction.
Suddenly the room shook, looking out the window they all saw a pillar of white light coming down from the heavens.
"What is that?" Erza wondered.
"Master…"Mystogan said as he sensed Makarov's magic energy signature wavering.
Laxus charged a pair of white bolts in both of his hands.
"Hehe, looks like my friend is finishing off the old man well I'm done with this I'm gonna turn you both to-huh?!" Laxus paused as he saw a bright white light begin leaking in from the windows and the open door.
"This light." Mystogan shielded his eyes from the brightness.
"Is the master using Fairy Law?" Erza asked,
'Erza, go to Master Makarov.' Mystogan ordered telepathically
'What about you?' she asked
'I can handle Laxus from here, If I'm right Laxus will counter with his own Fairy Law, now hurry, the master needs you.'
"ALRIGHT OLD GEEZER IF THIS IS THE WAY YOU WANT TO PLAY IT THEN FINE!" Laxus bellowed as everything was swallowed by the bright white light.
As this happened Erza reluctantly nodded and ran off into the bright light of Fairy Law towards where she sensed the Masters wavering magic power.
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Loke cracked his knuckles as he approached Bickslow.
"Loke, you should know that being a spirit I'm the worst matchup for you, wanna know why?" Bickslow laughed "Its cause-"
"You use human possession magic to manipulate wandering souls and trap them in inanimate objects to do your bidding, yeah I already know, I also know about your figure eye magic," Loke said cutting Bickslow off.
"Cocky bastard, it's rude to interrupt someone when they're talking!" Bickslow yelled.
Loke found himself suddenly surrounded by the dolls who shot green beams at him in unison.
"Take that AHAHAHA-huh?" Bickslow stopped laughing as he heard a voice from inside the cloud of dust that had been kicked up.
"Regulus, lend me your strength!" Loke's voice chanted as figure wreathed in a golden light became visible. There was a trail of golden light which quickly destroyed Bickslows dolls and scattered the remaining dust.
Suddenly the fight paused everyone turned to see the sky above the glassy shield had turned dark again, aside from a familiar point of light.
"Oh crap, not again," Alzack said as the pillar came down, shaking the town once again as it struck.
"Whew, our new buddy is really going all out isn't she? By the way, it's totally pointless to destroy my babies." Bickslow taunted. "These are souls man you can't hurt 'em. You can destroy their bodies but I'll just move 'em onto something else. That means I get new babies! " Five more dolls suddenly shot out from a nearby toy store and flew at Loke who easily destroyed them.
"Send as many as you want, It's gonna end the same way!" Loke told him privately worrying as he felt Makarov's magic power wavering.
"Fine, then I guess it's time for the big guns..." Bickslow then took off his mask and pulled down his hood, revealing his blue hair and a black tattoo on his face.
"Nobody look at him!" Macao ordered as those watching shut their eyes. "Bickslow's eye magic lets him turn you into a doll and control your soul!"
"There's no one in the world who can beat my ultimate combo of Human Possession and Figure Eye-GAH! What the-?" Bickslow suddenly stopped as a pair of chains suddenly wrapped themselves around his shoulder and mid-section.
"I have him, big brother." A voice called from behind and to the side of Bickslow.
"Nice work Virgo, right on cue," Loke said giving her a thumbs up.
"Happy to help." The maid replied holding Bickslow tightly.
"Don't bother Bickslow that's Celestial World Steel, you wouldn't be able to break those chains even if you had a thousand years," Leo told him.
"So you had backup waiting that makes no difference, I still have my eyes-GUH!" Bickslow coughed as the chains around his mid-section abruptly tightened as tried to turn his head, the sudden pain caused him to stop.
"Careful, Virgo's physically very strong, if you try to use your eyes then she might snap you in two, you know in a startled attempt to protect herself," Loke warned with a smirk on his face.
"You're bluffing-OH!" Bickslow cut off as the chains became tighter and he felt his circulation being cut off, worse the maid didn't seem to be putting much effort into it.
"You feel like calling that bluff?" Loke challenged him, his eyes still shut.
"Fine plan B, BABIES!" The dolls moved to Bickslows command, however before they could attack
"Mooove!" A familiar voice called out as a boot crashed into Bickslows face using him as a springboard to jump into the air. It took only a few seconds for the dolls to be destroyed by an axe-wielding Taurus, who landed back on the ground with his back facing the man.
"Nice one Taurus." Loke complimented "Just remember don't look him in the eyes."
"Anytime Loke." Taurus grinned.
"Three of you guys at once?" Bickslow yelled, "Where are you getting the magic energy from?"
"Lucy is a lot more powerful than you think Bickslow, anyway now it's my turn." Loke began glowing golden again but it seemed much brighter than before, "Lucy insisted that I come up with a powerful and flashy move, and I think I finally have it down. It's essentially like my Regulus Impact multiplied by a hundred! And you get to be my crash test dummy Bickslow so thanks, Lions Brilliant-"
Loke suddenly became extremely bright, far too bright for Bickslow to look at unprotected.
"MY EYES!" He shouted in pain as he covered them.
Suddenly Bickslow felt the chains release him, but before he could take advantage of this a fist became buried firmly in his gut. To those who were looking the bright light had become concentrated in Loke, which now that it had impacted Bickslow began shining again, it was so bright that shafts of light began shining out of Bickslow back.
"IMPACT!" The attack released its power and with a power blast of energy, Bickslow was sent flying, crashing through at least ten buildings his angle getting higher with each one, before finally he impacted one of the Thunder Palace lacrima and shattered it with his impact. Naturally causing him to zapped by lightning as he hit the ground.
"Nice one Loke." Wakaba cheered.
"You showed him." Alzack agreed.
"Nice Moooove Loke." Taurus chimed in.
"It was a brilliant display, big brother." Virgo smiled.
"Thanks." Loke said sheepishly rubbing his head "Er…can anyone see if he's ok because I might have overdone it a little."
"Overdone it a little he says." A few of the female wizards said looking at large gaping holes in the buildings Bickslow had gone through with sweatdrops on their heads.
"Hmmm…he'll be fine," Macao said after examining the smoking Bickslow and slinging him over his shoulder. "But he won't getting up for a while."
"Ok now for Elfma-oh….never mind," Loke said paling slightly.
"What is it?" Everyone looked to see Mirajane standing in front of Freed, having now regained her Satan Soul, she was glaring at Freed with a dark aura surrounding her. Elfman was lying nearby.
"You, I just remember I have a date, right about now you guys have got this right? ok, thanks see ya." Loke said quickly vanishing as he closed his gate.
"We should leave as well, farewell," Virgo said bowing and leaving along with Taurus.
"On one hand I'm glad Mira's got her fighting spirit back-" Macao said.
"But on the other, she scared off Loke, we coulda used his help carrying people back." Wakaba sighed.
"What's this?" Both combatants paused in their fighting as shafts of bright white light suddenly began emanating from the ground.
Up in the sky, a massive magic seal appeared, with the Fairy Tail logo in the centre. Then the light swallowed everything.
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Lucy hated the person in front of her. The fact that she had wounded her may have been the cake, but the icing was the smirk she wore on her face. The golden girl could tell that smirk Altera wore was fake like she barely understood the emotions she was feeling and was trying her best to imitate what she saw others do.
Seeing lesser beings rise beyond their station was something she disliked. Inhuman meat dolls should stick to serving petty magus, this creature before her was no different. It should stick to its assigned role in the universe rather than trying to understand the humanity it had stumbled upon.
So Lucy decided she had enough wanted this creature out of her face. Opening a few portals of the Gate they all let out a pulse which caused the air ripple. When they reached Altera, the woman found herself being forced back. At first, she tried pushing but found that it only slowed the inevitable pushing against her and decided to back off, she was surprised to find herself a considerable distance away.
"Forcing me to fight at range King of Heroes, Does the wound I gave you hurt so much?" She taunted irritating Lucy further with her barely comprehended smugness.
Her response came in the form of numerous weapons being fired at her in rapid succession. Lucy applied pressure to the wound, the attack had broken through her prized golden armour. She watched as Altera dodged and weaved around the weapons, deflecting those that came back for a second pass.
"Fool, you've had nearly two decades and even now you can barely understand the humanity you've been granted. Your inability to even mimic humans correctly, ONLY IRRATES ME!" Lucy bellowed opened over a hundred portals all aimed at Altera who simply prepared her sword.
She fired, Altera's sword began rotating, eventually she slashed creating a huge gap in the world that seemed to lead to space. Most of the weapons passed into it before it snapped shut and exploded, the blast knocking the rest off course.
"You really-"
"Sweep away the darkness! RAIN OF LIGHT!" Altera widened her eyes as several bolts of magic light suddenly rained down upon her, exploding and kicking up a cloud of smoke.
"Gramps," Gray said as he pulled Natsu to a nearby building and saw Master Makarov leap down between Lucy and Altera.
"Oh my, it's Master Makarov." Altera chuckled a smirk visible on her face within the clearing smoke cloud, "Is Reedus busy perchance?"
"That's enough, you will not harm my children anymore!" Makarov declared glaring at Altera.
"You don't think you stand a real chance do you?" Altera asked, "You'll last longer than your 'children' but you are severely mismatched for this fight."
"Mismatched? Perhaps but even so I cannot abide by you bringing any more harm to my family." Makarov declared before two magic seals appeared, one of each hand. "FLAME WHIRLWIND!"
A flaming tornado erupted from Makarov's hands, even large than Natsu's roar attack. It impacted Altera whose eye's widened seconds before impact. The explosion enveloped her completely before dying down.
There seemed to a couple of minor burns on her, but nothing truly serious.
"Ah, it seems I've underestimated you," Altera said as she examined the burn marks on her arms as if they something new and fascinating to her. "But, I can tell, you put far more magic energy into that spell than normal, didn't you? Even then you just barely got past my magic resistance and the damage wound up being mino-"
Altera was cut off when she was smashed by a giant fist coming down on her.
"How's that for minor?" Makarov grumbled before gasping as he felt his still enlarged fist being lifted off the ground.
"Impressive" Altera said as she emerged lifting Makarovs fist off her with a single hand "I actually felt something that time."
Quickly Makarov retracted his fist, just in time as Altera slashed at the space it had occupied a mere half a second before.
"You may be able to resist direct magic, but physical attacks still hurt you," Makarov stated.
"Perhaps, but it's too late for that revelation, I will now end this game," Altera replied flipping her sword around so the hilt was facing Makarov. "As a human, the tribe I was born into taught me respect for my elders, so elder out of respect I will not make you suffer through the agony of watching your children die before you, instead I will destroy right now."
She let out a sudden burst of magic energy blinding Makarov and the others.
"Flare Effect. Commencing connection with Mars." As they heard her voice through the smoke a red laser shot up into the sky causing clouds to gather again.
Gray stared open mouthed at the gathering of light, which had come much quicker this time. Strangely as this happened Gray hardly noticed that Natsu had stopped screaming out in pain and his thrashing seemed to calm down.
"Out of the way you brats!" Makarov yelled, as Gray suddenly felt himself and Natsu be lifted up and tossed a fair distance away down the street, as Lucy backed off near them.
"GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Gray screamed at the old man as the shield above shattered to pieces as the pillar of light came crashing through it.
"Take care of yourselves, children," Makarov said giving Gray smile as the pillar of light came closer, causing him to become a silhouette.
"GRAMPS!" Gray called out to the old man as his silhouette vanished when the light came crashing down upon him.
The dust cleared rather quickly when it did there was no trace of Makarov at all where he once stood.
"I believe I've completed my end of the bargain, I have destroyed the current master of Fairy Tail, all that's left now is clean up-GUH!" Altera was cut off by a large fist punched her into a small piece of wall which was still standing. "You, but how….I see."
Everyone looked to see Makarov, fine and without nary a mark on him. Behind was a rather large familiar golden ripple in the air.
"King of Heroes you used your Gate of Babylon to transport him away at the last second," Altera observed.
"You have a bad habit of presuming victory before you've won, Scourge." Lucy laughed as she fell onto her hindquarters, she was starting to feel dizzy.
"You leave me no choice in this matter, I must end this here and now!" Makarov declared taking a stance, between his palms an orb of light appeared and began growing bigger, shafts of light came out of the ground.
"Fairy Law, you intend to use your most powerful spell?" Altera chuckled "It's only fair I did use my ultimate move after all."
"I invoke, Fairy Law." Makarov pressed his hands together, as he did so a massive magic circle appeared in the sky with the Fairy Tail emblem in the centre.
A great white light burst outwards from Makarov swallowing everything.
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Even unable to see, blinded as she was by the great white light of Fairy Law. Erza dashed as fast she could towards the master's magic energy. She prayed as the light began dying down that she was not too late.
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Makarov glared at the spot where Altera stood. Smoke coming off over her skin, she remained still as a statue for a few moments before looking Makarov dead in the eye.
"That one spell actually did more damage to me than combined magic of all your other little wizards. But…" Altera regained her posture and was ready to keep fighting, "it wasn't nearly enough to stop me."
'Not good, I hit her Fairy Law, I put everything I had into that spell and I barely damaged her. What can I do to defeat her?' Makarov's thoughts were cut off by the familiar battle cry of a certain dragon slayer.
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Natsu looked around confused, which was not an unusual state of being for him. All he could see was a wavy looking whiteness all around him.
"Man where the hell am I?" Natsu complained, "one minute I was eating weird lookin' pillar and now I'm here, I wanna get back to the fight what's happening?!"
Natsu did not expect a reply, but he got one just not in words. Instead, an image appeared in his head, of him exploding in a white light which consumed that woman he had just been fighting.
"Hey….I'm gonna explode! I don't wanna die, I haven't found Igneel yet, and there are so many kinds of fire I haven't eaten….wait. Hey, there's somebody else in this place isn't there?" Natsu yelled.
He clutched his head in pain, he felt feeling, that were not his own. Anger, Hatred, Vengeance. The image in his mind at this time was of Altera.
"Ok, so whoever you are you're pissed off at her, but why what's your problem?" Natsu gasped out still in pain as he was assaulted by these feelings. "What did she do to you?"
Something different came to his vision this time. It was like he was watching someone else's memories.
He saw fire. Everything was on fire, the plants, the trees the animals, even the ground at his feet. The whole world was burning. Above the spectacle of destruction which had Natsu in shocked awe, hanging in the night sky was a tear shaped jewel. In the midst of the destruction, the enemy stood unmissable.
Towering over the mountains, a great white humanoid figure It was so large that even Igneel would look like a gnat in comparison. A White Titan. An invader from the stars. Destroying everything in its path without clemency or judgement. This thing was the end, but even so, humans stood and fought, regardless of the odds. Not to be outshone the Gods stood beside them seeking to destroy the invader.
It was hopeless, God or man, nothing slowed the White Titan. Nothing harmed it. It was as though it was invincible. The boy watched as those he called comrades, mortal and god alike were swept away by the destruction the Titan wrought. More feelings, Anger, Hatred, Loss, need for Vengeance and finally death.
But Death did not mean the same for gods as it did for mortals. Even as the millennia and centuries passed, even after fourteen thousand years, Mars grudge still festered like an open wound.
Before the image vanished Natsu could see, Altera's image imposed over the Titan. He knew what this person, Mars, was trying to communicate. She and this Titan were one and the same. He hated her HATEDHATEDHATEDHATEDHATEDHATED!
"Gah I get it!" Natsu yelled as he was assaulted by hatred from this Mars guy, no not Mars but a fragment of Mars, that came with his Pillar of Authority. "Listen, man. She took away everything and I understand that. But blowing me up won't solve anything if she escapes then you'll never get another chance like this."
Natsu felt more pain, but coming from inside him like he was being ripped apart. Mars had decided to speed things up.
"Hey wait, think about this, if you miss you'll never get another chance. I'm out of magic energy, so gimme your power!" Natsu could tell that Mars felt doubtful about the idea. "You might not hit her, but I can!"
Natsu sensed Mars deliberation. He was weighing the idea. He'd only get one chance, if he missed then the energy would not leave his body, then he'd explode and die anyway.
"Come on, let's give her an ass kicking she'll never forget."
The Whiteness around Natsu began roiling and the last thing he saw was it rushing at him like an ocean rushing in to fill a gap.
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The attention of everyone was drawn to Natsu who was now standing up. But he looked different. On either arm were draconic fleshy scales, but between the scales on his right arm stretching all the way down to his fist, was familiar tri-colour. Like Atlera's sword.
"Hmm….has he reached his limit?" The white swordswoman wondered.
She suddenly flinched as one moment he was standing still and the next, he was right up in her face, his fist drawn back. She slashed, meaning to cleave him in two, but instead of tearing him apart. She met resistance. The scales on his left arm held firm, not giving an inch to the blade.
"This is payback. From someone you wronged fourteen thousand years ago. KEEP THE CHANGE!" Natsu's fist had now gained a white glow, not dissimilar from the pillar of authority he'd tried to eat. "DRAGON GODS: FIST OF MARS!"
Natsu drove the fist into her gut, causing her pain. When this happened, Altera felt pain, like nothing she'd ever felt before. As the colour flowed from Natsu's fist and into her gut, she could see something a silhouette punching her in unison with Natsu.
'Mars? But how? Did this idiot somehow commune with him?' Altera thought as she felt herself fly backwards and land in a large gouge in the ground created by her own body.
But the experience wasn't over yet, as the divine power still in the place Natsu had punched, exploded, erupted into a huge pillar which easily consumed her. She screamed in shock and pain.
"Haha, that was Mars." Natsu chuckled weakly as he fell onto his back. He felt the last bits of Mars essence leave him, as this happened Natsu knew, they'd never meet again.
Eventually, the pillar that consumed Altera faded, as did her screaming.
"Did, he do it?" Gray asked.
A groan of pain was his answer. It didn't come from Natsu but from the hole Altera was in. Horror came over his and Makarov as she pulled herself out. She was wounded, very much so but still even with the damage done to her she wouldn't go down, not yet.
"How fortunate." Altera said looking over her wounds "If that idiot had swallowed more of the pillar of authority then I might not have gotten off so lightly."
'She took Fairy Law, and that attack from Natsu and she's still not down for the count.' Makarov thought with worry as she turned her eyes to them.
"No more games, no more miracles, it's time to end this." Altera flipped her sword around, preparing to use Photon Ray again.
She froze as up above, a familiar magic circle and emblem was in the sky again.
"Fairy Law?" Gray wondered.
"This magic power, Laxus?" Makarov said his grandson's name as he sensed the familiar magic energy.
"Wait Laxus is doing this?" Gray said fearfully as the light consumed everything again.
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Erza was jumped and running as fast she could. She was almost there. She had seen the pillar of light shooting upwards for some reason.
"I hope you're right about this Mystogan." She said as the light of Laxus's Fairy Law consumed everything.
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When the light died down they heard a familiar groaning.
"Laxus, you fool." Altera groaned painfully. "Fairy Law only affects those the caster see's as their enemy, which mean…"
"The boy's magic could see into his heart, which is why it only affected her." Makarov realised.
"Enough, of this. His heart or no I will destroy you and gain my payment from your basement!" Altera said as the laser shot into the sky, the familiar pillar of light appeared again and came down.
But Fairy Tail was not exhausted of miracles yet.
"EXCALIBUR!" This yell accompanied a golden light which easily deflected the Photon Ray.
The shockwave of the two powers colliding caused all of the Thunder Palace Lacrima to shatter and shut down the spell.
While everyone else felt feelings of Nostalgia at seeing the golden light, only one did not. One of those present felt fear.
"It can't be….." Altera took a few steps back, as she looked upon Erza and the familiar sword she held, the Sword of Promised Victory. "Where did you get that sword?"
To Lucy, It seemed that Altera was afraid not of Erza, but of Excalibur. She wracked her memories something came to her. Gilgamesh's divine mother spoke of the White Titan, how had been defeated by a holy sword tempered in the inner sea of the Earth. Excalibur, of course, the Ultimate Holy Sword would fit the bill.
"You have done much harm to Fairy Tail and I would see it all repaid in full!" Erza yelled the sword flashing with a golden glow, like a warning.
"Tch." Altera gulped, she was afraid, not of Erza but of the Holy Sword in her hands.
Seeing no alternative, she prepared to flee. Her objective was not worth dying over. However just as she was about to jump away.
"Restrain her, ENKIDU!" Altera found her limbs all tightly bound in chains. She couldn't move at all.
"Where are you going o' Scourge of God?" Lucy taunted "The party hasn't finished yet."
"I can't move," Altera complained trying and failing to break free. She was exerting all the strength her body was capable of, but the chains would not budge even a single millimetre.
"The heavenly chains Enkidu are very special, the higher the divinity of the target, the tighter their grip becomes." Lucy explained smugly "And judging by how tightly they're gripping you, you must have a very high divinity indeed."
"You struggle in vain," Erza said as she began charging at Altera who only stared at the sword in what could only be horror. "Now perish!"
As Erza closed in on Altera she raised her sword and swung it down, only to hit nothing? Indeed Altera seemed to simply dissolve before them
"Did she teleport?" Gray wondered.
"Impossible, No one can teleport out of Enkidu's grasp." Lucy rebuked him as the heavenly chains returned to the treasury. "But that magic….BEHIND YOU!"
Erza looked too late as returned in the fashion she vanished Altera lifted Erza up by the back of her battle dressed and tossed her at Lucy causing them both to fall into a heap. BY the time any of them got their bearings, Altera was long gone, having fled.
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Altera found herself on a hillside overlooking Magnolia town, gasping for breath.
"That was a close one wasn't it." A teasing voice said. "If I hadn't helped you out then you've have been sliced in two."
"And I thank you for saving me, Brandish," Altera said.
"My Mass Manipulation magic comes in real handy doesn't it?" Brandish giggled her tail wagging back and forth. "I suppose we should go before they start chasing after you."
"Indeed, Fairy Heart is not going anywhere," Altera said she gave one last look at the town before both ran off, not wishing to be caught.
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Later on, Laxus had been subdued by Mystogan had been brought to the Fairy Tail infirmary. As he expected getting Laxus to use Fairy Law had gotten Altera's magic energy out of his system and saved him from further physical and mental damage.
Not that this had spared him from Makarov's anger. Laxus had been expelled from Fairy Tail almost as soon as he had been able to stand up. When the Thunder Legion heard this they stopped Laxus before he could leave the guild. Ignoring the glares they were getting from the other members.
"This has to be a joke, right!?" Evergreen shouted. "Why would he kick you out and not the rest of us!?"
"We're just as guilty as you are!" Bickslow added which his dolls echoed.
"Guess he doesn't see it that way," Laxus replied.
"If you're leaving, then I am too!" Evergreen yelled.
"There's no reason for us to stick around if you're not here!" Bickslow added.
"You guys are so annoying sometimes," Laxus smirked. "Can't you just say goodbye and be done with it?"
"I don't understand..." Freed joined the conversation. "We're at fault too, so why are you taking the blame?"
"You got it all wrong." Laxus shook his head. "Say what you want, but you guys are way more attached to the guild than I could be."
"We'll ask the master about this!" Evergreen shouted.
"My decision is final!" Makarov boomed, from above, refused to look at Laxus. "Do not think that because only Laxus is being expelled that you three have escaped punishment. I will announce it right now."
"Our punishment…" Freed mumbled, not noticing Laxus continuing to walk out of the guild when they weren't looking.
"As of this moment the Thunder Legion is dissolved until further notice, you are forbidden from ever acting as a team or taking missions together. You may still take missions individually but you must be accompanied by either Mirajane, Erza, Mystogan, Gildarts, or any other wizard that I have approved. Otherwise, you three are grounded until further notice, are we clear?"
"Yes, master." They all said in unison after glancing at each other.
"Good." With that Makarov turned to go back into the infirmary.
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Makarov entered the infirmary and approached Gajeel who was lying in bed next to a sleeping Natsu, staring out of the closed window.
"Oh, Hey Master." Gajeel greeted upon noticing the old man entering the room and closing the door behind him.
"How are you feeling?" Makarov asked.
"Like crushed scrap," Gajeel replied before pulled out a piece of paper. "Here, this is for you. Sorry, it took so long, but I finally tracked down your son Master Ivan."
"Good work, my boy," Makarov said as he took the scrap. "I'm sorry it was so dangerous."
"No prob, I could handle it," Gajeel replied. "It was actually kinda fun. That guy has no idea I'm a double agent."
"Thank you, I appreciate it, we can't let him do as he pleases..." Makarov said before pocketing the paper and walking out of the room. "Got to go, still much to do for the parade."
"Salmander's gonna be mad that he won't be in it," Gajeel called after him causing Makarov to chuckle as he closed the door.
The Iron Dragon Slayer turned his attention back to the window and the cool breeze blowing through it.
'Wait, breeze?' Taking a second look indeed the window was now open "The old a didn't open the window so how-" Gajeel jumped as shadowy figure gently came down from the ceiling, a very familiar figure. "You BUT HO-ummp!" Gajeel was cut off as a hand with a powerful grip clamped down covering his mouth, preventing him from crying out for help.
"Did you really think Master Ivan did not know about your true allegiance?" The figure hissed in his ear, a woman clearly. "Don't worry I have orders not to kill you. But you and I are going to have a little….chat."
With that hanging in the air, Gajeel found himself being dragged towards the window, past the sleeping Salamander who was snoring like an engine. Terror filled him as he found himself being hauled out of it, with no one to see what was happening.
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Later on, when Night had fallen. Laxus had stayed behind to watch the Parade one last time before he left Magnolia and Fairy Tail for good. Even now Guilt and shame welled up inside of him for what he had almost done to this town, what he had done to the Guild.
He turned to walk away, but felt compelled to walk back, as he did so he saw his grandfather and the rest of the guild raising their hands into the air, a single finger and thumb extended, just like he himself had done all those years ago.
As he turned to leave a voice interrupted him.
"Going somewhere?" He looked to see a familiar blue-haired man, wearing a blue jumpsuit leaning against a wall and grinning at him. "The parade's only just started."
"Sorry God Serena, but I've gotta go, I don't belong here anymore," Laxus told him.
"Actually you aren't going anywhere, not without me anyway." God Serena said holding out a piece of paper to him. "This is a notice of probation from the Magic Council, you can't just threaten a town and expect to get away with it. So someone pulled some strings and got me to babysit you until the time is up, it'll be a year or something. So until then, you're stuck with me. So let's enjoy the party, I could a good drink before we head out anyway."
With that Laxus found himself being dragged towards a nearby tavern.
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"Of all the things you could have demanded why did it have to be this?" Erza grumbled wearing her battle dress, while Lucy stood near her, they were both standing atop a float shaped like a medieval castle. They had both recovered from their wounds and flushed the poison out of their systems.
"I desire to possess all treasures, and your first kiss will do quite nicely." Lucy laughed "I plan to capture this moment forever." She gestured to a golden orb floating nearby inside was a camera pointed at the two of them.
"Also as a king-mmph?" Lucy was cut off as Erza suddenly pulled her collar and kissed her, she held it for a few seconds before separating, in that moment the cheers of the crowd got louder and there were more than a few camera flashes.
"You talk far too much, also that was a platonic gesture the result of our agreement and nothing more, am I clear?"
"of course, don't worry I'll win your heart eventually. I have all the time in the world."
"And you'll be waiting until the end of it."
"Wow- is that Pegasus." Someone from the crowd asked.
"I didn't think those were real did Fairy Tail make it using magic?" Another asked.
"There's no pegasus scheduled to be the parade," Erza said before she looked back along with Lucy.
"Is that…."
"It's the snake woman," Lucy commented as they both looked to see a woman with long red haired with shades of purple, riding a brilliant white Pegasus hovering just above Makarov's float, she appeared to be holding someone under one arm.
"Who are you?" Makarov demanded looking up at the blindfolded woman who stared back at him.
"I am Flare Corona, also known as Medusa." Flare introduce herself "Master Ivan asked me to have a….talk, with your double agent and to return him when I was done."
She released her grip and the body fell, Gajeel crashed into Makarov's float causing people call out in worry. He was even more heavily injured than before, there were a pair of puncture wounds on his neck as if bitten by a vampire, and multiple bruises all over his torso and limbs. He looked like he'd tortured.
"Take care Master Makarov, Master Ivan will be seeing you very soon." With that Flare flew off into the sky quickly vanished from sight.
'Damn you Ivan' Makarov thought angrily as people rushed to help Gajeel.
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[A few days later, Lady Kin's mansion]
Kageyama let out a sigh as he entered the throne room. He had the duty of reporting events to the Lady, who as usual looked down at him, unseen except for some skin of her arm and silhouette from her throne.
"My Lady, I have a report concerning the Love and Lucky Merchant guild," Kageyama stated as he fiddled with a projection lacrima in his hands.
"Hmm…that's one my most profitable Merchant Guilds within Fiore, what happened?"
"There was an attempted robbery, fortunately, the robbery by members of the dark guild Naked Mummy, it was foiled by a wizard," Kageyama reported.
"Hmm…..I'd heard the Oracion Seis had bumped up their protection fees lately. That would explain the rise in robberies, particularly on my businesses. I might have my pet Assassin send the Seis a warning about what happened to those who dare attack what is mine."
"Our reports from interviews of the staff indicate that this wizard uses some sort of magic related to swords." Kageyama turned on the projection lacrima which displayed the inside of guild and row of swords about half as tall as the room lined up in a row. "Some very large weapons rained down and shielded the staff from harm when the leader of the attack tried to fire on the staff. There are no holes in the roof, implied the wizard may have used reequip magic."
"Is there really no other information about our mystery wizard?"
"Well, there might be one other thing." Kageyama scratched his head as he turned off the projection. "Before the swords appeared, one of the staff members thought he heard…an incantation."
"An incantation?" Lady Kin's interest seemed piqued. "What was it?"
"I am the bone of my sword." Kageyama recounted what the report had told him. He gulped as the atmosphere in the room turned furious, his boss pissed.
"Go to the magic council chairman and get the names of all wizards who were in the area at the time, his Super Archive Magic should be able to do that."
"Yes My Lady it will be done," Kageyama said quickly, bowing so as not to meet her gaze.
"Then why are you still here?!" Kageyama quickly scrambled ran out of the room.
When she was alone Lady Kin clenched her fist and pounded it on her throne.
"You will not get in my way this time…Faker!"
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AN: Just an FYI no Natsu does not have god powers now. That was just a single moment of awesome that he occasionally has like in canon.