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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Loath as he was to admit it, Jellal was now having trouble with Erik who was standing on Cubellios back who had sprouted wings. With this boost he'd gotten his speed and strength had risen to the point where Jellal now found the fight had become serious, he was being challenged. It both excited and worried him, excited because there weren't many things in this new world that could challenge reincarnates and being a knight, he enjoyed fighting worthy opponents, but he was worried because there was a very real chance that Erik might die.
Unleashing his Noble Phantasm, Arondight's power could secure victory but it would also kill Eric, something he didn't want. He was one of Ultear's victims by proxy, all of the Seis were, excluding Brain of course. He had no doubt she was using them as pawns even now and when they no longer had use they'd be discarded.
He and Eric locked swords, only to break the lock and try to attack each while fending off blows from the other.
'This boost Eric had received may have given the physical abilities to match a reincarnate, but there's one thing it can't give you.'
"Oh, and what would that be?!" Eric asked loudly having heard him thinking as he aggressively sought a way through Jellals guard.
"Skill." Jellal blocked a blow and quickly countered, nicking Erik's chest as he backpedalled to avoid the worst of the attack.
"Who needs skill when I have this kind of power? Poison Dragon: Scales!" Erik slashed his sword and sending a lot of large scale shaped poisonous masses at the other man each as tall as two people.
Jellal responded not by dodging but instead meeting the projectiles head on, he had to exert force but the scales did give way and shattered as he attacked them. However, he was caught off guard as multiple scales suddenly rushed him and crashed into him kicking up smoke.
Cobra laughed at this before heard something. A thought from Jellal.
'Dodge'
Cobra was surprised by a metal fist which impacted his face from behind. The force was such that he flew off Cubellios and crashed into several buildings below before coming to a stop. He did get a chance to even stand as Jellal crashed down upon him sending them both below Nirvana's surface. They fell through two more floors before finally crash landing in a large empty chamber with only support pillars in the wide-open space. Jellal leapt off Erik when they landed.
"Another weakness of your Listening ability, Thoughts don't produce sound waves, so if you lose sight of me you won't be able to tell where I am unless I'm thinking about it."
"Impossible, you were planning a sneak attack I should have still heard it!" Erik yelled as he shakily stood up, leaning on Cubellios who had flown down from the hole they made in the ceilings above. "So how?!"
"Instinct," Jellal replied simply.
"Instinct, what the hell are you talking about?!"
"Erik, I'm the reincarnation of Sir Lancelot, a battle-hardened knight who went on more quests, fought more battles and wars than you could ever hope too. Allowing instinct to guide me, in other words, to fight without thinking about what I'm going to do next is child's play."
"If you could do something like that, then why not use it earlier?"
"Because believe or not Erik I'm trying not to kill you, and these instincts are made to kill. Even if you fought Erza, the result would be the same, I imagine her instincts are even greater than mine."
"Screw you! Let's See your instincts help you outta this!" Cobra began gathering poison in his hands only to abruptly freeze up and the magic power to disperse in his hands.
Then, the blue light flowing through Cobra vanished, his veins and arteries submerging beneath his skin once more.
"He's back to normal, but why?" Jellal asked before spotting something tied around Erik's neck, it was a long plant vine, and now had red light flowing through it coming from Erik, "The vine sucked all of his magic energy away but where did it come from?"
'All I ever wanted, my only prayer was to someday hear the voice of my one true friend.'
Eventually, the vine released Cobra allowing him to drop the ground. Cubellios hovered over him, nuzzling against his face.
"I'll be back for you Erik, but first I need to get back to Cosmos," Jellal stated before heading for the surface.
He stopped and froze upon the level just below the surface, his whole body suddenly feeling as if he was being dipped in ice, it was unmistakable.
"A magic energy burst and its massive" Jellal stated it was from a few miles ahead of Nirvana and was most definitely not from any of the Seis.
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Grey and Natsu both cried out in pain as they impacted a wall, crashing through it and landing in a long abandoned house. Erigor covered in his storm mail hovered just outside of the hole.
"What's the matter flies? You're not so tough now are you?" Erigor taunted as he moved inside the building and closer to the pair.
"You're only saying that because you're hiding behind that storm mail like a coward," Gray growled as he sat up.
Natsu was sadly of no help, as he had remembered that he was on Nirvana which was moving, thus causing his motion sickness to kick in. As such he lay on the ground in a pathetic heap. Happy was unable to aid Natsu as Erigor had quickly taken the flying cat out, having seen him help Natsu fly before.
"Too bad he can't help you, not that it'd make a difference."
"I don't need that fiery freak to take you on," Gray growled preparing his ice-make magic for another attack.
"You're gonna-" Erigor stopped as a sound broke in, one Gray was familiar with, it was the same sucking sound that Natsu made when eating fire, but instead, Erigor's storm mail was disappearing. It didn't take long for it to vanish completely leaving Erigor exposed. "Wha-my Storm Mail!"
A person appeared standing over Natsu, their hands over either side of his head.
"Wendy!" Gray cried out the Sky Dragon Slayer's name.
"Quick freeze him I'll help Natsu," Wendy commanded. "Troia."
Gray was quick to comply, trapping Erigor in a pillar of ice. Meanwhile, energy flowed from Wendy's hands and into Natsu who suddenly stood up.
"Hey I feel way better, I don't feel like I'm riding on anything anymore!" Natsu cried joyfully.
"Quit screwing around and help me finish this guy already!" Gray yelled irritably, seeing that his pillar had already begun cracking with Erigors rising magical power.
"I've got a score to settle with him anyway," Natsu growled punching his fists together igniting them. "This is for Happy, FIRE DRAGONS IRON FIST!"
Natsu leapt at Erigor his punch shattering the ice he was trapping and sending him crashing through the roof and fly into the sky. He was suddenly stopped, however, as a vine rose from the adjacent building and caught him by the ankle, before viciously slamming him into the ground.
"Well, I guess that's it." Gray deadpanned as he and the others walked out of the building.
Natsu rushed over to check on Happy while Carla looked closer at the Vine. Which upon closer inspection had bright red flowing into it, while the blue magic energy was flowing out of Erigor.
"This vine, it's draining the magic power out of him," Carla said narrowing her eyes at the strange plant.
"Should we stop it?" Gray asked hesitantly.
"No, just leave him, I don't think its malicious or it would have gone after all of us." Carla replied "Anyway, we need to stop Nirvana now-" The cat paused as everyone shivered, a sensing a powerful burst of magic power from up far up ahead away from Nirvana.
"That magic power…."
"That's Lucy's magic energy, do think needs help?" Natsu asked looking in the direction the burst came from.
"This is Lucy you're talking about" Gray replied shaking his head "She probably just wants attention."
"Yeah you're right, let's go." With that everyone began running towards the royal throne intent on stopping Nirvana.
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Lahar's plan had worked beautifully, Angel's shots had slowed down but had become larger and more destructive because of his taunting, this gave Lahar his advantage back. Speed. It also helped that she couldn't see him thanks to invoking his Noble Phantasm 'No Face May King' which for all intents and purposes made him completely invisible.
First, he needed to take out Caelum, the celestial spirit of the chisel which was currently situated on a tower and was taking pot shots whenever it saw him. Unlike Angel whose shots were wild and destructive, Caelum's shots were focused and more likely to be lethal, it took its time and took a shot whenever it spotted him, as such he needed to take it out with a single. Angel herself was also on another building rooftop, a bit higher than her Celestial Spirit.
However, attacking either Angel or Caelum both had the same problem. Attacking on would alert the other as to his location and seeing as he trying to avoid killing the Seis he would need to be careful.
'I need to defeat them both at the same time, Caelum won't be much of a problem a single strong blow will send it back to the Spirit World.' Lahar thought to begin his plan of attack 'However, Angel, I need to arrest her, not kill her which means I can't invoke the Yew Bow's true power. I've upped the poison on the arrow I attacked her with, the level I used on Racer will be insufficient with that magic energy no doubt making her more resilient.' Lahar let out a sigh 'Being a lawman is such a pain, things were much more simple when I was an outlaw, find bad guy kill bad guy problem solved. Welp here's goes nothing.'
Readying his crossbow, Lahar plucked a small lacrima from out of his pocket. He quickly overloaded it with magic energy and tossed it as far as he could. Predictably, it exploded letting out a large flash of light along with a bang. It got their attention and so he fired to arrows in quick succession.
Angel was not having a good day, anger clouded her mind from that irritating Rune Knight's talking. She was not working for Zeref and she'd prove it by blowing him into little bits. She'd fired anywhere Caelum had shot creating large craters and demolishing whole buildings. She saw a flash of light and a loud bang, she quickly fired at the spot along with Caelum, only to hear something like the shattering of glass.
She looked to see Caelum returning to the Celestial Spirit world, only to feel a sharp pain. Looking down Angel saw an arrow embedded in her side.
"Bastard, as if I'll go down so easily!" Angel screamed madly, she prepared her arm cannon, and began gathering magical energy the orb was quickly as big as a basketball, then a horse and then a small car. However before she could fire something wrapped around her throat and she began to feel weak, the orb suddenly dissipated and then Angel found herself screaming as she was dragged down through the floor, and the subsequent ones below it.
Lahar meanwhile was pleasantly surprised when Angel vanished and began being dragged down through the building she had been standing on. He jogged over to it, wincing as she crashed to the ground floor. He entered the building to find Angel on the ground, the air having been knocked out of her.
"Vines?" Lahar stated upon seeing vines wrapped around Angel's neck, arms, legs and waist, all glowing red as the blue light in angel began to dim "They're draining the magic energy from her, well this is convenient. The poison should put you to sleep a bit quicker now. I'll come back for you later. I need to get to the throne and stop Nirvana."
As Lahar walked away Angel gasped reaching her hand upwards towards the sky visible through the holes in the ceiling above her.
'My prayer... to fade into the sky... like an angel…'
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Jellal couldn't say he wasn't disappointed. He'd gotten the cure to Cosmos which began to work immediately, colour returning to the Squire's face. However she hadn't thanked him, instead demanded that he leave her alone, when she lashed out at him with her plant magic he reluctantly left her and began making his way to the throne in order to stop Brain and Nirvana.
As he ran down his warning instinct blared and he screeched to a halt just as the wall to his left exploded as something flew through it and stopped hitting the wall to his right. In the crater made in the right wall was Macbeth completely out cold. There was a flash of light from within the hole and out of it stepped Erza in her Heart Kreuz armour.
"Jellal." She greeted him.
"My king," Jellal replied coolly before going on guard as Erza suddenly went into a stance her invisible sword in hand.
The disgraced knight looked to see the same vines from earlier wrapping around Macbeth and just like with Erik began draining the magic energy from him.
"Easy, those vines appear to take away that strange magic energy from them, the same happened during my fight with Erik earlier."
"I see." Erza was still on guard but lowered her sword, keeping an eye on the vines as they began making their way to the throne.
"So how did you get around his reflector magic?"
"Well, when I figured out he couldn't use it to directly affect my body, I simply removed any clothing and punched him, it was actually rather sad, even Natsu lasts longer than that," Erza said with disappointment.
'Hey guys, can you hear me?' A familiar voice echoed through a telepathic link.
"Hibiki is that you?" Erza asked.
'I'm glad you're ok, we managed to defeat all the thugs down here a while ago and have been trying to keep up with Nirvana.' Hibiki informed her.
'Sherry's doll magic has helped us in that regard.' Lyon commented 'Nirvana's sheer size allows it cross a vast distance quite fast, despite its seemingly slow speed.'
'I contacted Jura, he was with Hoteye who was about change sides but he was attacked and defeated, he's fighting Brain right now at the Royal Throne' Hibiki informed them.
'I've defeated Angel, it was strange some vines appeared and landed the finishing blow for me and began draining the magic energy out of her.' Lahar reported in an unusually casual tone.
"The same happened when I fought Cobra, some vines appeared and immobilised him, sucking out that magic energy from him," Jellal reported.
'Hey is that Jellal?' Gray cut in.
"Yes it is, I only helped the Seis get Nirvana because they were holding a squire who was lent to the Rune Knights, hostage." Jellal explained, "I got the antidote to her in time so she's out of danger."
'Then I assume you know how to stop Nirvana?' Lahar asked.
'We are almost at Cait Shelter.' Carla cried fearfully.
"Yes, I don't have the sealing method but Nirvana can be forced to shut down."
'Can't we just destroy it?' Gray interrupted impatiently.
'Yeah I'm with the ice princess, we do enough damage and we can wreck this thing easy.' Natsu agreed.
'What did you say?!'
'You heard me frosty!'
"BOTH OF YOU SHUT UP!" Erza yelled angrily stopping the argument dead.
'Yes, Ma'am.' Both wizards suddenly changed their tune quickly not wanting to invoke Erza's wrath.
"I'm afraid that won't work, Nirvana is quite literally a mobile city." Jellal continued his explanation. "Anti-Fortress noble Phantasms like Excalibur will be insufficient, as Nirvana has a powerful self-repair ability and fix even major damage within seconds. My Arondight is Anti-Army at best, In order to force Nirvana to shut we have to destroy the six lacrima which are positioned at the top of each of its legs, which power it by sucking magic energy from the earth. An Anti-City Noble Phantasm is required to annihilate Nirvana completely."
"And the one person who definitely has one is off sulking still." Erza sighed massaging her temples "Hibiki can you get through to Lucy?"
'I've tried but she's blocked me completely.'
Erza opened her mouth to comment but stopped a boom came the top of the royal throne sending tremors throughout the city.
'What the hell was that?' Gray inquired surprised.
'Apologies that was me' Jura's voice declared joining the telepathic conversation 'I have just defeated Brain. But it was odd he didn't use-'
Jura suddenly cut out as a large explosion came from the top of throne joined an eerie green light.
'Jura! Jura what's wrong?!' Lyon yelled
'I've lost the connection' Hibiki stated with panic
'He's still alive, for now.' Another voice suddenly cut into the telepathic link, it was a sinister voice full of malice. 'He will watch as I destroy his guild as well.'
"Who are you?" Erza demanded.
'Insolent fool, you should speak to the Great One with more respect!' A different voice cut in, with a grovelling to it.
'Silence Klodoa, I am Zero and I must say you scum have done an admirable job of taking apart my guild, but as its master, I obligated to have my revenge, not mention you sky dragon slayer, you took my eye, so I'll destroy your entire guild. We are finally at our destination.'
There was a shudder as Nirvana came to a sudden halt. As it did a large swirl of dark looking magical energy began gathering around the front of Nirvana. Looking out Erza and Jellal both noticed the sun had was beginning to disappear over the horizon.
'What's that?' Natsu asked no doubt everyone could see it from where they were.
"That's Nirvana's weapon he's going to fire it!" Jellal yelled, "When that happens Cait Shelter's members will go to the dark side and start ripping each other apart."
'Our guild' Carla whispered with shock.
'Don't be absurd, while I would very much enjoy seeing the Nirvits destroy themselves I have a much worthier target in mind.' Zero laughed 'Look closely at where we're aiming.'
Erza squinted, looking past the swirling magic power which was growing bigger and bigger, and spotted something, a golden craft floating in the sky level with Nirvana. The Vimana.
"Lucy?!" Erza said her eyes widening, as she was just about able to see the golden clad girl sitting atop the Vimana with her eyes shut and her head resting on one hand, seemingly unconcerned with the situation.
"Nirvana's magic power is too powerful to be given a rank. Even her armour won't be able to protect her from it." Jellal stated.
'Correct!' The Guildmaster cackled 'You may have defeated the rest of my guild but with her, by my side, I'll be able to destroy the entire world! NOW DESTROY JUSTICE AND DECENCY MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!'
Nirvana fired, unleashing the gathered magic energy in the form of a powerful black beam from the cannon. Lucy finally opened her eyes with an annoyed expression on her face. She saw the beam coming for her and simply clicked her tongue with irritation as the beam enveloped her and the Vimana completely.
After the beam dispersed everyone could finally see the Vimana in the same position as before. Nirvana's beam had definitely struck and Lucy had made no move to defend herself from it.
'Does this mean she's on his side now?' Happy asked fearfully.
'Correct, Even with that armour granting her B ranked magic resistance, Nirvana's magic power is beyond the ranking system which means even she has had her light turned into darkness!' Zero gloated as the Vimana suddenly began ascending higher and higher until it finally settled far above the height of the royal throne. 'Now with the King of Heroes at my side, none of you can stop me!'
It was then it appeared, golden ripples in space that all of them were familiar with. The Gate of Babylon. But it was not just one portal, nor two or even ten, there were hundreds of portals enough to completely cover Nirvana and each had a small blue glow in the centre. The owner looked down at them imperiously from the edge of the Vimana which hovered above the portals, with her arms folded.
'We can see it from here.' Hibiki whispered in horror.
"Hibiki you all need to get away from here!" Erza yelled loudly.
'Now guilds of light bear witness to it, THE DESTRUCTION TO END ALL!' Zero bellowed gleefully.
Then it began to rain, not Noble Phantasms, but beams of blue light, they were about as thick as rope but from the distance, they may as well have been as thin as straw. Then the beams all began to converge and merge together. Become less numerous but growing bigger as they did so. Finally, only a few huge columns were left, Erza and Jellal scarcely had time to think before the beams impacted. Then everything around them began violently shaking, there was a roaring cacophony of different noises before they felt themselves falling.
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'….za….nyone….er….me?' A weak voice was trying to communicate through heavy static.
Erza groaned and rubbed her head, everything had finally stopped moving. She found herself and Jellal had landed on the side of a building, like the whole of Nirvana was at a slant.
"Hibiki…..is that you?" Erza finally asked after getting her bearings.
'Erza, I'm glad you're alright, the blasts interfered with my telepathy, it's only now clearing up.'
'We're all alive?' Gray inquired with a groan 'Well Natsu and Happy are out cold, what about the rest of you?'
'I'm ok, just a few scratches here and there.' Wendy reported with a pained groan.
'I'm fine.' Lahar said shortly.
'Great news, if you couldn't already tell, Nirvana has been destroyed.' Hibiki told them cheerfully.
"What?!"
"She destroyed it?"
'Yeah, the things a mess, the main body has split in two and one part is at an angle, while the legs have detached and crumbled to pieces.' Hibiki informed them.
'But why would she do that if she's on his side now?' Gray wondered.
Before anyone could speak however a golden light shone down the sky blinding everyone and let out a sound like gale force winds passing by. The next thing they knew the whole of the allied forces found themselves reunited in a large clearing by a river, with Cait Shelter just across from it. The large ruins of the destroyed nirvana looming across from them. The unconscious member of the Seis and Erigor lay gathered off to the side.
"Jura!" Lyon cried looking at the fallen Wizard Saint who had been reunited with, he was unconscious and had a large burn mark on his front. He ran over to him and began inspecting his wounds with Hibiki.
"He'll make it, but he needs to be medical attention as soon as possible," Hibiki said after examining his wounds for a moment.
"But what went wrong?" A familiar voice asked they all turned to see Zero standing there punching a tree in frustration. "Was Nirvana simply too big of a target for her to resist?"
"AHAHAHAHAHA" a familiar haughty laugh broke in, a golden portal appeared before the group, it easily was large as a person. and out it stepped Lucy with a wide grin on her face. "I do so love this world, I don't have to make my own entertainment anymore."
"Impossible, you took a direct hit from Nirvana, so how are you still yourself?!" Zero cried in disbelief and rage.
"Ha, fool I am a king," Lucy answered smugly as if that explained everything.
"Care to elaborate for those us who don't have ego's which dwarf galaxy clusters?" Erza asked dryly.
"A king is an existence which acknowledges things such as evil, hatred, ugliness and darkness; A true King will permit them. A true King will also bear the burden of the sins for the entire world and I have been bearing that weight on my shoulders now since the beginning of time." Lucy launched into her explanation "As for things such as morality, that is something the masses invented to justify their actions, to give extra value to their lives. If they contributed, enriched the lives of others and thought they made the world a better place then they are good thus their lives had some form of significance. I am above petty morality, I do not align with either good or evil, light or darkness. The only thing which truly matters to a king is their word which is the law by which all should abide. No matter how powerful the magic you use I cannot be swayed by you or anything else."
"No, NO NO NO NOOOO!" Zero yelled in fury his magic powerful flaring in response to his frustration causing the none reincarnates to shield themselves.
Jell, Erza, Lahar and Shirou who had switched with Wendy now pointed their weapons at him.
"Zero it's over you and the Oracion Seis are finished," Jellal stated summoning Arondight.
"Now surrender peacefully," Erza demanded her invisible sword pointed at the man.
"Accept your defeat, you and all your underlings are under arrest." Lahar declared pointing his crossbow at the man.
None of them noticed a dark, wooden staff skull topped with a handle-like formation at the back with has bandage-like wrappings near the top half. Adorned with a headpiece composed of a bluish cloth with yellow markings over it, creating a jagged formation, stones aligned over the top of the cloth, red feather-like objects hanging down beside skull, and lastly a multitude of green leaves also similar to feathers. At the back of the skull are two yellow strings with blue rings attached to the ends. With a turquoise round stone in its mouth. It slithered like a snake into the undergrowth and fled from sight.
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Back at Fairy Tail, Master Makarov could see no way out. It was Fairy Tail's greatest secret or his children. The smirking Flare was examining her nails unconcerned. Just as he was about to open his mouth to surrender however Flare suddenly flew from her seat and into the back wall.
"You won't hurt Fairy Tail any further." Makarov gasped as he saw Mirajane in her Satan form, fist outstretched.
"Mira!" he called out in both relief and fear.
Makarov was relieved that she was unharmed but he was also afraid because now Flare was sure to retaliate, he couldn't let her be killed. Fairy Heart was not worth losing his children over.
"Oh, that actually hurt, impressive." Flare congratulated her while nursing the bruise now on her face. "Mirajane Strauss, you know I'm actually glad I missed you, I'd love you as part of my collection but that form is so ugly, tell you what I'll humour you and fight, after all, the look of despair on your face as I crush your pitiful defiant spirit to dust, will look fantastic when I turn you to stone and lock your face forever that way." Flare giggled and shivered in anticipation. "I have a spot near a window where you'll look fantastic. I'll even forgo weapons just hand to hand you and me to make it fair."
Mirajane swallowed shoving down her fear, she knew her strength wasn't enough to beat this monster, but she needed to do something. She needed to buy time, with luck the others would be back soon. She just needed to hang on. So without hesitation, she engaged the grinning gorgon who gladly leapt at her like a beast.
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AN: And that's a wrap, finally I got round to finishing this. Anyway I held a poll and now its closed, the winner is Potential in Remant a Persona 4 RWBY crossover where Yu goes to teach at Beacon academy, with A wizard and a Wild Card in a close second. I'll be publishing Potential in Remnant in a few days after a I give the first chapter a rewrite so when it does get published I'd appreciate if you guys would give it a read.
This chapter's ending is rather abrupt, but I can only say that I got distracted and have started getting back to writing hopefully the next chapter will be an improvement, some revelations await as more about an Earthland with reincarnates is revealed, so stay tuned.