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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Zero stood up, an enraged look on his face, dark magic gathered in his hands.
"Fine, I'll just do this myself, with the boost I can still destroy most of you fools before I'm-GAHHHH!" He let out a strangled noise as a vine stretched out from the dark ruins of Nirvana and wrapped itself around his throat.
Zero made to break it off but his right arm was restrained by another, his left arm followed suit. Then he cried out in pain as the magic energy was sucked out him, giving the vines a reddish glow once more. Eventually, as his body was deprived of both his regular magic energy and the energy given by the boost he fell unconscious before being unceremoniously dropped by the vines which retreated into the shadows of Nirvana.
Cosmos stepped out into the light, a harsh scowl on her face.
"Zero has been subdued, the Oracion Seis have been defeated." She reported to Lahar coldly, in a tone that confused Jellal as it did not fit coming out of the mouth of the squire he'd briefly gotten to know.
"Are you alright?" Lahar asked her similarly confused, she was no longer the scared rookie from before.
"I'm fine." She replied simply "Nirvana affected me and my personality changed, I'm not a cry-baby anymore."
"I thought Nirvana turned people evil, so how come she's not attacking us?" Natsu asked confused.
"Nirvana flips Darkness and Light, it does not necessarily change one's alignment from Good to Evil, that's dependent on the perspective of the person in question." Lucy replied holding out a bunch of papers which Jellal had finished signing "Light can be evil and Darkness can be good."
"Well, it's over now and I can take the Seis into custody, Jellal that means you'll have to come too." Lahar sighed clearly unhappy but knowing his duty.
This earned him many rowdy objections from the wizards, many of whom now saw him as a comrade for his part. Several vines tensed behind Cosmos, ready to fight and subdue him if need be.
"Look, I'm not happy about it either but the law is the law, and I have to take him in," Lahar told them with a long-suffering sigh.
"Actually you don't." Everyone quieted down at this and Lahar looked up at Lucy who looked rather smug, she held out several inches worth of papers at him, which he took and read
"Please tell me this is a joke." He said after reading through it.
"Nope, he signed it and it's all legal, you have no choice."
"You know you'll still have to-" Several large sacks dropped out of the Gate of Babylon each of them as tall as Jura and wide as about three of him, all of them filled to the brim with money. "pay…you really don't like making my life easy do you?"
"Woah, that's a lot of money." Natsu breathed in awe.
"Look at all that cash," Gray gasped.
"Imagine all the fish I could buy with that." Happy drooled.
"What's going on here?" Erza demanded, looking at the King of heroes sharply.
"To put it simply, I basically paid enough money and now instead of spending the rest of his sentence in a cell he'll be working for Lady Kin," Lucy replied casually. "Here," She handed Jellal a folded piece of paper which he opened and read "Those are the details of your first assignment."
"I'm going to Alvarez?" Jellal asked with confusion.
"Indeed, you see with that witch's spell gone your magic resistance is now the B ranked. So your talents are required for a little expedition there, now say your farewells and get going, chop chop."
"So, this is goodbye again, I suppose," Erza said sadly as Jellal walked up to her.
"For now, we'll meet again my king, I swear it as a knight," Jellal vowed before walking back up to Lucy. "So how am I getting there?"
"Go to Hargeon, a ship will be waiting there to take you, when you make port you'll be taken to the expedition site." Lucy gave him the instruction her smirk still never leaving her face.
"Very well, and goodbye to all of you."
"Wait." Wendy ran up to Jellal quickly, "Thank you for what you did for me, I made lots of happy memories in Cait Shelter"
Jellals face scrunched up in confusion before kneeling down to Wendy's level.
"Wendy is it? I'm sorry but I have no idea what you mean, this is the first time we've met." Jellal told her honestly.
"No, but that can't be true I remember meeting you seven years ago." Wendy objected. "You even told me your name was Jellal!"
"I'm sorry but I didn't leave the Tower of Heaven until six years ago when Ultear was sure that things were going according to plan," Jellal stated apologetically.
"It was probably Mystogan," Lucy interjected casually causing everyone to look at her.
"Of course, Mystogan does look just like Jellal and he even has his Noble Phantasms," Erza said with realisation. "But how can that be?"
"Perhaps he is an alternative version of the heroic spirit known as Lancelot." Lucy suggested, "He probably came from another world or timeline."
"Is that possible?"
"Anything is possible when it comes to heroes."
"So its Mystogan I need to find then?" Wendy asked. "He helped me and brought me to Cait Shelter?"
"Most likely."
"Well, farewell we'll meet again someday," Jellal said finally as he began walking off.
"While you were all talking I retrieved the rest of the Oracion Seis," Cosmos stated gesturing to the rest of the dark guild, all unconscious and bound in thorny vines.
"I'll have to request a transport, or several from HQ to carry all this Jewel and them." Lahar sighed "And I'll have to report this to the Council, they won't be happy, what a pain."
"Nirvana's destroyed, so let's go and report to the Master," Carla suggested.
"Yeah, maybe we can relax before heading home." Gray sighed wearily.
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The Alliance forces made their way to Cait Shelter. Some of the girls chose to get changed while the guys lounged around in the shade relaxing. Eventually, at the Master of Cait Shelter's request, everyone gathered before the guild. When they did so the gate of Babylon opened up and a light shone from it upon Wendy, next to her appeared a tanned, white-haired version of her. Shirou, who looked surprised, Wendy tried to hug her, only to fall through the body, Lucy informed them that it was just a projection of Shirou so she could join them.
"Fairy Tail, Blue Pegasus, Lamia Scale, not to mention Wendy, Carla and Shirou. I commend you on not only defeating the Oraciōn Seis. Lucy Heartfillia, I thank you deeply for saving our village from Nirvana's wrath." Roubaul, the master of the guild said. "Speaking as the representative of our regional guild league, I Roubaul offer my deepest gratitude. Thank you we are in your debt."
"Hmph, I only saved you from Nirvana because I was curious about the Nirvit people, and I wouldn't have gotten any answers if you started killing each other, but now I see how pointless it was." She scoffed folding her arms with an annoyed look on her face.
"Ah, you noticed, Shirou, she is the reincarnation of Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes am I correct?" Roubaul inquired looking at Shirou.
"Yeah, that's her," Shirou replied with an unsteady tone.
"Let start by saying that I'm truly sorry," Roubaul spoke in a serious tone. "I neglected my duty to tell you about the Nirvit people. Please accept my sincere apologies."
"It's alright Master, you don't have to tell us if you don't want too," Wendy spoke up.
"It is important that you listen to what I have to say," Roubaul said. "First, let me clarify something. We aren't descendants of the Nirvit people. Indeed we are the Nirvits, themselves." The Alliance members were utterly shocked at the revelation, none more so than Wendy and Carla, though strangely not Shirou. "Truthfully my body ceased to function four hundred years ago, several years after I created Nirvana."
"You made it!?" Lyon asked.
"Four hundred years ago?" Happy exclaimed.
"Back then there were many wars as a result of the power vacuum left in the wake of the Dragon King Festival," Roubaul explained.
"Dragon King Festival I've never heard of that," Natsu stated confused.
"Me either." Wendy chimed in.
"I'm not surprised, I think Grandeeny most likely kept it a secret from you." Roubaul sighed "The Dragon King Festival, was a great civil war between the dragons. You see four hundred years ago the dragons ruled the world, dominating the Sea, Land and Sky. We, humans, were just food or vermin to them.." Roubaul's serious look seemed to harden even further as he stared with an apologetic look into Wendy's eyes. "Wendy I'm sorry to have to tell you this but nearly all dragons were entirely evil. Grandeeny was the only exception I know of."
"Evil…..but…" Wendy was speechless unsure what to say.
"That's bull crap!" Natsu suddenly yelled furiously, "Where do you get off saying all dragons are evil?"
"We Nirvits weren't always nomads, long before nirvana we lived in a city called Nirvitia."
"I've never heard of such a place," Erza said.
"You wouldn't have, it was in what is now the country of Bosco." Roubaul explained launching into his tale proper "The population was a large five hundred thousand we were peace-loving people thus stayed out of conflicts with both humans and dragons. But that didn't save us, for one-day dragons descended upon our city, feasting upon the people and murder in cold blood those they didn't devour. Luckily, however, I and about five thousand others managed to flee. Five thousand out of five hundred thousand."
Hearing that caused Natsu to back down and look ashamed.
"That's one percent, just one percent of your people escaped?" Lyon gasped with disbelief, clenching his fists.
"Indeed, but the horrors didn't end there. As we fled were pursued by a particularly cruel dragon named Levia, chased us relentlessly, whenever we stayed in one place too long he'd catch us and devour some of us. During one such time when he caught us, he devoured my younger sister before my eyes, her screams haunt me even to this day, shortly after we encountered a dragon who claimed to wish to help us, we were wary of course but also very weary of so much running, so we accepted, and he flew off saying he would bring supplies to us. However, when he came back, he brought Levia with him."
"Realizing that we could never escape, we did the only thing we could, we fought for our lives. But it was futile, the dragons took care only to wound or cripple us, but in the end, we lost. They wanted to taste our fear and despair, but as all hope seemed gone, they were slain, arrows pierced their heads, their necks and their hearts. Our saviour was an archer named Atalanta."
"Wait just a second, Atalanta, Lahar said that she died just a hundred years ago." Gray interrupted.
"Yes, she did and I think I know just she lived so long." Roubaul replied "Back to my story, after saving us, she brought us to a cave, where a dragon named Grandeeny lived. We were wary having been betrayed before but Atalanta vouched for the kindly dragon and she healed our wound and saved us from extinction. We stayed there in that cave, Atalanta even stayed and played with some of the children before she left to continue helping others, eventually, Grandeeny departed telling us to stay in the cave for our own safety, which we did. For next few years we heard rumours of a war between dragons, but by the time we dared venture out it was already over, people called it the Dragon King Festival a civil war which drove the dragons to extinction. Two names stood out as the greatest slayers of dragons, Atalanta and Acnologia, apparently, the pair partnered up to exterminate the dragons and had the highest kill count between them."
"But that can't be I clearly remember being with Grandeeny, and Natsu remembers Igneel." Wendy protested.
"I know and I believe you, perhaps Grandeeny and Igneel went into the hiding to avoid Acnologia and Atalanta's wrath." Roubaul suggested with a shrug "What I do is that at some point Atalanta used a Noble Phantasm called Agrius Metamorphosis which transformed her, it made her more powerful but she could no longer distinguish good dragons from the evil ones and together with Acnologia showed no mercy to any who they found during the Dragon King Festival."
"Wait, how do you know about those parts that if you hid out in that cave the whole time?" Gray asked.
"Simple, Acnologia came here with her body a hundred years ago and told me the whole story."
"So how did she live so long?" Jura inquired.
"From what Acnologia told, after she used Agrius Metamorphosis her lifespan began to shorten, so to compensate she devours the hearts of the dragons she slew." This caused the dragon slayers to turn slightly green and gained shocked looks. "There was always a rumour that eating the heart of a dragon would extend your life but no one was able to confirm it, but I suppose its true because Atalanta lived for three hundred years until finally, she began dying. Her last wish was to have a funeral pyre with the Nirvit people bearing witness and for Acnologia to pass on her story which he did."
"So where is this Acnologia now?" Natsu asked, "Maybe he knows where Igneel and Grandeeny are."
"I'm afraid that I do not know, he never said where he was going after the funeral and even if I did I would not tell you," Roubaul told him frankly.
"What why not?"
"Because Acnologia truly despises dragons of any kind," Roubaul answered calmly. "If you seek him out he will no doubt smell Grandeeny and Igneel upon and will kill you. His hatred burns so great there is no reasoning with him, on the subject of dragons in any way."
Natsu opened his mouth to yell again but Roubaul cut him off.
"Acnologia is far too powerful, even reincarnates with dragon slaying Noble Phantasms fell to him. You would stand on chance young dragon slayer." Roubaul breathed out deeply "Anyway back to the story, with the Dragons wiped out there was a period of well…silence, everyone in the world seemed rather surprised and nothing happened for a little while but then, eventually people saw the great power vacuum left behind by the extinction of the dragons and wars broke out immediately to fill it. Seeing wars that were tearing the world apart I created Nirvana hoping to end it all and bring peace."
"I heard, about that, a period of strife four hundred years ago, countries and kingdoms collapsed in the fighting." Lucy commented "knowing this it all makes sense."
"I would do so by reversing the morality of those whose minds were set on the destruction of others. We made our home there and we took great joy in what we had accomplished through peace. We were a shining beacon of light in a once dark and shadowy world."
"However despite our best intentions, we cannot change the fact that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Nirvana had brought light to what was once darkness not by chasing it away but absorbing it so to speak.
The alliance gulped, knowing where the story was going.
"The world yearns for balance and order; the light serves no purpose without the darkness and vice versa. Light is born from darkness and darkness is born from light. The two are forever intertwined."
"Yeah, that's exactly how it played out for us..." Gray mumbled as he thought back to the changes of both Hoteye and Cosmos.
"All of the World Evil, taken from the people whose hearts were consumed by it, was transferred to the peace-loving Nirvits." Roubaul continued.
"It was..." Wendy mumbled in fear as she knew what would happen next.
"It was a nightmare," Roubaul said, thinking back to that day. "We were engulfed in rage and slaughtered each other until we were extinct. That's not true... I alone survived. After that, I sealed Nirvana away before I died. As I said my body ceased to function all those years ago what you see before you now is a projection of the man I once was."
Wendy gasped, she hadn't noticed at all. But Shirou looked down shamefully
"As punishment for my sins, I, this powerless spirit, have stood as sentinel over my creation for four hundred years, keeping my weary eyes open for the one who could, at last, destroy Nirvana and consign it to pages of history." A small smile graced his lips as he looked towards Lucy. "And now, my post can be vacated for that person has been found."
"No... why didn't you tell me?" Wendy asked. The master glowed softly before the members started to fade away.
"What's happening? Don't go!"
"You can't just leave!" Carla shouted.
"Maguna! Pepel!" Wendy cried out called out the names of the members that disappeared.
"Everyone's just disappearing?" Hibiki asked in shock.
"Why are you doing this?" Wendy asked as they continued to vanish before her eyes. "Please don't go!"
"I've deceived you, Wendy," Roubaul said sadly. "For that, I am truly sorry. All of your fellow guild members were nothing but spectres, they were nothing but illusions."
"Are you kidding me?" Natsu yelled with surprise.
"Illusions with their own personalities?" Lyon asked Jura asked.
"That requires serious magic power," Jura stated
"For many years, I was alone in this village keeping a watchful eye over Nirvana," Roubaul explained as the last of the members faded away. "Until one day, a boy came to me with a companion needing help. His eyes burned such intensity and sincerity that I had no choice but to take the little girl in. I had resigned myself to a life of solitude, but there she was."
"I filled the village with apparitions so she wouldn't be alone." Roubaul explained, "Of course I didn't count on Shirou."
"Shirou?"
"Don't be harsh upon her Wendy." Roubaul implored her "Yes Shirou figured out the truth and that I was indeed a spirit and your fellow guildmates were illusions but I forced her to swear not to tell you the truth, I didn't wish you for you to feel lonely or as if you had to leave because I was long dead."
Wendy looked down unsure what to think, Carla wandered closer to the child trying to comfort her.
"Besides, when you told me about being a child of Grandeeny I couldn't let you leave and be alone I owed a great debt to her after all."
"Everyone I care for isn't real!?" Wendy cried out tearfully, grasping her head and shaking it in disbelief. "How could you do something so cruel to me master?!"
"Calm down my dear," Roubaul said reassuringly as he started to fade himself. "Neither you nor Carla or Shirou need those imaginary friends anymore." He pointed to the people behind her. "You are surrounded by real friends who care for you." "A bright future awaits you, your life is just beginning, embrace it with open arms."
A chucked left him as Wendy ran towards him as he finally faded away. "Master!"
"To each and every one of you I owe my deepest gratitude, I know I can leave, Wendy, Carla and Shirou in your hands," Roubaul said as he finally vanished completely.
"MASTER!" Wendy cried out sorrowfully as she fell to her knees, the tears flowing from eyes unrestrained now.
Eventually, Erza approached the crying girl and knelt down placing her had on her shoulder.
"I know all too well, the pain of losing loved ones." Erza thought, not of Jellal ho walked away to his new job, but of Galahad who sacrificed himself or her at the Tower of heaven all those years ago, Simon murdered by Ultear controlling Jellal. Of Tristian who left Camelot, of Merlin who simply never returned and even of her bastard child, Mordred, whom she mutually killed on that Hill at Camlann. "But you'll heal, we'll help you, come with us to Fairy Tail."
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Makarov cried out as Mirajane hit the floor battered and bruised, her Satan form having long since been beaten out of her. Flare stood there with a devious smirk on her face, sporting bruises where Mirajane had gotten a few decent shots in. But in the end, it had been enough.
"Mirajane, your no match for her, please just get away." Makarov pleaded.
Flare grinned at this and prepared to finish it when a male voice echoed throughout the guild hall.
"You've got guts, you're a little girl no matter how you slice it but you're a brave one, so I can't just leave you."
"Who are you?" Flare asked narrowing her eyes and looking around.
"Who am I? Look at me and you'll know Rider." A figure appeared in the door, with blue hair and wearing a blue bodysuit.
"Lancer," Flare growled with irritation.
"I actually go by God Serena these days!" God Serena yelled leaping towards the stage, landed next to Mirajane and briefly spoke to her "I'm impressed you held out this long." He then continued his jump straight at Flare his clenched fist engulfed in a copious amount of fire. "Purgatory Dragons." Taking advantage of her surprise he drove the fist into the underside of her chin "Blazing Hell!" And promptly uppercut the gorgon, engulfing her in a large fireball and sending her crashing through the ceiling.
"I stayed in town with Laxus to sample of the drinks here, is it true Fairy Tail has your own special whiskey brand if so I'd like to try it."
"Of course," Makarov said crying tears of joy "I-
"Hold that thought old man." God Serena cut him as he stared up through the hole before jumping into the air.
Suddenly the sounds of screaming mixed with burning became filled the guild hall as the fireball that was flare came back down the hole only to be scissor kicked by God Serena and sent crashing out of the front door. She flew and skipped like a flaming stone across the water of the nearby ocean only to stop as she crashed into a cliff upon a beach on the opposite side of the town and was covered by rubble which fell upon her from the broken cliff.
"You know, Medusa wasn't this way when we met in the Grail War. She was loyal to her master, but only did horrible things because he forced her too." God Serena commented as he watched the rubble begin to twitch. "Otherwise she struck me as the type who would only do cruel thing out of necessity rather than because she could."
"So why is she doing this then?" Makarov asked as he tended to Mirajane "Why would she help Ivan do these evil things?"
"I wasn't just sitting on my ass watching the show I was analysing her from a distance and I can tell that she's under the influence of a spell." God Serena stated "A rather nasty one invented by Zeref himself, it twists the personalities of reincarnates making them take on the personality to that of an Alternative version of themselves, even if that version never really existed. But only a strong wizard can cast it, and it needs to be recast every so often or they'll revert to the way they were original which spells trouble for the caster. If Medusa ever breaks free I don't think your son is long for this world. But what troubles me is how he overcame her B ranked Magic Resistance in order to cast the spell successfully."
"Ivan," Makarov growled.
"Welp I'd better go and finish this." With that God, Serena leapt away to pursue his foe.
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After breaking free from the rubbing Flare rubbing her head and growled at the burn marks which now covered her body. The flames had been put out by both the ocean water and the smothering rubble. However, before she could stand up she summoned Harpe and quickly blocked a red spear which came down upon her.
"Why do you help these pitiful humans?" She asked with irritation.
"Don't go forgetting you're one of those pitiful humans now." God Serena replied "Besides I'm a hero, its what we do. Right now we're at an impasse."
Flare was about to retort when she felt a powerful magic energy getting closer.
"You sensed it didn't you?" God Serena asked with a smirk. "Goldilocks is on her way home, you have two choices, either undo the spell and turn those people back to normal and run away with your tail between your legs or Goldilocks turns you into a pincushion and breaks the spell herself. What'll it be?"
"How do I know you won't kill me anyway after I do?" Flare asked as God Serena backed off and stood up.
"You don't but you know that you can trust my word more than I can trust yours. Tick tock, she's getting closer."
"Fine." Flare conceded, her eyes flashed and a loud commotion came from the Fairy Tail guild hall.
God Serena glanced in its direction and she took the opportunity, she summoned the Pegasus and fled.
"Just hang in there Medusa, you'll be free one day." He said with a sigh as watched after her as she flew away.