Someone asked me about bashing.

As you can probably tell from Ripples alone, I like saving people (so does Elle). So you will see stuff like that.

As for bashing…there will be some bashing for some of the stupider decisions made in the MCU. There will be NO serious bashing. Probably.

Looking at you, Jason.

Anyway, the 'Tony' explanation chapters were way too long, and I'm not done, so I've been cutting it into reasonably sized pieces for you guys. Next chapter should be up later this week.

Also, reminder that they were all de-aged a couple of months. So Brandish, Gray, Lisanna, and Juvia have all had their birthdays.

Chapter Three – Tony, Part Two

"Magic is generally divided into two different types; Caster Magic, and Holder Magic. Caster Magic is the kind from within, and it doesn't need a specific outlet."

"Like the Force?" Tony asked.

I shrugged. "Eh. Kinda? I'll let you know when I think of a better example. And I'm sure you can guess what Holder Magic is."

"Wands, right?" Tony asked. "Like Harry Potter?"

"Yes, but also no. We actually don't use wands at all, but Holder Magic is using magical devices to concentrate our magic on something specific. Holder Magic is usually more varied, so they need part of the boost. While our magic is all within us – we have something called a Magical Container, yes you can scan me later – Holder Mages usually don't use Caster Magic at all, and so are unused to redirecting their magic any other way through their body."

"So if you take it away, they're powerless?"

"Normally, yes," I admitted. "But it's time to go onto a different type of magic. Those are the types of magic that people can use, but magic changes based on the person themselves. There are three types that are noted; Primary Magic, Secondary Magic, and Tertiary Magic. These are what you're skilled in. Primary Magic is only one type of magic, and it's the most skilled you'll grow in any magical category. Secondary Magic and Tertiary Magic are magics that you have an affinity for. There are generally three, at most, Secondary Magics per person, and there can be many Tertiary forms. Older wizards tend to have many forms of tertiary magic. Sometimes people get confused and think that their Tertiary is actually their primary, and they never explore further, so they never get past a certain level of strength."

"Some wizards are content with just one kind of magic, and never learn Secondary or Tertiary forms. If you have a holder wizard like that, then yeah, taking away their magical items will render them pretty powerless. But if you're like a few of my friends, then you might also have some Caster spells to use as backup, for Secondary and Tertiary Magic."

"Does it pass through families?" Tony asked.

"It can," I said. "Though magic also has a lot to do with personality. But if enough family members are skilled at it, and they use the same magic generation after generation, then the magic can be tied through their bloodlines. That true for more than a few people. But before I mention some of those, I think I'll cover the most common magics first, followed by rarer magics, and then the Lost Magics."

"Ohh, that sounds nice and mystical," Tony said, waving his fingers.

I rolled my eyes at him.

"Alright, so as I already mentioned before; Gray is an Ice Wizard – he specializes in something called Ice-Make, in which he forms things out of ice that he can use. Weapons, cages, catapults, whatever he can think of; it's up to his imagination. Most of the members of our group are-"

I paused. "You know what, give me a second."

I was silent as I thought things over and I could see Tony start to get antsy.

"Okay," I said. "So, as I mentioned, we were in the 700s. I wanted to find a way to share some movies with the rest of the guild, so Cana, who uses Card Magic, made things called a Memory Card. So I'm going to use them to tell you about each member."

"Cool." Tony's eyes were wide. "Do you think I can replicate that with technology?"

"You already do," I told him. "And you name it something awful, really."

"What do I name it?" he asked.

"BARF," I said. "B.A.R.F., for Binarily Augmented Retro Framing. I think."

"Hmmmmm," he hummed, thinking.

"Do you want to see my guild members, or…?" I asked him.

He looked back at me. "Sorry."

"It's fine," I said, requipping a card into my hand.

"Holy shit, where did that come from?" he asked.

"That's from my Requip space," I told him. "It's one of my Secondary Magics. It's a lot like…hmm…a bit like inventory, actually, from video games. Only it doesn't put things in stasis."

"What do you mean?" Tony asked.

I shrugged. "If I put food in it, it'll spoil at a normal pace. In video games, if you make a potion that has to be used immediately, you can put it in your inventory and it will stay fresh because it won't change. But that's not how requip works. Other than that, though, it's pretty accurate. Like I have access to my own little pocket dimension."

"That is awesome," he said. "I wonder if I can replicate that?"

He side-eyed me.

I rolled my eyes. "As far as I know, no, you do not replicate that."

"Awwwww," Tony sagged and pouted.

"Keep pouting, I'll pinch your cheeks," I told him.

His pout disappeared, and I put the Memory Card to my forehead, thinking, before pulling it back.

"What was that sigil?" Tony asked.

"It's called a Magic Circle. Different magics have different types, so it looks different depending on the magic."

I projected an image of Gray, which translated to 3D pretty effortlessly.

If anything, it looks like I put on some glasses, or that I had bad vision in my last life.

God, that's so weird.

"This is Gray," I introduced. "He's eighteen, and an Ice-Make Mage. He has an unfortunate habit of stripping without realizing it, and has gotten in trouble for public indecency multiple times. Currently, he's undercover at SHIELD."

"Really?" Tony asked in surprise. "And you're just telling me this?"

I looked at him. "I trust you, Tony. We all do, and we have our reasons. Now, continuing on." I switched out the image for a picture of Juvia. "This is his girlfriend, Juvia. She's joining him on his undercover mission at SHIELD. She just turned seventeen and is a Water Woman; her body is made entirely out of water."

"I'm sorry, what?" Tony asked. "How is that structurally or physically sound? How did she even survive as a newborn? I don't understand."

"We're from a fictional universe," I pointed out.

He paused. "Oh yeah."

"She also tends to call me 'Onee-sama'," I said. "Do you know what that means?"

"Yeah, that's the most formal version of Big Sister for Japanese honorifics, right?" Tony asked.

I nodded. "A few of them use honorifics, but only a few."

I waited, thinking about who to do next.

"The only one of us left who is a normal elemental user is Erigor," I said, showing a picture of him next. "He's the oldest of us, at twenty six, and he has control over wind. He also has a penchant for flying. A lot. Like, he will hover and fly everywhere as much as possible, seriously."

"Where's he undercover?" Tony asked.

I winced. "How about we finish talking about magic, first?"

Tony nodded reluctantly. "That bad?"

"Yep." The picture switched out for one of Macbeth. "This is Macbeth. He's twenty two, and has something called 'Reflector Magic'. Yes, it's what it sounds like; he can deflect things back at people and bend things any way he wishes. Also, he tends to use a lot of Illusion Magic and Sleep Magic as well. They're a couple."

I paused. "I should stop doing this by couple and start doing it by magic. Oh, and shit! Evergreen!"

"What about trees?" Tony asked.

I rolled my eyes, switching the image from the card. "This is Evergreen. She's nineteen and has a secondary Magic called Fairy Magic, which is a form of Light Magic, which does count as an element, by the way. So do shadows. And lightning. And metal. And a few others…"

Tony sighed. "Alright then. So we have four with normal elementals, right? Juvia, Gray, Erigor and Evergreen? Water, Ice, Wind and Light?"

I nodded, before switching out for a picture of Erza. "This is Erza. She's eighteen, and her Primary Magic is Requip. So far, she's the only one I've ever met who had that as a Primary Magic. Everyone else has had it as a Secondary or Tertiary."

He stared at her hair. "Wow, that's red."

"Yep," I said, switching it out for a picture of Levy. "This is Levy. She's sixteen, and has something called Solid Script Magic. Basically, she writes out what she wants in the form of words. And it gets produced. From those words."

"Wha-"

"Magic," I said. "If you ever question anything the answer is, and always will be, magic."

The picture switched to Freed. "This is Freed. He's nineteen, and uses a different type of written magic, where he writes runes."

Next was Bickslow. "This is Bickslow. He's twenty, and can control souls."

"…Souls?" Tony deadpanned.

"Souls," I said. "It's called Seith Magic, and it's particularly focused in his eyes. When he activates them, it's called Figure Eyes, and it allows him to see souls and the connections they have."

Tony put a hand to his forehead. "Okay, why not? What else?"

"Oh!" I said, remembering. I went back to the picture of Evergreen. "Evergreen's Primary Magic is something called Stone Eyes. Yes, it's like Medusa. If the magic is something they're born with, it's almost always considered their Primary Magic."

"She can turn people to stone?" Tony asked.

"She can turn them back, too," I said, rolling my eyes and moving on.

I showed a picture of Kinana. "This is Kinana. She's nineteen-"

"No way!" Tony said. "She is not that old. She looks fifteen!"

"I'll explain why in a bit," I said, rolling my eyes. "She uses something called Transformation Magic, which allows her to turn into animals. Particularly, she likes to turn into a snake." The picture changed to show her in Cubellios's form. "The reason she's so small was because she was cursed into this form as a kid. So she spent most of her growing years as a snake, and it stunted her growth."

Tony paused. "She can turn into a snake?"

I nodded.

He looked at me. "Alright, you got me. As far as I know, there's no scientific explanation for being able to turn into another animal. The difference in mass alone should make it impossible, the physics make no sense, but what really gets me is the bone structure. There's a reason why werewolves are supposed to go through a painful transformation. and that's not even taking into account the shifting of bone structure. You really weren't kidding about magic."

I lifted an eyebrow. "And Gray manifesting ice on his own, or Juvia having a body made of water didn't sink that in for you?"

He glared at me. "I understand that even though some of these can be explained with science, most of it is in a different realm entirely. But I can't think of any way to explain something like this. Wouldn't it be painful?"

"That's the magic part of it," I said. "It's not like a werewolf, or an Animagus transformation. It happens instantly. Like that."

I snapped my fingers.

"It's just…look, I get that magic doesn't follow normal rules. But how does it not hurt?" he whined.

"There are still rules," I said. "For magic. It's just a different set."

He relaxed a bit. "Okay. I can deal with it. As long as it follows its own rules, and there's not any changes as far as I know."

He leaned back into the couch. "That's always been my biggest issue. They just need to follow a set pattern."

"No promises on this world's sorcerers," I warned him.

"I don't have to deal with them for awhile though," Tony pointed out. "So how about I try and understand yours for now?"

I smiled at him.

"Still, I don't get how it doesn't hurt…" Tony trailed off.

"I don't really know, either," I said. "But it's probably because it's Caster Magic. Holder Magic will redirect their magic directly to their object. Caster Magic particularly needs to be pushed throughout the body, to the point that it slightly mutates cells and blood. It literally becomes built into the body, and magic itself already works a bit like one of the feel-good pheromones (not as strong as dopamine or oxytocin or serotonin or anything, though). But it'll still give you a boost, and there's also the adrenaline. But as far as I know, most magic doesn't hurt while using it. At least, not for us, with a few exceptions. More on that later."

Tony nodded, and I could tell his mind was racing.

"We can find out more later, okay?" I told him. "We can try experimenting and stuff, but I'm still not too sure on the science."

He nodded. "Alright. Why don't we go back to the rest of your guild?"

I smiled at him, and showed him three pictures next, of the Strauss siblings. "These are the Strauss siblings. This is Mirajane, she's the oldest at eighteen. This is Elfman, he's seventeen. And this is Lisanna, she just turned seventeen. They have something called Take-Over Magic. It's technically considered a type of Transformation Magic, but it's usually unique to its caster. Mira has something called 'Satan Soul', Elfman has 'Beast Soul' and Lisanna has 'Animal Soul'. This allows them to take on traits of certain creatures."

"…Satan Soul?" Tony asked.

I nodded. "Demons. This is her base form."

The image shifted to her Satan Soul version. "But she has a few other types with different varieties. Same for the other two. And they also have regular Transformation Magic, and they're much more skilled at it than Kinana. Transformation Magic is only her Secondary Magic, not her Primary."

Tony tore his eyes away from the two pictures demonstrating Mira's normal form and her Satan Soul form. "Wait, then what's Kinana's Primary Magic?"

"She doesn't have one," I said. "And before you ask, no, it's not normal. But being locked in her snake form also locked away her main magic, which she was kinda born into. In order to turn her human again, she had to lose it. I'll tell you more about that magic by the end, because another member uses the same type, but for now that should be all."

Tony nodded, before his eyes darted back to Mira's two pictures.

"Yes, Tony, Mira is very pretty, we're moving on."

"It's not just that," Tony said. "I've seen lots of beautiful people, though I will admit that you and your friends are definitely up there."

I'm pretty sure I preened, I'll admit.

"But, again, I'm mostly wondering how the human body can handle changing like that. Not just physically, but magically, too. You mentioned that it's a bit like a pheromone, but if it works a bit like that, could you get high from it?"

"Absolutely," I said. "There are some ways it can be really problematic, actually, but you kind of have a reserve amount of magic. It refills on its own, but you can only take so much. Kind of like blood, though you can drain it a hell of a lot more, and you can increase the amount of magic you can use if you work hard enough. But you can only use a certain amount before you pass out, and if you use too much, you can have a serious backlash from it."

Tony nodded. "Okay."

Next, I showed a picture of Cana. "This is Cana. I've mentioned her before; she's a Holder Mage and uses Card Magic, which allows her to do a large variety of things." I smirked. "She could also probably outdrink you if she tried."

"What?" Tony asked, upset.

"Hush. No complaining about alcohol until I'm done with everything."

Tony grumbled but rolled his eyes.

"Cana is seventeen, and this is her girlfriend, Brandish." The picture changed to show a picture of Brandish. "She's also seventeen, and has magic called Command T. It allows her to alter mass."

Tony stared at me. "…alter mass?" he asked.

I nodded. "Yep."

More staring. "….all mass?"

I smiled. "Yeah. Organic and inorganic, she does it all. I've seen her reduce things inside other things. Once, in an emergency, she was able to shrink down a tumor until we could take care of it under better circumstances. It was only a temporary measure, but…"

Still, Tony was staring in amazement.

I blinked. "Tony, do you not know about Pym Particles?"

His forehead creased. "No. What are those?"

I sighed. "Something else we'll save for later. Let's continue."

"Does it have to do with Hank?" Tony pressed.

"Yes," I said. "But we should probably keep going. I'll add that to more things you should know."

He slumped. "Fine. Who else is there?"

I paused. "First I would like to remind you this was originally a fictional universe."

"Why?" he asked warily.

"Because we've reached Lost Magic, and this is where it gets complicated," I said.