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Last we left off the Guild Hall was under construction. And then...
James had been busy helping with the reconstructions. It still had a long way to go, and it was mostly just wooden frames at the moment. A bar was made though and tables were set up for rest when the guild members weren't working.
"Hey Cana, mind if i buy you a drink?" James asks
The relationship between James and Cana had been getting better. She was still ignoring him, but was civil enough to answer him.
"No thank you. I'm fine with this." Cana responds, gesturing to her own large barrel of alcohol
James knew she didn't want to talk and decided to leave her alone. Cana watched his retreating figure. He stood at around 5'8" and still had his hair in a spiky fashion similar to Gray and Natsu. He was currently wearing a sleeveless t-shirt, which allowed Cana to look at his muscular form carry a large wood beam to the master.
"Hey Cana, why don't you try and talk with him?" Mira asks
"Because I'm still mad at him."
"Come on, you know you can't hold a grudge against him for too long."
"...You're right. I'm mad at the bastard, but I still feel something towards him."
Mira and Cana continue their discussion, but stop when they hear Loke decided to leave the guild. Everyone went into a panic and started searching for him. No one seemed to find him and everyone was starting to give up hope.
Of course the next day Loke returned with Lucy, to everyone's surprise, and he revealed that he was actually a Celestial Spirit, Leo to be exact. James watched from afar as Loke gave Team Natsu tickets for a beach carnival of sorts. Akane Beach, James heard, and decided to write a letter to his brother.
James thought that his brother and Erza should talk with each other, especially since they both came from a place called the Tower of Heaven. James secretly bought Will a ticket and sent it to his brother.
[With Will]
(A.N. Gonna probably graze through most of the tower of Heaven.)
"Really James? Well, I guess it could be fun."
Will tells a few of his friends that he's leaving and packs up some supplies before heading out. While traveling Will recalled a friend that works at the casino. Once he arrived at Akane Resort he immediately went to his room to unpack. After doing so, he headed to the casino where he saw his friend shuffling some cards.
Will took a seat and greeted his friend before having a few cards handed to him. Will continued playing and stopped for a second to see Erza, and her blonde friend, walking towards him in beautiful dress. He then remembered seeing her pretty red hair when they lived at the Tower of Heaven. He was never a part of her little group, but everyone knew everyone there.
"Well hello, you're James' brother Will correct?" Erza says, snapping Will out of his daze.
"Yeah, you're Erza, right?"
"That's correct. I remember you helped bring troops to help when Phantom Lord attacked. Thank you for the assistance."
"Not a problem. Why don't you and your friend join me in a game of cards."
Erza, Lucy, and Will continued playing a few more games, with Erza winning each one, before someone replaced his friend.
"I still remember you from somewhere." Erza says.
"Well, I don't expect you to remember me, but I was there at the Tower of Heaven too."
This comment surprised Erza, and she almost missed the comment the dealer made about a new game. She looked down to see the cards spelling out D-E-A-T-H.
"Hello, sister." Shô greets Erza.
"Shô, is that you?" Erza exclaims.
"Ah, so you do remember me."
"Shô, what are you doing here?" Will asks.
"Oh, well if it isn't William Winter. Another person who betrayed us all."
Suddenly, the lights went out, and when they came back Shô was standing behind the three and let cards loosely fall to the ground, which contained the civilians.
"Cool, huh?" Shô says, holding up the jester stuck inside a card.
"Who taught you how to use magic?" Will snarls.
A meow was heard, and Lucy was tied up in some strange rope.
"Let her go!" Erza demands
"Well aren't you rosy." Millianna says
"Millianna? You're able to use magic too?" Will asks
"Meow, it's been a while Erzy-werzy."
"Let her go, please you must! She's ok, she's a friend of mine." Erza says.
"Meow, a friend huh?"
"We use to be friends too, good friends, remember?"
"I-I do."
"We were close, very close. That is, we were, before you betrayed us!"
Will was about to pull out his personal sword, Justitia, when someone else made an appearance.
"Cut the dame some slack, pal." Wally says, phasing in next to Shô. "Keep those emotions in check and everything'll be real dandy."
"Wait a second, Wally? Is that you?" Will asks in surprise.
"Yeah that's right. Ole dog Wally has changed. I'm much smoother now."
"You practice magic as well?" Erza asks
"Why are you so surprised?" Simon asks, appearing in a black mist behind Erza.
Once Simon arrived everything went downhill. Erza was shot in the back and Will was trapped in a card by Shô. From there the four brought their prisoners to a boat and started heading towards the Tower of Heaven.
(A.N. Here I'll just list what's going to happen. Sorry if anyone is complaining, but I'm just really into the following arcs more. I do like the ToH arc, and consider it to be one of the best, so don't think I'd enjoy changing it drastically.)
-Erza and Will brought to Tower of Heaven.
-Flashback: Will watching from a distance as Erza was taken away by Slave Masters.
-Erza and Will break free from Shô when brought to their cell.
-Time Skip: Erza and Will meet up with Fairy Tail friends.
-Following battles continue up to Jellal.
-Erza and Will face Jellal.
-Simon still dies.
-Will killed by Jellal shortly after Simon when he tries to attack Jellal with Erza.
-At end of battle, Natsu takes Justitia to give to James.
-Time Skip: Erza wakes up after the ordeal, and now we continue.
Erza was looking for her old friends and busted into Lucy's Room looking for them
"Lucy, have you seen Shô and the others?"
"Not since dinner?"
"Well I can't find them anywhere."
"You don't think they'd leave without saying goodbye do you?"
"I'm sure they did."
"Why would they do that?"
Erza paused for a moment before asking Lucy to get the others and meet her at the beach. Sure enough, Shô and the others were just about to leave. Erza makes her appearance, and they all respond by telling her that they need to go out on their own and explore. Erza requipped into her Farewell Armor, and listed off the rules of leaving.
"Number one, never reveal sensitive information about Fairy Tail to others for as long as you live."
"We haven't even officially joined yet." Wally says.
"Number two, never use former contacts met through your being in the guild for personal three, Though our paths mat have diverged, you must continue to live out your life with all your might, you must never consider your own life to be something insignificant, and you must never forget about your friends who loved you. Let the Fairy Tail Farewell commence!"
Natsu, Gray, and Lucy let loose their magic into the air in a terrific show of fireworks. The next day Team Natsu arrived back at the newly refurbished Guild Hall. After checking out the new building, and finding out Gajeel was joining them, Team Natsu all gathered to hear a beautiful song from Mira. It was so soothing that a few people almost fell asleep. While listening Team Natsu forgot to tell James about his brother.
Of course the tranquility ended when Gajeel appeared on stage next, causing a variety of facial displays to occur.
"Wrote a tune I call Best Friend. Would you like to hear it? Well here you go." Gajeel says.
James couldn't resist and started laughing his head off at Natsu's face.
"Sparkling, colorful, shubidobah."
Gajeel continued for a few minutes with mixed responses. Natsu insulted Gajeels music, who in turn threw his guitar at him and mocked Natsu with his harmonica. Soon the whole guild had started joining in on the fighting, and after the loss of Erza's strawberry cake ( :'( ) everything went to hell. Natsu burned everything, Gajeel smashed everything, Erza was wrecking house, and James stood by and took it all in.
The following days the Harvest Festival was being prepared and there were already booths set up. James joined Team Natsu as they wandered about, and followed them as they went to the Miss Fairy Tail event. Within moments the pageant started. Most of the girls were clad in their bikinis, and no one complained. Eventually it came down to Lucy, who was about to do a cheer.
Evergreen then entered and turned Lucy to stone before the curtain fell and revealed all the other girls frozen in stone. After a brief appearance from Laxus everyone but a select few ran off. James stayed behind with Makarov and examined the stone.
"Hmm..." James says, looking at Erza's arm.
"What are you thinking?" Makarov asks.
"I'm thinking, that I can override the the spell that Evergreen placed by siphoning the magic."
"Isn't that dangerous?"
"Only if the person using the spell is inexperienced. I've had plenty of time practice and learn in my time away."
James was about to perform the spell when Erza's face started to crack. Everyone started panicking and Natsu yelled for super glue. Gajeel appeared and said they needde to use his iron with Natsu's fire. Makarov started panicking ever harder. The stone surrounding Erza then shattered, leaving a very human Erza.
"Huh...I don't know what happened." James says, confused just like everyone in the room.
"It may have something to do with my eye." Erza states.
Makarov remembers Porlyusica giving Erza the new eye. It must have been able to weaken the spell.
"Oh, I just remembered something." James says.
"What's that?" Natsu asks.
"I can use my...uh, magic to open a portal so you three can leave."
James approached the entrance and concentrated his magic. A void portal opened in front of him and a second portal appeared outside.
"Just walk through this and it'll get you into the battle."
The board listed of a number of battles with only a few more members left standing. Suddenly one more was added.
"Who's that?" Natsu asks.
"Isn't it obvious? Who's gone on missions most of the time." Erza says.
"He's back, and just when we need him." Makarov states.
On the border of the town Mystogan arrived and started heading towards the cathedral. Back with James and Makarov, James had started using his magic to absorb the stone and leave the girls unharmed. Everyone was safe after a moment and James barely used his magic energy.
He then approached Cana to talk.
"Hey Cana, could we talk for a moment?" James asks.
"Fine. Let's go backstage."
"Hold on, we need Makarov with us."
After calling for the master the three headed to the back where James started talking.
"I wanted to tell Cana why I left, but I wanted you here in case I say something that I shouldn't."
"Understandable. You may continue." Makarov says.
"I stumbled upon some...information and I unfortunately trusted Makarov's brother with it. He then blamed me for a mission gone wrong that cost a few lives. That was when a lot of people wanted me gone. They didn't feel safe with me in the ranks so I left."
"Why didn't you tell anyone about this before? It would have saved us all a lot f trouble." Cana says.
James gets a glint in his eyes as he says, "Because...I heard a voice calling me."
A.N. Here we are at the end. I feel that I may need to do some skips on the smaller arcs like I did with the ToH only because there are a lot of episodes, and A LOT of content. Also sorry everyone for the long wait. I have contracted the cursed disease known as Writers Block so yeah...
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