I'm going to skip an arc, the rest of PL arc will play out but the Tower of Heaven will be skipped
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"Hand me that Arclight Spanner." Said Sara as she knelt down next to a large inoperable iron machine on treads.
"Wait what?" Asked Erza as she searched the tool box for this... spanner...
Sara sighed "The double headed wrench..."
"Oh!" Erza chirped and pulled out the tool in question, handing it to Sarandra. "So uh... what is this?"
Sara pushed up off the machine, standing up and wiping a bit of grease off her palms. "It's called a Steam Tank, the Alliance used machines like this on large scale offensives, it's a machine of war." Sara stood back grinning at the tank. "I didn't think I'd have enough time to finish this but with Fairy Tail's help and an abundance of steel... well... if Phantom comes knocking they'll have these to deal with..." She jumped up onto the top, banging on the cannon with the Spanner. "I rigged the cannon to fire projectiles based on the user's magical affinity. So say Natsu was to operate this, he could channel his fire power into this cannon and shoot fireballs roughly three times his normal power with little effort." She moved onto the armor plating "The armor is layered so that most magical attacks will be absorbed and consumed by the machine to power it further... I'll admit, I mastered engineering, blacksmithing and enchanting back home but... well I never used it for things like this... kinda..."
"So what was it like back in your world? If you don't mind me asking..." said Erza, crossing her arms and looking at Sara inquisitively.
Sara glanced at her feet nervously and sighed "Well... there was war, tons of it... never ending... Like you saw with Rhia and I... the Races of my world never got along. We were stuck in a never ending race war for supremacy. Sure both sides had flaws and personally I couldn't give much more of a damn for whose fault it was that started it and who wants to end it... all I know is that it needs to end, and soon or we will end up doing something to our world that we will regret and will be felt across the Great beyond..."
"Great beyond?"
"Great beyond, the Unknown Reaches, Void Space, whatever you wanna call it, it's the space in which worlds exist... Azeroth, Outland... probably Earthland as well are all contained in the Beyond... then there is the Twisting Neather which isn't inherently dangerous, I've flown through gaps in it before while on Outland with no problems... I'm not sure if there are long term effects in it however since the Draenei and all that have ships but hey, I'm not a blue horn headed tentacle bearded freak..."
Then someone burst into the room, nearly tripping over some of the scattered tools on the ground... it was Grey. "We got a problem, outside, come see!"
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"Ho-lee-shyeeet..." Sara cursed staring at the giant mobile Guild Hall out in the middle of the sea... with a giant cannon mounted on it... of course... "Well someone is overcompensating for something..." commented Sara, "not quite as bad as... [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] however..."
[DID SOMEONE SAY THUNDERFURY, BLESSED BLADE OF THE WINDSEEKER!? Herp-derp!]
"Behold the magic amplifying cannon JUPITER!" Roared a speaker, the sound of Jose the Phantom Lord GM... "I give you the opportunity to surrender Lucy Heartfillia or be obliterated by JUPITER!"
"YOU MUST BE INSANE!" Yelled Kana "We'd never surrender one of our own to you creeps!"
The entire guild roared in agreement.
"So be it..." growled Jose over the speakers... then the Cannon started to charge, a glowing ball of volatile energy growing on the end.
Erza turned to Sara "So have any special Azeroth Magic that might help us in this situation?"
Sara scratched the back of her neck... "Uh... offensively speaking? No I don't think I have anything quite powerful enough to bring that behemoth down... might have to do some good old fashioned smashing from the inside... Defensively speaking, I might be able to project an Anti-Magic Zone around the Guild members as a last resort... it will reduce the damage of the blast to us significantly but the Guild hall would still be obliterated... I have a single target version of that spell as well which is much more potent... but..."
"I have an idea" said Erza "REQUIP!" she yelled changing into her Adamantine Armor "I can absorb the majority of the blast... cast Anti-Magic Shell on me so I can more easily deal with it..."
Sara nodded and cast a small screen in front of herself. "Never thought I'd be using this Armor with this Class set..." she muttered, tapping a small icon on the magical screen, her armor instantly changing with no special effects from her Darkened blue Saronite Armor to a Purple and silvered version of the same armor, but instead of being adorned with skulls it had two silver holy crosses on the pauldrons and a long white cape flowed down her back.
"Brilliant Saronite..." she grumbled "Since when does a Death Knight need Spellcasting Armor... Ok I'm ready! Make this quick, if we get into a fight, Menu Magic is hard to cast and I can't guaranteed I'll get back into my Stamina or Strength enhancing Armor."
Erza ran in front of the guild as the cannon blast opened fire, while she herself was engulfed in a green anti-magic shell. The impact of the cannon shook the foundations of the city, light blinded the whole guild... when it died down... Erza was still standing in one piece, with hardly a scratch...
"BADASS!" Erza roared.
"WHAT!?" Jose fumed over the walking guild hall's speakers. "IMPOSIBLE!" the speakers went silent for a while... "What what is this?" it said... almost as if it was speaking to someone inside the hall... "Who are you? Wait! WHAT ARE YOU DO- NOT SO FAST!" then the speakers cut off...
"What was that all about?" Natsu asked as he ran over to Grey, Sara and Erza... "Internal conflict?"
"Seems like it smart guy..." replied Gray.
"HEY! IT WAS JUST A SUGGESTION!" Natsu roared
Panting behind them caught the attention of the group, they turned around to face a purple skinned Night Elf... Rhia the Hunter.
"What do you want now?" Sara asked, placing her hand on her sword handle "And more importantly why are you here?"
The panting Night Elf quickly shot up and grabbed Sara on the shoulders shaking her "You have no idea what is in there! I got out as fast as I could once I found out!"
"W-what is in there?" Gray asked "Something worse than Jose?"
"Much..."
There was a dreadful pause as the others thought this over... "Everyone stay here!" commanded Erza "Gray, Natsu, Sara, Rhia and I are going into the Phantom Hall to sort this out."
"YES MA'AM!"
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"So how do we get up there?" Erza asked from the bottom of the Phantom Guild hall, next to the giant legs.
Sara got off her Deathcharger and dismissed it as she walked over the water to where Erza was, solid ice forming at everyone's feet.
"I could fly you all up one at a time!" suggested Happy.
"Too slow... we'd get overwhelmed as soon as we got up there..." Erza pondered
"Hmm..." Hope you guys don't mind heights..." said Rhia as she backed up, pulling out heavy Iron bolts and switching to a Crossbow. She took aim up the leg and fired several shots up it... until the bolts stuck out at the top... "Time to climb..." she said and lead the way, flying up the legs with her Elven agility.
Sara shrugged and changed to lighter leather armor so her plate weight didn't break them and followed Rhia's lead with almost as much speed.
Gray and Natsu followed suite, then Erza...
At the top Rhia turned to look back down "OK! Now here is where it gets tricky... you need to jump away from the leg and grab the ledge back there... miss... and you are dead!"
Happy flew around the leg. "I'll catch anyone should they fall!" he chirped.
Rhia pushed away from the leg just catching the edge of the platform and pulling herself up. "Stupid Phantom Lord, they left the door unlocked! How convenient!"
Sara cocked an eyebrow as she jumped as well, pulling herself up and seeing that a door was right where she had grabbed, it was open and Rhia was inside with her bow aimed down the hall just in case of any patrols.
Once everyone was in and the door had been resealed a sound from ahead caught the attention of the invaders.
"Intruders! Slay them!" Yelled a heavy voice of a Phantom Lord patrol.
Three bulky looking Phantom Lord members ran down the hall with crude looking blades...
Rhia took aim and shot one in the head.
"You are killing them!?" Erza exclaimed
"Be calm... Sara you may kill them if you wish."
"With pleasure!" she drew her short sword, parried an attack by one of the grunts and stabbed him diagonally through the rib cage.
Without so much as a hint of fear the last Phantom Grunt pressed the attack swinging at and almost hitting Rhia as she jumped back and whipped her knife at him, impaling him in the throat...
"W- I can't believe you just did that!" Gray yelled, his eyes agape at all the blood... then the Fairy tail members realized... this wasn't red blood, it was glowing green and sizzling... like it was acidic...
"Demon blood..." Rhia said "Jose isn't who he says he is... I know this because I can see through him, I saw him bleed at one point and it was the same color as that..."
"So... are all the Phantom Lord members demons?" Erza asked
"No, I'd say about half of them are however... the other half have no idea what they are helping here... we should keep moving... leave the bodies..."
The darkening halls of the Phantom Lord Guild cast ominous shadows at every corner, always in the shape of demons...
"Is the Elemental force demonic?" Gray asked.
"No... None of them are as far as I can tell..."
As they rounded yet another corner, guess who was standing in the way...
"Gajeel..." hissed Natsu as he addressed the large ripped and riveted man blocking the way.
"Master Jose said we had intruders, shoulda figured it was you guys..." He looked over at the Night Elf "Rhia, you are helping them now? Traitor!"
"Gajeel! You don't get it! You have no idea who Jose really is! I saw it! He can't be trusted! Once he's got what he wants he'll throw us away! He's just trying to build up forces for an invasion!"
"Invasion? I don't understand."
"Argh! Jose is a Demon with the Burning Legion! If he gets his way he's gonna open up a portal for the Legion to invade, then that is done! The Titan's work will be undone and this world will burn! You have to help us!"
"That's a load of crap! I've known Master Jose for years! What you say is impossible!"
"Gajeel! We just killed three of the guild members back there, they were demons! They bled acid and showed no remorse or emotions even as we cut them down! Are you saying you want to fight for that!?"
"I'm fighting because I hate them Fairies. And I still don't believe you about Jose being a demon!"
"Go on guy, I'll deal with this clown..." said Natsu
"Who ya callin' a clown ya Pyro."
*slam!* Natsu fire fisted him in the face sending him back while the others ran past him...
"Oh I'm gonna enjoy this!" Natsu taunted.
The rest of the group carried on running into another of the Elemental force just in the middle of a cross road...
"Do I even bother to reason with this one?" Rhia muttered "Nah, forget it, they'll find out soon enough..."
"I'll deal with this one" said Gray as he stepped up to the blue haired water mage...
"Juvia will not let you pass."
"Does Juvia always refer to herself in the third person?" Gray queried as they began to fight.
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"We lost two people already and we're just wading through grunts here... where the hell is Joes he should be here!" Rhia exclaimed
"I guess someone chased him off..." said Sara
Erza cocked her head "Like who?" then she remembered "Right... it sounded like Jose was in trouble when we started over here... maybe someone is after him already."
"Like who?" Rhia asked
"Another Rival? Someone who found out he was a demon?" Sara offered.
"Whoever it is, I doubt they'd have lasted that long against someone of his power... beside you!"
Sara ducked a fiery blade "Demon?" she asked
"No... not a demon"
"Ok" Sara came back up slamming the side of her Ebon Greatsword into the legs of the Grunt and placing a heavy black plate boot on his stomach... knocking the wind out of him. "Right now where were we?" she asked as she turned attention to the rest of the Grunts.
"Jose, someone else here, where is he? Stuff like that."
"Right..."
"Hmm..." Erza started as she parried an attack from a grunt and then elbowed him in the gut, followed up with an uppercut, him. "Mind if I ask how long you two have been training? You are very amazing fighters."
"Heh..." huffed Sara "I thought I told you, back where we come from we were like the super soldiers. We'd do the things normal troops couldn't do, we were the special forces in the form of mercs, adventurers and heroes alike. We all started off on the same level, just rookies looking to make a bit of money in our homelands... clear some wildlife out, kill some zombies, collect herbs... whatever... those of us who were successful enough at that got picked by our leaders to move up... be it against the Alliance... or Horde... the Burning Legion or The Scourge, those small time sell swords and even just kids who wanted to explore... they'd all become heroes."
"Is that how you started?" Erza asked
"It was... I used to be a Paladin but... well becoming a Death Knight wasn't exactly my choice... to me life has another meaning now... I myself have nothing to live for... but my Paladin training still sticks to me... if I can improve the lives of others, or save another's life, then my life is worth something."
"I don't understand..." Erza added
"You'd have to be undead as well to really get the big picture and have the same feelings I do, some might think of undeath as a second chance, others a curse... it's only a curse if you let it get the better of you but it's only a second chance if you weren't doing so well in life... for me it's neither. I have no family, nor could I ever raise one due to my state... it's hard to explain but the knowledge that your bloodline dies with you, yet you are still around to see your bloodline die... it's like... like someone showing you your death but having no control over it. You know it's going to happen and you can't change the fact you are going to die. Hence my life is meaningless to myself... but not to others since I can help them and try to keep them from my fate. Get it now?"
"Um... sort of... I think?"
"Demon." Rhia said calmly as a Felguard swung a massive two handed crude blade at Erza who jumped back out of the reach while Rhia notched an arrow and pegged it in the shoulder, allowing Sara to finish it off with a vertical cleave.
One the room they were in was clear, littered with KO'ed PL members and dead demons, they moved on, heading further up into the guild.
Suddenly the building shook with a ferocity that only nature could have inflicted... as if the stones in the building were coming to life and were PISSED.
Everyone got thrown off their feet, against walls and candle stands.
"OOWWW!" Erza screamed.
"Erza! Are you ok!?" Sara wailed seeing Erza clutch her un-armored arm... next to a fallen candle stand.
"That... argh that burns! I..." she lifted her hand to check her burns "I got blazing hot wax on my arm."
"Owch..." Rhia cringed and dug around in one of her satchels and pulled out a small red vial. "here this should dull the pain and keep your arm from scaring... just a minor healing potion I brewed up earlier."
"Thanks..." Erza said before downing the potion, feeling noticeably better in moments. "Now then what was that?"
"Maybe Jose is fighting off his attacker." Suggested Rhia
"Or Natsu..." added Erza
They were silent for a moment before a deafening thunder clap sounded throughout the halls, followed by a deep and rough sounding call to arms which was all to familiar for Sara.
"STORM! EARTH AND FIRE! HEED MY CALL!" and another thunder clap sounded.
"That sounded like it was up ahead!" Erza exclaimed, not understanding what it was she just heard, then glancing at Sara and Rhia who were staring at the shattered door ahead, hanging by a hinge in awe.
"No-" Started Rhia
"Way" Finished Sara as they both took off, smashing through the damaged door to find Jose fighting for his life against a giant of a man with a wolf skin helm with underlying chainmail, a blue studded and scaled robe with a red glowing hammer of fire with a wooden spiked shield. But something different about him was this was no Human, you could tell at first glance as he was rather larger... and had green skin... he was an Orc Shaman, there was no doubt.
"You have met your end demon!" the Orc bellowed, charging a surge of lightning in his shielded hand as he ran towards Jose, who had sprouted black wings and demon horns... in a way he reminded Sara and Rhia of Illidan. The Orc let the bolt of lightning shoot towards Jose, who absorbed it with one of his wings, then lashing out with a shadowy talon strike, shooting a fist of pure shadow towards the Orc who met it with his flaming mace, pulverizing the oncoming attack.
It was then that Sara noticed several dead bodies of Phantom Lord members littered around the battle room... human ones.
"Looks like they must have been killed in the Crossfire, whether by the Orc or Jose, it matters little now." Rhia said.
"I know how to beat Jose, here and now... but..."
"But what?" Asked Erza "We need to help that man!" not fully realizing he was an Orc.
"It's rather inhumane..."
"Do it." Said Rhia, understanding what Sara was about to do.
"Wh-" Erza Started.
"Lok'tar Ogar!" Sara yelled "Hey Shammy! You do not stand alone here!"
This got both Jose and the Orc's attention. "Hmmph..." The Orc huffed "Looks like you are now outnumbered Jose, you should surrender to make your death less painful... welcome to the fight Death Knight and Hunter... and Warrior it seems."
"Erza... so nice you could make it." Jose hissed, his voice echoing with fel energy "Shame that you had to see this, the Legion had sent me to prep for their invasion, but now you have put their plans behind schedule... I'll have to spend many more years rebuilding my forces..."
Sara drew her Ebon greatsword. "Jose, you are done... no matter what you might throw at us..." She pointed her blade at Jose. "Heed my power..." she began to chant and closed her eyes "In death you will live... and from death you shall rise... with blood and frost and runeblade in hand, the dead and the damned are mine to command, a thousand will fall and a thousand will rise... the armies of death... Strike!" her eyes shot open, glowing an eriee blue, with a blue mist pouring from them and purple tendrils of shadow shooting from her blade, connecting with every dead human corpse in the room... there had to be at least twenty to thirty corpses.
"Wh-what did you do?" Erza asked in horror as the bodies of the fallen began to move again, standing up as if they were alive, their faces unshifted and their eyes opening as a pale orange light, their irises and pupils gone.
"Kill Jose!" Sara commanded.
"RAGH!" Screamed the risen dead, most of them charging blindly at Jose with only their fists, who were then easily thrown back, only to get up unfazed.
"Tisk tisk Jose, undead are resistant to Shadow magic... your spells are practically nullified by them... lets see how long your energy will last as you fend off my army."
There were however a few Undead who retained the intellect to remember they once had magic and managed to throw basic bolt or ball spells at Jose, ranging from ice, fire, shadow and even one light wielder.
"Attack now while he is occupied!" Sara ordered as she herself entered the battle, striking Jose in the back while he was being swarmed by undead.
"Taste Earth!" the Orc yelled, hitting Jose with an Earth Shock from one hand, followed up by a Flame shock from his weapon wielding hand.
"I thought you were a wizard saint Jose" Taunted Rhia as she shot Jose in the knee with a Serpent sting arrow.
"Night Elf, how about getting a Black Arrow on him?" Suggested the Orc.
"Good idea!" she notched the arrow and then noticed Erza still just standing in shock by the doorway. "Erza! Get in the fight!"
"But she just..."
"I know what she did, but they won't stay this way, we only have a certain amount of time before they all return to death, unable to be raised once again for a while... so we need to kill Jose now while we vastly outnumber him!"
"R-right!" Erza jeered, snapping out of it and equipping her Black Wing set, flying at Jose and slashing him across the back.
"ARRRRGH!" Jose yelled as Erza sliced his wings off.
"Perfect, he's vulnerable now with little defence!"
"RRRRAGH! FOR THE HORD!" The Orc yelled, both his hands glowing red as the effect spread to Erza, Rhia and Sara as well as her minions as they all became crazed in a raging bloodlust.
"DIE DIE DIE!" Erza unnaturally screamed while attacking even faster than she normally would have with her Black Wing armor.
"How does fear taste Jose!" Sara added and she spun around three times, striking Jose repeatedly with each spin for gruesome effects as she cleaved his arms off before jumping out of the way as an arrow streaked past her which had been amplified with lightning from the Orc and struck Jose in the chest, sending a lethal surge of electricity through his body, destroying most of his innards until his tainted heart finally stopped, and he fell dead.
Erza landed next to Sara as the lust started to end, grasping her forehead... "W-what just happened? I... I feel tired now..." she turned to look at Sara who was panting... which was odd since she was undead...
"That... was... AWESOME!" she screamed "That rush you get during a Lust... HAHAHAHA" she evilly cackled "Ahhh... you don't get those naturally... Hahahah! Carnage!"
"I think the effects are still wearing off her..." said the Orc
Then Sara came to her senses... "Oh... what was... Oh right a Lust... erm... did I mention carnage again?"
"Yes." Said Rhia who slung her bow onto her back. "Now then..." she started, putting aside the dead demon issue "Who are you Orc?"
"Feng Shattershield of the Horde's Elemental Legion... I had been tasked by Thrall himself to look into a portal that had opened near Wyrmrest Temple... but when we got there, all my men were killed by a few still hostile Azure Dragons, but was saved by Kalegos himself who took me to Wyrmrest for... some training... thing... the portal had long since closed then but Kalegos and Alexstrasza opened up a new one which they sent me through once my training was done..." Explained the Shaman.
"Wait... let me guess..." Started Rhia... "You are a Blue or Azure Dragon Slayer?"
"Y-yeah how did-"
"I'm the Green or Emereld Dragon slayer... I'm Rhianus, but everyone just calls me Rhia... and that there is Sarandra, or Sara and she's the Black or Obsidian Dragon Slayer."
"Hmm..." mused Feng "So I'm guessing we will find a Ruby and Bronze Dragon Slayer here as well... this... Earthland."
"We already found the Ruby Dragon Slayer, a human boy called Natsu, we're in... well... Sara is in his Guild."
"So then... I... I think I might know who the Bronze Dragon Slayer is..."
"Really!? Who?" Rhia asked, dying to know, hoping it was an alliance figure.
"I think it was a human paladin... I've heard tales of his exploits but no name yet... only that his is tremendously powerful... his most famous tale is... that... well... he finished a Century Quest... in two..."
Erza's jaw hit the floor and her face paled "Not even Guildarts is that over powered..." she muttered.
"If he can do that... there is no doubt in my mind that had he been here Jose would have been on the floor before he could utter an incantation. Word is he was going after a Dark guild actually... one of the ones in the Barium Alliance, soloing it."
"He's insane! Which one?"
"The Oracion Seis..." confirmed Feng, as the reanimated Phantom Lord humans began to expire, simply collapsing around them "Now then... about joining your guild... where do I sign up?"
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Now then, sorry for the wait... and if you love marry sues... then you will love the upcoming Bronze Dragon Slayer... but my reasoning behind this is cuz, spoiler, the Paladin in question is a Cannon character from the Warcraft series... and even if he is OP as fuck I know most of you will love him if you love Warcraft and Paladins.
As for this piece of work, if you liked it, why not add it to your faves and follow, then drop me a review on what you did or didn't like (No bitching about Marry sues please, I know damn well these OCs are OP as hell :P) [But then again more FT character ARE.] as it helps me out a lot in the motivation factor (Sorta?) as I've been rather... ok... VERY slow on updates, not just here but globally on all my stories and I'd like to remedy that.
I don't know why I've been so slow, I want to and love writing but it's like I've run into a really solid state of Writer's block which is killing my fics... anyways... WTYL Fan-Bros.
Peace!
-Rogue