For anyone who asked about when E.N.D will meet Erza, please be patient! It will happen sooner or later.
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Episode 3: Welcome To Fairy Tail
Thursday, July 5th, Year X784, 05:22 A.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, ERA, Magic Council Headquarter
"Those idiots from Fairy Tail have done it again. This time they transformed an entire port into wasteland!" one of the council members exclaimed with his arms crossed.
When news of Erza's 'battle' with Bora had reached ERA the very next day. The Magic Council had a meeting to discuss Fairy Tail's recent incident. Like their usual topics involving the guild were about what they broke, how they could be so reckless, and the good they've done, etc.
"What is the matter with them? Can't they just go a week without destroying anything!" another member said.
"Though we couldn't really blame them about that incident since we're the one who requested Erza Dragneel to apprehend Bora." A young man with azure hair and tattoo on his right eyes, Siegrain said casually while next to him an old man named Yajima and a young woman with dark purple hair known as Ultear Milkovich nodded in agreement. "And I'm actually quite fond of those dimwits and their attitude."
"They may act like a bunch of fools but we must remember they are a very capable group. The amount of success they achieve on missions is just as immense as their destructive reputation." Yajima explained to the other council members
"That is true, they create quite the quandary."
"Let's just leave them be. After all if it was not for fools like them, think how boring this world would be" Siegrain said causing almost everyone to break out into arguments while Ultear had to stifle a chuckle.
'Mom...I will continue playing as a good daughter until I'm sending you to your grave." Ultear thought to herself, bringing a sleeve to her mouth to cover a demented grin before she thought about a certain red-haired Devil Slayer. 'Erza Dragneel…It's only matter of time before our clash. Show me that you lived up to your reputation as the disciple of E.N.D.'
Thursday July 5th, Year X784, 07:20 A.M, Earthland, Fiore Kingdom, Magnolia, Fairy Tail
Erza sneezed loudly as she and Lucy reached the doors to the Fairy Tail guild hall. "I wonder if someone talking about me." She thought out loud while shivered a bit.
"Are you okay Erza?" Lucy asked when she noticed Erza's body shivered a little.
"Yeah I just felt like someone is talking about me right now." The red head replied as she looked around for a second. "…Anyway, so what do you think Lucy?" She motioned to the building.
"It's huge!" Lucy answered with a big smile on her face.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail! You ready to go in Lucy?" Erza asked to the blond who nodded her head with excitement. Erza went to the door and kicked it open, not with all her force because she would eneded up destroying the door. "I'M BACK!" She yelled while Lucy only looked at her as is she was crazy
"Hey Erza!" Everyone said and gave the scarlet haired girl some waves.
Well not everyone.
"ERZA YOU WENCH, FIGHT ME LIKE A WOMAN!" A voice yelled from the other side of the guild causing everyone frozen in their places and adopted horror expression. Lucy turned to the source of the voice to look at a young woman, a bit older than her with white hair and deep blue eyes.
She was wearing a black cotton shirt, sleeveless with fishnet covering her bust and back, torn holes and drawstring detail on both sides. It had no sleeves, but the holes for her arms and neck were detailed with metal rivets. The back was made completely of light thread fishnet fabric, so actually her back was almost exposed. Below that she wore a gothic skirt with a removable pocket-belt, layered with lace. The skirt was three layers, cotton with black lace. The removable belt had pressure buttons closure, zipper detail, and pouch-pockets on the sides. Also, she wore pair of black stretchy cotton gloves. Detailed with flat cone rivets, they were designed with thumb holes, no fingers, decorated with shiny metal rivets and had open holes on both sides of the wrist. In addition, she now wore black, leather, thigh-high platform boots.
Erza's eyes twitched in annoyance at the girl who had just insulted her. But luckily someone else noticed this. "M-Mira-nee, please don't provoke Erza-san this time. You've just got out from the hospital yesterday remember." A girl with short white hair, said with nervous tone to the person known as Mirajane who just glaring at her while the first girl held her hands in defense.
"Out from my way Lisanna! I've got a score to settle with that fire-breathing bitch!" Mirajane growled at the younger girl who scared a bit until Erza who felt offended slightly at her statement intervened.
"I'd appreciate if you watch your mouth Mirajane." Erza told Mirajane coldly causing Lucy who watching this gasped in surprise. "Beside how many times I've told you, I'm not interested in fighting you because we're already knew how it would end."
"Don't act like you're better than me!" Mirajane yelled at Erza, completely offended at the statement.
'T-This goth girl is Mirajane. She is so scary.' Lucy screamed inside of her head, not expecting that the innocent Mirajane was this scary out of the magazine. And she seem had a bad term with Erza. Lucy couldn't help but wondered. 'What happen between these two anyway? Mirajane-san seems hating Erza so much and vice versa.'
Erza then pointed her finger at Lucy. "We have a new member here, so start behave like a decent woman and stop acting like a bitch!" Erza lectured the white haired who began to flare her Maryoku [Magic Power] causing everyone minus to Erza backed away from the two with fear on their face since they couldn't do anything to stop these two from 'fighting'.
Erza only narrowed her eyes at this as the put her left hand on the hilt of Kuroisakura [Black Sakura]. "Back down Mirajane, I don't want to make Lisanna sad for putting you into hospital again." She told the white haired mage whose body began to glow in purple light.
"I'M THE ONE WHO IS GONNA PUT YOU INTO HOSPITAL!" Mirajane shouted in anger at the red head as her body began to transform while Erza readied her Kuroisakura.
But before anyone could continue, a giant foot came down in the middle of Erza and Mirajane. Lucy looked up in shock and a little fear as she saw a giant creature standing there. "THAT'S ENOUGH, YOU TWO!" The giant figure exclaimed, making everyone freeze at its words but relief at the same with.
The only scared person was Lucy. "HE'S HUGE!" She shrieked in surprise at the sight of giant. Erza merely scoffed but sighed in relief as her hand left from the hilt of Kuroisakura since she didn't have to fight Mirajane again.
"Oh master, I didn't know you were still here." One of the guild members said, making Lucy's mouth drop in shock.
"Did you say master!?" Lucy questioned, never taking her eyes of the giant.
"SO WE HAve a newcomer, huh?" Makarov questioned as he transformed back to his original form and started walking up to Lucy who just gawked at him slightly. "Nice to meet cha!" he said giving her a small wave.
"He so tiny is he really the master?" she asked Erza.
"Of course he is Lucy. Despite his look, he is the Guild Master of Fairy Tail, Makarov Dreyar!" Erza answered Lucy's question. The red head turned to look at the tiny Master. "It's lucky that you're back from your regular meeting just in time old man or I would have put her into hospital again." She told the old man and gestured to the angered Mirajane who had transformed back to her normal form. "I did my best to ignore her but she was about to attack me."
Makarov turned to Mirajane. "Mira, how many times I've told you to not forcing Erza to fight you or you will suffer that again." Makarov lectured the white haired mage who shivering in fear at the mentioning of that.
Makarov looked at her one more time before jumping up onto the railing, hitting his head as he did. He quickly recomposed himself before he stood looking at everyone sternly. "You have gone and done it again, you bunch of imbeciles!" He shouted, waving a thick pile of paper at them. "Look at all the paper work the magic council has sent me! This is the biggest pile of complaints we've had yet!"
"First, Gray…" he started as he read from the list. "You did a good job cleaning out the smuggling organization, but then you walked around the town naked and stole a pair of underwear that was being dried."
"Have you grown senile old man? Gray isn't here, as well as Lyon." Mirajane called him out loud causing Makarov blushed in embarrassment.
Makarov coughed to his fist before continuing to read the reports. "Elfman you assaulted a VIP that you were suppose to be escorting."
"He said men were all about education" Elfman said while scratching his cheek.
Makarov shake his head slightly at those words. "Cana, you need to stop buying alcohol and then charging it to the council! This recent charge was for 15 big barrels!"
"Damn…they found out." she said, rubbing the back her head.
Makarov turned towards Mirajane. "Mira…you pushed off the mayor of Ceptia town from the fourth floor of his house."
"The mayor was an old pervert just like you. He'd never stop drooling at my ass so I decided to teach him some manner and I didn't push him, I threw him." The Teiku Oba [Take Over] mage growled while remembering the perverted old man.
Makarov could only sigh before turned his head to look at Erza who moved next to Lisanna and Lucy. Makarov's head dropped in depression. "Erza…by yourself, you leveled a historical clock tower in Tully Town, burning down a church in Freesia, damaging parts of Lupinus Castle, destroyed the Devon Thief Family along with seven houses of the townspeople and just two days ago destroyed entire Hargeon's port!"
"To be fair on that last one old man…" Erza called out while pointing at Lucy. "She and Bora caused most of the damage."
"You were the one who went overboard! What did I do?" Lucy asked as she crossed her arms.
"While I was responsible for a couple of house, a local chruch's bell and the ships, it was you that sent the ship along with me inside, crashing into the port with a giant tsunami which also continued on into town and caused some damage too." Erza explained as the bartender gave her a chocolate cake.
Lucy stared at her for a second, trying to think of a reply to that, but nothing came to mind, releasing a defeated sigh she thought. 'Not even officially a part of the guild and I already joined its reputation for overdoing things…' She looked back at Erza who was eating her cake in silence. 'So it was Erza behind most of the articles in the magazines, huh?'
Makarov continued down the list, naming many wizards in the building who avoided looking at Makarov as soon as he said their names. The old man started to tremble as he finished his list, which was being crushed by Makarov's tight grip.
"You guys keep getting all the higher ups mad at me all the time." Makarov groaned causing everyone to wince slightly. "However…Screw the council!" He said with a smirk as the pile of papers turned to flames and making Lucy look up at him in surprise.
He tossed the flames down to Erza who caught it with her left hand, without even looking and devoured it in a second before went back to her cake Everyone was silent as the guild master spoke, all of them paying complete attention to his words.
Makarov continued his speech. "Now remember, any power that surpasses reason still comes from reason. Magic is not some kind of miraculous power; it is a talent that only works when the flow of energy created from inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect sync. To perform magic, one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus. It should take over your being and pour out of your soul. If all we worry about following the rules, then our magic will never progress. Don't let those idiots on the council scare you. Do what you think is right! Because that what makes the Fairy Tail guild number one!" He finished by making a symbol with his right hand.
The all the guild members with the exception of Erza who was busy with her cake and Mirajane who was still mad at the old man followed his example and made the same symbol, cheering as the master finished his speech. Lucy and Lisanna smiled at each other, Wakaba and Elfman were cheering loudly.
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"There you go!" Lisanna said cheerfully as she removed the magic stamp from Lucy's hand, revealing a pink guild mark. "Now you're officially a member of Fairy Tail!"
Lucy smiled as she stared at the mark before turning to the next table where Erza was sitting. The red head was eating her fifth cake on this day. Lisanna walked away to put the magic stamp back before continuing her work.
"Hey Erza! Look, Lisanna just gave me the Fairy Tail mark!" Lucy grinned as she showed the three her new mark.
Erza turned from her cake and grinned at her. "That's great, welcome to the guild, Luigi!"
"IT'S LUCY!" Lucy corrected.
Erza held her arms in defense. "Chill out, it was only a joke."
"A Bad joke if you ask me!" Mirajane's voice called out from the other side of the guild.
Erza only twitched her eyes in annoyance but this time she would let Mirajane's comment slide before turned back to Lucy. "Anyway, if you want take a job the request board is over there." Erza said, pointing her finger to her left where a giant board filled papers hanging on the wall.
Lucy nodded before walked towards the board and examined it. "Hmmm." Lucy stared up at the request board, looking at the different kinds of missions that were available.
"What are looking at Lucy?" Lisanna asked as she walked next to Lucy and Nab.
"I was just looking at all the missions the guild gets, they really do vary searching for magic items, removing curses from certain artifacts, and even exterminating devils." Lucy read out loud as her eyes skim through all of them. "There's one here for love-fortune telling!"
Not even five second did she say that, Cana grabbed the form and read it. "6.000 jewels, huh? Easy money." She said with a smirk before turning to Makarov who was sitting the bar. "Master, I'm going to take this job!"
"Alright, I'll mark it done!" Makarov responded with a smile. "Good luck!"
"Right, this shouldn't take long." Cana said as she walked towards the door, grabbing a barrel as she walked out.
"It's hard to believe she can drink so much…" Lucy muttered to herself. "What kind of magic does Cana use anyways?"
"Her magic is pretty cool, it's called Kado Majikku [Card Magic]." Lisanna said as she continued to explain. "It's a magic that revolves around the use of magical cards. The effects of the cards can vary between wizards and they can be a bit difficult to use correctly if the person does not know what they are doing, but Cana's talent with it makes her fit with this magic."
"Woah." Lucy said as she turned to the door Cana walked out. "But why did she take a fortune telling job?"
"Because it's actually one of her specialties." A voice called out, making Lucy turned to the voice to see it was Makarov who spoke. "Cana uses her Kado Majikku [Card Magic] to help her read people's fortunes. She learned how to do it when she was younger. She's really good at it too, she's done it for a lot of members here and they've been right many times."
"Hmmm." Lucy looked back at the board, thinking about when Erza was telling her during their trip to Magnolia about certain wizards that were perfect for certain missions.
Suddenly, the guild entrance slammed open, revealing a scared Macao.
"Everyone, we got trouble!" Everyone looked to see a scared Macao, trembling and sweating as he stood at the door. "Kagura…she's back." Almost everyone froze after he said that, before long they started to panic a little.
"O-Oi Macao, are you s-sure it was Kagura?" Wakaba asked fearfully.
"Of course I'm sure!" Macao shouted back. "Did you think I'm lying?"
'Kagura? As in Kagura Mikazuchi, Titania of Fairy Tail. Why is everyone so tense? What kind of person Kagura is?' Lucy thought with a quirked eyebrow. After she thought that, they could hear loud footsteps making coming towards the guild.
"That sounds like Kagura." Laki muttered with a scared look on her face.
"Those sound like her footsteps." Wakaba whispered, biting down on his smoke pipe.
"Kagura is back." Macao said.
Almost everyone watched in fear as a figure appeared in the doorway. The first thing Lucy noticed was the clanking of armor, as a lone figure walked into the guild. Next Lucy noticed the figure was carrying what appeared to be a large, ornately decorated horn over their shoulder. Finally, Lucy could make out the person's details. What she saw shocked her, the woman that had walked into the guild was beautiful. It definitely was Kagura Mikazuchi.
Kagura had stunning black hair that went down to the small of her back. Her hazel eyes were warm and inviting, yet at the same time hard and fierce. She had a slender and voluptuous figure, that had Lucy in awe. Kagura was wearing a custom set of Hato Kurosu no Yoroi [Heart Kruez Armor], with a blue skirt and a pair of black boots. The armor set consisted of a metal breastplate, with a high armored collar and plated shoulder guards with each side being composed of four metal plates. On the breastplate's left side was the symbol of the Heart Kruez fashion company. Lastly the armor's waist guard was composed of three plates, each held up by Kagura's belt. If looks could kill, Kagura would have slaughtered everyone in the guild with the exception of Erza and Makarov since she can't.
"I have returned." Kagura said as she dropped in Erza's opinion a lame ass monster horn before looking around for a second. "Where is Master Makarov?"
The master in question waved his hand at her, gaining the armored girl's attention. "Yo Kagura…you've back. So how is your mission?"
Kagura nodded with a smile. "It was a success. I heard Ur along with Lyon and Gray were destroying a dark guild called Eisenwald. It's true, isn't it?" She asked the old man and Makarov nodded in confirmation.
"Yep…it was happened yesterday. During the regular meeting that held in Clover town, Eisenwald manage to get their hand on Lullaby I think you know what it is Erza." Makarov explain and turned towards Erza who heard the conversation while still eating her cake.
The red head nodded. "Yes, my mentor ever told me about it."
"What is Lullaby?" Mirajane walked to the bar and asked since she was curious what they were talking about.
Makarov took a sip of his beer and answered. "It was a demon from the Book of Zeref." Both of the girl's eyes widened in shock at the mention of the vilest wizard ever exist. "Eisenwald manage to get a sealed Lullaby from the magic council. They've managed to unleash it Ur and her two pupils defeated it rather easily."
"Yeah…Because Lullaby was the weakest demon from the Book of Zeref." Erza stated as she remembered what her mentor had told her about demon from the Book of Zeref. 'Compare to Grayfia-san, Lullaby is nothing but an ant.' Erza thought to herself and clenched her fist at the thought of the silver-haired demon.
Five years ago, her mentor had asked one of Eteriasu [Etherious] he created, Grayfia Lucifer to have spar with her and she got destroyed by the silver-haired demon who was 'fighting' her with her eyes closed and only using one hand. Erza then made a vow to get stronger and defeat the strongest Tartaru Kyukimon [Tartarus Nine Demon Gates] in battle someday.
"Kagura-san, what is that giant thing you brought today?" One of guild members asked.
Kagura looked back at the man who asked that. "It's the horn of a monster I defeated. The local people were nice enough to decorate it to show their gratitude." She answered before giving narrowed her eyes at him. "Is it a problem?
"No, not at all!" He and a few others replied with scared voices.
"Think if she heard about what happened at Mt. Hakobe." Wakaba whispered to Macao, who started to sweat after he heard that.
"Crap…I'm a death meat."
Lucy looked around the guild and was extremely surprised on how quiet everyone was as they entered the building. "What is with everyone?" She whispered to Lisanna.
"You're about to see in a moment." The white haired girl answered, making Lucy turn to her with a confused look.
Before Lucy could ask what she meant, Kagura's voice was heard. "Now listen up!" Kagura narrowed her eyes as her shifted her gaze to everyone in the building, causing them to freeze up at her voice. "During the time I was on the road, I've been hearing that Fairy Tail has been causing trouble again." She said with a stern voice, making everyone but Erza and Mirajane winced. "While the master may not care, I do!"
'Hear it comes again.' Erza and Mirajane thought tiredly as the armor wearing woman turned to a member.
"Vijeeter!"
"Yes ma'am?!" The scared dancer replied.
"Take the dancing outside." Kagura ordered without looking at him, she turned to Wakaba next.
"Wakaba, get rid of that filthy habit! I don't want to get sick because of your smoking!" The older mage let his head drop to the table.
"Nab," She began, making the man stumble while he stood next to the request board. "I had a feeling I would find you there like always. Just pick a damn job already!"
"Macao!" She stared at the blue haired man with a stern gaze for a few moments before sighing deeply.
"Please just say something!" He whimpered as Kagura ignored him and went back to over to where Makarov, Erza and Mirajane were.
"Everyone keeps causing me so much trouble." She started to say as she took a seat on a chair. "But since I'm in a good mood, I'll be nice and say nothing for today."
"But she already said so much." Lucy whispered to Lisanna. "She's like a disciplinary enforcer, is she always like this?"
"Uh-huh, that's Kagura for you." Lisanna replied. "Though, she couldn't do a thing to someone who is on or above her level of power, like Mira-nee and Erza-san."
Kagura ordered a drink to bartender and looked around the guild. She then heard Makarov groan and looked over to him in confusion. "What's wrong, Master?" She asked.
"Nothing...just feeling a little sleepy..." He answered as he stared at the door.
The red haired Devil Slayer just sighed tiredly at this. "...it's him." Erza answered calmly while finishing her cake.
Kagura wasn't sure what the she was talking about before she suddenly felt drowsy. She then felt really tired and started falling forward and fell asleep. Mirajane was struggling to stay awake herself, but her eyesight was blurry before she gave up and sleep beside the armored girl.
"So…sleepy…" Laki muttered as she fell to the ground.
"This is..." Lisanna groaned as he felt sleepy as well and Elfman yawning next to her wasn't helping at all.
The two of them fell asleep instantly and were soon followed by the other members of the guild. In a manner of seconds everyone was sprawled all over the guild in a deep sleep as the only people who were still awake were Makarov and Erza. The guild doors opened and a tall figure walked in and made his way over to the bar where Makarov and Erza were.
The figure wore a dark blue cloak and his arms and legs mostly covered in bandages. He wore a dark blue bandana with a silver forehead protector and a green mask that obscured the bottom half of his face. He had only a black shirt underneath the cloak and pants that went down to his shins but stopped where it met the bandages. On his back were magic staffs that were being held up by a dark green strap.
"Mystogan…" Makarov nodded his head in greeting, which the cloaked wizard returned before making his way over to the mission board. As he scanned the board Erza spoke up.
"You know, this kinda cool at the start but it's getting annoying. Just how many times are you gonna do this?" The cloaked man looked away from the board to see Erza's eyes looking at him. "It's not really something you need to do every time."
"I'd rather not bring to much attention from everyone to myself." Mystogan replied as he turned back to the board.
"From her you mean?" Erza asked, pointing at the sleeping Kagura.
Mystogan simply nodded and took a request from the board and walked over to Makarov. "I'm heading out." He told Makarov, showing him the request paper so he knew which mission Mystogan had chosen and turned around to leave.
"Hold on! Lift the Nemuri no Maho [Sleeping Magic] first!" Makarov ordered.
"5..." Mystogan started counting down. "4…" He walked passed Kagura and Mirajane. "3…" Mystogan walked over a few of the sleeping guild members. "2…" The cloaked wizard made his way to the doors and his figure slowly disappeared from view. "1…" As soon as the countdown ended and Mystogan had completely vanished, the Nemuri no Maho quickly faded and the others instantly woke up as they felt that familiar sensation they always felt when Mystogan came by.
"This feeling...was it Mystogan, again!"
"That punk!"
"His Nemuri no Maho is as powerful as ever." Levy rubbed her eyes.
"Mystogan?" Lucy asked still feeling a bit drowsy from the spell.
"He's one of the strongest mage candidates in Fairy Tail." Elfman answered her as she looked up at him in surprise.
"Huh?" Lucy blinked.
"Yeah...for some reason he hates being seen, so he always puts us to sleep whenever he comes to take a job." Lisanna explained to the blond female.
"What the? That sounds suspicious...!" Lucy replied.
"That's why aside of Master, only Erza know what Mystogan even looks like since she was the only one who was able to resist Mystogan's spell." Kagura's teeth gritted, she was irritated by the fact that she was still unable to resist Mystogan's sleep spell. Her eyes then drifted to Erza who silently sat in her usual spot. 'Why did you strong Erza? What is the different between you and me?'
"Nope...I know as well." The guild members all made noises in surprise at the new voice that rang throughout the guild.
They all looked up to the second floor to see Laxus smirking down at them, with a cigar at the end of his mouth.
"Laxus!"
"You're here too!?"
"How rare!"
"Who is he?" Lucy asked as Lisanna sighed and laid her head on the palm of her hand.
"He's Laxus, another candidate for the strongest mage in Fairy Tail." Mirajane answered making Lucy gasp a little. "Also Fairy Tail's biggest pain in the ass."
Laxus was a very tall and muscular young man with gray-blue eyes. His hair was slicked back, its numerous spiky strands pointing backwards, though some of it fell down over his forehead. He had a distinctive lightning bolt shaped scar on his right eye and sported dark lines circling his eyes, with each of them possessing a single, prominent eyelash jutting outwards. On his head were spiked headphones and he wore a black coat with grey fur trimmings and a dark yellow shirt.
Laxus chuckled at them. "Mystogan is really shy. Keep your noses out of his business." Laxus told them, a cocky grin on his face. "Weaklings like you all have no right to it anyways."
"Big talk Laxus," Kagura began, catching the blond's attention. "After all, you haven't fought most of us. And our last match was ended in a draw remember?"
Laxus's grin turned into a sneer. "Like hell that was a draw, if the old man hadn't interfered then I would have destroyed you!" He yelled at the armored girl as lightning sparked a little around him. "You won't even become an S-Class mage if Erza had accepted to participate in exam when Gramps nominated her."
Kagura gritted her teeth at that. "I am the strongest in Fairy Tail! Not Ur, Gildarts, Mirajane, Kagura and even you Erza!" He declared as is it was the most obvious think causing Kagura and Mirajane to grit their teeth in anger while barely holding the urge to went upstairs and punch that cocky face of his.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA." Unfortunately, Erza found it was hilarious and laughed like a mad man gaining everyone's attention.
Especially Laxus.
"What is so damn funny?" Laxus demanded at the laughing red head who was rolling on her ass while holding her stomach before she managed to regain her composure and sat on the bar again.
"No…it's just…" Erza still laughed a little. "…you're really a simple minded."
"WHAT DID YOU SAY?" Laxus bellowed again, his voice now filled with pure rage as lighting began to spark around him.
"Think about it…" Erza began. "…This is a big world, even bigger than your ego." Laxus frowned and only twitched his eyebrow and few members of guild snickered slightly at the joke.
"And your point is?" Laxus questioned as he leaned on the railing.
"My point is there are bunch of more powerful mages outside of Fairy Tail." Erza explained. "You claimed yourself as the strongest but only in Fairy Tail, and even if it's become true, it would sound like you're the strongest among the weaklings." Erza spread her hands to her side as she continued talking. "You'll only become famous in Fiore Kingdom or Isghar country at best since Fairy Tail is the strongest guild in Fiore Kingdom but you will be known as nobody in another country."
Laxus frowned even more but thinking what had Erza just said deeply. "There is a sky above the sky Laxus. Right now, I, Ur and Gildarts are the skies above you but there are someone that even more powerful than us and you should have after for those skies." Erza told the blond man who had a thoughtful look on his face. "But that doesn't mean you should challenge someone that beyond your level into fight. That is purely suicide, you should have start from the very little thing like defeating someone that on or close to you level first. It could be a great first step but still you should put your goal to become strongest in the world deeply into your heart, not just the strongest in Fairy Tail."
The guild was in silence during Erza speech, no one dare to say a word, not even Makarov himself since he knew what Erza capable off. Erza then stood to her feet, walked towards the request board and examined it. "You know what is the different between you and me, Laxus?" She asked the blond in the second floor without even looking at him.
"What is it?" Laxus asked quietly that wasn't his character at all.
"The different between you and me is our goal." Erza answered. "Your goal is on local scale while my goal is on global scale. Your goal is to become the strongest in Fairy Tail while my goal is to become the strongest in the world. I've accomplished my first step of my goal and I'm about half way to my second step."
"And what was your first step you're talking about?" Kagura asked as she decided to enter the conversation.
Erza then looked at the armored girl. "The first step is to prove myself that I'm stronger than anyone in this guild." Erza answered confidently yet, without a trace of arrogance in her tone.
"But…" Mirajane interjected. "…you've never defeat Ur or Gildarts before. Your battles were ended in draw."
"That's the official result. Unofficially, for anyone who watched my fight against Ur or Gildarts knew that I was on winning side. I just stopped after I'm sure that I'm stronger than those two. No need to unnecessary injuries." Erza looked at Mirajane who asked to Makarov and the old man nodded in confirmation, causing the white haired mage looks surprise.
Lucy leaned to Lisanna's ear and whispered something. "Is it true? Erza is the strongest in Fairy Tail?" She asked the white haired girl who nodded.
"Yes. Erza wasn't exaggerated at her statement. She has the power to back up her claim." Lisanna answered while Lucy looking at the red haired girl whom she met in Hargeon yesterday. "Erza joined Fairy Tail four years ago and she was already beat Mira-nee and Kagura in combat without much effort."
Erza tore a paper from the request board and began to walk as she spoke again. "You may see me as rival but I don't see you as one. No one in this guild is worthy to be called my rival not even gramps if you count him. I used to see Ur and Gildarts as my rival but not anymore since they didn't interest me anymore." Erza then disappeared from everyone's sight in burst of black flame and reappeared on the second floor behind Laxus who turned around.
Erza's eyes then met with Laxus's. "The reason I'm not interested fighting you because you're still weak, I would have destroys you in instant and that's no fun…" Erza told Laxus who growled at her answer. "…But of all people here, you're the one who has the most potential. All you have to do now is use it and prove yourself that you're stronger than Ur and Gildarts then you can come at me, I will gladly fight you. Even if you fail, you could learn from your failure just like me." She told the blond with a grin on her face as she offered him a fist. "Right now, I'm aiming to defeat a woman that utterly destroyed me in combat five years ago."
Laxus was completely speechless and just stared at the red-haired girl at the moment while the guild was watched the scene in silence. Never in their entire life, they had seen something like this before. Makarov couldn't help but smiled at how Erza handle Laxus without violence.
Laxus was still speechless, not knowing what to say. Erza who he sees as his biggest rival was first mocked him, lectured him before praised him. Laxus couldn't comprehend what happen inside of Erza's head. But he had to admit it, all what Erza said was true. The world is bigger than he thought and Laxus only aimed for small part of it. One again, Erza was right. He should have aimed for something bigger. Even though he failed, he could learn from his failure and trying again.
Laxus couldn't help but grin at Erza and he bumped his fist lightly onto Erza's. "Fine then…I'll prove it to you that I'm stronger than Ur and Gildarts. And promise me, you will fight me after that. No more avoiding."
Erza grinned even more. "You have my word, Laxus! Let's just hope you won't execute that plan of yours, for your sake." She replied, keep the last part for both of them.
Laxus'e eyes shifted before nodded. "Can't promise, Erza!" He told the girl as his body began to glow in lightning. "Well, I'll take my leave!" in flash of lightning, Laxus disappeared from the guild much t everyone relief.
Erza then walked down only to meet with Makarov who smiled at her. "You're handling it better than I thought." Makarov told the red-haired girl.
Erza merely shrugged at that. "Meh…he is actually a good guy and care for the guild but he won't openly admit it which I can understand since it's not his style." Erza then showed the old man the paper she just tore from the request board.
"Are you sure you want to go to another mission? You've just come back." Makarov asked.
"No…not now. Like you said, I'm just come back and I'm tired." Erza said and Makarov nodded in approval.
"Excuse me…is this a wizard guild called Fairy Tail?" A voice called out from the guild entrance.
Erza widened her eyes as she heard the voice. Strangely, the voice sounds familiar to her and it belongs to someone that she wanted to see in the past four years. Erza turned around to the source of the voice and saw a familiar young man with spiky pink-hair slanted onyx eyes standing in front of the guild door. Erza's body trembled and tears started to leak from hey beautiful brown eyes as the man who had saved her life eight years ago was staring at her.
The man noticed her and grinned at her. "Yo Erza…it's been a while, isn't it?"
"S-S-Sensei…"
To Be Continued
Fun Fact About Erza:
Erza isn't an S-Class mage, she doesn't need to become one.
Erza is the strongest mage in Fairy Tail but that doesn't mean there is no one could make her try, another Devil Slayer that will appear in the next chapter can force Erza to try.
My ranking of the strongest Fairy Tail's mage in this story (Current Master Include):
1. Erza Dragneel
2. Gildarts Clive
3. Ur Milkovich
4. Laxus Dreyar
5. Makarov Dreyar
6. Mystogan
7. Kagura Mikazuchi
8. Mirajane Strauss
9. Freed Justine
10. Gray Fullbuster & Lyon Vastia
Yes, I think Makarov is fifth because he is old even in Canon Fairy Tail. Gildarts, Natsu and Laxus have already surpassed him.
