Hello everyone, thanks for anyone who supported this story. Oh, there is a change of plan on this chapter. I was planning to have E.N.D explain to Erza the reason he formed Britannia but something else just come out off my mind and I decided to save it for next chapter.
This chapter would explain why Wendy was so powerful and for next chapter, there will be a NAZA moment you've been waiting for.
"I'm all fired up" - People Speech
'I'm all fired up' - People Thoughts
"I'm all fired up" - Creature Speech/Attack/Spells/Translation
'I'm all fired up' - Creature Thoughts
(I'm all fired up) - Sounds Effect
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Episode 9: The Promotion
Thursday, July 19th, Year X784, 11:05 A.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Holy Britannia Empire, Pendragon, Pendragon Palace, Emperor's Personal Office.
"YOU WANT US TO BECOME WHAT?!" Erza and Juvia literally yelled to E.N.D's face as they stood to their feet.
E.N.D himself for his credit, forced to cover his ear with both of his hands if he didn't want to go deaf. "Didn't you hear me? I want you two fill the vacant spots in my Knight of Round?" E.N.D repeated with a hint of annoyance at the two Devil Slayers for being so noisy that even the guards whom guarding his door entered in worry before E.N.D politely dismissed them.
To say that Erza and Juvia were shocked was a total understatement, to think that the Emperor of Holy Britannia Empire who happened to be Erza's own mentor, was nominating them to be one of his finest Knights was considered a greatest honor. But neither of them was thinking that they were worth for such position after Emperor best Knight herself 'unintentionally' demonstrated her power which was beyond everything they have ever felt, save for Erza because her mentor was E.N.D.
"Sensei…I mean, your majesty." Erza began before she remembered that she was talking to the Emperor of Britannia. So she must address her mentor as such, at least that was Wendy said to them. Although it's felt weird for her since she always addressed her mentor as Sensei. "We don't mean to be rude, but we think that neither of us is even worth for such positions. Surely, there are some mages that far more powerful than us."
Juvia nodded in agreement, although she secretly really wanted to accept it. I mean, this is the chance that only came once a life. But if Erza thought that she wasn't worth it, then so was Juvia who was weaker than Erza by small margin. "I agree with her your majesty. After the Knight of One herself 'demonstrated' her power to show the gap between our strength."
E.N.D widened his eyes at that before glared at the blue haired girl who was on his room and eating a rather huge cotton Candy. "Wendy…how many times I told you not to flare your Maryoku [Magic Power] when I ordered you to retrieve someone. You know most of them can't handle your power" The pink haired Emperor scolded his strongest Knight as if he was scolding a child, causing the little girl puffed her cheek childishly at him.
"But nii-san…I was only using one percents of my full power back them." Wendy pouted childishly that to the Devils Slayer's shock was completely out of her emotionless characters when she escorted Erza and Juvia to Pendragon, causing the Devils Slayers frozen in their seats. "At least these two managed to stay on their feet when I flared my Maryoku."
But that wasn't that caught their attention, instead the amount of power Wendy was using when she came visited them.
'HOLY SHIT…THAT OVERWHELMING POWER WAS ONLY CAME FROM ONE PERCENTS OF HER FULL POWER…' Both of them practically yelled out in their heads as they stared at the Knight of One with saucer eyes. '…JUST HOW POWERFUL IS THIS GIRL?'
E.N.D merely sighed tiredly at her, knowing it was pointless to argue with his 'adoptive' little sister before turned to the Devil Slayers. "Anyway, I know you two tried to being modest but don't sell yourself short either. I won't bother sending Wendy to retrieve you if I deemed you not worthy for the positions."
"Yeah, but…"
"I believe you two will suffice for the positions…" E.N.D interjected with a small smile causing the Devil Slayers sighed in defeat, knowing that it would be rude to decline such generous offer from Britannia Emperor himself no less.
"But of course…" E.N.D began, causing Juvia and Erza to look at him. "…I won't make it easy for you two!" The Emperor continued as he reached to his pocket and pulled out a folded piece of paper. "There is a golden necklace that was stolen from my own jewelry store two days ago by an unknown person." He slid the paper towards Erza who picked it and unfold the paper.
It was a picture of a gold heart shape necklace.
"I want you two to retrieve it at any cost, I've place some tracking spell just in case someone tried to steal it. The necklace is currently on the top of Mount Envile eighty kilometers from Pendragon." E.N.D explained briefly while Erza and Juvia merely listened to him. "I want it to be delivered to this room before 6 P.M. "
E.N.D turned to his Knight of One, gave a nod and the little girl walked towards the bookcase inside of Emperor's office. Wendy pulled out a large scroll from the bookcase, walked to the table and gave the scroll to Juvia. "That's will lead to the Mountain. You will leave tomorrow, deliver the necklace to me at any cost and you will officially become a member of Knight of Round."
Friday, July 20th, Year X784, 11:39 P.M, Earthland, Isghar, Holy Britannia Empire, Mount Envile
"We've been walking up this mountain for hours…" Erza complained as she walked behind Juvia who was holding the map.
Despite that fact, however, it was still up for a substantial amount of debate whether or not they were at the right location. It was getting dark, so that was preferable to have been the case, but either way it wasn't certain.
"Are we there yet…" Erza groaned, rubbing her thighs as she did so.
"Quite your whining Erza, we're almost there!" Juvia snapped at the fellow Devil Slayer before she spotted a large cavern ahead. She looked back at the map before nodded. "This is it!" Juvia said to the red head as she and Erza finally arrived in front of a huge cavern.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Erza exclaimed as she made her way to the entrance of the cave. They entered into the cave and noticed the cave was so darks, it's difficult to see what's inside.
After they walked for a good five minutes, Erza spotted an almost ruined shrine that looks so old in his opinion. The shrine was almost wrecked, one good earthquake shall bring the shrine crumbling to the ground. As Both Erza and Juvia entered the shrine, the red head was struck in awe of the place, not in good way. There wasn't much about the place. It was a total mess with broken walls, moss growing everywhere and the usual rat or two that scampered away at their appearance.
Erza couldn't help but whistled at the mess. "Wow...And I thought the Guild was the messed one?" She thought out loud before Juvia spotted something shiny in the darkness.
"Hey Erza…I think I've found something." Juvia called out and pointed at a glint of light ahead. Both Devil Slayers ran towards the light.
As soon as they arrived, Erza spotted the necklace they were looking for was laying on a large stone. Both of them narrowed their eyes at this, the emperor had sent two of his most powerful Knights to retrieve this necklace, so they thought there's no way it was so easy. Both of them doing rock, scissor, paper to decide who's gonna take that necklace.
The red head grumbled under her breath when she lost the game and looked around for a moment before walked towards the stone. Erza looked around one more time before her left hand carefully reached for the necklace and took it from the stone.
Erza observed the necklace for a moment as Juvia slowly walked towards her and grinned a little.
"This is too-"
(Baaaammmm)
Something hit both of Devil Slayers very VERY hard, sending them soared through the shrine before ended up in front of the cavern. Both of them landed on the ground hard, creating a big crater beneath them.
"Ugh…"
Erza groaned as she and Juvia sat up before the earth seems shaking by a footsteps. Both of the Devil Slayers spotted a large figure approaching them with loud booming sounds. As the figure came out to the light, both newly Knight of Round widened their eyes in utter shock and awe.
Right in front of them, was a gigantic light blue Dragon with a pair of blue eyes, stood at a colossal height. It has a long neck and long head, large claw, large wings and its mouth full of razor sharp teeth growling at the Devil Slayers.
"You've gotta be kidding me?" Erza murmured to no one while staring at the Dragon with saucer eyes.
"A Dragon?" Juvia murmured in shock, completely speechless too at what she just saw now.
The Dragon stretched its wings and flapped it, creating a very strong gush of wind that blew Erza and Juvia away down to the mountain. The crashed the ground hard, created another crater beneath them.
Erza spotted the necklace was near to her and brought her arm reach it but a giant leg slammed just an inch from the necklace. Erza then looked up to see the Dragon staring down at her while growling at the same time.
"ERZA! GET AWAY FROM THERE!" Juvia yelled at the red head, tried to warn her fellow Devil Slayer. The said red head rolled to her side when the Dragon roared and brought its massive right claw down towards Erza.
When the Dragon claw slammed the ground, it caused a huge linear blast to be generated in front of the Dragon, surging up to the sky in height and covering an incredibly long area seemingly several kilometers while causing astounding damage, capable of drastically changing the appearance of its elongated point of impact.
Erza saw the damage that was caused from a simple claw attack in utter shock as she wasn't expecting the Dragon's strength. Erza heard from her sensei that even a fodder Dragon could destroyed an entire continent, she couldn't help but shuddered at the thought but to see the power of a Dragon with her own eyes was different thing.
Erza knew that there's no way she could defeat the Dragon, let alone to gravely injured it. She knew the chance of her and Juvia could get away from the Dragon in one piece was near to zero.
"Erza…" Erza wiped her head to her right to see Juvia, holding up the golden necklace they were looking for. "…I got the necklace, we need to get out of here." Juvia shouted at the red head in panic, Erza nodded in agreement as they flared their Maryoku before flew away as fast as they could.
(T-Rex Sound)
The Dragon roared as it saw the two intent to fly away, it stretched its wings and soared to the sky, chasing after the scared Devil Slayers who tried to save their own lives. Erza looked behind only to see the Dragon was getting closer to her and Juvia. She shared a look with the blue haired woman and nodded before gathered black flames on her left hand while Juvia's right arm began to glow in blue.
"Enma no Fezanto Beku! [Flame Devil's Pheasant Beak]!"
"Suima no Murasame! [Water Devil's Shark Pack]!"
Erza launched a giant black pheasant made of flame towards the Dragon while Juvia threw a gigantic shark made of black water at high speed.
(Boooom)
The attack inflicted onto to the wing of the large dragon, engulfing it in titanic explosion of magic that could be felt from radius fifteen kilometers away.
Erza and Juvia wasted no time to fly away from the Dragon even faster than before. But their eyes widened as the Dragon shrugged off their attack as if nothing happened and maneuvered to right at the speed of light, inhaled a very deep breath and charging for a breath attack.
"LOOK OUT!"
The giant light blue Dragon fired a gigantic blue colored blast which composed of an insanely vast Maryoku combined with a massive tornado around the blast towards the Devil Slayer. The two barely evaded the incoming blast by flew a little lower. The blast made its way towards the coast, to a medium sized island that at least twenty kilometers away from where they were.
(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM)
The two looked to the sea when they heard very, VERY explosion that probably the loudest explosion they ever heard and widened their eyes in horror when the roar attack casually obliterated the island with a massive titanic explosion of magic, which caused a massive earthquake without leaving any trace at all.
The Dragon turned its attention back to the Devil Slayers, who kept flying away as fast as they could. Erza thinks quickly and she used her left hand to grab onto her left eye and wrenched it out. Erza hissed in agony as bloods flooded out from her left eyes but she ignored it as she began to build up a quite amount of Maryoku [Magic Power] and focused it onto her left eyeball which began to engulf in black flame.
Juvia saw this action and couldn't help but quite shocked at her partner action. "Erza…what are you doing?" She asked when she saw the eyeball on Erza's left hand began to glow in pink light.
Erza then turned around to face the Dragon and threw her eyeball at the massive creature. "JUVIA! CREAT A BARRIER, NOW!" Erza cried out at her fellow Devil Slayer.
Juvia was about to asked but from Erza's reaction, she realized that there wasn't any time for question. Juvia swiped her right hand six times and a purple barrier began to engulf her and Erza, forming into a medium sized purple ball.
(BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM)
And with the power equivalent to approximately five megatons of ultra concentrated ether luminous sphere, a magic item that said to be five hundred times more powerful than Jupiter Cannon, the former left eyeball of Erza Dragneel exploded into a titanic blast of blindingly bright pink light.
Many times brighter than the sun, the massive fireball grew to a diameter of nearly five kilometers in the blink of an eye, instantly vaporizing the entire forest along with the entire Mount Envile and all what were there. The unbelievable heat generated by the explosion fueled a supersonic blast wave that smashed and incinerated everything within an eleven kilometer radius of the fireball.
After the wave passed, the intense heat sparked thousands of fires through the remains of the affected areas. What had been an entire forest and Mount Envile only a minute earlier was now a huge that would have been easily visible from orbit.
The light blue Dragon floated out from the crater and surprisingly, it came out without even a single scratch on its massive body. It looked around to find the Devil Slayers but it couldn't see one of them before it roared in dissatisfied and flew away from the huge crater.
Approximately four kilometers away from the huge crater, a large sphere of black water crashed through the forest before it skidded on the ground, creating a very long path and crashed onto a large boulder, destroying it in process. The water sphere shimmered before it exploded from the force of the very hard crash landing, revealing two heavily injured Devil Slayers.
Erza groaned in pain as she began to pull herself up from the ground. With the combination of the very destructive explosion and the very hard crash landing, she concluded that this very day, Friday July 20th X784 was the worst day in her life. A quick check indicated that although it hurt like hell, her body would still function and fine, except for her left eye. Erza tried to stand and was relieved when she found herself successful. The flame Devil Slayer took a look around her partner and saw her current condition.
Juvia was unconscious while her right arm and right leg seems broken from the crash. Juvia probably couldn't handle the heat of such titanic explosion due her nature of magic, the barrier Juvia was created was the same barrier during her fight against Erza but it shattered almost instantly when the 'eyeball' detonated. Fortunately, the water Devil Slayers barely managed to create a water sphere in the last second before the blast engulfed them.
While Erza could at least tolerate some of the heat of boiling water, Juvia couldn't even last three second and passed out when the sphere of water temperature rocketed through the room, luckily the blue haired girl used a quite amount of Maryoku to cast that water sphere. She had highly dehydration, her skins getting blister as she thought.
Erza wasted no time and slung the water Devil Slayer over her shoulder before flared her black Maryoku and flew towards Pendragon at high speed.
Friday, July 20th, Year X784, 05:52 P.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Holy Britannia Empire, Pendragon, Pendragon Palace, Emperor's Personal Office
Friday July 20th X784 was also the worst day for the infamous Emperor of Holy Britannia Empire himself, this day he once again faced against in his opinion, the most formidable and the most annoying 'enemy' so far aside of Zeref, Acnologia, Mavis and Igneel.
Paperwork…and a lot of it.
E.N.D grumbled under his breath as he signed another form of request for budget grow for military and one of his weaponry project called 'Project Zeus' before put it to his side, along with another mountain of paperwork that he just finished an hour ago. He exhaled, threw his pen to the table, took a sip of his drink before leaned back on his highly comfortable chair and closed his eyes to take a nap for a moment.
(BUUUG)
E.N.D opened his right eyes slightly when he heard a very loud thudding sound and couldn't help but shuddered slightly.
That's not a good sign.
And he was proved himself right once again.
Right in front of him…was another yet mountains of paperwork. His eyes comically widened in horror, almost popped out from its socket. He paled while his jaw dropped to the ground.
"NOT AGAIN!" E.N.D freaked out loudly, so loud that the birds outside his garden made a brake for it.
Wendy came out from behind the mountains of paperwork while dusting her hands. "There! I hope you could finish it before dinner so you can eat and finish dozen more of it tonight." The Knight of One informed her adoptive brother nonchalantly.
But her words causing the Emperor paled even more as his soul comically leaved out from his body. "You're joking right…" E.N.D began as he finally regained his composure back. "…There is still a dozen more of this…thing?!" He pointed at the mountains of paperwork that just arrived a moment ago.
Wendy nodded her head. "That's what you get for a very long absence. You know I had to ensure that Alvarez won't dare to invade us during your absence so I don't have time to deal with government matter, I had to leave government matter to Prime Minister while I'm dealing with Military." Wendy explained before crossing her arms and smirked at him. "Beside…this is a payback for giving me such hard task to look after such big Empire alone."
E.N.D sighed, took his pen from the table before took one of the paperwork and began to sign the document. "Yeah, sorry about that Wendy…any words from Erza?" The Emperor asked the girl.
"Yes…she and Juvia had arrived in the palace three hours ago with critical injuries." Wendy reported briefly. "Those two have successfully finished the task you gave to them and done it just like you said…retrieve the necklace at any cost."
"Where are they now?" E.N.D questioned the strongest Round.
"They are currently receiving treatment in medical section as we speak." Wendy answered. "Juvia's right arm and left leg are fractured from a very hard crash landing while Erza lost her left eyes and had her rib broken. Both of them are greatly trauma but both of them should have be awake by now"
E.N.D nodded in satisfied, slightly relief that the Devil Slayers were at least still alive after what he put through them. But he then narrowed his eyes at the little girl. "Was that really necessary to use that form to them? I mean from what you just said before, you're clearly scare them to death. I bet they didn't expect a Dragon was on that Mountain."
Wendy merely scratched back of her head. "Hehehe…I haven't in my Dragon for centuries, I kinda missed it and decided to use it on those two. Don't worry, I didn't even put any effort at all to attack them." Wendy said causing E.N.D to sigh.
"You're more than four hundred years old Wendy, one of the first Dragon Slayer ever exist as well as the second Dragon Slayer that can take form of Dragon, even when you're not being serious, you're still absolutely powerful than regular human, you could have accidentally killed them if you're not careful enough." E.N.D scolded her little sister.
Wendy suddenly filled with pang of guilt and looked on the ground in shame. "I'm sorry!" Wendy apologized with a hint of regret in her voice.
E.N.D sighed and cursed himself for making Wendy felt bad and decided to change the subject. "Forget it, What about you? Are you injured or something?" E.N.D asked the little girl with a hint of worry in his voice.
"No, I'm not injury at all. Just a little shocked when Erza plucked out her own left eye, filling it with quite amount of Maryoku and threw her it to me." Wendy explained, causing the pink haired Etherious raised an eyebrow at her. "The result was so enormous. While it wasn't strong enough to do any harm to me, it annihilated everything within radius eleven kilometer from the explosion. The entire forest and Mount Envile are now ceases from existence. Hell, you can even see the crater from the space."
E.N.D shook his head slightly at that. "Hm…looks like Erza used the forbidden spell I taught her." He mumbled to himself.
It was something E.N.D taught to his student during her training. When one became a Devil Slaye, their entire body transformed into weapon and you can use it to cause an unimaginable destruction by sacrificing part of their body. The destructive power depended at what part of body you sacrifice to use the forbidden technique. But the price was so high, even with the Saisei Juho [Regeneration Curse] or any other healing spells, the one who used the forbidden technique won't get the part of their body they sacrifice back but you can replace it.
"Then she won't get her left eyes back…" Wendy stated causing E.N.D to look at her. "…We've tried to replace her left eyes with an artificial eye and even the real eye but none of them were match for here. It seems her body kept rejecting the eyes we tried to place on her."
"I see…" E.N.D mumbled to himself before he remembered. "…But I think I have the perfect eyes for her since she is now half Etherious after overusing Juggernaut Drive." E.N.D stood up from his seat and was about to walk towards the door but Wendy stopped him by putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Finish your paper work first…" E.N.D began to groan but Wendy interjected. "…Don't groan, it's your duty as Emperor." Wendy scolded the pink haired Emperor. E.N.D was so lucky no one else except him and Wendy because if everyone found that that he, the Emperor of Holy Britannia Empire was being scolded by his most trusted Knight as well as his adoptive sister, everyone would have laughed at him.
"But Wendy…" E.N.D whined childishly, which out of from his characters. "…They are simply too many of it, even for me. I don't think I can finish them without getting myself crazy."
Wendy simply crossed her arm and gave him a look. "Then why don't you use that Bunshin Juho [Clone Curse] you device to finish up your paperwork?" She asked rhetorically.
"Because…" E.N.D was about to answer before drawn to realization at what Wendy just said.
"Um…onii-san?" Wendy asked uneasily. "Are you OK?"
"Yes…I'm…" E.N.D suddenly walked towards his table and pushed a hidden button under his desk which triggered a hidden compartment behind the bookcase.
There was a large steel post with the sign 'When forgetting something that completely obvious, bang head here'. E.N.D walked towards the post and began to bang his own head to the post for full ten minutes. After he was done, E.N.D ran to Wendy and hugged the little girl into a crushing hug.
"WAAAAAAAHHHHH…" E.N.D wailed comically while still crushing the poor girl who desperately gasped for air with bone-crush hug. "…WENDY, YOU'RE MY SAVIOR. I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!" The Emperor tightened his hug every times he said 'I love you', causing the girl's face now matching with her hair.
E.N.D finally stopped his dramatic wails but panicked when he saw his Knight of One was on the floor with her face matching her hair. "WAAAAHHH…WENDY PLEASE DON'T DIE!" E.N.D wailed again and was about to *ahem* embrace his little sister again but E.N.D clearly was unprepared for a tiny fist to smack right into his face.
The fist despite being small surprisingly sent the most powerful demon from the Book of Zeref crashing into the wall on the other side of the room which shook from the Emperor slamming into it. E.N.D groaned, put a hand on his nose which seems broken by the powerful force from the fist before slowly stood to his feet, grimacing from the small lump forming on his head. E.N.D looked at his little sister who tried to regain her breath.
The blue haired girl glared at him who merely rubbed back of his head while grinning like an idiot at her. "Hehehe…my bad!" E.N.D chuckled before he gathered small amount of Juryoku [Curse Power] on his right palm that began to form into seven tiny balls. He threw the balls of energy to the floor and in flash of light, seven clones that clearly identically to him born.
"You all, finish that paperworks!" E.N.D ordered while walking passed his clones.
One of the clones looked at the mountains of paperwork. "Why should we?" He asked.
"Yeah…why should we?" The rest repeated.
"Because I'm the original!" E.N.D replied in irritated. The clones muttered like 'Original Bastard' while watching the original leaved his personal office followed by Wendy before they doing as the original said.
E.N.D and Wendy made their way back to an elevator that would lead them to the medical Section in fifth floor. The elevator reached its destination, and the pair stepped out into long hallway. On their way to Erza's room, the hallway was filled with doctors, nurses and soldiers that were doing their jobs. They noticed the Emperor and the Knight of One walked in Medical Section, the doctors and nurses bowed to them in respect while the soldiers saluted at the two most powerful persons in Britannia.
They went to B Wing, the doors opened to reveal a half a dozen heavily armed Britannia infantrymen standing guard. "Your Majesty." The soldiers saluted at the newcomers in respect.
"At ease" E.N.D commanded the soldiers. The two were almost immediately approached by a doctor that happened to be a young woman with long green hair and amber eyes.
"Your Majesty." The woman in the white coat greeted the Emperor.
"Cera, how are they?" The Emperor asked the young doctor named Cera shortly.
"Both of them are stable right now, they should be awake as we speak." Doctor Cera responded.
"I want to see them." E.N.D said in a way halfway between request and command.
"Follow me." Cera started to walk down the hallway to their right. Fifteen rooms down, another two guards stood outside the last door at the end of the hall.
They opened the door for them, revealing a very spacious room with Erza and Juvia, laying on their beds while, surprisingly watching a movie from Lacrima vision. Erza has bandage over her left eyes while Juvia's right leg was hanging by a cloth while covered with cast as well as her right arm.
Erza noticed her mentor and his Knight walked in their room and waved at them. "Your Majesty" Erza greeted her mentor formally with a smile. "We have success our mission retrieving the necklace."
"I can see that...you won't be back if it never finished. May I see my necklace?" E.N.D asked his pupil and Juvia reached to the drawer beside her bed and slid it open. The blue haired girl took out the heart-shape necklace and gave it to the Emperor who seemingly examined it in case the necklace was real.
After making sure that the necklace was real, E.N.D wore it on his neck and turned towards the two Devil Slayers with a proud smile.
"Congratulation…Knight of Seven…" He said to Erza before turned to Juvia. "…Knight of Eight."
Monday, July 23th, Year X784, 05:49 A.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Holy Britannia Empire, Pendragon Palace, Erza's Room
Erza's eyes flew open and she gripped the silk sheets that were gathered around her form when she heard the clock ringing. The red head looked around, feeling the stillness of the morning and the hints of dawn sneaking its way through the window in her room. She heaved a nostalgic sigh and ran her hand over her forehead and into her red hair, feeling the beads of sweat against her warm and clammy skin.
Erza turned to her right side, glaring at the clock to see that it was barely six in the morning. With a grumble, she switched off the alarm and sighed before making her way towards a door on the corner, opened it and step into the bathroom.
She enjoyed shower, it was one of the many things that Erza looked forward throughout her day. The way that the warm water ran across her skin, leaving small droplets of water behind on their scrambled path down her smooth skin was fascinating and intriguing to watch. The steam that slowly covered the mirror was also entertaining and even more so once she realized that you could draw on the surface with your fingers.
Erza couldn't help but amazed at the room where currently she was.
This room was entirely in another level compare to her room in Fairy Hills. The room was design in Victorian style room which was fairly big. It has a king-sized bed with a majestic looking red blankets to cover it up and a bunch of fancy pillows, the room also has a wardrobe made with the finest wood and has a fancy-like carved designing it and other stuff, basically the room was beautiful and well taken-care of even if it was used by no one.
Erza took a shower and after she done, she stepped out the bathroom and get dressed in her new uniform, which consisted of a left-sleeveless version on Knight of Round uniform and dark blue with golden accent Knight of Round cape. Erza wrapped her pink-black scarf and strapped her Kuroisakura [Black Sakura] on her right side, looked at the mirror to see the bandage that covered her newly left eyes which was not ready to use after the surgery yesterday before nodded in satisfied and leaved her room, not forgetting to lock the door before heading out to the Knight of Round meeting room.
Even until this day on, Erza recalled what has happened to her and Juvia in past three days at how she and Juvia almost died when her mentor sending her and Juvia to retrieve the necklace to encounter that Dragon which soon be revealed as the Knight of One herself.
'No wonder Wendy-sama is so powerful…she is a goddamn Dragon.' Erza thought to herself when she remembered the day Wendy apologized to them for almost killing them back in Mount Envile.
Erza walked through the long hallway only to stop when she felt a very familiar presence. "I heard you blew up the council…" Erza began as she turned around to the corner of the hallway to see a young woman with long dark purple hair, wearing a purple dress stood leaning to the pillar. "…Ultear"
The woman, Ultear merely smirked at the red head. "So, this is where you have been, now a member of Knight of Round. I thought you said yourself you won't join into any rank when someone offered you? You even decline the invitation to become Seiten Dai Madoshi [Ten Wizard Saints] six months ago."
Erza chuckled at that. "Well, the Emperor sent his strongest Knight to retrieve me and it also happened that my sensei is in fact the Emperor himself." Erza replied, causing the purple haired woman widened her eyes in disbelieve.
"E.N.D is the Britannia's Emperor?" She managed t uttered, still couldn't believe it that the strongest demon from the Book of Zeref was in fact an Emperor of such powerful Empire.
Erza nodded her head. "Yep…how could I refuse my own mentor's offers?" Erza asked rhetorically and decided to change the subject. "By the way, do you have what I need?" Erza asked again.
Ultear pulled out a brown envelope from her dress and threw it at the red head who caught the envelope effortlessly. "That's the address of the current and former members of the council, the location the mine you're looking for as well as the location of all Face Bombs is now yours." Ultear said to the Knight of Seven before continued. "This is the end of our deal…I cannot spying on council anymore since I'm now officially a fugitive."
"That's fine with me, I know this day would come sooner or later." Erza responded in understanding.
A year ago, when Erza faced trial for leveled an entire Oshibana Town, Erza overheard Ultear communicated to someone named Hades via the Lacrima communication before the trial begin. Surprisingly when Erza caught her, Ultear confessed to the red head that in truth she was Grimoire Heart Second in Command. Erza at first didn't understand why Ultear easily confessed to her that she was part of a dark guild but Ultear replied 'I'm the same as you' and Erza instantly understand what she implying. Ultear offered herself to be Erza's spy in the council if Erza didn't tell anybody about her being a dark mage. Erza soon agreed to keep Ultear's secret in change for Ultear provided Erza with intels from the council.
"Anyway…what happen to Kagura's boyfriend? I heard at what happen to her and the other in Rakuen no To [Tower of Heaven]." Erza asked the dark purple haired woman who shrugged nonchalantly.
"Who? Jellal? How should I know? Probably dead when the entire tower blew up before it couldn't handle Etherion for long time. But I'm still wondered how your friends was able to survive." Ultear replied to the red head.
"Oh that…I heard when the tower was about to explode, Lucy somehow brought the other to Seireikai [Celestial Spirit World]" Erza answered the question while remembering the conversation with Makarov two days ago.
"Anyway, I should get going…" Ultear turned around and began to walk away while waved at Erza. "…As much I want to settle the score with you, this isn't the right time and place to do that."
"Yeah…you're right…" Erza waved back at Ultear as she began to walk towards her previous destination. "…When the time is come…show me what the disciple of Grayfia Lucifer can do…"
Monday, July 23th, Year X784, 05:59 A.M, Earthland, Ishgar, Holy Britannia Empire, Pendragon, Pendragon Palace, Knight of Round's meeting room.
'That's went well than I thought'
Erza ended her thought when she arrived in front of the Knight of Round meeting room. She took a deep breath while fixing her uniform one more time. She was about to meet with her senior (Aside of Wendy) in the Round so she had to make a good impression to her senior. Taking a deep breath one more time, Erza pushed the massive door open.
As soon as Erza enter the room, hails of throwing swords greet her. Fortunately for her, she managed to snatch one of them effortlessly with her left hand and deflected the rest of the swords with the sword she just grabbed.
"Not bad, newbie!" A slightly tan skinned man at his late twenty with short blond hair and red eyes complimented the red head. He was wearing a Knight of Round uniform with orange-gold cape, black gloves, black boots and golden earrings.
The man then pointed his finger at Juvia who was also dressed in a Knight of Round uniform with purple-gold cape. "Unlike our newly Knight of Eight who just let the sword passed through her literally, I was expecting you to duck the swords, not grabbed one of them and deflected the rest. I can see now why his majesty appointed you as Knight of Seven." The man suddenly stumbled to the ground when a hand slapped his head from behind. The blond was hitting the ground very hard that even Erza and Juvia could almost felt his pain.
The key word was almost.
"Gilgamesh, show some manner to the new member. And how many times I told you that it dangerous to play throwing swords game when the target is on the door!" A pale skinned young woman, around seventeen years old with long elegant dark silver hair to her waist and crimson eyes, chastened the man now known as Gilgamesh. She also wore the Knight of Round uniform with magenta-gold Round cape. "And despite being newbie, she along with Juvia over here is ranked higher than you who are only Knight of Ten."
Gilgamesh grumbled as he rubbed his sore head while standing up and glaring at the silver haired young woman. "Damn it Secilia…was that necessary for you to hitting me?" Gilgamesh snapped at the girl known as Secilia.
"If it's makes you to behave then yes…" Secilia merely glared at the blond impassively. "I'm the Knight of Four, I have the authority to make sure the other Rounds below me to act like children while my superiors weren't around." Secilia replied at Gilgamesh.
For your information, these two were Gilgamesh, the honorable Knight of Ten and Secilia Vasburg, the honorable Knight of Four under Emperor of Britannia himself. These two were also known as Eiyuuo [King of Hero] and Hakuryuuko [White Dragon Empress] from Britannia.
Secilia turned her attention to Erza and hunger her head slightly. "I apologize for my subordinate's boorish behavior." The Knight of Four apologized to Erza.
"Hey…"
Erza merely raised her hands in defense. "It's quite alright…I bet Lord Gilgamesh want to make sure that I really worth of being a Round." Erza replied modestly, despite being ranked higher than the blond man, Gilgamesh was still her senior.
"See…" Gilgamesh began. "…The chink didn't even mind it, you're just being too strict…no wonder you got no boyfriend."
As soon as he finished said that, Secilia held Gilgamesh by his throat before threw him to the other side of the room with a great force, sending him crashed the wall very hard that once again made Erza and Juvia could almost felt his pain.
"SINCE WHEN DID MY LOVE LIFE BECOME THE SUBJECT?" Secilia's face was as red as Erza's hair in anger at that suddenly being brought up before she then processed to release all of her fury by beating the crap of Knight of Ten.
Erza could only blink and watched the scene with a sweatdrop while Juvia merely ignored it and sat on the couch, eating an apple. The red head thought that Knight of Round was filled with extreme serious person…but after thinking about it twice, the Knight of Round seems no different from the people in Fairy Tail.
"ENOUGH!" Everyone turned towards the door when the booming voice announced.
Standing right in front of the door was a man around twenty six years old with long gray hair that being tied in a high ponytail that reaches midway down his back and black hair that were formed bangs that were brushed over to the right side of his face, covering his right eyes. He has a pair of crimson eyes and a sharp, curved tattoo around his left eye. He also wore a Knight of Round uniform with white-gold cape. On his hand was a brown folder.
Secilia recognized the man as her superior before she calmed down herself and released the, still oblivious to her, unconscious Gilgamesh from her grip. "My apologize Lord Cheney, it's just this boor brought up a very touched subject and I lost control of myself." Secilia apologized as she processed to the couch and sat in the opposite of Juvia, leaving the unconscious Gilgamesh on the ground. Erza swore she could see the blond's soul leaving his body after got a very hard beating from the Knight of Four.
This man's name was Rogue Cheney, the honorable Knight of Two as well known as Britannia's Hakueiryuu [White Shadow Dragon]. Rogue was also one of four Dragon Slayers on Britannia possession aside of Wendy Marvell and Secilia Vasburg. Erza could felt the aura of power radiated around the man, while quite powerful it's still nothing compare to Wendy who was a real Dragon, but still Rogue was definitely still quite powerful compare to the other Rounds below him.
Rogue walked towards the couch and took a seat in front of the red head as the said red head took a seat when Rogue motioned her to do so. "What do you need, Lord Cheney?" Erza questioned her superior politely.
"First, just call me Rogue…Formality isn't really my style." The Knight of Two began as he put the folder on the table. "Second, His Majesty called me last night that he has arrived in Crocus six hours ago. He wanted me to relay this to Knight of Seven because His Majesty has an order for you."
"What's this order?" The red-haired Knight of Seven asked.
Rogue began to open the folder, revealing seven different profiles while he took one with a picture of a middle aged woman with long black hair and brown eyes. "This woman is Liliana Erikson, she is our vice-minister of defense. We suspect that she has sell out intels about our weaponry project called 'Project Zeus' to these people…" Rogue then turned to the other six profiles. "…These people are from a dark guild called Oracion Seis, one of the three corners of Baram Alliance."
Erza glanced at the profile of five men and a young woman while Rogue continued. "His Majesty begin to worry that Oracion Seis would have a fully access to project Zeus. Luckily, Liliana and Oracion Seis have never met before but they are planning to meet at Crocus in two days." Rogue explained briefly while Erza listened to him closely.
"So…my order is…"
"Your order is to assassinate both Liliana and Oracion Seis before they can meet."
To Be Continued
Explanation:
Wendy: Yep, in this story…Wendy was born much sooner than in cannon and she is one of the first Dragon Slayer that ever exist. According to Wiki, Acnologia is a powerful human that can take form of Dragon. This Wendy is the same as Acnologia and that's why she's so powerful, you can say that she's around Igneel's level or probably below him by small margin.
Wendy's Dragon Form: She looks like Blue Eyes White Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh! Unless Wendy is much bigger, almost the same sized as Igneel and Acnologia.
Tower of Heaven Arc: Yes, I skipped it because it has nothing to do with my Erza but Erza is aware of that event.
Member Knight of Round: Gilgamesh is the Gilgamesh from Fate Zero, Rogue have the appearance as well as the power of his future counterpart since it's hundred times more badass than present Rogue. Secilia Vasburg is my own OC as well as a Dragon Slayer aside of Rogue and Wendy.
Ultear: From what Erza said, Ultear indeed a Devil Slayer who taught by Grayfia. Also, in this story Ultear is Grimoire Heart Second in command not Bluenote.
Profile of Erza Dragneel
Name: Erza Dragneel
Alias: Meio - The Underworld King
Race: Half-Human, Half-Etherious
Gender: Female
Age: 19
Hair Color: Scarlet (Normal), Pink (Juggernaut Drive)
Eyes Color: Right Eye – Brown, Left Eye - Unknown
Magic Power Color: Black
Affiliation: Fairy Tail, Holy Britannia Empire, Knight of Round
Occupation: Mage, Knight of Seven
Guild Mark Location: Left Shoulder (Black)
Relatives: Unnamed Parent (Deceased), E.N.D (Mentor)
Magic & Abilities
Kaen no Metsuaku Maho - Flame Devil Slayer Magic
Known Spells:
Enma no Gekiko - Flame Devils's Rage
Enma no Haken - Flame Devil's Destruction Fist
Enma no Haen - Flame Devil's Destruction Flame
Enma no Fezanto Beku – Flame's Devil Pheasant Beak
Juggernaut Drive
Metsuaku Ougi – Secret Devil Slayer Art:
Kokuren Bakuenjin – Black Lotus Exploding Flame Blade
Immense Strength
Immense Speed
Immense Durability
Immense Reflexes
Immense Endurance
Immense Magic Power
Keen Intelect
Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant
Master Swordsmanship Specialist
Equipment:
Kuroisakura - Black Sakura
E.N.D Scarf
