Hi everyone! I'm back with another chapter! I want to mention that I don't really have a set time for posting chapters. I just try to write whenever I have free time and post when I feel like it's ready to be posted lol… Well, enjoy the fifth chapter!
Today she had decided to wear her favorite outfit. The girl's extravagant clothing was one only true royalty could even think to have. Her outfit had a large assortment of blue shades.
Blue was the color of hope and salvation in her world. The sky and the water. An great force of power.
As the clouds cover the blue sky, the sky is waiting.
Biding it's time patiently until the clouds vanish, then the sky looks down upon us in all it's glory.
Never once wavering.
The sky will never leave. Even as it witnesses the horrible things in this world, it will still be waiting patiently, seeking all the good in this world.
It will never abandon us, even during the night, when the sun rejects us, the sky will ask the moon and the stars to watch over us, trying to provide even a little bit of light. Giving us hope even as darkness falls upon us.
The water is the empire's salvation.
Water is what saved the empire 500 years ago, during the worst fire her empire's history has ever encountered. Everything burned. It was total annihilation.
Until water came. It started raining like nothing before.
It was total war. The fire would not give in to the rain. The rain would not give up on destroying the fire. The war between fire and water lasted months, neither giving in, until the tsunami came. This whole time, the water was biding time, building up in the vast ocean, until it struck.
Only a few had survived, the ones who had escaped to the mountain, the rain protecting them from the fire that was trying to crawl its way up.
Finally the war of the elements had ended. The rain stopped. The fire dissipated. But the empire was in total ruins.
But there was still hope. The one of the survivors was strong. He started the rebuilding of the empire, others joining.
Water had won the war, humanity's salvation.
The empire was rebuilt and renamed the Eternace Empire. For the hope there there will be Eternal Peace.
That is why this outfit was her favorite.
She wore jewelry adorned with shimmering gemstones. Set on the top outer ring of her ear was one of the many masterpieces of the Grand Designer, a person of massive talent for creating clothing for the high class families and royalty.
Her ear jewelry has a mixture of platinum, shaped into small leaves, and many small glistening gems, benitoite, azurite, and diamond, adorning the intricately shaped leaves. All the gemstones and platinum pieces put together formed a tip at the top of the ear piece.
It made her look almost faerie-like, with pointed ears and with those piercing blue eyes with flecks of silver scattered within the blue. The color of the sky, trapped in those eyes.
She had straight, raven black hair, pulled up into a complicated braid, curled up upon her head.
She wore silk clothing, also with different shades of blue. The edges were all lined with tiny crystals that shimmered with every movement. stopped just above her knees, revealing silver colored boots that reached to the middle of her shins. A long, translucent dark blue cloak was set upon her shoulders, seemingly almost ominous against the shimmering light colors that she wore.
Her face was deadpan serious as she regarded her newly acquired fancy sword that her father, the overlord, had gotten her as a gift for her anniversary of her first breath of air in this world she was born into. The sword looked like it should merely be for decoration. It was too flashy to sight with.
In this empire, the nobles had the gift of sword fighting skills and much more powerful magic than the people who were not of royal blood.
This world where the empire resides is called Elvaria.
The first overlord named this empire Eternace for hopes of eternal peace.
The Eternace Empire is the only empire in Elvaria. A population of half a billion of people are part of Eternace. An unknown number of people live outside of the empire, small communities scattered across the lands.
Each overlord, the leader of the empire, was powerful and righteous. There are chosen by the choice of their people.
There could only be a maximum of six of the royalty at a time. Three males and three females. The six were all gifted with swordsmanship and magic.
Each time one of them died, the next one born from a current magic wielder would take over the previous owner's magic, as well as being the same gender as the deceased magic wielder. Any one of the magic wielders can be chosen to be overlord after the death of the previous overlord.
But if a child is born and there are already six magic users, the child would not have magic, but because of their bloodline, they would still have a decent amount of authority.
From birth, the magic wielders were taught to use their magic for good and for the empire. They were all raised to be righteous and fair.
There was never a problem with any of this, ever since the war between fire and water.
Until about five centuries afterwards, when her brother came into the world.
A voice, shouting. It was so loud… He wish it could stop already.
"Warren! Warren! Wake up already!"
Warren cracked open an eye.
There were several people leaning over him. Macao, Elfman, Lisanna, and Romeo.
"YAAAAA!" Warren yelled, sitting up so suddenly that his head almost crashed into the four who were leaning over him.
"Am I dead? Are you dead? Is this heaven?"
"Calm down! We don't know where this is! But I don't think we're dead. Look around." Macao said, trying to ease Warren.
Warren then stood up slowly with shaky legs, looking around.
His jaw nearly dropped to the ground.
Around them, everywhere, were people. So many people, all widely spread out and as far as Warren could see. They all looked confused, not knowing what was happening. Most of them had fearful expressions on their faces.
There was also a few people lying on the ground around them... Hopefully just unconscious.
Some people were crying, or whispering amongst themselves.
Others were standing alone, looking lost and afraid, but even with so many people, Warren realized it was nearly silent in this eery place. No one was talking very loudly.
After recovering from the shock of seeing all those people, his jaws nearly dropped to the ground a second time.
They were standing on a hard, grey marble floor that seemed to stretch limitlessly.
There were no walls nor was there a sky. Actually, Warren couldn't focus on the sides at all. It was like trying to see something that wasn't there. His focus kept slipping every time he tried to figure out what color or what the walls or sky looked like, although it did seem like it was the color of very very dark red.
It might not have been a wall though. It there was a wall, it would have to be miles and miles away because the ground stretched as far as his eye could see and would have to cover the whole entire top of that too.
It seemed impossible to build something as large as that and still not collapse.
There was also light in here.
But where was the source of the light?
"W-what is this?!" Warren muttered, feeling overly confused.
Lisanna spoke up. "I don't really know… But if I think instead of killing us, those killers are storing us somewhere instead of killing us. Except there are no people here that can't use magic. Before Elfman and I were sucked here, I saw other people being killed. Actually killed. Their blood…"
Lisanna trailed off, hands covering her face, and Elfman put an arm around her, who was also looking pale at the memory.
Macao started to speak. "So in other words, the people who were taken here are most likely mages. It seems like they also make people unconscious before sending them here. You can see by some of the people around us."
Just as he finished, Freed materialized a few meters away, and they all rushed to him, getting him to wake up.
After a few minutes, he got up and yelled angrily, "WHAT IS THIS UNJUST? LET ME GO BACK, I AM GOING TO BEAT THEM UP-"
Macao clamped his hand over the still blabbering Freed, telling him to quiet down.
He repeated what he said to Warren with Freed still bubbling with anger, as someone, no, two people appeared on the ground about ten feet away.
Warren looked up with a barely audible sigh, a sense of foreboding washing over him.
What was going to happen to all of them next?
"No way…"
"Damn it!"
Erza and Gray watched on the roof, turning pale, as they saw Freed disappear. Bixlow and Evergreen were next.
They were too far away to be reached in time.
Bixlow and Evergreen both released a flurry of magic, only to quickly disappear beneath the black mist, like Freed did.
"We have to retreat," Erza said gritting her teeth, "We can't fight something that we can't touch. We have to trust that they're still alive and make a plan"
"No… NO! We have to save everyone here! We have to fight! And there's no guarantee the ones who disappeared are still alive! WE HAVE TO KILL THOSE MURDERS BEFORE THEY REACH OTHERS!"
Just then, the cloaked men confronted a mother and child paralyzed with fear. They stopped walking, and looked like they were waiting for something. Were they speaking? It was way too far to tell, but it was most likely that they were questioning the mother about what the messenger from the council had told them about.
The "prisoner in the prophecy".
Could the cloaked people really have people with magic they've never heard of though?
At this point, it seemed like an actually large possibility.
Suddenly, a strange burst of magic came from one of the cloaked men and burst clean through the mother and child. They dropped to the ground like ragdolls, blood flying in all directions.
Gray screamed, starting to burst into a run towards them. Those cold blooded monsters.
Erza rushed to his side, her sword materializing to block his path.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! Don't you see what's happening?! We have to do something!" Gray angrily swung his head towards Erza. "We can't just-"
He stopped as he saw Erza's dark and furious expression, directed towards where the mother and child had died. Erza had the look of bloodlust. Gray could practically feel it rolling off her in waves.
"We cannot be reckless. We'll get them, but now is not the time. We have to know when to fight and when to back off. Our main priority should be getting everyone out alive right now. Hurry, let's move." Erza commanding in a deadly calm tone.
"A-alright."
But Erza had already jumped off the roof and started to evacuate everyone.
Lucy was sprinting full speed ahead, almost dragging Natsu by the wrist.
She looked at up Happy and Birox flying overhead.
"Happy! Take Natsu and fly him out of here fast! He's the one that they're looking for! Don't worry about me. I'm going to warn people to get out of town."
Erza had explained to Lucy as fast as possible about what was happening. Then she told Lucy to grab Natsu and get away as fast as possible.
But Lucy wasn't about to leave without helping others escape as well. The more people that was spreading the news, the faster people will be able to escape with a higher chance of survival.
Happy nodded once, understanding Lucy, and picked up a confused and frightened Natsu and sped off towards the opposite direction of the cloaked men, with Birox on his trail.
"Just be safe, Lucy!" Happy yelled, looking over his shoulder.
"Don't worry about me!" Lucy responded, taking out one of her Celestial keys.
Better to have more people to help.
"Open, gate of the Maiden. Virgo!"
In a flash of light, Virgo appeared in front of Lucy, ready to serve.
"How can I help, Princess?"
"Please help me bring everyone to safety as quickly as possible. Tell them to head towards the road heading south of the guild. We'll split up."
"Yes, Princess."
Lucy and Virgo immediately heading towards opposite directions, with their task at hand.
And yes, the character in the beginning is an OC. The problem in her world is going to somehow connect to what's happening in Earthland.
I apologize to the people who expected only Fairy Tail characters to be a main part of the story… I got this idea after the second chapter so I didn't have it in the summary. _
But don't worry, the Fairy Tail chars are still the main stars of the show! (or fanfic)
Thank you all so much for all the reviews/fav/follows though! It makes me happy to have people enjoying the story ^-^
Till the next chapter!