Chapter 39

A Plan

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Frea pushed through the crowded city slowly, narrowing her eyes at how excited the citizens seemed. She had made her way to the Royal City after an hour or so of walking, and now she was walking in between crowds and trying to stay well away from and soldiers. She followed a mass of people down a street, wondering where so many excited people were going. She broke away from the crowd as the street she was one opened up into a large square, and she stepped down an alley. From the shadows she narrowed her eyes, her silver gaze had rested on a giant Lacrima in the center of the square. From the feeling of the Magic Energy the Lacrima was giving off, she knew it had to be Fairy Tail.

The issue was, dozens upon dozens of soldiers surrounded the blue crystal, which she could get rid of easily, if she was willing to bring the crowds of people into the mess. Frea glanced up as an elderly man wearing robes and a sort of crown stepped out onto a balcony, the crowd roared.

"God has presented us with a mighty gift!" The man yelled and again the crowds roared. "With the Magic power we will extract from this Lacrima, our city will have Magic Power for years!" The Man called out and again more roars of approval rose up. Frea's neutral expression turned into a very hateful glare as she listened to this man, who was apparently the king, talk about how god had looked won on them with favor, and all manner of ridiculous things. Her fangs clenched together as her jaw tightened, she was only managing to let go of the urge to just straight up attack the old fool.

God have given them nothing, they had turned her family into a damn rock and she knew all well taking the Magic Energy from the Lacrima would cause Fairy Tail to be lost forever. Frea stiffened as she heard footsteps behind her and she immediately spun around, encasing a clenched fist with her Magic under the cloak, ready to defend herself. She met calm red eyes and she froze, standing before was a young woman, who looked almost exactly like her, black hair, minus the markings that Frea had under her eyes, and who could only be one person.

Edolas Shadow.

Frea took a step back and got ready for an attack, but Shadow only stared at her with a calm expression.

"You, your Frea Silvery aren't you?" Shadow asked and Frea narrowed her eyes.

"No," Frea growled. "Never met her, but my name is Frea." The Energy Dragon growled, not trusting this Edolas counterpart of the dark demon she had known back in EarthLand. "Just Frea, I don't have a last name." Shadow looked her up and down calmly, and it only put Frea on edge more when Shadow didn't do anything but look at her, the Shadow back on EarthLand would have attacked her right away.

"Your from EarthLand, aren't you?" Shadow asked and Frea stiffened a little at the question. Frea nodded slowly, letting her dark hood hide her face more, she found it odd that this Shadow would have found her so soon. "You are not Frea Silvery indeed, Silvery would have been whimpering and scared by now." Frea narrowed her eyes, the Frea here was a wimp? How the hell did that happen?

"How did you know I'm from EarthLand?" Frea asked quietly, casting a quick glance over her shoulder at the assembled crowd, looking for anyone who might be listening.

"The Frea in this world would never come to the Royal City, she's too scared to even try. Considering all members of Fairy Tail are wanted criminals." Shadow explained. "My name is Shadow SunStreak." Shadow said with the same oddly expressionless face. "I know of EarthLand because I work in the Royal Palace, researching EarthLand and why it has unlimited Magic Power." Shadow explained.

Frea immediately tensed up again as Shadow explained she worked in the Palace, she found it extremely perplexing that this Shadow hadn't called for the Soldiers already, she was sort of a criminal.

"What do you want?" Frea growled, not letting her guard down for a minute. She didn't have time for distractions, she had to figure out how to help Fairy Tail!

"I was looking for Frea Silvery, I've been helping keep Erza Knightwalker away from Fairy Tail, from behind the scenes for while now." Shadow explained. "I do not agree with all of the Kings ideas, but what am I to do? I am just a simple scholar." Shadow told her, still remaining expressionless. "I was not expecting to run into you, however." Shadow took a step toward her and Frea stiffened again, "I would watch out, Winter Shadelocker is known as a criminal to most of the Kingdom, but her true loyalty lies to the King, as his personal assassin." Shadow said quietly in her ear, and the Edolas Counterpart walked past her without another word, as she disappeared into the crowd.

Frea stood still, eyes wide, she didn't know what to think about all of that... the Shadow here was... oddly expressionless and non-violent? And the Frea here was a complete wimp according to miss Shadow SunStreak... And Winter Shadelocker was the Kings personal assassin? Edolas was just getting stranger and stranger...

Frea breathed in deeply, trying to calm her nerves down. She had to focus on trying to save Fairy Tail. Frea slowly turned to look back at the Lacrima in the middle of the square, she didn't have a plan, she had nowhere to start. She let out a low hiss of annoyance, she hated trying to figure out plans, she preferred to just rush in and do whatever she felt like doing. But in a crowded square, with dozens of soldiers and innocent bystanders, rushing in wasn't an option.

She stepped out into the crowds again, pulling her hood up a bit farther, trying to hide her face better. She stepped in between cheering people, never bumping anyone and oddly silent as she did so. She slowly walked the perimeter around the guarded Lacrima, noticing that the north side of the Lacrima had been left unguarded. She walked back around and stood in between two shouting men as she raked her gaze over the giant Lacrima.

Her eyes followed two men as they walked toward the Lacrima with some kind of machine in their hands, as they were let through by the Soldiers. Her heart beat a bit faster, they must be getting ready to pull the Magic Energy from the Lacrima! She encased her fist in her Magic under the cloak, silver eyes sweeping this way and that as she tried to come up with a plan. She snapped her head up as a series of bright firework looking lights appeared in the sky, spelling out...

North

North? What the hell is that about?

"Look there! It was a message, it read north!" She glanced sideways as someone yelled out and the guards on this side of the Lacrima glanced at each other.

"The north? That side isn't guarded!" One of the soldiers yelled and a few ran to investigate the other side of the vast crystal, while the remaining soldiers started to back the Citizens up. Frea stayed rooted to the spot as Citizens passed her, her silver eyes rested on someone wearing a brown cloak, and from this angle she couldn't see the persons face, but whoever they were, they weren't backing up with the crowd either. A guard approached the cloaked figure,

"What are you doing?" The Soldier demanded. Frea perked up as she heard a weird snicker come from the cloaked person, and she smiled. She recognized that laugh. It was only now that she picked up on the metallic scent of the cloaked figure, and she glanced over as a soldier asked her to back away. All in a second, the brown cloak had been thrown aside, and one of the guards thrown away, revealing a mess of wild black hair, red eyes and metal piercings on his face, arms and ears, his fangs flashed as he smirked,

Gajeel easily threw away more soldiers and Frea yanked her hood off as she launched forward and punched the soldier in front of her, sending him flying. She spun on her toe, arm extending and eyes narrowing as her fangs flashed in a wide grin.

"Energy Dragon Wave Attack!"

Her spell hit its mark as dozens of soldiers were thrown away, and more were flung as Gajeel continued his fighting. She had to give the Iron hot-head some credit, this was a pretty well thought out plan.

Gajeel swung his Iron club out and knocked more guards away, Frea appeared behind the Iron Dragon Slayer in seconds, sending a soldier, that had been about to hit Gajeel in the back, flying. Gajeel spun around in surprise and she grinned at him,

"Nice Job, you've earned some respect points from me for this, Gajeel!" She chuckled and he blinked in shock for a minute, before giving her a smirk in return.

"Good of you to finally show up, Silver." He replied and they went back to fighting.

"Any idea how to turn the Guild back to normal?" She asked Gajeel as she came back to back with him for a second, and he smirked.

"All you gotta do is break the Lacrima with your Magic." He replied and she narrowed her eyes.

"You sure?" She asked and he gave her an annoyed look.

"Hell yeah I'm sure!" He snapped, spinning around and pointing a finger at her. She smiled,

"Fine, you break it, and I'll keep these guys off of you." She told him and he looked a little surprised she hadn't argued anymore with him. She looked away from him and easily sent the surrounding soldiers flying, before planting her feet firmly on the ground and lifting her hands above her head.

"Energy Dome!" She hissed and a large slightly see-through dome of her magic appeared around the Lacrima, keeping the soldiers out. She flinched a little as the soldiers began to pound away at her magic, and she cast a glance over her shoulder. Gajeel jumped up into the air and easily destroyed the Lacrima with his 'Iron Dragon's Sword'. The Lacrima shrunk into light and she widened her eyes in shock as Erza and Grey appeared, standing with their eyes closed. Both Frea and Gajeel sweatdropped a little, that Lacrima had been huge! And it only ended up being these two?

"Snap out of it!" Gajeel yelled at the two and they opened their eyes, glancing around in confusion.

"What the heck is going on?" Grey muttered.

"We'll get to that later!" Frea called to him and let her dome disappear as she jumped back to stand beside Gajeel.

"We need to get out of here first." Gajeel told the two and Erza nodded. The soldiers had begun surrounding them again, Erza tried to requip a sword as Grey tried to use his magic too. When it didn't work they both looked shocked,

"Your magic aint gonna work." Gajeel muttered. Frea gave the three a smile,

"No worries, we'll get out here in a minute." She chuckled. "All three of you, stay perfectly still." She told them, "When I tell you to, start running." She ordered and the nodded stiffly. Frea crouched down and placed her open palms on the ground. Pouring her magic into the ground, a very large magic circle appeared under their feet.

"Energy Trap!"

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