Family Photo
"Stay out of my way!" Sore Joker leaped toward the woman covered in light. He shaped his hand in the form of the claw and let out a mighty battle cry.
The woman narrowed her beautiful blue eyes that turned gray like Laxus'. Lightning sparks danced around her body. She stuck out her hand. "You're reign is over and so is this spell." Light shot out of the floor boards that quickly consumed the room.
Sore Joker screamed. The man was destroyed by the light while everyone else was consumed by it.
The light in the forest faded so everyone could see again. Natsu and the others were back where they were before Sore Joker pulled them into his spell, however they were still badly hurt from their time there. Laxus and Lucy were still in the same spot as they were before.
In place of Sore Joker was a beautiful woman that was no older than Lucy and Levy appeared to be. She had beautiful blond locks that went halfway down her back, gray eyes, a lovely face and nicely form curves that were shown off by the dress she wore that resembles clothing from the celestial world.
Everyone faced forward to see her.
Every male there instantly blushed at the sight of the beauty. She had warm smile on her face. "Who are you?" Erza asked. She was back in her normal clothes, but still couldn't get up from the beating Laxus laid on her at the guild hall.
The woman's hair blew to the side. "I am who you called Sore Joker." Everyone immediately tensed up at the words.
Natsu managed to push himself on his feet. His feet danced around until he could find his footing. "So you're that bastard are you? Don't think just because you turned into a pretty girl that's going to stop me from pounding your face in."
The woman looked at the pink hair boy. "I am no longer that person thanks to your friends Laxus and Lucy." She faced the two blondes that were still shaky from their fight with its previous version.
"What do you mean by that?" Happy asked.
"Originally I was a magic for those that wish to defend the light and protect what was important I was known as Hero's Victory; however that quickly changed after thirty years within my creation," the woman said.
"What happened to you?" Freed questioned.
"Many people who came after and claimed my power were no longer people who wanted to do good and protect their homes or friends they wanted revenge," the woman explained. "They had lost to someone and wanted to make that person pay. I slowly became influenced by their negative feelings and transformed into a monster that called itself Sore Joker that helped anyone who wanted to destroy their enemies that they lost too."
"So humans turned you into a monster," Erza said.
The woman that called herself Hero's Victory nodded. "I lost my true self and there was nothing I could do about it and no one I encountered had the strength to break the curse that ultimately consumed me."
"Laxus' lightning managed to cut through that curse of yours," Bickslow said. His babies repeated 'curse of yours, curse of yours.'
Hero's Victory shook her head. "No, it wasn't actually Laxus' lightning that defeated Sore Joker. I'm sure he thought that, but it wasn't…"
Everyone looked confuse at the statement. They had all seen when Laxus pierce through Sore Joker's chest with his dragon's roar.
"What actually broke through Sore Joker and freed me was Laxus and Lucy's will," Hero's Victory told them. "Though I've meant many with strong wills none had as strong a will and determination as the two of them that would truly take any amount of pain and do whatever it took to not only win, but to do it for the sake of others.
"They're hearts were in sync and it was their combine powers that made them overcome Sore Joker's power," she said. "They shared their strengths and covered the other's weakness not just once, but four times to defeat Joker and Zane."
Lucy and Laxus' eyes opened wider with realization. They remembered their struggle in the Forest of Memories, their two battles against Zane using not one, but two unison raids, and then the battle against Sore Joker that required them to stay stuck together.
"With each battle you fought you weaken and cracked the power of Sore Joker that set me free and I couldn't be more grateful," Hero's Victory told them. She stuck her hand out in their direction. "So I will reverse the damage my magic has done to you all."
Each of the Fairy Tail members was surrounded in light for several moments. The lights then faded for them all to discover all their wounds and tiredness were gone. Natsu looked at both of his hands in front of him. "Wow, this is awesome."
Carla pointed her paw at Hero's Victory. "But how did could you perform such a powerful healing a spell?"
"I have abilities no wizard could perform on their own that is why many wizards sot out my power," Hero's Victory told her. "It is the least I could do after what my power did to you all. I have another gift for Lucy and Laxus."
A glow formed on the lower half of Laxus' right arm while a light glowed in Lucy's hand that was wrapped around the dragon slayer's neck. When the light faded a tribal style dragon tattoo appeared wrapped around it with the dragon's jaw opened at the wrist while Lucy held a key that had a dragon on it with small sparks of lightning coming off of it.
"What is this?" Lucy questioned.
"I saw the unison raids you two performed on Zane and managed to copy them," Hero's Victory said. "That key contains the unison raid, Urano Metrai's Dragon's Dance spell while the tattoo holds the unison raid, Urano Metria's Dragon's Bite. If you ever have to cast those spells again and the other isn't around to help you, you will be able to cast them on your own; however you can only use it once so make suggest you it cast only when you have to."
Everyone looked at the new weapons their friends were granted in amazement. Most of them had seen Dragon's Dance in action, but most of them didn't have a clue how powerful Dragon's Bite was.
Happy meanwhile flew up to Hero's Victory. "Hey, you look sort of familiar. Have I met you somewhere before?"
"So you noticed have you," Hero's Victory said with a smile. She cupped Happy's chin and pressed his forehead against hers as she shut her eyes. They stayed there for a moment.
Happy flew back. "Huh? Really?"
Hero simply nodded. She then glowed in a radiate light as she started to fade away that got everyone's attention once again. "Thank you, Fairy Tail. I will never forget what you did for me."
"What's happening to you?" Lucy asked.
"I shall travel across the world and keep myself separate from mankind." Hero lowered her head and shut her eyes. "It may sound selfish, but I plan to never become that person again."
"No, I think you're doing the right thing for yourself and mankind," Lucy said. "Nothing like this needs to happen again."
Hero smiled as she finished fading away.
Happy flew in front of the two blond wizards. "So Lucy and Laxus when's the wedding?"
Both of the wizards' eyes went right with rage. "We're not getting married?"
"But you liiiiikkkeeee each other don't you?" Happy said.
"We do not," they said in unison.
Everyone other wizard there blushed, remembering how they fought to have their wedding, especially Laxus.
"Then why did you keep holding hands?" Happy asked.
"We didn't have a choice," Lucy responded. "It was the only way to fight Sore Joker."
Happy stuck his paw out toward them. "Then why are you still holding hands even thought the battle is over?" The two looked down at their interlocked hands and blushed. They immediately let go of the other's hand and Lucy leaped off of the dragon slayer's back.
Laxus shut his eyes. "Let's just get out of here. I'm sure the others want to know where we are." Everyone agreed and they started to head out.
Happy flew next to Lucy as the group walked through the forest to get back home. "So, Lucy how much do you loooovvvvee Laxus?"
Lucy glared over at the flying cat. "I told you I don't."
"Natsu, do something about your cat," Laxus told him. He had his arms folded across his chest. He and his team were in the front of the group.
"Hey, Hero's Victory defiantly thought there was something between you two that's why she looked the way she did," Happy said.
"What do you mean?" Natsu questioned his little pal.
"I thought she looked familiar so I asked if I knew her," Happy started to explain. "Then she told me inside my mind that she saw the heated passion between you two so she decided to take on the shape of what your child would look like at your age."
Everyone stopped cold in their tracks. Both Laxus and Lucy blushed with their jaws dropped.
Mirajane clapped her hands together. She had a sweet smile on her face. "She was so cute. She had Laxus' eyes and Lucy's hair I should have put it together myself."
Laxus looked back at Mirajane. "I don't have a daughter."
"Y-yeah," Lucy agreed.
"Oh, come on, you guys don't you think you would make such cute babies together?" Mira said. Both blondes blushed even more.
"Maybe they want a son instead," Happy said. Everyone then imaged what Lucy and Laxus' son would look like and how he would act. Half thought he might have Laxus' personality while others thought he might have Lucy's vanity or sweetness.
"Cut it out!" the two yelled.
Natsu faced the others with his arms crossed. "Hey, who's magic do you think their kid would have?"
Everyone started to think. "Well, Laxus' abilities are a lot stronger than Lucy's," Evergreen said. "It would make sense for them to take after him in terms of magic."
"Yeah, but he should probably have Lucy's personality so they're easier to get along with," Gray said.
"But what if they like spirits like Lucy?" Wendy chimed in.
"That's a good point," Erza said. "Maybe Lucy could train them in celestial magic while Laxus teaches them lightning that way they could support their spirits."
"If they had twins one could learn lightning magic and the other can learn celestial magic," Mirajane chimed in.
"Yeah," everyone agreed.
"The celestial one should probably be like Laxus so they're tough," Natsu said. "The lightning one might be kind of cool if they were like Lucy even though they might be kind of crazy and a bookworm."
"Who do you think they would look like more Lucy or Laxus?" Levy asked.
"I hope Lucy who wants to look at that ugly face," Natsu whispered over to Gray and the ice wizard nodded in agreement.
"Check this out, you guys." Happy held up a photograph and everyone gathered around to look at it. The photo of Laxus and Lucy with two kids who were no older than ten years old stood together. One was a boy beside Laxus with his hand up in the Fairy Tail hand sign and the other was a young girl that was beside Lucy in the photo.
"What the heck is this?" Lucy yelled.
"It's a magical photograph that Hero gave me," Happy answered. "She slipped one into each of your pockets too." Each of the wizards pulled out a photo where they had a pocket to see the same picture. "Of course if you don't like it you can always change it with magic. All you have to do is think of what you want to see inside it. She said it's like your own personal family photo."
The image in Happy's photo began to transform. "Just like this, Fairy Tail's strongest team." Team Natsu appeared in the photo next the guild's bar with him and Carla sharing a fish.
"That isn't Fairy Tail's strongest team," Evergreen said. "This is." Her picture showed Laxus and the Thunder Legion in front of the guild hall.
"No way," Natsu yelled. He showed his picture that he changed to Team Natsu standing victorious over Laxus and the Thunder Legion who were spread out on the floor. Natsu let out a huge laugh.
"That's completely wrong," Freed responded. He raised his picture to show Team Natsu kneeling to Laxus and the Thunder Legion.
"Oh, yeah." Gray said. Things quickly dissolved into the two sides having a magic fight with their pictures, showing themselves as the superior team while the other was put in even more embarrassing situations. The only members of the two teams that weren't involved were Wendy, Carla, and Happy.
The rest of the people that were with them simply watched the photo change to see who would win. "There's no way we're going to lose to you," Natsu said.
"We'll see about that," Bickslow countered.
Wendy finally raised a photo of her own above her head. "Hey, you guys look at mine." Everyone looked to see what Wendy created. Wendy stood in the middle of the picture holding Carla in her arms while the rest of her guild mates surrounded her on both sides with smiles on their faces.
All of the wizards looked in awe and shock. "This is our entire guild," Gray said.
Wendy lowered her picture. "Well, I thought of what Hero told Happy. It's supposed to be a picture of our family and Fairy Tail is my family so I think this represents that."
Erza smiled. "Wendy's right, we shouldn't be using these to fight with each other. Instead we should show what we think of our guild instead." Erza's picture changed to showing the Fairy Tail guild with everyone in a suit of armor like they were an army.
Natsu smiled at his own photo. His picture had changed into one of Fairy Tail's normal brawls with him punching both Laxus and Gray across the face.
Juvia's picture had her and Gray dead in front, looking at each other in a loving gaze with everyone else in the back and Lucy tied up and beaten for some reason, crying.
Lucy's picture turned into that of Fairy Tail having a big party with Mira singing, Gajeel and Elfman on guitar, her hanging out with her team and closest friends along with all of her spirits. A gentle smile graced her face.
Evergreen's photo had become the guild dressed as fairies and her as the queen of them.
Bickslow had his picture show the entire guild, but with his perverted side showing as he had all the hot girls in the guild in bikinis that barely covered them or in Lucy's case in a cheerleading outfit that was super tight. The girls surrounded his team that who was in the middle of the photo.
Freed had everyone look respectful and finely dress with Mira hanging off of his arm.
Gajeel was performing on stage and everyone loved him even Natsu while Lucy and Levy danced in bunny customs for him.
Droy and Jet were pretty much the same expect they were closer to Levy than the other one while everyone else was in the background.
Levy's picture showed a normal day at the guild with her and Lucy hanging out in the middle of it and Gajeel was nearby as well.
Lisanna's pictured showed with both the Earthland and Edolas Fairy Tail together.
Elfman had everyone pose like muscle men.
Mira had her siblings closer to her while everyone else was around them. People she imaged as couples were together in the photo and had the cutest babies.
Carla's was similar to Wendy's while Lily had everyone ready for battle with him in his original form.
Gray's photo had everyone in the guild in their underwear following his stripping habit. He sat crossed legged on one of the tables, winking and resting his head on his hand. Lucy and Juvia were on either side of him. Natsu was frozen in ice in the back.
Lastly Laxus' photo had him and his grandfather standing in front of the others with everyone else being on either side of them as they stood tall and proud. His team was the closest to him followed by Team Natsu. The Fairy Tail symbol waved behind them. Laxus smiled at the image.
After everyone had admired their own work they finished heading out of the forest where they met up with Cana's group. Cana had immediately ran up to Lucy and gave her a huge hug while Romeo ran up to Natsu, asking him about what happened in there.
Laxus had finally arrived home and went straight to his bedroom. After he and the rest had made it back to Magnolia the guild had a huge party for him and Lucy's safe return and them successfully defeating Zane and Sore Joker once and for all.
Most people quickly learned what the two had to endure and Happy wouldn't stop making fun of them. Most of the guild was surprise that he and Lucy didn't just form one, but two unison raids together that had plenty of people wondering if there was more to their relationship.
They both quickly denied it. However it didn't help that Erza stated that they had come up with their powerful spells so easily and so fast as if they were more than just guild mates. Even though he had once tried to get Lucy to be his woman they never actually spent any time together until they were forced to by Zane's dirty tricks.
It was Blonde's plan to change to spell so Zane wouldn't catch on to their attack. She was actually cleverer than he first thought, maybe that was how she was able to beat Bickslow back in the Battle of Fairy Tail?
It also didn't help that Happy kept talking about how much they were in love. Laxus finally got so annoyed he punched the cat into a wall that got Natsu to try to fight him, but he putted him down in one blow as usual.
Then he and Lucy got something from Mirajane that really threw things out of hand. She told them that Sore Joker cast one more spell before he fully disappeared, forcing them to try to stop his and Lucy's wedding. When Laxus and Lucy try to call her on it, the others who were with them quickly agreed and told them about how hard they fought to make sure they could have their wedding that day.
Apparently Blondie opened up six to eight gates to stop them, but then again everyone said a different number so it was hard to know the exact number. All he could understand was that Lucy used too much of her power between running to the church and fighting.
Then Juvia and Evergreen tried to take her out between drowning her and turning her to stone. Freed used his enchantments to deprive them of air if they said 'I do.' Natsu, Mirajane, Elfman, Lisanna, Gray, and Gajeel tried to take him on so he couldn't kiss Lucy.
It seemed that he was so angry he took them all out in just a few blows before the other showed up and tried to stop him too. His feelings were so large they were scary. He wiped the floor with all of them that partly made him smile since it proved he was stronger than anyone else in the guild, but made him wonder how he could take out someone like Erza out so easily. Though he felt he was much stronger than her he couldn't believe she fall so easily, especially after she took the massive shock of so many lightning lacrima when she destroyed 200 of them from his Thunder Palace.
He knew how feelings could make someone stronger. He fought for his guild when his father and his guild try to get some information out of him. He got revenge for Wendy, Carla, Gray, Lucy, and all of Fairy Tail. Still could his feelings for just one person make him enough to take out so many of his guild mates that were fighting for their lives? He couldn't beat Natsu and Gajeel when they were actually fighting for the guild and their lives.
Laxus closed the door and took a breath. It was a lot to take in, in such a short time. His guild mates made a huge fuss about it to the point that the two blond wizards had to try to stay away from each other the entire night or risk even further gossip.
The lightning wizard made it over to his bed and sat down on it. He pulled out the magic photograph. He looked at the group picture he imaged of him and his Fairy Tail family. The image slowly transformed into him and Lucy with three kids all holding their hands up in the 'watching over you' sign of Fairy Tail. A smile appeared on his face and he went to bed, deciding to leave everything else for tomorrow.