Parents
After Laxus had fully recovered from his battle with Bolt he decided to go on a mission with his team. They walked through the city of where they were supposed to meet their next client. After all the craziness that had happened at the guild since meeting the twins it felt good to work again for the four Fairy Tail wizards.
Laxus still had a few lingering thoughts about the twins especially about Bolt, but he decided to push them aside for the moment. The group walked past the government building in the city when they noticed they were the only ones on the street. They stopped and looked around, finding it much too quiet.
Laxus shifted his eyes. "What's going on around here?"
As if to answer the leading wizard's question a hundred purple magic circles appeared on the ground around them, forcing the four wizards back to back as creepy puppets came out of the circles. "Uh, not these guys again," Bickslow complained.
"It seems Pipe the Puppeteer was waiting for his next chance to strike against us," Freed said.
"It doesn't matter," Laxus responded. All of his team members looked at him. He smirked at them. "We know how to beat them now."
The Thunder Legion nodded in agreement. They all turned to face their enemy full of resolve.
"There that should do it." Erza sheathed her blade, standing on top of a pile of rubble in the middle of the city.
Lucy stood several feet from her partner. "Yeah, but did you have to destroy the entire library." Lucy and Erza had to take on a mission so Lucy would be able to pay her rent and their job was to defeat some creatures that were running around town that were causing trouble. The boys had stayed behind to grumble about the twins suddenly taking off.
Erza looked back at her friend. "Perhaps I went too far."
"I would agree with that." Erza and Lucy looked over to see a woman librarian adjusted her glasses as she held a book under one arm and adjusted her glasses with the other. She certainly had the sexy librarian look down with her black hair tied back in a bun and clothes that tightly clung to her frame except her sleeves that were loose to give her better movement.
The woman walked on top of the rumble up to Erza. "Can't Fairy Tail wizards do a job without causing such destruction?"
Erza faced the woman. "Sorry, about that. Please take it out of our reward money."
Lucy started to cry. "My rent money."
The librarian placed a smile on her face. "I have a better idea how about I take it out of you." She stuck her hand straight out in front of Erza. "Darkness Wrecker." A dark purple magic circle appeared in between the two women with a wave of dark purple surrounding Erza for a moment.
Suddenly Erza went flying back, screaming. She crashed on top of the rumble with her coughing up blood. Her eyes were hidden behind her bangs.
"Erza!" Lucy screamed. She looked at the woman. "Who are you?"
The woman was just about to look up at Lucy when Erza started to speak. "Answer!" Erza struggled to lift her head to look at the woman who she was surprised to find out was actually a powerful wizard. "Who are you?"
The woman looked back down at Erza. She smirked at the woman with satisfaction, taking off her glasses to reveal her Crime Spree's guild mark in her right eye. "My name is Lizbeth the Dark Pool." She placed her glasses back on her face.
Lucy and Erza instantly recognized the name. She was an A class wizard on the same level of the person who killed Kagura, expect this one…
"I shall gain glory for killing the great Titania instead of just destroying a worthless town single handily." She stared down at Erza like she was a prize.
"Fairy Machine Gun!" She swung her fan across her front, shooting out a wave of fairy dust that struck down several puppets.
Bickslow stretched out his arms and stuck out his tongue. "Let's go, babies." His dolls flew over the puppets and shot down on the creepy dolls that were coming at the group.
Freed used his wings to swing his sword over the heads of the puppets.
Laxus shot down a wave of lightning that wiped out a dozens of puppets. "There aren't that many left. Let's finish them off."
"Right," Bickslow said.
"Of course," Evergreen responded naturally.
"Nothing will stop the Thunder Legion," Freed replied.
"Don't get to cocky, Fairies." The Thunder Legion looked up at the government building to see a man standing on top. The man looked almost as creepy as Bickslow with his fingers having strings attached to them.
"You must be Pipe the Puppeteer," Freed said.
"You know me?" the man questioned.
"We've been informed by our future comrades," Freed answered.
Pipe clenched his teeth. He grabbed his head with both hands and bend down, yelling out a monstrous scream that confused all of the Fairy Tail wizards. "Damn it, those brats, those little brats are always getting in our way. It's no wonder we can never get anywhere without them sticking their noise in it."
"Is he talking about Bolt and Layla?" Bickslow questioned. 'Bolt and Layla,' his babies repeated.
"The Dreyar twins why must they keep getting in our way," Pipe said to himself. "We thought if we went to a time where they didn't exist we never have to worry about those stupid brats again."
Laxus raised an eyebrow. "Dreyar twins?"
Pipe perked up remembering something. "That' right." He stood up straight and looked down at the blond fairy. "If I kill you Laxus those two brats won't exist. Not to mention I'll be promoted to being an A class wizard for killing Fairy Tail's future master. That's perfect." He laughed madly.
"Say what?" Bickslow questioned.
"We won't let you lay a hand on Laxus," Freed said. "Even try it and we won't gratitude your life."
"Fools!" Pipe stretched his arms up and out. A giant purple magic circle appeared behind the building he was standing on. A giant puppet twice the size of the government building appeared behind the building. "This is my greatest work of art. Not even Laxus' brats have seen this puppet so they couldn't tell you anything about it."
The large titan's shadow towered over them all.
Sparks of lightning came off of Laxus' body. "Tch, if you think I'm going to lose to some B class loser you have another thing coming. I'm going to be FAIRY TAIL'S NEXT MASTER!"
Erza crashed to the ground in her Heaven Wheel's armor beside Lizbeth. The red haired woman had been badly beaten up.
"Erza," Lucy said worriedly. She pulled out one of her golden keys. "Open Gate of the Lion, Loke." A magic circle and a flash of light came before the lion spirit appeared.
Loke fixed his cuffs on his jacket. "You need some help, beautiful."
Lucy pointed forward. "Loke, Erza needs your help."
Loke focused on the woman ahead of him, seeing how badly injured Erza was. "Got'cha." He prepared himself for battle.
Lizbeth stuck out her hand. "Be gone, Darkness Cry."
A rain of darkness surrounded the celestial spirit. Loke slammed his fist on the ground, using his Regulus to shoot out a light to cancel out the darkness spell.
"Nice try, Whip of the Night," Lizbeth spoke. A whip formed out of darkness burst out of the ground and wrapped itself around Lucy's body, restraining her in its grip despite the girl's struggle.
Loke looked back at Lucy concern. "Lucy." He then looked down at his own hands. "What's going on? Why am I returning?" The leader of the zodiac was forced back into his own world.
The rest of the whip came out of the ground with Lizbeth holding the other end of the whip. "That was simple." She then narrowed her eyes to get a better look at Lucy. "Layla, since when do you have the leader of the zodiac?"
Lucy had one eye closed and her teeth clenched. "My name is Lucy, my mother's name was Layla."
"Ah, that's right," Lizbeth said. "We've gone back twenty years. You're not Layla, you're her fame celestial mother Lucy. The mother of Fairy Tail's annoying Twin Gauntlets."
Erza opened her eyes wide in shock. "Lucy is Layla and Bolt's mother?"
Lucy looked at the Crime Spree woman in shock.
"I'll be even more famous if I kill you." The once confident looking woman had gone mad with an insane look on her face. "They can't be born without a mother. Prepare to die, Lucy Heartfilia."
Erza slowly rose back onto her feet. "I won't allow you."
Lizbeth stuck out her free hand toward the wizard. "Prison of Suffering!" Erza was shot back several feet before a black transparent cube formed around her. "Stay out of my way. I shall gain the glory of killing this girl. The person responsible for creating our stalemate is you, you for creating those damn brats! You can't escape my grasp." She laughed insanely.
Erza banged on the prison she was trapped in desperately. "No, I won't allow you to kill my friends!" She thought about Kagura and Milliana and what was to happen to them. She wouldn't lose her friend, teammate, Lucy was one of the closest people Erza had in her life and she wasn't going to let some dark guild take her away.
"So, Lucy how do you want to die?" the woman asked. "Slow and painful or quick and fast."
"Is there a third option?" Lucy asked.
"Fine, I'll pick for you," Lizbeth responded. She pulled on the whip more to tighten its grip on Lucy, the darkness pushed into Lucy's skin that had Lucy clenched her teeth so she wouldn't scream. She knew a lot of evil people liked when she screamed. They found it amusing for some reason.
"I'll make sure that body isn't capable of carrying anything let alone children," Lizbeth said. "The only thing it will be good for is to put it six feet under." She squeezed her whip tighter on Lucy and all three women heard a bone crack. Lucy screamed out in pain.
"Lucy!" Erza screamed.
Lizbeth laughed. "I'm going to be the greatest A class member in all of Crime Spree. I couldn't ask for a better gift."
Erza requiped into her Armadura Fairy armor. She charged up her Fairy Piercing swords, swinging them to shatter the spell that held her. She quickly charged forward and changed into her sarashi with bandages wrapped around her chest. She swung her sword across as she went past the woman. The woman noticed her, shooting a wave of darkness that Erza, erza managed to bypass it.
Erza landed on the opposite side of her enemy down on one knee with her eyes closed. Erza had cut through Lizbeth's side. Lizbeth dropped to the ground with blood spilling out of her side.
Lucy was freed from the woman's spell. She fell back on the ground. The celestial wizard looked at the other two women.
"I'm not finished yet," Lizbeth said. She slowly rose to her feet. Darks stings were stitching up her wound. She looked over at Erza. "I'll make you pay for getting in my way."
"I know I'm not powerful enough to defeat you," Erza said. She opened her eyes and looked back at the woman. "However, I am powerful enough to send you back to your own time."
Lizbeth seemed confuse before she caught a glimpse of what was on the ground. Her green bracelet had been broken. "You-you, how dare you?" The woman started to fade away. "This isn't over. There are still nine more A Class wizards like myself and that includes my sister. They'll get you, Titania."
The woman then looked over at Lucy. "And you will be one of our main objectives, Lucy." The woman had fully faded away.
Erza pushed herself back up onto her feet, using her sword for support. She looked over at her friend to see that Lucy managed to get up onto her knees. She dropped her hands in between her legs as she gasped for air after such a hard struggle.
Erza made her way over to her blond friend. "Lucy, are you alright?" She stopped in front of the celestial wizard. A gentle breeze blew her hair forward while Lucy's blew back.
Lucy had her eyes casted down. Her beautiful brown eyes began to fill with tears. "What she said…if it's true. Does that mean all of this is my fault? Did I cause another attack on Fairy Tail?" She thought back to the attack on Fairy Tail from Phantom Lord.
"No, Lucy." Erza dropped to her knees in front of her friend, getting the girl to lift her head. Erza placed her forehead against Lucy's and shut her eyes. "If what she said is true then you're the reason why we still have a shot in the future."
"Erza…Why don't they look like ME!?"
Erza laughed lightly. "Maybe they got their looks from Gajeel."
"WHAT!? Did they lie to me then?"
Pipe lied flat on the roof defeated with his bracelet broken. He began to fade away while Laxus and his team stood in front of him. Laxus had his arms folded across his chest and stared down at the man.
"Damn you, Laxus," Pipe said. "This is all your fault. Yours and that damn wife of yours." Pipe finished fading away.
Laxus raised his eyebrow. "My wife?" He wondered who he could possibly marry that have him end up making black hair, red eye kids with weird advance celestial magic and why were the twins so secretive about it. Mirajane would enjoy the challenge no doubt.
"Laxus," Freed said gently.
The lightning dragon slayer looked back at his team. "Let's hurry up and finish this mission so we can get back." He pushed past his team as he walked back toward the end of the roof. "This time those twins are going to ask all of my questions and not give half ass answers." His face was fully serious.
His team followed after him.
Pipe's puppets had been torn to pieces by Laxus' lightning with the largest puppet in flames.
So what do you think now that Laxus and Lucy know? Please let me know what you thought of the chapter.