Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everyone, here is the next chapter. Please review, favorite and follow.
Before I continue, I am gonna respond to one of the reviews from the previous chapter:
Erasenpai946: Look, I know she defeated Jose, one of the Wizard Saint, yet lose to Panther Lily. It's because that Panther Lily suddenly shoved her out a window through sheer reflex in their first round, and Battalion suddenly came in the scene, taking her out of the scene, as Panther Lily didn't exactly win in that one. And Thorson may not use the same Magic his Earthland Counterpart uses, but is still a powerful and strong threat, alright? Besides, don't you think it's boring if every fight would be that easy to win?
But for now, let's move on shall, we and note that this a double update, which I hope you will enjoy.
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Key words:
"Talking."
"Thinking"
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Magic
Chapter 58: Command Word
In the E-Zone, where the roof was now a massive hole, big enough to fit several houses in it, smoke and rubble covered the area.
With the impact of the huge, black Legion crashing into the scene, everything within sight were covered with piles of rubbles.
Eventually, a sphere of darkness came through the rubble, before it dispersed and a certain Pink Haired Dragon Slayer emerged, landing with his hands and knees on the ground.
"Glad I managed to make a Dark Make: Sphere just in time." Natsu said, before turning around, looking for the others.
"Lucy?! Yukino?! Layla?! Mira?! Are you okay?!" Natsu shouted, hoping nothing horrible had happened, due to the large black Legion coming down. But then, a large pile of rubble began rising from the ground.
Natsu turned around to see Neptune, in his giant form, rising from the ground as the rock and debris fell of his back, beneath he had shielded Layla, Lucy, Mira, Yukino and Coco.
Natsu, with a smile, rushed to the scene immediately. "You guys! I'm glad you are alright!" Natsu shouted with a smile on his face.
"Natsu!" Lucy said, as she and the other girls turned to him, as Neptune then went to speak.
"I managed to quickly transform and then grab the others with my tentacles, before I shielded them from the rubble." Neptune explained. "Good to hear. Thank you for protecting them." Natsu said.
"I am just doing my job as a Celestial Spirit." Neptune said with a smile, turning then to Layla, Lucy, Yukino, Mira and Coco.
"Are you alright, Layla-sama?" Neptune asked. "Yeah, I'm alright, and thanks for saving us." Layla responded with a smile.
"Good to hear." Neptune said as he smiled and transformed into his human size form.
"Can you stand?" Lucy asked. "Yeah, but with some trouble." Coco said. "Then, jump onto my back. I shall carry you." Lucy said. "You sure?" Coco said, and Lucy turned her back to her, and turned her head to Coco. "No problems, I don't mind at all. After all, with injuries like that, it must be hard to move." Lucy said, as Coco was silent for a moment, but then climbed onto her back, which the blonde held onto her, still holding the Large Key.
Natsu was next to speak, looking around for a familiar purple haired woman and blue cat.
"But did you see where Ur and Happy landed?" Natsu asked, remembering Ur and Happy had entered the scene from falling down the scene, alongside the large black Legion.
"You don't hope that they were..." Lucy said, hoping nothing bad had happened, but then a dome of ice burst from the rubble, before breaking apart, revealing a certain Ice Mage and a blue Exceed with wings.
"That was quite a fall, don't you think, Happy?" Ur said, stretching her arms, as they walked out of the spot, they were beneath the ice dome.
Natsu and the others took notice of Happy and Ur, running towards the Female Ice Mage and the Blue Exceed, except for Coco, who was carried by Lucy on her back.
"Ur! Happy! Are you okay?!" Natsu asked, as they ran towards them. "You guys!" Ur said. "Natsu!" Happy said, seeing his childhood friend in the scene.
"What the hell happened?" Natsu said, as Ur turned to the scene of destruction behind her. "Earlier, at the Lacrima Island, me and Happy encountered Gajeel, which then we proceeded to fight a large, muscular Exceed, who was Captain of the Edolas Army, who was guarding the giant Lacrima Island." Ur explained.
"Eventually, he summoned a large Legion, who was bigger than the Legions we seen before." Ur explained. "Yeah, you are of course referring to that large, black one that fell down from the ceiling." Mira said.
"Correct. As Battalion send us away, he tried to go back to the Lacrima Island, but he tried to ram us, which I managed to send an ice blast to his eye, causing him to lose control and focus, and have us crashed right here." Ur explained.
"And it would seem that is sending everyone, including our enemies away." Layla said, as Ur noticed Coco hanging on Lucy´s back. "Sorry for changing the subject so suddenly, but who is that?" Ur asked, seeing Lucy carrying Coco. "Oh, her? This is Coco, who was carrying the Key, which was to the Dragon Chain Cannon. Since she had her legs injured earlier, she has a hard time to walk." Lucy said.
"And since she has the Key, we now have an advantage of the situation." Natsu explained. "Don't think I have betrayed my country. It's just that I didn't want Panther Lily, or the Exceeds to die." Coco explained.
"But we shouldn't let our guards down. I doubt something like that could have taken the Golden Mjölnir down." Natsu said. "So the Golden Mjölnir is here?" Ur said, taking a position as she remember their earlier encounter.
"Yeah, and that's not all. They are still our enemies, but they, along with Thorson, are plotting to take down the King and make Thorson their new ruler, as earlier, they killed their allies, who seemed to be captains." Mira said, and looked around. "Albeit whatever it changes, the result will obviously be the same." Mira explained.
"I see. Whatever our enemy is Faust or Thorson and The Golden Mjölnir, our friends and Extalia are on the line here." Happy said, as the group formed a circle, taking out their respective item and Magic, being the Celestial Keys for Lucy, Yukino and Layla, Natsu holding his Kuroryuken, charging its blade with dark energy, Ur charging her Ice-Make Magic in her hands, Mira had her transformed into her Satan Soul form, and Happy had his Kusanagi sword.
As the tension seemed to increase by the second, with the group awaiting what was gonna come, and with one thought suddenly coming to his mind, Happy went to speak.
"Hey, wasn't Gil with you guys? Where is he?" Happy asked, with the group widening in realization of the thought of what it could possibly mean.
And in the next second, from the ground rose a large, vine-like pillar rose from the ground, with as the trio of the Golden Mjölnir stood on the branches that grow from the vine pillar.
Shebadus, Trevoa and Antolt, with their leader holding a certain, brown cat by the neck, watched their enemies they were beneath them.
"They sure are not giving up that easily." Layla said. "Have you gotten any information of what they use since I was gone?" Ur said, as since she was away while the others re encountered the Golden Mjölnir, she took the chance to ask them.
"Well, since you were away, we can tell you that we managed to learn some things from them." Mira said. "The counterpart of Evergreen, Trevoa in last time, uses a pair of gloves known as Spicy Gloves, making her able to soften anything she touches, and return them back to their original state." Lucy said, remembering her and Yukino´s earlier battle with them.
"So she can make things soft at will?" Ur said. "Yes, and she can also make the ground soft, and sink like quicksand, making it hard for anyone to stand, attack and defend." Yukino said.
"For Edo Bickslow, in other words Shebadus in last name, he controls Helmets of Nature, five skulls of different elements which he can shape and attack at different sizes and weapon." Layla said, as Ur was silent as she looked at the Edolas counterpart of Bickslow.
"And as for the counterpart of our Freed, known as Antolt, uses his sword Katana Word, makes him able to write Magic Texts on things, affecting them in different ways." Mira said.
"Like if he touches a weapon, he makes it too heaver for them to use, and can make things explode with that thing." Natsu said.
"Thank you for the information, we'll make sure to keep that in mind." Ur said, charging herself with her Ice Magic.
"And judging from them, it seems they have more tricks up their sleeves." Ur said, and then, the black Legion known as Battalion rose from the ground, roaring as it faced up towards the roof.
"One thing after another." Natsu said. "I guess this must be Battalion?" Lucy said. "Yeah, Edolas is sure full of surprises." Ur said, with more and more enemies coming to them.
With the Golden Mjölnir, the trio of Laxus´ elite guard had captured Gil as their leader had currently had a hold on him.
"Well, well, well. It seems that the tables have now turned for us." Antolt said, grabbing the Command Tact from Gil, before then tossing him towards the ground, which Happy managed to catch him before he hit the ground.
"I got you buddy!" Happy said, catching Gil in his arms. "Thanks man." Gil said, before Happy flied with him to the others. "Sorry you guys, I tried to held if away from as long as I could." Gil said. "Don't be. After all, you did your best. But for now, we have to worry what is to come." Natsu said, as he and the others turned to their enemies, who prepared to do their next move.
"But now that we have it, we can speed things up." Antolt said, putting the Command Tact around his left arm, the same arm he held his Katana Word.
"And let's do it quickly. Who knows how much time we wasted fighting here. Thorson-sama must be impatient by now." Shebadus said, crossing his arms. "B-but I am sure that Thorson-sama would understand the reason it took so l-long!" Trevoa shuttered. She then turned to Battalion, shaking but not out of fear that a giant monster was in front of her and her allies, but out of think of what Battalion could mean as a threat to their plans.
"B-but what should we do about Battalion, h-he doesn't obey anyone Captain Panther-Lily?" Trevoa said.
"Just ignore him. Even if he was gonna prevent us, he would be easily taken down. We let Battalion do as he pleases, and if he aids us in taking the Earthlanders and the Exceeds down, we accept it." Antolt said, as then he, Shebadus and Trevoa looked down on the group of enemies that were below them, and in front of Battalion.
The group watched as Antolt had equipped the Command Tact on his arm, Natsu gulping of what was gonna happen next. Even though Ur and Happy weren't with them fighting the Golden Mjölnir earlier, but they could feel that it meant business.
"After they killed one of their former allies, they took an object from the known as Command Tact. Whatever it does, it won't be something good." Natsu said.
Antolt then raised his hand that had the Command Tact on it, while holding his Katana Word, which was covered with green energy, before taking the form a sphere that surrounded it.
As it began to glow, the ground around the E-Zone began to shake, before then the ground began to shake.
The rubble around began to clear, as Natsu and the others tried to stay steady on the ground, as even Battalion was confused what was gonna happen next.
A bright, green light shone everywhere, forcing them to close their eyes from it.
It quickly died down, and their eyes widened as they saw what had happened.
The entire area of the E-Zone had changed, all the rubble and broken pieces of the roof has been cleaned off, it was now a massive, flat, circular arena, with different environmental stages and parts on it.
On the northwest part of the new arena, surrounding was walls in the form of a pentagon, each having tall, cylindrical pillars, each with a different elemental. One pillar was large bonfire fire, one was giant, twirling tower of water, one was miniature tornado, one was a dark thunder cloud emitting lightning, one had a large tree, and the final pillar had a large, pitch-black sphere.
On the southeast part of the arena, many tall, square pillars that were either on the ground or floating.
Lastly, straight in the north part, where a city-like structure, with its buildings in the form of towers, all lacking doors and windows, with some having spiked tops, others had flat tops. In the center, where the biggest building was, was a large, castle like building, even thought it was lower than the towers, and was supported by many pillars and a dome like structure on the top.
A loud roar was heard, as the group of Natsu, Mira, Lucy, Yukino, Layla, Ur, Happy, Gil and even Battalion turned to see Battalion, who was still behind them, but in a cage of black metal.
Lucy then noticed someone was missing.
"Uh guys, do you see Coco anywhere?" Lucy said, as the others then saw something that made their eyes widen.
And in the center of the arena, stood the Golden Mjölnir, and before them, were Coco, who was chained and Antolt was now holding the large Key to the Dragon Chain Cannon, while his other hand was holding his transformed Magic Item.
On Antolt´s left hand, where he had his Katana Word and Command Tact on, with both weapons having changed weapons. The blade was now longer, being green in color and had golden kanjis on, which changed by the minute as if it was a screen. Its handle and sheath took now the appearance of the vine-like appendages, with its swirling around and connecting to his arm.
"Dammit, they now have Coco and the Key!" Natsu said. "To think things would turn for the worse." Ur said. "To think we let our guard down..." Lucy said. "We need to get it back, and fast!" Layla said.
With the Golden Mjölnir, Antolt watched as his weapon had now gone back to its original and true form, even having a small smile on his face.
"With Katana Word and Command Tact formed back to its original form, the Command Word, their chances of winning have now gone down to zero percent." Antolt said, and then had his sword before his face.
The script on the blade then turned into the kanji for "Microphone," before Antolt began to speak, and as he spoke, his voice could be heard loud and clear across the area.
"Welcome, to the E-Zone, and this time, in its full, true glory. I apologize for the delay, as it was due to the interruption of the Exceed. But now that the Command Word, the true form of combining the Command Tact and Katana Word together, we shall now fight for real. Playtime is over." Antolt explained.
"As you can see, within the E-Zone, there are three areas, dedicated to each of us, but whichever you choose, the result will be the same." Antolt explained.
"And even if you try to escape, it will result it to your death as well." Antolt said, as then a screen appeared, making it for their enemies to see, showing that below them, were hot, boiling lava.
The screen then died down and Antolt continued to explain. "Your biggest mistake in not joining us in our quest for a new world will be your last. If you hadn't rejected, you wouldn't have been in this situation. Because as of now, there will be no holding back. Unless Battalion takes your down first of course" Antolt said, as the Kanji for "Open" appeared on the blade.
The cage that trapped Battalion opened, with the Black Legion rushing towards the group.
But rather showing fear and hesitation, Natsu grinned as he and others went to move to the next stage of the battle.
"Then don't expect us to cry in regret. We shall not back down, not now, not ever!" Natsu said in determination, as he and his allies began to run to their respective battle, with Battalion chasing them.
Battalion opened its jaws to attack, as the group ran from it and towards the Golden Mjölnir that was before them.
"Shebadus will take the Key, while Trevoa guards Coco." Antolt said.
Shebadus and Trevoa nodded, as Shebadus took the Key to the Dragon Chain Cannon, while Trevoa took Coco, who was still chained.
Shebadus then had his Command Word to teleport them to their respective areas, with Shebadus going to the Elemental Area, while Trevoa went to the Floating Pillar Area.
"Let's split up into different groups. Those who fought them before, fight them again. Having some knowledge of how they fight should be at a good advantage." Ur said. "Alright, sounds good to me." Natsu said. "Then I got with Natsu at Edolas Freed, as Yukino and Lucy go to Edolas Evergreen, and Layla can go back at Edolas Bickslow, who has the Key. You must make sure they don't get away with it, no matter what. Our friends lives depend on it." Mira said, and then turned to Ur. "Ur can go and aid Layla and Neptune, as she may prove some aid to her." Mira said.
"Then I shall handle this Legion." Happy said, turning to the rushing Battalion.
"You sure?" Ur asked. "We need your strength to spare against our enemies here, and with my sword, I am hoping to at least district him." Happy said.
"Then let me come with you! I'm tired to sitting back and do nothing!" Gil said, entering the chat. "And besides, I think I have an idea of how we can handle him." Gil said.
"Alright, then let's move!" Natsu said, with each of them charging to their respective group.
Both Happy and Gil sprouted their wings as they flied towards Battalion, who roared as he charged at them.
"Come one! I won't back down without a fight!" Happy said, holding his Kusanagi sword, and turned to Gil. "You said you had a plan for this, right?" Happy asked. "Yeah, but it will be a lot harder than you think, so listen here. Here´s what we are gonna do..." Gil said.
Meanwhile, Layla and Ur were currently in the zone where they were to face off Shebadus, aka Edolas Bickslow, were his skulls were floating in the air, and had the Dragon Chain Cannon Key strapped to his back. Ur and Layla both their eyes set on it, which they needed to make sure their enemy didn't get away with it.
"You must either have a lot of guts or be truly desperate to die." Shebadus said with his hands crossed.
"And that would be the first time I heard of that line? I expected you to come up with something better." Layla said, as she had her sword ready, as Neptune stood by her side.
"And don't you forget about me! Things won't be easier as before!" Ur said, charging her Ice Magic.
"That is a line I am supposed to say! Now that Antolt-san has fused the Command Tact with the Katana Word, it has granted us the upper hand of this battle." Shebadus said, stretching his arms out.
"Whatever you say, we won't let you get away with the Key." Ur said.
"Don't you get it? We have already won! Now that the E-Zone is now to our advantage, within this Zone of the Elementals, my Helmets of Nature now can go into full power!" Shebadus said, and the Skulls around him started to change, as each of the element that were around him, the lightning and water from the storm clouds, the flames from the fire pillars, the vines from the forest, and even blackness from the large, black sphere.
Going to each skull of their respective element, they all began to grow and change into forms.
Turning in masses of fire, lightning, water, vines and shadow, they began to grow, big enough to be equal to that of a tower.
Each of them, now had a appearance, of a towering golem with armor, vambraces, gauntlets, shoulder pads, knee pads, chest plates and chest plates.
Each of the Golems, being made of a different element than the other, had their appearances varied for each different one.
The Fire Knight, being made of fire, were orange in color, had its pauldrons in the formed into skulls, as well had a bigger skull on its plackart and smaller ones on each poleyn. Its helmet was in the form of a bucket helmet with horns, and furnace-lake opening on the face, showing a pair of glowing, golden eyes.
The Water Knight had its armor and body blue in color, and had swirls around its armor, akin to water torrents, having three big spirals on its chest, while a single spiral was on the pauldrons, kneecaps and one spiral working as its belt. Its helmet resembled that of a shell of a hermit crab, with its white eyes glowing from the mask, taking in the form of a mass of bubble-like ornaments.
The Wind Knight was white in color, with the with white armor being smooth, as its exposed areas, being in the lower stomach, neck, fore legs, thighs and upper arms, took the appearance of wind torrents in the form of tubes. On its white helmets opening, was a cross shaped hole, showing its glowing, blue eyes.
The Lightning Knight had an armor golden in colors, sparking with electricity, with the armor itself resembling to that of a samurai. The armor had flat, square plates on its shoulders, including three plates around its waist, on its chestplates it had an emblem resembling a storm cloud with lightning bolts going around in a six-pointed circle, three bolts on its long vambraces, two bolts on its foreleg protections and on its kabuto-styled helmet had lightning bolts for horns, including two bolts as eyebrows. It was completed with a half mask, akin to that of an oni, with a lightning bolt styled mustache, beneath its green glowing eyes.
The last one, the Shadow Knight, being the most intimidating of them all, being taller and had a more frightening one than the others.
Its armor what that of a European knight, colored jet black, with dark, diamond shaped pauldrons, with smaller, similar one's colored red on its vambraces, two on the upper arms bracers, while three on the forearm rerebraces, as well two on the cuisses, while three on the greaves. Its belt was diamond shaped and dark purple in color. Where the arms, legs, stomach and neck were supposed to be, was covered with black rings. Finally, its round helmet had beak-like visor, having five holes, behind it a pair of glowing eyes, and a red, feathered top on its head.
Ur and Layla were both silent, but didn't show any signs of hesitation or worry, as they didn't want to give their enemy an open opportunity, even if the enemy was now powered up.
"Behold! This is the ultimate form of my Magic, The Knights of Nature. Thanks to Antolt-san using the Command Word to have the area changing to my advantage, my Knights are empowered by area itself!" Shebadus said while Ur and Layla were still silent. "Judging from your reaction, any ordinary fool would think that you are too frightened by my power, or that you want more fighting, and less talking." Shebadus said, crossing his arms, and with four fingers of each hand upwards, while his thumbs were inwards.
"Ur, be careful. He really pushed me back earlier, and even if we are more in numbers, he sure has some tricks in his sleeves." Layla said. "Yeah, I know. This guy is not someone you can look down onto." Ur said.
"The moment you have entered the scene, there was no longer any holding back." Shebadus said, as his Elemental Knights went to charge at them, each having their respective elemental weapon. The Fire Knight had a giant fire sword, the Water Knight had a water trident, the Wind Knight had a wind axe, the Lightning Knight had a lightning hammer, the Vine Knight a pair of long, saber-like swords, and the Shadow Knight had a scythe, as they all charged towards Ur, who had her Ice Magic ready, and Layla, having Neptune by her side.
At the same time, with Lucy and Yukino, they stood before the Edolas Counter Part of Evergreen, with the floating block surrounding them. The chained Coco was behind the Edolas Counter part of Evergreen.
"To think that we would face each other again. I am really sorry that happened again." Trevoa said. "Trust me, we don't want to do this either, but what's on the line here, we really don't have choice here." Lucy, taking out one of her Keys. "Be careful Lucy-sama. Who knows what she kind of tricks she will bring out." Yukino said, taking out one of her Keys too.
"Knowing from the previous battle, we may have an advantage in this. But be still careful, as she may have a gotten a power-up from what Antolt has done." Lucy said.
Trevoa then had her hands raised in the air, as she prepared for her attacks to come at her next enemies, being Lucy and Yukino, who summoned their respective Spirit into battle.
At the same time, Natsu and Mira were facing once again the Antolt, this time in the large, city like structure.
"Well, you really are a pest, aren't you?" Antolt said, as Mira and Natsu responded with silence, as the Dragon Slayer cracked his knuckles.
"Dont you worry, whatever place you bring on, neither me or Mira will hesitate to take you down. You can count on it." Natsu said.
Antolt simply responded by pointing his Command Word at his enemies.
"Now, shall we test how much you can handle, now that the tables have turned against you?" Antolt said, and Natsu, his hands in black smoke, and Mira, in her Satan Soul form, went straight towards him.
"Don't expect us to run away, because we won't!" Mira said, as the next stage of their battle had begun.
At Extalia...
(Play Fairy Tail ost Kizuna here)
Silence was among the Exceeds that was on the plaza, including Carla and Wendy, as they just heard the Queen speak before them.
That was until when the Queen decided to speak again, to break the silence.
"I bet you all have a lot to take in, as it comes to you so suddenly. But what I am speaking it's the truth. I am not a goddess, and neither you are angels." Shagotte said.
As the talking was spread around the crowd, Carla and Wendy were shocked by the Queen words.
"What did she just say?" Carla said, as Wendy turned to Nadi, who were shocked as well. "Did you know this, Nadi-san?" Wendy asked.
"No, I didn't, as this is the first time, I hear of this." Nadi said.
"But that cannot be true! We are the rulers of Edolas! Angels who are above the humans, whose power is beyond anyone can imagine, and you are the Goddess who decides who are gonna live and die! You can even decide those who are gonna die at your will!" An Exceed shouted.
"As much I hate to say this to you, my fellow Exceed, was nothing but a lie." One of the Elders, Mejeer went to speak. "A lie that was to protect ourselves from something he couldn't hope to win." Another one of the elders, Mysdroy explained. One of the Elders, Muganto, simply nodded.
The Crowd went to speak of what has going on and what they were hearing, with Mysdroy, another one of the elders, went to speak.
"We know this day were to come, and as you are confused, let me explain this to you. As you didn't know, we, the Exceed are in reality not a strong race, but rather a weak one. For years, we were shunned and hunted by the humans who looked down on us. We lived in fear daily, with the thoughts of being killed prevented us to survive." Mysdroy.
"That´s when we came up with a solution." Mejeer said, continuing to explain. "We made a Queen, a figure to give the Exceeds hope, a linchpin to keep us together and in order. With her seen as a Goddess being able to kill anyone with her mere desire." Mejeer said.
"But what about the Queen´s ability to kill anyone with her mere thought?! That shouldn't be fake!" An Exceed came in the scene, defending the godly status they believed in.
"That was a lie as well. I don't have the power to choose anyone to die, but to see in the future, which I made me able to see who was gonna die and live. With it, the lie of me being able to kill anyone with my will was made." Shagotte, as she had her paws placed on her robes and cape.
"And as you can see..." Shagotte said, taking of her cape, robe and crown, falling it down the ground, showing she was wearing a purple top and light pants. But what she was to show next was even more shocking.
"...I am Exceed with only one wing." Shagotte, sprouting out her only wing, as she stood before her subjects.
"And as I had the power to see the future, I saw an event that would cause the downfall for us. This is why I have sent 100 Eggs to Earthland in order for our species not to go extinct." Shagotte said, turning to Carla.
"Yes, among them was you." Shagotte said, refering to Carla. "I never wanted this to happen, but as cruel as fate could it be, it instead led to this. I'm sorry, I didn't want it to lead to any of this." Shagotte said, landing on her knees.
Everyone on the scenery, the Exceeds, Nadi, even Wendy and Carla was silent of what they just heard, the truth of what the Exceeds were.
"So... we are not immortal?" A random Exceed began to speak.
"That was all a lie?!" Another Exceed spoke, crying in despair.
"We are not immortal?!"
"Not angels, but weak, mere cats?!"
"And if they said that the King was gonna kill us, then there is no hope left!"
Panic began to form across the Exceeds, as their Queen went to speak next.
"As the mission to kill the Dragon Slayers was lie as well, there is only one person you should hate. Not the king, not the Exceeds. Only me." Shagotte said, and what she did next, shocked everyone one the scene. The Exceeds, Wendy, Nadi and Carla had their eyes widened at what she was handing Carla to.
It was a sword.
"Use the sword to strike me down. I have truly brought you nothing but pain and misery to both you and your friends. As a matter of fact, this entire world is now doomed because of me. Since you were forced with a mission that were placed on you, before you even was born, you should take all that hatred and kill me. Because of I was weak, I couldn't protect anyone. As a Queen, I have truly failed you all." Shagotte said, her voice filled with sadness.
Carla eyes were shadowed, as he walked towards the sword and picked it up, much to the horror of the crowd of Exceed, and Wendy, who had her hands clasped over her mouth.
"Carla, you aren't gonna..." Wendy said, and as Carla went to the Queen, she stopped. Shagotte closed her eyes and waited what was gonna come. But something different happened.
A slapped was heard across the area. A sword fell down the ground. Shagotte, confused as a imprint of Carla slapping her cheeks, with Carla herself had tears in her eyes.
"You really... you really think I am gonna be okay with that...?" Carla said, as tears went down her cheeks.
"You think that killing you will be make things easier?! So what if you´re weak?! That doesn't matter! What matters is, instead of crying of because what cannot do, you should instead do what you can do!" Carla said, sprouting her wings as she flied up to the air.
"Carla!" Wendy shouted, seeing the White Cat flying to the air. "Even if this land tried to kill me and Happy, it's still my home. And I won't let my friends be the cause of their demise." Carla said, remembering the Fairy Tail wizards that were currently in the Lacrima Island.
She eventually stopped flying, as she stood in the middle of sky, awaiting of what was to come. "Come on then, I shall not falter. Whatever you throw at me, I won't back down! Not without a fight!"
(End Fairy Tail Ost here)
At the same time, in Thorson´s office...
"Lietunent Flakes, status report." Thorson said, sitting on his chair behind the desk in his office.
"As of now, the Golden Mjolnir have killed Hughes, Sugarboy and Byro as planned, but are now fighting the Earthlanders, due to refusing their offer and due to them are witnessess, are fighting them." Flakes said.
"I see." Thorson said, turning around in his chair.
"To think they would say no to an oppurtinity like this." Thorson as he got up and got then turned to Flakes.
"How is the situation as of now?" Thorson asked. "As of now, they are still fighting within the E-zone, sir!" Flakes said saluting.
"Well, that's good to hear at least. That group is strong, but the Eartlanders are people we never had faced before." Thorson said.
"Have the Shadow Squad guard the area. If anything happens, make sure to stop them. And if Knightwalker is there before hand, let her handle things there. If we try to take things over there, she might grow suspicious." Thorson ordered.
"Yes sir!" Flakes said before leaving, and with Thorson watching out through the window, showing him the view of the castle, the city and the land he was aimed to rule soon.
And with chapter concluded, the Golden Mjölnir are now on to fight our heroes for real, now that their fight has taken to the next level.
Read the next chapter of the double update to find out what to happen next, which will also be the last Natsu of the Darkness chapter of this year.