The Rise of a Warrior: Fairy Tail

by The Legendary Dragon Reaper

Luke Drako, S-class wizard of the Fairy Tail guild, the true Lightning Dragon Slayer, student and son of the Lightning dragon Kaminari. This is his story. The story of a Dragon Slayer trying to find his place in the world, and make one hell of a strong team along the way. And with any luck, he just might win the heart of a certain brunette card mage. OC x Cana. Read and review.

33. Edolas VII

I would like to thank everyone who reviewed, favorited or followed this story since I updated it.

Guest: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it. Yeah, Tempesta's reasons may have been somewhat expected, but I think I did well with it either way.

Guest: Interesting idea, I think I'll take you up on that at some point. That will definitely make for a nice little subplot.

Ragnas Bredvolts: Thanks, I'm glad to see you liked it so much. Yeah, I tried to make some noticeable differences from canon. I don't know if I would say that Tempesta as a higher level of skill than Luke, but with his mastery over that weapon, he's definitely a formidable enemy. I'm glad to see that you enjoyed Lucy and Lisanna's fight with Byro, though a Unison Raid betweenn the two of them is actually not a bad idea. Yes, Lucy's Celestial Whip does have a lot of potential, and maybe her whip will allow her to call upon more power. I just haven't decided on how that's going to work yet. But yes, Elfman tearing into Sugarboy was fun to write. It was actually meant to be a reference to Hulk smacking down Loke in the 2012 Avengers movie. I'm also quite glad to see that there's someone else out there that shares my burning hatred for Teen Titans Go. As for Cana's frequent use of her lightning-based Card Magic, I haven't really given any thought to a pattern in that regard, but yeah I could mention something along those lines later on. Anyway, that's all I have to say, and I hope you have a nice day as well my friend.

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The battle with the Dorma Anim was at least nearing its climax.

Faust looked down on Noah and the others lying in various heaps with a crazed malicious look in his eyes "Wizards of your world are quite the fortunate lot indeed, they possess truly unimaginable power because they are born into an eternal spring of magic power. Then there are the Dragon Slayers, your power surpasses even the most absurd concepts of limitations. I intend to make that power into my own, for with it I can replenish the supply of this world!" and cue the maniacal cackle "Although it appears you couldn't live up to your own namesakes! As long as I possess the Dorma Anim I am God, my army will pave an inexorable path of conquest in both this world and Earth Land! I will reign supreme for as long as I live!"

"Quit your whining already would ya?" Noah pulled himself back to his feet and swallowed some of the rubble and debris in his mouth, with Natsu and the others rising short after.

"I see, yes it looks like you still have some fight left in you! Your power is truly something to behold and I shall saver every ounce of it! Prepare yourselves Dragon Slayers! Dragon Blast Eruption!" and so with the swing of the Dorma Anim's sword, Faust promptly engulfed the four of them in simultaneous explosions, but his maniacal laughter died down at the sight of only three of them being sent flying by the explosion "Where's the other one?"

"Right here! Mountain Dragon Molten Spears!" a barrage of earth spears infused with molten properties burst forward and attempted to pierce through the Dorma Anim, but instead they simply exploded upon contact, and the smoke cleared to reveal Noah slowly emerging from an earth dome surrounding him "Yeah yeah I know, I only had time to shield myself from that last blast of yours. Sorry guys." he was met with various groans.

"More… I must have more…"

"Oh crap, what the hell is he doing now?"

"I call to thee oh Heaven and Earth, I ask that you relinquish every last ounce of your magic power to the might of the Dorma Anim!" this was followed by dark colored energy rising from the ground and everywhere else flowing into the Dorma Anim's sword "Yes, I can feel it! The last remnants of magic power in Edolas are vanishing! That means your time has come to an end, I must harvest your power immediately!"

'This guy is even more out of his fucking gourd than I thought, is he really so deseprate and petty to win this fight that he'd screw over his entire world? Oh who the fuck am I kidding, I just described him to a T' Noah whipped around to Natsu and the others "I don't suppose any of you have any more magic power going for you?"

"More or less." Gajeel spat out some blood "I still got some excess energy from when I at that thing's tail, I know Salamander got some power from those explosives he ate and the kid can eat the air."

"That's all I need to hear, now listen up and listen good. I need the three of you to start roaring right fucking now."

"You mean all of us at the same time?" asked Wendy.

"We can't drag this out any longer than we have to, you guys are on your last legs as it is and I don't know how much longer I'm gonna be able to hold out."

"Aftershock has a point, we've gotta bring down this walking piece of scrap." Gajeel pulled himself to his feet.

"Okay, so are you guys ready?"

"Yeah you bet I am!" Natsu bolted to his feet, with Wendy quickly following "Now let's wreck some shit!"

"Good enough for me, now show this bastard why you don't want to piss off a Dragon Slayer on a bad day!"

"Mountain Dragon…"

"Fire Dragon…"

"Iron Dragon…"

"Sky Dragon…"

"ROAR!" the four of them unleashed four simultaneous roars, engulfing the Dorma Anim in the explosion that followed as a result.

After about a minute went by with no action, Gajeel gave a smirk "Oh yeah it's over, we got the old bastard."

"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Noah jerked a thumb upwards towards where the maniacal laughter was coming from, courtesy of Faust and the Dorma Anim floating thousands of feet in their."

"You've gotta be fucking kidding me, a four-way combination attack like that didn't even touch that thing."

"Okay, this is going to be fun, and yes I'm being sarcastic."

"You wretched fools! Dragon Knight Diffusion Cannon!" the Dorma Anim unleased a barrage of fireballs down at the group, resulting in various explosions throughout the ruined colosseum, as well as bombarding the others.

"Mountain Dragon Terra Dome!" Noah slammed his hands into the ground and summoned a dome made of earth to protect himself, Gajeel and Wendy "Alright Salamander listen up, I need you to start eating as many as you can! These things are combustion-based, which means they're edible for you!"

"I'm on it!" Natsu blitzed around the scene and started consuming one small explosion after another "You're just adding fuel to my fire, and you're gonna go down soon enough!"

"SILENCE! Everything I do is for my world, for my beloved Edolas! You pathetic wretches could never possibly hope to understand the situation we deal with! You have an endless abundance of the one thing we desire the most! The citizens of Edolas have no need for wizard guilds, for they would serve no purpose here. What they need is everlasting magic power, and I am determined to do whatever it takes to give it to my people! I want for all of Edolas to experience the bliss you trash from Earth Land experience for yourselves!"

"Oh shut up already." Noah swallowed some rubble and got back to his feet again "Do you not hear the ridiculous levels of hypocrisy you're spewing out right now?"

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Are you so delusional because of your greed and pride you can't see what's going on right in front of you? The problem here isn't the lack of magic power, it's idiots like you who are so wasteful with it that you think you need it to wipe your own ass! If you actually valued magic power as much as you claim to then you wouldn't be so wasteful with it, and more importantly you wouldn't have pulled out a fucking Megazord that rips away whatever magic power your world has left. The problem isn't you losing your power, the problem is you and all of the blind idiots who serve you."

"...Well so what?! Even if this world is finished, all I have to do is conquer your world in its place! No one can stop me, not as long as I have the power of the Dorma Anim at my command! Besides, it's clear to me that the four of you have exhausted whatever magic power you do possess, and I imagine it takes time for you to recover it. If you would ever wish to surrender then this would be the time for you to do so, agree to supply this world and myself with magic power and you will be compensated accordingly."

"Yeah, let me think about it. Thinking, thinking, thinking, shove it up your ass. I'm not bowing down to you or anyone else. Mountain Dragon Terra Shield!" Noah slammed his hands into the ground behind the Dorma Anim, cutting off a piece of its tail in the process, causing it to fly off and land near Gajeel "Alright Black Steel eat up, and kid you make sure to suck down some of that air too. Now listen up and listen good, because I'm only going to say this once. You all need to realize that if we don't win this fight, the Anima Girl is going to die, the blue Exceed with the stupid sense of humor are going to die." he was referring to Happy and Lisanna, and this was enough to make Natsu's head snap up "All of the Exceeds are going to die." that proved to be enough to have the same effect on Gajeel and Wendy "But before all of that, if we don't do this then you two are going to die. And you're better than that, you're better than him, you're better than… well you're not better than me or Thunderclap, but you guys do have a hell of a lot of potential. You're more than just wizards of Fairy Tail, you're also Dragon Slayers! Now all of you plant your feet, grit your teeth, and you eat that mother fucking horse!" with the TFS reference out of the way, Noah whipped around and faced the Dorma Anim "You go ahead and hit me with your best shot you old fucker cause I'm standing right here!"

"As if you had to ask!" the Dorma Anim attempted to step down on him, only for the foot to be caught by Noah in a surprising display of strength.

"I may not be a wizard of Fairy Tail but I don't need to be, because I'm just as much of a Dragon Slayer as the rest of them! Now it's time to eat! That! HORSE!" with a sudden burst of strength, he threw the Dorma Anim clear off his feet.

"I've had enough of your insolence you piece of filth, it's time for you and the others to learn your place! I am the king of Edolas, bow down before my majesty!" the Dorma Anima attacked Noah with another Dragon Blast Eruption, causing him to cry out in pain, but as he prepared a follow up attack, he noticed something in mid air "What's this?"

"You're the one who's gonna have to learn his place old man, because in the end it's going to be on your knees! Iron Dragon CLUB!" Gajeel hurled his arm forward as it transformed into an iron club, impaling the right foot of the Dorma Anim "There!"

"What did you do?"

"I'll tell you what happened, I locked your foot down old man! You pull any of that bullshit with jumping again, and you just might lose it!"

"Damn you insignificant wretch, let go of me!"

"Not a chance you fucking geezer, we're ending this! Now somebody just hurry the fuck up and rip his head off, I can only hold this bastard for so long!"

"Right!" Noah raised his hands into the air, rubble rising up from the ground to form a boulder that kept growing larger and larger by the second "Kid listen up, you have to roar at the Salamander with all the magic power you've got left! We don't have any time just do it while you still can1"

"Okay Noah, I'll do it because I believe in you! Sky Dragon ROAR!" Wendy let out a roar with all of the magic power she could muster, sending Natsu hurtling forward at full speed.

"Now Salamander, find the attack's rotation and ride it home, then use the wind properties to make your flames stronger!"

"Hang tight, I'm on it! Dragon Slayer Secret Art: Flame Lotus: EXPLODING FLAME BLADE!" with all of the energy he had left, Natsu unleashed a spirally torrent of flames that were enhanced by Wendy's wind-based roar, allowing him to rip Faust out of the cockpit and blowing the Dorma Anim clean off its feet, and without the pilot it was left unable to defend itself against what would come next "Now Noah, FINISH IT!"

"That's my plan! Dragon Slayey Secret Art: Planetary Devastation!" Noah hurled his massive boulder, now an artificial meteorite, down at the Dorma Anim at unimaginable speeds.

"No it can't be, it can't end this way!" Faust could only look on in horror at the sight of the Dorma Anim being destroyed in an explosive collision, while he himself was hurled to the ground.

With the battle finally over, Noah let out some considerably loud wheezing from the exhaustion he was feeling, but then he ate some nearby rubble and bolted upright "Well that was fun, but now it's time to finish this."

"No… No no no, stay away from me!" Faust started stumbling away in terror at the intimidating sight of Noah calmly making his way towards him 'This power, it's unheard of! I can't believe I was so desperate to possess something so terrifying! Someone help me, anyone please, I beg of you!" but as he started seeing silhouettes of dragons behind him, and that was enough to make him faint in pure terror.

"Well it's about fucking time, I was wondering how much damage we would have to do before he finally shut the fuck up." Noah fell to one knee in exhaustion "But on the bright side, we took down the king just like that. Now if only we could do that with the king from Rising of the Shield Hero."

"Yay…" Natsu fell flat on his face and spat out some debris "So this is the part where one of us gets to yell checkmate right?"

"As surprised as I am you actually know something like that, you're actually supposed to say it before you take the king. Fuck, I totally should've said that."

"Looks like I missed the party."

Noah looked up to see Luke drop down onto the scene "Oh yeah that fucking figures, you show up after the giant dragon monster goes down."

"Hey unlike most of the idiots who show up at the last minute, I actually do have a good reason for showing up late. I was beating the ever loving crap out of myself."

"And how did that work out by the way?"

"Well it turns out his most powerful weapon was good enough to blast me clear out of my Dragon Force." Luke helped Noah back to his feet "All things considered though, as annoyed as you claim to be by them, you and the others made a great team back there."

"Don't expect it to become a regular thing, but putting that aside I think it's high time for us to get the fuck out of here. I need a breather and a panini personally."

"That actually does sound pretty good right now." that was when the ground beneath them began shaking all of a sudden "Okay, I wasn't expecting that. Should we be expecting enemy reinforcements at any point?"

"If that does turn out to be the case then you and I will be the only ones that can actually fight them off. Salamander and the others are all drained dry right about now."

"And I don't have much left in me as it is, Dragon Force drains a guy pretty fast."

"No you guys, it's up there! Look!" a horrified Wendy pointed upwards to where the floating islands above them were starting to hurtle towards the ground.

"And now the floating islands are falling, what the hell is going on?"

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The battle against the Royal Army had come to an abrupt halt.

A battered and exhausted Lucy looked up from her place on the ground at the sight of the floating islands hurtling to the ground "The islands… they're falling…"

"And just like that, the world is about to end." Cana noted dryly "You know, part of me isn't surprised that Fairy Tail is responsible for the end of the world."

"Seriously?"

"Am I wrong to think that?"

"...No."

"And there you go. But in all seriousness, this can't be good."

"Trust me, it's not." Mira told her flatly "From what I've learned about this world over the years, the islands above Edolas like Extalia are dependent on magic power in order to stay up there, but if they're falling then it can only mean one thing."

"Which is what exactly?"

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Edo-Noah looked up at the sight of the floating islands falling "Okay, I think it's safe to say that's bad." he looked down at Tempesta and Edo-Cana "I don't suppose you can get back up as of yet?"

"It depends on whether or not you want me to be able to move without the excruciating pain I feel every time I move from this position" Tempesta told him flatly, the position in question being him lying in a crater with Edo-Cana pressed against his chest "But in all seriousness, you see it too right? I think that's all of the magic power left in Edolas."

"But what's causing it?" asked Edo-Cana.

"I don't know, but I guess I was right before when I said that after today, Edolas would never be the same again." Tempesta struggled to get to his feet, though he did, but not without the sound of a sickening crack from one of his legs "I'll deal with that later, right now I think the rest of our guild needs to regroup."

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True to what Tempesta was saying, the Royal Army was freaking out at the sight of the magic power being drained from their weapons:

"My weapon isn't doing what I'm telling it to do!"

"What the hell is going on?!"

"Our weapons aren't working!"

"Now what the hell are we supposed to do?!"

"Everyone's freaking out…" Lucy pulled herself to her feet "And it looks like Fairy Tail isn't that much better off."

"Considering everyone is freaking out about their weapons losing their magic power, I'd say you're right." Cana told her flatly "But whatever is gonna happen now, we've just gotta keep our cool for the time being."

"RETREAT!" this was when the Royal Army decided to abandon their now useless weapons and run away screaming like a bunch of cowards.

"So yeah, basically do the exact opposite of what they just did. I can't believe they just gave up like that."

"Yeah well they're not the only ones." Bolt pointed at the Edolas Fairy Tail.

"...Oh wow."

As it turns out, the other members of the Edolas Fairy Tail were freaking out just as bad as the soldiers, maybe even worse:

"The soldiers had the right idea, we're all as good as dead!"

"We can't use magic again? How are we supposed to survive without it?"

"This will be a day of mourning for the rest of time, or at least until we die."

"Maybe we'd be better off dead. Without magic power we're totally screwed, it's completely game over for all of us!"

"Now we'll have to disband, what good is a wizard guild without magic power?!"

"Come on you guys, just chill out a little bit. Everything is going to be okay, but you can't just start to panick." Lucy tried to calm everyone down, though she had little success.

"How the hell would you know?!" Edo-Lucy suddenly rounded on her counterpart in a frustrated rage "I don't think that you get that our magic power is disappearing, every last fucking ounce of the stuff! Don't you get what that means for Fairy Tail?!"

"Hey cool it!" Cana tried to call her off "Freaking out and throwing a massive shitfit isn't going to change what's happening."

"What the hell are we supposed to do dammit?! We're losing our magic power, we're nothing without it!"

"If you're nothing without it then you don't deserve it."

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Tempesta stumbled slightly from the weakness in his legs, but after a moment he finally managed to regain his balance "You know it's strange, despite all of the chaos this sight is oddly sooting."

"To you at least." Edo-Noah pointed out dryly "I never thought I would actually live to see the end of the world like this. Will our strength be enough for us to endure? I highly doubt that personally."

"Well I believe that we will endure, as long as we're able to stick together." Tempesta promptly took Edo-Cana's hand in his, and the two of them exchanged a small smile.

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All over the Edolas, the magic power was disappearing into the skies above, and the people were starting to panick as a result.

Contrary to the mindset of the majority of the population, Edo-Gajeel was surprisingly calm and just taking notes on the entire situation.

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Meanwhile, with the Dragon Slayers…

Luke and the others could only look around in awe at the sight of the magic being sucked into the heavens "You guys seeing what I'm seeing? This is pure magic power that we're witnessing here."

"Well that's shit hitting the metaphorical fan big time." Noah muttered dryly "The only question is, what the fuck gives?"

"What about that gigantic dragon the king was using?"

"You mean the Dorma Anim? No I doubt it, I mean the king said he was absorbing all of the magic in Edolas in order to use it, but we destroyed it."

"Which means that logically, it shouldn't be able to absorb any more magic power. It must be coming from another source."

"But what though?"

"I can't say for certain but it will have to wait, for the time being we'd better head back to the Royal City. Given everything that's happening right now I wouldn't be surprised if they started panicking."

"Oh yeah that's actually a fair point, I've seen enough stuff like that to know that when it happens it gets ugly really fast. If I had to guess as to what's going on I'd say they're taking the time to connect with loved ones, get their affairs in order, or maybe just kill their boss, get a purge going, live a little!"

"...Dude."

"Yeah?"

"Are you seriously quoting TFS right now?"

"How could I not? They're way too quotable not to."

"...Yeah okay fair enough. But in all seriousness, we should head back over there and see how we can help. Plus we'd better meet up with the others too, chances are they'll be trying to do the same thing. But for now we're wasting too much time talking, let's move."

"Right." and so the five of them promptly moved out.

'I never thought I would be seeing the end of the world, especially in another world.'

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Meanwhile, with the Edolas Fairy Tail and others…

Edo-Lucy and the others looked on at the sight of their magic power disappearing "I never thought I would see the end of the world in my lifetime."

"Don't assume the end actually comes until it actually happens." a very familiar voice told her and the others, causing them to freeze.

Edo-Lucy and the others looked over to the source of the voice, and scowled at the sight before the lot of them "What the hell are you doing here?"

As it turns out, it was none other than Luke Tempesta, followed by Edo-Noa and Edo-Cana right behind him, and he calmly made his way forward despite the hateful glares and whispering he was receiving "I can see none of you have changed a bit, especially you Lucy."

"You've got a lot of nerve showing your face again after all this time."

"Spare me your typical aggressive malice Lucy, I think it's safe to say we've got a lot of other things to worry about right now, as in this world losing all of its magic power."

"Don't think you can make excuses you little-"

"Lucy, enough." Edo-Noah promptly cut her off with a firm glare "Like he said, we have bigger things to deal with."

"...Fine." Edo-Lucy put away her whip and crossed her arms, her scowl still ever present.

"Go ahead."

"Thanks." Tempesta stepped forward, his gaze unflinching "I don't expect you to change your opinions of me like the flip of a switch, and I don't expect you to forgive me for doing the things that I've done over the past two years, but for now we should all have the same goal, as in heading to the Royal City and determine the situation, then go from there."

"But what exactly are we going to see?"

"If there's one thing that I've learned in my lifetime, regardless of the side I've been on, it's that we don't need magic power in order to survive. Look at me, I'm tapped dry of it because of my battle with my counterpart from Earth Land, and yet I'm still alive. Even if I have lost about 60% of feeling in my body and I'm not sure I'm ever going to get it back, but that's besides the point. My point is that having magic power is convenient, but it's far from vital for humans, and the only difference is that I understand that, and I don't let anxiety and despair get the better of me. And that's why I'm heading back to the Royal City to assess the situation and see it for myself."

"See what exactly?"

"The future of this guild and the rest of our world, I'm going to look it straight in the eye without even flinching. If I'm the only one then so be it, but I'm willing to bet I'm not." and so on that note, Tempesta tightened his grip on Shatterstorm and started walking his way in the direction of the Royal City.

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Inside the Anima control room, Mystogan explained to Panther Lily that he intended to rid Edolas of all of its magic power in order to stop the war, and knowing that the people were panicking because of this decision, claimed that the people would need a new leader, a new king who would help them adapt to the new world full of changes.

Panther Lily was quick to assume that Mystogan would be the new king, only for him to refuse and tell Panther Lily that there was a need for someone to play the role of a villain who took the magic away from Edolas, and for a hero who would stand triumphant over the villain and unite the people of their world. Mystogan then went on to reveal that he intended to play the role of the villain, and that Panther Lily should play the role of the hero, since he would be able to unite the humans along with the Exceeds. However, Panther Lily refused to go along with this plan.

Mystogan went on to explain his plan to Panther Lily, telling him to execute him (Mystogan) in front of the panicking citizens and be the new king of Edolas, but Panter Lily still refused to go along with this plan, and all the while Nabi was watching the two of them, but neither of them were aware of his presence.

While the citizens were continuing to panick, Mystogan and Panther Lily continued arguing over the plan, both wanting the other to be the new king of Edolas and both wanting to be the villain that would be executed in front of the people.

As panic outside continued to intensify, a guard rushed into the Anima chamber in order to inform Panther Lily about how people were wreaking havoc. Both of them agreed to put their argument on hold for the time being.

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About 5 minutes later, outside…

Lily and Mystogan rushed outside to find absolute chaos erupting within the city, and the former whipped around to face a few soldiers "Tell me, how many of them are there?"

"Sir!" the soldiers snapped to attention "There are five of them sir."

"And you haven't dealt with them yet? Explain the reasoning behind this."

"Yes sir, you see the thing is… they're very strong."

"Oh for the love of-" Lily was cut off by the sound of a very familiar laugh "What's going on down there?"

"Oh dear lord no…" Mystogan just pinched the bridge of his nose "I have a really bad feeling about this."

"What do you mean, you know who's behind this?"

"I have a hunch if nothing else."

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Meanwhile, down on the streets…

As it turns out, Luke was standing on a rooftop in the city wearing a cape and with horns attached to his head, laughing maniacally as his lightning magic surged "Citizens of Edolas, hear my words! I am the Demon Lord Drako, and I have travelled to this world for one singular reason: To steal every ounce of magic power in your possession!"

"What the hell?" this was when Edo-Noah and the rest of the Edolas Fairy Tail rushed onto the scene to see Luke acting like a would-be conqueror 'Okay, clearly I'm going to need some context for this. Why the hell would he be acting like this?'

"Faust has sacrificed his poistion as your ruler, and that is the only reason why I chose to spare his life after utterly decimating him in battle!" Luke pointed to where Faust was tied to a nearby post, still unconscious "So he shall live, only for the time being that is."

Fortunately, the citizens seemed to be buying this "You mean you hurt our king? Please your majesty, you have to rise! How dare you hurt our king!"

"SILENCE!" Luke unleashed a surge of electricity "Aftershock, Salamander, Black Steel and Sky Maiden, come and stand at my side my noble and loyal heralds! The time has come for us to show these wretched worms why the Dragon Slayers are to be feared!"

"As you wish my lord! Iron Dragon Sword!" Gajeel used his iron sword arm to cut through an entire building, leaving it to crumble into rubble, much to the horror of the citizens "Fear the might of the Dragon Slayers, your magic power belongs to all of us now!"

Edo-Gajeel studied Gajeel intently for a moment, and then it clicked in his mind 'So that's it, they're trying to make themselves look like the villains to the people. These villains won't stop until they've destroyed anything and everything in sight! The city is under attack by an army of demons from another world!"

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Meanwhile, with two of our other Dragon Slayers…

"You'd beter run!" Wendy popped up in front of some random kid and tried to scare him into running away, the key word being tried, and by that I mean she failed.

"Run or die." Noah popped up in front of Wendy and cast the kid a terrifying glare "It's your pick kid." that sent him running away screaming "See that's how you get it done."

"Was it really necessary for you to scare him like that?"

"Hey don't blame me for that kid, it's not my fault you're about as intimidating as a cocker spaniel."

"Just look at all of them, they're an unstoppable force of evil!" Edo-Gajeel shared a look with his counterpart, and they gave each other small smirks 'Maybe I have a career in acting.'

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Luke looked down at the horrified reactions he was receiving from the citizens 'Looks to me like everything is going well so far.'

"Just what do you think you're doing you fools?!" Mystogan rounded on Luke from his place at the balcony "Stop this at once!"

"Now hear me my loyal heralds of the elements, continue wreaking havoc until the wretches of this world understand why we are to be feared!"

"Okay I'm just gonna say it." Noah dropped down next to him "I still say it would've been a hell of a lot more convincing if I was the one doing it."

"Yeah well you drew the short straw, now quit whining and do as I say!"

"Alright fine… my lord." and so Noah dropped down to the streets.

'Then again, maybe he would've been more convincing of a bad guy. But still, this is actually pretty fun.'

"They're to blame for all of this!" the citizens of Edolas started turning on Luke and the other Dragon Slayers "They're the ones who stole all of the magic power from Edolas! It's all because of that Drako monster!"

"Yes that's right!" Edo-Gajeel went along with the shame and kept convincing people about the ruse "That Dark Lord Drako is the brains behind this entire operation!"

"What?! That's unforgivable, you give us back our magic right now!"

"SILENCE!" Luke unleashed Lightning Dragon Roar into the skies above, scaring the citizens into silence "You humans often say not to play with fire, but playing with lightning can be that much more dangerous."

"Luke that's enough!" Mystogan rounded on Luke and yelled at him at the top of his lungs from his place in the castle "You need to stop this at once!"

"Well what do we have here? It would seem that I have a challenger, a brave man who would actually dare to oppose me. I should commend you for your bravery."

"You need to stop with this foolishness, the king has been defeated! There's no need to attack innocent people!"

"I think we'll see about that!" Luke unleashed another roar of lightning and demolished a building across from him.

"I told you to stop it!"

"If you think that simply raising your voice will be enough to intimidate me is going to be enough, then you're in for a rude awakening. It doesn't matter if you are the prince of this kingdom."

'The prince he said, as in the son of the king? But the prince vanished under unknown circumstances 7 years ago.' then Edo-Gajeel added fuel to the fire they were building "At long last, Prince Jellal has returned! He's returned to us just in time to save us from these other worldly demons!"

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Lily frowned at the sight of what Luke and the others were doing "What the hell are they doing here?"

"I have to admit sir, I am responsible for this."

Lily looked around and found Nabi standing there pumping his arm "What exactly do you mean by that?"

"I happened to overhear your conversation, and then I told the five Dragon Slayers of your plan and then they sort of came up with their own iteration."

"And that led to what we're seeing now."

This was when Luke called out to Mystogan "Come and face me in battle prince, and you had best pray that you stand victorious, because if you don't, then this entire city and everyone in it will be reduced to a pile of smoldering ash."

"And it would also seem that we have our villain. It looks like it's working so far, though from the sound of it I think it's safe to say the citizens don't believe in you as the prince yet. It's obvious that he and the others want to make Jellal play the role of the hero, but if he throws the fight and the public finds out then the consequences could be tragic. Is he willing to pay the ultimate price?'

"So what's your decision prince?"

"That's enough Luke, stay right there!" Mystogan leapt off the ledge of the balcony and started running towards him through the streets, for all of the people to see.

"Were you not listening to me before prince? I told you that I am the Demon Lord Drako, now come and face your inevitable defeat."

Lily just watched him go 'I hope he knows what he's doing.'

"If I may sir, I would advise you to be ready for some major surprises." Nabi told him "There's quite a bit more still in store for all of us tonight to say the least."

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At the same time, Nichiya and the other Exceeds trapped in the giant cat lacrima were promptly reverted back to their normal forms, though they were highly confused as to what the hell was going on.

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As he watched Mystogan running through the streets of the Royal City, Edo-Gajeel was quick to go along with the act and try and rally the people "There goes our long lost prince, is he really going to face all five of those monsters all by himself? What unbelievable courage and spirit he's displaying!"

Mystogan didn't give that thought as he charged through the streets, his mind racing 'These damn fools, what the hell are all of you thinking? I understand what you're trying to do, but all this will do is end up making things that much worse for everyone!'

"So you decided to come?" Luke shot him a fake smirk full of malice "I suppose I should commend you for your bravery. Aftershock, you and the others let him through. I'm going to deal with him myself." he leapt down to meet Mystogan at eye level and waved his hand to the side to motion for Noah and the others to step back.

"Now sleep!" Mystogan tried to cast a spell using one of his magic staves, only for the magic power to be sucked right out of it 'The Reverse Anima must have sucked out all of my magic power.'

"Come now prince, don't tell me that you're as pathetic as the other wrecthes of this world without any traces of magic power. Pathetic, they act as if they can't even dress themselves without using magic. Not that you don't have reason to fear me, because I can assure you that you most certainly do. Observe!" with a wave of his hand, Luke unleashed a blast of lightning that.

"I told you to stop!"

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Wendy was looking horrified by what was happening "Luke you have to stop, you're going way too far with this!"

"No he's not, he knows exactly what he has to do." Noah gave a smirk "Thunderclap understands all too well that the more powerful the villain looks to everyone watching, the stronger the hero will look to all of them when he eventually comes out on top, with or without any actual magic power. And here I thought Titania was the only one from your guild that had any sort of skill in acting."

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Mystogan leapt over the rubble and finally met with Luke face to face "Luke I need you to listen to me, you and the others are making a big mistake by doing this, with this whole show you and the others are putting on. You can't really expect you'll be able to fool all of these people."

"Spare me the attempts to appeal to whatever humanity you believe me to have, because it's a waste of time!" Luke blitzed forward and dealt Mystogan a swift kick to the jaw that sent him crashing to the ground.

Mystogan pulled himself back to his feet and wiped the blood from his lip "Dammit you fool, you can't bring the people together like this, through simple minded evil!" he let a fist fly forward.

Luke caught the fist with ease and lowered his voice so only Mystogan could hear "I need you to fight me for real, if you pull your punches then it won't fool anybody."

"Fine!" Mystogan dealt Luke a roundhouse kick to the jaw strong enough to send him staggering backwards a short distance, earning various cheers from the citizens.

"Yeah that's right." Luke wiped the blood from his lip "Now it looks like the people are really getting into it."

"You idiot, you should've stayed down so that we wouldn't have to stretch this out any longer than necessary."

"We have to make it convincing." Luke slammed his fist into Mystogan's gut.

"If I can't talk you out of it, then it's clear I have no choice right now do I?" Mystogan promptly dealt Luke a fist to the face, which caused the people to cheer for him even louder than they already were.

Luke tried to retaliate with a punch to the jaw, only for his hand to be caught by Mystogan at the last second, so he lowered his voice again and gave a small smirk "I hope you're ready for this my friend, you're getting the kind of send off worthy of a member of Fairy Tail." he was met with a look of confusion "I think it's safe to say you're gonna have to leave the guild, your responsibility is to this world and its people. But since that is the case, you have to swear to follow these three rules." they continued trading blows as they went at it "The first rule, make sure that you never share sensitive information about the Fairy Tail guild with anyone for as long as you live." he was finally met with a fist to the face "Okay, just for that you can rattle off the second rule."

"The second rule, you must never contact any of the clients you've worked with in the guild for your own personal gain."

"You got that right, and don't forget the third and most important!" Luke ducked under a fist and dealt Mystogan an uppercut fist to the jaw "The third rule states that although our paths may diverge from here, you have to promise you'll live the rest of your life to the fullest, and that means that you have to treat every single day as if it were your last in this world. Don't you dare even dream of forgetting the friends that you loved."

"And as such, you must treasure them for as long as you live."

"And never lose sight of what you learned along the way." the two of them each dealt the other one final blow, which ended with Luke being sent crashing to the ground, which promptly ended with both of them falling to the ground "So how about it, did you get all of that? A true guild knows how to work together, and when they do there's nothing that they can't do. So until we meet again, I bid you farewell my friend." and he hit the ground with a thud.

"You as well." Mystogan actually regained his footing and stood over Luke's downed form supposedly victorious, earning a massive roar of applause from the crowd 'Thank you for everything.'

'Looks like the plan worked like a charm.' seeing the fight was over, Edo-Gajeel promptly decided to take his leave of the scene, bidding his counterpart farewell in the form of a simple wave, earning a smirk as a result.

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"Okay that was fun, so what next?" Noah looked down to see that his body was starting to glow gold, along with those of Natsu and the others "Ask a stupid question, you either get an answer right away or not at all."

"Either way, looks like our song and dance aren't over just yet." Gajeel noted.

"Figures."

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Panther Lily found the same thing happening to himself and Nabi "What's going on, what's happening to us?"

"It's because of the Reverse Anima spell." Nabi kept pumping his arm "It's starting to expel every remaining shred of magic power out of Edolas, and since we possess internal magic power includes the Exceeds, the Dragon Slayers and the Earthlanders as well. We're all going to be pulled into Earth Land!"

"Wait what?!"

"I believe the queen is preparing for this occurrence as we speak."

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Sure enough, Shagotte was trying to comfort some of the younger Exceeds, telling that a great change was about to happen and they had to be brave about it.

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Bolt looked down and found his own body glowing along with the others "Okay this is kind of freaky, anybody want to provide some context as to what the hell is going on?"

"It's the Anima!" Carla was hanging onto a nearby rock to avoid being sucked away "The Anima is pulling all of us out of this world!"

"Bout time, in all honesty I was starting to get sick of this place." and then Bolt, Happy, Lucy & the Strauss siblings started getting sucked up as well "Looks like the magic is starting to work in reverse, and now it's pushing the magic out of here."

"And that means we have to get out of here too." Cana looked down to see her body glowing like the rest "I guess it just has a delayed effect on me."

"Probably for the best actually." this was when Tempesta suddenly made his way towards her, limping visibly from his wounds "So you're the version of Cana from that world right?"

"And you're the supposed would-be traitor from Fairy Tail in this world. It's cool though, I already got the details from my Luke."

"Speaking of which, I wanted to thank for for what he did for me tonight, but it looks like he was a little bit busy." Tempesta held out Shatterstorm to her "So I've gotta ask, when you see him could you give him this for me?"

"Won't you need it?"

"Don't count on it, I think I've had more than enough fighting for one lifetime. Besides, in the care of someone like him, I think it will be in good hands."

"...Sure thing." Cana accepted Shatterstorm just as she started getting hurled into the air by the Reverse Anima.

'Thank you all, at least now I can find some sense of normalcy again.' and so Tempesta then quietly took his leave of the scene.

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It didn't take long for Cana to reuninte with the others, earning a few looks about the weapon she was holding "Yeah, this is a little gift for Luke from his counterpart."

"Someone call my name?" that was when Luke, still in his Demon Lord getup, suddenly floated over towards the group, with Noah and the others right behind him "Would it be too cheesy to make a joke about saying my name and me magically appearing?"

"Yes, yes it would. Why do you look like you got hit by a freight train?"

"I had to put on a good show."

"Well judging by the crowd's reaction you definitely did that, albeit at the cost of becoming a villain to all of Edolas, so here's your consolation prize." she handed Shatterstorm to him "A little moment of your counterpart."

"Good to know, tell him I said thanks." Luke glanced down at the ground.

As it turns out, Tempesta, Edo-Cana and Edo-Noah were watching them disasppear, with the rest of the Edolas Fairy Tail right by their side "Looking back part of me always knew that this day was going to come, the day when Edolas's wellspring of magic power finally ran dry."

"But does this mean we'll lose our guild too?" Edo-Cana turned to face Tempesta and leaned into his embrace "I'm so scared my beloved, whatever will become of us now?"

"Cana, listen to me." Tempesta wrapped his arms around her protectively "Magic power or not, I promise we're going to get through this."

"You know he's right, listen to the smart one!" Luke called out to them as he was floating further and further away "I've learned a lot in my world, and I know that if you're nothing without magic power then you don't deserve it. It takes more than just magic to make a guild, a lot more than that. What matters is having conviction, spirit and heart, and having good people by your side to help you every step of the way."

"He's right. So is this is Thunderclap?"

"Looks that way Tempesta. You know what, let's drop last names for now."

"Fine by me, cause we're both the same. We're both Luke."

"That's my name, don't wear it out." he was met with various groans "Yeah yeah I know, that one-liner sucked. I've never been good at quips, I don't know how the hell Spider Man does it in the first place."

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Mystogan watched in awe, amidts various cheers from the citizens as the Earth Land wizards and the Exceeds were being sucked further into the air 'I knew that the magic power was going to be expelled, but I had no idea that the people would be as well.'

"Prince!" this was when Panther Lily called out to him one final time 'I know that things are changing rapidly, keep in mind that adapting to them can take time. Don't rush it, lead your people with warmth and a calm heart. Take them at a pace they can keep up with, and then they'll march alonside you in the future.'

"I will my friend." Mystogan wiped away a single tear "I promise."

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"Hey Earth Land me!" Edo-Noah called out out his counterpart "So we just stood our ground against the end of the world, how do you like that?"

"I'd like it more if it wasn't for you bailing on us two days ago." Noah told him dryly, then shot him a smirk "But all things considered, you didn't do too bad. The same to the rest of you, I get that the master of my guild hates Fairy Tail for reasons he refuses to mention, but all things considred, not too bad. Do it right, listen to what Tempesta says, make sure you take the right path and you'll find your way soon enough."

"I never thought you'd prove to be so soft to Fairy Tail." Luke and Bolt floated over to him and shot him two simultaneous smirks.

"I'm being pragmatic, you know that the guys I work for want Fairy Tail to burn. But that can wait until later."

"Works for me." they kept waving to everyone on the ground "So what do you think, will we ever see any of these people again?"

"Keep in mind that I'm not part of Fairy Tail, so there's a pretty high chance this is going to be it for me. As for you guys, well I guess only time will tell."

"Couldn't have said it better myself."

"Hey Lisanna, Elfman, Noah, Luke, everybody!" Mira started waving to all of them "Thank you for everything, I promise I won't ever forget everything that you guys have done for me, and I know that your Mira would be proud of how you guys have done up until now." she kept waving despite the tears streaming down her face, not that she noticed.

"And then there's that."

"Oh yeah, fuck." Noah let out a sigh "You're gonna want some answers about that when we get back to Earth Land aren't you?"

"I think you know what the answer to that is, but for now let's just make sure that we give this world a proper goodbye."

"Fair enough. But you know something, looking back maybe this world isn't as much of a piece of shit as I originally thought. Sure it's got a hell of a lot of issues."

"But name one world that doesn't, and besides the people here have proven that they have what it takes when push comes to shove. Sure they'll definitely have a hard time adapting to a world without any magic power at all, but it's not the end of the world. Yeah, call it a hunch but I have a feeling they're going to be just fine. Farewell Edolas, may your new era be a long and prosperous one!" and with that, the Dragon Slayers, the Exceeds and all of the Earth Land wizards all disappeared from Edolas forever, taking its magic power with them in a massive golden light.

'Farewell, and the rest of you as well.' Mystogen watched them disappear with a fond smile stretching across his face 'And farewell to my family in Fairy Tail, I promise to cherish my memories from our time together for as long as I live.' once the Earthlanders, Exceeds and magic power all finalaly disappeared through the Anima, the sun began shining on a new dawn for the world of Edolas, and as it did so, Mystogan made his way atop a destroyed building with a staff in hand, and he rallied all of the people together "People of Edolas, hear me! The monsters have been defeated, and our world is safe at last! It matters not if we have magic power, because our kingdom will live on safely and peacefully for all eternity!" he was met with cheering from all of the citizens 'It seems as if this is the dawn of a new age for Edolas, and the future has just become a great deal brighter.'

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Meanwhile, back in Earth Land…

Everything in Magnolia was just how it was before the Anima had struck in the first place, the land and city were exactly the same, and it was even raining just as it had before. At least, before the white vortex formed in the skies above the city.

Luke and Noah were the first ones to fall out of the Anima, with Bolt, Happy, Carla, Natsu, Lucy, Cana, Mirajane, Elfman and Lisanna all dog-piling on them afterwards "Okay, yeah this is a lot of fun. Is everyone alright?"

"Depends on your definition of the word." Cana let out a groan.

"As in conscious and nothing is broken."

"I can't guarantee the latter, but we're not dead."

"Nor are you being squashed under the likes of Natsu or Gajeel."

"That's also true, so yeah I guess we could be worse."

"Yes, yes it could."

"In that case." Noah promptly threw everyone off of him, bolted to his feet and voiced what they were all thinking "We're back bitches!"

"And check it out." Luke jerked a thumb at where the city of Magnolia sat in the distance "It looks to me like everything's finally back to normal."

"And you would never think it got turned into a gigantic crystal and sucked into another dimension. Yes I know how that sounds."

"And you did it on purpose, don't even try to deny it."

"It looks exactly the same two." Mira looked on in slight awe "Honestly, a big part of me thought I would never see this world again, let alone this city."

"Yeah well, as fun as the hijinks and reunions are we can't get ahead of ourselves. Before we decide to celebrate we should make sure that everyone in the town is okay."

"They're all just fine." a voice got their attention, causing everyone to look up and found, to their shock, all of the Exceeds floating above them, receiving jaw-dropped looks from almost everyone present "Hey you guys, we got here awhile ago so we went and checked on the city and the people for you. We just decided to fly through town real quick, your friends and everyone in town are doing great, but when we talked to them they didn't even know that they had been turned into a lacrima. Plus Earth Land is totally awesome you guys, it has a ton of magic power going for it."

"What in the world are they doing here?!" Carla seemed more angry than shocked and quickly ruined the mood "This is wrong on every level, the Exceeds don't belong in Earth Land!" and that made them all drop to the ground in shame "We cannot allow the Exceeds to stay here, the fact is that they're far too dangerous! They should return to Edolas at once!"

"In case you weren't listening little She with Stick up the Tail, heading back to Edolas isn't an option for them." Noah pointed out dryly "In case you forgot, the new Kid who would be King said himself that once his Reverse Anima had taken full effect that was it, there's no way for any of us to go back to Edolas."

"And I'm suppose to sympathize with them after everything?"

"Come on now Carla, be nice." Wendy told her "There homeland is gone now, so I think we should forgive them, and keep in mind they did help us to stop the lacrima before."

"Never." she kept like this even after getting numerous apologies from the other Exceeds.

"We're sorry we threw rocks at you before lady."

"We're really sorry."

"We have no place left to go now that Extalia has been destroyed."

"We promise we'll be nicer to you now."

"Please say you'll forgive us."

"This doesn't have anything to do with you kids!" Carla promptly rounded on Shagotte "The main problem here is her, the reason I'm so angry is because the Queen of Extalia and the rest of her lackeys sent me to Earth Land on a mission to kill the Dragon Slayers!"

"I KNOW!" Lucky suddenly exploded out of nowhere like he often did "The queen ordered us to give up all our eggs, how the hell could she be so heartless like that?! GOD DAMMIT!"

"Oh yeah, he's here too." Bolt let out a sigh "And here I was hoping that the three of us had seen the last of Mr Personality over there. And for the record he's got a point, did she ever even give a reason why you had to give up your eggs?"

"Not to mention she's the reason why we all got sucked into Edolas in the first place, you can't deny that." Noah pointed out flatly "If there's gonna be an explanation for that then let it be right fucking now."

"Yeah what he said." the two of them fist-bumped.

"Yes, there is a reason." this was when the Exceed elders stepped forward "I can assure you all that the queen did have a reasonable explanation, and her intentions were honorable. We all remember that moment vividly when it came to be, six long years ago. As was mentioned previously, Queen Shagotte has the ability to glimpse into the future, and this ability can act as both a blessing and a curse. One day came six years ago when she had a vision of Extalia being destroyed, and she knew what had to be done: we had to save the children."

"Wait a second, what the hell do you mean save them? That's so different from what we were told it's not even funny, you'd better not be lying to us."

"I can assure you that we're not. In order to prevent any panic among the citizens of Extalia, we carried out our plan without their knowledge. The queen then went on to issue to the other Exceeds a false proclomation, it was merely a cover up for our plan, claiming that it was part of a mission to protect us from the Dragon Slayers. We felt horrible about making the queen lie to all of you like that, but given the situation we didn't have any other choice. We could not simply go public with the knowledge of the fact that our beloved Extalia would simply come crashing to the ground. Despite what you've heard, I can assure you that none of us have any sort of ill intentions or any other beings from Earth Land whatsoever."

"You don't have to worry about that, we understand." Wendy assured them "You just needed something to go along with the story you told them."

You knew that everyone would panic if the truth were to get out, so you had to come up with something else to tell them so no one would go apeshit." Noah let out a sigh and ran a hand through his hair "Still not thrilled about any of this, but it makes sense."

Shagotte went on to explain from here "We made use of the Anima spell developed by the humans in Edolas, as they tore several small holes between the two worlds we sent our eggs through so that they would arrive safely in Earth Land."

"Yeah, six years ago…" Natsu and Lisanna shared a look as they gently clasped their hands in each other's 'Like that day we found Happy and hatched him together. In a way, that's how we became so close in the first place.'

"What we had no idea about was that you Carla, you possess an incredible power."

"Me?" Carla gave a look of shock as she received several looks of shock as well from the various others.

"Yes that's right, it would see that you possess the same prophetic power as I do. However, unlike me you did not have conscious control over it, and as a result your memory was clouded and confused by it. Of the 100 Exceed eggs that we had sent away, you were the only one that possessed this gift, and I suspect that you began to see scattered fragments of what would be the future of Edolas. Your gift caused you to mistake this as your personal mission."

"So that means…" Bolt's question didn't make it all the way out of his throat.

"The three of you were never given a mission in the first place, it was just your way of trying to make sense of all of the strange thoughts and images that had taken root in your mind. You and the others were sent here because we wanted to protect the next generation, nothing more than that."

"So those visions that she foresaw, they were just prophecies?" asked Noah "As in she was seeing that we were going to go to Edolas to begin with?"

"Yes."

"For whatever the reason might be, we thought it would be better if we hid your prophetic powers from you." Nabi and Nichiya spoke up in shame "As a result, we had no choice but to make it seem like we were controlling you. At the time we honestly thought that was the only way we could embellish the illustriousness of the queen, but now we deeply regret making such a decision and we humbly beg for your forgiveness."

"The show of false bravado that I chose to put on my citizens and the humans in the face of hardship is what caused all of you to suffer. No, I did more than just make you suffer, I brought anguish to all of the families whose eggs I took six years ago. Now you understand, that is why I handed the sword to you when I did. I swear to you the rest of the Exceeds didn't have anything to do with this, it was my fault alone." she was met with loud crying from Nichiya.

"Please your majesty it wasn't your fault, no one is to blame for this! You shouldn't be held responsible when all you did was what you believed to be best for the citizens of Extalia. To be quite frank, the rest of us are just as much to blame for all of this as you because we all allowed ourselves to become so arrogant, but now that we're here in Earth Land we may be able to make things right again. We can go out into this new world and find all of the Exceed children that were went here six years ago." this prompted the other Exceeds to sprout their wings and take flight again.

"This is totally awesome, now we've got a new purpose!"

"Let's give it our all and become friends with the humans!"

"Here's to making a fresh start you guys!"

Noah let out a low whistle at what he was hearing "These guys are sure as hell full of optimism aren't they?"

"Is that a bad thing in your eyes?" asked Luke.

"I never said that, a little bit of optimism never hurt anybody. It's definitely a nice change of pace from how things are going in my guild, but then again, too much of it can make people come off as unbearable, as in Salamander back there." he jerked a thumb back at Natsu.

"Thank you everyone, truly." Shagotte began shedding tears of joy "We should all count our blessings for today, for we are truly fortunate to have been blessed with this new beginning for all of us."

"...Very well then." Carla let out a sigh "If that is the case, then I suppose that I can find it in myself to forgive you."

"Carla… thank you."

"But tell me, how did I end up possessing the same prophetic powers as you do?"

"Um… oh wow look at that, I think a rainbow is forming through the storm clouds."

"Why are you avoiding my question?"

Luke shared a glance with Noah "You want to take that one?"

"Yeah, I think I'm going to pass on that one." Noah told him flatly, his voice low "It's not that hard to figure out though, even if you put aside the fact that she's got the queen's powers, they both look way too much alike."

"You gonna tell her?"

"No way in hell, she needs to figure that out on her own. It's not like anyone is telling us where the hell our dragons went right? It won't get you anywhere in life if someone just hands you all the answers."

"Well it could've been a lot worse." and it turned out that Natsu had picked up that weird fist-pumping thing from Nabi "At least everything worked out right?"

"You know it's kind of funny." Lisanna was apparently doing it too "You picked up that funny thing with him waving his arm."

"You know Lisanna, you picked that up too." Cana pointed out "But for the record, don't expect me to pick up that-"

"Sniff sniff sniff." this was when Nichiya started doing his thing with her, sending a chill down her spine "So lovely, such a fragrent parfume, I can't get enough of it! Please miss, if you would be so kind as to allow me to endure your parfume just a little bit longer."

"What you're gonna get is one of my cards lodged down your throat if you don't back the hell away from me." Cana's tone of voice was so calm it was unnerving, which proved to be enough to make Nichiya back away slowly.

"So lovely, and yet so fear-inducing."

"Hot damn, who would've thought she would be so feisty." Noah glanced over at Luke "Well you've got my stamp of approval in that regard." he received no reply "Hey Thunderclap, you still with us?"

"...I'll be right back." Luke picked up his sword, as well as Shatterstorm, and he calmly walked away from the group and into the forest.

"Well that was weird. What's he gonna do?"

"Well if I had to guess…" Cana was answered by the sound of a roar in the distance, followed by a large tree being chopped down in the distance "To answer your question, I guessed he'd do something like that."

"Huh. You know you might wanna take that thing away from him."

And then Luke came back breathing heavily "Okay, I think I'm good. Sorry it's just, he reminds me of a certan acquaintance and I'm not too fond of him."

"Happens to the best of us." Elfman assured him "A real man has to vent his frustrations every once in awhile."

With that little exchange over with, Shagotte turned to face Carla "I believe it would be for the best for us to take up residence somewhere nearby, don't you?"

"Yeah, and then we would be able to visit each other."

"Yes, perhaps."

"What in the world are the two of you so chipper about?" it was now that Carla suddenly found herself being hugged by Shagotte "What the…"

"Carla… Now we'll be able to see each other whenever we want!"

"Wait a moment… She feels so warm…'

Marl was quick to meet up with Happy as well "You be sure to visit us sometime as well dear, okay?"

"Aye!" Happy promptly saluted as he usually did.

"HEY!" and then Lucky went on to do his thing "That doesn't mean that you have to visit us you see?!"

"Oh I promise you I will, I don't really know why but I actually like the way that the two of you smell to me." this brought tears to their eyes.

However also led to Lucky chasing Happy around like a jackass "If you think you can just show up unannounced then you're in for one hell of a rude awakening! You'd better be sure to check with us before you just drop in, you're not too old to be bent over my knee!"

"Alright alright, aye sir just don't hurt me!"

While that little exchange was going on, Lisanna glanced over at Natsu "Hey listen, are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"That the two of them are his parents?" Natsu gave a grin "Oh yeah they definitely are without a doubt, I can guess from how much they smell alike."

"Yeah, and I really am happy for him. Do you think we should tell him?"

"No need, I think he'll figure it out eventually, but no matter what he's still going to have a home with Fairy Tail."

"We all will."

"Hold the romantic intimate moments you guys." Luke called them off and jerked a thumb up towards where the Exceeds were all starting to fly away "See you later guys, if you ever need our help again then you know where to find us. Fairy Tail is always more than happy to lend a hand to those who need it."

"Goodbye to all of you!" Shagotte called out to them as she was helped into the air by Marl "I can't thank you enough for everything you've done for us!"

"God dammit!" Lucky did his thing and started yelling abrassively "I can't take too much more of this mushy crap."

"Yes yes, I know dear." Marl called him off.

"Your sweet parfume shall forever be on my mind!" Nichiya promptly started waving at them, with Nabi doing the same "Thank you all for everything once again!"

"Yeah yeah, enough with the thanks." Bolt did a two finger salute "Now clear out, we can't miss you guys if you're still here."

"Farewell all of you!" and so the Exceeds finally took their leave.

As they were flying away, Lucky shot a glance over at the Queen "I don't get it though, why didn't you just tell Carla you're her mom?"

"Because I'm unworthy of such a title." Shagotte told him simply "Until we're able to find all of the children that I sent to Earth Land six years ago, the fact is that I don't deserve to call myself a mother. But for the record, I think I could ask you the same question."

"Oh god dammit you've gotta be kidding me, I don't need no son that blue!"

"Oh come now dear." Marl gave him her usual calm smile "I'm just glad that we'll be able to see him whenever we want."

"Yeah sure, that may seem like a good thing about now, but just wait until he ends up coming over all the time! I've gotta say Queen Shagotte, I didn't have a damn clue that you had sent your own daughter to Earth Land too."

"I am merely a female Exceed who was given the title of queen, and just like you I know all too well how much children mean to their parents."

"Oh yeah, ain't that the truth?" and so the Exceeds all flew off in order to find a new home, and they all vanished from view.

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With the dearture of the Exceeds, the Fairy Tail wizards (and Noah) were left alone in the forest.

"Alright, now I'm all fired up!" Natsu promptly let out a fiery roar as he and a good number of the others were still doing Nabi's thing of waving his arm "I say it's time for us to head back to the guild and celebrate!"

"Sounds good, I could use a drink myself." Cana let out a sigh "But still though, what the hell are we supposed to tell the others?"

"Not a damn thing, if none of them remember anything that happened then why should we bother to tell them?"

"But what about Mystogan, that's gonna need an explanation and we need to figure out what we're going to tell them."

"And you also need to figure out when the hell to stop fist pumping like that." Noah pointed out dryly.

"And that's not the only problem either." Gajeel looked around, clearly disatisfied judging by the look on his face.

"Yeah we've gotta deal with that fist pumping before either they end up smacking someone out of carelessness, or I end up smacking them out of sheer annoyance."

"That's not what I'm talking about you dipshit!"

"Though that actually is probably going to happen." Luke pointed out "If not with you then chances are someone will do the job for you, probably Erza if I had to guess."

"Will you two idiots shut the fuck up?! Where the hell is my cat, don't tell me those rats with wings took off with Lily!"

"Wait a second, you mean that big black Exceed with the white beard that was with Mystogan before?"

"Yeah, he got shot through the gut by your counterpart and apparently he lived to tell the tale about it." Noah pointed out "Not going to lie, that takes some hardcore skill."

"Yeah that's true, so where is he?"

"Are you blind? I'm standing right before you." that was when Lily finally revealed himself to the group, though with one noticeable difference, as in he was now the exact same size as any other Exceed.

"And… now that's happening I guess."

"Yeah, now he's the size of goddamn teddy bear." Noah commented dryly "So seriously, what the hell gives with this?"

"Well unfortunately, it would seem that my previous physical state wasn't as well-suited for Earth Land as I would've liked." Lily noted.

"Well no shit, but that doesn't bother you at all?" asked Bolt.

"Normally it would yes, but right now what I want to do is become part of the guild that took care of my prince for so many years." and then he pointed at Gajeel "You Gajeel, you made that promise to me before and told me you would get me in, can't you?"

"Oh is that what you want?" Gajeel gave a smirk, then suddenly glomped Lily and started shedding comic tears of joy "Consider it done buddy, welcome to Fairy Tail!"

"And now he's crying.

"So what? Those are tears of manliness." Elfman noted

"Says the walking stereotype, but all things considred I'm now the odd one out." Noah noted dryly "On one hand, it's about time another Dragon Slayer got a cat if this is the trend we're sticking with for some reason. On the other hand, I'm now the odd one out."

"Try being stuck between two of him for the past three days." Luke let out a snort "Being a third wheel is bad enough, but being the third wheel stuck between two of Gajeel raises all sorts of awkwardness."

"You have my sympathy, and frankly a little bit of my pity."

"Appreciated, but it doesn't change anything. Now let's get the shtick aside for the time being, I think we have one last bit of unfinished business to attend to before we head back to the guild hall." Luke promptly glanced over at a certain someone "And by that I mean you."

"Oh yeah, that…" Mira cringed at how uncomfortable the situation was "Crap."

"You said that you're the Mira from this world, and that's proven by the fact that you were sent back through the Anima with us, but I don't get it. Everyone thought that you died on that job two years ago. Elfman and I were there, we saw it happen, hell I even made it happen when you took that blow for me, and none of us ever found your body. No one's going anywhere until we get some answers."

"Yeah, yeah I know. You guys deserve that much at least. The truth is that I didn't actually die that day." now that got the attention of everyone else "I remember running out to shield you from that one attack from Elfman, and I got sent flying by it as a result. I landed somewhere in the forest around that area, but at that moment I must have been picked up by a stray Anima in that area. I can't really say for certain, my memory is still a little bit foggy about that, but I just assumed that there were all sorts of little ones all over Earth Land back in those days. When I came to my jaw literally dropped when I found out that I was in another world, which I later found out was Edolas, in front of that Fairy Tail's guild hall. It was hard to wrap my head around at first, but I recognized most of the people there, though there were a few obvious exceptions to that like Lucy, Wendy and Noah. Almost everyone was jaw-dropped and practically crying tears of joy because they thought I was the Edolas version of me. Luke and Noah were the only ones to see through it though, and they called me out on it later. I told them about what had happened, they filled in any holes in my story, and they told me that the Edolas version of me was killed by the Royal Army not long before. I didn't know what the hell to think about all of it."

"I think I understand…" Lisanna mutered "About why the Anima pulled you in, what if it was trying to fill a void in Edolas, a void left by the other Mira's death?"

"That's one theory, it's better than anything I was able to come up with. I saw how heartbroken those versions of you and Elfman were and I didn't have the heart to tell them the truth, so I decided to pretend to be their version of Mira, at least until I could find a way to get back to this world, and Noah would help me in any way that he could after Luke defected, but for two years I couldn't find anything."

"But why though? I don't understand, you were with us for all that time, so why didn't you say anything?"

"What the hell was I supposed to say? My mind was racing like crazy, I didn't know how to say it but when Natsu and the others showed up and talked about what had happened to everyone in our Fairy Tail, I knew that I couldn't just sit on my ass and do nothing. I knew that I had to help you guys somehow, and Noah knew this so he let me come with him. I didn't say anything before because, I don't know, maybe because we were so focused on stopping the Royal Army and everything that it seemed like such a bad time."

"And then you got to the point where you realized that if you were going to be of any help to any of us, you had to spill your guts." Noah finished for her.

"Pretty much yeah, and then one thing led to another like Code ETD, the Dorma Anim, fighting the Royal Army, and now here we are." she finished her explanation, which was followed by a stunned silence.

Elfman and Lisanna were the first ones to react, in which they didn't hesitate to pull Mira into a tight hug, both of them having tears streaming down there face "It's all in the past Mira, none of that matters anymore. You're home now, and that's what's important.

"Elfman… Lisanna…" this proved to be enough for Mira to start tearing up as well "Part of me had given up on ever seeing the two of you again… It's such a relief…"

"Yeah, these are the kinds of moments that make life worth living, I'm sure you get that best of all don't you Luke?" but on receiving no reply, Bolt glanced up and found Luke facing away from the touching moment "Hey Luke, you still with us?"

"Yeah, yeah I'm here. Sorry, I… I just need to go clear my head. I promise I'll meet up with you guys later." and so Luke promptly walked away from the group and disappeared into the forest, even leaving his sword behind in the process.

"Yeah, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by that."

"You're not gonna go after him?" asked Noah.

"No, he needs this time on his own."

"I don't blame him either. I mean, just imagine how you would react if you found out that your biggest motivator for two years was one gigantic fucking lie. I think it's safe to say that would screw with anyone's head."

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In an isolated forest, a mysterious young man lay alone with his head resting on his hands looking up at the sky, wondering why it appeared to be so lonely.

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A full day had gone by in Edolas since the end of the war, and now the townspeople had begun rebuilding in the Royal City.

"Hey, we're gonna need some more bricks over here!"

"We should've known this was going to happen, keep in mind Faust was called the dark king after all."

"Well yeah, but I never expected him to do this much damage."

"Hey come on now guys, let's not waste energy fighting. For the time being, we need to focus on rebuilding."

"Yeah he's right, it may be a little bit harder without magic, but we can do it! Now are you guys with me?"

"YEAH!"

All the while, Edo-Gajeel was watching everything unfold and taking notes on the current situation, and he couldn't help but smile "It looks to me like things are starting to look up around here."

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At the same time, Mystogan, thew newly crowned king of Edolas, looked down at the reconstruction effort taking place, and he too could only smile 'It seems this world does indeed have a bright future waiting for it.'

"Your majesty." this was when a soldier got his attention "Sorry to intrude, but we brought the prisoners as you requested."

"I see, thank you." Mystogan turned around and found himself facing the former king, along with the captains of the Magic Warfare Unit, including Luke Tempesta, and Coco 'And now comes the downside of the new era.'

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Meanwhile, with the Edolas Fairy Tail…

"Woah woah woah woah, hold up a fucking second!" Edo-Lucy didn't waste a second as she rounded on Edo-Levy "You've gotta be fucking kidding me!"

"So what?" Edo-Levy rounded right back on her "Do I look like I'm kidding to you, or that I actually give a shit about your opinion?"

"I know that Noah asked you to come up with a creative way to move the guild from one place to another, but what the hell is that thing supposed to be?" she jerked a thumb at the sight of their guild hall on a massive platform.

"Hey you wanted me to find way to move it without magic, this is the best I could do in the time that I had."

"You guys don't expect us to pull that around do you?" asked Edo-Macao.

"Like it or not, you're gonna have to, in case you forgot we don't have any more magic power remember?"

This was when Edo-Noah caught Edo-Natsu trying to sneak away "And just where the hell do you think you're going? You're not trying to sneak out on the rest of us are you?"

"No of course not, I-" but then Edo-Natsu got a metaphorical lightbulb "Wait a second I've got it, we can tow it with my magic mobile!"

"You gonna figure out what's wrong with that idea, or do you want me to just go ahead and spell it out for you first?"

"What do you mean?"

"How the hell do you expect to power a magic mobile when there's no magic power left in this entire fucking world?"

"Oh yeah. That. Oh crap, Lucy is totally gonna kill me."

"You get points for effort Hotshot, but not much else."

"The fact is that he's an idiot, plain and simple." Edo-Juvia pointed out dryly.

This was when Edo-Gray popped up next to her "Right as rain just like you always are my beloved Juvia."

"And speaking of idiots, back away from me before I decide to deflate you."

"Alright dial it back, we've got other things to worry about than your stalker." Edo-Noah told her dryly "Go ahead Lucy, take it away."

"Way ahead of you boss." so Edo-Lucy stepped forward "Alright assclowns listen up, the guild hall isn't going to drag itself to the Royal City, so everyone get into your positions!"

"YEAH!" everyone started cheering, and on that note almost all of the men took a tow cable and began literally dragging the guild hall towards the Royal City bit by bit.

Edo-Noah was the only exception, as he looked over to see Edo-Lisanna and Edo-Cana both staring off into the distance "I can probably guess what the two of you are thinking right about now. They're going to be fine, both of them, even if one of them is in another world, and the other one…"

"Yes, I know." Edo-Cana wiped away a single tear "It seems like it's been so long since I've seen his smile."

"Well who knows, we'll probably see it again fairly soon." Edo-Noah glanced back, only to see that only the men were pulling on the machine, and the ladies were all just standing idly by and watching them "Any particular reason you and the others aren't helping out?"

"How rude can you get!" Edo-Lucy let out a scoff "You should know better than to ask a bunch of delicate maidens like us to haul that thing!"

"...You really wanna go there right now Lucy, seriously?"

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Meanwhile, in the Royal Palace…

Mystogan stood with his back to the prisoners "The Royal City of Edolas has at last entered a new era, the people within are now looking forward to the future. However, none of them have forgotten the pain and trouble they have been caused in the past as a result of your actions. That is why you must be given due punishment for your actions."

Faust gave a simple nod as he spoke for the others "Yes, we understand."

"As your new king, I hereby make these proclomations: Sir Faust, for your crimes you have been permanently exiled from the kingdom. You are prohibited from ever setting foot in the Royal City again."

Faust bowed his head.

"Luke Tempesta."

"Yes?" Luke raised his head to meet Mystogan at eye level "I'll accept any punishment that you see fit."

"Very well then, for your crimes you are forbidden from leaving the Royal City unless I give you the authorization to do so."

"I'm fully prepared to die for the pain I've caused and the people I've hurt, you don't need to show me any leniency."

"I'm not doing anything of the sort, in fact I'm ordering you to help the citizens rebuild the Royal City. Sugarboy and Hughes, the two of you are to receive the exact same form of punishment as Captain Tempesta."

Luke stepped forward to meet Mystogan in the middle, his expression calm yet clearly surprised by what he had heard "With all due respect your majesty, I fail to see the reasoning behind such a decision. What exactly do you hope to achieve with this?"

"Aside from accelerating the reconstruction of the Royal City, all I want from the three of you is your atonement."

"Then why don't you just go ahead and execute us? I doubt they wish to live their lives in shame and disgrace, whereas I don't believe that I deserve to live after all the pain I caused, as I stated before. As a matter of fact, myself and the others are all fully prepared for such a decision on your part to begin with."

"Your feelings on the matter have been taken into consideration, but none of you are going to receive the death penalty. That's the easy way out, and unlike with Byro, I will not choose death as a punishment unless I see no other alternatives."

This was when Coco spoke up somewhat nervously "Excuse me your majesty, but what punishment am I going to receive?"

"None. Coco you atoned of your sins on your own accord, and that was your choice. You made the choice to stand against the Royal Kingdom and fight alongside Fairy Tail, and you risked your own life in the process. I cannot and will not punish you for simply following your heart and doing what you believed to be right. Don't let your past overshadow what it is that you've accomplished."

"I… I won't."

"The fact is that even without magic power, all of you possess amazing and innate abilities, not to mention wisdom and experience, so we need your help to rebuild the Royal City. However, if you insist that you cannot bare it then I will grant you the ultimate punishment that you claim to desire."

"Then the same should go for the former king." Luke Tempesta pointed out "I believe that to be the fair solution in this case. You understand that don't you?"

"No, my punishment is fair." Faust spoke up, surprising them "If this is what the new king believes to be the best decision, then that is how it shall be." he turned to Mystogan "And speaking to you as the new king, I am grateful to you for showing me such mercy. You know, before he left our world I called out to one of them. The one with the pink hair and the scarf around his neck."

"Yes, I'm aware of that."

"Solidarity, conviction and courage. It would seem that in my quest for unlimited power, I had lost sight of what is important in life. I asked him if he enjoyed being in a guild, but rather than give me a verbal answer, he simply smiled. Now I understand why, and it is something that I will never forget, the way that he smiled when I asked him that question. It's something I highly doubt I will ever forget. I suppose this is goodbye" he looked back at the others "Coco, you must ever stop running child."

"I won't…" Coco tried to stop herself from crying, and she failed miserably.

"And Tempesta… Luke… never lose sight of what you believe is right."

"Believe me, I have no intention of doing that again." Tempesta told him flatly.

"I see. I suppose this is goodbye then." and with that, Faust humbly took his leave of the Royal City, never to set foot in it again.

'Farewell… father.' as he watched Faust take his leave, Mystogan saw him off with the Fairy Tail hand salute, and once he was out of sight, he turned to Tempesta "Were you really willing to allow yourself to be executed?"

"In all honesty, part of me does believe it would be for the best for all of us." Tempesta breathed a heavy sigh "Besides, I think we both know my reasons are a fair deal more complicated than the others."

"I'm aware of what Byro did to you."

"My intention was only to bide my time until I could find an opening to take Byro down without putting Cana in harm's way, but even despite that I ended up hurtling a lot of people, including my guild… my former guild anyway. That's a wrong I can never right I know you want me to atone, but the real question is whether or not I can. Especially to Fairy Tail."

"Fairy Tail is full of compassionate and understanding souls with good hearts. I'm sure that once enough time passes, their resentment will fade away."

"It's not just that. I lost control of the situation, and the woman I love was held hostage and nearly killed because of it. I couldn't even trust myself for two years, so how could I hope to win back the trust of an entire guild?"

"The only way you can, by gaining it back one person at a time."

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Meanwhile, with the Edolas Fairy Tail…

By this point, Edo-Lucy and the rest of the women were just relaxing inside the guild hall as it was being towed to the Royal City "Oh yeah, now this is the life isn't it?"

"Yes indeed." Edo-Erza let out a sigh "It seems like it's been so long since we were able to relax like this. It's just a shame the rest of the guild can't join us."

"HEY!" several simultaneous voices started yelling at them from outside "Are you having a tea party in there?! Come out here and help us!"

Even something like that wasn't enough to get Cana's attention as she stared out the window of the guild hall, her thoughts drifting 'Luke, my beloved… even after everything that's happened, I can't help but wonder… where do out paths go from here?'

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Eventually, after what seemed like an eternity, at least for the men of the guild, they finally arrived at their destination, the Royal City.

"Oh hell yeah, now that's what I'm talking about!" Edo-Lucy dropped down in front of the collapsed forms of the men of the guild "Great job you guys, looks like we finally made it to our destination!"

"Oh yeah, no thanks to you." Edo-Noah pulled himself back to his feet, resulting in several cracking noises, though that wasn't what attracted the attention of several of the citizens in the city.

"What the hell is that?"

"It seems that they dragged that building all the way here."

"Hold on a second, I've seen that symbol somewhere before."

"You know what to do ladies, sex sells and also attracts a lot of gullible idiots with a crapload of money to spend." Edo-Noah shuffled the women into position, then stepped back and let them do the rest "How ya doing Royal City, we're members of the Fairy Tail guild."

"If there's any problems you need help with then come to us."

"We can solve any problems that you may have!"

"And no one can beat our prices!"

"We're running a special for our grand opening, so go ahead and act now!"

"Fairy Tail is always here to help!" this proved to be more than enough to attract a large of citizens, and big shocker, the majority of them were men.

"Holy crap, that's amazing!"

"My roof was damaged during that whole mess with the Demon Lord!"

"We're gonna need more bricklayers if we're gonna rebuild the city, would you guys mind lending us a hand?"

"And just like that, we have to get involved." Edo-Noah let out a sigh and turned to the other men of the guild "Would I be right to assume that none of you know a damn thing about fixing roofs or manual labor of any kind without using magic?" he received no reply "Yeah, that's about what I thought. Just like that I have to do all of the heavy lifting around here." this was followed by the voices of the crowd being drowned out by loud footsteps, and the crowd started to part to reveal a certain face.

"It's Luke- I mean it's Captain Tempesta!" Edo-Natsu started cowering in fear.

"What the hell is he doing here?! You know what it doesn't matter, this son of a bitch needs to go down!" Edo-Lucy started to charge at Tempesta, only to be held by the wrist by Edo-Noah "And just what the hell do you-"

"Stand down. Now." was all he said.

"...Fine." so Edo-Lucy stepped back and let Edo-Noah make his way forward until he was face to face with Tempesta 'You'd better know damn well what you're doing.'

"So the new king didn't have you executed?"

"I was about as shocked as anyone else would be." Tempesta told him simply "But instead he exiled the former king, and now me and the other captains are being ordered to help rebuild the Royal City, so don't be surprised if you see a lot more of me in the immediate future." he received various blank stares from most of the other members of the guild, so his frown deepened as he turned around and started to walk away.

"Hey."

Tempesta turned around and found Edo-Lucy marching towards him 'Great, this is the last thing I could need or want.'

Edo-Lucy stopped in front of him and raised her palm to slap him, but as the seconds passed, she didn't go further than that, and with a sigh she slowly lowered her hand "Noah told us about why you were doing what you were doing. It wasn't cool, but we get it. I mean we did. Eventually that is."

"I figured you would all hate me for it."

"Oh they tried, we still have a dart board with your face on it, and I'll give you one guess who you can thank for that." Edo-Noah jerked a thumb at Edo-Lucy, only for her to scowl and look away "But dude let's face it, you were what was holding this guild together all this time, even after all that's happened."

"And you know why I was fighting for the kingdom in the first place."

"We do Luke, and now so does everyone else." this was when Edo-Cana stepped forward to the front of the crowd and promptly threw her arms around him in a loving embrace, while the rest of the Edolas Fairy Tail guild looked on.

"Cana… I guess the king was right about what he said, they all know my reasons now, and even if they don't trust me now, I'll earn it back one person at a time.'

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The rain had eventually died down back in Earth Land, and the sun was once again shining over the skies of Magnolia.

"I'm calling it like it is, the worst movie I've ever seen is-" Gray whipped around from the conversation he was having with Erza, and along with pretty much everyone else in the guild, his eyes nearly bulged out of his head as his jaw-dropped "What the fuck… Mira…?"

Sure enough, Mira stood before the rest of the guild, clad in a simple black t-shirt and a pair of jeans, with Natsu, Lucy, Cana, Elfman, Lisanna, Gajeel and the Exceeds all standing right behind her "Hey what's up, guess who's back?"

"But we thought that…" Erza took a moment to find her voice "You mean that you were still alive all this time?"

"Pretty much yeah, the details are for another time but-" she couldn't be prepared for what was happening next.

"MIRA!" what came next was all of the male secondary characters (from Macao and Wakaba all the way down to the likes of Reedus) basically charging her like a crazed bull.

"HEY!" and then Elfman promptly sent them flying with his Iron Bull arm "You creeps keep your filthy paws off of her dammit!"

Lisanna and Natsu only sweatdropped at the sight "Take it easy big brother, I think the others are all just happy to see her."

Cana and the others just looked on at the exchange "Well that's a relief, at least everyone is back to how they were before, and from the looks of it none of them have a clue about what happened with the Anima or with Mystogan."

"I'm pretty sure we'll have to tell them eventually." Lucy pointed out.

"Yeah we will."

"Crazy as all hell isn't it?" Gajeel muttered.

"That's one way of looking at it."

"So this is what it's like to be in a guild." Lily noted.

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"Mira."

Hearing her name, Mira glanced over to see Makarov coming towards her "Hey master, it's been awhile hasn't it?"

"I was so worried." his eyes were filled wit a mix of joy and relief "I consider those who were raised by this guild to be my own children. Every parent worries about their children, and every parent also has faith in their children." he glanced over to see Cana looking at Gildarts, though he seemed to be the only one to notice "You can fill me in on the details another time, and the same goes for the rest of you."

"Gotcha." Natsu gave him a thumbs up "Whatever you say Gramps."

"But in the meantime Mira, today is a day we're celebrating your return to Fairy Tail after so long."

"Thanks for that master, it really does mean a lot." Mira wiped away a single tear "It's still kind of hard to believe I'm back after all this time, but believe me when I tell you that I'm not going anywhere again."

"You can if you wish child, and it doesn't matter where you go because this is always going to be your home. Welcome back my dear Mira." this was echoed by everyone else in the guild.

"Thanks, seriously. Would it be weird for me to tackle you in a bear hug or something?"

"If you need to get it out of your system then feel free to do so, before the party begins."

"That doesn't answer my question, would it be weird?"

"I would probably do it myself." Lisanna pointed out.

"Yeah, I don't think I'm gonna do it."

"Probably for the best." Bolt commented "Seeing you tackle someone when you're not trying to strangle them just seems screwed up."

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It took about 20 minutes for the party to begin, and almost immediately it was in full swing.

Mira glanced around at the guild in the middle of drinking till they passed out "It's hard to believe how much has changed since I've been gone, but then again I guess that's what I should expect when I've been gone for two years. Sounds to me like Luke has changed the most in that time though, you said he actually defeated one of the Ten Wizard Saints?"

"Yeah it's true, I just wish we could've seen it happen all the way through." Bolt let out a loud sigh at this "All things considered though, what we could see back then was one hell of a sight to behold."

"Sounds like things have gotten crazy as all hell, but regardless of that it's still Fairy Tail, there's no changing that."

"Mirajane."

"You know how I feel being called that-" Mira whipped around, then blinked "Huh, didn't expect to see you guys."

As it turns out, it was Freed and the Thunder Legion standing before them "It seems this is the most fortunate day, we're all just relieved that you made it home in one piece. It's quite good to have you back."

"The Thunder Legion, as in the personal lapdogs of Laxus? I seriously wasn't expecting to see you guys here."

"Well I understand why you would be surprised, but you have to take the name of the guild into consideration." Evergreen promptly did a seductive pose "It has Fairy in it, and I just so happen to be the most Fairy-like."

"Whatever you need to tell yourself, so if you guys are here then I'm guessing Laxus is off brooding somewhere?"

"...Oh." Freed and the others shared a few uncomfortable looks.

"I don't get it, what's that about?"

"There's something else you should probably know about Laxus."

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Meanwhile, down on the first floor…

"Okay hold on, I can't be the only one who noticed that." Lucy pointed at where Juvia was sulking in the corner with one noticeable different about her "I can't be the only one who's noticed that her hair is different, not to mention the dark stuff hovering over her."

"Is that rain?" asked Wendy.

"I have no idea, I wonder what's gotten into her."

"She doesn't seem very happy."

"I wouldn't worry about that too much." Cana just waved it off "If I had to guess then I would say that a few cats who can't or won't shut up told her about how things are back in Edolas, as in with Gray being in love with her there."

"Oh trust me, that was nothing." Bolt floated down in front of them "I think you remember all too well what yours was like, I still crack up just at the thought of that."

"Yeah well, keep in mind that I know where you live." Cana just downed a mug of booze while receiving a few unnerved looks from the others "What? Hey don't judge me, you two saw your counterparts too."

Sure enough, Juvia was looking down at Gray doing his thing with Natsu, doing her creepy thing watching from afar "I want to go to this Edolas… I want to see the world where Gray is in love with me…"

"See what I mean?"

"It's not just her either, check it out." Bolt pointed at where Alzack and Bisca were fumbling around each other "Looks like Juvia isn't the only one who wanted to go to Edolas."

"I have to say that it is rather intriguing." this was when Erza came over to them "I have to ask though, what was my counterpart like in that world?"

"...Oh I'm gonna have one hell of a fucking field day with this."

"But before that, where's Luke right now?"

"Oh he's with Noah, something about grabbing lunch somewhere in town and then training in the East Forest?"

"Noah, you mean that Earth-Based Dragon Slayer from the Tower of Heaven?"

"That's the one, he's been with me and the others since this whole thing started."

"Are you serious?"

"It's true, he was helping us all alone." Wendy told her "If it wasn't for Noah helping us, then we might not have survived everything, especially in the fight against the king."

"...I see." Erza glanced over to see Cana slipping out of the guild hall, then turned her attention back to Bolt "So go on, what was my counterpart like?"

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Meanwhile, in the East Forest…

"Mountain Dragon Talon!" Noah leapt into the air and charged towards Luke with a kick aimed at his head, his magic hardening it like stone.

"Lightning Dragon Talon!" Luke burst forward towards Noah, ducked underneath his attack and dealt him a solid kick to the jaw, sending him tumbling across the area "I think that might be a new record."

"And there's something I never thought I'd see, you being cocky." Noah pulled himself back to his feet and spat out some blood "Still though you're looking a lot better than the hot mess I saw when I first got here. You're fighting as hard as ever, but you seem so much more relaxed and calm about it. It's like you're a different person."

"Well aside from your screwed up form of therapy, being stuck between Gajeel and his new BFF gives a guy a lot of time to think."

"You come to terms with your motivation not actually being dead?"

"I just needed to clear my head, truth be told I was already doing better. But like I said, I had a lot of time to think, and I realized something."

"And that is?"

"Despite everything that I had put myself through for the last two years, training until my bones cracked, my year and a half leave from the guild, I still had to do one thing. Grow up."

"You wanna elaborate?"

"Despite what I said, I was acting like I was the only one suffering, but I think it's safe to say that everyone in Fairy Tail has some stories for me, and while this may sound brutal, I think it's fair to assume they all end with "And now they're dead too." And before I had to start whining about Mira again, because let's face it I was sort of whining, I had to take a moment to consider that other people in the guild like Gray and Erza had similar experiences, people they care about dying for them, and that doesn't even come close to what happened with Simon and Jellal back in the Tower of Heaven."

"Sounds like they're gonna need some Senzus for that one."

"Senzus only heal physical damage, only therapy will aid emotional trauma. But enough with the TFS references, I'm making a serious point here. I thought I was better than everyone else, but there I stood, the good man doing nothing but feeling sorry for myself. And while evil triumps and my rigid cowardice and self-pity crumbles into dust stained with the blood of those around me, the only victory I could be afforded was that I stuck true to my guns. I was a coward, to my last whimper." Luke glanced up at the sun shining above them "Of fear and love, I fear not that I will die, but that those I have come to love, the people I've sworn to protect, the people I call my friends, my family, will perish with me. So for the sake of the others, and for the sake of myself, I'm done holding back, and I'm done feeling sorry for myself."

"Sounds like you're finally done whining about that. So what does this mean about your role of protecting the guild?"

"Nothing, that still stands. I'm not burning myself out or driving myself into the ground training anymore, but I still want to keep them safe. That much isn't going to change, it's just that now I have a decent reason for it other than guilt."

"I see. Well it looks like you're ready for what's to come."

"Meaning what exactly?"

"Aside from the fact that I still want to fight you, my guild is getting ready to make their move. I can't say exactly when it will happen, but I do know it's going to be sometime in the next few weeks or so."

"You think Wendy and the others are gonna be upset when they find out you're gonna turn on them?"

"They will be without a doubt, but not everything in the world works out the way that we want it to. After all, if it did then our dragons would never have left in the first place."

"Fair enough I guess."

"Just remember to tell them this, our paths will cross again, and if we should happen to fight on opposing sides, then I have no intention of holding back."

"And neither do I, and I doubt the rest of them will either. I sure as hell won't. Just let me tell you something before you go. We may end up on different sides next time, but as of today you helped to save my guild. I can't thank you enough for that, but at the very least I do know where to start." Luke turned to face him and his gaze hardened "The next time we meet, if we should be on opposite sides, then I'll give you the fight you desire, and I can assure you that I'm not going to hold back."

"I wouldn't expect anything less. Until we meet again Thunderclap." and with that, Noah then proceeded to disappear in a flash.

"Until we meet again Aftershock." after he saw him off, Luke glanced back behind him "So did you hear whatever you needed to Cana?"

Sure enough, Cana made her way out from behind a tree "I was wondering where the hell you had disappeared to, it figures you were training again."

"Yeah well, for the time being I think I could use a little bit of a breather. Is the party still going on back at the guild?"

"I think you already know the answer to that, these things tend to go on for hours, maybe even days."

"This is true. So is Mira settling back in okay?"

"That's how it's looking, and everyone else is getting answers on what happened while the rest of us were in Edolas."

"I can imagine Gray and Erza will fucking lose it."

"Wouldn't be surprised." the two of them started walking back towards the guild hall "So are you okay now, I mean really?"

"You know something Cana, I think I am, or at least I will be. I think I'll take a break from my training, at least for today."

"You gonna get back to it after the party?"

"Well I could, or I was thinking that after the party we could grab something to eat."

"You mean some real Earth Land food, as in like a…"

"Like a date? If you want to call it that then I guess." Luke rubbed the back of his head in a sheepish manner "I mean if you don't then fine, it's fine with me either way."

"You know what, that actually works for me pretty well." Cana gave him a sultry smile as she led him back towards the city, putting her arm through his as she did so.

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Meanwhile, back with Fairy Tail…

"I'M ALL FIRED UP NOW!" Natsu promptly breathed out a stream of fire as he usually did pretty much all the time "I love being in a guild, don't you Happy?"

"Aye aye sir!" Happy promptly salutued him.

"Damn straight!"

"God dammit Flame Brain, would it kill you to shut the fuck up?" Gray didn't miss a beat as he rounded on him "Seriously, I wish I could've seen for myself how much of a pain in the ass the Edolas version of you was. I just feel bad for that version of Fairy Tail."

"Oh you wish." Mira shot him a smirk "If anything he's more like this world's Wendy in terms of personality, he doesn't have a fucking spine going for him. He's as big of a wimp as you are a stripper!"

"Are you serious? That's fucking amazing!"

"Yeah, but in all seriousness, you wanna put on some clothes?"

"Wait what? Fuck!"

"Yeah, that's not something I missed. But in all seriousness, Natsu was basically a gigantic crybaby when he wasn't behind the wheel."

"And when he was?"

"When he was behind the wheel he was your basic biker stereotype, and a gigantic douce to go with it for that matter."

"Hey!" Natsu suddenly rounded on her "Quit making fun of the other me dammit!"

"Yeah you're right, why don't we make fun of the other Erza?"

"Now that I can do, or not, truth be told that was kind of terrifying."

"Scared of that? Maybe you're not so different from the other you."

"God dammit, now I'm gonna-" he tried to launch a fire fist, only for a dark tendril to send him flying through the ceiling.

"Shoryuken. No wonder Gildarts loves doing that so much."

"The same could definitely go for the rest of us in that regard." Gray pointed out dryly.

"How the hell did you strip again in less than 10 seconds?"

"Fuck!"

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Meanwhile, on the other side of the guild hall…

"Hey Bolt, Happy, you two get over here for a second." Gildarts called them over "So from what I heard, the two of you had been kicking some ass over in Edolas."

"That's one way of looking at it, but another is that I've got this bad boy going for me after all that crap." Bolt floated down onto the countertop and held up Shatterstorm over his head, which earned him a few odd looks "What? Luke's already got a sword made of literal dragon scales going for him, I think I deserve a badass lightning weapon of my own after all of that."

"I have a different opinion on that matter." this was when Luke blitzed onto the scene and promptly plucked Shatterstorm out of Bolt's tiny paws "And that opinion mainly involves keeping sharp things that can fire off blasts of lightning way out of your reach. I'll be holding onto this for the time being, in the apartment, on my side of the apartment, somewhere far out of your reach."

"...Yeah that figures."

With both weapons on him now, Luke made his way over to a table with Shatterstorm in hand, where he found Panther Lily sitting with a kiwi smoothie in hand "You have something on your mind?"

"Just observing the guild that took such good care of my prince." Lily told him, then glanced around at the typical mayhem "They certainly are a rowdy bunch aren't they?"

"That's pretty much everyone's first impression of Fairy Tail, though just because they're rowdy doesn't necessarily make it a bad thing."

"I never said it was, just making an observation."

"Plus there's never a dull moment around here."

"I can see that. So everyone in this guild possesses their own magic power of some sort?"

"Yeah but not just here, the same goes for all wizards in Earth Land. You worked with my counterpart in the Royal Army back in Edolas right?"

"That's correct, though his action were understandable considering the circumstances. But let's pust that aside for now and focus on the topic at hand. I personally don't believe that the magic itself is really important, it's the hearts of the people who make good use of it. I bet you feel the same way don't you?"

"Yes, as a matter of fact I do. You may be a different person, but I have to admit, I do find it quite comforting to have a familiar face around here."

"Glad to hear it."

"HEY!" this was when Gajeel burst up from beneath the tables like a maniac "I've got a wager for you and the little girl Thunderclap, I betcha my Lily can beat the ever loving crap out of your puny cats!"

"Oh for fuck's sake."

"You have a problem with that?" asked Erza "You think Bolt will get hurt?"

"Quite the opposite actually, I'm worried he's gonna be bringing the hurt. Also, since Cana isn't here to do it…" he pulled out a bowl and a big wad of cash "Four on one brawl between the cats with wings guys, taking all bets!"

"...I'm beginning to worry he's having an influence on you."

"Believe it or not, that actually comes from Cana rather than Bolt."

"I believe that. I have to ask though, does this count as animal cruelty on some level?"

"More like cruelty by animals. Alright then Gajeel, feel free to make my day."

"Oh believe me Thunderclap, this is gonna make my day." Gajeel shot him a smirk "There's no way in hell your fucked up cat can beat my Lily, he's the strongest with a capital S!"

"Hate to break it to you but I've got Bolt on my side, and he's a Sadist with a capital S, so there's a huge difference."

"You got no arguments from me." Bolt promptly plucked Shatterstorm out of Luke's hand "Just let me take a shot at him with this thing and I'll blow him to kingdom come!"

"...This might have been a bad idea."

"Yeah for him, with this bad boy I'm gonna be a force to be reckoned with!"

"If you know how to work it."

"How hard can it be?" Bolt started swinging around the axe, resulting in a massive blast of lightning being fired off and forming a new hole in the roof of the guild hall "Uh… so that happened I guess."

"Putting that aside, let's not get too ahead of ourselves." Lily told him "You must keep in mind that despite my current appearance, I was a division commander of the Magic Warfare Unit back in Edolas, so if we were to fight then you could be seriously injured."

"Not the result I predict, but it's still nice to know that there's someone else around here mature enough to say no to a brawl." Luke noted "Definitely a nice change of pace."

"I believe it just seems that way because most of the people here are childish. However, I hope that myself and my fellow Exceeds can be friends from now on, the same going with the rest of those in this guild."

"Works for me." Luke glanced up to see Gray, Elfman and several other of the men of the guild in the middle of a comical brawl with each other "I don't suppose anybody wants to explain how this happened?"

"Well obviously Gray and Elfman got dragged into it to." Bolt noted "As for Natsu, well I'm guessing that he's somewhere in the Stratosphere."

"Sounds about right."

"Flesh striking flesh repeatedly with such force, I shall join you my darling!" Juvia then randomly started stripping like Gray did.

"And now they've become one of those couples."

"We're not a fucking couple!" Gray barked from within the brawl.

"Whatever lets you sleep at night, give it a few minutes and then all the other guys will start getting involved in it too."

Wendy was growing nervous "You guys need to stop, this is getting out of hand!"

"Oh trust me Wendy, this is nothing compared to some of the more serious brawls they get going from time to time. But at the same time, it's this kind of stuff that makes Fairy Tail so much fun to be part of."

"Speaking of which, it's been about two years since I got involved in one of these brawls, so I say… Make some room mother fuckers!" and on that note, Mira pounced into the fray and started beating down on whoever she could get her hands on.

"Yeah it's official, she's back."

"Hey Luke, let me ask you something." Makarov called him over.

"What's up master?"

"I was wondering, what was I like in this other world you and the others visited?"

"You mean the Edolas version of you?"

"Yes, was he the opposite of me?"

"Well now that I think about it… oh my god, no way. I knew something about that guy seemed kind of familiar, but that's just insane."

"What are you talking about?"

"I can't say for absolute certainty, but I think you were the king in that world."

"You mean I was the king of Edolas?"

"A psychotic tyrant, but yeah I think that was your counterpart."

"So what was I like over there?" asked Gildarts "Was I some kind of dashing prince or a great soldier?"

"Actually I don't remember seeing you there, now that I think about it you might have been a frog or a fish or something. Either that or you were dead."

"Hey, that's not funny Luke!"

"No, it's pretty funny." he was met with a comical tic mark "Well it is. Well either way I should probably get to work on taking care of that brawl over there, chances are Natsu's gonna come back down any minute and try to wreck the place."

"Well if he does then I'll show him what it means to be a real man!" Elfman unleashed his Iron Bull arm.

"Considering he's the one who started this whole brawl, I say that if anyone's gonna kick his ass then it's gonna be me, so butt out!" Gray dealt Elfman a sharp kick.

"HEY!" Mira grabbed him with her Darkness Stream "No one gets to kick my brother like a jackass except for me!"

"Get your hands off of him!" Erza promptly dealt Mira a swift kick with her Black Wing Armor and sent her flying across the guild hall.

"Oh so you want to settle the score do you red?"

"I suppose we might as well."

"Good enough for me, and in that case… I'm gonna bury you alive!"

"I'll make sure you beg for mercy!"

"Is that armor your training bra?"

"Do you like showing off your love handles?"

"You ugly prude!"

"You stupid wench!"

"Thunder thighs!"

"You gothic tramp!"

"And again I say, the more things change, the more things stay the same." Luke just let out a sigh as he downed a mug of booze.

"Should've seen that coming." Makarov let out a chuckle "Tell me though Luke, in all seriousness, do you think Mystogan is going to be alright over in Edolas? I don't want to sound like an old fool, but I can't help but worry about my children."

"It's okay master, we get it, and to answer your question, he's definitely got a hard road ahead of him, but I think he's going to be just fine. After all, you can't forget that he grew up in this guild just like the rest of us, so he'll always be one of us no matter what world he may be in."

"Yes very true, well said my boy."

"I learn from the best." on that note, Luke glanced over at Gildarts "So tell me something, how long are you planning on staying in town this time?"

"Hard to say." Gildarts gave a shrug "I haven't decided yet, but I know I'll be around at least until that is over and done with."

"Glad to hear it, I have a feeling this year it's going to be a lot more eventful than usual, and that's saying something."

"I'll keep that in mind."

"And that's not all either." Makarov told him "While I have you here, there's something I'd like to discuss with you.

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Elsewhere, the newly-reformed Magic Council were holding a meeting, mostly to vent about how much they hated Fairy Tail due to the destruction they caused. Most of the new council was against the existence of the guild, especially the new chairman Gran Doma, who decided that they would try and force the guild to disband. To this end, he decided to call on Lahar and someone by the name of Doranbolt to the meeting, amidst the cheers that everything they did was for the sanctity of order for the Magic Council.

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A few hours went by, and things seemed to calm down.

Luke and Cana made their way back into the guild hall, only to find that everyone there was thoroughly passed out "Looks like everyone really went all out."

"You say that like it's rare for any of them." Cana pointed out.

"Of course not, if anything it's rare for them not too, and frankly that especially goes for you in this case." the two of them looked over to see the sleeping forms of Lisanna, Elfman and Mira all cuddled together "It's really a beautiful sight when you think about it."

"Yeah, if anybody here deserves to be happy then it would be the three of them."

"No arguments here."

"The feeling of being reunited with a lost loved one, I can't help but wonder if I'll get that feelinng when I finally see Kaminari again. Also…"

"Please don't bring that up."

"I know, it's a sore subject for you, but you're going to have to tell him eventually."

"Not until I become an S-class wizard, you know that."

"Yeah but this is the last one before that promise you made expires, and you know what will happen after that. I don't want to imagine a Fairy Tail without you."

Cana said nothing, she just looked away sadly.

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In the forest where the mysterious youth was resting, a pack of ferocious wolves gathered in order to ambush him.

The youth held out his hand to them, claiming that he was not their enemy, but as the wolves pounced at him, they suddenly fell to the ground dead from what appeared to be the youth's power, with all of the plants and animals in the area following their lead.

The lonely youth could only utter Natsu's name, claiming that he would hope to meet with him very soon.

A/N:

And with this chapter, we reach the final act of the Edolas arc, as well as a small prelude of what's to come with the Tenrou Island arc. Looking back, I still believe that this arc was more entertaining to me than the Oracion Seis, but that's just my opinion. Still though, I'm surprised I was able to finish this arc in 7 chapters after all, even if this one was ridiculously long, actually the longest chapter I've ever written. If that puts anyone off, then I apologize for that. But on the bright side, this chapter gets this story over 435k words. That's higher than any of my other stories up to this point.

Could I have had Luke join Noah and the other Dragon Slayers in the battle with the Dorma Anim? Well yeah, of course I could have, but just because he's the main character doesn't mean he has to do everything. Keep in mind that he had his chance to shine in battle against Tempesta in the last chapter. Besides, just having him show up to save the day would make him too much of a Gary Stu or a Deux Ex Machina, and that's something I'm trying to avoid.

To end these notes and this chapter as a whole, I would just like to repeat what I said before, that this story is going on hiatus for the time being, only so that I can work on a few of my other stories. But I can assure, when this story does return it's going to be at the top of its game with what is, in my opinion at least, the best arc in the entire series. I also have a release date for the first chapter of that arc, and that will be on June 30th, the one-year anniversary of this story, so be sure to look out for it then.