Don't Own Fairy Tail, or 'essences' Only The Oc
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"Speech"
"Powerful Creatures Speaking, like a dragon or a god"
"Lacrima, and Text via book or newspaper... when those are around..."
I quietly glare down at Lucy, my half-lidded stare boring into her gaze.
"Who the fuck are you?" I question.
"H-Huh?" The girl blinks. "What are you talking about, Pierce?"
Makarov and Mavis' eyes sharpen as the boisterous-ness of the guild dies in an instant, an eerie silence crossing the entire guild hall as people glance over, Mirajane looking over her shoulder with narrowed eyes, Erza standing up, Jellal looking on in surprise.
Natsu blinks slowly, taking a quick whiff of the air and looks on in confusion.
"Allow me to tell you a little bit about my magic Lucy I can see the value of all things... Sight, scent, hearing, magic, strength, durability... I can see it all. So why, pray tell, did you forget Celestial spirit magic over night? And why, pray tell, do you now know wind magic and transformation magic?"
Lucy abruptly raises a hand a green magic circle appearing in front of her palm.
I move in an instant, a swift jab snaps her head to the side, next I hit her with a stomach punch that causes her to cough blood. She staggers back slowly, causing me to take a slow meandering step forwards to get in range for my next attack.
The snap kick that strikes her dead in the chest shunts her body away from me at high speeds, she crashes through numerous tables as her body flips through the guild hall. "What have you done with the real Lucy, you imposter?"
Makarov stands, a dangerous glare on his face as he looks over Lucy. With a wave of his hand, Lucy is gone, replaced with a bald man with a mark across his face, a large reddened tattoo passes just under his eyes and over his nose, then a second that intersects it crosses the corner of his left eye and down to his chin.
The guild is up in arms in an instant, Mira changes to her Satan Soul form, Erza summons a sword from her requip space, Jellal stands, looking as if he can cast a spell at any moment.
The guild master's hand elongates and enlarges, slamming down on the bald man, crushing him to the floor as the floorboards and nearby tables crack and splinter.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ONE OF MY CHILDREN?!" The man booms as he slowly grows larger and larger, his fingers wrapping around the mage and pulling him up to eye-level.
"Grk-" the man in his hand grunts. "That's hrk- none of your... business... that celestial spirit wizard's now property of our guild."
Sssssss
The wood beneath Natsu's feet hiss as he glares up at the man in Makarov's grasp.
"Master. Bring him here. I will rip the answer from his head." I declare.
The larger figure of the master looks over, slowly lowering his hand to me.
I hold out a hand and with a flash, ten thousand jewel disappears.
A reel of film shoots from a blue magic circle that appears on his forehead.
It flies around the guild for a moment before quickly shooting towards me, rotating around my raised forearm.
I take the film and gaze through it as it begins rapidly moving across my hands.
'why would they kidnap Lucy? Is this guy a phantom lord mage? No... I don't think they would try something like this, they want a war. Or they did... things are probably different here.'
I stiffen as I come across something in this man's memories.
Oh. That's certainly new.
"Oh shit." I mutely curse.
"The fastest mages we have! Go ten miles south of Magnolia!" I shout. "There will be an airship, that is where you will find the Abyss Horn Dark Guild! They have an ancient weapon that is powered by celestial spirit magic. If powered it will be capable of wiping out an entire town!"
With a flash several blue contracts form in my hands. I rush over to Erza. "Erza. Once you get there and promptly beat them within an inch of their lives, force as many of them as possible to sign these and return them to me."
"What- wh-"
"It'll ruin their lives. No time for questions. GO!" I snap.
"Meteor." Jellal announces and with a flash he is out the door, Erza follows along in her Blackwing armor, Mirajane wordlessly leaves with a flap of her wings.
"FAIRY TAIL!" Makarov booms as he spikes the mage in his hands into floor, his arms and legs are bent in a sickly manner. "TEN MILES SOUTH! TO WAR!"
A rigorous cheer of bloodlust crosses the guild hall.
"You." The guild master states while looming over here. "Your magic will not be good for large scale combat without severely lowering your funds. You stay here and protect the guild hall while we are away. Watch him. If he has any allies within the city that come to retrieve him I am fully trusting that you will be able to take them down."
He gestures to the broken and battered shapeshift mage.
I nod once as he steps over me, numerous guild members rush out the door with roars of outrage.
I look to the bar to see that... Natsu is already gone.
'I probably wouldn't make it before the fighting ended anyways.'
Pov elsewhere.
A covered cart shakes as it goes along a bumpy dirt road. All appears normal, the two grizzled men on the front of the cart are a little unusual, but otherwise nothing out of the ordinary.
One of the men looks to the other. "So, you think boss'll complement us for grabbing the celestial wizard?"
"We didn't grab the one we were supposed to... he is likely to try and kill us if we don't tell him that it was a celestial spirit mage with more keys than the child."
"Er... right... we should probably tell him flat out before he sees her."
In the back of the cart, a blonde girl stares at the floor, her hands are bound behind her back and her legs are tied together, a third man glares down at her, seemingly daring her to try something as he clutches a key ring with numerous keys in one hand.
Three unconscious men are laid around the cart, each with large bruising, one has a broken nose, another's wrist is twisted at an awkward angle.
The carriage rolls to a stop.
"Oi! Boss we've got a Celestial Spirit mage!" One of the men sitting on the front of the cart calls out.
There is a thump as a figure drops to the dirt, there's a slight jingle of spurs that slowly make their way around the outside of the cart.
*Clink* *Clink* *Clink* *Clink*
They pause just behind the cart.
A deep slightly accented voice calls out. "A celestial spirit mage?"
"Y-Yes boss, there was a second one who apparently joined Fairy Tail recently, she is an adult and had more keys than the brat so we thought she might have had more magical power, plus she was unguarded so we wouldn't have to deal with that scary angel mage.
"Hn... normally I would beat you within an inch of your life for changing my plans like this, but in this case? Hn. I'll let you off the hook. Don't let it happen again."
The curtains at the back of the cart swing open, revealing a man with an open leather jacket, revealing his chest and stomach, he wears simple jeans with a belt that has a strange symbol, a symbol which is also on his chest, it looks to be a curved horn, like a musical instrument made out a legitimate animal horn, it seems to spew wind that goes in a spiral.
The man has a purple and gold monocle, in fact, it seems to be bolted to his face so it's probably more of an artificial eye, he has an undercut haircut, the sides of his hair a deep black color and the top a light blond. He has fingerless gloves with metal plates on the forearms and metal studs over each knuckle, and clip-like earring around the bend in his ear. He also has a blond goatee on his chin.
The man's eyes slowly trail around the numerous unconscious bodies on the floor.
"What happened to so many of our men?" He questions.
"She fought like a demon, Boss. We took her keys but she just kicked their asses with her bare hands." One of the men replies.
"Ooh, Feisty." The boss smirks
The man who was watching the girl in the back to make sure she doesn't try anything looks back, holding out his hand towards his boss.
"Four golden keys? Well now. That's certainly a number. Alright, I'll admit. You dumbasses made a good call. I'm not even annoyed anymore."
The blonde girl glares silently at the man as he smirks.
Her head is tilted back by an unseen force as the man cracks a grin, staring into her eyes. "Her power's probably greater than the brat's as well. Good job mooks. Get these three some medical attention.
Lucy suddenly floats as the man steps back, she is tugged out of the cart, the light is blinding for a moment, but when she regains her vision she sees it... an absolutely massive airship that is even bigger than the fairy tail guild house, just not as tall.
It has numerous large propellers on the sides of it, eight on each side, it has a large bridge with numerous massive open windows at the front of it, numerous fin-like wings along the sides and at the back, causing it to look like a massive whale.
The blonde girl flies through the air, landing roughly atop the grounded airship earning a gasp of pain from the girl.
She writhes across the deck to get up onto her knees
She shakily looks across the airship as there's a quiet thump and a jingle on the planks behind her.
The same monocled wizard lands gracefully, his boots gently jingling on the wooden floors as he steps in front of the girl, swinging his arms out dramatically. "Welcome to the magic airship, Allocer! My name is Crunch, the guild master of Abyss Horn!"
"Y-You'll never get away with this!" Lucy exclaims. "When fairy tail finds out-"
"Fairy Tail won't be finding out. We've made sure of that." The man grins as he struts forwards, patting the side of some strange device.
Numerous pipes poke up through the deck, all connecting to a metal base that holds a large sphere shaped lacrima, golden lines twist along the outside of the large sphere.
What looks like a large loaded ballista sits on top of the orb, yet it has no arms, numerous pipes flow up into the ballista looking device.
"You see, girl... while you are here... one of my men disguised themselves as you and went to that little guild of yours. He's scarily good at that, he went to an acting school, you know, I doubt they'll notice anything, and when they do, it'll be far too late, we'll be long gone."
"Why have you kidnapped me?!" Lucy snaps. "What's the point?!"
"Oh, well, you see, that's an interesting little bit of trivia... Allocer here requires the magical power of a celestial spirit mage to move... slowly moving it with telekinesis has been a real hassle, so I thought we'd grab us someone to power it up."
He pats the crystal orb again. "This airship here is a weapon that'll change the entire scope of Fiore! According to our analysis data it's capable of wiping an entire town off the map! Pahahah!"
"You think I'd willingly help you wipe out entire towns!?" Lucy shouts, causing the man's eyes to narrow. "You're insane!"
He slowly walks over, eyebrow twitching menacingly.
With a tremendous backhand he sends the blonde celestial spirit mage skipping over the deck with a pained cry.
"You don't seem to get it! You don't get to DECIDE whether you want to or not! I DO!" The man roars. "Cause from now on? I'm your master."
"You'll be Allocer's power supply and there's not a damn thing you can do about that! Because you're mine already!" He cackles manically.
"I... am a mage of fairy tail." Lucy weakly protests.
"You'll never return to that guild again." The man lowly snarls, his rage flaring once more.
He looks to one of the numerous dark wizards across the deck of the ship.
The mage he looked to cackles, summoning a long metal rod, at the end is a large piece of metal that is red-hot.
He points to the celestial spirit mage. "Strip her. Find her guild mark."
The numerous men and women across the deck giggle darkly as some approach.
*CRASH*
Cracks cascade across the deck as a large crater forms, the numerous dark mages snap around to look at the disturbance.
"What the hell was that?!" The boss exclaims. "Is the cannon alright?!"
A man with short pink spikey hair is crouched there in the crater, knees bent, one hand pressed into the floor boards which actively begin hissing and smoking.
He wears a sleeveless, gold trimmed, black waistcoat without an undershirt, exposing his bare chest, white knee-length trousers, black sandals, and a white scaly scarf that billows around behind him.
He stands to his full height, punching one fist into his other hand as his eyes suddenly snap open.
"Damn it. Did Zuka seriously fuck this up?!" The guild master of Abyss Horn lowly growls.
"Natsu..." The blonde celestial spirit mage whispers.
"You underestimated Fairy Tail... that's going to cost you." The pink haired teen announces.
A blue cat with wings suddenly swoops down and snags Lucy, lifting her into the air.
Crunch suddenly turns holding out a hand towards the two.
"BOSS!" One of the mooks shout.
His head snaps back to look at the other mage, but a fist smashes into his kidney, sending him flying through the air with a gasp.
He lands with a crash on the ground a short distance away, after a moment Crunch stands up, arms falling limply to his sides as he grits his teeth, a look of wrath on his face.
"Your fight is with me." The pink haired teen declares.
Crunch wipes his mouth with an angered glare. "Tch- you can't seriously think you are going to be able to beat all of us, right?"
There are dozens of mages, near fifty in total.
"Who knows." The fire dragon slayer shrugs a furious grin working its way onto his face. "But I'll be making a damn good attempt at it!"
"Kill him!" The abyss horn guild master shouts.
Numerous mages lunge forwards, magic circles of numerous colors and elements forming in their hands and around the ship.
Natsu twists suddenly, lashing out with a punch that sends a mage with extended finger nails flying, the area he stands is suddenly pelted by numerous spells, a missile of smoke, a whip of darkness, a large rock, a slashing blade of wind, all are avoided as he leaps upwards, his cheeks puff up as he sucks in a deep breath.
"FIRE DRAGON ROAAAAAR!"
A sweeping inferno swipes across the deck, knocking a fair potion of the mages out of the air, as his spell completes numerous spells strike the teen, causing him to let out a small shout of pain as he crashes back down to the deck.
A man with a rock arm lunges forwards, but his attack is dodged as the dragon slayer does a backwards somersault to get back on his feet.
"Fire dragon..."
Flames flicker around the dragon's slayer's fists as he lunges forwards and lands a brutal punch to the jaw of one of the attacking mages, flinging them through the air, a second crosses his arms in front of his chest, Natsu's fist visibly dents and sears his skin. "IRON FIST!"
Natsu crosses his arms in front of his chest and suddenly swings both outwards while spinning his body, creating a large wave of flames around him that sends numerous mages flying. "Fire dragon wing attack!"
He lands on the deck, glancing around at the surrounding mages.
"NATSU!" Lucy shouts from above.
The pink haired mage turns just in time to see a large scrap fist rushing right for his torso.
"Jackhammer." Crunch declares.
With a sound akin to a metal bat hitting a car hood, Natsu is sent flying through the air, he crashes through a nearby magically reinforced wooden wall with a groan.
The Abyss horn guildmaster slowly brings back a hand, steel drums, chains, and large hunks of scrap metal falling from around his first and quickly coalescing into a large spear of metal, splinters and shards of wood from the broken deck join it. "THE CELESTIAL SPIRIT MAGE IS MINE! DIE YOU LITTLE SHIT! HRAAAGH!"
He flings a hand downwards, shooting the massive spinning spear of wood towards the dragon slayer as he sits up, Natsu's body tenses- the ship shudders into the air as the dark mage smirks viciously, the dragon slayer retches at his sudden motion sickness as the spear rapidly grows closer and closer.
"Jiu Leixing!"
Nine streams of light energy rocket from the air, crashing into the large spear and utterly vaporizing it.
The dark mages look up to see a blue haired man floating in the air under a golden glow, he has a palm facing them with one hand pointing back.
Nine swords of what look like holy power forms behind him, they rush off in an instant leaving behind fairly long trails of light, five going for Crunch, and the remaining four spitting up and shooting for large clumps of dark wizards.
The airship crashes the one foot to the ground as the guild master raises his hands, causing the wood beneath him to raise up into a wall around him, numerous small pieces of wood strike the swords dead on, detonating them before they could reach him, the remainder of the explosive power is absorbed by the wooden walls he has erected.
The four that struck elsewhere kick up massive explosions, sending dark mages flying everywhere as they are blown back, they strike walls, land roughly on the floor, some even are propelled off the edge of the large boat-like airship and fall to the ground below.
Jellal suddenly jets to the side under the effects of his meteor spell, avoiding numerous sharp, jagged shards of wood that shoot out like a shotgun.
"HEAVEN'S WHEEL!"
Swords rain down from the sky, pelting the deck most of the dark guild wizards are out of commission by this point.
All of the swords noticeably form a circle around the raised wall of wooden planks.
The wood slowly falls as the dark mage down below lowers his hands, taking a deep annoyed breath.
"You damn light mages are really starting to annoy me!" The man snarls as he raises both of his hands up.
The swords rip themselves from the floor and point towards the two flying fairy tail wizards.
"He's a telekinesis mage?!" Erza gasps, having not seen some of his earlier attacks as she was flying over.
Numerous swords shoot off like bullets, Erza winces as she is forced to requip each and every one that flies towards her, severely tanking her magical power as her flight isn't maneuverable enough to dodge, those shot after Jellal curve and slowly track him as he blasts through the sky at high speeds
"FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" Natsu roars as he blasts across the deck, the dark wizard turns and catches his fist with one hand... but the flaming fist never actually makes contact with his hand.
Crunch turns, punching Natsu in the gut as a pulse of telekinetic magic flows along his knuckles, the fire dragon's stomach is shoved inwards as he coughs blood and smashes into the cabin at the front of the deck.
The remaining swords piercing the deck free themselves, combining into a large circular shield that blocks six rays of like that shine down from the heavens, utterly negating Jellal's Pleiades spell at the cost of the weapons.
A large iron chain shoots from the deck and wraps around Jellal's ankle as he swoops low. "I'VE GOT YOU NOW YOU LITTLE RAT!"
Numerous metalic and sharp objects from around the deck rush for Jellal- The attack is abandoned as the telekinesis mage is forced to leap away, allowing Jellal to free himself from the chain as a massive beam of black power shoots down from the sky, piercing cleanly through the ship and into the earth below. "Demon Blast!"
"NO!" The dark mage screams in outrage. "DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL! HRAGH!"
Erza smashes into the ground as control of her body is ripped from her, the punch of a white haired devil woman is guided around the head of an extremely angry dark guild master, and Jellal's next Jiu Leixing spell backfires as they are struck before they can even be launched, the explosions knocking him from the sky.
Darkness coats the S Class takeover mage's hands as she rapidly jabs several punches at the telekinetic mage, he ducks a punch, slugging the woman in the stomach, her footing is ripped from her by an unseen force as his knee smashes into her face, breaking her nose.
He holds up a hand and swings it down, crushing the woman down into the ship and creating a large crater with her body.
"FIRE DRAGON ROAR!"
The attack splits down the middle as Crunch whirls around, a glint of madness in his exposed eye. "I'LL KILL YOU ALL! I'LL PLACE YOUR HEADS IN FRONT OF YOUR GUILD MASTER BEFORE I TEAR OUT HIS INNARDS!"
He stomps a foot, causing numerous shards of wood littering the area around Natsu to rocket towards him.
He flips back as the darts falter slightly, Erza holding out a hand, her own telekinesis magic giving the pink haired mage just enough time to avoid the attack that would have lacerated his throat.
"Meteor!"
A glowing fist smashes into the face of the Abyss Horn guild master, snapping his head to the side as his lip busts open, Jellal twists and slams a kick into his torso, but it doesn't connect as it strikes a barrier.
The blue haired mage is sent crashing through the metal railing of the ship as his bones crack, he lets out a pained gasp as he begins to fall to the floor below, but then he smirks.
The nine light swords that he shot before gaining the mage's attention smash into Crunch's open back, he is blasted forwards with a roar as the swords detonate on contact, his coat is ruined, his back scorched by the celestial light.
Several shadowy hands lash out and swipe at the mage as Mirajane picks herself up from the debris. "Darkness Stream."
The abyss horn guild master does a surprisingly good job at dodging them, weaving between the slashing and swiping attacks with some fair ease, black sparks skittering off his body as a claw scrapes just too close for comfort and against his telekinetic armor.
He turns suddenly as the Red head S Class mage lunges forwards and swings an absolutely massive cleaver down at him, it looks more mace than sword, is longer than she is tall, and is basically just a large slab of metal with pointed and sharp spikes on one side that grow larger and larger until they reach a large hook on the other side.
Erza herself has changed into a black spiked armor that covers nearly her entire body, her eyes glow red in poorly restrained wrath as her blunt blade swipes downwards.
Crunch's feet sink into the ship's deck as he blocks the attack with a forearm, the large spikes dig into his flesh, but instead of utterly snapping the arm or cleaving it entirely off, the bone is merely cracked, the telekinetic armor absorbing most of the blow.
Erza's armor cracks as she is hit in the chest by a blast of force, it sends her flipping through the air where she lands with a crash a short distance away, her ribs are fractured by that blow and her head smashes into a large heap of scrap as she falls.
A flaming punch smashes itself into Crunch's lower back as Natsu lets out a furious roar. "FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!"
The punch to the back wasn't the only blow, Abyss Horn's Guild Master takes, Mirajane leaps up with a flap of her wings and swings her leg down in a scything motion as her heel is cloaked in shadow, landing a kick to Crunch's face that crumples his nose.
It appears Mira's own broken nose has just pissed her off, really.
"HRAAAGH!" Natsu roars as he and Mira riddle the mage with numerous elemental punches and kicks.
The two fairy tail mages lunge to the left side of the mage and launch him across the deck with a unified punch and kick.
He slides to a halt just before the large cannon-like device
"Three years..." The dark mage lowly growls. "THREE YEARS I HAVE PLANNED THIS! I WILL NOT BE DEFEATED IN THIS MANNER!"
The two fairy tail guild mages lunge forwards but they are blasted back, both sliding to a halt at the front of the ship, Mira carving grooves in the wood with her claws as she lands on her knees and Natsu's sandles scraping against the planks, he loses his footing and trips as the back of his heel clips a raised plank.
"I DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE TO DO THIS BUT YOU LEAVE ME NO CHOICE!" The mage roars as he raises a hand.
The large ballista-like cannon behind him suddenly shifts, now pointing towards the two mages, Erza is out of commission, laying prone nearby, barely clinging to consciousness, as is Jellal who had fallen off the ship and not returned.
The large containment lacrima below the machine begins to glow brightly as numerous spots on its base begin to light up, several slots holding keys shine as power is being transferred into the weapon of mass destruction.
The keys begin to blacken and corrode, most copper, others silver, each of the keys lose their luster as the tip of the ballista-like cannon begins to glow.
"Natsu!" The white haired devil growls. "Take Erza and get off the damn ship, then find Jellal and run as far as you can!"
"What?! Why?!" The pink haired mage exclaims.
"JUST DO IT! OR GOD FORBID I'LL SMACK YOUR SHIT, BOY." The white haired girl snaps.
"Eep-" Natsu whimpers as he quickly rushes away.
He picks up Erza over his shoulder and leaps off the ship.
Mirajane stares down the cannon with a smirk on her face. "Sorry master~ but I've been itching to use this again. And hey, the city- and probably all of the guild is behind me so, oh well. If I don't stop it. Everyone dies~"
She drops out of satan soul as numerous pixel-like motes of light form around her, a telltale sign of transformation or take over magic.
With a flash, light blue scales grow around the white-haired girl's face as two long pointed blue horns grow atop her head, blue scales of the same shade creep down her arms and legs as a striped blue leotard forms on her body. A snake-like tail forms on her lower back as she closes her eyes.
Suddenly two large wings appear on her shoulders, they look as if they are feathered, but if you were to check, you would find that they are scales all the way through, they match the same color as the rest of her body, if not a few shades lighter.
Her eyes crack open, revealing two blue eyes with slit pupils.
She holds out a single hand, a swirling vortex of magic appearing in front of it.
Suddenly a large pink and blue magic circle appears in front of her hand.
The cannon fires as she unleashes her spell.
"Halphas Blast." She declares.
A pink and blue wave of energy rockets for the pure white energy that the cannon shoots, the two blasts crash into each other, causing the entire airship to shudder violently. Both attacks seem to be equal in measure, causing the blue demoness to smirk and raise her other hand, adding more force to the spell.
The clashing beams rocket towards the cannon, utterly erasing the top half as the blue and pink beam shoots off into the sky.
After a few moments the attack subsides.
Crunch stands there in mute shock and horror, his legs shaking. "W-What? N-no... my plans... it's all- the cannon- with one attack?! She overpowered Allocer?!"
Mirajane holds out a hand towards the dark mage.
As a pulse of magic leaves her hand, it's as if he is punched by a fist the size of a car. He is launched down, through the hull ship where smashes into the earth below, creating a trench in the dirt and rolling to a halt a short distance away completely and totally unconscious.
It takes about five minutes, but the rest of the guild eventually arrives.
"My children..." Makarov sighs, seeing the injured mages, Erza has a hand clutched to her head as she lays prone, Jellal is also laying down and smirking weakly, Natsu is leaned against the side of the broken ship, and Mira is sat on a nearby rock, covering her nose with a hand, a satisfied smirk on her face.
Lucy is sat beside Natsu, clutching her keys to her chest and wiping her eyes. This whole situation has scared her deeply.
"Master..." Erza weakly begins. "P-Pierce asked me to do something for him, but in my current state... I can't"
"What is it my child?" The short man asks.
She winces as she slowly holds up a hand, numerous slips of paper with a slight blue coloration appear in her hand as she removes them from her requip space, they have golden lettering and a magic circle in the bottom corner near a long line, presumably where the person signs.
"He told me to get as many of them to sign these as I can." She states.
Makarov looks at one of the pieces of paper.
"If you agree to sign this, you willingly and permanently hand over the full extent of your magical container, all of your known magics, and the memories of signing this contract to Pierce and by extension the fairy tail Guild. The completion of this contract shall be dictated as of when the creator applies enough magical energy to seal the deal. Up until this point, you will be unable to reveal anything about the contract, otherwise a penalty of activating this contract with your own physical abilities shall occur, potentially shortening your lifespan, and immediately transferring your magical power and magical skills to Pierce of Fairy Tail."
A small smirk makes its way across the guild master's face. "I see..."
That transformation wizard was incredible. He was even able to fool Natsu's nose... if Pierce hadn't been there, more than likely Abyss horn would be long gone with Lucy. He deserves a reward... and who is he to judge the wizard for strengthening himself with his defeated foes? Those within dark guilds made a choice. They chose to murder, steal, pillage, and to target Fairy tail, his children... they needed a Celestial Spirit mage, so it was more than likely they were planning to target the little Yukino, turning her into nothing more than a battery for their twisted weapon... and with said choice, they lost what little sympathy the guild master might have held for them.
"I will get as many as possible to sign these contracts. You have my word." The man nods.
Meanwhile, Back in the Guild.
I sit on a bench, leaning back on a table as I look up at the ceiling. Mavis is quietly sweeping the floor, swiping away shards of wood.
"Do you perhaps need assistance with that?" I question.
"No... I'm fine." The girl replies as she looks up slowly.
She offers me an impish smile and a thumbs up as she holds the broom in one hand. "I can handle anything!"
We fall into silence once more.
"nnn-" the broken man imbedded in the floor boards groans.
"So... do you think that the others are safe?" Mavis nervously asks, looking away from the broken man.
"I have been observing the price of their lives since they left... they have gone down, yes, meaning they are injured, yet none of them are deceased. In addition, they have not taken any further hits in a while, meaning that the fighting has probably subsided... Erza appears to be bleeding however, but I am not all too worried, she is incredibly durable. At this rate, she will need to have little to no medical attention for the next eighteen hours to die."
"They're hurt?!" The girl gasps, bringing her hands to her mouth.
"Not incredibly so." I reply. "No dismemberments or impalements. Just bruises, lacerations, and fractured bones... perhaps some internal bleeding. They will return to full health soon enough."
"Hn..." The girl frowns as she looks at the ground.
She resumes quietly sweeping the floor.
"Thank you, Pierce." She suddenly whispers.
"Hm?" I hum.
"We wouldn't have ever figured out Lucy wasn't Lucy if you hadn't been here... I shudder to think what she would have suffered if they got their way. It's disgusting. I thank you on behalf of the guild."
"It was nothing, really." I reply. "This guild is like a... family... correct? I was merely looking out for all of you. I will not stand for my family and friends to be harmed."
A smile crosses the girl's face as she continues to sweep.
And thus comes an end to the Allocer arc! That Crunch guy sure was a tough bastard to put down! And there's a reason for that! Basically, he's a post time skip enemy pre time skip, making him pretty horrifying all things considered.
I mean, really, he took on Mirajane Satan Soul, Natsu, Erza, AND Jellal all at once!
Admittedly Mirajane Halphas might have been able to utterly erase him in one attack, buuuut Master Makarov told Mira to not use it.
And yes, you don't need to tell me to do it. Pierce will be visiting Allocer's broken ship corpse next chapter. And before you say anything. He didn't join fairy tail in their wrath because HE NEVER WOULD HAVE MADE IT BEFORE THE FIGHTING STOPPED!
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Idknows: Whenever I finish a chapter, really.
Wazoo: Ah, you see, there's one small difference between this Jellal and Erza, then Canon's Jellal and Erza... JELLAL DOESN'T GO PSYCHO AND HOLD HER FRIENDS HOSTAGE LIKE A MANIAC
JustAFan123: Cross has an Essence fic. It's good. You should check it out.
Guest 001: Correct, eventually if he gets endless mana he could just use mana instead of cash money.
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With the shameless plug out of the way, I'll see you all later