Legion Boss Burst in with Giant Octopus
With Gajeel's group, right after defeating Samuel in a fight, Panther Lily snaps some bones back together causing the smarty cat to wake up though groaning in pain.
"Still, you are not without talent. If you challenge me again in the future, I'll be happy to oblige you." Panther Lily promised before walking away.
"I know when it's time to admit defeat." Samuel said, causing Panther Lily to stop for a moment to hear him out.
"And thanks to our fight, I now realize there are people in this world who defy calculation." Samuel admitted as he adjusts his glasses a little.
"So, you've realized your own inexperience?" Panther Lily asked.
"On the contrary! It's quite obvious that I simply failed to anticipate all the variables! Next time, I'll be sure to incorporate every possible detail into my calculations! And then I'll show you barbarians the power of the only muscles that truly matters!" Samuel declared which is something Panther Lily was not expecting.
"But right now, I need to record every single bit of data from this fight while it's still fresh in my memory!" Samuel started writing down in his book.
But Samuel fails to realize that he just made Panther Lily very angry with that "barbarian" comment and let out some of that rage.
"Who're you calling a barbarian, huh?!" Panther Lily kicked so hard that Samuel was sent flying right out of the hole.
"Do I even want to know what was all that about?" Echidna asked.
"Looks like Exceeds come in all types too, don't they?" Levy commented.
"I feel bad for Sammy, he sounds like he's from those fancy school places." Rana said as he looks up at the hole.
"Maybe Lily is also feeling bad for missing his "brother" already." Gajeel teased.
"We are not related in the slightest." Panther Lily stated. He does not want to hear anymore about that smarty pants cat guy for a long while now.
"I don't know, you two seem like you're from the same kitty mother and I'd hate how sad she would be if she found out you two were fighting." Anarista joked.
"Shut up!" Panther Lily shouted.
(With Lucy's Group)
"And that's pretty much how Dan joined the Legion Platoon." Coco finished the story of Dan's life and even used some picture cards to show them.
"So, Dan came from a town full of people from generations of knights and always uphold the knight's code of honor." Leina said.
"But he is also an idiot for being too distracted by whatever pretty women he cross path with." Claudette pointed out, disapprove of the young man.
"Sounds like this guy doesn't have a life after he left his hometown." Elina shrugged her shoulders.
"Was this before or after you join the Legion Platoon?" Shizuka asked the puppy-face girl.
"After I joined, I think Dan came into our lives about a year later though I didn't really believe him to be a knight when I first saw him flirting around with some girls." Coco explained her first meeting with Dan some time ago.
"The guy may be a weirdo, but he was definitely strong and knows how to use those magic items in a fight. Can't deny that." Natsu pointed out.
"Aye, if he didn't have those then he definitely would have been a total loser." Happy stated.
"Say, how long did you say those friends of yours are coming because I should let you know that the other members of the Legion Platoon are after the other clock pieces as well." Coco informed.
"Don't worry, I'm sure everyone has gotten their piece and have beaten your friends as well and that goes for you two since you can't do anything even if you wanted to." Leina pointed out Coco's current situation.
"You're right, I accepted my defeat and must cooperate with you guys." Coco nodded.
"How disappointing… I expected you would have the clock piece." A man's voice expressed his disappointment in Coco as she flinches in fear.
"Who was that just now?" Menace asked.
"No! Fucking no! It's Lord Byro!" Coco panicked.
"Lord Byro? Is he your boss or something?" Lucy asked.
"Yes! He's the leader of the Legion Platoon and the strongest one in all of Zentopia!" Coco quickly explained who the man is.
"The strongest?" Michelle and Romeo gasped.
Suddenly a giant octopus creature came bursting into the building and tearing most of the entire roof off as everyone quickly move around to avoid the falling debris.
"Your boss is a giant octopus?!" Natsu gasped loudly.
"No, that's Lord Byro's partner named Kanaloa. The man I'm speaking of is right on top of him!" Coco pointed at the man she calls Lord Byro.
"Coco, I cannot understand why you simply surrender to the enemy when you and Dan should have done your sacred duty on getting the clock piece." Byro angered.
"(Man, this Byro is very different than the one in Edolas.)" Lucy thought surprised to see the Earthland version of Byro.
Unlike his Edolas counterpart, Byro is a tall and muscular man that sports white hair in a similar style to Laxus', with most of it slicked back and having numerous spiky strands pointing backwards, and some strands over his forehead. He has gray eyes and prominent cheekbones. The only facial feature he has in common with his counterpart are the two tufts of hair on both sides of his chin which point downwards, though the Earth Land counterpart seem to be thinner and black ring around his eyes. Also, he doesn't have any particular eyebrows.
Kanaloa is an enormous, purple octopus with several light-blue spikes protruding from its head, as well as two large horns extending from its forehead. Despite being an octopus, Kanaloa's tentacles appear clawed at the ends, similar to a crayfish. A series of teal spots mark its forehead. Kanaloa's eyes are perfectly rounded with teal scelera and bright yellow pupils, and just between its eyes is the emblem of the Zentopia Church.
"My deepest apologies, Lord Byro! Their strength in both numbers and magic power is greater than we expected, and they were able to defeat Dan as well." Coco apologized as she points at Dan who just started to wake up.
"What happened? I My sudden paradise of sexy and knightly women just crumbled for some reason." Dan said half-awake as he looks around.
Dan suddenly became fully awake when his lazy eyes widen in pure shock to see Lord Byro and his trusty octopus Kanaloa.
"Lord Byro! Sir, I was not sleeping on the job!" Dan screamed in fear only to be knocked down again by a rock on his head.
"That's still funny." Elina giggled.
"Fall back and reflect on your incompetence while I clean up the mess you've made." Byro ordered while holding a certain item in a familiar wrapped cloth.
"Sisters, look! He has the hand clock piece!" Leina alerted pointing at the hand clock piece.
"She's right, it's Mister Jude's piece of the clock!" Michelle recognized that anywhere.
"Hey, Octo-geezer! That clock hand belongs to Lucy! Hand it over or I'll come up there and roast ya!" Natsu demanded angrily.
"And I'll scratch ya!" Happy added with his little claws out.
"You best not get in my beloved's way." Menace said.
"I warn you. You won't live to regret it." Byro said with his face darken that would make any men shit themselves.
(Fairy Tail Guild)
Little Asuka, daughter of Bisca and Alzack, is sitting outside of the small guildhall and on top of a stomp is reading the Key of the Starry Heavens book with her mommy next to her.
"Oh, here you are." Alzack walked up to them.
"Hey, hon." Bisca greeted her husband.
"So, what book is she readin' today?" Alzack asked.
"Key of the Starry Heavens book." Bisca answered though not sure if Asuka is enjoying the book or not.
"Yeah, she was telling me she wanted to help the guild, so I let her borrow it from the cathedral's library." Alzack explained, finding this to be cute that Asuka wants to help the guild.
"Momma? Is that really how the book is s'posed to end?" Asuka asked, looking confused with this story.
"Yeah, that's it." Bisca answered.
"Is there something wrong?" Alzack asked.
Asuka doesn't know why exactly, but she couldn't shake the feeling that this book has a deeper meaning of what it trying to tell the readers like telling someone about something they're not supposed to do.
Inside the guildhall, Macro is sitting at the bar counter with his best friend Wakaba wanting to have some drinks together though the Guild Master has a very worried look on his face.
"Master, what's wrong? You seem a little down." Kinana asked, noticing that worried face.
"Nothing, just thinking, that's all." Marco proclaimed.
"Yeah right, you're worried about Romeo. Admit it." Wakaba called out on that claim.
"Alright, I am! But I'm his dad, what did you expect?!" Marco admitted quickly and snapped at his best friend.
"There's no need to worry, man. The kid's got Natsu with him." Wakaba assured that Natsu will protect Romeo from any kinds of danger if they're too much for Romeo to handle.
"Yeah, that's what scares me. I mean… I don't want my boy ending up like him." Marco worried that Romeo may end up destructive.
"I'm sure that won't be a problem, not with those Heartfilla sisters being there, so I'm sure they'll keep Romeo's head on straight." Wakaba pointed out.
"Okay, that's something I can relief." Macro said.
(Back with Lucy's Group)
Byro looks down at the Fairy Tail group who are standing in the way of collecting the body clock piece for the quest of the Legion Platoon, only to find two of his members being unsuitable for the task right now and will have to deal with this himself.
"(Hmm, I seem to remember the report about Lucy Heartfilla having three long-lost older sisters, but there appears to be three unknown women here now.)" Byro thought noticing the three new faces.
"(Must be some recently new friends, not that it matters when it comes to my mission.)" Byro thought stated.
"Check it out, Romeo! He's trying to act all high and mighty while sitting on an octopus!" Natsu insulted the two while patting on Romeo's back.
"While I admit that it is funny from how it looks, I wouldn't laugh. Remember what Coco said about him being the strongest in Zentopia?" Romeo pointed out.
"Yeah, yeah, he's powerful. Who cares? He's riding a giant freaking octopus!" Natsu laughed insultingly making Kanaloa feel hurt on the inside.
"Natsu's turn quite the jerk of a role model." Happy sighed.
"That makes me worry about Romeo's future!" Michelle said.
"Natsu, you should know better than to mock your enemy when you have no knowledge of their strength just yet." Leina scolded.
"Hey, don't go yelling at my king like that! Let him enjoy the mocking of his foes before he burns their souls to Hell!" Menace smiled and snuggled onto Natsu's arm again.
"This is hardly the time for that!" Leina pointed out.
"Not to worry, Leina. I'm going to burn that guy and make him pay for messing with Fairy Tail!" Natsu grinned at the old man.
"I'll destroy you." Byro declared.
"(No, no, no, they have no idea on how strong Byro is and especially that kind of magic he uses!)" Coco thought worried.
Kanaloa reels his big head back a little and let out a big gushing shot of his ink down at Natsu and the others with him, they quickly jump out of the way avoid getting inked, but they were also fortune enough to avoid the ink because it can also melt ground like acid.
"My goodness, what a dangerous ink we are seeing!" Leina gasped.
"I prefer ink to be harmless like use for writing hieroglyphs!" Menace stated.
"You said it, princess! I do NOT wanna go in a drip in that!" Setra nodded rapidly.
"Ooh, I want squid ink risotto…" Michelle strangely brought up her delicious food dream again.
"Let's save the craving for later!" Lucy said.
"She's right, we need to first survive the giant octopus and the dangerous man riding it." Claudette readied herself with her Thunderclap sword.
"Get back, I have an idea!" Natsu said before they dodge another ink blast attack.
"Fire Dragon's Iron Fist!" Natsu threw down a fiery fist onto Kanaloa's head to smash the octopus's skull, but his fist went into the skin like it's a very soft thing.
Natsu gasp and got smacked away by one of Kanaloa's tentacles making him crash onto a stone wall, the fire dragon boy quickly jumps off to avoid another tentacle trying to smash him.
"Anubis Flying Kick!" Menace launched a kick attack on the body, but her attack did nothing on the soft body of the octopus as she quickly jumps off.
"Talk about a soft problem!" Elina commented as she clashes her spear against one tentacle while Natsu unleashed his breath attack that Kanaloa quickly responded with his ink attack.
Meanwhile, Coco is having a conflicted argument with herself about what she should do now that Byro is here. She could either do as Byro told her and Dan to do or maybe she could try stopping the fight and hope to find something both groups could agree on, but that would seem like betrayal to Byro.
"I don't know… what to do." Coco said to herself.
"How about surviving first!" Shizuka said as she quickly got Coco away from the spot to avoid being crushed by Kanaloa's tentacle.
"Thank you for saving me." Coco thanked.
"No problem, and don't worry about your knight friend." Shizuka pointed at Natsu who just saved the unconscious Dan from being crushed by Kanaloa.
"Hey Octo-punk! Are you so stupid that you don't even know who's on your side?!" Natsu shouted angrily at Kanaloa.
"Seriously! Coco and Dan are supposed to be your allies!" Lucy yelled too.
"I realize that, but as proud members Legion Platoon, they are prepared to sacrifice their very lives to win this holy war." Byro stated strongly. This did not sit well with Leina as she clutches onto her sword.
"You may say this is all for the Holy War, but did you ever think about actually living your life instead of finding some pathetic excuse to die?" Leina asked angrily.
"What was that?" Byro shocked to this girl mock their ways.
"No way is a slave in the pathetic belief their lives are meant as sacrifice for whatever cause, everyone should be thinking about how they want to live their lives and enjoy it while they can! And what you just try to do to your own friends was no "noble sacrifice" or just showed you're an old man who thinks he's above the rest." Leina pointed her sword at Byro.
"How dare you! You're in no position to chastise my actions!" Byro glared at Leina.
"You fail to grasp the severity of the situation. There are many more lives at stake in this war than you realize." Byro pointed out.
"That maybe the sure, but you should try to focus on your own life too. It's not like you don't matter to anyone just because someone told you to give up your life for this damn bitch Holy Bitch!" Leina readied in her fighting stance.
"If you don't understand that then I'm going to force you to fight now!" Leina screamed.
Unknown to everyone here, the clock piece started to glow with the strange writings almost like its resonating with something and there is also a person within that hidden room who just woke up showing a long blonde hair.
(With the Strauss Group)
"It's like resonating, I better take off with it before things get crazy." Mary noticed the ball clock piece is glowing while still choking Mirim with Tina's hands.
"Please, let me go!" Mirim begged.
"I'm sorry, I promise I have nothing against you since we just met!" Tina cried.
"Stop this now!" Mira jumped high and threw down an axe-kick that almost hit Mary as she narrowly dodges the strike, causing the spell on Tina to be lifted and release Mirim.
"Alright, now I decided to stay a little longer." Mary glared.
"You will pay for what you made me do!" Tina angered as she forms her water trident.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
Looks like the Leader of the Legion Platoon has finally decided to step in to handle the mission himself and he seems to have made Leina mad for what he said, and now it's back to the Strauss' fight with Mary who is about to do something crazy.
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