AN: Hello all here I am again for another update of The God of Fairies, what can I say the Edolas Arc got me excited. Plus I recently read a really good Percy Jackson crossover that kind of inspired me to finish this chapter off. That being said this chapter was a bit difficult to write in places, starting off arcs in a satisfactory way is always difficult, hopefully though I have done a good job.
So yeah other than that I hope you all enjoy the chapter and leave a comment or a review at the end.
Disclaimer: I do not own Percy Jackson or Fairy Tail.
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(Last Time)
"Erza!" Wendy shouted as she looked on in horror as the older girl broke apart into golden dust and was sucked into the sky, just like the rest of Magnolia. Twisting around with fear etched onto her face, Wendy first looked at her own arms only to see she wasn't glowing, before looking over at Percy. Only to be relieved as she didn't see any sign of him disappearing either, that relief was soon buried however as she saw the look on his face.
A mixture of both devastation and fury, one that made Wendy flinch even seeing it. His glowing sea green eyes fixed on the vortex above even as the last of Magnolia disappeared, the area it had once stood now being covered by a cloud of dust, fog and smoke. The portal overhead stilling shining brightly, the portal still active for now.
"Come on Wendy." Percy said his voice hard and uncompromising as he began to jog the short distance towards where the Guild had once stood. Going off a hunch as he realised that only himself, Wendy and Carla seemed to be spared whatever had happened. Which if that was the case could then mean that Natsu and Gajeel, the other two dragon slayers in the Guild and Happy the other flying cat might not have been sucked up by the Anima.
"Where are we going! "Wendy asked still in a state of shock as she chased after Percy, the strangely silent Carla flying behind her.
"We're going to see if we can find anyone else, and then we're going to go into the Anima, get Erza and the others back, and kill whoever is responsible." Percy replied bluntly, his expression hard and uncompromising.
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Chapter 13
(In Magnolia, Earthland)
A scowl was very prominent on Percy's face as he strode through the thick fog and barren landscape, his sea green eyes narrowed as he looked around at his surroundings. The demigod son of Poseidon struggling to compare the bustling town that Magnolia had once been, to the barren, empty wasteland that was now in its place.
It had been barely few minutes from Percy's perspective since this 'Anima', an aerial vortex/ portal of some sort, had sucked the town of Magnolia and all its residents into the sky and to the gods know where.
From what Percy knew so far it seemed that only Wendy, Carla and himself had been spared the fate that Erza and who knows how many others had suffered. The reasons for this were not yet known to him, but that would soon change if he had anything to say about it.
The entire event, from the appearance of the portal to the disappearance of the town, the Guild and Erza had all happened so fast that Percy hadn't even properly processed it yet, instead he had pushed everything aside and did what he did best he leapt into action. Moving as fast as he could as he headed for the location of the Fairy Tail Guild Hall, or at least where it had once stood, hopeful as he did that there would be other people there.
Maybe even someone who knew just what the hell was happening, as the sooner Percy found that out the sooner he could get Erza and the others back. That or if that were not possible, the sooner he would be unleashing his bloody revenge on who ever had dared perpetrate this crime.
Ideally Percy would be able to find Mystogen, Fairy Tail's most elusive and mysterious S-Class wizard as well as someone who apparently knew a lot more about what was going on than most. What Percy would do once he had found Mystogen though…, well that would very depend on his explanation for what happened, how it had happened, and why in Hades Makarov and Percy hadn't been told of these Anima!
At the moment Percy was barely containing his anger and grief, instead focusing all his attention on getting to the bottom of what was going on and rectifying it as fast as he could. If Mystogen gave him the run around, well Percy would not be responsible for what he would have to end up doing to get the answers he wanted. With that in mind Percy increased his pace, the swirling mists parting as he strode forwards.
"Perseus, wait up!" Wendy shouted after him, the shorter, blue haired girl struggling to keep up with Percy's current pace, her companion Carla flying after her. The white cat having been strangely silent since the incident had gone down, almost suspiciously so, but Percy didn't have the time to dwell on that right at this minute.
Pausing as he heard Wendy's shout, the Demigod allowed Wendy to catch up to him, giving the girl a tight smile as he did so. As unlike him Wendy wasn't as good at controlling her emotions, as her worry, fear and grief was plain for him to see. So much so that he put up a purposefully brave face to help set her at ease.
"Come on Wendy, we need to get to the Guild and look to see if anyone else is still around. We need to do it quickly too! I'm not sure how long that portal will stay open." Percy replied as he once again started moving, the pair quickly coming to the place the Guild Hall had stood. The area now an empty patch of land covered by a cloud of fog.
Upon reaching the area Percy looked up, his eyes narrowing as he saw the swirling Anima overhead, white light shining from it as it continued to drain the last remnants of magic from the area. He wasn't sure exactly how long the portal was going to remain open for, but by the looks of it, it would be soon.
"Is anyone here!? Natsu!? Happy!? Gajeel!?" Percy shouted out, his green eyes straining as he looked around at the dense cloud of fog, extending his senses as he looked for those he had hypothesized would still be around. After all if Wendy a dragon slayer was still here whilst Erza a normal wizard was gone, then it was possible that for whatever reason the other dragon slayers might not have been taken too. The same went with Happy the flying cat.
Quickly he found the two dragon slayer and the cat he was looking for as he spread his senses through the water molecules in the fog, his hypothesis being proved correct as he then began to disperse the mist.
"Arghh! What the hell's going on?!" A loud rough voice shouted out, drawing Percy and Wendy's attention to a figure walking out of the fog.
It was Gajeel Redfox, a new member of the Guild and someone Percy had so far had no real interaction with. Looking at him carefully, Percy could see that Gajeel was a tanned and heavily built man, with wild, shaggy, black mane of hair that went down to his waist. The iron dragon slayer had metal studs embed down both his arms and on his face, and a pair of harsh red eyes that glared around suspiciously as he walked through the fog. His head raised slightly as he audibly sniffed the air, no doubt trying to use his enhanced senses, courtesy of being a dragon slayer, to try and found who had shouted.
"Gajeel!" Wendy shouted out, getting the other dragon slayer's attention as his red eyes first fixed warily on Percy, before softening ever so slightly as he looked down at Wendy. "You're still here."
"What happened?!" Gajeel demanded bluntly as he strode towards the pair, not bothering with greetings as he instead looked first at Wendy and then over at Percy. "Where is the Guild?! Where the hell is everyone else?!"
"The town of Magnolia and nearly everyone in it has been sucked into that vortex." Percy replied just as bluntly, pointing up at the still swirling Anima overhead as he did so. Before he looked away and to the side, watching as Natsu and Happy both emerged from the now dispersing fog, the two of them having met up before being drawn to Percy and Wendy by the voices.
"Perseus, Wendy, Gajeel!" Natsu said in surprise as he looked around, the confused expression on his face not leaving as he looked around clearly struggling to understand what had happened. Natsu might have matured a bit recently, but it didn't stop him from being somewhat simple sometimes.
"Magnolia has been sucked up into that portal, apparently flying cats and dragon slayers were immune to it." Percy summarized quickly as he looked around again, his eyes narrowing as he felt another disturbance only for him to blink in surprise as a clock… with an actual face appeared in front of him.
Even as Percy watched the front of the clock opened, and Lucy fell out with an eep, falling onto the ground at their feet. "And apparently Lucy is here too…"
"Kyaa!" Lucy shrieked as she burst out of Horologium, falling to the ground on her hands and feet. Sucking in great breaths of air as she tried to recover from suddenly being trapped inside her Celestial Spirit with no prior warning. "What was that Horologium?" Lucy demanded of her Celestial Spirit, completely oblivious of Percy and the others as she instead looked up at her Celestial Spirit, her long blonde hair in complete disarray and her brown eyes wide.
"I felt a disturbance in the balance of space and time." Horologium replied his voice almost sing song as he answered his summoner's question. "I decided that shielding you from it was the best course of action."
"What?" Lucy asked before she looked around and saw the others looking at her. "What!?" She asked again before her eyes widened even more as she looked around and saw the wasteland that was now in the place of Magnolia. "WHAT?!"
"Magnolia gone, portal sky." Percy replied as he pointed up at the sky, getting a confused nod from the blonde.
"Huh!" Lucy replied blankly pushing herself to her feet as she looked around again, stumbling slightly as she tried to take a step, with the blonde only managing to stay on her feet by clinging onto Perseus. Her face going bright red as she felt his strong arms help her regain her balance.
"Perhaps I can explain better." A sudden voice interrupted, making Lucy let out another loud "eep!" and getting the attention of the rest of the group as they all tensed up. Save for Percy who had already worked out who it was that was approaching, the Demigod and the rest of his newly assembled team all looking over at the figure that the now dispersed fog revealed.
It was Mystogen, the cloaked and masked man walking up to group and looking around, his eyes showing the slightest hint of surprise that so many were here, and that they had all already found each other. The wizard having instead thought that he would need to track down each of the survivors individually and send them on their way. "Magnolia and Fairy Tail Guild Hall have been absorbed by the Anima you see above us."
"That swirling vortex is the Anima?" Lucy asked as she looked up, the blonde now standing on her own two feet just to the side of Perseus. Seeing the swirling vortex, Lucy frowned before she looked over at Mystogen, her brown eyes narrowing. "And just what exactly is an Anima?"
"Yes that's an Anima, as for what it is, it is a Hyperspace magic that's used to absorb Magic Power from this world." Mystogen said nodding as he looking around at the rest of the group, glad that he had all of their attention as he did. After all there wasn't time for him to have to explain it all twice. "And take it to the place on the other side of the Anima, my home world and the place responsible for this whole mess, the world of Edolas."
Percy frowned as he heard that, he had heard of world of Edolas of course. Not that he had ever been there personally, but he knew someone who had. Porlyusica, a former Guild Member who now acted as the Guild physician. She had once been a resident of Edolas, a world completely parallel to Earthland, before she had come to Earthland and joined Fairy Tail.
When Percy had first heard of this new world, well suffice to say he had been interested, after all he himself was from another world so anything to do with different realities and travelling between worlds, well that had drawn his attention. Unfortunately though Porlyusica didn't know much, she had arrived in Earthland by accident and had no idea how to get back. The differences in magic were interesting enough, as was the technological advantages that were in Edolas, but Porlyusica had arrived in Earthland as a young woman, she was an old lady now. What information she had had was now many decades out of date.
Pausing as he thought about this, Percy noticed that he wasn't the only one who seemed to recognise the place. Carla, the flying cat, or Exceed as Porlyusica had called them once, also twitched slighty, the little cat muttering under her breath as she did so. "Of course."
Narrowing his eyes at this, Percy pushed aside his suspicions for now, after all he had found Mystogen and it was time for answers. With that thought Percy made himself known, or rather he stepped forward and grabbed Mystogen by the throat, physically lifting the other man off the ground with a single arm. Percy's cold green eyes glaring into Mystogen's suddenly wide brown ones. "Tell me everything, no lies, no half-truths, no bullshit!"
"Ack… Per... ack." Mystogen spluttered, his hands clawing futilely at Percy's, the younger wizard unable to break Percy's grip.
"How long have you known about these Anima!? Why didn't you warn us!?" Percy demanded his tone turning frosty as he released Mystogen causing him to fall to the floor with a thump. The S-Class mage massaging his throat and taking deep breaths of air as he looked up at Percy, a mixture of shock and fear on his face as he saw the deadly look in his fellow S-Class wizard's eyes. "I spoke to Wendy. You knew what was going to happen, you knew and you did nothing!"
"What?!" Natsu growled, his eyes flinty as he looked down on Mystogen. Gajeel letting out a low growl of his own. The S-Class wizard in question flinching as he saw the looks of betrayal on the faces of his fellow Guild Members. Even Lucy had a look of condemnation on her face as she heard of Mystogen's crimes.
"Wait!" Wendy shouted, the usually quiet and shy girl attracting all of their attention . "Percy you said it yourself, we don't know how long that 'Anima' will be open, we don't have time for this."
Percy paused as he heard that, surprised by the words of wisdom coming out of the mouth of a child centuries younger than him. Narrowing his eyes he looked around the rest of the group, before glancing up at the sky.. "Right, we will get to Edolas first, then we'll get answers."
"Y-you'll need these first" Mystogan spoke up, his hand still massaging his throat as he pushed himself to his feet. His other hand going into his cloak and pulling out a small bottle that was filled of grey pills. "These are ex-balls. In Edolas, your magic won't work normally, but these will allow you to use your magic on the other side. Take them now before you go through the Anima, you will be helpless otherwise."
Taking the proffered pills, Percy looked at them for a moment before passing them to Lucy. "Pass the out to the others."
Lucy nodded at that, taking the pills form Percy before she began to pass them around the group. Taking one herself and swallowing it, ignoring the dry feeling it left in her mouth as she passed one to Perseus. Who after a suspicious glance at the pill, stuck it in his mouth and swallowed it also. With that done she slipped the bottle into her pocket, more than happy to keep hold of it for now because if they do manage to rescue their friends on the other side then they will need to give them some of these 'ex-balls' so that they could also use their magic.
"You all best go now, the Anima won't stay open for long. Already it has stopped sucking up all the ambient magic in the air. It won't be long now until it closes!" Mystogen said quickly, regaining some of his bearing after his impromptu manhandling courtesy of Perseus.
"You are talking like you aren't coming with us." Percy said, his tone hard turning hard and his eyes flinty as he locked gazes with Mystogen. The other man flinching slightly as they made eye contact.
"I have a plan to reverse this and return everything to normal. For it to work though there are things I need to do alone." Mystogen replied taking a step back as he saw the steely look in Percy's eyes, yet still standing his ground. He had a plan in place after all, one which required him to move fast and freely, which he couldn't do in a group. On top of that he needed the others to act as a distraction of sorts, so he could work his plan and bring the conflict between Edolas and Earthland to an end, permanently.
"Care to expand on this plan." Percy replied as he looked around and saw that the others were all gathered around them, all of them looking prepared to head through the closing Anima and into Edolas.
"There isn't time, I need you to trust me." Mystogen replied quickly as he looked up and saw that the clouds around the Anima were beginning to disperse. "The portal is about to close, the rest of the Guild and Magnolia are on the other side, if we don't pass through the portal now then we will never be able to get to Edolas."
Percy scowled as he heard that, before he looked down at Mystogen. "Fine we'll go through the Anima now, I'll deal with you later."
Mystogen nodded at that, knowing that he had a lot of questions to answer, with any avoidance on his part likely being very bad for his health. "You all need to get through the Anima as fast as you can. I'll send you all through the Anima with my magic. Once you get to Edolas you will all need to head East! You should hopefully be able to reach the Royal City in just a few days. That will be where they are keeping the rest of the Guild, trapped in a lacrima. When you get to Edolas try not to draw attention to yourselves whilst you are there, it doesn't matter how strong you are, there are only a few of you. If you reveal who you are and what you are there for, you will be facing an entire trained and experienced army, and they'll hunt you down mercilessly."
Percy nodded abruptly at that understanding and memorizing what Mystogen said. He might be incredibly pissed off, but not so much that he would ignore well intention advice, he hadn't lost all sense of reason. Mystogen obviously knew more about Edolas and its forces than he did, and Percy would agree that the last thing that they needed was a hostile force on their trail the moment they stepped foot on Edolas.
Seeing Percy's nod, Mystogen removed one of the magical staves that were slung over his back, his eyes narrowing in concentration as he tapped the ground with it. A magic circle taking form under the feet of the waiting Fairy Tail mages, one which quickly expanded beneath their feet before rising into the air, lifting the five wizards into the air and towards the closing Anima. Both Carla and Happy also taking flight and joining the group.
As they left the ground Percy's sea green eyes locked suspiciously on Mystogen, the demigod still feeling a bit pissed off with the masked mage, "You not coming?"
The S-Class mage twitched as he heard that, a hidden grimace passing across his face, "I'll be going through the Anima too, but will be heading to a different location in Edolas. I have a plan to get the Guild and Magnolia back, but to do it I need to move fast, I need you to trust me."
Percy's gaze sharpened as he heard that, "Don't let me down."
Mystogen nodded at than, his gaze not leaving his fellow Guild Members as they disappeared into the sky, the S-Claus mage once again rubbing his bruised throat. His mind already on the plan formulating in his mind, knowing as he did that he would need to fix his mistake.
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(In Edolas)
Moments after the group of Fairy Tail mages passed through the Anima, they all suddenly found themselves appearing in midair, all of them hovering several hundred feet above a large and expansive forest. Looking around they could see that the air around them was filled with floating boulders, some of which were the size of houses, whilst others were similar in size to small mountains. With some of these floating islands being covered in flora and fauna, some of which even had waterfalls cascading over their jagged edges.
The group only had a few moments to enjoy the serene if bizarre sight of the world around them, before reality set in, and gravity to as suddenly all of them found themselves falling quickly towards the earth. Almost all of them shouting and screaming as the plummeted through the earth, the odd forest below growing ever closer as they fell.
"For fucks sake." Percy cursed aloud as he alone stayed relatively calm, the others all having panicked as they fell through the air, Lucy and Wendy both clinging onto Percy, whilst Natsu, Happy and Gajeel all flailed around uselessly. Luckily though Carla appeared not to have completely lost her head, as after a few moments she grabbed the back of Wendy's shirt and released her large wings. The small cat with the small wings trying to reduce the blue haired girl's fall. Happy soon following suit as he grabbed the back of Natsu shirt and released his own wings.
Glancing around and assessing their precarious situation, Percy then shut his eyes and began to concentrate, ignoring Lucy's loud screams as the blonde clung on to him, burying her head into his shirt. Instead Percy kept his eyes shut, quickly beginning to extend his control over the water in the air as he did so. In response the air began to thicken and dense clouds began to form around them, slowing the wizards fall as the area directly around Percy slowly took on a jelly like consistency.
Keeping his eyes clenched shut, Percy continued to use his power as they descended towards Edolas, thickening the atmosphere and making full use of the wind and moisture in the air as he slowed the descent of the entire group.
All of the others having stopped screaming and shouting as Percy did this, instead all of them looking around in wonder. With Natsu going so far as to trying to play with the dense air around him.
Eventually the group made it to the ground, Percy releasing control when they were all a few feet off the ground. Allowing all of them to fall safely to the ground. With Percy and Gajeel both keeping their footing whilst the others fell face first on the ground, well other than Lucy who once again used Percy as support. Ignoring this for now Percy instead began to look around, surveying his surroundings as he did so.
He was standing in the middle of a forest grove, Natsu and Wendy both complaining as they pushed themselves to their feet. Looking around Percy frowned, this place was very different to what he had been expecting. The grass was not the healthy green colour he had been expecting, instead it looked almost like a greyish purple colour and the trees and surrounding plants, they were all huge. More than that though they looked distinctly… alien… as in normal trees and plants didn't look like these ones, they weren't as large or warped.
Looking up into the sky, Percy's brow furrowed even further as he took a closer look at the thousands of chunks of rock that were floating in the pale pink sky. Like small floating islands. Some of them even had actual waterfalls running over the sides.
Stranger still was the river of water, suspended in midair as it trailed through the sky collecting the water that fell from the floating islands within its watery depths. Impossibly the ribbon of water seemed to still be flowing, even in midair, with fish swimming through it and occasionally leaping out of it only to come crashing back down into its waters. Yeah, that was not normal at all.
"What in the…!" Gajeel growled out, his red eyes wide as he swiveled around staring out at the alien world around him. Lucy, Wendy, Happy and Natsu all similarly struck by awe and shock as they all gawked around.
"This is Edolas?" Carla spoke up, her voice cutting through the silence that followed Gajeel's eloquent words, gaining the attention of the others as she did so.
"Yes it is." Percy replied, his eyes narrowing slightly. "But somehow I think you already knew this, after all you know a lot more about what is happening than you make out."
"Wait what?" Wendy asked, her eyes widening as she looked from her oldest friend, Carla, to her newest friend, Percy. The young dragon slayer not at all sure what to think. "What do you mean? Do you know something about this place Carla?"
Carla paused as she heard that, her eyes widening slightly as she looked around and found that she now had all the attention on her. Ignoring the rest of them though, Carla instead focused on Wendy, internally flinching as she saw the look of hurt on the girl's face. "Yes I do, this is the place I came from, the place my kind originated, just like the tomcat." Carla said let out a soft sigh as she looked around, before she glanced over at Happy. "This is Edolas, the world on the other side."
"W-what do you mean?" Wendy asked her voice breaking as she stared down at her friend, not entirely sure what Carla's connection to Edolas was, or how she could come from a place like this.
"He and I..." Carla said as she gestured between Happy and herself. "We are the reason that Magnolia disappeared..."
"Explain." Percy said bluntly, cutting anyone else off from speaking as he instead looked down at the little cat. His expression stern and uncompromising, as he tried to find out more about this world and these Anima than the scraps of information he had heard before. Mystogen's explanation and Porlyusica's descriptions being vague at best.
"Edolas, it is a world separate from this one." Carla said, trying to explain the best that she could, conscious of all the attention she was now receiving. "Right now, it's starting to lose its' magic."
"Losing its' magic?" Lucy spoke up a confused expression on her face.
"Well if you shut up the cat will explain!" Gajeel suddenly snapped out, only to receive a cuff around the head from Percy.
"Continue Carla." Percy said as he glanced around at the others, his expression clearly saying 'shut up and let her talk!'
"Yes, well unlike in Earthland, the magic in Edolas is limited." Carla continued, glancing around as she did. "If it keeps being used, the world itself will someday disappear. So in order to save the limited magic supply, the King of Edolas… well the King developed a spell that could absorb magic from another world… namely this one."
"The Anima, the hyper-dimensional space magic." Percy said thinking back on the brief description Mystogen had given. His brow furrowing as he thought of the sheer amount of magic a spell like that would use, especially when magic appeared to be a finite resource here on Edolas. The King it appeared was a gambling man, gambling the future of his world on a plan to steal the resources from another.
Carla nodded in response to that, confirming Percy's thoughts.
"This plan, which started six years ago, involved opening Anima in various places around the world. However, it didn't yield the results that the King was hoping for." Carla said as she continued her explanation, telling them as much as she could as they were now all trapped here in Edolas. Which put Wendy in danger, and although Carla was ambivalent about the fate of the other Fairy Tail mages she did not want Wendy to get hurt. If humouring Perseus and the others was necessary, than she would do it. "Someone with knowledge of what was going on went around closing the Anima from the Earthland side, stopping the kingdom from absorbing any magic."
"Mystogen." Percy guessed, still irritated with the masked wizard for his silence on this issue. If he had told Percy or Gildarts, or any other Fairy Tail S-Class then they would have been able to help. Either by putting an end to the issue personally, or assisting in closing the Anima before they got too big. The man hadn't though, he had tried to go it alone and now Magnolia and the Guild were gone. It was a bit hypocritical Percy knew that, after all he had done similar things in his youth, still he couldn't help but be a little pissed off at the other wizard.
Once again Carla nodded her head, having come to the same conclusion as the others about the identity of this wizard.
"Yes, I believe it was Mystogen. The Anima that was created this time though, it must have simply been too large for him to handle alone." Carla continued letting out a slight sigh as she looked away from the others and surveyed the landscape of Edolas, the place she called home even if she had never stepped foot on it before. "Without any sort of defense, Fairy Tail was swallowed easily along wit hthe rest of Magnolia and its entire population."
"Why did they absorb Fairy Tail?" Natsu suddenly interrupted, an angry expression on his face. "If they could create these Anima things anywhere, why did the bastards target Fairy Tail?!"
"I already told you didn't I?" Carla snapped back, her tone making Natsu's hands clench into fists. "In order to provide Edolas with more magic!"
"Fairy Tail was the most powerful Guild in Fiore that was why they targeted it isn't it? Because of how many powerful mages there are in Fairy Tail!" Lucy spoke up her eyes widening as she looked around.
Carla nodded her head at that. "Exactly."
"Why were the dragon slayers not affected?" Lucy suddenly asked, the thought having just come to her. "Or Perseus either? I mean I was protected by Horologium, but the others, they weren't?"
"Wendy and the others were spared due to the nature of their magic, as was myself and the tomcat." Carla said simply, before her eyes narrowed as she looked at Percy. "But as for why the brute was not absorbed, that I am not sure about…?"
Percy cocked an eyebrow at that. "Let's just say flying cats and dragon slayers aren't the only ones who are not quite normal…"
"And..." Happy suddenly spoke up, the little cat's face scrunched up in confused anguish a she ignored everything else and instead focused on what Carla had just said. "This is mine and Carla's fault?"
The others paused at this, all of them looking over at both Carla and Happy at this, confused as to what role the two of them might played in this.
"In a way." Carla said slowly, glancing around at the others. "We received a different mission from the kingdom of Edolas and were sent to this world..."
"That can't be!" Wendy suddenly cut in her brow furrowing in confusion. "You were born from an egg! In this world, not there!"
"Happy was too!" Natsu added a scowl on his face. "I found him myself!"
"I've never been to Edolas. Like Wendy said, I was born and raised in this world." Carla replied as she saw the confusion her words had created. "However, the knowledge about Edolas and our mission was placed in our minds. We should have both been aware of everything from the moment we were born!" Carla continued before she pointed at Happy furiously, ignoring the others for now as she rounded on the other feline. "And yet, how can you somehow know nothing?"
"I..." Happy began taking a step back his eyes wide.
Shaking her head as she heard this, Carla spun away from him in disgust. "Anyway, that's how things are. Since we're beings from Edolas, this situation is technically our fault."
Carla paused here allowing her words to settle in, as the others processed what she had said.
Before anyone else could speak though, Percy cut in first. "This other mission, the one that was entrusted to you. What was it?"
"I can't say what it is." Carla replied.
Percy cocked an eyebrow at that. "You think I am giving you a choice? Tell me?!"
Carla glared at Percy as she heard that. "I can't! I can't tell you my mission!"
Percy hands slowly clenched into fists as he heard that. "And I said I am not giving you a choice!"
Carla fully facing Percy now, glared up fearlessly at the imposing wizard, not wavering for a second even as the others shifted away from him. "And I am telling you I can't tell you!"
Before Percy could speak again and give Carla her last warning before he lost his temper, he was cut off by Wendy. The blue haired girl, clutching at Percy's hand looking up at him imploringly as she did so.
"Please, I am sure Carla would have told us if it is important." Wendy said, torn between demanding her friend to tell her everything, and trying to protect her from Perseus, who looked to be on the verge of losing his temper.
Percy paused as he heard that, looking down at Wendy and meeting her eyes. A part of him wanted to force the answers out of Carla. But looking into Wendy's eyes he knew he couldn't do that, not only would such an action go against everything Fairy Tail stood for, it would also destroy any connection he had to Wendy, and for some reason he truly didn't want that to happen.
"Ok." Percy finally said, nodding his head as he placed his hand on Wendy's shoulder. The blue haired girl sending him a radiant smile as she heard that. "But if the cat shows even the slightest sign of betraying us or fucking us over… I will end her!"
Wendy and the other Fairy Tail wizards all flinched as they heard that, not that any of them admonished him for his harsh words, with some of them even agreeing with him. This was not a game after all, the lives of thousands of people were on the line, including their loved ones. Before any of them could speak again though, they were interrupted by Carla.
"I would expect nothing less. If the tomcat or I show any signs of endangering you or betraying you, then I ask that you do kill us!" Carla spoke her tone firm and uncompromising.
"Carla!" Wendy shouted in shock as she stared at her friend.
"You heard what I said." Carla replied, her tone holding a note of finality in it as she looked up at Wendy.
Percy however just nodded, acknowledging Carla's comment as he did, her statement going somewhat raising his opinion of her. Without another word, Percy then turned around and looked out into the surrounding forest, his sea green eyes narrowed. "Ok, now let's go, we need to get to the Royal City and rescue our Guild!"
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AN: And that is the chapter, what do you all think. I have to admit I had a bit of difficulty with this chapter despite my enthusiasm for it, many times I had to go back and rewrite what I had already written.
With this chapter the group is now in Edolas, this time though they are already gathered as Percy was there and was able to act as leader and gather them together before going through the Anima. Which I think would be much more effective than them wandering around in groups in Edolas. That being said things won't go all their own way and shenanigans will ensue in Edolas.
I have to admit I also never really liked Mystogen's character which I think might have come across a bit in this chapter. Mainly though this was because he tried to handle the Anima situation alone, letting it get completely out of hand and endangering not just Fairy Tail but the town of Magnolia. So thousands of innocent men, women and children as well. The fact that no one called him on this shit was a bit of a pet peeve of mine.
But anyway the arc is now underway and hopefully it will be a good one.
For those interested my other stories are still being worked on, Dead Man Walking is in progress, as my other stories the Road to Hell, Harry Potter: Gods and Angels and Carpe Diem. I can't give an exact date as to when I will finish them, as I work on them in my own time and I find that forcing chapters never work and often produces subpar updates. So my other stories will be updated when they are ready, so for now hold on.
Also whoop, whoop 100,000+ words!
Other than that I hope you all like the chapter and all of you leave a comment or review at the end.
See you all later.
Seagate.