AN: So here is the next chapter of the God of Fairies, I hope you all enjoy it and please leave a review. It was quite an interesting chapter to write, so I hope it comes out well.
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(Last Time)
"Today, is the day that we rout out the last of the Fairy Tail Guild, today is the day we wipe Dark Wizards from our world for good!" Pantherlily continued to shout, his visor raised, revealing his sharp teeth and whiskered muzzle as he glared harshly out at the soldiers, even as they heard the roar and bellow their appreciation.
"To war! And to the death of Fairy Tail!" Pantherlily then finished, unsheathing his sword and thrusting it in to the air as he did so, the soldiers letting out another roar of appreciation as they heard that.
"To the skies!" Pantherlily then shouted, a set of two massive, six foot long, white feathered wings, erupting from his back as he shot into the sky, the soldiers of their Legions following after him as he rocketed off in the direction of the desert, a blade in one hand and a fierce scowl on his face as he led his soldiers into battle.
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Chapter 19
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(In the tunnels below the Royal Palace)
Running through the dark, dingy, labyrinthine like corridors beneath the Edolas Royal Palace, Percy, Wendy, Lucy, Natsu and Gajeel all followed Erza Knightwalker as she led the way through the many convoluted and winding underground hallways, leading the group of pissed of Fairy Tail mages towards Byro, the Kingdom's Chief Scientist's laboratory. With both Happy and Carla acting as look outs for the group as they flow far ahead and close to the ceiling, keeping their eyes out for any guards as they did so.
"So this Byro is the mastermind behind this Anima project then?" Percy asked as he easily kept pace with the quickly moving Erza, the group making good progress as they moved swiftly through the relatively unused passageways, no doubt due to their red haired guide, who seemed to know many of the secret passageways and shortcuts that ran through the palace. "The one responsible for this mess?"
"Well yes, or at least he was one of the ones responsible." Erza nodded, her lips tightening into a slight line as she glanced back at Percy, a slightly uncomfortable look on her face as she paused for a few moments, before with a sigh she continued. "But your counterpart in this world was also one of the ones involved, in fact he was the one who first theorized the existence of other worlds, and developed the technology to pierce the void between them, and all because he had some odd belief that there was something missing within himself, some void, some part of himself that did belong here, but somewhere else, on another world…"
"It sounds like the two of you were close." Perseus acknowledged, a curious expression on his face as he turned to look at the very familiar, but still very different, red head. His brow furrowing at the description of the Edolas version of himself, curious about the man's thought process.
"We were colleagues of sorts, or at least we were for just a year or so before he left the Kingdom and joined Fairy Tail." Erza nodded in response, before she paused, turning to look at Percy again. "But I wouldn't say we were ever friends, I mean Percy wasn't exactly the social type, though apparently he was a lot worse before his daughter was born."
"His daughter, you mean Wendy?" Percy pressed, aware as he did so, that the others were listening in now, or more precisely the Earthland Wendy, who unlike the others, save Natsu, wasn't even bothering to be subtle.
"Yes, Wendy." Erza nodded, before she glanced back and eyed the younger, Earthland version of Wendy curiously. "I take it that remains true regardless of what world you are from?"
"Apparently." Percy replied uncomfortably, not looking back at the younger girl as he instead forged on with this line of questioning, wanting to get as much information as he could. "Did you ever meet her mother?"
Erza's lips twitched upwards as she heard that. "Ahh I see, so that's what it is, that's why the brat is listening in and you're acting so uncomfortably. You didn't know she was your daughter when you came here, and now you're trying to work it out."
Perseus gave her a flat look at that, whilst Wendy frowned at the brat comment, but didn't say anymore as she instead continued to try and listen in.
In response to Percy's look, Erza stifled a laugh. "Well I'm afraid I can't tell you much about the Edolas Percy's wife. They weren't together when I knew him, I think she was dead, maybe in childbirth or something, and since the Wendy of this world is nearly the same age as me… well you can probably work out why I wouldn't know much more, after all I was a brat myself at the time."
Percy nodded at that with a frown, but didn't say anymore.
"So got anything else you want to ask?" Erza then continued, her amusement still clear to hear in her voice, her tone turning almost mocking and her eyes flashing with interest as they locked onto Percy's sea green ones.
"Yeah I've got something I want to ask you." Natsu suddenly spoke up, surprising the other two, as the otherwise silent Dragon Slayer intruded on their conversation without warning.
"And what's that Dragion?" Erza replied, an amused look on her face as she eyed the Fire Wizard, comparing this brash, confident Wizard, to the shy, demure, coward she knew him to be, or at least the version of this world to be.
"How did you become you? What went wrong in your life to make you this way?" Natsu forged on, not holding back on his bluntness, as he just asked Erza what had been on his mind ever since he had first met her.
"Ouch." Erza replied dryly, before she slowed down a little, taking a sudden right as she started leading them down a side tunnel. "Well it's pretty straight forward, my parents were murdered by Dark Wizards when I was younger, and I was made a ward of the state. The Headmaster of the orphanage recognised my innate gifts and recommended me to the military academy. There I proved myself early on, and quickly worked my way up the ranks, my natural skill with a blade, and talent with magic making it easy. Eventually the King recognised my worth and promoted me to be one of his Commanders, at just the tender age of eighteen."
"What that's it?" Natsu asked, blinking in surprise at that pretty roundabout summary of her life, one which had a similar beginning to the Erza he knew, whose own parent were killed when she was young, before going off on a rather simplistic tangent. As the Erza he knew had become a slave, after which she had been inspired into becoming a Guild Wizard, whilst this Erza had gone to an orphanage, before later being enrolled in the military.
"Yes, what did you think I went through? I was an orphaned child looked after by the state, who rose to prominence due to my skill." Erza replied blandly, a disinterested look on her face. "Sure I had an unpleasant start to life, but everything else was quite pleasant actually."
"Then why did you kill so many people, like the Fairy Tail wizards?" Lucy spoke up, her own confusion evident in her tone as she tried to understand the beautiful red head.
"Because they were Dark Wizards and enemies of the State." Erza shrugged, slowing down once again, before she stopped in front of a seemingly blank stretch of wall. "It wasn't personal, I mean sure I hate Dark Wizards, but for the most part I was just doing my duty, and what I thought was right for the good of the Kingdom."
"And you still think the same?" Lucy asked, her eyes wide as she looked at the almost nonchalant expression on Erza's face.
"The Wizards I killed had broken the rules, and were Dark Wizards." Erza began carefully, looking away from the wall and at the other Fairy Tail mages for a moment, the look on her face somewhat conflicted. "But looking back on it, I do have questions about how beneficial their deaths were for the Kingdom, as oppose to how beneficial they were for the King's own purposes."
Lucy and Natsu just looked confused at that answer, neither one of them knowing what exactly to say to it.
"Come on." Perseus suddenly interrupted, a note of impatience in his voice as he cut into the conversation, his gaze meeting Erza's for a moment, a hint of curiousity in his eyes, before he looked away.
"Right." Erza nodded, before she turned back to the wall and pushed an innocuous looking stone slab. With the slab moving inwards with a grating sound as she did so, before moments later the wall slid to the right, revealing a well-lit stone corridor. "This corridor will lead us directly to Byro's laboratory."
"Ok," Percy began with a nod, as he walked out into the corridor, before he looked at the others. "First we need to find this Byro and work out how to reverse the Anima process. After which Erza and I will head for the King's throne room, because that bastard needs to be dethroned."
"Ok and then what do we do?" Gajeel asked, a scowl on his face.
"You, or at least one of you, will wait in the Anima room, as if it works like I hope it will and reverses the process sending the lacrima and all of us back to Earthland then it needs to be protected." Percy replied with a shrug, his mind moving swiftly as he ran through all the options available to them. "As for the rest of you, you need to start disabling the Kingdoms laboratory and destroying all of their research, we can't allow them to make this machine again, or else the same thing will happen all over again."
"So we trash the lab then?" Natsu asked incredulously, surprised that he was actually being given permission to destroy something.
"You destroy everything but the Anima machine itself, yes." Perseus nodded. "That includes all their research journals and what not."
"We can do that." Gajeel nodded, "And then after that we just activate the machine and return home?"
"Well you'll probably need to get outside first as the Anima might turn into a vortex in the sky again, which wouldn't be a problem if it is, as then Carla, Happy and I can use our magic to get us up there." Percy replied with a nod of his head and a shrug, after all it was how they got here in the first place, it should work to return them home.
"But then if we turn the Anima machine on and then leave, what happens to the machine?" Lucy asked in confusion, happy that the plan was so simple, but still cautious as it all seemed to rely on a lot of variables going their way.
"I'll deal with it." Erza nodded from behind them.
"You would do that?" Wendy asked, finally speaking up for the first time in a while, her eyes fixed on the red head as Erza sent Perseus an odd look, one filled with a hint of apprehension.
Perseus cocked an eyebrow as he heard Erza's offer and saw the look on her face as she glanced over at him, with him having not expected her to volunteer like that, especially since she had been so adamant earlier that she was here for entirely self-serving reasons, not that he had fully believed that.
Erza shifted uncomfortably as she felt the group's attention on her, before she shrugged. "Call it penance, or whatever. I shouldn't have supported the King when he proposed to harvest people from your world for fuel, ok, so just think of this as me setting it right."
"So you feel guilty about helping the King with his Anima plan, but not as much about hunting down all those innocent mages." Lucy asked, once again confused by the red head and her motivations.
"Yes," Erza replied bluntly, not even bothering to explain herself to Lucy, as she instead met Perseus's gaze.
"Ok then." Percy nodded after a few moments, his right hand resting on the hilt of his sword as he looked around at the group, before he then glance down the corridor that led to Byro's laboratory. "It looks like we have a plan, so let's go!"
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(Sometime later)
There was an intense look on Byro's face as he quickly strode through the palace's corridors, heading in the direction of his laboratory. The short squat man mumbling to himself as he did so, easily ignoring the two armoured guardsmen beside him as he thought back on all the things he still had to do, which was a lot.
What with the King wanting to activate the Anima machine again, yet this time upon an even grander scale, using all of the magic they had gathered from Earthland thus far to do so. With the intent of the next experiment being to steal an entire countries worth of magic.
All of which would be necessary if the King was to go through with his grand plan to destroy the Kingdom of Extalia, and harvest the magic of the Exceeds that dwelled there. With this not only allowing the King and his people to escape from under the Exceed's thumb, but also providing them with more magic, as the King was planning on capture some of the Exceeds and then breed them like cattle, providing themselves with an eternally source of magic, all of which would be farmed from the creatures that had once looked down upon them.
Of course to do that they needed to first conqueror Extalia and defeat the Exceeds, which considering the race's formidable strength and power, would require the Kingdom using everything they had at their disposal. Including their forbidden weapons, weapons which required massive amounts of magic to use.
For Byro it all seemed so unnecessary, after all with the Anima machine they could harvest magic from Earthland, a parallel world connected to Edolas at will, and indefinitely. Which they could space out, allowing for the infinite magic of that world to recharge before they took from it again. Or at least that was the idea both Percy and Byro had originally come up with decades ago when they first started working on the Anima project.
Of course the King had the final say on the matter, and he had chosen a different course, one which would allow them to provide their own magic without having to rely on another world. Which did make sense in a way, though Byro also suspected that a greater reason for this course of action was that the King had both control issues and an inferiority complex, which led to him hating the fact that the Exceeds, the stronger race, had both natural magic and were superior to the humans.
Byro too could understand his dislike of this fact, but unlike the King, he had come to terms with the fact that the human race was not the strongest on Edolas, and that they had to also share the world with the Exceeds. With the two races coming to an uneasy peace, both ruled over by the Exceed Queen, Shagotte, who held power over both life and death.
King Faust though, he wasn't content to just accept this reality, with him instead wanting to break the cycle and have it so the humans ruled this world with the Exceed being relegated to little more than cattle, cattle who existed to provide magic power for their betters, the humans.
Byro let out a tired sigh at that, things had changed a lot since he had first started working on the Anima plan all those years ago. Not that Byro could change anything now, even if he wanted to, no instead he would have to continue as is and make the best of the situation he had been placed in. Besides, it was better for his health not to rock the book.
It was with this in mind that Byro entered his laboratory, ignoring the fact that the guards who usually stood outside the door were not there. After all the King had order his Exceed Commander, Pantherlily, to wipe out the Fairy Tail Guild once and for all. So it was likely that the men who usually guarded his lab had been conscripted for that venture, not that it mattered. After all he dwelled within the heart of the palace, so the chances of anyone invading his laboratory were slim to none.
Ironically it was with this thought in mind that Byro stepped into his lab, grumbling all the while as he did so, only for him to find that he was not alone.
Not that he had long to ponder this, as moments later the guards on either side of him collapsed to the floor, their armoured forms making loud clanging sounds as they hit the stone floors, with the men either dead or unconscious, Byro couldn't tell for sure.
Instead his gaze flicked over those present in the room, including a blonde busty girl he recognised as the Dark Fairy Tail Wizard Lucy Ashely, as well as the pink haired coward Natsu Dragion, and strangely enough that nosey and annoying reporter, Gajeel, though just what he was doing here Byro didn't know, not that it would matter as they would all be killed for this transgression.
Of course there were others in the room, though their presences were far more concerning for Byro, as for one he could see that there were two Exceeds sat on his worktable, watching the ongoing proceedings with interest. Perhaps worse than that though were the two people he vaguely recognised, though they were much younger than they should be.
With one of them being his old partner and former friend, Percy Jackson, a very intelligent man, but not a great warrior by any means, that being said he was still dangerous. Which was why Byro wasn't surprised that he was getting distinctly dangerous vibes from the black haired, green eyed man as he raised his hand, a look of faint concertation on his face. With the man's daughter, Wendy, standing beside him, only this Wendy looked to be in her very early teens, a far cry from the older, beautiful and more mature woman, and deadly Wizard, that she had grown up to be.
"What the hell are yo-" Byro began to say, his pale skin turning a mottled red in anger as he instantly reacted to the intruders, his hand immediately plunging into his robes as he made to pull out some vials of magical potion, potion which he would drink, and then use to crush these foolish interlopers. After all, old friend or not, Percy and his daughter were now Dark Wizards, and enemies to the Kingdom.
Only for Byro to freeze midsentence and instead fall to the ground, as a heavy blow suddenly struck him in the back of the head. His blurred eyes shifting to his attacker as he felt himself getting turned over and saw his attacker step through the doorway after him, after which he felt hands starting to rootle about in his robes and taking away his potions. His gaze sharpening a few moments later, as the pain on the back of his head turned into just a dull throb.
"Erza…" Byro muttered, his brow furrowed in confusion as he saw Erza Knightwalker, the missing in action army commander, take the last of his potions away, before she then pocketed them. "W-why?"
"Because I'm choosing the winning side." The red head replied dismissively, before she nodded to Percy. "He's all yours."
"Thanks." Percy replied dryly, before he reached down and grabbed Byro by his robes, hoisting him off the ground with ease, before he then slammed him into one of the laboratory walls, knocking the air out of his lungs.
"So what are you going to do?" Lucy asked nervously from where she was leaning against one of the worktables.
"I'm going to interrogate him of course." Percy replied brusquely, his sea green eyes boring into Byro, as Erza, her job now done fully entered the room, her spear leaning on her shoulder as she look over at the two downed guards.
"Oi, shit for brains, are these two alive?" Erza asked curiously as she poked one of the guardsmen with her foot.
Percy cocked an eyebrow at the 'shit for brains' comment, his lips quirking as the woman was obviously feeling comfortable enough with him now to be insulting him, before he glanced over at them. "They're alive, I just cut their necks slightly with water blades and then redirected the flow of blood from their brains, and knocked them out. As long as you staunch the bleeding they should be fine."
"Hmm, ok." Erza nodded, before she stepped over them and continued into the room. "Though I didn't know you could control someone's blood?"
"Once I get passed the natural barrier of the skin, and overpower a person's natural resistance to magic I can." Percy replied easily, not too bothered about sharing his technique with those present, besides the people of Edolas didn't have the same magic resistance as those of Earthland, which made doing this even easier, one cut and they were his.
"Well that's bullshit, it's kind of cheating don't you think." Erza continued to talk, before she turned and leaned against the same worktable as Wendy. "By the way, Wendy, you use Healing Magic don't you? Do you fancy helping those two guards?"
"Ermm, ok" Wendy said softly, nodding her head in reply before she stumbled forwards, her hands glowing green as she started repairing the shallow cut on both of the guardsmen's necks.
"Thanks Wendy." Percy said a slight smile on his face as he gave Wendy a nod, only for the girl to go slightly pink in the face, before she looked away awkwardly. "And Erza, a fight is not a game there is no such thing as cheating when you're fighting for your life, remember that."
"Can you two stop chatting please?!" Gajeel suddenly snapped angrily from one side, the dark haired man's patience wearing thin as he just wanted this shit to be over and done with so he could go back to Earthland and forget this bullshit ever happened.
"You, you're all from Earthland aren't you?" Byro, now mostly recovered from the blow to his head, suddenly spoke out. The haggard old man licking his lips nervously as he felt Percy, or rather the Earthland Percy's gaze land on him, remembering as he so did the story Sugarboy had told the King before he was imprisoned. "I had heard it was a parallel world, and that some of you were running about, but I had never thought I would see someone from that world in person."
"No you just prefer them in lacrima form don't you." Percy stated bluntly, his lips quirking downwards now and his jaw clenching slightly, a flash of anger passing though his sea green eyes. "Speaking of which, you're going to tell me how to reverse the Anima process and return my friends back to normal, and then how to return us to Earthland."
"Am I now?" Byro sneered in response, regaining some of his confidence now he realised that this was not the Percy he knew. "And why would I do that?"
"Because if you don't I will make you wish you'd never been born." Percy once again said bluntly, his sea green eyes not wavering for a second as they continued to bore into Byro, the air around him suddenly feeling heavy, even as a light tremor passed through the room.
Around the room Natsu, Lucy and Wendy shifted uncomfortably, none of them particularly liking the idea of torture, or whatever Percy was planning on doing. After all it wasn't really in there nature, as fighting an opponent head on was one thing, but killing and going out of your way to hurt someone, that was another thing entirely.
Byro paused as he heard that, a sudden shiver of fear running down his spine as he locked gazes with Percy. His previous thoughts on how this young man could be like his mild mannered Edolas self, only more inexperienced, disappearing, as he instead found himself looking into the eyes of a killer, one who he could tell would do anything to protect those he cared about, the eyes of a wolf, a born predator, and pack animal.
"Now as cliché as it may be, we can do this one of two ways. It can be the easy way, where you tell me and l don't break you. Or it can be the hard way where you tell me after I start to make your blood boil, or I cause the blood vessels in your head to shrink and then expand. Both of which are agonizing, trust me." Percy then commented, his tone light, but his eyes flashing with barely contained power and fury.
Byro paled slightly as he heard Percy's words, his eyes shifting from Percy to the other wizards in the room, desperately searching for an escape or a way out, only for him to come up with nothing.
"Ok, I'll tell you. But if you reverse the Anima that will suck all the magic out of Edolas, it'll destroy us!" Byro finally replied, his fear and concern for his own safety overtaking his loyalty to the Kingdom and the King, Faust.
Erza shifted as she heard that, her eyes widening as she looked from Percy to Byro, her grip on her spear tightening as she did so.
"I'll take it into consideration, now tell me where the machine is and how to reverse it!" Percy continued, his gaze still locked on Byro, daring the wrinkled old man to lie to him.
Byro grit his teeth at that, before he sighed in defeat, "Ok, I'll tell you everything."
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(Sometime Later)
Walking out of Byro's laboratory ten minutes later, the group of Fairy Tail wizards, and Erza Knightwalker, quickly began heading in the direction of the Anima machine, before pausing when they found themselves at a sudden crossroads in the corridor.
"Ok so what's the plan?" Natsu asked, slamming his flaming fist together as he did so, his eyes locked on Percy as he waited for the leader of the group to tell them what he wanted.
"Right, so Lucy, Wendy, Natsu and Gajeel, I want you to head for the Anima machine. Take out this Hughes guy guarding it and secure it. Take out any guard you come across when heading there too, Erza and I will meet you there after we finish our task." Perseus said brusquely, gesturing off in the direction that the machine lay as he did so. With him knowing as he did that Byro hadn't lied to him about what he knew, after all Erza had confirmed the location of the Anima machine, and the cowardly, self-serving man surely knew the consequences of lying to them. Plus once he was in control of someone's blood, he could feel their heart beating as it boomed the life giving liquid around the body.
"And that task is?" Gajeel grunted, not all that adverse to getting away from Percy and actually cutting loose for once.
"We're going to go for the King," Percy said after a pause, not expanding on the point as he did so. "It shouldn't take us long, just make sure Natsu doesn't damage the Anima machine."
"Oi!" Natsu shouted, a slight scowl on his face. "I know not to wreck it."
"We'll make sure." Lucy then said nodding her head as she did so, before she gestured for the others to follow her. "Come on let's go."
"Right." Wendy said with a nod, before Lucy ran off down the corridor, the blue haired girl pursuing her as she did so, with Gajeel then following along after them, after grunting a 'see you later' at Percy and Erza first. With Natsu giving Percy a final nod before doing the same, yelling gleefully as he did so, forgetting for the moment that they were supposed to be being subtle.
Watching them go, Percy paused for a moment before he headed down a different corridor, this one leading directly to the throne room, and the King.
"So you're going to go ahead with your plan then?" Erza said quietly from where she was walking next to Percy, looking sideways at the taller man as she did so.
"What, you mean dethroning the King?" Percy asked, shifting his gaze over to the red head as he did so, once again struck by just how similar she was to the Erza he knew, yet also how different.
"No, I mean reversing the Anima and draining all the magic from Edolas. Surely you know that by doing that you will destroy this world." Erza shot back at him, the slightest hint of aggression entering her voice now, as she clenched her spear tighter.
"It won't destroy Edolas." Percy said after a few moments, before he stopped and fully faced Erza, locking eyes with her as he did so. "I originally grew up in a society that couldn't use magic, and they had gotten along fine for millennia without it. With the society I grew up in using the world's other resources and technology to live a life just as comfortable as the one you have here."
Erza frowned as she heard that. "You're not from Earthland?"
"No, I come from a different world." Percy replied after a few moments of silence.
"Then how can you use magic?" Erza asked bluntly, her expression not changing.
"The world I came from, it did have magic and gods, but the society I was born into, the vast majority of the world's population, they didn't even know that kind of thing existed, and weren't dependent on it." Percy replied after a few more moments, knuckling his head as he tried to get his words out in a way Erza would understand. "Already Edolas has begun to get used to the lack of magic, with their technology advancing way ahead of Earthland's to compensate for that. Which is why I am going through with my plan. Edolas will survive, and although it may be hard in the beginning they will go onto thrive, even without magic."
"Is that why you left Byro alive then, and didn't destroy the laboratory like you said you would?" Erza said after a few moments of silence, her frown lessening, as it instead morphed into a more thoughtful look.
Percy smiled slightly at that. "You noticed that."
Erza nodded in response, but didn't smile herself. "So will that be it then, you kill the King and then leave, taking all the magic from this world with you, abandoning m-, us, and just hoping that we'll get back on our feet someday."
Percy tilted his head as he heard that. "You don't like my plan?"
"I didn't say that." Erza replied quickly, before pausing. "I accept that Edolas might eventually be fine without magic. As you say it'll be hard at first, but it'll be possible."
"Yes, and with people like Percy and the Fairy Tail Guild around things will start to get back on track. The people of this world, outside of the capital at least, will no longer have to live in fear of the King, a new era will begin on this world. An era which I am sure will become Edolas's golden age." Percy replied after a few moments of thought, a genuine smile creeping across his face now as he reached out and clasped Erza's shoulder. "Trust me, the unknown might be scary. It might feel like you're at the edge of a cliff and looking down into a chaotic void. But if you take the leap you may find that it was the best thing you ever did."
Erza frowned slightly at Percy's odd choice of analogy, her face scrunching up cutely as she looked at him curiously. "You sound as if you're speaking from experience?"
"How do you think I came to be in Earthland to begin with? I took the leap, and looking back now, it was the best thing I ever did. Sure I miss the people I once knew, but I have since gone on to meet new people, people who I came to love." Percy continued quietly, his tone taking on a softer quality, as he thought back on the terror of being alone in Tartarus, and of all he had experienced since then, both the highs and the lows.
Erza's cheeks went a little pink as she saw the look in his eyes, and felt the warmth of his hand as it squeezed her shoulder for a moment, before releasing it
"Now come on, we've got a tyrannical King to overthrow." Percy then said with a quick smile, extending a hand out to her as he did so.
Erza's cheeks continued to pink as she saw this, before she looked away and took his hand, almost demurely, taking the leap. "Alright then, let's go."
"Good." Percy said with a grin, before he continued down the corridor, pulling Erza after him for a few moments, before he let go of her hand when she started to willingly follow him.
"You're still a shit head though." Erza muttered from behind him, quite red in the face as they continued down the hall, heading in the direction of King Faust.
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(Outside of the Royal City)
"Lord Pantherlily!" An Edolesian soldier called out from his mount, his voice barely audible over the winds as the flock of Legion continued their flight.
From the head of the group, Pantherlily turned his head, his lip curling upwards, revealing a set of sharp teeth as he looked at the solider for a moment, before he saw he was pointing down toward the ground. With Pantherlily's cat like eyes following the man's arm, before locking onto what he was gesturing at, a large tree like structure, one which had windows and a large orange banner overhead which said 'Fairy Tail'.
"We've found the Fairy Tail Guild!" The soldier then continued, stating the obvious as he did so.
"Begin the descent, we've found our quarry!" Pantherlily roared out, gaining the attention of the rest of the mounted army as he gripped the reigns of his Legion and led the charge. The hundred or so giant grey beast descending toward the ground, even as the dozens of airships behind them altered their course. The Edolesian army now closing in on their foe.
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AN: So what did you all think of the chapter? The Edolas Arc is slowly wrapping up as all the players move towards their final places. Which I am kind of glad about, as I kind of feel I spent a little too long on this arc, and as such want to move the story on, still I am not rushing. Though the next chapter will likely conclude this arc, with some fast paced action and what not.
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