Epilogue - In home once more
Fairy Tail, after recovering from what had happened, invited everyone present to a party to celebrate their release from the spell. Several people were too injured to participate and were currently kept in the infirmary with Porlyusica taking care of them.
"I lost to you!" - Erza almost screamed.
"Yes." - said Loke - "But I must admit, I got hit pretty hard. You didn't hold back in the fight."
"Well, that means that nowadays maybe even I would have a chance." - Gray said.
"I took you out in seconds." - Lyon interjected.
"WHAT?!" - Gray shouted - "Impossible."
"That's the truth." - Sherry said.
"It is impossible." - Gray repeated himself.
"Want to find out?" - Lyon replied. Both he and Gray stood up and prepared to fight, but Ur stood between them.
"Not now, guys." - said Ur - "And Gray, get dressed."
"When did it happen?!" - Gray shouted in surprise.
"How can you even do this if Lyon and Ur don't do this?" - Carla asked.
"I don't know!" - Gray shouted.
From the sidelines, Makarov just looked on with a smile on his face - "It's really good to see them united."
"Correct." - said Jura, drinking beer - "Actually, I wanted to propose Miss Ur as the new magician saint."
Makarov just scratched his chin and added - "Yes, it's definitely possible."
"She beat you in a fight." - Mira said, from behind the counter.
"She was lucky I was under control." - Makarov said, not accepting this defeat.
"But she created literally armies of ice soldiers to help us fight." - said Jura - "Honestly, I don't want to see our chances without her."
"What are you talking about." - Gildarts said - "I would have arrived at the last second and taken care of it myself."
Suddenly, Gajeel bumped into Gildarts, causing him to spill his beer.
"So what now, steelhead?" - Natsu asked, laughing maniacally with his fist surrounded by flames.
"You're dead, Salamander!" - Gajeel shouted, ready to fight.
"Wrong." - Gildarts added, standing up, while releasing a dark aura - "You're both going to die."
Natsu and Gajeel suddenly caught themselves and started squealing like little girls.
"Boys." - Cana said tiredly, drinking another barrel of beer.
"I hope Gajeel will be okay." - Levy said.
"Are you worried about your boyfriend?" - Lissana joked, Levy immediately turned red as Jet and Droy started to panic.
"Oh he's not my boyfriend." - Levy said.
"Still." - Lissana added, then stopped smiling and said - "I'm sorry for causing such trouble."
After a moment of silence, Juvia said - "Juvi doesn't understand."
"This Helbram possessed me and that's why he got all of you. Well, almost all of them."
"Do not worry." - Milliana said, hugging her from behind - "Me, Sho and Wally were also controlled by Jellal. Only Simon managed to resist it."
"Thanks." - Lissana said.
"So, ladies…" - Hibiki began.
But he was hit by Elfman, who shouted - "Hands off my sister!"
Ren and Eve made a tactical retreat.
The party was going on downstairs, but upstairs Lucy, Yuka, and a few others were still relaxing. Wendy decided to stay and help Porlyusica. Wendy had some strange feelings about Porlyusica, but she ignored them for now to focus on her friends.
Until Lucy finally stood up.
"Lucy-san!" - Wendy screamed and threw her arms around Lucy's neck.
"You're lucky, stupid girl." - said Porlyusica - "You abused your magical power. I don't know how you even kept that big tiger in check."
"Oh well." - Lucy started, but Wendy interrupted her - "It's thanks to the help of your new mysterious friend."
"Yes." - Lucy said, then glanced at the wounded lying around.
Anticipating Lucy's question, Porylusca said - "They'll be fine. Fortunately, due to the mind control, they were much less stubborn than usual, so I only ended up with bruises and scratches."
"If it weren't for Aquarius, it would have been worse." - Lucy said, remembering how her mermaid friend took the brunt of Helbram's attack when he was controlling Azure Dragon.
"Lucy-san, can you walk?" - Wendy asked.
Lucy tried to get up, but she was still too weak and had to support herself. Seeing this, Wendy quickly cast a healing spell on Lucy to regain some more of her magic. Then, although she was still weak, Lucy decided to go downstairs with Wendy's help.
When they saw her coming down, the party stopped for a moment and everyone looked at her.
"Hi guys." - Lucy said and everyone burst out with a loud 'Lucy', and immediately started asking her a whole lot of questions and apologizing for their behavior while under Helbram's control.
"You can see who is the most popular here." - Ur said, walking up to Makarov.
"Well, this is our Lucy." - said Makarov.
"She's like that, Lysets fe."
"What?" - Gildartas asked surprised.
"In the old language of my country it translates as 'Fairy of Light'." - said Ur.
The group watched as the Guild men began to gather around Lucy with smiles on their faces.
"Miss Ur, you're probably right." - said Jura.
"In more ways than one." - Ur said to herself, simply enjoying the moment.
The story is over. I just had some time over the holidays and decided to write this. Maybe I'll make a sequel someday.
