Checkmate: that is a nice theory.
.: thank you for liking the story. Have fun reading Fairy Tail, it is a very fun ride.
Mash was looking at the blue-haired person right in the face, now it made sense why he was so familiar, it really was someone he knew. A boy with blue hair put in a ponytail, wearing a uniform similar to his but with a black shirt, white tie, and a white robe with purple highlights, two lines on his face, and something new to his style, an eyepatch, that for sure was
"Abyss, right? You look cool with the eyepatch." Mash said looking at the boy
"So you remember. Good to see that you haven't gone back on your word." the now known as Abyss said, a friend that Mash made during the battle in the secret chamber of the magic school
The black-haired guy was looking at them in confusion. Were they just talking? They weren't taking him seriously!?
"Mash, is that guy your friend?" Natsu asked trying to end his own confusion
"Yes. I met him before coming here." Mash said while giving him a thumbs up
"DON'T IGNORE ME!" the black-haired guy yelled, creating a bunch of shadow hands to attack them
But instead of them getting hit, something weird happened, while the hands were approaching, Mash jumped to the side, and Abyss pulled his eyepatch up for a small moment, he felt his magic disappear for a small moment which made his spell disappear, and thanks to that distraction Mash managed to throw a chair at his face and take him down
"Hey, let me participate too!" Natsu said while igniting his fists
"Attention everyone, the complication has been taken care of, the train will resume its movement in a moment." a warning came out of the speakers on the train making Natsu widen his eyes
"Oh no! Quick, get out!" Natsu yelled while grabbing Mash and Abyss and jumping off the train through the destroyed part, and soon the train really did start moving
"Are you crazy!?" Abyss yelled while they fell to the ground, rolling through the rails until they finally stopped
While on the ground they saw a vehicle coming their way, it was some kind of magic vehicle apparently, with Erza driving and Gray on top of it, They assumed Lucy and Happy were inside of it
"Oi Natsu, what are you doing, you punk." Gray said while the vehicle stopped
"I did it." Mash said giving them a thumbs up
"Natsu, we're sorry!" Happy said while flying toward his friend
"You guys are terrible! How could you forget about me!? At least Mash came to save me! Also, thanks, Mash." Natsu yelled at his friends and thanked his savior
"Who are these?" Abyss asked while looking at Mash
"They are wizards from Fairy Tail, the one you met at the train is Natsu, that one is Gray, that one is Lucy and that one is Erza." Mash said while dragging Abyss to go meet his friends
"Mash, I am very thankful for you bringing Natsu back safe and sound." Erza said pulling Mash by his head toward her chest
"Ouch." which ended up making him hit his head on her armor
"Safe!? A random dude tried to fight me! That one helped me with him, if it wasn't for him I would be in a lot of trouble!" Natsu said angrily making the others notice that person's presence
"Ah, sorry, we were just focused on our own situation that we didn't notice you. Thanks for saving my friend, your name is?" Lucy thanked the stranger
"Uh… E… Eh…" Abyss seemed to have frozen up, his face getting completely red and he even seemed to have lost the ability to speak
"What's your name?" Gray asked
"I am Abyss Razor. It is a pleasure to meet you all." Abyss answered Gray immediately while turning towards him
"EH!?" Lucy had been confused as to why he was bothered by her and not Gray
"Thanks for the help with that weirdo. He said something about some Eisenwald-" Natsu was talking until Erza punched him in the face
"YOU IDIOT!" Erza screamed while Natsu flew to the ground "Eisenwald is what we're looking for!"
"How was I supposed to know!?" Natsu yelled
"I told everyone about it on the train! Why didn't you listen!?" Erza yelled at Natsu
Mash was looking away from her with a cold sweat going down his forehead, he didn't listen to Erza so he would probably be in the same situation as Natsu if she found out
"These people are weird…" Abyss said
"He was on the train, right? What did he look like!?" Erza asked Natsu
"Nothing special, he kinda looked like a pineapple but nothing more. He also had this weird flute with a skull with three eyes." Natsu said while getting up with a hand on his cheek
"What? How gross." Gray said while crossing his arms
"I heard Master Abel talking about something like this…" Abyss said while stuck in thought
"He is here too?" Mash asked. It seemed like he managed to get to a hospital
"A flute with a three-eyed skull…" Lucy said scared
"What is it, Lucy?" Happy asked
"If that flute is the cursed song then… That flute is Lullaby! Lullaby, the magic of death!" Lucy yelled scared
"What!?" Erza said surprised
"Cursed song?" Mash said confused
"I've read about it in some books. Between the prohibited magic there is this thing called 'Death by curse', right?" Lucy said
"Yes, it is a dark magic that curses the target and casts death on them." Erza said while getting on the magic vehicle
"Lullaby is worse than that." Lucy said, making Abyss widen his eyes "It is a Mass-Death Curse! If they play the flute, all who hear it will die!"
"So that's why Master Abel warned me about it, he wanted to make sure I was careful around it." Abyss said while in shock
"Get in!" Erza yelled and everyone obeyed
—
The magic vehicle was moving at amazing speeds, so much so that Gray, who was on top of it, had to hold on to the vehicle with all of his strength so he didn't fall out
"Hey, Erza, aren't you using too much magic!?" Gray said while looking at the redhead
"If that flute is played a lot of people will die. Human lives are at stake here." Erza said in a serious manner
"I know, but we will probably have to fight those guys, and if you keep this up you will end up too tired to fight." Gray warned the fairy queen
"It doesn't matter, we must get there quickly. And if push comes to shove I'll just grab a stick and fight using it, and I still have you guys with me." Erza said while making the vehicle move even faster
"Hmm… Lucy, I think I had something to tell you." Happy said while thinking about it
"What was it?" Lucy asked
"I don't remember…"
"Now I'm curious, try to remember."
The trip was a lot more turbulent than what Mash was used to but he didn't really seem bothered by that, he was looking through the window thoughtfully. A flute with the capability to kill so many people with only its sound, magic really was something incredibly dangerous
"Mash, don't worry. We are going to manage to stop it." Abyss said while putting a hand on his shoulder
"After what you and your colleagues did at the school I honestly expected you guys to not care for other people, but you really are a cool guy." Mash said making Abyss giving him a small smile
"You really are someone different, Mash." the boy said
—
Getting to the Oshibana Station they saw a lot of smoke coming out of it, and so they chose to go investigate since the chance of it being Eisenwald was very big, and so they got out of the vehicle and ran toward the building
"What is happening inside?" Erza asked one of the guards
"Who are you?" the guard asked, and so he was knocked out by a headbutt from her
"What is happening inside?" she asked another guard
"Huh!?" and one more was knocked out
"what is happening inside?" and she asked another one
"She only likes the ones who immediately answer, right?" Lucy asked in a cold sweat
"Now you know her better." Gray said also in a cold sweat
"Let's check out ourselves." Mash said while running inside the place, and being followed by the others
"Wait, why do I have to carry this!?" Lucy yelled about her having to carry Natsu since he got sick during the trip, but she was ignored
"A military platoon was sent inside to deal with the situation, but they have yet to come out." Erza informed the group
"What about Eisenwald?" Mash asked
"Also didn't get out! There is probably a big fight happening." Erza explained
During their run they saw a group of guards on the ground, some were unconscious but they were all heavily wounded
"They were defeated!?" Happy yelled surprised
"Our opponent is a dark guild, so it was to be expected." Erza said walking past the guards
"Hey Abyss, what is a dark guild?" Mash asked his friend, he was curious about it but he didn't want Erza to know that he didn't listen to her explanation
"From what Master Abel during his research on a nearby library, they are guilds that don't follow the laws given by the magic council, basically a guild full of criminals." Abyss explained to Mash, the boy was going to say something about that but something dragged his attention away from that
"A military platoon could never beat wizards…" Erza said making Mash and Abyss widen their eyes
From the way she said that it looked like they didn't have magic, but… saying something like that so casually… and with no hate… maybe in this place not having magic wasn't that bad? But how could there be this many people without magic? Abyss and Mash looked at each other in shock but soon found something else to worry about since they entered the main hall of the station and found a massive crowd in there
"Lookie here, hello flies." a man holding a scythe said "I knew you'd come, Fairy Tail."
"You are Erigor, right?" Erza said while staring at him
"Natsu, wake up!" Lucy said while putting Natsu on the ground
"It's impossible! He went on a train, a magic vehicle, and Lucy! It is a combo impossible to recover from!" Happy said
"I count as a vehicle!?" Lucy yelled
"Flies, it's because of you that…" the black-haired guy from before said
"Calm down Kageyama." one of the members from Eisenwald said
"That voice…" Natsu said still on the ground
"What do you intend on doing? Depending on your answer I will have to make you pay." Erza said while looking sternly at the crowd
"We are just having fun, we have no job and are bored so we did this!" Erigor said laughing while he began to fly "You don't understand? What do train stations have?"
"He flew!" Lucy yelled
"It's wind magic!" Happy said
"Time's up." Erigor said hitting on the speakers at the train station
"You are planning on broadcasting Lullaby!?" Erza yelled shocking the rest of the team while Erigor laughed
"There are thousands of people around here, if we broadcast it loud enough we can get the entire town to hear the song of death!" Erigor said in a sadistic manner
"You are planning on killing everyone!" Abyss said angrily
"We are just cleaning up. Those fools enjoying their rights without knowing that there are people who had their rights revoked, living life oblivious to the unfairness of the world! And that's why the Grim Reaper comes to punish them!" Erigor said with a massive smile on his face
"You are only killing them because they have what you don't?" Mash said with a shadow covering his face
"Now that we are here, what we want isn't rights, but authority! When we get authority we will be able to have and do what we want!" Erigor said laughing, that talk about rights and authority was starting to anger Mash and Abyss
Mash had no magic so he didn't have the same rights as a normal person should, but he would never think about taking away someone's rights, especially their right to live.
Abyss was similar, he had a curse on one of his eyes and because of that he never had the same rights as the others and was always treated differently, he himself thought of making everyone suffer what he had. But killing them just because they had something he didn't? He learned that doing that would make him no better than trash
And the worst part of all of this was him talking about how if he had authority he could do what he wanted, whoever had more power would make the rules, that was the idea that made them be treated the way they are today. Erigor was at the same time like them, and like the ones who oppress them… That is annoying
"How sad, little flies! You won't be able to see our new era!" Kageyama said while making a shadow hand attack Lucy
"I knew it was you!" Natsu yelled while destroying the shadow hand with a flaming fist "And this time we are on a proper battlefield."
"You just have a plan to dominate and kill everyone in this city, the city where Master Abel lives, and using the excuse of 'rights' and 'authority' to justify yourselves. You remind me of myself from not too long ago, computing atrocities because I was angry at the world…" Abyss said, pulling out his sword and pointing it at Eisenwald "And the me from then annoys the me from now."
"I don't care if you guys are sad or not, I have too much going on in my mind right now so I'll just tell you something, you guys can't just try to kill everyone." Mash said, cracking his knuckles and pointing at Erigor "I'll break that flute and your face. And like that you and no one else will be able to use that to do this kind of thing."
"You guys are right. Let's finish this." Erza said while stepping forward
"Time to end these idiots." Gray said while taking off his shirt
"Damn, so many people." Natsu said and so hit his fist on each other, igniting them "So many people to beat up that is!"
"Enemies, all of them!" Lucy said also ready
"You fell right into my trap, Fairy Tail. Now back to the main plan. There is someone who needs to hear this song. Someone who needs to die!" Erigor said while flying through the halls of the station, ready to run away from there
During his escape he was almost hit by a puppet that appeared right beside him, he flew back a little to dodge the puppet and through the shadows of the hall he saw someone walking forward with two big and bulky puppets right beside them
"Who are you?" Erigor asked while staring at them. Another annoying fly that came to try to stop him?
The person with their slow steps finally reached the light, revealing their appearance, he was using the same clothes as Abyss but a part with fur on his coat, he was holding a baby-shaped wooden puppet in his arms, his hair being at the length of his shoulders being colored white with purple tips, in his face, on one of his pink colored eyes, there were three lines
"Mother, it seems like we have to stop someone from committing an atrocity." the person said apparently to his puppet, his expression being as cold as a statue's "My name is Abel Walker, and you are not leaving this place."