Happy New Years, Here's part three let's dive on in
Chp 24: Knights Sacrifice (Revised)
After their encounter with the demon cards the rave warriors and fairy-tail wizards; minus Lisana and Wendy regrouped back at the palace.
"Wendy was taken by one of their members!" Zodie and Carla exclaimed.
"Indeed Lazenby was also taken, but trust us we are going to find them," Deerhound said.
"Yes, Deer Hand is right for now. Let us get some rest for now in the meantime one of my spies will go out and try to track your friends down. The doors to the throne room opened up and in walked Lisana.
"Lisanna!" Happy came flying towards her burying his face into her chest crying. "You're ok, thank goodness."
"What did I miss?"
"Wendy and Lazenby were taken hostage." Natsu said walking up, Lisana shivered at that name upon what she discovered previously. "We don't know where they are and I can't track them either. I tried it like something here blocking her scent. He noticed she was zoned out a bit. "Yo earth to lisanna you ok?"
"Uh yeah sorry i'm fine don't worry." She looked over at Carla who looked to be sick; she remembered that Carla looked to be having visions. She ran over and scooped her up then began to walk somewhere private. "Uh excuse us Carla needs to use the little exceeds room. The youngest Strauss sibling made sure they were in an area where they couldn't be heard.
"Lisanna, why did you bring me here?"
"Since we got here I noticed that you've been acting troubled almost like you had a bad vision."
"Well that's exactly what i've been seeing, it looks as though the symphonia kingdom is or will be destroyed I can't really tell, then I hear a voice in my head warning me about this place. I don't know what it means."
"I also found something bizarre to say the very least, she moved toward a door on a balcony then turned her arms into wings. "Come on, I'll show you."
In a hidden area of the city Wendy and Lazenby are encased in ice except their heads due to the magic of Jiero who brought them to the demon card hideout.
"Remind me again why we turned tail, I was ready to finish that fight!" Megido bursted irritated.
"All in due time Megido but remember our plan, we'll lure the rave warriors out by using them as bait so we can finally destroy them." Shakuma answered.
"You'll never get away with this, because in the end justice alwa-.
Before Lazenby could finish Jiero froze his head, shutting him up. "Sigh out of all them I can't stand him the most, so cheesy like one of those corny heroes from a comic book."
"Now then friends it's time for destruction."
Lisanna and Carla were standing in the graveyard and Carla was beyond words, she felt frightened and bewildered. "I know I had the same exact reaction as you."
"But this doesn't make any sense, why is this here, and how can they be alive?"
"I don't know but I think we need to start looking for some answers then get out of here." Lisanna looked over and noticed a man nearby raking leaves, this must've been the groundskeeper of this place she figured he'd know something.
"Excuse us sir." Both fairy tail wizards walked over to him. "Sorry to bother you, we know you're busy but do you know anything about those particular graves over there?"
The groundskeeper said nothing, he just threw down his rake and ran off. "Ok what's his problem." Lisanna exclaimed.
"Let's move on, we're not going to find any answers here."
Zodie was laying in his bed in the guestroom when Nibels pet fox Kit came in and jumped up on the bed and right into his arms. "Oh hey lil dude nice to see you too. What's wrong, little guy? Are you worried about Lazenby? I get it. I'm worried about Wendy too but I know we'll find them." Kit was still uneasy which Zodie found perplexed he began
Then Niebel walked in then kit became rather terrified which Zodie picked up on; when he first met he noticed the same behavior. "Zodie hey man so sorry I hope he isn't bothering you." He reached for Kit but Zodie moved back.
"Is kit alright? He looks scared." Kit then began to grasp onto Zodie not wanting to go with Nibel.
"Yeah, today is the day he has to take his weekly medicine, and he hates it." Niebel reached again but Zodie stepped back; he wasn't buying what Niebel was telling him. "Dude, are you doing something to him ?
"ENOUGH GIVE HIM TO ME RIGHT NOW!" Niebel bursted out and snatched Kit from Zodie. The phoenix slayer flinched at the sudden outburst as the illusionist glared daggers at him. Just then Shuda rushed in with news. "Hey guys one of our scouts located Wendy and Lazenby lets go. Niebel rushed off with Kit struggling to get out of his grasp
Meanwhile Lisanna and Carla spent the whole afternoon trying to get answers but the people wouldn't talk to them. The youngest Strauss sibling grew irritable; they weren't making any progress in their investigation at all.
"What're we going to do this is getting us nowhere, what's the matter with these people."
Lisanna then notices in the nearby canal a man in a gondola; he was the same man from before and was starting to get real strange vibes about him. She leaped into the water and turned into a mermaid and cut him off, blocking his path.
"Hey hold on!"
"Oh why hello little miss, how can I help you today." Said the Gondola man.
"Do you know anything about the Rave knights and their gravestones?"
He flinched at this question. "Oh uh well would ya look at that, I… gotta finish my route can't keep my customers waiting."
Lisanna placed her hand firmly on the boat to keep it from moving. "What customers, I've seen you around town and I noticed you never stop. Not even once, why is that?"
Carla flew over. "Yes and nobody has asked for a ride."
"Oh w…well business has been slow lately."
Lisanna leaped out of the water then turned into her cat form. "Cut the crap already when was the last time you gave someone a ride."
"P…please ;ladies no more questions he'll hear you!"
"Who?" Carla asked.
I…I can't say anymore please just leave me be." Lisanna glared at the boatman then let him go and got off letting him go on about his day."
"How curious." Carla exclaimed.
"Yeah I'd like to know who he is, so what now."
Carla's head starts to ache once more, making the exceed grab at it.
"Hey What's wrong?" Lisanna asked.
This time Carla began to see directions of where to get the answers that she needed. Before the pain stopped.
"I know where we need to go, follow me."
Natsu and co arrived at symphonies amusement park where the Demon card was waiting for them.
"This is where the tip leads us, man it's just like E-land back in Edolas huh." Said Happy.
"Please tell me Wendy's not gonna be strapped on to a roller coaster because thinking of that makes me wanna hurl." Natsu uttered.
"If it should come to that I'll get Wendy." Said Zodie.
"Oh the classic knight in shining armor rescuing his damsel in distre-." Happy was interrupted when he was completely encased in ice.
"So glad you all dropped by." Jiero said in a stoic tone.
"Jiero what have you done with our comrades?!" Deerhound demanded.
The only female member of the demon card gestured behind her to a roller coaster. Zodie with his enhanced eyesight peered at a moving coaster to see Wendy and Lazenby strapped inside. "Oh man, they're both up there inside that roller coaster." Said Zodie. That wasn't the bad part; the coaster had dozens of death traps each time it would pass.
"Oh geez this is worse than that tilt a whirl at E-land." Natsu said in anguish.
"I gotta save them." Zodie sprouted his wings and flew towards them.
"I got a score to settle with that pussy cat, he took my sword!" Shuda
"I'm coming with ya after he made a fool of me."
Meteorites soon started to descend from the sky, making the Knights along with Happy take cover behind some stands. Then the air began to go cold as a blizzard kicked in. "Damnit Jiero's magic along with Shakuma's meteorite is proving to be a bad combo for us.
"Hey can't Belinka cancel those spells out?!" Happy asked.
"I'm sorry but I can only nullify one spell at a time."
"Then nullify the snow so I can manage to get past these meteors." Solasido said.
Belinka nodded and used her staff, canceling out Jiero's blizzard. "Excellent work, follow me." Deerhound ordered Solasido to follow after him after smashing through incoming meteorites.
…
Zodie reached the roller coaster Wendy and Lazenby were stuck on. "Hang on, I'll get you guys out of this."
"Look out!"
Upon warning Zodie nearly dodged an oncoming saw blade only taking a spec of his hair. "Oh man that was close."
"It's not over yet, kid look." Lazenby warned Zodie witnessed streams of fire coming his way. The phoenix child sprouted his wings shielding him Wendy and Lazenby from the flames.
"Ok all things considered that wasn't so-." Before he could finish Zodie saw an array of death traps up ahead that he would have to face. "I hate roller coasters!"
After what felt like twenty minutes Carla eventually led Lisanna to an undisclosed building; at least that's what the voice in her head wanted to see. "So this is the place the voice told you about?"
"Indeed I myself am eager to find out what this is all about." They reach the entrance and only to find that the door was locked, Lisanna merely just changed into her rabbit form knocking the door down with ease. They both made their way inside seeing as how the only entrance was down a cellar and stairs. Making their way down they could start to feel a cool breeze before it started to become colder the lower they came descneded down. Finally reaching the end their attention was drawn to a large glacier sitting right in the middle of the room; that's what was causing the cool breeze.
"S..s..so t..t…this is w…w…what's d…down here. No wonder no one comes here." Lisanna said as she began to shiver.
Before Carla could speak she squinted her eyes and noticed that inside the glacier was a person; not just a person it was a child. "Oh my!" She flew up to the face of the child with haist. "Hello, can you hear me? Are you alright."
"Hey what's wrong?"
"There's a child in there, Lisanna quick give me the moon drip you got." The Strauss girl handed to the white exceed where she wasted no time to unscrew the bottle and pour it on the ice. After a couple of seconds the large glacier began to rapidly melt away revealing the child inside was a boy and he looked to be nine years old. He had light brown skin, long light blue shoulder dreadlock length hair with bangs covering his eyes, his attire consisted of a gray sweatshirt with blue long sleeves and red knee length white shoes. "It's him, he's the one in my vision. Carla placed her fingers onto his neck and could feel a pulse. "He's alive."
"Hey are you ok?"
The boy slowly opens his eyes looking up at them, his eyes falling upon Carla. "Y…you came."
...
Asura was thrown into a couple of tables at the food court of the amusement park by Deerhound. The bear man leaped down grabbing him by his horns. "You will pay for that little stunt you pulled on me before.
"Dark bring, Full Metal." Asura grabbed Deer hounds arms with tense bone crushing pain then head butted him away before grabbing his leg and throwing the bear man into a nearby fun house. While this was going Natsu and Shuda were locked in a rematch with Megido; the lion proved to be quite the challenge even for the salamander. The lion man had Shuda's sword Enteka, and was deflecting Natsu's flames while Shuda seemed powerless without his weapon.
"Just give up with this weapon you can't win." Teased Megido.
"Know what I think it just shows that you can't win without it." Natsu said. He swung his fiery coated fist at him but it was merely blown back by the sword.
"Lots of talk from the ones on the losing end of this fight."
Shuda then dove in, nailing the lion man right in the nose. "He's right Megido but you'll soon enough that it's not the weapon that makes the man."
"Oh is that so." Megido aimed Enteka at the knight ready to blast him with flames but to no avail nothing happened. "Huh what the hell." With the wave of his fingers a stream of fire flashed right into Megidos face, scorching him. Shuda took this as an opportunity to strike, he leaped up hitting him with his knee then taking back his sword.
"Now then allow us to show you what real fire power is." Enteka flared up with fire as Shuda raised it up. "Ready Natsu!?" Soon the flames from the sword were being devoured by Natsu.
"Oh yeah now I got a major fire in my belly." Natsu's arm ignited as large torrents of flames came out in a spiral formation hitting Megido with a fiery explosion sending the lion man straight in the air before coming back down scorched and out cold.
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Back with Zodie the phoenix child by some miracle made it through all the death traps with little support that Wendy and Lazenby offered. "Alright enough is enough." They were coming upon having darts being shot at them which Zodie used to block. Lazenby was able to catch one in his mouth and spat out for Zodie to catch.
"Use that to pick the cuffs."
Zodie doubted if this would work but he didn't have any other ideas; to his shock it surprisingly worked and both Wendy and the four armed men were free. The phoenix child grabbed a hold of his friend and the three made their way off the rollercoaster to the ground.
"Thanks for the help Zodie." Wendy thanked.
"Come you two, let's finish this." Lazenby said.
…
Solasido was locked in combat with Shakuma telekinetically controlling his cross to intercept the meteors; but soon he was starting to become overwhelmed with the incoming rocks before the rave knight was blasted with lighting. "Huh pathetic." Shakuma teased. Suddenly the elderly man felt himself being knocked from the air by Zodie who was invisible. Solasido had regained his composure and used his telekinesis to grab a hold of him and send him flying.
Belinka and Jiero were both locked in combat; Jiero having the upper hand while Belinka struggled to negate her magic. Til Shakuma came crashing right into Jiero knocking her unconscious.
Asura was tossed to the ground all bruised up before he was turned back into his small scrawny stature; now out of magic power. He rose to his feet and punched Deerhound hurting his fist before he was hit with a strong chop to the head knocking him unconciouss. Later the royal guards showed up to arrest the demon card and were taken away.
"Oh man that was amazing, The deerhound kicked Asura's butt, Zodie saving Wendy and Lazenby from the death coaster, oh man this was the battle of a lifetime."
"Couldn't agree more little buddy." Said Lazenby
Deerhound came up to Natsu. "Thanks for the assistance fairy tail, why don't we celebrate with a feast." holding out his paw for Natsu to shake.
"Oh yeah I can get behind that."
Team Natsu and the rave warriors returned to the castle heading straight towards the banquet hall but were surprised upon seeing Lisanna and Carla there waiting for them.
"Sheesh where the heck have you two been, you missed out when we took those Demon card clowns down." Natsu boasted.
Happy boasted. "Yeah thank goodness the rave knights were to help out, without them Wendy would've been a goner."
"Happy, they're not the rave knights!" Said Lisanna with a serious tone.
Natsu looked at her perplexed. "Heh."
"You heard her, they are not the rave knights!"
Niebel stepped in looking at the girls in disbelief. "What the heck are you two on about?"
"Indeed, and Lisanna do please explain yourself this is a rather serious accusation?" Deerhound spoke up.
"No, why don't you explain this!" Lisanna tossed a newspaper at the bear man's feet allowing him to pick it up and read it over. Rave Knights killed in Battle!
"Ok look you two whatever you're trying to pull isn't funny!" Niebel exclaimed.
"Young man were not pulling anything!" Carla replied.
"And this is anything but funny, Shuda, Belinka, and Lazenby are all dead. I know because the two of us have seen the graves." Lisanna said.
Natsu and Happy looked more lost and confused than ever. "Wait but if they're dead how're they standing right here next to us?" Wendy asked.
Before anyone could answer, the door swung open revealing a scout. "Urgent news a monster is terrifying the civilians, we need your help!"
"Count on us, let's move." Lazenby and the rave warriors were heading out when Lisanna in her bunny form leaped and blocked the door. "Hold on, we're not done here yet."
"Hey move aside, the kingdom needs us." Polasido protested.
"Haven't any of you noticed that nothing here makes sense, gondola rides that never stop,magazines and books with blank pages!"
"Dangers that spring up when anyone gets too close to the truth." Carla added.
"What truth!" Asked Lazenby.
"This kingdom is just one big phantasm, a living memory of a civilization that was destroyed twenty years ago."
Those words touched out to both Wendy and Zodie which Carla could see. "Children based on those looks you know what im talking about, it's just like what we encountered back in Cait shelter."
"If you don't wanna believe us then that's fine, but we've got someone here who knows first hand." From behind the boy that was encased in ice showed himself stunning the rave warriors.
"I…I don't believe it Nagare i…its you."
"W…we thought we lost you." Lazenby said.
"That's what someone wanted you to think and that someone is responsible for what's going on here and he's standing in this room!" Nagare exclaimed.
"What do you mean, who is he?" Asked Belinka.
Nagare pointed her finger at the culprit. "It was him." All eyes fell upon Nibel.
"What're you talking about?"
"Because I was there when it all happened." Nagare raised his hand performing a dispel spell on Nibel revealing his true form; he looked to be a jaded looking man and mid-overweight with messy hair. He kept the same outfit but it didn't seem to be fitting him all too well.
"No damn you, you've ruined everything!" Nibel then emitted a psychic pulse wave sending Nagare back hitting Carla knocking them both unconscious.
Just then the room of the banquet hall came off and a large tentacle monster appeared. "Rave knights attack." Lazenby ordered.
"No!" Lisanna exclaimed in protest as each rave knight went at the creature, Natsu was about to attack himself but was stopped by lisanna. "Don't it's an illusion, he's the real threat here."
"You just couldn't keep away could you, no you just had to poke around and mess things up!"
"I'm about to mess you up, fire drago-." Nibel used his telekinesis to grab hold of Natsu and threw him into a wall.
Lisanna morphed into her cat form and slashed him on the side with blinding speed. Nibel then used his powers to change the molecular structure of the floor into a quicksand-like surface pulling the Strauss sibling down and halting her.
Nibel was then struck by an unseen fist from Zodie making him stumble. "Wendy, little help."
"You got it, vernier." Wendy used her support spell to enhance Zodies attacks. Nibel went on the offense creating a barrier from his attacks, till he used his telekinesis to grab a nearby chair behind Wendy and hit her, making her release her spell.
"Wendy no."
"Worry about yourself!" Zodie was blasted and sent crashing into a wall. "This is my world, I'm god here, I decide who wins and who loses!"
Natsu and Wendy then found themselves encased in cement like structures; neither Zodie or Natsu could get free. They soon felt the structure getting tighter as Nibel slowly started to crush them. The rave knights noticed this and needed to help their comrades.
"Fairy tail needs our help." Said Shuda.
"Hold on, if what they said is true, beating Niebel will destroy this reality along with everything in it." Belinka said.
"That includes us huh?" Polasido asked.
"We gave our lives once and we can do it again!" Deerhound said drawing his axe before leading his knights into one last battle accepting their fate.
Nibels grip was getting tighter on the faires. "Once I'm through with you, I'll remake this world with you as my playthings." Nibel was suddenly hit in the jaw by Lazenby. "Wh…what's going on?" He was then hit by Solasidos cross slamming him into a wall. "What're you doing?"
"What should've been done ages ago." Shuda remarked.
"N…no you can't I made you, I made all of you!"
Each knight attacked Niebel individually before he shot them with a pulse wave of magic energy. Shuda then aimed his sword and fired a blast of fire. Nibel blocked it but the barrier was canceled by Belinka allowing the fire to burn him. Lazenby then trapped him with his sticky flames before he was hit with a barrage of fists then sent flying. Deerhound then appeared like a ninja from above before delivering a massive palm strike sending him to the ground creating a massive crater.
Nibel slowly rose to his feet, bruised and scratched; he then grabbed his head in aching pain before the rave knights surrounded him and attacked him at the same time. He was forced to put up a barrier to protect himself but even that wasn't doing him any good. Finally Nibel reached his limit before he fell unconciuss. The Rave Knights began to slowly fade away but before giving Nagare a thumbs up as a proper send off before vanishing.
The kingdom around them began to change; what was once a utopia was now a wasteland of ruin. It was just like what Carla saw in her Vision. Nagare then watched in horror as the Rave knights, once considered a family, disappeared along with the illusion of the kingdom. The ten year old fell to his knees in distraught, Zodie and Wendy looked at him with sympathy, they knew all too well what she was going through.
The group then approached the now unconscious Nibel. I guess he reached his limit and couldn't maintain the illusion by the looks of it." Said Lissana
"But how'd he even get that way?" Happy asked.
"It was from the adverse effect from the magic fallout, it enhanced his illusion magic, giving him the ability to mold this kingdom into his choosing." Nagare answered walking over with Zodie and Wendy.
"So he decided to recreate it with the heroes he worshipped as a kid." Said Lissana.
"Even though it was wrong I can't really blame him." Said Nagare.
"Did…did you do it?"
The group turned and looked to see a citizen standing behind them, they were joined by the other citizens of the city. They looked at the ground to see an unconscious Nibel. "The monster, he's been defeated, we're free, finally we're free." The citizens all began to rejoice.
"It's been so long, we can't thank you enough fairy tail."
"Wait a minute you guys are real?"
"Y…yes I know it's hard to believe from your point of view."
"You all gonna be ok, I mean all that's left is this nightmare." Said Zodie.
"Being forced to steer a gondola for twenty years is a nightmare."
"What're you all going to do now, I mean it'll take nearly two decades to repair your home.
"You kids, don't you worry about us, we can all figure something out."
"Yeah you kids have done more than enough for us."
"Well there is actually something we can do."
An hour later the magic council was called and they took Nibel away into custody, much to the joy of the citizens. They were assisted with new living arrangements while they questioned fairy tail as well as Nagare. Once it was all done they decided it was time to go home. As they were boarding a ship Zodie noticed Nagare looking at what was once his home.
He walked over to him, placing a hand on her shoulder making her look up. Tears began to pour from his eyes as he started to sob onto his chest. "I know what you're going through, me and Wendy both understand." Natsu and the others watch this from aboard the ship. "You don't have to be alone anymore, come back with us and join fairy-tail." As the ship they boarded sailed off they were unaware of the little stowaway.
About an hour later when the group returned the guild and they told them everything that went on.
"My word an entire kingdom has been like that for two decades, that must've taken an incredible amount of illusionary magic." Said Makarov.
Mira then walked up with her usual smile. "Oh and who's this a new friend?" Spotting the blue haired child.
"Yep, this is our newest member Nagare." Natsu introduced.
"Looks like there's another new member of the blue hair gang." Elfman joked referring to Levy, Juvia, and Wendy.
Nagare gave off a small smile at that. Mira gave Nagare his own guild mark; it was white and then everybody began to celebrate. Erza came over and introduced herself and offered him a strawberry cake.
"By the way, what sort of magic can you use?"
"I can use telepathy and dispel, but mostly I'm a god slayer." Nagare said, making the entire guild stop and grasp. "I take it you've never heard of that before huh." He went on to explain how god slayer magic was lost magic letting him attain the abilities of a god; his attribute was ice and was self-taught but was still learning.
To his surprise the guild erupted in cheers.
"Wow man that's awesome."
"We got another slayer in the guild."
"If he's anything like Natsu then Gray she's gonna give you a run for your money when she masters it." Those words made Nagare smile.
"Wow, where'd that little dog come from." Said a male member.
"No way that's totally a fox at best." Said another.
They all look to see a familiar fox-like creature. It was Kit, the same pet that used to belong to Nibel. When it looks around and sees Zodie it smiles and runs over and jumps into the phoenix boy's arms nuzzling his cheek.
"Wow I don't believe it, Kit followed us all the way back here." Happy said.
"Oh man, it looks like Nibel 's familiar took quite a liking to you."Nagare said, walking over with a plate of cake.
"Huh, what's a familair?" Asked Happy.
"Oh I've actually read up on them." Lucy said walking over. "They're supernatural beings that wizards can form a pact with."(Authors note: Don't know how they work in the fairy tail universe)
"Oh wow, kind of like celestial spirits." Asked Happy.
"Yeah except they're not really spirits, Looks like this little guy wants to be your companion Zodie."
"You wanna be my familiar Kit?" Zodie asked. The kitsune familiar smiled, confirming it. "Cool, so how does this work?"
"Just place your hand out in front of him and focus your magical energy." Nagare instructed. Zodie did as told and Kit soon began to glow in a purple like aurora before Zodies hand glowed. The light died down and the phoenix child could see glowing teal marks appear on his hand. It resembled Kit a lot before it died down.
"It's official now." Said Nagare.
"Welcome to fairy tail buddy." Said Zodie.
"Tihi thanks so much Zodie."
"Wow Kit you can talk."
"I'm speaking to you via telepathy; it's a thing a familiar can do with the person he's formed a pact with. And also I would prefer you not call me Kit anymore, it reminds me of my time when I was under Nibels regime, I want you to name me."
"How about Shade, because of the cool shade of gray your fur is cool."
"I love it, thanks Z."
"Oi bird boy I'll bet your friend can't stand up to my Lily." Gajeel exclaimed, knocking away tables and other members. This started a major brawl amongst the crowd.
"Uh, is it always like this?" Nagare asked.
"Oh yeah but you'll get used to it."
Suddenly Warren was sent flying towards Nagare but Zodie pulled her out of the way hitting Gray. "Alright, welcome to the brawl party."
Gray dashed at Natsu, nailing him in the face with a fist. "Watch it, you mouth breather!"
Their antics led to Nagare dropping his cake which enraged Erza. The fairy queen drew her sword and began chasing both Gray and Natsu. "Prepare to suffer!"
Pretty soon the rest of the guild hall erupted in an all out brawl. Wendy Carla Zodieand Shade pulled Nagare under a table for safety. "What did I get myself into!" Nagare asked.
Zodie let out a chuckle. "You picked the right crowd, stick with us." This made the nine year old smile.
And finished the end of the symphonic arc Zodies got a new companion and the guild has a new 's another oc i'll introduce later till then peace out 2025! Hey Yogara I read your review and decided to make the change of making Nagare his orginal gender. Sicne he'll be apart of Zodies group along with the kids from udenia they'll need more boys. Plus I wanna pair him up with another character i nthe future. Nagare x spoilers.
