Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Fiore, Magnolia.
August, x784.
A few hours later, the three troop transport vehicles returned to Magnolia. After driving past the gates, they did not stop until they were all behind the guild hall. However, when they reached the building that housed them, they stopped before entering.
Sitting in front of the building was Ultear, looking positively bored out of her mind. Scattered around her were all sorts of things that would indicate that she was trying to keep herself entertained for the last few hours, such as several different books and magazines. There was also a bottle of red nail polish, and anyone who was interested enough to look would notice that her nails were looking rather exquisite.
Stopping the transports in front of the building, all the wizards inside got out while Happy landed with Natsu, once again exhausted. Meanwhile, the drivers of the vehicles, Alfonzo, Elicia, and Makarov approached Ultear.
"Ultear, why are you waiting out here?" Makarov asked in curiosity.
The difference in Makarov's expression before and after this trip to Oak Town was like night and day. He looked so much more relaxed after getting the chance to vent over his children's injuries.
"I'm guarding the prisoners." Ultear replied.
"Ah… now that you mention it, Jose did say something about sending someone to take Lucy away." Makarov said with an enlightened gaze.
"That's right, a couple of S-Class wizards." Ultear replied with a nod.
"I guess that means you put them in there?" Alfonzo asked, pointing at the building behind Ultear.
"Yup." Ultear replied, nodding once again.
"Why didn't you put them in the underground prison? Makarov asked curiously. "Only the parts of the guild that were above ground were destroyed."
"Because of the girl." Ultear replied. "Lucy said her name was Juvia, I think. She had the ability to turn her body into water. We didn't know if using the magic sealing cuffs would work on her, either. So, we thought it was safer to put her in here before we unfroze her."
"Ah, being cautious then." Makarov said with a nod. "Good work, Ultear. And how is Lucy? I hope she's not blaming herself for the attacks. And where is Gray?""
"For the most part, Lucy is fine." Ultear answered with a wry smile. "She's probably gonna have a chill for a while. Oh… And… She's kinda homeless… For the moment. And Gray is watching over her."
"Huh? A chill? Homeless?" Makarov asked in confusion. "What exactly happened while we were gone?"
With that, Ultear explained the entire series of events from her perspective. While the trio listened with differing expressions. Still, they all thought the same things.
'And that's why we don't like our wizards to take quests in the town.' Alfonzo, Elicia, and Makarov thought simultaneously. 'Even if it's a non-combat quest, the chances of Fairy Tail wizards destroying something are always high.'
Eventually, Ultear's story ended. After hearing the details of the attack, Makarov turned his attention to the building that held the troop transport vehicles.
"Alright, let's deal with them." Makarov said as he approached the building.
Falling in step behind Makarov were Alfonzo, Elicia, Ultear, Erza, and Mirajane, all of the guild's on sight S-Class wizards. However, just before he could open the doors to the building, he was stopped by a shout that echoed over the area.
"Who the hell did this?" Ur, who just returned to Magnolia shouted from the front of the destroyed guild hall, her voice carrying all the way to the rest of the wizards in the guild.
"Oh, Mom's back." Ultear said with a smile. Then, she gestured to use her magic. "[Ice-Make: Rose]."
A moment later, a large rose made of ice, towering above every nearby structure, grew from the ground. After that, it did not take long for Ur to make her way behind the guild hall and meet up with the rest of the guild.
"Old man, what the hell happened to the guild hall?" Ur asked as she approached the members of the guild.
"*Sigh* It's all because of that fool, Jose Porla." Makarov said in exasperation. "He wanted to spark a war between our guilds so that he could kidnap Lucy in the process."
With that said, Makarov explained the recent events to Ur, who had been away on an S-Class quest for the last two weeks.
After hearing what Makarov had to say, Ur turned her attention to Alfonzo.
"Hey, Kid, do you think that living metal of yours could restore my old leg after so long?" Ur asked with a stern gaze.
"Are you saying that you still have it?" Elicia asked with a weird, confused expression on her face. "Why would you keep an old, severed leg? Is it hanging over your fireplace as a medal of honor or something?"
Hearing Elicia's genuinely confused questions, most of the guild, Makarov included, could not help but chuckle, despite themselves. Even though they knew Ur would make them regret it sooner or later, they could not help it.
After hearing Ur's question, they were all wondering why Ur would still have her severed leg. But after hearing Elicia's funny way of asking, there was nothing they could do about the chuckles that followed.
Throwing a quick glare in Elicia's direction, Ur returned her gaze to Alfonzo, waiting for his response.
"Honestly, I'm not sure." Alfonzo replied. "Your leg was dead way before you got to Magnolia. And I'm guessing it's been on ice ever since."
"That's right." Ur replied with a nod.
"I could give it a try, but I wouldn't get my hopes up." Alfonzo said after a few moments of contemplation.
"Well, that's too bad." Ur replied with a shrug.
"Mom, what made you think about that now?" Ultear asked curiously. "I mean, Alfonzo fixed his arm like… Three years ago and you never asked him to do the same for your leg."
"Oh, it's because I was already used to the Automail." Ur replied while waving dismissively. "It would have been a pain to have to get used to my old leg again. On top of that, I would have been out of commission while my leg went back to normal, too."
"Plus, it would have hurt like a mother fucker." Alfonzo added.
"That too." Ur nodded in agreement. "But after hearing about what that dumb ass did to the members of our guild, I had a brilliant idea."
"Brilliant?" Ultear muttered skeptically. "I'm certain that's debatable."
"I was going to waltz over to the Phantom Lord guild hall and beat the hell out of Porla." Ur said with a dangerous grin.
"Well, not brilliant, but understandable." Ultear muttered in response.
"Then, once he was properly beaten up, I was gonna put my Automail foot up his ass, literally." Ur continued.
"What's the point of doing that after you already beat him up?" Ultear continued to mutter.
"After that, I would freeze it solid before literally breaking my foot off in his ass." Ur said, finishing her explanation. "After that, I would need a new leg. Making one with my [Ice-Make Magic] would be enough to get me home. But I've gotten rather use to walking on something not made of my own magic, ya know."
"Even if the Techno Organic Metal can't fix it, I can still build you another leg." Alfonzo said casually. "And since I'm more experienced, it would feel even more natural than the one you're using now. Plus, if you really break your foot off in Jose's ass and take a picture with a lacrima, I'll do it for free."
Hearing that, everyone in the guild gasped in surprise. For the second time in two days, Alfonzo has mentioned doing something for free. Several of the guild members looked up into the sky, checking to see if Fiore's doomsday was falling from the heavens. The few that focused on Alfonzo rather than his words, however, were close to wetting themselves after seeing the expression on his face.
"I don't know what that old fool said, but he threaten my Lici. Hehehe." Alfonzo said in an ominous tone. "And that's not something I will tolerate."
"Oh, you really didn't hear him, huh?" Elicia asked in surprise. "I thought you did, that's why you flooded Phantom Lord's guild hall with killing intent. Oh well, whatever. Back then, he threatened to rape me."
Immediately, Alfonzo's killing intent exploded. This time, it was even more potent than it was back in the Phantom Lord guild hall.
Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Fiore, Oak.
At the same time, just outside the town, Jose and the rest of his guild were traveling towards a towering structure located in the hills surrounding Oak Town. This structure was the true headquarters of the Phantom Lord guild. Usually, it would remain out of use. However, the guild hall in the town took an extensive amount of damage after the battle with Fairy Tail.
"Damn that Fairy Tail scum." Jose grumbled as he walked. "Even if I can't get my hands on the Heartfilia girl, I'll make them pay for this humiliation. Especially that Magic Seamstress, she'll pay for mocking me so blatantly."
At that moment, back in Magnolia, Elicia had informed Alfonzo that Jose threatened to rape her earlier in the day. Then, after a few steps, Jose felt a killing intent lock onto him.
Reflexively, Jose flared his magic power, forcing the weaker members of his guild to their knees due to the pressure. Meanwhile, the three remaining S-Class wizards, namely, Gajeel, Aria, and Totomaru, a young man with two toned white and black hair split down the middle and a tattoo across his face, looked at Jose with confusion.
"Master Jose, are you alright?" Aria, wrapped in bandages asked.
Ignoring Aria's question, Jose carefully looked around the area. After realizing that there was no one nearby who would attack him, he slowly lowered his magical pressure. Then, he continued walking towards the headquarters without answering Aria's question.
'Damn it! It's just like when I felt those brats' killing intent before.' Jose grumbled internally. 'There's no way it could be because of them. They're only brats. Was there another Wizard Saint nearby messing with me? They'd better not let me find out who---.'
Before Jose could finish that thought, however, the same thing repeated itself once again. This time, however, Elicia was in the process of telling everyone how Jose planned to torture Alfonzo until he signed over all his patents to Phantom Lord.
"Damn it!" Jose roared in annoyance while once again flaring his magic power. "Who the hell is there? Show yourself!"
The rest of the guild, those who were still conscious after being pressured by Jose's magic power, could only look on at their guild master with confusion. Unlike earlier, when Alfonzo and Elicia were in the guild hall, no one could feel the killing intent. So, to them, it looked like Jose had lost it.
Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Fiore, Magnolia.
"I think you two need to calm down." Makarov said, now in his giant form shielding the rest of the guild from the killing intent that was washing over the area. "You're only harming the rest of the guild at this point."
After hearing Makarov, Alfonzo and Elicia looked around at their guild mates. While the S-Class wizards, S-Class candidates, and most of the A-Class wizards seemed to be more-or-less fine, the weaker members of the guild had paled and were breathing heavily.
Seeing the state of the guild, both Alfonzo and Elicia reigned in their killing intent slowly. It was very rare for either of them to get so angry about anything, so they were not used to controlling their killing intents.
"*Whistle* That's some pretty terrifying killing intent for two kids who have never taken a life." Ur said, impressed by Alfonzo and Elicia's display.
"Well, since emotion is such a big part of magic, it still makes sense." Makarov said as he shrunk to his normal form. "The bond between those two is one of the strongest I've ever seen. So, it makes sense that their emotions would go out of control when the other's well-being was threatened in such a way."
"I guess you're right, Master." Ur replied with a nod. "Still, we need to train them to control it. With out proper control in situations like that, it will only lead to them hurting themselves or someone they care about."
"I know." Makarov replied with a nod. "And we will. But for now, let's check up on our prisoners."
With that, Makarov made his way over to the building.
"What do you plan to do with them? Ur asked as she followed behind Makarov.
"Not much." Makarov replied. "I'll set them free after getting as much information as I can out of them. Need evidence that we did not start this war between legal guilds. Lord knows the Magic Council will try its best to blame it on us.. even though we don't have a history of starting guild wars…"
Once he got to that point, Makarov's face morphed into a savage smile.
"… but we're quite accustomed to ending them." Makarov continued in a tone that resembled a growl.
At the same time, Makarov put his hand on the wall and channeled his magic power into the sigils. Then, the door opened and revealed the prisoners, Juvia and Sol. However, when Makarov and Ur saw them, they were both dumbfounded.
Leaning against the wall, Sol was foaming at the mouth, his eyes were rolled back in his head, and he was sitting in a puddle of urine. Meanwhile, Juvia was little more than a puddle on the floor at this point. She too was showing the whites of her eyes.
The two of them ended up like this after being hit with Alfonzo and Elicia's killing intent, simultaneously. Although they were both S-Class wizards as well, the killing intent was meant for Phantom Lord, though mostly for Jose, they ended up in a much worse state than Fairy Tail's S-Class wizards.
"What do we do now?" Ur asked, surprised that the killing intent was so effective on those Alfonzo and Elicia considered enemies.
"*Sigh* We'll have to wait until they wake up." Makarov replied as he closed the wall to the storage building.
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Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Fiore, Magnolia.
August, x784.
Shortly after Makarov closed the vehicle storage building behind the guild, he addressed the wizards of his guild. After commending them on a job well done dealing with Phantom Lord, he dismissed them for the day.
A few hours after dismissing the wizards, Makarov, sitting outside the storage building heard knocking on one of the walls. Apparently, the prisoners had woken up. Cautiously, Makarov opened the wall to see Juvia standing right in front of him while Sol was sitting against one of the walls and watching him from a distance.
"Just to let you know, I don't plan on keeping you in captivity for long." Makarov said. "In fact, if you tell me what I want to know, you can leave immediately."
Hearing that, both Juvia and Sol frowned slightly. Telling Makarov anything would be the same as betraying Phantom Lord. Recognizing the young wizards' thoughts, Makarov smiled lightly as he continued.
"All I want to know is why you attacked our guild and tried to kidnap Lucy." Makarov said.
Although he spoke casually, Makarov secretly activated a recording lacrima. Like he told Ur, he wanted proof that Fairy Tail was not the side that started the war.
Unsure as to why Makarov would ask a question he already should have known the answer to, Juvia glanced at Sol without saying a word. At the same time, Sol stood from his spot against the wall, feeling uncomfortable with the way his pants and underwear felt against his body.
After standing up, Sol went to wipe the dust off the back of his pants. however, before doing so, his hands froze. Then, he remembered the fact that he had urinated on himself not too long ago and gave up on the idea. After that, he made his way over to Makarov and told him everything that he had told Gray, Ultear, and Lucy earlier in the day.
Makarov asked a few more questions that made it clear that Fairy Tail were the victims in this incident before letting the Phantom Lord wizards go without issue.
Surprised, the two left and made their way off of the guild's property before leaving the town. Not long after they left, however, Juvia suggested that she stay behind and watch for another chance to abduct Lucy. This time, she would do it without drawing attention to herself.
Agreeing with the idea, Sol left Juvia behind and rushed back to Oak Town.
Unbeknownst to Sol, however, Juvia was not really all that interested in kidnapping Lucy this time around. In fact, her whole mindset had changed after meeting Gray and Ultear. Especially after getting the chance to see the blue sky for the first time in her life.
Juvia Lockser, for as long as she could remember, had only ever seen rain clouds in the sky. Due to her extreme affinity with [Water Magic], that had awakened at a very young age, and lack of control, she unconsciously summoned rain clouds wherever she went.
With the rain following her at all times, she found herself isolated as a child. The other children in the village where she was born found her presence gloomy because of it. And as they often are, the other children were cruel to Juvia, constantly avoiding her and bullying her for something she did not have the training to control.
Eventually, after reaching her teenage years, Juvia was found by Jose Porla. With a promise to teach her how to control her magic, he gained himself a future S-Class wizard.
Keeping his promise, Jose did teach Juvia how to control her magic. However, due to her childhood, she often carried negative emotions with her. And as it has been stated, magic is heavily influenced by the user's emotions, resulting in the rain continuing to follow her despite her exceptional control.
But when Juvia was no longer able to access her magic due to being frozen solid, she finally saw it… The sky. Just seeing the beautiful azure hue seemingly opened a door to Juvia's more positive emotions. So, her only desire as of now was to be near the two people who gave her that gift.
"Now that Juvia has found her soul mates, Juvia will not let them go." Juvia said to herself in a resolute tone. "but Juvia does not want to betray Master Jose. What should Juvia do?"
While mulling over that question, Juvia made her way back into the town of Magnolia, unaware that her location was constantly being tracked by several [Magic Power Detections] ever since the main force of Fairy Tail returned from Oak Town.
For the next few hours, Juvia search Magnolia. She asked as many people as she could about the two ice users in Fairy Tail. Surprisingly, it was not hard to find information about them. And to her surprise, there were not two but three ice wizards in Fairy Tail.
Gray Fullbuster and Ultear Milkovich, she had already met on the battlefield. Then there was Ur Milkovich, who Juvia suspected was related to the woman she had met before.
'Is she older or younger than Ultear?' Juvia thought after getting the information. 'A sister? Or maybe her mother? Juvia is curious.'
Even though no one would have found it strange if Juvia had already known the information about Ur and Ultear at the very least due to them being S-Class wizards from Phantom Lor's rival, Juvia rarely showed interest in anything other than the quests she took. She was simply too used to being alone and uninterested in others due to her childhood.
Eventually, around sunset, Juvia finally found Ur's home. Expecting to find all three of her targets Inside, she was surprised when only Gray and an Older woman she surmised was Ur were present. Even so, she did her best to observe the two without being noticed.
Meanwhile, in the house.
"That water girl is outside." Gray said while digging into the dinner Ur had prepared. "I wonder what she wants."
"From what I can tell after watching her all day, she's probably collecting intel." Ur replied, seemingly unbothered by Juvia's presence outside her house. "And if I had to guess, she's probably most interested in intel about you and Tear. Especially you.""
"Because we beat her earlier today?" Gray asked while cutting a piece of meat. "Do you think she wants revenge?"
Before answering Gray, Ur picked up her wine glass. Then, she tilted her head back and took a gulp from the glass.
"That could be it." Ur said as she placed her glass back on the table. "but I wouldn't be surprised if it were because of that."
As she spoke the second sentence, Ur pointed at Gray with her fork. Looking down to see what Ur was pointing at, Gray was both surprised and confused.
"When did I…?" Gray asked in a dumbfounded tone.
"Who knows." Ur replied, completely unbothered. "Still, I'd like to know how you were able to take your clothes off in the short time it took for me to take a drink from my glass."
At the same time, outside of the house, Juvia flopped onto her back on the ground with a sloppy smile on her face. Once again, seeing Gray half naked was a bit too stimulating to her immature emotions.
"Yup, definitely because of that." Ur muttered as she continued to eat her dinner while Gray gathered his clothes. "Oh, I can even smell a hint of blood in the air."
Meanwhile, back at Alfonzo and Elicia's mansion, Alfonzo was sitting alone in the living room. Actually, Alfonzo was currently the only one in the house. The girls, on the other hand, had all gone to help Mirajane move out of the house she shared with her siblings and into the mansion.
While everyone was gone, Alfonzo was seated on the couch in the living room with several sheets of paper sprawled on the coffee table in front of it. On those papers were several designs for the guild hall that would have to be rebuilt in place of the destroyed one.
"*Sigh* I don't know if I should go with the same design as the second guild hall in the anime or just make something totally new from scratch." Alfonzo muttered aloud in a conflicted tone.
After finishing the design he was working on, Alfonzo laid his pencil down next to it. Then, he leaned back and rested the back of his head on the top of the couch's backrest.
"Decisions, decisions…" Alfonzo muttered while staring up at the ceiling. "Well, it's not like we're gonna start rebuilding tomorrow. I'm sure I have a few days to decide. On top of that, if things go like they did in the canon, Phantom Lord will attack us again. Though they'll probably be more focused on revenge after getting fucked up in their own guild hall."
While he continued his musings, Alfonzo felt several presences and the Escalade enter the barrier surrounding the property. A few moments later, he felt those same presences enter the house.
Getting up to offer his assistance getting Mirajane's belongings into a room on the second floor, Alfonzo made his way to the front door where all the girls should be gathered. To his surprise, however, he saw a few more people than he expected.
Besides Elicia, Cana, Ultear, Erza, Mirajane, and Sun, Levy, Elfman, Lisanna, Marin, And Lucy were also with them.
"Not that I'm against all of you being here, but I wasn't expecting to see so many people." Alfonzo said as he walked toward the group.
"Lici said we should all crash here tonight." Marin replied with a smile. "I mean, there's no guarantee that Phantom Lord won't come back for revenge, right?"
"Besides, it will feel a little lonely now that Mira is gone." Lisanna said in a slightly teary tone. "We just wanted to stay here for a night so that we could spend a little more time with her."
"That's right." Elfman nodded, tears and snot covering his face. "I'm gonna miss my big sis. A real man isn't afraid to admit that."
"Well, if you all wanna stay here for the night, you're more than welcome." Alfonzo said with a wry smile. "But I don't know if we have enough rooms."
'Should I consider having a guest wing added?' Alfonzo wondered.
"You don't have to worry about that." Elicia replied with a smile. "On our way here, we decided on room assignments."
"That's right." Mirajane added with a smile. "Lisanna will share a room with me."
"And I'll share a room with Lu." Levy continued.
"And Erza and I will stay together and talk about the latest novel that came out." Marin said, adding to the explanation.
"Lastly, Elfman will get a room to himself." Elicia said, ending the explanation. "And that will leave one of the rooms upstairs free."
"If you say so." Alfonzo replied with a shrug and a smile. "Anyway, let's get you guys situated. Then, after everything is moved into your rooms, I'll start on dinner."
"Ooh! I can help." Lisanna offered.
"I would like to offer my assistance as well." Erza said, stepping forward with her right fist clenched in front of her chest.
"Absolutely not!" Alfonzo said, pointing his right index finger at Erza, causing her to slump her shoulders. Then, he turned to Lisanna. "Do you cook like Mira?"
"Hey, what's that supposed to mean?" Mirajane protested with her hands on her hips. "I'm getting better."
Ignoring Mirajane's protests, Alfonzo kept his gaze locked on Lisanna.
"Nope, I did all the cooking in our house before Mira decided she wanted to learn how to cook." Lisanna replied with a wry smile. "In fact, I was the one trying to teach her how to cook at first."
Nodding in response, Alfonzo did not miss the shudders from Elfman and Sun when they thought that Mirajane would want to prove that she had improved her cooking skill.
"Alright, you can be my assistant for dinner." Alfonzo replied.
"Yay! I've always wanted to watch you cook." Lisanna cheered happily. "I should be able to get some good inspiration out of this."
With that, the whole group started taking things upstairs. Naturally, most of the things the group moved were Mirajane's since she would be living in the mansion from now on. Still, everyone who was coming to spend at least tonight in the mansion , had a bag or two with them, as well.
After a while, everything was moved into the rooms upstairs. Although Mirajane's things were not organized yet, her new life in a new home would start from now on.
Then, after all the moving was done, Alfonzo and Lisanna entered the kitchen and prepared a satisfying meal before everyone went to bed for the night. They had all had a long couple of days, after all.
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