Hot and Cold

The True Ability

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Mavis' story finishes as Zeref returns her body to Fairy Tail, rather callously I might add. "And so, that's how my body ended up inside the lacrima. And why it remains there today. Precht worked tirelessly, trying every resurrection spell he could find, but not a single one could bring me back to life. One day, because of his vast knowledge of magic, he finally realized what had happened. I had been stricken by the Curse of Ankhselam. He promised to never tell a soul about it. And, he kept his word, no one would know the truth about me. In 697, Precht made up his mind. He decided to tell the guild that I'd passed away. A shrine over an empty grave was erected on Tenrou Island, which was declared our sacred land. That is where I was born. And where I met my fellow founders of the guild: Precht, Warrod, and Yuri. That same year, Precht became Fairy Tail's second master. He was acting in accordance to the wish I had made known in the time before my disappearance. He devoted all his time not spent performing his duties as a guild master in solitude, working without rest to revive me. In the year 700, Makarov's Father, Yuri Dreyer, died prematurely, never knowing the true cause of his wife's death. Precht continued his attempts to resurrect me for the next thirty years. Though, not successful, the results yielded in something rather unexpected. As I'd said, he had a vast knowledge about magic and exhausted his resources to bring me back, but I remained in suspended animation inside the lacrima, unable to age or truly die. In an unforeseen convergence of factors, an inexplicable form of magic was created. It was something that would rock the wizarding world to its very core. Eternal Magic... called Fairy Heart." My brows quirked and it felt as if some memory was trying to resurface in my head. Something important about that particular phrase.

Lucy stammered. "I don't understand. What is it?"

"Yes, please, elaborate," Erza hummed.

"An everlasting source of magic. Simply put, the power that springs from Fairy Heart will never dry up." Mavis states.

"Are you serious?!" Natsu exclaims loudly.

"Like magic you can keep using forever and ever?!" Happy cries.

"Whoa, that's wild," Ballad chirped.

"Consider the weapon developed by the old magic council, the Etherion Cannon. It was powerful enough to wipe out an entire country with one blast. The Fairy Heart contains enough magic energy to fire an infinite number of Etherion Blasts. Or perhaps, contains is not the right word for it. It can generate that kind of magic energy. Enough to wipe out all countries."

"I understand why we'd wanna keep this a secret," Wendy hums.

"News like this would definitely throw the wizarding world into total chaos." Carla murmurs.

"Ivan tried to get his hands on it some years ago. It seems word of existence has reached the shores of Alvarez as well." Makarov mentioned.

"Which means, they're gonna launch an invasion to try and take control of the power it can generate." Laxus hums.

"But why would they go through the trouble?" Bickslow asks. "Aren't they already swimming in magic power over there?"

"Well, my theory is that they wanna use it as a weapon in the fight against Acnologia. Even Zeref considers him to be too evil for this world." Mavis hums.

"Is he really that strong?" Gray asks. "I mean, I know he's like a force of nature, but that's insane!"

"It's so scary..." Juvia murmurs.

"Wait a second, please," Ballad chirps out. "I don't wanna sound dumb, but if we have this super powerful, why can't we just use it on both of them?"

"Boom! Yeah! That that, you baddies! Boom!" Happy chirps in agreement.