Fairy Tail - Eyes of Ice

Chapter 49 - Grand Magic Games Pt. 11

"What is this?" Kai asked.

Ichigo held his hands up innocently while Hisui had him close the door so no others would hear.

"Your father and I began working together to stop an impending disaster," the Princess said. "His arrival at the Games this year was most auspicious, given all that he knows of Eclipse."

"How do you know about that?" Kai asked.

Ichigo sighed and then chuckled. That wasn't a "ha-ha" laugh, either, it was a laugh one gave when everything was all coming crashing down and they could do nothing but laugh.

"Eclipse has been around about as long as I have," Ichigo said. "I'd only heard whispers of it long ago, but I recently had it confirmed for me."

"Confirmed by who?" Kai asked.

"A man from the future. Thus far, he has correctly predicted everything that will happen in the Grand Magic Games down to the smallest of details. He's come to use the Eclipse as a means of killing Acnologia."

"Arcadios said that was the plan," Kai said and glanced at his father. "You'd mentioned working on something in secret. This it?"

"This is it," Ichigo said with a sigh. "It took me a while to understand just what Eclipse was, how it worked, and what it could do. But once that man explained things to me, it all made sense. It all became clear. He introduced it to the Princess and I've been working with her to ensure it goes smoothly."

"Did you know about the knights trying to kidnap Lucy?" Kai left that question open. He was still in shock that the Princess of Fiore knew his father.

Heck, he was still in shock that he was standing in her bedroom.

"No. I was too preoccupied with you and the Games. The good part about the two of us working together is that it allowed me to spend some time with you before we needed to ensure things went according to plan. It's why I didn't participate today. I had more important matters to attend to."

Kai nodded, trying to wrap his head around all of it. Hisui glanced at him rather apathetically while Ichigo braced Kai with a warm clap on the back.

"I joined Lamia Scale to gain power, to gain strength and allies strong enough that I may challenge Acnologia," Ichigo said. "For centuries, I wandered Earth-land in search of such. I wandered for him, for Acnologia himself. And then I discovered you were alive Kai, and I had to change my ways. So I did. When you vanished I thought I'd lost everything, but I hadn't. Now I have the tools and allies necessary to do what Kairi could not, what the other Dragons could not."

"Which is?"

"Use the Eclipse. It's the most powerful thing ever created, and it's lain dormant far too long." Ichigo approached the window of the room, Hisui letting him go unperturbed.

"With Eclipse we shall stave off the horrifying future that is to come," she said. "A future that appears to be set in stone already."

"What future?"

"An apocalypse," Hisui said. "Where the world is ravaged by dragons. Where all the wizards of the world are about to go extinct. Tonight is the turning point of destiny. We can prevent that future, we can prevent all of that devastation if we use Eclipse. And thus far, we are ready."

"But there are some who want to stop it," Kai said, though it leaned a bit into being a question.

"Yes," Hisui said. "A few who doubt it, but they haven't been following as closely as I have. You need to understand, that everything this man has predicted has come true."