Memories of the Past, Visions for the Future

Memories

Jambo fellow readers

This is the first fiction that I will be publishing so it's kind of a test run.

Be sure to read and review, I need all the advice that I can get.

P.S. I am probably throwing the order of events in the Tartaros story arc to hell, I'm not really sorry if that offends you (because you don't have to read this) but I'm using them in the order that suits my story best.

And now without further ado.

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Memories

The battle was not going well for Fairy-Tail, not that it was going poorly either, sure Tartaros had them outnumbered one hundred to one but they were relatively low power foot soldiers compared to Fairy-Tails elite wizards. Even young Romeo, who was by no means a power house by Fairy-Tail standards, was pulling his own weight in the battle. The skill of his children wasn't what was worrying Makarov, it was the length of the battle that had him worried, they had been fighting for hours, and with no end of the soldiers in sight Makarov was worried that they wouldn't have the strength to defeat the Demon Gates, especially with such strong members as the Thunder Legion still out from an encounter with just one of them a few days ago. That was the other thing that was worrying the 6th master, those wounded during the battle had nowhere to go but Porlyusica, who was still on the battlefield herself, and they didn't have the manpower to spare anymore mages to guard the makeshift medical ward.

Makarov's hopes had soared when Erza had broken through the ground below (above?) them opening up a direct route to the fortress on the top of the cube. While Erza battled Kyôka in the skies above(below?) them, many Fairy-Tail mages had poured into the hole flooding the fortress of Tartaros, splitting up upon entering the structure and keeping in touch as best they could with Warren's telepathy, it had been about an hour since their last communication, in which Warren had informed them that Wendy had left the battle field in order to destroy the "Face" device that was supposedly able to remove all magic from the continent, with still no further information on Wendy Makarov was beginning to worry about her as well. He was more than relieved when he finally felt the familiar sensation of his mind being contacted by telepathy.

Those feelings of alleviation immediately vanished as an unfamiliar voice spoke in his, and the rest of the battle participants, minds'.

"Welcome to Tartaros Fairy-Tail, I am Master E.N.D. king of the demons of Zeref."

Makarov's blood ran cold, everything that they were trying to prevent had come to pass anyways. For the first time Makarov began to consider retreat, while that was still an option, just find his children and run as fast as they could. Unlike the majority of his children he was no fool, he knew that in their weakened state his guild members would be hard pressed to fight the Demon Gates, and now their king had entered the battle, obviously fresh and full of energy as someone who had just finished a week-long vacation.

He was not the only one intelligent enough to realize the gravity of their situation, he was in a group with Macao, Wakaba, and Romeo, and from the looks on their faces he could tell that they were having thoughts along the same lines as him.

He was about to use this moment while they were all connected via telepathy to give the order to retreat, evacuate the town of Magnolia and get as far from there as possible when E.N.D. made an announcement that suddenly left him frozen in shock and confusion.

"I respectfully request a cease-fire between our two guilds Makarov, I believe that there has been enough damage done today, and too much has been done to your people and family. I feel that you are all are owed a proper apology for, and explanation of, my guilds actions. I want to speak to all of you personally, as such I extend an invitation to all of you, asking that you would join me in my throne room that I may suitably attempt to make things right between us."