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It was a new day at the guild, It seemed to be a lot more cheerful than normal, but that had yet to be noticed by our team since they were just coming back from something important
"Why are we doing this, again?" Dot asked
Dot, Lance, Finn, and Lemon were making their way back to the guild, with them carrying bags filled with clothes
"We had to go shopping, Levy said that it would help us fit in more. I also bought some for Mash!" Lemon said cheerfully, she felt amazing buying clothes for her husband
"But I like my uniform." Lance said looking inside the bag
"Well, it won't hurt for us to try a new style once in a while." Finn said trying to be a little more positive
As soon as they got closer to the guild they practically saw every single member outside of it, It seemed like they were making a circle around something, and by coincidence, they ended up getting there at the same time as Lucy and Gray
"Wait, are you sure about this!?" Lucy said while she got on top of one Fairy Tail member
"What is happening?" Lance asked while getting closer to the crowd with his friends
"Hello everyone." Mira said waving at them
"Didn't you hear? Natsu, Erza, and Mash are going to fight!" Gray said which made Mash's friends stare at him with comically large eyes
"So we are here to see the guild be destroyed?" Finn said in a cold sweat
"I agree with Finn, this is insane! You four are the strongest in the guild!" Lucy said in a panic
"No we're not." Gray said confusing the newbies
"It's true. They are strong, but they aren't even near being the strongest." Elfman said
"I agree that Erza is the strongest woman in Fairy Tail, but when we are talking about the strongest man there is Mystogan, Laxus." Levy informed them
"You can't forget 'that geezer' too!" Jet said laughing
That news shocked the newbies, looks like there are people in this guild that are even stronger than Mash, these guys are complete monsters!
A little to the side of the crowd there was Cana with a little betting stand, to its side there was a very badly drawn drawing of Natsu, Erza, and Mash with "Who will win?" written on the bottom
"They are even betting on who will win…" Finn said sighing
"I bet everything on Mash!" Lemon said being the first one to bet on the boy and betting all of the money she had
"Don't go along with it!" Finn yelled at the blonde
"What a shitty drawing. Who did it?" Dot asked seeing the drawing
He could hear Mira starting to cry right behind him and when he turned around the girl ran away causing the red-headed boy to panic
"H-h-hey! Wait! I was just kidding! It's a beautiful drawing!" Dot yelled trying to make the girl stop crying
"Nice one, Dot." Lance said
"Fuck off," Dot growled at him
In the middle of the crowd, some kind of ring managed to be formed and in there were the three combatants, Erza, Natsu, and Mash, the three were starting each other off
"Natsu, do you remember how our last fight went?" Erza asked
"I was just a kid at the time, I've gotten a lot stronger since then!" Natsu said getting ready to fight "And also, you aren't the only one I'm all fired up to fight!"
"That is a feeling I share with you. I'm curious to experience Mash's strength firsthand" Erza said side-eyeing the boy
"It is just a sparring match, no need to exaggerate." Mash said cracking his knuckles, he was in his tight black full-bodysuit and his beach shorts, you could call that his 'battle mode'
"Don't even think about going easy on me!" Natsu said while lighting his fists on fire
"If you wish, then so be it," Erza said and used her The Knight to change armors, being covered by flames for a second and appearing wearing an armor with flaming colors, her forearms, lower legs, feet, and torso were covered by the armor along with her having a cape, she now had two demon horn shaped hairpins that tied her hair up in two places
"It's the Flame Empress ! It's a fire-resistant armor! Now the strength of all of Natsu's attacks will be cut in half!" a Fairy Tail member said nervously
Happy was staring at them as if he was possessing what just happened, he soon appeared in front of Cana's betting stand
"Can I change my bet to Erza?"
"Don't you have a heart!?" Lucy yelled "I would never do something like that! I don't want any of them to lose!"
"How noble." Gray and Lance said sarcastically
"Well, at least one of us seems to be having fun with this…" Finn said looking at Lemon in the crowd
"DESTROY THEM MASH!!!!" Lemon cheered for Mash, having managed to get a giant poster with his name filled with hearts and putting it above her head, where she got that was unknown
"You seem excited." Wakaba said with a laugh
"Of course I am! Why wouldn't I be excited while cheering for my… husband ?" Lemon said with the word 'husband' coming out in a more sinister way
"The kid is married!?" they all yelled surprised
"Ready…" Makarov began making the three fighters prepare themselves "Begin!"
And like that the three charged at each other. Natsu tried to hit Erza with a flaming punch, which was dodged with a back step, and to make things worse for the Dragon Slayer he was kicked in the face by Mash which ended up throwing him backward, and Erza took advantage of the situation to hit the boy with her sword in a circular motion, but Mash managed to move fast enough to block the attack using his arms, but the impact still managed to blow him back
"Hot." Mash said seeing smoke rising from his arm, it seemed like she was using a fire sword
For some reason, Erza now felt killing intent coming from the crowd
Natsu charged at Mash from the back and hit him with a fire punch on the back of his head blowing him a little bit forward, Erza tried to follow up but Mash managed to do a gymnastic front flip to dodge her attack, managing to fall on top of her sword and beginning to move as if he was break dancing so he wouldn't burn his hand too much on her sword, and thanks to his dance moves he managed to hit Erza with a kick on her chin which threw her to the side. Natsu tried to hit her by shooting fire from his mouth but the knight managed to recover and jumped back to dodge the attack
"Amazing!" Lucy said impressed
"Did Mash just dance on her?" Finn asked confused
"See? It's quite the manly fight!" Elfman said with a smile
"Where?" Gray asked as if he didn't see anything too cool about this fight
The three stared at each other for a moment and then charged again, Natsu prepared a fire punch, Erza went to hit them with her sword, and Mash prepared a powerful punch
"Enough!"
But a yell and a clap of hands made them stop and look at where the sound came from
"No one move, I am a messenger from the magic council." a lizard man wearing what looked like high-level mage clothing said
"The magic council!" Levy said surprised
"A messenger!" Jet said surprised
"In a place like this!?" Droy said surprised
"Am I the only one disturbed by his appearance!?" Lucy and Finn yelled at the same time, making them look at each other and close their eyes while nodding, it was like they were saying 'I understand your pain' to each other
"With the charges of destruction of property, and eleven other crimes committed in the Eisenwald terrorist incident the other day. Erza Scarlet and Mash Burnedead are under arrest." the messenger said making Erza widen her eyes and Mash to start to shake
"WHAT!?!?!?!?!?" Natsu and Lemon yelled in disbelief
"What a problem." Abel said while Abyss was right beside him
"When did you two get here!?" Dot yelled now even more confused
"It's a long story."
–
The guild was now in a more somber mood thanks to two of their members being taken by the magic council, a lot of them were thinking about what would happen to Mash and Erza, but there were three who couldn't accept the circumstances
"Let me out!" Natsu's voice could be heard "Let me out of here!"
"Natsu, be quiet…" Mira asked
"Let me out!" Natsu yelled inside of a bottle
"Yeah! Get us out of here!" Dot yelled also inside of the bottle
"Come on!" Lemon yelled while also inside of the bottle
"If we do, you will act recklessly." Lance said
"I won't! Let me out!" Natsu punched the bottle trying to break it
"It's a good thing you still had one of those bottles with you, Lance." Finn said remembering when he was stuck inside that bottle
"You will try to save Mash and Erza!" Mira said looking at them
"Of course, I will! I won't let the law take my husband from me!" Lemon yelled, kicking the bottle "Free him! He didn't do anything wrong!"
"Our opponent is the magic council. There isn't anything we can do at the moment…" Gray said
"Let me out! I just wanna tell them something!" Natsu said still punching the bottle
"I don't care if they are the council or not! They are wrong in arresting Mash and Erza!" Dot said head butting the bottle
"Even if something is white, if the magic council says it's black then it's black. They won't hear you." Gray said
"But why…? We do the same thing in the past a lot of times, so why now?" Elfman said confused
"This is too complicated…" Abyss said in a tense way
"There is something fishy going on here." Lucy said looking at the ceiling
–
At the magic council's Fiore base, Mash and Erza were cuffed and taken to the room where the magic council was, Mash was looking down thinking of what he could have done wrong, he caused a lot of destruction but from what he heard that was normal for the guild… Did they find out!? Was he going to be executed!? This place was just like his home!? There were so many thoughts but they were stopped when he heard the surprised voice of Erza
"Siegrain!"
Mash lifted his head and saw a man a little taller than Erza, he had blue hair and a red mark on his face, it looked like a tattoo, and he was wearing white clothes. Mash didn't know why but he felt like punching that guy
"Long time no see, Erza." Siegrain said with a smile
Erza put herself in a position that looked like she was ready to fight, which made Mash raise his guard too
"No need to get your guard up, this is an imaginary body. My true body is in Era." Siegrain said while his body glitched a little "Those geezers in the room are also in their imaginary bodies. They couldn't bother to come in person for such a small case."
"I see. So it's your fault. Such idiocy…" Erza said holding herself back
"That's unexpected. I even spoke well of Fairy Tail's name. But those geezers thought they would take the blame for the incident, so you're their scapegoat." Siegrain explained
"Shut up." Erza said clearly angry and also… sweating? She was nervous?
"Alright. The true reason for me to be here is to tell you something." Siegrain said with a smile, getting near Erza holding her up by her chin, and whispering to her ear "Don't tell those geezers about that place. It's for your own good."
Erza widened her eyes in a cold sweat, Mash noticed that and so he put himself between Erza and Siegrain making him take two steps back
"You are making my friend uncomfortable. Stop." Mash said staring down Siegrain
"Oh, Mash Burnedead, right? I have something to tell you." Siegrain continued, ignoring Mash's warning "I know the truth about you. And soon it will come and cause you a lot of problems."
The council member said passing his finger through the line on Mash's face like he was going to erase it, making the boy widen his eyes
"I'll be waiting for you two on the other side of that door, as a member of the council." Siegrain said and then disappeared
"Mash?" Erza said looking at the boy
"Don't worry. It's nothing to worry about." Mash said while clearly shaking out of nervousness, he was a horrible liar
"You know someone that important?" the lizard man asked Erza
"He is 'evil'." Erza said refusing to elaborate further
And like that the two went inside the courtroom, they were face to face with the entire magic council, even if they were on their imaginary bodies, they still were incredibly tense
"We shall begin the judgment. The suspects Erza Scarlet and Mash Burnedead, please take a step forward." The lizard says
–
"I can't take it anymore! Let's testify for them!" Lucy said getting up
"Yeah! I can't let my friend get arrested for nothing!" Finn said also no being to take it anymore
"Sit down." Lance ordered the two
"No! I refuse to let that happen to them! They don't deserve this!" Lucy yelled
"Even if we go there at full speed we will be too late." Makarov said
"But we…" Finn started but was interrupted
"Those three are pretty quiet, don't you think?" Makarov said looking at the bottle and blasting it with a spell causing it to reveal that it was actually Macao
"What!?" the members of the guild yelled surprised
"Sorry, I owned one for Natsu and Mash." Macao said "Lance changed the real bottle with me and let those three get away."
"Lance!?" Finn looked at his friend surprised but he simply looked away and huffed
"So they went to save Mash and Erza!?" Lucy yelled surprised
"Probably." Macao said with a smile
"That is horrible! Natsu will probably try to fight the council members!" Elfman yelled in despair
"Quiet. Just wait for the final result." Makarov not looking worried about what happened
—
"This is nothing more than a formality. Don't worry." one of the council members said leaving Mash confused
"It means we won't be punished." Erza explained which relieved Mash
"But. We did receive special news about this boy. It came from someone who would rather remain anonymous, but from what they said, you are from a very different place." the council member said making Mash widen their eyes
"That is true…" Erza said now looking at Mash
"I'd like to hear what the place is like. Could you give us an explanation." the council member said making Mash get incredibly nervous
"Uh… I can try." Mash said not so sure about this, he was horrible with this type of thing "Well… I come from a place where everyone has magic. Magic is something very common for them in their day to day. It is treated like some kind of gift from the gods or something like that. This line on my face means that I have magic, two lines mean you have a lot of magic, and three lines mean that you are practically blessed by magic itself I think, you are born with it so we are kinda born with magic. Those without a line don't have magic, so they also don't have the right to live, and so they get executed."
Erza widens her eyes after hearing what happens to people without magic in Mash's home, executing people just because they don't have magic was incredibly barbaric… and what Siegrain said earlier, along with him putting his finger on Mash's line… So that's it, she found out the truth about Mash Burnedead, and also the reason he hasn't told anyone…
"Executing those without magic… What a barbaric society…" the magic council said between themselves
"There are also the Divine Visionaries that… What do you guys call the strongest wizards around here?" Mash asked
"The Wizard Saints."
"Yeah. That. The Divine Visionaries are basically the Wizards Saints from where I'm from. They can also influence laws and that kind of stuff. That's the max I know." Mash ended his explanation making the Magic Council nod their heads
"Alright, we are satisfied. Thank you for your cooperation, Burnedead." the council member said "Now, for the crimes committed on the incident of Eisenwald, I declare-"
He couldn't even finish speaking because the entry to the courtroom was destroyed, and from the remains of the door appeared three lunatics
"Hey! You want to arrest Erza!? I'm right here!" Natsu yelled in a horrible Erza disguise
"Don't say anything to them! I'll be your lawyer and will take care of everything!" Dot said wearing sunglasses and holding a notepad
"Let them go! They didn't do anything wrong! Especially my husband!" Lemon yelled so loud that people outside of the base could hear
Erza was with her face red out of embarrassment while Mash just stared at them confused, the council members either stared at that in complete shock or laughed at the scene, like Siegrain and a girl with black hair
"Arrest them." the council member said hitting his hammer on the desk while sighing
"I'm so sorry." Erza apologized
"Don't apologize, Erza! Wait, I'm Erza!" Natsu said angrily
"My clients have the right to have a lawyer with them!" Dot yelled at the council
"Let them go!" Lemon kept screaming
—
Now the five of them were in prison, Erza was staring at the three idiots incredibly angry while Mash didn't seem to have a reaction
"I am so shocked I'm at a loss for words. It was just a formality." Erza said angrily
"Formality!?" the three said confused
"We weren't going to actually be arrested. They just had to show authority and they also wanted to know about Mash's home place, apparently, it is incredibly different from here." Erza explained
"Oh yeah, we never told you guys that." Dot noticed
"We should probably give everyone that explanation when we get back to the guild." Lemon said
"I still don't get it." Natsu blinked twice
"We weren't going to be punished." Mash said in the simplest way possible
"Oh…" the three realized what they had done "Sorry…"
"But…" Erza sighed and then smiled "I appreciate the gesture."
"You guys are really great friends." Mash said hugging Lemon and Dot
"Ow!" Natsu hit his head on Erza's armor after she hugged up while she laughed
Dot was a little embarrassed to be hugged while Lemon was almost melting out of happiness and had a face redder than a tomato thanks to being hugged by her husband
"Hmm… So that's Natsu Dragneel…" Siegrain said while seeing Natsu having his moment, he soon walked away with a smile
—
Somewhere else a man was sitting on a throne and looking at the events through a crystal ball
"Lord." Cell War came and kneeled in front of him
"Yes?" the man on the throne said
"The preparations are complete. Us and your five sons are ready to go, Lord Innocent Zero." Cell War said
"How great." Innocent Zero said while putting a hand on his crystal ball and observing Mash, having a sweet smile on his face "We'll see each other soon… My dear son."