8 Irene

Sora who was floating in the middle of the sea suddenly saw form a far huge magic circle appearing in the sky. he calmly had the boat turn to head that way, and slowly a huge tower began appearing before Sora. Sora's eyes shrank seeing this tower, he remembered seeing it. but he didn't remember wear

as he got closer, the memories returned to Sora's mind, memories of his past life of this tower which was known as the tower of heaven. used to bring back the dead, Erza was taken away and brought to this place as a kid. Erza's childhood was remembered, along with someone named Jellal.

as for the magic circle above, it was The Satellite Square: Etherion best known as Etherion. Etherion is an extremely powerful Magic Weapon controlled by the Magic Council.

Etherion, once successfully prepared, fires an extremely large, destructive beam of Magic upon the desired location. that completely obliterates the target area, leaving only dust behind. Its energy is strong enough to reduce matter down to its smallest components. The Etherion can be deployed on any part of the world's map in a form of magic circles which is called the "Satellite Square"

Sora held his head in pain as he watched the Etherion firing down upon the tower. the world was covered in bright light, Sora shot off towards the tower as he remembered this was Jallel's plan.

the tower of heaven needed energy, so it needed the Etherion blast to be fired at it. it will then absorb all of that energy and transform into a huge Lacrima. currently, Erza and a few others were within the tower, and Erza was going to be the sacrifice to bring back the body of someone called Zeref. he could not let Erza die, the very thought of it made his heartache.

Lightning and Wing armor covered Sora's body and his spending increased to new heights. But he was still quite far from the tower. at first, the tower was nothing more than a dot on the horizon, but it was slowly getting closer and closer by the minute.

using dragon slayer magic, flames shot from his fist. Dragon scales appeared on Sora, as he formed dragon wings, and like a shooting star, Sora shot through the air.

within the tower of heaven, Natsu and Jellal were fighting. Sora saw it all from afar and noticed that Natsu had entered the dragon force. a special state of power that a person with dragon slayer magic could gain. Sora slowly slowed down seeing Natsu was winning,

soon Natsu knocked Jellal out, but he ended up reserving a backlash from eating the Lacrima. he fainted Erza caught him, but the tower of heaven started to become unstable.

unable to get away, Erza began to fuse herself with the tower. But, Natsu awakened and tried to stop her.

"I can't even imagine what my life would have been like without fairy tail. if it weren't for you and the others, I probably wouldn't be here today. I hope you know how important you all are to me. I care for you so much, that's why... I'm willing to make the ultimate sacrifice... if it means my loved ones will be spared. I will gladly give my life." She said with a smile as she was shocked into the tower.

"and I will gladly stop you," Sora said as he appeared grabbing her hand and pulling her out of the tower. Erza was stunned as she found herself being carried like a princess in Sora's hands.

"I can't imagine a life without you in it. trying to picture it... it's so empty and dark. that's, not a life I want to live." Sora said with a smile. as he slowly put Erza down. but with Erza not stabilizing the tower, it went unstable once more.

"I will stabilize this thing. out of everyone here, i'm the only one capable of surviving it. although my bad memory might be damaged, even more, there is not much for me to remember in this world anyways. the only thing I don't want to forget is you." Sora said softly. he could help but wrap his hands around Erza, he couldn't help but huge her while slowly going in for a kiss

"This has nothing to do with you, it should be me," Erza said softly as the two kissed, but it was quick as the tower was going to explode.

"take her way," Sora said softly as he waved his hands, using sleep magic to knock Erza out before giving her to Natsu. Natsu caught Erza while looking at Sora, with a node he turned and ran off as Sora went on to fuse himself with the tower.

It didn't reject Sora, and Sora perfectly fused with it and began stabilizing all of that energy,

'When did I get so reckless? love does make people do some dumb stuff,' Sora thought as he closed his eyes as his body began breaking down. he of course copied this pace and knew what he was doing, there was no way he could die.

taking control of the tower, he shot some of the energy into the sky while reforming his body which had broken down. most of that energy was to make it stronger, with 10 abs. he will have the same body, but rebuilt to be stronger than ever before with pure energy power.

Sora slowly opened his eyes and found himself floating in the middle of the ocean. he was naked and now had tattoos on his body. these tattoos were seals, when released he will transform into a dragon which was going to be a condition of E.N.D. reforming these seals was going to be troublesome to reform, but it will allow him to not lose his humanity.

Sora held his head as he tried to remember what happened, pieces of memories flashed across his mind, and he slowly began to rebuild. he slowly remembered everything, but only the stuff he had copied. they seemed to be unforgettable.

Phantom Lord was forgotten, fairy tail was forgotten, the world was forgotten, his childhood was forgotten, along with his fast. floating there, he looked at the stars in the sky in confusion. he forgot who he was, it's like he could copy himself.

Slowly a ship slowly headed his way from afar, Sora looked at the huge ship.

"Someone overboard." someone yelled, and moments later, clammed down to save Sora. picking him out of the water, they quickly over him with a tower.

"he seems to have lost his memories. but he is powerful, should we take him with us to the Alvarez Empire." a middle-aged man asked after studying Sora.

"How powerful is he?" a young man asked as he looked at Sora looking around the ship.

"... strong enough to be considered a wizard saint, but the last I heard no wizard saint looks like him. looking at the top mages, none of them matches him. I say we bring him back and have the higher-ups deal with him." the middle-aged man said, the young man nodded.

with Sora who had lost his memories, the empire might reward him. they could install new memories into Sora, and have him become loyal to the Alvarez Empire.

and with that, the people on the ship began teaching Sora to become loyal to the Alvarez Empire. they have seen the huge energy released by the tower of heaven and have come to see what happened, they only picked up Sora as they thought he had something to do with it.

but it was clear Sora did have something to do with it, but with his loss of memories, this was perfect timing for the Alvarez Empire to get a new loyal subordinate.

and so, a few days quickly went by, and Sora and the others on board the ship appeared at the Alvarez Empire.

The western continent of Earth Land is called Alakitasia which is much more monolithic compared to Ishgar, The Alvarez Empire is a large country located in the Western Continent, Alakitasia.

Sora was quickly brought before some of the strongest people in the Alvarez Empire. with his strength, he couldn't be left alone. first, he was imprisoned as a background search was done on him.

Sora sat within a cell, as he calmly look at a wall. going through the few stuff he did remember, at this moment a red-haired woman walked up to his cell and looked closely at him.

Sora looked at her and his heart skipped a beat. it was like he was looking at something he had missed all his life. the woman was beautiful, she brought back some memories of Erza.

He quickly stood up as he looked at her, but he was tied up and ended up falling to the ground.

"release him... I will take care of him." The woman said in a soft voice. the guards watching Sora quickly released Sora, the woman didn't say anything and just walked away. yet Sora followed,

"... what do you remember?" the woman asked calmly,

"I remembered my name... have we met before?" Sora asked softly, the woman snorted slightly at his words and didn't say anything.

"from now on you're a member of the Alvarez Empire, you will join my Squad. if you do anything to betray the empire I will kill you." She said as she turned to look at Sora, Sora shook slightly as he felt like he was standing before a dragon. she was clearly stronger than him, he nodded slightly. it's not like he had anywhere else to be.

and with that, Sora joined the Alvarez Empire. the woman who freed her was named Irene, one of the strongest people in the empire. although she was cold towards him, Sora quickly realized she doing this to keep him from getting close to her. Sora couldn't help but wonder if they were lovers, he must have broken her heart and she wasn't over it, but she couldn't bring herself to forgive him

when She heard him thinking like this, she gave him a beating leaving Sora needing to stay in bed for a few days to recover.

there were a few other people within Irene Squad, they were 2 items that Irene enchanted into a human beings, and gave them a lifelike appearance as well as her own personality settings. there was also a bevy of foot soldiers.

Sora of course quickly found out his ability to copy magic, Irene was shocked when she noticed this. but it only made her stay further from Sora, which confused Sora as he didn't understand her.

in the middle of the night, Sora was fast asleep. slowly Irene appeared before his bed. killing intent filled her eyes, with shaking hands she brought her hands before Sora's neck. but she fell to her knees as she couldn't go on with it. for days she wanted to kill him, but she couldn't do it.

She grabbed her head as the past flashed across her head, she looked at Sora and froze seeing he was looking at her. Sora slowly lifted her with a smile

"Although I don't remember what I did, i'm sorry to break your heart. I don't want to regain my memories if it means becoming that person." Sora said softly, Irene froze slightly. before her hair slowly started floating up, but before she could do anything, Sora hugged her.

"I know you get mad when I bring up the last, I don't even remember. but ever since I laid eyes on you, I felt this strange feeling. I know you were someone special to me before I lost my memories, and everything I see you leave... it always brings me great pain, it feels like you left me for good." Sora said softly

"I don't know if this is love or not, but I know I want you in my life. so... tell me what I did," Sora said seriously as he huge tightened, tears slowly rain down Irene's eyes as she slowly hugged Sora back.

"you did nothing wrong, you have nothing to feel sorry about. I should be the one asking for your apology," she said softly, the remained like that for some time before Irene's eyes narrowed when se felt something pocking.

"what's pocking me?" Irene asked coldly, Sora broke the huge and look down and noticed something in between his leg.

"it grew? this the first it did anything like this... why didn't yours grow?" Sora asked in confusion, leaving Irene confused about what to do next. but she sat Sora down and began giving Sora the talk.

"... so that means I do love you. I know I made some mistakes in the past, but what I did was unforgivable. but I know the emotions I have for you are real, I will work to become better. I don't want to live without you, it hurts when you're not around. so give me this one last chance." Sora said as he held her hands while looking deeply into her eyes.

Irene shook her head, but she subconsciously looked at the thing in between his leg... it was big... but no, they couldn't... but those eyes... but they couldn't... but it been years...