Chapter 63: Tower of Heaven (1)

Chapter 63: Tower of Heaven (1)

~Third POV~

*Sheeee*

*Thud*

The train stopped at Hargeon Port as two people soon exit with Mavis being excited finally leaving out of the chair and stretching her arms from the ride, "The train ride is definitely something new! But a bit stiff after hours merely sitting down…"

Rou stretches his body as well cracking his bones in the process replying to Mavis, "Yeah… but the ride certainly makes up for the time. Something I would admit we wish to have in the past, to be honest."

Mavis nods at this but her eyes widen seeing the current state of Hargeon Port with a stary-eyed look on her face happily, "Wow… the town sure has changed a lot over the years we passed. It's amazing how this town was filled with poverty and despair but is now a bustling town."

Rou nods in agreement heading towards Mavis's direction standing by her side agreeing with his comment of the town, "Yeah. Despite a few years away people can make things change for the better like Hargeon. But man… it feels special you know? This is where we first met the gang and set out to create our home the Guild of Fairy Tail right?"

Mavis smiles gently recalling going through memory lane of the events that started in Fairy Tail Zero of the adventures and danger when they were 13 years old going through their first adventure, meeting a fire dragon, fighting a war, creating the Fairy Tail Magic, and a quest that saved humanity by traveling into the future by an ancient immortal Black Wizard Zeref himself.

"Hahahaha!!!"

"Eh?!"

Getting surprised suddenly by Mavis's outburst after she collected her thoughts together remembering how they had been through everything, "Hahaha… sorry about that Rou. I just remembered how ridiculous and crazy our life has been is all. All the dangers and crazy adventures and memories we have been through. It's almost like a story out of a fairy tale. It's just too funny not to laugh."

Rou raises his eyebrow at this but disregards it for the moment shrugging making Mavis giggle at his antics as usual.

As they walk around Mavis views a shop selling swimwear as she tugs Rou's shoulder going towards the store, "Hey Rou how about we get some swimwear for the beach! I don't think we have any so it could be a good time as any to get a new set, right?"

Rou heard this thought for a second before finally smiling agreeing with Mavis smiling with a light blush on his face, "Right… you might look cute or sexy in one of them… We must buy one your size!!"

Raising his fist over dramatically Mavis merely laughed at his antics knowing the reason as she thought to herself, 'I know he just wants to see my body but at least it's the thought it counts considering we're lovers. Plus, it's not all bad to show off some skin right.'

With that, the two began to search the store looking for swimwear to go with as Rou bought some trunks and Mavis a bikini for a while before the two finally managed to take a path towards Akane Park.

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Akane Beach is a town very popular among tourists. Akane Beach is located in the southern part of Fiore.

Akane Beach is the most popular tourist spot in Fiore. Among its many attractions are the giant amusement park, the five-star hotel, and the huge sandy beach adjacent to the sea. The hotel houses a casino in its basement where visitors can enjoy themselves.

Currently at this time Rou and Mavis were both sunbathing enjoying the rays of the sun laying down on towels and covering them beneath the heat of the sand.

Rou's arms are behind his head as he enjoys the moment of relaxing commenting on the time on their date, "Now this is the life. Enjoying the sun and relaxing with no worries whatsoever ain't that right Mavis."

Mavis for her part feels the rush of wind passing over underneath their umbrella providing shade as she agreed with his words, "Yup! Nothing beats just relaxing under the sun. Plus, this date has been going well so far and hopefully, it keeps that way. Although you could've done it without the stolen tickets though… Ahem! I mean 'borrowed' tickets."

Rou for his part merely had a bemused smile on his face recalling entering the Amusement Park and 5-star hotel by 'borrowing' the tickets from some nobles using his Spider Golems to collect information in Crocus accidentally stumble upon them.

Rou countered Mavis's words certifying the tickets are indeed the real deal and not fakes waving off her concerns, "Nah. My Spider Golems managed to 'accidentally' find, them from some stuck-up man. Besides it's already paid for with us successfully avoiding a bad ending for us in the future no? I say we deserve this much."

Pondering his words Mavis reluctantly gave in with a shrug but smiles contently as they enjoy their time together in peace…

"FIRE DRAGON VOLLEY BALL SMACK!!"

However, it was spoken too soon…

"ICE MAKE RACKET!!"

The two attention from the sudden increase in Magic Power and spells used their eyes dart towards Natsu, Erza, Lucy, Gray, and Happy Volleyball match going out of hand.

Rou sighs in frustration as Mavis giggles at their antics seeing the group having their fun as he comments on this, "And there goes our nice date down the drain… couldn't wait for at least till tomorrow..."

*Bam*

"Ow!"

Getting kicked to the side Mavis pouts at his mood seeing his fellow guild members with that reaction, "Rou that's just rude. Besides it could be interesting to talk to the other guild members come on. We need you to interact with new people! Time to get out of your shell?!!!"

Standing up getting Rou's arm dragging him towards the group apologizing to her about his attitude with the group finally seeing the two.

Their eyes widen in surprise with Natsu's eyes lit up seeing Rou again wanting to challenge him right away, "Hey!! It's you again! I want that rematch!!! Fire Dragon –"

Rou seeing Natus already having a spell ready his eyes widen and reacted accordingly, "Oh no you are fucking, not going to attack!"

"Enchant: Hot Wheels!"

*ShiiI*

"Ro—Argh… Blaugh!!!"

Suddenly a letter enchantment appeared on Natsu's feet that acted like transportation as he began to roll out causing his side effect of motive transportation to make him sick via motion sickness, "Hey… man that—oh no… blegh…"

Throwing up feeling the effects of Rou's enchant Gray sighs but laughs at Natsu's misery in his state, "That's what you get fire breather! Really shouldn't have gotten the chance to attack like that man."

Happy goes over to Natsu trying to help but soon stopped with Rou bribing him with fresh fish getting his attention, "Hey Happy right? I'll give you this fish if you let the salamander stay like that for the next 30 mins."

Immediately taking the fish Happy salutes to the deal, "Aye sir!"

"Happy the fuck – oh no…"

Natsu feeling the misery of attacking the first master Erza the bold and respectful one of the group soon introduces herself to them, "Ah! Rou and Mavis right? Sorry, it's just you two so look alike the founders but regardless a pleasure to meet both of you here!"

Mavis for her part laughs at Erza's antics and responds in a normal tone to them, "No worries my friend. We're just normal members like you. Just treat us like you would your fellow guild members."

Lucy for her part gulps seeing the two being this nice and meeting for the first time the founders of Fairy Tail as she introduces herself to them, "Eh… sure thing Mavis. And Rou, right? Gosh, it's crazy how you lookalike in the original founder's photo. Ahem…! I'm Lucy Heartfillia."

At this Rou listening smiles with a nod of acceptance and Mavis humbly understanding with the rest soon introducing each other.

As with the introduction are done with the group is interested in learning about the two people that recently saved the Guild from an attack and newbies past.

Having enough with introductions Gray was the first of the group to talk about them, "So… is it really true you really took down Twilight Lord?"

Listening to his question Rou replies with a smile on his face as he shrugs at the answer as I pinch my fingers expressing how tiny bit strong hd was, "Yes. Although in my honest opinion, I do have prior combat experience before joining the Guild. Possibly S-Class material if I may be arrogant but I was a tad bit stronger than them is all."

Gray nodded at his answer with a challenging smirk on his face as Lucy listened, she also decided to question the two interested in them, "Wow… so you two really are that strong? Is it fine if I ask a question you two?"

The two nodded with Lucy smiling curiously as she asked the two a question about their past actions, "So from what I heard earlier Rou you are an Alchemist right…? Do you work with minerals and medicine in those kinds of stuff right? Then are you both learned people from a noble family perhaps?"

Listening to her words Mavis blinks confused placing her hand over her chin about the area she was talking about, "Learned people… oh! I see what you mean but no both of us are more or less self-taught commoners if that's what you mean. We had to learn things by the book and the hard way. Although we did have our education learned from books it was our experience that got us this far."

Blinking pausing a bit thinking before his Lucy smiles at this as Gray asks another question in a curious tone, "Interesting? Say you said earlier Fairy Alchemy to create Ice Maker Magic but I couldn't sense the Magic? And how come during your fight with Natsu I didn't once sense your Magic Power dropping."

Listening to Gray's question Rou answered his confusion stating the two concepts of Alchemy and Magic are both sides of the same coin, "No not exactly per se. Magic uses the inner Origin to operate spells. While Alchemy is a more scientific understanding of your surroundings to manipulate matter at such a high degree that it seems like magic. One could say they are both sides of the same coin I just prefer Alchemy myself because I won't have to waste energy unlike with Magic you need to waste Magic Power to make your spells work."

Rou explaining his comparison to Alchemy to Magic made Gray nod in understanding learning something new as Rou goes into more detail about them in his usual ramblings, "In all honestly, I merely categorized them based on elements. But you can go ahead and look through them in your own time if you're interested. Although I'm more proficient in elemental magic. Gas with air. Water with ice. Earth with mud. Space with storage. Summing with Celestial Spirit Magic –"

"Wait you know Celestial Spirit Magic?!"

Lucy interrupted somewhat surprised before apologizing for interrupting with Mavis smiling as she spoke about Rou's interest in Celestial Spirit Magic, "Yup. If you need any info about them, you can rely on Rou to give you some idea of it. Heck, I seem to recall you having a Black Key of one, didn't you?"

Rou nods showing his Black Key and retelling the key's name with Lucy looking generally confuse seeing the key, "Yeah I still keep it on me. This here is the Gate of the Snake Charmer Key. This key summons the Snake Charmer, Ophiuchus. These Black Keys could be said to be replacements for the Gold Zodiacs if they were ever too weak to full fill their positions. Quite an interesting tidbit really."

Lucy's eyes widen mumbling to herself surprised about the existence of the Black Keys, "No way… I never knew these kinds of keys existed… Maybe I should talk to Loki about them later…"

"Help…"

Stopping they turned around to see Natsu struggling still enchanted with Rou smirking a deal for him, "Ok I'll let you go… unless I get some time to learn about your Fire Dragon Slayer Magic."

Mavis sighs at this shaking her head helplessly at Rou's actions with the others looking confused before listening to her words about him, "Sigh, if there is one thing that will interest Rou it would be Lost Magic. He has a habit of collecting them and recording them."

The rest made an awe understanding as Natsu agreed if he was to let go of his current predicament, "F—fine… just make this—no… argh…! Just make-e this hell—l end…!"

Listening to this Rou smiled ending Enchantment on the poor salamander after regaining his normal self after a few minutes.