70. I found you.

Chapter 70

It's been a month since we returned from Edolas. During this time, many changes have occurred in the guild due to the appearance of Fairy Tail from Edolas, as well as a fairly large number of Exceeds. Edola Mages, who were strong in artifacts, eventually became an entire branch of artifactors, who were engaged in their distribution on behalf of the guild. For these people hungry for magic, our world was a real paradise, because not only were they not persecuted for using magic, but on the contrary, artifactors of their level would be gladly accepted anywhere.

The Exceeds, taking the example of Charlie and Lily, began to learn transformation magic, after which they became almost a local attraction of Magnolia, because where else can you see so many nekos?

However, all this mostly passed me by with Elsa, because we spent this month completing the preparations for the final battle. Perhaps someone could have assumed that we trained until we dropped in time barriers, but no, although we trained periodically just to stay in shape, we spent most of our time on other things and now our preparations will come to an end.

In the basement of Fairy Tail, there is a room that was usually forbidden to everyone except the master of Fairy Tail and held the greatest secret of the guild. The source of infinite magic. The heart of a fairy. It was here that Erza and I did something not entirely ethical. Using the magic of the first master of Fairy Tail, Mavis Vermillion, who is sealed in a crystal, we spent several years growing bodies that could withstand the power of the souls of powerful beings and adjust our appearance to them. 6 cocoons, 6 bodies.

Initially, I planned to return the dragons that sit inside the dragon slayers to full life in a similar way, and also to bypass Natsu's main vulnerability of being End. However, I simply could not find Sting and Rogue, although Charly said that she saw one of them somewhere. Of course, with Natsu it would also be possible to destroy Tartarus, steal the book and try to come up with something with it, but I do not like the very possibility that this could accidentally affect the events we expect. Still, I want everything to be finished on Tenrou Island.

How should a new body help our stupid fire dragon slayer? In fact, everything is simple here. Even during the training to complete exhaustion, I checked his body and soul more than once. And if his soul, although changed under the influence of magic, but the connection, going somewhere far away, if I understood correctly, right in time for Zeref's book, has the body itself. That is, by moving his soul to another body, he will be free from Zeref's influence, so if we do not manage to part with him amicably, we will not lose our rascal.

Also, since we ended up with 2 free bodies from the original plan, the appearance of the second Wendy was very opportune. After all, now we will have 2 Grandinas, but I don't know what to do with the last body.

"Why not give this body to the first master?" Elsa suggested.

- Does it make sense? She is cursed by the god of death and will not be able to live normally among people.

- You're forgetting something. - Elsa shook her head. - Remember it yourself. You told me how in what you saw, she appeared at the great magic games and her curse did not affect those around her, which means the curse is not on her soul.

- Hmm, that's true, - I said after thinking for a bit. - So it's decided.

- And let's start, perhaps, with Grandina. - I said decisively and, going up to one of the huge cocoons, I placed my hand in the area of my solar plexus. A long time ago, when I had just begun to comprehend the magic of souls, I began to feel Grandina's soul, which slept inside me. And today, after so many years, the time has come for us to meet again.

Taking a deep breath and exhaling, I directed the magic into my hand and plunged it into my own chest. From the outside, it looked rather strange, because at the place of immersion, my hand was enveloped in a strange rainbow glow and I tell you, the sensations were not pleasant either, however, grimacing, I was still able to soon feel a bright light and pull it out of myself.

The small turquoise firefly, having found itself outside my body, immediately began to grow rapidly, trying to take the form of a dragon, but before this happened, I sent it into a cocoon filled to the brim with life magic, which, having received a soul, came into action.

Neither Elsa nor I said anything and simply watched what was happening with tension.

For 5 minutes, a light so bright that it illuminated the walls burned inside the cocoon, accompanied by a crunching sound that caused concern, until finally the cocoon was covered with cracks, from which bright rays of light broke through and finally the walls of the cocoon flew apart, and before us appeared a completely naked white-haired girl with eyes the color of the sky.

"Grandina," I whispered, perfectly recognizing every detail of the body of the woman who became my mother in this life.

"Wendy?" the girl muttered weakly, looking at me before starting to fall forward.

- Grandina! - I shouted, both joyfully and worriedly, and jumped up to the dragoness in human form to catch her, preventing her from falling.

Looking straight into the woman's eyes, I said with tears in my eyes: "I found you."