Child Of God

Netero and Yamamoto arrived in the city of Magnolia quite quickly, and Yamamoto carefully observed the town. And other than the architecturale design of the town, nothing nor no one caught his eyes. He felt no powerful auras in this town so he grew bored quite quickly and started cloud gazing instead. Netero was casually sitting on the eagle's back while whistling a happy tune.

An explosion was heard suddenly in the direction of the guild building, "A fight? Let's hurry and see who the poor soul is that decided to attack our allies." Netero and Yamamoto jumped off the eagle and started dashing across the sky like it was solid ground.

Netero was right about the fight. On the open area in front of the guild building, two people were trading blows with each other, one of them had pink hair and was obviously, Natsu. the other one had black hair and was surrounded by an ice-cold aura, and this was Gray, Natsu's arch-rival and best friend.

Yamamoto and Netero arrived above the guild and saw who was fighting outside its doors, "Oh, it's just those two," Netero lost a little of his excitement when seeing that there wasn't any enemy attacking the guild.

"Is that the guild?" Yamamoto asked while observing Natsu's flames. "Yes, and that's most of its members." Netero's eyes suddenly spotted a blonde boy standing among the crowed watching Natsu and Gray, and he stood shoulder to shoulder with a blue-haired girl.

"I should really tell Sabo the dangers of sneaking in here," His words caused Yamamoto to look over at the crowd and he too spotted the blonde boy. He too noticed the obvious intimate air between Sabo and Wendy.

"Hm, a romantic? Isn't he a little young for that? He should go into solitary training for a couple of decades first." Yamamoto said sternly.

"You are a little behind the times, old man," Netero laughed out loud, and it was lucky they were so high up or the guild would have heard him laughing. But unfortunately Sabo suddenly felt a gaze lock onto him, so he looked up towards the directions where he felt the gaze coming from.

"Ah, Shit!" Sabo suddenly swore quietly, but because she was right next to him, Wendy heard him and looked over worriedly.

"What's the matter, Sabo?" She said and leaned in closer to make sure no one would hear her. This normally wouldn't bother him, but now that he knew who was here watching him, he started to sweat.

"Eeh, nothing, I just have to take care of something, I'll be right back!" He said and disappeared like teleportation. And up in the sky, he appeared in front of the two old men. He looked over at them and bowed low. "Please don't tell Angela that I'm here!" He said with a clear and confident voice.

"Let's not even get into how you managed to bypass Angela. Tell me why you lied about what world you were going to? No one would stop you if you said you wanted to meet little Wendy." Netero said cheerfully. He brushed past it for now, but he was definitely interested in how Sabo managed to sneak into this world without Angela noticing.

"Because of big-sis! She keeps stalking me when I'm on dates with Wendy. She makes it impossible for me to make a move on Wendy, and I'm pretty sure Wendy is starting to think I'm losing interest." Sabo had actual bags under his eyes, and with the frustration in his voice, it became pretty easy for them to believe him.

"Well, are you? losing interest in her, that is?" Yamamoto asked, even though he wasn't that interested in this.

"No of course not! I lo... I mean, I like her a lot, you know!" Sabo realized he messed up, now he just hoped that those two chose to ignore it as well. Which of course, they did not.

"Love? Is that what you were gonna say?" Netero said with an evil smile spreading across his face.

"No, no that was not what I was saying! You definitely heard wrong!" Sabo waved his hands in front of his face with rose-coloured cheeks.

"Really? I wonder how Hanc.o.c.k would react if I told her that you, her baby brother is soooo in love." Netero laughed out loud with his evil mastermind laugh, Yamamoto shook his head and sighed, and Sabo went pale as a ghost in the face.

"Y-You can't! Okay!! You don't know her, she's crazy!" Sabo was on the verge of crying from the horrid memories that Hanc.o.c.k had instilled into him.

"Then I think we have an answer. Have you told the girl you love her yet?" Netero materialized a pole in mid-air that he sat down on. And with his legs dangling freely in mid-air he stared intently at Sabo.

"What? Did you not hear what I just said? She's everywhere, I can feel her gaze on me when she's not even around. She has destroyed my love life! Wait! Is she here? Did you guys tell her that I was here?" Sabo started looking around in a panic.

"Calm down, boy, she's not here, Acnologia kidnapped Hanc.o.c.k and they are off finding him a new knight or something," Netero answered, amused by the boy's behaviour.

"Shit that was scary, for a second there I saw my life flash before my eyes." Sabo breathed out in relief, but then he jolted back to life again, "Wait, a new knight? What happened to Pitou?" He asked curiously.

"Dead, apparently Acnologia killed her. And don't ask why he did so, because I don't know!" Netero summoned three golden balls and started joggling them.

"Hm, I feel sorry for whoever becomes his new knight. But on that note, I should start thinking about recruiting a knight as well." Sabo suddenly got lost in thought, "I would recruit Wendy if it wasn't for that damn rule that you can't sleep with your knight!" He seemed mildly annoyed by that fact.

"Why not one of your brothers? Aren't they still alive?" Netero asked. He had also increased his ball count, now he was joggling five of them at the same time.

"They are alive, but I don't think so. With Ace, there might be a sliver of a chance he would agree, but Luffy? Hell no! He would rather jump in the ocean and drown himself then work for anyone, that includes me and Ace." Sabo smiled brightly when he thought about his two brothers.

"What a dramatic little boy. Sounds like he needs to be taught a lesson in respecting authority." Yamamoto said sternly.

"Yeah, good luck with that, old man. The strongest old man in the world tried for years to teach Luffy some manners, but there was no success in that." Sabo looked at Yamamoto like he was an idiot. Sabo knew Luffy very well, and he knew he would never change.

"I see. They still believe you're dead, don't they?" Netero asked, now having increased the joggling to six balls.

"Yeah, they do. I was gonna go back to them, but I waited too long and it's become really awkward for me to return. And in the end, I decided to deal with Wendy first and when that is properly cleared up I will go and say hello to my brothers."

"Well, it's your life so you deal with its troubles as you see fit, boy. But I, your number one wingman is always here for moral support should you need it." Netero was now joggling ten balls with a bright smile on his face.

"I don't know if I want dating advice from two old fossils." Sabo glanced at both of them.

"Suit yourself. But you should know that I used to be quite the ladies man," Netero increased his ball count yet again.

"Sure, and I am four meters tall," Sabo said in a condescending tone.

"It's true, I had tons of them flocking around me wherever I went in the world."

"Can you two stop talking about something this pointless. And shouldn't we get down to the guild since everyone has already gone inside." Yamamoto lightly tapped his cane on the air, causing Netero to lose his balance and with that, he dropped the balls and they turned into nothingness as Netero dispelled his magic that kept them there. And he was right about the guild, everyone on the ground had already gone inside, and Natsu had ended his fight with Gray.

"Oh shit, Wendy, I need to make sure she doesn't think I baled on our date!" Sabo completely disregarded the old men's existence and immediately disappeared towards the guild building.

"I suppose we should go as well," Netero said and also started descending towards the ground, and Yamamoto was close behind as well.

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Inside Fairy Tail, things were as they always were, chaotic. People were laughing, drinking, and eating, but most importantly, they were fighting. This guild's trademark was destruction and chaos, so a day without fighting was quite rare for the people inside this building.

The doors to the building slammed open and in walked a distressed-looking Sabo. The guildhall went silent and he caught everyone's attention because he opened the door with such ferocity that he almost broke them apart. Luckily Makarov was used to this happening so he had since long ago reinforced those doors with tougher material.

"EY, SABO IS BACK!" Cana yelled from her place on the floor. She had fallen off her seat thanks to her being so drunk she couldn't even sit straight.

"Sorry, I had some visitors I needed to take care off, but I'm back now!" He said loudly for everyone to hear. After that, he made his way over to the table where Wendy was sitting with Erza, Lucy, and Lisanna.

"Why'd you leave for? Wendy was all sad after you left, I thought you ditched your date with her," Lisanna said with a smug face.

"Lisanna, quiet!" Wendy's cheeks grew and she felt her body heating up, albeit it was not as bad as the first few times they interfered in Sabo's and Wendy's love life, even though they barely had something that you could call a love life thanks to Hanc.o.c.k.

"But, it's true! I will tell no lies!" Lisanna said with a bright smile. Erza sat off to the side and nodded in approval, "Well said, Lisanna!" She said while consuming a piece of cake with her eyes sparkling like diamonds.

"I think it's quite sweet how much they care about you, little Wendy," Netero and Yamamoto had appeared on the seats next to Erza and they were eating cake as well, though no one knew where they had gotten it.

Erza had jumped up in surprise, but when she saw who it was that appeared she sighed out in relief. Around the hall, all the tables went silent one after the other, and soon everyone inside the hall was looking over at Netero and Yamamoto.

"Sir Issac, this is a surprise. But a welcomed visit!" Makarov said with a smile. Netero looked over and nodded at him, "This is a delicious cake, guild master! Who made it?" He said hurriedly to Makarov.

"That would be me!" Mirajane said with a soft tone from behind Makarov. When Netero heard it, he disappeared from his spot on the bench, shocking all the onlooker with his speed, and he reappeared in front of the counter where Makarov and Mira were.

"I would like to place an order for a thousand of these, and can you make it by tonight?" He asked her seriously. Everyone in the guild tilted their heads in confusion while trying to process the insanity that just came out of the old man's mouth.

"I-I am sorry, Sir Issac. That can't be done! It's impossible." Mira said with a little apologetic voice. Even though she knew it was an insane request and that it was utterly impossible for her to do, she still felt bad about not being able to do it.

"I see, that's unfortunate"

"I could write you the recipe for it. Would that do?" She asked with a sweet smile and a hopeful gaze.

"That would do splendidly! Thank you, little Mira," Netero said down on one of the stools to wait for Mirajane to write up the recipe.

"Sir Issac, is there some special event going on? A thousand cakes would be quite difficult to eat alone even for Natsu." Makarov asked him with a drink in hand. As usual, the guild master was pretty drunk.

"Yeah, not that difficult to figure out was it,"

"Is there a party happening, old man!?" Gray came up behind him with excitement written on his face.

"Yeah, a welcome party for Fairy Tail!" Netero said excitedly.

"Are you drunk, old man? Why would the entire guild need a welcome party?" Gajeel said with a sour expression. He was currently in a very bad mood because he had wanted to fight Natsu after Gray but Erza forbade it from happening.

"Because you are all invited to our island!" Netero said loudly so the entire guild could hear it.

"WHAT! REALLY!?" This time Makarov completely freaked out and almost fell backwards. This was his literal goal, visiting the mysterious island the two most powerful and enigmatic founders created themselves.

"Yep! And there you might even meet the other members" Netero said casually and pointed at Yamamoto, "Introduce yourself to the guild," He said to the cake-eating head-captain.

Yamamoto looked up from his cake and observed the hall. "My name i Yamamoto, member of the Cosmic Eye," He said stoically.

"Cosmic Eye?" Lucy said, confused just like the rest of the guild. No one in the guild had heard that name before.

"That's what we're called," Netero took over and explained calmly.

"Really? That's the first I've heard of it. How many members do you have in this group exactly?" Erza asked. She was getting more interested in them by the second, and ever since she found out about them those years ago on Tenrou island she has had this strange little interest in becoming a member. But her love and loyalty to this building and the people in it was intense so she doubted that she could ever leave them.

"There's a few you haven't met, but we're forbidden from talking about us to anyone, even you people," Netero said with a smile on his face.

"Hm, suspicious!" Lucy said not so quietly to herself.

Suddenly a few unknown auras appeared inside the building, and three men had appeared by the door, blocking anyone from exiting or entering the hall. One had long orange hair tied into two ponytails with scar vertically across his nose. The second was an old grey-haired man with traditional wizard robes on, and a tattered purple cloak, and a staff in hand. And the last person was a tall man with a black suit on and a receding hairline, and a skull tattoo on his forehead.

"Cosmic Eye, what an obnoxious name you picked for yourself," Said the old grey-haired man. Netero looked over in curiosity, and when he saw who had arrived he smiled calmly and said, "Says the Wizard king!" and it put a frown on the three strangers faces, but the man with the skull tattoo looked most bothered by the comment from Netero.

"Who are you?" Erza appeared before them with a sword in hand. She felt the mind-boggling magic power exuding from the three of them so she took to arms without even thinking about whether they were friendly or not.

"You might wanna stand aside, girl. Before you hurt yourself with that toothpick of yours," The man with a scar across his nose said arrogantly.

"God Serena!" Makarov said while looking at the young red-head.

"The strongest mage on Ishgar? Then they are friendly?" Erza slightly lowered her sword, but this proved to be a fatal mistake because Serena's magic power spiked, almost causing the weaker members to pass out. Before even Makarov could react, Serena appeared in front of Erza and pierced her c.h.e.s.t with his hand.

"ERZA!!" Multiple members screamed out in horror. The strongest female mage in Fairy Tail had been killed in less than a seconds time. They stood paralyzed, not being able to process the information properly, and that especially went for Erza's team. But Serena, who you would expect to look satisfied looked nothing like that. He had a look on his face that screamed utter confusion.

"What's going on here? Why is there no blood? But why does it feel like a physical body?" He removed his hand and Erza exploded in bright golden light. Serena was caught off guard and was sent flying back crashing into the big double doors of the building.

"I'm fine, guys!" Erza's sounded out behind them all, and she was now standing by the bar, right beside Netero that was sitting there sipping on his drink.

"ERZA!" Lucy, Natsu. and Gray came flying into her arms with tears streaming down their faces. But their reunion was cut short when Serena fully released his magic power. This time some members of the guild actually fell unconscious.

"WHO THE F.U.C.K DID THAT!?" Serena stood up with some blood running down his face. You could see that the directed golden explosion had hurt him quite badly, but that still didn't stop him from seeking out whoever had done it.

"Doesn't matter who! What matters is that you attacked one of my kids in my own house." Makarov sat on the bar counter with a shadow cast over his eyes. His magic power was rising and approaching Serena's level, but you could still tell Serena was stronger than him.

"It matters to me, shitstain. I will beat you to the point of death and then I will kill your damn kids in front of you!" God Serena yelled and his magic power had another explosive outburst and it put cracks in the entire building. But before any of the sides could make a move, an aura that surpassed both of them combined by about ten times appeared from nowhere. It focused in on Serena and his two companions and completely suppressed them. Serena was the worst off among them, this aura's entire pressure hit him and sent him crashing down on the floor.

"I also used to have quite the rowdy bunch of kids run around that I took in and protected. So I quite understand Makarov's anger about you barging in here and trying to kill his kids." An elderly, almost ancient voice appeared from where the fake Erza had stood in the middle of the hall.

"Who are you?" The wizard king asked cautiously. He obviously sensed the aura and admitted that it was comparable, if not even above Acnologia.

"Yamamoto, The Prime Soul Reaper, and member of The Order Of the Cosmic Eye." He said slowly, and yes, Maleficent had indeed made him the Prime of the soul reapers, just like how Acnologia was Prime of all dragons. So in worlds where death is the master of souls and reapers of all kinds, Yamamoto has essentially now become death's master.

"Yamamoto, why are you protecting a guild this weak? You could join us in our empire where the strong truly thrive and shine. What say you? I can promise greatness!" The Wizard king spoke seriously and confidently. He was trying his absolute best to keep Serena alive, that was all he was focusing on.

"August, I am incapable of describing how far beneath us your father's empire is." Yamamoto raised his hand and Serena flew up into his grasp. The Wizard king, August stumbled back and was forced down on one knee because of Yamamoto increasing his pressure on him immensely.

"H-How do you know about that?!!" August looked up with a lot of difficulties and glaring at Yamamoto. The identity of his father was something only he knew, and not even his father who he worked very closely with knew August was his son.

"We are the Cosmic Eye. We know everything about everything and everyone." Yamamoto started raising his magic power again, and his power had long since surpassed the power Acnologia had before accepting the contract from Maleficent. And everyone in the guild was looking wide-eyed at the old head-captain.

"T-That's impossible! How can someone have that much magic power?" Lucy was sitting on the ground shaking in fear. And the same feelings she felt was shared with most guild members, they were all silently questioning how such a monster could exist.

"S-Sabo, I'm scared!" Wendy was crying. She felt completely suffocated by Yamamoto's aura, it didn't matter that he wasn't pressuring her, she couldn't handle it alone. Just calling out to Sabo was a challenge.

Sabo was completely fine. He had stood face to face with Kurama, the strongest Prime there was. Yamamoto and Netero were not in Kurama's league when it came to physical or magical strength. The only ones except for Maleficent who could maybe fight him and win was Merlin and Rayleigh, and even that was a shot in the dark about who would win. And they would only have a chance if they teamed up against him. That was simply how powerful Kurama was. The longer you hold the contract the stronger you would be, and Kurama had been contracted for more than a hundred years.

When he saw what this was doing to her he grew extremely angry out of concern for her. He rushed over and knelt down where Wendy sat on her knees trying her hardest to breathe. He put both his hands on her shoulders and covered her entire body with his magic. A dense multi-coloured barrier seemingly made out of stardust now surrounded her.

"I'm here now! And until my last breath, I will make it my lives mission to keep you safe." He said with pure determination in his tone. Neither his voice nor gaze had the slightest hesitation in them.

Wendy felt her breath coming back to her. She processed what was just said and tilted her head downwards and looked at the ground while a small smile crept its way onto her lips. Sabo, on the other hand, looked away towards Yamamoto and saw that he was talking down to August that sat kneeling on the floor while sweating profusely. And the old head-captain had Serena lifted off the ground by the throat.

"S-Sabo," Wendy said quietly but still audible enough for him to hear her.

"Yeah?" He looked back at her and immediately was met with something he didn't expect. Wendy dove into his embrace and without hesitating for a single moment pressed her soft lips against his. She had her eyes closed and wrapped her arms around his and drowned closer into his embrace. Sabo sat completely stunned, not quite responding properly to her advances. It took another few seconds for his brain to catch up to what was happening. But when it finally did, Sabo wrapped his arms around her and immersed himself into the kiss. No one around them saw this, all except Netero of course. He smiled kindly and whispered "Nice going kid, you hold onto that little lady and let us, the old fossils protect you two this time."

Netero drank the last of what was in his drink then disappeared from his spot. He appeared again behind August and the man with the skull tattoo, "Yamamoto, how about stopping the lecture for a second?" As he said so Yamamoto's inhuman magic pressure disappeared quickly like a passing gust of wind. All the people in the guild that had stood standing purely out of force of will collapsed exhausted on the ground, but not before shooting Netero a grateful nod.

"Thanks," Netero said and walked towards the Wizard king and his friend. But the man with the skull tattoo jumped up now that he was free and clapped his hands together and that sent a wave of powerful magic towards every direction. But a golden barrier appeared around everyone inside the building, and you could hear Netero sighing from behind.

"Didn't Yamamoto just tell you two how far beneath us you are? And on top of that, I believe he also spoke about how we have information about all of the Spriggan twelve and everyone inside your empire."

"August, flee! I'll distract them!" The man with the skull tattoo made an executive decision and dove towards Netero, he had a knife in hand and a mad expression on his face. Yamamoto had driven his mind to the border of insanity and his entire body was shaking from fear, but he still dove towards his enemy without hesitation.

"Jacob Lessio, your actions are futile but admirable," Netero said and took a step forward. That step teleported him right in front of Jacob, and he planted a punch right into his stomach that rendered him unconscious.

"I think I've found my knight finally," Netero said and looked down at Jacob on the ground.

"August!" He turned to the Wizard king that had been caught by a giant golden hand that held him in place. " You will live through today. The boss has since long ago known exactly how you and your entire empire will die, and I don't wanna change that too much. So I am just gonna rob you of two of the Spriggans."

Netero leaned in closer and looked right into his eyes, "And I want you to remember that you will die exactly when the Cosmic Eye demands it. Not a second before that day will we allow you to die, so look forward to it,"

"So, you can tell your emperor that he should be expecting us very soon. And be sure to put up a fight to make it fun for us. Because there is nothing fun about killing people that have given up." Netero snapped his fingers and the giant hand dragged a screaming August down through a golden portal and disappeared from the hall completely.

Netero turned around and faced the guild with a smile on his face, "Now, how about that party?"

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