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Equestria's Strongest Wizard

by Vongoalyken

Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Unexpected Guest (Edited)

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Author's Notes:

This is what Nightmare Moon, Cadence, Celestia and Luna will look like. Except Nightmare moon with black fur like the other anthros.

Hey guys another chapter done. Hope you like it. I'm trying really hard to make Laxus and Mavis like they were in the anime, however, I do want to try and expand on their characters a little bit. They've only had each other for two years. Lets see how well they work together.

Two Years Later

Laxus Point of View

It was dusk; Mavis and I were calling it a day. Mavis has put me through rigorous training and brutal situations. However, it was worth it. I'm more powerful than I've ever been. According to Mavis I'm almost five times stronger then I was when we got here and with the new spells she taught me, my magic repertoire has expounded leaps and bounds. She has been teaching me legendary magic, the same type that allows her to fly. I have also learned Fairy Glitter and much more. She has now decided, however, that it is time to start learning the magic off my deceased comrades and family....

My family....Fairy Tail. Two years and no word, no sensation, no presence that would lead us to believe that someone else might've joined us here. I continue to look forward and try to become more powerful then ever. My goal is to become stronger than when Acnologia or the dragons attacked us. I never want to be put into such a hopeless situation again. So I have to start learning the magic of other Fairy Tail members, unfortunately, there are only a few, whose magic, is actually worth acquiring. Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel's Dragon Slayer magic is impossible to learn fully, without their actual dragons to teach me, but Mavis has told me she is going to teach me how to combine the powers of flame, metal and air dragon slayer magic with my lightning dragon slayer magic. Just like Gajeel and Natsu did. Natsu....How I wish I could hear him pick a fight with me right now. According to Mavis, he continued to fight the dragons till his last breath. I can only pray that he is still alive and well. I have also unlocked my dragon force and can use it at will. It's not complete yet; I cant turn into a full dragon yet, but Mavis says with practice and patience I'll be able to eventually. The only other techniques I want to learn are my gramps. His magic was worthy of one of the Ten Wizard Saints and I would like to honor him by using his techniques.

With the technique's that I want to learn in mind and no way to know how Mavis is going to teach me, I decide to go to the creek and wash off. By the time I reached the creek, it's now night time. With a quick rinse and cleansing, I returned to the castle, but on my way I noticed the forest seemed.....restless. Now normally at this time I would hear all sorts of birds and other critters, maybe the howl of a timber wolf, but nothing....Pure silence. While this was slightly ominous I figured maybe the Ursa Major or Minor were on the prowl again. So I continued to make my way home and when I arrived, Mavis was waiting for me. The look on her face told me that something was amiss. I approached her and as I did she looked towards the moon.

"Notice anything missing?" She asked.

"What?" As I looked at the moon I noticed the outline and shadow that was Nightmare Moon, was gone. "So that legend of the mare in the moon was real huh?" I said as I looked back to Mavis.

"Yes and if the legends are true, this night is going to be a long one...." She turned to me with a serious look on her face. "We need to prepare for guest's. Nightmare Moon will come here looking for the Elements of Harmony and this castle is where they were last located. However, I don't think she will be a problem for you. Judging from Celestia's power and their history, they're probably evenly matched. However, you're much stronger then Celestia now, although, you were still stronger then her two years ago. So this is just a precaution, but better to be safe than sorry." She told me.

"Very well Mavis." To this day I never question her wisdom or reasoning, I only seek answers to the questions I might have about parts of her plans I don't know about. She truly is a master Tactician.

"Let's head to the throne room and wait. I'm guessing she'll be along soon and I'd rather have the element of surprise. Also I'm guessing she would like to reclaim her throne. Unfortunately for her, what she doesn't know is that this castle is now property of Fairy Tail and is no longer her home." She said with a smirk on her face as she looked at me.

I couldn't help but smirk back as I looked at the castle. After all these years, this castle really has become a new home for us. I only hope we'll be able to rebuild it eventually and officially put the Fairy Tail banner and logo on it. As we made our way through the castle we started to hear sounds come from the Everfree Forest, such as a rockslide and a manticore's roar. Speaking of manticore, I'm kinda hungry for one. When we got to the throne room in the tower, we proceeded to the alcove high above the floor to watch what would occur from above. Mavis used some magic to conceal our presence in the alcove. We only had to wait for a little bit before we started to hear shouting followed by the smell of mares entering the castle. Having the sense of a adult dragon is very helpful. All of a sudden, two mares appeared below us with a loud boom standing across from each other.

One was a unicorn that had lavender fur and had dark purple hair with a hot pink stripe shooting through it. She was wearing glasses, a white button up shirt with a light purple vest going over it and was in a pink skirt with black shoes. The other however, was an Alicorn and probably Nightmare Moon armed with a giant axe. She was wearing what I would assume is her battle armor and had a giant mass of flowing hair behind her. In fact, it almost looked like stars reflecting off of the surface of water. The stone balls were right in front of her feet as well.

I turned to look at Mavis; asking her what to do about the two of them with just a look. We were expecting Nightmare Moon, not whoever that other girl was and certainly not for them to be at odds with each other. She responded by putting a finger to her lips as if to stay quiet and then held her hands up in front of her showing me her palms, as if telling me to wait. I'm assuming she wants more information, so I continued to wait and watch, hoping Mavis would come to a decision soon. I looked back to see the unicorn get in a running position and egging Nightmare Moon on.

" You're kidding...You're kidding right?" Nightmare Moon asked with a deadpan stare.

Eventually, the unicorn started running towards Nightmare Moon and was charging her horn. The Alicorn responded in kind and as they charged each other the unicorn teleported over to the stone balls and started to discharge her magic around them.

"Ugh.... Just one spark. Come on. Come on." She said to herself. However, magic shot out of the balls and sent her flying right as Nightmare Moon teleported right in front of her.

"No! No!" Nightmare moon said in an upset tone as the unicorn had a triumphant smirk on her face. The stones started glowing and just as quickly stopped.

The unicorn was now distraught "But where's the sixth element!"

It was at this time, that both Mavis and I realized that the stones were the Elements of Harmony.

"AHHAAHAHAAHAHAHA" Nightmare Moon laughed as she destroyed the stones from stomping her left foot. "You little foal. Thinking you could defeat me. Now you will never see your princess or your precious sun. The night will last forever! HAHAHAHAHA!" She exclaimed.

At this point the unicorn looked defeated and had appeared to give up hope.

"For your treachery and attempts to once again banish me...you will die." Nightmare Moon said and started slowly approaching the now terrified unicorn.

While Nightmare Moon does have a powerful presence, the slow walk she was approaching the unicorn with was just annoying. When she got close enough, Nightmare moon raised her giant axe and prepared to cut down the unicorn. It was at this point all bets were off; I was not gonna let this unicorn die for trying to stop a tyrant.

"Humph. Weak" Nightmare Moon said as she looked at the paralyzed unicorn. She finally brought down the axe and stopped abruptly. Looking at her axe, she saw my finger holding back her blade and a look of anger swept over her entire body.

Twilight Point of View

I could only watch as Nightmare moon walked over to me slowly, carrying her giant axe and my death with her. I knew there was no point in running, there was no where I could run where I could get away from her. When she was finally right in front of me she raised her axe above her head and taunted me.

"Humph. Weak" She told me in a disappointed tone.

She brought down the axe and I prepared to die, only for nothing....nothing happened. I opened my eyes and saw what looked like a stallion almost as tall as Nightmare moon herself stop her blade with a single finger! Am I seeing this right, a finger! It's not possible. He would have to be much stronger than Celestia and Nightmare Moon combined to have that kind of strength. I looked to Nightmare moon and saw that she was furious. She brought her left hand to the axe and tried to continue pushing down her axe only for the stallion to smirk. He then proceeded to push against the blade in which Nightmare Moon took a step back to hold her footing.

"WHO ARE YOU!" Nightmare Moon bellowed.

She continued to try to push back, but the stallion just grabbed the weapon with his bare hand and shattered her giant axe. The look of disbelief on Nightmare Moon's face was satisfying as she backed away from the stallion. As she put some distance between the two of them, he turned around and I noticed that he had such a strong presence when he looked down at me. Not only was this stallion stronger than Nightmare Moon, but he looked very mad.

The scar over his right eye only added to my fear as he continued to look down at me. It was almost as if his gold eyes were looking straight through me. I took in the rest of his features and noticed that he appeared to be covered in cutie marks. His left arm had strange designs all up and down it and his right forearm had another one that covered most of it. He then proceeded to take off the coat that was hanging on top of his shoulders and I saw that he had more marks going to his chest but was covered by his black tank top. He then took off the device that was covering his ears and held out a hand to me. He then spoke to me in a deep smooth voice.

"You alright kid?" He asked me.

I sat there dumbfounded that he actually cared about me. I mean looking back, he did save me, but I figured he was worse than Nightmare Moon. Only time will tell. I reached up to his hand and grabbed it as he softly encased my hand in his while he lifted me up gently and I finally saw how tall he really was. He was full head or two over me and I had to lean my head back to really look at him. While I had, what I can only assume was a look of shock on my face, the stallion smiled at me and let go of my hand as I blushed.

"Uh huh." I responded. Realizing how dumb that was I shook my head. "I mean yes. Thank you." I told him.

"Don't worry about it." He then turned to Nightmare Moon. "I appreciate you waiting while I help this young lady, but may I ask why? You don't seem very honorable." The stallion asked.

"I am no fool, scum. I know you're powerful and I know you would not let me get near that mare without some trouble, but I doubt you are stronger than me. For I am the one who has beaten Celestia and shall rule this land in eternal night!" Nightmare Moon shouted at the stallion.

"Scum am I? Mmh. There are a couple things wrong with your outlook. Would you like me to tell you?" The stallion inquired.

"Oh please do. I love to hear the weak stall for time." Nightmare Moon responded.

"First: eternal night is a no go. Not only would you freeze the entire planet, but you would also destroy all crops and sources of food for you and all other herbivores. This would in turn, starve every living thing because herbivores wouldn't have anything to eat and would eventually die, which would lead to all carnivores dying due to no game to hunt." At this point, Nightmare Moon looked shocked and as if someone slapped her across the face. "Second: I am not stalling. As you can probably now tell; I just pointed out major flaws in your plan and that wasn't even all of them. And Lastly: If you beating Celestia was suppose to scare me, think again." The stallion said in such a casual way. "I'm much stronger than Celestia and you combined, so if I'm scum what does that make you?" He finished in a matter of fact tone.

Nightmare Moon and I could only stare at the stallion in disbelief. I suspected as much when he stopped her axe, but to actually hear it from the stallion himself with such confidence as if it were a solid fact, was a different feeling entirely. The two continued to look at each other, trying to read one another.

"You're lying....you must be. For such a strong stallion to appear out of no where and be as strong as you say you are, would be impossible! You would be have to be an immortal to achieve that kind of power! So then what are you if your not a liar!" Nightmare Moon exclaimed.

The stallion just sighed. "I'm a SS class Wizard from the Guild Fairy Tail and I am not immortal. Now please leave, you just so happen to be trespassing." The stallion retorted slightly annoyed.

At this Nightmare moon quirked a brow. "Trespassing. How can I be trespassing in my own home." She inquired.

"This isn't your home anymore. It's Fairy Tail's and I suggest you leave." He replied in a threatening tone.

"Make m-" Nightmare Moon was cut off.

Before she could finish the stallion disappeared before my eyes. When I looked at Nightmare Moon, I saw that he had instantly travelled over to her and his hand was now wrapped around her horn. He had travelled that speed in the blink of an eye without leaving any magic signature. Is he really just that fast! I couldn't believe it. I saw fear in her eyes as she looked at the stallion; almost pleading for him not to break her horn. He then turned to face me, but put some pressure on her horn to make sure she didn't try anything.

"Do horns grow back." He asked me with a smile on his face that almost looked sadistic.

At this point I was mimicking a fish by opening and closing my mouth. " They do, but to break off a unicorns horn is almost the same as having a stallions genitals cut off." I stated in scared tone. "Please don't do that to her... nopony deserves that." I pleaded.

At this the man appeared shocked and Nightmare Moon was definitely surprised. He turned back to the mare in his grasp.

"You tried to kill her and she ask to spare your horn. That takes quite the character. I'm not gonna lie Nightmare Moon, I wasn't going to break your horn off...." At this I was relieved to hear. Nightmare Moon appeared to have the same feeling, but that all changed with his next sentence. " I was going to kill you." At this my blood ran cold and Nightmare Moon's eyes widened as far as possible. "Not only are you a tyrant, but you come into my home and try to murder an innocent individual. All at the same time destroy civilization as we know it. However...." I was terrified at where the stallion was going with this until he paused. "The only thing I can say to you now is that I'm sorry....I'm so sorry." I could only stare shocked at what I just heard. He apologized! Why?! Nightmare Moon seemed just as confused as me. He released her horn and looked into her eyes. "I know what it's like to be lonely...I know the suffering of loss more than you will ever know and I know how you feel. No one to appreciate your night sky and all your hard work. I'm sorry I wasn't around a thousand years ago. Some of my best memories are at night and your night sky is more beautiful then the one from my home could ever hope to be." Nightmare Moon blushed from the stallions kind words.

It was at this moment I heard the shouts of the other girls from behind me, coming from the stairwell. I turned to face the two.

"You think you can destroy the elements off harmony just like that?" At this they both turned to face me. "Well your wrong, because the spirits of the Elements of Harmony, are right here!" I said as the girls joined me at my side.

"What?" Nightmare Moon said.

Laxus Point of View

"What" I heard Nightmare Moon say.

I looked at the five other mares who had joined us. One had orange fur with goldish yellow hair and tail. She was wearing short daisy dukes and a green tank top. Another had pink fur and pink hair and great blue eyes. She was wearing a baggy yellow shirt with jeans. Next was another unicorn like the purple one except she had white fur and a deep purple color for her hair and tail and appeared to be wearing a fancy black dress. The Pegasi were two I had seen before when I scouted the village. One had cyan colored fur with rainbow hair and was in what appeared to be athletic clothes. Such as black spandex. The other was the butter colored Pegasus from the cottage with the pink hair and tail. She was wearing a dark green summer dress. I looked back to the lavender unicorn to see a smirk on her face.

"Applejack, who reassured me when I was in doubt represents the spirit of Honesty!" The purple unicorn started.

"Fluttershy, who tamed the manticore with her compassion represents the spirit of Kindness!"

"Pinkie Pie, who laughed in the face of danger represents the spirit of Laughter!"

"Rarity, who calmed the sorrowful serpent with a meaningful gift represents the spirit of Generosity!"

"And Rainbow Dash, who could not abandon her friends for her own hearts desire represents the spirit of Loyalty!"

"The spirits of these five ponies got us through every challenge you threw at us!" The unicorn explained.

I could only watch on, trying to understand the point of this. Mavis had finally appeared by my side and told me of a way to save Nightmare Moon. She told me the elements might be able to split the two spirits who are in her body in two. She told me to add my own little magic when they launched their attack. I nodded, agreeing with my tactician.

"You still don't have the sixth element. The spark didn't work!" Nightmare Moon exclaimed in desperation.

"But it did, a different kind of spark. I felt it the moment the very moment I realized how happy I was to hear you. To see you. How much I care about you. The spark ignited inside of me when I realized you all are my Friends! You see Nightmare Moon, when those elements are ignited by the spark that reside in us all, it creates the sixth element....the element of magic!" The unicorn stated.

The mares all got a necklaces besides the lavender unicorn, she got a tiara. Magic started building up in the artifacts and I used my own magic to add to the spell.

"NO!" Nightmare Moon cried out fearfully.

The magic started swirling around Nightmare Moon and soon dispersed. The mares started fussing over their new accessories and complementing each other. I, however, saw two different Alicorn women lying next to each other. One was Nightmare Moon and the other one was much shorter and had blue fur with light teal hair and tail. She was wearing this long black dress and Nightmare Moon, out of her battle attire, was wearing a long blue dress. I moved Nightmare Moon from the other one and proceeded to look at the mares who were all excited.

"Gee Twilight. I thought you were spouting a lot of hooey, but I reckon we do represent the Elements of Harmony." Applejack said.

"Indeed you do." A motherly voice said.

The sun then proceeded to rise over the horizon and into the sky and a pure white Alicorn appeared. At this moment all the mares started bowing to the Alicorn, so I figured this was Celestia.

"Princess" Twilight said as she hugged her.

"Twilight Sparkle, my faithful student. I knew you could do it." She responded.

"But you told me it was just an old ponies tale." Twilight said in a confused tone.

"I told you to make some friends, nothing more. I to saw the signs of Nightmare Moons return and I knew it was you, who had the magic inside of you to defeat her, but you could not, until you let true friendship into your heart. Now if only another will." Celestia said as she turned her head to the blue Alicorn on the floor.

I could tell that she didn't notice me or Nightmare Moon in the corner and decided to stay quiet for now, while Mavis and I observed.

"Princess Luna" Celestia said as she walked over to the other Alicorn with her wings spread wide giving her a commanding presence all while looking down upon her.

"Ahuh!" Luna let slip in fear.

"It's been a thousand years since I've seen you like this. Time put our differences behind us. We were meant to rule together little sister." She said as she kneeled down to her sister.

At this revelation Mavis and I just looked at each other then over to Nightmare Moon, whose head was hung low. We looked back at the other girls. While three of the girls exclaimed.

"Sister."
"Sister."
"Sister."

"Will you accept my friendship?" Princess Celestia said as she rose.

Princess Luna looked up at her sister then ran into her arms. "I'm so sorry! I missed you so much big sister!" They then cried during there embrace, happy to have each other back.

"I've missed you to." Celestia said with some fresh tears.

It was at this point that Twilight looked over and saw Nightmare Moon and I. She slowly walked to the princesses, almost sad that she had to ruin the moment.

"Princess Celestia?" Twilight said softly from behind her. Celestia turned around to greet her student.

"Yes my faithful student?" Celestia asked her.

"There's something you should know.... I shouldn't have been alive to stop Nightmare Moon princess." Twilight started.

"What do you mean Twilight?" Celestia asked confused.

"When I used my magic and nothing happened to the Elements of Harmony, I thought I had failed you." She then looked down to her feet; ashamed to look her mentor in the eyes. "Nightmare Moon started approaching me wielding a giant axe that she was going to kill me with." Celestia had a look of disbelief on her face as did all the other mares. "When she finally got to me, she raised the axe over her head and prepared to strike me down. I closed my eyes and waited for my death.... but it never came. When I opened my eyes there was a stallion standing above me stopping her axe with a single finger like it was nothing!" Celestia almost looked flabbergasted at this information. As did the others.

"Are you sure you weren't seeing things Twilight. I mean he'd have to be super powerful to do that." Rainbow Dash said.

"I'm sure! Nightmare Moon then tried to over power him by using both her hands on the axe, but he just grabbed it with his bare hand and shattered it. After telling Nightmare Moon that eternal night was awful and giving many examples about what it might do to the environment, she called him a lair. It was at this point the stallion grew annoyed and asked her to leave his home." She continued looking at those present.

"His home?" Celestia asked skeptically.

"Yes. My home." I finally said. Tired of being ignored.

At this point everyone turned to look at me and seemed to be shocked, while Celestia seemed to be acting like a fish. Celestia and the girls finally saw Nightmare Moon and looks of anger quickly took hold of their features. Celestia slowly started approaching her and I looked back to see Nightmare Moon with her ears splayed back as if she were afraid. It was at this point that I stepped in Celestia's way and surprise once again placed itself upon her face.

"May I ask what you plan to do?" I inquired.

"I'm going to send her to Tartarus where she belongs!" Celestia said in a matter of fact tone.

"I don't know that seems really harsh and not to mention like a pretty big mistake." I said. I looked back to see Nightmare Moon looking at me. I turned to face Celestia who looked undignified.

"How is that harsh. She tried to rule over Equestria in eternal night and how is my decision a mistake!?" She said through clenched teeth. I think she was surprised someone was questioning her.

I looked over at Mavis and saw her nod her head. Then back over to the girls and Luna to see they were shocked I was standing against Celestia so calmly. "The way I see it you have two choice's. First: you take Nightmare Moon and treat as another sister like she deserves. Wanting to banish an extension of your own sister who only wants some friends is harsh no matter how you look at it and maybe even cruel." All the present had their eyes shifting back and forth between Luna and Nightmare. "You should think about that."

"And the second choice?" She asked with a quirked brow.

I looked behind me to see Nightmare looking at me with tears in her eyes. I turned back to Celestia and approached her till I was inches away from her. "Second is you try and take her from me and banish her then, however, you aren't strong enough to take her from me which leads you to back option one." I stated.

"You dare challenge me!?" Celestia said through a strained voice.

"The way I see it, you owe me. Not only did I help save your sister, but I also helped save your student as she was about to die. Not only that, but it would appear I helped you escape and saved your Kingdom. Because if Twilight had died you'd still be locked away and Nightmare Moon would have reigned over Equestria. So I feel as though I deserve a reward, don't you." I asked with a smirk on my face.

"And what type of reward do you seek?" She asked me on guard for anything.

"For you to choose option one." At this point everyone just looked at me with their jaws on the floor. I only continued to smirk.

It was at this point Twilight stepped forward " Why would you do that for her? She tried to kill you as well." She said.

I looked at her "Yes, but when I had her dead to rights you pleaded for me to spare her." Celestia then turned to her student surprised and a warm smile appeared on her face. "I could have killed her, but instead you made me rethink her situation, so I searched inside her and saw that she wasn't evil...just alone and angry at the world." Everyone looked at Nightmare and she splayed her ears back with tears in her eyes. "I too, have made grave mistakes in the past and saw the error of my ways and if I can...she can to." I said in a sad tone which caused everyone to look at me.

Celestia stared at me for a while before she finally sighed "Very well. Nightmare Moon." She said in a commanding voice that took hold of Nightmare. "I herby declare that all past transgression to this point have been forgiven and will be given another chance. However, you will be supervised for a time, are these terms acceptable to you." Nightmare Moon got up and hugged Celestia and Luna while sobbing. The other two Alicorns returned the hug, Celestia with a smile on her face and Luna with some tears in her eyes.

I looked over to Mavis who had a smile on her face as she walked up to me. "Good job Laxus." Mavis told me.

I smile back. "Thank you." I told her.

"No, thank you." Celestia said to me. I forgot they can't see Mavis and I looked over to her.

"Don't tell them about me yet Laxus. As always, better to be safe then sorry." She said. I nodded and looked back to Celestia and the others who were now staring at me.

"Yes?" I asked.

"Who are you? What are you?" Celestia asked me.

I could only chuckle. "My name is Laxus and I'm a wizard from Fairy Tail." I told them with a smirk.

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