Chapter 4 - Fairy Tail

Ace arrived at the train station at Magnolia. He was both hesitant and excited at the same time.

As Velveno, he was indebted to Fairy Tail as with their help, he managed to get engaged to Aceto.

As Vance, he was a big fan, especially of Lucy who he had the hots for since the manga began. His pillows had her picture and he died having sex with virtual Lucy.

Furthermore, as a big fan of the manga, he knew everything seemed connected with Fairy Tail. There was no avoiding it. 

He walked through the town and recognized the area where August disintegrated.

“I believe August, the Magic King, son of Zeref and Mavis disintegrated up there towards the end of the Ishgar-Alverez War. Maybe I could restore him with Ultear's power or some other time magic?” he thought, leaving it for later

He entered the Fairy Tail guild hall, only to find it loud and rowdy. Kana was hammered, while Elfman was yelling about being a man.

Natsu was arguing with Gray about something, but now Juvia was also arguing on his behalf as well.

Gajeel was also joining in the argument as Levy seemed to be having his back. Natsu had Lucy arguing on his behalf.

Did something happen between Natsu and Lucy? His memories only had Gray and Juvia, as well as Gajeel and Levy getting together. Perhaps two years later, Natsu did get together with Lucy.

“Hello! Welcome to Fairy Tail!” Mirajane said as she looked at Ace

“Hi.. ah. I want to join the guild” he said shyly.

The fighting suddenly stopped as everyone looked at him. Suddenly, Natsu stormed over

“Great! A new guildmate! Whats your name?” he asked loudly while smelling him, looking a bit confused.

Ace remembered that Natsu could identify Ultear by her smell in the manga and anime. He was prepared for the fact that Natsu might remember Velveno's scent.

But Ace had taken over Velveno’s body for more than two years already. His eating habits and hygiene were different, thus eventually, even though there were hints of Velveno, Ace’s smell was now different. 

“Uh.. I’m Ace. I do [Requip] magic” Ace answered.

Requip magic was one of the simpler magics that Ace learned. With his genius intellect of his previous life, he could master spells easier than most. Furthermore, even though there was no internet to connect to, the chip in his brain gave him a tremendous memory that augmented his genius intellect, and he had the full knowledge of the Fairy Tail story stored in there as well.

The real reason he learned Requip was to store Aceto’s body. With Ultear’s power, he restored her body to a perfect condition, even though he couldn’t actually revive her.

He started bringing out several weird looking contraptions. Although he couldn’t build fantasy robotic weapons like those in mangas, he could build simple robotics. He could also distill chemicals, make medicine etc.

He was like a magical McGyver, with all kinds of tools instead of weapons that he stored, and he demonstrated with the different bombs he created. 

The guild members were all introduced to him, even though he already knew all of them, and he met Master Makarov, who was now in a wheelchair.

Makarov gave Ace a stern look, then suddenly smiled.

“Welcome to Fairy Tail my boy. I hope you like it here as part of my family” he smiled.

He had the Fairy Tail tattoo under his belly button which he showed off by wearing low cut pants.

"Why did you put your tattoo there?" asked Happy

"Well, I wanted my tattoo to be somewhere unique, where no one has it tattooed before" answered Ace.

"You just want girls to look there don't you" asked Kana lewdly.

"It worked, didn't it?" he answered. Kana blushed and looked away as everyone laughed. 

Ace smiled. This was exactly what he expected after reading and watching the manga and anime.

He felt conflicted. His Vance personality was incredibly happy just joining Fairy Tail. However, his Velveno side still adamantly wanted to fulfill his mission to resurrect Aceto.

He had no problem touching Wendy as they shook hands, copying her power using his [Magic Drain] spell.

That night, in his newly rented room, he brought Ultear out and tried to recharge her.

However, to his disappointment, the Wind Dragon powers only managed to make Ultear look slightly healthier and not so frail. It didn't restore her age at all. 

“You will need a lot more power to restore me to my prime master. I am afraid it is very difficult. You will need to absorb mages with magic power at the level of the 10 Saints or higher to be able to restore me” Ultear said.

“From now on, just call me Ace. Not master. I am sorry for enslaving you, so I don’t want to treat you badly if I don’t have to” he said.

She nodded, but still looked sad. She was a slave for life now.

“Will you be enslaving Fairy Tail members too?” she asked.

“No. Not if I can help it. I owe them from before” was all he could say.

He looked out the window and asked Ultear aloud

“August. August and the rest of the Spriggan 12. Will their powers be enough to recharge you?” he asked.

“The Spriggan 12? Yes. Any one of them should be able to recharge me. But you must understand, even a fully recharged me will only be able to reverse time by 1 minute. I can’t even in my prime reverse time by over 2 years!” she said.

Ace nodded and just waved his hand, banishing her again to the dimension she was stored.

Over the following days, he discovered that Fairy Tail of today had changed and grew more different from the time the manga ended.

He discovered to his surprise and delight that they buried Irene Belserian in a grave area behind the guild.

Over the following night, Ace stood in a cloak above the town, on top the rooftop of the building closest to where August died.

Using Ultear’s copied power, he turned back time on the exact spot using a huge amount of power.

The area glowed with incredible power and gathered part of August's remnant power, but eventually he failed. He couldn't restore August's disintegrated body.

Suddenly, a few members of Fairy Tail appeared, looking for the source of the disturbance. It was both Erza and Mirajane in her full demon form.

“What happened here?” asked Erza

Ace emerged from the shadows, dusting himself off wearing all kinds of contraptions and detectors.

“Hi Erza! I was fiddling around with my machines and I detected something in the air here. So I came to examine it. But after zapping it, it started to blow up, so I took cover” he answered.

By now, he was already known as a tinkerer of machines. He did so on purpose to give him an alibi, and purposely blew up several experiments to give himself a mad scientist reputation.

“Well, you better be more careful. Things may get beyond your control” Erza said.

“Ok Erza. Do you know what happened in this area? Why is the remnant magical power so strong here?” Ace asked innocently

“This…. This is where August the Spriggan 12 King of Magic died by burning himself up” she answered after hesitating for a while.

“Oh… I see” Ace said in awe. “No wonder the reading was so powerful. I suppose I shouldn’t poke around then” he smiled shyly and started keeping his weird looking contraptions.

“No. It’s probably a good idea if you don’t” Mirajane laughed.

They headed back to the guild together, with Ace asking all kinds of innocent questions.

He was disappointed on the inside, as he had failed in retrieving August’s body. Now how was he going to retrieve Irene without anyone noticing?

And how was he going to transfer the power in their bodies into Ultear’s body?

He left that for another day as he continued pretending and chatting with Erza and Mirajane back to the guild.