Chapter 5 - Minerva

Several months passed. Ace didn’t take any risks of being discovered and spent the time keeping a low profile, fitting in with Fairy Tail.

He even took several low profile missions by himself. His excuse was that since he wasn’t a battle mage, he took those that required his investigative abilities. So he solved a lot of minor missions that way and gained a decent reputation for himself.

He had traced where several important battles took place. Besides August's remnant energies where he disintegrated, Ace had discovered that Zeref, Mavis and Larcade's energies could be detected within the guild where they died and disappeared as well as remnant energies Gray's father Silver not far from the guild.

However, he was still stumped as to how to make use of this knowledge and restore their powerful bodies.

That day was the annual Harvest Festival, which was a big party hosted by Fairy Tail.

Ace was introduced to the members of Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus, Sabertooth and Mermaid Heel.

While shaking their hands, he paid special attention to Minerva, as he suddenly had an inspiration.

“Spatial magic. Just what I needed” he thought to himself and smiled sweetly as he shook Minerva’s hands.

The usual float event happened as they did every year, with the members of Fairy Tail making their own floats, except by now Makarov no longer participated due to being confined in a wheelchair.

At the end of the event, Makarov announced his retirement as the 3rd, 6th and 8th Guild Master. Gildarts accepted his position as the 9th Guild Master, finally settling down and no longer taking S class missions.

Tears were shed, a huge party was given and there was merriment all around.

That night, hidden in a cloak, a mysterious person appeared to be praying over the grave of Irene Belserion, who was Erza's mother. 

Secretly, he used Minerva’s powers to steal Irene's body and keeping her in his requip dimension. Her body was the only one currently powerful enough to recharge Ultear's body.

“I knew something was off about you. I felt magic when you touched my hand” said a voice from behind him.

“Minerva, what do you mean? Are you here to pay respect to the grave here as well?” smiled Ace as he turned around.

“Stop pretending! I know you are up to no good. I can feel you using spatial magic like my [Territory] spell to steal the body under the grave” she said confidently.

“So you are going to tell on me?” Ace smiled evilly

“No, I am going to beat you so badly, you will admit it yourself” Minerva sneered as she launched an attack.

However, just as she kicked at his face, as Ace leaned away, Minerva stood still, her leg still in the air looking stunned.

“What… .what did you do to me….. master?” she asked trembling, with a tear rolling down her eye.

He touched her leg, still suspended in the air and moved his hand down, finally ending up where her legs met. He pushed her panties aside and pushed his middle finger into her.

Minerva looked at him in shock, but she didn’t move, nor said anything.

“I’m going to enjoy you tonight” he smiled as he made her disappear.

He then rejoined the guild at the party, with no one the wiser.

That night, he indulged himself with Minerva’s body. He had wanted Ultear as well, but only after he rejuvenated her youth.

Several years of pent up sexual frustration was taken out on Minerva. In fact, he had never had sex with Aceto, and the Velveno in him refused to allow himself to defile her body.

.After hours of sex, he got out of bed, leaving Minerva lying naked, looking at him.

Ultear appeared and obediently stood by his naked body, looking slightly surprised at him being naked, and at Minerva who was naked in bed.

“Who is that?” Minerva asked, looking at the old woman next to Ace. Surely he didn’t have such strange sexual tastes?

“Don’t you recognize Ultear? She is my first slave. You are my second” he replied

“Ultear? What happened to you?” Minerva asked in shock,

“I burnt myself up saving the world” Ultear sighed.

“Ok back to work” commanded Ace

“Yes Ace” answered Ultear

He withdrew the body of Irene.Her body was surprisingly not decayed too badly yet, but her head was smashed by Acnologia stamping on in. Her body was still relatively fresh due to it being a dragon body.

Ultear cast [Arc of Time Restore] on all her body restoring even her head to a perfect condition, then [Ice Make], freezing all her body in ice to preserve it, like she did with Aceto.

Then he returned them to his Requip dimension.

“What are you going to do with her body?” asked Minerva curiously as her eyes were wide open.

“I can copy their powers, of course. I also want to use her power still in her body to rejuvenate Ultear. Then I will turn back time to resurrect my fiancée” Ace answered honestly.

“All this for your fiancée? Then what about me?” she asked.

“You Minerva? You’re just my sex toy. I'm havemy fun with you. But I am in love with someone else” he answered cold heartedly.

Minerva could only stare at him stunned. Ultear was uncomfortable with the conversation as well.

“Minerva. Do you know how to transfer magical power over from one body to the other?” Ace asked.

Minerva thought for a while before answering.

"I can only absorb the magic power of any mage for myself using my [Territory]. However, I do not know a way to transfer this power to another person" Minerva answered honestly.

"So you don't know any other mages that can do this? I cannot copy magic of someone who is dead." he asked further.

“I believe the Tartarus’ Franmalth’s Absorption curse could do that. Kyoka of Tartarus and Bloodman of the Spriggan 12 could also cast this curse, but they’re dead” answered Minerva.

“While I cannot control demons like Franmalth without a backlash like what happened Zoldeo, if I can get my hands on Kyoka’s body, I can copy her magics” said Ace, fully aware that he may be stuck in Franmalth’s body forever if he cast his Ruler’s Magic on him as the spell only worked on humans.

“I guess I will have to locate Tartarus’ old headquarters!” he announced to Minerva and Ultear.

They both nodded in agreement. Both of them were powerful mages in their own right, and if Ace really can absorb the powers of the dead mages, he would be unstoppable.

He dismissed Minerva, who got dressed and returned to Sabretooth to avoid suspicion

The next morning, Minerva returned with Sabretooth. It was easy for her to take a long term mission and disappear for months and rejoin Ace.

He walked into the guild hall and selected the mission that was closest to where Tartarus’ base had been seen after Tartaros was defeated.

“Are you sure you want to take that? It sounds like it could possibly be pretty dangerous” said Mirajane, looking at his selection. Before this, Ace had always took the easy and non dangerous missions.

It was to investigate a missing miracle mage, a infamous mage of a small town who was well known for granting wishes.

“Let him do it. It’s a man’s job” Elfman shouted.

“Don’t worry, it’s just an investigation job. If it’s anything too dangerous, I’ll know my limits” Ace smiled.

“What limits? Us in Fairy Tail have no limits. Get fired up!” yelled Natsu

“Yeah, fired up” echoed Happy.

Ace smiled and yelled “Yeah, I am fired up!”giving Natsu a high five.

He then smiled at everyone and ran out for his mission.

“You think he’ll be alright?” asked Makarof nearby.

“Of course! He’s a member of Fairy Tail” smiled Gildarts