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“Don’t you see, it is better!” Zeref shouted, his eyes flashed red. “There is no war! No death! Only us, and we can’t die!”
Wendy whimpered and sniffled.
“This is not better,” she cried. “There may not be death, but there is also no life. No beauty. You took it all away. I never believed that you would. I had hoped that you would see the wonders around you, but you never did.”
Zeref blinked unsympathetically as his dark power continued to rage around him.
“You are angry.” He cocked his head in surprise. “I don’t understand. Isn’t this what we always wanted.”
Wendy narrowed her eyes in confusion, and took a step back towards Lucy’s body. Her hand outstretched behind her. “What do you mean ‘we’?”
“Ever since we were kids Wen, all we would talk about was creating a new world and shaping it in our image. There would be no more death and no one to tell us what do do.” Zeref took a step closer. “After our parents died that what we wanted.”
A collective gasp ran through the Grand Magic Games stadium. Chatter rang out from the masses as the lacrima zoomed in on Wendy’s horrified face.
“We need to put an end to this,” Yajima declared.
“I’ve already tried,” Mato exclaimed. “There is something wrong with the programming.”
“Wendy, you have to wake up!” Natsu shouted from the stands. A chorus of ‘wake up’s came from the flabbergasted Fairy Tail Guild.
“You’re lying,” Wendy whispered, her hand dropping to her side.
“But I’m not little sister.” Zeref walked towards her slowly.
Wendy’s turmoil was visible on her face.
“You know in your heart of hearts, Wendy, that it’s true.”
4 minutes have passed
Hot tears of betrayal slid down the young girl’s face.
Zeref lifted Wendy’s face with a finger to meet her eyes. “We are cursed, you and I. That’s why my power does not work on you, little sister. You are life and I am death. That is how it has always been. You create and I destroy. Don’t you believe me.”
Wendy whimpered under Zeref’s gaze. “I-- I believe you.”
Zeref smiled in delight and dropped Wendy’s chin. “I’m glad, little sister. Now, we can create another world in our image. One that was better than the last.”
“I said ‘I believed you’, but that doesn’t mean I accept your ideology, brother.” Wendy spat out the title as if it were poison. Her eyes blazed with anger as she stared him down. White light began to blaze from her body pushing back Zeref’s darkness.
“You want a better world? Well I believe that a better world is one without you in it!” she yelled ferociously.
Wendy rushed towards Zeref catching him by surprise and grabbing his throat.
Zeref choked and clawed at Wendy’s hands. “Sister,” he wheezed.
“I’m not your sister. I would say this brings me great pain but it doesn’t. The world is better off without you.”
Wendy lifted the dark wizard Zeref off the ground and threw him from the dais that overlooked Zeref’s new world of fire. She did not watch as he became bathed in flames, nor did she hear his agonized screams, but the audience did. The audience gaped in awe and horror.
Wendy’s task was not done yet.
Her eyes blazed white instead of blue as she looked back at Lucy’s body.
“I remember now. Zeref was right, but I never wanted this,” she whispered. “He took the words of a heartbroken child to heart. That was his gravest downfall, to care. We were cursed. He cared too much and I cared for no one. That is why his humanity brings death and mine brings life.”
Tears began to flow from her eyes once more. “I could never have asked,” she sobbed, “for a better family. Fairy Tail was more than I ever deserved or dreamed of, and for that I will give my life.”
Wendy closed her eyes as the light around her intensified. “Goodbye.”
Wendy’s blaze of light forced audience members to shield their eyes as they looked at the lacrima.
As the white light faded their view was replaced by a repaired Crocus teeming with life, and then the room where Lucy was.
Lucy’s brown eyes slowly opened as feet thundered up the stairs of the building. Natsu burst into the room breathing fire with Grey and Erza on his tail.
He looked around the room and only found Lucy.
“Where’s Wendy and Zeref?”
Lucy blinked. “I don’t know.”
The lacrima screen went black.
Task Completed: 4 minutes and 59 seconds
The audience could not cheer for Wendy’s victory for when the simulation doors opened Wendy was screaming and convulsing in agony.
“No, No!” she cried. “Bring them back! BRING THEM BACK! You killed them.” The air around her was becoming pressurized and depressurized.
“Doranbolt,” Yajima said.
Doranbolt was already gone.
He transported himself down the Wendy and picked her up taking her away from the arena.