Gray Fullbuster:[Confused] Huh?...What for?
Clayton Grimm: Because...I've got a message for you too…
Griffin:[Knowing what he means] I'll come as well…
Chico Hammitt: I'll come too…
CG:[Crouching] Here...Get on my back…
[Chico climbs on Clayton's back]
Chibi Delilah Hammitt: I'll stay here…
GF: Alright...Whatever…
CG: Lead the way...Cold Emperor…
Lyon Vastia: Very well…
[They head to a cliff, overlooking the sea]
Toby Horhorta: So...What kind of messages do you have for us?
Griff: A bit of a briefing...On what you've all missed since the last three years…
Yuka Suzuki: Did we miss a lot?
Sherry Blendy: Is Lamia Scale still around?
CG: Yes!...As a matter of fact, Jura is a Wizard Saint now…
Former Lamia Scale Wizards: What!?! Really!?!
SB: I'm SO happy for him!
YS: Anything else?
Griff: Yes...The Balam Alliance has lost two of its Core Guilds, thanks to the Drakes…
TH: WOW! Really!?! You and Victoria beat two of the Guilds from the Balam Alliance?!
CG: Yep!...Two down, three to go…
YS: More like three and a half...With that Les Sorciers Terribles group…
Griff: Who?!
CG: It's the Alliances latest group of assassins...They held everyone hostage except for us…[Gestures to him and the other wizards]
Griff: Damn...We need to warn Victoria and the others…
CG: I agree...We'll set up a dead drop when we head back to Hargeon...And we'll brief Erza and you on the way there…
Griff: Very well…
CG: As for you three…[Pulls out three Magic Letters] Here…
FLSW:[Trying to open the letters] It won't open…
Griff: Oh!...They're sealed in a way that you'd have to open them all at the same time…
FLSW: Okay…[They open the letters at the same time]
[The letters flew from their grips, colliding with one another in a rapid spin, then caused the three wizards to spin quite rapidly. A life-size hologram of Lamia Scale's Master Ooba Babasaama appeared with a message]
Hologram Master Ooba Babasaama: You three fools! You leave MY guild! OUR guild, all to kill a demon trapped in an Eternal Spell!?! You fools better beg me to let you back in Lamia Scale, and don't you DARE try and join another guild before returning, because this letter's spell will spin you idiots for five minutes straight, every six hours until you return! I...I missed you three...Jura missed you...And...We don't want you fools to do something reckless all in the sake of revenge...So...Please...Come back…[The message ended]
[After the three stopped spinning, they reflected on Ooba's words]
TH: She's...Really mad…
YS: Yes...But...She's also concerned for us…
SB: It's almost...Like she cares for us...With love 💘
CH: Seriously...That's getting annoying…
LV: Well then...Is that all?
GF: It can't be...Why else would you drag me out here?
[Clayton and Griffin nod at one another. Clay puts Chico down and faces the cliff]
CG: Eternal one! I call you forward! Reveal yourself to us in the Physical Realm! Come forth, Ur Milkovich!
Griff: Ummm...That's-
[The water below swirled into a mass, until a person could be visible to be seen]
Ur: Thank you...But my surname isn't “Milkovich”...It's “Claus”...”Milkovich” is the surname of my daughter's father...
[Lyon and Gray were both utterly shocked. Seeing their once dead master's face again]
GF:[Tearing up] U...Ur…
LV:[Tearing up] It's...It's REALLY you…
Ur Claus: Yes...It's me...You two...You've grown SO much...And Griffin...You're not wearing all your armor like you used to…
Griff:[Holding back a tear] No...I'm goddamn Griffin after all…*Sniffles*...I don't need armor...Besides, it's more of a red-head woman thing nowadays…
GF:[Weeping] Ur...I'm sorry...I'm SO sorry...If it wasn't for me...You'd have never needed to use Iced Shell...And...You'd STILL be alive…
UC: Maybe...Or maybe Deliora would have completely wiped out Brago, giving me a third pupil...Maybe it would have destroyed more town, more countries, more people...Point is...It would have kept making a mess of this world...And I probably was the only one who could stop it…
Griff: That's not true...You could have called me...I could have destroyed Deliora…
UC: Maybe...And maybe get yourself killed in the process...Besides...You have a daughter to return to...And up until recently...I believed my daughter was dead...So I decided to fight it...And in fairness, I won...It costed me my old body, but...I'm victorious...And now...I wish for you two to go out in this world...And find meaning...Outside of fighting...Outside of Magic...Find meaning...In love 💘
SB:[Repeating] In love? 💘
LV&GF: Love?...
LV:...
GF: Well...There was a girl I met at Clayton's housewarming party...I felt...Something...It felt...Nice…
UC: Really!?! What's her name!?!
GF: I don't know, because SOMEONE wanted to throw a masquerade party where we couldn't use our real names!
UC:[To Clayton] Really!?! That's lame!
CG:[Defensive] Hey! For your information, the Legal Wizarding World is VERY political! Forgive ME for trying to have wizards from rivaling guilds get along!
UC: Hmmm...Good point...That's what I never really got about the whole “Legal” wizards...ERA sure has a mess of a system on there hands…
Griff: There's...Something everyone should know about Deliora…
Everyone: Huh!?!
Griff: I did some digging years ago...And found out it was discovered buried deep underneath Freesia...The thing was carbon-dated to be almost a millennia old...But…That's of course, impossible...Zeref himself couldn't even be that old...
CG: That's because my dad casted Earth Tomb on it, and many other Demons of the Books of Zeref...It must have changed them so much...Because It wasn't done long before it attacked your homes...Science probably cannot accurately date it…
Griff: That's most likely...However...Deliora wasn't just ready to unseal like a pickle jar...It's life force was all drained, excluding a sliver...So...A cult of Dark wizards took that monstrosity, and performed a ritual through sacrifices to unseal and revive it...And that cult was under the control of the Hollow Lich…
CG: Those damn bastards...Even when they're all gone, they still find a way to be pains in the ass...Glad they're rotting in hell…
UC: Well then...Glad to hear there won't be anymore Dark Wizards freeing more abominations in the world…[To Gray, Griffin and Lyon] As for you three...Thank you...For living on…[To Griffin] And thank you for looking after Gray for all these years…
Griff: Uhhh…
GF: He didn't look after me for all these years! I went west, and joined a guild,[Points to Lyon] with him, like you said! But he didn't want anything to do with me after Brago, so I went
UC: Nooo! I SAID, “Go west, and join GRIFFIN'S GUILD!”
GF: Yeah...And I figured he was in a guild, so I ended up joining Fairy Tail and...Wait...How the hell was I supposed to know who Griffin was back then!?!
UC: Lyon would have told you!
LV: Uhhh…
UC:[Sighs] Whatever...As long as you both are alive...That's all that matters…Well...I should probably get going...You all need your rest…
LV: Ur! Please don't go!
GF: Yeah! Why do you have to go!?!
UC: Because your friend here looks like he needs a long rest from all he's been through...And he can only keep this spell up for so long…
CG: That's all true…
LV: Will we ever see you again?
UC: Of course...I'm a Hydro-Eternal now...I am one with the water of this world...I'll always be with you...Take care you three…[To Clayton] And thank you...For all that you've done for me…[She sinks back into the sea, one with the water]
GF:[To Clayton] Thanks...This “walk”...It...It's what I needed...After all these years…
LV:[Agreeing] Likewise…
Griff: Yes...She is now as free as anyone could be…[To Clayton, Chico and Gray] Let's go…
CG:[Grabbing Chico on his back again] Yeah…
[On the way back, Chico complains about the pains in her feet]
GF: Everything alright?...
CH:[Sarcastic] Yeah...Just got stapled to the ground with huge, sharp needles...What do you think?!
GF: Okay, okay...Sorry…
CG:[To Griffin and Gray] You two go ahead and head back to the Village...I'm gonna take a look at the damage…
GF&Griff: Okay…[They head off ahead of them]
CG:[Putting Chico down] Now...Let's see what we're dealing with…[He takes off her boots gently and notices that she still has the same socks that he put on her back at the hospital] Hey...Are these…?
CH:[Blushing] Yeah...The same socks that...You put on me back at the hospital...Speaking of which...Why DID you put them on me?
CG:[Blushing] Well...I hear hospitals can be cold, and I didn't want your dad to destroy your insoles...So I took off your boots and toe rings and put these socks on you...Because...You know...It's not like you could have put them on yourself at the time…
CH: You sure it's not because you have a foot fetish, or something?
CG:[Refusing] No! I DON'T have a foot fetish!
Gaedey and Gednus:(Yes you do!)
CG: No I don't!
CH: He does!?!
Gednus:(The Valkyries had him do all sorts of pedal chores and tasks...From scrubbing their dirty, giant footwear, to painting their large toenails, to actually massaging and scrubbing their feet….At first he resented it...But...It grew on him…)
CG: C'mon! I've told her more than enough for one person to know about another person! The last thing she needs to know about me are all my kinks!
CH: What other kinks does he have?
G&G:(Well…)
CG:[Snapping] SHUT UP![Calmed down] Well...Seems these socks are worth nothing but bloody, holey trash…[He peels them off her feet, but she stops him with a request]
CH: Ummm...Is...There a way...You could fix them?...
CG:[Confused] Huh!?!...Uhhh...Yeah...But...It's better to just have them replaced…What...These your lucky socks now!?!
CH:[Annoyed] NO!...There just...Really comfortable...Plus...It's a good memento of the night of your party…
CG: I...guess that makes sense…Okay…[He completely removes both of her socks from her feet to see…]