Spirit Take Over

So this is Spirit Take Over, a Fairy Tail/Fate Grand Order crossover story, if you don't like shonen manga this isn't for you. I'm all about to fuck canon up in fairy Tail though, none of that power of friendship bullshit. This is currently a side project

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Spirit Take Over

Chapter 1

It was dark in the church, the only light visible was passing through the stained glasses and the candlelight. The atmosphere was getting colder as my sister and I were fighting for our lives, why did we have to confront that demon in the church? We were just girls! But just because I was the second born I had to cave in to Mira's demands. If we get out of this alive I will make sis's life a living hell. I faced the ugly demonic mien of the demon who was blocking the only entrance to the church.

"Kukuku, I can smell your fear, little one." The weird echoing voice of the demon with dark purple skin, horns and bat wings rang into the church.

I really didn’t like the way it laughed. "Yeah, I may be scared  but you stink more! And you laugh like a pedophile!" I said while squeezing my nose.

The demon’s face darkened and his eyes glowed red. It’s left arm extended and came for me. "Impertinent welp!"

Mira lunged at me and we were on the supposed hallowed ground of the church, maybe the demon didn’t get the memo and that’s why it was here? My sister looked at me with frightened eyes and she shouted while she stood and pulled me up, "Roxy, get out of here!"

"Hell, no! I'm not leaving here without you sis!" I looked around for any exit, the windows were somehow enchanted to be unbreakable so I couldn't throw something at them.

"It's going to kill us!" Mira tried to get me to flee and leave her there while she occupied the demon.

The creature cooed and feigned wiping a tear from his ugly and red glowing left eye. “Such sisterly bonds that you have there… Don’t worry I will send you to hell together!”

It's hand glowed with dark purple light and at a speed that was faster than a blink, the creature pierced us, me in my left shoulder and Mira in her right arm.

“Roxy!! No!!” Mira screamed as she saw me slump  on the ground, bleeding.

With fury in her eyes she turned to the demon. “I will kill you!”

What was strange was that veins appeared on her right arm and the demon for the first time showed fear. It's dark light began to be absorbed into Mira's body at high pace, it began to struggle, but Mira ran toward it and was about to tackle the creature. Time slowed down and I watched with awe at the bravery of my big sister when something strange happened.

Spirit Take Over Initialized

Connecting to the Throne of Heroes…

Connection successful…

Host Analysis…

Transparent floating boxes with text inside of them appeared before me, accompanied each time by a chime-like sound. Time had stopped, and Mira was suspended in the air as she was charging the demon. I tried to stand up but I winced in pain.

Host Prior incarnation memory capsule detected

Memory capsule unlock postponed

Danger, host's life is in jeopardy

Loading Servant Classes...

Classes successfully loaded

What the hell was this all about, it was scary. I was bleeding out and my sister was about to fight a demon with her fists. My sister was going to die to save me, and I couldn’t let that happen!

Servants chosen prior to current incarnation of Host

Saber: Artoria

Archer: Gilgamesh

Rider: Ishtar

Caster: Medea (Lily)

Lancer: Scáthach

Berserker: Minamoto no Raikō

Assassin: Semiramis

What did it mean? That I chose those before even being born? I needed clarity on this, but was getting none of it.

Choose a Class to save yourself

I could be saved? I won’t have to see my sister die? I don’t know why when I looked at the second name I decided to touch it in the weird transparent box. I felt that I would be safe in choosing the class...

Archer Class selected

Installing...

Warmth filled me and golden light surrounded me and wrapped me in its embrace. I felt powerful, as if everything would be okay now, but I was also angry, truly angry when my eyes fell on the demon who had attacked me and my big sister. Time resumed and I found myself saying, "You are nothing but a Filthy worm who gave you permission to touch what's mine!? This insult shall not stand."

*What? I hadn’t meant to say that!!* I was moving but I couldn’t control my own body, it was as if someone was puppeting me.

Before Mirajane could tackle the demon, from a shroud of golden light behind me, multiple swords, daggers and spears launched at the demon. Sundering its body by poking dozens of holes into it. The demon was nailed face down to the ground by a rain of weapons, destroying the tiled floor, the pew and some other furniture in the church. The demon began to thrash about as it tried to move, in vain.

The other me was killing it! As it was on the verge of death, whoever moved my body in my place, walked toward the demon. “You are not worthy to gaze upon me, a worm like you should be face down crawling on its stomach as it dies.”

Mirajane had landed onto the creature’s body and things went weird. Her body started drinking in the demon and suddenly in a flash of purple black light, the demon was no more. Leaving in its place my sister who had a new addition to her body, an arm that wasn’t hers.

But my sister didn’t seem to care as her attention was focused on me. "R-Roxy?"

The person who took possession of my body turned to her, flipped her golden hair and crossed her arm. "Be grateful I aided you, mongrel. It is the only free favor you will get from me! This Queen won’t lend her aid next time." I cringed as I heard my voice spout that nonsense.

Mirajane seemed to be of the same opinion, she stood up and attempted to touch me, but her hand got batted away by the other me. “Don’t touch me, mongrel!”

My sister took back her changed right hand, looking hurt. “Roxy, what are you s-saying? This isn’t you.”

“This bores me, I shall take my leave. Be thankful that I won’t punish you for your transgression, girl.”

Forced Uninstall

The other said and then my body that felt so powerful and transcendental suddenly gave out. It was as if the world had lost all colors and smells, I didn’t become aware of it at first but it was like I had become more than human when whatever this class and install thing happened.

“Roxy!” I was on my knee and Mira was quickly at my side, holding me. I didn’t recoil as she touched me with her weird demonic arm.

As Mira checked me for wounds, I couldn’t help but cry in relief; she was alive and that’s all that mattered to me. “I’m s-sorry, it wasn’t me! I-I would never treat you like that!”

“It’s okay, it’s okay, I know it wasn’t you now. You have no wounds, despite your tunic being bloodied.” My elder sister said in a soothing tone.

I frowned at that, I was about to die and… I checked my left shoulder, I saw a hole and all the left side of my tunic was full of fresh blood. “Huh, I’m sure that I was bleeding out earlier.”

Mira took on a thoughtful expression as she helped me stand up. “Maybe whatever this was, that… possessed you healed you as well? See there’s no wound, just white skin.”

I was about to answer her when three boxes appeared in my vision.

Host safety secured

Memory Capsule unlocked

Past Memories Reintegration begins in 3, 2, 1…

A headache started to pound in my head and my vision suddenly became blurry. "Mira… I don’t feel so good."

As I was about to fall, Mira caught me in her arms. She looked really panicked and worried as she called out my name. “No, Roxy!”

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X776
48 hours later

We were on the road, far from the village and the crazy sheeps in it. The People we grew up with were about to kill us because my sister was a Satan Soul take over mage, no amount of explaining what happened in that church convinced the mob that had formed before our house. Before this could get to my big sister's head, Lisana bought us some time by telling the villagers how horrible they were, Fairy Tail style; me? I was tempted to use one of my classes to burn this entire place down.

But I had Gilgamesh installed and she might overdo it. Speaking of my magic, I retrieved the memories from my previous life. Basically I died, then some random R.O.B promised me power and adventure, for the sake of amusing him. He had been really accommodating and wanted to send me into the Fairy Tail world and give me 'The Gamer' system, but I had refused part of the offer as I wanted a system customized for my own needs. He let me choose what I wanted: access to the Throne of Heroes and a gamer like system that would let me install servant-like class cards. A mix of Take Over magic with the card class system from Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya.

R.O.B modified the gamer system to allow me to interact with my future servants in my mindscape, a bit like a personal reality marble where they can be stored and live in comfort until I equip and install them. I wish that I had an inventory though, I would store all my and siblings luggage if I could, but R.O.B took it away and told me it was incentive to learn space-time magic to have my own inventory space, I vowed to learn requip and space-time magic as soon as possible, my feet hurt and the travel bag on my back was too heavy.

"Sis, look, the village is so tiny." Lisana said as she pointed her fingers at the small Hamlet.

The hamlet was located into a valley, the farming fields surrounding it were clearly visible; it looked beautiful and idyllic, hiding the ugliness of its inhabitants. "Yes, just as tiny as the minds of those ass-"

"Roxy! Language!" Mira shouted at me as she looked pointedly at Elfman and Lisanna.

I rolled my eyes, and walked to my little brother and sister, hugged them and said to my motherly big sister, "You can't coddle them all the time, Mira. We are homeless now, they need to know that life isn't going to be fair. And it starts with me being able to curse all I want now."

"Rox, what happened to you?" Mirajane looked so sad that I relented in my plan to toughen her up.

"Nothing much, sis." Just got the equivalent of thirty years of a previous life dumped into my brain. I was still Roxy Strauss, my personality wasn’t overwritten by the memory capsule module, but I remembered being an older woman from France in my previous life, I had been a big fan of the Fate series and other anime and games. I also remember being excited to be reincarnated here and to be able to use magic and now look at me, I’ve become all jaded by the burden of knowledge; but I won’t let it get to me, I had a family now, people who loved me.

I hugged Lisanna and Elfman a bit more tightly, the little girl looked at me and hugged back. Surprisingly, Elfman decided to defend me, "Mira, leave Roxy alone, she saved us! Those people… they tried to burn us alive in our own home." There was a lot of hate in my little brother's voice, so much so that I recoiled at it.

It was Lisanna’s turn to take my side. "Yeah! Roxy went all gold and then went pow and boom with the mob!"

I cringed at that, Gilgamesh had let me use her power again but she acted all high and mighty-like and sounded so edgy... Fortunately, this time I had more control and we just scared off the villagers. After they tried to burn us though, we decided it was best to leave that hell hole. As I watched Mira, she was getting all sad again and looked at her right demonic arm.

*Nope, I won’t let her become a Sasuke or Scott Summers!* I decided to reassure her by doing a magic cantrip.

I focused on my core and externalized the mana (or what the local mages call it, Ethernano) and willed it to make a ball of light. Any mage could do that, and I was only able to do it because of my meta-knowledge of this world; it was gold in color, I think my equipping Gil was influencing me. "This is magic, the two of us are mages." I pointed a finger at me and at Mira.

Her blue eyes focused on her black and purple right arm, then back on me. "How sure are you of that? I mean look."

I put a hand on my chest and smugly said without hesitation, "Certain, but You'll see, I heard that the two of us are what you call Take Over mages. You can obviously do this with demons but because you cannot control it, your arm is still in that state. If you learn more about that magic, I think you can dismiss the demonic arm and get back your squishy human one."

Mirajane smiled, it was visible when she decided to trust me when she came and hugged me too. "T-that's reassuring, thank you, Roxy."

I patted her back. "You're welcome, Mira."

The other two kids joined the hug as well, it was good, no wonder this place was all about love and friendship and magic. My eyes fell on Lisanna’s hopeful face. "Do you think we can use magic too, big sis?"

Letting go of everyone I put a hand on Elfman and Lisanna’s shoulders and said with conviction, "Why the fuck not? I mean we are siblings, magic is possibly genetic given that Mira and I use the same type. I think our parents didn't tell us everything about themselves..."

Mirajane took on a contemplative expression and nodded. Yeah we were going to have research to do about our parents. But first we needed to find shelter in Fairy Tail. I knew they would accept us, but we needed to survive first to get to Magnolia. My rumbling stomach made itself known, like clockwork, those of my siblings followed.

Closing my eyes, I called on my magic and focused on my inner-self. <Hey, um, your Majesty, can I have a bit of your time?. I have a favor to ask.>

I was pulled into my mindscape, it was really beautiful, I was in a valley reminding me of that forest I saw in the Lord of The Ring movie, Lothlórien. I was in a treehouse overseeing the entire forest.

"That is the fairest of all the dwellings of my people. There are no trees like the trees of that land. For in the autumn their leaves fall not, but turn to gold. Not till the spring and the new green opens do they fall, and then the boughs are laden with yellow flowers; and the floor of the wood is golden, and golden is the roof, and its pillars are of silver, for the bark of the trees is smooth and grey." It described well what I was saying.

Gilgamesh in a golden dress made her regal presence known, she was on a golden chair, legs crossed with a wine glass in her hand filled with a ruby red liquid. [Speak, mage. I don’t have all day, so far, watching you interact with those weaklings you call family has been boring.]

I kneeled before her and spoke in a deferential tone, <Forgive me, your Majesty. I shall find more entertainment for you when me and my family are safe.>

[Very well, this Queen shall hold you to your promise. I suppose that by your earlier comment that you wish for me to help you in your travel?]

<I see, Nothing can escape you Your Majesty.> I wasn’t surprised, even though Gilgamesh had a bothersome personality, you couldn’t deny that she was fucking brillant.

But as usual, fate wanted to put a damper on my hopes and dreams. Queen Gilgamesh opened her mouth and said, [I won’t.]

Gilgamesh drank her wine as she looked at my face going slack at her denying me. Was this a sadistic glint that I saw in her eyes?

<What?! Why?> I asked completely not anticipating this, without any training we might starve, me and my siblings.

[You haven’t yet proven yourself worthy to this Queen.] Then Queen Gil disappeared in motes of light in the direction of another big tree house; it was the tallest in the realm with golden leaves.

I stood back up, surprised at  what just happened; but in effect I shouldn't be…  Gilgamesh is extremely manipulative, egocentric, and selfish. Even more so as a female, She is unable to acknowledge anyone’s authority. There’s something that bothered me, even with having a connection to the throne of heroes, how do I enforce my will on them? I don’t think I can.

Looking into the blue sky overhead, I cried a bit. <What am I going to do now?> I said with a sniffle.

Was I really unworthy of help like Queen Gil said? But she helped me two times to save the lives of my siblings before, why won’t she help now? Should I ask the help of another servant or just go back and try my luck and forage in the forest for food? I wiped my tears and raised a fist to the sky. <But I can’t give up! Mira, Elfman and Lisanna are counting on me.>

It was at this point that I saw an opening in the sky ten meters from me, it was as if a black hole had suddenly appeared. Slowly something exited from it, and I noticed that it was someone slowly floating down. The silhouette was covered by darkness, but I could see that it was a woman because of the curves she sported.

She landed soundlessly before me and when she planted what she held in her hand into the ground, the shadow dispersed in motes of darkness. I recognized her! The red eyes, auburn hair and the slutty warrior outfit…

<Scáthach?> I said in awe.

She smiled at me and gripped her long red spear. [I arrived from the land of Shadows. I am Scáthach. Shall I call you Master?] The Queen of the Land of Shadows asked me.

I nodded mechanically at her question. It was all I could do to not faint at the utter relief that I was feeling right now, Shishou was there! When I was in despair she appeared.

This must have been etched on my face, because she answered to my inner thoughts, [I’m responding to your will to survive, I heard that you seek training?]

There must have been tears in my eyes as she reached for my face and wiped them.

<Can you really help?> I didn’t want to assume, Gil rebuffed me when she had helped before. I couldn’t take the people in the throne of heroes for granted.

She took her hand back after patting my cheek. [I sure can, little one. Since I arrived and awakened into this world I learned about how ill prepared you are to face even the littlest of threats. I will definitely train you, but…]

I perked up at this, that was the best news I had received as of yet! I didn’t like the hesitation in her voice though. <But?>

Scáthach took my chin in her hand and said with a tone that brokered no ambiguity on her part, [There will be no slacking allowed.]

I gulped at that, and laughed nervously. Then I calmed myself down, I was getting what I wanted, but would I survive the experience? This is the teacher of heroes, the Witch of Dún Scáith, Lord of Spirits. Something snapped in me, and my resolve firmed. I looked up into Shishou’s eyes. <If I can save my family, I would go to the depths of hell if I have to.>

She nodded. [Hnn, you sure have a good expression on your face. Alright... shall we do this?]

At that, I opened my eyes to my Lisanna shaking me. “Roxy? Roxy, why are you spacing out again?”

I put a hand on my little sister's head, patting it in reassurance. "I was speaking with the spirit in my mindscape and she promised to help us by teaching us how to survive outdoors."

"What's a mindscape?" My little brother poked my sides, prompting me to look at him.

I sighed, I didn't have time to teach them the intricacy of the magic and it's wonders. All I knew about it was what I gleaned from the Fairy Tail, Negima and Fate series wiki. I should be able to come up with my own magic in this world, but it was going to require a lot of experimentation. Time that we didn't have right now, we needed food.

Combing Elfman's hair with my hand, I told him, "I will explain later, Elfman." My brother leaned into my hand by closing his eyes, then he nodded to me.

I turned to Mira. "Mira, do you have a knife?"

From her black cloak, Mirajane took a big knife sheathed into leather. "I have our dad's hunting knife. It's a bit dull, though."

I smiled at her and let her keep the knife. "Excellent, it doesn't matter if it's dull, we will be able to prepare the game we will catch."

It was time to go look for food!

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4 hours later

It was night and we had found a clearing facing a hill. The fire that my little siblings had prepared was crackling while Mira and I cooked the rabbit and bird we had caught. Hunting with Shishou was a tiring experience, she had made me craft a simple bow and arrow and taught me how to use it. She was a patient teacher, and often corrected me with my stance with the bow.

Two hours of spartan training and I was called a passable archer by Shishou, then Mirajane and I tracked games the rest of the time. We had luck on our side and killed a pheasant and a big rabbit in the second hour of our hunt. I was happy to not have killed the rabbit before my little siblings, Lisanna liked cute animals.

We mostly stripped the rabbit of its fur, cut it open, deboned the carcass and buried its organs in a hole as not to attract predators from the woods. Then we put the meat on pointy sticks that I cleaned with magic. Magic was mostly intent and image from what I understand. This must be how primitive mages must have made their spells.

I knew how to attain the effects that I wanted but it took a lot out of me somehow. My magic container was supposed to be as powerful as the Grail from the Fate series, but it seemed that my body should get used to channeling that much power. From my estimation, I couldn't sustain the take over for more than twelve hours at this point.

We were all sitting on fallen tree trunks that we had pulled around and placed before our fire. I smelled the meat cooking and I deemed that it was ready to be ingested. Mira and I handed a stick with a lot of Rabbit meat on it to the two other kids. It was with relish that I looked at my little brother and sister eating the rabbit meat, I then turned to Mirajane who had the same expression as I sported. Well she was my twin and our priority had always been the kids since our parents died. I took the pheasant meat stick that was finally done cooking.

Thank the gods that we took everything valuable from our house in the village, that includes the seasoning spices from the kitchen. I took the meat in my mouth and pulled it from the stick with my teeth and chewed. It was delicious! I started to really go down on the food… Damn I was really hungry. The meat stuck in my throat and I choked on it, not good. Mira, the gods bless her soul, handed me her waterskin and I took a swig of water, enough to swallow the meat more easily. We were fortunate enough to have found a river with drinking water, to either bath in or fill our water containers with.

Forty minutes later, we were all watered and had our bellies filled. We all went to clean our teeth near the river and when we were done, me and Mira decided that it was time to speak about what we were going to do. We argued for over five minutes between ourselves about if we should tell the kids anything and let them follow our plans. Mira wanted them to just follow and wander the land until we found a place to live and then learn magic as we go to get control over her own powers.

But I had other plans for us. “No, Mira, they need to be on board. We can’t shield them from everything.”

What I wanted to do was train while we were on the way to Magnolia, teach my sibling some magic to be able to defend themselves; I had Shishou as my servant for my lancer class and I intended to use her hax skill, the Wisdom of Dún Scáith to learn about all the interesting B to A rank magic in Earth Land.

Mirajane crossed her arms and glared at me. “Watch me, Roxy. I sure can. Mom and Dad asked us to protect them when they died, and I intend to do just that.”

It was at this moment that I remember myself folding under her authority when she spoke about what our parents told her when they died. I couldn’t let that happen, Elfman and Lisanna needed to be strong independent people, unlike what I’d seen in the anime in my previous world

I strode to her and put my hands on her shoulders and looked into her blue eyes. “Yes… I know that we only have each other now.” My hands tightened on her shoulders. “But what happens if the two of us die? How are they going to handle life if you coddle them too much?”

Mira’s eyes widened, she tried to say something but nothing came out of her mouth and she lowered her eyes. With my right hand I lifted her chin and said, “Elfman and Lisanna need to know a certain degree of autonomy and have a hand in deciding their futures as well. Smothering them and not letting them grow as people is doing them a disservice!”

We stared at each other for a long moment before she smiled at me. “Okay, we will do that and ask them their opinion…” It seemed that Mirajane was seeing the wisdom in my advice, I sighed in relief. My sister then asked me, “Since when are you so wise, Roxy?”

Letting go of Mira’s shoulder, I asked, “What do you mean, sis? I’ve always been this smart.”

Mirajane sighed, looked down to order her thoughts and then looked back up with a frustrated expression upon her face. “I know, I know… but, normally I always take all the big decisions, and you follow my lead, but right now you aren’t.”

I shrugged. “We can’t afford to make any mistakes, Mirajane. If we were safe and under a roof, I would let you decide everything, but… but look at where we are, sis.” I said as I spread my arms and showed her the clearing where we were camping.

“We are in a precarious situation. We must be united and take advantage of everything we have to survive. Elfman is strong for his age and smart, he read dad’s stuff about trapping. And Lisanna, did you see how she had defended you from the ignoramuses in the village? She’s such a good girl, and always following and mimicking us. We need to be a good example for them.”

“Fine, let’s do it your way.”

And this is how I won my first argument with my elder sister. We siblings gathered around the fire and Mirajane spoke about her plan. She wanted us to go join a guild somewhere and learn magic from it. My plan was similar but I told them that we all could learn magic right now on the road, that one of my spirits from my Take Over magic could teach me how to wield my power and maybe teach us some basic magic for us to survive. Then I said that Mira’s idea about finding a guild was a good one.

“We should join Fairy Tail, it’s a guild in Magnolia.” I said to my sibling as I took a stick and began drawing a rough map of Fiore on the ground.

My siblings looked at the map.

“See here?” I pointed at what I think is our location from my memories. “We are in the forest near Mount Hakobe,” Then I wrote the name Magnolia town that is located in the southeastern part of Fiore near Hargeon town. “ It's really close by train.”

Elfman looked from the map to me, then had a thoughtful expression. “But we don’t have any money to take the train.”

At that, I smiled and took something out of the Gate of Babylon; yes, I could manifest it and store stuff, but not touch Queen Gil’s stuff. “As a matter of fact we do, 100 000 jewels. But it’s not enough to buy train tickets for all of us.”

I showed the roll of bills to my siblings who looked at it as if I’d just taken out a gold ingot. Well, we were poor villagers originally, so this was the most money they had seen in their lives. Mirajane asked me with a glare, “How did you get that much money?”

We never had this much money before, she was obviously suspecting me of having stolen it. She was right, and I decided to be honest with her. “I stole it from the Village Chief’s wallet.”

Mirajane stood up, eyes wide. “Roxy! That’s stealing!”

I shrugged, it’s not like the asshole needed it with how he squeezed the life out of everyone and sat on his fatass doing nothing. “So? They wanted to kill us, the guy was fair game.”

“We need to have a talk about this later, Roxanne Strauss.” She crossed her arms under her budding chest.

*Uh-oh, my full name…* That wasn’t good at all.

We stared into each other’s eyes for other one minutes. Lisanna and Elfman looked at us two, a bit worried by our behavior.

I knew that she wasn’t going to budge on the theft. And I nodded my head and said, “Fine.”

“Fine.” She nodded as well.

Lisanna and Elfman spoke about wanting to follow my plan about learning magic and to Mira’s to eventually reach a guild. Then they asked me questions about Fairy Tail, I told them about how Fairy Tail was described as good and helpful people that will surely take us in. I was sure about that, Erza, Grey and Natsu must already be there.

We decided to go to sleep for the night after that, of course, Mirajane scolded me profusely when the little ones were completely out of it. Next we decided to take turns guarding the camp, Mira decided to go first; this was three hours of sleep for me, and it would let me decide what to do next. Tomorrow was another day, I would teach everyone how to use magic.We had time to become really awesome mages.

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