Chapter I
Hello everyone reading this! Yeah, I know, another one. I think I have the same problem as Square Enix. FYI, only people who watch Jimquisition have a possibility of understanding what that means. Ahem, moving on. This is the first chapter of Fairy Tail's Demon King. Yes, it is similar in title to Ryuujin Saga: Fairy Tail's Dragon God, but the two stories are different I assure you. Now this one is marked as a Fairy Tail and Tales of Xillia crossover but it is really, as with most of my stories, a multi-crossover with many other anime. Tales of Xillia just happens to be the main one. Anyway, I will not say more than that, so let us get on with the story.
Over a vast ocean, near a massive tree, two figures stood opposite each other, one a human-sized figure with black and gold arms and legs, two large black and purple wings on its back with a tail on the back of its head and a human torso, the other a human-sized figure with red arms and legs, two large red and green wings its back, a tail on the back of its head, and a human torso.
The red figure howled angrily as flames swirled around its body before charging at the black figure.
The black figure raised a hand into the sky, a massive ball of red energy appearing in its hand before it charged at the other figure, bright light filling the area, obscuring the two.
A man with knee-length, dark brown hair, two bangs framing his face, and blue eyes wearing a dark grey shirt under a knee-length blue coat with a purple border, black pants with blue lines up the front, and matching boots laid on the seat of a train, asleep.
However, the man was awakened quite suddenly and rudely when a lean, muscular young man with a slightly tanned skin tone, dark brown eyes, spiky pink hair, a red stamp just below his left shoulder, wearing a sleeveless, gold-trimmed, black waistcoat, left open and untucked, exposing his bare torso, white, knee-length trousers, a thick black wristband on his left wrist, black open-toed sandals, and a scale-patterned scarf around his neck suddenly slammed into him before lying on the ground.
The man groaned as he sat up and saw the pink-haired teen lied in a heap, groaning with motion sickness. "You're quite annoying, waking me up like that." The man then flicked a finger forward, causing the pink-haired teen to get slammed against the ceiling. The man then proceeded to move his finger in in different directions, causing the teen to be thrown in the same directions before the man swept his hand, slamming the teen into the floor with force.
Suddenly the train came to a sudden and rough stop, causing the man to stumble slightly.
He heard a grunt nearby and turned to see a tall man with black hair pulled back in a pineapple-shaped haircut with dark eyes and wearing a white coat over a black shit with light blue pants and black shoes that had fallen to the ground. He looked down as he saw a strange looking flute with a skull on the top, with three eyes on it lying on the floor.
The brown-haired man's eyes narrowed as he stepped out into the aisle to grab the flute.
The pineapple-haired man snarled as he extended a hand forward. "Shadow Pull!" he shouted as a hand made of shadows extended from the shadow under his feet and grabbed the flute, pulling it towards him.
The brown-haired man narrowed his eyes as the other man took the flute. He extended a hand towards the other man. "Give me that flute, you know not what it is capable of."
"Yeah, forget that! I know exactly what this flute is capable of, and that's why I'm going to keep it!"
The brunette sighed in frustration. "Very well then, if you so insist then I shall-" he was interrupted as a blast of flames hit his back, though it did not effect him.
"Hey, leave Doggymama alone! He's my target!" the pinkette shouted.
"You imbecile, it's Kageyama!" the pineapple-haired man, Kageyama, shouted angrily.
"Yeah, whatever."
The brunette narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "I have something to do. I don't need your interruptions, boy!"
"You attacked me first you jerk! And my name's not boy, it's Natsu!"
The man narrowed his eyes in thought. 'Natsu? No, he may look the same and even have the same name, but he is most certainly not Natsu.'
"Hey, you're supposed to tell me your name, jerkface!" Natsu shouted.
"I have no reason to do so."
"Fine, but stay outta my way!" Natsu shouted as his fists were engulfed in flames.
The man stepped to the side, causing Natsu to stumble past him.
Kageyama also paled in response.
Three people approached the train on a small car as the train car Natsu and the others were in suddenly exploded in flames.
"That's gotta be the one Natsu's in," a teenage girl with mid-back-length blonde hair, a small ponytail to one side held with a blue ribbon, brown eyes, a pink stamp on her right hand wearing a sleeveless white shirt with a blue cross design on it and a folded collar that accentuated her impressive bust, a short, pleated, blue skirt, with a brown belt that held a black whip on one side and a pouch with a set of keys on the other, and knee-high black boots said as they approached the train car.
As the small vehicle approached the group saw the brown-haired holding an unconscious Natsu by the collar.
"N-no way! What happened?!" the blonde shouted in shock.
The brown-haired man turned to the others and asked, "Is he with you?"
A beautiful young woman with long, scarlet red hair that reached her waist and brown eyes who was wearing a simple armor with a breastplate composed of a single piece of metal that did little to disguise the generous bosom underneath, decorated with curved lines and a deformed, yellow, Cercelee cross, with the cross's right arm extended to the right side of her armor, with the shorter left arm covering a red marking underneath, large and detailed shoulder guards, a waist guard composed of simply of two elaborate plates hanging from a simple belt over a thinner pair of plates circling her waist, plated gauntlets that extended up to her elbows, covered by elbow guards adorned by protruding metal ornaments reminiscent of feathers, a prominent, armored collared circling her neck and leaving the front side open, a short blue skirt, and long, knee-high black, leather boots looked at the man curiously and then nodded. "Yes, he is with our group."
The man nodded and then tossed the pink-haired teen towards the vehicle.
However, the teen collided with a young man with spiky black hair and dark blue eyes who wore a red shirt with grey sections on the waist, a white, knee-length coat, a pair of dark green pants with a light brown belt, a metal bracelet on his right wrist, a necklace with a crest resembling a sword with a gem in it, and a chain attached to the belt loops on the right side of his pants.
The black-haired teen growled and then shouted at Natsu, "Watch where you're going flame-breath!"
"It's not my fault! He threw me!" Natsu shouted as he pointed at the brown-haired man.
"That's enough out of both of you, Natsu, Gray," the red-haired woman said irritably.
"R-right…" the two teens said in unison.
Gray, the black-haired teen then turned to the brown-haired man as he jumped out of the train before it started moving once more. "So who are you supposed to be?"
The man looked at the group in thought and then said plainly, "Sergio."
The red-haired woman narrowed her eyes in thought. "I am Erza Scarlet. Are you the one who attacked our friend, Natsu?"
Sergio folded his arms in annoyance. "No. Some fool named Kageyama threw him at me as I was sleeping."
"Did you say Kageyama?" Erza asked in surprise.
"Yes. And because of your Dragon Slayer friend, I lost him."
"Wait, what's going on?" the blonde asked.
Erza then explained, "Kageyama is a member of Eisenwald, I was hoping to capture him and get information on Lullaby from him."
"He has it," Sergio said plainly.
"What?!"
"He has Lullaby, and I nearly took it from him. But your friend hit me in the back with a ball of fire and distracted me."
Erza looked at Natsu irritated.
The blonde waved a hand weakly. "Come on, I'm sure Natsu didn't know what was going on."
Erza sighed in frustration. "You are too forgiving, Lucy." She then turned to Sergio. "So, what will you do now?"
"I will pursue Kageyama, take Lullaby from him, and then seal it back where I put it."
Lucy paled and asked, "H-he's joking, right…?"
Sergio then answered, almost immediately, in the same deadpan tone, "Yeah, I am. I am going to turn the damn thing into kindling this time and be done with it."
Erza, ignoring Sergio's remark, said, "Stopping Eisenwald is the mission Fairy Tail was given."
Sergio narrowed his eyes in thought. "Fairy Tail? So the little brat actually made something of it."
Erza raised an eyebrow. "Pardon?"
Sergio waved a hand. "Forget it. Your mission may be to stop Eisenwald, mine is to destroy Lullaby. And that's what I intend to do. If you like, we can couple our resources or you can stay out of my way."
Lucy paled again. 'Crap…he's probably gonna piss Erza off.'
Sergio looked around curiously.
"Something wrong?" Erza asked.
Sergio then looked at Natsu. "Oy, Dragon Slayer, was there anyone with me when you hit me?"
"I didn't see anyone," Natsu answered as he lay on top of the car.
At that moment the train then began to move away.
Sergio turned to the train as took off. "Damn." He then walked over to the car and pulled the clamp off Erza's arm.
"Hey, what are you doing!?" she demanded.
"A friend of mine is on that train, and knowing her rather than try and escape she's just going to collapse and start crying," he remarked as he put the clamp on his own arm. He then turned to the others. "I suggest you hold onto something."
Lucy screamed loudly as the vehicle they were on drove at meteoric speeds, attempting to catch up to the train.
"Y-you need to slow down!" Lucy shrieked. "We're going to crash!"
Erza, who was surprisingly calm, then added, "Yes, and at these speeds you will use up all of your mana."
Sergio huffed in response. "I have more mana than all four of you combined, I'll be just fine."
As they pulled up to the train, Sergio's eyes began to changing, changing from blue to red with three black marks around the pupil. He looked over the train until he found what he was looking for and sped up some to pull up next to one of the cars. "Take the wheel," he said to Erza as he slapped the clamp back on her arm, not waiting for a response. He then leapt from the vehicle onto the train car.
He then opened one of the panels leading inside the car and dropped into what appeared to be one of the kitchen cars. He then looked ahead and saw a pale-skinned young woman with long red hair worn in a pair of large, waist-length braids tied behind her waist, red eyes, and a voluptuous figure with large breasts and wide hips, wearing a revealing crimson dress that was secured by halter-neck straps, which left her back, sides, and a large portion of her cleavage down to just above her navel exposed, and extending down to her calves, with a slit down the side for her legs to move freely, two sewn patches of dark grey fabric at the dress' waist, long red gloves that almost reached her shoulders, and red, high-heeled shoes sitting on the floor.
"Of course, Flare, you always tend to get scared easily," Sergio remarked with a smile as he extended a hand out.
The girl, Flare, sniffled lightly before saying, "I…I just wanted to make you some waffles for when you woke up."
"You can do that later. For now we have to get off the train. I know where Lullaby is."
"Y-you found it?!" she asked in surprise.
"Momentarily. Unfortunately it got out of my grasp." He then picked the girl up in his arms and leapt out of the train car through the open roof panel.
Lucy gasped as he saw Sergio jump out of the train, holding Flare in his arms, before he landed on the vehicle, causing Erza to lose control, forcing her to stop suddenly.
Lucy then shouted, "You could've killed us!"
"But I didn't," Sergio said plainly as he jumped down, setting Flare down.
"Who is this girl?" Erza asked.
"A friend of mine, Flare Corona."
Flare bowed politely to her fellow redhead. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
Erza nodded in response. "Our next goal is to catch Eisenwald, who are likely on the train."
Flare blinked curiously and then turned to Sergio. "Isn't Eisenwald the name of that group of bad people?"
Sergio sighed in response. "Yes Flare, we've been over this."
"I think I saw a few of them as I was making waffles. There was this really creepy guy with a big scythe. Though not as cool as Shadow's. He said something about Oshibana Town."
"Then that's where we'll go next."
Lucy sweat-dropped lightly. 'I swear…these two make a perfect couple of insanity.'
The train that the group had been on arrived at a new station, Kunugi Station, and the patrons began to slowly climb out of the cars. However, their peaceful departure was halted when a group of people walked up to the cars, the apparent leader of the group being an extremely tall man with spiky silver hair which was held pointing upwards in spiky strands on top of his head, but hung down to the left side of his face in a distinctive tuft, covering part of his face, black eyes with no eyebrows, numerous blue tattoos covered his face and bare torso, he also wore a long, tattered hakama, a short, black, tattered cloth over that, and an equally worn white cloth used as a belt, and a black scarf on his shoulders, geta sandals, and black gloves with 'X' markings on the back and bandages going up his arms. His most distinctive feature, however, was the large, curved, serrated scythe he carried.
The people looked at the man warily before he raised his scythe and pointed it at the train. "Everyone onboard this train, get lost! This train belongs to Eisenwald!"
The people began to murmur and argue.
The man sneered and raised his scythe, bringing its blade parallel to the ground, and swiped it in front of him.
The top half of one of the cars was then sheared off and fell to the side.
He chuckled darkly. "How 'bout now?"
The people slowly and fearfully left the train as the Dark Guild embarked before the train started moving again.
Kageyama walked up to the man and knelt down, handing him the twisted-looking flute. "Erigor, I've brought the Lullaby."
Erigor smirked darkly as he looked at the flute.
In another town, Clover Town, a group of people were in a large building with multiple floors. The building was serving as the meeting ground for the Guild Master Conference, where all of the leaders of the Legal Guilds in Fiore meet and discuss the current situations amongst themselves and the Dark Guilds.
Three guild masters in particular were discussing the actions of one specific guild.
The first was an elderly, bald, cross-dressing man wearing a purple, spaghetti-strap dress, striped pink and purple shorts, a gold, hoop necklace, red lipstick and blush on both cheeks, and small white wings on his back. He was Bob, guild master for Blue Pegasus.
The second was a slim, older man with a squared face that had several wrinkles, dark blonde hair that reached his shoulders and was straight cut, who wore dark sunglasses that covered his eyes, a plain black T-shirt and pants as well as a tall hat with a wide brim and a torn top that slumped backwards. He was Goldmine, guild master for Quattro Cerberus.
The third was an extremely short, elderly man with black eyes, balding white hair, and a thick mustache. He wore a white shirt with a black symbol on the front, an orange hoodie, matching orange shorts, pointed shoes, and a blue and orange striped jester hat. This was Makarov, guild master for Fairy Tail.
Bob laughed in a very effeminate tone before asking in the same tone, "So Makarov, how are those cuties in Fairy Tail doing?"
Makarov nodded in return and answered proudly, "Well as usual. We've had a few…slip-ups, with the Council recently but nothing we can't handle."
Goldmine chuckled in amusement. "I hear your guild members have been causing more destruction than the enemies they fight recently."
Makarov brushed off the remark with a loud laugh. "Well, they're young, might as well let them get their energy out."
A small blue bird then flew in the window and landed in front of Makarov, dropping off a letter in front of him.
Makarov blinked in confusion as he picked it up. "What's this?"
He opened the letter and a magical hologram of a young woman with long white hair, which curled at the ends and had the bangs tied up into a small ponytail, a rather impressively large bust, and blue eyes who wore a long maroon colored dress and matching high-heeled shoes appeared.
"Oh my, Mirajane's grown so much in the past few years," Bob commented emphatically.
The recording of Mirajane then said, "Hello Master, I hope you're doing well at the conference. I just thought I'd let you know great news. Fairy Tail could very well have its strongest team ever formed. Erza, Natsu, Gray and a couple others have formed a team to handle a mission. Anyway, that's all."
Bob and Goldmine looked speechless. Though Bob fixed that swiftly. "My, my, how impressive."
The two then looked, rather confused, at the trembling form of Makarov.
Bob poked his shoulder and asked, "Makarov…what's wrong?"
Makarov answered weakly, "Those three…together…they could…destroy an entire city…this is bad…"
Sergio, Flare, Lucy, Erza, Natsu, and Gray were driving along a dirt road that overlooked a set of train tracks nearby.
As they drove, Sergio glanced behind him when he felt something tap his shoulder.
He saw an anthropomorphic, blue cat with a green backpack on its back.
"I don't think I've met you yet," Sergio remarked.
"Nope, my name's Happy!" the cat exclaimed energetically.
"I see. You must be the same species as Carla."
"Carla? Who's that?" Happy asked.
"Just a friend of mine. She's a humanoid cat like you."
"Hey!" Natsu interjected. "Happy's not a cat! Happy's Happy."
Sergio sighed in frustration. "Sure, whatever."
Eventually the group stopped at a sharp turn in the road overlooking the station where Eisenwald had stopped the train.
They looked down at the crowd of people below in thought.
Sergio then looked to the side. "What are they doing here?"
The others turned and saw several men in grey, blue, and yellow military uniforms.
Erza recognized them and stopped them to investigate. "What is going on here? Why are the Rune Knights here?"
One of the men answered, "Eisenwald has taken the train station, so the Council has decided to send in the army after them."
Erza paled before immediately jumping back into the four-wheeler. "Everyone! We need to go, now!"
The others looked at her surprised at her urgency but complied.
Erza turned to Sergio. "Step on it."
Sergio nodded and set the vehicle going at insane speeds.
The soldiers nearby paled as the vehicle took off, leaving a cloud of dust in its wake. "Well that was…interesting…"
As they sped towards where the Dark Guild was, Flare asked, "What's the rush?"
Erza grit her teeth in response. "Fools, sending in the Rune Knights after a Dark Guild like Eisenwald…they don't stand a chance."
"Are these guys really that powerful?"
"Yes. They're one of the highest guilds in the Barram Alliance."
"The…the what…?"
Sergio glanced back at Flare. "We've been over this before. They're that group of Dark Guilds, remember?"
"Ohh…right…"
On the train, with Eisenwald, Erigor stood over Kageyama, holding Lullaby.
After taking a moment to enjoy having the flute he turned a very irritated scowl to Kageyama. "I understand you fought a Fairy Tail Fly on your way here."
Kageyama began to sweat and tried to keep his cool. "Ah…y-yes…but it's no problem. He only saw Lullaby for a split-second."
Erigor's eyes widened as his fists clenched. "You let a Fairy Tail Fly see Lullaby and escape alive!? What the hell's wrong with you?!" Erigor raised his scythe up angrily.
Kageyama fell backward in fear. "Wait, Erigor, please!"
Erigor then swept the scythe across the aisle and in front of Kageyama.
Kageyama sat, trembling silently before reaching up and clutching his ear, Erigor having sliced a piece off in anger.
"That's your punishment for screwing up," Erigor threatened darkly, "screw up again and next time, it'll be your head."
Kageyama nodded his head weakly. "R-right…sir."
"Tch, what a pain in the ass. Now we have to wipe out all these Fairy Tail Flies before they can tell anyone else what we're planning. I think you all can agree that it's important we teach these flies a lesson."
The rest of the guild nodded in agreement, Kageyama still clutching his bleeding ear.
As the group drove towards the train's current location, Lucy leaned up and asked Sergio, "This Lullaby, it's the one from legend, isn't it?"
"Legend?" Natsu asked.
Sergio answered, "Lullaby is a cursed flute created by Zeref. When a melody is played from it, any who hear it die almost instantly. I imagine Eisenwald plans to use it to kill the populace of Oshibana Town."
"But why would they do something so horrible?" Lucy asked, terrified.
"To prove that they can and try to put the world on its knee to them. Hmph, they should try meeting Esdeath."
"Esdeath?"
"Just someone I know."
"Right…"
Lucy sat back with a sigh as the group quickly approached Oshibana Town. She looked to the side and saw Happy sitting with thoughtful and strained look on his face. "Hmm…what was it…?"
Lucy turned to Happy after hearing him. "Happy? What's up?"
Happy looked at Lucy weakly. "Ahhh…I was supposed to tell you something. It was important…but now I can't remember what it was."
Lucy slumped her shoulders weakly. "Why am I not surprised…?"
Natsu merely leaned out the window about to hurl.
They arrived at Oshibana Station swiftly, however what they saw was not what they had desired.
Erza stepped out of the four-wheeler and cursed under her breath. "Why has the army allowed such a large crowd to gather?"
Erza forced her way through the crowd, Sergio and the others behind her, apologizing for Erza's forcefulness.
Eventually they made their way through the crowd and to the guards around the station.
Erza wasted not a moment before she grabbed one of them by the lapels and demanded, "What's going on here?!"
Fearfully, the man responded, "I-I don't know! The Rune Knights went in about twenty minutes ago and haven't come back out!"
Erza threw the man down roughly and forced her way past the others.
One of the other guards attempted to stop her. "Ah, miss, you can't-!"
"Try and stop me!"
The man nearly wet himself.
Lucy walked by the man and offered an apologetic smile. "We're with Fairy Tail."
The man just nodded dumbly as the group walked past them.
After the group made their way inside, Sergio sighed as he looked over the multiple bodies of the defeated Rune Knights.
"Fools," Erza chided.
Lucy looked at her surprised.
"You shouldn't be shocked," Sergio added as he lightly shook one of the soldiers with his foot. "This is what they get for taking on such a powerful Dark Guild."
"Yes, but you shouldn't criticize them for it!" Lucy argued. "They were just doing what they were told!"
Sergio narrowed his eyes. "Many people have done stupid and evil things because they were told. It's no excuse."
Erza nodded in agreement. "Yes, their jobs may in fact be to defend the nation but magical guilds are not to be trifled with. Especially Dark Guilds since they don't follow laws and regulations set down by the Council. So only sending a few dozen soldiers against an entire guild's population is suicide. Now, let us get going."
Lucy gulped as Erza and Sergio ran on ahead. "You know…those two are really scary."
"Yeah, but Erza's scarier," Natsu remarked.
It didn't take long before they reached the top of the long staircase and found themselves face to face with Eisenwald, Erigor at the forefront.
"There you are," Erza remarked as she and the others entered the lobby.
Lucy paled slightly as she saw the sheer number of Eisenwald members gathered before them.
Erigor turned around as he heard Erza's voice. "Ahh…if it isn't the Fairy Tail Flies. How good of you to arrive. Now you can have the front row seat to Eisenwald's glorious victory over the fools who live in the light."
Lucy sweat-dropped and then asked in irritation, "What does that even mean?"
Erigor chuckled lightly before laughing loudly. "You really wanna know?! Fine! Tell me, what is one thing this station has that no other buildings in the area do!?"
Sergio, almost immediately, answered plainly, "Trains."
Erigor twitched an eyebrow. "No you halfwit! Uuhh…are all Fairy Tail Flies this stupid?"
Erza pointed her sword, which appeared in a flash of light, at Erigor. "He doesn't count, he's not one of us."
Sergio frowned lightly.
Erza's eyes then widened. "I see…the PA system."
Erigor laughed again, triumphantly. "Yes…you're not too bad. That's right. We will use this station's communications system, which broadcasts all across the town, and play Lullaby to everyone here. Then they will suffer for their ignorance of living in the privileges and safety of the light, while knowing all too well that there are others who do not have such rights."
Erza narrowed her eyes and then shot back, "The people who are in such a situation put themselves there."
Lucy then asserted, "Yeah! Besides, doing this isn't a way to get back your rights! All you'll do is engender sadness and pain!"
Erigor looked at Lucy confused and then guffawed in response. "Oh that's rich! Come on, do you really think I'm doing all this, going through all this trouble, so I can get my rights back? What foolishness. No…I don't want rights and privileges, I want power. The reason…is because those with power make the rules and get to rewrite history any way they see fit!"
Sergio narrowed his eyes in thought. "Victor's Justice."
Erigor chuckled in response. "Yes…that's a good way to put it."
Sergio frowned before he raised a hand towards Erigor but Kageyama then shouted, "You really shouldn't care anyway, because you won't see the age of the Dark Guilds. All you'll see…is the afterlife!" One of his shadows then shot forward at Lucy.
She gasped and brought her arms up in defense. However, after a few seconds she lowered her arms and gasped, seeing a wall in front of her, Sergio kneeling in behind it with a hand on the ground.
Sergio then stood up as the wall dropped. "That's a rather devious attack."
Sergio then brought up both hands and clasped them together in a complex gesture but Natsu put up an arm, having gotten over his motion sickness. "No way, he's mine. I owe this guy for kicking me in the face!"
Kageyama laughed darkly in response. "Is that so? Then come and get me." Kageyama then sunk into the shadows at his feet.
Sergio narrowed his eyes. "A rather tricky one."
After a moment, Erigor chuckled and then started to float on air. 'Wonderful…the Fairy Tail Flies have fallen right into my trap.'
Erza huffed as he flew away. "Natsu, Gray, go after him!"
Both nodded in agreement.
Sergio stepped forward but Erza put up one of her swords in front of him. "What are you doing?"
Erza looked at him and then shook her head. "You are not a part of our guild yet. I could not stand it if you got hurt in this fight without having any stake in it."
"You're wrong."
"What?"
"I mean to reclaim Lullaby and destroy it. I can't do that if I sit back and do nothing."
Erza furrowed her brow in thought and then lowered her blade. "Then do as you please. But Fairy Tail is not responsible for what happens."
"Isn't that usually how it goes?"
"Hey!" one of the Eisenwald members shouted. "Don't forget about us!"
Lucy turned mildly blue as she looked at them. "Wow…there seem to be a lot more guys now that Gray and Natsu are gone…"
Erza frowned and raised her hands as her body was bathed in light.
The Eisenwald members looked at her confused before a few of them began to come to a horrifying realization.
Soon her normal attire was gone and was replaced with armor that seemed to have almost every piece made of a silvery metal with only a small breastplate that was composed of feather-shaped plates that pointed upwards, which barely covered her bosom, with a large metal flower on the front, that extended to her hips along her sides, her biceps being covered with metal straps, along with very large plated gauntlets which had feather-shaped plates at the edges, her waist was encircled by large, decorative plates reminiscent of feathers that formed a long skirt, as well as a pair of plated boots which were partially hidden by her skirt, each having small, ornamental wings, a neck guard made of feather-like plates, a tiara with prominent wings, causing some of her hair to cover her left eye, her armor lastly having large metal wings. She then announced, "Requip: The Knight, Heaven's Wheel Armor!"
Several of the Eisenwald members lurched back. "Oh no…it's her."
"Titania Erza!"
'Titania?' Sergio thought. 'Well, that explains a few things.'
Erza looked at the Eisenwald members sternly. "Now, shall we begin?"
Lucy gulped and then remarked. "There are still a lot of them…"
"Not too big of a problem," Sergio remarked as he extended a hand, causing a long, blue-green katana with a golden handle appeared in his hand in a flash of light.
Erza raised an eyebrow in surprise. 'That was…'
Sergio raised his blade towards the Eisenwald members and asked, "So…shall we begin?"
"Hey, don't leave me out of the fight!" Lucy added as she took one of the keys from her belt. She held it up in the air and called out, "Open, Gate of the Giant Crab! Cancer!"
Through a magic circle and a burst of smoke a man with dark skin, black hair braided in red cornrows with ends resembling crab pincers, and thick lips who wore green-lensed sunglasses, a blue striped shirt, a dark pair of trousers with aquamarine stripes down the sides, a ring chain in his right pocket, a hairdresser's tool bag on his left side, gray boots, and a pair of red, crab-like scissors in each hand, he also had six large crab legs sticking out of his back.
Sergio narrowed his eyes as he looked at the strange-looking man. "A Celestial Spirit Mage, hm?"
"Yup, this is Cancer," Lucy said happily.
Cancer then turned to Sergio and paled, began sweating heavily and turned away from him.
Sergio then reached into his pocket. "Well, I'm not going to let some blonde weakling show me up."
"Weakling?!" Lucy shouted. She then raised an eyebrow as he pulled a strange, gold and purple key from his pocket. "Wait, is that…?"
Sergio then raised the key with a smirk. "Let's have a little fun, shall we? Open, Gate of the Snake Charmer! Ophiuchus!"
"Okay, what?!"
A magic circle then appeared in the air from which smoke burst out. As the smoke cleared everyone in the room gaped as they saw an immense, violet, mechanical snake emerge.
The Eisenwald members began trembling as one asked, terrified, "Wh-wh-what the hell is that?!"
Sergio motioned to the snake and said, "This is Ophiuchus. And she'd like a meal."
The mechanical snake released a deep bellow before rearing back and firing a blast of purple energy from its mouth, hitting many of the Eisenwald members.
Lucy gaped before Cancer walked up to her and asked, still shaky, asked, "What would you like for me to do today, baby?"
Lucy pointed Cancer's key at the Eisenwald grunts and ordered, "Take those guys out!"
Cancer dashed forward, scissors ready. "You got it, baby."
Erza then separated from the group and took aim at the Eisenwald grunts. She dashed towards them as a ring of swords appeared around her. "Dance, my blades!" The ring of blades begin spinning, forming a disc before she sent the spinning disc of blades flying at the enemies. "Circle Sword!"
The attack reached the center of the group and burst outward, taking out the remaining enemies.
As the group fought, a single Eisenwald member cowered and ran off, hiding inside of a specialized magic circle.
Sergio then dashed towards another small collection of Eisenwald members and swung his sword forward, shouting, "Demon Fang!" A large blast of blue energy shot forth from his sword and slammed into the Eisenwald members.
After a few more moments of fighting, the entire gathering of Eisenwald members were on the ground, defeated.
Erza returned to her normal attire and turned to Lucy and Sergio. "That takes care of them."
Lucy nodded happily. "Yay!"
Erza nodded. "Sergio, Lucy, good work you two."
Sergio nodded as he waved a hand, causing Ophiuchus to vanish, while Lucy grinned happily.
Erza then turned to Lucy. "However, I don't like the way that Spirit calls you 'baby'."
Lucy then felt a pain in her back and slumped over.
Cancer came up beside her apologetically. "Sorry 'bout that ba-er, ma'am."
Sergio then remarked, "I always told you that would get you in trouble."
Cancer then froze. "S-s-sorry…Sir…"
"Well, as long as Milla finds you amusing I won't make you into cooked crab legs."
"Th-th-thank you, sir…"
Lucy gaped in shock. "Wh-what the heck was that about…?"
"Probably something you don't want to know."
Erza then turned to Lucy. "We've still got one of them running around. Lucy, go find him."
Sergio folded his arms in response.
"Something wrong?"
"Hmm…? No. I'm just trying to sense Lullaby's location."
Flare, who had remained back during the fight, asked, "Isn't it with that Kageyama guy?"
Sergio shook his head. "No. Erigor has it now. But I'm not sensing him or it anywhere nearby. We should probably help find this last Eisenwald member. He might be able to tell us where they've gone."
Gray and Natsu ran down a corridor looking for Erigor when they came upon a split in the path.
Natsu folded his arms in thought. "So…which way do we go?"
Gray looked at him annoyed. "We split up, you moron."
"Hey! Erza told us to look for Erigor, not to split up!"
"She's not here right now, so I think we can do this safely."
Natsu folded his arms again and then nodded. "Alright, so which way will you go?"
"Why are you asking which way I'll go?"
"So I can take the opposite route."
Gray gaped. "That's not an insult you halfwit, that's how it's supposed to work!"
"Gahh, just pick one!"
"Fine! I'll take the broadcast room. If Erigor's gonna play that song to everyone, then he'll do it from there."
Natsu nodded in return and went the opposite direction. A few seconds later though, Natsu turned and shouted, "Hey Gray, don't die!"
Gray just gave a thumbs up. "Not plannin' on it fire breath!"
Gray made his way towards the broadcast room and knocked open the door and looked around. "What the…? Nobody's here."
"Yeah, except us," a voice droned.
Gray turned around and saw a tanned skin man with narrow black eyes who wore a distinctive jacket that was mostly yellow with the top part being yellow and dark blue, a tight hood over his head, a white shirt, green pants, black shoes, and black bands around all of his fingers.
Gray tensed up and threw off his shirt as the man prepared for battle as well. "So, this was a trap then."
The man chuckled. "Oh…this was all a trap. And now I, Rayule of Eisenwald, will be your death!" He slung his hands forward and the black bands extended into long black threads that lunged towards Gray.
"Crap!" Gray ducked to the side as the attacks landed and slid to the side. He balled up his right fist and placed it into his left palm, the air around the space chilling, and shouted, "Ice-Make Shield!" He thrust his left hand forward and a half-snowflake shaped shield burst from the ground.
Rayule swung his threads forward and slammed straight through the shield.
"What?!" Gray shouted in shock.
"Nice try!" Rayule announced confidently.
Gray jumped to the side and formed his Ice-Make pose again, and then shouted, "Ice-Make: Lance!" A magic circle formed in the air with long arrows shooting out of it and towards Rayule.
The band-using mage jumped out of the way and swung his hands around and attempted to wrap his bands around Gray's feet.
Gray jumped over the attack and then formed the Ice-Make pose and shouted, "Ice-Make: Lance!" Again he launched the attack, which Rayule easily blocked. However, Gray smirked in response.
Rayule turned around just in time to see one more lances coming at him from behind. He ducked and then threw up his bands to smash it.
Gray growled in frustration. "Hey buddy, you mind tellin' me why you're crazy boss isn't in here?"
Rayule snickered before throwing his bands forward again.
"Grr…" Gray then threw out, "Ice-Make: Block!" A large block of ice appeared and blocked the bands, but wasn't smashed through.
Rayule retracted his bands and chuckled. "You really wanna know that badly, huh?"
Sergio was about to leave the main hall of the station when he noticed Erza walking towards the door. "Where are you going?" he asked.
"I do not think that is entirely your concern," Erza rebutted.
"Perhaps. Just call me nosey."
"We have to warn the civilians, with all of this dark magic being thrown around they're in danger."
"I can handle that if you like."
"No, your talents would be better served finding that last Eisenwald member."
Sergio shrugged in response and walked down one of the nearby hallways.
Erza ran out of the main station and out towards the crowd around the building.
"Everyone! Listen! You need to get out of here, there is a Dark Guild inside this building and the dark magic they're using is extremely dangerous!"
Everyone looked at her confused and then began to scatter as the wind picked up.
Erza raised an eyebrow and then looked behind her in shock as a large tornado had enveloped the building. "W-what is that…?!"
"Like it do you, Fairy Tail Fly?" a voice asked.
Erza turned around and came face to face with Erigor.
"You! What are you doing outside the building?!"
Erigor merely chuckled in response. "Heh, you fools didn't really think my plan was that simple and stupid, did you?"
"What?! What do you mean?!"
"You'll never escape this Wind Wall, until it's too late!" With that, Erigor sent a blast of wind at Erza and knocked her through the prison and in to the other side.
Erza stood up and ran over to the swirling wall of wind and slammed her fist against it in aggravation. "No! Erigor!" However, the wall burst back with a blast of wind and sent her hurtling backwards. She scowled in anger before making her way back into the station to warn the others.
Outside the Wind Wall, Erigor chuckled to himself. "Now…to get going to the real target."
Rayule and Gray continued their standoff, though Gray's expression had morphed into a far angrier glare. "You bastards!"
Rayule merely laughed at him. "You're surprised!? Did you really think we'd waste something as powerful as Lullaby on a bunch of weak-ass civilians?! No way, we're headed straight for the top, the Guild Masters! The whole deal with this pathetic little station was just get you flies out of the way!"
"Why you…Ice-Make: Floor!" The floor itself suddenly turned to ice and Rayule lost his balance as a result.
"Crap!" Rayule flung his bands up and caught himself on a piece of the ceiling.
Gray then smirked as Rayule landed on an unfrozen part of the floor. "You see buddy, there's something you should realize."
"Huh?" Rayule mumbled before looking down at his feet and gasping.
"Freeze!"
The ice then extended forward and covered Rayule's entire body, freezing him solid.
"There are some guilds that are more fearsome than the Dark Ones."
As Gray walked out of the room, he turned and saw Sergio standing by the doorway. "Didn't expect to see you here."
Sergio turned to Gray and asked, "So, you think what he said is true?"
Gray sighed and then shrugged. "Probably. Which means we better get our asses moving."
Sergio nodded in agreement. "Yeah, unfortunately that won't be too easy, since Erigor's put a huge wall of wind around the station."
Gray nodded in agreement.
Natsu continued running around the station aimlessly, trying to find where Erigor could be, not realizing he was no longer in the building.
What he also didn't realize, was the shadow that followed him along the ceiling.
Erza was in the main room, holding a battered Eisenwald member by the collar. "Answer me…how do I break this wind spell?"
The dark-haired man merely laughed insultingly at her. "You can't. It won't come down until Erigor takes it down. And by the time that's done…our mission will be done."
Erza snarled at the man and tossed him down, moving to the next grunt.
"Erza!" a voice shouted.
Erza turned as Sergio appeared from one of the hallways, Gray beside him.
She looked at Gray and noticed his battered state. "What happened, did you meet Erigor?"
Gray shook his head. "No, I didn't find him, but I've got bad news."
Sergio nodded in agreement. "Turns out this entire event at the station was just a ruse."
Erza looked at them confused and narrowed her eyes. "What do you mean?"
"Erigor's plan was never to attack the people outside, his aim the whole time was the Guild Master's Conference."
Erza's eyes then widened greatly. "Damn, I should've realized this was a trap."
"First problem is getting past that damned Wind Wall."
Erza clenched her fist and then walked over to one of the downed men. "I demand you to answer me, how can we break through that barrier."
The man just smirked sadistically. "You will never break through it…"
Sergio then narrowed his eyes. His blue eyes then turned red with three black marks around the pupils. The marks then extended and fused in the center before turning into a six-pointed pinwheel. The tips of the pinwheel then expanded into six circles at the edges of the pinwheel. He then put a hand on Erza's shoulder.
She looked at him annoyed. "What?!"
Sergio flinched lightly at her shout but then said, "Let me handle this. I'll get what we want out of him."
Erza raised an eyebrow but nodded and let the man go.
The man looked at him puzzled as the complex symbol on his iris began to slowly spin. "Now, you're going to tell me everything I want to know, understood…?"
The man snarled in response. "Go to hell."
Sergio smirked in response. "Works for me." He then narrowed his eyes and said quietly, "Tsukuyomi."
The man's eyes widened before tensed and went limp.
Erza and Gray looked at him confused.
The man came to a few seconds later and looked at Sergio horrified. "K-Kageyama! Kageyama can undo the spell…!"
Sergio smiled kindly. "Now, wasn't that easy?"
Erza nodded and asked, "How did you get him confess so easily?"
"Let's just say you don't want to know. On that note, we need to find Kageyama and get him to undo the spell."
Erza narrowed her eyes and then nodded. The three then left to find Kageyama.
After they left one of the men on the ground, a tall man with a square face, dark eyes, black hair arranged in a flat tuft pointing up, and three whisker-like hairs on each side of his face, wearing a zipped brown jacket with a collar over a black shirt, blue pants, and brown shoes looked towards a section of the wall and called out quietly, "Karacka."
A yellow magic circle appeared on the wall as a short, hunched, fat man with no visible nose, very thick lips, green hair in tall, rounded spikes, who wore a red jacket with lighter-colored edges, with a high collar that was fastened leaving the rest open over a white shirt that exposed some of his large stomach along with loose, military-style pants, and blue boots came out of the magic circle. "Wh-what is it, Byard?"
Byard groaned and then looked at the fat man. "I've got a very…special mission for you…Karacka."
Natsu continued running through the hallways of the station before stopping and sighing.
Above him, Kageyama's Shadow Form stopped as well. 'Uh-oh…did he notice me?'
Natsu threw his hands in the air and shouted, "Where are you crazy scythe guy!?"
Kageyama just looked at Natsu in disbelief.
Natsu turned to one of the walls and encased his fist in flames. "If you won't come out, then I'll just bring down the whole station.
'Th-this guy's…supposed to be in a Light Guild?'
Natsu proceeded with his threat and began busting through walls.
Lucy and Happy were searching through the halls of the station as well trying to find Karacka. After a few moments, Lucy stopped and moaned. "Geez…we're never gonna find this guy." She then turned to Happy. "Come on, why don't we head back and tell Erza we couldn't find him?"
Happy looked at her shocked at the declaration. "Wooww, Lucy. You're so brave, defying Erza's orders like that."
"Eh?" Lucy squeaked out.
"But I have to say I feel sorry for you, because the things Erza will do to you are…let's just not talk about it."
Lucy immediately pointed ahead ambitiously, and fearfully, ordered, "Right! Let's keep going, Happy!"
"Aye, sir!"
Natsu burst through a wall with his fists ablaze and looked around angrily. "Come on! Where are you!?"
"Good grief, you Fairy Tail Flies sure are noisy," a voice remarked.
"Huh?!"
Natsu turned around as Kageyama appeared from his shadows.
"Hey! It's Calibratorcab!"
"That doesn't even sound remotely the same you retard!" Kageyama growled at Natsu's apparent stupidity and then thrust his hand forward. "Knuckle Shadow!" A fist made of shadows appeared from the floor and raced towards Natsu.
The Dragon Slayer ducked to the side and spat fireballs at Kageyama.
Kageyama crossed his hands in response. "Guard Shadow!" A dome of shadows appeared around him and blocked the flames.
Natsu raced towards Kageyama and threw a series of punches and kicks, all of which Kageyama blocked or dodged. In frustration, Natsu jumped back, encased his hands in flame and charged forward shouting, "Fire Dragon Iron Fist!"
Kageyama barely dodged the attack but the burst of flames from the attack also ended up throwing Kageyama against the wall. He stood up angrily and smirked at Natsu. "Oh, you're so dead pal. Here, try my most powerful attack!" He clasped his hands together and then thrust one forward. "Shadow Orochi!" The shadows around his feet split off and burst forward, forming a multitude of snakes that charged at Natsu. "And don't bother running, my snakes will chase you to the ends of the earth!"
Natsu merely grumbled in response. "Yeah, big talk!" Natsu splayed his hands out, collected fire around them and curled them into fists, and then slammed his hands together, causing a magic circle and fire to burst out before bringing his hands up in front of his mouth, right hand in front of his left and inhaled a large breath. "Fire Dragon Roar!" He bellowed as a magic circle appeared in front of him and a torrent of flames burst from it and engulfed Kageyama's Shadow Orochi, destroying the snakes and barreling towards him.
Kageyama stood frozen in place at the sight. "Ahh crap." He slammed through the wall from the force of the attack and collapsed unconscious on the other side.
Natsu sighed as Sergio, Erza, and Gray came into the room.
"Natsu!" Erza shouted. "Are you hurt?"
Natsu gave a thumbs up with a grin. "Nope, I'm fine. Can't say that for the other guy though."
"Other guy?"
The three turned and saw Kageyama lying on the ground.
Sergio blinked and then pointed to the man. "That's him."
Erza immediately walked over to Kageyama and picked him up by the collar. "Now, you will dispel the Wind Wall outside, understand?"
Kageyama, who had been roused to consciousness by Erza's sudden action, nodded weakly. "Alright…I'll do it."
However, right at that moment, a magic circle appeared on the wall and a hand burst out, passing through Kageyama's chest bloodily.
Erza's eyes widened as the hand receded and Karacka appeared nearby.
Karacka looked at the weakened form of Kageyama sadly. "S-sorry, Kageyama, it was…Byard's orders."
Sergio sighed. "Well that's unfortunate."
"Hey! He's your friend, isn't he!?" Natsu shouted angrily.
Karacka shrunk back. "B-but…they were…my orders."
"Unfortunately for you," Sergio began, "He was our ticket out of here and you just took him out." He then flicked a hand forward, causing a blast of wind to slam into Karacka and slam him against a wall.
Karacka laid on the floor twitching unconsciously.
Sergio then walked over to Kageyama and knelt down, extending his hands towards the impaled man.
Erza raised a confused eyebrow. "What are you going to do?"
"Save him. He's an enemy but right now we need his help to get out of this mess."
Gray looked at Sergio in disbelief. "Save him?! How? He's practically dead."
Sergio smirked. "A practically dead man is still alive, is he not?" A green magic circle then formed in one of Sergio's hands. "Grand Healer!" After a moment, the hole in Kageyama's chest was filled with a bright green light before the light died down, leaving a circular, scarred area.
Everyone present could only widen their eyes in shock at that.
Erza looked at Sergio in surprise. "How did you do that?"
"It's a spell I know. For most people it'd knock'em on their ass. But thankfully I can use it quite easily." He then lightly tapped Kageyama's shoulder with his foot. "'Ey, wake up."
Kageyama winced for a moment before cracking his eyes open, then widening his and sitting up swiftly in surprise. "H-how…I should be dead…"
Erza motioned to Sergio. "You should thank him, he prevented you from dying."
Kageyama looked at Sergio confused and then hissed off to the side. "If you're expecting some form of gratitude from me forget it."
Sergio knelt back down and poked him in the head. "Not necessarily gratitude, but we are expecting you to take down that barrier."
Kageyama opened his mouth to protest but Sergio interrupted.
Sergio smiled sweetly and had green energy flowing on his hand. "Or I could rearrange all your internal organs."
Kageyama sweat-dropped heavily. "Ahh…yeah…I'll help."
Elsewhere, Erigor flew over a large chasm within which a set of train tracks went through, Clover Canyon, the path leading towards the meeting hall of the Guild Masters. Erigor chuckled darkly as he overlooked the area. "Heh, heh, won't be long now, but the God of Death will purge the Light Guild Masters." He then flew off in another direction.
Back at the station, Sergio, Natsu, Erza, Lucy, Happy, and Gray stood at the edge of the Wind Wall.
Erza adorned her Heaven's Wheel Armor and sent another attack at the wall. "Circle Sword!" The disc-like assembly of swords struck the wall and immediately collapsed and shattered. Erza returned to her normal armor and hissed in frustration.
Natsu shouted in agitation and rushed at the wall, using his flame-encased fists to beat on it repeatedly, to no avail.
"That's enough," Sergio warned and grabbed his scarf and pulled the pink-haired flame eater away from the edge of the wall.
Erza turned and tried to awaken Kageyama, whom had passed out on the way there. "This isn't working, if we don't do something swiftly it will be too late."
Natsu folded his arms in frustrated thought before realizing a possible plan. "Hey, Lucy!"
"Yeah?!" the blonde shouted in fearful surprise.
"Remember our last job, the one with Daybreak, or, something, and how I passed through the Spirit World?"
Lucy blinked and nodded slowly. "Yeah…and?"
Natsu smiled proudly. "Just call up one of Spirit guys and we can use it to get back and forth."
Lucy sighed in exasperation. "Humans going into the Spirit World is strictly forbidden, besides, the Gate opens in whatever location the Celestial Mage is, so it would be pointless anyway."
Natsu pouted nearby.
Sergio stood quietly as the others talked among themselves.
Happy then shouted, "Ahah!"
The others flinched and Lucy shouted, "What was that for cat!?"
"I remember what I was supposed to tell you back in the car!" Happy rooted around in his backpack and handed Lucy a fancy, golden key. "After the last job at Everlue's mansion, Virgo gave me her key and asked me to give it to you."
Sergio raised an eyebrow in thought.
Lucy turned blue and looked at the key. "You mean…that big gorilla thing?"
Images of a huge, muscular maid with pink hair filled Lucy's mind.
Sergio frowned.
Lucy then looked at Happy slightly disappointed. "While I'm happy to get a new key, especially a Zodiac Key, that won't do much for us right now."
Happy snickered proudly. "But you're forgetting, Virgo digs holes. We can have her dig a hole and get out under the Wind Wall."
Lucy's eyes widened and she immediately hugged Happy. "Great thinking Happy!" Lucy picked up Virgo's key and looked at it intently. "I hope you can accept working out the contract later." She tossed the key in the air, causing it to spin, then swiped the key down, declaring, "Open, Gate of the Maiden, Virgo!"
The gate appeared and in a burst of smoke a young woman with a thin frame, short pink hair, blue eyes, who wore shackles on her wrists with chains hanging down, a black undercoat under a white, frill-trimmed apron, thigh-high, white stockings, and simple black shoes appeared.
Lucy looked at her puzzled as well. "Uhm…who are you?"
The Celestial Spirit bowed gracefully and answered, "I am Virgo. You summoned me Master?"
"But, I thought you looked like a giant ape or gorilla."
"My appearance changes based on my master's preferences."
Virgo then turned and saw Sergio. She smiled and said, "Ah, Lord Jude. Have you summoned me for punishment?"
Sergio waved a hand. "No, not this time. Besides, as you may have realized already, I'm not the one who summoned you."
Virgo frowned lightly.
Lucy tilted her head in confusion. "Okay…how do you know the Celestial Spirits…?"
Sergio shrugged. "Not important right now. Besides, don't we have bigger problems?"
Lucy widened her eyes and nodded before turning to Virgo. "Alright, Virgo. Right now I need your help, but I don't have time to make a contract, is that alright with you?"
Virgo nodded in return. "Whatever you wish Master."
Lucy sweat-dropped lightly. "Ehh, could you not call me Master? It feels weird."
"Then how about Milady?"
"No way!"
"Princess?"
Lucy rubbed her chin in thought and then grinned. "Princess sounds good."
Sergio merely smirked in amusement.
Lucy nodded to herself and pointed towards the Wind Wall. "Alright Virgo, I need you to dig a hole so we can get out of here!"
Virgo blinked curiously and then turned to Sergio. "Lord Jude, why do you not simply take down the wall?"
Lucy and the others froze in confusion.
Sergio shrugged. "I thought it'd be amusing this way. Plus I wanted to see what plan these guys would come up to get out of here."
Erza's eyes widened before she grit her teeth. "Is this a joke to you!?"
"Of course not. I figured you could all figure a way out of this. I wanted to see how you would do that."
Erza narrowed her eyes but then sighed.
"Well, now that your plan has been shown we should probably get going." Sergio then waved a hand, causing the Wind Wall to rotate slower and slower before the wind died down and vanished.
"I guess we don't need you Virgo…" Lucy said with a weak chuckle.
Virgo bowed in response. "As you wish Princess."
"Heehee!" Lucy giggled to herself happily.
As the group sped away from the station, Erza announced, "We have to pursue Erigor, if we are lucky there is still time before he reaches the conference, but we will need to catch up fast."
"I can chase him," Sergio remarked.
Erza remained silent in thought for a moment but then nodded. "Then do it."
Sergio nodded as wind picked up under his feet before he immediately shot into the sky at high speeds.
"Wow, he's really goin'!" Natsu shouted in surprise.
Erza then ordered, "The rest of us will try to get to the conference, Sergio will worry about stopping Erigor."
Erigor continued flying through the air towards the conference when something hit him from behind and slammed him into the ground.
Erigor stood up and groaned as he turned around and saw Sergio land behind him. "You…you're one of those Fairy Tail flies. How did you fools escape my Wind Wall?"
"That's not really any of your concern. And no, I'm not with Fairy Tail. I'm merely giving them a hand."
Erigor looked at Sergio confused and laughed hysterically. "Ahahahah! This is unbelievable! You're putting your life on the line and risking death to help a guild you're not even part of!? That's the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard!"
Sergio frowned in annoyance and equipped the blue-green sword once more. "One whose heart has been burned black with hatred couldn't possibly understand."
"Heh, so poetic. Let's see how it helps you with this!" Erigor then swung his scythe in front of his body, shouting, "Storm Shred!" A large, purple magic circle appeared which then fired a hailstorm of wind arrows soaring at Sergio. Erigor chuckled in amusement as the attack died down, leaving only dust in the area. However, his eyes widened as the dust dispersed.
Erza, Gray, Lucy, Natsu, Happy, Flare, and Kageyama, with Natsu hanging out the side heaving, with Erza driving the whole group in a magic four-wheeler. As Erza drove, her driving become more erratic, one of the jostles stirred Kageyama from his unconsciousness. He looked around and realized where he was. He immediately tensed up and then groaned in pain, seeing the bandages all over his body, puzzled. He looked at the other Fairy Tail members and asked suspiciously, "Why did you let me live?" Narrowing his eyes he continued, "You're planning to use me as a bargaining chip, aren't you…?" He then sighed and shook his head. "That wouldn't work, Erigor doesn't care about anyone."
"You know," Gray interrupted, "if all you're lookin' for is death, just say the word."
Kageyama sneered at him, Lucy looking at him with slight disbelief as well.
Gray then turned to Kageyama and added, "But don't fool yourself into thinking everything comes down to a matter of life or death."
Kageyama looked at him surprised and confused, biting his lip in frustration.
The whole group then groaned as the four-wheeler jumped and jostled again.
Gray slammed his fist against the panel facing Erza angrily. "Hey! Watch it up there!"
Erza, who was busy driving the magic four-wheeler, strained as her vision blurred and her concentration weakened. 'Damn…I had not expected to be this drained of magical power…'
Eventually, Erza and the others in the magic four-wheeler arrived on the bridge and saw Sergio, mostly uninjured, save for a small cut on his upper right arm, standing over the unconscious body of Erigor.
Kageyama's eyes nearly fell out of his head when he saw Erigor lying in a heap unconscious. He then looked at Sergio curious and surprised. 'This guy actually beat Erigor?'
Erza sighed as the four-wheeler came to a stop. "You actually managed to defeat Erigor."
Sergio shrugged in response. "Turns out the Reaper wasn't all that tough."
Erza frowned in thought. "What do you mean?"
Sergio lightly kicked the motionless form of Erigor. "Poor fool had the nerve to go and die on me. I didn't realize most humans couldn't handle that kind of attack."
Erza's eyes widened in response. "You…you killed him!? Do you even realized what you have done?!"
Sergio blinked curiously as he tapped Erigor's head with his foot. "Yeah. I took one more scummy person off the planet."
"Killing is strictly forbidden within Fairy Tail!"
Sergio frowned in response. "Is it?" He then sighed and muttered, "Mavis must've gone soft after I left."
"What?" Erza asked annoyed.
Sergio waved a hand then widened his eyes. "Look out!" he shouted as Kageyama sped by, having stolen their magic four-wheeler.
"Hey, get back here!" Natsu ordered.
"Shouldn't you be happy he took, Mr. Motion Sickness?" Lucy asked derisively, getting a face-fault from the pink-haired fire-breather.
As Kageyama drove off, he thought, 'Erigor might've failed to wipe out the Guildmasters, but I won't.'
Sergio sighed as the others gaped in shock at Kageyama's brash move.
"We have to chase him down!" Erza shouted.
The others nodded in agreement.
"Are we going to join the chase?" Flare asked.
Sergio nodded. "Yeah. That bastard took Lullaby right out of my pocket."
Flare nodded in understanding.
Kageyama eventually abandoned the magic four-wheeler when the terrain became too crowded with trees and made his way through the forest towards the Guildmaster Conference. Upon seeing it, he smirked proudly and removed the flute from his pocket to prepare playing it.
However, right when he was about to he heard rustling behind him and stowed the flute behind him, turning to take out whoever was interrupting him.
To his confusion it was Makarov, whom he recognized as nothing more than a little old man, wandering around reading an issue of Sorcerer Magazine.
Makarov, who was busily reading the magazine with a perverse grin, didn't notice Kageyama standing there, and then, when he did, hurriedly shoved the magazine behind him and began stammering all over himself with excuses, Kageyama just looking at him puzzled.
However, after listening to Makarov's stammering for a few moments he concluded the old man was just stupid and decided to try and trick him. "Actually, I was hoping you could help me with something."
Makarov stopped for a moment and then looked at Kageyama curiously. "Alright, what is it?"
"I was planning on playing this song for the Guildmasters, but, I seem to be getting cold feet. Do you think you could allow me to play it for you, then you can tell me what you think?"
Makarov folded his arms in thought and then nodded with a smile. "Sure sonny, go ahead."
Kageyama brought the Lullaby up to his mouth to play, however, right when he was about to, he remembered his one-time allies who had encouraged the Lullaby Plan, now all of them captured by the Council. He then remembered the words Lucy and Gray said to him in rebuke of his wish for death.
Nearby, Sergio, Flare, Erza, Lucy, Natsu, Gray, and Happy arrived to see Kageyama over by Makarov.
Natsu and Lucy prepared to rush forward to take down Kageyama, but were stopped when Bob stepped in their path.
Sergio pulled back in shock. 'Wh-what the hell is that…thing?'
Bob then widened his eyes in surprise. "Oh my, my! If it isn't Mr. Blue!"
Erza, Natsu, Lucy, and Gray blinked curiously. "Mr. Blue?" the all asked in unison.
"Oh yes, this little cutie here was a member of Fairy Tail back when I still had a pretty little head of hair."
Erza and the others gaped.
Sergio sighed in annoyance. "I highly doubt that's pertinent."
Bob then turned his attention to Natsu and Gray, the duo feeling quite unfortunate at garnering it.
Lucy could only watch in slight despair. 'Th-this guy…is the Guildmaster for Blue Pegasus…?'
Goldmine then walked over and tapped Lucy on the shoulder, also gaining the attention of the others. "Just watch. I'm sure Makarov can handle this situation."
The others nodded in puzzled agreement and watched Makarov.
Kageyama clenched his fists as he debated his actions. 'All I need to do is play one…one single note, and everything will change. Everything will be different…'
Makarov then remarked, "This won't change anything."
Kageyama's eyes widened as he registered Makarov's words.
"He did it!" Lucy cheered happily.
"Way to go Gramps!" Natsu offered as he and the others ran over to him.
Sergio chuckled lightly. 'Makarov always did prefer to solve things without violence. I guess even fifty years wouldn't change that.' Sergio then frowned as he looked at the Lullaby flute.
"You pathetic humans! If you can't do anything, then I'll just do it myself!" a demonic voice shouted.
It was then that everyone watched as the three eyes of the Lullaby lit up bright violet before tendrils and limbs of wood stretched out in every direction.
Sergio narrowed his eyes in response. "Well, well. Looks like you've finally come out to play."
"Whoa! What is that?!" Natsu shouted.
Erza growled in frustration as she looked upon the beast. "It is Lullaby's true form."
"It's huge!" Lucy shouted.
"I've fought bigger," Sergio remarked as he extended his hand, causing the blue-green sword to once more appear.
As Lullaby looked around, it roared with a loud bellow. "You pathetic weaklings! I swear I'll devour the soul of every human here! You will all perish to my song!" Lullaby then turned to a mountain nearby and opened its maw, energy collecting and forming into a magic circle, a massive beam of energy shooting from the circle and annihilating a large portion of the mountain.
The Rune Knights, who had arrived to help, turned and fled away from the towering behemoth, leaving the mages to deal with it themselves.
Natsu glowered at the monster and pounded his fists together. "This thing's gonna pay for that!"
Sergio sighed in annoyance. "Hey, Lullaby!"
The behemoth stopped for a moment and then turned to Sergio. "You…"
"Yeah, good to see you two you ugly bastard. Unfortunately, now I'm going to turn you into firewood."
Erza nodded in agreement as her body was illuminated in bright, golden light before her normal attire was replaced by a new armor with her hair tied up in a long ponytail, the armor itself being composed of a neck guard that decorated with silver as well as multiple gems, along with two black shoulders guards with silver edges, overlapping each other on each shoulder, with silver crosses on them and flanking the collar of the armor, reminiscent of a dress, the breastplate having silver edges and revealing much of Erza's cleavage and abdomen, a series of plates flanking her sides and hips which reached down to the armor's very large skirt armor, which itself was composed of long, silver-edged plates shaped like feathers and adorned with silver, cross-like markings, the waist armor also leaving much of the of the front of lower body exposed, a black bikini-like cloth covering her, as well as slim gauntlets with silver patterns, and leg armor that was silver-edged at her hips and jet black on her greaves. "Requip: Black Wing Armor!"
Gray, as usual, threw off his shirt in preparation to fight the monstrosity.
Flare untied her hair and allowed it to flow freely.
Lucy pulled out one of her keys and held it towards the sky.
Well, there goes the first chapter. Hopefully everyone enjoyed it. If you did, please be sure to leave a review letting me know. If you did not enjoy it, I suppose you can leave a review just do not leave vitriolic drivel. If there is anything you are confused on leave a review asking about it and I will do my best to answer you question, unless of course it is something I purposefully left unexplained, but if it is I will tell you so feel free to ask anything.