Hey everybody! I'm back, with a chapter and it's early! HOLY CRAP! THAT'S ONLY BEEN FIVE DAYS SINCE THE LAST UPDATE! I'M GETTING BETTER AT THIS~! I apologize if you find and mistakes! I suck at proof-reading!
Anyway, enjoy chapter eight!
Chapter eight: Is It Over Yet?
Keira grit her teeth as she dodged yet another flying kitchen knife. Where the hell did these things keep coming from?! Hotaru was now going crazy, if that word means anything anymore...She had requipped from her jaguar armor to her Devil's Soldier armor. Keira darted around and summoned an explosion lacrima from her magical cache, throwing it to the ground, shattering the stones and creating a smoke screen. The resourceful teenager used this to her advantage and fired a medium scale attack where she felt Hotaru's magical presence.
She could hear someone jump into the mess. A bright light lit up the smoke and when it all cleared, Amber was there in her own Starry Sky armor. " Figured I might as well join the party." she offered in a belligerent tone. " Thanks. Glad you got the invitation." Keira played right along with her friend. Then the redhead held a hand out, palm towards Hotaru and twelve swords went for the woman. While the purple hair psycho was playing with Amber, Keira sent a massive blast of Music Magic off into the guildhall. Little music notes hung around the air in any available spot, innocently staring down the people. The redhead was surprised when Lucy leapt inside the building. She saw Hotaru's grin widen and instantly knew what was going on.
Keira summoned two swords. " Get behind me, now!" Lucy wanted to hesitate but the crazed look on the purple haired woman's face parallel to them made her think otherwise. She knew she wasn't strong enough to take someone with that much insanity on their side. " No way in hell you're getting her, Lion." Keira's expresso eyes hardened into dark chocolate blazing with rage.
" I think I will Little Princess." the woman smirked and snapped her fingers, ropes suddenly rising from the floors which sort of freaked Lucy out but Keira simply rolled her eyes, and slashed at the rope, though she wasn't expecting it to explode. Talk about an unexpected bomb drop.
The ropes wrapped around the two before the redhead could stop it, and when Hotaru closed her fist, the ropes detonated with the two still wrapped up. " Territory magic huh? Fitting for a sociopathic little bitch like you."
Back outside on Fairy Tail's back stoop, the members were desperately fighting. Lauren was launching combo attacks with Cana and Naya was just firing any piece of candy she could at the opposing guild. Elfman was knocking people away from Mirajane left and right, Macao and Wakaba were doing their best to fight, Trinstan and his team were trying to annihilate some of the other psycho's from Lion's Den, while the rest of the guilds...went bat shit. Lauren was blasting people with her Night Dragon-Slayer abilities before they could get close, Amber had leapt off to help Keira, and Master Kokoa had disappeared. It was a bloodbath, though Lion's Den seemed to enjoy that. " JUST HOW MANY OF THESE FUCKING FREAKS ARE THERE?!" Lauren roared as she sent three Lion's packing with one Night Dragon's Shining Fist dealt out, and Trinstan ran passed, shouting ' How should I know?!' on his way. The Dragon-slayer growled. Gajeel was blasting people away, and Wendy was using her Enchant: Arms and Vernier to support people, and Natsu was burning his opponents before running off to fight whoever he could find inside the guildhall on legs.
Keira was still in her Devil's Soldier armor and she then closed her eyes, opening them again, determination filling coffee orbs. Her power grew around her, and Amber kept Hotaru busy while the redhead prepared. An intense feeling of pressure filled the area, and Keira continued listening to the sounds of the world. The magical pressure was building, and it expanded before it couldn't hold any more. " RHYTHMIC EXPLOSION!" the spells name called out, created an enormous coil of music notes, smoke, and a bigger amount of flames than her demonstration of the spell. The teen sent her attack straight for Hotaru and Amber jumped out of the way. The redhead grit her teeth, and added more pressure, and a second wave fired off. She'd cast the spell twice now.
From the outside, the left side of the Lion's Den guildhall blew out and everyone saw music notes, twice, and everyone grinned. Keira wasn't going easy on them. Trinstan instantly grew less worried seeing the massive amount of music notes, knowing Keira would be fine, though he was still concerned. " Guess Keira's not holding back." Rocky grinned and slapped people away with his wind magic, and Lauren snorted as she practically flew passed. " When has she ever held back?" and the blonde wind mage thought that over before nodding. " True..." he slapped away a few more opponents.
" Card Magic: Heaven, Reverse Deck (deck or death?), Mountain! Summon lightning!" Cana sent the attack towards her opponents, and Lauren raised her hands, palms up, and her head to the sky, and it went from light to dark. Day to night, and she then began to eat her element. Gajeel was snacking on one of the legs of the guildhall, and one of the fire mages had let Natsu gorge on her fire. Keira had her music playing and continued fighting, her strength and attacks amplified by the tone and intensity of her music. Natsu was running through the guildhall, blasting people and burning them out of his way.
He was both pissed and excited for a good fight. " FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" he roared and sucker punched four guys in the face before running off again. Erza was fighting as well. " Heaven's Wheel: Scattered Petals!" Levy and Jami were enforcing the magical barriers to protect and they were working on a trap. " Solid Script: Typhoon!" and so, as casted, a typhoon wiped out their possible attackers. Jet was running around his opponents, quick enough to confuse them and then incapacitate them. Freed, Evergreen and Bixlow were helping too.
" Fairy Machine Gun: Leprechaun!" Evergreen's attack sent countless arrays of magical bullets straight for her targets. Freed was casting Runes, and Bixlow was using his babies to fire anything they had. Gray and Juvia had teamed up to make their power increase, creating a large Unison Raid attack. Bisca and Alzack were using their great teamwork skills to double-team the members of Lion's Den. " Yeehaw!" Bisca called as she kept firing. Everyone was fighting for their lives.
Inside, Keira, Amber and Hotaru were all covered in blood, and the latter of the three still had that annoying crazy grin on her face. Lucy was still untouched. " Ugh! I've had enough!" Amber turned. " Open! Gate of the Water Serpent, Hydra!" at the same time as the Gate opened, Keira requipped. Into her Water Serpent armor. ' She's calling Hydra out already? She must be desperate...' Amber thought to herself, watching on standby as Keira and Hydra sent Hotaru flying through the ceiling. Keira panted and glared at the floor as she tried to catch her breath. " Damn. That was only one...There's still so many more..." suddenly, Amber was thrown from the building with a scream. " AMBER!" Keira shouted in worry but jumped away and dodged as a blast of magic threatened to put her out. Lucy had been thrown to a wall, and lay unconscious on the floor.
She turned expecting another member, only to see Iwao Matsushita, the Master of Lion's Den. Her glare grew ever more rageful and he smiled as if he were innocent. " Let's play, little girl." and the two were off.
This was how Gray and Juvia found the redhead. Covered in blood, fighting the Master of Lion's Den. Her swords littered the area, stuck into walls and the floors, water soaking the floors, lightning crackling violently as she fought. She was in her sisters Lightning Empress armor-one of her friends had copied her sisters magic and gave her a copy of the armors-and kept fighting. " You're fast and strong. As expected of the daughter of Erik and Melissa Scarlet. Such a tragedy they died." Keira froze.
" Did I strike a nerve? Poor baby." blood was flashing across her eyes, screams filling her ears, her own and two others'. " Keira?" Gray asked seeing the redhead stand still, silent and head bowed. A single sound escaped from her. A whimper and then an enormous red and gold magic circle erupted under her feet and every sharp object flew to the Lion's Den Master. When the redhead looked up, tears flowed like a river from her eyes, a hateful glare on her face, yet she made no sound as she continued fighting. She couldn't hear anything; nothing except for her parents' screams and her own echoing in her mind. Gray decided to take over. " Ice Make: Lance!" his attack sent Iwao flying back into a wall, rubble falling on him and Juvia took this chance to check on the still silently crying redhead. " Keira, Keira you need to pull yourself together!" the teen didn't respond and Juvia bit her lip in thought before delivering a sound slap across Keira's face and she abruptly snapped out of it.
" What." she asked as she took one of the swords from the ground and summoned a spear. " What the hell is he doing?!" Keira roared seeing Gray fight Iwao. " Damnit Gray you moron!" with that she jumped off shouting for Juvia to keep an eye on Lucy. The redhead quickly intercepted the hand that was headed for Gray's stomach, black lightning. Her spear nearly took Iwao's hand off but he grinned. " That's why I'm in the Lightning Empress armor Gray. He uses Lightning magic but not the typical kind. He uses Black Lightning." the dark green haired man grinned. " Beauty, brawn and brains. Impressive." he was mocking her but she didn't take the bait this time. " Just stay back." the two continued fighting and soon they heard two loud crashes and screams. " Looks like the Flame-thrower and Erza are tearing your members to shreds." the redhead grinned when he scowled. " No matter." this only served to make the eyes of Keira to narrow and her grin to grow wider.
" I hope you have a good doctor, cause you're really gonna need 'em!" Keira gave off that rather suspicious comment before sliding into a stance, power beginning to suck towards her in front of the redhead. Hydra had been sent back to the Spirit World by an attack that he hadn't been expecting so Keira had been fighting Iwao one on one from then on out. The teenager had let all of her allies have small earbuds that had sound cancelling properties built in, to protect them. Keira didn't need any, her ears had been damaged already, but some healing mages from True Heart had fixed her eardrums so that she could hear an extensive amount of noises-her hearing almost as good as a Dragon slayer's-but her attacks wouldn't hurt her ears anymore.
The amount of power that was steadily growing began to look alarmingly large and resembled a button. Once Keira felt the amount had grown to be unstable, she grinned. And then brought her hand down on the magical button extremely hard, with the loud exclamation of " HYPERSONIC BLAST!" a sound, incredibly loud (louder than a jet engine up close, it's really loud. Try a decibel meter chart image) formed, making all those without sound cancelling earphones scream and fall to the floor in agony as their ears bled from the volume intensity. At the same time, the small music notes Keira had spread out also detonated making the sound all the louder. Thankfully, all innocent bystanders and others whom had no part in this battle were spared.
Gray and Juvia looked at Iwao as he screamed, though they couldn't hear a thing. Juvia made to remove the earbuds from her ears but Keira saw and grabbed her hands, shaking a red mop of hair in the negative.
Those protecting Fairy Tail from ground floor gaped as the building on the water shook like it was having a seizure and Lauren grinned. Keira had cast Hypersonic Blast. Lauren knew that any sound experienced after that attack-directed at an opponent-would feel like a thousand needles into the persons brain. ' Breaking in the heavy artillery already Keira?' the auburn haired Dragon-slayer asked in her mind as she let loose her special breath attack. " NIGHT DRAGON'S PIERCING HOWL!" and a stream of cosmos erupted from the auburn haired mages mouth, headed straight for her opponents who tried to dodge in vain. Inside, Iwao screamed as his ears bled, the damage to his sensitive eardrums immediate. This was her chance, she wasn't going to let this opportunity go to waste.
Then, Keira knelt to the floor, hands clasped in prayer. " Deep within Hearts coated by a deceitful and cruel shell, resides truth. Lives dictated by sin and untruthfulness lie in wait for a catalyst to a new beginning.." Kokoa stepped up, her magical aura making her clothes and hair float. " May lies be vanquished and truth reign free in trust and loyalty. Evil be disposed of by the hands of Angels! LIAR'S JUDGEMENT!" the clouds parted letting golden sunlight rain on them all and then a burst of white light filled the room, stretching throughout the entire building, and it managed to reach the other Lion's Den members, scattered about.
They were all being judged by sacred light, the spell reminiscent of Fairy Law. Keira panted and fell over as Kokoa took over, the magical brunt being taken off of the redhead. She had suffered many wounds and was exhausted. The light felt so good. If she could just block out the sounds it would be...the perfe...ct..spot to...slee...
Outside, everyone saw the golden light erupt and True Heart grinned. " There's Master Kokoa." Lauren chuckled and cocked a hip. The light ended shortly thereafter and Lauren spoke to her Exceed companion. " Let's go up there and check things out Morioka." the white, red striped Exceed nodded and lifted her friend into the castle through the blown out wall, to see Keira passed out on the ground with blood coming from almost every direction, Kokoa panting, Gray and Juvia looking confused and a dark green haired man on the ground, not moving.
" Where's Amber?" Lauren asked as she assessed her friend. " Morioka get her down to the infirmary." the Exceed did as told and flew the redhead out of the nightmarish guildhall. " She fought well. Amber had been thrown out of here by Iwao and Keira took over from there." Kokoa glared, eyes filled with contempt at the unconscious Wizard Saint. And she hadn't even used one iota of her magic power, though casting Liar's Judgement was no small task. Morioka came back and a Teleportation mage got Lucy and Kokoa while the Exceed took Lauren down. There were more Teleportation and Healing mages than anything in True Heart so they could get down on their own. Natsu and Erza could get back on their own, thanks to Erza's short ability to fly in her Heaven's Wheel armor and Natsu having Happy with him.
" Oh my god!" Naya cried seeing Keira. Mirajane ran inside to open the doors and Jet was sent with Elfman to get Porlyusica again. The injured were laid down wherever there was room, bandages and medical supplies strewn about, Healing mages running this way and that to help, the support mages giving Wendy a hand in both healing and restoring magic energy. Keira was still unconscious, as was Lucy, Master Kokoa was sitting down, Lauren was with Keira, and the rest were wherever. Amber walked inside holding her arm, armor hanging on to wherever it could. " Is it done?" she asked and everyone nodded.
" Freeze! Don't move a muscle!" everyone turned their heads to see a large collection of the Rune Knights. Natsu and Happy tried running again but were caught in the magic circle again. Everyone was taken to camps, even the injured (some Rune Knights carried Lucy, Keira and the other unconscious away).
Keira sat inside one of the tents, glaring at the Rune Knights as she sat, dressed in a baggy dress shirt, one side of the collar sliding down to reveal her shoulder and bra strap. " Can you tell us what happened Miss..." Keira glared more. " Scarlet. And frankly, we were just fighting for our damn lives out there. Don't you think you could let our injured heal and then get their wits about them?" she also had a fever. " I happened to sense the Dark Matter Cannon, ran out and used a bunch of magic circles to stop it, but the damage is still clear. " She rolled up one sleeve and showed the Knights her purple arm. " This is what Dark Matter does to you. You'll see this after you die. It kills that quickly. Oh yeah, let's not forget I fought Hotaru and then Master Iwao of the Lion's Den guild..." she muttered. The Rune Knights excused her from further questioning after that.
Two days after they were all sequestered away, the mages were returned to their guilds and the mages were ordered to bed. Trinstan tossed and turned in bed. No one had been allowed near eachother during questioning so he hadn't had the time to check if Keira or Master Kokoa were okay. Since she had been half-naked at best because of the damage to her clothes, Trinstan had leant her a shirt of his and she accepted, the shirt nearly dwarfing her. She had also taken a skirt from Lauren. ' I hope she's okay...' was his last thought before he succumbed to sleep. Meanwhile, Keira was sharing her room with Jami, the latter passed out while the redhead lay awake, mind racing a mile a minute.
The teenage redhead sighed and closed her eyes, mind still going a mile a minute. ' I just hope this is all over. I'm not sure how much insanity I can deal with...' the teen sighed again and turned off to sleep.
The next morning, Fairy Tail had gathered inside the True Heart conference room and sat down, marveling at the size. Keira and her team sat down, the redhead and many others choosing to seat themselves gingerly to avoid causing discomfort to their wounds. Master Makarov and Master Kokoa were a the very front standing behind a podium, a tall stool helping Master Makarov see everyone. " Children, we spilled blood yesterday, both our own and that of our enemies. In spite of everything, you all fought valiantly, and we prevailed in the end. This win, is yours children." Natsu stood. " I told you already Gramps; you were a big part of it." everyone agreed and the same for True Heart to Master Kokoa.
Then, Master Kokoa addressed her children. " I'm sure you are aware of the victory against Lion's Den. Though, our true goal was unsuccessful." Gray leaned over and asked Keira what the goal was and she whispered it to him. " They were judged by Heaven, and many were deemed guilty. One of the innocents however, is this young lady right here." a teenager, not much older than Wendy stepped out from behind one of the curtains and Kokoa held out her hand. She had long gray hair, purple eyes and a shy disposition. The teen was wearing a blue halter-style sundress that she assumed Sheila loaned her. Heaven knew that girl probably stayed up all night making clothes. " Everyone, please say hello to Marina Lucuo. Marina, say hello to the Fairy Tail and True Heart members."
" Hello Marina!" was one of the greetings along with ' Hi Marina!', ' Yo.' and ' FIGHT ME!' that one was from Natsu and it got him serval looks from around the room. He pouted and sat down, discreetly lacing his fingers with Lucy's, whom was right beside him. Marina had decided to join the guilds she felt most welcomed in, both True Heart and Fairy Tail. Marina was currently staying with Lucy until she got a permanent residence.
Hopefully the madness was done for now...
ANDDDDD DONE! Man, I feel better! Iwao is dead and so is Hotaru (they couldn't be saved and so they were judged by the Heavens. Liar's Judgement is kinda like a Supreme Court Judge cause it can decide whether you're innocent or guilty and if you're guilty, then you are 'judged'. Which essentially means you get offed. That's what you get for being evil to the bone.), Lion's Den is being disbanded, the questioning is over, now the healing process begins.
Next chapter: Entering the past of Marina (Yay, we're gonna find out what made her join Lion's Den! *cheers* Yay, flashbacks!) Sorry again for any mistakes, just assume that any post of mine will have some error or mistake in it, I'm not good at proof-reading...
-Always,
FireHanyou15-
