Valerie and Aurora stood casually in the group of knights who were currently discussing what to do with the girls. "Sir Griamore, we had no idea your daughter possessed such strength!" A Knight addresses.
"Yes." Griamore says proudly, Veronica at his side. "It would appear that she has unlocked her magic powers, and is now no longer a Holy Knight Apprentice, but can now be sworn in as a fully fledged Holy Knight!"
"Whoo-hoo! You did it Val!" Aurora exclaims happily and Arctic flies around the excited Princess.
"Congrats Lady Valerie!" Arctic says and all the Knights freak out from hearing Arctic talk.
"That glowing orb is talking!" One exclaims and Aurora laughs and holds out her hand for Arctic to land on.
"Relax. It's just my sacred treasure." Aurora says and winks and gives them a peace sign.
"Well hey, I'm no the only one who fought off those demons here." Valerie says and smiles and picks up the twelve year old and tosses her into the air. "Let's hear it for Princess Aurora!"
"Princess Aurora!" All of the Knights cheer and Aurora and Valerie laugh as Valerie continually tosses her in the air.
"Hey you'd better not drop her!" Arctic warns. "It's my job to keep her safe so anything bad that happens is on me!" He sulks.
"Aurora..." Veronica says and approaches the young Princess as her daughter catches her one last time and sets her down before her mother. "That power you had. It reminded me of my sister's abilities. Apparently she had goddess powers, she was an Apostle of the Goddess Clan. Are you one of them too?"
"I don't know." Aurora says. "I honestly don't know where my powers came from." Veronica nods.
"I suppose I shouldn't speculate too much then." She says. "Besides, Elli had one orange eye with a symbol on it. You don't have that, so perhaps it's just a coincidence that your powers are similar."
"I guess. Maybe once Val and I find the other Saviors we'll find out more about our powers." Melody says and smiles at her friend.
"Other Saviors?" Veronica asks. "What are you girls talking about?" The girls show Veronica their tattoos that they acquired last night. She gasps. "How on Earth did you girls get those?"
"They appeared when we unlocked our powers." Valerie explains. "A voice in our heads told us that we were the Saviors of Strength and Light and that there are five others like us. Aside from that, we don't know much else."
"We'd better get going soon." Aurora says. "Trouble's coming and we need to get our order together to save Britannia."
"Well we don't even now where to start squirt." Valerie says. "They could be anywhere and they might not even know who they are if they haven't unlocked their powers like we have."
"Well we have to have hope! We have to find them somehow no matter how long it takes or how hard it is!" The young princess declares.
"I want to share the same optimism as you Pendragon, I really do. But searching all of Britannia for people who might not even know who they are, that's a lot harder than you think it is. I mean it's not like they're just going to fall out of the sky." Aurora sighs.
"I suppose you're right about that." She says. Suddenly, as if on cue, something huge falls out of the sky.
"No way..." Veronica says as she notices the object as the dust clears.
"Is that..." Griamore says and Valerie and Aurora notice a giant green pig landed next to them. It had what appeared to be a building on it's back.
"Well that's the most random thing to have ever happened to me." Aurora says. "And that's saying a lot considering I have a talking orb as my sacred treasure." She says and Arctic floats next to her, looking offended.
"Hey!" He exclaims. "I thought I made a fabulous introduction if I do say so myself." Aurora sweat-drops. Suddenly they notice people moving on top of the pig.
"Why did you girls think that launching Hawk Mama with all of us on her was a good idea!" A woman exclaims from the top of the pig.
"Because we were moving too slow!" A younger girl whines. Aurora and Valerie notice a young girl with a red dress float into their line of vision. "And I wanted to see if it would work." She smiles and blushes a bit.
"Well I think it did!" Another girl floated up in a white dress and looked around.
"I think I'm gonna be sick!" A boy exclaims.
"Mother are you alright?" A girl asks.
"I'm just fine dear." A woman replies. "I think we should get off of Hawk's mother and see where exactly we've ended up."
"Alright then let's get off!" A man exclaims happily and jumps down onto the ground.
"Ban!" Veronica and Griamore exclaim at the same time. The ground starts shaking as they notice a giant running to catch up to the pig.
"Is everyone okay?" She asks.
"Diane!" Veronica and Griamore exclaim again.
"We're fine mom." The girl in the red dress floats up to her mother, then transforms into a giant. "But I think Prince and dad might throw up." She refers to the two boy fairies with green faces. Everyone starts to dismount Hawk Mama. Veronica tears up when she sees a girl with one two-sectioned white wing and one dark colored wing on the other side, fly down off of the pig, carrying her sister.
"Elli!" She exclaims and runs towards them.
"Veronica!" Elizabeth cries out and runs towards her sister as soon as she gets on the ground. They both embrace and tear up.
"Oh Elli I thought I'd never see you again!" Veronica exclaims and embraces her sister tightly. "We all thought that you must have died in childbirth or something!"
"No I'm fine. I've been in a remote part of Britannia running the Boar Hat with Hawk and my daughter." Elizabeth explains and gestures to the girl who bore a striking resemblance to her but with Meliodas's blonde hair and one green eye visible from her bangs. Hawk slid down next to her.
"Hey everybody nice to see ya again!" Hawk exclaims and some Holy Knights freak out because there's a talking pig present.
"So this is you and Meliodas's daughter?" Veronica asks Elizabeth and she nods.
"This is your niece Melody." Elizabeth introduces. "And Melody this is your aunt Veronica."
"It's nice to meet you." Melody says and holds out her hand for Veronica to shake. Veronica takes it after a few moments and shakes it.
"Same to you." She says, then turns back to her sister.
"Why didn't you tell us that you were alright?" Veronica asks, nearly on the verge of tears again. "I grieved for you so hard along with the rest of the kingdom! Didn't you ever consider how we felt!"
"I did." Elizabeth says and looks down. "Not contacting anyone to let them know I was fine was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. But if I had, the Ten Commandments would have found Melody sooner, and everything that Meliodas sacrificed for us would have been for nothing."
"So he's dead?" Veronica asks.
"Not dead, captured." Melody says. "He let himself be taken prisoner in order for my mother and I to have some sort of hope to hold on to. And now thanks to him, I have a drive to fight that has allowed me to unlock powers never before imaginable, and I'm going to use those powers to end this fight once and for all and free my father, so that we can be the family that we were always meant to be." She declares and Elizabeth looks both worried and happy about her daughter's wish.
"Gill!" Aurora and Valerie exclaim and run towards the pink haired princess who had just slid down off of Hawk Mama.
"Val! Aurora!" Gillian exclaims and embraces her cousin and childhood friend.
"I'm so happy to see you're alright!" Gillian tells Valerie. "Mother and I get worried sometimes over you and your mother's reckless nature."
"Well I can honestly say that thanks to this mission I've become stronger than ever." She says and winks at Aurora.
"And Aurora, what on Earth are you doing out here! Shouldn't you be back in Camelot with your parents?" Gillian asks.
"Well I've found that I need to go on an adventure of my own." Aurora says. "And the only way to do that is to leave home."
"I understand that. I've had to do the same thing." Gillian says. "And now I've become the Eagle Savior of Power! One of the Seven Saviors of Britannia!" She shows them the brand on her left shoulder.
"We're Saviors too!" The girls exclaim and show Gillian their brands.
"No way..." Gillian says. "Cap- I mean Melody! We found the other two Saviors!"
"Melody..." Aurora says softly to herself, recognizing that name from a prophecy she was told before leaving Camelot.
"Awesome! I'll be over there in a minute!" Melody says. "I'm just going to check on King and Prince and make sure they're okay!" Aurora notices two small boys throwing up.
"Oh my!" She says and runs over to them. Melody helped King and Aurora rushed over to Prince. "Are you alright?" She notices the brand of an owl on a branch on the right side of his neck and gasps.
"I'm fine..." He says weakly, coughing a bit and wiping his mouth off on his sleeve before looking up and seeing Aurora. His eyes went wide and he started seeing shimmers around her when she smiled at him.
"That's great! I noticed you have a brand on your neck! I have one on mine too!" She says and turns around a lifts up her hair to show the rooster on the back of her neck.
"No way...This means that you're a Savior too!" He exclaims and she giggles and nods.
"I'm Princess Aurora Pendragon of Camelot, Rooster Savior of Light!" She proudly proclaims and Prince blushes.
"I'm Prince Helbram of the Fairies, Owl Savior of Wisdom." He says, gaining his composure to impress the young girl.
"And I'm Arctic! Aurora's sacred treasure!" Arctic says from beside her and Prince screams and floats backwards a bit.
"Aaah! Talking orb!" He exclaims.
"Why does everyone do that?" Arctic sighs and Aurora pats him.
"Whoa! Giants!" Aurora exclaims and points to Dolores and Diane.
"That's my mother Diane and sister Dolores and- oh she's gone." Prince sighs when he notices Aurora ignore him and rush over to the giants.
"Thanks Melody." King says as Melody removes her hands from his back. His wings fluttered a bit and he rose into the air.
"You're welcome King Harlequin." Melody says happily.
"Just call me King." King insists. "You're my Captain's daughter and you've done me and the Fairy King's forest a great service. No need for formalities."
"Whatever you say King." Melody says then her smile fades and she looks off in the distance.
"Melody?" King asks then senses it too and a chill goes up his spine.
"Get to your wife and children and warn them to get somewhere safe, I'll warn the others to get cover." Melody says.
"But we can help you!" King protests. "We've fought the Commandment's before-"
"Yes but at the moment you're outnumbered and I'm not sure how strong my Savior's are and I'm not sure if they're immune to their commandments like my mother and I are." Melody says, her back still facing King. "I'll fight them off, you and the others do your best to protect everyone else."
"But Melody you can't possibly fight them all on your own!" King says. She turns to him and King notices she has one black eye with half a demon symbol above it. A shiver runs down his spine.
"You and the Ten Commandments have one thing in common." She tells him.
"What's that?" King asks in a soft voice.
"Neither of you have any idea what I'm capable of." And with that she sprouts her wings and takes off into the air. King flies back to the others.
"Where's Melody going?" Kilia asks her uncle.
"To fight the Ten Commandments." King says and Elizabeth's face pales. "Everyone get ready to fight!" He says and the Holy Knights, Sins and Saviors scramble together to get their bearings. Diane looks out over the distance.
"Are you sure it's all ten of them?" Diane asks and King floats up next to her.
"Yes I could sense them! Can't you?" He asks.
"I can..." She says. "It's just that..."
"What?" King asks.
"We're only sensing one of them." Ban says and King looks confused.
"Then why did Melody say we'd be outnumbered..." King says.
Something lands in front of them with a huge crash. Fear overtakes them all when they see Zeldris rise from the crater he made as the dust clears. "It's the leader of the Ten Commandments! Run for your lives!" A Knight shouts and all of them turn and run. Even the Saviors.
"No don't you'll fall under his-" Elizabeth starts but it's too late. "Commandment..." she sighs.
"Oh no Dolores and Prince turned their backs!" Diane exclaims, anger mounting towards the demon.
"Mom we're fine." Dolores says and Diane turns her head to see her children beside her, unchanged. "For some reason the commandment didn't affect us." Diane looks shocked.
"Really!?" She exclaims.
"Yeah we're fine!" Kilia says from beside Ban and Elaine, who were also shocked that their daughter didn't fall. Gillian, Valerie, and Aurora all turned around and looked at each other then shrugged. The Knights that had fallen were bowing to Zeldris and pledging their allegiance. Zeldris seemed shaken up that some people were immune but that shock soon turned into anger.
"What!?" He exclaims. "How is that possible! You all should be under my control right now! Only Goddesses are immune to commandments." Suddenly someone lands in front of him, making just as much of an entrance as he did. Zeldris waves his hand to wipe away some of the dust and sees who's standing before him. He smirks. "Well if it isn't my dear niece Melody." He says and brushes off some dust from his jacket. "Ah, so you have unlocked your demonic side now. Father and I knew it was in there somewhere. No matter how hard he's tried to get rid of it, there's just too much evil in Meliodas for it to be completely vanquished, and some of it definitely had to make it into you. Tell me, how are you enjoying your newfound dark side?" Melody smirked.
"How are you enjoying having fewer working hearts?" She replies and some cheers for her comeback erupt behind her. Zeldris shoots them a glare and they all quiet in fear.
"It was only a temporary problem." Zeldris says, stretching his arms across his chest. "Thanks to some of your grandfather's magic I'm back to the way I was before your little tantrum."
"How nice of him." Melody says. "Too bad I'm going to ruin all of his hard work." She threatens and takes a step towards her uncle.
"Like you could even try." Zeldris counters. "I'm a lot stronger than I was last time."
"And so am I." Melody says.
"You're bluffing." Zeldris says. "That poker-faced confidence is a trait you've inherited from your father and I know it well."
"Perhaps I am bluffing." Melody says. "And maybe I'm not. There's only one way to find out." She holds out her violin and Zeldris places his hand on his sword.
"You want to fight me?" He asks and the other Saviors get in a fighting stance, along with the Sins. "Very well. That is one of the reasons I came here. However, don't you think it would be unfair for me to have to fight all seven of you and three of the sins?"
"But you're supposed to be extremely powerful, you're the Demon King's representative. And you have all of these Holy Knights at your command now." Melody points out.
"You're right." Zeldris says then smirks. "How about we make this a one on one fight then? Just you and me, uncle against niece, and if I win, I go and take Camelot again."
"And if you lose?" Melody suggests. Zeldris scoffs.
"Who says I'm going to lose?" He asks.
"Alright then. Since you're so confident then in the off-chance I do win I'll decide my reward after the battle?" Melody suggests.
"You've got yourself a deal." Zeldris says. "Now how about we have a little family bonding?" He says and takes out his sword and black flames come shooting out of it towards Melody. She starts to play a song and she extinguishes the flames before they touch her.
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She sends some back to her uncle but he dodges them. He then engages in combat and fights her, using his sword to try to injure her, but she dodges just as quickly as he attacks. He kicks her in the stomach, sending her to the ground, but she kicks him back and knocks him over as well. "You're not giving your all are you uncle?" Melody asks and stands up. Zeldris does as well.
"Well neither are you. It would appear that we're both holding back." Zeldris says and smirks. "Then perhaps I should stop and force you to fight harder." He says. "Knights, attack!" He commands those fallen to his commandment and points at Melody.
"Hey no fair you said this would be one on one!" Aurora exclaims.
"And we did, for a little bit anyway." Zeldris says and smirks at his niece. "I'd like to see how well you can do against a large band of Holy Knights."
"Funny." Melody smiles. "I was thinking the same thing about you, uncle." She says and Zeldris's smirk falls from his face when Melody's goddess and demon symbols glow and she chants something under her breath. The knights who were charging her halt right above her, their swords raised, frozen and a faint light hue overtakes them. When she opens her eyes she smirks and starts to play her violin and all of the Knights start attacking Zeldris.
"What!?" Ban exclaims.
"No way!" Veronica says.
"It's like she reversed the commandment!" Gillian says. Elizabeth starts to look worried. The Knights attacked Zeldris and he effectively dodged their attacks, and managed to get a few hits on them, but some also got some hits on him as well and he found himself starting to get a bit sloppier with his attacks with every hit. He lets out a cry of rage and blasts them all off of him.
"How dare you use my own men against me!" He tells Melody.
"They were never yours to begin with." Melody counters. "Thankfully they have me, so that no matter what commandment they may face, I can reverse the affect." Melody says. "I call that move Reverse Commandment!" She says and Zeldris growls.
"You half-blood bitch." He mutters under his breath and blasts Melody with a large photon of darkness and sends her flying into a hill nearby. He wipes his hands, thinking he's won. Until he sees an angry Aurora behind him with an angry Arctic.
"I don't like cheaters." She says and she and Arctic blast him with starlight. He goes back a bit but doesn't fall over. "How come that wasn't as strong as last night?" Aurora asks and looks at her hands.
"It's strongest at night when the stars are out." Arctic explains. "But since it's daytime you're going to have to improvise and fast!" Arctic says as Zeldris charges towards the princess.
"Fairy wings!" She shouts and Arctic attaches to her back and she flies out of Zeldris's line of fire.
"What the-" He looks up at Aurora. "I thought you were a human!"
"I am!" She tells him. "These are just part of my sacred treasure." She smiles.
"More like sacred bullshit, I'm taking you down!" Zeldris says and jumps up and slashes the spot where Arctic attached to Aurora, making her fall.
"Aurora!" Arctic exclaims, going back into his orb form. Suddenly someone zooms by and saves her. Aurora opens her eyes to find Prince holding her.
"Don't worry Princess, I've got you." He says and sweats.
"Thank you so much! That was very kind of you!" Aurora says and hugs him, making the fairy/giant hybrid's face turn bright red and suddenly he becomes a giant and Aurora is resting in his palm. "Whoa, I did not see that coming."
"Looks like you've got a giant problem here Zeldris." Dolores says from behind him and he turns and looks up at the giant and rolls his eyes at the pun.
"Well you're going to have an even bigger one in a minute." He says and knocks her over with a powerful kick and Dolores groans on the ground, clutching her side.
"Don't worry I'll help you." Elizabeth says as King floats her over to his daughter on Chastiefol and she starts to heal the wound on Dolores's side.
"Looking pretty strong there Zeldris." Valerie says. "Luckily I am too." She picks him up and sends him into the ground. He gets back up and growls at her. He reaches for his sword then finds it's missing.
"Hey where the hell did my-" He sees Kilia smiling at him innocently in her fairy form, swinging the hilt back and forth. "Like father like daughter I guess." He says and Kilia giggles. "Don't worry I'll give it back." She says and flies over him and drops it. As soon as he catches it he feels something in him change. He feels a twinge of regret for what he did to Meliodas and his family, and for some reason he feels a small desire to want to get to know his sister-in-law and niece.
"Freeze!" Gillian yells and suddenly Zeldris is frozen in ice. He stays like that for a few minutes. "Did I win?" She asks and grins then her smile falls when Zeldris breaks out.
"Think again princess." Zeldris sneers. "I don't know how you managed to escape Liones, even though I sent Galan after you..."
"Didn't Galan get petrified?" Elizabeth asks Ban, who had joined them and he nods.
"They must have done something..." Ban says and Elizabeth starts to get worried about how much power they managed to acquire since their last encounter.
"I didn't even get to fight him..." Dolores groans.
"Don't worry sweetie you'll get him next time." King reassures his daughter.
"I need to heal my daughter..." Elizabeth says and looks up at the hill. "She could be dying right now..."
"No she's not." Ban says and notices Melody sneaking up over the lip of the crater, behind Zeldris.
"But you definitely won't be escaping me. The Demon King wants you locked up with your mother, so that's exactly where you're going to go." Zeldris says and gathers his darkness in his hand and Gillian holds out the sword Vivian gave her.
"I'm a lot more powerful than you think!" Gillian says and the two of them charge each other. "You shouldn't underestimate me!" She cries and sends Zeldris back into the hillside, with ice and something else that gave off a powerful electric zap. Valerie covered her face with her arms then gave her cousin a look of surprise.
"Gill! Did you just shoot both ice and lightning at him!" She exclaims and Gillian's eyes widened and she looked at her sword. "I think I did..."
"No fair! How come you have two kinds of magic!" Valerie pouts.
"That shouldn't be your main concern at the moment ladies..." Zeldris says as he gets up out of the ground and walks back towards them. "There's a more pressing matter I think you need to attend to."
"Same to you uncle." Melody says and Zeldris jumps as his niece appears behind him. He tries to punch her but she grabs him and throws him back into the ground. A pillar of earth comes out of the hole, pushing Zeldris up and then lets go, letting him fall a bit before hitting him again, and the cycle repeats, the earth continually punching him. Aurora laughed and clapped from where she was perched on Prince's hand.
"Yeah you show him who's boss Helbram!" Aurora says.
"Please just call me Prince." He says and feels his face getting red again. Suddenly Zeldris knocks over Prince as well like he did to his sister and Aurora groans on the ground from the fall. She looks scared as Zeldris towers over her.
"So this is the great lineage of King Arthur Pendragon?" Zeldris asks. "Needless to say I was expecting more of a challenge."
"You asked for it." Arctic says behind him and turns into a glowing blue spear and stabs him in one of his hearts. Zeldris let out a cry of pain. "How do you like this sacred bullshit huh?" Arctic taunts.
"I'll kill you all!" Zeldris exclaims as he rips Arctic from his chest and sends him flying. He looks at Elizabeth and gathers his darkness to stop the bleeding from his wound. "Starting with you, the goddess bitch that started all of this." He says then gasps as he finds himself being choked by a dark shadowy grip. He turns and finds he's being held in Melody's left hand and finds himself unable to break free. Darkness covers her entire left side.
"Never threaten my mother..." She says, waves of killing intent rolling off of her. She snaps his neck, which he instantly re-healed with his darkness and she brought him up into the air and started playing her violin, it's normal blue hue, now completely purple and she sends out her own photon of darkness, twice that of the one her uncle used on her and sends him crashing back to Earth, making a third huge crater in the ground. It was nowhere near as big as the one Meliodas turned Danafor into, but it was a bit bigger than the first two that were made. Melody swooped down and examined her work. Zeldris coughed and groaned as he moved the rocks out of the way and sat up and looked at his niece, and in a rare moment for him, he felt fear. The Melody smiled at him. "Thanks for all your help. Now I know what my Saviors are capable of." Melody says and Zeldris looks confused. Melody yanks him out of the ground by his collar. "You're the best uncle ever!" She says and winks at him before throwing him and playing her violin to send out a beam of light to blast him farther away from everyone. He disappeared into the sky and didn't return.
"We did it!" Aurora exclaims and the girls and Prince all cheer and rush towards Melody. All of the Knights cheer as well and come and embrace and praise the Saviors.
"Oh I'm so proud of our kids!" Diane says cheerfully and smiles. "Aren't you Elizabeth? Elizabeth?" Diane notices that Elizabeth wasn't at her side where she was a second ago. Melody turns when she senses the crowd of people part and finds her mother, staring at her, an angry look on her face and she was tapping her foot.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed this part! Stay tuned for the next! And credit for the song goes to Lindsey Stirling.