The Tenrou Group Lives On - Chapter 20 – The Demons and off to Battle!
What happens if Natsu, Mirajane, and Erza gets left behind? The guild is gone. There's only three people left to protect Fairy Tail for 7 years. Theres only three members of Fairy Tail to take control and run Fairy Tail till they return. Natsu must become the guild master until they return.
Natsu x Mirajane x Erza
The dark grueling clouds loomed over ahead. Every few minutes a giant blinding yellow flash of lightning cracked in the sky as the clouds began to swirl over the city of Magnolia. The wind began to become hasty and the animals that still remained around there began to yip and screech.
Slowly walking through Magnolia, the red brick street, and through the buildings was a dark menace of a man. From his bloody red eyes and his slick black clothing, terror screamed all around him. The direction he was slowly walking towards was in the direction of one strongest guilds in Fiore; Fairy Tail.
High above in the dark gray clouds was a simple square island. It looked as if the entire earth had shrunken down in size and been turned into a square. But on top of it was a tall dark castle with throne rooms and dungeons. There stood 9 evil demons, a cloaked human, and a ex magic council member. Tartarus was standing high above as they watched Zeref arrive at the sturdy iron gates of Fairy Tail.
From the tall towers on either side to the multiply flags with the guild symbol flying on all of them. Zeref stood there in front of Fairy Tail with a smile across his face. With that he pushed open the gates and took the few steps that were needed to arrive at the wooden doors of the main hall.
"Now.. shall we start the party?" Zeref asked aloud as he looked up and heard the wind whip around him. His black hair was flapping around and his cloak was going from side to side.
"How could they be above us..?" Natsu muttered as his brain tried to figure out every logical possibility of how the most diabolical dark guild in existent was above them right now. His brain was churning out every answer he could think of as drips of sweat rolled down his face. Natsu's onyx eyes was simply just starring up as his right eyebrow ticked.
"Natsu.." Mirajane whispered lowly as she saw the state Natsu was in by trying to figure out what in the world was going on. So much news was hitting them so fast. They didn't have time to process everything, they hadn't figured everything out yet. But now with the news of Tartarus being just above them, it made them scared and anxious.
"Heh.. I say we just go up there and kick there ass." Gajeel grunted as he pointed up towards where Levy had said Tartarus was at. He was anxious as well but the best thing he knew to do was to fight and worry later.
"I hear something.." Cobra announced from the dark corner of the Fairy Tail building. A few people looked over at him and only thought about what he said or ignored him. The poison dragon slayer that Natsu had asked the Magic Council to keep out of jail was still around, but always silent as he waited to strike or for something fun to happen.
"What do you mean you hear something?" Natsu suddenly asked as he looked over at the ex Oración Seis guild member and thought about it. Normally when he heard something, he would comment on something big that was about to happen.
"I hear talking outside.." Cobra answered as he begun to stand up and prepare himself.
Natsu took a deep breath as he began looking towards the wooden doors of the building. Slowly he took two steps near it when everything changed. Everyone suddenly felt the dark leaking magic swirling around. There stomach began to churn as sweat began to pour down there faces. Now they knew something was outside..
Boom! The front doors and the entire front of the building was suddenly destroyed as a spray of wood was sent at everyone inside. People screamed as they all put there arms in front of there face and began to block the flying debris. A thick cloud of gray dark dust and dirt littered the area in front of them as the heavy noise from the explosion calmed down.
Slowly there vision was cleared as the wind pushed the clouds of dust away. There they saw the demons and there enemy that had arrived at there front door. In front of them stood Zeref with the 9 demons of Taratrus and Jellal standing behind him.
"Hello Fairy Tail wizards." Zeref quietly said aloud as he watched the shock in everyone's face. He saw that Natsu's onyx eyes opened wider then ever, the short old man took a step back, and the two women next Natsu placed there hands on the front of there stomachs. His bloody red eyes saw everything.
The 9 demons of Taratrus stood behind Zeref with Jellal standing to the side. They all stood there waiting for orders or a command. All nine of them waited for there lord to say the word so they could obliterate the measly humans in front of them.
"Zeref.." Master Makarov whispered in shock as he saw the diabolical man in front of him. His mind was shocked, the evilest man in the world was still alive, and so young. How could it be that this was the man that had created dark magic and so many demons.
"I'd like you all to meet my demons.. they will be killing you all so my plan can move forward without any flaws." Zeref explained as he stood there and his black garbs slowly flapped in the wind.
"The first demon.. Kyouka." Zeref announced as he pointed at a half-human/ half-aviary women who was standing there with a devious smile. Kyouka sports a large chest and a hour glass figure. Covering her body is a skin tight suit that partially revealed her thighs and buttocks. Her shoulders and arms are concealed by a long striped jacket with a four way split tail back and a tall gaping collar that completely conceals her neck. Her hands are sharp scaly claws and then around her thighs are bands that go down to where her bird like feet are.
Kyouka's head was adorned with an intricate helmet that covered everything besides her eyes and mouth. From the side of the helmet, two long wing like pieces of her skull protrude, and curved out around her face. Then as her green hair fell from the back of the helmet to her lower back.
"The second.. the demon a few of you know about.. Jackal." Zeref explained as he pointed at a man who looked like an animal. Jackal's dark brown hair reached down his shoulders and covered the left side of his face. Coming out of his hair was two prominent protrusions shapes like ears. His nose was small and black like a canines and he had a brown furry tail protruding from his lower back. His white teeth are triangle fang like teeth and his one visible eye is complete with a visible slit in it. Jackal's forearms and hands were covered by a large variety of similar black shapes getting closer to each other as they go towards his hands. At his hands they fused together to leave it completely black.
Jackal wore a striped tank top on his torso; paired with a brownish bandanna admired by pale yellow spots circling his neck which arranged to form a collar. He also sported a blue garb around his waist which was secured by a large knot with an hinge edges on the front. Jackals pants are mainly white with spots of below and reach down below his knees as they are extremely loose and baggy. Lastly his outfit was complete by a pair of black boots with light soles.
"But let's continue on with the third.. Keith the Black Priest." Zeref introduced Keith as he pointed at a man that resembled a skeleton. But as his alies sugged he is dressed in form-fitting robes with a high collar. The robe itself had a checkered pattern and covered a collared shirt and tie. Around his face and on his head, Keith wore an orange head piece which revealed his Tartarus guild mark which also covered his jaw and fanned out over his head almost like a crown.
"The next up is Tempesta, but it seems he's already fought one of yours.." Zeref explained as he hinted towards the fight between Laxus and his unknown assailant. Also he hinted as his new transformation with his new look. Tempesta now appeared as a handsome young man with long, neck length blonde hair, dark skin, and muscle bound arms and chest. He also bore spiky fingernails and small scale like blades on each hand. With his rebirth he also wore a new outfit on. Tempesta now donned a black sleeveless collared shirt with black, slime-like highlights and a short tie. He also had matching straps tied around his forearms, black pants, and shoes.
"Ezel.. the largest demon among us." Zeref announced next as he pointed a freakishly large demon. Easily is both the largest and tallest member of the Nine Demons of Tartarus. Ezel is a muscular Etherious with pale blue skin and demonic characteristics. The main evidence to that was his arms as he four of them. Instead of legs though; he had six massive segmented tentacles colored the same as his body. His upper shoulders were covered with spikes and there were spikes even where his hair and ears were suppose to be. His yellowish eyes have outlines and he also is missing eyebrows. He also sported a crimson colored tattoo on his chiseled upper body. The only physical clothing he had was a ripped cloth right in the middle of his body; at the top of his tentacles.
"Hmm.. now comes the next fun one. I present you.. Silver Fullbuster." Zeref pointed at a tall man that looked similar to Gray. But as he spoke his name he heard the voices of the humans in front of him being in shock by the name.
"F-Fullbuster.." Gray stuttered and hacked as his mouth almost dropped down. His heart was already beating a million miles but now he his head was pounding by the reveal of one of the demons. His own father.. was one of Zeref's demons?
Silver Fullbuster was a tall, well built man who appeared to be in his late thirties or mid forties. His eyes were black and like his sons, so was his hair, which was kept short and styled into a number of spiky strands. His black sideburns reach down to the stubble covering the majority of his chin. He had a sharp face, marked facial features and slight wrinkles below his eyes as well as a long scar extending from his hairline to his lower left ear. Both of his ears were adorned by silver colored earrings which consisted of a ring and a little chain ending in a cross pendant.
Silver was wearing a black, closely fitting shirt; with a thick, gray fur collar, as well as a gray oversleeves reaching to his upper arm. Hanging from his waist and covering his sides were two dark yellow tasset like cloths, he wore brown gloves over his hands and forums and his dark brown baggy pants tucked inside his brown boots. Over his shirt the Ice Devil Slayer donned a gray segmented metal chest plate, bearing the writing: Absolute Zero.
"And next.. we have Sayla." Zeref pointed out. Quickly before him a man with long brown hair and a black cape stared at her with his fist balled and eager to fight.
Sayla's appearance was that of a women, with her most noir feature being the two large gold looking horns protruding from the sides of her head and positioned upwards. On the top of her head was a white band which separates her hairs framing her bangs from her below the band. Upon her forehead was a small circular symbol with a small dot on the inside and surrounded by several dots around the top. Tied around her neck was another small white colored strap.
Sayla's attire consisted of a very revealing beige colored leopard print kimino which also bears decorative marks on the shoulders. The kimono was wrapped around her torso with a thick, decorative, yellow ribbon that tied behind her back, and her outfit was completed by thigh high socks that reveal her heels and toes.
"Another one of the nine demons.. Franmalth." Zeref explained as he pointed out a short round humanoid creature. The focal point though for everyone was his single eye under his large helmet he dons which hides the rest of his upper face. He lacked ears and instead has three small holes on the side of his head. He also had a cheerful grinning expression since he walked into the guild. Along with his helmet, his shoulders are protected as well with metal plates. He also used a cane to help him walk. His arms changed colors from black and white in a striped form and he also wore striped pants.
"Lastly.. the ninth and final demon, the Ninth Demon of Taratrus; Torafusa." Zeref explained as well as he arrived at introducing the final demon of nine. But there was still a few people behind him that he hadn't introduced.
Torafusa was a massive, extremely muscular Etherious who shared many characteristics with a shark but also vastly resembles a Lizardman like what Elfman can transformed into against Bachus. Torafusa's toned body was a dark pinkish color while there was a plate covering his flattened angler head, sporting a dark red fin like protrusion on his chin front is dark red. Small scales were present around his eyes and he lacks a visible nose. One of his most notable traits was his massive long arms each sporting an arched backwards fin like blade on the outer side. Paired with his somewhat small legs Torafusa's arms effectively reach down to his feet. Also the fact that he appears to be slightly hunched alongside his flattened head and ground touching arms gave him a stocky look.
"Now.. those are the Nine Demons of Tartarus and I presume I don't need to intorduce Jellal to you all." Zeref began to say as Jellal slowly pulled down his hood, showing a sinister smile matching his red tattoo on his face and blue hair.
Right away both Ultear and Erza practically growled at seeing his face. Both know knew what needed to be done, Jellal was givin a chance of redemption and he had waisted it. Now there was no going back, both women knew he had to be put down.
"May I?" A man with long black flowing hair standing behind Zeref asked. There he stood with a demonic smile.
"All yours." Zeref replied to the man as his dark eyes kept on staring straight into Natsu's leaning eyes as he waited for movement.
"Hello humans, my name is Mard Geer Tartarus or many also know me as the Underworld King." Mard Geer explained as he stared at all the humans in front of him with the Fairy Tail mark somewhere on their body. From the crippled building still falling apart to the wooden dirty floor boards, his eyes watched and looked at everything and everyone.
Mard Geer was tall, lean, and had the appearance of a young man. He had worn an arrogant smirk since he walked into the building, his black hair was wavy, and it reached to his shoulder while the rest was tied into a large ponytail. His hair also had messy bangs and that obscured his dark slanted eyes.
For his clothing he donned a long, black jacket trimmed with a light colored flame pattern. The cuffs of his jacket were rolled up, revealing a light colored inside which contracted with the black. The jacket itself was tattered and split into four fabric segments at the tail as well. Beneath the jacket Mard Geer wore a frilly black v-necked shirt which was lighter in color. His pants were adorned by a buckle and his light colored pants. His boots were black in color and above them, is a cross.
"Now.. there is a few regular people I haven't introduced but they don't really matter." Zeref began to explain as he laughed and watched. The humans who were in front of him were all scared, he could easily tell that. But one thing bothered him. The man with pink hair that he knew so well, it was as if he wasn't. He stood there in front of them all without any emotion showing and his face changing.
'Natsu..' Zeref thought to himself as he wiped a tear away from under his eyes.
"Now then.. let the battle begin.." Zeref suddenly announced as all the demons in front of them disappeared out of sight. "What? Did you think I was going to have you fight them all at once?" Zeref asked with a sinister laugh. "Now.. that wouldn't be fun.." Zeref explained as he suddenly disappeared out of thin air as well.
"W-what.. just happened?" Sting asked in absolute shock. Before him a mere second ago was 9 demons, the king of the underworld, Jellal the traitor, and the darkest wizard lord Zeref. Now.. the only thing that remained was what the front of the Fairy Tail guild hall. Had that really just happened? Was it just an illusion?
"So.. the war is about to start." Master Makarov muttered under his breath with a sigh. Zeref.. the evilest, darkest wizard ever to exist had been in front of him. His elderly heart fell to the pit of his dark stomach as he became nervous. Were they strong enough to fight back and defeat him?
"It seems so.. for now everyone just calm down." Natsu announced as he looked around. Their mouths were dropped open in fear and shock. Some were physically shaking, others has sweat rolling down there face, and some had fallen down in fear. Fairy Tail needed to calm down, they needed to think over what had just happened, and make a plan. How.. was that possible when even he was shaking and near his breaking point?
"Natsu.." Erza whispered as she saw her husband, the man she loved practically shaking in his boots. She saw him trying to be strong, trying to stand there and be the leader he was. But she also saw just how scared he was. She couldn't blame him, the people who just showed up at their doorway, and began a war were beyond scary. But she also knew what was needed to be done to keep people moving and to walk through this war.
Slap! Mouths dropped again as everyone watched the red haired women walk straight over to the guild master of Fairy Tail and slap him on his cheek. Erza stood there in front of Natsu and waited. She wanted him to get a hold of himself and lead them, they all needed that Natsu to be present now.
"Oh my.." Mirajane whispered to herself as she watched Erza slap Natsu hard across his cheek. Her baby blue eyes stared at her husband as she watched his own strong fiery onyx eyes began to look up at Erza. Slowly she smiled as she watched his eyes light up. The familiar warmth he gave her began to suddenly spread.
Everyone felt it as some members looked for the source. They looked around as some of the members who knew exactly what the source was and looked right at Natsu. He stood there as a smile crept across his face and he released his immense magic.
"Thanks.." Natsu whispered back to Erza as he nodded at her and walked over to one of the remaining wooden tables. Slowly everyone watched as he jumped up onto it as he turned around and looked at everyone in the guild.
"You know what..?" Natsu began to say. "I don't know about you.. but I'm fired up about this. Tartarus.. we were looking for them anyways. We were going to have to fight them either way. Who knows.. it might just be a little earlier then we expected, but who cares." Natsu began to explain as he watched the frowns slowly turn into smiles. "We are Fairy Tail! We will not let them get away, we will stop them. We are strong enough!" Natsu began to yell as he encouraged everyone and rose there spirits.
Smiles crept on all there faces, his words were true. They already knew this fight was coming. They knew they were going to have to go through this. Zeref was a large surprise, but who cares. They were Fairy Tail, anything was possible.
"Put your heart into it, raise your hands up and remember. We are the strongest guild in Fiore! We are not going to go down easy, we will fight to the end and prove them wrong!" Natsu yelled as he raised his right hand up the sky as he shot his thumb out and stretched his index finger into the air.
Slowly, every person followed Natsu's example and did the same. Everyone's spirit was back to an all time high. Now the time was upon them. Their counter attack was ready. Natsu looked around at everyone once more and nodded.
"Let's do this.. Levy.. find a way for us to up there. Everyone else prepare yourself for a hard fight to come." Natsu told everyone directions as they all began to run around working on things.
Levy began to think of ways to get the entire guild of Fairy a Tail to the Taratrus base high above them. Gajeel began to power up as he ate iron, Mirajane and a few girls went to check on Laxus to make sure him and his group were ok, and everyone else rested as they calmed down and prepared themselves.
Slowly everyone was mentally preparing themselves for the fight to come. The largest fight ever in Fiore was about to take place in Magnolia. The fight between Fairy Tail and Zeref.
Tap. Tap. Tap. Zeref slowly walked down a long dark corridor as he smiled evilly. He was happy, he could feel it in the air that this was the fight. This was going to be his final fight, his dream, his wish of dying would take place. He didn't know why or how but he knew it, he wasn't going to make it through the fight, but even so, he had to at least bring a few people down with him.
Zeref's feet hit the glossy tile floor as continued to walk to a very damp and poorly lit room. Inside was a large gray stone pedestal that had a red ruby gem on the front. Right above it was an stone arm figure holding something very dear to him. On that pedestal was an old book that looked as if it was ancient. On that book were three bold letter.
E.N.D.
Zeref stood there and smiled happily to himself as he knew that his goal was in sight. Everything was set and even Face was counting down with all his minions working. Zeref glanced once more at the book labled . as he turned around and began his long walk back towards his looming thrown.
'I can feel it.. their spirit, their want, it seems Natsu is preparing them. I wonder what's going to happen..' Zeref thought to himself as his blood red eyes glanced towards the sky as he passed a massive arch way with a massive window on the side of it.
It truely was a mystery. He honestly had no idea what Fairy Tail was planning, but nor did he need or want to care. He already told his demons there objectives and what they needed to do and compete no matter what. Even if they died trying, they needed to complete those things for his master mind plan to come to fruition.
"Fairy Tail.. I do believe the game has just begun." Zeref announced aloud as he slowly sat down in his throne room on a red velvet marble black wood chair. As he sat down, he felt magic far below him begin to power up and suddenly disappear for no good reason. It seemed as if they had begun there own plan.
"Aye sir!" Happy yelled with a body full of excitement as he opened his large white angel like wings and took flight with Carla and Pantherlilly next to him. All three exeeds took flight with a deck of white cards in each of the Exceed's hands.
Quickly without hesitation they soared up towards their goal; Tartarus's base high above them in the air. They used as much strength as they could as they continued to fly the cards in there hands up to Tartarus.
These cards weren't some regular playing cards. Each of these cards had something unique on each one of them; a picture of a Fairy Tail wizard. But it wasn't just a picture, they were moving and talking.
"Woah! This feels so weird!" Levy squealed not kneeing this is how Cana's card magic would be like once she had told Natsu a plan that could work to get them to the Tartarus base.
"This is manly!" Elfman roared as they continued to climb higher and closer to there destination.
"Keep going, we're almost there!" Macao yelled as all of Fairy Tail saw Tartarus in sight and so close.
But suddenly Happy's, Carla's and Pantherlilly's wings stopped flapping as they were stuck in mid air floating.
"Huh? What's happening?" Happy cried out as he began to move his legs and arms as he could no longer fly.
"It seems were trapped in something.. we shouldn't be surprised.. this Tartarus we were trying to get to." Carla deduced as she looked around trying to figure out the answer.
"Uh, I don't think so!" Pantherlilly suddenly yelled as they began to switch direction and fall towards Tartarus's base for some reason.
"Watch out! Tartarus's base must have some gravity enchantment!" Erza suddenly yelled from her card she was in as the three Exceeds and the Fairy Tail wizards plummeted towards what was a massive earth like cube
All three Exceeds quickly held out there wings wide to slow their fall as they kept nearing the ground. As they got closer and closer all thre of them worried they would crash but seconds before they hit all the cards began to brightly glow white.
"Card Return!" Cana yelled suddenly as they all hit the ground with a oof. Everyone was now out of the cards and looking around.
They had no idea where they were at on the Tartarus base, but knew they were there. An eerie cold feeling was felt around them as they looked around.
"So we're here.. let's get to work." Natsu chuckled as he raised his hands and suddenly white fire was lit on them. "Let's go!" Natsu yelled and pushed off with Mirajane and Erza hot on his side of him as he aimed to look for the first entrance into Tartarus's base.
The fight has begun!
A few changes from cannon, next chapter will have the first fight and begin the long battle. Hoping to do a battle a chapter maybe two depending on which ones they are..
Gonna try to do a few long chapters as well.. trying to make them a bit longer for you all! :D
Cya next chapter!
-ValinNight