Chapter 25 part 1: Help from many sides.
Kagura was ashamed. She, who won countless fights, an S-class mage who strived for revenge, watched with horror how her friend became food for some kind of monster. The purple haired woman tried to stand up, but found out she couldn't "Oh my, more food!" The fat male shouted in glee. Her other guild members looked scared.
"Did you, did you eat-" The male nodded.
"I sure did, too bad I can only swallow things, but it grants me her power." He said with pure happiness. "Hey, I'm Bousyoku-Kun, the eater of the sinners and I'm the gluttony guy from my group. Nice to meet you, future food."
"Y-y-you monster!" Ariana shouted in horror. "How could you possibly eat someone like that?" Risley put a chubby hand on the green haired woman's shoulder.
"See the change in haircolour?" The members of Mermaid heel looked again at the male. His hair colour was now brown, but now he also had cat like haircut. "He has the same magic as that from the Trinity Raven owl guy."
"Who are the Trinity Raven?" Beth asked. Kagura wheezed and she tasted the metal like taste of blood.
"That is the group Jellal Fernandez hired in order to play with them." More blood came out of Kagura's mouth. "That owl guy's name is Fukoro, if I remember good. His magic is to swallow a person in order to gain their power. Just get Milliana out, that's all you need to do." Team Mermaid Heel nodded.
"Go rest now, Kagura." Risley advised. The woman of war nodded and closed her eyes. Risley turned her attention back to the enemy.
"You're going down, fat lowlife." Ariana said. Bousyoku glared at her.
"Non, NekÅsoku Tube!" He shouted. A conjuring Magical rope, which she flings at her targets, effectively restraining Beth. She tried moving, but it only hurt her more. Ariana hissed.
"Risley, change this guy's weight." She commanded. Risley nodded. Bousyoku screamed loud when body felt more painful. Ariana ran to him and slashed his stomach to reveal Millianna with slime around her.
"Thank you so much, Ari-Chan." The woman nodded and picked the girl up. They helped Kagura into a proper position.
"Good job." A deep male voice commented. Millianna glared at the three person before her. Kagura growled in her throat.
"Jellal." She said with pure hate. Jellal sighed.
'This is going to take me a while.' He thought
"You're all healed." Wendy said to Sting. The little girl was send by Hibiki who was worried what was going on. Sting moved with his healed arm and found out it was indeed healed.
"Thank you Wendy. Is anyone there beside you?" The little girl nodded.
"Yes, Bacchus-San is also here." Sting groaned.
"Why him?" He heard someone snicker.
"Because Stingy Sting can't win." Bacchus appeared from the shadow. Him blushing revealed that the falcon was drunk.
"And drunk too?" He looked up to the sky and sighed. "I guess we have to deal with this." He stood up and walked to Bacchus. "If Yukino is naked up there and you look at her body, you're a dead man. Got it?" The male raised his hands.
"I don't like her type anyway. Too serious and frail to my sight." Sting raised an eyebrow.
"You sure?" Orga asked, glaring at the Quarto Puppy member. The black haired nodded.
"Yup." Sting gave Bacchus a quick glare before running upstairs. "My my, a bit too wild I see." Orga couldn't help but snicker and Wendy just tried to ignore it.
"Your wedding dress is done." A voice said. Persephone gave Cronus a kiss on his cheeks. The male chuckled.
"Yes Taida, I'm coming." The black haired woman walked through the room and unlocked the door to the next one. "See you soon at the altar, my love." Taida and another female demon gestured towards a black ruffled dress, which looked like a mermaid dress, and a black veil.
"Sit here, my mistress. I'll do your make-up." The black haired woman nodded and grabbed one of her keys.
"Open! The gate of the crab! Cancer!" Out of black sparkles appeared a man with black and red spiky hair. He wore a black suit with chains around it and had four arms which held black scissors.
"Which haircut do you want to have, woman?" Cancer said coldly. The owner only glared at him.
"Taida, my whip please?" Taida nodded and gave the former blond the whip. It was black with a lot of spikes. She started to abuse her spirit, and from the inside, the real Lucy begged Persephone to stop.
"Don't abuse your spirits." She screamed, but the goddess didn't care to do so.
"Please stop, I'll listen. I won't do it anymore!" Cancer shouted. Persephone smirked.
"Good, I want to have a bun in my hair." The dark spirit nodded. The female sat at the chair while the female demon worked on her make-up and cancer was doing her hair.
"Don't abuse your spirits." The real Lucy shouted. She was crying at how bad the goddess treated the spirits. "They're your friends, not some kind of tools! Don't make them unlike who they are goddamit!"
"You can't stop it, I tried to."
"Huh?" She turned towards the voice, and saw a crying black mage before them. "Z-Zeref?!" Zeref nodded.
"Yes, I'm Zeref." He said. "I know that you're the real owner of that body. I'm looked up to." Lucy raised a thin eyebrow.
"How?" The male sighed.
"I was on Grimoire Heart's ship. I was about to kill Hades, until he used a strong body posses magic. I'm locked here since 7 years ago."
"So you-"
"Yes Lucy, I wasn't the one who cursed you, it was Hades. Give me your hand. Do not worry, it's better for the both of us." Lucy hesitated, but decided it was worth it.
"Chant the words after me, got it?" Lucy nodded and chanted with the black mage.