Chapter 25 - the first steps

She had become used to the dark and vast room she spent half of her day in now. Her body wasn't hers anymore: she shared it with the demon king. Sometimes, much to abbadon's dismay, she managed to take over for a while. During those moments, she was free. She estimated that abbadon had possessed her about a week ago, in which she had taken over for about 8 times.

"Isah, oy, earth to Isah... You're listening?" The brunette sighed. Myrell was her name. The girl that was there when she woke up. She had apparently taken Isah into her custody, and never left her side. She was a terrible, sadistic, and cruel girl, but she was the closest thing to a friend isah had at this moment.

Isah rolled her eyes and her tail swept annoyed in the air. "I don't quite fancy your tales about torturing people and animals, if you want to know why I'm not listening." Myrell smirked. "Aww but those kind of stories are the best!" Isah played with her hair. "Say, myrell, how come that you're so cruel?" Myrell tilted her head. "I don't get ya..?" Isah sighed. "Well, you don't seem that bad to me, it's just... It's like you don't know the difference between good and bad. As if murdering and stealing are totally normal." She looked at myrell. "Well, it is normal." She smirked at Isah's shocked expression. "But if you think it isn't, maybe it's because you were raised by humans. I'm sure you would've grown just as me if you were raised by such a family as mine." Isah looked at her confused. "Oh, I didn't told ya yet, did I?" She cleared her throat. "Well, my father is Abbadon. So that makes me a Demi-demon." She poked herself proudly in her chest. "You see, my mom fell in love with a man possessed by abbadon, and got pregnant from him. When she gave birth to me, she died and I had nowhere to go. My dad had allready possessed another person, and took me with him. And I'm not the only one; he made dead crow solely out of his offspring, because he believes that we would never betray our own dad." She bowed her head. "Aaand because demons barely age. I think I'm 104 now in human years." She waved Isahs flustered expression away. " I am raised by my siblings and Abbadon, who learned me how to kill and survive." She looked into Isahs eyes. "I see in your eyes that you're disgusted of us, but you know what, I'm proud of it. I love my family, and they love me. I would never betray or leave them." Isah didn't know what to say and just stared at the brunette. "What is it, lassie?" She smirked. "Cat got your tongue?" Isah shook her head. "No, it's just so much information.."

Aaand she was back in the darkness again. She sighed. Seriously? Dead crow are all abbadon's kids? So that's why Haru and Rin (her kidnappers) looked so much alike. She made herself comfortable in the thick atmosphere she was floating in. But still, myrell doesn't disgust me or something like that... I got the feeling that we could be really good friends. Surprise got to her when she noticed vague sounds on the background. She could hear people talking! So she wasn't totally cut off here after all! She pricked her ears and tried to focus. "But dad, how much longer till we make our move?" Myrell's voice. "I told you allready, myrell" silence. "Fine, I'll say it again. But stop making that face." Isah grinned; they were just like a normal daughter and father. "First, we'll attack crocus. I want to sow fear in the hearts of this country's citizens. Then, all we have to do is take on the people who are standing in our way. That means: all the guilds and opposing citizens, starting with fairy tail." She heard myrell getting excited. "Can I please please please take on fairy tail?" She heard a sigh. "Fine, but I don't accept you losing to them.. You know what will happen if you do." Myrell sighed. " I know.. You'll throw me out of the guild and sent the others after me to finish me off.. Can I take fairy tail on, yes or no?" "You can" myrell squealed like a little girl on her birthday. "Yes Yes yes! Thank you so much! I can't wait to fight fairy tails mages." "Remember, it'll take at least three more weeks for my magic level to grow strong enough, where in that girl will be constantly taking over this body so I can focus on gathering enough power. You'll have to wait a little more..." "I know, but I'm still looking forward to killing them! Especially that fire mage." She hard abbadon laughing. "That's my girl. Myrell, I want you to look after that girl whilst I'm gone. Just to be sure, I'll alter her memories so she thinks she has been one of us since her birth, making it impossible for her friends to ruin our plans. There's no way she'll want to go after I do her closely, though. It may take some time to work optimally." Isah gasped. Her friends... her family... They were in danger...and she wouldn't even remember them...

It was night in magnolia. The moonlight lit Lucy's room as she undressed. She knew that natsu was probably in her bed, although she couldn't see him. She shove the blanket away and laid down, when she felt a familiar and calming heat against her back. She tried to turn around, but natsu had her strangled in his arms and had her pinned against his bare chest. "You stupid..." Lucy huffed against his arm. She heard natsu giggling. "You don't mean that... " Lucy nuzzled closer to him. "You're still stupid." She whispered as she pulled his arms closer to her. they stayed like that for a few moments, until Lucy felt the urge to empty her heart about everything that was bothering her lately. "Say, natsu? She whispered. He had clearly dozed off since this made him wake up with a shock. "Yes?" He yawned. "How do you feel about this?" She felt his heart speeding up. "You mean us two? Luce, you don't actually mean you want to break-" "no dummy!" She yelled a little too hard. "No.." She sighed. "I love you so much, I'd never want that...it's about this whole thing with Isah." She heard natsu breathing out. "You should've said that sooner, almost gave me a heart attack..." He turned around and stared at the ceiling, Lucy now laying on his arm. "How I feel about this... djeez luce, you know I hate using my brains..." Lucy laughed and slapped his arm. "Sorry, I'll be more serious..." Lucy rolled her eyes. "How I feel about this... Well, I think master is right. We have to end this so that isah can rest in peace.. Thats the least we can do for her." Lucy kept quiet. After a while, she decided to continue. "But i dont want to burn her, she's my friend..." She nuzzled against natsu's chest. "That's true.." Natsu said. "But you have to think about how Isah would feel. She died, and now her body is being used to fight against her friends, and possibly to take over fiore. I'm sure she wants us to end this, too." Tears appeared in Lucy's eyes. "I know.. It just so hard... She was one of us after all." Natsu comforted her by rubbing her back. "I know, but I will be right next to you this whole time. We'll get through this, I promise." He pecked her softly on her lips. Soon after, they were both asleep. A tiny blue cat had watched all of this through the window, but had only see their movements, not what they said. "Oooh I'm soo going to tell the others about this.." His eyes sparkled as he flew off.

"Isah, oy wake up sleepyhead!" Isah felt how someone rudely pulled the pillow from under her head and slapped her with it. "I'm up!" She yawned as she sat straight up in her bed. She was living at Myrell's place, and the two had become something that you could call friends. Her caretaker was still mean and rude, and seeing how she managed their 'meals' hadn't been good for their so called friendship. A shiver went through Isahs spine as she remembered the poor blackbird getting caught and killed by myrell with her bare hands. "Yo, breakfast is ready!" She said allready walking back to the kitchen. The members of dead crow lived together in some sort of barracks with 4 persons per house, and 'luckily' for Isah she had ended up with myrell, Rin, and some red haired guy named Sinder. They were respectively(in demon years) 15, 21, and 13. Myrell had told her that she should ignore Sinder, since he was as you could say the lowest in the rank. He was the only one that didn't had horns, red eyes or a tail. Something that labeled him as weak. He had a lot of bruises, which indicated that he was being abused too.

"I called you, ratdung! Come here before I eat your breakfast!" Myrell had a unique collection of curses, and ratdung was one of them. "Coming.." Isah walked to the kitchen and sat down on her chair. "Morning" Rin said without looking up from his.. was that a rat tail? "I've got yours here." Myrell said as she emptied a pan on her plate. "I saved two of its legs for you. You can thank me later." Although Isah wasn't sure if she would thank her for that. Her guess had been right; before her were two big cooked rat legs. She put a piece in her mouth preparing for the worst, but a delicious taste filled her mouth. "Hmm! I didn't know rat could taste this good!" She gasped. Myrell laughed at her. "Close your mouth, I can see the blackbird from yesterday's diner."

Sinder entered the kitchen as he got dirty looks from Rin and Myrell. "Good morning" he said and smiled at them. The others turned their heads away, but Isah smiled back at him and said: "good morning. Did you sleep well?" The boy was clearly surprised by this reaction, and even stared at her with his mouth slightly opened. He quickly closed it and nodded. "Y-yes. And you?" Isah smiled at him. "Me too. Here, take a seat." He looked warily at her, but got closer and seated himself next to her. "Thanks" he said. Isah frowned. "Why are you thanking me, it's your house too." He blushed. "Thanks for being nice to me." Myrell made an 'ughh' sound and rolled her eyes.

Sinder grabbed the scorched piece of rat on his plate and looked at it in disappointment. Myrell had clearly done her best to make the head-not the tastiest part- as burned and black as she could. It was more like charcoal. Isah shove her plate with one more rat leg to Sinder, who looked puzzled at her. "It's for you." She said. "I'm not that hungry." He made a gasp of happiness as he took the meat and ate it. "Thank you so much!" He said with the rat leg already halfway through his throat. Isah laughed softly at him. was he really 16? He acted like a little kid. Maybe he felt like a little kid because he was always treated as one... "Isah, the hell?" Rin said. "Why are you feeding your meat to that piece of shit?" She turned her head around and hissed at him as her tail swept dangerously. "Oh shut up Rin" he glared back at her. "He's so useless, so there's no reason for him to get good food if he can't work." Isah's head got slightly red. "You're saying that, but you're just jealous that he looks like a normal person and you look like a monster." he stood up from the table and walked away. "Tssk.. Just die allready, little bitch..." Okay. That was it. She had tried to be nice to all of them, but Rin was downright impossible. That petty demon... She grabbed her meat knive and threw it at him. It sticked in the doorpost next to Rin's head, who looked at it in shock. "Next time it's between your eyes." Rin quickly walked off without turning around even once. "Woohooh, go Isah!" Myrell whistled. "Hahaha, and here I was, thinking you were a softie." She walked up to her and patted her on her shoulder. "If you drop that nice and kind attitude towards the weak," she glared at Sinder. "You'll fit in perfectly here." She said it with a large grin on her face. Isah didn't know if that was good or bad. Sinder stood up from the table and went outside without saying another thing.

Isah was cleaning the guild hall with Myrell. She had adapted well to this place, even though she arrived here only two weeks ago... arrived... "She started laughing. how silly of her, she had been living at this place from the moment she was born. She smiled. She had been daydreaming again. Just like her dream about one of her brothers called gray... She knew all of her brothers names, and gray wasn't one of them. "Isah, don't doze off! I'm not going to clean this all on my own, you know." Her sister Myrell. The two had been like twins from the start, even though they only had the same dad. "Don't you think we're done, Mai?" Myrell grinned. "You lazy bum. Fine, lets leave it like this and take a day off." Isah smiled. "Good idea! See ya later!" Before Myrell could say another thing, Isah had run off into the woods surrounding the little village of Dead Crow.

She loved the woods. Even thought she was a demon, a title that came with everything dark and evil, she loved the calm atmosphere, the sun on her pale skin and the rustling of the leaves. When she arrived at her favorite climbing tree, she hooked her claws in its stem and climbed until she had a good view of her surroundings. Before she knew, she had fallen asleep.

The noise of shouting woke her up, and she looked around to see were it came from. A few meters away from her tree were three of her brothers. Let's see... Rin... Haru...and..."Sinder..?" Isah mumbled. "Why is he with them?" Rin gave his younger brother a hard push and he fell on the ground. "So, wimp, it's time to erase you failure before you can taint our reputation even further." He gestured at Haru, who was about the same age as Rin. "What are you doing?" Sinder trembled. "Tssk... I just told you, idiot." He glared at sinder. "I' . .you." Before she knew, she had jumped out of the tree-idiot she was like 7 meters high. Well she couldn't react in time to break her fall-and landed between Sinder and her older brothers. "What are you doing to Sin?" Isah hissed. She had always have a soft spot for her red-haired humanly brother. The two looked at her as if she was the devil its self(well they were quite close) but soon took a fighting stance. "You..." Rin growled as his eyes lit up. "You damned bitch.." Isah shook her head. "That's no way to talk to your sister." She smirked. "Let me teach you manners." In a flash, she stood in front of him and punched him in his stomach. He flew back into a tree but quickly got up- he was partly demon after all. His hands lit up as a dark blue aura emitted from Rin. He roared as he made a punching gesture in the air. A large crack appeared in the earth, and Isah couldn't dodge it. Luckily, a light green aura appeared out of nowhere and protected her. "Rin, don't challenge her.." Haru said, laying a hand on his shoulder. "You know why she is his favorite..." He 'tssk'ed again and turned around. "I would love to kill you someday, little sis..." He hissed. "And if I want something, I'll get it."

They were gone. Finally. She sunk through her legs and collapsed on the ground. "Isah!" Sinder yelled. He went closer and kneeled next to her. "What's wrong?" Isah smiled. "Even demons can't jump from such a high without being harmed." She turned on her back and sat up. "I can't move my legs. To be honest, I used a lot of my magic for keeping up and fighting, so my magic is depleted too." Sinder hugged her. "I was worried that Rin had hit you with his magic." Rin's magic was venom. If the dark blue had touched you, it could make you fall seriously ill and eventually kill you. If the purple had touched you, you had about 5 minutes before you died, but Rin loved torture so he used that one barely. And last, there was yellow. It paralyzed you without taking away your sense of touch, making torture very easy. That was his favorite. And there where many more colors for torture... "No, I made a shield with my magic" Isah said. "But I think I'll spent the night here and hope my legs will be alright tomorrow. I don't know what Myrell would do to me if she saw me like this. " Sinder laughed. He was so adorable. Isah couldnt understand why the others hated him so much. He was always happy, quite handsome, helpfull, he never showed hatred even though they were so mean to him. He was... he is the light amidst demons. The opposite of who we are.. Maybe they are jealous of him being normal.

oh god im so sorryyy :0 it took me forever to write another chapter due to school etc but here's something to compensate it with. Please don't be too mad, I'll try to update more often from now on. Xxx the idiotic Tinyss