A/N: So I bet you're wondering "Why are you updating this story again? Didn't you upload six chapters a while ago"? The answer is simple in four words. Fairy Tail Dragon Cry. Since this is the week where there will be three showings of the movie, I decided "why the hell not" and write three chapters for each showing. They'll show up on the day of movie showings so that means three new chapters for all of you to enjoy.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail and/or Akame Ga Kill. They belong to their original owners.

The Assassins of Fairy Tail

Job Twenty Eight: Akame's Save

Zeref continued to stare at the part of the sky where Natsu and Happy flew off. He was just standing in place while remaining silent. Invel was silent as well until he finally spoke to his Emperor. "Your Majesty…"

The injuries Natsu gave to Zeref quickly disappeared which surprised the Winter General. "There is no longer anyone capable of stopping me. The last remaining bit of hesitation within me is now gone. We shall continue the army's advance. Our target is Fairy Tail. We will conquer the guild and obtain Fairy Heart, the absolute power."

Invel understood perfectly and clearly of his Emperor's words. "Yes, sir!"

Zeref had one more thing in mind for Invel. "I have one more request of you. Would you please procure me a new set of clothes?" He turned his head to face Invel with a dangerous look in his eye and a sinister smile. "Garments far more befitting of an emperor."

B

In a random location in the woods, Natsu and Happy were recovering from their battle against Zeref. Happy was washing his paws in a lake while Natsu couldn't help but feel a little worried about his best friend. "Happy, are your paws alright?"

Happy continued to wash his paws with a smile on his face. "Aye, they feel just fine."

Natsu was glad to hear that. He looked at his arm where his dragon tattoo once was. The fire dragon slayer thought back to what Zeref said to him. About him. "Etherious Natsu Dragneel. E.N.D. You are a demon of the Book of Zeref. Once you kill me…you will cease to exist as well." Natsu didn't know what to think what Zeref said to him. About him being a demon. E.N.D no less and to top it off, being the younger brother of the Black Wizard Zeref. Not once having a brother crossed Natsu's mind. Let alone being Zeref's younger brother. It was strange to him.

"Natsu…" The fire dragon slayer heard Happy's voice and looked over at him. Happy turned his head to face his best friend with that same smile. "We'll always be best friends, no matter what!"

Natsu smiled back at Happy and nodded. "Yeah, I know."

Happy walked back to Natsu and gave him a hug while tears were starting to come out of his eyes. "There has to be another way, Natsu. I…I definitely won't let you die! I'll never ever let you die!"

Natsu could count on those words. This fight was far from over for either of them. "Yeah…"

B

In the port town of Hargeon, Dimaria's group had already taken it. Wahl was laughing hysterically while Dimaria was admiring the town. "It's a rather nice port town, I must say. Looks like you were right to not wipe it off the map."

Wahl grinned wickedly at the other Shield. "Well, I was aiming for Magnolia after all."

Dimaria was also glad that wasn't destroyed as well. "Alas, in the end, Magnolia too was better off left intact." She looked over at Wahl's direction. "Randi is still in captivity you know. If anything happened to her, I would make you absolutely pay for that. Still, I would like to see how she would look being captured by the enemy."

Wahl scoffed at Dimaria's way of thinking. "I'll never understand what's going on in those human heads of yours."

Dimaria turned to several of her soldiers. "What happened to Neinhart?"

"He is still on board the ship, ma'am."

The Shield couldn't help but chuckle. "My, my. In addition to the gears-for-brains, now I'm babysitting a problem child who isn't a team player. Somehow, I think I got the worst end of the deal here."

Far off from Hargeon, the guilds Lamia Scale and Mermaid Heel saw the opposition they were going to deal with soon and none were too keen about their odds. "How freaking many are there!?"

"About two thousand guarding the town."

"There must more within the town as well."

"On top of that, there still troops at sea who have yet to disembark."

"So, altogether, we're probably talking over…thirty thousand."

"Yep, I soiled myself."

Chelia couldn't help but feel nervous about their enemy. "Even if you combine our guilds, Lamia and Mermaid, there are only two hundred at most!"

Lyon was aware of that but they didn't have a choice in the matter. They had to win. "Regardless of the overwhelming number of enemies, the fact that we must fight them head on does not change."

Kagura couldn't agree more with him. "Ishgar is our turf! We shall not forgive any who try to invade, and that includes Alvarez!" She drew out Archenemy and raised her sword up high. "I hereby commence the battle to liberate Hargeon! Charge!" Everyone cheered and rushed headfirst into the enemy.

Dimaria was wondering when the enemy would attack them. "It seems we must teach this band of fools who do not their place a lesson." Both she and Wahl smiled at their enemy. "Let us burn the overwhelming strength of the Twelve into their minds."

B

In Northern Fiore, Sabertooth and Blue Pegasus were already engaging the enemy in battle. It seemed the fight was turning into their favor but then Yukino saw a large group of their members running away frightened. "What's happening?"

"Hurry up and run, Yukino! People…one after the other, people are-!" Blood spilled out of his mouth and fell to the ground. Yukino was horrified as the same thing happened to some of the other members. She then saw who was responsible for it. A frightening figure appeared amidst the chaos.

Spriggan Twelve member, Grim Reaper: Bloodman

"It's the Grim Reaper! Run for your lives!"

B

In Eastern Fiore, the Wizard Saints finally met up with three members of the Spriggan Twelve. One of them they knew very well, God Serena who smiled at his former fellow Saints. "Yo."

Seeing them coming from the direction of Bosco had Wolfheim dreadfully curious about something. "Are you the one who attacked Bosco, you traitorous bastard!?"

God Serena chuckled at his question casually spread his arms toward the two other Spriggan Twelve members. "Alas, it was not my power alone that destroyed Bosco. It was a combined effort between August, Jacob, and myself."

Draculos still couldn't figure out God Serena's reason for leaving them. "Why do you lay waste on your own homeland, God Serena?"

God Serena saw the look the second strongest Wizard Saint was giving him. "That expression on your face, Draculos Hyberion, is priceless."

Jura examined each of the three opponents they were about to face. "So this man is the one who stood atop the Ten Wizard Saints, God Serena. And behind him is…" He looked to the left to see August standing behind God Serena. "The wizard who wields every known spell with ease, and is lauded as the supreme king of magic, both past, and present: August." He looked to the left to see the last member of the Spriggan Twelve. "And last but least, another member of the Spriggan Twelve and a genius practitioner of Assassination Magic: Jacob Lessio." He saw Jacob tightening one of his gloves.

Spriggan Twelve member: Jacob Lessio

Jacob smirked at Jura. "I'm digging your hairstyle." Jura didn't expect him to say that.

B

Back in Fairy Tail, Brandish was just sleeping on the floor until she heard a familiar voice. "Lady Brandish…" Brandish woke up and saw someone appear before her. It was Marin back in his regular size smiling at her. "I've found you at last."

Brandish never felt so glad to see her subordinate again. "Marin! I knew you would come. You are deserving of the title of my adorable pet." She sat up and lifted her chained arms behind her. "There is no time to waste. Undo my restraints. The only question remaining is how I shall crush this shabby guild." Brandish saw Marin standing over her and then grabbed her by the throat. Marin pushed his superior down at the floor while Brandish struggled to break free while figuring out what came over her subordinate. "Marin! What do you think you…cease this at onc-"

"You've completely and utterly had your way with me up until now…heh heh." Marin had a crazed and twisted look on his face while seeing Brandish gasp for air. "And for that, you get a failing grade! You fail, my darling!" Brandish struggled to breathe and everything faded into black.

B

At the battle of Hargeon, Lamia Scale and Mermaid Heel continued to fight against the Alvarez Empire army stationed there. Lyon put his hands together. "Ice-Make…" He pointed his hands at a large group of the enemy and a giant foot of ice appeared and slammed them underneath the foot. "Titan's Foot!"

Chelia was also making quick work of the enemy. "Sky God's Boreas!" Her attack swept up and sent the enemy soldiers away from her.

Ooba's attacks were just making the enemy soldier's dizzy. "Spin for me!"

None of the soldiers didn't expect their enemy to this powerful. "What the hell!?"

"We didn't know they'd be this strong!"

Far off from the battle, Wahl grinned as he locked on several members of both guilds. "Target locked on." He created several missiles around him. "Now time to blow all of you…" He launched them all at once. "TO BITS!"

The missiles quickly reached the battlefield and struck their intended targets. Beth looked over to where some of the explosions were. "Huh, What's that?" One of the missiles struck her as well and another explosion occurred.

"Beth!"

Millianna saw several more of the missiles headed their way. "Kagura! There's something coming at us from up there!"

Kagura ran up to where the missiles were. "Leave it to me!" She jumped straight at the missiles and drew out Archenemy. With several slashes, she managed to cut the missiles in half and landed on the ground as Kagura sheathed her sword and the missiles exploded behind her. "Archenemy: Flip Form!"

Chelia was impressed by what Kagura did. "Wow, so cool!"

Kagura sensed someone powerful coming her way and quickly drew out her sword to block Dimaria's own sword against hers. "Oh, not bad at all." The two swordswomen slid back away from each other. Dimaria admired Kagura's outfit. "So that's a kimono. It's pretty cute." She swayed her sword to the side. "But I can make it look better. All we need is some red."

Kagura realized something about her opponent and so did everyone else near Dimaria. It was an overwhelming sense of power coming from the Spriggan Twelve. "This overwhelming sense of magic of hers…I can't even hear anything that's going on anymore. So this is the power of the Spriggan Twelve…"

Dimaria smiled at her opponent as she recognized something about Kagura. "Oh, you and Randi have similar haircuts. It'd be so much fun to cut it all off, though."

In the next instant, part of Kagura's outfit was ripped which surprised her. "When did you…!"

B

Brandish's eyes opened to see a different kind of ceiling. It took her mind a few seconds to register what happened to her before she blacked out. She quickly sat up with a panicked look on her face. "Where are we?!"

"We're in the infirmary." Brandish saw Lucy sitting in front of her, Akame leaning against the wall next to the door with her arms crossed, while Cana, and Porlyusica were standing. Brandish looked down to see she still had the magic restraints cuffed on her wrists. Lucy smiled for a reason. "It'll probably sound repetitive and all but we still can't take that off."

Cana smiled as well. "But it's a little mean to keep you locked up back there so we brought you here as well."

Brandish noticed there was one obvious person missing among them. "Where's Marin?"

"He's locked up in a cell." Akame answered. Brandish looked over at her. "It was surprising to see him choking you. Even more so since he's still alive, even though Lucy and I saw you destroy him. Knowing the magic you can do, you probably used your magic to shrink him down to a point where we couldn't see him."

Brandish recognized Akame as one of the girls who fought against Marin. Now that she had a closer look at Akame, she could see a certain look in her eyes that reminded her of someone else. "Why does she remind me of Jacob?"

"This child was the one who saved you when you about to lose conscious. She called the other two to move you here. Be thankful for that." Porlyusica explained to Brandish.

Brandish was quiet for a few seconds before asking another question. "Why would you save someone like me?"

Cana thought it was obvious. "Well, that's because we've got tons of questions for you."

Brandish expected as much from her enemy. "I don't have anything to say to you."

Lucy didn't care about that. "Yeah but we don't want any more lives to be lost anyway and that includes yours too."

"You always have the option of torture."

"We can arrange that."

Lucy was totally against Akame's suggestion. "No, we won't do it!"

Cana thought it was a good idea. "Wait, do you want to be though?"

"Cana!" Lucy turned back to Brandish and smiled at her. "We did take a bath together after all. And I somehow don't think you're all that bad."

Brandish didn't expect Lucy, her enemy and Layla's daughter to say something like that to her. So, your questions are about Layla, aren't they?" She raised her cuffed wrists toward Lucy. "Take this off and let talk to you alone. That's my condition."

Cana didn't like that and neither did Akame. "Hey, don't you dare get cocky now-"

Lucy placed her hand in front of Cana. "It'll be fine Cana."

In the next few seconds, Brandish had her cuffs removed. With that done, the three began to leave the room. Lucy was grateful for their help. "Thanks for the help Granny Porlyusica!"

"You can have the key but I'll be keeping the magic sealing stone."

Cana waved at the other girl. "Just scream if need help."

Akame remained and stared at Lucy for a couple of seconds. "Be careful around her." She gripped the handle of Murasame and released it as she turned around. She was the last to leave and closed the door behind her.

Now it was just Lucy and Brandish alone in the infirmary. It was quiet in the room until Brandish spoke. "My name is Brandish and my mother's name is Grammi." She glanced over at Lucy. "She was one of your mother's disciples." Lucy let out a small gasp while her eyes widened in shock. This was a first she had heard about her mother. "When your mother gave up on being a Celestial Wizard, she split her keys between three of her servants. She gave Capricorn's key to Zoldeo and Cancer's key to Spetto…"

Lucy recognized the name as one of the servants who used to work at her mansion. "Wait, old lady Spetto?!"

Brandish continued her story. "And the key she gave my mother Grammi was…Aquarius' key." Lucy remained silent when she heard that. "My mother really looked up to Layla and she polished Aquarius' key until it shone without fail, every single day." Brandish gripped the bed sheet tightly with one of her hands. "But…But…Layla betrayed her…"

That wasn't something Lucy thought her mother would do. Especially with someone she trusted. "What did my mother do?"

Brandish looked at Lucy's direction. "Where do you suppose you got the key from?"

Lucy tried to recall how did that happen. "It…was my mother's…"

"The key was supposed to be left in my mother's care. How could it have ended up with yours then?" That was a good question to Lucy and she had no answer to it. Brandish seemed to have it, though. "Layla had my mother killed so she could get the key back."

Now that really sounded nothing like her mother wouldn't do. "No, my mother wouldn't have-"

Brandish had about enough with Lucy. "Ah, how naïve. A girl living in her own little world." She immediately jumped out of her bed and tackled Lucy to the floor while knocking down a vase from its desk. Brandish wrapped her legs around Lucy's waist while her hand covered Lucy's mouth and nose and her other hand locking both of Lucy's wrists from behind her back. "You shouldn't trust others so easily."

Lucy struggled to break free from Brandish's grip but had no success. "S-Stop!"

"I don't have anything against you, really but this is all I can do for now. But I'll be taking your life…to avenge my mother…" Tears were coming out of Brandish's eyes with a sorrowful look in them. "I'm sorry…but please, just die!"

Lucy moved her body to break free but Brandish kept a tight hold on her. It eventually led to Brandish being on top of the blonde while continuing to suffocate her. While this was going on, neither of them saw the water from the knocked down vase starting to act up until rushed toward where the two girls were. Brandish noticed the water coming at them and swept her away from Lucy. Out of the water came a familiar spirit holding Lucy close to her. "What did you say about my key again?"

Lucy couldn't believe who it was that appeared before her. The last she had seen her was a year ago from the fight against Tartaros. "Aqua…rius?"