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Oracion Seis
Sado walked forward, Byro readying himself to fight as he approached. Then, Sado stopped, kneeling and placing his forehead to the ground, Byro staring at him in confusion.
"For everything I've done, you have my humblest apology," Sado said, everyone in the room staring at him in shock. "I know that no apology, or any amount of regret, will ever be able to make up for what I've done, but it's all I can give you. For years, I couldn't remember what I am, and I so desperately wanted to. But now that I do, I want nothing more than to forget. Not a day goes by now that I don't regret everything I've ever done. My dreams are haunted by the faces of everyone I've ever killed. Every murder, every fight. I hear their screams in my head almost constantly. If I could return life to the dead at the cost of my own, I would in a heartbeat. But I can't. I deserve death for my sins. I know that. But I will do everything I can to atone."
"What, do you expect me to forgive you?" Byro asked. "I didn't try to kill you the first time for glory alone. That's just what I told you. You killed my-"
"Your mother, your father, and your newly wed bride," Sado said. "I know. I can remember them all."
"I will never forgive you," Byro snarled, raising his staff over his head. "I should kill you now."
"You have every right," Sado said. "And I won't stop you. It's no less than I deserve."
"What's going on?" Natsu asked. "What's all this talk of murder and sins?"
"You don't know?" Byro asked. "Your friend is a centuries old demon who has spent four hundred years burning innocent people to death for fun. He has killed more people than the Black Wizard Zeref and all the demons in the Book of Zeref combined."
Everyone stared at Sado in shock.
"Tell me, did my family die quickly?" Byro asked.
"I wish I could tell you they did," Sado said. "But no. Your father tried to fight me, and after I defeated him I tried to finish him only for your mother to shield him. Both clung to life and the hope that they might survive for nearly a half hour before they died. Your wife clung to life in the hopes of seeing you one last time for two hours. Those three were some of the longest I allowed someone to live."
"I see," Byro snarled. "I should kill you for that alone."
"Wait!" Coco shouted, stepping into view. "Don't do it!"
"Coco?" Byro asked. "What are you saying? He's a monster. A being born of sin who has committed atrocities beyond counting. Death is the only way for him to receive true judgement."
"That may be, but the Archbishop teaches us that those who wish to repent, regardless of sin, must be helped to do so," Coco said. "How can he do that if you kill him?"
"He can repent through death," Byro stated.
"That's not right!" Coco argued. "You're going against our teachings! Zentopia teaches forgiveness, not vengeance! We should help him repent in life so that when he dies he might go to heaven! Not kill him and condemn him to hell!"
Byro stared at her in silence for several seconds before lowering his staff. "I can never forgive him. But I won't kill him. You're lucky, monster. You owe Coco your life."
Sado stood, nodding once before turning and staring toward the door of the church.
"What?" Byro asked.
"We're not alone," Sado said. "Something else is here."
"Who is it?" Lucy asked, looking around worriedly.
"I don't know," Sado said. "And they're masking their magic power enough that I can't pinpoint them."
"Your friend can sense other wizards from a distance?" Michelle asked.
"I can usually feel others because of a mixture of their soul and their magic energy," Sado said. "It's hard to explain. But for some reason I can't tell where this one is."
"That's amazing," Michelle said.
"Byro, there are a lot of things I disagree with about the way you run the Legion Platoon," Sado said. "However, I think we might need to put that conversation and inevitable battle on hold for now. We've got a few more uninvited guests. And I think I recognize a couple of them."
"Who?" Lucy asked.
"It's the Oracion Seis," Sado said. "Well, five of them, anyway."
Suddenly, the clock hand, which was in Byro's left hand now, shone blindingly, Byro shouting in pain and releasing it, allowing it to fly into the air, the other five pieces joining it.
"They're here," Sado said, leaping to the roof of the church, spotting the other teams running toward the church.
Mira leapt onto the roof, landing beside him as they watched the clock pieces fly into the air. "What's going on?"
"The Infinity Clock is rebuilding itself," Sado said. "Byro, I think the Archbishop may have been mistaken to order the pieces gathered. It looks like the clock assembles itself when they are. Unless, he already knew that."
"Are you accusing the Archbishop of being a traitor?" Byro demanded.
"Traitor, no," Sado said. "Controlled, possibly."
All six pieces met, shining blindingly bright for a moment before the light faded slightly, revealing the complete clock. Sado swore, hurling a fireball at it, only for the fireball to break apart just before reaching the clock.
"This is going to be bad," Sado said.
The tolling began instantly, the sound echoing through everyone's head, Sado's head instantly feeling like it was cracking open with each stroke. Around him, the others fell to their knees, clutching at their heads. Mira groaned and he knelt, holding her and channeling magic energy into her, blocking the clock's effects slightly. As he did, his head snapped to the side as the other Fairy Tail mages stepped outside, finding five people standing on a cliff below the clock.
"There you are," Sado snarled, Mira standing, trying to ignore the clock's effects. "Cobra, Racer, Angel, Midnight, Erigor, and...a slot machine?"
"That's right!" the slot machine said, pushing his own lever down and getting three Oracion Seis crests. "It's true that you've met them before, but allow me to introduce an improved Neo Oracion Seis!"
"I know that voice," Sado said. "You were that stupid fucking staff that Brain carried around, weren't you?"
"Ding ding ding!" the slot machine said. "You guessed it! Allow me to introduce the members for those of you who don't know. Racer, the fastest man alive-"
"Con artist," Sado corrected. "Slows everyone around him down for a set distance."
"Cobra, the Poison Dragon Slayer who can hear your thoughts," the slot machine said. "The lovely Angel, the Grim Reaper..." he gestured to Erigor.
"And I am Brain The Second," Midnight said, twirling the small white braid that hung on the left side of his head.
"You're Midnight," Sado said. "A wielder of Reflector Magic and extremely powerful illusions during the midnight hour, strong enough to break a person's mind. However, you're not really that great a threat either."
"A lot's changed in the last seven years," Midnight said. "You would be wise not to underestimate us."
"Trust me when I tell you I could burn you all to a crisp in mere seconds if I wanted to now," Sado said. "You may all have gotten stronger for seven years, but I gained four hundred years worth of power."
"We'll see about that," Midnight said. "Nothing will stop me from achieving my one wish, to fulfill my father's dream and destroy all which has form in this world."
"I can't believe you're still spouting the same nonsense," Erza said from below Sado and Mira, one of her swords in-hand.
Midnight smirked as the members of the Oracion Seis raised their hands, the Infinity Clock glowing green. "You've been very helpful, thank you. But I'm afraid we no longer require your services."
"I've broken that clock once, and I fully intend to do it again," Sado said.
"What do we do Lord Byro?" a Legion Platoon member dressed like a knight and holding a shield and jousting lance, probably Dan, asked.
"Fight," Byro said. "We cannot allow them to take the clock."
"I'm all fired up," Dan said as he drew his lance and shield, he, Byro, and Natsu charging.
"What do you think you're doing buddy, don't you know that's my line?" Natsu said as they charged.
"Lousy insects, look at how they swarm," Midnight said.
He swung his hand, a purple spell circle forming in front of him before Brain's Dark Capriccio spell fired out of it, a couple dozen green energy blasts shooting toward the three.
"I'm gonna bounce your attack right back at you!" Dan said, the three wizards stopping as Dan raised his shield only for Sado to swing his own hand, a barrage of fireballs exploding against Midnight's spell and canceling it in a massive explosion.
"Your shield won't reflect his magic," Sado warned. "It might block most of the damage, but it won't reflect it."
"How do you know?" Dan asked.
"Like I said, Midnight wields Reflector Magic," Sado said. "He can cancel your shield's magic."
"Dammit," Dan growled. "That's going to be a problem."
"Not as much as you think," Sado said, dropping down in front of the three. "Allow me to handle them. You all focus on getting to the clock."
"Got it," Natsu nodded. "And when we get there?"
"Find a way to break it," Sado said.
Natsu nodded and Byro grunted, raising his staff.
"Byro," Sado said, Byro turning to him. "Here." Sado formed a flame replica of Byro's staff before it was broken and held it out to him. "It's charged with some of my magic energy so it'll give you a little boost, at least until it runs out. Then it'll disappear."
Byro nodded, accepting the staff and putting his own into a sleeve on his back. As he did, Midnight appeared on top of the Infinity Clock.
"I'm sure you're not aware of this, but once the Infinity Clock bears the symbol of a wizard, it becomes theirs," Midnight said. "In other words, now that it bears our symbol, it now belongs to us."
"That's not fair!" Lucy said. "You can't just show up and steal that thing for yourself!"
"I can hear it," Cobra smirked. Your anger and frustration. It's building up inside you."
"Ain't that a laugh," Racer smirked.
"Hear this!" Sado shouted, sending a swarm of flame arrows at him, only for Cobra to easily step around them, passing through the center of the swarm and allowing them to crash into the cliff behind him. "Not bad."
"We dark ones are forbidden from touching this clock," Angel spoke up, Dan suddenly staring at her in awe. "Therefor we had to have you assemble it for us."
"There you have it folks, that's how you play the game!" the slot machine said.
"So we were being used?" Lucy asked. "No way." She turned to Michelle. "If that's true, then what about my dad? Why would he do this?"
"He never wanted you to have the clock hand," Sado said. "Isn't that right Michelle?"
"Michelle?" Lucy asked.
"Heads up!" Natsu said. "Here they-"
He was cut off as Racer crashed into him, blasting him backward before doing the same to Gray and Erza, both of whom had moved to fight him. Sado turned, leaning out of the way of a punch from Racer, who watched him as he passed, before flipping and kicking Sado in the back before he could react, blasting him into a boulder. Sado stood, dusting himself off and smirked.
"You're a hell of a lot faster than before," Sado said. "However, your strikes don't pack enough of a punch to defeat me."
"Then try mine!" Cobra shouted, appearing beside him and punching him, a blast of pure sound sending Sado blasting through the ground.
Sado pushed himself up to his hands and knees slowly, groaning, and sticking his fingers into his ears, trying to get them to stop ringing. "Yeah, that smarted a little bit."
"If you'd just stay down, I wouldn't hit you much more," Cobra said. "Well, I would, but at least then you wouldn't have to waist energy failing to fight back."
"Why don't you come over here and say that?" Sado asked, looking up at Cobra.
Cobra snorted in amusement, stepping forward only for the ground beneath his foot to explode. Sado grinned for half a second until Cobra snapped his fingers and an explosion of sound sent everyone in a three hundred foot radius flying, which was practically everyone. Sado stood, wiping a trickle of blood from his ears as he watched Racer fighting Mira, Elfman, and Lisanna in silence.
Fuck, Sado thought. That's not good.
He turned, seeing Erigor blast Erza and Gray away from himself with a massive tornado and leapt at Erigor himself. Erigor turned toward him just in time to use a blast of Wind Magic to block Sado's fireball, Sado blasting through the wind himself and slamming a punch into Erigor's jaw, sending him blasting into a cliff, Sado's ears still failing to hear anything. As Sado landed, something exploded into his back and he bounced along the ground before standing, seeing Midnight smirking at him, one hand extended.
Suddenly, Angel held out a hand, three golden coins hovering over her hand, glowing gold. She held her hand above her head, the coins flying into the air and shining brilliantly. The, the golden light turned pure white as a figure appeared over Angel. Sado's stomach dropped as it turned its head to stare at him. It was an angel. A literal angel. He swore, slamming his hands together and separating them, forming dozens of layers of shields between his friends and the angel. It raised a hand, pointing at him as the light shone blindingly again, making it impossible to see. Sado spiked his power as high as it would go, crossing his arms in front of his face and lifting his knees in front of his torso, desperately trying to shield his vital organs from his impending death. Then, agony was all he knew.
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A.N.: I need suggestions for Ur and Lisanna's pairings. Any suggestions would help but the ages have to be relatively close. For Lisanna somewhere around 20 and for Ur somewhere around 25. Please and thank you.
