Fairy Tail Minus One

by Evan deivant

Irene Berlesion has died in her battle against Erza Scarlet however before she dies, she watches her entire life past her by from her good deeds as the Queen of Dragons to her evil sins as the Scarlet Despair. This is a retelling of the Fairy Tail series trying to improve on the flaws of the original series.

20. Attack of the 12 Demon Gates

Fairy Tail Minus One Chapter 19: The 12 Demon Gates

(A/N: Probably the longest chapter since the end of the Princess of Dragons Arc. Enjoy)

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.

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Exodus, Zen

January 6, x390

Irene was on her holiday celebration vacation. Being born of Partial Zenith ancestry, she was attending the annual 3 Kings Holiday, a holiday originally a Zentopia Holiday which became an interfaith Holiday between the 3 Dominant religions of the region, Zenith, Zentopia, and Askerhamni. The people of Zentopia were celebrating the birth of the Messiah and when the 3 Kings came to crown the future messiah as the chosen one, the Zeniths celebrate this as it is the day of the three founding kings of the Zenith empire 3,000 years ago, the first being Mozi, the Demigod who freed the Zeniths enslaved in Eiggto, King Davis, the founder of the country of Zeno 3,000 years ago and King Sal, the second king of Zenith that successfully fought against the Ur Empire and was said to be the most powerful king in Zenith history.

With her was her elder Cousin Jacob Nightwalker, Distant Cousin of Irene from her father's side of the family, with her Queen Sabre, the distant cousin of Irene of the Fiore Family, with her was Jackson Shakespeare, who was my cousin from Julius Shakespeare who married my deceased aunt Juliet long ago, he was the most powerful mage within Seven known for reflecting magic who served as leader of Seven Kings Royal Guard. Then there was Rena, my closest cousin along with Aunt Asuka Corona and Uncle Frederick Corona.

"It's great to be here on Three Kings day." Irene said to my relatives.

"How is your training going Irene?" Aunt Asuka asked me.

"Better than I was expecting, though it seems like I'm still recovering from Training in Mount Zonia was as brutal as hell."Irene explained to her relatives.

"You trained in Mount Zonia? Man, that must've been excruciating to do,"Jackson stated.

"Yet she was able to pull off a two-year training regiment in less than a month." Asuka replied impressed by her niece's abilities.

"That's Eclcratles child alright, she also has the natural prodigious skills of her father in Enchantment." Frederick said to the group about his niece.

"That's my niece for you, my daughter was also able to Master her hair strains technique within a short amount of time."Asuka responded stating that her child has also become stronger over time.

"She did?"Irene asked her.

"Yes, we can try to see how far we have gone later but after we visit the temple."Fredrick replied.

"To think my training was harsh, going up Mount Zonia is something I didn't expect to do." Irene said to them noting the harsh training.

"Yep only the strong survive that, no weakling would survive that training."Jackson said to his cousin.

"So how's your kingdom going about Queen of Dragons?"Asuka asked her niece about the politics within the country.

"Good, even with my month absence in training, the trade routes are secured thanks to increased security within Middle Earthland, as for negotiations with Serenity, they've failed yet again and we're still trying to work with Bosco and West Bosco over Stellian Independence." Irene explained to her aunt about how she tried to maintain order and peace within the various kingdoms allied with her.

"The Serenties are stubborn, they refused to negotiate peace with any nation that's part of the Crocus Zentopian Faith and any nation allied with Dragonv. Even our Nation Seven under my king who is a Serenity Zentopian Nation has been ignored by their government.''Jackson stated, saying that the Serenity Kingdom is beyond reasoning.

"Can't say we're surprised, they're unhappy that Dragonv exists in its current state as it undermined their once-great empire, we can't bother to negotiate with them, why not just crush them and be done with it?"Jacob asked Irene, being the usual war happy noble.

"That's not how Dragonv operates." Irene replied offended by such a suggestion.

"And that's precisely the problem, we need to assert force on them."Jacob stated.

"At the expense of what, endless wars, slaughters, rebellions? We might have the largest force in the world but unless we have no choice, we shouldn't use that force to start a war."Irene replied, stating it's better to reserve power when they needed it.

"Then what you call your current Occupation of Gabe then?" Jacob asked Irene.

"A necessary security perimeter against the Middle Earth forces, several empires attempted to invade Gabe and into Dragonv." Irene answered.

"Only because you occupy one of their holy lands" Jacob said to the Queen of Dragons.

"Only because they invaded our country and kidnapped me, besides the government wants us to aid them so they can be their own nation separate from Twelve and other regional empires. Point is I didn't go and massacre everyone in Gabe or Middle Earthland even if i could do so."Irene explained her actions within Gabe to everyone.

"It's what's going to lead to your undoing if you don't teach your enemies a brutal lesson."Jacob replied stating that might be right.

"It's that kind of thinking that leads to Dragonv rebelling against the Serenity Kingdom in the first place. Don't tell me how to run a kingdom Jacob." Irene responded glaring at her cousin.

"Maybe should give you seem too soft" Jacob replied mocking his cousin.

"Enough fighting, we won't have this in the table" Fredrick shouted with his intimidating kingly voice.

"Sorry" both Irene and Jacob said in response to the booming scolding tone.

"Now then let's head to the temple so we can celebrate our holidays,"Asuka said to the family.

"But first toast to a new year" Frederick said to the family, As expected everyone toasted.

"Where's your friends Lena and Erenjack?" Asuka asked her niece.

"They should be coming by later on with the Three Kings of Isvan. Anna and her father the Pope should be here later today as well, then we head to the kingdom of Isvan for the Yule Northern Lights Festival to end the Holiday vacation" Irene explained to her aunt about their whereabouts.

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Silver Lake City, Ivsan

January 6, x390

One month later, In the distant kingdom of Ivsan, Rey Fullbuster sits on his throne with his Fullbuster, King of the northwestern country bordering Dragnov, Land of Isvan, He walked with his wife, Queen Katerina Fullbuster and their 10-year-old son Muscia Fullbuster, a young boy resembling a child version of Rey. The father was carrying a massive deer 10 times the size of his body with one hand as they went to his castle.

He brings the large deer to the dining hall of the table where Queen Hilda and King Ranagork were waiting for him.

"You guys came early." Rey said to them.

"We wouldn't miss this Festival with our lives." King Rangrok said to his fellow Comrade.

"Where's your student Ragnarok?"Hilda asked him.

"She went ahead of the others with her family within the Kingdom of Zen where the queen of Dragons are at. Where's your student?" Ragnarok explained the whereabouts of his student and responded with a question about her student.

"He is on a trip to Zen as we speak as well as Hilda's student Lena. They're having their Three Kings festival within Middle Earthland."Hilda answered.

"Hey, dad can I have some of the deer?" said a young boy with spiky black hair matching his dad's.

"Is that your son Rey?" Hilda asked him.

"Yeah, that's my heir to the throne one day Mucisa Fullbuster, a powerful little runt at his age. He once killed a Blizzard Werewolf with a single well placed shot to the forehead between the eyes, I'm telling you in 10 years he would be a powerful king."Rey explained to the other monarchs.

"Hey, dad, what're you doing?" Musica asked him.

"We're about to have this feast, want some son?" Rey asked him.

"Sure thing dad!" Musica answered as he grabs a big piece of meat and eats it.

"Man the little guy has a kingly appetite." Ragnarok said to his comrade.

"You should've seen how much milk he drunk out of me when I was feeding him, lost a whole cloth size due to her." Katerina replied.

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Meanwhile at the airspace over the Ishgal Sea past the country of Caelum.

Lena meets Erenjack who are flying on separate Transport wyvern flying over the Ishgal sea, they're flying to Zen where the Three Kings Festival is at.

"Lena" Erenjack said to Lena on a large Wyvern.

"Erenejack." Lena replied as she waves at him as they fly closer to each other.

"Been a while since we've seen each other." Erenjack said to her.

"You seem stronger." Lena stated.

"Same to you." Erenjack replied.

"I can't wait to celebrate the Three Kings Day Party and follow that with the Yule Festival." Lena said to him.

"Me too, we need a break after that training." Erenjack replied feeling on his right arm "My arm is still feeling sore."

"I heard we're going to get a chance at a rematch against the Three Kings in the Festival though" Lena explained to Erenjack who was far less interested than her fighting against the 3 Kings.

"So much for Vacation, I don't know I would even be at 100% to fight." Erenjack said to her holding his arm.

"It's just a light sparring battle just to test how much stronger we've become, I doubt they would be as hard as they were when were in Dous Flamu." Lena replied.

Both suddenly felt a huge gust of wind past them which almost made them fall off their Wyvern.

"What was that?"Lena askes shocked at the speed of whatever passed them.

"Don't know but it seemed fast, must be a dragon moving fast. Question is why?" Erenjack asked worried that something is off.

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Meanwhile at the Tartarus Cube

The size of the hidden base under the cloak was roughly half the size of Magnolia Town. The Cube is a massive, buoyant cubed-island that harbors several rocky terrains spread about on its surface. The largest structure is, undoubtedly, one of its many landscapes accommodating Tartaros' headquarters, under Mard Geer's power, he formed a small mass of land and a lake into his hidden fortress and can use the clouds to cloak the cube.

Inside the castle was the Tartarus Guild with its army of demons waiting to attack.

"So it seems Tempester and Franmalth were sent to retrieve the clock piece within Zen, who are you deploying to Zentopia City Church and sending to Silver Lake City?" Keyes asked his master.

"These are no doubt the strongest of the strongholds, I sent my strongest, Brandman, Seilah and Kyouka to retrieve the Clock Piece from that area as well as sent Jackal just in case they need an escape. Considering we're talking about the Pope himself, we have Brandman on standby in case Seilah and Kyouka are outclassed too badly, as for Sliver Lake City, I plan to deploy Deliora as the primary attack with Ezel and Torafuzar as backup in case Deliora needs assistance, we got at least several hundred demons appearing." Mard Geer explained to his minions.

"So when would we arrive in Fiore and in Isven to deploy us?" Kyouka asked.

"We should be there in less than an hour, we're slowing us down so we don't get detected so easily, it should take us 2 hours to land in Isvan."Seilah stated.

"Great, if everything goes as planned, we will have half as many pieces needed to bring forth END." Mard Geer replied.

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Mount Exodus Temple.

At the center of the city in a large hill lay the Legendary Mount Exodus Temple. Within the center of the ancient Holy City of Exodus lies the Mount Exodus Temple complex, a small city that had temples representing the three Great Desert Religions. 4 temples were within the large hill complex. The Great Mosque of Saladin built by the Asekrhmais, the Church of the Messiah built by Zentopia, the Mount Exodus Temple built by the Zeniths and the more recently created, Dual of the Faith's Temple, a Temple and a Church for the religion of the Church of Aserkhmani and the Temple of Zen which stands as a peace symbol between the two religions. The family was in the temple complex in the Mount Exodus Temple.

"Been a while since we were here, you ok Irene." Asuka asked her niece looking at me clutching my head yeah just a bad headache.

"I'm glad to see you back here." Frederick said to his niece.

"Thanks, it's been ages since I've been to this holy site, I might not be of this faith but I'm for protecting the holy religions of the world and beautiful temples like this."Irene replied only to hear footsteps.

"Looks like more people are coming into this, very loud footsteps though"Asuka said to her family as they saw a mysterious figure.

They see a tall man walk into the temple with a black cloak over his head, everyone notices the man and begins to back away.

"Sir, you can't wear that within this temple, I'm going to ask for you to remove the cloak." said a guard at the entrance of the temple drawing his spear at him.

"You can't just waltz here with that cloak, we need to make sure you're not an assassin, standard protocol." another guard said to the cloaked man.

The cloaked man only simply said this'' Hyuru." with his dark, demonic tone, in the instant of his words, the entire temple is hit with a massive tornado which heavily damages the temple, blasting the roof of the temple as a massive tornado as the guards are sucked into the tornado. Irene and her family struggle to stay on the ground as the intense wind sucks up unfortunate people caught near the epicenter and if it didn't instantly rip them to shreds, shoot them out into the stratosphere so they can fall to their inevitable deaths. Blood-curdling screams fill the one tranquil temple and blood spray covers the walls as if a bomb went off.

"What the hell was that?" Irene shouted horrified looking around her.

"A Tornado? But out of nowhere...We got an Assassin " Asuka said angrily as she stated at the tail cloaked man.

"Was this caused by a mage? It happened so fast I didn't see a Glyph or a hand sign or even an Incantation." Fredrick stated as he looked around.

Sabre not wasting time summons Embodiment soldiers in anger "What kind of monster attacks a sacred temple ?"Arc of Embodiment: Phantom Soldiers." She shouted angrily as the troops aimed their weapons at the cloaked man however he blows all of them away with a small shockwave of wind around his body."He dispersed the Embombident soldiers so easily, I didn't even see him make a Glyph or incarnation, what is he?"

"Where is the Clock Piece?"The tall clock man asked.

"Clock Piece?" Sabre asked confused about the question before she knew it, the cloaked man was right in front of her, Sabre froze as she felt overwhelming fear as if she was staring death in the face.

"Guess I have to eliminate you all starting with you." The cloaked man said to the queen of Fiore as he generated a cyclone around his fist and was about to punch her head off but his attack was blocked by Irene's blade.

"Over our dead bodies!" Irene shouted as she slashed at his fist however the blade was stopped by his fist.

"Titan Hair Axe!" Asuka shouted as she went to attack the brute with a head-on attack to the neck.

"Darkness Blast!"Fredrick chanted as he fired a dark blast from his vertical sword slash arc.

However, both attacks are repelled by the cloaked man creating a small cyclone around his body, blowing away both their attacks and appeared in front of them, punching them through a wall.

"URRGHH!" Asuka and Fredrick grunted as they felt their backs hit the cold, hard brick walls.

"This the best you kings and queens can do? Pathetic, humans are so pitifully weak." the cloaked man mocked.

"Arc of Embodiment, God's Light Arrows" Sabre shouted as she uses her arc of embodiment to summon hundreds of beams of light, to rain down on the demon. Before they can land the demon unleashes lightning blowing away the arrows before firing a lightning bolt at Sabre forcing her to dodge before appearing in front of her sparking fist as electricity surrounds his fist as he punches in her face sending her back"ARRRGH" Asuka grunted as she as knocked to the ground.

"YOU BASTARD!" Irene shouted as she draws her sword and attacks using Braveheart, her eyes widen as the demon blocks the blade with his arm covered in a wind before swiping his other arm leaves several deep slashes into her stomach before grabbing her leg slamming tossing her across the room towards a pillar" URRRGH!" Irene grunted as she felt intense pain from her wounds and being tossed into a wall.

"Impact!" Tempester shouted as he punched Irene through the wall, the force of the punch knocks her own cold.

"IRENE!" Everyone shouted.

"I can't move my body!" Irene said to herself as she struggled to move.

"Flare" the demon chanted as he shot a large fireball at the downed Irene but Rena uses her hair to protect Irene with a hair dome.

"Irene, IRENE! Wake up...Damn it! She's out cold." Asuka shouted.

"She still hasn't fully recovered from her training in Mount Zonia."Jacob stated.

"Shit, she's one the strongest ones here, we need to protect her until she recovers, " Asuka said to everyone about her niece.

"Pfft, pathetic humans, you can't overcome the force of calamity, I am the Demon Tempster, the demon of Calamity, since you failed to produce a Clock Piece, I'm going to destroy this entire country.''The demon said to them.

"NOT ON OUR WATCH! Crimson Hair Gigantic Fist" Rena shouted as Rena's hair turns into a massive hair fist slamming into the demon who skids back a few feet before stopping before grabbing Rena's hair and pulling her towards him slams her with a lariat nearly breaking her neck ."Urrgh!" Rena gagged as she coughed up blood, he grabs her by the leg and starts slamming into the ground before tossing her but she was caught by her father who glared at the demon with a fierce Rage, he puts her down and charges at the demon.

"Dark Écriture:" Fredieck shouted but before he can launch his attack, Tempester punches him in the ribcage and sends him flying into a nearby altar.

"Inferno!" Tempester chanted as he summons a massive stream of flames from his mouth as intense as a wildfire.

"Deus Bala" Jacob countered as he protects Fredieck and himself with a water bubble barrier.

"Not bad but let's see what happens when I turn my flames to that of Lava!" Tempester grinned as he shot a massive intense wave of Molten Rock as intense as a Volcanic Eruption.

"Damn it's too hot!" Jacob shouted as the heat of the blast causes the bubble to start heating up boiling him before he ends the attack as he stands his arms face and chest are covered in 2nd-degree burns as he glares at the demon with anger as he's about to be cooked by the flames.

"Invisible Scythe "Jackson chanted as he generating ethereal slashes slashing Tempester but the monster is barely fazed, however, he stops his flame attack on Jacob and goes to attack Jackson.

"Dark Écriture:Slash." Frederick chanted as he slashes at Tempester with a powerful slash wave but the demon moves so fast, he evades it with ease and then goes to toss remains of the altar at Fredrick. Rena gets back up and goes to attack.

"Hair Shower: Wolf Fang!" As Rena used her Hair magic to create a wolf made of hair, Tempester raises his arm as the wolf bites down before slicing its head off and cutting Rena as she drops to her knees clutching her shoulder"Damn it, he's too strong." she had serious injuries, her neck was damaged and now the large gash on her chest. Tempester stood over her.

"Dark Capriccio!"Jackson chanted as he shot a spiraling beam at Tempester, but the monster deflects it with a swat of his wrist and hits Jackson with a powerful cyclone blast into a wall."Now time to end this !"Tempester said to Rena as he going goes to finish her before Asuka responds with a fierce counter-attack.

"Hair Shower Gatling" Asuka shouted as she rapidly punched him repeatedly."STAY AWAY FROM MY DAUGHTER!," she screams as he raises his arms to block the attack as she continues the barrage Tempester who starts being pushed back his back eventually hits the wall she continues the onslaught the wall starts cracking with a final push the wall crumbles the demon gets buried under the rubble.

"Spark!"Tempester chanted as he shot a massive bolt of as a bolt of lightning flies at Asuka who manages to barely block using her hair before slamming her with a pillar she slices it using her hair cutter, where is he as she looks around the room for the demon.

"Where did he go?"Asuka asked shocked by the extreme speed of the Tempster.

"Right here" Tempester answered as she looked up to the demon towering her"Flare blitz ." Tempester chanted as he shot several fireballs towards her so fast, she couldn't move out of the way.

"ARRGH!" Asuka grunted as she was hit with intense burning pain.

"Airstream" Sabre shouts as the fire around Asuka was extinguished by Sabre who starts using her arc of embodiment to heal Asuka as the other keeps Tempester away."Don't worry i got you"

"Heal Irene, she needs it more! If she's down, we're all out!"Asuka replied as she clutched to her chest. Jacob gets up and raises his arms.

"Pedes Notics Luis+Ira De+Deus Bulla.'' Jacob chanted as all my family members were given a 10 fold boost in power.

"Darkness blast " Fredick chanted as he shoots a massive blast of darkness at the demon who swats it away. Sabre goes to summon a powerful beast with Arc of Embodiment.

"Sacred Guardian Beast, Belfast the Hurricane" Sabre chanted as she summoned a giant, black creature, similar to a Wyvern, from their imagination."Now attack!" Sabre ordered as the summoning comes at Tempester.

"RAAQWAR!" Belfast roared as it struck Tempester down to the ground with a powerful strike of its talons.

"Urrgh, Damn humans!"Tempester grunted as he tried to push the creature off him.

"Belfast, show him why you're known as the Hurricane!, Stand back everyone!" Sabre warned everyone as a massive dome of wind appears around the Wyvern and Tempester which rotates around the demon creating a condensed wind dome with the force of a Hurricane condensed into space. The force was pulling eventing into the dome." We have to strike while can, fire your strongest blasts into the dome now." Sabre shouted.

"Who knew the Queen of Fiore had such mastery of that power at such a young age. She can take a Hurricane capable of destroying a nation and condensing it into a dome, anyone in that blast is going to feel the full might of that Hurricane."Frederick said to his wife as he charged up his blast.

"Less talking, more shooting Husband! Daughter let's do this!" Asuka replied as she commands her daughter to do the same attack as her.

"Right mother, I got this!" Rena replied as she goes for her attack, she sees Irene being pulled to the vortex but she grabs her before she's caught and uses her tendrils to prevent her from being sucked in.

"Hair Shower: Firefly Hair Curl" Both mother and daughter chanted as they summoned a massive curly vortex of their hair in flames like a giant fireball towards the wind vortex, engulfing Tempester in an inferno as the Hurricane dome is now in flames.

"Dark Rondo" Jackson chanted as he fires his own attack which was hundreds of powerful darkness blasts being guided by his reflector ability and amplified by them.

"Heavenly Body Magic, Grand Chariot" Jacob chanted as he unleashed his ultimate spell which shot thousands of light like beams hitting with the force of a meteor into the dome the same time Jackon was using his Dark Rondo.

"Dark Écriture: Darkness, Abostule Shadow Stream" Freidck chanted as he swung his sword creating a massive wave of darkness from his downward vertical sword slash.

The fusion of the attacks creates a massive explosion however Sabre summons her shields to protect the surrounding area from the blast and themselves from the explosion."That should do, don't want any more damage to the temple" Sabre said to everyone.

"Man Jacob, thanks for that, I didn't think my aging body could've done that level of attack without enchantments." Frederick said to him.

"Don't know about you but I doubt anything would have survived that..." Asuka stated.

"Attack" the demon interrupted as the smoke clears up revealing that Tempester had a massive gap from his left shoulder near the neck to his hip with his organs exposed, his body having been charred with 3rd-degree burns with some holes in his body resemble arrow wounds.

"How is he still alive?" Asuka's face went from confidence to horror and fright as the demon stood there as his wounds were regenerating in front of them.

"You humans are much stronger than I gave you credit. To damage the point, I'm forced to regenerate myself, I didn't think I needed to get serious but so be it." Tempester said calmly as he had a dark aura around his body.

The city felt uneasy as Tempester was generating enough power to shake the entire city along with the surrounding area

The monster then grew to a staggering 15 feet, His hair becomes much longer and wilder, jutting out in various directions, and he gains a beard, dark snout, and larger and sharper teeth. His body becomes much more muscular and his arms and lower body are covered in a dark mist of Magical Barrier Particles.

"His power is that of an Elite dragon!" Frederick said frightened as he glared at the demon at horror.

"I'm going to ask you again, where is the Clock Piece?" Tempester asked them. I know it's somewhere in this country, I won't rest until I retrieve it, I will kill everyone in this nation to retrieve it."Tempester said to them very serious about his threat,

"We know nothing about this Clock Piece you speak of, what we know is that we're not going to let you have your way with this country." Asuka replied only to see herself and everyone else elevated by winds.

"Then perish" Tempter replied as he unleashes 4 small 4 twisters Sending everyone flying as the winds cut them up.

"URRRRGAH" Everyone shouted as they were being brutally shredded by the winds and knocked across the temple. Everyone falls down with cuts and lacerations on the body, Fredick gets back up and sees Asuka and Rena down on the ground along with Jacob and Sabre as well as Jackson.

"Damn it, DAMN YOU! Darkness Blast" Frederick shouted as he shot the blast while on one knee in a desperate attempt to blast the demon, however, Tempester reaches through the attack and headbutts him away without him taking a scratch. Frederick hits the wall of the temple with the wall crumbling on him.

"Time to finish this." Tempester said to Frederick as he goes to shoot a massive bolt of ark lighting towards the king of Zen but Jackson appears.

"Reflect!" Jackson chanted as he used a barrier to protect himself and Fredrick however the barrier was starting to crack "Impossible, my barrier is breaking."Jackson shouted.

"Foolish human, we demons use Curses, not magic, trying to block my attack with an anti-magic barrier is useless." Tempester laughed as he shatters the barrier and electrocutes Jackson.

"ARRGH!" Jackson shouted as he collapsed in pain.

"This is the strongest of humans? Pathetic, I've gone into this form expecting you humans to put up a better fight, I guess not. Now tell me where the clock pieces are ." Tempester asked the fallen king.

"I told you we know nothing of the clock pieces," Frederick shouted as he struggled to get back up.

"Then I will turn this entire country into ashes!" Tempester replied as he started to charge up a lot of magic taste the power of a calamity nature's wrath. Before his attack can launch his attack, a foot hits his face and launches him through several walls. "What the hell.." Tempester asked as he felt his jaw hurt as he saw Irene glaring at him with a red aura around her eyes with her face shadowed around her eyes.

"You hurt my family. YOU WILL DIE!" Irene shouted as she got herself into a sword stance as she was ready to fight seriously.

"I thought I had you down, how are you still standing human? The impact curse should've rendered you unable to move at all." Tempester said he was losing his cool slightly.

"I thank my family for buying my Cousin Sabre enough time to heal up my wounds and I blame my asshole cousin Jacob for his training. Had not for his training I'd most likely be dead from that blow. But to answer your question by focusing my breathing I contracted my stomach muscles closing the wound long enough for me to get healed up. Now time to take you down for the damage you did" Irene glared at him as she still clutched her stomach"Sabre was only able to stop the bleeding, I still feel pain and I still need Grandeeney's healing, I gotta finish him fast." Irene said to herself as she takes a large breath oxygenating my blood increasing the flow through my body focusing it on my legs.

"Bring it human!" Tempester shouted as he shot a large lightning blast towards the Queen of dragons.

"Pedis Noctis Lucis!" Irene countered as she exhales as a hissing sound and what looks like steam escapes from her mouth as lightning forms around her body and she dashed at Lightning speed, slashing across his shoulder, catching Tempester off-guard.

"URRGH! Tempester was surprised as Irene slashes him across the chest before the demon can react, she ten slashes him 6 times with light gashes across his torso. Tempester gets enraged and goes to attack.

"Take This! Raigo" Tempest shouted as he holds his hands above his head as a massive ball of black lightning forms before tossing it, however, Irene disappeared in a flash appearing behind the demon as a massive slash appears from his hip to shoulder. As he falls to a knee clutching his chest "URRRGH"

Irene, however, coughs up blood and falls to her hands and knees.

"Shit! She hasn't had a chance to recover from Her altitude sickness." Jacob said to the gang. Worse the demon was regenerating from the large wounds on his body.

"To think there's a human who can actually hurt me this badly, its exchange, I will end you !"Tempester shouted as he charged up flames in his mouth however Jacob goes to defend Irene.

"Altairis!"Jacob chanted as he raises his hands above his head in an attempt to summon a massive blast creating a vortex of Heavenly Body Magic but before he can hit it, he's shot with a fireball and knocked into the ground."URRGH!" Jacob screamed in pain as he was badly burned and was grounded. Jacob tries to stand but Tempester starts stomping Jacob repeatedly before picking him up by the neck.

"Any last words human?" Tempester asked the fallen Knightwalker only for the defiant human to spit on his face.

"Damn you vile demon!" Jacob replied as he spits in his face.

"Very well, I would make your death quick!" Tempester replied as he coats his right hand in lightning and goes to deliver the finishing blow however before he can react, Irene's sword slices cleanly through Tempster's right hand, causing to drop."KRRUUGH!" Tempester shouted as his arm was cut off.

"Rip, Hoshigami No Satsuki Hachidori Katana" Irene chanted as she was vibrating her sword at immense speeds like the wings of a hummingbird which was able to slice through his arm with ease.

"You will pay for that!" Tempester shouted as he regenerates his right hand and goes to attack the Queen of Dragons." Cyclone fist" Tempester chanted as he comes at Irene with his left hand with a fist containing a whirlwind at Irene but the queen sidesteps it.

"Hachidori Katana: Wakeru Yama Tsubasa (ハチドリの刀分ける 山翼 Japanese for Humming Bird Sword: Dividing Mountain Wing )" Irene countered as she slashes through his left arm, cleanly taking it off the shoulder However Tempester charges towards her catching her by surprise.

"You can take my arm, I but I'll be taking yours at the same time " Tempester said to Irene as he bites onto her right shoulder, ripping a chunk of it out.

"AAARRRRRGGGHH!" Irene screamed in pain as her screams reverberate throughout the building. She then takes a devastating punch in the face skidding the ground.

"You really are a tough one, biting through you is tougher than I thought, perhaps it's easier to just crush your skull with my foot." Tempester said to Irene as he had his large foot on her head. "Goodbye human" Tempester said to Irene only to see his foot sliced cleanly off by a single strain of hair as sharp as a blade."WHAT?"

He goes to see the hair came from Rena who was beyond enraged.

"You're going to pay for hurting my family!" Rena shouted as her magic rises "Hair Titan Armor" Rena chanted as her hair covers, her body forming a suit of armor.

Tempester regenerates his foot and goes to attack the Princess of Zen. Rena rushes the demon and throws a punch towards the goat demon however he blocks the force of the punch, however, despite blocking the strike, he's still knocked back into a wall.

"RARRGH!" Tempester roared as he goes to charge up to a fire in his mouth but before he goes to blast it out, he gets uppercutted being sent several feet up before the hair grabs him and slams him into the ground before Rena unleashes a barrage of punches into him.

Everyone is impressed by how much stronger Rena has become as she's keeping up with the demon.

"Is that my daughter?" Frederick asked.

"She might be even stronger than me now, she's incredible!" Asuka said to her. Irene come over here so I can heal you

"Coming!" Irene replied as she slowly walked there to go to Asuka, Asuke uses her hair strands to close up the wound on her shoulder.

"This should slow down the bleeding,"Asuka said to her niece.

"Thanks!" Irene replied.

Rena catches her breath after her barrage of punches.

"Damn, that had to have done him in!" Rena said to herself as she then sees the demon rise up in the ground and gets back up as he towered over her.

"That's all human?" Tempester glared at her as he had dents throughout his body and severe bruises were regenerating. He then goes to attack Rena who was vulnerable however Irene manages to attack back.

"Hachidori Katana:Hane no Ame(ハチドリの刀 羽の雨 Japanese for Humming Bird Sword: Feather Rain)" Irene chanted as she rains down countless metal feathers down on Tempester to pin him down to the ground. "That would slow him down for a bit," Irene said to herself as she walks to Rena as a demon tries to rise while pinned down like a pin cushion to the ground.

"He keeps regenerating from everything we do to him? How can we beat him, Irene?" Rena asked her cousin.

"I think I got a plan give me a second" Irene answered gripping her right arm, despite being stitched up by Asuka's hair, her arm was still dislocated.

"Looks like mother did a good job patching you up"Asuka stated.

"My arm still feels dislocated, let me fix that." Irene replied as she takes a deep breath and focuses the oxygen towards her arm using muscle control to force her arm to move.

"Whoa, you can do that?" Rena said shocked at her skill.

"It's only temporary. My body is at its near limits. My mouth tasted of blood, my chest is racked with pain." Irene stated as she feels fatigued.

"You need to take it easy, there's only so much your body can handle using that method."Jacob said to his cousin concerned with her. "You can't use that method of breathing too liberally, you can risk damaging your body beyond repair." Jacob warned her.

"I can't, I'm the only one who can put it down for good, if I stop now, everyone is going to die!I'm going to need everyone to stop his movements while I charge up this attack. I've never used this mode of Hoshigami No Satsuki before so I need to concentrate." Irene explained to everyone as she charged up her power.

"Alright, I'll cover you then!" Rena replied as Tempester gets back up and regenerates from the arrow size wounds on his body from the metal feather rain.

Rena and Tempester go to attack each other, the two of them stalemate each other while Irene goes to charge up her diminishing Magical power, having taken a lot of damage and was already weakened from her training, she was struggling to get more power into her. Rena and Tempester Trade blows with each other as her Hair Titan Armor keeps hitting him more than she does a series of powerful punches staggering the brute and knocking him back a bit.

"Hair Lock!" Rena chanted as she binds his neck with her hair tendril," Hair Needle Rain!" Rena chanted as she fires multiple needle hairs going through his chest and shoulders. However, he grabs the hair tendril and goes to charge up a blast while regenerating his bruises and wounds.

"Cyclone!" Tempester chanted as he shot a massive blast through Rena, blasting a hole straight through her torso.

"RENA!" Everyone shouted, however, Sabre calmly reveals it was an illusion as the real Rena was at the opposite side holding Tempester's body parts.

Rena uses hair lock to stop his movements hair needle to Impale Tempester through the chest and shoulder Tempester fires a blast of wind from his mouth but it phases through Rena as she was an illusion.

"Hold onto him tight!" Sabre said to Rena as Rena holds tightly onto the demon's neck.

"Damn humans!" Tempester shouted as he tried to remove the hair tendril crushing his neck.

"God's Light spears!" Sabre chanted as she summoned iron spears to impale his foot.

"RRRAARGH!" Tempester screamed as he struggled to move with the light spears weakening.

"Hair Shower Thousand flaming Hair needles"Asuka chanted as she shoots thousands of Needles to pierce his body with thousands of flaming strands of hair.

"Chains of Hades!" Jacob chanted as he creates magical energy chains to erupt from the ground, wrapping around Tempester neck and under his arm. The Demon tries to break out.

"Dark Écriture: Darkness, Abostule Shadow Stream" Freidck chanted as he swung his sword creating a massive wave of darkness from his downward vertical sword slash, slicing through his stomach, forcing him back with such force, his spine bends straight.

"Hair Titan Flaming Drill" Ren chanted as she turns her hair into the shape of a drill on fire as she pierces straight through the chest of Tempster.

Tempester roared and began to break through the chains and blasts everyone back with a thunderous roar creating a gust around them, knocking back Jacob, Asuka, Frederick, and Rena. He was starting to regenerate his wounds but it was slower as he suffered a broken spine, a massive hole through the chest, a massive gash across the torso, multiple arrows sized puncture wounds and lacerations around the feet with his legs crushed, arms crushed and neck damage. He then sees Jackson twisting the ground using Spiral Pain.

"You think you can beat me? I am Tempester of the immortal!" he shouted only to notice a large tower appear in front of him as he sees a barrier formed around him.

"Now do it!" Jackson shouted as he tried to hold the barrier.

"Tower of Dingir " Sabre chanted as she explodes the Tower, creating a large explosion condensed within the barrier created by Jackson, she then collapses from exhaustion as well as Jackson.

Tempester struggles to stand with blood coming out of his wounds trying to regenerate.

"RRAARRGH!" Tempester roared as he went to charge his attack"This would be your end!"

"I agree, this is your end!" Irene replied as she was above him in the air weilding a massive sword.

Irene appears above Tempester. She was wielding a large massive blade that resembles a Kanabō that is twice the size of Irene's body and massively starts spinning to increase her rotation.

"RRAAGH! CYCLONE INFERNO!" Tempester goes to shoot a massive blast of fire and wind towards Irene however she easily repels the blast with a powerful swing that creates a massive shockwave, blowing away the flames and wind"WHATT?!"

"Hoshigmai No Satsuki Āsumasshā: Braveheart!" Irene chanted as she hits him directly, the force of the impact to his skull along causes enough force to break his spine instantly and crush his skull, the jagged blade-like Kanabō jaggery cuts through the body with the force of the weapon shattering any bone near its path, in 5 seconds, Tempester was sliced vertically in half but was a rugged, jagged cut as his body was mangled from the force of the blade, the force destroys the ground as the temple. Irene worn out collapses as the force of the shockwave pelted her with small stones, which cut her skin as she sent skidding from the attack.

Irene stood back up as the temple was divided in half from the sword impact into the ground, she looks as the fissure she created expanded across the country to the Zen Bay, a fissure as wide as Irene's body stretching from Exodus to Jericho into the Zen Bay. At the center is a crater twice as deep as Irene is tall with a length 5 Irene's wide.

"Whoa, that's Hoshigmai No Satsuki Āsumasshā, how did you learn that state of the sword so soon?" Asuka asked her niece.

"Took me a while to use it, this was my first time, This form is meant to smash through even the toughest of Dragon Scales however at the cost of speed due to the immense weight of the weapon and the lack of ability to control the recoil of the weapon and the sheer destructive power, luckily I aimed as much as I can away from the buildings to avoid the fissure going through them, this control needs serious work." Irene explained to her aunt as she was considerably worn out.

"To think even at your condition you can take that monster in a single hit, you really are becoming like your mother. Thank god it's over, quite the messy way to go and the damage to the temple is immense but nothing a bit of reconstruction and raising taxes can't fix."King Frederick explained to everyone.

"To think in merely a month's training you can do that... at least this demon isn't getting back up." Jacob said he was impressed with Irene's skills.

"Just what the hell did we just fight?" Jackson asked.

"A demon, a very powerful demon, this demon is easily as strong as the one that attacked my country a month ago." Sabre answered thinking back to the Baai incident.

"What do you think he met by Clock pieces?" Irene asked Frederick.

"Frankly, i don't have a clue, I'm assuming this has something to do with Zentopia though." Fredrick answered as he caught his breath.

"I'm impressed ..." Tempester's voice said coming from the craters everyone's eyes widen

"HE'S STILL ALIVE?" Everyone said shocked and horrified he was still alive, he was able to talk but was divided in half.

"You humans are far stronger than I encountered for. To think my body would be too badly damaged to regenerate and even my Etherious form was not strong enough to defeat you. No matter, I still win !" Tempester coughed as his body started to break down as purple smoke started to engulf the area. "My body is filled with Anti Ethernano which are lethal to you humans." Tempester laughed as the body halves began to inflate getting larger with more smoke filling up.

"THAT'S NOT GOOD!" Irene shouted.

"Worse, he's expanding is the body, turning it into a bomb!"Sabre stated.

"We have to stop him"Irene shouted as she rushed to finish the demon but Asuka stopped her.

"You insane, if you attack him, he might prematurely explode." Asuka shouted as she held her leg.

"Before you die I'll let you know this I am one of the nine gates of Tartarus who shall bring forth destruction towards this world. Before I go. know true despair." Tempester laughed as he was about to explode.

"Any magic left? I'm empty!"Frederick said to everyone as he was trying to summon magic.

"I got nothing either." Jacob shouted as he desperately tried to conjure a spell.

"I got some!"Rena said to them.

"Same here!" Asuka replied.

'Sadly my magical defenses can't stop something like this"Jackson said to them.

"Let's try to stop it!" Asuka and Rena stated as they use their hair magic to create a hair dome around the body of Tempester however the explosion blasts them back as they see the mist rapidly engulfs the temple. First Jacob is engulfed by it.

"Damn, my throat is burning!"Jacob shouted as his mouth coughed up blood.

"JACOB!" Irene shouted as she sees Jackson and Sabre succumb next as the mist inches closer to her "SABRE, JACKSON!" she sees Frederick engulfed in the cloud as well"UNCLE!". Soon she sees the mist coming to Rena and Asuka but then she feels lifted off the ground"What?" She realizes her aunt has her leg covered with her hair.

"Sorry, you can't be risked exposed to it, my niece!" Asuka shouted as she threw her "You are the hope of the world, you need to live to fight these demons."

"NO...NO, I CAN'T LEAVE YOU, NONE OF YOU!" Irene shouted only to be thrown out of the hole of the roof.

"Daughter looks like it's the end for us!" Asuka said to her daughter.

"At least we are saving the city from this vile spell." Rena replied as they summon a hair dome to cover the entire temple in a cocoon of, hair containing the explosion.

Irene rushes to the temple as the temple is covered in hair.

"NO...NO... NOOOO" Irene shouted as tears poured down her eyes as she slammed her fist at the dome crying.

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Silver Lake City

After eating, Rey thinks back to the past when he fought against the former Queen of dragons in his throne room.

23 Years ago

Mount Zonia, Fiore

Rey was in a battlefield as his forces were raiding Fiore. King Rey united the many warring tribes that were raiding Seven, Bosco and Fiore, In an Instant, his entire battalion was easily defeated by the Queen of Dragons who appears in the battlefield riding the back an armored dragon

"You're that Queen of Dragons everyone is talking about so much?"Rey asked the queen of Dragons.

"Indeed I am I am Queen Écarlate Queen of Dragnov. This isn't the time for petty squabbles over this, we're in the middle of a major war with the Dark Dragon Tribe." The queen said to the Viking King.

"We're Vikings! Raiding lands during a war are part of our culture, don't take this personally but we need those goods." Rey explained to her as he drew out his war ax.

"Then you leave me no choice!"Queen Écarlate replied as she drew out her sword.

"Ice Make-Freeze Lance " Rey chanted as he fired several spears of ice at Queen Écarlate but the Queen of Dragons leap over the attack and jumped the side to dodge the attacks.

"Dividing Wind" Écarlate chanted as she swings her sword shooting an arcing slash wave towards the King of Vikings however he dodges the attack.

The fight went on for several hours, where the battle came to its climax. Rey was in his IceMake Yimir Armor and Queen Écarlate, both of them dashed at full speed, clashing with each other. Both attacked each other and both appear behind each other, Écarlate falls to one knee with her arm frozen while Rey falls down to the ground with a gash on his chest with his armor shattered.

Écarlate decides to save Rey taking him towards her forces.

Present-day

His wife walks in seeing Rey drink.

"I haven't seen you this excited for a fight in a while!" Katerina said to her husband.

"I look forward to fighting the Queen of dragons myself, I was thinking about the time I fought her mother when she was around the same age as Irene during the war. Our battle was so intense that it was enough to form the Viking alliance with Dragonv after the war. I spend most of my life doing my father's job, uniting all the Viking tribes only to be defeated by the Queen of dragons." Rey said to his wife.

"What about your student Erenjack?" Katerina asked her husband.

"I would like you to fight him to test how he can control the Everfrost sword if he beats you, I will fight him and Irene myself" Rey answered.

"You confident you can take both yourself? It's been over two decades since you went all the way out." Katerina questioned wondering if her husband had the same power as his prime.

"Only one way to find out, by fighting them."Rey replied only to hear a large explosion." Seems like someone screwed up the fireworks" he then heard more explosions and blood-curdling screams

People start fleeing as all of a sudden a massive slash wave cuts down buildings within several city blocks. Ezekiel goes to attack slashing down everything and everyone in his way.

"SLASH SLASHY!" Ezekiel laughed as he cuts a civilian in half, he does a slashing wave, dividing the house by half and spitting several dozen people cleanly in half.

Rey rushes to the outside of the castle where he sees explosions at the town.

"What's going on here?" Rey asked, "Are we under attack by an army?"

"There are no warships at the distance, this has to be mages attacking." Katerina answered as she observed no ships nearby.

"I think the Serenity Kingdom is retaliating for the recent raid, very well let's stop them." Rey replied as he was ready for battle.

Several Vikings try to slash at Ezekiel but he easily slashes them in half.

"URRRGH!" the Viking screamed as he struggled to move with no legs only to get his head crushed by Torafuzar.

"So these are the so-called Vikings? What a joke, back in my past life I used to fight these people, now..."One Viking is stabbed by Toatrafuzars fins and another has his neck snapped "They fear me!" Torafuzar said to him with a grin as he walked around.

A blue muscular demon the size of Torafuzar charges up a mouth beam which vaporizes several city blocks and begins to devour the souls of the deceased. People are fleeing their lives as demons go to attack the village. Torafuzar and Ezeki gather with the blue demon as he grew larger.

"These souls are so delicious I feel myself getting stronger, my Curse power is amped up. Eating my own countrymen with the power of the Middle Earthland Demon of destruction is fucking amazing. I, Ivar the Boneless, reincarnated as Deliorah will get my revenge for the Fullbuster clan slaying me many moons ago by destroying these pathetic humans." the blue demon laughed as he goes to shoot another blast at some buildings.

"Seems like you're itching for a fight you two. You two, create the diversion and have fun killing these humans, I'll search for the Clock Piece." Torafzurar said to the two as he searches the city for temples.

"Sure thing, I'm having a lot of fun murdering these insects of humans, let's do this."Ezekiel replied as he targets a crying child who fell down and was looking terrified of him.

"MOMMY, DADDY, HELP!" the crying child shouted as the demon glared at him with evil intentions.

"I love kids, I love they're crying as I chop them up is great and they're so fun to chew on."Ezekiel grinned as he comes towards the child only for his arm to be frozen.

Rey, Ranagork, and queen Hilda arrive at the battlefield along with several dragons to stop the chaos as half the town was already in flames.

"Who the hell are you guys?" Rey asked.

"Looks like we got some prey to chop up to pieces" Ezikel answered grinning as he looked at the kings.

"I was wondering when I get an actual fight, looks like I finally get to exact my revenge against the Fullbuster family." Deliora grinned as he was clutching his fist.

"Revenge? What are you talking about, what are you?" Rey responded confused about the demon knowing him.

"I am formerly known as Ivar the Terrible, I was the ruler of this country 600 years ago until the Fullbuster clan slew me. Now I have returned with the power of the demon Abaddon, the great destruction demon Middle Earthland as Deliora, the ultimate being known as an Ehterious." Deilroia bragged as he flexes his arms creating a wave of intense power.

"So you came here from the dead Ivar? I heard that you were amongst the most powerful Vikings to ever exist, now you as a vile demon? Perhaps you're the fight this old Viking has been waiting to face. You two, deal with the other two demons, I want to fight this one on one and send him back to Hel." Rey said to the others as he drew out his Ice Axe.

"Very well then, I take the ugly fish demon." Hilda said to the king of kings.

"And I'll handle the 4 armed monsters!" King Rangronk replied.

The three begin their battles against the demons with Rey going to attack Deliora directly.

"Ice-Make Ax" Rey chanted as he goes to slash the blue demon but he blocks the ax with his forearm.

"Pathetic!" Deliora laughed as he followed up with a punch, sending the Viking king crashing through a building.

"Goddess Gale '' Hilda chanted as she shoots a spiraling wind blast towards Torafuzar but the attack bounces of his body like nothing happened.

King Rangronk clashed with Eziekel only to get slashed many times before he could react.

"Damn, these demons are no joke" Rey said his two comrades.

"We have to go all out against them" Hilda replied.

"No kidding, we can't afford to hold back" King Rangrok said to them

"Now then, time to go all out! Ice-Make: Armor of Yimiri!" Rey chanted as he summons massive energy around him forming armor around him.

"God Soul: Freya." Hilda chanted as she turned into her God Soul form, she grew Angelic wings made of light around her, She was covered in light energy as she wielded a sword and shield made of light with a white dress made of light.

"Berserker Fury!" Ranagork chanted as he pounded his chest with both hands repeatedly as his skin turned red and his muscles grew twice as huge.

They all dash at their opponents at high speeds, Ezekiel and Rangrok clash however he easily overpowers Ezekiel with his superior might, smashing him into the ground with a giant Axe thrust. Torafuzar struggles against Hilda who fires Fire Lightning and wind blasts at him, Rey attacks Deliora with powerful Ice blasts and uses his Ice-Make: Cold Excalibur to cut and freeze Deliora, however, the demon manages to thaw himself out.

"Charging Bolt '' Hilda chanted as she shoots a massive bolt of lighting combing with her water blast but Torafurzar tanks the blast.

"Tenchi Kaimei!" Torafuzar chanted as he shot a blast of concentrated black carbon water towards Hilda

"Water Vortex!" Hilda countered as she creates a massive water blast from her mouth."Maiden's Wind !" Hilda chanted as she shot a massive gust of wind from her left hand"Blazing Gale!" Hilda chanted as she mixed Fire with Wind creating a massive storm of flames towards Torafuzar, creating an explosion.

Meanwhile, Eziekel was fighting against King Rangrok of Olaf with his four arms clashing against the oaf's massive sword. The Giant Race could not use magical attacks but could generate immensely shockwaves, earthquakes generated by them pounding their weapons very hard into the ground, air pressure waves from clapping the air and slashing waves from their axes.

"Giants Slash!" Rangork chanted as he goes to slash his ax, creating an air pressure wave firing at him like a blast using pure air pressure from his blade to create a pressure wave that cuts anything touching it.

"Onimaru " Eziekel counted as he sent a massive slash wave to cancel out Rangrok's slash wave.

Meanwhile, Deliora's fight was a lot more one-sided against him as he struggles to land a single hit on the Viking King of Kings. Deliora goes to fire a mouth blast at him but he blocks with his shield.

"Sorry but you need to try harder than that!" Rey smirked as he went for his next attack."Holy Ice Wave!" Rey countered as he swiped his right hand producing an ice wave that freezes Deliora.

Delora, however, breaks out the ice and was a bit winded, the other demons gather together to face the three kings.

"These humans are stronger than I thought"Ezekiel grunted as he was recovering from King Rangrok's blow.

"I can see why these Vikings were feared even by the Zentopian Legion Corp, perhaps we need to stop fighting like humans at this point." Torfazuar replied.

"Fighting like humans?" Rey asked confused.

"Did you really this is our true power? our true forms are far scarier than this. I've been dying for a fight like this to use it. Now then let's transform."

"I have a very bad feeling about this."Rey said to himself as they felt the demons transform in front of them

All three demons turned into their Etherious states. Torfazuar gains more muscles and has a steel body. Ezekiel grows armor around his body which are coated black in color with each of his four arms transforming into blade grew even larger than before with more beastly form. His body further bulks up, with his size becoming larger and his muscle mass gaining growing. His skin changed color, becoming darker, and his now loose hair grows longer to resemble a mane, with two light streaks extending some inches up from the sides of his forehead. His eyes become blank, his canines grow larger and his ears become pointed, their needle-like protrusions more prominent. Deliora's legs are now reminiscent of a bird's, complete with five large talons. In such a state, the only piece of attire he retains are his pants, which are now comparatively smaller due to the increase in size.

"What the hell...such a horrifying power, it's like staring down the pits of Hel." Rey said to himself.

"It's like staring at death itself..."Hilda said to the others losing her calm nature as she tried to stand her ground.

"We need to attack them now!" Ragnarok shouted as he went to swing his ax with full force.

He comes at Ezekiel however the demons smirks. Before he could connect his strike, he was slashed in half by Eizekiel shockwaves.

"Juzumaru (数珠丸 Juzumaru)" Eziekel chanted as he swung all of his upper limbs forward at the same time, and effects, consisting in an "x"-shaped slash which cut the large king down in a single attack.

"RAGNAROK!" Rey and Hilda screamed in agony as they saw him fall down to the ground.

Deliora goes to punch Rey but Rey blocks the attack but is smashed into a building.

"HAHAHAHA!" Deliora shoots a powerful beam in the direction of Rey creating a small nuclear explosion.

"You BASTARDS!" Hilda goes to set up her ultimate attack "Prepare for the Ultimate might of the Vakryle, she summons over 100 glyphs within the air surrounding Torafuzar" Varkyles Judgement!" Hilda chanted as she rained down hundreds of powerful beam-like attacks on Torafuzar, however, the attacks have no effect on his metallic body.

"Was that the best you can do human?" Torafuzar said not fazed in the slightest by the blasts with his stern face."I'm disappointed that the Legendary Valkyrie Race is so pitifully weak." Torafuzar said to her as he punched her in the stomach, punching straight through it "Deep Impact" Toirafuzar chanted as his punch creates a shockwave after going through her.

Rey gets back up and sees Rangrok and Hilda down on the ground.

"DAMN IT! RAGNAROK, HILDA! YOU... YOU'RE ALL GOING TO PAY!"Rey got angry as he went to fight all 3 of the demons at once.

"Trying to fight us 3 on one, foolish!" Torafuzar gloated as he goes to punch Rey but Ray holds back his punch with his shield.

"Maybe but there's a reason I'm the King of Viking Kings! Berserker Fury!" Rey chanted as he powered up with his skin turning red with his muscles growing larger and pushes back Torafuzar.

Eizkei comes at him with his four sword arms.

"Mikazuki "Eizkei chanted as he does a series of rapid sword slashes to go against Rey however he dodges and goes to attack him.

"Ice-Make: Ice Bringer Seven Blade Dance '' Rey countered as he did rapid slashes freezing the air around Eziekel and then hit him with slashes, freezing him in a block of ice.

"Ezekiel, he was taken out in one attack, damn., I got no choice!Tenchi Kaimei " Toarafuzars chanted as he created a massive wave of black carbon water around Rey.

"Ice-Make: Ocean" Rey countered as he completely freezes the Black Cabron Tsunami and Torafuzar in the process.

"Torafazura, Eziekel!Time to get even more power might be able to gain sentience but it's worth it to kill you King Fullbuster... RRRARRGH!" Deliora roared as he began to burst with immense power as he broke his own seal.

"Is he going into his True Demon form, that fool! He can't go back to his rational self if he obtains such a form." Torafurzar said to himself while encased in ice.

Deliora grew to over 50 feet and is now a massive, dark blue, humanoid Demon. He has a large torso and two large arms that end in scaly hands. On the left and right part of his torso as well as around his neck, Deliora is covered with a series of spikes. In addition, he has two large legs, whereas the feet resemble the ones of a bird, with additional spikes on the back. His hair is mane-like in shape and it flows down to the nape of his neck. He has a pair of horns that point upwards, jutting from a plate on his forehead. He also has large pointed teeth as well as two hollow eyes.

"Such a frightening size!"Rey said to himself as he went to attack him.

"Ice Make-Freeze Lance " Rey chanted as he fired several spears of ice at the demon but the demon no-sells being hit and wasn't even flinched.

"RRAAGH!"Deliora roared as he punched Rey so hard, he got knocked into several buildings.

"URRGH! His power has increased so much!" Rey said to himself.

"RRRAWAAR" Deiloria roared as he creates a shockwave blowing Rey out to the city limits with his shockwave demolishing most buildings in the city and killing many people caught in the attack.

"Damn it, the whole city!" Rey shouted as he struggled to get up, he was at his castle. Katerina comes to his aid.

"Rey! You okay?" Katerina asked her husband

"Get Musica out of the city now,"Rey answered commanding his wife to take his kid to safety.

"You're hurt, let me help you!" Katerina said to her husband.

"I'm sorry but you would only get in the way, those demons were powerful to kill Rangronk and Hilda in a single blow, I'm the only one who can defeat this monster. If you fight with me, who's going to protect our son." Rey replied, denying her help.

"If you stay with your injuries and exert too much power, you're going to die." Katerina worried that she would never see her husband again.

"If I don't stop him, everyone is going to die, including you." Rey shouted at her, she then realizes how dire the situation was and goes to hug her husband.

"I hope you beat him and come back!" Katerina replied as she kissed him.

Rey saw his wife and kid leave with the people fleeing town. He stared down the demon who was charging up a blast in its mouth towards his family.

"Ice-Make Arrows" Rey chanted as he shoots 10 arrows, hitting Deliora, the arrows only annoy Deliora enough to direct his attack towards Rey"Holy Ice Deep Freeze!" Rey chanted as he freezes Deliora solid, however, the demon broke out of the ice easily and roared.

Rey continued to against the monstrous demon, they clashed for a bit, however, Deliora's strength and size didn't give him increased speed or intelligence as Rey was able to use his superior speed and intelligence to outmaneuver the demon. Eventually, he sets up for his ultimate attack.

"Holy Ice-Make: Ice Volcano " Rey chanted as he creates a massive explosion of ice that covers the entire city that was now in ruins." That had to have killed him!" Rey said to himself. However, despite its power, Deliora regenerates from the wounds."He's regenerating, time to end that fiend!" Rey said to himself as he leaps into the air and forms a massive hammer twice the size of his body with ice. "Ice-Make: Mjolnir" Rey chanted as he swings his massive hammer into the neck of Deliora while he's regenerating, with such force, he smashes the demon in the ground, creating a crater the size of a whole village.

"RRRAARRGH!" Deliora roared in agony and pain as it was making weak votes as he struggles to breathe

Rey severely exhausted and noticing his own armor starting to take him over, he was forced to disable his armor and removed it. He was struggling to catch his breath as the right side of his neck, shoulder and right side of his chest is covered in ice. He was trying to slowly thaw himself out.

"Looks like he's struggling to regenerate, time to end him!" Rey said to himself as he summoned a large ax as he slowly walked to the creature and raises his ax in the air only to feel a sharp pain in his chest. He noticed it was only of Ekziel's blade arms through his chest"URRAGH!" Rey grunted as he coughed up blood all over the snow-covered ruins of the ground.

"This fight was dragging out too long, Deiloria you fool, now you're stuck in that form, Torafruzar gets up, Mard Geer is going to reprimand you greatly for going into that form Deliora."Ezekiel laughed as Torafuzar breaks out of his ice prison only with minor frostbite damage.

"Damn that was a close one, to freeze me and damage my Steel Skin so easily, The Viking King lives up to his reputation. Deliora, let's hurry this up and finish our job here." Torafuzar said to Deliora only to see Deliora glare at him.

"RAGGH!"Deliora growled as he shot a small energy blast towards Torafuzar however he used his steel body to defect the small blast into a building while Deliora regenerated the near-fatal injury but was notably fatigued.

"Forget him, he's completely feral now, let him destroy what's left of this pathetic country" Eziekel said to Torafuzar.

"Yeah, let's end this king right now!"Torafuzar goes to finish Rey however he senses Hilda standing back up charing up her power.

"Pathetic human, what can you do in your condition, you couldn't hurt me before much less at Near Death" Torafuzar laughed only to notice her power spiked."What. what's going on."

"If I'm dying I'm taking you with me! Baldur's Storm !" Hilda chanted as all 5 elemental glyphs, Earth, Fire, Water, Wind, and Lightning combine as one and fire an immensely powerful blue laser too fast for Torafuzar to dodge as he's hit directly by it as the lase goes high into the sky as Hilda aimed it into the atmosphere, the beam reached space in less than a second parting the clouds over Isvan. Hilda then falls down to the ground as her body turns into ash firing the attack from the recoil of the attack.

"Damn it! Torafuzar" He rushes to get to him only to see Ragnarok leap and crush him with immense force, causing a massive crater in the ground.

"I will crush you to death!" Ragnarok grunted as he presses himself as he was going to die with his upper body crushing Ezekiel however Torafuzar gets back up and tosses the giant's body away. Torafuzar had his body resemble melted steel as the steel skin looks reddish as he was badly burned but he was able to withstand the blast.

"Let's call this off, Deliora's attack has made this too unsafe for us." Ezekiel said to Torfazuar afraid he might get caught in Deliora's rampage.

"Yeah, thanks for the save! Looks like Deliora is going to destroy this country, let's get as far away as possible." Torafuzar replied as Deliora was charging up a massive energy blast in its mouth aiming at Rey however the Viking King gets back up and freezes Deliora redirecting his blast into the sky. The beam goes into the stratosphere and into space within seconds.

" Damn had he fired the blast into the ground, all of Isvan would be gone...Damn it, Hilda, Ragnarok, they're dead...I can't let their deaths be in vain...I gotta stop this demon before he takes more innocent lives." Rey said to himself as he clutches to the hole in his chest " I only got minutes left...If I'm going to die and go to Valhalla, then I'm going to do so making sure this beast dies with me." Rey said to himself as he struggled to maintain himself. He watches as Deliora breaks out of the ice and is extremely pissed "Come and get me your scaly prick." Rey taunted the beast as he runs away baiting Deliora to chase after him, despite at near death, Deiloria struggled to keep up with Rey's speed" I only have one choice of stopping this creature, I was saving this one in case I had to fight an Elite level dark dragon however Ii doubt I'm making it to that battlefield."

Rey stops at the edge of a cliffside where Deiloria came closer to him.

"RRRAWGH!" Deliora roared as he came closer to him.

"It's time you perish to the abyss!" Rey said to the demon as he makes an "X" sign, with the right arm above the left arm. The right palm facing down while the left palm is facing up. He generates a massive aura that creates a snowstorm engulfing the whole country. " Musica, Katerina, sorry, I can't be with you, I have no choice but to do this, for the country, for the world!"

"RAAWRGH!" Deliora roared feeling threatened, he leaped onto Rey and grabs him with his massive hand and jumps off the seacliff however Rey smiled as he completed his attack.

"Iced Shell!" Rey chanted as he freezes Deliora in a massive block of ice twice as big as his entire body, He forced his entire life force to trap Deliora.

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Zentopia City

January 6, x390

At the Zentopian City Grand Church, a Grand Mass was occurring within the main church. Victor was making a grand speech about the Bei Independence movement. The new Zentopia City and Grand Church was built after the Great Fiore Civil War in X382-X383 destroyed the old Zentopia city, it took 5 years to construct the new City, a city about 300 farm acres in size resembling the old city, except it's located outside Crocus Southeast of the city near the town of Cedar. Now the small city-sized church was being used as the new base of Zentopia City.

"Today we would like to declare that the Bei Tribe has agreed with us to begin the process of helping them form an independent kingdom. As god said within the bible, a nation that is righteous shall have it's own kingdom for the chosen people within the nation however in the era that seems to be of increasing peace, there's the inevitably of war with the New World controlled by the Dark Dragon Tribe bringing uncertainty within this world however with god at our side and with god standing with our allies, we will prevail in the final battles as Revelations.." Victor was explaining to his followers when he sees a frogman running to the church with blood coming out of his head staining the robes.``What's going on? What happened to you, Minster Sippy?" Victor asked as he rushed to the bleeding frogman as the people in the church began to panic.

"De...de...de...de..DEMONS, THEY'RE ATTACKING."The minister shouted as he fainted.

"Demons?" Veronica asked.

"Impossible! We're in Zentopia City, no Demon would be foolish to attack here." Victor said bewildered any demon can attack.

At the moment Demons crashed through the window. Two hooded demons jump out to the altar.

"What's going on?" Ana shouted as she sensed the demonic energy.

"Where did Demons come from and why attack the Grand Znetopian Church of all things?" Veronica asked as she sees the two demonic cloaked figures.

"Demons shouldn't be able to step into a church, it weakens them dramatically," Victor said to them just an in much shock as them."Could these demons be so powerful that they're immune to the effects that weaken other demons,..No that can't be right, even the strongest of demons should be unable to fight in a church"Victor thought to himself.

"Dad, what to do?" Anna asked him.

"Evacuate the civilians, I will deal with these demons. All forces, stand down, I will deal with these demons. They're going to regret coming to the House of God." Victor replied as Anna and Veronica follow orders to evacuate the civilians.

The hooded robe assassin appears with a long blade to slash him but Victor Evaded the Assassin, the Assassin then grew long claws.

"What?" Victor asked shocked to see the claws extend towards him however he kicked the Assassin, however, the Assassin swings their claws like a whip surprising Victor as he's grabbed and through a wall by the claws."URGH!What the hell?"

"That seriously the best the pope of Zentopia got?" said a very familiar voice.

"That voice, it can't be!" Victor said he was shocked to see her.

"Recognize me don't you ?" the woman said to him as she removes her robe and helmet, revealing her new outfit. Her bird-like mask with her revealing one-piece suit showing off her cleavage and midriff.

"Impossible, I saw you died, you can't be alive much less..."

"A demon? As your court deemed, I was a wicked sinner, far too sinful to exist even in hell so the bitch is back." Kyouka answered with a smile.

"What the hell are you?... Wait those catacombs grave robbed, you were necromanced weren't you.''Victor said to her remembering seeing the catacombs abandoned.

"I'm afraid for you this is far from a mere necromancing, I was resurrected and merged into a demon by merging me with a powerful demon." Kyouka explained to Victor.

"She's not the only one who surrived." said the other cloaked figure as she reveals herself as Seilah wearing

"Sara!You two...What's going on?" Victor asked the two as if he saw a ghost in front of them.

"Perhaps we can tell you everything if you live long enough to survive our fight."Kyouka replied as she was ready to fight.

"Very well, demon or not you've picked the wrong person to fight." Victor replied as he gets into his Zentopian Martial Arts stance.

"Starting off the strong huh old man?"Kyouka said to him.

"This isn't going to be like how we trained, I'm coming at you with everything I got."Victor answered as he emitted an intense golden aura around him, he removed his Pope robe and his Mirite and was in his monk-like robes.

"Those are the robes of the Zentopian Black Belt Monk division. He's not as rusty as we thought. We need to approach him with extreme caution." Selah said to her lover.

"In that case, let's stop beating around the bush and use our Ehterious forms" Kyouka stated as she surrounds herself with a ghostly green aura.

"After you, my beloved!"Seilah replied as her body is surrounded by a blue ember like flame aura. Victor was serious and looked ready to fight.

"Etherious Form, Goddess of the Slave Planet" Kyouka chanted as she transformed. she gains a mask similar to her own with long structures on the side resembling horns. Her hair is replaced by a large tuft of feathers with a long ponytail that reaches down her body and ends in another tuft. She wears pauldrons made of feathers and revealing black armor that covers her arms and wraps around her torso, revealing most of her stomach and breasts. Her legs are covered by black boots that begin mid-thigh where they are lined with feathers.

"Etherious form, Goddess of the Chill Moon" Seilah also chanted as she transformed into her demon form. Seilah changes into a more demonic form than before, with her skin darkening and her horns becoming noticeably larger. Her hair becomes much wilder, and the clothes around her torso disappear, revealing her bare chest to be covered in an intricate, symmetrical tattoo that begins at the choker around her neck and ends at her stomach and hips. Tartaros' guild mark is printed onto her stomach, underneath a heart-shaped design in her tattoo. Her lower body significantly changes, with her legs changing into narrowed stilts that gradually widen up to her hips that now flare out into two wing-like protrusions and her feet change into those of sharp blade.

"You beings are a lot viler than before, no matter, I will free you from the demons inhabiting your course with an Exorcism from my fist." Victor said to them as he goes for a right cross punch only for Seilah to block the attack and counter-attack with her own fist.

Victor and Seilah clash evenly within a battle of strength, the clashing of the fist causes the pews to crack and fracture, as well as splinter as each punch, creates a devastating shockwave, causing all the stained glass windows to blow out. Seilah goes for a Lariat but the Pope of Zentopia blocks it but pushed back slightly. Kyouka dashes at him from behind and goes to slash at Victor but he manages to evade the sharp blade and block with his forearm with Kyouka frantically slashing at him, his arm barely withstanding the impact of the slashes.

"Marco Blast" Seilah chanted as she shot a massive blast of Dark energy towards Victor with the explosion. The entire area is blown apart with a large chunk of the Church heavily damaged by Sleiah's blast.

Victor was able to protect himself with Holy Halo and the people around him."Damn, that was close, your friends aren't merely contempt with trying to kill me, you're trying to take everyone else as well." Victor said to the two more enraged than ever.

"Now then let's see if you can protect them from this! Pain Bolt" Kyouka chanted as she shot a massive blast of Lightning Kyouka charges up her own lighting blast aimed at the evacuating civilians.

"Damn, the attack is too fast to set up another barrier," Victor said to himself as he sees the lightning about to hit some civilians, using his incredible speed to move fast enough for the Lightning to hit his back. he was then hit with overwhelming pain"RRRURUAAGGHH!"Victor grunted as it felt as he was being stabbed repeatedly with blades"What the hell, what kind of Lighting magic is this?"

"Fool, this isn't Lightning Magic, it's Curses, My Lightning bolts are able to manipulate the nervous system of my prey, it makes you feel imaginable pain to such a degree that it feels like you're dying." Kyouka explained to the Pope as he fell to one knee.

"You really let yourself go, Victor, I remember you being far stronger than this, perhaps your old age is catching up or perhaps it's the guilt you face when you killed us."Seilah stated hitting a nerve.

"I tried to save you two, but it was too late by the time I appeared...I wished I could've stopped your execution." Victor explained to the two.

"Bullshit, you're the Pope, you could've pardoned us for the crime, you let those vile people torture us and when you appeared, you finished us off, now we're here to finish you off and all of humanity." Kyouka angrily shouted.

"You're churches hypocrisy is beyond immense. We commit one sin out of line with your values and you let us die, yet you are okay with the actions we did in the Zentopian Legion Corp. The difference is where upfront with our sins whereas you people are the worse hypocrites yet you calm we're the monsters.

"Listen, I was overruled by the Cardinals, had I gone against them at the time a civil war would.."Victor tried to explain himself only for him to be interrupted.

"Enough, die!" Kyoka shouted as she shoots a thin beam of Lighting that casually slices through the wall which Victor jumps over while Selah shoots wind like blasts from her hand punching holes in a wall while Victor evades the attack.

"Now to get serious!" Seilah smiled as she levitated debris around her, lifting bricks, pews and wooden fragments around her and flings them at Victor at insanely high speeds.

"She can move objects with her mind?" Victor said to himself as he dodged the flying projectiles, however, they home back onto him however before he can fire a blast to vaporize the debris, Kyouka kicks him to the ground and he falls to the ground as the projectiles go hit him, some cutting his body, one almost piercing his body.

"I didn't even see her move? What's going on?" Victor said to himself only to see Kyouka behind him and kicks him so, hard, he feels immense pain almost as his body is being ripped apart."RRRUURGAH" Victor grunted as he coughs up blood.

"Did I forget to mention my power can increase by 150% every second in battle, meaning every 8 seconds, I become 10 times more powerful than before."Kyouka explained to the Pope of Zentopia as she was growing stronger.

"These two are far stronger than I thought, I have to get serious." Victor replied as he goes to charge up his aura.

"We won't let you get serious!" Seilah charges a massive energy blast from her eye-hand.

"Holy Light Beam!" Victor countered as he canceled out her blast with his own blast causing a large explosion"Sword of Divine Light!"Victor chanted as he summoned 10 Light Swords to rain down on Kyouka and Seilah but they dodge the attacks. He then comes towards Kyouka with his hand amped by Light Magic.

"Pain Blast Wave." Kyouka shouted as she shoots a massive blast of Lightning as an omnidirectional attack which Victor narrowly evaded the attack as the blast destroyed multiple pillars. He then appears behind Seilah catching her off-guard.

"Sword of God!"Victor chanted as he hit her straight in the chest with his Light enhanced Karate chop, which damages her so badly she deactivated her Etherious form.

"URGH! I didn't even see him move!" Seilah grunted as she dropped to the ground."Seilah"Kyouka shouted as he angrily tried to attack Victor but the Pope was already in front of her.

"Deus Pugnus ( Latin for God's Fist) "Victor chanted as he punched Kyouka right in the jaw with an aura of a giant golden fist, performing massive uppercut, knocking her into the ceiling and he falls down disabled of her Etherious form. Victor then clasped his hands in prayer ." This is the end, now tell me who's pulling the strings, who are using Necromancy on such unheard level?" Victor explained to the two of them.

"Aren't you the curious one? Kyouka said in a mocking tone"Still the old soft man, you're the biggest mistake was not killing us right now." Kyouka smirked.

"What?"Victor then noticed that his own arms were choking him and were wrapped around his neck, he couldn't control himself as the arms "What the... I can't control my body." Victor shouted as his neck was getting squeezed and he was losing air.

"It's my Curse Power Marco!"Seilah laughed.

"Don't kill him yet, we need information from him, where's the Infinity clock pieces? Kyouka asked him.

"Infinity Clock, so you're the ones who revived Baal and ...the grave robbings...it' makes sense." Victor said to them coming to the horrifying realization of their real intentions.

"That's right you catch on quick, what you know as Jennane Liaz and Sara Bloomfield are no more, we are Ehterious, brought back by a powerful Black Magic Wizard known as Zeref. You might recognize him as the one who committed the Milldian Academy Massacre." Kyouka explained to Victor about how they've come to be.

"So that explains everything... the infamous mysterious Black Mage that terrorized the Continent of Isghai with mysterious deaths and destruction to entire forests and towns..."Victor said to them as he finally knew the true identity of the mysterious death mage wreaking havoc around Ishgal for over 3 years.

"Much like us, Zeref was once a human but wanting to go against the gods such as Askerhmani and bring back the dead, he was cursed with Black Magic, now much like all of us, he wants to get revenge against humanity and overthrow the cruel gods who rule over humanity with an iron fist." Seilah explained to the Pope enraging him.

"How dare you spew such blasphemy?" The Pope shouted pissed off.

"Do you froget I'm a demon who was originally a woman cursed to death because I dare happen to break one law of your so-called god? Ask yourself, Victor, was it just to murder me and Seilah because we committed one taboo, was it just you let those angry mobs tear us limb from limb...You might call us monsters and fair enough on that point but in reality, your culture, your reilgion and your society created us monsters so what does that say about your faith when your loving god would allow me to murder and kill children?"Kyouka explained to him mocking the hypocirsy and flaws in the church.

"Grrrh!" Victor grunted in anger from the blasphemy.

"I must admit you're the first person to resist this curse for so long, still how does it feel when you're being deprived of oxygen trust me I know how that felt when the townsfolk was lynching us, the rope around your neck, unable to breath."Seilah taunted as she continued to strangle her former teacher.

"Victor how does it feel when you're the one being violated when all control of yourself is being lost, Now then tell us with Infinity Clock Pieces." Kyouka said to the Pope as she strangled him.

"I sooner go to hell than tell you demons anything, such power should never be unleashed upon humanity." Victor replied, refusing to talk.

"But you see that's all the more reason we must get it out of you old man. you see in order to secure our power and to fight the gods we must get enough power to create our Ultimate Demon, the only power in the world to ensure we get it is the Infinity Clock." Kyouka explained to the Pope of Zentopia.

"You fools, such power would bring destruction to the entire world, even you wouldn't survive it." Victor shouted.

"Even if we're killed initially we can always come back so it's no sweat off us, besides we need to destroy this world anyways, there's too much Ethernano and not nearly enough Anti Ethernano, once we plunge the world in darkness, we would be able to truly thrive and prosper in that world" Kyouka explained to him as she hits the pope with an electrical whip.

"GRRRRH" Victor shouted as he gets shocked yet again.

"Such an arrogant man, this is no fun torturing a man, I prefer a woman to torture, they submit much easier and much funnier to break, men are too tough and too rough, I would prefer if you had your daughter Anna here, then we can break her in front of you...Fuffufu" Kyouka laughed as she goes to whip him.

"BREAK THIS!" Anna shouted as she and Loki jumped into the air charging their attacks. Veronica joins them as well." Uno Matera" Anna chanted as she fired 88 light blasts towards Kyouka.

"Regulus Impact" Loki chanted as he Shoots a giant Lion shaped Light blast from his sword.

"Holy Divine Stream" Veronica chanted as she fires a massive wave of Light

All the attacks hit the two Demons, causing a large blinding flash of light. Kyouka and Seilah were hit down. Both of them get up but were badly burned and coughing up blood with their hair messed up.

"Damn that hurt...what the hell was that?" Kyouka shouted as she struggled to stand up.

"Is that Anna?" Seilah asked shocked to see a much older Anna.

"Wait who are you two... Dad... what's going on...why do those demons look like my Nannys?" Anna asked her father.

"Because we are your nannies or rather were your nannies" Kyouka answered with a smirk.

"They were killed a long time ago and now an evil Wizard is using their bodies as Vessels as a twisted form of revenge against humanity, now they're plans end here." Victor said to them angered as he goes to summon a Lightsword in his right hand and goes to strike them but his sword was blocked by the armored gauntlet.

"Looks like we meet again Victor Heartfilla" Brandman said to the Pope of Zentopia as he pushed back Victor.

"You.. you're Brad Manson! You've been reincarcerated as well?" Victor said shocked to see his arch-enemy revived.

"Been too long Victor Heartfilla, you've foiled our plans for the last time."Brandman said to him as he held back his attack.

"Was there any success finding the Infinity Clock Piece?" Kyouka asked him.

"Negative. Searched everywhere for it, not a single trace of it, they must've moved it away from here." Bradman answered.

"So we came here for nothing and now we're forced to retreat? Not so lucky, Torafuzar's forces failed to find it there and Tempester was killed in Zen, this was a waste of time, we need to go back and plan this better.

"You're going nowhere" Victor stated angrily as he goes to summon his angels however Bradman puts out his hand and absorbs the magic."What?"

"Jackal, we're leaving, activate it!" Bradman said to him talking telepathically.

Jackal was at the basement level of the Grand Zentopian Church.

"I just planted my bombs all over the place, time to bring it all down. Volcanic Explosion" Jackal laughed as he activated all the bombs within the Grand Zentopia Church, causing the whole place to start collapsing around everyone shocking Anna, Veronica and Victor Heartfilla. Multiple explosions start happening around the church causing debris to collapse onto people.

"You have two options, pursue us in vain and everyone dies in the city or try to save yourselves in the process of saving people' Brandman said to them as he leaps out the window along with Kyouka and Seilah.

"The place is collapsing Dad!" Anna shouted.

"Get next to me, Holy Halo!" Victor chanted as he activates his spell as a large explosion is about to happen.

With one explosion, the entire Zentopian City is completely destroyed with a massive explosion. Victor used Holy Halo to protect as many people as he could, however, while he protected as many people as possible, some innocent people were killed with the building having all but fully collapsed.

"The Grand Zentopian Church, it's gone, it's all gone..." Anna shouted as she began to cry as the Zentopia grand Church was destroyed.

Victor punches the ground in extreme rage.

"Damn them, this is beyond something we can handle alone. We need to notify Irene of this disaster, there's a new threat that emerged."Victor said to himself as he looked at the devastation of his city-state.

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Exodus,Zen

January 7, X390

Venomisky and Grandeendy arrive at Exodus to treat Rena, Frederick, and Lena. Irene was horribly sad to see her family members badly sick, the temple was severely damaged and was closed off to everyone due to the MBP still lingering around the temple. Earth dragons have arrived and erected a massive rock all covering the complex the size of a small town, closing it off the public and keeping the MPB in the temple.

"How bad is it? ANSWER ME!"Irene shouted as she panicked.

"Very bad, for the moment they're stabilized, however, it's uncertain if they're going to survive the worse hit was Rena and Asuka, both were at the brink of death when we arrived." Grandeenedy explained to them.

"Damn it. all those innocent people killed, then my family members, the last remnants of my close family close to dying, the queen of Fiore hospitalized, This is a disaster." Irene stated as she tried to stop her crying.

"The temple area has been closed down, then the entire western part of the town was contained. 123 people in the temple were killed with over 545 people wounded and being treated, thankfully the quick thinking of your cousin and Aunt allowed thousands of people to escape the area and saved countless other lives." Grandenenedy explained to her trying to calm her down.

"At least we saved that many people. Still, this is a problem. That one monster was able to defeat Mage Monarchs and Elite mages with ease and came close to killing me. Had we not stopped him there, he would have destroyed a nation, the fact his powers don't use Magic makes him even a threat to dragons as well. That monster said that they were more like him. If this is the case, we're in serious trouble. Is there a way to cure this poison."

"May I see your sword?" Grandeeney asked him.

"Sure!" Irene answered as she sees dried up blood from Tempester and takes the dried up drops into a jar.

"Assuming this is anything like how poisonous plants work, the poison can be cured if I make an antidote from this blood of the demon into an exilir, Demons by nature are immune to poison, Vemonisiky should be able to help with this."Grandeenedy explained to Irene as she lightly put down the jar.

"That poisons are not magical in nature but something else. I would try to use the blood of the demon to develop an antidote and hope they recover.." Venomiskiy stated explaining he can cure them with the vaccine developing.

"I wish them luck." Irene replied.

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Later that day.

Irene was at the temple praying when she sees Anna and Victor arrive to tell her the bad news,

"Anna, Victor, you look like you got caught in an exploison."

"They attacked here too?"Anna asked with a notable shadow over her eyes with a deathly serious tone.

"Don't tell me you were attacked too!" Irene shouted.

"They tried to kill me, had not for Anna and Veronica, they would've killed me." Victor explained to the queen of Dragons.

"Even you? Just what is this Tartaros threat?" Irene was shocked to hear Victor Heartfilla of all people struggling against the Tartaros demons.

Erenjack and Lena appear to see the ruins.

"What's going on here? What happened?"Erenjack asked horrified at seeing the destruction of the temple.

"Demons, they attacked my family, they're at NEAR DEATH, THANKS TO THOSE MONSTERS1" Irene explained to Enrejack with intense rage that the air was feeling scorched, she clutches her fist until blood comes out of her palm.

"We must seek out the 3 Kings and begin the search for these vile beings" Victor Heartfilla said to everyone as they headed to Isvan, unaware of the devastation.

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Back at Silver Lake City, Isvan

They stated that they were attacked by Tartaros demons who attacked Zentopia City much to Irene's shock and horror. Erenjack and Lena appear to tell Irene that Deliora killed the 3 Isvianain Kings. The town was completely destroyed with every building completely flatten with flames all over the city, at the center of the town was a village sized crater where Rangrok's upper half of his corpse was at and an ash pile of Hilda's body there.

Katerina and her son were crying at the ruins of the city crying over the fallen king and queen of Olaf and Vakrayla. Irene walked to them to see the family crying within the ruins of their manor. Lena looks for her master.

"MASTER! WHERE ARE YOU?" Lena shouted.

"Damn it, DAMN IT! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Erenjack shouted as he sees nothing but devastation within the town

"Demons, they came and destroyed everything, they killed so many people that we are still picking up the bodies" Katerina said to them as tears flow through her eyes like that of a waterfall.

"They attacked here too, How is it possible to attack 3 countries at once?" Irene asked the queen of Isvan.

"This is far worse than I thought possible, the Demon World has declared war on humanity itself." The pope said to Irene.

"Demon World..?"Irene asked them.

"For centuries Demons lived in their own realm in exile after their failed attempt to take over humanity, now it seems they've returned with a vengeance." Anna explained to her best friend about the urgency of the

"It would be the only explanation as to how they can attack three kingdoms at once, we need to band together and fight this threat before it destroys the entire world."

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Irene's POV

No one knew how Tartaros could attack all three countries of fairly far distances in just one day in such a short time. Such things were unthinkable that they could cover such a vast distance at once until we learned of their floating Island base. We knew nothing about this threat capabilities however as seen with their three separate attacks, Tartaros had free reign to attack any and all nations and empires across the entire world.

132 people were killed in the Zentopia City attack with 454 of them injured, the entire building complex was damaged heavily but remained stable, the Nation was on lockdown. Ther attack oN Exodus resulted in 123 people killed by the mysterious poison with over 345 more dying from the residual poison. Rena saved the entire town blocking the poison with her hair magic with Asuka and Fredrick contained it with his barrier, thousands would have perished had not for their quick thinking including myself. The worst-hit of the three areas was the kingdom of Isvan in Silver lake City. Over 23,000 people were killed in the attack with Deliora and Lullaby with the 3 kings of Isvanin the casualties. The Tartaros Guild was as much of a threat as the Dark Dragon Tribe, the difference is at the time we knew nothing about their motives.

To be continued

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(A/N: Thanks once again to Geralt D. Wolfwood for his beat reading and contributions to the chapter. Yep, shit just got real as you can see here, Three Separate attack on 3 Holy Sites across Two continents on the same day by the sinister group known as Tartaros. For those familiar with the Tartaros Arc, the Tartaros Demons, for the most part, failed to live up to their hype as the most dangerous demons of Zeref and i'm going to try my best to redeem them into credible threats both in this arc and the future arc which is a retelling of the Canon Tartaros Arc. While there's still going to be one on one fights with each demon, at least in the past, they're going to give our heroes a serious run for their money and cause as much damage to their surroundings as possible.

As seen with the previous chapters and further confirmed in this chapter, most of the Tartaros Demons are fallen members of the Zentopia Legion Corp from the Fiore Civil War back in X382-X383 that was mentioned as far back as Chapter 7 when Irene returned to Fiore and the country was under reconstruction from the war. Yep, these are literal demons from Victor Heartfilla's past and a much darker past of not only the Pope of Zentopia but also the Zentopian Church.

Going by the anime alone, the Zentopia Legion Corp were depicted as ruthless agents of the Zentopian Church protecting the church at any cost, after all, they started the Key to the Starry Sky Arc by attacking Lucy for the clock piece and even tasked to assassinating Lucy if it means to protect the Church and the world so Canonically they're already a morally Grey organization so yeah i'm merely taking it a step further for the backstory of Taurus members being connected to the corruption of Zentopia as well as detailing the no so glorious past of Victor Heartfilla and the things he's had to overlook for the protection of Zentopia and Fiore.

Seilah and Kyouka being a good example of that as they have allured to within the statement that he failed to save them, I'll avoid going into details for risk of spoiling the plot but let's just say this has a considerable impact on Victor Heartfilla to this day and would have an effect on Anna Heartfilla. As explained before, this entire arc is an origin story arc of Tartaros, the Origins of the Ehterrious which would be important later on, the exploration of Zentopia and more context of the Infinity Clock and it's an origin story and other things that would be revealed within the arc.

Rey's death is very slimair to that of Ur's Death, in fact, Deliora within this story would be lost for 400 years and brought back much later and become the threat Ur would also sacrifice her life for. It was a parallel to the present, the destruction of Isvan, Zentopia and Exodus were to showcase how much of a threat Tartaros is as in canon they're said to be able to each equal the military might of a whole nations army and i'm having them live up to the name having them so powerful that even some of the strongest mages of the world struggle at their might.

Now for the power scales of the chapter.

Tempster: 24,420 MPF base, 36,432 MPF Etherious Form

Frederick Corona:20,000 MPF base,26,400 MPF using darkness Shadow

Asuka Corona: 18,000 MPF, 23,760 MPF using Hair Titan Armor

Jackson Shakespeare:20,666 MPF base, 27,666 MPF

Queen Sabre: 23,000 MPF

Rena(Post Training): 20,998 MPF base, 29,998 MPF full power, 36,664 Hair Titan Armor

Irene(Post Training/weakened by Altitude sickness):18,000 MPF base, 18,666 MPF using Enchantments, 19,666 MPF using full power base, 20,332 MPF full power base+Enchantments, 23,332 MFP using Advanced Enchantments base, 24,000 MPF using Hoshigami No Satsuki, 26,666 MPF using Enchantments Hoshigami No Satsuki, 30,066 MPF full Power Homsigkaiki No Satsuki,24,666 Deus Maximus, 32,000 MPF using Deus Maximus

Jacob Knighwalker: 17,500 MPF base,17.833 MPh using basic enchantments, 18,666 MPH with higher enchantments, 19,166 with Advanced Enchantment, 25,832 MPF using Berserker chant on himself suppressed, 39,164 MPF using full-powered Berserker spell on himself

Rey Fullbuster, Queen Hilda Yesta and King Rangornk vs Deliora,Torafuzar, and Ezekiel

Delioria( Prime)27 ,142 MPF 33,812 MPF Etherious form, ,40,479 MPF True Demon Form

King Ranragork:25,000 MPF, 28,333 MPF Berserker Mode

Queen Hilda Yesta: 22,000 MPF, 28,666 MPF God Soul: Freya

Rey Fullbuster 24,000 MPF, 30,666 MPF using Ice-Make: Minojri Armor

Zekel: 24,666 MPF base, 31,332 MPF Ehtertious form, Up to 37,998 MPF in defense preicing

Rey Fullbuster: 30,666 MPF using Ice-Make: Minojri Armor, 37,332 MPF Berserker Rage

Delioria(True Demon state) ,40,479 MPF True Demon Form

Kyouka 23,692 MPF base, 37,025 MPF Etherious Form with her power rising 3,333 MPF every second, 53,690 MPF full power enchantments

Seilah: 22,400 MPF base, 36,607 MPF Ehtertous Form, 44,880 MPF using Limiter release+Etherious mode

Victor Heartfilla(Rusty): 37,332 MPF base, 48,000 MPF full power base, 63,333 MPF using his strongest Holy Magic,

Brandman: 63,333 MPF base, 69,999 MPF Ehtertious form

Sorry for delays mother had to go into another surgery, will get into the next chapter and post Bleach Shippuden later this week or early next week. Also RIP Kobe Bryant.

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