Hello all Storm here with a new story! Here we'll have something very different, as rather than Naruto, Naruko, or an OC we'll be seeing a different character entirely! But not a "Naruto" character, instead we'll be seeing the one and only, Titania Erza Scarlet! So, without further ado.
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The Kingdom of Fiore, a small, peaceful nation that was filled with magic, with many of those who use magic having joined Mage Guilds that could be found throughout all of Fiore. With there being one guild that stood out among all the others and was regarded as the strongest guild in Fiore. With the guild being known as Fairy Tail, home to some of the strongest Mages in all of Earthland.
One such mage being Erza Scarlet, otherwise known as the Fairy Queen, Titania. Along with being the youngest member of Fairy Tail to become an S-Rank Mage, at only fifteen-years-old. With Erza having since completed several S-Class Missions for the next four years, which only further increased her reputation. Along with being regarded as one of the most beautiful Mages in Fiore, alongside her friend and former rival, Mirajane Strauss.
With Erza having long scarlet hair, brown eyes, and a slender, voluptuous figure. Her most common attire is a set of custom made Heart Kreuz Armor, a blue skirt, black boots, and diamond shaped silver earrings, while her Guild Mark was blue in color and located on her upper left arm.
Currently, Erza was on another S-Class Mission, one involving several people being kidnapped and taken prisoner from a small town. Something that admittedly hit a little close for the redhead, due to her childhood as a slave in the Tower of Heaven. Leading to her take the job to find out what was happening to the people being taken and save them.
Though when she reached the town, Erza had then gotten the full details of the mission from the mayor and the only person, who was able to escape their captors. Learning that the people being kidnapped, were being taken as slaves by some sort of cult. Who were attempting to summon a demon from a different dimension, while planning to use the slaves they captured as sacrifices.
Which really was a sore spot for Erza, now that she's learned what exactly was going on, and how similar it is to the Tower of Heaven. Leading to her heading straight for the cultists' base to stop them and free the slaves, refusing to let anyone else go through what she and her friends had.
With the redhead having soon arrived and Requiped her Heaven's Wheel Armor, one of her signature sets of armor.
Almost every part of this armor is seemingly made of silver metal. The upper part of this armor only consists of a small, revealing breastplate that extends along her hips, composed of feather-shaped plates pointing upwards with a large metal flower on the front, leaving the tops of her breasts exposed, as well as her stomach. Her biceps are covered by metal straps and her very large plated gauntlets sport feather-shaped plates at the edges. Her waist is circled by large, decorated plates reminiscent of feathers that lie on a long skirt. She wears a pair of plated boots which is partially hidden under her skirt, each sporting metal ornaments shaped like wings. Erza also wore a neck guard made of feather-like plates and a tiara with prominent metal wings. With the armor also sports two pairs of large metal wings which adorn Erza's back, composed of metal feathers which get longer and larger at the edges.
Erza made short work of the guards outside the base before destroying the doors and jumping inside.
"This ends right now! Whoever you are, your plans end here!" Erza shouted as she entered the base, only to stop when she saw all the cultists and slavers surrounding what looked like a massive ritual circle, with the slaves being tied up and gagged, while being placed off to the side ready to be used for the rituals.
"It's Titania! Stop her!" Yelled one of the cultists, as several of them began attacking Erza with their magic.
"Dance, My Blades!" Said Erza as she summoned several swords that began circling her, acting a shield from the attacks before she had the swords launch towards the cultists, either stabbing through their clothes and pinning them to the walls and floors, or knocking them across the chamber.
Erza then rushed forward towards a group of slavers while Requipping another blade and slashing at them in a pentagram shape, sending them all crashing against a wall. Before she then rounded on another group, Requipping another blade and a massive amount floating swords behind her. Slashing two of swords at them before blitzing past the rest of them, as all her other swords rained down on them.
Looking around, Erza saw the cultists and slavers were either incapacitated, making her nod in satisfaction at seeing them all taken care of.
'Now to free the prisoners.' Erza thought before going over to free the slaves, only to suddenly freeze when one of the slavers spoke.
"You…you're one of those…stupid runts…from the tower." Said the slaver on the ground, while Erza went completely still at his words as her eyes widen at what the slaver just said.
Before she immediately rounded on the slaver with a dark scowl on her face, grabbing him by his neck and lifting him into the air.
"What. Did. You. Just. Say?!" Erza demanded angry at the mention of the Tower of Heaven, even more so that this slaver seemingly knew she had been enslaved there, as the mage laughed despite the current situation.
"That's right, I remember you now. You're that one brat that was stupid enough to try and stage an escape, surprised you still have both eyes after the torturer took one! AHAHAHA-GAH!" The man choked when Erza's grip on his neck tightened, as the S-Class Mage began shaking in anger.
"How are you here?!" Demanded Erza, wanting to know how anyone from the Tower of Heaven could still be around after Jellal took control of it.
"Simple, we're getting payback against the other runt for usurping control of our tower to revive Lord Zeref." Revealed the slaver, smirking, as Erza's eyes widened again when he said "we".
Looking around, Erza finally started recognizing several of the cultists and slavers, recognizing them from when Rosemary Village was attacked. And from when she and others were being forced to build that damn tower.
'They're here, they're actually here, and now they're doing the same thing they've done before?!' Erza thought enraged that these people were still capturing and enslaving innocent people, and now were willing to offer them up as sacrifices to whatever creature they tried summoning.
The slaver went to speak again, only to cry out in pain when Erza tossed him across the chamber and into a wall, as the redhead began glowing.
"You'll pay for what you've done!" Erza shouted as she was now wearing her Purgatory Armor and wielding the matching large, spiked mace, while her eyes gained a red glow from her anger and rage.
Taking on the appearance of a metallic dress, the armor is a dark slate color with a lighter gray trim. The shoulder guards are a light gray color with a large spike protruding off of it. The arm guards bear a simple weaving pattern with three spikes jutting out, each smaller than the last. The leg greaves start just below her hips with three progressively smaller spikes protruding starting at the knees. Around her neck is a small necklace of black, diamond shaped jewels. A single horn works its way out from underneath her hair, atop her head.
The large, black mace that has the same spike-like design as the Purgatory Armor. The mace is larger than Erza herself with six large spikes running down the edge, getting progressively larger as they reach the hook end of the weapon.
Before any of the cultists and slavers could react, Erza was on them again, only having a lot less restraint at learning many of them had come from the Tower of Heaven. The Fairy Queen swinging her mace around, sending the cultists and flying crashing through the walls or bringing it down on top of them. With Erza not even realizing what she was doing at the moment, only being driven by her rage and desire to ensure these Dark Mages can never enslave anyone ever again.
Though Erza was soon pulled out of her rage by a sudden dripping sound, as she stopped in her attacks and blinked a few times before shaking her head.
'What the…' Erza thought, confused when she felt something wet and sticky on her gauntlet when she touched her head.
Pulling her hand back, Erza's eyes widened when she saw that what was on her hand was blood.
"Bl-blood?" Erza said, shocked that she actually attacked hard enough to draw blood, something she usually held back from doing when fighting people.
Though she was only further shaken when she looked down at herself, before being horrified to see it wasn't just her hand covered in blood, but her entire body and armor. With even more of it dripping off her weapon, something that really shook the redhead.
But when the Requip Mage looked around, she gasped in horror at the sight before her, as many of the slavers were no longer moving or breathing. With some laying slumped against the walls, their necks being bent at unnatural angles. And others that looked to have been ground into bloody paste, that was splattered around the chamber.
"I-I-I…" Said Erza, shaking where she stood as she could only look around in horror at realizing what she had just done.
Looking at her weapon and armor again, Erza flinched before hastily going back to her Heart Kreuz Armor, only to see the blood on her body was still there.
'I…I didn't mean to I just…I just wanted to…to stop them!' Erza thought, horrified at the fact she had just killed several people.
Sure she despised all slavers and cultists, even more so the ones from the Tower of Heaven, but she didn't want to actually kill them, only stop them!
Unfortunately as Erza was trapped in her shock, she didn't notice one of the still living and conscious cultists dragging themselves towards the ritual circle and placed their hand on. Smirking wickedly as they channeled all their magical power into the circle.
'It may not be the intended sacrifices, but they're sacrifices all the same!' The cultist thought knowing with the death of his comrades, it'll be more than enough sacrifices to summon a demon, one strong enough to kill Erza and then wreak havoc across Fiore.
Though the cultists eyes widen when he noticed a large crack going right through the circle, one that was created during Erza's rampage and massacre. With the damage causing the circle to suddenly start sparking, which also got the Fairy Queen's attention as well.
But before she could attempt to stop it, the entire chamber was engulfed in a burning, bright light. When the light faded, it revealed only the charred skeletons of the cultists and slaves, while Erza was nowhere to be seen.
*Earth-Kuoh*
'That was just pathetically easy.' Raynare thought, smirking darkly as she pulled her Light Spear out of Issei's body, watching as it hit the ground with a puddle of blood quickly forming under it.
Raynare is an attractive young woman with slightly narrow violet eyes, giving her a somewhat evil expression, having a slender body, long silky black hair down to her hips, and two black feathered wings. Her clothing consisted of black, strap-like objects, resembling leather, around and under her breasts, a thong-like piece held around her hips by three thin straps, gloves that ran right up her arms with small lengths of chains hanging from them, shoulder guard-like objects on her shoulders with three large spikes sprouting from her right shoulder, and black thigh-high heel boots.
Currently, Raynare was just finishing her latest assignment, with it being to kill Issei Hyoudou, due the Sacred Gear he possessed within him.
Personally, Raynare wasn't sure why they had been sent to kill this kid, given from what she's seen, he wasn't anything special. Outside of seemingly having no filter for his mouth when talking about girls and breast, along with whatever Sacred Gear he possessed. But she didn't question the orders of killing him, especially given with the little sisters of Lucifer and Leviathan are here, who could add him to their Peerages. Which in turn, could lead to him becoming a threat against the Grigori, and Raynare was always more than happy to take care of threats.
'And once I get Twilight Healing, then I can help show the other Factions just how powerful the Fallen Angels really are!' Thought Raynare, eager for the chance to show her leaders her loyalty, by taking care of a potential threat and gaining them a new Sacred Gear.
Raynare was about to fly back to the Abandoned Church to tell the others that the target is dead, only to stop as she covered her eyes when a bright light appeared in front of her. Hissing as she flew back when the light actually started burning her. While being glad that she did, when she saw that it had scorched and disfigured Issei's corpse.
'Well, that'll definitely prevent him from being reincarnated.' Raynare thought, knowing that amount of damage will ensure he isn't reincarnated into a Peerage.
Looking to where the light was, which thankfully faded along with the burning sensation it released, Raynare rose a brow when she saw Erza standing in the middle of the scorched ground.
Meanwhile, Erza snapped out of her shock at realizing she had killed several of the cultists and looked around at her surroundings. Seeing that she was no longer in the cultists base, but instead what looked to be the center of a park before her eyes widened when they fell on Issei's charred corpse. Only to narrow them when she spotted Raynare smirking at her.
"You?! Did you kill this boy?!" Demanded Erza, angered that this creature could have killed an innocent person, even worse at the sight of his body and how he died.
"Yeah, I did." Raynare admitted without a hint of remorse.
"Why?!" Erza said as her anger rose further that Raynare didn't even look ashamed or tried denying it, with the Fallen Angel even shrugging nonchalantly.
"I was ordered to. But just to clear, I only stabbed him. You, however, are the one that made him look like he took a dip in a vat of acid. Though out of curiosity, what kind of attack or teleportation was that? Never seen one that does something like that before." Said Raynare, finding the method rather strange, unless it was meant to teleport the user in the middle of enemy forces and then roast them.
"It wasn't an attack! And I didn't choose to teleport to wherever here is!" Erza retorted, while trying to suppress her horror that now she's also responsible for desecrating someone's corpse.
"Wait, wait, wait. You're human?" Raynare asked, now feeling amused at this new information.
"Yes, I'm human!" Shouted Erza, as the ravenette actually started laughing.
"Oh God, that's even funnier! You're human and you just scorched that pervert's corpse! Tell me, how's it feel to know people are going to see that and probably wonder what kind of psycho would burn someone alive?! I mean unless you're already a psycho, then we can laugh together! AHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Laughed Raynare, as Erza shook in anger at how this creature wasn't only taunting her but daring to think she'd ever take enjoyment in such an act, like her.
And due to her arrogance, believing that Erza was just a normal human, Raynare didn't sense the massive amount of magic within the redhead. Or how it seemed to now be rising up in response to her anger.
"Requip: Morning Star Armor!" Erza said as her armor glowed before switching to another set, her Morning Star Armor.
This armor is mainly composed of orange and yellow leather-like material, which is sported in the form of several orange wing-shaped pauldrons that cover her shoulders and waist. The shoulder pauldrons appear to have white wings protruding from the center of the shoulder guard and the pauldrons surrounding Erza's waist are held up by a simple dark pink belt from the front. Erza dons a plain white one-piece suit that is worn with a matching pair of metal arm guards and large bolded knee guards over a pair of high-heeled armored greaves that cover her calves. In this outfit, Erza's hair is styled in tangled buns on top of her head and wears a silver choker around her neck that features a reddish-pink gem to complement her armor.
This armor comes equipped with a pair of simple swords with cross-shaped hand guards, getting larger near the edges, and blades which seem to lack the standard cutting edges. The swords appear to be missing hand guards, and instead, have decorative markings over the intricately-designed blades where the hand guards would have been. The swords prominently feature a weighted tip at the end of the handle.
"Re-what? AAAAAH!" Raynare said in confusion before screaming and covering her eyes when Erza emitted a bright light from herself, an ability her armor grants her along with energy blasts.
Charging towards the Fallen Angel, Erza slashed her swords forward, only for Raynare to hastily create a Light Spear while rubbing her eyes, before glaring at the redhead.
"I don't know how you did that or how you changed your outfit, but you are so fu-" Said Raynare, only to gasp when Erza slammed her foot straight into her stomach, knocking the wind out of her.
With Erza following up with a headbutt, knocking the ravenette back. Before jumping into the air and bringing her two sabers together, lengthwise, and points the tips at the Fallen Angel.
"Morning Star: Photon Slicer!" Erza said, firing an energy blast at Raynare, who cried out as the attack slammed right into her, smashing her into the ground which cracked under the pressure.
When Erza stopped the attack, it revealed Raynare lying in a crater in the ground, slightly burned and miraculously alive. With the S-Class Mage jumping down beside the Fallen Angel, glaring down at her.
"Don't ever compare me to someone like you, ever again…" Erza said, pointing one of her swords at Raynare, who managed to glare back at her.
"Yo-you-" Said Raynare, only to gasp when the redhead stabbed her sword straight through her heart.
"…And die." Said Erza before pulling her sword out, as Raynare's body went limp and expression of shock permanently etched on her face.
Letting out a shuddering breath, Erza jumped out of the crater and Requipped her Heart Kreuz Armor again. With the redhead stumbling over before sitting on the fountain and looking down at her hands, as her current situation really began sinking in for her.
"I'm already a murderer, likely trapped in another dimension with no way home. What's adding one more body to the pile going to do?" Erza muttered as she began shaking, while putting a hand over her Fairy Tail Stamp, as her vulnerable side that she usually prefers keeping hidden started coming out.
She was now trapped in another dimension, never being able to see her friends, her family, ever again. But would they even want to see her, after what she had done, what she just did? Killing those cultists, desecrating someone's own corpse, then knowingly and willingly killing that being?
'They'd be disgusted, they'd only see another Dark Mage that uses their magic to hurt people.' Thought Erza while squeezing her eyes shut, not wanting to cry, knowing she didn't have a right to cry after what she's done.
Erza was then suddenly pulled from her depressing mood when she saw a crimson light fill the area, as she quickly stood up and saw a glowing crimson magic circle appear in the air. Before it began lowering, revealing a teenage girl that looked to be about same age as her, maybe a year younger, appearing from it.
She was a beautiful young woman with white skin, blue eyes, and a surprisingly buxom figure, even more so than Erza's own. Her most distinctive feature is her long, beautiful crimson hair that reaches down to her thighs with an ahoge sticking out from the top. Her hair also has loose bangs covering her forehead and side bangs framing her face. With her attire consisting of consists of a white long-sleeved, button-down shirt, with a black ribbon on her shirt collar worn under a black shoulder cape and a matching button-down corset, a magenta skirt with white accents, and brown dress shoes over white crew-length socks.
Rias Gremory, Heiress of the Gremory Family, smiled in satisfaction when she felt herself being summoned by the flier her Familiar had given Issei. Meaning either the Fallen Angel made their move, or he had activated it himself, meaning she'll hopefully have a new Peerage member soon. And given how powerful his Sacred Gear is, from what little she's sensed of it. She'll also hopefully be free of her marriage contract soon as well.
Though when she appeared in the park, Rias's eyes widened as rather than seeing Issei, she saw his corpse. Which normally wouldn't be a problem as she could still reincarnate him, shortly after his death. The problem was that his body was now disfigured and burned to a crisp! Meaning even if she was still somehow able to reincarnate him, he'd likely be crippled or in permanent agony from such injuries.
Not only that, but she also saw the body of the Fallen Angel lying in a crater and an armored redhead sitting at the fountain. With Rias narrowing her eyes at the girl, sensing she possessed a large amount of magic within her, who in turn stood up and regarded her warily.
"Who are you?" Erza said, regarding Rias warily, given how she just teleported here along with the power the mage could sense coming from her.
"I believe you're confused, I'm the one who should be asking who you are and why you killed this boy." Demanded Rias, believing that Erza had killed Issei and the Fallen Angel, with the Devil being angered about Issei's death, both for the brutal murder of a citizen of her territory and losing the chance to reincarnate him.
Meaning she's now likely lost her only hope of being free from Riser, all because of this girl!
"I would never kill an innocent person! How do I know you aren't allied with that creature?! Since you appeared right after she already killed him!" Erza retorted as her anger returned at being accused of killing an innocent person, while Rias merely narrowed her eyes as a black and red aura appeared around her.
"And yet you're the only one I see still alive. Let me fix that." Said Rias before holding her hand out towards Erza, firing a blast of her Power of Destruction at the other redhead, with Titania jumping out of the way of the blast.
Though Erza's eyes widened in surprised at seeing that anything the attack touched was either disintegrated or simply annihilated.
'I've never seen magic like that before.' Erza thought, having never come across such a destructive type of magic before she had to dodge to the side to avoid another blast.
"Requip: Black Wing Armor!" Said Erza as she changed armors again, this time flying up into the air thanks to her armor.
As its name implies, this armor is black in color, sporting some silver trimming. A distinctive feature of the armor is its pair of wings, which are reminiscent of those of a Dragon or a bat. Around Erza's neck is a neck guard decorated by several gems, and while wearing this armor, her long scarlet hair is tied up in a high ponytail, with two bangs framing her face. Her large shoulderpads, each composed of two silver-edged plates one over the other, sport silver crosses on them too, and flank the high collar, whose shape is reminiscent of that of a dress. The silver-edged breastplate reveals a fair amount of Erza's cleavage and belly, with plates flanking her hips and reaching down to her very large waistguard, composed of very long, silver-edged plates shaped like feathers and decorated by silver crosses. The waistguard leaves the front of Erza's body exposed, with her groin being covered by a dark indument. The slim gauntlets come equipped with prominent protection for her hands, each sporting silver patterns. The plates guarding her legs are sliver-edged on her thighs and knees but pitch black dark on her metal greaves.
Along with the armor, Erza also gained a new sword with her new armor as well. The sword itself sports an intricate design with a multicolored purple and silver blade accompanied by two red diamond shaped gems, equally spread apart on the sword's blade. Along with that, it also has a brown hilt with a golden hand guard.
"Interesting ability. But if you think flying is going to help you, it won't." Rias said, mildly surprised at the sudden change in armor, before releasing her wings and flying into the air after Erza.
'She has wings just like the other one, but they aren't feathered, they look more bat-like.' Thought Erza, as she flew around to dodge more blasts from Rias until she saw an opening.
"Moon Flash!" Shouted Erza, while flying towards Rias and slashing her sword in a cross pattern at the other redhead, only for Rias to quickly fly away and put some distance between them before resuming firing blasts at the mage.
This confused Erza for a moment, wondering why Rias didn't take the chance to attack her after dodging her attack, instead only flying away to keep doing the same thing. Sensing that this girl definitely had her beat in magic and raw power, so she should be fighting much better than just firing simple magic blasts.
"Why are you running? Are you too scared to get close?" Rias taunted while firing off to waves of her Power of Destruction, with Erza flying high into the air to avoid them.
'I'm not running, I'm…dodging and…waiting for a moment to strike…' Erza thought as she started realizing what was going on.
She was fighting like she always does, relying on her training and experience when facing a superior opponent, waiting for the moment to move in to strike and take them down. While this girl, she's simply relying on her power, and not making an attempt to get in close to attack or doing anything else. Just firing those energy blasts, while expecting that one of them will eventually hit Erza.
'She doesn't have training.' Erza thought in realization, that while this girl was stronger than her in terms of magic and power, that's all she had, she didn't have training to fight or strategize, she's simply using the power she has.
"Moon Flash!" Erza said, rushing towards Rias again and swinging her sword in a cross pattern, with the Devil smirking at seeing her chance.
"Vanish." Said Rias before firing a large blast of Power of Destruction at Erza, knowing she'll be vaporized for sure by it.
Only to be shocked, when Erza spun around the blast at the last moment and began glowing again.
"Requip: Lightning Empress Armor!" Said Erza as she switched armors again.
Donning this golden and light bluish armor, Erza's appearance resembles that of an armored Hellenic goddess of sort. The breastplate is decorated by golden trimmings, and has thin plates going up to surround Erza's neck; the similarly adorned pauldrons are composed of two plates one over the other, with the top ones each sporting a prominent protrusion. Similar protrusions, although less prominent, can also be seen on the armored gauntlets which cover the entirety of Erza's arms; the greaves, on the other hand, possess matching protrusion on them, with a particularly large pair adorning the knee guards, but are instead composed of plates attached to simple, thigh-high boots with high heels. The armor lacks a waistguard, instead sporting a decorated cloth hanging down from the breastplate to cover Erza's groin, sporting a single piece on the top front and three on the back, which are decorated by large spheres with fur-like ornaments hanging from them. When using this armor, Erza's head gets adorned by a band with two ribbons on it, and her hair gets styled in a long braid. Also, the armor's weapon of choice seems to be a long spear, with a very large blade and a decorated circle resembling a shield attaching it to the shaft, which is adorned by a large ribbon. All these features strengthen the Hellenic appearance of the armor.
Though Erza herself has made her own changes to the armor as well. The protrusions on it becoming more marked, prominent, and numerous, her biceps and her back being exposed, and the plates covering the upper part of her chest disappearing in favor of a metal collar around her neck.
The weapon with this armor was a long spear with two spear heads and has a decorated circular wheel connecting the shaft with the spear heads. The wheel allows the two spear heads to create a cavity between the blades that unleashes an electric beam upon Erza's target. The weapon is decorated with a ribbon underneath the circular wheel that has two loose strands.
Rias looked at Erza in shock as the mage aimed her spear at the Devil, before the Gremory Heiress screamed in pain as she blasted with a beam of blue lightning. With her being sent crashing into the ground, with a crater forming beneath her. When the dust cleared, it revealed Rias groaning with her clothes being severely torn from both the attack and impact.
With Erza landing down not far from her, before walking over and kicking Rias out of the crater, making the girl grunt in pain as she hit the ground.
'What does it matter if I add another corpse to the pile? I'm already a killer, I'm trapped here for potentially the rest of my life, I could never face my guildmates, my family, again! What does it matter who I kill anymore?!' Erza thought, aiming her spear at Rias again, as it began sparking with lightning again, only this time with enough to vaporize the other redhead on the spot.
Something Rias must have sensed, as she looked terrified at seeing Erza was fully intent on killing her.
But before Erza could fire her attack, she was stopped while Rias was shocked when her Peerage members and friends, Akeno Himejima, Yuuto Kiba, and Koneko Toujou appeared in front of her.
"Buchou?! Are you alright, we sensed the fight and magic being released and came here as soon as we could!" Yuuto said while summoning two sword, as Akeno's hands sparked with lightning and Koneko got into a stance.
"Wh-what're you all doing here?! Get out of here now!" Rias said, knowing with how easily Erza took her down, she likely wouldn't even have to try with her friends and the Gremory Heiress didn't want to see her friends die.
"Sorry Buchou, but we'd be terrible friends if we didn't help you. Besides, it's also our responsible to punish those that hurt our King." Stated Akeno while smiling sweetly at Erza, imagining all the ways to make her scream for hurting her best friend.
"Nobody hurts Buchou and gets away with it." Koneko said lowly.
Erza, meanwhile, looked at the three in disbelief that they would stand against her, even after seeing what she did to their apparent leader. They'd still willing stood against a superior opponent, even knowing the risk they could die.
'They're willing to fight for each other, against someone they don't even know if they can beat?' Erza thought.
"I never thought I could see a smile like that again, in a place like this…freedom is in your heart."
"Do whatever you think is right! That's the way of the Fairy Tail Mages!"
Looking at herself with wide eyes, not believing what she was actually about to do, that she was going to kill someone while not caring if they were innocent or not. Only being stopped because these three appeared and now stood in her way. Something that…that reminded Erza of how it was in Fairy Tail, that if you attack one of them you attack all of them. And that no matter what, they'd stick together and protect each other, even if it was against impossible odds.
Looking back up at the Devils, Erza's armor began glowing again before she was soon wearing her Flight Armor.
Featuring very few armored parts, this armor is more like a fancy attire bearing reminiscence to a cheetah. Its breastplate takes the form of a very revealing, armored cheetah-patterned top, with some bare armor protruding from the upper part of it, in correspondence to Erza's breasts, and some fur lining the lower edges, exposing her stomach and some cleavage. There's no waistguard, with the armor instead sporting a pair of revealing black shorts, with a belt holding a cloth hanging over Erza's left leg attached to them; the arms are covered by dark armbands reaching up just below Erza's shoulders, with Erza's left arm being protected by cheetah-patterned armor, consisting of a single pauldron and a wide arm guard. Her legs are covered in similar stockings reaching up to her thighs, with armored, asymmetric high-heeled boots over them: yet again, the left leg is the more armored one, with the boot reaching up to the knee, which is protected by a cheetah-patterned knee guard; the right leg, on the other hand, is covered by a boot only reaching up to part of Erza's calf. The outfit is completed by a large collar around Erza's neck and by a tail hanging from the back of her shorts, both made of bushy fur, plus a pair of large cheetah's ears adorning both sides of Erza's head.
With her fastest armor now equipped, Erza vanished in a burst of speed, taking her leave, while having no desire to continue fighting.
"Don't let her escape!" Akeno said as she, Kiba, and Koneko were about to chase after Erza, only for Rias, who recovered enough, to stand up and stop them.
"No! Let her go." Rias said, not wanting to risk her family getting her hurt, or worse killed, because they chose to ignore the apparent mercy of an unknown entity.
Though the redhead winced and held her side, as her injuries flared up from her sudden movement, making the three look at her in worry.
"Buchou, are you alright?" Koneko asked, with Rias smiling at them.
"I'm fine, nothing some Healing Magic and a goodnight's sleep won't fix." Replied Rias, since the injuries looked worse than they felt, she just wasn't used to getting damaged that the pain was a new sensation for her.
And definitely not one that she enjoyed.
Honestly, the worst blow was to her pride, at just how easily Erza defeated her, despite how she had the advantage between them in terms of power, given what she sensed from the other redhead.
'Just one loss after another tonight.' Rias thought while sighing, since she not only didn't get a new Peerage member, but also got her ass handed to her and nearly died.
Though the Gremory Heiresses gaze then went to Raynare's corpse, seeing that it had somehow not been destroyed or damaged during the fight. Leaving it in relatively good condition, at least a lot better condition than Issei's corpse.
'Damn it.' Thought Rias, not liking it and was sure that Akeno would never forgive her for this, but she also knew sometimes these things are necessary as she summoned one of her Pawns.
"Rias, what're you doing?" Akeno asked in concern and worry when she saw her King go over to the Fallen Angels body.
"I'm sorry Akeno, but I have to do this." Replied Rias, looking at her friend apologetically, making the ravenette's eyes widen in disbelief and hurt at realizing what she was going to do.
"In the name of Rias Gremory, I call to you, live a new life as my Pawn!" Rias declared as the Pawn piece floated down and sunk into Raynare's chest, with her wounds already starting to heal as her pulse started up again.
Rias didn't like the fact she just had to use one of her pieces on an enemy, but she couldn't deny a Fallen Angel with Light Magic would also be very useful. Along with the chance to find out just what the Fallen Angels were planning and where they were hiding, along with why they were targeting Issei.
"Kiba, take her to the clubhouse, you're the fastest so you can get there before any of us and make sure she's restrained before waking up." Rias said, with the Knight nodding before lifting Raynare up onto his shoulder.
"I'll get it done Buchou." Replied Yuuto before speeding away towards the clubhouse.
"Akeno, Koneko, go with him to make sure she's properly bound and restrained. And to make sure she doesn't try anything funny." Said Rias, worrying the two at leaving Rias alone, especially with Erza still out there.
"Are you sure Buchou? That girl could still be here." Koneko said, with Rias nodding as she sat down on the fountain.
"I doubt she'd spare us, only to then come back and kill us after leaving. Please, I'll be fine, I just…I just need some time to myself right now." Rias replied, needing some time alone to think, with her Queen and Rook nodding in slow reluctance before turning to fly back to the clubhouse.
"One more thing, tell Sona we may need some help in altering some memories, as well as covering up the circumstances of Issei's death, along with a cover story for how it happened. Like…he and his "girlfriend" being killed in a gas explosion, with Issei's body being badly damaged and burned while "Yuma's" was incinerated. Or were caught in a fire or something like that." Added Rias, the two girls nodding before they took flight leaving the redheaded Devil alone.
Once they were gone, Rias groaned and laid back on the fountain, brooding over what a disaster tonight was and her loss against Erza.
'I know I was superior to her in magic and pure power. But that girl, it's clear she was more well-rounded and versatile, given her ability to switch between different armors at a moment's notice like she did, armors that seemingly possessed their own special abilities. Along with showing signs that she's also trained before as well.' Thought Rias while sighing, since that's what really lead to her losing, the fact she's never trained before and simply lets her power grow with age.
The only times she really trained was when it was convenient and necessary, rather than doing it all the time as a means to keep improving herself. So, it wasn't really a surprise that she lost against a fighter like that.
"I have to get stronger." Rias stated, knowing if she wanted to get out of her engagement to Riser, then she'll need to do it herself, rather than relying on getting lucky with a Sacred Gear user.
As thinking about it, there wasn't even any guarantee that Issei's Scared Gear would be strong enough to beat Riser.
No, if she wanted her freedom, Rias knew she'll have to take it back herself. And not only that, but she needed to beat Erza, not only due to her pride as a High-Class Devil refusing to let a human best her. Given how outside of a few exceptions, they were considered the weakest due to their lack of supernatural abilities, in most cases.
But more than that, Rias needed to prove to herself and that other redhead, that she was strong and powerful, that she can defeat her with training and mastering her powers.
'I will beat you; I swear it.' Rias mentally swore, with a new fire burning in her eyes.
While she may have not gotten what she had hoped for tonight, the Gremory Heiress did get something potentially even better.
So, what did you think, good. Yep we see Erza (just before Natsu brings Lucy to Fairy Tail) take a mission to defeat some slavers and save the people they kidnapped to use as sacrifices to summon a powerful demon, something which is definitely a sore spot for Erza. Which only angers her more when she learns several of them were also from the Tower of Heaven, driving her into a berserker rage and inadvertently killing several of them, much to her horror. Before one of the surviving cultists manages to activate the ritual, only for it to be damaged from the conflict, leading to Erza being teleported away while everyone else is reduced to charred skeletons. While in Kuoh, Raynare has just killed Issei with Erza's arrival scorching half his body, ensuring he can't be reincarnated. Before Erza then ends up killing Raynare after she taunts her, with Rias then soon arriving leading to another fight between them, with Erza pulling out the win due to her versatility and training. But before she can kill Rias as well, due to her soon reaching a breaking point with everything that's happened in such a short amount of time, only to remember who she is when Rias's Peerage arrives and defends her, even against a superior opponent, leading to Erza leaving, no long wishing to fight anymore. Finally Rias reincarnates Raynare, knowing she still needed to get a new Peerage member and find out what the Fall Angels were planning, along with planning to train herself as well, knowing she couldn't rely on someone to save her from Riser, instead needing to save herself, along with swearing to defeat Erza. So, review if you liked go away if you didn't.
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