Chapter 5

"Ah... dammit..." Natsu muttered, slumped in his seat. Even though his friends were gone, there was someone else in the train car with him.

"Well what do we have here? Someone from Fairy Tail, I see." A man said, looking at Natsu with interest, and a hint of disgust. This stranger was no ordinary man, though. His name is Kageyama, a member of the Dark Guild Eisenwald. His hair was tied back, and he wore a white suit with a red undershirt. The Eisenwald member took a seat on the opposite side of Natsu.

"What the heck do you want?" Natsu asked. He wanted to say more, but his motion sickness kept him from doing so. The pinkette then got a swift kick to his face, courtesy of Kageyama.

"You know what we think of wizards like you? You're nothing but annoying little flies." Kageyama said.

Natsu responded by immediately getting out of his seat and preparing to use his fire magic. Unfortunately, his flames smoked out when he realized the train was still moving.

"Hahahaha! What kind of magic is that? Let me show you some real magic." A magic circle glowed underneath Kaegyama's feet as a shadow formed from it and lunged at Natsu, sending the latter flying. Motion sick as he is, Natsu tried to get back on his feet while the Eisenwald member laughed.

Unexpectedly, the train suddenly came to a halt. Kageyama was thrown to the back, caught off guard from the sudden stop. Natsu, however, was relieved as the train stopped.

"Thank goodness the train stopped." Natu said, happy he was on (at the moment) still ground. The pinkette then noticed a peculiar object on the floor, something with a skull on it.

"So you saw it," Kageyama muttered.

"I've had enough of you!" Natsu yelled out, slamming both of his flaming fists together in front of him and suddenly lunged at Kageyama, his right arm engulfed in a fiery blaze.

Kageyama panicked at the sight of the flaming teen coming at him. "Guard Shadow!" Suddenly, several arms made of darkness appeared around him, and blocked the violent attack from Natsu. However, the force of the attack was enough to send him back.

"Ha! If that's all you got, this will be easy!" Natsu said, in complete confidence. Suddenly, there was a loud dinging sound and an announcement was made throughout the train:

"We are sorry for the inconvenience; the train will now resume its course. Have a nice day."

"Oh crap." Natsu muttered. He got his stuff from the rack above and turned toward a window.

"Hold it! We're not done yet!" Kageyama shouted. "You're messing with Eisenwald now!"

Natsu turned his attention back to him. "Eisenwald, huh? You've made the mistake of insulting Fairy Tail. Why don't we take this outside?" The train started to move again, making Natsu get motion sick again. Thinking quickly, he jumped out the window, leaving Kageyama staring in shock at what he just did.

Strife was standing next to Erza who was driving a green magic-driven four-wheeler while Gray was on the roof of the car and Lucy and Happy were inside the car. They were chasing down the train that Natsu was on. Strife looked at Erza, "can we get any closer".

"On it." Erza stirred the car to get closer to the train. Out of the blues Natsu came out of a window and head-butted Gray. Erza stepped on the brakes and looked over to Natsu who was lying on the ground with Gray, "Natsu are you okay?"

"Aye." Natsu and Gray got off the ground and stretched. Natsu blinked a couple of times, "What where is that Eisenwald member going!? I was in a fight with him!"

Erza's eyes widened and punched Natsu, "Idiot! Those are the guys we are after! How could you let him get away?", "uh did you forget that you knocked him out during the briefing and he has motion sickness, not much he can do" Strife pointed out, "anyway Natsu did you see a Flute that shows any signs of death implications?", "yeah a flute that had a skull with three eyes".

Lucy went pale, "three eye skull flute?!" everyone looked at her, "yeah skulls often associate with death due to humans being dead without one" Strife deadpanned, "no not that idiot, i know that flute" Lucy snapped, "the song of curse! Magic of death!". "A magic song of death, why am i not surprised?", "yes. I have read about it" Lucy nodded, "one of the forbidden magic".

"A black-magic curse that saps the life out of someone it is cast upon?" Erza asked, Lucy nodded, "Lullaby is even worse", "well then why are we still wasting time talking about when we could have talked about it on the run?" Strife asked, "move it people double time".

"Yeah" all the group members replied as they quickly rushed to the vehicle and hurried to the Eisenwald members before it was too late.

Clover town

There was a brown mini castle structure building hosting the meeting of the guild master league in Clover town, Inside was Master Makarov who was talking to a few other guild masters.

An elderly bald man wearing red lipstick, golden hoop necklace with a red line holding the hoops, a purple spaghetti-strap shirt, a purple and pink vertical-striped shorts, and had small white wings on his back, spoke to Makarov, "Makarov, it sure must be nice to have all your pepped up little wizards. Oh, I heard that you gave some aristocrats a trashing."

"Oh you must mean Lucy, Bob. She, one of my new recruits, '' Makarov replied. "She has a great boyoyoing figure."

Bob covered his eyes, "Stop it you flirt!"

"Is this something to laugh about Makarov?" a slim man who seems to be in his late fifties or early sixties. His gold hair reached to his shoulders. He wore a spiky dog collar, dark t-shirt, dark pants, dark sunglasses, and a warlock hat with spikes around the bottom. "Yeah it is great to have energetic members, but they go way overboard. There are people in the council who are worried that your guild is gonna destroy an entire city one day."

"Oh don't worry Goldmine. There is only one thing I like to be destroyed by and that is Lucy's body!"

Bob placed a hand against his check while flapping his other hand, "Now that is not proper for a master to be lying on his own little wizards!"

Then a blue bird with a wizard hat and carried a letter with its feet, "Master Makarov. A letter from Miss Mirajane."

He caught the letter, "Thanks." He placed a finger on the Fairy Tail stamp and went around it.

Then a holographic picture of Mirajane appeared from the cyan magic circle. "Master, hard at work at your regular meeting, yes?"

Everyone in the room surrounded Makarov while he explained to them who the white hair girl was, "This looker is our guild poster-girl. She's quite a hottie, eh?"

The little holographic figure spoke, "Actually something incredible happened while you were gone. Amazingly Strife Battled Erza and forced her into a deadlock! Don't worry, the two are getting along very well now. Also those two along with Natsu and Gray form a team! Everyone believed that this is the most powerful team in all of Fairy Tail! I know you are probably thinking that it is going to be hell on Earthland, but I am sure Strife can keep the team together. After all, he is quite amazing! I decided to tell you right away. See back here in the guild." The magic circle disappeared into thin air leaving the entire guild in a worried atmosphere.

Goldmine looked at Makarov to see him completely calm, "How are you not freaking out?", "I am worried about Goldmine, but I trust in Trust that he can make sure that nothing bad happens." Strife, Bob gave a confusing stare, "Strife?"

Makarov made a magic circle which showed Strife with every bit of detail, his armor made some feel rather nervous. Makarov cleared his throat, "This lad is Strife." Bob flirted a little, "My, my he is quite handsome even with that mask."

Makarov then stated, "Look at his eyes Bob, you to Goldmine."

The two did and were so shocked that they couldn't move. Strife' eyes showed that he had seen things in his life that would actually cause a person to kill themselves. His eyes also showed the true horrors of destruction and he was willing to do anything to stop it. His eyes showed that he would do anything for the greater good. The two wondered how could a young man like that have eyes like those.

Goldmine swallowed before he talked, "Those eyes… Now I see why you are calm." Bob nodded in an agreeing tone, "Indeed. Those eyes show that he will protect anybody no matter the cost." Bob agreed, Makarov nodded, "Yes. I have faith in him that he will not allow anything to befall the innocent, including his family", he neglected to tell them about what Strife had told him.

Back with the group

They were on a cliff listening to the crowd complaining about the military, "looks like the army is not happy with what Eisenwald is going to do" Strife observed, "indeed we need to hurry" Erza agreed, "you know you remind me a lot of my brother" Strife said lightheartedly but no one listened.

And soon the group were back making fast turns in Onibus town, Grey yelled to Erza over the noise of the engine, "Erza you're going too fast! Look, the SE plug is inflating!", "if we let that flute play, many innocent people will be victims! Just by hearing the sound their life will be taken" Erza yelled back in a serious tone, "and what happens when we do catch them? I don't know shit about how this thing works but you're gonna drain yourself away before the fight starts and I can't rely on these rookies to not mess anything else up, Strife asked.

"Hey who are you calling Rookie?" Gray demanded, "you, Natsu, Happy and Lucy that's who '' Strife replied, ''I'll just have to rely on my swordsmanship to win, plus with all you here I think that evens the odds' ', Erza said. "And we got smoke" Strife said, and indeed there was smoke rising up from the station, "i hope that it's just a regular accidental fire but non the less...HURRY!".

Erza nodded and hurried to the station. When they arrived at the station, Erza head-butted the station conductors in order to get inside. Strife sweat dropped a little when he saw Erza's actions. He was hoping instead of using force he could convince the conductors to let them in, but Erza beat him to it. The group hurried inside and saw an army platoon unconscious on the floor.

Lucy shrieked, "They've been wiped out!", "Of course they are," Strife said dryly, "the local military is alway useless and us wizards have to clean up whatever shits going on for them". Erza spoke in her serious voice, "The army platoon didn't stand a chance against a guild full of wizards.", "That's what I just said" Strife deadpanned.

The group walked into a room with a voice that was chuckling, "I knew you'd come. You Fairy Tail flies!" The group looked in front of them to see a large group of wizards ready for battle.

Strife looked up to see a mildly built man with silver hair and blue tattoos on his shoulders and chest. He had a black scarf around his neck, a long worn hakama, black gloves with a silver x on them, and was holding a large scythe. Strife questioned him, "Are you Erigor?" The man's answer was an evil smirk "Good now i know who to target first".

"What are you bastards after using the Lullaby?" Erza demanded, "it is a purging," Erigor said, landing on a light pole while answering, "I'm purging the fools who guard their own rights and safety knowing that they were the ones whose rights were taken away from them. Their sin is living without knowing that this world isn't theirs,", Strife clenched his fists, "your right, this world ain't theirs, but their the ones who govern it for a higher power, that's the law of the Balance" he began, "the people aren't sinners because they have adapted and accepted this way of life, but you and yours are sinners for having the ignorance not to do it as well".

Strife then drew his pistols, "and retribution has come, word of advice, give up now", Erigor chuckled, "really i want to see you try", he flew into the air before he left, "the rest is up to you guys" he said to the rest of his guild, "let them see how dearsome a dark guild is".

Strife turned over to Natsu who had luckily returned to normal and Gray, "you guys see what you can do about Erigor, me and Erza will wipe up these shit stains", "uh but-" Natsu began, "look theres more important here then your feelings towards each other i repeat this is more important than your feelings towards each other" Strife interrupted, "innocent lives are at stake so i'm gonna trust you not to argue".

The two nodded to him and hurried to chase after Erigor while two of the dark guild went after them, Erza summoned dual swords while facing down the rest of the dark guild with Strife and Lucy. They charged straight towards them with magic swords in hand, "big mistake staying so close together," Strife said, putting his weapons together and a beam of lighting shot from the barrels.

The beam chained from one member to another in a constant stream, many members too close joined the chain and then the next and so on and so forth, "yeah you like that'' Strife asked, then the beam suddenly stopped the Strife's surprise, "wha-oh come on!" Strife exclaimed angrily, "i always forget how quickly the energy runs out" still it had taken out a good chunk of the guild, they were still alive, Strife had set it to non-lethal for the benefit of his guild members and guild reputation.

Erza meanwhile was devastating another good chunk of the members, "uh okay maybe only one of us would do, but where's the fun in giving them hope" Strife said as he summoned his Sabers and joined into the fray. Lucy watched how effective the two were in knocking the guild members into unconsciousness as blows were blocked by and sent from Strife and Erza, "amazing" she said.

If she thought Strife was devastating then she was even more amazed, she was just relieved that Strife was letting them live, she did not want what would happen he went hyper-lethal.

"Okay this is still taking to long" Strife said, "indeed, i'll have to use one of my other armors" Erza agreed, Strife was about to question what she meant by other armor when her current armor glowed gold and came right off, "uh" Strife said as he starred and a rose magic circle appeared. "Ooh her armors coming off" a thug said as they all gave perverted stares at Erza, but that was short lived.

Soon a shiny silver magic wave surrounded her body to make her new armor. The armor that she was wearing now had a small silver breastplate armor that was composed of silver feather-shaped plates facing upwards with a large metal flower with a blue jewel on it in the front. It extends from the front along her hips which shows her smooth stomach visible. Her biceps were covered by metal straps.

Her gauntlets had feather-shaped plates on the edges. Behind her were two large metal wings with sharp metal feathers. Her skirt was longer with large metal feathers plating around her waist. Underneath her skirt, she was wearing a pair of metal plating boots. Around her neck were feather-like plate neck guards and a tiara with metal wings on the side which caused a part of her hair to cover right eye.

Everyone in the room was amazed by the beauty of her armor. Strife had to admit that it was truly amazing. He whistled "holy damnation" he said, Erza then chanted a spell, "Dance, my blades!", Then a random thug then shouted, "Erza… Could she be!?"

Erza then screamed, "Circle Sword!" She made a magic wave straight at the thugs and whipped them all out at once. Luckily Strife managed to dodge the wave and was impressed at Erza's strength. Then a thug rushed straight to Erza, but Strife drew redemption and shot the guy.

The thug he fired upon was twitching next to a fat thug who slowly talked, "There is no mistaking her! She's the most powerful female in all of Fairy Tail! The Fairy Queen, Titania Erza!" Then he rushed over to the exit while yelling, "I'm not going up against that!"

Erza transformed into her regular armor while she spoke, "Lucy go after him. He might be heading toward Erigor.", Lucy nodded to her, "Alright. Happy come one."

"Aye" the blue cat answered while chasing after Lucy. When they were gone Erza began to fall to the ground, luckily Strife caught her. Strife looked at the scarlet sweaty face and whipped some it off for her, "Erza you need to rest."

"I can't struggle. I must keep going; if I don't, innocent people will die." Erza said, struggling. "You ain't alone Erza, I can see why you are so desperate to not fail. I see the reason in your eyes but you have friends that are doing everything in their power to stop him. For now let me handle the fighting while you rest. I ain't stopping until Erigor is brought down one way or another." Strife raised a fist, "That much I promise."

Erza looked into his shiny blue eyes and could tell that he was dead serious. She sighed happily, "You're right and I'll leave the rest to you and the other." She then closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Strife brought her to her legs while holding her, he carried the sleeping Erza bridle style, carried her out to the porch that belonged to the station and placed her against the wall, he then hurried to the railing and yelled at the crowd, "Everyone evacuate the area now! this is not a drill!, a dark guild is going to use dark business to kill everyone!, i repeat evacuate, get as far as you can out of earshot and of the station and cover your ears' '.

Strife watched the crowd running away from the station with the station conductor with them, then something off happened, the station was surrounded by a wind barrier like a cyclone, and Strife was outside the wind barrier "what the? The hell with the wind?!" Strife exclaimed eyes wide. Erigor chuckled from behind Strife, "like my little present?. This wind magic marrier will slice anyone into pieces who comes near it" Erigor bragged, "i would like to fight such a strong opponent, but alas i have no time to play with you".

And with that Erigor summoned a small purple magic circle from his left palm which forced Strife through the barrier.

Strife recovered as he found himself on his feet on the wrong side of the barrier, "so this was just a decoy?" Strife questioned, "then who or what is the real target?" He then remembered when Erigor talked about rights which caused Strife's eyes to widen, "Oh hell no, he is not planning to…"

"Strife, what is wrong?"

He turned to see Erza standing up while leaning against the wall, "this isn't his target. His target is the Master Guild Leagues." Strife told her

Erza's eyes widened, "What!?"

"Erigor talked about their rights that were stolen and how they are a Dark Guild?" She nodded yes to him. "So tell me who has the rights of each guild out there?"

Erza quickly realized what he was getting at, "The Guild Masters!", "Exactly, we have to get to where they are and stop Erigor before he can cast the Lullaby.", Then a familiar voice appeared behind them, "Strife! Erza!"

The two looked behind them and saw Lucy with Happy on her shoulder, Gray, and Natsu who was carrying a wounded member of Eisenwald behind him. Gray was the first one to say, "Strife, Erza, Erigor are planning to go to the Guild Master meeting."

Erza looked at him, "Yeah we know."

"Wait what?" The entire group said surprised

"Strife figured it out already. Anyway we need to get out of this wind barrier." "Also who's he?" Strife asked, pointing to the injured dark guild member. Happy then shrieked, "Ah, Lucy I remember what I need to tell you." He pulled out a gold key, "Here."

Lucy then made a freak out expression, "That is Virgo's key! Why do you have that!?"

"Virgo herself said to give it to you. She visited me and said that she wanted to form a contract with you since her previous contract had been broken. We can have Virgo make a hole for us to escape."

"Uh isn't Virgo that ugly troll of a maid you fought at that mansion?" Strife asked, "why would she want to work for you?" "I have no idea but it doesn't look like I have any other choice," Lucy said in defeat.

"Uh you do that and I'll get a head start, we've wasted enough time as it is" Strife said as he ran towards the wind barrier, "wait NO!" Erza called and Strife rammed into the shearing wind shoulder first.

The others watched in amazement as he pushed himself through going either and further into the wind, Strife struggled and struggled and pushed and pushed. One hand was through he continued to try to push through.

"Come one Strife" said the golden Watcher as he appeared out of nowhere, grabbed Strife's free hand and pulled Strife, that made it easier to get through.

He was almost through and YES! He was through.

Strife staggered and fell to the ground, his Armor had held out well against the wind it was scratched rather badly but a small price to pay, "alright now we need to hustle" the Watcher said, "the raven said Erigor has got a large head start on all of us". Strife nodded, "Mayhem'' Strife called as he stretched out his hand, "rise and ride forth" nothing happened, Strife tried again, nothing again.

"Damn it, why isn't this working?!" Strife cursed, reluctantly and with confusion and anger he ran over to the green magic vehicle from before and started the engines, "come on" Strife said trying to work out how the thing worked. "Hey Strife" came a call. It was Lucy and the rest of the group running up to them with the injured dark guild member called Kage and a pink haired maid.

"Guys!? Wait, who's the maid?" Strife asked, "i am Virgo, Lucy's newest celestial spirit" Virgo replied, "uh huh i thought you'd be uglier" Strife admitted, "oh well" Virgo said transforming into her other form to Strifes shock, "this more what you were expecting?" "No Virgo , I like the other you better," Lucy said hurriedly, "Of course mistress," Virgo said, transforming back.

"Okay Erza you Drive and Natsu you're fast right? Good you and Happy can catch to Erigor, Stall or stop him at any cost" Strife barked out, the others would not normally be willing to follow such demanding orders but things were urgent so "alright let's go Happy" Natsu said as he rushed ahead faster than Strife imagined he would go, "Aye" Happy summoned his wings and flew after.

He sat in the back with Lucy, Gray and Kage while Erza drove, "so who's this guy" Strife asked looking at Kage as the vehicle started, "his Names Kage, he's the enemy so don't know why we are helping him" Gray said, "hey he needs helps and we couldn't just leave him like that" Lucy snapped. Strife knew when Mercy was needed, Kage wasn't a demon or angel that needed killing, humans didn't always need killing in Strife's opinion they were essentially to the balance after all.

"But they are planning to kill innocents" Gray asked giving Lucy a death glare "yeah that's right Gray hold on to that hate and that attitude and you'll end up like him" Strife snapped gesturing to Kage, Gray froze at Strifes comment, he looked down in thought at the implications. In the front seat, Erza had to smile at Strife silencing Gray like that, without helping the enemy there may not be hope for peace.

Everyone deserves a second chance for their actions, she knew that more than most, for some reason Strife knew more than he said and he was wiser beyond his years, even with the attitude, but Erza got the sense that Strife was as old as his wisdom might suggest if not older.

Later on they arrived at the battle scene on the railing while Natsu stood in triumph while Erigor laid on the ground in defeat. Lucy and Gray hurried out of the car to Natsu leaving Strife to carry Erza. Natsu shouted to them, "You guys are late! It is already over."

Happy climbed up to his shoulders and replied, "Aye!"

Strife looked at Natsu and answered, "Great job Natsu."

While Natsu and Gray were arguing the bandage stranger was talking to himself, "I-I can't believe that Master Erigor lost." He then noticed the flute with the skull head and made an evil grin, "Don't worry Master Erigor, I will continue your plan for you."

Erza smiled and said, "Let's go to the meeting hall and report what happened to the masters. Also, have them dispose of the flute."

Strife nodded, "agreed, that thing is better off in pieces", Happy then spoke, "Clover is not that far from where we are.", Strife heard something move then shouted, "Duck!"

The group did what he commanded and saw the green magic-driven four-wheeler that had shadowy long arms. One of the arms grabbed the flute along the way. Gray noticed who was driving the car and shouted, "Kage! That is dangerous!".

Kage shouted back at them, "I have got the Lullaby! You let your guard down, FLIES!" and he immediately turned back to the round when Strife drew redemption and fired three shots, "dammit if only i had Mayhem" Strife cursed mentally.

Natsu then screamed, "That damn bastard!"

Lucy then complained, "What the hell? We went to the trouble to save him!"

Erza made a demand, "After him!"

A little later

It was dark out when the group reached Kage who was on his knees while Master Makarov with Goldmine and Bob. The group ran over to the group while Natsu and Gray shouted to his guild master, "Gramps!"

Makarov looked over to them, "Why are you here?"

While Erza was explaining to him, Strife walked over to Kage and lent a hand. Kage looked up and asked, "Why are you willing to help me? After everything I had done."

"I was a lot like you, needed a way to get out of a tight spot, believed I was doing the right thing for the greater good, but my first act in that department is one I always regretted, and you need a hand to get onto your feet and get onto the right path." Strife answered as he drew redemption and offered it to Kage, "so are you going to take the chance to redeem yourself?" Strife asked.

Kage started to cry with happiness, "Thank you." He reached for his hand and was brought up to his feet and he took Redemption in hand and studied it closely, "what does this mean?" Kage asked, "it means that you have made the right choice, i was given that gun when i was put onto the right path." Strife said "and now you have too"

"That was quite a speech you gave" Makarov said to Strife, "aye" Happy agreed as Natsu gave him a hug, "great job man" he said "Thanks, ow."Strife moaned with a cracked spin. During the commotion the flute suddenly started to absorb dark magical flows which caused the group's attention.

"Tchm your all pathetic…" a Voice emitted from it, it's eyes glowing purple, a purple circle appeared in the sky and made a loud roar, Natsu tried to destroy the flute by punching it but he was sent flying. "Ha! That's all you got" the voice said. And the source appeared, it was a wooden creature, huge and intimidating. It was not like a demon Strife had seen and he could definitely sense dark magic from it.

Meanwhile the rest of the group were shocked and scared. Seeing a regular monster is okay with them, but this monster was nothing like they had ever seen before. This monster was mutated with some weird substances and completely changed its appearance. Lucy then broke the silence, "What is that thing?"

Goldmine answered her, "That monster is one of Zeref's live magic."Lucy looked at him, "Zeref? Isn't he ancient history?"

"Yes, to think one of his creations will appear before us after all this time. However, something is not right. Gray turned to him, "What the hell is that supposed to mean?"

"This beast is giving a deeper darkness than Zeref ever did and it's even more powerful than before. Something must have given it new bound power, but what?".

Strife thought about it, well there was a possibility that the evil presence of the demons he was sent to deal with for Raziel could have empowered it, it was also possible that since the seed of humanity died on earth from the apocalypse, the seed of humanity was slowly dying out across the universe and this thing was but the first of the great calamities to befall mankind on this world.

The beast grabbed a mountain and stared down at the group in order to throw it at them. The group started to run, but Strife stood in his position. Lucy noticed Strife and yelled, "Strife come on!".

Strife stood his ground and ran to the utter shock of the other, "Strife what are you doing man?" Gray demanded. Strife wasn't listening as he charged the rolling boulder, he did not have his anarchy form but he had something that would make short work of the mountains.

The monster threw the mountain straight at Optimus which caused Erza to make a panic scream "STRIFE RETREAT".

But Strife didn't retreat he kept on going feeling a familiar power overcome in, he knew what it was and he knew what to he ran to the bolder as it bore down on him he drew his left fist back getting ready to punch, just when the mountain was about to hit he shot his fist forward

Natsu then roared, "Now!"

The fist impacted and for a second if you looked closely you could have seen a tall horned beast with a long tail and purple fur in Strifes place with a machine gun for a left hand that spun as it drilled into the rock and shattered the entire mountain and then immediately turned back to Strife as depress fell all around him.

behind him the group was shocked as hell. Gray was the first one, who was able to speak, "Did he just…", Natsu answered him, "Yuh-uh."Lucy muttered, "No way.".

The beast roared and made a purple aura in his mouth and fired it at Roared. The beast kept on doing it for about nine more times until the ten blasts were close to Strife. Strife drew Mercy and shot all of the blasts, still charging.

The beast tried slamming down its fist at Strife but Strife jumped and used his newly unlocked ghost hand and slingshot himself between the fingers, he ran up the beast's arm and then jumped landing on the beast's knee.

He then used his ghost hand to slingshot himself up and cut at the beast's chest, one handed and continued to ascend up Shooting into the beast with Mercy. When he reached the beast's chin he jumped up into the air and as he came down near the creatures mouth he tossed a cluster of large metal spiked balls that he formed into his hand and they fell into the creatures mouth.

Strife continued to descend while taking careful aim with Mercy, in slow mode his sharp eyes and mind calculated where the bombs were, were he wanted them to be, taking careful aim, he fired and the bullet traveled trough the beasts wooden skin like water and found its mark, one of the many bombs which hit and the bomb began to charge.

Strife slowly spoke, "as my brother used to say you are ending" After his sentence was finished an explosion happened within the beast, and more explosions occurred withing in a chain and the monster exploded in a shower of Splinters of wood and dust that consumed a large area including Strife.

Back with Master Makarov spoke out loud while others guild masters were standing behind him, "Impressive Strife."

Bob placed his palms together, "Beautiful.

Goldmine smirked with an impressive tone, "He defeated Zeref's demon so easily by himself."

Strife appeared from the smoke that came from the explosion with his guns holstered and the Lullaby in his hand. When he reached Master Makarov, he gave him the flute while his mouth guard separated and went to the side, "I believe you know how to take care of this."

"Indeed, by the way Strife," Makarov said then pointed to the wreck meeting hall, "you did cause quite a bit of damage", Strife smiled at him non repentantly, "a little bit of rebuilding is a small price to pay in my opinion."

Every guild masters rushed over to Strife and were thanking him for saving them and scolding him for the destruction of the hall but he was still unrepentant. Team Natsu went through the crowd to reach Strife, "You gave us quite a scare there. However, thank you for saving us." Erza said

Strife, though a little exhausted, managed to speak, "no need to thank me. We're comrades and comrades are supposed to protect each other." Then he received another hug from Natsu and caused Strife to have an even bigger headache.

In hand the flute began to glow, and flew out of hand, "damn it" Strife cursed as the flute hovered in the air with fling purple eyes.

BANG*

Everyone jumped at the gunshot that destroyed the flute right then and there, Kage was the one who fired and was still aiming Redemption, "nice shot" Strife chuckled retrieving his weapon, "I think you just earned your redemption".

And so everyone left on good terms, but Strife had a small nagging feeling in the back of his mind, why had Lullaby woken up when it shouldn't have, could it have had something to do with his very own Presence on this world, who could say?.