Continuation of the previous other two chaps.
It's going to get dark/dark-ish people. I'm putting this warning in place for several things. While I may not give a whole lot of detail on some stuff.
I will be touching on some sensitive subjects like sexual assault, torture, blood, gore and possibly even some brief mentions of maybe cannibalism.
Pay attention to the warnings and if this chap makes you uncomfortable- then skip it. I'm hoping to have the actual story back on track soon.
They saw the girl not only tear into the people who wanted her to breed for them on demand, but make an example of them too. She was vicious about it too. Making sure that each of them never dared to try and pull another stunt like the last one ever again.
And they didn't either.
They had left her home missing pieces of themselves. Sure the pieces had been small- fingers, toes- at least three others didn't leave her home alive like the others. No. They shared a much, much worse fate than their comrade, Devi had.
She had done a little bit more than take small pieces off of their bodies in retaliation for their impudence. She had torn one man's stomach open and yanked out a few feet of intestines.
Beside him, Ban made a weird little gagging sound as said man's guts hit the floor at the girls feet before she then grabbed his face. A shocked/horrified look flitting across his expression as she tipped his head back so that he was looking her in the eye when she opened her mouth and used her small, razor sharp fangs to tear out his throat.
His blood spurted out of the torn and jagged wound while the other two men screamed in terror.
They couldn't tell whether or not Ichigo spat out the piece of flesh that she had just taken out with her teeth. But even if she hadn't- Meliodas had never seen such brutal savagery before in his life. Not even back when he'd been the leader of the Ten Commandments and living amongst the demon race.
Honestly seeing the girl go to town on the men made even his stomach twist with nausea. As it was he was already squirming a little bit every time someone screamed.
Which was unusual for him.
Considering the fact that he was part demon and how he was raised and all- things like what he was seeing now were simply a way of life to him. But seeing someone as young as Ichigo was then, torturing those men to death- it...made him uncomfortable.
Angry even.
Casting a quick slant eyes look at Ban and the other's he could see that seeing a kid torturing people to death was a difficult thing for some of them to watch. King had Diane in his arms with her face buried against his chest and looked as if he were going to be ill any second now.
Gowther's usually impressive emotionless mask was slipping.
The man's expression was...well, thunderous and there was a low growl escaping him that was quickly gaining in volume. The sound of it was sending chills down his spine. And if that kept up, Meliodas would have to force him to undo the spell so that Merlin's memories would vanish and they would all have some time to calm the fuck back down.
Luckily that memory finally ended when Mini Merlin dragged the girl off once the men were thoroughly dead and started to clean her off. Merely telling her that maybe she had gone a little bit overboard with her wrath.
Ichigo had just looked her dead in the eye and snarled out, that her future children were not cannon fodder or pawns to be used. And she hadn't gone nearly as far as she would have liked to drive that point home.
From there- the war got so much worse.
Ichigo and her friends lost comrades and close friends a little more everyday amongst the growing number of casualties. Not only that but a number of women and girls fighting on the frontline had been captured and taken off somewhere by the enemy.
Meliodas didn't need anyone to tell him the purpose of their capture. He was well versed in the horrors of war and could easily imagine what was being done to them.
So naturally it was no surprise to him when the girls were finally found by Ichigo and the others that she had asked her to help go and save them.
Out of the twenty taken, almost all of them were dead but four. And out of those four, all of them had been beaten and raped repeatedly. At least two of them had what looked like brands on their flesh to act as a constant reminder of what the enemy had used them for.
Everyone was retrieved, even those that had died. And while the injured were taken care of, and the dead were given a proper burial. The offenders that had participated in doing such harm to them were all systematically hunted down and left to be tortured by Ichigo and a few others.
And Meliodas was damned sure that he was going to have nightmares of their dying screams for a good long while since the girl hadn't bothered to kill these people half as quickly as she had the others. Oh no, killing them quickly was an insult to the ones that they had irreparably harmed.
Instead, she maimed them. Bled them. Torn them apart until they weren't even recognizable as human, much less anything else.
The ones whom had participated in the rapes suffered more than anyone else, in Meliodas's opinion. But then maybe he was simply being biased as a male since watching a fourteen year old girl stab someone in the dick and balls with a white hot poker wasn't exactly comfortable for him.
It didn't seem to be comfortable for Ban, King, or Gowther either. But they wouldn't complain any since they understood the need for vengeance very well.
That, plus, seeing the girl like this sort of made them all nervous. Almost as if they couldn't help but wonder if she would do such things to them if they pissed her off enough.
Meliodas would like to say no- but he sort of liked his dick and balls as they were, thank you. So...maybe they'd be tiptoeing on eggshells for a bit around her? At least until they had a little bit of a better feel for her personality.
As things progressed further, he and the others bore witness to even more horror when the food and medical supplies for Ichigo's army was seized and great numbers of people began to die because of those.
Things got so bad that she and several others were all called away from the frontline to see one of their friends. The scruffy blond guy by the name of Kisuke.
"I heard that you've been busy at the front lines lately." The blond said as he and Ichigo walked beside one another down a slightly long hallway.
"I have been. Things are getting more and more dangerous-" Ichigo said.
"I know. I've heard about the food and medical supplies being seized."
She visibly flinched at the words, causing the man to give her a slightly concerned look as he reached out to open the door ahead of them for her and then waited for her to pass through it before following behind her.
"Yeah, that sucked." Ichigo finally muttered in an irked tone. "Not to mention the fact that they tainted the water in lakes, ponds, and streams with toxins that have killed the fish and aquatic plant life. And they even set several hundred miles of vegetation on fire to prevent us from using those as possible supplies."
"Sounds like your having a rougher time than usual kid." The man said empathetically. Ichigo was silent for a moment or so before finally saying,
"They keep pushing to break past our barricades Kisuke. And you know what will happen if they get past us. All life will end..."
