Hi everyone. Merry early Christmas to all of you. Thank you all for your patience and for following this story with me. Anyway, here's the next chapter.
Demon vs. Spirits
Vergil stood on top of the large balcony of the castle, which was the size of a football field. He was currently facing Lucy and Juvia, who we're both glaring at him, though Lucy seemed more frightened than Juvia.
"I take it this is Vergil?" Juvia questioned.
"Yeah, that's him." Lucy confirmed, she looked at their enemy. "Where the heck are our friends you creep?!"
"If you wish to know, you're just going to have to force the information out of me, that is, if you think you're up to it." Vergil told them as he lightly flicked open his katana. In less than a second, he sent multiple slashes towards the two girls.
Lucy screamed as the impacts sent her rolling back, but the slashes seemed to pass through Juvia's water body that looked unaffected, to which Vergil raised an eyebrow at.
"Well, that's certainly interesting." He observed.
"My body is made entirely out of water. Drip, drip, drop." Juvia replied as her hands became to of visible water. "All physical attacks are useless against me. Water Lock!"
A blue magic circle appeared under Vergil and he found himself completely trapped in a sphere of water.
"Is that all you've got?" Juvia questioned.
"Nice work Juvia, way to go!" Lucy cheered as she got back up.
Vergil however didn't look in the least bit concerned. In fact, all he did was shake his head. A vertical slice was able to cut through the water sphere and it all fell apart, leaving Vergil simply standing there, soaking wet, but unaffected; much to the two's shock.
"How is that… he cut through my Water Lock!?" Juvia questioned.
"How the heck did he do that?!" Lucy questioned as well.
"Your attack is quite inventive, and would normally work against the average opponent, but not for myself." Vergil said.
"How we're you able to cut through my Water Lock?!" Juvia demanded.
"Don't act so surprised." Vergil began to explain. "My Katana, Yamato, is a Devil Arm, a strong and powerful weapon that can cut through such defenses and seals that one could consider impenetrable or unbreakable."
"Water has no affect on him?" Juvia deduced.
"That's not good." Lucy stated.
"Now then, if you have nothing else for me, than simply make it easier and come with me willingly. I will take you to your friends, resist and you will loose." Vergil told them.
"That's not going to happen." Juvia told him. "Water Slicer!"
Juvia sent a series of water blades towards Vergil, which he was able to block by timing each strike and intercepting them all at rapid speeds with Yamato. He sighed.
"I guess it can't be helped. Darkslayer!" Vergil's katana glowed blood red as did a light aura around him. He quickly zoomed past Juvia. When he was past her with his blade in the open, an explosion erupted from Juvia's chest earning a scream from her, much to Lucy's horror.
Vergil repeated the process multiple times, resulting in many dark explosions that sent Juvia scream into the air until he appeared above her and brought his boot down on her, sending her plummeting to the ground and falling unconscious.
"Juvia!" Lucy exclaimed. She saw Vergil land as his aura vanished and she glared at him. "What did you do to her?!"
"Normal attacks have no affect on her body of water, but my Darkslayer style allows me to give a light demonic aura to enhance my abilities, enough to cause even her pain. Do not worry, she's still alive." Vergil explained. "Now then, are you going to come willingly or resist?"
"Here's you're answer!" Lucy exclaimed as she took out one of her golden keys.
"Somehow, I'm not surprised." Vergil said to himself as he expected this.
"Open! Gate of the Golden Bull! Taurus!" The giant humanoid bull came out of the ground with a loud moo and brandishing his large axe.
"Don't worry Miss Lucy. I'll protect you're sweet body!" Taurus declared, causing Lucy to sweat drop.
"Don't get pervy on me." She sighed.
"How repulsive." Vergil said, quite disgusted. "Do you have him say these things to you of your own accord?"
"HEY! I don't WANT him to say this stuff!" Lucy exclaimed with multiple anger marks on her head. "Oh why am I trying to explain this to you? Taurus! Take him down!"
"Sure thing!" Taurus replied as he leapt towards Vergil, axe at the ready. "Time's up pretty boy!" Taurus brought his axe down, but looked to see Vergil had vanished, as he was already multiple feet away. Taurus ran towards him again and swung his axe horizontally, but Vergil vanished in a flash again and appeared behind Taurus.
"Will you hold still so I can slash ya!?" Taurus complained as he jumped high with his massive axe.
"As you wish." Vergil replied as he stood his ground. Taurus slammed the axe down on him and he smiled. However, his smile soon vanished when he saw Vergil had blocked Taurus' axe with his katana using only one arm.
Lucy found herself quite surprised. He blocked Taurus with one arm?
"You're strong, but strength alone can only get you so far." Vergil told him as he forced Taurus off of him. "Summoned Swords!" Vergil sent a stream of magic swords that all blew at Taurus, resulting in him yelling in pain as he was sent flying.
"No Taurus!" Lucy exclaimed as Taurus fell back and vanished as Lucy was forced to close his gate. "You are so gonna get it now!" Lucy exclaimed at Vergil as she took out another key. "Open! Gate of the Archer! Sagittarius!"
With that, the horse-dressed archer materialized while saluting. "Howdy 'do milady?"
"Take him down!" Lucy commanded.
"As you wish." Sagittarius replied as he strung a bow and shot an arrow towards Vergil, but he actually the arrow just before it made contact.
"You'll have to do better than that." Vergil stated.
"I intend to." Sagittarius replied as he strung more arrows and fired them all at rapid paces, almost like a machine gun. Vergil responded by spinning his sword in front of him like a helicopter blade, which blocked and sliced all the arrows that came near him. This kept up for quite some time until Sagittarius stopped.
"Incredible. Truly a great swordsman you must be, to have blocked all my arrows." Sagittarius observed.
"Don't complement him!" Lucy complained.
"My turn now." Vergil zoomed forward and appeared right in front of Sagittarius and gave a fast upward slice, that cut his bow in half and sent the spirit flying straight to the castle's walls, much to Lucy's shock.
Sagittarius' eyes we're white as multiple stars circled his head. Lucy closed his gate before turing around with another key. "Third time's the charm. Open! Gate of the Maiden! Virgo!"
Virgo came out of the ground just below Vergil and gave him an uppercut to the jaw, sending him into the air. Virgo came in with a kick to his chest to send him to the ground.
"Oh yeah!" Lucy cheered.
"Is it punishment time now, princess?" Virgo asked as she came close to Lucy.
"Will you stop asking me that?!" Lucy exclaimed.
Vergil slowly stood up and didn't appear to have so much of a scratch on him. "Impressive, this sprit has both strength and speed to her advantage. However, she is not the only one."
"We're not done yet Virgo." Lucy said as they both saw Virgil stand.
"I agree, this foe is going to be difficult to beat." Virgo replied.
"Beowulf!" Vergil quipped his dark gauntlets and grieves and zoomed in with a punch to Virgo's gut that sent her flying to the wall. Vergil then zoomed in again and grabbed her by the hair and brought her up before kicking her up into the air, he then zoomed above her and gave her a fierce axe-kick that sent her to the ground.
"Virgo! Not you too!" Lucy exclaimed in horror.
"I am sorry princess. I cannot continue." Virgo told her from the ground as she vanished, realizing that Vergil was just to powerful for her.
"Any more spirits you wish to summon?" Vergil asked.
"You jerk! Quit hurting them!" Lucy yelled at him.
"You are the one who is summoning them to face an opponent who is clearly above you in terms of power." Vergil told her simply. "I do not understand Celestial Wizards. They claim to have power, yet it's merely the spirits they summon that do the fighting, not them. They are clearly weak."
"You don't know anything about Celestial Wizards!" Lucy told him.
"I know that they summon their spirits to aid them in battle while they just stand back, which makes them not to different from slaves." Vergil said.
"Shut up!" Lucy yelled. "They aren't slaves! They're my friends! I treat them like family, not unlike my friends in Fairy Tail. How can you be so cruel?!"
"That is how it works. In the end, only the strongest live." Vergil told her. "And if you treat them as your family, as you say, then you must not have the best terms with them; if you're last family was any indication."
Those last words made Lucy look with wide-eyes. "What did you say?"
"I know quite a bit about you, Lucy Hertfilia." Vergil began. "You came from a family that was among the wealthiest in this country. Your mother died at an early age and you ran away from your father soon after that. Afterwards, he ordered the guild known as Phantom Lord to attack Fairy Tail, to which you recently joined, you're father lost his fortune and is now living a mediocre life."
"Let me guess." Lucy began. "You're gonna try and make me feel guilty? That what my dad did was all my fault?"
"No, I am well aware that guild war was solely you're father's doing, not yours." Vergil told her, surprising Lucy a bit. "However, what I do not understand is why you did not do something about it. True you confronted him, but a more affective solution would have been to end his life."
Lucy's face was plastered with shock. "Wh… why… why would I do that?!"
"You still hold feelings for him? Even after how he treated you?" Vergil asked.
"Why do you care?!"
"I don't." Vergil replied. "I am merely curious, nothing more." He shook his head. "You must have inherited your mother's weakness. Why else would she have died at a relatively young age? It's because she was weak."
That really drove a dagger in her heart. "SHUT UP!" Lucy yelled as she took out her whip and flung at Vergil with all her might and some tears flowed from her eyes. However, Vergil grabbed the end of the whip, and with his superior strength, pulled Lucy in. He circled his arm and made several loops in the whip circle around Lucy and he pulled them tight, effectively tying her up in her own whip. She then fell before his feet.
She looked up at his face with a mix of anger and grief. "You don't know anything about me, or either of my parents!"
"I know that they we're both weak, much like you." Vergil said.
"She's not weak! She's the furthest thing from weak!"
Vergil looked behind him to see a certain celestial spirit materialize directly behind him.
"Loke!" Lucy exclaimed.
"Leo, the lion." Vergil introduced.
Loke jumped in front of the blue-clad half demon, separating him from the blonde Celestial Wizard. "I won't let you hurt Lucy."
"I don't recall her summoning you." Vergil observed.
"She didn't. I passed through the gate myself." Loke stated.
"Careful, Loke. This guy's super strong!" Lucy warned.
"I know. I don't expect anything less from the oldest son of Sparda." He replied.
Vergil wasn't to surprise. "You knew my father, I'm not particularly shocked, he was quite famous in his life."
"You are a disgrace to his bloodline and his legacy." Loke scolded. "Threatening and killing innocents"
"I couldn't care less for his legacy. The only thing I care for his power, nothing else." Vergil replied. "Did you come all this way just to tell me that?"
"No. I came to stop you! Regulas!" His rings glowed gold, as did his knuckles and he quickly punched Vergil, sending him back a bit of distance. Loke came in with a golden punch, which Vergil blocked with his sword.
"Hmm. Your much stronger than I anticipated." Vergil granted.
"I'm the leader of the Celestial Zodiacs, you'll find I'm more of a challenge than the rest!" Loke stated as he forced Vergil back.
Loke came in with multiple quick, punches, but Vergil was able to block them all with his blade. At the same time, Vergil tried to strike Loke, but his golden fists acted as a shield that could block the devil arm. As they fought, it looked like they we're both moving at fast speeds as Vergil zoomed back and Loke zoomed forward after him.
Lucy was still trying to get out of the binding of her own whip but couldn't help but see as Loke seemingly had the upper hand against Vergil, she couldn't help but give a light smile.
Loke was able to get a successful punch to Vergil's face, causing him to stager back. This gave Loke an opening that he wasn't about to waste. He brought both his hands together. "Regulas Impact!" Loke sent a massive beam of golden light that took the form of a lion, which then roared as it slammed into Vergil, resulting in a large explosion.
Loke smiled as he turned to Lucy, who smiled back. But her smile vanished as she saw a figure in the smoke behind him.
"Loke BEHIND YOU!"
Loke turned around just to have Vergil stab him through the chest with Yamato, which pierced out of his back with Lucy looking with horror.
"LOKE!"
Loke wasn't able to talk, as all he could do was look at Vergil. "You're right." Vergil began. "You are indeed strong, just not strong enough." As he twisted the blade he continued to talk as Loke moaned more in pain. "Since you past through the gate of your own accord, you are unable to return to the spirit world unless you wish, correct?"
Loke's eyes closed as he fell to the ground. "I thought so."
Lucy could only look in terror at this. "You... You… you monster…"
"Why are you upset? As a celestial spirit, physical wounds are unable to kill him." Vergil said.
"But he did feel pain! You have no idea what he's been through!" Lucy scolded with tears about to flow down her eyes.
"You seem particularly attached to him, perhaps some form of attraction?" Vergil questioned. "I find it quite repulsive how a powerful spirit can be paired with such a weak human."
"Shut up! You're one to talk! You're dad may be a powerful demon, but you're mother was human! You're half human, remember?!" Lucy exclaimed.
Vergil gave a look that made Lucy shriek.
"I may indeed be half human, physically. But it is something that I disgust." Vergil stated.
Before anything else could be said, a large explosion erupted from the castle walls and many large demons we're sent flying, a familiar battle cry was heard as a certain armored wizard slid out of the smoke and onto the balcony, with her swords in hand.
"Erza!" Lucy exclaimed in relief.
Vergil turned to see the armored wizard stand up.
"Lucy, are you alright?" Erza asked.
"Well, aside from being tied up in my own whip, I'm fine." Lucy answered.
Erza looked around and noticed Juvia's and Loke's unconscious bodies and couldn't help but glare at the man responsible for that.
"Erza Scarlet. I must say, you surprise me by arriving here, however, it does save me the trouble of looking for you." Vergil told her.
"Tell me, do you find this much joy in toying with the lives of others?" Erza questioned.
"I have no joy to it, nor do I show grief or remorse." Vergil replied. "But you didn't come all this way to talk to me, did you?"
"No." Erza replied as she readied her swords. "I came to face you. You desire a strong challenge Vergil, than I shall be your opponent."
Vergil actually gave an amused grin. "I do aknoclwegde your strength. Let us see it in use, shall we?" He readied his blade as the two glared at each other. "Come at me, Erza Scarlet."
Done. Nice cliff-hanger huh?
Thanks again for your support my followers. I hope you enjoy this. I have a VERY special chapter planed for when Vergil and Erza clash, one that I could not put in this chapter unfortunately, but rest assured, you won't be disappointed for when the fight comes. :)
See you next time.