Author's note: Ugh God I feel like pure crap today. Don't worry guys I'm fine, just feeling a bit sluggish is all. I have my days where I'm just exhausted for no reason. So now the Fairy Tail Anime is almost over. For the English Dub there's two episodes left and in Japan, the episodes have all premiered.
I have to admit, I'm a tad bit behind on the anime (manga I'm completely caught up, even 100 year quest) but I got to say I've also been checking out a lot of other new series' recently, and one I can't wait to see on Toonami is Demon Slayer Kimetsu No Yaiba.
But otherwise, I've been trying to get some drawings up for sale in time for The Holidays, work on my art channel on Facebook and finish writing two books I've been working on. That's right! Manga is writing her own books! But enough about me, let's get back to the story!
Warning: implied violence.
Chapter 5: Liberus
The small warehouse that was deserted near the mountains of Oak Town was bustling this fine day throughout the building, people sat at their desks, taking phone calls or responding to emails that involved campaign donations. On the walls, was pictures of Touka White, one of the candidates for mayor in what was political campaign posters that were either there to inspire their audiences or to be posted on the streets of Oak Town to make people vote for her.
As the phones rang off the hook, Touka White a young woman with long white hair that curled at the ends walked into the campaign building, a white colored suit-jacket, black sunglasses, a light blue buttoned up shirt and a grey pencil skirt with white stiletto heels.
She walked through the building to her office, drinking a cup of coffee she got at a convenience store ( which opened for the first time since being robbed by Gajeel) and rubbed her temples. After her political campaign the night before, she celebrated at a VIP suite the Ruby Casino had and let's say Touka had one too many.
Most of last night after she drank was a blur to her, but her campaign went off without a hit, and as of right now, she's ahead in the polls.
She made it into her office and sat immediately at her desk. Not caring about anything unless it was a cure for her hangover. The office was nothing too special if you wanted her opinion. All there was in that room was her desk, posters and political ads for her campaign, her laptop, a work phone and a lone, framed photo of Touka with a pink haired man.
Her head pounded in agony as she did everything to ease the aching she was feeling. And the fact everything was a blur last night after her political speech didn't help either. Well, it didn't matter considering she woke up on the couch of that VIP room with her clothes still on.
Knock knock knock!
"Miss White?" a voice called out "Your 11am interview is going to begin soon! We have to leave!"
Touka let out a large groan. God, why couldn't she just suffer in peace?
"I'll be out in a minute." Touka groaned. She got up from her desk and opened her office door to meet a young woman with short blonde hair dressed in a pantsuit "You're driving Dimaria."
"Last night was that fun huh?" The woman named Dimaria chuckled a bit darkly.
"Hardly remember it." Touka admitted "But, I think I saw him last night. In the crowd…." Dimaria looked at the mayoral nominee for a moment and noticed her cheeks were turning bright red.
"You mean that guy you met at that bar a few months ago?" she asked.
"Yeah!" Touka smiled dreamily "I saw him at the slots! I wanted to go say hi to him after my speech; but some guy with long hair took him away before I could." she deflated at her last statement.
"Maybe he needed to leave." Dimaria said, not really caring about this "pink haired man" whom she heard about for the millionth time. But hey, it's part of the job "Who knows, maybe he'll vote for you!"
Touka perked up a tad bit at Dimaria's words. Maybe he would, and then he'd accept her feelings for them! They made their way out of the building and watched as a crazed driver drove down the street in what appeared to be a stolen 9F Cabrio Obey, shooting at innocent pedestrians as the OTPD chased him down the street.
"My God do they have to be so loud?!" Touka hollered as she covered her ears in agony.
"I'll get you a Bloody Mary later Miss White. That should help." Dimaria soothed "Come on, we got that interview to head to."
Touka got into the back of the black Albany Cavalcade and began to rest her head against the window, hoping in some sense it would ease her pain, but as the engine started up, the radio began to play and it automatically caught Touka's attention.
"And last night Touka White gave a fantastic speech about ending the crime wave at the new Ruby Casino." The announcer explained "But not everyone is taking Miss White's promise that well. A few hours after her speech, Liberus had attacked the Diablos automotive repair shop. Diablos was rumored to be a front for a cocaine business that was smuggling the drug out of Oak Town; however, the members of Diablos have all been reported missing by police."
"Liberus attacked Diablos?" Touka suddenly muttered to herself, now interested in the report.
"One thing that was found at the crime scene was the Liberus insignia, painted on the wall and a message written in white spray paint: "We will dye this whole town white. Stay out of our way Touka." Police are still investigating." The radio disc jockey explained.
"What a bunch of freaks." Dimaria commented as she stopped by the light "Dye this town white? What're they going to do? Put bleach in all our washing machines and make our clothes white?"
"It's still a serious matter." Touka admitted "Diablos was something my people and I were planning to see if we can work with the OTPD on arresting them. But to hear someone beat us to the punch and kidnapped all of them is extremely serious."
"Hopefully this Liberus group will end their reign in the future." Dimaria commented as she made a left turn "Do you know anything about them?"
"To be honest," Touka commented as she removed her sunglasses, now feeling her hangover is beginning to expire "not much. I only know that they're some cult that believes in something called "the white doctrine". I don't even know anything about their leader."
"Well I pray to whatever God their messed up leader worships," Dimaria said before turning into the parking lot "that the messed up jerk is captured. Because it's obvious no one likes them." Touka couldn't help but cringe a little at that comment. She hired Dimaria to be her assistant since she's good at her job, but Dimaria had a tendency to let her mouth get the best of her.
"We're here." Dimaria spoke as she turned off the car "Come on Touka, we need to get you into makeup." Without another word, Touka got out of the car and left with Dimaria into the news caster building.
The sun was setting on this beautiful day and near the Hargeon docks, a dock that was not too far from Oak Town Docks, was an abandoned warehouse. One that had been long abandoned after a raid on stolen vehicles was done twelve years ago. Since then, no one used it.
A group of people dressed in nothing but white colored robes with a gold embroidery and a red gem in the center walked around the building, setting up old church benches and putting what appeared to be blocks of an unknown drug into trucks.
"Looks like we got a big order to ship today." One person spoke.
"Yeah we do." Another spoke "The White Mage is thrilled. Now that we have Diablos captured, we can sell drugs and experiment on making our own."
"But what's with the church benches?"
"Heh. You must be new. The White Mage is issuing a meeting after we ship off the drug."
Eventually the last truck was filled and soon shipped off to its destination. All of the members of this odd cult made their way to the benches and sat. Pure silence filled the air as someone in the group set up a professional camera, a boom mic and laptop. Once everything was ready, a stage that was built earlier in the day suddenly had a spotlight in its direction as the lights in the old warehouse dimmed.
The spotlight soon revealed a hooded figure in what appeared to be robes similar to the people around them, but looked more regal and grand. This person was the cult's leader.
"White mages of Liberus," the leader spoke "today is a grand day in our society as not only we have made a shipment of Diablos's supply, today we will show this town our existence!" The crowd cheered at their leaders words "No more hiding in the shadows of society! Today, I have some of our most gifted in technology, ready to help with our public statement. Are we ready?"
With a quick thumbs up a red light appeared on the camera and soon, the laptop began to transmit the live footage onto every single tv in Oak Town: they were hijacking the signals.
"People of Oak Town." The leader spoke "My name is The White Mage and I am the leader of Liberus. As you saw or heard last night, the mayoral nominee Touka White's speech was to branch out against our order and to branch out against the gang known as Shadow Gear.
Know this, we do not condone Touka's words and we will not stop until this town has been dyed white. If asked if we are allied with other groups, no we aren't. And don't want an alliance. As you can see right now.." the lights in the warehouse turned on and revealed behind the leader of Liberus something horrific; there, strapped to chairs and gagged was members of Diablo.
"As you know, Diablos went missing as of yesterday." The White Mage smirked evilly "Well, now you know where they are. And as of today, they will all be dyed white and follow the white doctrine!" the crowd cheered at The White Mage's words as a group of people gathered together on the stage, hoods over their heads and pulled out weapons, right then and there, they made their way to the members of Diablos. Before anyone could see what they had planned, the footage cut out, the tv station, finally regained control of their station.
Shadow Gear sat in the bar of their hideout, all in pure silence and staring at the TV with pure horror. Mira, who was serving a drink to Droy, overflowed the drink due to losing interest in it and paid more attention to the tv.
"My God." Gray suddenly spoke "They're monsters!"
"Diablos is a messed up group to begin with." Lisanna, Mira's you get sister spoke "But, this is worse than something they'd do."
"This is why we need to start treading lightly." Levy suddenly spoke up "Now that Touka White spoke out against us, were more likely to be targeted by police even more if she makes office! We won't let her get us down!"
The crowd of bikers cheered at their leader's words, all except Gajeel, who had an aching feeling in his gut from all of this. Knowing something was going to happen and whatever it was, it wasn't good.