A-Z of Melizabeth by Fullmetal Pyromaniac

F is for...

Fight

Prompt by Peacerockgirl123

It was dark. All light had long disappeared, all that was left was darkness, sorrow and hatred.

Meliodas could feel the hatred filling his being, seeping through the pores in his body, there was no room for joy or happiness.

He opened his eyes slowly and was horrified by the sight. Danafor. That was the last place this body had seen, Liz the last person this body had seen before descending into madness and...

Well. That was the thing, after this body had seen Danafor there was nothing left. That was his sin. The massacre of the village, bar one tiny baby, would be the weight on his shoulders forever.

The vision vanished and darkness was installed again. Meliodas reached for the sword that Liz, then Elizabeth, had given him and grasped the handle firmly, like it was an anchor of his sanity.

"Remember that vision?" A voice spoke, Meliodas recognised it as his own voice, yet it didn't sound like him. The voice was too empty.

"Sixteen years ago I showed you that in a dream, while you lay with Liz, and thought you would realise what bloodshed lay ahead of you"

The dream returned to Meliodas full force, pushing him backwards. He remembered, but it was just a dream. He didn't pay any attention to it.

"You let me take over, and I destroyed Danafor. Do you regret what I did? What we did?"

"Yes" Meliodas replied almost immediately, "I regret it almost every single second. I didn't let you take over, you took advantage of my weak spot. We destroyed Danafor fighting for what is rightfully my body and consciousness"

Unsheathing his sword, Meliodas pointed it at the darkness.

"If you remember, I won that battle. If you want to try and beat me again then I'll happily take you on. If beaten you twice now, I can beat you a third time"

The darkness laughed and Meliodas' demon self came into view, eyes lifeless.

"I only want to warn you once more. Here"

The darkness swum until Meliodas and his doppelgänger were standing in front of a burning building. The Boar Hat. Hawk lay bloody and unmoving to the side, Meliodas looked away. He couldn't bare to see one of his longest friends so...so bloody.

But it wasn't much better when he looked away. Ban lay on the grass, all of his limbs had been separated so there was no chance of him coming back together. King was pinned against a tree by his own Chastefoil, Diane was pinned against the ground by a long sword. One arm outstretched towards King, her mouth open in a silent scream.

Gowther was sat underneath and to the left of King, against the same tree. He looked eerily alive except his eyes were dull and a single trickle of blood came from the side of his lips. Merlin was no where in sight, but a bloody Ravens tail and a bloody trail towards the woods guessed her fate.

Meliodas flinched, he couldn't see Elizabeth.

He whipped his head left and right looking frantically for her.

"She's not here" his doppelgänger said, appearing behind him. Meliodas glared, his green eyes hard with silent fury.

"I don't know where you took her" it mocked, "or what you did to her"

"I didn't do anything. That was all you."

"You let me in! Despite knowing what damage I'd do, everybodies deaths are on you"

"You promised you'd avenge Liz, instead you massacred a town! You promised you'd save Elizabeth, instead you nearly killed everyone! There's no way in fuck I'm letting you get in my head again"

The doppelgänger smiled and pulled out his sword.

"Well then, let's settle this"

Meliodas lunged forwards but his doppelgänger parried, knocking him back. Meliodas used the force of his parry to surge forward and attack. The two were locked in battle, their arms blurred from moving so fast. Metal clashing faster and faster.

Ducking, Meliodas went for his doppelgängers legs and managed to knock him down. Two large slices appeared in its shins but they repaired themselves as soon as it was down. The doppelgänger smirked and bounced back on his feet.

With relfexes like lightning, Meliodas' double hit him in the jaw breaking it. Before it could heal, his doppelgänger stabbed him right through the chest. Blood spurted out of Meliodas' mouth and he collapsed.

"Well. Look at that" The doppelgänger drawled, "It seems you weren't able to defeat me. Shame, but not really"

Meliodas glared at it, burning invisible holes into his counterparts head.

"Now that I'm in control, oh the things I'll do! I'll make that vision a reality. The things I'll do to Elizabeth, she's so trusting, pathetically so. Maybe if I play my cards right I can have my way with her" It grinned manically, "whether she wants it...or not"

Meliodas went to get up but was pinned by the sword. Weakness and hatred was filling him, he had failed everyone again. The doppelgänger pulled the sword out of Meliodas' chest and raised it up again.

"But first, I need to get rid of you"

"N-No! D-don't you dare touch him"

The two Meliodas' twisted their heads to the voice, and there stood Elizabeth, her goddess eye glowing.

"Don't touch him again" she snapped, her voice was still soft but it had an edge to it.

"And what can you do? You doubt yourself and you have right to. You're not able to fight, you're weak, like him"

Elizabeth clenched her fists angrily and stood her ground.

"I may not be strong like the others, and I may not be able to fully access my powers yet. But I can do this!"

A strong light began to form around Elizabeth growing larger and larger by the second until it had engulfed all three of them.

The doppelgänger let out a pained cry and clutched its head, it's skin peeling away in large flakes. It turned to Meliodas who was still lying on the floor bleeding.

"That whore." The doppelgänger snarled, baring its teeth, "I'll win next time, Meliodas. And you'd better get a hold of your sanity because that wench is the first neck I'm snapping"

and with one last pained cry, it faded into nothing, leaving only darkness behind it. Elizabeth who had watched with tears in her blue and orange eyes rushed forward and knelt beside Meliodas, wrapping her arms around him.

"You're okay!" She wept, "That goddesses you're okay!"

Meliodas smiled and returned the hug, Elizabeth began to glow once more until Meliodas' wounds had healed. She gently took his face in her hands and stared into his emerald eyes. He was okay.

"Yeah, I'm okay" he confirmed softly, then copped a feel of Elizabeth's ass making her grow red but grin wider.

"So, where are we?" Meliodas asked after being helped to stand.

"In your mind, you've been out for days, Sir Meliodas. You had a fever and black marks kept appearing, I had to ask Gowther to let me into your mind." She looked away, "We were so worried, I was so worried"

Meliodas took her other hand in his and gazed up at her, she was pale and worn out.

"Well, I'm okay, and I'd love to stay alone with you here, Elizabeth, but I think it's time we woke up"

Elizabeth nodded.

"Yes, let's wake up now, everyone will be so pleased to see you"

and the two vanished.

The End.

A.N. So a few hours turned into a few days but I'm actually really pleased with how this turned out, and I'm out of my slump! Yay!

I'm not very good at writing fight scenes but I think this turned out pretty good! I wrote this while jamming to 'Bad Apple', 'A fake, fake psychotropic' and 'Sofia' by Álvaro Soler which has now become my summer song despite the fact I can't understand a single word.

Anyway, tell me what you thought of this chapter and I'll see you on Saturday for 'G'! Which will probably be up late as I'm going to see Suicide Squad!

- Ruby xxx

P.S. Thank you C0c0cat for your lovely words ;/\; they made my day!