Chapter 27: Demons Attack

At Night Raid's base.

Juvia was really furious at that the man she loved was going to be excututed. "Argh, my beloved is going to executed because you guys left him alone!"

Mira had her head lowered. "Damn, we should've stayed to assist him."

Akame too was silent but inside she was furious.

Taran was feeling scared and furious inside but didn't say anything.

Juvia was starting to storm off in a rage as a dark aura was appearing from her entire body. "I will save him no matter what!"

Gajeel took hold of the girl's back shirt. "If you go in there then you'll be killed, no mention the two Generals along with maybe a few Wild Hunt goons and the Jaegers are there!"

Levy decided to speak. "He's right, you alone don't have a chance against all of those people!"

That only enraged Juvia even more. "If you guys won't help me then I'll go on my own!"

Erza then grabbed by Juvia's shirt. "Listen me, there's no way you'll be able to save Gray on your own!" Then she had a confident smile.

Tatsumi knew what to say. "She's right, that's what this will be a emergmency mission."

Najenda got up from her seat. "Correct, everyone from Earthland helped us, so we'll return the favor."

Mine took hold of her Pumpkin. "Yeah, I want kick some ass."

Natsu was cracked his knuckles with a grin. "Alright, I'm fired up now."

Lucy had a determination on her face. "Yeah, we'll save Gray and together we'll return to Earthland somehow."

"That goes for me too!" Taran spoke getting everyone's attention. "Before I have to say: I realize being with you guys was more fun then being a dark Guild, you care for those that need help, share a lot of great friendships with people, you respect those that are weak and are very kind to others, I realize I know what's like to have true friends."

Night Raid and including the former Fairy Tail wizards smiled at the Psychic Wizard's speech as sheer of determination was shown on Taran's face. "I...no we'll make sure Gray is rescued no matter what, we'll all rescue him and take down anyone that gets in our way!"

"YEAH!" The group proclaimed raising their arms.

Lubbock cleared his throat. "Excuse me, I might have to pass on this, as you know my Cross-Tail is destroyed, all I have is Shambhala now and not to mention I still need to figure some stuff about it."

Levy decided to say something. "I think, I can help with my magic I mean I can study the book that contains info on each Imperial Arms such as Shambhala." She got on her glasses.

Gajeel had to admit that was good point not to mention he didn't want to leave Levy here alone with Lubbock who can't fight that much now. "I'll stay behind with these two and guard the base."

"Are you guys sure?" Lucy asked concerned.

"Yeah, Lubbock might be needed in the upcoming war." Levy answered.

Lily decided to speak. "I'll stay here too and assist on the guarding the base too."

Erza smiled at this. "Ok then, we'll back soon with Gray."

Najenda was grateful that the man that worked for her is getting help. "Very well then, let's get the Capital and save Gray."

"Right!" The group saluted again.

"In the Empire's prison cells, Gray was inside one and was waking up as he sat up. He found himself that he was dressed. "Strange I thought took off my shirt." He gasped in realization knowing someone must've put his shirt on while he was out cold. "Wait, strange pain within me, it was the reason I passed out." He felt some slight of pain in his shoulder. "Ow, this mark where did-" He stopped as he remembered as Dorothea one of Wild Hunt members bit him. "Seems like the blood is dried up."

"Oh looks like ice boy is starting to wake up." Gray turned to see two figures standing outside the cell. "This shall makes things quick and interesting." The 2nd figure added.

To Gray's bad luck there stood Suzuka and Dorothea who both just entered the cell looking down at him with smiles on their faces.

"Its you two again, what you do want this time?" Gray asked.

"Well its either to interrogate you or make our play thing." Dorothea replied.

"Which means the two of us ladies will disgrace the prisoner like you to our hearts content." Suzuka added.

"What the hell you talking about?" Gray asked.

Suzuka then opened her samurai clothing revealing much of her breast and chest to her belly while Dorothea pulled up her dress revealing her pink panties.

Gray was left an awe and blushing red. "What on the Earthland are you doing?"

Suzuka sat down with her thighs on his knees and cupped Gray's face into her hands. "Fufu, I usually do girls, but a boy like you has gotten me so hot and my heart is beating so much."

Dorothea crounched down behind Gray and took off his shirt instantly. "Your biceps are so hot, I also admit I never had sexual desires but your blood got me heated up inside." The Alchemist rubbed her face against Gray's muscular back. "So warm you are."

Suzuka backed away a bit and looked down at Gray's pants with a sultry smile. "Man, I wonder what your manhood looks like." The ice wizard gasped in shock. "However I would rather taste your lips with mine, now kiss..." Suddenly she felt someone grab her by the neck and was thrown outside of the cell crashing into a wall knocking her out.

There stood Esdeath with look similiar to a look that Erza makes. "Don't lay a finger on Gray again, that includes any of your teammates Wild Hunt."

Dorothea was about to make a move until she sensed the strong aura coming from the general. "Understood, we're just messing with him, got to go!" With that Dorothea ran away quickly in fear. "(Jeez, I've never been this afraid in my life from one person, what a fearsome woman.)"

Gray was starting to sit up again but seeing Esdeath towering him over him which made him little scared. "Gray..." Out of nowhere she just hugged the young Ice Wizard. The general couldn't help but either way she felt happy to be reunited the with man she loved. "Gray Fullbuster, I'm so happy to see you and I missed you so much!" The younger man didn't share the same feeling even though she saved him. "Also its not too late to join me, if you do I won't hurt your friends including that other girl that you were hugging."

Gray was confused but he remembered when he was reuniting with Juvia and Akame. "(Great, I forgot about that.)" However he had to worry about that later and decided to give the general his answer. "Look, I'm never going to join you no matter what."

Of course the general was expecting that but that didn't matter to her now. "That's not important now, I want now is..." The General began to move her face foward to Gray's. however she stopped herself from kissing Gray remembering the last time she did without thinking. "On the other hand, I don't want scare you with that other kiss I gave you that night we slept together." She caressed her man's cheek with her hand. "Anyway, like I said I won't hurt your friends including that girl if you join, also all your crimes will be forgotten too."

Despite the offer was good the ice Wizard shrugged off her hand off his cheek. "Like hell I would."

Esdeath sighed at this however a woman like her wouldn't give up that easily and took out an ice dagger. "If you won't accept my offer then you know what will happen!"

Gray continued his glare but then an idea came to his head. "Wait, if I do, can I ask something important?"

Esdeath was feeling a glimspe of hope in her eyes. "Yes."

Gray sighed. "Alright, is there hidden lab somewhere outside the Capital?" Esdeath was confused but was curious herself. "Oh, what reason do you need know of that?"

Gray just glared at her. "That doesn't matter, do you know of any lab that is either outside the Capital?"

"Well, there one that Dr Stylish owed even another probably that we didn't know about, also he used mentioned that there's another hidden lab somewhere outside the Capital." Esdeath replied. "I think it might be in the valley that leads to Kyoroch."

Gray gasped quietly. "(That must be where the new Hellscore is.)"

"Alright, I gave you an answer, so you're mine now." Esdeath said as she noticed the young man shaking his head. "I lied." This left the General widened with shock and Gray was looking at her with a serious glare. "I only needed to know about any lab because that might be given the Demons an advantage, even if you and your team went to find that out, you know how strong those Demons are."

Esdeath clenched her hands tightly. "But if you join me, everything against you such as your actions will be erased, you'll be released and I heard you were sick so we could get you treated!"

Gray stood up in front of the general. "I told you the last damn time, I won't join the Empire to save my own life!"

The general gritted her teeth and put her hand on her chest. "Please, don't think of it as joining the Empire but becoming mine forever!"

"Read my lips, I won't fall any woman like you who only cares about bloodshed and war!" Gray snapped. "One more thing, you're aren't my type and never will be so get it through your head!"

Esdeath was horrified at what he just said. "I see, well fine then I shall be the execute you in moments." The older woman turned away as shed of tears was starting to form in her eyes.

Gray was silent on the other hand and nearby was a little spider that crawled out of the prison cell and into the Empire's hallway and crawled out of the open window and down then went to a small fly that flew down to nearby forest and a shadow figure emerged from the trees and it was revealed that Rachena was talking with the fly. "Heh, heh, heh, my the general must be heartbroken, funny who knew that general had feelings." She giggled amusingly. "However, its time for this Empire to show what Demons can do."

Meanwhile inside the conference room.

Wave was looking troubled about this. "I thought the commander loved Gray, what the hell is she doing this?"

Run who was looking out window glanced at his comrade. "I suppose you can think of it of some kind of act of passion." Wave sat down still confused at his commander's action on this. "She still going to kill him despite that she loves him, that doesn't make one sense to me."

Kurome begged to differ. "I do though, she wants to be the one to kill him instead of someone else, like me how I want to kill my sister cause I love her."

Later that afternoon in the Empire's colosseum.

From the sidelines were a lot of people.

Budo and Esdeath were on the grounds.

Gray was tied to cross pole.

Emperor Makoto stood up from his seat. "Listen to me, we are truly distraught by the rebels crimes against the Empire, disregard that one of them is alive but one is here to be executed, now for their traitorous behavior, they shall die by the hands of General Esdeath!

The crowd narrowed their eyes on the criminal. "This man works the Revolutionary Army who left so much bloodshed and causing many murderous crimes such as killing some members of the Jaegers including the Three Beasts that worked for Esdeath!"

Gray was quiet but heard that. "The three beasts, that ones I fought against alone side Tatsumi, Bulat, and Juvia."

"NOW MATTER HOW MUCH PEOPLE THE REVOLUTION HAS WE'LL SEE THAT NONE OF THEM WILL SEE ANOTHER DAY AND NO LONGER POISON OUR CITY, ALSO MARK MY WORDS THAT THIS EMPIRE WILL NEVER FALL!" Makoko finished as he turned to the Minister. "How was that Minister Honest?"

The Minister grinned. "Such a fine speech, your majesty, now its time for lunch, Budo see to it that this Execution continues."

Budo nodded but had other thoughts. "The Minister is going to make his escape if things don't go as planned." He turned to the other General. "Esdeath, are you ready for this?"

The woman nodded in respond and walked down to the center as Budo had another thought. "Once we deal with this, we can focus on the rebels and then I'll deal with the Minister who is the cause of this corruption then I shall kill anyone that stands in my way including General Esdeath."

Gray looked directly at the General Esdeath with glowing lights glowing his eyes pupils. "I'm not sure why your eyes are like that but I don't need to back down, if I can't have you then no one can not even that water shank girl, I shall end your life quickly as possible!"

Outside the Empire's entrance doors the six guards there was seeing something approaching ahead.

"Something is the approaching!" One of the guards pointed out.

Rachena was charging ahead with a licking her lips. "I shall feast on these humans!"

The guards were spooked that they fired their guns.

Esdeath hearing that wondered what the sound was about. "Why that gunfire?" Hearing that got Gray's attention. "What the hell?"

The crown was startled at the sound of the gunfire.

Budo wondered what the ruckus was about. "Just what the guards doing?"

The three Jaegers heard this and ran towards the sound. "Run, what was that?"

"Sounds like Night Raid must be here!" Run guessed. "Then my sister might be here too!" Kurome added.

Just as they made to the entrance, they saw the six guards dead and the worst part was that all of them will dried as a bone but the other part was that most were caught in a spider's silk.

"What the hell is this?!" Wave exclaimed in horror.

Kurome had to admit this was gruesome seeing guards that were dry to the bone.

Rachena was looking down and was hanging from the wall above and used her web to tied up Wave and Kurome tightly. "Looks like I caught two little flies."

"That Demon is new!" Kurome pointed out.

"Just what the hell are you?" Wave demanded struggling to get free.

"I'm the Spider Queen Rachena." The Spider Demon replied with a wicked smile. "Now looks like you two are caught in the spider's web."

"Not me!" Run proclaimed as he prepared to activate his Imperial Arms. "I won't let you hurt my friends!"

Poison Ivy appeared with a wicked smile on her face. "Dark Seed!" She fired three plant seeds and attached themselves to Run's legs then he felt some pain in his whole body. "What was that?"

"No Run!" Kurome yelled.

Wave growled and continued to struggle to get free. "I won't let you hurt Run!"

"Time for a nap, Sleep powder." A dark blue powder was sent from her hands that made the two Jaegers drowsy until they fell asleep.

Run realized the situation he was in as Rachena noticed the blonde's reaction. "Oh, are things getting tough, but its not as tough for you to choose to change the Empire within." Hearing that caught blond's attention. "What, how do you know that?"

Rachena smiled amusingly. "A little Demon told me, to think someone that's teacher so naive like you wants to make a difference in this Empire."

Run didn't have the time for mockery. "What point are you trying to make?" Rachena took out a piece out a few papers and tossed them to the Mastasma User's feet "Read that and I have feeling you won't like ith"

The blonde man bend down to pick up and papers then read them all for a few seconds until a horrifying realization appeared on his face. "What is this?!"

From the sky above the Coliseum was lightning that struck between Esdeath and Gray which revealed to be Saki. "Pardon the interruption, but my team and I will be the ones to kill this brat and none of you humans will get in my way!"

Beni appeared above the sky. "My, such a crowd we have here."

Then one of the exits blew up as Fang jumped out and joined his comrades. "Such stupid humans, they should've stayed home."

The whole crowd was so confused yet some were scared of the new beings that just appeared.

"What the hell are they?!"

Dorothea was looking out another exit. "So those Demons decided to show up again." Suzuka was standing beside her. "Looks like we got more trouble then we thought."

Just then a cloaked figure was seen gliding in the air. "What is that?" A woman pointed out. The cloaked figure landed next to his comrades and pulled back its hood revealing Dr Stylish.

Everyone of the crowd was stunned including Dorothea. "Is-is-is that..."

"Dr Stylish!" Suzuka finished.

Some of the other people were shocked, Budo was left silence.

Esdeath had to admit herself seeing one of her own soldiers turning against them wasn't good let along showing up during in public execution. "I didn't think you show up."

Budo heard that. "Wait, did you know about this too?" Esdeath was silent but Budo went down the grounds. "Dr Stylish, what is the meaning of this, even more so why are you alive, I was told you were killed!"

Dr Stylish/Goliath just smirked. "True, I was dead, but the Demon Kay brought me back, I admit I too to find myself like this after my death at the hands of Night Raid and Fairy Tail but I'm back and more just powerful than I was before and now I will continue my experiments with Tartaros!"

Dorothea was getting a little intrigued. "This seems interesting."

"As you know some of the Demons have research on immortality, even their creator Zeref has that kind of power immortality!" Dr Stylish Proclaimed. "I will continue my own research even if it means experimenting on other humans!"

The crowd all gasped loudly in horror but Dorothea had other thoughts. "Immortality, I always thought that was..."

Saki decided to speak to the crowd before taking a deep breath. "LISTEN TO US HUMANS OF THIS EMPIRE, WE ARE THE DEMONS OF TARTAROS, WE DON'T SERVE HUMANS WE ARE LOYAL TO OUR CREATOR LORD ZEREF AND MARD GEER, AND FINALLY IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR THE VILLAGE JOYOU HAS ALSO BEEN KEEPING THINGS HIDDEN FOR LONG YEARS!" Saki took out papers and then Beni flew towards them snatching them all and tossing to crowds of people.

Few seconds that crowd began to scream in horror and disgust.

"Wait we were told that Night Raid attacked Joyou!"

"It must've been these Demons then, that's how they must've gotten these papers!"

"The empire lied to us, this is an outrage!"

Budo hissed in anger. "Damn it, this isn't good."

Esdeath was now furious that the citizens now realize that the empire lied about Joyou destruction being Night Raid's doing however that didn't stop her from confronting the Demons. "I will kill you all!" Beni flew down and slash the General on her left shoulder with her talon claw making her scream in pain.

Saki saw her chance. "THUNDER FIST!" She punched the ice user woman in the chest sending crashing into a wall.

The crowd was getting scared that some began to make it the exits. "I shall have some fun with these humans!" Fang proclaimed amusingly. "BOMB SPEAR!" He tossed a several spears towards some people running and were caught in the explosion that disappeared as some blood stains were splatted where the people were.

Budo was disgusted at this. "HOW DARE YOU SPILL BLOOD IN..." He was caught off by Saki's thunder fist which struck his back sending him crashing into a coliseum wall.

Some of the people ran for their lives but the doors closed.

"We're trapped!"

One human male tried to turn the door knob as Saki snapped her fingers and then as the man touched the door knob an electric surge appeared. "AAAAAHHH!" The man was electrocuted until he was a burning skeleton.

"HOW DID THAT HAPPEN!"

Budo wondered what that ruckus was about. "Why the hell are you people just standing there?!"

Saki giggled getting the two generals to look at her. "That's my Dark Static curse, not only can I paralyze my enemy sometimes but I can use my curse onto any metal object such as door knob, if any other humans touch it they'll be electrocuted!"

Budo growled in frustration. "Damn it, that means the citizens are trapped in here."

Back at the Empire's entrance

Run fell to his knees in despair. "All this time, others tried to do the same thing and..."

"Were caught and killed on the spot." Rachena finished.

Poison Ivy laughed amusingly. "I can't believe how thick headed you are." Rachena had to agree with that but something else she found amusing. "I find it amusingly you didn't try to kill the Joyou officials then again you didn't want to cause any bloodshed, but you didn't even realize working under the command of such a woman like Esdeath you would cause just as much blood spills as Night Raid does."

Run's eyes widened at what he was hearing as the spider demon gave the blond a wicked smile. "You refused to realize it, that's one thing I love about humans, so naive and stupid yet pathetic, as spineless human like you is pathetic, that on top of that leaving those students of yours alone was a bigger mistake."

Run gasped at that part as Rachena let out a nefariously laugh. "You left your students because of a trip and which made the brats defenseless in other words, you left them alone and made them easy prey and then you decide to change in the Empire within but didn't realize how incredible naive and thickheaded you are!"

Run's eyes were now filled with anger and he activated his Imperial Arms and then flew up. "You may have confessed me of my plan of being hopeless, however I won't creatures like you destroy this Empire nor the world, I will see that you Demons will pay for your crimes of murdering those children in Kyoroch and for making one our own into a Demon!"

Rachena just smiled and showed no sign of worry. "Show me you got, blond!" She turned to look at Poison Ivy. "Listen Poison Ivy return to the hideout while I take care of this human." The plant Demon nodded and ran away.

The Spider queen turned to face. "Bring it on, pretty boy!" Hearing that made Run glare angrily as he sent his feathers at the spider demon. MASTEMA!"

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