Chapter 28: Death of Two Friends

A day ago.

Night Raid and the earthland wizards were discussing about their plan in the meeting room.

"Team Natsu will break down the other entrance way, I shall have Akame escort you there, then take out any other guards when that's done meet us back here."

Team Natsu saulted.

"Aye Sir, I mean ma'am!" Happy corrected.

"Right Miss Najenda!" Wendy saluted.

"Aye Captain Najenda!" Natsu raised his arm up.

The former general's body twitched. "(Now Wendy is calling me miss and Natsu calls me captain again.)" She felt annoyed at the two but had to let it go. "Anyway, I want Susanno, Juvia, Taran,Tatsumi with me to rescue Gray."

Su nodded. "Understood."

"My darling wait for me!" Juvia cried.

Tatsumi sighed. "She says that out loud too much."

Taran had a determined look. "No problem, we shall rescue Gray."

"As for you Take Over Siblings, I want you to guard outside the entrance where Akame will escort the others."

"Yes boss!" The three wizard siblings saluted.

"Leone, Mine, and Chelsea, you three will do something different, t Pais and Rotone want to discuss something, so go down the stream and towards a dirt trail where a cliff wall is and there the two spies will give you a signal to know where they are."

Leone made a pouty groan. "Man, I want to kick some ass!"

Chelsea begged to differ. "Rotone and Pais must have something to important to tell us."

Mine scoffed. "Crap, I was hoping to blow some bastards up, oh well."

Najenda raised her arm up. "Let's start our missions!"

The next day Night raid and a few wizards were riding on the stingray danger Beast towards the Coliseum.

Najenda noticed the lack of people in the city. "Hmm, everyone must be at the coliseum, just as I expected to be."

"That mean, Akame and others can sneak without being seen." Taran stated.

"That maybe, but we have to deal with General Budo and Esdeath." Su pointed out.

"Yes, dealing with them won't be easy." Taran agreed.

Akame was in other entrance door where two guards standing by but they were instantly killed by the former Empire warrior who slashed them with her sword.

Erza then equiped into her Flame Empress Armor. "Let's go!"

Natsu grinned evilly. "Yeah, let's show them what we're made of."

Wendy felt a bit nervous but her confident smile was seen on her face. "I break this door down, Sky Dragon Wing attack!" She swung both her arms and created a strong wind attack that blew down the doors.

Lucy took out her whip. "Let's do this, OPEN GATE THE LION: LEO!" The suit glasses man appeared with a smile and crossing his arms. "I'm at your assistance m' lady."

The blonde girl sighed as her eye twitched. "Let's just help our friends."

Carla transformed into her human form. "Let's go!'

"Aye!" Happy flew up and all went into the entrance way.

Natsu's nose caught something. "Wait, I smell something." His team wondered what he sniffed out.

"AAAAHHH!" A scream from a corner of the hallway up ahead.

Team Natsu ran towards the scream was when suddenly a guard was thrown into the wall from the corner of the hallway.

Wendy was horrified at this. "What happened?'

The guard had a open wound on his throat which gave a Erza a guess. "This guard was just mauled."

Then a figure jumped from the corner and there was Leon and Snapjaw.

"Its the Demons!" Happy pointed out.

"Well, we meet again." Leon chuckled.

"What are you guys doing here?" Natsu growled.

"I assume you're here to rescue Gray, am I right?" Snapjaw guessed.

"Wait, why are you helping..." Carla was interrupted by Leon's roar. "Please, we know it wouldn't be much fun if one of you wizards is taken out."

"Meaning what?" Erza asked.

Snajaw had a sinister smile. "We want to be the ones to take you wizards of Fairy Tail out for destroying the Nine Demon Gates, Mard Geer King of the Underworld, and ruining our plans on reviving Master E.N.D!"

Akame prepared to draw her sword until Erza took hold of her wrist. "Listen, you know this Empire in and out, Natsu and I shall take keep these two busy."

Natsu laughed. "My thoughts exactly."

Akame was unsure of this before Erza spoke again. "Akame continue fighting any guards nearby, Wendy, Carla, and Happy assist Akame, and be careful, we'll meet here later."

The three former Fairy Tail wizards were a little unsure but then Erza glared at them which got them the message. "Yes, ma'am!"

Natsu had flames appear in his hands palm. "Now I will burn you demons into a crisp!"

Erza pointed her Flame Empress Sword at the Demons. "Let's do this!"

Snapjaw and Leon shared the same feeling. "I suppose we can have some fun now!"

At the other Empire's entrance

Rachena wasn't feeling weak or worn out however Run was panting heavily. "She's tougher than I thought." The Spider Demon had to admit she was surprised to see the blonde still being able to breath. "Impressive, even without magic or anything, you can still fight."

Run stood up with sheer determination. "That's something you would never understand, I will keep fighting for the kids and any innocent human that's in danger, even if Night Raid hates this Empire, I won't let them spill a lot of blood!"

Rachena started to laugh out loud which got Mastama user to narrow his eyes at the spider demon. "What's so damn funny?" The Spider Demon looked at the blond man with amusing smile. "I find you funny more like pathetic, you say you don't like how Night Raid spills the blood of others, what does that make you working under an ice bitch like Esdeath?"

Run gasped quietly at that. "What do you mean?" Rachena laughed even more. "You really don't get it, such a naive and stupid teacher, I didn't think humans like you were this thick headed."

Hearing this mockery was getting Run irritated. "Get the point!" Rachena stopped laughing even more and smiled wickedly. "Esdeath is just a woman who only cares about bloodshed and war, on top of that the Minister is the whole reason that humans here suffered, he uses the Emperor's naive and lack of ruling to his advantage, the fact is...this Empire has so much darkness that but I think Night Raid sees that more than anyone that includes a stupid human like you and your friends!"

The really struck a nerve to the Mastema User that he fired his feather directly at the Spider Queen. "ELECTRO WEB!" She fired a web out of her mouth which took down the incoming feathers and wrapped around Run's body which electrocuted him making him scream in pain.

Run knelt down on the ground as his Imperial Arms wings began to lower down weakly. "That didn't feel good..." He coughed out blood. "My Imperial Arms won't stay activated longer..." Rachena then put her hands close to each other. "TOXIC WEB!"

Another web was fired directly onto the web Run was wrapped in bind. "Another web?"

"That's right, my Curse power is Web, each web I use is used for attacking directly and some like the two webs contain type different elements for example like Electric, burn, and poison but my webs can be used for attacks or defense." Rachena explained.

Run gasped quietly as he looked down at the silk which had purple like liquid and felt something hurt him. "This web is poisoning me."

Rachena smiled. "Yes, its only a matter of time until the poison takes away your life." Run knelt down in pain and coughing roughly but then he slowly stood up. "I will fighting until I avenge the kids and those people from Joyou you Demons murdered!"

This act impressed Rachena. "Interesting despite that the Joyou Government Officials keeping secrets like your students death, you still are willing to fight for them."

Run then smiled sadly. "I do hate the Joyou officials I won't lie about that, they swept the entire incident because they wanted..."He coughed again and blood came out of his mouth. "To keep their village's reputation safe, however there are still a lot people that are innocent, I will keep fighting anyone that causes pain to people!"

Rachena started to laugh again which got Run to narrow his eyes directly at the Spider Demon. "Your laughing is starting to annoy me!" The Spider Queen stopped and smiled amusingly. "I find you funny, you caused bloodshed and killed countless people under the command of Esdeath." Run gasped quietly. "Besides that you tried to pursue a hopeless cause even if you did know the consequences which was you including anyone would be sentence to death if your plan was discovered."

Run gritted his teeth. "Hold your tongue!" Rachena continued to smile with amuse. "That didn't matter to you, the only thing you cared about was that you wanted to pursue your plan even if it meant getting yourself and anyone else killed. I wonder if that makes a more evil person than anyone in this pathetic empire."

Run's eyes opened with rage and looked directly at the spider demon. "SHUT UP!" He fired his feathers once again.

Rachena put her hands together. "It won't matter your pathetic life ends here, WEB NEEDLE!" She fired large web that broke into a large amount of sharp needles that scratched some parts of skin off Run's legs, arms, his face, then some of the needles impaled into his chest which made him gasp in pain and cough out more blood making him kneel down and put his hand on where the needles impaled him.

The blond knew he didn't have much time left to live as images of his comrades went through his mind.

Seryu went to his mind. "I know you were misguided but if things went different you would've seen what true justice is like."

Dr Stylish went through his mind next. "I know you were insane like Esdeath said, but perhaps we would've helped you realize the error your ways, you did help Seryu who lost her arms in a battle."

Bols was next in his mind. "Despite that you killed some many villages and people, deep down you didn't like it, that shows how much good and kind-hearted you were, Bols."

Kurome and Wave went through his head. "Kurome, despite that you barely talked to us expect when we went on missions or had free time, you were just a girl that suffered a terrible past, Wave you are kind and good young man, even though I can tell you were hurting inside from losing our comrades but you must remain your kind self, don't give in to anger or hate like I did, I'm so sorry I got you two involved in my plan, I was so blinded and not able to see how much darkness that this Empire had, I can only hope you will reconsider of my plan and leave this Empire until its corruption is no more."

Tears began to form, images of his students went through his mind, and he slowly fell on his back while his eyes began to shut close and then he raised his hand straight up and made a fist while smiling and his tears were flowing from his eyes that were closed. "I shall be resting in peace with my students in the afterlife, this is good...bye...Wave and Kurome."

Rachena approached him as she opened her mouth showing her rows of sharp teeth. "I shall feast on your blood, then you'll be joining your bratty students in the afterlife."

Inside the palace Wendy, Carla, Happy, and Akame took out all the guards some were dead and others were knocked out. "That should be the last of it." Akame stated.

Wendy heard something from a door not too far. "What's that sound?" She went closer to the door and put her hand next to her ear. "Sounds like people are still in there."

Akame was confused.

Night Raid appeared from above the coliseum.

"Look up there!" A man pointed up.

"Its Night Raid!"

"We can't run, the doors are sealed somehow!"

Some of Night Raid and wizards caught that.

"The doors are..." Tatsumi began to say. "Sealed, how that's possible?" Juvia finished.

"Something isn't right." Najenda wondered. "What shall we do now?" Su asked.

Wendy hearing the people shouting. "The others are here, they said that they can't get in, the doors like this one is sealed or dangerous to touch."

Carla was confused. "What the world does that mean?"

Akame looked closely and noticed a electric surge around the door handles. "Don't touch, there some kind of electric surge." The three former Fairy Tail wizards noticed that too but the electrice was black.

"Strange black electricity." Carla commented.

Wendy knew what she had to do. "Listen we need to the people out, SKY DRAGON WING ATTACK!" She swung her arms and unleashed wing attack that broke down the doors.

"What was that?" A woman inquired.

"We need to escape, Fast the wind that runs Heaven... Vernier!" Akame felt different so did Carla and Happy.

"Let's escape the people will come running through here!" Wendy stated. "Let's get to Natsu and Erza to inform them too!"

The others followed her through the hallway.

The people were confused how the door was broken down. "How did that happen?"

"Who gives a crap how the door was busted down!"

"Yeah, let's just run!"

The crowd ran into the door screaming in panic state.

"The people are escaping." Su pointed out.

Najenda sighed. "That's good, no else around will get hurt."

Wendy and the others were approaching Natsu and Erza. "Listen, you guys, we need to get outside and quickly!"

"What for?" Erza asked.

Leon and Snapjaw were annoyed. "Hey, we're fighting here!"

"Let's take this outside!" Natsu suggested.

"Hey, the citizens were trapped in the coliseum but are now free!" Happy stated.

"Yeah, they're heading this way!" Carla added.

"We can't get spotted or seen, we must get to outside!" Erza suggested.

Leon had to admit that was true. "Argh, we'll finish this fight soon!"

Snapjaw chuckled. "We'll be waiting soon!" The two demons ran in the opposite direction.

Natsu stomped his feet in disappointment. "Aww, I want to keep fighting!"

"Stop your whining right now!" Erza shouted with a demonic look.

The wizards including Akame shrugged in fear and Natsu lowered his head. "Yes ma'am."

Erza pointed the direction where they came from. "Let's get out of this palace now!"

B

Juvia, Mine, Taran, jumped down to where Gray was tied to the cross.

"Taran checked the stripper man's body. "He doesn't look well."

Juvia noticed redden marks on her man's body. "He looks sick, my darling."

"I have feeling it can't be good." Tatsumi added.

Just as the smoke behind them cleared there stood Fang, Dr Stylish, Saki.

"Oh look the Night Raid humans showed up." Fang said chuckling amusingly.

Beni flew down to join her comrades but then she noticed Tatsumi who noticed her which him eye widened. "You...you look like..." Beni's eyes widened then she felt some pressure in her head. "What is this, I'm feeling..."

Juvia did a battle stance. "Why are you Demons here?"

Saki just glanced at the humans. "Listen you guys don't have much time, get out of here!"

"Why are you helping us?" Mine asked.

Fang scoffed. "Please as if we would help humans."

Dr Stylish began to walk towards the humans. "What Fang means is, we're planning to have a war against Fairy Tail, however it wouldn't be much fun without Gray, besides we want to make sure all wizards that destroyed Tartaros are ready to fight soon!"

Night Raid and two earthland wizards saw the point the Demons made and understood it well.

Tatsumi wasted no time and summoned his spear and shattered the chains.

Taran carried Gray over her shoulder which made Juvia gasp. "No fair, I want to carry him!"

The Psychic Wizard jumped on the string ray Danger Beast as Esdeath began to wake up. "Night Raid is here." She gasped when she saw Gray being carried away by Taran. "Who is that girl?" She quickly acted and released her ice shards at the psychic wizard.

Beni quickly acted and spread her wings apart. "WHIRLWIND!" A strong wind was sent directly at the ice shards that blew some away and Juvia swung her arms sideways "Water Slicer!" Water scythes were sent directly towards the ice shards and were cut into little pieces of chunks of ice.

Tatsumi gazed back at Beni for a moment. "Is that..."

"Hey, Tatsumi, let's go!" Najenda called out.

Tatsumi shook his head and jumped onto the sting ray danger beast and flew off with the group.

In the outside entrance.

The Take Over Siblings were already running through the streets.

They heard the roar from flying sting ray as Taran pointed her fingers on her head. "Come in, Lisanna, Mira, Elfman, the mission completed we rescued Gray, get to the base on the boss' orders!"

"Roger that." Lisanna replied.

"Gray is safe then." Elfman added.

Mirajane was relieved. "Thank goodness."

Snapjaw and Leon jumped out of window and down the ground then ran through the street.

B

Budo and Esdeath looked directly at the three Demons.

"I shall make you Demons pay for letting a criminal escape!" Budo roared as collided his fists together.

"Facing us won't be easy either!" Esdeath added.

Saki just grinned. "If you think you can defeat us then keep dreaming, but first, Beni meet up back at the hideout, let us handle these humans and inform the others that are here to return with you!"

Esdeath heard that. "Hideout, they have a...wait Gray ask me..."

Beni nodded and flew away but she noticed some of the papers below on the sidelines and then she flew down quickly to snatch some.

Fang started to get taller and his muscles got larger, his face became wolf like and he let out a thunderous roar. "ETHERIOUS FORM: SABRE-WOLF!

Saki grew a little more taller, her skin became yellow fur with a large black thunderbolt on her chest, a few more stripes on both her arms, both legs, she grew a long tail, that was yellow had, she had two sharp fangs hanging from her upper teeth, her toes had sharp claws including her fingers, and she let out her beastly roar. "ETHERIOUS FORM: THUNDER DEMON!"

Esdeath gritted her teeth and felt the auras from the Demons which were so powerful than she felt in her life. "So this the kind of Etherious Forms that my team mentioned about."

Budo felt little strange about this. "I admit your power isn't something like I seen, but I will protect this Empire no matter who stands in my way!"

The two great generals and the three Demons charged at each other while screaming their battle cries.

Mira turned her head as she saw the bird demon flying towards them. "Look out!"

At the coliseum.

Saki was fighting against Budo who roared. "Advent of the Thunder Emperor!" Multiple lightning pillars came down from the sky that descended onto the thunder demon. "That should do it." Unfortunately he was wrong. "Talk about pathetic."

There stood Saki completely unphased. "That kind of tickled, but its not going to make me down that easily." Budo growled in frustration.

Esdeath was fighting against Fang. "Graul Horn!" A giant spike made of ice erupted from the ground but Fang jumped out of the way and he kicked the ice spike with his foot which exploded. "He blew up that ice!"

Fang laughed amusingly. "If that's all you can do, then you're not as much as the general the people here say you are." Esdeath growled angrily. "Wiess Schenbal!" Countless icicles were sprouted from behind and sent directly at the wolf demon but he swung his left arm and then the icicles exploded in the air. "Damn it, what's going to take for these monsters to die?!"

Budo knew he had to use his Trump Card. "Its time to end this quickly, I use my Trump Card!" He floated in the air. "SOLID SHOOTER!" Thunder was heard from the sky.

Saki smiled and chanted something as strange looking lighting spheres appeared as the Budo's trump card was absorbed into the strange lightning spheres. "What are those three sphere?!"

Saki cackled. "This is the Thunder Palace, I learned about it, its was used once during a battle royale in Magonlia, however I managed some arrangements on it, meaning I used in different ways, this can absorb magic attack even non magic attacks, then power that was absorbed by my Thunder Palace is sent back to the opponent who just attacked!"

Budo's eyes widened. "I used my Trump Card on those damn spheres, if those attack me then its over for me."

Fang decided to unleashed Landmine Curse again. "Time to use my Landmine Curse, this will destroy the whole Coliseum!"

Esdeath then did something with her hands and mumbled something as the two Demons made a run for it as Thunder Palace and the landmine curse unleashed their power.

Twenty five minutes pass

A guard that was injured was running through the hallway and bursted to another dining room where Minister and Emperor Makoto were eating lunch. "Minister Honest and your majesty, we have emergency here, the coliseum destroyed to the ground!"

The Emperor was stunned while the Minister was jumped in surprise. "What, where are the two generals or the Jaegers!"

"General Budo and Esdeath are in the medical room, they were badly injured but are still alive barely." The guard explained.

Minister Honest started to chew his meat with intensely. "What about the man that was suppose to be executed?"

"He escaped, the Demons intervened, then Night Raid and their wizard friends took their comrade away!" The guard replied.

Minister Honest started to rub his hair roughly in frustration. "Argh, where the Jaegers though, they were suppose to be on standby!"

"Wave and Kurome were knocked out somehow but they have awoken up and are now currently looking for Run who vanished, all the citizens have escaped the coliseum, they should be safe." The guard replied. "However we have more info to share."

Minister Honest was looking a curious. "What is this info?"

In the Capital city streets.

Wave was running through the city. "Run, Run, where are you?!"

Kurome was looking around a different street where a cafe was then she noticed a few people looking at an old statue of the previous emperor and empress. "What is going over there?"

The younger girl walked over and struggled to get through the crowd and to her horror was Run laying dead with a smile, but that wasn't the worst of it. "Run is-is-."

Wave arrived and heard the people chanting with shock and others were silent. "What is going..." As he ran he saw Kurome spacing out with a horrified look and he saw Run who was laying dead on the ground but he was all wrinkly, his body was nearly dry as old corpse with a large gap hole in his chest which had a blood on it. Without hesitating he ran over to the blond then knelt down to pick him up in his arms.

Wave noticed the Imperial Arms Mastema was laying next to his friend, some of its parts were still there but into pieces however that didn't matter to him. "Run, speak to me!" He yelled. No voice or reaction came that Wave's whole body began to tremble. "Come on, come on, you can't be..." He continued to talk and shake the body but no respond came from the motionless Run.

Wave shut his eyes and as he leaned his head back in despair while tears formed in his eyes. "RUUNNNN!" He screamed in despair. "NOOOOOO!" He started cry out more loudly again and again. "ARGGGHHH!"

Kurome began to sob while lowering her head as tears drip down from her eyes. "Crap even with my sword Yatefusa, Run wouldn't last long not after being drained of his blood." She began to sob as her tears dripped from her face and she put her hand over her eyes. "Run is done...for..."

The crowd walked away as another cry was heard from Wave. "ARRGGGH, NOOOOOO!"

Rachena was making her way through the forest with Poison Ivy. "Such a delicious blood that pretty man had." She licked her lips. "By now those two Jaegers found their friends corpse and will drive them into despair and sadness." She then laughed wickedly.

Poison Ivy noticed a signal fire coming down a trail path. "I'm going to investigate that fire signal I have feeling some of those Night raid brats are there, you go the hideout."

Rachena smiled. "Very well, even if are you defeated, you can be revived."

In the in the forest on a dirt trail.

Leone, Mine, and Chelsea were talking with Rotone and Pais.

The three assassin ladies were left stunned mostly shocked. "Are you sure its him?" Mine asked looking stunned.

"How can that be, I found him dead." Chelsea said in a confusion state.

Leone was trying to make sense how he was alive. "How could he be alive?"

"Not sure, Bols is alive, a few of our soldiers saw him that seemed familiar not to mention his voice as well so while he and his family went out one day, two men investigated his house a week ago and found a mask that one of Jaegers wore, its no doubt that the mask is what Bols wore, meaning he's indeed Bols." Pais replied.

"It doesn't matter for now get this info to Najenda." Rotone ordered.

"Alright, return to the Revolution base." Leone replied with a nod.

The two spies nodded and rode on their horses.

"The boss isn't going to be happy about this." Chelsea said nervously.

Leone agreed to that. "Yeah, never want to make her angry."

Mine was thinking. "Its strange how Bols is alive, now that I think about it, Team Natsu said they arrived sometime when we left for Kyoroch and then they met us by going to valley and the meeting the other two revolution members Molly and Kelly, could they have..."

"Hey, Mine, we need to return to the base soon!" Hearing the blonde woman's voice was enough to snap out of the pinkette girl's though. "Alright then let's go!"

Just then something jumped out of the trees nearby and struck the back of Chelsea's back as blood sprayed behind Poison Ivy appeared behind with one of her arms was transformed into a blade. "Leaf Blade!"

Leone was horrified as Mine's eyes widened as Chelsea fell on the ground.

Poison ivy stepped on the red haired teen's back with her foot. "Such a pathetic girl, she left her back turned and then she's going to die like welted flower."

Mine screamed in anger and took out her pumpkin and shot out its shockwave beam directly at the plant Demon which engulfed her as she screamed. "AAAAAAHHH, this blast is so powerful!"

"This is payback, I shall give my Pumpkin my strength to blow you to hell!" Mine proclaimed angry as her gun's blast was more powerful then it was before.

Poison Ivy screamed even more. "This isn't over, I'll be back!" She disappeared into thin air.

Leone walked over to the Chelsea and held her up in her arms. "Chelsea, talk to me." the red head teen opened her eyes as blood was dripping from her back. "Looks like this is it, my time is done." Leone lowered her head. "No, its not, just hang in there, Wendy will heal you in no time!"

Mine turned away and stood still getting teary eyed as Chelsea smiled sadly. "Come on, this isn't the time to give into despair, everyone knows this kind work would be like this, I'll never forget the time we spend together." Images of Tatsumi and Gray went through her head. "Tatsumi was a brat but he is nice and that's not a bad thing, same goes for Gray, he always would be half naked but he's still a good man so were his friends, just keeping fighting for me and those that died before."

Chelsea tilt her head sideways and her eyes closed with a smile.

Leone lowered her head as tears dripped from her face.

Mine gritted her teeth angrily and felt the same feeling when Sheele felt. "Killing that plant Demon felt good, but I know she'll be back when she returns, I will be ready to kill her and those other Demons will pay!"

End of chapter.