Before Minerva could stand she and Erza both turned to see Mard Geer coming toward them with long confident strides. A book cradled in his arm as his long coat flared out behind him.

"Is that what it means to be human? Feeling such self-satisfaction and rambling on about life and death… So unsightly." He spoke in his uncaring tone.

Erza frowned at him as she turned to face him. 'I heard his voice before… The dark King Mard Geer!' She thought to herself as she tried to place the voice from before.

"Are you the master?" The scarlet mage questioned looking him.

Mard Geer's eyes widened in amusement then spoke. "My, my… All the trash should have been cleared away with that one clean sweep, and yet here I find more just laying around. Damn that Celestial Spitit King went and did such a bothersome thing…" He spoke as he got a dark look in his eye. "Ah well… I suppose I have a bit of free time... At least enough to take care of the trash myself"

Just then he made gesture with his right hand and caused a heavy wind to blow that caused both Erza and Minerva to get pushed back off their feet separating them.

Maud Geer had a smile on his face as he decided which one to destroy first. "I'll start with that one."

Minerva used her territory magic and switched places with Erza who had hit the ground and quickly realised what had happened looked up at the mage who saved her.

"Minerva!"

Minerva closed her eyes and smiled having resigned herself to her fate. "Take care of Mercedes for me..."

BOOM! Maud Geer's magic hit Minerva causing a massive explosion and dust cloud to appear.

"We made it. Just in time." A male voice from within the cloud.

"Sorry, punctuality was never our strong suit." Another spoke, their silhouette's slowly coming into focus as the dust cloud dispersed.

When it had finally cleared the two within were revealed, and to Erza's shock she saw Sting holding Minerva in his arms and Rogue glaring at Mard Geer, joined with them were their Exceeds Lector and Frocsh.

"We're here to take you home, princess." Sting, the White Dragon Slayer told her.

"Your guild is Sabertooth." Rogue, the Dark Dragon Slayer finished.

Minerva had tears forming in her eyes. Sting went to put Minerva down then Erza looked at them.

"Sting, Rogue what are you doing here?" Erza asked, in shock as to why the Sabertooth mages were in the ruins of the Tartarus guild.

Sting smirked still looking down at the ex- Saber in his arms. "You see, sometime after we had gotten that letter you sent us, a little Mercedes came running into the guild a few day's back, so fast that she broke through three walls in fact."

Erza blinked surprised at hearing the girl she knew breaking things, Lector sweat dropped as he remembered everything. "Yeah it was scary to see. Speaking of which, Erza the way you wrote that letter was… erm, how should I say this?"

"Crap!" Frocsh finished in his usual happy tone, not realising the glare that the mage was giving him.

Sting, Rogue and their Exceeds were looking at the letter that Erza had sent them but were having a hard time reading and understanding as it sounded too unreal. They soon heard a few crashing noises (which wasn't uncommon within the Guild and it members) but each crash sounded as if they were coming closer. They all looked up to see that there was a flash of something so bright that they had to cover their eyes, they looked back up to see at the end of the large series of holes to see Mercedes looking around the room for something.

"Mercedes!" They all yelled and ran to her but she wouldn't hug them back as her eyes still scanned the room, she soon found what she was looking for.

"Here it is!" She pushed them back and placed something that was a box on her bed. She grabbed something from within it and turned to leave but Sting stopped her with a hand on her shoulder.

"Mercedes what's going on?" He questioned not used to the treatment that the younger mage was giving them, it wasn't like her at all to ignore people.

Mercedes looked at him and yelled. "My sister was kidnapped! Someone attacked her guild!"

"So you're looking for her?" Rogue asked this time kneeling down to her level.

"Yes!" She was deaerate to leave and continue the search for her sister, Minerva. She knew that her guild was attacked and needed to get there to find any clues as to where she should search next.

The girl finally broke free from the new Guild Master's grasp and ran out through the 'shortcut' she had put into the building. Rogue went to the box that was on the bed and picked up a fur coat and got a whiff of the scent.

Sting looked at him in confusion. "What are you doing?"

"This coat belongs to the Lady." Rouge replied with no irony at all.

Sting smiled realising what his partner was doing and took the coat to get a whiff of the scent as well.

"Rogue, Lector, Frocsh..." All three of them looked at the Guild Master and he smiled. "Let's bring the Lady back home."

They smiled at each other and left the guild through the new massive hole in the walls.

Sting smiled at Minerva who now had tears streaming down her face as she looked up at him.

"Let's go back to the guild together, princess." He told her, as her heart broke not deserving of such great friends. He turned around to stand next to Rogue to prepare to fight Mard Geer who was still smiling at them.

"Return to your Guild? This world of magic is coming to an end. You cannot stop it."

Erza narrowed her brow in a confused scowl. "It was stopped. Face was already destroyed."

"One was. There are a total of 3,000 FACEs. Within one hour this continent will not have magic anymore." The Dark King of Hades told them a slight grin on his face.

Sting looked back at the Scarlet mage "Erza, on the way here we saw a number of strange faces."

"If those are FACE, then a pretty crazy amount of them have appeared from underground" Rogue finished for his partner.

Minerva wiped her tears. "That's not true, FACE cannot be remotely controlled. Activating them simultaneously is impossible."

Mard Geer, still not showing worry replied. "The former chairman may be dead but we also have a necromancer in our mists'…. And as for your little sister, she can control all of the FACE's."

They were all shocked and Minerva narrowed her brow and glared at the Tartarus master. "No she can't."

"Are you really her older sister?" He taunted, purposely winding the up "Her magic is among the lost magic. She has the power to heal, control and restore. A magic that, much like your own, is of one of the 18 battle gods. Yet unlike the other battle god magic, your sister is able to create even the strongest of demonic beasts."

"Erza go. Take the princess, Lector and Frocsh with you." Sting told her.

We can knock some sense into this guy… You stop FACE." Rogue finished.

Mard Geer's eyes went from half open, to closed as he smiled. "My Humans really do say the most fascinating things. Defeat me, the Dark King? A mere human."

Minerva was lost of words then Sting cracked his knuckles.

"You're damn right!" Sting shouted as both he and Rogue charged and began attacking the leader of Tartarus.

Erza nodded then helped Minerva to her feet then left with Lector dragging Frocsh, following them.

Elsewhere

Mercedes was on the ground but opened her eyes and looked around.

"Wh-what happened here? Where am I?" She questioned out loud, trying to remember.

~Before Alegria~

Mercedes was walking through the hallway. She had finished what she had to do for Kyouka, who had been torturing Erza to know the location of Jellal, she knew she should have felt bad about Erza, but she didn't really know why. She was currently walking to the throne occupied by the King of Hades.

When she got there she saw that Mard Geer was sitting in his chair looking utterly bored, one hand supported his head while his elbow was on the arm rest, the other arm held the book E.N.D. When he saw that he wasn't alone in the room anymore he smiled and motioned the small girl to come to him. She obeyed his command and sat on his lap looking up at him. Mard Geer still had a smile on his face as he used his free hand to stroke her head.

"You are one of us now, girl. You will soon be made a member of the demon gates for your power." He told her affectionately. He was quite happy that they found someone of her strength.

"How can I be a gate of this guild, I don't much about it." Mercedes asked, though still under Sayla's influence and completely loyal to Tartarus she had 'some' manner of free will even though all her thought were of assisting Tartarus only.

"Don't worry, soon this waste of life called Humanity will be under our feet and will be nothing more than trash and insects that will be fearing us. This world will be one with Zeref and you will be there as well." He told the little child on his lap, who was looking up at him confused.

"...I will...?"

"Yes child, but first you need to become a demon so that when magic is gone from the world you can restore the magic in this guild." Maud Geer told her, a look of pride in his eyes.

"Yes sir." Mercedes promised like a dutiful child.

"Good, now go back to Kyouka and she should be taking you to the control room, then you will go to Hell's Core for you rebirth." He let her get off his lap the Demon King watched as she left to find where Kyouka was.

(END)

Mercedes held a hand to her head as she got to her feet but blinked when she felt strange.

'Why do I feel….weird?' She glanced down and gave a small squeal and tried to cover herself up as she had a heavy blush on her face.

"Where are my clothes?!" She screeched, looking everywhere for her stuff, finally she spotted her clothes piled on the floor not too far from her. She rushed to them and got dressed. Now fully clothed, she heard footsteps looked behind her, turning she noticed a woman with long black hair and golden horns protruding from her head coming toward her, she didn't know that this was Sayla.

"There you are, my imoto." The woman spoke kindly.

Mercedes blinked in confusion. She was well aware that she wasn't home, she had just woke up stripped and now, this woman, err, demon woman, come from nowhere and calls her imoto, 'little sister'. Mercedes was just lost but then she was being embraced by whoever this demon woman was.

"It's a shame, your story of becoming a demon was stopped, but when this is all over you will become a demon once Hells Core is fixed."

Mercedes blinked. "A demon?"

She felt Sayla rubbing her head. "Yes, imoto."

Before she could continue, they both heard footsteps and looked at the doorway only to see another demon woman with bird like features, who she didn't know was Kyouka. Mercedes eyes nearly popped out of her head when she saw Kyouka, wearing a more revealing outfit, and she wasn't wearing her helmet. If Mercedes didn't feel like she was in a bad situation, she would've told both demon women how gorgeous they were, but instead she asked.

"Um...who are you two?"

Sayla looked at her and Kyouka's eyes widened a little.

"What?" They asked.

"Who are you?" Mercedes asked again.

"I am Kyouka and that is your Onee- san, Sayla." The green haired demon said to the little child, who still looked confused.

Mercedes looked at Sayla as if she was examining her, hoping that by staring, something would trigger in her mind.

Sayla realising that the girl was staring asked, "Is something wrong?"

Mercedes looked away, blushing slightly at being caught. "I'm sorry but, I don't know anything about you."

Kyouka raised a brow. "What do you mean?"

Mercedes looked up at them. "Like your face, touch, smell none of them, not even your voice."

They stood there for a little, at a near standoff, then after Kyouka shared a look with Sayla before walking behind Mercedes and hit her on the back of her head, effectively knocking her out, then Sayla picked her up.

"What should we do now?"

Kyouka looked at the passed out child in Sayla's arms before replying. "She won't be waking up anytime soon and also, what was it that messed with her memory?" She questioned out loud.

Sayla gazed down at the sleeping Mercedes. "Could it have been the interruption of the process turning her into a demon?"

"It could be…." Kyouka answered as they went out of the destroyed lab, trying to get to the control room. "Hopefully she'll be awake by the time Hells Core is fixed and will know how to control her magic."

AN: Hey Everyone! Thank you so much for the support and the reviews! I hope that you all like where this story is going, (and how it's going with the FT storyline) and I will keep updating when I get the chance! See Ya later!

Edited by: Trying to put Pen to Paper.