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Natsu stared at the ground as Sonja and Gildarts were walking away. He could already fill the void where Sonja normally was. His side felt empty without her there. He prayed the next three weeks would fly by. He and the rest of the guild members went back into the guild hall, Natsu sat at the bar.
"Do you want anything to drink?" Mirajane asked him.
"Nah, I think I am just going to take a job," Natsu told her as he slid off of the chair he was sitting on. He walked over to the request board to find something easy. He looked at all of the jobs, none of them sounded appealing, with Sonja gone it felt like his team had reduced its fighting force by half.
"Oi, Lucy," Natsu said as he looked for the blonde.
"She left with Velkan to help her aunt," Gray said, "Jeez, don't you pay attention to anyone but your girlfriend?"
"Gray I am not in the mood to deal with you," Natsu said. He looked defeated, he shoulders sunk.
Sonja looked back at the guild hall, she could feel the void that Natsu filled. He made her laugh and smile all the time, she missed his destructive behavior already. Sonja guessed this is what it meant to have a mate, when she was around Natsu her power level felt twice as high as normal, now she felt incredibly weak.
"Do you mind if we use something to speed up our travels?" Sonja asked Gildarts.
"What do you have in mind?" Gildarts asked. He was used to walking everywhere but in his old age it would be nice to get somewhere without countless hours of walking.
"Have you ever flown before?" Sonja asked.
"Uhh, no," Gildarts said as he shook his head.
Sonja smiled a little mischievously at him, "Well, I guess there is a first time for everything," Sonja started to gather enough magic power to give Gildarts temporary wings. As soon as she was satisfied she slapped his back and slowly drew her hand back. His wings looked like dragon wings, they were blood red and powerful. Gildarts looked at her in awe. "Flex your shoulder muscles," she told him.
Gildarts flex his shoulders and felt the wing muscles pop and connect into place "Wow, I did not think this was possible," he said astonished at her power. Sonja just shrugged as a response.
"Now think about moving them," she instructed. He paused as did what he was told his wings moved, he jumped at the shock.
"I am linking them to my magic, you will drain really quickly because you aren't used to it," she told him, "just push off." Sonja waited for him the flap his wings a couple times and then helped him push off.
Once she seen he could control what he was doing she generated her own wings, her wings were made out of the hell fire she used. Even though they do not have set physical shape they had a close likeness to large bat wings. She preferred these wings because it was more difficult to shoot holes through her wings, they were also extremely powerful. She pushed off of the ground and joined Gildarts in the sky.
"Everything okay?" she asked.
"Yeah, this is amazing," he told her. His eyes were still wide from the shock of actually being able to fly. She giggled at him, he looked like a kid with a new toy.
"Are you getting tired?" she asked.
"No," he said, "are you?" Gildarts looked a little concerned.
Sonja laughed, "No, it takes more magical power to summon one of the Gospels," she told him.
Gildarts breathed a sigh of relief, "Tell me if you get tired, don't push yourself," he told her.
Sonja smiled at his fatherly nature, she was probably hundreds of years older than him and he treated and talked to her as if she was kid, it was refreshing to not have to always be the princess and the warrior. She was thinking that is what she liked most about Fairy Tail, she did not always need to watching them. They could take care of themselves.
2 weeks later..
"Bring it on, Ice-Princess," Natsu taunted Gray.
The Ice-Make Mage got up willing to fight his rival, he walked up to him stripping subconsciously. Natsu smirked at him. When Gray finally made it to the other side of the guild hall he had lost all of his clothes except his boxers.
"Fire Dragons Roar!" Natsu shouted. During these little fights he never used his full power against Gray, they were merely sparing he did not want to truly hurt his rival.
Gray stepped out of the path of the river of fire, he knew that if that would have hit him it would have been painful but not enough to knock him out or leave serious burns. "Ice-Make Hammer!" Gray shouted.
Natsu put his arms up to defend against the giant ice hammer that was now above his head, as the hammer was about to smash down the guild hall doors blew open. The force of the blast lifted Natsu off of his feet and flew him out of the way of the hammer.
"Good Evening Fairy Tail," a deep dark voice through the smoke and debris that was still in the air.
Natsu looked up, he tried to see through everything in the air but he could only make out figures, and from what he could tell there was a lot of them.
"What the fuck are you guys doing here?!" Lucian shouted. He was grateful that he decided to visit the guild tonight.
A deep laugher rang out, "Hmm, seems that one the hounds of the princess is still here," the mysterious figure said.
"Sonja wiped you guys out only a year ago!" Lucian said, "How did you guys revive so quickly?" As soon as he said it, Lucian realized what happened. Someone pulled them out early.
"Well, I did not expect anyone to still be here without Sonja," Count said.
Lucian lunged at Count, "You bastard! How dare you betray Sonja!" he screamed at him.
Count hit Lucian in the jaw, "I don't owe that bitch, I was assigned to watch her, I did not wish to be a dog. She kills her own kind!" Count said.
Lucian and Count started to fight between the two of them. Count had the advantage because Lucian was guarding his punches and magic, he did not want to hurt anyone in the guild while Count did not care about any of them.
The original dark voice strolled into the guild hall, "I am looking for one Natsu Dragneel," he said as if he was simply making role-call. Around him came a dozen shadow demons. They did not hold a set figure and most attacks just went right through them.
"What do you want with him?" Gray asked. Gray involuntarily shrunk back at the face now staring at him, he had a human appearance but had a death aura around him. Gray squinted at him, his eyes were blood red and his fangs stuck out from under his lips. Cain had long straight long hair that went down to his waist, he wore it combed back and out of his face. He wore simple pants and a vest that left his torso bare. Gray could see all of the scars that went across his body, there was a deep gash that went across his throat that was still a little pink, the rest of the scars were a little more faded.
"I go by Cain, I am here to collect the mate of Sonja. I don't want a war with the mages here, but I will kill anyone that gets in my way," Cain said.
"We will never give you Natsu!" Mira shouted from the back.
Cain looked up to find the mage that owned that voice, Mira had used her Take Over magic, she was using Satan Soul.
Cain smiled, "A demon?"
Natsu sensed something off about the way he said that, instead of the fear that Mira current form often caused it was more like her figure appealed to him. "Mira back off," Natsu shouted. He learned a long time ago to trust his instincts.
Natsu wished he could contact the other Gospels, with every S-Class Mage, except Mira, gone their guild was weaker than normal.
Natsu looked around, he seen that the guild was over powered, he seen Cana and Team Shadow Gear fighting the shadow demons.
"Natsu!" Romeo called to him, his eyes went wide when he realized his mistake.
Cain's head snapped as he looked at Natsu with a sickening grin, "Ladies and Gentlemen, thank you for your cooperation. Grab the white haired woman and Sonja's mate, I don't want to stall Thorn any longer," he said as he left.
Natsu looked for Mira, when he found her he was surprised to see that she had been knocked out, a shadow demon lunged at him, Natsu avoided the claws that were just inches from his throat but back up into a wall. The last thing he seen before everything went black was the shadow demons snarl and then the tingling sensation in his lungs.
Lucian looked over to see the shadow demon steal the oxygen from Natsu's lungs and catch the Dragon Slayer and run out the door. He looked at Count, "Sonja is gonna tear you apart," he said.
"No, Lucian. She won't, I am with her brother. He will put a stop to her genocide against her own kind. He also is going to put a stop to this guild," Count said with a smile and he faded away.
Lucian grabbed at the smoke that used to be Count, "Damn, you coward!" he shouted.
Cana looked up, "Shit, they have Mira and Natsu!"
Lucian just shook his head, he hoped that the demons were using them as bait, humans could not stand the torture from demons working directly under Thorn. "We need to contact Sonja, she most likely already knows something happened," Lucian said to no one in particular.
Elsewhere in Foire…
Sonja gripped her chest and her Fairy Tail mark was burning, "Something happened with the guild," she said to Gildarts.
He looked over at Sonja, her eyes were wide and she had to hands pushed up to her chest. "What's going on?" he asked.
"I don't know, they need help," she said.
"We are in the middle of a fight, ya know?" Gildarts said.
"I will finish it, step outside," she said calmly. Gildarts was confused but did as she said, he stopped questioning what she was doing.
Once Gildarts was safely outside Sonja concentrated, she opened her eyes, they were now completely black. She hated to use her demon powers but she could also sense that Natsu was hurt too, she did not want to wait to this to be over. She raised her power level the dark mages were flown into the walls she then sucked all of the magic out of the building. She made sure not to kill any of the mages but they were out of magic and also would not be able to get anymore magic for at least a week. Sonja exhaled and her eyes returned to normal.
Gildarts was astonished when Sonja walked out of the building, he sensed the powerful magic surge and then the sudden depletion of all of the magic in the building. Sonja looked tired and scared, "you okay?" he asked.
"Yeah but we really need to go, something isn't right," she told him.
Sonja? We have a problem you need to get back to the guild hall, Lucian told her.
I know I can feel it, I am going to pull Gildarts with me through Hell, she told him.
"Gildarts do you trust me?" Sonja asked as she looked at him.
Gildarts swallowed, "Yes, why?"
Sonja grabbed him and everything went black, the next thing he knew he was in front of the guild hall.
"It was smart to close your eyes," Sonja told him.
"Yeah," he said while rubbing his head.
He looked up to see that the front doors were blown in, he ran up the stairs. "What happened?"
Cana looked at Gildarts and Sonja as they walked in "Count betrayed us and woke up someone named Cain and they now have Natsu and Mira," she said. Cana was slurring her words, she was easily on her third barrel.
Sonja's eyes widen in shock, "Shit, this is bad," she said.