Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters.
Natsu woke up confused, he recognized where he was based on the scent. He was in the guild hall's infirmary. He finally remembered seeing Sonja in shackles. He jumped up ready to fight. He opened his eyes to see Gray and Kizak there.
"You okay?" Gray asked.
"I think so," he responded as he slowly tried to sit up only to be pushed back down by Porlyusica. "Where is Sonja?" he asked.
Both Kizak and Gray looked down, "she is still with the enemy," Kizak answered.
Natsu looked down, "How long have I been out," he said quietly.
"Three days," Gray said.
"Sorry, I over did it when I punched you in the stomach," Kizak said. Porlyusica shook her head at that comment, she didn't say anything but she could tell that Kizak took a lot of ignored anger out when he hit Natsu's stomach, she had to stop some internal bleeding and fix some broken ribs.
"Why did you leave her?" Natsu cried, "Why didn't you or any of her Gospels do anything? You guys grabbed us and walked off, leaving her there. It was a trap, they never wanted us they wanted Sonja." Natsu started to sob as wheeze over the loss he felt.
"We know," Kizak said as he stared out a window, "so did Sonja. She was planning on trading herself that whole time. She took Gray and Gajeel to stall us. Gray would have ran after her right away and Gajeel could have led us to her with his smell."
"We have to get her back," Natsu said.
"No, she made a blood pact. If she leaves that castle she will die. She asked the Gospels to train Fairy Tail to fight against demons," Kizak told him.
"Well than let's train. How long do we have?" Natsu asked. He ignored the blood pact comment, he wasn't too sure on what it was but he decided to trust Kizak on it, he needed to focus on what he can change and help.
"Six months. And you won't be training with the rest of the guild Natsu," Kizak said.
"What? Why?" Natsu asked.
"Sonja asked me personally to train you. I will teach you how slay the gods themselves," Kizak told him. Kizak said it impassively but Gray knew that the demon wasn't killing, Kizak was going to leave it up to Natsu to kill the leader of all of the trouble. Natsu just shook his head; he was worried he couldn't sense Sonja anymore.
Meanwhile…
Sonja was already sick of this prison stay. She needed to feed but she would not feed on any of the sickly demons that came by just to see if the rumors were true, that the Goddess of War was really their prisoner. She was sick of their faces when they saw her, that stupid smirk. They felt that they were superior to her, the concept was laughable. Even in her weaken state she could defeat ninety percent of the population of demons in the castle.
Sonja was just about to take a nap when a shadow demon came to her cell, "You have been summoned," he said flatly.
"Who thinks they can summon me?" she asked.
"You will see, get up!" he told her. Sonja did as she was told and walked down the long dark hallway. When she walked she did so with her head held high, she may be prisoner here but she was the one that allowed them to take her. The demon had to rush to get in front of her so he could lead her, he expected her to fight and argue, instead he was happily surprised that she didn't. While he wasn't a weak demon he was certainly no match for the Princess. The demon stopped when they reached two huge doors, on each side were ugly fat demons that were there for show, judging by their appearance they were strong physically but too stupid to put up a battle with anyone of importance, they would have been sacrificed so others could escape if there was anyone that attacked the castle.
The shadow demon knocked on the door, "Enter," was the response. Sonja's eyes went wide. She knew that voice, the voice was from someone she cared about.
Sonja looked up as she was escorted in the very large throne room, "Thorn?" Sonja said.
Thorn had a smile on that looked welcoming and warming. Her brother stood six feet four inches tall, he had caramel skin and deep brown eyes. His muscular build was sought after by men trying to achieve physical perfection. Normally she would hug him; today she just stared at him. "Darling sister, I am so happy that you have accepted my invitation," he said.
"What invitation?" Sonja said smugly. She leaned to her left side to place all of her weight on her left foot and crossed her arms across her chest.
"Why you joined our side, the side against guilds like Fairy Tail," he said.
"Don't be foolish, Thorn. I came here to protect my mate and my friends. I am buying them time to train; I will never attack Fairy Tail or any other legal guild. You know that, seeming how you removed my blades from my back and have left me with no weapon," she retorted.
"Sonja," he shook his head, "You aren't meant to walk in the light with those guilds. You are the Princess of Demons, an heiress to the throne of Hell…"
"I am well aware of what I am," she interrupted.
"Than why do you wipe out the demons every time they come to Earth-land to feed? Why do you protect the ones that are supposed to be our enemies?" Thorn's voice was rising. But instead of yelling it sounded like he was trying to negotiate and have her join them.
"I do what I feel is right, I follow my own path Thorn. Just because I was born in the dark does not mean I can't reach the light," Sonja told him.
"Yes, Sonja. It does. You are a creature of destruction, accept it. Help us, help your kind," he pleaded.
"I will die first. I will never hurt anyone in Fairy Tail. Why are you after them Thorn?" she asked.
"They have grown to powerful Sonja. Some of the mages can take out demons almost the same way you can. The mages in Fairy Tail have a habit of meddling into my business," he explained.
"I will not betray them Thorn, take me back to my cell," she ordered. Thorn sighed and waved his hand that brought forth one of the guards.
"Please take her back to her cell, demons are allowed to do what they please with her now. Maybe that will change her mind," he said. Sonja looked at him, she would not back down.
Sonja walked back to her cell with her head high; she had her pride and dignity. She would not let the demons take that away. Just as she stepped into her cell he heard screams, she looked over to see two young men in her cell. Her fangs grew, they were powerful mages not demons, their blood would probably make her strong enough to defend herself against the demons.
"What are they doing in here," she asked the shadow demon.
"A gift from Thorn," he said, his throat had gone dry from looking at the delicious mages that were given to Sonja, "He was upset that you needed to feed, he grabbed the best nutrition we have here," the shadow demon said, "Are they not good enough?" he asked. His own fangs elongated looking at them.
Sonja seen the look in his eyes, "No, they are my presents. I will do with them as I please. Leave," she told the demon. The demon visibly pouted at the aspect of losing the meal he knew she wouldn't touch. He walked out and locked the cell.
As soon as the demon was far enough away she looked at her guests, they coward in a corner. She looked down with some guilt, they had already been through hell. They were sent to her to be executed.
"Don't fucking come near us," one said. She looked over. This one had a handsome face with blonde hair. His body was broken and badly bruised, she hoped that they just told the demons what they wanted to know. The one next to him was in a little bit better of a state, she guessed the blonde protected him and took the blows meant for him. That one had dark black hair that covered most of his face, he sat in the corner and hugged his knees. By looking at them she guessed they were right around Natsu's age.
"Calm down, I won't hurt you," she said as she put her hands up in surrender.
"Bullshit! I don't trust you," he said.
She walked over there and stuck her hand out, "My name is Sonja," he did not reach out in greeting but the dark haired one did. He grasped her hand and looked up. Sonja looked into his eyes and seen more pain than just the physical ones that were clearly visible, "Hello, my name is Rogue Cheney," he said with a horse voice.
Sonja smiled at him, "And this is my comrade, Sting Eucliffe. He isn't normally such an ass but as you can see we haven't been treated well," Rogue explained to her.
"I am sorry about that," she said as she focused on the guild stamp on their arms, she gasped "Saber-tooth?" she questioned.
Both boys looked up with confusion and than at their marks, "not anymore, Minerva sold us out. She gave us to her new lover, Thorn, claiming we could find Acnologia," Sting said hatefully.
"Oh," she said, "Why are they looking for that dragon?"
"Destroy Fairy Tail I think," Rogue said.
"Shit," Sonja said. "Well I am a Fairy Tail member," she said as she showed them her mark.
"Why are you here?" Sting questioned.
"I came here to protect Fairy Tail and my mate, Natsu Dragneel," Sonja explained.
"You are Natsu's mate?" Sting asked.
"Yes, do you know him?" Sonja asked.
"Yea, he is someone that I look up to, I tried to make Sabertooth a guild that even someone like him could be proud of" Sting said.
"Well, no matter what you did no human deserves to be tortured by the God of Torture," Sonja sighed. "May I see your wounds?" she asked.
"Why?" Sting asked harshly.
"I am going to heal you," she said.
Rogue came over; Sonja looked at him and touched his forehead. Rogue screamed at bones were popping back into place and the bruises faded. Sting rushed forward and hit Sonja hard enough to knock her into the wall.
"What the hell?" Sonja snapped as she dusted herself off.
"You hurt him! I knew we shouldn't trust you!" Sting said
"He screamed because I had to re-break his bones and put them back into place. Re-breaking of bones will always hurt. But he is healed now," Sonja explained.
Sting looked at Rogue, she was right the color was back in his face and his hand and ribs looked better, "I am sorry" he said with his head down.
"I think it is brave to take a hit for him. I am not mad that you were defending your comrade. Now come here, you are far worse. Some of the open wounds are now infected and if I don't help you I highly doubt you will ever be able to use your right hand again," she said.
Sting paused and looked at his hand, she was right. His hand had been broken three times and each finger broken and dislocated. He swallowed hard and stepped forward and braced himself for a lot of pain. Sonja looked at this proud mage with pity, she could not take away the pain from her healing but she knew he would feel better after, she gathered her energy and touched his forehead, Sting screamed in pain.
He gasped, the pain was worse than the torture itself but it only lasted for a second, now he felt no pain, he felt better than when he was originally taken here. He opened his eyes to thank Sonja but she was on the floor unconscious. Sting panicked and picked her up; Rogue got up and helped Sting so she would be comfortable.
"You think she will be okay?" Sting asked Rogue.
"I hope so, she really helped," Rogue admitted.
Sting looked down, "Yeah I thought I was going to die here, we are going to have to protect her."