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Sorry I have been so inactive, I have been so busy. Here is the next chapter, enjoy :)
Sonja smiled at the pleasant breeze that hit her face and made her hair flow back. It was a beautiful morning. The sun blinded her at first but now she welcomed the warm touch to her skin, she fancied the idea that it was like the warm embrace of her mate. She had used too much of her magic power sending the boys away that she couldn't even contact Fairy Tail to let them know that they were on their way to Magnolia. She hoped that by not hiding her presence that one of the Gospels would recognize her and bring the guild with them. She had faith that her Nakama would not fail her, even today good would triumph over evil.
Thorn was making her walk to the city. Every time she stumbled she could feel his smirk, she loved watching her struggle, she was so tired that she wanted to sit down but she was to proud to ask her torturer for a small rest. Her hands were bound behind her back and a heavy chain placed around her neck, the chain that was around her neck was connected to the shackles. Her shackles were to tight on her wrists and the chain between the neck and wrists was too short and hurt her shoulder blades if she tried to ease the pain in her should but nearly blacked out from lack of oxygen. Two demons walked beside her, they had put a collar around her neck that was connected to the poles that they each held on to. At first they jerked her back and forth but she hissed and nipped at one of them, the other laughed but the look she gave him shut him up quickly. Now both of them would glance at her nervously from time to time, if she would have had the energy she would have jumped to scare them.
In front of Sonja, Thorn and Minerva walked arm in arm making small talk about the weather. Sonja felt the connection between them, seeing them together made her wish Natsu was here. Without Sting, Rogue or Natsu she felt alone. She walked with her head down and didn't say anything to anyone, she smiled when she felt Fairy Tail in front of them. She looked up craving to see them. She felt everyone's emotions as both sides got closer. She felt guilt, joy, pride and determination from everyone in Fairy Tail. She seen Gildarts first, he smiled at her. She didn't see any distain in his eyes at her current state, instead there was just joy and gratefulness for her sacrifice.
Once they were only a few yards apart Thorn and his company stopped moving and Gildarts followed suit. Both sides were eager to start the long awaited battle, each demon loved conflict while Fairy Tail was eager for vengeance against Thorn. Sonja first seen two brown eyes look at her, her heart swelled when she seen the tears in them. Sonja looked at Lucy, her eyes were wide with shock as she seen Sonja's state. Sonja's fangs were clearly visible beneath her upper lip, her clothes were in ruins and she had deep wounds from knives that were dipped in the river Styx. Thankfully the wounds were clean and healing instead of the sickly green they were when the demons originally cut her.
"Lucy, I am okay," Sonja said hoping to ease the pain in Lucy's eyes.
It pained Lucy to see a close friend in such a state, she felt like she didn't get enough time to truly know Sonja but Velkan had spoken of Sonja often when he told her of his adventures through the centuries. She had grown to love Sonja even more through Velkan's stories. She understood what Sonja was and the world she was born into but Sonja loved her companions. Velkan had told her how time and time again Sonja took unnecessary hits to save her Gospels from any pain. Lucy realized how much Natsu and Sonja were alike and seeing her like this she also imagined her best friend going through the same thing for anyone in Fairy Tail. She would not dishonor Sonja's sacrifice by weeping like a small weak girl instead she would stand and fight, she would follow Sonja's path and protect her Nakama. Lucy wiped her eyes and shook her head giving a weak but supportive smile. The next person Sonja seen was Natsu, instead of pain in his eyes she seen only anger. He looked like he had an unquenchable thirst for Thorn's blood, his fists shook as his entire body was engulfed in flames.
"What the fuck did you do to her?!" he screamed at Thorn.
"I am the God of Torture, it seems fitting that I tortured someone that willing put herself there," he reasoned. Thorn seemed incredibly irritated that Natsu was there, he had hoped Kizak had killed him. Minerva told him about how strong Natsu was and he would never give up for the sake of Fairy Tail. Natsu was going to be his main target. He had been told how Natsu quickly adapted to the fighting style of his opponents. He needed to finish Natsu before he could figure out how to combat Thorn.
"How dare you! She is your sister!" Natsu screamed as he looked at Sonja. Natsu ran at Thorn, forgetting all that he was training for, his blood boiled with the rage he felt at someone hurting his friend and mate this bad.
Thorn smiled at Natsu's reaction, he had hoped Sonja's appearance would rile up some of the guild members. Thorn used the water from the river Styx and shaped it like an arrow and shot it through the dragon slayer. Natsu was blown back at the force of the hit. Once Natsu didn't move and Thorn looked away and smiled.
Wide eyed Sonja looked at Natsu, she played everything her head a thousand times everything seemed to go so fast and slow around her, her head spun she couldn't understand what happened and yet knew exactly what happened. "Thorn, was that water from the river Styx?" Sonja asked she was so shocked she forgot that Thorn was to blame. She couldn't take her eyes off of Natsu, his unmoving body hunted her, she felt like she was ina nightmare she was begging to wake up from.
"I brought some just in case," he said with a smirk that pissed her off even more. She figured out his play. Shouting members out of Fairy Tail before the battle could even begin, how cowardly of a god. She couldn't imagine that a god like Thorn would be scared of mortals. He considered mortals less than ants, a means to an end.
Sonja fell to her knees as she realized what was going to happen to Natsu as the river spread through his veins, he would become a demon.
Thorn was about to give an order to attack when he heard a blood curdling scream come from Sonja. Her eyes were now completely black and he watched in horror when she broke the chains by sheer magical force. She was bringing out her inner demon, her nails grew into sharp talons, her eyes were completely black and her hair grew so that it came to the back of her knees. She was covered with Hell's Fire as black armor started to cover her body. Her clothes changed into a skimpy armor that showed a toned stomach. Her armor was a black and detailed breast plate that showed most of her breasts, black greaves, a loin cloth and a shield. The bones in her back poked out of her skin and turn sharp as they moved to cover her back in an unbreakable armor. Her hair went into a long braid down her back. Her skin turned blood red. She had a solid shape but her skin moved as if it was dancing flames, and horns grew on top of her head. Every demon shrank back in terror, her current state was one that was told to young demons to make them behave.
Sonja slammed her fist to the ground and pulled the life out of the grass and out of the living earth for a ten foot radius around her. She sucked the life out of the very air as she scanned the world around her. Fairy Tail looked at her in awe and horror. She looked at them with lifeless eyes, "Fairy Tail attack Thorn, don't let any one of them live," she ordered as she walked towards Natsu's body. She didn't even bother to make sure they actually attacked, she didn't care anymore. Life and death seemed so irrelevant in her current state at the moment she wanted the whole world to burn, to feel her pain to share at the horror of watching a love one die.
Erza was the first to react to Sonja's order, she changed into her Purgatory Armor and raised her sword above her head and let out her battle cry. Mira followed her childhood rival and used her Take-Over magic and changed into Satan Soul. Gray and Wendy started attacking. Lucy called out Leo, Taurus and Capricorn to help her fight.
Sting looked at Sonja, he wasn't scared of her. Even though he could tell she was vastly more powerful than the Sonja he knew he could sense that she was fully in control of what she was doing. She was awake enough to tell Fairy Tail what to do and to have direction enough to seek Natsu out. He was fearful of her reaction once she got close but he wanted to be there for his friend. Sting, Rogue and Kizak started to run to Natsu and Sonja.
"Boys, do not go near her until I say so," Kizak warned.
"She isn't going to hurt us," Sting countered.
"In this form she doesn't have any control over herself, she is a demon," Kizak tried to reason.
Sting decided not to argue with him but still got closer to Sonja, he seen her kneeling with Natsu in her arms. Natsu was alive but groaning in pain and the black water moved through his body. It was terribly disturbing to watch the black blood flow through the Fire Dragon Slayer. Natsu took the hit in his chest, the wound was small and just deep enough to reach the blood stream. It was darkest near the actual wound but the water was slowly moving through his veins. As it got closer to his head Natsu started to twitch uncontrollably and his cries were a mixture of pain and laugher.
Sonja held Natsu close to her, "I am so sorry Natsu," she whispered.
"It is okay," he managed a weak smile. He managed a weak laugh that sounded more like gurgle, "After all that training I did exactly what Thorn wanted and exactly what Kizak trained me not to do." He knew that this was Sonja, he could feel her through this demon form. He didn't look at her with distain and instead with love, he knew that the humanoid Sonja was just one part of her and he loved all of her. This form was just part of her, while it could be intimidating it wasn't scary to him.
Sonja looked down at him, she knew what she could do to save him but she wasn't sure how he would react to it. She let a tear fall down her cheek as she looked at him. "Natsu I am going to save you okay?"
He looked up as the tear fell to his face, something in him told him to stop her that it would hurt her to save him but before he could stop her everything went black. Natsu blacked out when she opened her mouth, "this will hurt a little I am sorry."
Kizak was close enough to see that her mouth was open and she was going to bite him, but he didn't understand why, "Sonja, Stop!" he yelled "you will kill him." He was trying to reach her. By the time he was close enough to pull her away it was too late, but watched in amazement as the black liquid was sucked out of his veins. It moved to quickly for him to register that Sonja was killing herself, he didn't understand what she did but he did understand that the water would kill her.
Sonja gagged at the taste of the black water. She sucked all of the water out of his system. She stopped and would not drink any of his blood, she looked down at him. His eyes were still closed and his pulse was slowing. She wiped her tear of his cheek and stared momentarily at his face, right now he looked so peaceful. She grew worried when he did not awake.
She then bit him again this time in a different area she put her power into him, not to make him a demon but to give him life. Only mates could perform this ritual and normally it is supposed to be in private and a sign of their true and everlasting love. She had never heard of this but knew deep inside that she could do it, it was instinctual. Natsu woke up and bit her back. He came to his senses when he felt the coppery taste of blood in his mouth. He let go and stared up at Sonja, her eyes where back to their normal color and she was slipping back into her human form. He stared at the blood that was dripping out from underneath her lips.
"Did you bite me?" he asked oblivious of the battle that was going on behind her.
Sonja looked down and shook her head yes. She felt guilty, she knew it wasn't natural to share blood that it was only her culture that did this. It sounded so weird but the taste of his blood seemed to give her a renewed life, even though she knew she was giving up something important she couldn't think or imagine anything more important than saving Natsu's life.
"Why?" he asked.
"To save your life," she said. She kept what she did a secret, this was something only mates could do. She gave up her immortality to save him, she felt it slip away when she took his blood and he hers. He had to bite back in order to drink her blood and give him life. Almost no demons knew that they were capable of saving life not only destroying it. Saving a life wasn't in a demon's nature and what they did was unheard of because no demon was actually selfless enough to give up everlasting life for someone else.
She looked up to see Kizak starring at her in disbelief. He offered his hand to help her up and she took it. He still did not understand what happened but he could sense a change in Sonja, like a shield that was always protecting her was now gone.
Natsu got up and looked at everything with confusion, "why do I feel funny?" He clenched and unclenched his fists, he felt stronger. Even after six months of training he felt stronger now than he ever felt in his life. He felt like killing a god wouldn't even break a sweat.
"Well you drank my blood and it is kinda like taking some of my magic," she explained, "you should be able to use Hell's Fire now in your attacks."
He looked at his hands as one lit up with black fire and the other with his normal fire, "I can control when I use it?"
Sonja just shook her head yes, she felt ashamed for turning into her demon/goddess form so she looked down. She gasped when she felt Natsu's strong arms slip around her waist and pull her close to him. Sonja looked up at Nastu and he dipped his head down and kissed her.
She looked up at him in shock as he kissed her passionately and desperately, she closed her eyes and allowed herself to melt into the kiss. When he pulled back she almost whimpered at loss of contact. She was craving him for the past six months and now she didn't want to let him out of her arms, she snapped back into reality when Kizak stepped in front of them to stop a shadow demon from stabbing Natsu through the chest.
"Go, only you can defeat Thorn now," Sonja said as she pushed him towards the battle. Natsu looked back and smiled as he ran into the battle. Even as he ran toward victory she clenched her arms around herself. She could still feel the heat of his arms on her body and taste his lips on her own. She smiled as she realized by trying to kill Natsu he just signed his own death warrant. Natsu now had more than enough power to kill Thorn.
She suddenly felt light headed and stumbled, she failed as she tried to catch herself. Sonja fell backwards and Kizak caught her, she smiled up at him. Seeing his face warmed her, her closest friend had always been there to catch her and correct her but now he just seemed concerned.
He returned the smile, "You really love him, don't you?" His smiled didn't fully reach his eyes, his heart ache was written all over his face.
She shook her head confirming that she loved her mate more than her life, "I am sorry Kizak." She wasn't sorry for how she felt about Natsu, she was only sorry for the pain that she put Kizak through.
He shrugged, "Don't be, you didn't chose your mate. Your souls have been bound together since even before I was born. You couldn't help it anymore than I could have."
Sonja looked to the battle field, "Shall we?" she used her arm to gesture out into the carnage in front of them.
"Yeah, let's get this over with," he said. He helped her stand back up and made sure she was indeed stable and ran to help Romeo as he was fighting two demons.
Sonja started to run and flinched as she felt the pain in her abdomen, but brushed it off as she went to find Cain. She wasn't sure how long she would last, because of her mother's blood she was able to withstand that River a little longer than other demons but it would take her eventually so she knew that she had a limited amount of time to defeat the second biggest threat to Fairy Tail.