"Too easy," Elizabeth sighs as she slices the dragon's tongue out of its lifeless mouth and places it inside her satchel. She allows her wings to disappear behind her as she takes in the beautiful forest surrounding her. She focuses in on the birds chirping, no doubt terrified from the noise she was making when taking down the dragon. Raising her hand, she creates the blue portal once again. As she starts to take a step into it, she hears a voice that sends pains through her entire body.

"So this lady looks like a demon, right Merlin? And you sense some dangerous energy radiating off her huh?" He lets out a chuckle that's all too familiar to Elizabeth. The pain increases as her wings flash back into view in an instant. She pushes off the ground, kicking dust up all around her and past the trees and leaving a crater in the ground from her force.

It can't be him. He's dead!

"Whoa, you feel that?" The voice continues, Elizabeth darts between the trees as fast as she can. Her mind is racing, unable to hold onto a thought for a second. It's him. It has to be! She pushes her wings to go even faster.

"Get ready, Merlin." She hears him as she emerges from the trees right outside the village. She can hear a few trees crashing as they fall and rocks being unearthed behind her. Her eyes lock onto his wild, untamed blonde hair. It's him.

Elizabeth forcefully pulls her wings in front of her, causing the boy and mysterious woman from before break their defensing stance to cover their face from the debris. The wave of wind her wings unintentionally threw at them causes the pair to take a step back to braise themselves against the force of the wind. Elizabeth stops a few feet away. Her feet make impact with the ground, causing more dust and debris to rise up. Her wings stead her. Her eyes look into the emerald sea she has longed to swim in for over 3,000 years.

Her expression is unbelieving yet passionate. Tears start to form in the corners of her eyes.

"Meliodas?" Elizabeth whispers. She walks towards him, unable to believe the man she loves is stand right in front of her. He relaxes, causing the mysterious woman at his side to lower her hands and let out a sigh of relief.

"Yep, that's me. What up?" He chuckles and smiles so carefree it sends another shock right into Elizabeth's heart. Her eyes soften and her bottom lip trembles. She kneels down in front of him and extends her hand to touch his cheek. A sweet, earthy scent that he can only compare to nag champa fills her nostrils. His skin is soft yet firm against his sharp jawline.

Wait a second…

"You're not Meliodas," Elizabeth breathes as her eyes go from warm amber to jet black in an instant. His smile drops, and his carefree expression is replaced with confusion.

"Huh," it barely escapes his lips before the breath is knocked out of him and he is flying though the buildings of the town.

"Meliodas!" Merlin yells as she starts to attack the monster who sent Meliodas flying. However, before she can do anything, Elizabeth raises her hand and before Merlin can register what is happening, she is being pushed into the same magical circle she saw Elizabeth emerge from earlier. She tries to fight back, but it's no use. As she is pushed through to the other side of the portal, everything around her goes absolute black.

Elizabeth closes the portal, trapping Merlin as she takes off through the village, buildings crashing around her as she passes by. She hears screams as the ground beneath her starts to shake. She is familiar with the way the earth quakes when she loses control. Cracks start to form in the earth. She uses her wings to propel herself forward even faster as she makes contact with Meliodas once more. He tries to block her attack, but she breaks through it easily. Her delicate knuckles meet his cheek that she earlier touched so lovingly with precision and dark determination. He is sent barreling through the rest of the town and crashes into a small meadow on the outskirts.

He looks up and shields his eyes as he sees what is blocking out the sun. Wings at least 25 feet across start to press together on themselves as the shadow gets bigger and bigger. Elizabeth allows gravity to add more force to her attack. A black ball of energy forms at Elizabeth's right hand as she raises it above her head. Her jet black irises seem to be expanding further out. Deep purple and red energy similar to that of her wings form around her eyelids, creeping out like tree roots in every direction.

"Full counter?" She hears Meliodas yell, his hand making contact with hers as she tries to throw her her energy ball into his chest.

Meliodas opens his eyes a few moments later to black eyes staring back at him, causing his body to go cold. He feels an intense pain throughout his body, emanating from her hand gripping his throat. Did his full counter not phase her at all? Her dark energy made him nervous. He has never seen anyone this powerful. She may even be more dangerous than his own father.

"Why do you look like him, talk like him, smell like him… yet your energy is not the same." She says calmly. "You even have his full counter. Answer me or you will die the same way he did, and this universe will be destroyed along with you." He watched helplessly as she formed a short sword made of her dark energy in her left hand and raises it to one of his hearts. As the tip pressed against his shirt and met his skin, he let out an agonizing shrill. It hasn't even pierced his skin and it was the worst pain he has ever experienced.

"Answer me!" Her words pierced his heart. He recognized the pain in her voice, her irrational actions, and her rage. It was exactly the same as when Liz was killed. He destroyed an entire town because he couldn't control his rage. But did she say… An entire universe? She spoke as if there was more than one, or that she's done it before. With the power she possessed, he didn't want to take any chances that she was bluffing.

"I'm not sure who this person you're talking about is, but I get the feeling that he's not with you anymore. I can feel that you're in pain. I can feel that this person was your everything. I understand that, and I want to help." He tries to let out a chuckle, but he feels like he's being electrified from her grip. He holds back a scream. After a few moments, the pain diminishes a little and he opens his eyes, expecting her black eyes to be staring back. Instead they are deep chocolate, look down at the ground. The sword she manifested is not gone, and she slowly starts to lower him to the ground. He coughs as rubs his throat as she releases him.

"So…" he coughs out and chuckles lightly, "you got my name, but I never caught yours." He smiles at her widely and rests his hand on the back of his head, tussling his hair. She looks at him longingly yet obviously still full of pain. Now that he has a moment to look at her she seems familiar to him too.

"I'm Elizabeth," she says. It hits him like a train and memories of the goddess he loves comes flooding into his mind.

"No way." He gasps, looking up at the beautiful creature that looks exactly like the woman he loves besides the brown hair and chocolate eyes.