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Prologue – Chapter 5

'Sting we are almost at the place, can you smell the scent of Laxus, Rogue or Lisanna?' asked Lucy.

He tried to sniff in the air, while keeping his meal in his stomach. Sting went greener. The trustworthy scent of his twin slayer had reached his nose and he pointed weakly to a direction. Aquila changed slightly coarse and moved roughly in the air. Sting flinched back and moved both of this hands before his mouth. He couldn't wait to feel stable ground under his feet.

Rogue, Laxus and Lisanna had stopped by the sight of a cliff and saw a man standing near a weird device. The device felt like one hell of a magic source. It had the shape of a cube with weird vines around it and the cube flew in the air. The man next to the device had gray spiky hair and green eyes. He wore a sleeveless red shirt, like a second skin for his muscle led build, a black pants and some brown battle boots. He wore some weird metal gloves, who had a weird looking eye on it. At some point it looked like the eyes were moving.

High level demon stood as guards around area. 'That must be the poison mage and the source. What's the plan,' whispered Lisanna.

'We can do this the hard way and just charge in or we can do this fast and swiftly and hopefully it will be easy,' said Laxus.

He looked at Rogue, who was nodding at him. They both knew what to do in this situation. Rogue looked up and saw some clouds a couple meters away from the sun. He waited at the right moment. When the clouds had darkened the area, he changed into a shadow and charged at the poison mage. At a close distance he roared his shadow dragon roar at the poison mage, who looked shocked at his sudden appearance. The poison mage flew in the air. When the poison mage was at a safe distance from Rogue, it was Laxus turn. Laxus just simple snapped his fingers and a lightning bolt struck the mage. A huge explosion came and made a crater on the ground, fellow demons who stood in his range turned to dust, but came back in a couple of seconds.

Rogue focused on the device and wanted to damage it with his shadow claw. When he came at range the vines around the device charged at him. He attacked the vines but every attack he had launched were reflected back at him. He felt a sting of pain in his hands.

'Shadow dragon roar.'

Rogue eyes flew wide open when his roar was reflected back at him, by the vines. He could barely dodged his own attack and noticed that some demons were coming his way.

Laxus explosion had made a cloud of dust. He waited patiently and moved closer. He glanced at a form in the dust and was surprised when a sudden demon charged on him. Shit, were is he?

'Did you remembered this trick?'

Laxus eyes turned around and saw the mage smirking at him at close range. The mage withdraw his right fist and punched the air with some force. His fist had purple smoke around it. The mage attacked and yelled. 'Poison sting!' The smoke turned into some snake and charged in the air at Laxus.

Lisanna came out of her hiding place and changed into her tiger battle form. She now was half human, half cat. Her claws sliced the smoke into half. The snake who had almost reached Laxus turned back into smoke and disappeared. She charged now at the mage and pointed her claws. Within a second the mage had turned into purple smoke and disappeared. She looked around when she suddenly heard Laxus yelling at her. 'Behind you!'

The mage had launching his attack. Lisanna was barely able to dodge it and made a backward somersault. She looked up and saw the mage standing right in front of her. He is fast. She pushed her arms up to block the upcoming attack, that never came. She saw Laxus standing in front of her. The dark mage had changed into smoke again and was now reappearing a couple meters further.

'Tch, who are you?' snarled Laxus.

'That's right, I haven't really introduced myself the last time. I'm Creco.'

'And what are you planning?'

'That's none of your business.'

Creco charged at him. Laxus used his lightning blast. Creco changed into a cloud of purple smoke, before Laxus could lay a hit. Laxus coughed when he inhaled some of its smoke. He looked around and attacked on the slightest movement he could hear. But again his attack was slicing tin air. 'To slow!' said Creco while laughing like a maniac.

He looked at Rogue and Lisanna and saw that both of them were surrounded by demons. He is fast and he thinks I'm slow. Laxus smirked and electricity was sparking around his body. Now that Lisanna wasn't hiding on his back, he had more room to go all out.

When he noticed Creco's location, Laxus charged at him in lightning form. Creco was surprised by his sudden speed and could only block the attack on time with his gloves. Electricity was sparking around the gloves and Creco screamed by the burning feeling on his hands. Not only Creco seemed to scream, the gloves itself were screaming in a high pitch voice. Laxus and Rogue needed to cover their ears and noticed that the vines of the gloves were attacking Creco himself. 'You fucking bitch!' yelled Creco to Laxus. He threw away the gloves to the ground. The vines were crawling around the ground and the eyes on the gloves were bleeding. 'What the fuck is that?' said Laxus finally when the screaming had stopped.

Laxus looked around but didn't see Creco anywhere. Purple smoke was surrounding him. He didn't trusted it and attacked it. His hand went stuck in the smoke. 'Shit.'

'You are coming with me!'

The smoke was growing larger and larger and was wrapping Laxus body completely up. In a second the smoke disappeared, Creco and Laxus were nowhere to be found.

'Laxus!' yelled Lisanna. She didn't had time to look for him. More demons who had seen the multiple explosions came searching for the intruders. Lisanna looked at the numbers of demons walking to them. 'Rogue, we aren't gonna to make it, at this rate.'

'I noticed. Whatever I try, my attacks get reflected back to me. I can't destroy the source.' Rogue growled slightly in frustration.

Laxus looked around him and saw that he was standing in an open field in the middle of the forest. 'If I had known you wanted some time alone with me, I would have brought a shovel for your grave.'

'High words, for someone who barely managed to escape me last time. Let's see who's grave it will be.' Smirked Creco. Smoke was coming out of his hands and surrounded the area. Laxus noticed how the plants and trees were dying around him. He pulled his hand to his mouth. It was getting hard to breath, while smoke was getting inside his lungs. Creco laughed. 'I want to see your pathetic face, when you die.'

Laxus concentrated on the place where Creco was standing and charged a lightning bolts. Creco's body turned into smoke.

'Where are you aiming at?'

Laxus looked around, the voice came from everywhere. His smell was everywhere. This isn't making any sense. His view was getting hazy and his instinct gave him a bad feeling. The smoke? Is the smoke affecting my senses? He charged at an image he thought was Creco but his fist was hitting air.

'Not even close.'

Laxus looked around again and could hear his maniac laugh coming from everywhere. He fell on his knees. His body felt limp, while more smoke was passing his longs.

'Should I call a doctor? You don't look so good.'

'You don't need to search for a nurse, I already have one.' Laxus said with a cocky smirk on his face.

Cresco hissed behind his teeth. He would love to hurt him more, to torture him more. But he isn't an idiot. He knows what Laxus could do. He had seen it on the grand magic games. Staying out of his range is his best option or even better not to be noticed at all.

'I'm kind of disappointed in you Creco. I had hoped for a real battle, but you are just hiding away from me. Are you scared?'

'Don't play dumb with me. Why would I throw myself in front of you?'

Well I could try. Thought Laxus. Just let the scumbag talk a little bit longer.

Creco and Laxus looked up when they heard an explosion, what was later followed, by a bright light that was reaching the sky. 'What's going on!'

'I guess you need to make some new plans.' Smirked Laxus.

-Changing \(O.O)/ area line -

'Lisanna, Rogue!' yelled Lucy when she was looking down. Rogue and Lisanna stood back to back with demons surrounding them. A weird cubes device with vines, flew a couple meter from them. It was an open field with a cliff on one side and trees on the other side. Sting couldn't stand it anymore and rolled with all his strength from the bird. He crashed on some demons and cried with joy when he touched the ground. It took some seconds before he was completely recovered.

'That's Sting-kun, no emotion sickness can distract him to beat some nasty demons,' said Lector with pride.

'Fro thinks so to,' said Frosch. The exceeds flew in the air with their wings on their back. 'Frosch, Lector stay in the air, it's too dangerous here!' yelled Rogue to the exceeds.

'Where is Laxus?' asked Lucy.

'Having a date with mister poison mage,' said Lisanna. She changed into a white wolf and howled. More wolves appeared next to her. The wolves showed their teeth while growling and charged at some demons.

'Lucy look behind us,' said Yukino.

Demons with little bat wings on their back were flying to them. Yukino was punching and kicking the little flying demons, but nothing seems to work. She didn't had much magic left and could summon only one spirit for max ten minutes. She gnashing her teeth.

'Where is the source?' yelled Lucy.

'The cube is the source, but it reflects any magic. My powers aren't strong enough to break through,' said Rogue.

'Really that sounds like a challenge, ready Rogue?' smirked Sting while going into his dragon force. 'Show them your strength Sting-kun,' Lector smirked. Rogue nodded and also activated his dragon force. Sting and Rogue used his dragon roar on the cube. Again the force was reflected. Sting dodge and the force had hurt some demons on the road. Rogue had dodge it also and looked up. 'You see.'

'If you need force, then I will give you brute strength,' said Lucy with a smile. 'Yukino be ready to jump, Aquila!' The eagle flew right above the cube and disappeared back to the celestial world. Lucy changed into stardress Taurus form and slammed with her fist on the cube. The vine blocked it and the force slammed Lucy in the air.

Yukino landed next to the cube and yelled when she saw Lucy falling from the cliff. 'Lucy!'

'Open the gate of the scales, Libra. Use your gravity to get Lucy back.'

'Ok.' Libra changed her fingers to activated her scales. Lucy looked up, when the gravity around her changed. She wasn't falling anymore, she was flying up, safely on the ground next to Yukino.

'Lucy that was reckless of you!'

Lucy glanced at the other Celestial Mage and didn't know if she should be laughing or feeling sad. That's supposed to me saying that, against my team. What was I thinking. I never go in without thinking things trough. 'Sorry Yukino. Thanks.'

Yukino nodded, kicked another demon in the face and looked up. 'Well force isn't working. How are we going to stop that device?' Yukino yelled.

'Maybe it's linked to the poison mage. Maybe you can only damage it if you have defeated the poison mage!' Yelled Lisanna.

Rogue looked at her, like she was an idiot. Even if his face was straight, Lisanna could tell it immediately.

'What? Why else would he leave his device all alone. It doesn't make any sense!' Yelled Lisanna.

'Not completely alone,' said Sting while punching some demons.

'Still, doesn't make any sense.'

Lucy had used her whip to wrap it around a demon and throw it against the device. The demon was pushed into a group of demon by the reflection force. 'It's a device a demonic device. How was it built? How did the poison mage get it?' said Lucy while thinking out loud.

Demonic device? Thought Lisanna and she looked at the cube again how the vines were crawling around it. Then it hit her. 'Those are the same vines as the Hell core from Tartaros!'

'Hell core?' asked Lucy in an alarming tone.

'You know that the demons from Tartaros were reincarnated to a new body. Those vines were used to revive those demons or to turn humans into demons. Mirajane had used her take over to stop it. That's it!'

Her group of wolves kept the demons away and she run to the device. She returned to her normal body and placed her hand on the device. The vines were crawling around her in an alarming state. 'You don't use take over on demons like Mirajane, how will that work?' asked Lucy.

'Take over is a take over. You use your magic to take over another body or soul. Mirajane use it on demons, Elfman on Beast and I use it on animals. But the magic is the same.'

Lisanna concentrated and could feel the magic flowing into her head. Dark whispers could be heard and she felt multiple eyes looking at her. The whispers were getting louder and louder. The eyes were coming closer. What was this pressure she felt? She screamed and wanted to break the contact, but the vines were pulling her inside the cube. 'Lisanna! It's absorbing her!' Yukino grabbed her, while putting down one foot on the device, for more strength and pulled. The device responded on the sudden touch and vines tried to grab Yukino's foot. Lucy was just on time and slammed the vines. Lucy was flinching back by the sudden pain, from the reflection of her own attack. She pushed away the pain and looked up. The vines retreated, Lisanna and Yukino fell at the ground.

Wolves were crying, when claws from the demon managed to penetrate their skins and they vanished in a silver light.

Sting ran to Rogue and both kept the line. Lucy saw the fear in Lisanna's eyes and looked at Yukino, who was shaking her head with concern in her eyes.

They had no ideas anymore to stop the source for regenerating the demons. Lucy clenched her fist. She didn't liked this hopeless feeling.

'Libra!' yelled Yukino when she saw a demon attacking her spirit in the back. Libra was using her gravity spell to hold some demons to the ground, but there were just to many. A demon claw was pushed back. Libra turned around and saw Loke standing with a serious look. Not only Loke had come through his own gate, next to him stood Virgo. 'Loke, Virgo?' said Lucy with joy.

Yukino was gasping her magic was getting low and she couldn't keep Libra's gate open very long.

Lucy had also changed back to normal and noticed how weak her normal whip was against the demons.

One demon came close to her but disappeared into the ground, second later Virgo jumped up. 'Punishment time, Princes?'

'Keep the punishment for the demons.' Smiled Lucy.

Virgo bowed and dug into the ground. More demons were disappearing in the ground.

'Regulas Impacto.'

Light in form of a lion was shot at the wholes what Virgo had made. Lucy sighed in relief that most of the demons were now buried under a layer of sand and rocks. Rogue flinched back and held on his arm. His dragon force was wiring off. Blood was flowing out of his wounds.

'Rogue!' cried Frosch. Rogue looked up and noticed how the exceeds were cornered by a demon. Lector was holding a stick in his hand, but was shaking with fear.

'Lector,' growled Sting. Rogue and Sting charged and kicked the demons out of the way. The demon in front of the exceed was smashed off the cliff.

'Sting-kun!' yelled Lector with tears in his eyes. The dragon slayers hugged their exceed. Frosch felt how tense Rogue's arm felt. 'Rogue?' asked Frosch with fear in his eyes.

'Don't worry, I will protect you.' Smiled Rogue to his exceed.

Yukino sweat was crawling off her face, she had no magic left, Libra was forced back to the celestial world. Demons came flying to them from the air and more came walking out from the forest. The ones who were just buried by Virgo and Loke were crawling out of the holes. There was just to many.

Laxus…..Everyone! There must be something I can do. Yelled Lucy in her mind while she gnashing her teeth. 'Princess?'

Lucy looked at Virgo and noticed the dust and some weird gloves on her head. 'I found these.' The gloves had bleeding eyes and vines familiar to the vines of the cube. 'What is that?'

'I don't know, Princess.'

'Those are….the gloves…*gasp*…. the poison mage had worn. Creco had thrown it… on the ground when the gloves was attacking him….. after a lightning shock from Laxus,' said Lisanna softly. Her eyes were still holding the fear, but she managed somehow.

They heard Sting gasping while kneeling on the ground. The twin slayers were covert in wounds and their magic was running low.

Lucy grabbed the gloves and putted them on. 'Lucy! What are you doing!' screamed Loke in concern.

'I'm following my instinct. If we attack the cube, it reflects and defend itself. If you touch it, it will absorb you. How could Creco transport this device without touching it?'

'It's too dangerous!'

'Do you have a better idea! No!'

Lucy placed her hands with the gloves on, onto the cube. The vines weren't attacking her, neither absorbing her. The eyes on the gloves were looking at her and the vines, from the gloves, poured themselves into her flesh. She screamed by the pain.

'Lucy!' screamed Loke and Yukino.

Lucy looked at the cube and saw how the magic in the cube was calling to her. She concentrated and noticed how the magic from the cube went through the gloves to her body. She gasped by the pain by the force the magic was pushed into her body. Her magic was returning, while the device energy source was getting weaker. It's getting weaker… An idea popped in her head. If we can't destroy the cube, we can drain it empty. This will be one of my stupidest ideas ever. Lucy concentrated and pushed her scream away. She felt how her body was getting filled with magic. But there was a max at a sudden point and the cube wasn't empty yet. She felt the strain on her body and the pain was increasing.

She could hear the scream of Yukino and Lisanna, who were attacked by some demons and without thinking she concentrated on the magic inside her body.

Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens...

All the stars, far and wide...

Show me thy appearance...

With such shine.

Oh Tetrabiblos...

I am the ruler of the stars...

Aspect become complete...

Open thy malevolent gate.

Oh 88 Stars of the heaven...

Shine!

Urano Metria!

Planets were forming in the air and crashed with a force into the army of demons. The explosion could be heard from miles away. Everyone looked at her with confusion but didn't ask. She felt relief on her body and smirked. Instant magic. This feeling felt familiar. It was the same way how her spirits gave her magic with Stardress or when her spirits were helping her to keep their gates open together with her. She could use this. She closed the gates of Loke and Virgo with force.

'Lucy?'

'Princes?'

The two spirits disappeared in a golden flash. Lucy concentrated on her golden keys and let the magic flew in her body. 'Open the nine gates, Zodiac.'

Taurus, Gemini, Aries, Scorpion, Loke, Virgo, Cancer, Capricorn and Sagittarius stood before her.

'You scared me Lucy, you are still scaring me!' yelled Loke.

'Please defend my friends, attack the demons.'

The nine zodiac spirits nodded without futher question and attacked the demons. With time they noticed the pain on the demon's faces. Wounds that were inflicted were really bleeding, the regenerating was slowing down.

'It's working Lucy!' yelled Sting with a grin. He saw how the demons were getting weaker and looked at Lucy. His grin changed into a concern one. Her face was screaming of pain and the vines in her arms were moving further inside her body. Blood veins were getting visible on her skin and tears were falling from her eyes.

Just a little bit more!

The cube was almost empty and the demons were disappearing one by one, for real this time. The last part of magic came flowing into Lucy's body and the strain became too much. The magic wasn't going to her keys, but instead searching for another container in her body itself. When the last demon was vanquished, her spirits felt the disturbance in her magic and was forced back to the Celestial world. She felt the pain and couldn't handle it anymore and began to scream. Loke came with a struggle through his own gate again and ran to her with concern. He saw that Yukino and Lisanna were already standing next to her. 'Lucy! Let it go!' screamed Yukino while pulling on Lucy's arm to break the contact.

'I can't!' screamed Lucy. The glove eye looked at Yukino and vines pushed her away.

'Lucy!' screamed Loke. It had no use, the vines kept pushing them away from her. When Loke looked, he saw raw magic with a force pouring out of her body uncontrollable. Lucy screamed louder, she couldn't control it anymore. Her body was glowing a bright light that was reaching the sky.

Am I gonna die?

I'm cruel I know, but luckily is the next update about a couple days. And the poison mage isn't Cobra ;-) but an OC. One of the reason why I have chosen for a OC and not Cobra was because of the connection with Tartaros. Cobra knows about the guild and knows not the mess with a demon guild. And I like Cobra to much. If I think back about it, it would be more of a challange to write him as the villain because of his hearing. He would hear the plan of his enemies from miles away.

Next chapter will be the last chapter from the prologue, then the real story will start. I probably wait with updating the first chapter after a week so that I can rearrange and improve the chapters a little bit more to my taste.

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