A/N: AHHHH I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. I wrote a freaking lot for this part! so i posted the first part here cos really, i don't like massive chaps... okay sorry that's just me hoho.
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Laxus licked Mira's lower lip, asking silently for entrance. She opened her mouth slightly and his tongue quickly dove in to meet hers. A jolt went through his body from the contact and he could feel bits of his lightning through her, amplifying the sensation.
You taste so damn good, Mira. He groaned in delight. Sweet and warm. It had been too long since he had kissed another. His hands slid around to grab her behind and pulled her closer to him.
You taste amazing too, Laxus. Mira sighed into their kiss. Her tongue softly lapped his, and his mirrored the same. Their teeth hit each other as they grew desperate from the kiss.
He grasped her shoulder as he gasped. Mira looked at him with hooded eyes, her tongue shot out to lick her lower lip. Too amazing to be true.
They grinded together, lost in their own motions when the most obnoxious voice rang through their mind link.
LAAAXUUUUSSSS YA BIG PERV! WATCHA DOIN SNOGGING A DEMON EYY?
Laxus abruptly pulled away from Mira, hissing. Natsu?
That's right! This mind link is super neat! Ooh! Laxus got a boner!
The annoying shit started to cackle until Mira gave a loud growl.
Who dares disturb us?
A squeak sounded and another voice joined to hush Natsu. Mira! I'm so sorry! We didn't mean to interrupt. W-we can always come back another time..
The hell we are! The snogging can wait! Laxus, meet us in Lucy's room when the moon is full. We're going to continue our journey.
Us? Laxus frowned.
Yeah! Me and Luce!
WHAT?!
Both Mira and Laxus had shouted internally, feeling Lucy and Natsu cringe at the same time. Natsu had sheepishly admitted he wanted Lucy as his mate and the feeling was mutual. Thus, he was going to 'kidnap' the princess and bring her on their journey.
Natsu was definitely going insane. Maybe being top general had done it. Or maybe not seeing Igneel was the final straw.
You nuts, Natsu? Do you want the whole demon army hunting us down?!
Ahh. Do not worry. Father wouldn't bother wasting his resources on a demon like me. The soft voice of Lucy wavered through their link. She tried to hide it, but even Laxus could feel the sad acceptance from her. Even from Mira.
Lucy. Mira projected an image of her stroking Lucy's hair. Golden strands reminding him of the High Heavens flashed through the link, but even if it was just an image, he could feel that the strands had lost their glow.
Since your dad's an idiot who doesn't know how to value a gem like you, I get to keep you!
K-keep?! I'm not a thing, angel!
Laxus rolled his eyes as he heard them bantering. Natsu was less annoying before; having lost his will and interest in life itself. Drained, almost like an empty shell.
But he would rather the fire brat be an annoying shit than a lifeless being.
Mira snuggled nearer to him, smiling up at him. You llllliiikeee him.
Get out of my head, Mira.
LuLuu! Another voice joined in.
Levy?
A small demoness had appeared in their link, reminding him of the blue fairies back at home. Tiny, squeaky and fiery.
She had burst in with tons of energy, struggling with effort to calm down so she could try to explain things.
Mira had briefly mentioned that Levy was the High Sin of Greed, consume with the need to devour as much knowledge as she could. Until the curse hit her like a freight train. The curse of foresight.
Levy, so you're saying, another being spoke to Gajeel while you received the vision? The being spoke of a, what?
It spoke of the Worldstone. The diamond eye of the great Warrior, Anu. The angels protect it from the demons else they corrupt it for their own purpose.
Wait, what? We do? Natsu spoke.
Yes. The war between Anu and the Dragon happened during the beginning of time. Anu left his eye behind. What became him, noone knows for sure. The demons fought the angels for ownership of the diamond eye. I'm not so sure of what the eye can do actually. The books here are so vague with it's purpose.
It can create and destroy. Whatever the being wishes, the eye grants. The heart must be good, else it destroys your very soul.
Lu, you know what it does?
I-I don't know how I know. I just- Nevermind.
Silence followed after her sentence, each being lost in their own thoughts.
Laxus was the first to break it. If it destroys a being with an evil heart, why do we need to protect it though? The demons steal it and try to destroy something with an evil intent, the stone destroys them back.
The demons could probably find a way to use it. Never underestimate a desperate, cunning mind. Mira lightly tapped his cheek in answer.
Or.. the angels might want to use it for themselves. Natsu whispered.
Boy, first you turn your back on them. Now you're insinuating they're up to no good?
Heh. Maybe. Doesn't matter, does it? At least now we know our purpose. Hey Lev! Tell Metalhead to meet in Lucy's room in two days. We're heading out. With that, both him and Lucy disappeared from the link before Laxus could interrogate him.
He sighed. He bet that fire brat was probably having an internal battle again about life and refused to think about it where the others could pick it up. Deciding to let it slide, he thought about Gajeel.
Before Laxus could try to ask Levy about Gajeel, Mira spoke first.
Levy. How are things with Gajeel? Are you taking extremely good care of your guest?
W-what?! Why would I need to take extra care for a rude oaf! Hmmph! As if insulted with the very idea of Gajeel, Levy disappeared as well.
Uhhh. Right. Laxus scratched the back of his neck. He had picked up traces of attraction to the metal bending angel from the little demon. She was probably aware that it was harder to control those feelings in a mind link and escaped as soon as she can. But he was curious about Gajeel. Was his leg okay?
Mira loosely wrapped her arms around his neck. You can worry about the others later. She started to lightly kiss him and hummed. Now, where were we?
Mira was still reeling from the fact that Lucy had agreed to being a partner to an aingeal and escaping with him. Lucy was willing to give up her place as a demon princess and play mate with someone who she had just met! Was it for fun or dare Mira say, love?
Probably the latter. Laxus stopped the kiss to look at her. "I don't want to kiss while you're thinking about something else, Mira."
"But that's ridiculous! Is that kind of love that strong that you'd want to give up what you have just to stay by that person? She just met Natsu, for goodness sake!"
Laxus studied her. Feeling uncomfortable, Mira quickly put up her mind barriers to prevent Laxus from poking in her mind.
His nostrils flared and his jaw clenched. "I know I said I didn't like the idea of poking around another's mind so freely but somehow, what you just did, pissed me off." Mira looked away, jaw clenching as well, trying to keep her emotions in check.
"I would have thought we would never keep things from each other."
Mira whipped her head back to him. Searching his face for some sort of indication that he was just joking.
"I'm not."
Mira frowned and quickly removed herself from his lap. She walked backwards, facing him while her breathing started to get faster and heavier.
"And what claim do you have over me, thinking I cannot keep things from you?" Mira could feel her skin rippling. She desperately tried to grab a hold of her emotions before it made her turn into something less, appealing.
"I don't, Mira. But I would like to." Her breath hitched and she felt her scales appear. "And I would like for you to claim me as well."
Her feet morphed back to ones with claws and her tail grew out, tearing her dress. Her fangs grew out, pricking her lower lip. "WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?!"
Laxus stood up and started to walk towards Mira but she put up her scaled hands in front of her, demanding him to stop. "Take another step, and that'll be your last."
To say he was confused was such an understatement. They were fine before, heck she even comforted him! They kissed! They had basked in each other's mind, absorbing each other's very soul!
Just how, was that not intimate enough for her not to make a claim? Not enough to commit to each other?
"JUST STOP THAT! YOU'RE MOVING TOO FAST!"
Laxus felt his anger rise to her words and her reaction. His wings flared out behind him, his lightning sparked from his hands. "I bared my soul, my mind to you and you reject the very idea of us?"
"Just because I read your mind doesn't give you exclusive access to me!"
His lightning flared and thunder boomed outside the building. "So you're saying what we just did, everything, meant nothing to you?"
Oh no no no, just NO! Mira hated, hated that Laxus freely let his emotions be felt through their link. She welcomed it before, but not now. Not now when it could mean everything.
His desire, his despair and his -oh dear- intent to fix whatever was wrong and make her his.
"You can't, Laxus. I'm a demon. Look at me."
He cocked his head at her. Eyes hardening as he caught on."I've been looking since I woke up."
"No, that was before I had scales, claws and a tail! Look at me!" She yanked her dress further up to show her scales on her lower body. Her tail moved from side to side, agitation building even higher.
"Like I said, I've been looking since I woke up." He took two steps towards her and Mira hissed. She leaped the distance and tackled the blonde angel.
Laxus didn't bother to put up a fight. He let himself fall and grabbed her thighs. Mira quickly tried to pry his hands from her but he held on fast. "I know what you look like before and I'm perfectly aware you're a demon."
"You can't, Laxus." Tears pooled in her eyes, her hands losing their energy to pry his hands from touching her.
"Tell me."
"Because I'm a murderer. I killed my own sister."