Fairytail Fanfic

Chapter 17Challenge! Demon of Fairy tail!

"Voices in your head?", Miyuki questioned.

"Yeah", Ikiru replied.

"Do you think that...", Miyuki started but was interrupted by shouting from outside the guild hall.

"Bring him out!"
"Bring him out!"
"Bring him out!"

Erza and Natsu peered out of a window to see a huge crowd chanting towards the guild hall. They kept repeating themselves over and over.

"Bring him out!"
"Bring him out!"
"Bring him out!"

"Lets go see what's up", Gray suggested.

"Yeah", Natsu agreed with an unsightly look on his face. He knew that there was no good coming from this.

The gang left to go outside but Ikiru stayed inside the guild hall, although no longer in the infirmary he sat in the main hall near the guild entrance so he could see and hear what was going on.

Master Makarov stood to one side and adressed all of the guild members who had come outside, "I'll let all of you handle this", he adressed them taking a seat on the stone banister on one side of the stairwell.

"Right", they all replied.

"What is exactly is the problem here!?", Erza adressed the crowd loudly so they could hear through their own childish chanting.

One man came forward he was quite tall, about six foot, looked in his late twenties, had white hair and was well built with distinguishing scars on his face. The crowd stopped chanting.

"My name is Mike", the man adressed Erza with a deep grunty voice. "I have come for Ikiru Ikaruga."

"For what purpose?", Erza questioned.

"To have a fair and square, no-holds barred deathmatch!", Mike announced to everyone. "Ikiru Ikaruga is a boy that is not fit to live among others. He has taken the lives of innocent people and has nothing to justify the murder with. By killing Ikiru Ikaruga 'the demon of darkness' I bring justice to those who he has killed and by doing so also show my absolute strength. I will show everyone in Magnolia that I am strong by defeating the wretch who is 'The Demon of Fairy tail!'"

Miyuki stepped forward and adressed Mike ready to fight, holding a spear of light in her hand, "If you must prove your strength by having a deathmatch with a 'demon of Fairy tail' as you put it, then you can try your luck with me!"

"No. I would not attack a woman without good reason and besides I would be looked down upon if I tried to show off my strength by killing somebody who is innocent, but by killing Ikaruga I also take revenge for the dead."

"So basically you're using those people who he killed as an excuse to show your strength!", Miyuki shrieked.

While this conversation continued Ikiru's eyes turned a hazy white as he began to see letters and hear voices again. He was also remembering something that he knew he had forgotten.

I AM T-E DEMON O- DARKNESS IN-IDE AND O-E- SH-L I T-E O-E WHO C-LLS MY NAME, -!

More of the letters in the astranged image had been revealed to him.
He began to think to himself, "I am? What? Demon, darkness, who my name?"
He then heard the voice that distingiushed itself among the others.
Before Ikiru had a chance to adress the voice among his self-concious he had awoken back to reality, although he could still hear the voice.

Ikiru, topless and dripping with sweat, stumbled towards the door.

"I won't fight anyone else but Ikaruga!", Mike adressed Fairy tail.

"Then leave", Erza replied raising her sword to point at the crowd.

The air was becoming tense, the magicians among the crowd prepared their magic and the others drew their weapons. The Fairy tail members did the same whilst Makarov stood and watched how they would handle the situation.

The tense look on Mike's face changed as the magic circle he had conjured in his hand dissapeared. He adressed the guild looking up the stairwell into the guild hall, "It looks like I got what I wanted after all."

Everyone turned to look.
Ikiru managed to drag himself out of the doors, barely managing to stay on his feet.

Everyone stared at him whilst he made his way to the bottom of the stairwell. Slowly.
He was drenched in sweat and topless, showing of his toned body that was covered in multiple bruises, cuts and grusome scars. The skin on his stomach was still abit mangled from his most recent injury.

"So he arrives", Mike adressed Ikiru. "Well then Ikiru Ikaruga I challenge you to a deathmatch! What will it be!?"

"Ikiru you don't have to...", Miyuki started but was interrupted by Ikiru.

"I accept your challenge", Ikiru moaned staring towards the sky with pain in his face.

"Well then you're less of a coward then I thought, I mean looking at you I would've thought you'd already had a deathmatch today, but you'll still take me on. Ha!"

"Ikiru don't. You can barely stand up!", Miyuki begged him from the top of the stairwell.

She was completley ignored. Ikiru stood still and awaited his opponent.

"Ok you ready let's go!", Mike yelled as everyone backed off to make space for the fight.

Ikiru slowly stepped forward and amongst the deadly silence of the two crowds he threw a punch at Mike.

*Smack*

Ikiru's fist planted itself into Mike's chest.

Mike stood still with his arms at his sides and didn't react. Then he raised one hand to grab Ikiru's fist.
"You're gonna have to do better than that to beat me!"

After hearing this Ikiru took a hard punch to his wounded stomach which made him throw up blood.

*Hack*

"Blazing kick!", Ikiru heard Mike say finding himself on the floor.

Ikiru struggled to his feet. The guild watched this one sided beatdown take place with horror on their faces.
Miyuki began to move but was stopped by Makarov.
"I need to help him!" she tried to explain.
"Don't you have any faith in him at all?", Makarov asked. "He's a pideful boy and all we ever do is baby him. Maybe he was right to shout at you all."

"Uhh, but look at him", Miyuki replied watching Ikiru panting as he struggled to his feet.
"Hmm, he'll win, just you watch", Makarov assured her.
"I hope so."

Ikiru stood up and dodged a hard punch. But not intentionally. Ikiru stummbled trying to keep his balance. His eyes a dazy white.

I AM THE DEMON OF DARKNESS IN-IDE AND O-E- SH-L I T-E O-E WHO C-LLS MY NAME, -!

Ikiru began to take a brutal and bloody beating from Mike as his eyes stayed a dazy white. But Ikiru could see the letters and began remembering.
He thought to himself, "I am the demon of darkness..."

He saw the image again.

I AM THE DEMON OF DARKNESS INSIDE AND OBEY SHALL I THE ONE WHO CALLS MY NAME, -!

"I am the demon of darkness inside and obey shall I the one who calls my name..."

"Thunder fist!", Mike roared as Ikiru flew into the stairwell of the guildhall, smashing it and leaving a crater in which he layed. His back bled onto the stairs.
Ikiru was still as Mike approached with both his hands ablaze.

"Who?", Ikiru thought to himself what name. Then Ikiru remembered.
Just after he had had his intimate moments with Miyuki he remembered talking with a black mirror image of himself.

"Unscrammble the letters just in time, and help will arrive."

Mike only afew feet away from Ikiru and raised his fists.

B

Ikiru felt a surge of energy rushing through his body as sparks of black and purple began to appear around him.

O

"Double Inferno Fists!", Mike howled as he threw himself at Ikiru.

K

Ikiru began to speak as the white hazyness left his eyes. But it wasn't only his voice, it was also the voice of another within him.

"I am the demon of darkness inside and obey shall I the one who calls my name..."

Mike's fists lay only and inch from Ikiru's head when Ikiru and the other voice let out a mighty shout.

"BOK!"

An explosion of black and purple energy erupted from Ikiru's body sending Mike flying across the road to the edge of the water.

Ikiru rose from the darkness with an aura emmiting from his body, his eyes were entirley his own but different could be said for his left arm which had been replaced by that of a demons. Black, hard and scaly. Sharp and made for battle.

Mike sprant towards Ikiru and dissapeared in a wave of black as Ikiru bellowed at the top of his lungs. "Dark dragon, roar!"

The twister of black skipped Mike over the waters surface several times before he stopped.
Mike struggled to climb back onto the road from the water as scorch marks were revealed from where his shirt used to be.

Ikiru took a fighting stance and readied himself for battle, "Dark make, sword."

End of chapter #17