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Chapter Eighteen: Demons in hiding

Sans was currently ay Amici's at the moment. Due to what happened earlier, he wanted to try to lift his mood up, and what better way to do that than to go to his favorite restaurant? Anyway, the future son of Natsu and Irene was currently simply in thought, so he didn't noticed someone coming up behind him.

"Sans?" A female voice was heard, and Sans turned to see Juvia right behind him. The red haired male was surprise to see the water mage here.

"Hey Juvia, what's bring you here?" Sans asked her, as she takes a seat next to him. Juvia looked a bit nervous about something, before speaking.

"Juvia has a question… about the future. Juvia needs to know this." The rain woman asked him.

"…It depends on what you want to ask." The red haired male responded to her.

"Does… does Juvia end up with Gray?" She asked him, making his eyebrows rise up, as she didn't even add the 'Sama' part. The male then realized that due to the events earlier, she wanted to know if they would despite what happened. At least that's what Sans thinks.

"*Sigh* I'll be honest Juvia, no, you don't." The red haired male admitted as he looked at her. Though to his surprise, Juvia didn't look sad by that revelation, she looked more confused if anything else. "Is there a certain reason why you are asking?"

"Well… it's just Juvia couldn't believe that Gray would say such mean things to Natsu like that." Juvia admitted to Sans, as she went on, "But… for some reason, when I saw Natsu so sad, I felt sad as well. I felt like I wanted to make sure he was alright. It's confusing." Juvia explained to Sans, before the future kid realize what she was dealing with. Sans then let out a small laugh, getting on her nerves. "What's so funny?"

"Nothing, it's just… well, I see no harm in telling you." Sans then looked at Juvia before speaking again. "Juvia, I'm just going to say this plainly, you get with my dad." This of course gets Juvia to blush like crazy.

"What?!" Juvia semi shouted, since they were in a restaurant after all. "I-I get w-with Natsu?" She managed to ask in an embarrass voice.

"Yup," Sans answered her as he went on, "I remember you all telling us how you fell in love with our dad. For you Juvia, you told us how ever since you met him, you had this feeling inside of you. However, you pushed it down due to you loving someone else at the time." Sans began to explain, and Juvia realized that he was talking about Gray being the someone else. "As time went on though, that small feeling about Natsu began to grow, and grow. Eventually, you wanted to be near and around Natsu more than the other guy you loved, which I'm assuming is Gray. Then one day, you realized that you were in love with Natsu, instead of Gray. Eventually, you, along with our other mothers, told him how you felt toward him, and he returned the feelings." Sans finished, as he took a sip from his drink.

Juvia was simply shocked by what the red haired male told her. He was right though, ever since she met Natsu, she had that weird feeling, but simply ignored it for her love for Gray. But now, was she really in love with the ice mage? After seeing the ice mage talk like that about Natsu, she didn't know if that was the case anymore. The water mage will also admit that the weird feeling for Natsu did grow. This was so confusing for the rain woman.

"It's alright Juvia," Sans spoke again, getting her attention. "I know it must be confusing, but don't think about it too much right now. Take all the time you need." The red haired male assured her.

"Thanks for telling me this Sans." Juvia thanked him, even though her face was still red due to knowing that she gets with Natsu, and possibly ended up having a kid with him. She then stand up, "We should head back to the others, I'm sure Natsu and your siblings want to talk to you."

Sans merely sighed before speaking, "Yeah, you're probably right." As much as he didn't want to deal with a lecture, which he knows he's going to get, he figured might as well get it over with.

So after paying for the food, the red haired male and the rain woman then headed out to get back to the others.

'AT THE PALACE'

"What's up with Natsu?" Alzack questioned as he and the others saw the fire dragon slayer's face all red with embarrassed as he sat at one of the table, as Erza and Mira sat next to him.

"Oh, both of out moms got together with him." Both Maria and Hara explained, getting those who weren't there to see it surprised, but due to all the recent events, they really shouldn't.

"Oh, well congratulations then you three!" Wendy told them, getting the two gilrs next to him to blush as well.

"Thanks Wendy." Erza and Mira thanked her. Natsu thanked her too, but he was so embarrassed still, so it only came out as a small whisper, luckily due to Wendy's dragon enhance hearing, she heard it.

"So when will the other girls get with him?" Bisca asked with a grin, getting the other girls who were present to blush.

"CAN YOU NOT?!" They shouted at the green haired woman, getting her and Alzack to laugh at their reaction.

"Are all of you alright?" Hisui asked the future kids, well except for Garad, since he was in an intense card game with Asuka, who was winning, by a lot.

"Yeah, we're fine," Daron answered her, "I'm still mad by what the others said about our father."

Everyone, except for Garad and Asuka, due to them being focus on their card game, frown a little due to what the rest of their guild that was here said about the fire dragon slayer.

"It's fine," Natsu spoke, getting everyone's attention. "You all didn't agree with them, and that makes me happy." He told them.

"We're glad that you're happy." Mira replied to him as she kissed his cheek, making him blush once again.

"So what's the plan now?" Kamika asked.

"Once we wait for Sans and Juvia to get back here, we can begin to look for our brothers and sisters." Tiron answered, as he was looking at some maps.

The other's agreed with Tiron's plan. Before anything else can happen though…

*BOOM*

Everyone turned to hear an explosion in the other room. Worried that someone might have gotten hurt, they all ran into the throne room. They saw the throne appeared to be destroyed, as the guards there were simply surprised by the sudden action.

"What happened?!" Arcadios questioned the guards.

"We don't know, it just suddenly went boom!" One of the guards replied to the knight.

"Why would something like that happen?" Garad questioned as he and Asuka went with them to check it out.

As they were so focus on what happened, they didn't noticed one of the guards approaching behind Bisca and Alzack. Sensing danger, Daron and Tiron turned around to see the guard suddenly have two green like weapons in his hands.

"GUYS BEHIND YOU!" They shouted, getting everyone to turn at them as they proceed to dash to the guard. However, as Bisca and Alzack turned around…

*SLASH*

Everyone froze as the weapons plunged into the married couple, as their bodies fell to the floor, lifeless on the ground. It was taking everyone's mind to process what just happened. However, the daughter of the two parents was the first to speaj.

"M-Mommy? D-Daddy?" Asuke was beginning to tear up due to not seeing her parents reacting.

"Heh heh heh, foolish mortals." The guard spoke before all of a sudden a bright light appeared, and the where the guard once stood was a creature that was a bit taller than Elfman. It had giant wings coming out of its back, and was wearing armored shoulders, and armored gauntlets, but the hands were uncovered, allowing its claws to be seen. It also had an armored waist and leggings, with a piece of cloth handing from the bottom of the waist armor. The creature also had hooves instead of feet, and it had horns sticking out of its head. Its skin was of a gray color. This is one of the Nathrezim, or dreadlords, of the Burning Legion. "A simple distraction is all that is needed to strike down any foe, and you played yourselves well." The dreadlord mocked, as the other's realized that two of their friends were killed.

"YOU MONSTER!" Erza charged at the demon, though it managed to dodge by jumping back further a bit.

Due to the demon being away from Bisca's and Alzack's corpses, Asuka immediately ran to the bodies, trying to believe that they were still alive as tears went down her face.

"M-Mommy, D-Daddy, p-please wake up!" Asuke cried as she tried to get a reaction out of the bodies, but to no valid.

"HOW ARE YOU HERE?!" The future kids shouted at the dreadlord, as they didn't know how it was possible that a demon of the Legion was here. The dreadlord simply laughed.

"Foolish children, you were fighting us remember? Of course we too would be caught up by the explosion and sent to the past." The demon then smirked, "But everything's coming together. Already we have claimed Fairy Heart, and once we get that traitorous dark mage, more of our forces will come to claim this world." The dreadlord then laughed, causing them to widen their eyes by what the demon told them.

"YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!" Mira shouted as she and everyone else got ready to fight. Natsu was simply frozen still, with his hair covering his expression.

"Heh," The dreadlord taunted, "I would like to see you try-"

*BAM*

With great speed, Natsu slammed his fire covered fist into the demon's face, sending him flying through the hallway. Everyone was surprised as well to see Natsu's sudden speed and reaction. The demon got back up, and glared at the fire dragon slayer, who had tears streaming down his face. Fire was all around him as he charged at the dreadlord once more.

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" Natsu shouted as he approached the dreadlord, who charged at the dragon slayer.

I killed them! I killed Bisca and Alzack! I made Asuka an orphan! I'm such a horrible person, but this doesn't bother me at all.

…Man, I am a horrible person.

Anyway, hope you liked it, or not. See you all later, whenever that will be.