I'm back again with another chapter for this story. Let's see what the other groups of our heroes are up to.
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Chapter Thirty Nine: Those who block their path Part 2
Kagura, Millianna, Tom, Nagura, Juvia, and Yuge were currently making their way through the path they were told to go through. The only demons that were trying to stop them were simply a bunch of Imps. Luckily the group didn't have too much trouble fighting their way through the swarm of the little devils.
"Why are there so many of them?" Juvia questioned as she cleared another group of Imps. The rain woman didn't understand how there were so many demons here.
"Imps generally are in large numbers. They use that to their advantage to gang up and overrun their enemies." Nagura explained as she dashed by more Imps with her swords, thus slicing them down.
Before anyone could say anything else, a loud burst of fel fire was seen up ahead of them. Knowing that it wasn't anything good, they ran toward the flames to figure out what caused the sudden appearance of the element.
The six mages arrived to find themselves in a large opening of the underground cavern. Fel fire covered and surrounded the area. In the middle of the large room was a demon that Kagura, Millianna, and Juvia haven't seen before. The demon had a glowing green skin that it made it look like it was made of fel fire, though there was what looked like patches of molten dark red rock on some parts of its body. There were two giant demonic wings that were attached to the back of the demon. This creature also had dark red and silver armor plates around its waist, hands, hooves, and covered its entire head. The demon also had a large sword that was alit with fel fire. This was known as an Overfiend, another kind of demon in the service of the Burning Legion.
"What the heck is that thing?!" Millianna asked the future siblings as the cat-like woman couldn't help but feel a bit terrified by how the demon looked.
Before any of them could reply to the brown haired Mermaid Heel mage, the Overfiend noticed the newly arrived heroes as the demon let out a battle cry. This got the six mages to get into a defensive position.
"You dare mettle in the works of the Legion?!" The Overfiend, who is known as Akketer, shouted as he marched toward the six mages.
"So what if we are?" Tom questioned back with a glare at the demon, but at the same the future son of Natsu and Millianna couldn't help but grin while saying that.
"Don't provoke him Tom!" Yuge shouted at his brother, knowing that will only tick off the demon even more.
"Why? It will attack us anyway." Nagura pointed out to the future son of Natsu and Juvia. The Overfiend got annoyed that they weren't paying attention to him at the moment, as if they thought he was nothing important.
"SILENCE!" Akketer shouted as the demon fired off a large was of fel fire toward the six mages.
"Move!' Kagura shouted to the others.
Luckily all of them managed to dodge the wave of fel fire. Akketer didn't like the fact the six of them refused to simply die.
"This world… ALL worlds… shall BURN!" Akketer shouted as he summoned a large portal on the ground in the center of the large area. The demon then ran to the closest one of the heroes, who happened to be Kagura.
Akketer swung his sword down upon the dark purple hair woman. Kagura retaliated by raised Archenemy to block the fel fire covered blade. The Overfiend tried to strike the Mermaid Heel swordswoman once again only for Kagura to continue to block the demon's blade time and time again. Eventually the woman managed to get some distance from the Overfiend, which allowed Nagura to charge in to engage combat with the demon. The future daughter of Natsu and Kagura swung her sword down upon the demon's head, though Akketer managed to raise his blade to block the assault of the swordswoman. The Overfiend was too distracted blocking the woman's attacks that he didn't noticed two water nebulas being sent to him until they collided into the demon's back, courtesy of both Juvia and Yuge. This allowed Nagura a chance to get a slash in as the demon fell backwards. The demon got back up only for Millianna to run in and slash the demon's helmet covered face with her Secret Attack: Scratch Attack. Following up the sudden attack by the cat-like woman, Tom ran to the Overfiend and unleash a might fire dragon kick into the demon's stomach, making it sliding back a little.
Having enough of the six mages ganging on him, the demon then took to the air with his wings.
"Come forth servants!" Akketer shouted as he stared down at the six mages below.
As the Overfiend said those words, a small amount of fel fire balls came out of the portal that was on the ground in the middle of the room. The fel fire balls then landed onto the ground, and then multiple large Fel Guards and rather large Imps, these variant known as Fel Imps, appeared.
"It will take more than that to take us on!" Tom shouted with a giant smirk as he and the others engaged the demons on the ground.
'WITH GROUP THREE'
"Excuse us coming through!" Garad shouted as he pretty much smashed his way through a group of Fel Guards and Wrath Guards as they were in the way.
Garad, Cana, Lucy, Rose, Marcel, and Kamika are continuing to go deeper into the passage they took. Many more demons were appearing and filling the halls the deeper they go underneath the Magic Council Headquarter.
"I bet I can kill more demons that you Marcel!" Rose shouted as she struck down another Wrath Guard. Despite the situation, it was clear that the future daughter of Natsu and Cosmos was having a blast if the giant smile on her face was any indication.
"Shut up! I can kill way more demons than you can!" Marcel exclaimed with an annoyed tone at the pink haired woman as the future son of Natsu and Kamika bashed two demon heads into each other. One could hear a loud crack noise when he did that to the heads of the demons.
"Why are you guys trying to make this a competition?!" Lucy shouted at the two siblings, not understanding how they are having fun when these monsters are coming at them like crazy.
"Cheer up Lucy, it lightens the mood." Cana replied to the blonde as she threw an explosive card at a Fel guard, killing it.
"She has a point." Even Kamika agreed with the brown haired woman. The black haired woman would take anything to somewhat make the situation less terrible.
The six of them continued to make their way through any demons that blocked their path. The three future siblings present were having fun mowing down any demon that was in their way if the laugher they were admitting was any indication.
As they continued to make their way, demonic laughter was heard up ahead as screams were heard by the six mages.
"What was that?" Garad questioned as he stopped pulverizing a demon's face with his fist.
"That sounded like someone's in trouble!" Lucy exclaimed as they all heard the screams of pain once again.
"Then stop wasting time here, let's go!" Kamika told them as she started to run to the source of the screaming with the others following suit. However as they ran further ahead, the screaming died down which for some reason didn't settle well for them.
It didn't take long for them to arrive in a large area that was littered with dead bodies of the Magic Council guards. However, it was what was in the center of the room that got their attention at the moment. It looked like a large floating ball of flesh with ten tentacles hanging down. There was a plated crest covering the forehead of the floating demon as gills were seen on both sides of the creature. There were two rows of teeth that can be seen, and seven eyes, three of them being bigger than the other four. This demon was known as an Observer, or a Beholder, that are also apart of the Burning Legion. The demon was currently laughing as the corpse of Lahar, or at least what was left of him, was below the floating demon.
The Beholder, whose name is Xhu'leth, then noticed one of the bodies on the ground trying to move away from the demon. This was Doranbolt, though it was clear that he was at death's door.
"Look what we have here. Seems like you're still alive," Xhu'leth chuckled as he floated to the injured Doranbolt, who realized the demon noticed him crawling away. He managed to turn his head to see the seven eyes of the demons staring right at him as if the demon was starting directly at his soul, "I will fix that mistake. It is futile to resist."
Doranbolt simply looked up at the demon with hate before he shut his eyes shut, waiting for the Beholder above him to finish him off. The demon simply laughed at all seven of his eyes glowed once again. Before anything could happen however…
"HEY UGLY!" A voice caught the Observer's attention as the demon turned to his side only to be met with a fire dragon's roar to the face, courtesy of Marcel.
As the demon was trying to recover from the surprise attack, the six mages ran to the damaged member of the Magic Council. Rose got on her knees as he was next to him.
"Hold still." The pink haired nature loving female told the man in front of her as she put her hands over him. Immediately her hands began to glow bright green as a relaxing feeling went over Doranbolt. To his surprised, as well as Lucy's, Kamika's, and Cana's, his injuries and burns began to heal just like that. Only a few moments have passed as Rose ceased her action. Now healed, Doranbolt got back on his feet, surprised to see that nothing hurts anymore.
"H-How did you…?" He was about to ask the future daughter of Natsu and Cosmos, who also got back on her feet only for them to hear a yell of rage behind them.
They all turn around to see the angered look the Beholder had as the demon glared at the group before it.
"You dare strike me like that?! I will make you pay!" Xhu'leth shouted as he began to move toward them at a rather alarming speed.
"Stay back," Garad told Doranbolt, getting the black haired male to look at the future son of Natsu and Cana in confusion, "You need to get out of here while you can. We'll handle his monster."
"He's right; you best get going before more of these things show up." Cana told him as she agreed with her future son.
Before Doranbolt could say anything, the six mages than dashed at the Beholder who roared in rage at seeing them resist their demise. The member of the Magic Council knew he couldn't stay here, as he was too weak to face against these monsters. He then headed toward the way the six heroes came from, however stopped to look at them engaging the demon in combat.
"Don't fail." He spoke in a quiet tone, before turning back around and getting out of the room, leaving them to take care of the Observer.
All right, there's that chapter. How was that?
See you all next time, whenever that will be.
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