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Chapter Forty: Against the Inquisitor
"Move!" Sans shouted as he unleashed another fel beam from one of his fel fire dragon heads he summoned on a group of demons in front.
The red haired male was getting agitated that he didn't find his parents yet. Just how big was this place anyway? Who would need a place this huge anyway? The Magic Council weren't the royalty or a place to hold an army, so why make it so big? The future son of Natsu and Irene simply gritted his teeth in annoyance as he clear another batch of Imps that were in his way.
Eventually, after a few more minutes, the red haired hybrid managed to enter a rather large opening. However he was surprised to see a rather large structure with a face of some kind a bit away from him.
"What the heck is that?" He questioned to himself as he saw the fel-corrupted Face. However a demonic laughter got his attention as he looked to see three large demons standing in front of the massive device and in front of what Sans guessed was a magic panel.
He spotted a Fel Lord on the left side of the magic panel, a Doomguard on the right side, and in the center was an Inquisitor demon. The three demons were looking at the red head with grins.
"Well… if it isn't the brat of E.N.D and Irene." Inquisitor Zeraful spoke with a chuckle.
"Am I supposed to know you or something?" Sans questioned back as he glared at the demon in front of him, all while getting into a defensive position.
"Not personally no, but you should know we remember everyone who dares to get in our way," Zeraful spoke and the Fel Lord and the Doomguard got their weapons ready, "I would fight you myself, but I'm already waiting for my opponents to arrive. So instead…," The Inquisitor demon then pointed at Sans, "Thar'dul! Gavaror! Destroy him!" Zeraful commanded the Fel Lord, who was Thar'dul, and the Doomguard, who was Gavaror.
"Two against one? That doesn't seem fair…," Sans spoke as he closed his eyes. However the next moment he opened them up to reveal both of his eyes completely black, "…For you at least."
Gavaror simply took to the air and began to unleash shadow bolts at Sans, while Thar'dul simply charged in with his axe. The red haired male simply jumped into the air as he summoned two fel fire dragon heads and commanded them to go after the Doomguard. As that happened, Sans then dashed right at Thar'dul and slammed the demon's head with his leg. This got the Fel Lord to get dizzy for a moment as Sans landed back on the ground. The two fel fire dragon heads got close to Gavaror and unleashed a fel beam at the demon. Due to his size, the demon couldn't dodge in time as he let out a yell of pain as smoke covered him. Sans rushed in at Thar'dul once again only to stop as the Fel Lord roared and slammed his axe right next to the red haired male as he dodge the attack. Sans was about to say something until a bunch of shadow bolts came out of the smoke where Gavaror was and headed right to the hybrid. Luckily Sans managed to dodge all the bolts.
As Sans engaged the two demons in combat, Zeraful simply observe the fight from his spot.
"Heh… He may be fast, but that alone won't be enough if the brat wants to survive." Zeraful then laughed.
However, an explosion was heard from the other end of the area. The Inquisitor demon turned to see Wendy, Chelia, and Romeo coming through the hole they blasted to get in. It didn't seem like the three young mages noticed the demons or Sans yet however.
"What the… what is that?" Chelia spoke as she noticed the fel-corrupted Face device. This got the other two mages to notice the large structure as well.
"Is that a face?" Romeo questioned as he looked on at the machine before them. T rather disturbed the young mage from seeing the horrified looking face on the device.
"Why is something like that doing down here?" Wendy also asked as the blue haired dragon slayer looked at the device.
It was right there they noticed the other occupants in the large section of the cavern. The three young mages noticed Sans in combat against two large demons, and they saw another one simply floating next to a magic panel.
"Ah… it seems like you finally noticed," Zeraful spoke as he made his way to the three young wizards. The Inquisitor then look at Face as he spoke again, "Isn't it beautiful? I think the new look fits it don't you think?" The demon asked as he turned to look at the young mages with a grin.
"What are you supposed to be?" Romeo questioned as he, Wendy, and Chelia got into a fighting position.
"I am Inquisitor Zeraful. You could say I'm the one who's leading this invasion on this town." Zeraful introduced himself.
"You're going to pay for what you did then!" Chelia exclaimed as she and the two Fairy Tail mages prepared to charge at the demon.
"Do you want to know what Face does?" Zeraful started to speak, getting their attention and confusion. The Inquisitor simply laughed at their faces, "You see mortals the device you see before you is known as Face. It was created by your Magic Council to wipe out the magic on the Ishgar continent if needed." The demon told them.
"Wipe out magic?" Wendy questioned as she glared at the demon once more, "Why would the Magic Council have something like that?"
"Heh, I guess you could say it might have something to do with Alvarez. The kingdom that Brandish and Irene are from; and the same empire that Zeref rules over. If their empire ever attempted to attack the continent, the Magic Council would use Face to rid of their magic. However… we found another use for the device," Zeraful explained as he smirked at the three young mages, "With a few adjustments, we managed to change Face's original design. Once it is activated, magic won't disappear but instead… Face will detonate the magic in the air, thus unleashing a massive cataclysm that will destroy all life on the continent." The Inquisitor demon then laughed at the thought of that.
Wendy, Chelia, and Romeo were shocked by what they heard. These monsters are willing to cause something like that to the millions of lives that live here?! Anger filled the three young wizards as they powered up their magic.
"We won't let you!" All three of them shouted as they charged at the Inquisitor demon. Zeraful simply grin as he waited for the mages to get close.
"Yes… come mortals… and die!" The demon shouted as he blocked a kick from Romeo with his left arm.
Wendy unleashed a Sky Dragon Roar at the demon, only for one of the floating eyes around him to unleash a fel beam to counter the attack. This caused smoke to form, which blocked the blue haired girl's sight of the eye. Luckily she noticed another beam of fel shooting out of the smoke and dodged it. Chelia attempted to attack the Inquisitor from behind with a Sky God's Bellow as the demon was engage with fighting Romeo. The second and third floating eyes simply got in front of the attack and fired off fel beams to block the attack. Romeo tried to get a hit on the demon with his fire powered fists; however the Inquisitor simply blocked the attacks. However Zeraful was having problems trying to get a hit on the young fire mage as well, as Romeo simply block the hits as well. Romeo then noticed the sudden appearance of ice underneath him, as the Inquisitor began to cast an ice attack of sorts. Luckily the young mage managed to dodge the attack as a spike of ice shot out of the ground where Romeo was standing. Chelia tried to get in close to the distracted Inquisitor, but the two floating eyes were trailing her, firing off fel beam after beam at the young pink haired sky god slayer. The same thing was happening to Wendy as well. The one floating eye was trying to strike at her with its own beam of fel energy.
Romeo then tried get another hit on as he swung his fist enveloped in Blue Fire at the Inquisitor demon, who managed to dodge. However Zeraful then saw an opening to strike as the young mage went pass him, allowing Romeo's back to be exposed to attack. Due to the demon's longer and sharper fingers, the demon simply clawed at the boy's back. The dark purple hair male cried out in pain as the claws slashed deep into his back, drawing blood.
"Now be gone with you!" Zeraful exclaimed as he fired off a large shadow bolt at the damaged wizard. However, despite the bleeding slashes on his back, Romeo managed to get back up and dodge the attack, "Hmph… you mortals just refuse to accept your fate."
Romeo only glared at the demon as he charged in to attack once again. As Zeraful blocked the punches Romeo assaulted him with, the Inquisitor looked to see his eyes giving the two slayers trouble. He looked to see Thar'dul and Gavaror still fighting against Sans, though the demon was please to see the red haired male was having trouble fending them off. Zeraful was about to continue the fight, until the demon then felt a presence heading to the section they were all in.
'Ah, it seems that Irene will be the first of the rest to arrive. I also sense Erza trailing her. E.N.D and the rest must be still dealing with the rest of my forces.' Zeraful thought as he launched a shadow bolt toward Romeo, who couldn't dodge it as the attack sent him flying to the ground.
The Inqisitor simply smirk as he moved to the side to dodge a Sky Dragon Fist, courtesy of Wendy as she managed to get to the demon despite the floating eyes around them. Zeraful also noticed a Sky God Bellow launched at him and simply moved to dodge it as well. The demon then blocked a punch from Chelia.
"It appears that I don't have time for you brats myself," Zeraful spoke as he threw Chelia at Wendy, which caused them to crash into the ground near Romeo. The Inquisitor then turned to where Thar'dul and Gavaror were fighting Sans, "Thar'dul! Handle these brats! I must prepare for more guests to arrive!"
The Fel Lord looked to see the Inquisitor giving him an order. The demon simply grinned as he began to head where the two slayers and the fire mage were. This got Sans's attention as he noticed the Fel Lord heading to the other three. This also made him aware that the young mages were present as well. Before Sans could do anything however, Gavaror managed to get a hold on the red haired male's neck as began to take to the air.
"Oh no you don't mortal!" The Doomguard exclaimed as the demon then flew toward the roof over the Face device.
The next thing Sans knew he and the Doomguard crashed through the rood as they were now back in the town Era above the Magic Council Headquarter cavern. Gavaror then chucked the future son of Natsu and Irene into a nearby building.
"Hah! Such a small and fragile body!" Gavaror mocked with a grin as he was still in the air.
Sans managed to get back up from the wreckage of the building he was thrown into. He look around to see no other demons around. That must mean the others must have cleared out the town. This gave him more room to let out more power.
"I'll make you eat your words!" Sans shouted as his left eye began to glow as his other eye remained pitched black.
Sans then launched himself at the Doomguard once again, intending on putting an end to this fight and get back to the others.
Back in the ground below, Wendy, Chelia, and Romeo managed top get back on their feet as they saw Zeraful simply leaving the three.
"Where do you think you're going?!" Romeo shouted as he and the other two prepared to go after the Inqisitor. However Wendy then noticed the Fel Lord charging after them.
"Look out!" The blue haired girl shouted as she managed to push Romeo and herself out of the way as Thar'dul swung his axe. Chelia also managed to get out of the way as the demon swung his axe at the pink haired girl.
"Hah! You insects won't be a problem to finish off!" Thar'dul spoke with confidence as he ran at the three mages once again.
Wendy, Romeo, and Chelia managed to get back up, and despite any injuries they currently have, they also charged at the Fel Lord with determination. They won't let the demon beat them.
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