Hello again everyone, it's me once more with another chapter for you all to either like or hate. In this one, our heroes are about to see that they just can't seem to catch a break.
Must suck being the good guys sometimes don't you all think?
Anyway, enjoy, or not, I don't care you all have your opinions.
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Chapter Fifty Six: Provocation
"Ah… that hit the spot!" Natsu spoke happily after finishing up his third plate of food. Some of the future siblings nodded or made a noise in agreement as they too finished up eating their meals.
After the others stopped arguing about whether horses should be eaten for food or not, the large group found themselves a nice restaurant to eat at to sate their hunger. Many of them were relived to eat something other than fish, since that's all they had when they camped in the forest. They would never understand how Happy could keep eating fish without getting sick of having the same thing over and over again.
"Yeah, that was refreshing." Kinana agreed with the pink haired male, who simply grinned in response.
"Now I'm tired." Sans told the others with a naturally smile on his face, getting a few of his brothers and sisters to look at the red haired male as if he lost his mind.
"It's not even noon yet!" Nagura shouted in annoyance as she pointed at a nearby clock in the restaurant to prove her point, "How on Earthland can you be tired already?"
"Can't help it, I just get tired sometimes when I'm full." Sans simply answered the future daughter of Natsu and Kagura, not at all bothered by her annoyance.
"All right, calm down you all." Mira told the two future siblings with a smile on her face. She couldn't help but find the way they act refreshing with all the problems they were all having lately.
"This was really good," Hara spoke up with a smile, an idea forming in her head, "Maybe I should try making this soon-."
"NO!" All the other future brothers and sisters of Hara's exclaimed, not even letting her finish her sentence. This naturally got on the future daughter of Natsu and Mirajane's nerves.
"What? I would be fantastic." She defended herself to them.
"Hara," Ruby started to tell her sister, "You suck at cooking like how Garad sucks at fishing." The future daughter of Natsu and Meredy stated to her.
"Hey!" Garad interrupted the pink haired female, "I'm not that bad at fishing." He responded to her.
"Yes you are. Do we need to look back yesterday to prove our point?" Daron reminded him with a smirk on his face, though it was hard to tell due to his helmet.
"Shut up you!" The future son of Natsu and Cana exclaimed back at him with a tick mark on his forehead.
Everyone else couldn't help but have sweat drop from their argument. It was both amusing and annoying, so it pretty much balances it out. Asuka wasn't paying attention though; she was too busy messing with the coloring menu that she was giving due to being a tiny child.
Before anyone else could interrupt the arguing… all of a sudden they, as well as everyone else in the restaurant suddenly heard what sounded like screaming?
"Huh?" nearly all of them questioned in confusion, before they all looked through the windows of the building and saw many people running.
"What's going on?" Juvia questioned, not understand why they were seeing people running and screaming.
Naturally, worrying that something terrible was happening, the large group of heroes then bolted up from their seats and proceeded to run out of the restaurant to see what was going on.
Their answer came to them in the form of an explosion, getting them all to turn their heads to the direction people were running from. It was clear the town was under siege. What was attacking them though, they didn't know.
"Oh you got to be kidding me!" Tom shouted in annoyance and anger. Why is it that when things seemed to calm down, something like this happens?
"Come on!" Erza started to shout, getting all of their attention as they looked at the red haired S-Class of Fairy Tail, "We need to stop whatever is attacking the to-!"
Before she could finish her words though, they were all interrupted by a Vilefiend bursting through a nearby building… before said creature then snatch Wendy by the leg with its jaw before running off with her through more buildings, both bringing it and Wendy out of the others sight, and getting the blue haired Sky Dragon Slayer to yell in pain and from the sudden action.
"WENDY!" Everyone shouted out in shock and horror from what just transpired.
Back to the blue haired girl and hound-like demon, the Vilefiend continued to smash its way through building after building, all while keeping its jaw shut down tight on Wendy's leg. If that wasn't bad enough, the demon was also shaking Wendy around like a rag doll, bringing more pain to the blue haired girl.
"Let me go!" Wendy managed to shouted, despite the pain and predicament she was in. She then attempted to fire off a Sky Dragon Roar at the creature point blank range, however due to the creature constantly moving as well as Wendy unable to stay still due to being dragged around like a stuff animal to a dog, the blue haired girl was unable to hit the Vielfiend, instead hitting the buildings they were smashing through.
Eventually though, the two arrived in a clearing of the town, where only rubble remained where buildings once stood. The Vilefiend then let go of Wendy, throwing her onto the ground, getting her to cry from the pain.
"Ow…" Wendy couldn't help but say, before looking at her right leg where the hound-like demon chomped down to hold her. It was all bloody and torn, and she could feel that her leg was just flat out broken.
She couldn't help but panic. She couldn't move her leg due to its current state, and the demon was growling at her, as if it was waiting for the permission to kill her. She was basically a sitting duck. Before Wendy could question or act…
"Ah… Wendy Marvell, how nice of you to join us." Another voice was heard to the blue haired girl of Fairy Tail.
Wendy turned her head around only for a hand to grab onto her neck, lifting her up from the ground. She was then met with the smirking face of the Eredar Osmoas, who couldn't help but laugh at the younger girl's predicament.
"Don't worry little girl, I won't waist my time on you. I brought you here for another reason." Osmoas stated, tightening his hold on her neck, getting Wendy to have a harder time to breathe, as she tried to get out of the Eredar's grip to no valid.
Without warning though, Osmoas then brought his other hand to her stomach, before Wendy suddenly felt a rush of pain fill her whole body, causing her to cry from the pain she felt. The Eredar simply smirked once again as he finished pulled out a rather white colored ball of energy from the Sky Dragon Slayer's body. Osmoas smiled wickedly as he dropped Wendy back on the ground, which wasn't exactly pain-free since her broken leg took the force of her fall, thus making her once again let out a noise of pain as he was now breathing rather hard.
"There we go," Osmoas spoke with delight as he held the white ball of energy, making sure the essence wouldn't escape from his grasp. The demon then enveloped the ball of white energy with Fel Magic, making it disappear from his hand. Once that was done, he then turned his attention back to the injured blue haired girl, "Thank you for your cooperation. Now if you excuse me, I have a rebellious demon to kill." The Eredar stated before walking away from the rubble area of the town.
Once he was out of sight, Wendy then heard a growl as she slowly turned her head, eyes widened in fear as she saw the Vilefiend slowly walking toward her once again, intend on making a meal out of the blue haired Sky Dragon Slayer.
'How do I get out of this?!' Wendy thought to herself in worry and fear. Due to her broken leg, she couldn't even move, let alone fight properly. She got more frantic as the hound-like demon got closer to her.
But then, out of nowhere, a black colored wind breath attack slammed into the Vilefiend, getting it to crash into a nearby pile of rubble. This got Wendy to look at the source of the attack only to smile with joy and relief that she saw Chelia and Romeo running to her.
"Wendy!" They both called out to her in worry, before rushing over to her.
"Chelia! Romeo!" The blue haired girl shouted happily, as she glad that they found her just in time. The pink haired girl and dark purple haired boy managed to arrive to her, only to see the state her leg was in.
"What did that thing do to you?!" Romeo shouted in worry and anger, the anger being toward the demon creature that did this.
"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Wendy tried to assure them as Chelia helped her up, holding on to her so she wouldn't fall or put pressure on her broken leg. However they didn't believe one word of that if the looks of it was any indication.
Before they could say anything else though, a roar got their attention as they saw the Vilefiend getting back up. It proceeded to glare at the three younger mages before it began to walk toward them. Without thinking too much, Romeo spoke up.
"Chelia," The younger Fire Mage started to say, getting the Sky God Slayer to look at the dark purple haired male, "Get Wendy to safety. I'll slow this thing down." He told her without keeping his eyes off the demonic hound-like thing. Both the Slayer Mages couldn't help but widen their eyes in surprised by his words.
"Romeo! You can't hold off that thing by yourself! It's too dangerous!" Chelia exclaimed at him.
"Now's not the time to argue, just get Wendy out of here!" Romeo responded back to the pink haired Lamia Scale member.
Before Chelia or Wendy could say anything else, Romeo bolted toward the Vielfiend, as the demon then picked up the pace and ran toward the coming young Fire Mage. Chelia knew that she had to get Wendy somewhere to safe, but it didn't make the feeling of guilt for leaving Romeo alone to fight this thing any better.
"…Come on Wendy," Chelia told her, getting Wendy to look at the pink haired girl, "I'll get you out of here."
With one more look at Romeo, who had now engaged conflict with the Vilefiend, the two then headed off, with Chelia making sure to Wendy's broken leg didn't receive any more damage.
'BACK WITH THE OTHERS'
"Out of our way!" Natsu shouted as he slammed his fist into another of the mutated dark mage, slamming the dark mage into the ground with a loud crack as his fist came into contact with the enemy's head. Everyone else was behind him, fending off the wave of the demonic corrupted dark mages. A few though, like Kinana, Hisui, Asuka, Layla, Lucy, Rose, and Cosmos were elsewhere, trying to help the town's people to safety outside the town that became a battlefield.
"I hope Chelia and Romeo managed to find Wendy from that creature." Daron stated as he sliced the head of another dark mage off with his blade.
"Don't worry, I'm sure they have already found her and bringing her back to the others." Lisanna told her future son, confident that the three were alright.
Before anyone could say anything else, a flash of Fel Fire appeared in front of the group and the dark mages, before it died down to reveal Osmoas. This got the corrupted dark mages to roar in excitement, glad to see the Eredar coming to join the fray.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" The Eredar questioned as all of them were now focus on the demon before them, "If it isn't E.N.D and the brats."
"Of course the Legion is behind this." Tiron muttered to himself in anger. Can't these demons give them a break once in a while?
"I'm guessing you're the one leading this attack?" Irene questioned the Eredar, who simply laughed at her question.
"Of course, and as you can see, the dark guild you see here was kind enough to aid me in this assault. Now, how about you all do yourself a favor and die before my might?" Osmoas told them with a grin.
"We will never fall to you demon!" Natsu shouted back at Osmoas.
"That's right!" Angelica joined in as she glared at the demon, "No matter what you do, we will survive! As long as we are united and have faith on our side, you will never succeed!" She finished with a confident smile, getting the others to smile faintly as well by her words.
Osmoas then burst out laughing, confusing the group of heroes before the Eredar spoke once again.
"Did faith save your friend?" Osmoas started to say, and went on before anyone else could speak up, "Was it faith that was in Lucas's eyes when they closed for the final time? Or did they hold only hatred... for the woman who abandoned him?" He finished with a grin plastered on his face.
Angelica's eyes widen from the demons words, as well as her blood ran cold. Natsu and the others, aside from the future siblings, were confused though.
"Angelica-." Yukino was about to speak up to her…
…Only for Angelica to enter her Havoc Demon Form.
With a roar of fury, and ignoring the others calling out to her, she charged toward Osmoas, blind rage filling her being as she closed in on the Eredar. She will make him pay for daring to talk about Lucas like that! The demon will pay in blood!
There we go, chapter done. In case you all are wondering what Osmoas pulled out of Wendy, you'll find that you later. *Laughs evilly*
See you all next time, whenever that will be.