Now here's the next chapter. and sorry for the wait
Chapter 3: The Demonslayers and the Dark Mage
Kai stood at the base of the hill. The long grass still and unmoving as his bright blue eyes swam with unshed rage. He had tracked the request back to this very hill, where many eye-witnesses saw the culprits escape too. This is where the dark mage had made his home. Harassing the nearby towns and spreading fear through the citizens. Kai slowly walked towards the dark mage's home a blanket of suppressed rage drifting like a wake behind him. He did not hide from the windowed house and soon two figures charged from the house.
"So, which one of you are harassing the nearby towns?"Kai asked his tone wavering between cold emotion to something that bordered joy. Kai got no voiced response but instead one of the figures summoned a fireball and launched it straight at Kai. He jumped back relishing in the heat he could feel from the fireball. He let the rage in and his eyes darkened to an impossible black, mirroring the darkest regions of a cave.
Kai straightened and gauged his two opponents. One of the figures was female, her brown eyes were drawn together in defiance and her brown hair swung elegantly from it's ponytail. She wore armour that covered her chest and forearms glinting red in the bright light of the sun. The girl carried a sword in her right hand it's silver blade dancing with a tint of orange as she balanced it easily. Her left arm was curled towards her body as smoke slowly curled away from the darkened fabric that covered her wrists. Residue and the aftershock of shooting the fireball at Kai. The other figure was male. He stood stock straight with his arms crossed over his chest, giving off an air of boredom that only managed to tick Kai off even more. The man had dark calculating blue eyes that seemed to take in every aspect of his surroundings and he had spiky black hair that was almost as wild as Kai's own hair. The man wore a long white overcoat with hints of blue decorating the seams. Kai couldn't place it but something about the man before him seemed similar. Almost like he reminded Kai of someone whom he had met or knew. Brushing the confused thoughts that penetrated his mind Kai crouched into a fighting stance ready for a fight.
"Ok, I see you're not the talkative type, so let's settle this the old fashion way" Kai said summoning fire into his right hand and lightening in his left. A devilish smile spread across Kai's lips before he charged at the two waiting figures who had not moved from their original position. With a burst of speed, Kai was in front of his enemies. He attacked the female first yelling,"Fire demon smash", and slamming his fist into the girl's stomach. Fire dancing in his fists wake. The girl in red flew back with a cry of pain but managed to recover halfway through her decent and land on her feet. Her hands digging into the earth and creating a divot as she stopped herself from skidding further back.
The boy charged Kai then. His white coat flying behind him like a snowstorm as his hands came together and he shouted, "Ice make, blade". Kai could feel the temperature drop drastically as he turned quickly towards the male's attack. Kai watched as Ice formed around the man's arms crafting them into blades. The male slashed furiously at Kai never missing a beat. Kai ducked quickly and then reached out a hand and caught one of the blades in his hands fed up with the attack.
The males eyes flashed with confusion and fear. "What!?" he screamed as he watched as Kai's hands sprouted with blood. Kai's gripped the ice harder cracking it under his hands. He let the anger thrive and his iris's turned yellow with his rage. Kai sucked in a deep breath as his hands continued to crack the ice that lay in his hands. "Thunder Demon, Roar!" he yelled in the male's face watching as his roar consumed the male in white and electrocuted his body.
"Leonidas!" Kai heard the girl shout as she began to run towards them. Kai turned slowly and tossed the man named Leonidas aside. "I'll kill you!" the girl shouted as her eyes took in the crumpled form of Leonidas that lay abandoned on the side of the battlefield. She shook with rage and Kai watched as the whites of her eyes turned black and iris's turned blood red. Kai's eyes widened for a fraction of a second in shock before a dark voice caught his attention.
"Hello, weilder of Diabora" the voice said from atop the hill behind him. Kai turned slowly making sure the girl was still in his sight before addressing the man who had called him. The man was tall with piercing green eyes and short blue hair. He wore a black cloak over a blood red shirt. He looked normal and like an everyday citizen but Kai could feel the dark energy pulsing from him like a heartbeat and knew this was the mage he was sent to eliminate.
"So your the one I'm after then?" Kai said as he let his irises turn back to blue. Tucking away the rage that still boiled within him.
"The Dark Mage? Yes, but call me Chaosis" the dark mage said throwing out his arms in a dramatic effect and Kai only scoffed. "Whatever, I'll still beat you" Kai said taking on a cocky stance as he took in his new target. He didn't know what kind of mage the man was but Kai could figure that out soon enough.
"You wont if Dirk and Leonidas don't kill you first" Chaosis said his eyes falling onto a figure that lay behind Kai's back. "Wha~" Kai was able tto start before he was forced to jump back in order to avoid a flaming punch from the girl named Dirk.
"Fire Demon, Burst," Dirk shouted as she shot a jet of flame at Kai's head. Kai settled into fighting mood once again letting his irises turn yellow as he rolled away from her attack. He brought his one hand out in front of him and pointed it at the girl sending a lightening bolt right at her chest but she managed to roll out of the way of his strike.
Dirk charged at Kai. Her face contorted in rage and he could see the small beads of tears falling away from her eyes as she let her rage consume her. "Re-Equip" she shouted at a second sword appeared in her other hand this one tinged with black accents. She was to close for demon magic and he used his own re-equiping magic to match her strike. An elegant double-bladed sword appeared in his hands just in time to block both of her swords. Her face shown with rage and tears streamed down her face as she forced Kai to his knees by shear strength. Before Kai could comprehend how vulnerable his position was Dirk's blades disappeared and she spun kicking him in the stomach and sending Kai into a boulder. His strength was leaving him and Kai knew that he couldn't match Dirk's strength at the moment as he slowly got up from his crumpled position at the base of the boulder. However he found the feel of cool metal touching the edge of his neck and looked up to see the blood red eyes of Dirk. Her sword tilted an inch but before she could deliver the final strike Chaosis finally voiced his opinion on the matter.
"Dirk, bring him here" Chaosis said, his voice dark and unemotional. Dirk's face sneered in rage at the decision before roughly grabbing Kai by his shirt and throwing him at Chaosis's feet. Kai used his remaining strength to slowly pick himself up off the ground. He was a Fairy Tail Mage after all and he would not give up on his mission, even if it was his last one.
"I will never give up and I won't let you hurt anyone else," Kai said his voice unwavering and strong despite the way his body felt. His eyes demanding and strong in the green gaze of Chaosis. The dark mage only smirked and Kai's statement.
"Your right because you won't be around to stop me," Chaosis said before a black orb materialized in his hand and he thrust it into Kai's chest. Kai's chest erupted in pain at the sheer force behind the small action as he stumbled back a few beet and fell to his knees. The dark orb clinging to his chest like a parasite. Kai didn't know what it was and he couldn't process it fast enough with his mind moving so slowly. But he could feel the dark magic pulsing from it and knew that it couldn't be a good thing.
"Now, it's time for me to take Diabora from you" Chaosis said as he kneeled in front of the defeated mage. Kai was only able to say a weak "No," before Chaosis pushed his fingers into the black orb and straight into Kai's chest. Pain erupted in every nerve of Kai's body. Pain he had never experienced before. Like ever single cell in his body was being electrocuted and stabbed with a knife. A storm raged in his ears and white hot pain flashed across his vision.
"Enjoy the pain for it's the last thing you will ever feel" Chaosis shouted in Kai's face but Kai barely heard his words as the pain wiped his mind clear of thought and withered in the white mass of pure torture.
"No!" shouted someone in the distant of Kai's mind his eyes barely catching the shard of Ice that clipped Chaosis's shoulder and sent him sprawling away from Kai. Kai slumped to the ground the pain subsiding but his mind danced around the edges of unconsciousness.
Chaosis rage filled eyes turned to look at Leonidas, who was barely standing on his feet. "A foolish mistake on your part Leonidas" Chaosis said before he charged Leonidas with a black orb forming in his right hand. Kai slowly brought his head up to take in the fight before he let the darkness take him. He watched in surprise as the white of Leonidas' eyes turned black and his irises turned a light blue. Leonidas took in a large breath and Kai knew what would come next, "Crystal Demon, Roar" the man shouted as crystal shards and demonic wind shot from his mouth at Chaosis, who barely managed to jump back and avoid the attack. Leonidas charged Chaosis and shouted, "Crystal Barrage!" as he shot crystals from his hand at the dark mage.
Chaosis dodged the attacks with a graceful ease and was about to slam a black orb into Leonidas's chest but was blocked by an orange blade. Green eyes turned to Dirk in pure hatred as he growled in frustration. In a voice barely above a whisper Chaosis said to the woman in red "Dirk you will pay for your actions." She never flinched but held her ground, and Kai couldn't deny that the woman was indeed brave. Chaosis spun quickly clipping Leonidas in the stomach with his foot and sending the Ice Mage across the field.
Chaosis caught Dirk's ponytail as she tried to dodge his attack and yelled in pain as Chaosis's smile grew into something grotesque. A dark orb appeared in his hand and he thrust it into Dirk's chest. Kai's eyes widened as he watched as the girls air left her lungs and she slumped in the mad man's grasp. "For your betrayal Dirk, I will take Alpha Chaos from you!" he said in pure malaice before his hand disapeared into her red armour. Her tortourous screams echoed into the air as Kai retreated into his own mind. His last thought to himself was, 'she has one too.'
Darkness greeted Kai's gaze and he knew his time hear would be minimal if he wanted to defeat the dark mage named Chaosis. Kai knew this was a dimensional plane in his mind. A place that he could visit whenever he wanted. A prison for the terrible darkness that lurked within him. Kai stood before a massive demon that frequented the nightmares of so many people. A demon that was locked in a cage with a seal on the entrance. "Diabora, I know you want to stop this man as much as I do. Will you lend me your power" Kai asked looking up at the massive demon with no fear crossing his face, instead only determination flashed across his eyes.
"And if I don't?" the demon asked. His demonic voice deep and echoing in every crevice of Kai's mind. "You know what will happen. We will both die" Kai said his eyes never leaving the dark pits of the demons eyes.
The demon sat quietly his dark limbs crossed and unmoving as he took in the human who stood at his gates. Kai could feel Diabora's gaze gauging and calculating the benefits and thoughts of his mind. Finally the demon titled his head in the slightest and said, "Very well then, for this time only."
"Thank you Diabora," Kai said before closing his eyes once more and leaving the prison within his mind.
When Kai opened his eyes once more only a few seconds has passed of Dirk's torture. Kai's eyes were no longer black the white of his eyes returning to their natural state, but his eyes were not blue but a brilliant gold. "Chaosis!" Kai shouted his voice ringing with demonic energy and power. The dark mage took his hand out of Dirk's chest and turned to Kai with a bored look on his face before dropping Dirk in a heap at his feet.
"And what do you want," Chaosis said his voice skeptical and mocking as he took in Kai's battered body and white eyes.
"You will pay the ultimate price for harming my kin" Kai said his voice ringing with malice and demonic energy sending a chill through the air. Kai flew at Chaosis before the dark mage could even move. Chaosis's face twisted into surprise as Kai brought back his fist that was crackling with lightening.
"Maybe next time demon" Chaosis said as Kai was inches away from him. Kai watched in ager as the dark mage's entire body became surrounded in darkness and he disappeared from sight. Kai slammed his fist into the ground where Chaosis had been just moments ago. The ground rippled below him and created a devastating crater. His golden eyes looked skyward and Kai roared in anger.
As the energy died down and the electricity that swam around him dissipated into the air Kai's irises slowly turned back to their original colour of blue. He got up slowly and looked at the place where the dark mage had once stood. His was disgusted with himself. He couldn't even take down a dark mage. He needed more practice. He needed to bring up his strength and control so he could protect the guild. In the state he was in Kai knew he had a while to go till he would be on par with the one's he had lost. Fairy Tail, Kai thought. His new family. They would help him gain the control he needed. Kai's blue eyes tracked back to Leonidas, who was using some sort of healing magic on Dirk's chest. Kai slowly made his way over to them his mind working a mile a minute.
"What do you want?" growled Leonidas as he saw Kai standing beside them.
"I want to offer you something that Chaosis couldn't give to you Leonidas" Kai said wondering if his conclusion was a wise one.
"What?" growled Leonidas as finished the last bit of healing magic on the wound at Dirk's chest. "A place were you are wanted" Kai said holding a hand out for Leonidas who turned and looked at Kai with a skeptical and almost saddened look crossing his face.
"Why would you want us, after what we just did to you?" Leonidas said as he looked down at Dirk once more, his eyes far away and clouded with an emotion Kai couldn't place. But he could hear the frustration in his voice. Kai knew what they were. Demonslayers with a darkness trapped in their minds. It was a hard world and not many people could understand what Leonidas and Dirk were going through, but Kai knew and he wanted them to know they weren't the only ones.
"Well maybe because I'm a nice guy and I'm just like you. A demon lives within me and, we demonslayers have stick together" Kai said as he offered Leonidas his hand once more. The man only gazed at Kai with calculating eyes before sighing. Kai could see the weight lift from the man's chest as he took Kai's hand and stood up and brushed a hand through his dark locks.
"Alright then" Leonidas said looking at Kai once more, and Kai offered him a friendly smile which the man returned."So what's your name?" Kai asked as he took he located his pack and took out some water and a few medical supplies to patch up the bruising and cuts he had received during the match. He offered some to Leonidas who accepted them gratefully.
"My name's Leonidas Fullbuster" Leonidas said taking the water from Kai's outstretched hand.
"F-f-Fullbuster!?" Kai said his face morphing into shock as he stared wide-eyed at the man before him.
"Yep" Leonidas said nonchalantly as he took a swig from the water and sighed in satisfaction before taking a medical strip and wrapping it around Dirk's head.
"Your Gray's brother" Kai stated his eyes still wide in disbelief.
"You know my brother, where is he?" Leonidas said with a smile on his face and desperation in his voice. Kai's eyes narrowed and unwanted rage and sadness bubbled up in his chest as he looked away from Leonidas, his eyes finding the ground.
"I'm sorry he's dead. He died with many others from his guild on Tenrou Island," Kai said his voice laced with the sadness and pain. He knew the pain that came with that news and he didn't want to be the one to deliver it but Leonidas had a right to know.
"What?... No not Gray," Leonidas said his voice dripping with denial and grief at the news, not quite believing what Kai had just said.
"I'm sorry it's true. But you can honour his memory by joining his guild, Fairy Tail. I think he would want that." Kai said believing in every word that left his mouth. Gray and his family had brought Kai into their guild and Kai could do the same with Gray's brother, it seemed right somehow. That Kai's first mission had brought him to Gray's brother it seemed like it was fate.
"I'll do it, for my brother" Leonidas said his head hung low and his hand gripping something that was hanging on a pendant around his neck. A trinket that had gone unnoticed by Kai until that moment.
"What about her?" Kai said after a long moment of silence indicating Dirk who lay asleep next them. Her even breathing slowly moving the healed wound on her chest.
"She goes where ever I go so she will be okay with it," Leonidas said his hand reaching out and gently landing on her forehead. Kai could only give a knowing smile at the small gesture as he stood up and picked the girl up his arms.
"Ok then, Well come on time to head back to Fairy Tail!" Kai said smiling down at his new friend Leonidas, ready to make their way back their new home.
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