Chapter 57: If you expect nothing, you will never be disappointed

A/N: So I said tentative schedule right? Hahahaha, sorry guys I had a lot of stuff happening yesterday so I was not able to do any writing. But here we go! First shout out time! Today we have nicrocks18 who favorited and followed the story! And of course the constant shout out, sashaXmafuyuFOREVER for the review! Now, on with the story! ENJOY!

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Start of Battles (Gōsuto POV)

I land on the roof and look at Gōsuto and who says, "First one to finish their fight gets the loser as a servant for a whole day!"

"OH, you are so on!" I yelled back and we both looked at the lacrima, seeing that our opponents were in the rooms adjacent of each other.

We get into a sprinting position and count out, "THREE, TWO, ONE…GO!" We both take off sprinting and he yells, "Light Speed!" and he speeds away from me and I yell at him, "HEY! No fair! You can go at the speed of light! Fuck you!" I ran a little faster and reach my hole soon after, jumping down immediately and turning so I begin to nosedive towards the ground. 'Well, I get a round two at these fools. They wasted my time with them last time so I don't expect much if anything from them. Yeah no, I don't expect anything, nothing really is the word here. Why am I fighting them again? Huh, no clue huh. Oh well, let's get this over with.'

I land creating a massive crater in the ground, and catching the attention of the Fernandes couple. I stand up and look at them, and ask them, "Do you remember my name? Awww, where is the little girl? She too scared to fight again?"

The red-head, Erza, glares at me and says with so much hate dripping out of her voice I would have though I killed her puppy or something, "You. I remember who you are, but not your name, you bastard. And as for Wendy, I will never forgive for what you have put her through!" She then requips into what I know to be her purgatory armor and she charges at me faster than I had anticipated of her. I dodge and smirk, liking the progress I see from her.

"The name's Gōsuto, and what exactly did I do to this Wendy? Did I really mess her up that badly?" I ask annoyingly, trying to make her even angrier than before and see all the progress she had made. She keeps swinging her massive sword and pushes me back with the size of her sword and her improved speed. Then Jellal joins the action and swings at the back of my head, but I sensed him coming and dodged his fist.

As soon I did I began my attack, I kicked backwards and nailed him in the gut sending stumbling backwards. Then I brought my hand up and caught the sword that Erza swung at me and pulled it towards me. This caused her to stumble forward where I punched her in the gut. Then as she stumbled and staggered to the floor where I punched her in the jaw. Her head snapped away from my fist and she fell to the ground. I smirked at how weak she still was, no longer disappointed in the famous Titania as I expected nothing from her.

I look at her and then I remember about the girl, as I feel somewhat guilty for what happened to her, 'I may have only shown them my dick, fighter side of me, but I do have a heart.' So I ask her again, this time much more seriously, "What happened to the girl that makes you hate me so much?"

She stood and requiped into her Heaven's Wheel Armor, and says, "She left. She had to leave, she couldn't walk outside without seeing what scared her the most. The shadows. Whenever she saw one, she would start screaming at it, yelling for YOU not hurt her anymore and to leave her alone. She was placed into a mental institution in Crocus, where her progress is slow. She may never be able to go outside again, all thanks to YOU. So, you tell me why I hate you so much."

I felt my heart sink and never had felt so guilty about anything in my entire life. 'What have I done? I knew I went too far before but I never thought I went that far. A mental institution patient at her age? Damn, what have I done, to someone so young and with so much potential to heal, I left her scarred and now useless to society. What do I do…?' As I thought about it while I allowed my guilt to show on my face and I said quietly, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I know this will never fix what I did, but I had to say this. Know that I will live with the guilt of my horrendous act forever, but that must finish this. So, I will grant you guys a quick…"

I never finished my apology as suddenly Erza started yelling like she saw her baby die or something, then she yelled to her husband, "Jellal! It's happening again! Help! I can's see!" I looked at her concerned for a moment before I remember that she temporarily lost all five of her sense when she fought Kyouka.

"ERZA! I'm right here! ERZA! LOOK AT ME!" Jellal yelled but it was to no avail, she couldn't hear him she was having an episode right now. 'Wow. This guild has some messed up people. Nena, Esoj, and Natsu are the only people who are fighting normal people anymore. Well, I guess since this is only going to get more awkward if I stay here, I'll just end this now.'

I look at them and take a deep breath. I begin to gather more magical energy than usual for an attack and then yell at them, no actual words or emotion behind, just a yell as I feel my body change. I can feel the shadows around me begin to cover me in a cloak, and soon enough I look like a shadow. A living breathing shadow that could kill you with just a look, shadow demon phase one.

I see Jellal looking at me like I had just grown a second head or something so I ask, "What? You see something wrong with me?"

He just keeps looking at me and I tell that Erza regains her sight and the rest of her senses as she looks at me with the same face and asks, "Are you a demon?"

"Yes! Very good! Your experiences with Tartarus have really given you an insight into how to tell who's a demon and who isn't! But in reality I'm only a half demon, created by Tartarus's demon machines. I hope you understand just how fucked you guys are, because we, my friend Rai and I, broke out of Tartarus as the only survivors of an experiment, to see just how powerful of a demon they could make from an already powerful mage such as ourselves. Well, good night, sweet dreams." I charged at them so much faster compared to how fast they were going that they didn't even see me. I reached them and immediately put my hand in front of Jellal and yelled, "Shadow Beam!" A beam came from the shadows of my hand and hit Jellal square in the chest, sending him flying away from me. I the turned to Erza who had requiped into her Nakagami Armor and tried to attack me. I grabbed the spear in her hands as she tried to strike me and I pull it away from her, throwing it away from where we were.

She looks at me surprised that my body, which was all magic right now as I had turned it into shadows. "I told you the last time, your special armor is not gonna work on me, I am not comprised of normal magic, I AM A DEMON! My magic is almost supernatural in nature, your special armor is useless." I grab her by the throat and squeeze a bit, and lift her up. I look her in the eyes, seeing how disappointed in herself she was, and I think, 'You should never expect anything, you won't get disappointed that way.' Then I throw her into the ground back first, and as she lands she bounces back up a bit. I imbue my fist with shadows, whispering, "Shadow Hammer." my fist then comes down and hits her in the face, breaking her nose and knocking her out cold.

I sigh as I stand up and see that Jellal is in the wall, his feet sticking out from it and he is not moving too much but is definitely alive. I walk out of the room, not in the slightest bit disappointed by how boring that was as my saying held true. 'No expectations, no need for disappointment, I just hope Rai didn't finish already or else I will never hear the end of this.'

I entered Rai's room and saw that he was still fighting Lyon but saw that he was finishing up. He pulled Lyon towards himself and elbowed him in the head, sending Lyon straight into the ground. Rai jumped up and yelled, "Light Wings!" and his wings appeared, allowing him to climb higher than he was before when he jumped, giving him room for his finishing spell. After he felt he was probably high enough, he stopped flying upwards and put both of his hands out in front of himself, and gathered more magical power than usual. After he thought he had enough I yelled, "Secret Light Technique: LIGHT PILLAR!" and a circle formed beneath Lyon. Then a massive pillar of light came from where Lyon was, above of Lyon's head, and crashed down on him, crushing him in the face as he had turned around to look up at Rai.

After a moment more, the attack ended and he flew down to where Lyon was and saw that he was indeed unconscious. Rai sighed and went to walk out of the room when he heard me yell, "Pow! Right in the kisser! Hahaha, a little slow there, my servant." He looked and saw I was standing at the exit and his jaw dropped at least twenty feet.

"WHAT?! HOW ARE YOU DONE ALREADY?" he asked, yelling at me as I just kept on laughing at him.

"Well, even though I had two I didn't waste any time. I went demon mode on them from the start and they never stood a chance. You probably could have won though, if you didn't let him try and hit you for the past five minutes, I mean honestly you just let him try and hit you." I said as we walked out of the rooks we were in and went outside, making our way topside like we were supposed to.

"What? I just wanted him to feel better since he got one-shotted last time he fought with Nena. I mean, did you see those scars, they were nasty! Man she really did a number on him. Did you know he was Ur's pupil though? She was one of our first contracts back in the day, and one of the few we never collected on." He said and I nodded my head at the memory, one of the few times we failed as a team.

"Yeah, but thinking about it, we were fifteen when we took that job, and not nearly as strong as we are now, I doubt we could have taken her." I said and we had to nod in agreement, 'She was an extremely powerful mage back then, I doubt any simple bounty hunter could have taken her down.' Then I looked at him and said, "But as for Lyon, he was ugly as you man. Geez, and I thought Tsume was crazy blind. He is one ugly mother fucker. How can girls still swoon over him?"

"Because he's a guild mage who is famous, fame always precedes beauty for some reason." He said and I nodded, then started laughing.

"I guess that's why it took so long to get married huh?" I said and he agreed, and was laughing with him until we reached the roof.

Then we saw Lucy run up towards us and say very quickly, almost a mumble, "Rai and Gōsuto! I need your help!"

We stop laughing after hearing the panic in her voice, and I ask, "What's wrong?"

So she then tells us, "Rogue was a traitor! A double agent! He was never really on our side and now he's going to Naito with Sting in tow. He's going after my little Hoshi! I need you two to follow them and stop them! I have to stay here and help Juvia, please I need your..."

We never let her finish her plea for help as we both looked at each other and Rai said, "Say no more. Our families are there too you know. We will leave immediately, you still have that connected shadow dimension?"

I nodded and said, "Yeah, we can be there in an instant, let's go!" We looked at each her and nodded as she fought back the tears of gratitude that threatened to leak out of her eyes, and I reassured her, "Don't worry! We won't let them touch Hoshi! Rai grab on!"

Rai grabbed onto my shoulder and a second later we were gone, into my shadow dimensions. 'I just hope we can get there soon, before them. Or else it's all too late, for everyone. Hold on Mei!'

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A/N: Whew. That was fun! I feel bad doing this to Wendy, but I wanted to show that Gōsuto does indeed have a soul so I made him feel bad for what he did to her. And as for Erza I don't really know why but I really don't like how she is so powerful in the main series. I guess because she always just uses her "Power of Friendship" to get a power boost instead of actually being talented, so I find her up grades as fan service. And I am not a hug fan of fan service as I feel it detracts from the story's plot. Sorry for jumping on my soap box here, but I just wanted to say that, so Remember! READ AND REVIEW, OR FAVORITE OR FOLLOW EVEN IF YOU SO PLEASE! ADIOS!