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Chapter 3:
The sword in the ground
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It has been two days since Lucy came to Britannia and meet Elizabeth, Hawk and Meliodas. Since that time Lucy and Elizabeth have become good friends telling each other about their worlds. Currently they were sitting in the bar as Hawk mama was walking to their next destination. During this time Elizabeth had changed out of that one-piece suit and into something else. Currently she was wearing a pink button shirt that end above her belly button with a black ribbon tied at the collar and a dark mini shirt being held up by a pink belt, and for some reason she wore a black stocking on her left leg with black-white heels.
When Meliodas first brought Elizabeth her new clothes both Lucy and Hawk called him a pervert, but Meliodas said it was the bars uniform and that he only had one at the moment. Lucy offered Elizabeth new clothes to wear, but Elizabeth told her she was ok with these clothes for now.
"Amazing!" Said Elizabeth as she listened to Lucy telling her about her team. "You know three people raised by dragons."
"Yeah, but to be honest at first I thought they were lying or mistaken." Lucy told her as she then held herself in shock and fear. "But after seeing Acnologia I believe them now."
Elizabeth watched as Lucy was so badly shaken by mentioning this dragon. "Was it that terrifying?" She asked trying to understand how bad it was.
"It was." Lucy told her as she regained her composure. "It took everything we threw at it like it was nothing. And when it truly attacked us we knew there was nothing we could do. So, we just held hands and awaited our fates together."
Elizabeth held her head low as she heard this thinking the worst. But then she thought of something "But, if you're here, doesn't that mean your friends are safe?" She asked hoping she was right.
Lucy picked her head up hearing this. "Oh, they are." Lucy told her as Elizabeth was shocked to hear this, then confused.
"They are! How do you know this?" Elizabeth asked her wondering how she knew this with such certainty.
"Before I came to this world the Celestial spirt king told me that there were safe." Lucy told her as Meliodas walked over to them.
"So, this Ancologia is that powerful?" Meliodas asked her curious about the dragon.
"It is." Lucy told him as she added her two cents. "I don't know if anyone can beat it. Its power is just too much to handle."
"There is no such thing as unbeatable." Meliodas told Lucy who didn't believe him.
"You didn't see him or face Meliodas. Just looking at him felt like looking death in the face." Lucy told him as Meliodas said nothing but gave her a look of understanding.
Seeing the mood Lucy was in Elizabeth decided to change the topic. "So, Sir Meliodas are you and the other deadly sins such villains as everyone says you are? And if so what crime did you commit?" Elizabeth asked wondering what they did to cause the kingdom to hate them so much.
Hearing this Lucy picked her head up and she too wondered what they did.
Meliodas put his hand to his chin as he thought about it. "What kind of crime." He asked him before he answered. "Ten years ago... I roamed throughout Britannia stealing all the underwear in sight." He told them as both girls went wide eyed at the answer.
"You're lying right!?" Asked Elizabeth in disbelief.
"It's a lie." Meliodas told her evenly causing both girls to fall over anime style as he continued. "Actually, I walked around groping the breasts of over a thousand woman."
"You can't be serious!?" Cried out Lucy in shock and disbelief as both her and Elizabeth got up.
"Kidding." Meliodas told them as both girls fell over again.
"Sir Meliodas, please stop making fun of us!" Elizabeth cried out as she then thought of something. "Or is it that you committed a crime that you cannot speak about?" She asked as Meliodas had a blank look on his face.
"Something like that." Was all he said leaving both girls wondering what he meant.
Lucy then deicide to change topics again. "So how are we going to find the other sins?" She asked wondering if there was a plan or not.
"Since we have no leads we just go from town to town getting information as we go." Meliodas told her as Lucy had a better idea.
"Or we can gain the info another way." Said Lucy as she pulled out one of her silver keys. "Open the gate of the southern cross, Crux!" Said Lucy as she summoned a spirt.
Soon floating before Elizabeth and Meliodas was a man with a head shaped like a metal cross that had golden floral-like patterns on the ends. He also had a white mustache in the shape of cross on the ends. He wore a medieval like shirt and green pants. On his feet he wore wooden pointed shoes. He had orange skinny arms and legs and he also wore blue coloured knobs on his elbows and wrists.
"Who's this Lucy?" Asked Meliodas as he looked at Crux with a raised eyebrow.
"This is Crux." Lucy told him as he gave he the look saying go on. "He knows everything about Celestial spirts and everyone they made contract with."
"But how does that help us?" Asked Elizabeth as she didn't follow Lucy's train of thought.
"Well I was hoping he could help use track down the sins." Lucy told her as she then turned to Crux. "Can you?" She asked her sprit as all she got was a snot bubble from him.
"He's sleeping." Meliodas said out loud with a neutral voice.
"No, he's not. He just thinking right now." Lucy correct him as Crux's bubble popped.
"I'm not sure if I can, miss Lucy." Crux told her as he then explained why. "It's easier for me to access celestial spirts since I'm in that world and had contact with them. But here the magic is different, and I have no idea about any of the other sins."
Hearing this Lucy did know what to say. She was hoping Crux could speed this along, but he does have limits after all.
"What if you have some magic to go with?" Asked Meliodas as everyone turned to him.
He then showed his dragon tattoo to them. "This tattoo was made by one of the sins and she used her magic to make sure that even if my arm gets cut and then heals the tattoo will still be there in one piece. Could you track the magic and find her?" He aske Crux who placed his hand on the tattoo.
"Maybe." Crux told him as he felt the magic in the tattoo. "Each person magic is like a finger print. No two magic users are the same, so I might be able to."
"Really!" Said Lucy in joy as they could find another sin.
"I won't lie I may not be able to find her. But I'll do my best." Crux told her as another snot bubble came out.
"He's sleeping again." Meliodas said again in the same neutral tone.
"He's not he's searching for your fellow sin." Lucy told him as Meliodas waved his hand in front of Crux.
"Well we'd better move him since he could scare the customers." Meliodas told Lucy who understood, as she and Meliodas moved him upstairs and out of sight.
Once they were downstairs Lucy wondered something. "So, when are we going to get to our next destination?" She asked as no sooner as the words left her mouth that Mama Hawk stopped and since it was Lucy's and Elizabeth first time they both fell over from the stop. But before Elizabeth could hit something Meliodas stood in front of her and caught her as her chest went into his face.
"Ouch." Said Lucy as she saw the two. "Why does he always go out of his way form her?" Lucy asked herself out loud.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Said Hawk as he entered the room. This made Lucy wonder more about Meliodas as he was so protective of Elizabeth even though they just meet. And then there was how he acted when she told him about the demons.
'Who are you?' Lucy thought as she got up.
"Right now." Meliodas said as he answered Lucy's earlier question.
"So where is here?" Asked Elizabeth as she stepped away from Meliodas.
"The next area where we can get information. The village of Bernia." Meliodas told them as he added. "After all Lucy's spirt can only find one sin so its up to us to find the rest."
Soon the four of the left the boar hat and as soon as they were a few feet away, Mama Hawk started to dig underground. Once she was done only the building was visible and the ground looked normal like the Boar Hat had been there for years.
Both girls were shocked at this and looked at Meliodas who understood what they were saying. "Oh, that. She does that all the time." He told them as that was normal for him.
"You know what. I'm not even going to try." Lucy said to herself as they continued on. Not wanting to say 'how is that normal' or something like that.
As they walked Meliodas told them why they were here. "I stock the bar with alcohol from a lot of different regions." He told them.
"So, we came here for a refill then?" Lucy asked him.
"That's right. I come here once every few years, but Bernia's alcohol is one of a kind." Said Meliodas.
"Why is that?" Asked Elizabeth wondering what made the ale so good.
"Bernia ale is made with famous river water hailed as the best in Britannia, and grout growing abundantly along that river has fans all over Britannia!" explained Meliodas as they walked over a bridge.
"Wait," Said Hawk as he looked below the bridge. "That famous river water all dried up. What's going on?"
"The herbs along the river are also wilted." Added Elizabeth.
"Maybe it's just a drought." Lucy told them trying to figure it out. But then out of no where Elizabeth shivered.
"What's wrong, Elizabeth?" asked Meliodas as everyone was looking at her.
"Nothing, I just got the chills for a second." Elizabeth told them.
"Let me make sure your ok then." Said Meliodas as he went to embrace her only to have Lucy to grab him by the back of his shirt.
"She said she's fine." She told him as she pulled him away from her. "Come on." She told him as she started to drag him away.
Seeing this Elizabeth smiled as she was glad she had a friend looking out for her like that.
Once they got closer to the town they saw a big gathering of people.
"Whoa a festival!" Said Meliodas as he tried to figure out what it was for.
"There're a lot of people in the town square! What could in be." Elizabeth said with enthusiasm.
"This is awesome for the bar!" Added Hawk as Lucy didn't say anything as she looked at the group before them.
"Hey guys!" Said Meliodas once they reached the people.
"Oh... you're the owner of that traveling bar that comes by every year!" One person said as he recognized Meliodas.
"What's today's festival for?" Meliodas asked them, but once he asked them only for them to look offended at that.
"This isn't a joke! Does this look like a festival to you?" One of the people said to him.
"Then what is it?" Asked Lucy wondering what was going on.
"We're trying to pull out the sword the holy knight stuck into the ground." The person answered her. Hearing this Lucy took a step back in fear as she was scared the knight was still around.
'Get a hold of yourself Lucy.' Lucy told herself. 'You underestimated the last one. That won't happen again.'
"The holy knight stuck the sword. Why did he do something like that?" Meliodas asked himself as an elderly man talked to them.
"Yesterday, the wrath of the holy knight fell on us." He told them as they listened to him. "The sword imbued with his magic sealed the underground water source. If this goes on, not only will the water but even the grout will be finished.
"If that happens Bernia's ale will be terrible!" Another person said.
'Then the chill I felt earlier.' Elizabeth thought to herself before speaking. "The holy knight. Is it the one you defeated the other day sir Meliodas?"
"Oh, that guy wasn't really a holy knight." Meliodas told her as Lucy knees started to shake in fear. "Actually, a real one is nothing like that at all." He added.
'Is that why the king gave me the star dress then? To be able to stand up to them.' Lucy thought to herself. 'Then I need to started training then.'
"It's hard to say but… this village is finished." The old man said shocking the girls to hear his say that. "To pull out a holy knight's sword, we need the power of the holy knight." He added as the girls looked at Meliodas, but before they could say anything they heard laughter.
Looking over they saw two knights watching them (one was tall while the other was short and chubby) while laughing at them. Lucy saw this and was about to teach them a lesson only for Melidoas to stop her.
"Wait." He told her as a young boy with blond hair that pointed upwards in separate ways stepped forward. He wore a green shirt and brown pants. What stood out most for this boy was a small x-shaped scar on his left cheek.
"Hey now! What's up with the whiny tone?" The boy asked the villagers.
"Mead!" One of the villagers called the boy.
"What's the big deal about the holy knight's sword!?" Mead told everyone. "If you leave it to my pal from the seven, it'll be easy." Hearing this no one said anything, but then the villagers turned on the boy.
"Who do you think is responsible for all this!?" One of them yelled.
"Of all things to say, you had to mention that villainous name!" Another yelled. As other villagers said similar things, even calling him a brat and such.
"What do you have against us!?" One of them asked Mead.
"Wh…what?" Asked Mead taken back by what they said to him. "I never meant it like that…"
"We're through with your lies and jokes!" Another one said as kids started to throw stones at Mead. But luckily for Mead their aim was off, but unluckily for Meliodas their rocks hit him.
"I hate you all!" Yelled Mead hearing this as the villagers continued to throw stones at him.
The next thing anyone knew Meliodas was pushing Mead away from the village as he asked something to no one. "Why am I getting dragged into this?"
"Everyone please stop!" The old man from before told the villagers, thought they didn't listen, but by then Meliodas and Mead were long gone.
"Looks like we dropped in at a bad time." Hawk said as he looked at were Meliodas ran to.
"I'll follow them." Said Lucy as she took of after them leaving Elizabeth and Hawk in the town.
"Oh my…" Said the old man as he shook his head. "Deep down, he's a good child, but…" He then trailed off as Elizabeth looked at him wondering what he meant.
Back with Meliodas he made it the Boars hat as the two of them walked in.
"Hey, kid, back there…" Stared Meliodas only to get cut off.
"Aren't you a kid too?" Interpreted Mead as he leaned on a table.
"I'm not a kid. Is what you said back there true?" Asked Meliodas wondering if another sin was nearby.
"Hey, is this a bar?" Mead asked changing subjects.
"It's my bar, the Boar hat." Meliodas told him wondering where he was going with this.
"I'm hungry." Mead told him as Meliodas responded.
"Money?"
"Nope!"
"Then I'll feed you after you answer my question." Meliodas told him hoping to get the info.
"Grub first." Mead told him unaware what he was getting into.
Later Mead sat in front of a chicken leg. He then digs right into it a Lucy entered the bar.
"Are you two ok?" Lucy sked them as Mead spitted out his food.
"Nasty!" Mead cried out.
"You really should put up a sign warning people." Lucy told Meliodas as he poured himself a drink.
"If I do that, then people won't come in." Meliodas told Lucy as he turned to Mead. "Now then your friend is one of the seven. Is that true?"
"The food was so nasty that I forgot." Mead told him.
"Then I guess you don't have a friend in the seven." Lucy told him, as Mead eyes went wide at what she said.
"Of course, I do." Mead defended himself.
Lucy then sat down across from Meliodas. "Then what is your friend's name?" She asked as Mead started to sweat, until he smelled what Meliodas was drinking.
"That smell… It's Bernia ale, right?! Aren't you too young to drink that!?" Mead asked Meliodas with pride in his voice.
Lucy and Meliodas looked at each other at hearing this. "I'd stocked this last year." Meliodas told him as he added something. "Also, I'm not a kid either."
But Mead didn't listen to the last part. "It... It tastes great doesn't it!? The sweetness, richness, and the fragrance of apples… it's the greatest ale ever! Or so I'm told." Mead told them as he looked really down and sad.
"Mead what happened?" Lucy asked him wondering why the villagers hated him. But before he could say anything Elizabeth and Hawk came back.
Elizabeth then looked at Mead. "I heard from the village head Mead." Started Elizabeth.
"Wha… what a woman!" Mead said off to the side, but no one listened to him as they wanted to know what was going on.
"You're a big prankster, aren't you?" Elizabeth told everyone as she then kneeled down in front of Mead. "When I was little my father scolded me a lot for pulling pranks." She told Mead.
Hearing this Mead just turned his head away. "Good for you! Congrats!" He told her like he didn't care.
But Elizabeth continued. "I wanted his attention because he wasn't my real father." Hearing this everyone was shocked to hear this. Lucy then quickly looked at Meliodas wondering what his look was and saw he was mildly surprised.
'Does he know something?' Thought Lucy as the mystery surrounding Meliodas deepened.
"One time I climbed the big tree in our garden to surprise him." Elizabeth told Mead. "Then he turned pale and started to climb up to me, even though he had never climbed a tree in his life. As expected he couldn't climb up, fell down and got hurt. I can't forget what happened, even now. If my father had died back then…" Then out of no where Mead slammed his hand down on the table.
"My…" Started Mead as he was dealing with a lot of emotions. "My mom and dad were travels. A few years ago, they both fell victim to an epidemic when they stopped by Bernia. I was alone… but the villagers took me in and raised me in place of my parents. I was really happy. But even then, I didn't belong to a family, and I was jealous of everyone else who had families. I told lies, I pulled pranks." He then stopped as he tried to control his emotions.
Elizabeth then asked him another question. "When you put the worm in the holy knight's drink, was that also because of that?" She asked him only to have Mead explode.
"HELL NO!" He cried out surprising the others. "That bastard, that holy knight made fools out of all of us! The adults and even the kids, they put so much effort into making the best ale. But… But not only did they take it all as taxes…" Mead told them all as he then trailed off as he remembered how the knight called their ale the same as horse urine.
Hearing this Mead threw a worm in the glass out of anger. Then the knight slammed his sword into the ground cutting of the water for the town.
"The holy knights are all shams!" Mead told them in anger at what they did to his home.
"So, when you said your friend was one of the seven?" Asked Meliodas as he already knew the answer but was a making sure.
"It was a lie." Mead admitted to them.
"Then why say it all?" Asked Lucy as that could have brought even worse things for Bernia.
"Aren't the seven being chased by the holy knights? If they're enemies of those evil holy knights, then that makes the seven the good guys, right?" Mead told them as they saw what he meant by that.
Lucy, Elizabeth and Hawk looked at each other then at Meliodas as they smiled, as Mead wasn't far off.
"What?" Asked Meliodas as he didn't know what they were smiling about.
But then they heard a loud noise coming from Bernia making them look in the direction of the village.
Meanwhile back at Bernia the soldiers were addressing the towns folk.
"Listen well, you scum!" The tall one said. "If you don't pull the sword out by sunset, we'll increase the taxes on the village by ten times!" Hearing this the Villages were outraged.
"If we don't have water… forget ten times, we won't be able to make a single glass of ale!" One of them shouted at the knights.
"Do you understand? This is punishment!" The tall one told them as he didn't care about them at all as he seemed glad to see them suffer.
"Not only did you insult sir holy knight, but you had to claim that one of the villainous seven deadly sins was a friend of yours!" The short one added with same tone of voice.
"Shit! If only Mead hadn't done such a thing!" One person said as others agreed with him.
"Enough is enough!" The village elder told everyone as they listened to him. "Who was it that insulted our prides as ale Brewers? Was it Mead? No! that's child's actions were a representation of our feelings of our true feelings was it not?"
Hearing this everyone was quite as they let the elder's words sink in, unaware that Mead was running back to Bernia as fast as he could.
"Everyone! No matter what, we're going to pull this sword out!" The elder told everyone with determination in his voice. "Men! We'll protect the village, the ale with our lives!"
Hearing this all the men gathered at the sword and tied ropes around it and started to pull with all their might. But even with their new found resolve the sword wouldn't budge.
At the same time the two knights sat there watching them, while drinking the towns ale laughing at them.
Then out of no where Mead appeared and grabbed a rope and started to pull with the others.
"This is dangerous! Stay out of it!" One of the men pulling yelled at Mead.
"No!" Yelled Mead as he continued to pull. "Everyone else. You stay out of it! This is something I have to do!"
Hearing this the men didn't stop him rather they joined him. "Alright then, lets do this together." One of them told the others as Mead was a lost for words.
While everyone was pulling the two knights just laughed at them. "Even with everyone from the village together, it's no use!" The small one told them with a laugh.
And unfortunately, he was right. Even with everyone working together the sword wouldn't move, but as luck would have it Meliodas and the others entered the town.
"Look at their desperate faces!" The small knight laughed at them. "Watching them goes together perfectly with drinking!" He mocked them.
"Toast to the foo…" Started the tall knight only find out their drink were gone.
"Guys who don't understand the state of alcohol, don't deserve to this this alcohol." Meliodas told them as he had their drinks in his hands.
At the same time the ropes on the sword broke as all the men fell down panting. Seeing this Meliodas calmly walked towards the sword drinking the alcohol he took form the knights.
"That was good." Meliodas said to himself as he put the cups down. He then grabbed the sword and looked at the villagers. "Sorry, but I don't have anything on me to pay you with. So how about this?"
Meliodas then pulled the sword out of the ground shocking everyone, but his friends at the feat.
"No way." Said the tall knight in shock.
"The sword that only a holy knight can pull out." The small one said in equal shock.
They then heard a rumbling sound. "What's that sound?" The tall asked as they looked down and saw they were sitting on the well. Then the water shot upwards sending the two knights flying.
Seeing this the villagers cheered in joy at seeing the water flying through the air. While the villagers were cheering Meliodas looked at the sword and then at Lucy as he started to get an idea.
Later both the villagers and Mead made up to each other, apologizing for what they both did to the other. Then once they were done the villagers praised Meliodas as the savior of Bernia. But what everyone failed to notice was the two knights were gone.
And what they failed to know was that the two rushed to Fort Solgas.
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Fort Solgas
Inside the castle sitting in a well decorated room was a young man with short salmon coloured hair and blue eyes. He a dark full body knight amour without a helmet. The upper body is carved with serval crosses and the symbol of the holy knights. He also wore a leather waist belt that held his single hand sword.
Then an unnamed knight entered the room. "Sir! Just now, we received a report from the soldiers stationed at Bernia village. An unidentified child pulled your sword out!" The knight told him as the man sat their thinking. "What do you think about this, sir?"
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Bernia
Meanwhile back at Bernia Meliodas and the others were getting the Boar Hat ready for tonight as the village decided to celebrate there. As they were setting up Meliodas looked at Lucy and Elizabeth as the two talked.
"Lucy I'm just wondering something but I saw you entering the Boat Hat before us, but you left long before we did. Did something happen to you on your way here?" Elizabeth asked her hoping nothing went wrong.
"Actually." Started Lucy as she rubbed the back of her head in embarrassment. "I took the wrong path back. It took me a few while to realize it and back track." Lucy told her as Elizabeth gave her a light laugh at this.
"Lucy can you come with me for a bit?" Asked Meliodas as the two girls looked at him.
"What about setting up?" Asked Lucy wondering what he was wanted.
"We're nearly done. Hawk and Elizabeth can finish up." Meliodas told her as Elizabeth gave Lucy the 'go ahead' look.
Lucy nodded and the two stepped outside for some privacy. Once they were a bit away from the Boar Hat they stopped.
"Meliodas before you start with what you want to say I would like to know something first." Said Lucy as Meliodas nodded at her to go ahead. "Why did you wait so long to pull the sword out?"
Meliodas put his hand to his chin and thought about it. "Because they lost their will to live." Meliodas told her.
"Their will to live?" Repeated Lucy with confusion.
"Hum, how do I put it?" Meliodas said to himself as he thought of an idea.
"Back in your world if something like this happened the village would post a job and a guild would come to help them. That is because they had the will to live. But here they gave in to their fears and doubts. They even blamed a child for everything. But once they regained their will that's when I stepped in. Do you understand?"
Hearing this Lucy did somewhat understood what he was saying. "Somewhat." Lucy told him as Meliodas nodded.
"Well then how about you answer my question then?" Meliodas asked Lucy who nodded. "How badly hurt are you?" He asked her confusing Lucy.
"Hurt? What do you mean? I'm fine." Lucy told him confused as Meliodas gave her one on his rare serious faces.
"Not physically. I'm talking Mentally." He clarified for her. "After all you nearly died, got sent to another world and lost a fight all in the matter of, what, a few hours?"
Lucy stood their as she wrapped her hands around herself. "Not great." She admitted.
"Well then, how about I train you then." Meliodas told her shocking Lucy.
"What!" Lucy cried out in surprise as she did not expect this at all.
"You seem more like the support type fighter. Normally this works, but out here we'll mostly likely get into a lot of one on one fights. So, I think you could use a little bit of help." Meliodas told her as Lucy took offense at that.
"Are you saying I'm weak?" She questioned him.
"No." He told her with confidence in his voice. "If the king thought you weren't able to complete your mission he wouldn't have sent you. And after seeing you in action I see you got potential."
Hearing this Lucy was shocked as she only known Meliodas for a few days now and he believed in her this much. Meliodas then tossed Lucy the sword he pulled out earlier with a sheath on it.
"What is this?" She asked him wondering what he had planned.
"Your new sword. I was going to sell it, but I figured you got use it more." Meliodas told her thinking that's what she meant.
"Not that! Why do I need a sword when I have whip?" Lucy asked him again.
"Well I use a sword as well and you seem pretty good with your whip. So I figured I would expand your arsenal. I might even teach you my move, full counter." Meliodas told her.
"Full counter?" Lucy repeated wondering what that was.
"It's a move that redirects your opponents attack back to them." Meliodas said as he told her the basics of the move, as Lucy looked on in awe. "So, what do you say?"
Lucy stood there as she looked at the sword in her hands. 'If these fights get harder, then I must be stronger.' Lucy thought to herself.
"I accept." Lucy told him as Meliodas smiled at her.
"Great then let's go back then. The villagers should be here soon." Meliodas told Lucy as she started to head back.
But before he could get very far Crux came their way.
"Miss Lucy, I found her." Crux told them as both of them were shocked and happy to hear this.
"You really did find Merlin?" Meliodas asked him to make sure.
"Aw, more like she found me." Admitted Crux as he was shocked when she appeared before him asking who and what he was.
"Yeah that sounds like Merlin." Said Meliodas as Lucy wondered something.
"So where is she and is she meeting up with us or do we have to go to her?" She asked as Meliodas also wondered that.
"That's were things get complicated." Crux told them as the two wondered what he meant. "You see she has something she needs to do right now. But once she feels good about it she will join us."
Hearing this brought a smile to Meliodas's face. "Yeah that just like Merlin." He admitted as he thought of something. "Crux do you know where she is?"
"Yes." Said Crux before adding. "But if I tell you she said she would turn me into one of her test subjects." He told Meliodas she he started to shake in fear at the thought.
"Ok, then." Meliodas said as he knew Merlin would follow through on that. "Great job Crux."
"Now, we only have to find the other five." Added Lucy as she felt good about this.
"Also, one other thing Meliodas." Said Crux as Meliodas turned to face him. "Merlin said when she meets up with you that you two would talk."
Hearing this Confused Lucy, but to Meliodas it made sense to him. Seeing that his job was done Crux went back to the Celestial sprit realm.
"Well then lets really head back this time." Said Meliodas as the two headed back to the Boar hat.
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Fort Solgas
Meanwhile at Fort Solgas the Holy knight was be informed what happened at Bernia.
"Um, the soldiers that saw it must have been out of their minds. It must have been an accident that the child…" Said the Knight as the Holy knight cut him off.
"Are you suggesting that an 'accident' could pull out a holy knight's sword?" The holy knight asked him as the knight was worried for his well being.
"N…no, sire. Not at all." The knight tried to cover up and keep himself safe.
"I will see for myself whether this was an accident." The holy knight told the knight surprising everyone in ear reach. "Give me directions and the distance to Bernia and get it right." He told them as one of the nearby knights stepped forward.
"From this fort it's 4 o'clock southeast, 7.3 miles away." The Knight told him as he wondered something. "Are you heading out to the village?"
"As if." The holy knight told him as he walked over to a large window. He then stopped by a nearby guard holding a spear.
"Your spear." Started the holy knight. "Can I borrow it?" He asked the knight.
Hearing this shocked the knight. "Yes! Please!" He told the holy knight as he handed over his weapon as the holy knight started to walk again.
Soon the Knight stopped at the window. "This angle huh." He said to himself as he held up the spear and charged his magic into it. The nearby knights were shocked by the magic he was giving out as he then threw the spear once it was charged enough.
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Bernia, a few minutes earlier
A few minutes earlier at the Boar Hat nearly everyone from the village was there celebrating the return of the water and Meliodas who pulled the sword out. As the villagers partied Meliodas manned both the bar and kitchen, while the girls were taking orders and bringing out food and drinks. Lucy was doing ok since she had some experience from past jobs, but Elizabeth was dropping things and getting orders wrong. Luckily no one got mad at her for it.
Then Meliodas felt something as he looked around as saw that Lucy somewhat felt it to as she had a weird look on her face. But before either could do anything they heard something fall.
"I'm so sorry." Said Elizabeth to her customer as she dropped his food.
"It's ok, don't worry about it." The customer told her as Hawk came to clean up the mess. Elizabeth went to get a replacement for his food when she slipped and fell.
"I'm sorry!" Said Elizabeth embarrassed at what happened.
"Are you hurt little lady?" One customer asked her. "Here take my hand." He offered her.
"It's alright." Another one told her.
But for Elizabeth it wasn't ok as she then got up and ran out of the bar.
"Maybe this was an impossible job for a princess after all. At least Lucy is doing a good job." Hawk said to himself out loud as he saw Meliodas walking towards the door. "Oh, Meliodas! Are you going to cheer her up?" Hawk asked him curious to what he was doing.
"Huh." Said Meliodas as he looked at Hawk. "I'm going to pee." He told him as he left the bar.
"Man… what an unreliable owner." Said Hawk as more customers had orders. "The bar's completely dependent on me."
At that moment Lucy walked by and heard what he said. "Then what am I? Pork liver?" She asked him with a smirk as Hawk cried out in shock and anger.
"Don't say that!" Yelled Hawk as several of the customers laughed at him.
Outside the Boar Hat Meliodas saw Elizabeth sitting near the bar with her knees to her chest. As Meliodas got closer to her Elizabeth spoke up.
"Lord Meliodas, I'm pretty useless, huh?" Elizabeth told him as Meliodas started to look around as Elizabeth continued.
"I get all the orders wrong. I break all the plates and cups. I can't even help you in combat like Lucy can. I can't gather a single bit of useful information. When I thought I had finally gotten information on where the holy knights are, it was just something about a forest. A conversation about a forest that holy knights go out of their way to avoid, doesn't do us any good at all."
Hearing that last bit Meliodas turned to her. "What was that just now?" He asked her curious to what she just said.
But Elizabeth didn't hear him as she continued. "It's laughable for such a useless waitress to want to protect the people of this country."
Elizabeth just sat there as Meliodas spoke up. "When I had just started the bar, it wasn't easy for me either. I messed up with the stocks, my food wasn't good, no matter how much I tried." He told her as he tried to cheer her up his way.
"But!" Started Elizabeth as she got up. "You're not an ordinary bar owner, right? You're one of the legendary seven…" But the Meliodas cut her off.
"And you're a princess." He told her as the two stood there in silence.
"A princess can't do anything." Elizabeth told her as her hand clenched up. "I don't have the strength to fight the holy knights, or to protect the country and it's people…" And once more Meliodas cut her off.
"But you found me, right?" Meliodas reminded her as Elizabeth stopped and listened to him. "If you didn't have the determination to protect the people, and to find my bar by yourself while you were barely able to walk. That shows how strong you truly are."
Elizabeth was about to say something when Meliodas cut her off once more. "And don't think that things would still be the same with Lucy. If it wasn't for you thinking about others before yourself, I would have most likely not have revealed to her and who knows where we'd all be right now?" He told her with a warm smile as it made Elizabeth feel better.
"I, I'll give it my best shot!" Elizabeth told Meliodas with a new fire in her. "Something I can do. It just means I have something I must do, huh?" Elizabeth said to Meliodas who smiled at her.
"You got it." He told her as he got a serious look on his face. "And I have something I must do as well."
He then turned and faced the sky, making Elizabeth look the same way. She then saw a light coming their way and saw the spear the holy knight threw earlier.
Then as it was just passing Meliodas he reached out and grabbed it with his left arm. The momentum from the spear caused Meliodas to go flying with it, but Meliodas then planted his feet on the ground trying to stop it. The spear went through a few of the outlining building of the village and it even ripped the clothing on his left arm, but Meliodas was able to stop it on the edge of the town creating a small crater where he stopped. Once he stopped it, while it was still power up from the holy knight magic, Meliodas then threw the spear back the way it came.
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Fort Solgas
At fort Solgas everyone was going like things were normal. Sure, one or two knights complained about Bernia being destroyed, but other wise no one seemed to care.
With the holy knight he was going over some reports as he sat in an expensive looking chair.
"Captain Kyle. It looks like there is a shortage of laborers in the kingdom." The holy knight told the captain as he had a solution for the problem. "Even if you have to round up entire villages, increase the supply of workers."
"Yes sire! Understood." The captain told him.
But before the captain could leave the holy knight sensed something. But before he could even act on it the spear hit the fort destroying it.
The knights in and around the fort were panicking as they had no idea what was going on.
"Lord Gilthunder! Are you safe!?" One of the knights yelled hoping that the holy knight was safe.
"I know the identity of that child. No mistake about it" Gilthunder said to himself as he dust was still in the air. "You were alive after all Seven deadly sins." Finished Gilthunder as the dust cleared to show he just moved his head to the side avoiding the spear from impaling his head.
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Bernia
Back at Bernia everyone who were in their homes and at the Boar hat came rushing to the town after they heard the noise that Meliodas made when he caught the spear. As people looked around wondering what happened Lucy joined up with the others.
"What happened here?" Lucy asked them looking at the small crater Meliodas was in and his state of attire.
"Oh, nothing much." Replied Meliodas as he brushed himself off.
"Nothing much!?" Exclaimed Elizabeth in shock. "You caught a spear infused with a holy knight's magic and then threw it back at him!"
Hearing this Lucy looked on in shock at hearing this. 'So that's what I felt.' Thought Lucy as Meliodas started to leave.
"It will be better for everyone if we leave the village." Meliodas told them as he knew what they were thinking.
"But! What if he targets here again?" Elizabeth asked him not sure if this was the right course of action.
"It'll be more dangerous if we stay here." Explained Meliodas as the girls nodded as they understood. "Besides they know we won't stay in the village forever."
"Then where are we going?" Asked Lucy curious to their next destination.
"To the place where the holy knights avoid." Meliodas told her as Elizabeth gasped at hearing that.
Knowing that was all she was going to get for now Lucy shrugged and followed Meliodas as Elizabeth followed as well, as they head to their next destination and hopefully their next member of the seven deadly sins.
Well the sins have found Merlin, but she won't be joining for some time. I also wanted to show that Lucy wasn't a 100% after everything she went through and I decided to give her some training from Meliodas.
Now I had people ask me to change the star dresses by giving them some armour and such, but I'll be honest I can't think of anything. So, if anyone has any ideas feel free to share them with me other wise I'll keep the dresses the same.
And once more thank you to everyone who has given me support and I hope you enjoyed this chapter.
Until next time.