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Disclaimer: I do not own either Fairy Tail or the Seven Deadly Sins

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Chapter 5:

The holy knight Gilthunder

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Lucy struggled against her bindings as she saw Elizabeth and Hawk weren't doing any better. She looked over at Meliodas and Diane and saw they weren't even trying to free themselves. She then looked at the holy knight before them as she could feel the magical power coming off of him.

'This power is even greater then masters.' Thought Lucy as she started to sweat as fear was starting to take over.

"Gilthunder, why are you!?" Started Elizabeth only not sure what to say.

"Elizabeth you know him?" Asked Meliodas as he felt like he knew this person from somewhere before.

"He's the holy knight Gilthunder! He's a holy knight very close to the king, my father." Explained Elizabeth as Meliodas really felt like he knew this person, as Elizabeth continued.

"He always took care of me like a little sister. He's like a big brother to me!" Elizabeth told them as Lucy got an idea.

"Sir Gilthunder, would you listen to what I have to say?" Asked Lucy as everyone looked at her wondering what she was doing.

"Go ahead." Gilthunder told her with no emotion in his voice.

Lucy took a dep breath hoping Elizabeth was right about this guy. "I come from another world on a mission. To find the Seven deadly sins and help them to stop the demon clan. I know that sound ridiculous, but it's true. So if what Elizabeth says is true, please help us."

As Lucy finished Gilthunder said nothing or moved. Then a crow cawed as he then moved.

"Your story is too far fetched to be true." Gilthunder told her with a dead pan face. He then drew his sword and walked in front of Lucy.

"For such lies, I will end you frist." He told her as brought his sword down, only for someone to grab his arm.

Looking at who did it everyone saw a young man wearing a black suit with a red tie. He had medium sized hair pointing outwards in different directions in the shape of spikes, with what looked like cat ear in the front of his head, making it look like a lion mane. And lastly her wore a pair of glasses.

"Loki!" Lucy cried out in joy at seeing him here.

Gilthunder looked at Loki as he brought his arm away from him and took a few steps away from him.

Loki looked at Gilthunder before speaking. "You know if this is how you treat women. No woman will ever like you."

"I don't know who you are, but if you step to the side I'll forget what you just did." Gilthunder told Loki in a cold tone as Loki didn't looked worried at all.

"I'm afraid I can't if you plan to hurt Lucy here. You see she saved my life, something I'll never truly be able to repay her for doing. So if you want to get to her, you have to go through me." Loki told him as he got into a fighting stance.

"Very well." Was all Gilthunder said as he then rushed at Loki as he swung his sword at him. Loki jumped out of the way as he hands glowed with magic.

"Regulus Impact." Said Loki as a lion head of light shot out from his fist at Gilthunder. Gilthunder saw the attack coming and could only brace himself as he crossed his arms as the attack hit him.

"Purge of the Thunder Emperor" Said Gilthunder as he countered attacked, as a bolt of lighting went for Loki. But Loki was able to dodge it in time.

Loki then looked at Gilthunder and saw his attack didn't do much on him. Seeing this Loki charged at Gilthunder and tried to punch him, only for Gilthunder to dodge and try to slash him with his sword.

Meanwhile Lucy could only watch in fear as the two tried to hit each other. 'Loki be safe.' She thought to herself as she continued to watch him fight, wishing she could help him.

"He's doing pretty good." Said Meliodas as Lucy looked at him and saw he was free of his bindings as was Diane.

"How are you two free?!" Asked Lucy in surprise and shock as Elizabeth wondered the same thing.

"Oh, that was easy." Meliodas told her as he got an idea. "You can do it too. All you have to do is make a bubble with your magic around yourself and have it expand. The force from your magic should free you."

Hearing this Lucy closed her eyes as she focused on her magic. She imaged a bubble around her and had her magic make that shape. She then felt Gilthunder magic around her as she pushed the bubble outwards. To Lucy it felt like she was trying to push a bolder. But none the less she pushed on as she felt the binds around her start to break. Feeling this Lucy gave one last push with most of her magic causing the binds to break. Now free Lucy fell to her knees as she caught her breath.

"Nicely done." Praised Meliodas as he was glad she was able to break free on her own. He then went over to Elizabeth and grabbed her binding and broke them, freeing her as he then did the same for Hawk.

They then all looked over to where Loki was fighting Gilthunder. Both of them had light bruises as the two still we're trying to get a good hit on the other.

"Loki is going to lose." Meliodas said out of no where.

"What?!" Said Lucy in shock as she was wondering if they were watching the same fight.

"He will for two reasons." Explained Meliodas as he continued. "First Gilthunder is using a sword while Loki is using his fists. I don't know how long Loki has fought like this but Gilthunder has been taught how to fight with a sword since he was a child. It's only a matter of time before Loki gets into his proper range."

"Wait." Interrupted Lucy. "How do you know he was trained since he was a boy?" She asked him.

"Because I trained him." Meliodas told her shocking all of them. "I knew Gilthunder since he was a kid and helped train him in sword play."

Hearing this caused Lucy to look closer at the fight as she then saw it Loki was working harder then Gilthunder to get attacks in, as Gilthunder had a longer reach then him. Seeing this Lucy wasn't sure what to do, if she went in to help, then two of them might (At a very slim chance) be able to win, or Gilthunder might only go after her causing Loki to go from offence to defence to protect her.

"Iron Hammer of the Thunder Emperor." Said Gilthunder as he pointed his sword at Loki. No sooner had he said the attack a lighting bolt came down at Loki, who was able to jump out of the way once more.

"Thunderclap Strike." They all heard Gilthunder say before he lunged at Loki with impressive speed as he slashed at Loki once he was close. Seeing this Loki could barely move as Gilthunder slashed him across his chest as Loki landed on the ground with a thud.

Everyone could see Loki slowly getting up in extreme pain as blood dripped from his wound. Seeing this Lucy was about to rush over to help him but stopped when she saw Meliodas already there.

"Good job, Loki." Meliodas praised him. "I'll take it form here."

"Oh, you will." Said Gilthunder as he eye were focused on Meliodas's. "I'm stronger then any of the sins now." He told him.

"That might be true, but you don't know that for sure." Meliodas told him as he wasn't affected by what he said.

"Very well then let's find out." Gilthunder told Meliodas as he got into a fighting stance. Seeing this Meliodas did the same, as he drew his dragon hilt.

Meanwhile Loki looked at Meliodas. "I'll leave him to you." He told him as he started to return to the Celestial spirt realm. "Please keep Lucy safe." Were his last words as he vanished.

Hearing this Meliodas nodded at the request as the two then clashed with each other. Each showing the other with their skills with a sword.

Lucy then looked over at Diane. "Shouldn't we help him." She asked her unsure what they should do.

"No, the captain will just get mad with us." Diane told her as she wanted to help as well, but knew better then to blindly jump in. Hearing that all they could do was watch the fight and be ready when they were needed.

They then saw Gilthunder fire a lighting bolt at Meliodas, who easily deflected it away from him. But that was what Gilthunder wanted as he appeared behind Meliodas as swung his sword down.

The sword went right through Meliodas's sheath on his back and left a large cut on the back of his right shoulder, as he fell to the ground with his back hitting the ground. Seeing this the girls and Hawk gasped in shock and worry, as they saw Gilthunder stood over Meliodas.

'Think, Lucy, think. What can I do?' Thought Lucy as she then saw some hide-and-seek hiding from the fight as she got an idea.

"Meliodas, the dragon sin of wrath, any last words?" Asked Gilthunder as he got ready to end his life.

"The other seven." Meliodas said weakly as he eyes glazed over. "The rest of our group. I want… to know… what happened to… them…"

"Very well." Said Gilthunder as he granted him his last request. "Of the remaining five, the whereabouts of three remain unknown. But we already know where the other two are."

Hearing this caused the girls to look at him with shock as they listened to what he had to say.

"The fox sin of greed is imprisoned in the Baste dungeon, and the grizzly sin of sloth perished in the capital of the dead." Gilthunder told Meliodas as he got his sword ready.

"Thanks for telling us." Yelled Lucy as she had a key ready in her hand. "Open the gate of the twin, Gemini."

The was a flash of light and when it died down floating there were two small creatures, both of whom were blue. They booth had small black, beady, eyes with white pupils and both had different type mouths with one being '^' and the other 'v'. One wore orange shorts, while the other wore black and they both wore sashes with one going down the right for one and left for the other one.

Gilthunder looked at Gemini with a calculating gaze. "What is that thing?" He mostly asked himself unsure what Gemini could do.

Lucy grinned as she then pointed at Gilthunder. "Gemini there's your target." Said Lucy as Gilthunder got into a defensive stance hearing that.

Gemini then glowed as they then burst into smoke, making everyone but Lucy wonder what happened. The to everyone shock, standing there was a perfect copy of Gilthunder standing next to Lucy.

Elizabeth now understood why Lucy used this spirt, while Diane and Hawk were shocked to see this level of copying. Meanwhile Gilthunder didn't lower his guard as he had no idea what this copycat could do.

While Lucy was grinning, on the inside she was panicking. Gemini couldn't truly copy someone stronger then herself. The best they can do is some half-Gemini half-whoever they copied hybrid. But this time it was a perfect copy, but Lucy didn't want to risk anything and hope Diane or Meliodas would use this distraction and attack.

"I do not know what you plan to do with that imposter, but I'll…" But whatever Gilthunder was going to say was cut off as Meliodas kicked him in the back with both feet, causing the him to fall over.

"Thanks for the info, little Gil." Meliodas told him as he dusted off his clothes, as he turned to Lucy. "And thanks for the distraction Lucy."

"I see." Said Gilthunder as he stood up. "You let yourself be hurt in order to find out where your allies were."

Hearing this Meliodas grinned. "And thanks to that I now know that four of them are alive." He told Gilthunder.

Hearing this Gilthunder realized they found the location of another sin, since he told them where two where and two of them were here. He then looked at Lucy and his copy for a second wondering why they haven't done anything. But since they haven't done anything, he turned his full attention back to Meliodas who was the bigger threat.

"We'll continue this some other time…alright?" Said Meliodas as he was ready to leave.

"As if." Was all Gilthunder said as he then attacked Meliodas, only to hit an after image as the real Meliodas was behind him. Gilthunder then went on the attack as Meliodas dodged each attack.

Seeing this Lucy let out of the breath she was holding as Gemini took their real form and returned to the celestial spirt realm.

"Lucy, why didn't you haver Gemini help Meliodas?" Asked Elizabeth, for as far as she knew when Gemini copies someone, they gain their strength and abilities.

Lucy looked at Elizabeth. "Not here where someone can over hear us." As she didn't want the secret to get out. Hearing this Elizabeth got confused, but trusted Lucy. She knew she would tell her the truth when it was safe.

Meanwhile back with Meliodas as he finally stopped moving. Seeing this Gilthunder took a chance a placed his sword on Meliodas shoulder where he cut his earlier.

"Farewell." Said Gilthunder as he got ready to finish him.

"See ya." Said Meliodas as if he already won. Hearing this made Gilthunder pause for a second. Then out of no where Diane grabbed him with her right hand.

Gilthunder looked at Diane how held him above her head. "Release me!" He warned her as he then released electricity all around him, causing Diane pain and her wrist guard to start to deform form the electricity and heat.

Feeling this Diane just looked up at him. "Didn't I tell you a long time ago, that 'shocking' men aren't poplar with girls?" She asked him with a straight face. She then threw him with all her might as Gilthunder went flying through the air.

But for a slit second Gilthunder's eyes locked with Lucy's as one thought entered his head. 'Who are you?' As he left the forest of white dreams.

Seeing that the threat was now gone everyone relaxed a bit, as Lucy and Elizabeth walked over to Diane and Meliodas.

"Meliodas! How is your wound?!" Asked Elizabeth as she got a better look at his injury.

"It's no big deal." Meliodas told her as he had worse.

"But your bleeding so much!" Countered Elizabeth as Meliodas white shirt was turning red.

"He…Hey! Don't get so touchy with the captain!" Diane told Elizabeth as Lucy was almost certain she found Juiva counterpart here.

"Diane that was a great throw." Praised Lucy as she wished she was that strong.

Diane smiled at hearing this. "Thank you. But you were almost as amazing summoning those two creatures to help us earlier, but why didn't you use them to attack?" Diane asked Lucy as the others turned to her as well.

"It's because I was too weak." Lucy told them as she saw their confused looks, so she clarified. "You see Gemini can take the form of any person gaining their skills, knowledge and appearance. But they can only do that depending on how strong I am. If the person we try to copy is stronger then me, we get a weird hybrid of Gemini and the person we copied. I got lucky that Gemini was able to copy his shape, but I wasn't going to risk sending them into battle when I didn't know what could happen."

Hearing this the others know understood why Lucy had Gemini stand there.

"Still thanks of the distraction back there Lucy." Praised Meliodas, but a part of him wondered how much of a person knowledge Gemini got. "When we get back, we'll work on your swordplay."

Hearing that the others were ready to head back to the Boar Hat when Elizabeth spoke up. "Lucy you said Gemini gains a person Knowledge correct?" She asked Lucy.

"Yes, Gemini can hold up to two forms in its memory and can use them at anytime." Lucy told her wondering where this was going.

"Then can you bring out Gemini and have them answer some questions for me?" Elizabeth almost pleaded with Lucy.

But before Lucy could say or do anything Meliodas spoke up. "Not here, we don't know if little Gil came alone or not. We should get out of here." He told Elizabeth as she wanted answers but knew Meliodas was right as the all left the forest of white dreams.

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Boar Hat

It was about an hour later as Mama Hawk was heading to their next destination as Diane was walking beside her.

"The fox sin Ban, was thrown into a dungeon and the grizzly sin King, is dead and buried." Said Meliodas as he sat on Mama's back as he had bandages put over his wound.

The one doing it was a young women wearing a typical maid outfit consisting of a black under coat and a white, frilled trim apron and a white knee-length socks with black shoes. She had short pink hair with blue eyes. But what stood out was on her wrists and ankles she had shackles with chains on them. This was Virgo another of Lucy's spirts.

After they got back to the Boar Hat Lucy and Elizabeth both insisted that Meliodas got his wound checked out since his shirt was getting even redder from his wound. It got even worse when Diane agreed with them, so Meliodas caved and Lucy called Virgo to help him.

"Diane, what do you think?" Asked Meliodas wondering what her thoughts were as he felt some pain on his shoulder. "Not so tight Virgo." Complained Meliodas.

"I'm sorry, but this is a deep wound. If hime didn't call me when she did, you would have passed out at some point." Virgo told him as Diane wondered something.

"But I thought Lucy called you, not Elizabeth?" Asked Diane as she looked at Virgo.

"No Lucy is my hime." Virgo told her with a straight face as she turned to Lucy. Currently Lucy was doing sword training as she took a step forward and brought her sword down, then a step back and brought her sword back up. (I have no idea what this is called, and I have no idea how you sword train either.)

"Hime his wound is treated." Virgo told Lucy as she packed up the medical supplies she brought. "Is it time for punishment?" She asked with a straight face as the others stopped and looked at Lucy, who nearly fell over at the others looking at her like that.

"NO!" Lucy nearly yelled as Meliodas put his fist into his palm.

"So that's why she calls you hime." He said out loud as he felt like he figured something out.

"NO!" Cried out Lucy as she stopped her training. "Virgo got unique tastes! Tell them Virgo!"

"I shall take my leave now then." Virgo told everyone as she then vanished.

"VIRGO!" Yelled Lucy as fell to her knees not knowing what to do, as Elizabeth gave her comforting hand on her shoulder.

"It's ok." Elizabeth told her with a smile as she didn't think the same thing as Meliodas, as then added something. "But could you bring out Gemini again, please."

Hearing this Lucy saw the pleading look on Elizabeth face and grabbed Gemini's key. "Open the gate of the twin, Gemini." Said Lucy as Gemini appeared before them.

"What can we do for you Lucy, piri-piri?" Asked Gemini as they floated in front of her.

"I need you to turn into the last person you transformed into." Lucy told them as Meliodas, Diane and Hawk watched, curious as to what they'll find out.

"We'll do our best, but it was hard to hold that form, piri-piri." Gemini told her as they got ready to transform.

"Don't worry I just need his memories." Lucy told them making Gemini feel better as they transformed into Gilthunder.

Seeing that Gemini was ready, Lucy turned to Elizabeth and gestured to Gemini-Gilthunder. Understanding what she meant Elizabeth stepped in front of Gemini-Gilthunder.

"Why did you attack us?" Elizabeth asked Gemini-Gilthunder hoping they could answer her.

"I didn't want to. Holding Margaret hostage. If I don't do what they want, they will hurt or kill her. They are always watching me." Gemini-Gilthunder told them. Hearing this no one said anything as they weren't sure what to say, until Meliodas spoke up.

"How are they watching him?" He asked Gemini-Gilthunder as if he wasn't surprised at all.

"They have a creature disguised as some sort of animal watching him." Gemini-Gilthunder told him as Meliodas nodded.

"Wait why aren't you surprised by this?" Asked Lucy as she noticed he was taking this very well.

"Oh that's because he gave me the word phrase I told him to say if he was ever in trouble." Meliodas told Lucy as Elizabeth walked right up to him.

"Then why didn't you tell us?" Elizabeth asked him with heartache.

"I didn't because I wasn't sure if were being watched or not." He told her as he then added something. "And if I spoke up who knows what could happen to Gilthunder or Margaret." Hearing this did calm Elizabeth down a bit, but still felt hurt.

Feeling the atmosphere change Meliodas spoke up. "Ok now that we know what's up with little Gil we can go get the next Sin." He told everyone.

"Who are we getting then?" Asked Lucy curious to where they were going.

"We're going to pick up Ban at baste dungeon." Meliodas told everyone.

"Why Baste dungeon first?" Asked Hawk curious as to why there first.

"It's closer." Meliodas told him like it was obvious.

"That's it!?" Cried out Hawk in shock as he then composed himself. "Even if that holy knight was telling the truth, isn't this like jumping right into the lion's den?" He asked Meliodas with worry in his voice.

"That may be true, but there's a lot going on here that we don't know." Meliodas told Hawk confusing the others.

"What do you mean captain?" Asked Diane confused as Meliodas explained.

"Frist off why were we framed? If it was for a revolt, then why didn't they act once we were gone? Then there's over throwing the royal family and acting like nothing happened. All they done after that is prepare for a war, but against who and why? But that who might be the demon clan if what Lucy told us is true, but it still doesn't explain why. There's a lot that we don't know right now."

Hearing this everyone thought about what Meliodas said as they thought about what has happened so far.

Lucy turned to Gemini-Gilthunder hoping for answers. "Do you know anything?" She asked hoping for answers.

"No." Said Gemini-Gilthunder. "All I know is all able bodies must be ready for action soon."

"I see." Said Lucy wishing for more, but since Gilthunder was essentially their prisoner it would make sense they wouldn't share too much with him. "Thank you, Gemini you can head back now." She told Gemini as Gemini went back to the Celestial spirt realm.

"Then what do we do Meliodas?" Asked Elizabeth as her answer was gone now.

Meliodas thought about it before answering her. "For now, we gather the other sins, and hope we can figure out what going on." He told Elizabeth as he then went inside the Boar Hat to get dressed, making sure he had his dragon blade with him.

But unnoticed to him Lucy was watching him. 'What are you hiding Meliodas.' Thought Lucy as the questions about him kept piling up. As she then made up her mind. After they find Ban, she was going to ask for the truth, and she was going to get it one way or another.

First off sorry about the wait, I don't really have an excuse other then I just couldn't think of anything. I hope you enjoyed the fight against Gilthunder.

And just so everyone knows I will have Virgo call Lucy hime instead of princess because in my opinion it sounds better and to avoid getting the Lucy and Elizabeth confused in future chapters.

Now I believe that there are some of you asking why Lucy couldn't use Gemini to completely copy Gilthunder, like I wrote Lucy can't use Gemini to copy someone stronger then her. This is something Lucy says herself in the manga and show, so I'm staying with that fact. But that doesn't mean that Lucy can't access that person's memoirs.

Well until next time.