Rapid fire updating, you guys like it? I'm fully aware that Taisho's fight with Damien was short, but I didn't want to drag it out for like a million chapters.
Enjoy!
Damien could hear voices, but not the angry ones from before. They sounded more concerned about something.
"Is he going to be alright? it's been hours."
"I'm sure he'll be fine, he's breathing."
"That doesn't mean anything, he may not be okay. Damien decided he wanted to open his eyes, and used as much force as necessary to do so. When he finally managed to crack his eyes open, it was still raining. That and a trace of pink out the corner of his left eye.
"Ow.." he muttered as his head began to throb. He heard a surprised gasp as he tried to sit, everyone gathering around him. "Wha...What happened?"
"You." Ultear replied. "You lost control again." Damien made a face.
"I...Did...?" he asked.
"You don't remember?" Azzie asked, and Damien hook his head. "You had it at first, but when you came back you sprouted all that talk about how you where Demon Lord Xisplate. What's the last thing you remember?" Damien rubbed his temples as he tried to think.
"Taisho had me pinned down." he finally replied. "After that, I got nothing."
"Well," Nashi said, rubbing her chin. "Maybe it's because..."
"It's because he lost control of his anger." Everyone else jumped at the new voice, but Damien knew it all to well. Everyone looked to the tree line to find a suited figure with raven black hair walking towards them. Simon growled.
"Who the hell are you?" He demanded, and Xisplate chuckled.
"You haven't introduced me to your friends, Damien?" he asked, clutching his chest in false agony. "That hurts, you know."
"What do you want, Xisplate?" Damien asked, causing everyone else to jump in surprise.
"T-that's Xisplate?!" Elise asked, crawling behind Damien, everyone else following suit.
"Relax, everyone." Damien said. "He can't hurt you while he's like that. He must be only here to talk." Damien regarded the demon coldly, unsure of what to say. "What was it you said abut my anger?"
"You let in control you, that's what." Xisplate replied, wiping the hair from his eyes. "I told you to watch yourself."
"What are you saying, of course I as angry."
"I'm saying I can't be blamed for your loss of control again." Xisplate pointed over to the side, and Damien followed his finger to a lifeless body, it's neck severely deformed.
"Is that..." Damien started before Xisplate chuckled darkly, causing everyone to jump.
"Taisho, if you were wondering." Xisplate smiled, although there was no warmth behind it. "You sure did a number on him using Demon's Judgement."
"Demon's Judgement?" Damien asked, all of this terminology new to him. "What spell is that?"
"The Demon Lord looks into the enemies very soul, weighing their righteous actions and their evil actions." Xisplate used his hands as weight examples. "If the good outweighs the bad, the enemies soul is forfeit to the demon, and the soul is absorbed into the caster." the thought that Taisho's tainted soul now resided within Damien disgusted him.
"So, what's that all mean?" Katsuchi asked, someone else finally getting the courage to speak. "Taisho's inside of Damien now?"
"In a sense, I suppose." Xisplate replied. "Although his material soul is now being tormented within the 12th Circle, The spell Demon's Judgement converts the soul of the victim into magic power for the caster." Xisplate met Damien's gaze. "So in a way, Taisho saved your life."
"I don't see how." Damien murmured, crossing his arms.
"My takeover requires a lot of magic to activate and keep active." Xisplate replied, a smarmy smile plastered on his face. "Although you wouldn't remember that as it's been over a decade. When you managed to complete it, your power was all but drained. Reverting without Taisho's soul could have been deadly." Damien detested the former enemy a lot, but even more so now that he was technically indebted to dead man.
"So." Nashi said quietly. "What now? I mean, Crime Sociere is still out cold, and the airship is totaled."
"Master Kronos still stands." Drake pointed out, causing Tetsu to burst out into laughter.
"That was a great joke you made there, about Master Kronos." he told Drake, who glared at him. "I don't know who you think you are pal, but Kronos won't have a challenge killing you."
"And who the fuck do you think you are?" Drake asked. " I bet I could beat your candy ass."
"Drake-sama, Tetsu-sama." Azzie butted in in a scolding tone. "Stop fighting. Although, Drake-sama does have a point. Master Kronos-sama does still stand."
"Thank you." Drake replied, painfully putting his coat on over his bandages. "Although, I don't have any clue what we're supposed to do in this state."
"Even if we were all at full strength," Katsuchi said, sitting cross legged at the outer rim of the group, "we don't stand a chance. Master Kronos is a monster."
"I second that" Tetsu said immediately. "Too powerful for us alone. Maybe if Crime Sociere was still standing, but they're all still out."
"So we give up?" Elise asked. "After all of this, we give up because one enemy still stands? I say we go up to Master Kronos and shove our collective boots up his ass." Elise cackled at the thought, but Nashi just gave her a weird look.
"First, stop being so unladylike." She told Elise, who faltered at the insult. "Second, I think our former enemies would know best in this situation."
"Thank you!" Katsuchi said to Nashi. "Someone here is totally insane."
"Can't you just dispel his attacks, Azzie?" Drake asked the purple haired girl, who jumped slightly at his voice. "I mean, you got me pretty good all those times."
"Master Kronos-sama is a cunning man." Azzie replied, playing with her hands. "He is proficient with many magics, but especially with Arc of Time. Even if I were to dispel his attacks, he'd send them back to a point where they existed, or an alternate timeline where I didn't dispel it."
"Yeah." Tetsu said. "I hear the Olympians gave him the name."
"Olympians?" Damien inquired.
"The most powerful of the New Balam Alliance." Katsuchi clarified. "They're twelve people modeled after some ancient culture's gods. Kronos is apparently some figure from that culture. Name translates to time." Damien saw the connection now. "Sometimes I wonder just how powerful he is, but I'm not stupid enough to check."
"First time for everything, right?" Simon asked, standing weakly. "Point us in the direction, and we'll head that way." Katsuchi watched the redhead warily, and sighed.
"Maybe you misheard, so allow me to clarify." Katsuchi replied calmly, but black flames licked around his temples. "You'll fucking die, no question."
"Don't underestimate us." Simon replied just as calmly, light shining weakly from his figure. "Just say where we have to go."
"Just stop." Everyone turned at Azzie's small voice to find her staring down at the ground. "Master Kronos-sama will not hesitate to kill all of you. And I...I..." Damien saw tears fall from her eyes. "I don't want more people to die...because of us..." Azzie's frame shook as she tried to repress the tears, and Drake stood to walk over to her.
"No one else is going to die." he told her, voice dead calm. She looked up at him hen he put a hand on her head. "If anyone's gong to die, it'll be Kronos for everything he's done. To you especially." Azzie's face wen bright red and she hide it from view, and Elise snickered.
"Get a room."She commented, but no reply came from Drake. Damien watched the Dragon Slayer remain quiet, before he turned to everyone.
"If we all work together" he said, watching them all. "We can stand more of a chance then we think. Who's up to it?" At first no one stood, but Simon sighed and stretched as he left his log seat.
"I'm coming." he told Drake. "No one attacks my family and gets away with it." Damien rolled his eyes and stood as well.
"Fuck that guy." he said with more bravado than he meant to have. "I plan on giving him my regards." Elise bounded up with a determined look.
"I can't let you guys have all the fun!" She said confidently. "I'm going!" Ultear stood, as did Nashi.
"Yeah," Ultear said, crossing her arms. "I've got a score to settle to."
"Well?" Nashi asked, slamming her fist into her open palm, fire flying everywhere. "The fuck are we waiting for?"
"You people are insane." Katsuchi growled as he leaned back against the log.
"Nope." Drake told him with brazen smile. "We're Fairy Tail."
"Is there a difference?" Tetsu asked. "Besides, you can't find him without our direction." No one spoke for a minute, before finally, the seventh figure stood.
"I'll..." Azzie spoke, walking over to them. "I'll lead you to him, and aid you where I can."
"Azzie..." Tetsu started, but Azzie waved him off.
"These people are offering, after we tried to kill them, to eradicate the darkness from our lives." She said, glaring at the two of them with her hands on her hips. "I'm more than willing to lay my life on the line to help them. Can you say the same, Katsuchi the Fire God Slayer and Tetsu the Iron God Slayer? Or are you both to afraid to try?" Both men glared at the girl, who didn't waver in the slightest.
"Tch," Tetsu said, standing up after a moment of silence. "I guess it'w worth a go, if anything. Right pal?" Tetsu asked as he slammed a hand into the back of Katsuchi's head. The Fire God Slayer glared at his friend as he stood, smiling weakly at the others.
"I guess insanity is contagious."
Erik wasn't try to take his sweet time reaching the airship, but it was a pain in his ass. Bushes and shit, trees and shit, craters and shit, dead bodies and shit...Oh, did he mention shit yet? Because there was a lot of that too. Sighing as he freed his Crime Sociere cloak from another tree, he stopped dead as he picked up footsteps. Swiftly hiding behind a tree, he activated his sound magic to listen in.
he could hear about nine sets of feet walking through the forest. Upon picking up their scents, Erik immediately knew six of them.
"The fuck are they doing?" Erik wondered aloud, albeit under his breath. "Why are they not at the airship anymore?" he slowly peaked around the corner to see, and observed the nine teenagers in front of him. He whistled. "Shit Salamander, is that your little girl? She must have millions of guys trying to court her." Erik chuckled at the thought of said Salamander hearing what he'd just said. "And little Ully looks so much like her mother, too. Elise is short, no one saw that coming. Simon looks so much like Jellal it's creepy, Damien still has that 'I killed my sister and cant get over it' look on his face..."
"Is it over here?" Erik's own son asked, a voice Erik had not had the pleasure of hearing in a while. Said son was talking to Nashi in a low tone, and the purple haired girl Erik didn't know nodded.
"Yes, just around here is a secret entrance, as it's underground."
"Haha, Drake still got a thing for Nashi, huh?" he joked, watching the two walking away from him. He remembered loving to tease his son about that. The thought entered his head that they were both grown up now, which only made Erik want to tease his son a lot more. Once they were a safe distance away, Erik decided to turn around and go to the airship, just to see how totaled it was. Just as he turned to go, he cursed himself for stepping on a branch and sped up slightly to get away.
I really hope they didn't fucking hear me...
Drake paused momentarily as he heard a branch snap somewhere in the distance, and he turned around to investigate the tree line. He saw nothing, and he heard the others stop ahead of him to see why he stopped. After he picked up a scent he got even more curious.
"What's wrong, Drake?" Nashi asked, appearing next to him. He frowned and grunted.
"Don't know." he said slowly. "I thought I heard something, then I caught my fathers scent..." Nashi inhaled deeply, and frowned.
"I can smell it too." She said slowly. "Like yours, but not."
"Crime Sociere lives in that airship." Simon suggested. "It's possible that you're just catching his scent from some wreckage in the area."
"Yeah, and Jellal said that he was already on his way to Crime Sociere's original target before they switched to come deal with this." Ultear reinforced, shrugging. "I doubt he's here, sneaking around of all things." Drake saw the logic in his friends arguments, and slowly turned to tail after them quietly.
They must be right, Dad's nowhere close...
"Holy fuck!" Erik whistled as he entered the clearing and spotted the hunk of wreckage. "They sure did a number on you!" He spotted his wounded guildmates lying bandaged and unconscious near the wreckage, so he made his way there by stepping over some poor fucks dead body. He knelt down net to Jellal and shook the wounded man weakly.
"Jellal! Come on man, wake the fuck up..." Erik shook him a little harder, and Jellal began to cough and opened his eyes wearily.
"Erik?" he asked weakly, and Erik nodded. "Thank God you made it here..." Jellal took a minute to observe the clearing and frowned. "Where's the kids?"
"Saw them headed west." he replied. "I don't know where they went, but..." Jellal growled and tried to stand, only to be shot down by the wound on his stomach. "What, what's the matter?"
"The only member of Devil Advocate left is the Master." Jellal hissed, causing Erik's stomach to do a nosedive. "They're probably going to try and..."
BOOM!
Both men jumped and looked off to the west, where smoke was rising.
"Shit." Jellal hissed, managing to stand. "There's no way in hell I can help at this rate. Erik! Go and find them!" Erik nodded wordlessly and sprinted to the west, his heart threatening to jump out of his chest in rage and worry.
I swear to fuck if that kid ens up dead, I'm not saying a word to Kinana as to how...
The final battle has begun! I hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!