Daybreak [Plot] [Open]

Something was happening as suddenly a guy jumped out of the shadows right on the guy that was In the middle of the shadows. Dam this was bad he didn’t know how strong that enemy was and why it was even here. It was time to switch gears. Even if Celine couldn’t help this was pretty easy to win anyway. Those shadows weren’t too strong as the arrows had
damaged the shadow and its shape was taking longer to form again. It was maybe a bit early to pull this weapon out as it was his strongest but he didn’t had time to wait. He couldn’t let the guy die. The weapon had 15 strikes before its energy was up in this world there were ten shadows so that would be easy for him. A warmer up for the fights ahead.

He pushed on the symbol of a spear on his cheek and the lines to his left eye started to light up. When it finally reached the eye it lighted up brightly golden as a seal opened above his eye making a loud searing sound as he put his arm in it. After a second he pulled it out again and a handle of a spear appeared. Now and then a golden ring was floating around the handle till he was pulling out the spear tip. That was a white crystal that was floating between a metal frame that was covered in feathers. With another couple of rings around it. he waved the spear around and a golden line came after the movement of the spear.

“may the gods have mercy on you.”, he whispered and sprinted forward. Two of the shadows shot themselves forward to hit him In a blast. He just smiled and swapped his weapon in a mighty slash and cut the two shadows in half as they exploded into a gas and disappeared. Screaming from the pain the holy power did to their body’s. the other shadows started to scream to as they saw how they would be killed easily by a weapon they didn’t accepted. The cowardly shadow started to run away from the judgment.
One of fifteen gone

He jumped up and slashed one of the shadows that was crawling up the wall. He then made a looping aiming for the middle of a group of five shadow. He landed in the middle of them and swirled around whipping away all of them. They were too weak to withstand his attacks. They weren’t used to be touched. The screaming continued two left.
Two of fifteen gone

The last two shadows were nearly getting away but they were making the mistake to run in a straight line. He turned his spear and aimed for the two shadows waiting. His breathing calming with each passing second till they got lined up he threw the spear as hard as he could and the sweeping sound of it flying echoed through the street as it hit trough both of them and got stuck in the floor stones flew away from the crash.
Three of fifteen gone.

“Good throw boss I’ll get it quickly go help that guy before he bleeds out he looks like a needle cusion.”, she said with a smile and started to walk to the spear. There was a small giggle on the end of her own made joke. Ah always so sarcastic he shook his head. He walked to the man and indeed the man was pierced with a couple of spears. And he had a look in his eyes like get these dammed spears out of my body. He could see a man lying under him but only for a split second as he disappeared in a cloud of shadow. Was he the one who made this shadows. Too bad he got away.

“Hold still this is going to hurt a bit. Don’t worry I will heal your wounds after wards. I am dryaw by the way blue Pegasus guild member. “ he said calmly as he first showed the tattoo on the palm of his hand before he grabbed one of the spears and started to pull it out. This really gone hurt he thought as he went from one spear to the other.

“now hold still why I heal you. Maybe you don’t trust me but I got a plan to stop these people. It seems they need blood. We can guess why they need blood but mainly blood is used in sacrifices in evil magic. My companion over there is filled with holy energy in her blood. If we would mix these two up we could at least stop anything they were planning with it. because of your shadow side it will probably mask the holy presence. So what you think you in?”, Dryaw said. He didn’t really know where this knowledge came from. But he suddenly thought of It while he was pulling out of the spears. Something he read ages ago in his homeland. He was covering up his eye as he wanted to heal the man. But when the energies were spreading out of his body they were being blocked by a shield around this man. Was this the evil side he had felt some time ago. What past did this man hold with him.

Fancy Mel side as the guild hall was empty. She took this as her chance. She flew down the stairs and into the library. "Float." Just as she finished her sentence the world "Float" appeared shaped like a cloud. Mel jumped on the cloud and floated around the library looking for the books she needed. She had a run in with dragons before. To no avail, there were no books she needed in there. So to leave her mark she held her hand and the words "Find Fancy Mel" landed on the floor. She found an interesting cover and grabbed the book. The words in were in an ancient language, but she didn't know much. She took the book and ran out of the guild hall. To see the battle. Fancy Mel sighed as she saw a priest healing others. Her blue eyes widened as she saw some debris falling with his back turned. "Wall!" She screamed as she ran up behind him. The world "Wall" appeared behind him blocking some of the debris falling. She looked at the man. "Hi there... We need to get these civillians out of here before something happens." Mel said holding on to her book.

Mari and max flew through the sun filled sky's as they went their way toward the guild hall in order to find Ebony, master of Fairy Tail. Max's wings continued to flap every so often before giving a soothing sail as his wings glided along the air. That's all Mari can hear as she was carried by max's small hands and yet able to carry someone much heavier then he was, as well as the book she carried along with them which seemed heavier then it looked. When suddenly a large thud pulsed through her body, widening her eyes as she can feel an evil presence within her very existence making her breath a bit heavier. Then another horrid thing past her nose which she found to be the reason for this evil to have awaken without thought.

"Max I smell something...down there."

She pointed downward into the town to see a group of mages huddled together, two of them seemed to be female while the other was unknown being covered in cloths. Both Max's and her eyes widened at his appearance and could be none other then Fredrick a dark mage who's continued to meet them multiple times. As the other times before this he must have a reason for being within magnolia and it wasn't a good.

"He's a dark mage correct! We should ask him!"

Max quickly thought before dashing into a swan dive down at him. Mari on the other hand placed a surprised look on her face as Max begun to change direction toward the dark mage. It seemed that Max had placed his attention on Mari's situation rather then the city of Magnolia which is something that she's use to, since his pushes aside his emotions to better judge situations and people.

"Max! I don't think this is a good Idea..."

Mari said as her attention returned to Fredrick and his two followers. It seemed that they haven't noticed their presence. One of the three was swallowed by darkness rising from the ground beneath her. Mari's eyes grew in worry, she assumed that the mage was teleported somewhere else but since she couldn't know she had to put Fredrick first. They landed swiftly, throwing dust into the air, Mari stood a bit back as Max took the lead placing himself before the mage Fredrick.

"You! Fredrick was it!? Have you heard of any spells that could place one's eternal soul within another object! Giving them eternal life!? Come forth and tell us!"

Max demanded as he clenched his fists by his sides and stood strong before the dark mage. As for Mari, she couldn't handle a single second being only feet away from this being of pure evil. His dark aura was so vast it seemed to be somewhat of a match as his previous guild leader, that Mari's blood consumed this hatred and want for destruction.

"....Yes!...Fall before his power!"

A dark voice could be heard within her own head as she threw a hand onto her forehead as a stern pain begun to pulse through her entire body rising. It seemed she only had seconds before she was consumed by her own power.

Frederick didn't even turn around to face his former Keeper. No he just kept staring forwards, and eventually started to walk again. To him Erza did nothing more then fulfilling her part as a tribute, to show Tartarus their determination. But just as he was about to distance them self from this scene an unexpected surprise dashed in front of him. And landed harshly on the ground.

"You! Fredrick was it!? Have you heard of any spells that could place one's eternal soul within another object! Giving them eternal life!? Come forth and tell us!"

In front of him stood a familiar pair, one was an exceed and was shouting at him. While the other, a young blonde girl stood behind him. Once again they had appeared, but unlike their previous encounters they didn't seem that they wanted to oppose him. No at the contrary, it seems they were after something quite vile themselves.

'I could have figured that I would run into you two eventually. I am after all standing in your home once again.' he replied in his usual cold and monotone voice while he signaled Ren to move forwards. The voice had emotion what so ever, not even anger. Which would be surprising after their encounter in Rose Garden. But even though there was no anger to be heard, that still didn't mean that Frederick was out for revenge. For Mari was one of the few that had robbed him from meeting Cecilia again.

'Or don't you remember what I did to your beloved master here in the park...Isn't that right Mari'

Frederick's gazed at Mari from under his hood when he said her name. For when he traded words with her annoying cat he had realized something that would serve as the perfect revenge. And it would hurt them in more ways then one.

'So you too are now hunting for lost knowledge, but I yet find it curious that you two of all people are delving in such vile tale. From which you don't know nothing about. And now that I think about it, you may be far more darker then you know...'

Frederick stopped speaking when he started to notice something off about his adversary. She suddenly clenched her hand against her forehead. And Frederick knew this was the opportunity he was waiting for. He tilted his head towards the cat again, and threw him a quick but devious smile. Showing him that he was a aware of a dark side in Mari.
And once again he started to speak again but this time his voice wasn't it usual self. It wasn't cold or devoid from any emotion, but it was melodious and strangely enthusing.

'Imprisonment is such a drag isn't it. Being locked away, unable to life to your fullest potential. Watching the world through a set of eyes that just doesn't appear to be yours. But that is all you can do isn't. Watching, and not feeling any freedom yourself. How pitiful, especially with all this power around you....'

Simon blinked, there was no way this was right Faust had been literally within Simon's hands and then he was gone. Before Simon could react a hand latched on to his arm fearing for his safety Simon activated his metallic demon's embargo the bronze shell had barely covered his head in time to deflect Faust's punch. The hit wrenched him from Faust's grasp and sent him sprawling on the ice the metal plate on his his face torn to pieces but it kept him safe long enough for the rest of his shell to form and the shell around his head to reform, it cost a bit of extra magic to account for the damage from the first strike but none the less Simon entered his small fortress like shell and for a moment felt safety. This shell was designed to protect him from great amounts of punishments even greater then what Faust was capable of in one attack, it was also rather ideal for the situation. Not only did the spikes make it harder for faust to attack Simon without hurting himself the spikes also held Simon above the ice so the main armor plating would not suffer from the cold as badly.

Now Simon found himself waiting again, waiting in his armored shell hoping for another chance to strike against Faust. Within the shell both his sight and smell were useless to him so had to focus on his hearing to perceive anything happening outside. Simon clawed at his memory for anything that might help him with his current situation, all of his main attacks needed more time to cool down, not to mention they hadn't been very effective against Faust he needed a new plan. Thinking as hard as he could Simon recalled receiving a package from Kaminatium earlier that day but not having time to open it, it wasn't much but Simon hoped that maybe it could be something to turn the tide of battle. It should still be in the guild hall, he just needed to get to it so he waited for an opening listening for Faust's reaction to his Embargo.


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Metallic Demon's Embargo: -15%
Ice Spike: -10% health
Embargo Durability: 50% (1 C-Rank spell)
Embargo Duration: 4 posts
Gaping Maw Cool down: 6 posts
Drill Claw Cool down: 2 posts
Health 90%
Mana 55%

Naruto sat on the edge of a rooftop, still watching as things unfold. Simon was facing off with a dark mage, seemingly strong too, with his ice and such. But knowing Simon, there will be nothing that the dark mage do that will make him stop. Of course, if he killed Simon, he would stop anyway. Then again, the fight with Lucifer continued nevertheless, and Lucifer seemed to still having the upper hand, despite the fact that he was facing some high ranked mages from Fairy Tail and some other guild too, referring to the ice make mage in Heero’s party.

There was but one spot that gained Naruto’s attention as a spying spectator. A black mass of aura surrounded one of Magnolia’s area, apparent rampaging of shadows could be felt. “Damn, I knew it. Lucifer won’t be stupid enough to come here alone, he would bring reinforcements.. or maybe..” Naruto’s eyes tensed as he came into a realization. “Wait.. Maybe they only wanted to shake the town till it’s unstable, then what that time comes… they’ll rule.. or destroy the town!” Naruto thought of their plan, not really sure if his guess was right, recalling the Lamia Scale event.

Neko knew the second spade disappeared that it was once again shadows that aided him. With half magnolia covered in night he had a million places to run.... But Neko knew better than this. He would be near a dragon slayer. Neko waisted no time. He turned to his guild mate grabbed his shirt and vanished. Or so it looked. Neko activated star jumper sending he and his guild mate to the stars. Neko watched looking for his lost brother. Not able to find him in the area he shot back down only to shoot them up again over the middle of the time. Suddenly something caught Nekos eye. Lots was happening and the town was turning once again into a war zone. The difference was. Neko knew how to fight these shadows. Nekos eyes locked on and found Daemon. He knew his magic anywhere. He was sad that it had come to this but it had to happen. Neko shot down with Lance a few feet from Daemon. Neko extended his sword again to Daemon. He motioned for Lance to take the slayer away from the area.I wouldn't save a saber but this time it's differnt. Go. This shadow Mage is mine! Nekos words fludded with anger at he held back the urge to start swinging his blade.Tell me Daemon when did a child of Luna abandon his mother!


Occ: Lance and Chao  sorry xD but this goes with mine and Spades plot line. Y'all can fight the shadows? They can't hurt me haha well right now

Daemon stood calmly on a nearby building sensing that the person the other lunos was with was heading towards his home. With a slight sigh Daemon took out a pack of smokes and his silver lighter as his silver aura exploded from his body as he lit the smoke and quickly let out a cloud of smoke. "My brother I never lost my mother I merely acquired a lover from the darkness " Daemon said with a smirk and a blush remembering that his wife was pregnant with their first child.

"Silver my brother I'm not the same as I once was my power has soared to new heights." Like his master before him Daemon channeled the power of the moon into his body then amplified the energy creating a silver katana while skillfully dodging his brothers swings then switched to deflecting them with his blade before grabbing Silvers sword with his left hand stopping the metal blade just above his cheek. With his eyes closed Daemon smiled as he quickly swung his Odachi across Silvers abdomen.

OCC: Npc Daemon is a B rank mage the claw is reinforced with an extra layer of alloy as well as a layer of lunar energy

Once more, Magnolia was under attack. The flame of battle, smothered just six months ago has been lit anew, kindled by the gusts of fate. Yet, above the once peaceful city, atop the cathedral's highest point, those winds felt a thousand times stronger to the one unaffected.
"Gh..."
But was he really?  The weight that fell upon his shoulders certainly felt real and sadly, he knew just why.

It's a feeling Aegis will never mistake. An aura of malice thick enough to choke you and the scent of death wafting gently, as if it's the most natural thing to have. Pure evil with a mocking grin. You could say that it's a unique kind of evil, as there truly is no other nearly as spiteful as it, not even the leaders of the dark guilds or their accomplices. It's just an absolute and undeniable hatred for existence.


"Tch. He's gone for now." - the knight's voice seemed to echo inaudibly with the words that were felt more than spoken.
Donned with a dissatisfied expression, his grip on the long flag pole tightened. It was certainly convenient that the grand church of Magnolia had such handgrips installed on each of its towers.
The swordsman's sharp gaze scanned through the city once more, this time to analyse rather than seek.
"Lucifer is standing in front of Fairy Tail hall... and the 3 strongest wizards around are all gathered there. At the same time, everyone else is scattered all over the city, all being attacked by someone... And then there were those shadows traversing the buildings from earlier." - he led his monologue for a minute, laying down the facts before himself and that lead him a grim realisation.
"....Lucifer must be acting primarily as a diversion. This attack is far too structured.... I have to-"
Suddenly, pained screams and grunts uttered in a familiar voice reached his ears.
"Ayeseru...!" - Aegis exclaimed as he instantly turned to face their origin and sure enough, there stood Ayeseru, nailed to the ground with spears. It appeared that he was saved by a man donned with a knight's visage."Perhaps..."
With a look of determination, Aegis let go of the pole and leapt off of the cathedral, his plunge interrupted by a building's roof upon which he broke his fall through a roll. From there, he manoeuvred from house to house, deeming it a shortcut to reach the end of the street, where his ally was.

"Ayeseru!" - 'I need to know why you were attacked!' he finished authoritatively, paying almost no attention to the other man.
"What did the dark mage want from you? If this is what I suspect it is, then we are literally walking into their trap, so I must know!"
The knight's kill-ready stare was certainly more than enough to state that he was not joking.

As Faust hand would grip the boy’s left wrist his spikes would ravage the area causing it to be covered in a black and purple color, a side effect from Prickly Spine. His grip would cut and tear the muscles and tissue of that area, plus due to the boy’s young age and the added damage from Icy Breathe bringing the temperature down even greater so his ice spikes would be thicker and sharper (50% increase brings total damage of the Prickly Spine to a damage of C+D) His right hook that he hoped would end this fight connected as well but with a metallic shield. From the force of the punch hitting the metal seemed to cause the boy to be blown back a bit. As the boy would pull away from Faust the icy spikes would drag down the arm slicing the hand as well causing maiming damage to the area. As the boy was pushed back he curled up into a ball and slide roughly 3 meters from Faust. Though he could not see the metal ball he could hear it, as it slid from him Faust was already heading in its direction, he was tired of this game and was about to end this boy.

Faust was upon the ball nearly the second that it stopped sliding, though he was weighed down the distance was only four steps away. When he came onto the ball he would reach down between the large spikes placing his left hand on the ball. His spikes would piece the armor ball but he doubt that it would have instantly broke it, though it might have pierced the boy beneath. He lifted his right hand forming a fist. He would punch the ball, striking a spike from the side fully ripping it off as it would travel to hopefully hit its target of the metal shell below. If his fist struck the boy he knew that the damage would far exceed the ball’s defenses and he would most likely hit the boy dead on. He had placed his left hand on the ball for two reasons, the first was so that if his struck would cause the ball to roll or move he would have a nice anchors, the second was if the boy inside came out of the shell his hand would be able to easily grab him. The icy storm raged on around him, soon it would die away but for anything that had been exposed to it for the whole time would be frozen in place by now, others that had only been in the area for a little while would just be covered in a thin layer of ice and frost.

-60% Magic
-Prickly Spine has 2 post left
-Icy Breathe is over

Simon bit the inside of his lip he guessed that his arm had gone numb somehow from the cold but looking at it now, it was completely mangled he had deep cuts in it where spikes had been stuck in it and torn out when he had been knocked away and it was turning blue and black it was not only all kinds of gross but exceptionally terrifying really. He worried he would lose usage of his arm if he didn't get it attention soon, and there was also the fact that Faust was currently trying to tear open his embargo he ne- his thoughts were cut off by Faust punching through the shell and an ice spike going straight into Simon's gut. Time slowed to a crawl, a wave of pain over took Simon and he screamed a horrible cry.

Enraged and scared Simon kicked a section of his embargo shell toward's Faust(aiming in the direction the punch had came from) causing the section of the shell to be blown off and sent catapulting towards Faust, who considering the ice spike in Simon was right outside the shell. While Simon couldn't guarantee the attack would hit, despite all logic saying that Faust wouldn't possibly have the time to react seeing as he could not see the attack incoming and the attack was being launched at an impressive speed over a very very small distance, but what it did guarantee was that Faust would move either the spike piece of metal would hit Faust and send him reeling back or Faust would evade somehow either way it meant Faust would get out of Simon's path and remove the spike from him.

When this happened either the spike would be painfully ripped from Simon or Faust would break it off and leave it in Simon regardless it would allow Simon to move. He would abandon his shell and immediately jump to a nearby roof top probably causing blood to spurt from his wound, he would then while covering his stomach wound with his good arm sprint across the roofs fighting back screams of pain and tears in an attempt to get to his adopted human father's estate just out side of town. There hopefully he would find refuge and treatment for his horribly bloody injuries and frost bite. Simon dreaded what would happen if this were to fail.

He sighed and looked at the man as he coudln’t heal him. Well he had done what he could. Celine came back with the spear and threw it to him when she was close enough. Dryaw catches the spear and gets a good grip on it while he looked back to the notices he was hearing. There were people slowly walking through the streets some of them were wounded and bleeding. They didn’t seem to well. He better give them aid before they fell through their legs of energy loss. There was no time to lose.

“Celine get a cart or something to move these people while I treat them.” He shouted to her as he started to rip his cape to make bandages for people. He darted to the first girl that was close and looked at her wounds. It seemed she had a big gaping wound in her leg and it was bleeding heavenly. She was biting her lip as he bounded it over the wound. He nodded her and looked at her to hold on while he finished this. He suddenly heard some noise above him and looked up as rubble was falling but he heard something scream from a distance and a second later a wall appeared that blocked the rumble from falling on him.

A loud noise echoed through the streets as the rocks stopped falling. A dust cloud rose up and settled as quickly. He looked through it as his savior became more visible by the minute. She was a bit of a older women mid thirty he would say. Her hair was in a special style he never had seen before and she was wearing some strange hat. He was a bit baffled by her appearance but quickly came to his sense when she said that they had to get them out.

“Indeed we need to get them out of here. My partner is getting a cart for it. and oh thanks by the way I am in your debt.”, a she said it a horse and cart came riding in to the street. With Celine on the leather straps in her hand making haste as fast as she can. Dryaw took the women from the ground and laid her over her shoulder.

“can you take that kid that laying there on the floor he looked really bad..”, his sentence got cut off when suddenly a kind of knight looking guy covered in the color of cyan came running through the street at the mage he just had saved shouting what the dark mage wanted from him. Dryaw was a bit irritated that the man just ran past all the wounded people and even ignored the man’s wounds to ask a question instead of making sure he was okay.

“Hey you there instead of barging in here. Help us getting these people on the cart. To answer on your question it’s their blood thereafter. Celine come here and give your blood for the vial. You look strong get the mixed blood to the dark mages it will stop there plans if they use it. or at least we can track there location down.”, he shouted to the man as he put the woman In the card and ran over to his savior to help her with the next persons. While Celine jumped of the cart and ran to the newcomer to give her blood to him. The wounded mage started to speak to now and made some remarks.

“yes we should stay together but your wounded and this girl can’t get all these people out safely. She will get you out safely I and this newcomer shall find the dark mages in the city. If I would be evil would I help these people? I am dryaw by the way now decide before we lose more people.”, he shouted angrily against the two that were totally ignoring the fact of the wounded people. Nor was the mage looking at his own wounds it frustrated him a lot.

Lance nodded as took off running to Fairy tail only slowing Dow. to wait for the other mages to catch up with him. "I will not fail to protect my guild...." Lance mattered to himself as a picture of the fight with Lucifer "Ebony‚Heero stay safe." Lance thought in his mind and he closed his eyes and Cole etched his fist then nodded as he continued walking.

Evil Lance hurried out the front door of his castle as he laughed while the gate slowley opened with a shining light. "I can't beilive the time has come for me to enter their world!" he said as he stared at the gate smiling then suddenly it started to close and Evil Lance stared at it with a scowl "GOD DAMNIT!" he yelled as he fell to his knees and punched the ground before getting up and returning to his throne room to have some fun with Lance mind.

Lance hurried his way through Magnolia trying to reach the guild as fast as he could when he saw a man moving off in the distance. Lance stared at the man for a second before realizing who it was. "Griffon!" Lance yelled as he ran toward his brother but as he reached him Griffon turned around to face Lance. Griffons face dripped with blood and he didn't have eyes. When Lance reached out to touch him Griffon dissapeard in a smoke of shadows with a blood curtailing scream. Lance dropped to his knees as the whole world turned black for him and all he saw were the people he loved and his guild mates. They looked the same as Griffon was because they were dripping with blood and no eyes.

After a while of Lance's screamd that could be heard through the whole town he slowly got up but something was different about him now. "Let's get to the guild quick...." Lance muddered to the people with him.

OOC: OK so to tie up any confusion. No one else saw Griffon or his guild mates only Lance saw them. Every one else's world stayed the same and only Lance's turned black. This was all an illusion in Lance's mind because of Evil Lance.

Daemon dispelled his Odachi and smiled. Brother I never lost my faith in Luna her love still flows through me as well as my wife, but for some reason I can not abandon that child his power is the same as my wife's until I find out how they are connected he will be under my eye if he becomes a threat I promise that I will be the one to end his existence " He gently pushed the blade out of the way and gave his brother a hug to calm him down.

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As Lunos reached his master house he sensed that Daemon was not in the house but his wife was. with a loud bark he gently pawed at the door begging for entrance. Ayame opened the door to see the older version of Lunos carrying the boy she and her husband had saved from the Silver and the other fairy tail member she quickly lead lunos into the house and carefully helped lunos set the boy onto the couch as she slowly channeled the surrounding darkness into her hand and gently placed it onto his bleeding forehead. Dark pulse." She spoke as she sent the darkness into his body to repair the damaged cells causing the wound to close then she slowly took out a small cloth and started to wipe away the blood As Daemon slowly woke up and looked up Ayami. "M.mother." He said causing Ayami to nearly screamed as she jumped back looking at the boy confused as hell. "WHAT DID YOU JUST CALL ME ?!" She said as Daemon slowly tried to stand up behind his body quickly plummeted to the floor with a painful groan Daemon was unable to even move.

As the boy called her his mother Ayame practically jumped out of her skin She knew for a fact that she and Daemon had no children yet and their first born was still on the way, As Ayame slowly looked over the boys features and was rather shocked he didn't look similar to her husband he looked exactly like him save for his crimson eyes and raven black hair which were exactly like her.

“Things are getting rather.. messed up.” Naruto sighed, looking everywhere throughout the city. Somehow, he had the feeling that this battle wouldn’t be the same like the one with the Savage Skull before. This time, it was a completely different battle, and with Lucifer on the dark side, they are at great advantage. He could be the trump card, and was able to turn the tide, thus giving the odds on the dark mages’ favor. “This is bad.” Naruto jumped from roof to roof, catching up with the newest updates about the ongoing battle with Lucifer, some shadow mage and stuffs going on in Magnolia. He must have the intel about the dark mages, as he thought he would be able to help Heero against Lucifer by giving off useful information later.

Faust pushed open the large doors to his father’s study, a massive room cloaked in animal pelts and head mounts. Bookshelves dotted some of the walls, you could see the passing of time with the books, some were bound in leather, while others were held together by animal furs, rope, twine, and a few on flesh. Faust had the pleasure of reading from few of these books and if he was so lucky it would only be for a few passages before Loros shut the books in his face. The demon stood over by a large bay window overlooking the frozen tundra below. The demon stood at a massive height, his jet black hair was dotted with small bits of gray and white. He was draped in a dark blue cape with dots of silver, at the neck was wolf’s fur, same with at the ends of the cape. He seemed to not pay any attention of Faust entering the room. He walked over to the demon’s large oak desk and stood there waiting for a brief moment before coughing to let his presence known.

In a harsh and annoyed tone Loros answered immediately. “I know you are there stupid boy, just shut up and sit down.” Faust sat down and waited for the demon to finish whatever he was doing. The demon placed his hands on a large bay window that he was staring out, almost instantly a powerful storm started. He walked over to Faust and sat in the chair that was next to the boy’s. “Now then Faust I think it is time that we spoke upon your past and future.” Faust eyed the man with an inquisitive look. The old demon’s eyes were as cold as the stones of this castle, his stare seemed expressionless, Faust had no idea what would transpire within the next few hours.


Faust felt his fist connect with the metal shell, piercing right through it. The boy’s blood trickled down his arm. Faust smiled, he had this little fairy brat. Then the boy threw his metal shielding at Faust causing him to stumble backwards. As this happened the boy seemed to have got up and ran off. As he ran a trail of blood followed him, the snow was painted with red. Faust dismissed the ice spikes and watched the boy run off. Faust started to walk in that direction but stopped, that little fairy was not worth his time, even if he was the spawn of a demon. Faust lend down and placed his fingers in the blood, he brought it back up took a sniff to memorize the scent before standing back up. The battle nearby sounded like it was picking up though Faust felt like he would only be a hindrance to any dark mages that might be there. He sighed as the icy spikes dissolved into nothing. He had his share of fun for the moment and needed to retreat before he bit off more than he could chew. He headed for the outskirts of the town, he would stay nearby in the woods in case anything else interesting happened but he would just watch for now.

-Exit-

Primo walked down the street and vaguely saw Heero, Ebony, and Zenshin fighting Lucifer. Primo ran to the guild hall and thought about the danger that was going on but tossed it away. He soon came past some rockets that he made and said,"Perfect," Primo switched on his hologram with a rocket in hand and ran back to Ebony and others. Primo stopped making sure he was unseen and then yelled,"GET OUT THE WAY!!," the hologram threw the bomb and then they both hid in different placfes and the hologram ran straight in front of them and jumped over a fence to hide. Primo waited for the explosion to come soon.

Each step put Simon a greater distance away from the battle and he cursed himself over and over over for running he tried to forgive himself by saying that he would have died if he stayed and that he needed to live to fight another day but he was leaving all those dark mages to rampage about Magnolia. He really wanted to bash his head into a wall but his current state considered that would kill him so he focused on reaching his adopted father's estate. He slightly dreaded the lecture and cruel speech awaiting him when he showed up on that door step he would be belittled and insulted and made to look a fool for going to joining Fairy Tail. But he knew he would be tended to his adopted father was human and wasn't going to let his adopted son die on his door step, now Simon's demon father might have but that was a story for a different time. Reaching the large mahogany door, the old man was obsessed with Mahogany and Simon didn't blame him the stuff was amazing, Simon knocked on it forcefully hoping that a servant would respond instead of his father.

The door to the small mansion opened revealing a frail looking but very tall man on the other side, Simon let out a sigh of relief "Hey Jasper what's up?" The aged man almost fainted at the sight of the bloody and beaten Simon, but he managed to keep a hold of his consciousness and ushered Simon in wordlessly. The next few minutes were all a blur, probably from blood loss, Simon was rushed to a long room towards the back of the house that served as the infirmary and all his injuries were treated and bandaged by servants of all kinds rushing about as he explained what happened over and over again. Before long Simon was covered in bandages and weird salves for his frostbite. It was only then after the chaos had calmed itself did Simon notice a large man standing in the corner of the room, he was dressed in a green suit and to be bluntly honest he looked like he had a pole shoved up his butt. He looked at Simon like he was a piece of disturbing road kill "Ah Simon so you've returned. Good timing really, we were just about to set off for Era I have recently found favor with a very influential lord and as a bonus you will now join a REAL magic organization and do some good for once. You saved me the trouble of fetching you." Simon's eyes went wide, he would probably stand from the hospital bed except he didn't really have the strength for it "What? You can't just take me from Fairy Tail, you're just my surrogate father not to mention you disowned me. You don't have control of me anymore! I'm my own person now." The man walked over to Simon's bed and looked down at him "No more of this nonsense you are my son, who has left but came back and I have forgiven you. I am providing you with an even higher standard of living then what I have here and a way to practice your magic and still be of use to me. This is the best possible situation you could be in. Now rest I have already taken the liberty of retrieving your possessions from that run down guild of yours, we leave for Era on the morning."

He was still in the sky, watching down as Heero and Ebony launched their powerful counter attacks, way more than what was needed for just one mage. Zen was aware that the one called Lucifer was mighty, but two Saints and a guild master was inefficient, as there were other places that needed more assistance than could be provided. Zenshin flew downward and informed the two what his plans were "There are others who need help right now, you two are more than capable of taking him down, there's no time". It was a hurried explanation, but he was right, there was so much happening at once that there was no time at all. In a burst, he flew towards Fairy Tail as quickly as he could, as it was the epicenter of all the madness that was happening right now.

Is this how the battle of Magnolia went down? People screaming, chaos arising? I guess I should be glad I wasn't there for it... he thought, reflecting on the past events as the wind rushed by him. "What in the-" he said aloud as he saw two immense fireballs crash into civilians from his vantage point in the sky. He was appalled to see the two men catch fire, one of them desperately attempting to put out the fire by crawling into the river, but falling short a couple of feet. The other actually did find his way in, but probably suffered burns too severe for a measly body of water to heal. What kind of torturous monster takes pleasure in that? he thought, trying to find the source of the fire magic. Well, he did, but not before seeing a third bystander fruitlessly charge the sick man with a shovel only to get it returned in a rather gruesome way.  

After all of that, the mysterious man just casually strolled on the path towards master Ebony's guild hall, laughing manically all the while. Maniacal laughter and gruesome methods of killing innocent people. Definitely a dark mage capable of nasty things he thought as he landed right in the way of the murderer. "I couldn't help but notice your little light show. How about I show you mine" he said, basically inviting the man to fight him. It was clear that he was strolling towards the guild hall, but for what? To help out his dark brethren? To destroy it? To kill members of Fairy Tail? Although his intentions weren't clear, what was clear was that they couldn't be good. Anyone who can do that to a bystander's face without so much as a flinch of guilt was too dangerous to be left unattended.

A buzz could be heard as the cannon that replaced his left hand charged up, a yellow light emanating from the contraption. Withing a blink of an eye, a large ball of light was shot at blinding speeds towards the dark mage in front of him, causing dust from the ground below to be pushed backwards as well as Zenshin himself from the recoil. Hopefully this would be a quick fight that ended in the first few seconds, but judging by the man's power so far, and his own luck, that would probably not be the case.