Fairy tail in trouble with Demons 4

"UGH!" Gray groaned as he slowly began to get his wits back. He tried to look around but his vision was to hazy to make anything out, the constant ringing sound in his ears wasn't helping. "What happened?" Hoping someone else could tell him what was going on. No one however answered his questions so he was forced to wait till this vision and hearing fixed itself. It took a couple minute to see what had happened.

The whole guild had been reduced to ruble. The sight didn't phase him at first with how much damage he had done to it. This time however the walls and even roof had been destroyed allowing him to see part of the damage that the rest of Magnolia had taken. Looking at things more closely he noticed a lack of recovering guild mates who should be recovering like he was. Instead he didn't even see any small traces of clothing being blown by the winds. Pinching himself hard he knew this was no nightmare but the cold hard reality. Slowly and painfully the truth started to sink in.

"No way!" Horror starting to finally sink in. " Juvia, Gajeel, Cana, Levy,..." Calling out to anyone who could hear him. "Alzack, Jet, Macao,..." Not even so much as hearing a cough from all the dust in the air. "Anyone?" Feeling tears trickling down his face beginning to think he might have been the only one to survive. 'Not again.' Feeling like he did as a child when Deloria wiped out his home town. Helpless.

Standing up he expected his body to drop in pain, but it never did. As a matter of fact except for his head still aching from the sound of what must have been a massive explosion, or the pain overloading his heart his body hadn't acquired any new scars. "Why was I the only one spared?" Still letting the thought of his entire guild being wiped out seep in. That was until he heard some coughing followed by some dry shouting.

"Help me!' A female voice called out.

Jumping to action did the Ice-Make mage look for the owner of said voice. Out of instincts he thought he heard it coming from the infirmary and he was right. In the now destroyed room was Cana tending to her comatose boyfriend Laxus. "Are you alright?" Asking as he knelt down beside her.

"We are." Cana said voice nearly breaking as the situation was sinking in for her as it did for him. "But...But...I...couldn't..." Voice trailing off a she pointed to her front.

Thinking of what the room looked like before did it really sink in for Gray. The Card-Mage was pointing to where the beds Bickslow, Evergreen, Freed, and Yajima had been in. 'Then the rest of the guild as well. Juvia!' The last thing he remembered before the explosion was sitting across from her eating lunch together. 'Was that our final moment together?' Thinking of how fast their relationship was going with her as his new girlfriend.

"I wasn't fast enough to save them." Guilt on her heart killing her. She just escaped Elfman's choke a moment before the explosion. In that five seconds of high adrenaline Cana only thought of turning people into cards when she found herself standing in the infirmary. Having ran to the infirmary she only had the opportunity to try and save them. Only she only had time to save herself and Laxus who happened to be the closest to her from the fate the rest of Fairy Tail had experienced.

Unlike the woman who had some time to react before the bomb went off he had no such time. All he saw was the flash of it exploding before waking up how he did. In the center of the destroyed ruins once known as Fairy Tail. "What happened?"

Cana as best she could told Gray of her suspicions of Elfman, and how she only just caught him setting the bomb off. How she guessed the hulking man must have sold his soul to the demons to keep his sisters safe. A price that not only meant the end of his own life, but also the lives of everyone but his two sisters ending.

Mind and body wanting to break down in grief the two mages knew whoever had done this would most likely strike again soon in case anyone survived. The woman revealed she had used most of her magic in creating a shielding around the cards to keep her and the blonde man safe to the point it affected her physical strength. The raven haired man instructed her to find some kind of cart to put the other man on for transporting while he picked him up into a fireman carry.

Outside of the guild did the duo see that the bomb had done not only all the damage to their former guild but to all of magnolia. No building around them was left in one peace. Hell half of the massive cathedral had been blow out leaving the two remaining walls to collapse on each other. After looking for a couple minutes did they happen to see an unconscious Lucy covered in tiny amount of rubble and dirt thirty feet away from them.

"Lucy!" Gray shouted rushing to her side. Carefully he laid the man down so he could cheek to see if she was alright. The entire time praying she was alive.

Luckily Cana was able to find a damaged rolling fruit stand that looked like it would fall apart at anytime. "Beggars cant be choosers." She complained clearing off as best she could while leaving some food left on the cart. After all if who ever was responsible for the bomb did come back they'd need it for the run to come. They might be a rowdy fighting guild, but this was no time for fighting. This was a time to get oug of there before things had a chance to worsen. A little more luck smiled on her as the wheels still worked as she began to push it towards where Gray had run off to.

When he got to her did he drop down to his knees and checked her out head to toe. Somehow in the two hours she'd been gone she looked four times as worn out as she was before leaving. Luckily though extremely shallow she was still breathing with no physical injuries on her body. "Cana Lucy's alive." Calling the brunette over.

"Thank you god." Thankful for one less grave needed to be dug if they ever got the chance.

Looking past where the blonde lay down he noticed the building behind her was spared from the detonation where others further out had a few blown out walls. 'What saved you?' Gray wondered. Looking back he knew Cana saved herself and Laxus by turning them into cards and used her magic to shield them. 'Hologram maybe?' Thinking back to Tenrou Island when the spirit sensed danger and saved Wendy's life. 'How did I survive?' Without being able to put a thought into the question did a voice echo around them.

"Congratulations Survivors." A sinister female voice boomed all over Magnolia. "I don't know nor do I really care how you managed to do it but you survived a bomb designed to take out entire cities."

"Is that one of the demons who took the others?" Trying to look for the source of the voice.

"Unfortunately we won't be satisfied with your survival. Instead now this desolated town will be sacked by a demon army.

The citizens lucky enough to be far enough from the blast listened to the voice speaking to them in sheer terror. Slowly they all started to look up to see a massive floating cube flying high in the skies.

"This is no longer a fairy tale world you all live in." A different female voice spoke that was eerily calm considering the situation. "You now live in a world with its history and future written by demons. And in this book the word mercy is not known."

By then everyone was looking up at the giant floating cube up in the sky. None of them wanting to accept what they looked upon nor the words all promising them death. Except they would have to seeing black dots beginning to emerge from the cube making their way down to the ground.

"This will not be the fate of all mankind." This time a male voice spoke to them. "We simply mean to make an example of what will come to those who will defy us in this new age of the Demon." All over the country of Fiore every screen was turned on and or forced to look at the damage done to Magnolia. "The sight you see before you is no rouse. This is the once proud city of Magnolia where the guild Fairy Tail once stood. They foolishly tried to oppose my all powerful guild Tartarus. Because of their fool-hearted attempts to stop us we will wipe the entire city of the face of this world. Let this serve as a lesson to any others who try to defy the will of Tartarus again. Now bare witness to how cruel the new masters of this world can be!"

What looked to be black dotes were the demons falling to the earth all dressed in long dark black cloaks hiding every part of them except for their murderous red eyes. The second they touched ground did they spring into action to make Magnolia nothing but a memory to the rest of Fiore.

Gray tried to count how many there were only to lose count after getting to thirty. Thinking about the situation Laxus and Lucy were defenseless in their current state, Cana was panting from brining the cart over to them, and thinking about it he couldn't think of anyone who wasn't inside the guild at the time. 'I'm the only one!'' Taking a defensive stance ready to fight the demon army threatening to kill them all.

Picking up and letting Laxus down onto the cart she soon did the same to Lucy. Cana next grabbed the handles of the cart. "I don't know how much magic I have left." Setting her deck of card where she could grab them at any time.

Gulping. "Its just like the end of the games all over again." Flashback of getting shot in the head replayed vividly in his mind. the last thing he saw was Juvia tearfully looking at him as he was shot into ribbons. By a great miracle several mages had been given a second change to live that day. Today there would be no miracle except for surviving it.

"Chain Lightning!" The Card-Mage cast her first spell zapping five demons.

"Super Freeze Arrow" The Ice-Mage spreading sharpened ice spears at everything in front of him. Normally he only put enough force behind the spell to do damage. This time however he made sure each shot went straight through those cloaked demons. "Cana start running!" Taking the lead clearing a path for the brunette pushing the raggedy cart through the war zone their beloved home town had been reduced to.

Thus the battle for survival began. Much like Gray predicted Cana wasn't able to use her magic more than three more time with his own fastly depleting as more and more waves of cloaked demons continued the foil their escape. In the background they heard the regular citizens either screaming in fear or letting out one last pain filled scream before falling to them. The two mages knew fighting would only lead to death, but they couldn't leave their Nakama behind. So Gray had Cana found themselves doing what they could to get out of the demon's nest.

Even during the events of eclipse did the raven haired man feel such fear. accompanying that fear was guilt of not being able to help any of his townsmen in this time of horror. The only thing helping him combat that fear was the fear of dying like he nearly did months ago. "Left!" Shouting back which direction to take.

"Gray I don't know how much longer I can last!" Cana shouted feeling her arms and legs burning from the build up of lactic acid building in her tiring muscles.

He understood her getting tired. Hell he was getting exhausted cutting straight through the army. It wasn't easy playing the guard for his Nakama. Sure he'd been taking more damage because of it, but unlike all the other times he knew each injury no matter how small would decide if they lived or died. "Hold on!" Constantly changing directions as the horde of enemies felt endless through the ruined city. He tried looking for other survivors to help them escape as well, but none where to be found as the screaming becoming quieter with each passing minute. Then it happened, he made a wrong turn. "We need to turn back!" Looking at twelve cloaked demons blocking the path.

"Not an options!" Looking back did she see nine more pursing from the back. Further inspecting the only option they had was to go through the Cathedrals blown out wall only that would trap them inside to certain doom.

"Fuck!" Both mages cursed at the same time. Right then did they both feel that gut wrenching feeling of being completely helpless right before one is about to be killed. They noticed that the demons slowed down to a stalking pace. Like a cat who just cornered a mouse. They knew they had the humans and it was up to them when they died.

"Gray..." Cana tried to say something only the words refused to leave her fear filled lungs.

"Cana..." Gray mirrored his longtime friends actions.

In the end they could only think of one word that could summarize what hey wanted to say. "Sayonara!" Ready to take out as many demons they could before the numbers would take them like the rest of their town and loved ones. 'I wish things had worked between us.' Thinking briefly of the short time when they where a couple.

(A/N: "Latin", (English translation).)

Out of no where did the chanting of a young woman in an unknown language began to sound through the ruins of the once great city of Magnolia. "Exorcizamus te, omnis immundus spiritus omnis satanica potestas, omnis incursio infernalis adversarii, omnis legio, omnis congregatio et secta diabolica. Ergo draco maledicte et omnis legio diabolica adjuramus te. Cessa decipere humanas creaturas, eisque aeternae Perditionis venenum propinare."

(We exorcise you, every impure spirit ever satanic power, every incursion of the infernal adversay, every legion every congregation and diabolical sect. Thus cursed demon and every diabolical legion I adjure you. Cease to deceive human creatures and to give to them the poison of eternal Perdition.)

Once the words stated every demon in the city grabbed at their ears trying to block out the chanting, as they screamed in bloody pain. Unable to do so they tried find the source to kill it or run away to prevent further pain.

"What's going on?" Gray asked seeing how all the demons threatening to kill them now began acting as he was when they had them on the ropes completely backing off the mass slaughter.

Vade, Satana, inventor et magister omnis fallaciae, hostis humanae salutis. Humiliare sub potenti manu dei, contremisce et effuge, invocato a nobis sancto et terribili nomine, quem inferi tremunt.

(Go away, Satan, the inventor and master of all deceit, the enemy of humnaity's salvation. Be humble under the powerful hand of god tremble and flee - I invoke by us the sacred and terrible name at which those down below tremble.)

"Up there." Cana finally pinpointing the source of the chanting.

Looking up did Gray see it as well. Atop the rubble of the destroyed Cathedral stood the chanter. A woman with short dark purple hair going halfway down her neck. Her eyes closed and fingers locked as she spoke the awkward prayer. She wore a silver blouse, a black skirt coming down to her knees with black socks almost touching her knees, and a white hooded-jacket with a golden cross connecting a small part of the zipper of her jacket together right over her bust.

Unluckily the demons spotted her as well now turning their attention in stopping her. Several tried to climb the rubble, but all got pierced in the back with frozen arrows.

"I don't know what she's doing to you guys, but I'll make sure she sees it to the end." The Ice-Mage changing his plan of running to protecting the woman a top the destroyed church. After all it looked to be causing them major pain. He also knew if he, Cana, Lucy, and Laxus had any hope of living through this it would be through that purple haired woman.

Ab insidiis diaboli, libera nos, Domine. Ut Ecclesiam tuam secura tibi facias libertate servire te rogamus, audi nos. Ut inimicos sanctae Ecclesiae humiliare digneris, te rogamus, audi nos.

(From the snares of the devil, free us, lord. So that you may make your church safe to serve you freely, we ask you, hear us. so That you may destroy the enemies of your sacred church, we ask you, hear us!)

Now every single demon dropped to their knees begging for the prayers to end much like all the helpless victims begged for theirs before being denied. And just like they denied them, they to would be denied any mercy.

"Keep going!" Cana begged feeling like the purplette was close to finishing.

Terribilis Deus de sanctuario suo. Deus Israhel ipse truderit virtutem et fortitudinem plebi Suae. Benedictus deus. Gloria patri.

(God is frightening about his own sacred place. The god of Israel himself will have thrust excellence and strength to his own people. Blessed be god. Glory be to the father)

At the final word the entire demon army exploded into black dust. Due to the sheer number of them the town was for seven seconds covered in black.

Once the dark cloud faded. "Amazing." Cana said stunned that the mysterious woman killed the demon army threaten to destroy Magnolia.

Gray on the other hand saw something his long time Nakama missed. "Hang on!" Seeing her losing her balance on the rubble. A second into the run the woman must have lost consciousness as she began to fall from the Cathedral face first. Reaching out he leapt forward to grab her, and turn her over so that she landed on him instead of the unforgiving stone/brick walk way. It was painful letting her land on him like that, but for saving his and his remaining Nakama's lives it was more than worth it.

If not for both Laxus and Lucy still out of it the Card-Mage would have gone to check on her as well. Not trusting all the demons to be gone she kept close not letting her vigilance falter for a second, or in the fear of relaxing no matter how short a time her emotions catching up to her in this most dire of time.

"UUUUUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Groaning after getting the wind driven out of him. "Are you alright?" Feeling her breathing as her breasts pressed slightly harder to his chest.

"I think so." She spoke tiredly. While trying to get up she accidentally pressed her hand on the man's chest making him groan harder. "I'm so sorry." Opening her eyes to see the man who caught her.

Looking up at her with one eye shut from pain. "No problem." After all if not for her he would have been overrun. "We owe you big time." Looking into her caring black eyes.

Placing her free hand on her head. "Even though they were all low level demons that took more out of me than I thought it would." Criticizing herself. "What's your name?" Looking like she was ready to pass out.

"Gray Fullbuster of Fairy Tail." Speaking the guilds name reminded him immediately of its destruction and death of nearly all its members. He wanted so badly to mourn for everyone dear to him that he lost, but he knew it was not yet the time to do that. No he knew this day was far from being over. "Yours?" Wanting to know the name of the woman who saved the last four known members of Fairy Tail in Magnolia.

"Samantha." The purple haired woman revealed her name before passing out on the raven haired mans bare chest.

Wrapping one arm around her so it ran up her back, and the other one the back of her head did he hug her. "Thank you Samantha." Though it was far from being the time for shedding tears he couldn't help but let a few fall. "Thank you for saving us."