Skies of Fiore, Grimoire Heart Airship
(Insert Music: Naruto Shippuden-Kouen)
Within the medical wing of the airship of Grimoire Heart, the two unconscious members of the Seven Kin of Purgatory, Zancrow and Azuma were lying in their beds. The heart monitors beeped to show that they were alive. A numerous amount of tubes were connected to their bandaged bodies to deliver morphine, nutrients and blood to their bodies. Oxygen masks were also covering their mouths and noses.
However, while the two were sleeping, a small, black devil-like creature appeared in a plume of black smoke with a wicked cackle. Luci watched the two and went over to the healing members of Grimoire Heart. Luci raised his claws and sliced off the tubes before poking Azuma and Zancrow where their hearts were located. Suddenly, their hearts shot into overdrive as they began to undergo seizures. Luci smiled and gave another cackle as he spun. Luci was enveloped in black smoke and suddenly entered the oxygen machines, moving through the vents that took oxygen from the air and purified it in order to convert into pure, clean oxygenated air.
The black smoke filled the room and entered the oxygen machines. Zancrow and Azuma suddenly began to inhale the toxic substance. Their heart monitors began to go off the charts. Their oxygen supply was compromised and their hearts were doing their best to supply oxygen through their bodies. However, Luci continued to supply the black smog to both Kin of Purgatory. The heart monitors beeping continued to move at a faster rate until finally...a single, extended beep was heard. Their hearts gave out and their ability to breathe clean air was gone. The convulsing bodies became still.
Luci cackled as he left the oxygen machines and returned to physical form. Admiring his handy work, the devil creature clapped his hands with glee before spinning rapidly. His wings wrapped around his body and he vanished in a plume of black smoke, his objective complete.
Zancrow and Azuma were dead.
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Snow Peaks, Fiore
(Insert Music: Naruto Shippuden-Saika)
Ultear felt a small pulse of magic. She reached into her cleavage and pulled out her teal lachryma orb. She pushed a small amount of magic and a shadowed image appeared in its depths.
"It is done, Milkovich."
"Excellent. I will send you all the payment by tomorrow, you know the regular meeting place."
"I would hope so. Very well, we will meet there. Judging by the snow in the background and your angry scowl, I'm guessing you're visiting Yugito-chan. Tell her I said 'hello'" Ultear remained silent as she glared at the figure in the lachryma.
"Fuck you and stay away from my sister, asshole." She shut it off and the image vanished.
"Who was that, Ultear-san?" Meredy asked as Ultear shoved the lachryma back down her cleavage.
"That is none of your concern, Meredy." She answered before walking off, Meredy trailing behind.
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(Insert Music: Fairy Tail-Dark Guild)
Raven Tail, Outskirts of Fiore, Year-X784
Iwan Dreyar stood outside the rocky spire that was the Raven Tail guild. The mysterious guild was still very much a secret to most of the world, but with Makarov's use of the Magic Council through Yajima...they were no doubt getting closer and closer to finding out about his guild's existence.
"Tou-san...you old fool." Iwan cursed his father. Their relationship had always been strained, but with Iwan's excommunication, it had only made things worse between the father and son. However, Iwan wasn't outside of his guild house to contemplate on his relationship with the elderly Wizard Saint.
The black haired guild master looked up with a wicked grin on his face.
"Ah, so you actually came?" Iwan said.
"Yes, I have...here's your payment for killing Zancrow and Azuma." Iwan held out his hands and took the briefcase which had numerous amounts of Jewels within them. The bills would definitely work to provide capital for the guild.
"Thank you, Ultear-san." The female member of Grimoire Heart nodded. She looked a few yards away, watching Meredy picking pieces of stone from the rocky wasteland and pelting them into the distance. Something to cure her boredom.
"So...did you tell Yugito-chan hello for me?" The older man asked as he stroked his beard. Ultear snarled before grabbing Iwan around his throat.
"Do not...address my nee-chan in such a manner, bastard. If you even so much as look at her with those disgusting eyes of yours...I will affect the age of your guild and I will make it crumble to dust, killing you and everyone in it." Ultear's eyes burned with hatred for the black haired man before pushing him away.
"Now then...what information do you have for me? Surely Purehito would have something to tell me." Ultear frowned as the man before her used Master Hades's true name. The name he had as the second master of Fairy Tail.
"Master Hades..." She hissed at the man, "Has nothing to tell you. However, he did say one thing."
"What is that?" Ultear turned around and began to walk off before turning back slightly, looking at him with one visible eyes.
"Do not try to look for Lumen Histoire or else you will die trying. Of course, I would welcome your venture as I would like nothing more than to see you no longer existing on this plane." Iwan's eyes narrowed upon hearing that.
'How did that old fool know about that?' Iwan thought. He hadn't spoken to anyone, not even his spy network, with respect to the ancient room said to be hidden somewhere within Fairy Tail.
Ultear stopped as soon as she reached Meredy before looking down at the shorter female.
"Ultear-san, are we done?" The dark purple haired woman nodded.
"Yes, but we must return to the guild. It has already been two days since we left. I will return to the Magic Council...you go back to the airship, understood?" Meredy nodded to her superior as Ultear performed Requipand changed into her Magic Council disguise.
"What should I tell Master Hades if he asks where we went?" Ultear frowned as she thought for a while. She hadn't really come up with much of an excuse, but then again...she was the informant for Grimoire Heart.
"Tell him I was doing some spying, researching Raven Tail." It was not a lie, but it also wasn't the truth. The pink haired girl nodded. Purple magic seals formed beneath them and the two then vanished in flashes of purple light, teleporting to their respective locations.
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