[IC] Fairy Tail: Rise Against the Darkness

[Demon Shinobi]

Somewhere just near the edge of Fiore laid a small village. This village's inhabitants lived in fear of a small dark mage group who'd set up shop. The group had very little ties to the dark army, but still had lots of pull due to the lack of official guilds to come stop them. But the small guild's reign would soon come to an end. For today as they planned a public execution as a show of power they would be taken down. Their brutality and violence would be met with just that.

"All of you idiots should know by now the consequences of retaliating against us!" The so called leader shouted. The small guild of twenty stood at the sides as he remained on a podium with the victim chained to the ground his head hung in what seemed to be fear. His blonde hair draped over his face hiding any sort of expression which might be made out. "This brat tried to play hero and this is what he gets!" He added as he finally held up his large blade ready to swing down. "Any last words runt?" The man asked.

"Nah. I'm just waiting for the the right moment to kick your ass." The teen spoke calmly much to the dark mage's dissatisfaction. "That's it! You're gonna die now kid!" He scream as he swung down. However, almost miraculously the kid moved back out of the way. The crowd of people gasp in amazement as the teen stood beside the mage with a smirk on his face. "What?! But how?!" One of the man's subordinates shouted in shock. "The... The chains! They're melted!" Another answered.

"It's about time for you to get the hell out of this town! Right guys?!" He shouted as he lifted his fist and brought it down on the man's face. Just as it made impact it seemed to explode into flames. "Let's kick their asses!" Iggy shouted awaiting his comrades to join the fray since he'd no doubt be bumrushed by the other 20 dark mages.

[Nicias Askani]

Fox rolled her eyes at Iggys theatrics but of course helped him. she back fisted one of the approaching mages that hadnt noticed her. the strike would have been enough on its one but upon contact wither her iron fist an explosion went off in the mages face, possibly putting him down for good. but explosions draw attention so some of the mages came for her. "solid script hole" she swiped her hands infront of her, summoning the word 'hole' on the ground making the first one to step on it fall into the ground. she jumped backwards, throwing off her cloak that hid her appearance and reached for the Musica blade holstered in the small of her back, roughly the size of a dagger.

"get her, she only has a dagger" one of the other mages yelled but Fox simply smirked and drew the blade, enlarging it.

"sorry boys. mines bigger" she taunted

[Jakeozzy]

"I-I'm very sorry! I really hope this doesn't hurt you very much!" A shy girl's voice could be heard from behind two of the Dark Mages blocking the civilians' escape. The two turned around and raised their eyebrows at the sight. This little kid with twintails, a threat? Hurt them? They both burst into laughter, one of them leaning down to get a closer look at the guild mark slightly uncovered by her loose scarf.

"What? A little Fairy, huh? D'aw, but aren't you just adorable. Listen.. You should run while you still can. We don't often show mercy to-" Before he could finish, a small but powerful gust of sky blue coloured wind swept both of them off their feet. And then, the girl inhaled. The evil men knew what was coming next! It started out like a nervous cry, but before long the magic burst out with the sound of a dragon's roar. A tornado of blue threw the two up and away from the village, both of them screaming in disbelief. They would probably land somewhere soft! Or, that's what Aria liked to think. With two of the enemy launched god knows where, Aria emerged from the alleyway and came into plain sight.

As hard as it was for the little Sky Dragon to hurt others, she believed in changing the world for the better. It was finally time to take the fight to them, for the future. She ran through the stunned crowd and got up on the execution stand, taking her place behind Iggy to watch his back while he did the same.

[Kitty]

"Always having to play with their minds huh flame boy." Winny said as she hopped down from the tree she was hiding in. Winny's right hand began to glow a light blue almost white color as she looked at some of the mages who were coming towards her. "Hope you don't mind the cold." She said as a blast of cold magic shot out of her hand and a layer of frost covered the mages and caused a distraction as she created a big hammer of ice(think Thor's hammer). She used it and hit the mages over the head knocking them out. Some more noticed her and she created a layer of ice on the ground.

"Well if it isn't an ice mage... I'm so scared." One of the dark mages said as he ignited a dark flame on his hand. Winny stared at the flame and memories flashed through her brain but she shook it off and prepared to fight. She hated admitting any weaknesses but fire was definitely something that she hated. Winny in the fire mage were instantly pulled into a fight of clashing elements.

[QT]

Alongside a rusted building sat a man reading his book which incorporated a large cross on its cover. The gentlemen bore the same red cross both on his white gloves and shoulder pieces. He seemed to be reading to himself as the crowd went haywire from the sudden magic duels. They ran side to side, not knowing where to go, but trying to head somewhere safe. Throughout the darkness, it seemed that a speck of light shone on this gentlemen. As he stood and began moving towards the battle scene, the light from above followed the gentlemen and led him through the soon to be emancipating crowd. Magically, not a single pedestrian ran into him nor touched his untainted body. As he got closer the soldiers of darkness could hear him read from that book.

"This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:5-7" he finished as he pulled a pistol from within his coat and pointed it at one of the soldiers whose aura embraced him completely. "God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature."

Suddenly, a blast of light pierced the soldier through the chest. It left no wound, but it surely ended the man's movements. He became immobilized through paralysis. This was Aaban Eleazar, a soldier of God, a volunteer in his army. This was the path he chose to take after losing everything he once loved. His goal is to remove the darkness that lays upon the hall of the Lord. This was Lucifer's doing and he is to blame, but it is the people who fell to the influence of his sin. But as a child of God, HE will forgive his children and grant opportunity to a safe haven. Through Jesus and faith will we all meet our Father. This was Aaban's way.

[Avanhelsing]

"Fools rush where angels dare not tread." Booker muttered as Iggy charged in. Of course he bumrushed the mages. But that was his magic. Booker quickly fired a quick bolt of lightning from his hand. "Only I'm allowed to insult him!" He yellled at the mages still fiing his magic at them. He managed to knock a few of them out before retreating abit back. Booker was not in the mood to get beat up over this.

"So fearless leader you got a plan?" He asked hoping Iggy did. Cause right now Booker had nothing. It was sad really but he tried to avoid the limelight for that reason. He did not do good under pressure. This counted as pressure.

[Demon Shinobi]

"Haha oh come on. You know it was necessary to get all of the dark mages into one spot." Iggy laughed as he punched and kicked mages away from him. Then he heard Booker. "Plan? We kick their asses and get them the hell out of the town!" He said as he turns and lifted aria quickly moving her out of the way of a blast of magic coming from her right side. She had his back might as well have her's besides he know she didn't like to fight much. "Now pick it up! Even Aria is doin better than you!" He laughed as he taunted Booker and Winter along with just about everyone else. It wasn't true but it was fun to mess with them.

Still this whole set up was Iggy's plan. He acted like he was just another one of the towns folk and hit one of the mages for messing with some lady. They were always messing with someone or something. So knowing they would decide to hold a public execution and all show up he allowed it to happen. The result was as expected. Not to mention he was enjoying the little brawl.

[Kitty]

Winny rolled her eyes as she flipped backwards dodging a fire ball shot at her. She spoke a few words under her breath and a blizzard began to swirl around her and the Mage. "Why am I stuck with an idiot with powerful fire magic?" She thought silently. Winny encased her hands in ice to emphasize and strengthen her hits. She began punching the Mage. They were evenly matched though so it was pretty much not going to be getting anywhere.

"Yo flame idiot how bout we switch sparring partners it will be much easier since you can just eat the fire." Winny called out as she had the blizzard dissipate as she continued fighting and dodging.

[Expllo]

Hunter stepped out of the ground from a shadow, appearing in front of a Mage. Hunter's presence frightened the Mage, causing him to jump back and scream but quickly reach for his blade after he recovered. Hunter didn't give him a chance to get it as he simply kicked upwards, hitting the Mage's chin and causing him to shoot up lightly in the air then fall back down unconscious. Hunter put his hands in his pockets, "Tsk tsk tsk," he made the sound quietly. Looking behind him, he saw three Mages heading towards him, Hunter smirked and went back into the ground.

"Where'd he go!?" The third Mage who came up asked.

"Over here," Hunter spoke calmly, knocking a nearby house as he leaned on it, the three Mages ran to where he were. Two carried swords engulfed in flames, the other held flames in his palms, though it was obvious he couldn't shoot them without risk of burning his partners. As they got closer, Hunter slipped into the wall escaping with a chuckle. "Again, this kid!" The first one yelled as he hit the wall with his sword.

"This kid is your worst nightmare," Hunter said as he appeared behind them, grabbing the back of two of their heads and then smashing them against the wall causing them to slide down it in defeat. The middle one turned around, but not fast enough to do anything as Hunter simply gave him a headbutt causing him to fall to the ground. Turning around, a Mage threw something green from his hands causing Hunter to duck and place his hands on the ground. The green goo hit the wall and began dissolving the materiel of the home.

"That's someone's home!" Hunter said as a fist shot out of the ground and punched the Mage into the air, then another fist shot out hitting the Mage in his gut, then multiple other fist shot out repeatedly hitting the Mage until he shot off hitting the execution stand, almost hitting the two on top, "Sorry about that!" Hunter yelled, which was a rare thing, and began running forward.

He smashed his hands down on the ground creating a seal, in which a giant fist formed of his own shadow and hit a group of Mages sending them flying. Hunter wasn't down with them yet, he opened his mouth wide sucking in shadows, and as the Mages began falling down Hunter sent out his Shadow God’s Bellow hitting most of the Mages and sending them flying some more until they hit the ground with a bunch of moans and then nothing.

Hunter knew they weren't dead though....Or he hoped. He was panting slightly as most of his attacks were continues without even a second to breath, he wiped his mouth and mumbled the words, "I hate people like you," and then slipped back into the ground, into the shadows.

[Jakeozzy]

"Please don't joke about that! I'm doing a terrible job, you're looking out for me!" Aria whined as her feet met the ground again. If not for Iggy's intervention, the blast of darkness magic would have made a direct hit! Fortunately the one who cast the spell in the first place was taken down by a gunslinger, whom the running crowd seemed to make way for. Without any distractions for now, Aria turned her attention to Winny who was in a stalemate with a powerful fire mage. She couldn't dive in and help, the little Dragon Slayer would only get in the way - what she could do however, was turn the tide. Raising one hand to the sky, the girl nervously spoke up to get her attention.

"Ms Winter, I can help!" Aria called over, then chanted, "Arms!" The light blue magic seal was summoned in moments, and as she thrust both her arms forward another seal appeared underneath Winny. The empowered aura of Arctic Magic quickly flared up around it's user. "Get him good!"

[QT]

Eleazar had taken only one shot throughout the entire conflict which seemed to be coming to its conclusion. The crowd had dispersed into a safe location as Eleazar reached the podium. He stood tall above all as he watched the chaos around him. Buildings had been annihilated, people lay on the dirt in puddles of blood and worse of all, it was caused by this sudden outbreak. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life."

Aaban watched as his teammates worked as one to finish off the enemy. The question he bore in his head was: "Even through their sins and abhorred actions, are we not able to forgive them as God in Christ forgave us?.............Then again, have I myself forgiven them?"

"God's soul hates the wicked and the ones who love violence, but violence seems to be the answer to this continuation of darkness. We have flourished with light amongst many estates, yet we do not find answer to its eternal source. We stand tall like an army of many, we rise above the helpless and provide salvation, but we do not seek it ourselves. Are we to be punished for our sin, the sin of our enemy? Or shall we be forgiven by bringing peace to destitute? Answer my calls my Lord for I am lost. Our journey, our mission has not reached its end, for we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places. We confess our sins today, I pray to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Amen."

As he finished, a dark warlock stood before him, his hand pointed in Aaban's general direction. "You speak the name of the Lord in Hell? You're delusional you freaken' priest!" The mage then retrieved his hand back and blasted it forth once again, this time, sending a barrage of poison tainted needles towards Aaban.

"May God vanquish you from his lands" Aaban claimed, firing at all the needles simultaneously then at the soldier. "Do not prove sinful, but pure. Let all sin wash away for it is this darkness that compels you."

[Nicias Askani]

Fox was doing just fine, handiling these guys with just one hand on her blade. thus she was quicky bored. she ducked and wrote two words across her blade. "gale bang" a small tornado swirled around the musica blade. when she swung it into her three attackers it exploded, sending them flying. "anyone el" she jumped before she could finish her taunt. a dark blast almost hitting her. she landed on the side of a building, stabbing into it with her sword. "ok we have a taker." she lept higher into the air before coming straight down on the man, slicing through his blasts wither the Musica blade. it was her clear and honest intent to land on him but he had sense enough to take a step back. she landed with a small crater. before he could react she threw up her hand "light" the word appeared with a blinding light and blinded the man long enough for her to wind up a super powerful iron leg kick to his head sending him into a building.

[Demous]

Sayuri grinned as she watched the mayhem when she was notices a handful of dark mages trying to sneak away into a nearby ally. Sayuri's grin grew, "Hey you guys leaving already? The party just started!!" She shouted at the dark mages as her magic gathered in her hands. Running towards one of them she punches him in the stomach and fired a blast sending him flying several feet before she turned to the other fleeing mages. Straitening up she stares them down, "So you gonna try to run again?"

Instead of responding they just ready stances hands glowing with darkness. Sayuri laughed, "Well at least your going out with your honour!" and charged hands once again aglow with magic.

[Kitty]

Winny felt a surge of magic flow through her when the spell was cast. She smirked at her opponent as the magical aura caused the area around her to be cold. "You are so in for it now." She said a menacing aura joining the magical aura as she charged up one of her more powerful attacks in her magic range. The wind around Winny picked up and a blizzard formed around Winny. She then began to speak in the language from her island:

"Neve e xeo durante a noite
Brille a vosa luz brillante
e atacar con forza ártico"

When Winny finished speaking her spell a colorful light appeared above the mage. The light appeared to look like the Aurora Borealis but it was just an allusion using small snowflakes meant as a distraction. When the fire mage looked up at it the small snowflakes combined together into ice shards that rained down on the fire mage almost endlessly. Once if finally was over the fire mage was laying on the ground unconscious. "Thanks Aria." Winny said as she began to fight other dark mages that were easier for her to take out.

Translation

(It is in Galician)
Neve e xeo durante a noite | | | Snow and ice through the night
Brille a vosa luz brillante | | | Shine your brilliant light
e atacar con forza ártico | | | and attack with arctic might

[Demon Shinobi]

"Alright! Let's finish this up!" Iggy said as he made sure all the remaining dark mages were around the same area. "Everyone get clear now!" He shouted just before taking a deep breath in. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" His voice started off normal and grew into a powerful roar as the blast of fire slammed into the enemy sending them flying off out of town and into the distance. "YEAH! Now that's what I'm talking about!" He cheered. All that was left was to get the unconscious mages out of the town and keeping them out. Wouldn't be hard. Some protective magic was all they needed. This town could serve as their new base of operations. Iggy smirked. He was glad it all worked out.

[Nicias Askani]

"so uh...what now exactly?" Fox asked as she approached Iggy. She sheathed the musica blade as she walked. "i think its safe to say we made our mark as well as a point but what happens when they send more. and not the grunt variety?" she didnt care that she was being a buzz kill, she felt she had a valid point. yay we won. whoopty-fricken-doo but the tyrannical dark collective of ass hole wasnt likely to let this slide. And were less like to to run in fear of 2 dragon slayers and company. Fox had her own opinion in the matter but more often than not she kept it to herself and chose to trust Iggy. And that was a lot easier when he let people in on his ideas and plans.

[QT]

Dusting off his coat, Aaban stepped away from the podium. He maneuvered his way over the corpses, chanting words of prayer as he reached Iggy. Now that the battle had come to an end, it was time to move forth. "You remind me of a scripture in the book of Psalms. It said that God will make his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. Then again, you have not the characteristics of a minister, more of those of a child" he stated, putting away his weapon back into the holster in his coat and giving a faint smile.

He then removed a metal flask from that same coat and poured its clear substance into his hand, after removing his glove of course. With that same water, he cleansed his face of all impurities, blood, dirt, etc., and continued to wait for the group to assemble. It seemed that Iggy was the captain of the group, which in Aaban's opinion, did not make complete sense. Iggy did not meet the requisites God set in the holy bible. It states that an overseer must be above reproach, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money, but Aaban followed this kid for his courage. Yes, sometimes he questioned Iggy's decisions, sometimes he would see Iggy's choices as childlike or incompetent, but overall, Iggy had that spark in his eyes. He had the spark of a great warrior who was in search of peace through unintentional war. He not only fights for his own freedom, but that of others. God is said to not forsake the strong and courageous. He will forever be with you, do not fear of be in dread of the darkness; these were his teachings.

"From here our path will only get darker, but through faith God's light will show us the way. But at times, though God is always at our sides, darkness prevails. I do hope you have a plan Iggy Dragneel, for if not, I only see despair in our near future. If not, I will condemn you unworthy of leading this union. Jesus Christ was a disciple of our Lord, for he sought out God's vision of the future. I know you seek to vanquish this darkness that compels us, but if your vision is clouded beforehand, you are limited to your own sight. Therefore, what is the next step, remember that the heart of man plans his way, but tis the Lord who establishes his steps."

To many, Aaban seemed to be a little over the top with his sentence structure and way of speaking, but to those of the church and religion, he was a genius and uprising disciple of the teaching of his Lord. He could have been a great minister if the darkness had not overcame the region. He could have lived a life of harmony and peace as he taught others the way of the almighty father. Mankind became inspired by the sinful ways of Lucifer, they've fallen in his grasp as they searched for what only God himself could provide.

[Avanhelsing]

Booker took out a few more of the goons before the roar.Typical Iggy. Doing something like that. Well now they had to keep the town. "Well we need to get this town don't we? Like get the goons here out of our new town. " Booker said kicking one of the guys. He looked at Fox. "I think we can handle the grunts and their bosses."

[Demon Shinobi]

"Have a little faith you two." Iggy said to the firs two to speak up about this seemingly reckless decision. "I may have the same attitude and magic as my father, but I got a pretty good amount of my mother's brains." He said with a smirk. "Just look at it from the logical point of view. These dark mages had very little ties to the Dark emperor and the army. how do I know this? Well... You know how I would disappear for about an hour or so daily when we were camping out in the woods west of here? I was checking these guys out. They have no way to contact the army from here and if they dared approach the kind or anything they'd likely be disposed of for being weak." He further explained before stopping for a second when he thought about what he said. it seemed just down right evil. "I know it seems cruel to speak about that so casually, but I'm saying it to prove a point. I did my homework. I'm not just Natsu's son. I'm Lucy's too." He finished before looking at both of them.

"Oh and Aaban... Um..." He paused. he couldn't tell him he didn't understand a lot of the bible scriptures and what not. Still normally someone might try to get Aaban to speak in a more normal fashion, but at this point the young Dragon Slayer was used to it. At least enough to get the main points of his speech pattern. He just had to pick them out of the excessive bible patter and the like. Now the team didn't have much left to do. "Alright Fox. I need you to get to work with Rune and stuff around the village to make the barrier. The rest of us should finish getting the dark mages out of the village and help the townsfolk clean up. We did make the mess after all.

The townsfolk. That was another thing. They were hiding still. he'd need to talk to them. To act as they had been with the dark mages around and hide the happiness that would come with their freedom just in case other army members would happen to pass by this secluded village which seemed to be hidden. What was even it's name again? Whatever... Iggy thought. "Now are there anymore questions regarding my brilliance?" He asked laughing a little bit. That was a joke. He wasn't that cocky.

[Nicias Askani]

And just like that, there it was. that spark in Iggy that she always admired. There was a flaw in his logic but she already knew it was her job to correct it, whether or not she pointed it out to him. yes the Mages would most likely be killed if they went to the empire but Fox knew that wasn't it. Any hint of of insurrection or rebellion would be investigated and subsequently atomized. it was the way of the darkness, destroy hope and all else fails. well that was the theory. it was Iggys job to prove that hope doesnt die and that light (or fire) over comes the darkness.

"leave it to me. one jutsu Shiki Coming up." she made her way to the edge of the town and began the preparations for such a barrier. She had to be careful though, so instead of one she would make two walls. she would intertwine them but it would take twice as long. hopefully she had enough time. as she began to circle the city she had to think of the rule of the barrier. at anytime she would be able to change them but since the rules were absolute she had to be very careful. she would jut have to consult with Iggy before she erected the barrier. if push came to shove she could just use the Total lock out rule. no one gets in, no one gets out. but that was a last resort at this point because she didnt want to trap the townsfolk