Wow… I am AWFUL at keeping up with updates to this story. It's been like nearly three months now since I last updated. Though to be fair, I will say that I may take longer to update all of my stories from here on out. Reason being due to my oldest brother and my niece moved back in with us... I will admit it's a challenge for me to get used too. But yeah that's why.

I need to work on updating more and better regardless I know, but hopefully this chapter will make up for it. This time the scene will change over to elsewhere for a bit.

Oh, by the way I have put up a new poll for this story. It will allow you guys to pick if I should leave this story a T rating or bump it up to M. I know I remember saying that I was fine with leaving it at T, but considering I thought the same for my other story "Protecting the Past" but people thought it needed to be M rated, so I'll let you all decide. The poll will be on top of my profile.

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Chapter Sixty Eight: A Talk Between Demons

"It looks like we're going to need to camp out for the night." Gildarts stated to the other four in the group, seeing how they were nowhere near a place of settlement for them to stay at.

"I agree. It would best if we rest for the night before continuing onward to Magnolia in the morning." Azazel agreed with the orange haired Ace of Fairy Tail.

It was night out still over the land of Fiore, and while far away from the five a certain large group of their siblings and the other Mages were already resting after getting over certain internal problems, the five here have yet to stop to call it a night. But seeing how dark it was and how they were in the middle of nowhere being in an opened plain field, it was best for them to finally stop to rest for the rest of the night.

"Do we have too?" Ariel questioned the black haired male. She didn't feel too tired yet, so why can't they keep going?

"I don't feel tired, so do we have too?" Uriel asked his fully demon brother. Like his twin sister, he wasn't feeling tired in the slightest. So why did they need to stop?

"Not all of us are as energetic as you both," Sayla replied calmly to the two dark purple haired twins. The black haired demon herself was feeling a bit exhausted from the traveling they were all doing so far, "So it's best that we camp here and wait until early morning to head out again."

"How early are we talking about here?" Ariel questioned the mother of Azazel with a tilt of her head.

"I would prefer if we were to get up and take off by sunrise." Azazel told the dark purple haired woman.

"Really, that early?" Gildarts questioned. Sure he figured early, but as early as that?

"Yes grandfather," Azazel replied back to the orange haired man, turning towards him as he went on, "We can't waste too much time being out and about. We need to head to Magnolia and hope that the rest of your guild can aid us with helping to find our brothers and sisters."

"I wouldn't be too worried about them," Uriel spoke up with a grin on his face, "They are strong. So wherever they are, I'm sure they are fine. Even if they ran into the demons I bet they would handle them no problem!" The dark purple haired young man stated to the others, confident that the others were fine even if they did make stupid decisions time to time.

"Yeah, that's right! They will be fine until we find them!" Ariel exclaimed also with confidence, knowing that nothing can easily take their siblings down.

"Still, we shouldn't waste too much time. Well wake up and leave by sunrise." Azazel told the others, wanting to reunite with their lost family members and find the Legion before it was too late.

"I'll go get some firewood then for a fire. It would be no good if we went to bed cold." Gildarts told the others.

And with that, the orange haired man went out away from their spot to do just that toward the nearby forest not to far from the opened up plain field they were all in. The man also hoped to find an animal for him to cook too. Sure they have some supplies on them from the last town they were at, but in his eyes nothing beat a freshly cooked meal out in the wild.

"Wait, we'll help!" Both Uriel and Arial shouted at once.

The two dark purple haired twins looked at one another with large grin on their faces.

"I bet I can collect more than you can!" Uriel challenged his twin sister, who chuckled as both turned to head into the nearby forest where Gildarts ran into.

"We'll see about that!" Arial exclaimed back at her twin brother, refusing to lose.

After those words were spoken the brother and sister then charged right after Gildarts into the forest a bit away from them, refusing to lose to the other to the challenge they've taken to one another.

That left only Azazal and Sayla alone in the spot in the open field. Sighing from his brother and sister's antics although he did so with a small smile, a bit amused by it, he turned around to look at the female Etherious who would one day give birth to him.

"I guess we'll just wait for them to come back with the wood." Azazel replied back to his mother with a small smile on his face.

Sayla merely nodded as she looked to see her and Natsu's future son going away to clear a spot for the others to put the wood at for them to set it ablaze for a bit to get them comfortable before they go to sleep. Another minute later and the Azazel did just that. With that out of the way he simply walked back a bit before sitting down onto the ground and leaning back to look up at the star filled sky with a small smile on his face.

The black haired female demon stayed silent for a moment as she looked to see Azazel's sight not leaving the night sky. Eventually, she couldn't stop herself from speaking up towards him.

"…You seem happy looking at the sky." Sayla spoke up, getting Azazel's attention for a moment as he turned his head towards her.

"Oh, it's something that I tend to like to do sometimes, especially when it's just both me and Lille star-gazing." Azazel stated to his mother, who blinked in confusion from the name he spoke.

"Lille?" Sayla questioned, not knowing who that was.

"She's my girlfriend." Azazel replied back to his mother with a smile, who blinked in slight surprise from hearing this.

"Your… girlfriend?" Sayla questioned him once more, not use to the human terms when it comes to these things.

"Yeah, we've been dating for over a year now. Though, we were great friends beforehand when we were younger." Azazel told her before he looked back up to the star filled night sky. He couldn't help but wonder how she was doing at the moment. There was no doubt she was probably worried about him, all the more reason to find the others and get home as fast as they can.

"Is she strong?" Sayla asked him. Since he seemed strong and powerful in his own right, it would make sense that the woman he considers his significant other was also strong too right?

Azazal looked back towards the sky again with his smile still present on his face before he went on to answer his mother's question.

"Yeah, she is. She's one of the top Mages in the nation of Enca. Before that though, she was just a girl who helped her family run their farm… until the Legion came that is." That last bit got Azazel to lose his smile as he looked down at the ground. Sayla noticed this before she spoke up once more.

"So she was made an orphan?" She asked him.

"Not entirely, her uncle is the only family she has left. They managed to escape along with the other survivors of the north side of Enca. So many have died that day…" Azazel trailed off with his frown still present on his face.

It was silent for a moment, before Sayla decided to ask something else once more.

"When did this happen?" She asked, wanting to learn more about this human girl who apparently dates her future son.

"It happened the same day the Legion attack all over the world. The first time we have seen those monsters as they laid waste to everything they attacked when we were young," Azazel told Sayla before he looked back up to the sky, though his frown was still present as memories popped into his head, "I was in Crocus when the Legion first appeared along with you and the rest of our family. The day started out normal, my brothers and sister and myself were in the park of the city with you and our other parents present. Then the sky became dark and foul Fel Energy filled the air. And before we knew it, everything went straight to hell. We managed to flee, but the city fell along with most of the city's population."

He could still remember like it was yesterday, then again that day would forever be a part of everyone who still lived. Who could forget the sky darkening as Infernals rained down from the sky, as portals opened up all over as hordes of demons poured through to slaughter everything in their way? That day forever changed Earthland and its surviving inhabitants, and definitely not for the better.

"I don't get it," Sayla responded back, grabbing Azazel's attention once more as he looked over towards the female Etherious. Sure this went off topic about her future son's girlfriend and more about the Burning Legion's first attack on the world but she wanted to know the answer to her question, "How could this Legion appear from nowhere? Surely they had to have found a way to the world somehow right?"

The black haired young man nodded in agreement towards the Etherious woman's words.

"A cult of people that called themselves the Black Council was the one responsible for opening the way for the Legion into our world. Far away from the rest of known civilizations, they managed to build a large device that opened the gateway for the demons to pour through and gain access to our world. And they were also the ones responsible for opening the way when the Legion invaded the second time as well. If you see any normal non demon beings on the Legion's side here on Earthland, they are no doubt part of the Black Council." Azazel informed his mother.

Sayla stayed silent as she registered this new information. So if she was getting this right, the demons first gained accessed to Earthland due to a crazed group of human followers learning and getting into contact with the Legion. Then said group managed to acquire the resources they needed to open a gateway for the demons to come through without the rest of the world knowing about it somehow. The black haired woman knew that humans were incompetent, but not knowing about something like that and being able to prevent it from happening was completely idiotic.

Then again, her future self would also be to blame for it now that she thought about it. Shaking her head from that thought, she looked back towards the black haired young man she would one day give birth to.

"So that's how it happened." Sayla replied back him, as he nodded.

"Correct, its all thank to those accursed people who hungered for power that the Legion managed to find a way back to Earthland in the first place. This is all the more reason for us to hurry and find the others and stop the demons before they can try to open a way for a full blown invasion of the world." Azazel told Sayla with a determined expression. He refused to allow the past be ruined and destroyed by the demons, not if he has anything to say about it.

Sayla was about to reply back to him once more before the familiar voices of Gildarts, Uriel and Arial were heard once more, getting them to turned around to see the three emerging from the nearby woods.

"I definitely have more than you do! How could you say you won?" Uriel asked his twin sister with a glare on his face.

"Are you kidding me? I have more than you do! Do you not know how to count?" Arial responded back, as Urial merely poke his tongue out at her in response.

'Can't they see they both have the same amount?' Gildarts thought to himself with a sweat drop, though it was a bit funny to see he would admit.

Seeing the other three returned, Sayla figured she would ask and learn more about what happened exactly in the future involving the demons and this group of humans who serve them later. Right now, she would help getting the campfire ready with the other four.

There we go, chapter done. So what did you all think? Good? Bad? Let me know.

See you all next time, whenever that will be.