#juvia vs keyes

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Juvia vs Keyes.

This has been one of my favorite battles. Juvia has shown all her power, her love for Gray, for the guild, her goodness of heart.

She was just amazing!

Who knows if we'll ever see her fight like this again?

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Lyon and Meredy vs Keyes

Yet another plot twist I've taken from Demons and maybe my favorite.

I absolutely love writing Lyredy and having them fight against Keyes together just made for great development.

PS: If you want to know more about how I developed Lyon and Meredy's relationship up to this point, check out this post.

Hope you'll enjoy!

                                    Tragic Tales

"I've never seen Gajeel and Natsu struggle so much." Lucy commented from her spot sitting by Meredy's side.

"I'm worried, Lucy." The pinkette's gaze never left Lyon, who fought against Keyes.

"You're playing with people's lives." The ice mage yelled at the demon after learning of his use of the necromancer curse to have corpses do his biding. He had also learned about how Keyes had cast a spell on Silver that prevented him from telling the truth about Tartarus and now it controlled his actions.

"Such a delicious, ironic tragedy. Father and son meeting their ends at the hands of each other. I couldn't have thought of a better story myself." The demon delighted in the knowledge that he was the reason Gray and Silver would die, since he was the one forcing them to fight against each other.

Even though Silver wasn't one of his corpses, as he had made clear, the ice mage was still just a puppet under Tartarus' control.

"You are disgusting." Lyon yelled before sending a pack of eagles towards him, but they didn't even touch the demon.

"What's even more tragic is your tale." Keyes continued, smirking. "Being in love with the same woman who loved the boy, such a pity."

"Shut up!" The ice mage immediately tensed.

"Tell me, do you wonder if she'll choose you once he is gone?" Meredy swallowed hard, that demon sure knew just what to say to break someone. "Or are you afraid that she'll continue to despise you?"

"She doesn't." Lyon said, though there was uncertainty in his tone.

"Oh, but she does. Surely the only reason she still puts up with you is because you are his brother. Otherwise she would've cut you off a long time ago."

"Lyon!" Meredy screamed, standing up and taking a step forward once the ice mage was enveloped in a ball of dark energy. Thankfully, he was quick to freeze it and free himself.

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"I see." There was a smirk on the demon's face as he stared between the two. "So Juvia Lockser isn't the only one who's stolen your heart."

"I already told you to shut up!" Lyon sent a huge snow dragon towards him, but it was quickly destroyed.

"Such strength, but it won't be enough to protect either of them." Keyes mocked just before redirecting his curse towards the pinkette.

"No, Meredy!" The pinkette was frozen in shock, hands resting on her stomach as she worried for her child.

Thankfully, she was saved as Lucy quickly stood up and jumped in front of her, getting hit instead.

"Lucy!" Meredy caught her and both fell to the ground. Upon inspecting the blonde, she was relieved to learn that she was still breathing, although the wound on her stomach was worriesome.

"You'll pay for this!" Lyon yelled in anger before sending an even more powerful attack towards the demon.

As Meredy watched the demon finally be thrown back, she realized that Lyon wouldn't be able to defeat him on his own. He needed help.

"Lyon, I have an idea on how we can defeat him. You're not going to like it, though." She told him while taking off her cape and pressing it against Lucy's wound.

"What is it?" He turned around to face her.

"We can do a unison raid." Lyon immediately shook his head.

"No. You can't use magic." She sighed before letting go of the cape and standing up.

"You know I wouldn't do anything that could put our child's life at risk unless it was absolutely necessary." Meredy gave him a desperate look. "We have to do this before he kills us all."

"But…" He had taken a few steps away from the fight and towards her.

"It will be okay." She reassured him; closing the distance between them before her arms wrapped around his torso in a much needed hug.

"Meredy, I…" He gulped, feeling tears threatening to fall. For a few seconds they stayed like that, holding each other, until Gajeel yelled a warning that the fight wasn't over yet.

"We must do this, for her sake." Meredy said once they pulled apart from and he placed a hand on top of her stomach, still unsure.

"She is right. You must defeat Keyes, it's the only way to stop Tartarus from activating FACE." His eyes widened as Silver's familiar voice was heard.

"Silver? Why are you contacting me?" Lyon was confused.

"Because I know that you care about Gray." The ice mage tensed. "If you don't stop Keyes, he'll force me to kill my son. I'm trying to resist his control, but I'm not strong enough." Lyon took in a sharp breath.

"So I don't have a choice." The only way he'd be able to pull it off was with Meredy's help, he couldn't do it alone. So he sighed.

"Okay, let's do this." She nodded before taking his hand before both turned around to face their enemy. Keyes was smirking, but his amused expression soon changed to fear as the couple chanted the words that would be his undoing.

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