chapter 72: Return of evil

Flying at a great height was a huge dragon that sped forward crossing great distances in the blink of an eye.

In those days, many people witnessed the enormous majestic figure of the enormous dragon that passed over their heads, some gaped, others with fear, and more than one person urinated in their pants imagining the craziest scenarios that could happen.

The day was ending and the night was coming, Yuujiro was standing on the head of the dragon looking into the distance with his hands crossed on his chest, Retsu was sitting next to him and looking down with great interest, although sometimes A wicked crescent smile would form when she looked at the humans who looked like ants in his eyes.

"Hmm ..." Looking into the distance with an expressionless face, Yuujiro saw a village where he tapped his foot twice on the dragon's head and commanded. "Go to that town to spend the night, we will continue tomorrow morning, hurry up."

The dragon receiving the order flapped its wings and took off in the distance, after a few minutes it slowed down and descended into a forest not far from the entrance of that town.

Boom.

His huge body touched the ground causing the surrounding trees to shake violently caused by the wind of the flapping of his wings.

Yuujiro jumped off the dragon's back and fell gently to the ground. "A few kilometers ahead there is a city, we will walk there and gather some information." He then proceeded to walk, but stopped after taking a few steps and looked at the dragon again. "Tell me, you can transform into a human or shrink your body to hide your large size. It would be a real pain in the ass to have to go to the city accompanied by a dragon with bright colors."

Drakon stared at him in silence for a few seconds and didn't answer, but suddenly his body began to glow brightly and began to shrink to the size of a grown man. Then the light shattered like a broken mirror and the figure of a human appeared.

Drakon changed his figure and was now an old man with sharp eyes that contained hidden intelligence with a hard expression, like that of a warrior who has passed through thousands of life and death battles, a beast in a full black butler-like suit, his long white hair tied in a tail horse leaving a lock of hair falling down his face. He had diamond blue eyes and his brows were sharp with a frown giving him a serious appearance as he exuded a suffocating pressure from his body.

His posture was straight as he thrust his chest out, his hands were behind his back. "It's fine with this appearance Yuujiro-sama." Her voice had changed a bit and was shallower, but it still contained some power.

Looking him up and down Yuujiro gave the go-ahead and resumed his walk towards the village, Retsu and Drakon followed him.

....

Unsurprisingly, news that a huge dragon was seen soaring through the skies was soon spread by word of mouth by civilians and farmers who saw them, all recounting their experience by distorting the way they spotted it.

But there were also people who were not witnesses to that and who only laughed at the people who were telling them, calling them liars or crazy, because there was no way that dragons still exist in these times. Of course, there were many stories that were told that in a long time ago they existed, but fantasy tales are just that and nothing more.

In a large mansion that was made to resemble a castle, in the dining room they would find the mayor of the city chatting happily with a person with whom he had gotten along after saving him from bandits.

"By the way my good wizard friend, you have heard the recent rumors from these sides." The mayor asked, stroking his fine mustache with his fingers occasionally glancing at the wizard who saved him who was next to him flirting with one of his servants.

The wizard was chatting happily with the maid when the mayor of the city spoke to him again, he looked at him for a few moments muttering one or another curse to himself for having interrupted him. "Rumor you say? You mean the war that will take place in the neighboring kingdom, right?"

"No, no, not that. That is no longer a rumor, but a fact, in fact, I plan to send a few of my soldiers to make a presence and grab some benefits after I finish. Many large and medium cities as well as also a few kingdoms will do the same. After all the power of the fairies to make your dreams come true is something that many people have yearned for throughout history. "

The wizard looked seriously at the mayor after hearing it, he didn't like how that sounded.

The mayor didn't notice or just didn't care and continued to ramble. "The king of the kingdom himself has sent invitations with the hope of seeking help, in it is written some details of the benefits that will give us by using our forces for his cause."

"What does the king intend to do?" The magician interrupted asking him, I take a sip of water to sober up and wait for answers.

"Jam, jam, jam." - The mayor laughed, his huge belly trembling with every movement. "Interested truth, if you want you can go with my army, you are a powerful wizard and with a great force, I assure you that the benefits you will receive for making an appearance will be great. Although the kingdom of Verik does not have much to offer, those figures that They live at the top of their kingdom if they have. Apparently, their poverty and the evils that the kingdom suffers is made by the fairies therefore the king has decided to attack them and put an end to those bad days. "

"I assume you more or less understand the situation, ¿right.?" The mayor looked at the wizard, seeing how he nodded, continued. "In the letter I received, the most the announcement that he made public said and confirmed that in fact the fairies of myths and legends are true, and they were really always living above their kingdom without anyone knowing."

"Of course those are nothing more than empty words, since without any proof that he has there to be no way to believe that, but the most fabulous thing about all this was that according to his own words he will do it in public in addition to writing it in a simple letter, I swear by his life that everything he described is true and if in case he lied we were free to judge him and with his eggs well laid he said that they could also claim his life or otherwise he would do it himself. "

"It is the word of a king, although his kingdom is crumbling the king of Verik still has his honor and has always been known to be a serious man who keeps his promises, I knew him once, so I can certainly affirm that he will. And there is no doubt that his words are real. "

"The other thing he said was that for anyone who helped his kingdom, by finishing with everything planned, he would share the power of the fairies with the people who contribute the most, that is, we have the opportunity to put the little fairies in our hands ... I can't imagine what it will be like to have those creatures as slaves. "

The mayor had an ecstatic and dreamy expression on his face, saliva dripping from his mouth dirtying his clothes. A beautiful servant next to him who had a necklace around her neck proceeded to take out a clean cloth and clean her lord.

Gildarts Clive watched the process with a hidden disgust while he kept his brow furrowed in annoyance, around him there were young people with the same characteristics as that maid who cleaned the mayor's fat. Girls of different ages, all beautiful who had a slave collar down their throats. He knows that the world is not pink as some belief, magic serves many purposes both to do good and to do evil. It only takes a bit of travel to realize all that.

Not even that, since you just need to see well and open your eyes and you will meet all types of humans. They can be your relatives, friends, acquaintances, you can get to know them for years without knowing their true nature.

Usually, on his travels, he tries to ignore some things that he prefers not to get involved with, as well as sometimes if he sees that someone is in danger he would not hesitate for a second to help and lend his helping hand. In this case, it so happened that some time ago he saved a girl who was in danger when she was walking along a desolate path, but when it was all over it turned out that the girl was a slave trying to escape from the good mayor who is by her side.

Of course, the mayor misunderstood him and thought that the wizard was helping him, his act of helping caused him to be invited to his mansion in gratitude.

If he was still in Fiore he would never have allowed something like this, that is, he would certainly act in the name of justice helping those in need by defeating evil to take him to the authorities, but.

In this case, he just sighed tiredly and shook his head somewhat annoyed, he couldn't do anything and there was nothing he could do, different places, different customs. Maybe the place he comes from is almost peaceful and that is why he still does not get used to seeing this kind of things that are normal in these distant places, he may never get used to doing it.

He got up from his chair and walked to the large window overlooking the city to keep his mind clear a bit.

He stopped to think for a few moments about what he had heard, saying that he was somewhat annoyed was not enough because as a member of Fairy Tail he also once did that search that was famous in the guild that without a doubt was a total failure.

"Looking for the fairies huh ..." Placing his hand on the window looking at his reflection, you could see the seriousness on his face, he was in a dilemma, he had doubts, he doubted if he should go and watch the whole process of what was happening in the neighboring kingdom and help in some way.

Coming from a guild that bore the name of the fairies whose purpose was to be able to find some and know them as well as prove if they really existed.

On the one hand, he was somewhat happy to know that the myths about them were real, after who knows how many years of various guild members who took that mission that was almost impossible.

Find out that it was all true and that at the same time they were about to be slaves.

He did not doubt the mayor's word, nor did he doubt that he was not lying because he had undoubtedly seen several soldiers preparing to do something he did not care about, but now that he knew the reason for it is been a surprise.

The reason for how annoying it was without a doubt the city itself, in the crowded streets full of people you could see entire families going from children to adults and the elderly walking quietly with smiles on their faces as they passed in front of huge cages where there were humans.

Slaves.

Men and women took their time looking at the naked and malnourished people in the cages while chatting among themselves as if they were shopping for the day wondering which product to bring.

His bad luck led him to a city where sold slaves, which was like selling fruit in a normal stall, and he could only frown at all that, he could not do anything for them.

I hear the mayor walk up to him and stand next to him.

"So my good wizard friend, you are interested in participating in this, with my help everything will be possible. I have seen your strength and I tell you that it has impressed me ....."

The mayor kept talking spitting saliva everywhere, however, Gildarts was not paying attention in the least because his attention was focused on the distance where he looked with wide eyes and surprised seeing a great explosion that completely destroyed a large mountain and lit up the whole sky.

More was his concern for what came next since it was clearly seen how the shock wave accompanied by a small telluric movement arrived in a blink of an eye.

He did not have time to notice when the enormous force hit them throwing everyone to the ground, the windows exploded, there was an annoying buzzing in his ears, he heard screams of panic and suffering, he barely managed to throw himself on the ground covering himself with his cape and with some Magic.

Confused and disoriented, it was all so sudden that it took him by surprise. After maybe seconds or minutes of the annoying ringing in his ear gone, he tried to get up checking himself if he wasn't hurt, grunted annoyed, but then sighed in relief that he wasn't.

He looked around and saw slightly how some maids were injured with pieces of broken glass buried in their skins, more than one unfortunate ended up with a broken piece entering their eye or some in their necks dying in bleeding agony on the ground.

The walls were cracked and the room was a mess, soon he could hear the heart-rending screams of the people below in the city, he turned to look at the damage done and ended up tripping over the corpse of the mayor who was next to him.

He had a huge piece of broken glass buried in his forehead, more small pieces that remained in his eyes wide with shock and horror, he did not know how he died, since it was instantaneous.

In the distance, no, no, in fact, you could see with the naked eye how a large mushroom-shaped cloud was rising upwards, the sky was red slowly turning red from the fire that burned furiously where the mountain was.

Coming out of his shock he looked around wanting to help the others when he once again stared into the distance as a massive figure approached his position at high speed.

"U-a dragon ..." he barely managed to say, he looked dumbfounded as a huge blue dragon got closer and closer, he could feel how sweat covered his forehead and back, it was the first time he had seen one in real life, and he can tell that that creature is not something that a human could defeat with simple attacks.

"Natsu has always said that he was raised by a dragon whom he considers his father, he has told his stories of how incredible he is and now I am seeing for myself that these facts are certainly real. But what does that dragon want? Why what has appeared now.?"- He wondered.

"Oh no, this is bad." He cursed under his breath and leaped into the streets full of people in a panic, dodging people as he ran towards the dragon that was charging an attack from its mouth, he was obviously still too far away to do anything and saw how the dragon spit blue flames as it flew and left a trail of destruction in its wake.

Fortunately, the dragon was destroying the forest, unfortunately, the dragon kept advancing towards the city while maintaining its full-scale attack burning everything with blue fire.

No matter how fast he ran because he just couldn't move freely as he wanted, injured people were in his way and sometimes he ran into some, besides it didn't help much that the mayor's mansion was right in the center of the city and there was a large gap between the entrance and the mansion, therefore he could only stop short and watch as the dragon entered the city launching those flames destroying everything in its path.

***

Yuujiro did not plan to do what he did, in fact, he was not looking for problems of any kind and it is for that reason that he asked Drakon if he had any way to hide his striking form to which he replied when he transformed in any old man.

They reached the town that was in their gaze after walking for a few minutes, everything was fine until they entered, and then they headed to a restaurant, so they could eat something and fill their stomachs after long days of travel without incident.

But because a cave, it was clear that he was waiting for something to happen that would entertain him since that was his way of being, he liked it more than anything else in the world is a good battle that makes his blood boil and From how the villagers were peeping at him, it was obvious that nothing good was going to happen in the small town that seemed normal from the outside, but he could feel once he activated his haki and scanned the surroundings that the whole town was just a facade.

Screams of agony, pleading, crying, despair. All kinds of emotions flooded him and it was as if his smile widened just hearing that.

Apparently this town, they were all part of some dark guild that was dedicated to enslaving people, and when he found out about that he was already waiting for the main course of his meal which was a good slaughter insane.

He is like that and maybe he was always like that, he likes to battle, and he will never stop liking it because it is as if an alcoholic or drug addict was told to stop his vices. Of course, some can leave it with a lot of effort, and if they want to.

But Yuujiro does not want to do it, he does not give a shit if by doing what he likes to do he becomes an enemy of everyone, if they come to fuck him he only has to fuck them in return and if after one comes another he will only do it forever until that there are no longer people who want to challenge him.

However, his fear lies in what would happen if the same thing that happened in his past life happened when he killed all the martial artists in the world.

But it is clear that this will only come to pass after several years since this world is something unexplored where there are many places to know.

Going back to the forest when Drakon landed in it, apparently, there was someone who saw them and then somehow informed the people so that they were prepared if they wanted to earn a lot of money and if they could catch the dragon. It is clear that they were not very intelligent if they thought of doing that.

The first trick they did was make them sleep with their food, but they only got that chance to do it because immediately Yuujiro did his thing when he simply proceeded to attack those who were nearby.

Then as if he remembered something he told Drakon that he wanted to test his dragon power, since he never had that opportunity, much less has he seen one in action in real life. Drakon returned to his immense dragon form with Yuujiro and Retsu in his head as it soared into the sky and let out a roar that made the entire small town explode.

At first, none of this was planned, and Yuujiro when telling the dragon to show its power did not imagine that he would only launch a fierce and horrifying attack that would even erase the mountains that were around.

There were few survivors who could be counted on the fingers of one hand, fewer than 5 perhaps.

The initial purpose of making a stop was to get some information, but since it was already too late because everything was burning in raging flames, Yuujiro was satisfied with the little they told him about how this town was one that travelers and wizards caught. With little experience and make them slaves.

The largest buyer and where they were sold to humans was another nearby town that was behind the destroyed mountains, Yuujiro as a person who does not hold a grudge, but if he pays evil for the evil I do not hesitate to give the order to Drakon to fly to the address what did they tell him.

His thought and motive were that anyway he was a little bored of not having much action, he was bored and hungry, hoping maybe he would find a layered wizard with some strength that would entertain him for a while because like him, He knows they were quite close to Verik's kingdom and from what he has been able to understand a call has been launched for all the wizard in the vicinity to help and therefore an incredible number of wizards must be halfway there.

When he was approaching the town, and he saw it in his field of vision, he ordered Drakon to begin his attack, from the distance he was able to feel a magic source of a strong person, and he could already feel his emotion growing inside him.

After a while when the destruction that was leaving his feet on the ground and entered the town he could finally see the person he had felt.

"Drakon stop!" - Yuujiro ordered, the dragon stopped in midair and also stopped attacking. The dragon contemplated his great work of destruction with some emotion inside him. The people screaming as they ran desperately with his body on fire brought him an emotion that he had long forgotten, it is clear to say that he was one of the dragons who think that humans are only food and toys for their entertainment with the way who behaved.

Another person who was excited with a maniacal smile was Retsu who was looking at the blue flames that destroyed everything in their path, the shadows darkened his face leaving only his white teeth shining in the darkness of the night that in this short period of time had fallen.

Retsu trembled as she held back with all her will, it could be seen that at any moment she could explode and jump off the dragon just to start her slaughter.

Girldarts was shocked and somewhat excited by what he was seeing, for a moment his mind went blank as he forgot everything that was happening around him and just stood still admiring the huge figure of the dragon in front of his eyes.

The screams of agony and crying drew his attention again.

The first thing he did was to record this moment well in the depths of his mind since perhaps this could be the last moment of his life if he started a fight with that dragon, therefore he made sure to be well-prepared and be attentive to any sign of movement he made.

Needless to say, he had already noticed since the dragon arrived the presence of two people on its huge head.

"Why are they doing this? What did these people do to you to deserve to die in such a horrible way?" After moments of hesitation, Gildarts asked, although what he did was something he might not get an answer because the person who was watching did not seem to be somewhat chatty.

He had few words to describe the man he was looking at and in front of him, with the few features he could see, he knew and gave the impression that the man was not for games or any jokes.

Fierce, heinous, wild, and overwhelming.

The carefree appearance of that man as he calmly stood on the dragon's head with his arms on his chest showed him that perhaps he could be a bit dangerous.

Yuujiro looked around with disinterest, but inside he was somewhat ecstatic at being able to meet someone to entertain him, he was about to open his mouth to speak when suddenly something crazy occurred to him.

He turned his attention to Gildarts. "Let's forget about the boring monologue of right and wrong and take action." His voice was calm and deep, and although he was speaking normally his voice echoed around the place.

"In the stories, there will always be a villain and a hero of justice, I do not have the patience to argue with you about human principles and that it is wrong to kill, so fast and short. I am evil and you are justice, as we don't we get along well, and we don't have the same principles, normal now would be to fight, ¿right.? "

Gildarts gave him a strange look and little by little he became more serious and alert, from the way Yuujiro addressed him it was clear that any kind of conversation was useless.

"You're Gildarts from Fairy Tail right?" - Yuujiro said.

"Oh, to think that my fame and my name would come from these sides, but and even if it is a pity for you, I do not have to fight with you, I have no reason for that. Sorry if I disappoint you, but unfortunately for you, I will not give you what you want."

"Haha, come on friend, help me a little here you want. I'm bored and I'm hungry ... it doesn't make you angry to see how I've killed many in front of your eyes. You're a good person right, so you have to avenge them in the name of the Justice."

"Haha, you're funny, but the truth is that I have nothing to do with them and I really didn't like them in the least, so I have no reason to avenge them." Gildarts rejected Yuujiro again, his motive however was another, since if a fight suddenly broke out between him and the redhead perhaps and most likely he was sure of being able to win.

But his eyes never left the huge dragon, Yuujiro for him was only secondary and not worth fighting a battle that it was clear that he would lose if he faced the dragon.

It was clear that the redhead was someone with whom he had to be careful, but the greatest importance and protagonist, in this case, was not him.

Yuujiro seeing how his attempts failed did not lose hope of having a great match for the opening of what would come next, in fact, now he was restless and eager to try the idea that had occurred to him, and for some reason, he already knew what the Gildarts problem, the huge figure of the dragon frightened him so much that he was willing to ignore all the carnage that was happening in front of his eyes just as long as he did not fight.

Yuujiro tapped the dragon's head and spoke. "Do not worry about my pet, in fact, something has occurred to me so that you do not feel alone, or is it that perhaps you cannot fight without the help of the power of friendship or whatever you call it ... look here it is my suggestion and you better accept it or else several innocent lives will be lost in my hand, even that of your fellow guild. "

That seemed to get the attention of the Fairy Tail wizard, it was okay to mess with others, and he did not care, but if he got his family involved in this he of course would not stay with his arms crossed.

"Oh, apparently that interests you right. Because what would happen if ... I do not know, for example, I take a little trip to your guild with this huge dragon that, as you have already realized, because of his behavior, people do not like them. "

"Do not you dare!" Gildarts interrupted angrily, his destructive aura showing around him.

Yuujiro smiled and slowly named. "Makarov, Laxus, Elfman, Mira, Lissana, Happy, Cana, Gray, Erza, Natsu."

"How do you know about them?" Gildarts questioned, his magic beginning to cover his body.

"Wow, you finally show some fighting spirit." Yuujiro clapped his hands twice to get attention. "So here is what I propose, do not worry that you did not fight alone, since we all will."

With his outstretched hand, he pointed at Retsu who was staring blankly at what was happening. "Here's the ruthless beautiful assassin who doesn't blink when she cuts people, Retsu."

With his foot, he tapped the dragon. "On this other side we have the ancient dragon that lived in the ages where dragons were like people and flew freely across the continent while humans were nothing more than ants in his eyes they were even simple morning snacks, this majestic being survived to the great war and lived to this day, Drakon. "

Then I point to Gildarts. "Now in the other corner, we have a Fairy Tail womanizing wizard who is also a bad example and a bad father for not recognizing his progenitor at first glance, a wizard who believes that the power of friendship gives him powers beyond what common, Gildarts. "

Pausing he saw Gildarts confused by what he said, but he ignored it and continued. "And last but not least, is me."

"I kill whoever I want to kill and do what I want, I am not anyone's dog. If I like the person he will live, and if I hate this person he will die, that's my game."

"I am neither white nor black, I am neither evil nor good, perhaps a shade of gray and perhaps a red when covered in the blood of my enemies."

"Well, well." Clapping again to get attention. "To sum things up and understand it, this will be a pitched battle between the four of us, everything is allowed if you want to kill, kills, if you want to quit you can't because you only exit the game once you can't move anymore or lose consciousness or are So badly hurt with all the broken bones in your body. "

"Our battlefield has no limits, the whole land is our ring to do what we want, that includes cities and towns, and if we go further also the surrounding kingdoms."