The scream made Erza freeze. She dropped her sword, barely missing King's throat. Then ran toward the scream, with Evergreen starting to follow.

        King got off the ground and moved his Chastifold towards Evergreen. The Chastifold purposely missed her, but only by an inch. This was a warning; the only warning.

" Unpetrify my friend. I missed now, I won't miss again." King said as the magical weapon reappeared near him.

Evergreen turned quickly as a magic circle appeared below Ban. The petrifaction wore off, and she stated to run again. But not before giving the two a death stare.

"Are we just letting them get away?" Ban angrily asked King.

"Something is off." King said as he started to float in the opposite direction as the women.

"Hey," Ban yelled trying to catch up with King. "What do you mean, something is off?"

"How did those people know about us? What is their magic abilities? They seem as if they have much more magic that we're used to. How did we get here? There are just too many questions." King stopped. "That and I know someone's following us."

"You knew too, huh," Ban put his arms behind his head. "You can come out now, we all know you're here."

        Out of the shadows appeared a boy, it's eyes a light blue, his hair sliver. It looked about ten years old, it wore a light blue shirt and shorts. The thing that stood out about this boy; a giant stab wound was visible in his stomach.

      "Aw, I guess I wasn't being as sneaky as I could have been." Its voice sounded echoed and distance.

       "Who are you?" King asked.

         "I don't remember anymore, but everyone in the guild calls me Echo. You both are Ban and King of the Seven Deadly Sins, everyone says how strong you are. I wish to see if you could kill me." It said as it took a step closer.

"Kill you? Well fine by me, if you answer some questions first." Ban said cracking his knuckles.

"Questions? I don't think we'll have time for questions." It said as a crazed smile appeared on it's face.

The thing flung itself at the two sins, and the battle started.
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       The scream didn't even faze MiraJane, her eyes were set on Gowther. Max and Lisanna heard the scream but they couldn't do anything at the moment. Their feet seemed glued to the ground, unable to get away from the battle.

Mira held out her wrist and a ball of darkness appeared in her hand. She suddenly lunged at Gowther at high speeds, but before she could touch him he quickly moved. Mira stopped at looked for when Gowther went.

        Mira then felt something slightly shock her. She went light headed for a moment, then looked around angrily.

         "Miss MiraJane Strauss," the group turned their head to see Gowther sitting on a big boulder near by. "Also know as the she-demon to her guild mates. Siblings are Lisanna and Elfman Strauss. Chest measurements are-" Gowther started, but before he could finish MiraJane punched him in the face.

         Gowther was knocked back about fifty feet, Mira's face was the same shade as Erza's face.

          "Hey, evil guy! What were you about to say?" Max yelled with a red face also.

          The two Strauss sisters turned towards Max and gave him a death stare. He immediately shut up after that.

          "Did I say something wrong?" Gowther questioned.

          The group stopped as they felt the earth beneath them shake. Looking up they saw a giant walking towards them. Wendy and Carla were flying next to her head. A pig was running on one side and Romeo was on the other.

         "Gowther what are you doing her?" Hawk asked.

          "Ah sir Hawk and Diana." He said getting off the ground.

          "Hey where's the captain?" Diane asked, not even paying attention to the other group.

          "Well-" Gowther started but Mira quickly grabbed him by the collar.

          "What. Did. You. Do. To. My. Brother." She grinned her teeth as she started to flight into the sky, with Gowther in her tight grasp.

          Gowther didn't answer, before anything else could happen Diane tried to grab the two. She didn't get to grab the two though.

        Gowther quickly got out of Mira's grasp and fell to the ground. When he reached the ground, he pulled off his sacred treasure.

         "Rewrite light." Gowther said shooting his arrow at Mira. She quickly dodged them in the air as she flew down to attack Gowther.

        The only thing running through Mira's mind was, killing this guy for hurting her brother. Not a great thought since she didn't know how to fix her brother. But still a thought.

       When Mira reached Gowther the world went dark to her. Her eyes glazed over and all her thoughts had disappeared.
                                ***
        Mira looked around in this abyss of darkness. She didn't feel fear but she was still confused. Her vision soon cleared she looked around.

          Everything looked normal. She was in a beautiful meadow, flowers were blooming, and she sat in the grass. She breathed a sigh of relief that it was only a dream.

         "Mira!" She heard someone happily yell her name.

          Turning her head she saw Lisanna and Elfman ran towards her. Smiles plastered on their faces, she smiled back.

          Then she couldn't move. Her body started to stand up on its own, a magic circle appeared under her feet. She transformed into her Satan soul form. She wasn't able to control anything her body was doing.

        Her body lunged forwards towards her two siblings. They didn't move either. Without her consent her body enveloped the two into a beam of darkness. A moment later the darkness disappeared and the two fell to the ground. Their bodies motionless.

Lisanna and Elfman Strauss were dead; killed by their own sister MiraJane Strauss.

Mira tried to scream, as she saw the last two people in her family slaughtered by her own hand. No scream escaped Mira's lips, no tears weld in her eyes, no show of emotion was evident on her face.

More images appeared in front of Mira's eyes. Her guild mates, friends, the master, all dead by her hand. All she did was stand over their bodies and give a small smirk. That's what Mira saw.

To her, the darkness in her heart had finally taken over the light. The love she had shown, was lost to the people she had slain.

In the darkness of her heart she screamed for control of her own body. But it didn't listen, no one did. Everyone else was dead. Darkness took over her sight, she couldn't make her body move in anyway.

She screamed and screamed in the endless emptiness. Her mind then shifted to look at where she was. Nowhere. She cried harder and harder than before.

This was her punishment, she thought. This is what she deserved for being a monster, a killer, a demon.

Unknown to her, Gowther stood over the crying body of her dreams. She shrank while he grew. Puppet strings appeared out of her limbs to his hand. This was his doing, this was his spell.

Quietly Gowther said, "Nightmare Teller."

This was a spell that would forever trap the user in a perpetual nightmare. A state where in the end they lose both their mind and life.
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      Hello my lovely reader, been a long time hasn't it. Yah sorry about that, it's been what about eight months since I last posted a chapter of this story. And to be honest you can chalk that up to a lot of different reasons. From no inspiration, to I've been super busy, and I actually wrote all this chapter this last month.

     But in actually, I've been thinking a lot about other stories. Old ones I want to remake on a different account...

(And no I will not tell anyone what that account is because I want that account and the me that writes on that other account to be totally separate from the me on this account. I want those stories to be different then the ones I wrote here, because to be honest those stories suck. I'm sorry for the people that have read those stories and liked them. They suck. Sorry for that tangent back to the original one)

        ...to new stuff I'm working on. Right now I've just been working on a new project that I really enjoy. Sorry I've not really had much time for my current stuff. I've pretty much just been writing down the ideas I've been having for the new stories I want to develop. While I want to work on stuff like this, I keep being drawn to new stuff.

      So sorry about that, but hey if you guys what to see some of the stuff I've been working on just tell me. I'd be happy to publish little parts of it to see if you guys would like it.

     Oh also before I forget, I change the formatting of this chapter. I saw how hard you guys were having trying to comment at different points and how I had a hard time trying to tell where you wanted to comment. So yah I changed it.

       Ok, wow I didn't plan to go on that much of a tangent. Sorry. Well please tell me if you like this chapter, the new format, and if you want to see part of a new project. Bye guys, and incase I don't publish anything anytime time soon. Have a happy Halloween. Bye