A long wait to reunite with you

You clasped your hand around your other wrist, doubling over slightly. It was taking a lot of your energy to keep Hawk Mama hidden from the tempered eyes of the demons scouring the earth looking for you. A warm hand landed on the centre of your back and you turned around to see Ban smirking down at you, a plate clasped in his hand.

"Breakfast mistress?"

His throaty baritone sounded even more hoarse as he had just finished healing from their previous encounter.. Derieri had found you all a few days prior and you had not yet recovered your wings so the fight had been long and straining. It ended however with you sending the demon woman hurtling off into the sky.

"What you got there?" Another voice, more squeaky, chirped through the dull stomps of Hawk Mama's feet.

Looking at the plate you began to salivate, "Oh wow its bac--" Your voice stunted, as you just realised it had been Hawks asking you. "It's nothing" You grabbed the plate of bacon and eggs off of the Sin of Greed and he chuckled as you lightly slacked his chest.

"Lady (Y/n)!" You turned around to see Elizabeth leaning out the window of the inn waving at you, a bright smile on her face, "Sir Meliodas is awake!"

Your heart swelled as that horrible crushing feeling that had been contorting your face into a sad smile fell away, and you felt butterflies race over your chest.

"Meliodas?" You whispered before rushing inside and almost slamming straight into a groggy and shirtless Sin of Wrath.

"My love! I'm back!" He grinned from ear to ear, is fists curled on his hips as he flexed out his chest, "and all my hearts are back in shape!"

You giggled and Princess Elizabeth clutched her hands together, adoring the cute interaction between you both. "Welcome back" You said softly, setting your hand on his chest as the warm glow of your palm illuminated all 7 beating hearts.

"Oh!" Suddenly the sin's eyes traced down, hungrily eying you in the tight inn uniform; your pink buttoned shirt with a black ribbon around your neck, a short, dark skirt with a belt, and your high black stocking on your right leg, with opposite white and black heels to match. "Now this I HAVE to take a closer look at..." His tongue poked out the side of his mouth as he suddenly started dropping all the areas of your uniform sheepishly.

Instead of shoving him away with a laugh, your heart just beat even more quickly and you hugged him into your chest with tears welling in your eyes, "touch me more" you whispered. Sending you both into blushing fits as you quickly stepped back from him. "Ah... I meant.. its just.. I've missed you so much.. and you slept for so long.."

Before you could finish your stammer, Meliodas collapsed into hugging you tightly against his shorter body, and as you looked down at his head pressed tight against your sternum, the tiniest tear seemed to well at his eye before escaping down his cheek.

"I missed you too (Y/n)"

"Ah Sir Meliodas!" Elizabeth said as he finally pulled away from you, catching both of your attentions, "we've got an emergency situation, we must hurry to Liones!"

With a gentle pat on her head as the Sin of Wrath gave her a nod, Meliodas followed Elizabeth outside onto Hawk Mama's head to see where you all were.

Suddenly you felt a spiritual pulling that pulled you into the ground straight to darkness. As you exhaled, you opened your eyes and found yourself floating seemlessly above an explosion of ice magic somewhere in Liones.

"Sorry we're late everyone.." You heard a familiar voice and turned to see Merlin floating effortlessly beside you, a coy smile playing at her painted lips. "Took a little longer to summon both myself and my dear fallen angel than I'd originally anticipated". She reached over and clasped your hand and you felt her sorcery surging through you like liquid fuel, "all right you 10 commandments, time to become our guinea pigs!"

"Well that sure was violent" You crossed your legs in the air as you looked down at the sheer destruction you had both caused that had resulted in the complete obliteration of the castle and so much of the township.

Merlin was floating at your side, looking into a glass vial she had used to capture Grayroad when she had summoned a tornado to keep all of his dark skulls from escaping her.

"It was quite amusing though" She hummed in delight, bending down to plant a sweet peck on the cheek of her favourite divine being. "Sorry I had to use so much of your core energy into my infinity, thought it would be more theatric if the damage was so much greater".

You laughed and raised your hands in timid defeat, "I'm glad to see you enjoying yourself".

"And how about you, old friend?" She turned a beady eye to you, about ready to teleport back to her lab with Grayroad when a tremendous lightning strike waged war on the crippled landscape just yards from you.

"Thunder God's Purge?" You bit your lip, that's not Gilthunder.. no, then it must be..

"Is that Gilthunder's father and Hendrickson battling it out with that demon possessed man, Dreyfus?" Merlin's eyebrows seemed to lift in idle amusement as you drummed your fingers on your knee, your wing scars still itching. "Since when did so many of our wars rely on such old men?"

"You say that like we're not over 3,000 years old" You replied, before you and the sin of gluttony almost fell out of the air in laughter.

"Oh look's like we're not done yet" The sin said as her orb transported all who had been fighting the demons in Liones into a large transparent protection cube. As they looked up at you, tired and bleeding and clutching their weapons, the gratitude for your arrival had some grow men in balls of tears and cheering.

Outside across the desolated city, a massive demon, nearly twice the size of Diane, reared back to standing straight. A mouth carved into its chest that growled menacingly as it braced its long sharp claws, each easily long enough to turn Mama Hawk into pork cutlets.

"That's the true form of the demon that was possessing Dreyfus!" A girl beneath you, a young knight standing straight on the cube's nearly invisible floor, pointed out at it.

"I'LL CRUSH YOU ALL IN ONE GO--" The demon was cut off in its threat as something wicked fast slammed its head back."WH-WHAT THE!?" It was then you noticed the tiny body standing on its shoulder as the demon's eyes widened as it noticed him. 

"MELIODAS!? WHY ARE YOU STILL ALIVE!?"

"I knew he'd be back" Merlin smirked before turned her gaze over her shoulder to you, "you don't just leave your wife a widow".

"The power's are at equal match!?" Someone said in the cube as everyone was pressed against its glass surface watching the tiny sin battle it out against the massive demon, dealing blow after blow onto its enormous body. As Merlin looked out over to her captain, his body seemed to be emanating a combat class of 30,000.

"You held your own against my doppelgänger pretty well" You heard Meliodas' voice as the dust cleared on the battlefield.

"D-Doppelgänger!?" One of the knights said and Merlin sighed knowingly.

"Ah so that's it" Merlin winked at you as you had also noticed the slight differences in Meliodas' movements as the doppelgänger. "Its a special trait of the Sacred Treasure: Lostvayne: Visual Doppelgänger" You watched Meliodas turn back and wink at you. "That's why the captain's actual Combat Class is now.. 60,000".

"Well, say something Fraudrin" Meliodas voice called up to the great demon, "Seeing your face go from hope to despair... makes me feel on top of the world". As his head was still partially turned towards you, you spotted the unmistakable black markings emerge on his forehead and curl down his eye.

Blow after blow, the Sin of Wrath was decimating the poor demon as he struck too fast to see, and onlookers stayed glued to the glass of Merlin's protection cube.

"He's too much for that Commandment!"

Merlin shook her head at the knight she was floating above, "Of course, compared to Fraudrin's Combat Class of 31,000, the captain's combat class is nearly double. Even our little angel here possess an untapped Class of 150,000"

"HUH!?" Many of the knights' eyes shot up to you fearfully, though more impressed then terrified. 

Your eyelids dropped lazily in protest, "I'm not in assault mode Merlin, and I don't plan on ever using it".

"If you ever do you must promise to show me, having so much celestial energy unused and waiting it must send your dear aunt just kicking herself" Merlin's long nails strung noisily against each other as she thought, "after all I'd be so terribly frustrated to find out my own more powerful sister gave all her gifts to her daughter before deciding to make me Supreme Deity".

"Merlin my old friend you don't have enough knowledge of Angel Law to be stipulating so much" You said as you watch Meliodas throw the demon onto his back by his thumb.

A shiver practically bolted up Merlin's body at the word, knowledge, "Oh but you MUST tell me one day (Y/n), there is so much I wish to know about the higher beings of this world and their strange ways and abilities".

"Th-theoretically" The female knight said, glancing up at you, "how would you enter assault mode as an angel such as yourself, oh Lady (Y/n)?"

"She would grow 6 WINGS!" Merlin said excitedly, holding up 6 fingers as her toes practically curled in her floating boots at the idea of witnessing such a thing.

"But Meliodas has a similar level to me when he himself is in his demon form, you would find out just as many interesting things studying a young man like himself" You told her, trying to get the attention off you as something about Meliodas fighting power in the last few minutes had recaptured your attention. 

"Has anyone else noticed the demon Freydrin s is acting strange down there?" A knight said.

Merlin drew her thumb across her dark lips as the conversation turned, but paid little mind at the new subject. "He seems to be getting ready to detonate himself to eradicate all life".

"D-DETONATE HIMSELF!?"

Merlin rolled her eyes. "Don't worry. He can't destroy this perfect cube, nor the Captain himself"

"If you're going to die, make it quick" Meliodas called up to the demon as its chest seems to turn black, and violent red lightning made its way out of the centre of his chest and up to his arms, legs, and head. "You're putting me to sleep here".

"Merlin? He does have some sort of plan, provoking him like this?" Hendrickson asked from where he was crouching on the cube's floor.

But before the demon could begin his countdown, it was like the whole upper half of his body vanished... and Meliodas lowered his arm with a smile on his face.

A large short broke you out of your trance as Mama Hawk appeared at the edge of the city's broken wall, walking through with a bounding pig lump on her back, and a waving princess where the inn once was but had seemingly been wiped off the pig's back.

"Sorry we didn't come sooner" Ban jumped down from the big's back and walked over to the Captain who had almost as soon as the cube had disappeared, pinched you out of Merlin's grip. "Looks like we missed the party". 

Ban didn't smile, as he looked at the emotionless face of the Sin of Wrath holding your floating body against his shoulders with his face partially buried in your stomach.

"How long are you going to hang around?" Came Meliodas flat voice, so lacking in humour, as Ban stood lazily with his hands in his pockets, :you got something to say to me?"

The Sin of Greed inhaled and closed his eyes, his bare chest still steaming from healing another demon wound, "maybe".

As you looked over at Ban, your body curled against the captain's side so your lower stomach pressed to his shoulder, your legs curled across his chest and back, and your upper body draped over his head with your arms around his head and neck.

Ban took a step forward, a gave a gentle pat to the shoulder you weren't being held to by Meliodas' iron grip as his hands pressed on the back of your thigh and back.

"I'm happy you're still alive, friend" He said, before looking up at you and turning on his heels back to the Boar's Hat, "Okay, then. I'll give a toast in your honour tonight".

Meliodas didn't reply, but he held you tighter and you curled your head down and pressed your lips to the back of his blonde hair, your arms lacing tighter as you drained the painful demon energy from him.

Up the hill, watching closely, Meliodas and Escanor had just reunited.

"M-My Lady Merlin. I could've sworn I saw the captain die before my very eyes" Escanor said, how back in his smaller form but standing straight in his golden, shimmering armour.

Merlin folding her arms over her chest, "No matter how many times Meliodas dies, he'll always come back to life. By the curse the Demon Lord put on him". 

She looked down at you both as Meliodas' body seemed to breathe more and more deeply, your light chasing the burdening darkness away.

"The catch is that every time he's resurrected, he loses some emotion. He'll slowly but surely regress back to the notorious demon he used to be" Merlin lowered her head.

"B-But Miss (Y/n), she helps him doesn't she?"

Merlin nodded, "Yes, thankfully, (Y/n)'s aura does a great deal to slow that loss of emotion, she can even begin to replenish it gradually".

"They really were meant to be weren't they" Escanor said sadly as he looked down at the demon and angel, locked in an embrace so tight it was like one would vanish if they let go.

The Sin of gluttony touched her cheek, shocked to find a tear had been running there, "if only the universe agreed".

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