A Railgun in Fairy Tail, Book 5: Perfection

The Darkness Grows Closer

In Fiore, there was a place far under the capital city Crocus known as the Hell Palace. A deadly place with seeminingly no exit and a maze that stretched for miles and miles underground. It was where only the worst criminals were sent...and when times warranted it, the secret unit of the king, the Garou Knights, would come to execute especially high level criminals. They had only failed once in their execution missions, and that had been when they fought Fairy Tail during the Grand Magic Games. Mission 1500 as it was called, the only failed execution.

However, mission 1521 was about to become the second failure. Because the two criminals the Garou Knights were trying to execute now...were on a whole new class of combatants.

As the battle raged below the earth, the soldiers above ground were in a panic, running all over the palace of Crocus and giving grave reports.

A particularly large knight, Arcadios, walked down the halls of the palace as one of his subordinates filled him in.

"It's a disaster!" said the soldier. "The Grand Magic Council only sentenced these guys to Hell Palace about a week ago...we thought we would starve them before sending in the executioners, just to be sure, but these guys...they just went into some sort of meditative state and used their own regenerating magic energy to take the place of food....so the Garou Knights went in themselves!"

"Yes.." said Arcadios. "So what's with all the ruckuss!? Are the criminals not dead!?"

"No!" said the soldier. "Th-they're practically playing with the executioners sir! Those two are like gods among demons! That Gore Beastwalker criminal isn't even using magic yet, his sheer physical strength took down Neppa in two hits!!"

"WHAT!?" said Arcadios. "Impossible!"

"It get's worse sir!" said the soldier. "Uosuke was just knocked out by the one called Aurumnus Rager...h-he didn't even stand a chance! He got frozen in molten gold...and then it just went from there! This Hydra Head...are they all monsters!?"

"Blast!" said Arcadios. "How did the official guilds even manage to capture these two!? Try to get some communication down to Kama! Get him to retreat! We can let those two abominations rot in the underground.."

Down in the vast undergound caves of Hell Palace, the masked man with his double scythes strapped to his back known as Kama, leader of the Garou Knights, hid behind a rocky outcropping, panting and bruised. In his arms he held two women, one woman, a girl named Cosmos with pink and green clothing and rather large puffy hat coughed. "Th-that didn't go...how I expected it....me and Kamika's dance...totally ruined in 3 seconds.. not beautiful at all."

"These two.." said Kama. "They're on a different level...it's like they were expecting us to come...and even if they didn't prepare for it..their sheer power overwhelmed us.."

"I-is Kamika going to be alright?" asked Cosmos.

"I don't know.." said Kama. "looking at the near unconsious woman in his other arm who was dressed in a robe like dress. "She took too many hits from that Golden Dragon Slayer.."

"Neppa? Uosuke? Wh-where are they?" asked Cosmos.

"I don't know..." said Kama glowering angrilly over his shoulder at where he knew the criminals were approaching. "I lost them in the halls.."

Suddenly a voice rang in Kama's head. "Kama of the Garou Knights..you are ordered to retreat now and leave the criminals to their inevitable doom within Hell Palace. Gather your people and get out of there! Uosuke and Neppa are both unconscious within cavern two, you have 16 minutes."

"Blast!" said Kama. "So Uosuke and Neppa were both taken down that easily! We need to find them and.."

"BOOMM!!" A massive fist crashed through the outcropping and grabbed Kama as Cosmos screamed in fright.