You're My Everything

Chapter 32

The ships from both the Alvarez Empire and Fiore stood proudly as its sails blew in the wind. Despite the eerie and dark weather above them, their appearance was profound. The waves blew roughly back as their ships pulled into Caracole Island, situating themselves next to Sabertooth's personal ship. Sabertooth looked around them, stupefied at the sudden change in events.

Kyubey jumped into Zeref's arms, who accepted the little creature with a soft smile on his face before his blank expression soon returned. A board was thrown across, connecting the Alvarez Empire's ship to that of Sabertooth's. Zeref stepped boarded their ship, the Twelve Spriggans following right behind him.

"Kyubey...?" Sting stared at it, shocked.

"Myuu," it nodded its head at him, its golden beaded eyes full of mocking delight.

"Still as irritating as ever," he remarked, a tick mark on his forehead.

"Be glad, you lowly humans who will never amount to anything in life," Invel pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, the glass glinting. "That we, the generals of the Alvarez Empire, have personally come to help. If it weren't for the fact that Lucy-sama was the one that had asked us to, we wouldn't have come."

"But what a shame," Irene stepped onto the ship, the clacking of her heels coming to a stop as she set her staff beside her. "That Lucy herself isn't here."

"What a waste of time," Brandish said, a lollipop in her mouth. "I wanted to see her."

"The same goes for all of us, Brandish," August added. "But since Lucy-sama had asked of us, it's already enough to know that she still remembers us, no?"

Brandish smiled. "You're right, August."

"In any case, this is quite the mess that you guys have run into,"  Larcade sighed. "If Lucy-chan had asked us of a favor, things must be really rough. Moreover, seeing that mass of impurity and undead over there," he looked to the opposite shore of Caracole Island. "I'm quite speechless that she had thought that you guys alone would suffice."

"Not to mention, they don't even have even a quarter of our strength," Dimaria scoffed. "Lucy must be really burdened by you guys."

Sting looked away. He couldn't reject what she had said.

"I wouldn't exactly agree with what you said," Hades spoke up. "For all I know, Lucy seems to enjoy being around them and not only that, they have the strength and capability to fight against the impurity. They aren't a burden."

"Ho?" Dimaria grinned.

"You..." Sting looked at him, his sapphire eyes almost sparkling with a newfound light.

"...Probably," Hades averted his eyes and murmured.

"Hey!" Sting yelled at him, pissed off.

A laugh escaped from Minerva's lips before she quickly burst into laughter. The other Sabertooth members joined her and Sting and Lector looked around them, surprised. Just a moment ago, they were in utter despair and hopelessness yet with just one thing that Lucy had given them, the atmosphere had completely changed.

"And you are?" Wall raised an eyebrow at him.

"Hades, Ruler of the Underworld," he looked at the company before her. "One of Lucy's few friends still living in this world."

"The Underworld?!" they all shouted.

"As expected of Lucy. The friends she makes always surprises us," Irene whistled and grinned. "If you're the God of the Underworld, then who's that guy over there? From what I can see, he's a dragon slayer, no? A strong one at that."