Fallen Angel - (Seven Deadly Sins x Reader)

Chapter 24

The Puppet Generation

Arthur's nose poked over his shoulder to bump against your face, "wake up (Y/n), somethings happening to the Holy Knights". He lifted his arms so you were jostled in your piggyback.

You grumbled and rubbed your eyes. But when you opened them, your sparkly (E/c) irises were met with the horrors before all of you.

All of the Holy Knights were transforming into terrifying demonic creatures that looked a lot like the one that had been trapped in Gowther's suit. "Oh gosh!" You climbed off Arthur's back and the young king drew his sword. As you looked at the demon creature closest to the group, you yelped as you spotted Jericho's face poking out of the centre of the creature's chest. "Jericho..."

The beast lunged towards you but Diane intercepted and began pushing against it in a fight of brute strength.

"Diane!" King yelled and flew up to launch his spear at the red monster, you were in his path in a millisecond, your hand outstretched towards him in a stopping motion. He halted, your wings beat evenly behind your back, "(Y/n) we have to kill Jericho, Diane shouldn't be pushing herself so much right now!"

"I'm fine King" The giant tried to smile at you both, you turned back to face the fairy.

"We cant kill Jericho, she's tried to help us" You gave him a determined look, "we'll help Diane another way". You snapped your fingers and a melody of roars broke out on the other side of the castle, you could all hear a large thing approaching with heavy footsteps, "Diane get out of the way!"

 Hurriedly, the giant let go by pushing back against Jericho's red captor, it didn't get time to steady itself before the Wind Walker appeared and tossed it up into the air.

Arthur and several of the Holy Knights that hadn't turned, such as Howzer and Gilthunder, fell to the ground in panic, backing away from the Wind Walker.

"What the hell is that thing?" Howzer gasped, you helped Diane back to her feet by grabbing one of her fingers and pulling her up before she fell.

King ignored the Holy Knight, turning instead to grab your arm, "I think the demon blood inside the New Generation Knights is going berserk".

"Mhm" you nodded, Meliodas whistled and you flew down to him, he grabbed your hand and rolled it over to look at your palm. There were four crescent shape cuts in each hand from your fingernails.

"Yeah you cant be around all this unstable energy without wanting to destroy it cant you" He gave you a sympathetic smile and brushed a loose strand of your hair behind your ear, "It makes your skin crawl doesn't it? These things..."

"I feel like I'm on fire" you whisper, clutching his hand to your chest, your ring feels tighter and tighter by the second, its making your finger cramp in pain.

"(Y/n) is it?" A sickly voice called from the rubble of the buildings behind you, you all spun around anxiously to see a figure moving towards you, "I've been looking for you".

"Hendrickson" Meliodas hissed and pushed you behind him, seeing the Holy Knight Captain made you feel sick, your goddess magic was pulsing against your eyes and making your tongue dry. This is the same feeling I got when Arthur and I fell off that cliff running from the Grey Demon? "So you're alive".

Gilthunder copied Meliodas and pulled Margaret behind him to protect her, you looked to Arthur and he nodded, moving to protect Elizabeth who was still shocked at seeing the Holy Knight Captain.

"Sir Meliodas" Elizabeth covered her mouth in fright, "his eye..."

As you managed to force your head up from its slouch, you saw the unmistakable single crack of black markings running over Hendrickson's right eye, turning his iris completely black. Demon energy. I knew it.