The Demon's Lover (Meliodas)

Chapter 5

Ayano was slowly making her way towards where she felt the large amount of dark energy, which is also conveniently where the explosions took place. When she arrived their was a giant hole in the ground.

"oh god" Ayano looks up to see Helbram and Meliodas fighting, Meliodas is using his demon powers "he's lost control"

Meliodas raises his left hand, and manipulating the black-colored substance on it to form a giant axe-like blade, attacks with it. Helbram blocks the attacks and remains unscathed, and attacks Meliodas with his sword when the latter attacks, sending him flying. 

Helbram believes that he has split Meliodas into two, only to be disproved, when the black-colored substance on Meliodas' body is shown to have shielded the sword attack. As Meliodas manipulates the substance to form a wing, and flies towards Helbram, the Holy Knight forms three glowing orbs and uses them as projectiles, that automatically fly behind Meliodas when he evades the first attack, and explode when Helbram flicks his fingers.

Meliodas again gets to his feet, uninjured, leading Helbram to further deduce, and note down in a book, that while Meliodas' strength has increased, he has lost his ability to use Full Counter, which may be due to loss of reason, or due to an alternate personality. As the Holy Knight finishes, Meliodas manipulates the substance on his body to form giant hands with very sharp claws.

Meliodas attacks Helbram with his two giant hands formed by the black substance. Helbram easily stops the hands. The Holy Knight attacks Meliodas, who quickly attacks back with his giant hands, injuring Helbram, and surprising him and the other Holy Knights who are giving him their strength. 

As they, shocked, realize that Meliodas' power is increasing, and that he is not yet in a complete demon state, the Great Holy Knight, Hendrickson, walks towards them and lends Helbram some of his own power. His strength now dramatically increased, Helbram easily sends Meliodas flying with one attack into a mountain.

"Meliodas!" Ayano shouts

Ayano quickly jumps from where she is to the mountain. She examines the unconscious Meliodas and his injuries. Ayano kisses his forehead and his demon marks disappear.

"You'll live captain" she sighs "as long as I get you out of here"

Helbram puts on his helm, and levitates towards where Meliodas crashed after he was defeated.

"You there, move unless you want to end up like him" Helbram commands

"Not going to happen" Ayano says as she faces him

All of a sudden a giant hammer hits Helbram.

Ayano looks up at the giant "Nice of you to join the fight Dianne"

"I was dealing with something else" Dianne rests her hammer against her shoulder

"you take the captain to the others" Ayano orders

"what about you?" Dianne asks concerned

Ayano jumps down from the mountain "I'll handle this"

"You better join up with us after" Dianne says as she gently grabs Meliodas "I mean it"

"heh" Ayano laughs "we'll see"

Dianne quickly leaves the area.

"you... who are you?" Helbram questions as he gets up from the ground

Ayano walks towards him and throws off her cloak "would you like to know?" she smirks "very few people that have heard my name survive"

"Helbram retreat immediately!" Hendrickson shouts 

"..." Helbram stares at Ayano before answering "yes sir"

"I don't think so" Ayano sends a blade of dark energy at him

The blade of energy cuts off his arm and he shouts in pain. She effortlessly sends more blades, cutting off his other arm and one leg. He collapses to the ground screaming and writhing in agony.

"How does that feel?" Ayano's eyes glowed red "painful right?" she laughs "oh don't die yet, I'm not done"

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Ayano walks along the path until she sees Diane, Ban, King, and a girl sitting near a giant green pig taking care of each others wounds. As she gets closer the group turns around to face her.

"well captain" Ayano puts her hands behinds her back "looks like I'm sticking around for awhile"

Meliodas smiles "great to hear, thanks for the help by the way, Dianne tells me you took care of that Helbram guy while she took me to safety"

"well you know me" Ayano shrugs "I'm always cleaning up your mess"

"guess so" Meliodas laughs

Ayano walks over to him and places her hand on his forehead "how are you feeling? Is your headache gone?"

Elizabeth and Hawk looked surprised that Meliodas and Ayano were about the same height, Ayano was a bit shorter then him.

"yep, all gone" Meliodas reassures her "I'm guessing that was your doing as well?"

"of course" Ayano shrugs "you're such a clutz"

"I know" Meliodas pats her head "I see you're still a shorty"

"watch it" Ayano says annoyedly

"He's right, you are short" Ban agrees walking over

"Ban" Ayano glares at him

"I'm just sayin" he defends

Elizabeth walks over "It's nice to meet you Lady Ayano, I'm-"

"Elizabeth" Ayano interrupts "I know"

"oh" Elizabeth says confused

Meliodas smiles "Ayano here is a sin"

"technically I'm a-"

"You're a Sin" Meliodas covers Ayano's mouth

She moved his hand away annoyed "...yeah"

"Well it's nice to meet you Lady Ayano" Elizabeth smiles

"Nice to meet you too princess" Ayano replies

Elizabeth looks at her closer "Your hair is light pink, it's so-"

"weird, I know" Ayano looks away

"Weird yes, but it's pretty" Elizabeth says happily

"r-really" Ayano blushes embarrassed

"Don't go into tsundere mode now" Ban comments

Ayano turned annoyed and punched Ban so hard it sent him flying into a mountain.

"Sir Ban" Elizabeth says worriedly

"She sent him flying again" is all King and Meliodas had to say

"and you're not concerned?" Elizabeth asks them freaking out

"Don't worry Elizabeth, they do this all the time" Dianne says

Ban walks back over to them, his head bleeding "man you've had time to perfect that sucker punch"

"you deserved it" Ayano crosses her arms

Meliodas starts to laugh "it's nice for all of us to be together like this again, I missed it"

The group turns to him and smiles.

"come on captain it's time to focus" Ayano bonks Meliodas on the head "what's the plan?"

Meliodas chuckles and rubs his head "Alright, let's get going! Starting tomorrow, we'll open the bar, business as usual. And the search for the rest of the Deadly Sins!"