Fairy Tail vs. The Seven Deadly Sins

A.N.: For the record: NO! This is not a crossover with The Seven Deadly Sins manga. I do not do crossovers. I was having a conversation with Awareness Bringer and I decided to expand my storytelling into other manga that aren't just One-Shot requests. To be frank, the main inspiration for this story didn't come from The Seven Deadly Sins manga, which I have read by the way, but from the trailer of Darksiders III.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.

Chapter 1: The Broken Seal

A few weeks after the Grand Magical Games….
The Town of Silva

The small town of Silva bustled as people went about their day to day lives. Merchants stood by their stalls while peddling their wares. Children played in the fields with smiles on their faces. Birds were singing. Wizards were busy chasing thieves that had Lucy's keys.

Natsu, Happy, Gray, Erza, Wendy and Lucy were all busy chasing a thief in a dark cloak, Lucy's keys in his hand. The group had just completed a job, miraculously without leveling the town, and was busy eating celebratory ice cream when a thief knocked over Lucy and swiped her keys. The moment she realized her keys were gone they took off after the thief.

"Get back here!" Natsu screamed as he chased the thief, however the lowlife was an agile one and he expertly evaded the well-trained Wizards.

"Heheheh…" the thief snickered as he ducked into an alley. "These keys will sell a mint on the black market!"

The chase led them all across town, the Wizards not letting up in their pursuit. The thief, running out of places to go, ducked an incoming sword thrown by Erza and ran up the steps of a small monastery that was at the edge of town. Cursing for missing the thief, Erza and the others gave chase. The group saw a small group of monks outside tending to the garden nearby, dressed in brown robes.

The thief pushed past the monks and dashed through the open door of the monastery. Natsu and the others pushed aside the monks in their way. The thief, seeing the pursuing Wizards, slammed the door and bolted it shut.

But what would stop a normal pursuer was nothing but a wooden door was nothing more than a mild hindrance to someone like Natsu, who kicked the old, massive door down with a single, flaming foot. The monks inside, already terrified because of the thief that had barged into their sanctum, all scattered from the charging Fairy Tail wizards.

The thief dashed into the middle of the monastery's cathedral. He looked around but saw no exit or stairs leading up. The cathedral was rather small, with only a stained glass window on the ceiling depicting a tree and a circular bronze tablet in the middle of the chamber. On it was inscribed seven apples. Cursing, the thief turned around and saw that the Fairy Tail wizards had surrounded him. Pointing her sword at the thief, Erza glared at the thief. "Who are you? And why do you want Lucy's keys?"

Sighing, the thief pulled out a small sword before whipping his cloak off. The group braced themselves when the thief smiled wickedly at them. He was a grizzled man in his thirties with a shaved head. A tattoo of a rat was branded on his forehead. "I recognize that tattoo!" Lucy said, looking at the thief angrily. "He's a member of the Thieves Guild, Ratpack!"

"I've heard of them," Erza said. "They're a guild of lowlifes and scum."

"Hah!" the thief laughed. "Says the guild that stomps towns into oblivion like a heard of thundering elephants!" he retorted. "But you're right about my affiliation," he gave a mocking bow. "Jango's the name. Ace thief of Ratpack, at your service."

"Not that good of a thief, are you?" Gray mocked.

"Jango?" Wendy said, a large question mark on her head. "What kind of name is that? That sounds lame and generic; as if someone just came up with it on the fly," she deadpanned.

"Well, excuse me, princess!" Jango shouted in annoyance.

"Enough!" Lucy shouted back. "Give me back my keys!"

"No can do, sweetheart!" Jango jingled the keys in his hand and grinned. "I saw what these babies can do when I watched the Games. Ten Golden Zodiac keys plus multiple Silver Zodiac keys? I've enough dough in my hands to live in a palace!"

Anger burned in Erza's eyes. She knew how important Lucy's keys were to her and she wouldn't let this thief get away with extorting her friend's pride and joy. "Hand them over or you won't be walking out of here with legs, Jango!"

Smirking, the thief reached into his pocket and pulled out something. "Keep telling yourself that, girlie. I've seen what you people do and I ain't that dumb enough to pick a fight with you. Just as a Wizard has ways of fighting," he held up a small ball in his hand, "A thief has ways of fighting." And with that he hurled the ball to the ground. Smoke erupted from the ball, blinding everyone. "Ahahahah!" Jango laughed as he made his way to the door. "Later, Fairy dorks!" he taunted…for about five seconds.

WHAM!

Through the smoke, Natsu punched Jango in the face, sending him sprawling into the pews. Wendy used her Sky Dragon's Roar to dispel the smoke, clearing everyone's vision. "Nice nose, Natsu," Erza complimented.

"Crap!" Jango hauled himself up. "I forgot you Dragon Slayers are human monsters. Fine then…" he muttered before drawing a short sword. "The hard way it is then." When Natsu charged at him, Jango merely ducked underneath his punch and dashed past the Dragon Slayer. Unable to stop, Natsu collided with a pillar with a loud crash. Jango grinned evilly as he charged at Lucy. "A rat always goes for the weakest link!"

CLANG!

As Erza stepped in front of Lucy, Jango's blade glanced harmlessly off of hers before the Armored Wizard smashed it to pieces with a single swing of her enchanted blade. "I can see that honor among thieves is a dead principle to Ratpack."

Realizing his chances of escaping with the keys were growing more faint, Jango tried to run for the door…except he couldn't move his legs. "What the hell?" He looked down and saw that his legs had been frozen. Walking over to him, Gray snagged Lucy's keys from them.

"Here you go, Lucy," Gray said as he handed them over to his friend. Lucy thanked him before glaring at the thief.

"Grrrr! Dammit all!" Jango grumbled. Sighing, he stopped struggling against the ice and instead started snickering. "So what's the deal here? You gonna give me some stern lecture about "being a productive member of society"? Gonna give me a spanking?" he mocked, raising his eyebrows suggestively at Erza. "Wizards ain't got any authority to arrest people," he reminded.

Erza and the others merely smiled. "No, but we can give you a stern punch. Right, Natsu?"

Jango saw a shadow loom over him and turned his head to see the Dragon Slayer already on his feet again. Hauling his flaming fist back, Natsu grinned at Jango's horrified expression. "Tell your little buddies this: Nobody steals from Fairy Tail!"

WHAM!

Natsu's mighty blow pummeled Jango into the ground, cracking the bronze tablet beneath them from the sheer force of the blow. Jango coughed up blood before landing on a pew, smashing it to splinters.

"And that takes care of that," Natsu announced, dusting his hands.

"Thanks, guys," Lucy said, clutching her keys close. "I don't know what I'd have done if I'd lost my keys."

"We're your friends, Lucy," Erza said proudly. "We'd go to the ends of the earth to get them back. You know that."

The group was interrupted when a monk approached them. "Well now, the bonds of youthful friendship is a beautiful thing," he smiled. "Greetings, Wizards. I am the head of the Order of Yggdrasil."

"I see." Erza bowed in reverence. "We're sorry to have caused such a disturbance, your grace."

"Please, treat me like any other man, my dear," the old man, his beard thick and grey, shook her hand. "Think nothing about the damage you'd caused. What can be torn down can be replaced good as new. Besides," he cocked a thumb at the incapacitated Jango, "Watching that man get his just desserts was amusing. We can forgive thievery for survival's sake. But thievery for selfishness is abhorrent to his soul and everyone else's. Come," he gestured to the ruins of the door that Natsu kicked out. "I'll show to the-" He stopped dead in his tracks when he looked at the floor. When his eyes saw the cracked bronze tablet his eyes widened in horror. "Oh no!" his head snapped up and he grabbed Natsu by his shoulders. "What have you done?! The seal! The seal has been broken!"

"Seal?" Erza looked at the tablet before realizing that some of the tiny words inscribed on the metal was actually a sealing enchantment. "What did you have sealed away?"

No sooner did the words come out of her mouth then the monastery started to shake. The old man merely trembled in fear as the ground beneath their feet started to crack.

"Our worst nightmare."

The ground opened up, creating a fissure in the middle of the cathedral. The roof tore itself apart as the place was split in two. Gray shielded Wendy and Lucy from falling debris with his ice while Natsu and Erza crushed any stone that came near them. When the cataclysm ended, everyone took a moment to breathe. "Is everyone alright?" Erza called out.

"No…" said the monk, who'd been protected by Erza during the earthquake. "Nothing is right anymore…."

It was then that the Fairy Tail wizards realized they weren't alone with the cathedral. Turning around they saw seven new people standing beneath the stained glass window. "Who are they?" Lucy asked the monk.

The monk shivered as he hid behind Erza. "Those are seven demons that our order sealed away long ago."

"Demons?" Erza gasped. "You mean from the Book of Zeref?"

"No, these are different," the monk explained. "A single legend has been passed down through our order. Under no condition are those seven ever allowed to roam free again." He pointed to each of them.

"Wrath!"

A huge, buking man with gothic black armor pauldrons sat on the ruins of a collapsed pillar. His face was obscured from black hood that covered his face but the group saw glowing red eyes peer at them from the darkness of the hood. His sword, broad and wicked, dripped neverending blood onto the floor.

"Lust!"

A woman sat on the altar in front of another demon, her features anything less than human. With a pinkish tint to her skin, she had horns sprouting from the sides of her head, like those of a rams. Her hooves clicked together as she sat clad in black leather while showing off all of her curves. In her hands she twirled a black flute.

"Envy!"

The tamest-looking of the bunch, a small girl stood near the fissure in the ground. She wore a plain black dress but her eyes were a sick yellow. When she looked up, the group saw that her face was riddled with scars.

"Sloth!"

Standing behind Wrath was a tall, lanky man who wore a black-and-white prison garb. His body was wrapped in chains and he had a gaunt, weary expression on his face. Beside him was a huge sewing needle.

"Gluttony!"

An overweight man was sitting on a throne made entirely of bones. He wore monk robes but they were covered in blood; his hairstyle was styled like that of the monks of the monastery but it was badly in need of grooming.. In his hands was a piece of meat on a stick. To everyone's disgust and revulsion, they realized that what Gluttony was doing was eating meat off of a human femur.

"Greed!"

A man was crouched next to Lust. He had the look of a tribal shaman with his dark skin and voodoo headdress; except that his staff was covered in jewels. His garments were likewise decked out in rubies, sapphires, emeralds and diamonds. At his waist was a belt of multi-covered jewels.

"Pride!"

Standing at the altar behind Lust and looking on at the bewildered people was a knight in gleaming silver armor. His face was handsome and his hair oiled back; of the seven he looked the most human of the bunch. On his breastplate was a tree; the same tree that was on the stained glass window behind him. In one hand was a shield and in the other was a bright, silver sword.

"What are they?" Erza asked.

The monk gulped as he trembled in sheer horror. "Those…those are the Seven Deadly Sins!"

To be continued

A.N.: Please R&R.