And here we are with the final chapter! After how long?! Who knows. But it's here, so rejoice! Also I lied. Probably going to be a regular sized chapter.

Enjoy!

Quinn really had no idea what it was they were supposed to do here. Quinxotic was still losing her mind above them, blasting at anything she could get her claws on.

"So what do we do?!" Dharen asked. "She's going to blow the city away!"

"We can't hurt her," Abigail said, crossing her arms. "It's still that little girl."

"Well what are we supposed to do to stop her?!" He demanded. "At this rate New Avalon will be destroyed!"

"We could just let her do her go off," Tristan replied as he watched the blasts up above. "If she really is trying to save Anna, then maybe-"

"What happened to you guys?!" Dharen demanded. "You used to be Demon Hunters! You're supposed to protect people from stuff like this! What happened?!" The members of The Cross stared at the man curiously, all eyes eventually turning to Gin himself. Gin was still watching the chaos with a small frown on his face, unsure as to what to say. From what Quinxotic herself had said, this wasn't about sowing destruction. But, what else were they supposed to believe? They hadn't even been given a full understanding of the situation.

"We can't just attack a little girl because the demon inside her is destroying stuff," he said. "You remember how Anna was before this Dharen. We can't kill her."

"Well...Surely we can stop her, can't we?!"

"What if that means Anna loses her life?" Quinn asked, sitting cross legged on the ground. "Can we justify stopping her?"

"Sure we can! Other people are going to lose their lives too at this rate!" Dharen gestured broadly around them at this. "Look at the chaos! Surely someone is dying right now!" Gin really didn't know what to do. He had absolutely no idea how they were supposed to save the city and Anna at the same time. But Dharen was right. If they didn't do something, than they'd lose more lives in the city itself. Finally coming to something of a conclusion, Gin stood.

"Let me try and talk to her," he said. He raised his hand, activating his own takeover. It wasn't something he'd done purposefully many times, but for now he had no option. "Maybe I can figure out what she's after." Ignoring everyone's else's concerns as they tried to voice them, Gin took off into the air and flew towards Quinxotic, who was still blasting things without a care.

"Is this the best you could come up with boy?" Mortavius demanded from inside his own head. "I told you, bloodshed is inevitable."

"Perhaps," Gin replied. "But that doesn't mean it needs to happen every time there's a problem." There was silence for a moment before Mortavius laughed.

"Perhaps not. Perhaps not." The demon spoke no more as Gin reached the woman above, who turned to look at him as he approached.

"What did I tell you?" She demanded. "Do not attempt to stop me, or Anna is in grave danger."

"You'll have to give us more to go on than that," Gin replied with a weak smile. He hoped that his flying up here without looking for a fight would prevent one, but who could say for sure. "After all, you might be hurting people doing this."

"And I already told you I don't give a damn," Quinxotic replied as she prepared another volley. "I need to save this girl, or else she'll die."

"Why do you care so much?" Gin asked, causing the demon to pause. "I've never met a Demon Lord that seemed actually invested in their takeover wizard. Is Anna different?"

"...Not in any particular sense, no." Quinxotic replied. "She's human, just like you or any of the other Demon Lord takeovers. But I know what happens to your kind after you die. I know what becomes of your soul once you've passed." Gin's stomach turned at this.

"W-What do you mean?" He asked. Quinxotic narrowed her eyes.

"No Demon Lord takeover wizard gets an easy afterlife experience," Quinxotic said and raised a hand to press it to her own shoulder. "And I will not let a little girl go to that place."

Gin didn't know what to say. Everything that had just been said was new and foreign information to him. If she was telling the truth, that did indeed sound less than ideal. But was she lying just to get him to leave her alone?

"Is that true?" He asked weakly. "What happens when a Demon Lord takeover dies? Where do we go?" Quinxotic turned her back on him.

"I've already said too much," she replied. "Should I say more I would break one of the Three Laws. No, if you would, please allow me to continue."

"Wait!" Gin shouted, lashing out to grab the woman's shoulder. She was cold to the touch, but Gin didn't back off. "You said Anna's life was in danger. How? What's going to happen?"

"I don't have enough time to explain it to you," She hissed, forcing his hand away. "Anna cannot hold my takeover for long. If I do not expunge enough during this time-"

Quinxotic was cut off by a blast of bright purple flame. It caught the woman on fire and caused her to scream, writhing in the air.

Purple fire?! Oh shit...

Looking down to the ground, Gin found what he was looking for soon enough. Standing on the street down below was Neptu, Elizabeth and Zynna. Without another word he sped towards them and landed in front of them.

"Good to see you, Gin." Neptu said as he stretched. "What's the situation?"

"Give us a rundown," Elizabeth said, also preparing her magic. Gin was much to full of different emotions to respond right away, so he took a moment to collect himself.

"As glad as I am to see you're okay, this isn't the time for a counterattack." He said, pointing up to Quinxotic. The flames had since gone out, and the demon was watching them angrily. "That's a little girl up there."

"Doesn't look like one to me," Zynna said, her arms glowing with her own magic. However, this caught Neptu and Elizabeth's attention.

"Repeat that?" Neptu asked. So Gin did. He explained in full the situation with Anna, and what had happened since the trio had left for Zentopia. He left nothing out, hoping he could explain as much as he could in order to calm them. After hearing what he had to say the group had fallen silent, not sure what to say.

"Fuck sake," Zynna said as she crossed her arms.

"So, what are we supposed to do?" Elizabeth asked. "If she needs to do this to save Anna's life, why couldn't she wait until later?"

"I don't know," Gin replied earnestly. "But I don't want to hurt her if that is the case. And i don't think you want to either Neptu." The man in question was silent at this, taking a deep breath.

"Thank the Lord this happened after I met you, Gin." He said. "Otherwise that girl would die here and now." Gin didn't doubt that at all, but it was good to see Neptu wouldn't attack.

"I guess she's to blame for all the dead wildlife in the forest," Zynna said, making Gin raise an eyebrow. What was she talking about?

"There's a bunch of dead animals in the forest," Elizabeth explained, seeing the look on his face. "Drained of their blood, all of it going towards a ball in the sky."

"That would be Quinxotic's doing alright," Mortavius said. "If she's doing that, than I'd get ready boy. Things are about to get messy."

What does that mean?

"It means she's about to detonate a blood bomb above the city. Oh look, there goes the ball now."

Looking up, Gin watched as a massive floating ball of blood, the very same she'd thrown over the forest earlier, floating back. It went right for the demon, who took it in her hands and began to compress it. It got smaller and smaller, so much so until it was the size of a baseball. When he looked at it, Gin's hair stood up on end.

"Get down," he said weakly.

"Huh?" Zynna asked.

"Get down!" He shouted again. Turning, he tackled all of them to the ground, covering them with his wings. He spared a thought to hope that The Cross had done the same, before his back got hot.

BOOM!

The explosion rocked the ground underneath them, and Gin heard the horrific sound of blood splattering all over the place. After the explosion had finished, He looked up weakly.

The entire city had been coated in blood. Anything in the way of the blood was blown backwards by the sheer force presented by the blast. Turning, he saw that the area directly beneath Quinxotic had been hit the hardest. Some of it looked totally razed, save for the blood burnt into the ground.

"What the hell..." Zynna whispered. "T-There's so much blood."

"I think I'm gong to hurl," Elizabeth threatened. Not wanting to be covered in puke as well, Gin quickly stood and allowed the group to stand. As he did so, Quinxotic floated over to them. She landed on the ground nearby, and watched them quietly.

"She's safe, for now." She announced. "If you care about this girl, perhaps you can help me."

Before anyone could voice a question, she was gone. The demonic features had disappeared from Anna, and she collapsed to the ground without a word. Not wasting any time, Gin rushed to the girls side and lifted her gently, looking at her face. She was no longer flushed and breathing heavy, instead looking like a child having a nap.

"What in the actually hell just happened?" Neptu demanded. "How're we supposed to explain this to Xeros and everyone else?"

How indeed.

It had been hours since Dharen and other guild doctors took Anna into the infirmary, everyone else waiting outside quietly. The hours dragged on endlessly in the silence, no one knowing what to say. The group consisted of Neptu, Gin and The Cross one side of the hall, while Zynna, Hyperion and Xeros waited on the other. Save for a few words spoken between them there was little sound.

Well, after The Cross hugged Neptu half to death.

"Get off me!" The man cried as his former subordinates crushed him with hugs, Elizabeth just watching with a smile. He knew they were excited to see him, but this was ridiculous.

"It's been the only good news today!" Quinn shouted with a laugh as he gave Neptu a noogie. "So the priests or whatever were able to save you?"

"That's Neptu for ya," Tristan said as he punched the man in the arm. "Letting some monster overtake you isn't like you."

"I know you'd win," Abigail said with a smile, being the only one actually hugging him now. Forcing a smile out, Neptu thought back to what had happened at Zentopia. From what the Mother and Mesa had told him, he'd successfully cast the sealing circle and sealed away The Devil Slaying magics abomination inside of himself. From now on, whenever he summoned his magic, it would go through a barrier that purified it and prevented another infection. Which essentially meant he was no longer in danger from himself.

But of course, he came back and his friends had turned the entire city and guild upside down with their shenanigans.

"You all do realise," Xeros said from the other side of the hall. "That there is no way Anna can stay here anymore."

"And why not?" Quinn demanded, releasing Neptu. "If we can pinpoint whats wrong with her-"

"It won't help," Xeros replied. "She's destroyed a portion of New Avalon, and now the entire guild knows what she is. She can't stay here, for her own good." Neptu didn't like to hear it, but the man made some good points. After all, Gin was already pushing boundaries by being here. Now Anna? Not a chance.

"We should wait to see what the problem is," Zynna said. "After all, maybe we can help her in some way. From what Gin said, maybe the demon didn't want to do this."

"Let us hope," Hyperion said. "I don't want to throw such a girl out after she finally found another home." That was what worried Neptu the most. Anna had been homeless prior to this, according to the others. Could they really justify throwing such a girl out? A girl who was apparently in danger? He wasn't sure.

After what felt like forever, the infirmaries door opened, revealing Dharen.

"She's stable for now," He said, making everyone sigh in relief. "But I think you guys wanna see this." Confused but curious, Neptu and the others made their way into the infirmary, seeing Anna laying in the bed they had prepared for her. Several of the other doctors looked downtrodden, but he didn't know why. Was something wrong. Dharen took his spot in front of the group, pocketing his hands.

"For all intents and purposes, Anna is okay for now." He said. "But, there's just a small caveat to her condition."

"Which is?" Elizabeth asked. Dharen looked at everyone individually, then Anna, then sighed.

"Anna suffers from ECDS," he said. "Also known as Ether-nano Containment Deficiency Syndrome. For the uninitiated, that means that her little body has to much magic power. So much so to the point that it makes her grievously ill."

"ECDS?" Xeros demanded. "But most suffers of that don't survive very long. They usually die in their opening years." Dharen nodded.

"Of course," he said. "With only a few exceptions, most sufferers end up like that. Anna is different. After all, she's got another powerful consciousness inside her body..."

It was at this point that the group came to truly understand what had happened in New Avalon that morning.

"Are you saying," Zynna said, "that Quinxotic going rampant in town just now was to save Anna?"

"Just like she said, yes." Dharen sad as he turned to the girl. "In fact, I'd wager that Quinxotic is the only reason Anna suffers from ECDS in the first place. Her body doesn't seem inherently strong or powerful, so the amount of magic created by Quinxotic passively existing is too much for her body to handle. So it's likely that, in order to save the takeover wizard she chose, Quinxotic has to randomly expel magic power when it gets to much for Anna to bare. Gin, you said she collapsed in town earlier?"

"Yeah, she did." Gin replied quietly. "She just dropped." Dharen nodded.

"It's likely that ECDS overwhelmed her in that moment," he said. "And, in order to save her, Quinxotic had to expel a massive amount of magic in the middle of New Avalon to save her. If she didn't, Anna would've died."

Silence fell upon the group once more, no one knowing what to say. Quinxotic had indeed been trying to save Anna, but at the cost of all that damage to the city. What were they supposed to do?

"We can't release her, Master." Hyperion said, being the first one to speak up. "If we do, this cycle will continue until someone kills her." Xeros was silent at this, watching Anna's still form.

"If she's here," Neptu said, hoping he could reason with the man. "Than We can train her to use her magic. That helps right Dharen?"

"Biggest cure actually," Dharen agreed. "ECDS sufferers either die or their body grows accustomed to and can handle the massive amount of magic in possesses."

"So she needs to stay here," Gin agreed. "And we can help her if she does." Xeros still didn't say anything, which was really stressing Neptu out. After a while, a knock at the door silenced everyone.

"Come in," Dharen said. Another member of the guild poked their head in.

"H-Hey," he said as he took note of who exactly was in the room. "I just figured that Master Xeros would want to know that no casualties were reported in New Avalon. Everyone is okay."

Another bout of silence came over the room as the guild member disappeared, leaving the group by themselves again. Xeros looked up at everyone.

"I get the feeling you all think I'm heartless," he said. "If this is Anna's condition, I would be truly despicable if I tossed her out on the street."

"So...?" Quinn asked. Xeros rolled his eyes and made for the door.

"She can stay," he said, making everyone smile. "Gin, I entrust her to you. Help her control her power, and Neptu and the rest of you help anyway that you can. Is that clear?" Neptu smiled widely at this, the mood in the room lifting considerably.

"Yes sir!" They all shouted happily.

"Gin look! Gin look! I'm flying!" Gin watched with a smile from the ground as the girl, who was in her takeover, floated above him. It had been another week since the incident in New Avalon, and things were finally starting to look up. Anna had started her training, and so far things were looking good. The attempted takeovers day in and day out prevented ECDS from overwhelming her body, and thus prevented Quinxotic was showing up again. Neptu had saved himself from his own magic, and he and The Cross helped him look after Anna as well. Maybe things would finally start to slow down for him.

"Looking good, boy." Mortavius said as he appeared next to Gin. He didn't bother sparing the man a look as he listened to Anna cry out with joy as she flew around ten feet off the ground.

"You were wrong," he said. "No bloodshed came out of what happened to Anna."

"I never claimed it had anything to do with Anna," Mortavius replied. "I'm just saying it's inevitable."

"Yeah yeah. Why do you keep showing up so much now anyway?"

"What can I say? I liked the way Xisplate tortured his own takeover wizard. Coming to think of it, Gin hoped that Fairy Tail was doing okay. Maybe he should send them a message or something, see if they were well. After all without them he'd probably be dead now.

"Gin! Gin!" Jumping a bit, Gin turned and watched as Neptu and The Cross sprinted over to him, a newspaper in hand.

"Hey guys," he said. "What's wrong?"

"Y-You need to see this!" Neptu shouted, throwing the paper into Gin's lap. Making a face, he picked it up.

His breath hitched in his throat at the cover title.

FAIRY TAIL WIZARD NASHI DRAGNEEL DEAD AT 17, DARK GUILD SUSPECTED TO BE THE CULPRITS.

"W-What?" He asked weakly. Nobody spoke for a moment, no knowing what to say. Finally, Mortavius laughed.

"What did I say?" He asked. "Bloodshed is inevitable."

And that concludes Homecoming of a Devil! This story took way longer than it should have to get out, and I apologise for that. But now I can finally stop worrying about it. I sincerely hoped you guys enjoyed my first side story to 2nd Generation, and I hope you enjoy any more that may come. I'll see you guys back on the main story!

Peace!