"Gajeel? You sure about this?" Panther Lily asked me as we walked down the dark tunnel.

"Yes I'm sure about this." I said to him as we turned a bend in the corridor. "Explore and map this underground castle." I was busy marking our path.

"Let me see it." he said.

"Alright." I turn it to him.

"Gajeel it's blank." he said blankly.

"What!? I've marked everything!" I turn it back to me. and sure enough it was blank.

"You think was the curse the request mentioned?" Lily asked.

"Perhaps... lets try to find away out." I turned around and the corridor was gone instead it was a chamber with a purple vortex surrounded by massive chairs.

What the hell? I thought. We glanced back behind us and it was solid stone. "Gajeel... I don't like this." Lily grew to human size.

"Neither do I." I walked towards the circle of chairs. I could make out shapes in them. "We don't have much of a choice." I glanced back be hind me and Lilly wasn't there only stone. "NO!" I turned my hand and arm into iron and struck the wall and all I found was solid stone. As I faced back to the chairs flames leaped up in bronze cauldrons lighting the shapes in the chairs... giant... demons.

"What the hell?!" I was in a cold sweat.

"Mortal... a mortal... so long has it been... to feed again." all at once they stood.

"Oh hell no." I ran to the vortex in the center as I smelt fresh air from it.

Chapter 1: Baste Prison

Gajeel pov

I feel cold stone beneath my face as I wake up. "Ugh where am I?"

A voice answers my question. "You've been arrested for trespassing on secure grounds."

I look over and see a girl in armor on the other side of my cell. "Look kid..."

"Don't call me kid I'm the same age as you." she turned away from me.

"I wasn't trespassing I jumped trough a portal and everything went black." I stand up and grip the iron bars of my cage.

There was a flash and she and she had her blade pointed at my throat. "Your fast."

"Jericho! The Fox sin Ban has left his cell!" a guard came round the corner.

"Tsch watch this prisoner we still have no idea of what he's capable off." She ran off.

"Yes Jericho." As the guard stood in front of me I grabbed the back off his tunic and pulled him back against the bars.

"Iron dragon club!" I blew a hole straight trough several walls and cells.

"Sorry, it's nothing personal." I proceed to bend the bars out off my way. "Now where did she go?" I sniff the air and pick up her scent trail and take off running soon finding her.

"Nice work kid you could be a barber." A man stood between me and her, his silver hair freshly cut by her blade.

"How did... you were on deaths door..." she stammered, "your wounds."

"Well looks like you just broke out as well, say brat who is this?" I ask her.

"How did you... return to your cell!" she spun around.

"Looks to me you need all the help you can get." I walk past her.

"And you are?" His tired red eyes looked into my own.

"The name's Black Steel Gajeel Redfox, Fairy Tail's Iron Dragon Slayer." I waited for him to make his first move, He doesn't smell right.

"He's Ban the undead, the Fox sin of greed, he's a criminal who attempted to over throw the kingdom of Liones." She readied her own blade.

Liones, I don't recognize the name, the portal, I'm in an alternate universe again great.

He struck first, and it wasn't what I expected. "I can't move all my strength is gone." I collapsed.

"It's his magical ability snatch." he grabbed her by the throat.

"Hey barber boy, that's a nice set of armor you got there." He slapped her face lightly, "But its not your style."

"How dare you!"

"Iron Dragon's roar!" The cone of shrapnel took him out blasting trough several walls. I felt the spell weaken enough.

"Come on kid there is no way we can beat him!" I grabbed her and ran.

"Wait I'm a holy knight apprentice! I can't just run away!" She complained.

"Nobody has taken me out that easily since my mentor, that and I'm all out of magical energy. Our friend took to much." We ran into a group of guards.

"Jericho, what are you doing with the prisoner?" One asked.

"He saved me." She breathed out. "What of the other sins?"

The entire structure shook. "What was that?" I asked.

"Holy Knight Jude has been defeated." One yelled. "The Dragon Sin of wrath and the Serpents sin of envy has entered the prison.

That sent the crowd running. We got swept up in it.

I was forced back into iron cuffs by a guard when we were some distance away. I stared him dead in the eyes as I ate it. "Thanks for the meal."

When the massive prison and the barrier that Jericho's superior sealed in was destroyed and all the tropes ran I got stuck traveling with the young knight.

"Ummm when I was imprisoned was there a black and white cat?" I asked.

"No." She was still livid about having to report back to the capital on foot.

"Why am I stuck with you?" I asked.

"Because... I don't why! I just have to report what happened..." She walked a little faster.

We made camp at sun down next to a stream hidden in the bushes. "Keep watch, I'm going to bathe."

I kept my back to the stream. I heard a splash and a sigh.

We stayed like that, until she came back out. "So who are these sins?" I asked.

"Criminals, murderers who tried to over throw the kingdom a decade ago." She plunked herself down on the other side of the fire.

"So we take them down, who do we have fight?" I sat up straight.

"Everyone knows who they are," She looked at me like I was stupid.

"Look, I know this will sound crazy, but I'm from another universe." I looked her dead in the eyes.

"So your from another universe, huh, The magical energy off of is unusual, I know it makes no sense, but I have no reason to not trust you." She sighed, "We may just need that magic." She said under her breath.

"So who are these sins, so far I fought one, that Ban fellow," I remembered the feeling off all my strength leaving.

"Yes, that's Ban the undead, the fox sin of greed. He drank the fountain of youth, making him immortal. Our knowledge of his time before the sins is limited, we know he was a common bandit before his immortality. There are six more, Diane the serpent sin off envy, a giantess warrior, she was one of the sin's who led the assault on the prison to free Ban." She drank from a water skin.

"Immortal, guess that explains why he wasn't executed. The giantess would be fun to fight, what of the others?" I rubbed my chin.

"Harlyqiunn, better known as King, the bear sin of sloth, one of the fairy children. He was the king of the Fairy forest, until Ban burned it down when he drank the fountain of youth. I heard he was killed and buried in the necropolis. They did not know of the connection they had while in the sins." I only focused on one word.

"Fairy, heh, guess the guild will have a holler when I told them I found fairies, as for this King, I doubt he's dead, probably faked it." I looked her dead in the eye's. "That's three. Four more."

"Merlin, the boar sin of gluttony, the mage of the sins, I know very little of her. Then there Escanor, the lion sin of pride, I've heard his power burns like the sun. Then there's Gowther, the goat sin of lust, just as much info on him as Merlin." She summed up these three.

"Seem like this Escanor can be an issue. What of their leader, this dragon sin?"

"Meliodas the dragon sin of wrath, Leader of the sins. His magical ability Full counter makes him nigh impervious to magical attacks." She took a deep breath, "Reports say he destroyed the Kingdom of Danafell in a fit of rage, all on his own."

"An entire kingdom," Shit, salamander has competition, "So these sins once served the kingdom, who's idea was it to bring them to service in the first place?"

"The king of Leonis. Now I have a question for you, What is fairy tail?" She asked.

"My guild, though at one point they were enemies, my old guild master had started a guild war with them over a mission, while I was with Phantom lord, I did a lot of things I'm not proud of." I didn't want to elaborate.

"So What ones do we have to worry about?" I ask.

"Of the sins we know of, Ban, Diane and Meliodas, King is either dead or as you believe in hiding. The rest haven't been seen since. But what are we going to do, I'm a apprentice holy knight, and your only one person." She threw a twig in the fire, spark flying on the rising air. "One more thing, traveling with them is the third princess of the realm."

"Really, so they have taken her hostage?" That got my attention.

"Reports say she is traveling with them willingly. One report from a 'Lord Twigo' says she sought them out." the girl rolled over and put her back to me. "It's late. We have a long ways to go."

Long after she fell asleep I stayed awake, thinking of the sin I fought, "You defeated me too easily Ban, next time I'll break you."

Meliodas Pov

"Hold still Ban," I used a kitchen knife to cut out the pieces of metal shrapnel still lodged in Ban's body. Elizabeth brought over more cloths to wipe up the blood.

"Damn that Gajeel, he's going to pay for this." my friend growled.

"He messed you up Ban, Captain, how much longer?" Diane asked,the giantess wasn't too worried.

"Well that's the last of it." I wiped off my hands.

"How did he beat you so easily?" Elizabeth asked, her own injuries healing up nicely.

"The damn spell, his breath was a storm off metal. I would love to steal that power and see how he deals with that." Ban laughed, "Black Steel, hell of a title."

"Well Undead Ban, got yourself a rival?" I asked.

"Oh yeah." His grin was as greedy as his sin mark.

And this chapter took six months to write.