Fairy Tail: The Demon King

Rosemary Village,

In the burning ruins of the village that was once filled with happy people, a boy with deep black hair and eyes was trying to dig through the remains of a house while crying, his hands were severely injured from the heat of the rocks that he was digging along with the many fragments of wood that would occasionally stab into them, and yet he did not give up digging the remains, to search for one of the few people he cared for,

His name was Ren Triton, an orphan that was left in the village by his father who was a guild mage before he became terminally ill and died shortly after leaving Ren in the village,

As Ren continued to dig through the remains of the house where his best friend lived before the attack, he did not notice the cultists moving towards him, but then something strange happened,

An old man wearing a weird helmet and an eyepatch suddenly appeared near the boy as he signaled the cultists to leave,

"What are you doing boy?" The old man asked to which the boy responded without turning,

"I must find Erza, she was in this building along with Simon and Kagura before the attack, It must be dark down there, so I must free them as soon as possible!!" the boy screamed at the end of his words as the old man's eyes widened by a considerable degree,

'what powerful ethernano reserve, even in its dormant state I can already tell that it is almost equal to Zankrow's and Ultear's reserves' he thought as he watched the boy dig through the building, after some time, he came to a decision as he said,

"Step aside boy, I will help you," he said as Ren watched the old man, he raised his arm towards the ruins as chains made of energy shot off from his hand and wrapped around the rubble, lifting it up,

As soon as the rubble was lifted from the ground, Ren fell to the floor and could not help but vomit, under the rubble were the unrecognizable bodies of three kids, however, the bodies and long since been burnt to crisp and were impossible to identify who they belonged to,

"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Ren shouted in rage and sadness as he assumed that the bodies belonged to his friends whom he had just left in this house so that he could surprise them with a gift he had bought for them with the money he earned by doing chores for some of the villagers,

The old man watched in silence as he saw the boy cry, he had only helped lift the rubble to show that there were no bodies and to provide false hope for the boy to get stronger and join his guild, but this worked just fine as well, watching the bodies of his friends would make the boy thurst for revenge, to have revenge he must have power, and with his previous display, he would undoubtedly go to him for power which he would willingly give the boy and make him one of his ace members, besides, the cult was getting too out of hand nowadays and it would do good to have someone who was willing to cull their numbers by a little bit,

"Do not cry child for you have yet to complete your task here," he said as Ren looked up to the old man with a broken look,

"Task?" he mumbled to which the old man nodded,

"To avenge your fallen friends, to avenge your home, your village, to destroy the people who had taken everything from you" the old man preached as Ren looked towards hos blood-stained hands,

He was right, he needed to take revenge for his friends who were killed in such a brutal way by those cultists, he would make them pay a dear price, but how?

as if sensing his question, the old man said,

"you need not worry about attaining power young one, for I will grant you with the means to get stronger, I shall teach you the greatest forms of magic to ever exist, and when you are ready, I will help you track down those people and help you get revenge" he said as Ren did not meet his eye,

"What is your name Old man?" he mumbled,

"I am Hades, the guild master of Grimoire Heart" he replied, Ren then looked at Hades right in the eye and said,

"Then teach me how to get stronger, and in exchange, I shall do your bidding," he said as the old man smiled menacingly,

He would be a worthy student to teach after all,

And thus, the tale of the Demon King began

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Tower of Heaven,

In a dark cell where most of the slaves were kept, an old man was holding a young girl with red hair and brown eyes in his arms, the girl was a new slave brought in by the cultists after destroying another village and the girl had cried herself to sleep in his arms,the old man, however, was lost in his thoughts ,

'what powerful magic, I can easily sense her dormant energy even as I am now, I guess I should teach this poor girl everything I know about magic, but only as stories, she is not yet ready to awaken her magic, neither physically nor mentally, I truly hope that one day, when we get out of his place, I would be able to see you grow into becoming the strong mage I envision you to become,but for now, rest, little Erza, you will need it if you are to survive this place'

And thus the tale of the Fairy Queen began