Emperor and Dragon ( A Black Clover Fanfiction)

"What-what is this pressure? I've never felt anything like this…" Inside the palace Lolopechka struggled under the power of Jinbe and Galileo's haki. She could barely stand even Undine was forced to the ground. "Is it coming from them!?"

Back on the ship Charmy and Mimosa were knocked out by the pressure while Yuno faced off against the remaining enemies alone. "Damn he's overdoing it again…"

Lion-o was also knocked out being watched over by one of the heart mages while Meraleona fought the giant squid fishman one on one. "(What the hell is Gali doing? This weight is like double his usual haki.)"

Even though many of the Heart Kingdom's fighters were either knocked out or severely weakened by those two, the fishmen were being targeted just as much. Only the strongest from among the fishmen horde were still standing. Almost no one near Galileo and Jinbe could move.

"Who might you be?"

"I'm Galileo Vermillion."

"The Tiny terror? Of course you'd be involved in something like this."

"Look Jinbe chill man, we can-"

"Chill?! Look around you! How can I chill like this?!"

"But it wasn't our fault! They-"

Save your excuses!" The enraged Jinbe charged but before Galileo moved several of the fishmen attacked him stabbing him with their swords. He spit up blood confused why he was attacked by the very people he came to aid. "What! Why would you do this?"

"What the fuck!" Galileo was just as shocked to see this.

"Boss Jinbe!"

"What's going on? Aren't they on the same side?"

No one could believe what they just saw. What's more confusing was that one of them fired a blue laser from their hand sending the whale shark fishman smashing into a nearby storefront.

"What the double fuck! How can fishmen be using cero?! Oh, that's what Leo meant by masks…" Galileo saw that the remaining rogue fishmen had donned white masks. Each shaped differently, the wearers gave off an increasingly sinister spiritual pressure. After they let out a series of bloodcurdling cries, the group went on the offensive against everyone not hollowfied with a massive boost in speed, power and intensity. "Fishman Visords…that's definitely new. Lumiette come with me! Leo, look out for Gaian!" He ran off towards Jinbe.

"To where? We're needed here!" Despite her protest she followed close behind.

.........….

The fishmen are physically superior to humans in every way, but with these modifications how will they fare against the zero tiers and Tiny terror? Master was so kind to offer so many test subjects." A black robed person used a crystal ball to watch the mayhem from a hidden location.

.........…..

"Hahahaha! You're full of tricks! That's a visord's mask!" Meraleona was getting fired up against her giant foe who swiped his face and conjured a white opera mask with a black swirl pattern in the center.

...........

The sudden and immense power up of his enemies forced Yuno to use his own powers. His heavenly winds swordplay was boosted by his magic circuits and wind magic made him nearly untraceable. As he flew across the deck spilling blood with every swing, his sword was finally stopped by another weapon. A swordfish fishman with a nose almost a meter long wore a white tengu like mask but the nose ended in a sharp point. He coated it in haki like a sword. With the help of several others here and there, his new opponent was able to keep up with Yuno enough to fight effectively. Some aimed cero at the sleeping girls. Before any were launched "Golden Heaven's sword typhoon" was all anyone heard as strong air currents flowed all around and pulled them into range of 1,000 light speed cuts. The last horizontal slash spun the mess of sliced up fishmen into a spiral as it all dissipated into nothingness. Despite winning Yuno looked dissatisfied with the results "That still wasn't right…" He used his magic to quickly restore the girls waking them up. The three of them were going to join the others before a man showed up in their path. His entire body and face was bandaged up, exposing his black eyes. He wore a black cloak with red spade motifs on the bottom edge.

"I am ine of Spade kingdom's dark-"

"I don't care." Yuno attacked immediately, his sword met with gauze that unraveled from his arm, lined with darkness.

"You will die in the name of the Dark Legion, Pendragon."

Mimosa and Charmy watched the two of them fight briefly before noticing the small group of red demons nearby. Seeing Yuno had the Spade mage under control they set their sights on the lesser demons.

A stocky blonde haired plant magic using spirit guardian arrived with several more heart mages to assist them. Wrapping a demon in vines. "Need a hand ladies?"

..........

Inside the shop Jinbe was blasted into, the warlord sat in a daze "What- what just happened?" He looked at his own blood covering his clothes in shock.

"I was trying to tell you something is wrong with those guys" Galileo stepped into the hole Jinbe put in the wall. "If you took a good look you could see they aren't right, but you just went all frenzy mode."

"You're lecturing me? This is definitely among my lowest moments." Even Jinbe had heard of what kind of person Galileo was, and he was the last one to be lecturing anyone.

"Don't sweat the small stuff, we gotta figure out how to fix your people. There's gotta be something we can do."

"Why would you go so far as to help your enemy?"

"Who said we gotta be enemies? I know you're among the more 'honorable' warlords. I was thinking we could work something out."

"What did you have in mind?"

"Galileo!" Lumiette entered the building. "Be careful we don't know-"

"Lumiette heal him up for me."

"What? Why would I do that? He's-"

"Just do it."

"I can't understand the things you do sometimes. Hold still Jinbei was it?" She held out a hand and grey flames burst out engulfing Jinbe, but he found he wasn't burning at all. When they cleared a moment later all of his injuries were gone.

"Healing flames? How peculiar, they remind me of Marco the Phoenix…Nevertheless thank you, young miss."

"Don't mention it." Lumiette who was unsure of what was going on was still wary of him.

"Anyways Jinbei, who are these guys to you?" Galileo asked.

"They're the residents of a small settlement of Merfolk set up within the neutral zone. It was hidden away at the bottom of the sea just outside heart. In my absence the village was raided, and they were nowhere to be found afterword. I've been searching for them only to get word of them being seen around here recently. They were kind souls who lived peacefully, many weren't even warriors…but now- now they're like this? It's my fault for allowing this to happen." He was fighting back tears. "What if I can't save any of them from this madness?"

"Oh my, how sad…" Lumiette was fighting back tears too.

"Won't know til' we try. From what I know they got hollow powers now. That's got Aizen written all over it, also what's your relationship with Crocodile like?"

"I've heard of the mad scientist in diamond kingdom, but what does Crocodile have to do with this?"

"I have reason to believe he is plotting a hostile takeover here. Brainwashed fishman visords would make a good way to whittle down the Heart kingdom's strength. If not for us, you could have done some damage here too."

"Crocodile? We don't speak much outside of business but all of the Warlord's at least agreed not to touch each other's people. Do you think he's responsible?"

"Not sure yet, I've got a hunch though…We can figure that out later, let's get out there and see how many we can save!" Galileo was the first to return to the battlefield.

"Let us follow after him." Standing up the whale shark fishman dwarfed the little girl beside him walking out.

"(He's huge…)" she thought following them.

Back on the battlefield they tried all kinds of methods to restore the fishmen's senses using those Galileo and Jinbe knocked out with their earlier haki battle as test subjects. Lumiette's many healing arts, Galileo's sky dragon healing arts, restoration pills and tonics, spirit wave purification, and so on. A few others with healing magics noticed what they were doing and also tried to help, but nothing seemed to work. Those restored gained no semblance of their former personalities, they donned their masks and went back to fighting, if not restrained or destroyed fast enough.

After several failed attempts Galileo thought to ask his system for an analysis. "(Yo system, how do we fix these guys?)"

"(I'm sorry to say you can't. Their ability to reason has been completely taken away to make room for more power. A similar situation to the arrancar Wonderwiess Margela.)"

"WHAT! You can't be serious!" Galileo's random outburst startled many around him and drew the attention of several more fishmen who were quickly taken care of by blue flames.

"(At this point there's nothing you can do for them but put them to rest.)"

"(I'm going to destroy both Aizen and Crocodile for this one.) Yo Jinbe! I got some bad news for you man…"

.........…

Derriere and Yomi had cleared their area and were helping escort the remaining civilians to safety when a huge explosion destroyed their path.

"What was that!?"

"Is everyone ok?!"

"Hahaha, I got really lucky today!" Inside the crater, the silhouette of a man appeared. He waved the smoke away revealing himself. A scraggly looking man with sunken black eyes and short gnarled hair. Black lines fell from his eyes like tear marks, the darkness of a demon. He also wore a black cloak with a red spade motif around the bottom. "His eyes locked on Derieri and Yomi "You're the executives in that what was it…"

"Adventurers guild." Yomi finished "I assume you're, with spade kingdom?"

"That's right!" He sounded like he just remembered that himself. "Once I bring King…Meliodas! Once I bring in your heads, King Meliodas will definitely give me a promotion. I remember the price on your heads clearly."

"Come on, you're dead meat." Derieri was fired up hearing Meliodas sent him, she'd crush every one of his people sent her way. "Yomi he's mine."

Yomi knew how she felt and had no reason to argue "Alright I'll take care of the civilians, finish up quickly.

When he tried to help the crowds along the demonic mage attacked with astonishing speed but Derieri was faster. Her punch lifted him up into the air but she pulled him in with her darkness and started a furious combo star. About thirty or so hits in he hit her in the face with a blast of heat. Sending her flying backwards several meters, "Meteor magic: Death march" explosive magic flowed around him and he took off at even faster hitting Derieri with a high speed combo of his own from multiple angles before sending her crashing to the ground. "Hahaha! I'm glad I can take your head first, King Meliodas definitely wanted you dead traitor."

Derieri stood up and wiped blood from her face. "My ties were cut from him a while ago. He betrayed me first and took what I held most dear, so I'm going to make him pay! That's the bottom line!" The darkness around her arm formed a wing carrying her into the air. The two of them clashed at speeds invisible to most spectators. They traded blows with increasing intensity on both sides. Yomi took the chance to finish evacuating.

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Meraleona and the giant squid visord were locked in a heated battle as golden flames matched water and spiritual pressure. Meraleona was having the time of her life fighting someone outside of her family who could take a punch. Sadly, it looked like she wouldn't be able to enjoy the fun much longer since her foe was visibly worn out. His water had less and less effect with each technique while Mera was only getting more fired up. After a malicious uppercut that sent him flying into the air, the jaws of a blazing gold lioness opened from above and crashed down on the fishman "Calidum venari gold!" The current released by the fishman's punch was devoured along with him leaving nothing but ashes. "My win." She powered down, going to go pick up Lion-O when she sensed a blast of magic coming straight at her. She released a jet of flames to stop it but was startled to see her golden flames return to regularly colored fire, the sudden power down allowed the sneak attack to land successfully resulting in her being blown down the road. "(My golden fire's exhausted? That's some real shitty timing. For now I gotta make do with what I got)" letting her still immense magic power flow. "You my next prey?"

t/n: Calidum venari is latin for hot hunt

Sitting on a far rooftop was a stunning woman with a long blond braid, her eyes were also blackened, and darkness shaped itself as black makeup on her face. She wore the same robe as the other attackers only hers fitted tightly and hugged her curves, She held a staff who's figurehead was the face of a despairing old man holding a black gem in his mouth. "My my, what a vulgar woman. I had heard the Barbarians- oops I meant Vermillions of Clover were crude, but one look at you tells me it's much much worse than that. I wonder what would you be doing so far from home, mangey kitty cat? Did you want to die somewhere scenic?"

"Come down here and find out!" Cracking her knuckles

"Why would I give up my long range advantage? You're beat up and apparently out of that golden fire too. Still I know how strong you are so, it'd be smartest to–"

Using soru Meraleona was in her face in the blink of an eye, with a punch burning so hot the fire turned blue. "You talk too much." Sending the demonic mage skipping across rooftops. In the distance she saw a group of demons coming towards her. "(They just keep coming…it's starting to get annoying.)"

"HOW DARE YOU HIT ME WHILE I'M TALKING?! FILTHY BEAST!" The burning demon mage got up and her magic power was running rampant. From her staff she emitted a stream of destructive magic in a sweeping motion destroying everything in her path.

Preparing for the next fight Mera exhaled deeply "Mana Zone!"

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Back in front of the Palace the last of the fishmen visords had been taken care of and many of the present fighters dispersed to help clean up the remnants. Jinbe and his followers helped with this as well, though heavily grieved they did what needed to be done. Galileo, Lumiette, Gadjah and Jinbe were going to meet the queen to discuss what to do next. Galileo vouched personally for Jinbei so Gadjah reluctantly let it be. Everyone was shocked as to how the sun was suddenly blotted out, except the Vermillions who shared an annoyed look with each other.

Galileo dropped to his knees in despair "WHHHHYYYY! I just wanted to have a successful meeting and go rub it in the captain's faces! Was that too much to ask?!" Galileo was on the brink of tearing out his hair, but most of his squad did not pay him much attention. "Who comes up with this shit!?"

"What's going on? It's way too early to be nighttime!" Jinbei asked.

"This artificial night is definitely a demon technique." Lumiette answered Jinbe.

"I can feel evil magic power all over the kingdom. Is this the work of one of yours?" Gadjah asked sharply.

"No, it's most likely Spade…they are all demons and devils over there. Mostly evil." Leopold Answered him. "But we did some heavy damage to them not too long ago, I didn't think they'd mobilize again so soon."

"Who could it be this time then?" Lumiette looked in the direction that the overwhelming dark aura was coming from. Fortunately, the city had been evacuated because a colorful army of demons trampled everything in their path.

"Yoohoo! Lolopechka honeyyy! Little Galiiiii! Come out and plaaaay!!!" At the forefront of the legion of demons, standing on the head of a large red demon was a young woman with medium length dark hair neatly combed to the side. She wore a short combat dress with thigh high boots and a high collared coat. On her head was a five-pronged tiara. Her right eye was covered with a black eyepatch with a spade design on it, the other eye was also pitch black like her followers. "Meliodas wants your heads so bring em' on out!"

"Are you fucking serious!? Vanica shows up in heart now of all times? (If I don't get my guild hall after this I'm gonna flip out.)"