In the kitchen of the mansion, Meliodas continued browsing through the various unique wine bottles. Up above him, he could faintly hear the conversations the guild members were having upstairs. Meliodas looked through more bottles and grabbed a few of them that looked interesting, putting them into his requip inventory.
'Well I was told to serve myself.' Meliodas thought as continued emptying the shelves, placing bottles in his requip inventory
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As he continued browsing the shelves for several more minutes, he heard the rowdiness of the guilds in the main hall suddenly die down and become silent. 'Oh, are they heading out already?' Meliodas thought as he closed the fridge behind him and ran down the hallway out into the main hall. As he ran into the main hall, he was shocked to see almost everyone was gone, except for Jura, who was lying face down on the ground with a pool of blood underneath him.
In front of Jura, was a young woman with white shoulder length hair and bangs that were cut just above her eyebrows. She wore a white, feathered dress that revealed much of her cleavage and had two wing-like accessories on her back. In front of her, were two identical blue, small creatures with circular heads and beady black eyes.
"Oh I didn't expect any stragglers." The white haired woman said. To her surprise, Meliodas ignored her presence and headed straight to Jura. He flipped Jura over and saw he had a deep wound in his torso. Jura opened his eyes and saw Meliodas looking over him.
"M-Meliodas! There you are... Be careful.. that woman...her name is Angel. She is part of the Oracion S-seis…she's a sly one." Jura said as he tried sitting up again. Blood gushed from his wound as he spoke.
"Don't worry, I'll deal with her then I'll get you patched up." Meliodas said reassuringly. He stood back up and glared at Angel.
"Oh, you look like you want to fight me, little boy." Angel smirked as she pulled out a golden key from her dress. "Open, Gate of the Scorpion, Scorpio!"
The golden key began to glow and a golden figure in the shape of a man began forming in front of her as the sound of a doorbell rang. The golden glow began to fade away, revealing a tall, lean built dark skinned man with short hair that was white on one side and red on the other. He was shirtless, but wore a large, flower shaped collar and coming out of his lower back, was a huge metallic looking tail with a gun end sticking out of the tip.
"Gemini, get ready." Angel said to the two small blue creatures. The tiny blue duo nodded in response as Scorpio grinned.
"We are!!! Sand Buster!!!" Scorpio kneeled down and stuck his tail out in front of him with the gun end facing towards Meliodas. From there, a powerful tornado of wind and sand was shot out towards Meliodas. Meliodas put his hand on the handle of Mel Force as the tornado came at him.
"Full Counter!"
Meliodas swung his sword just as the tornado of sand was about to collide with him, sending it back at Scorpio and Angel.
"What the?!" Angel and Scorpio were shocked as Meliodas sent their magic back at them. Before they could even move out of the way, the tornado hit them both, sending them flying into the air as the front half of the mansion exploded with sand and wind. Wood and glass scattered on the ground and there was a gaping hole where the doorway to the mansion once stood.
"What a potent magic." Jura commented as he sat on the ground, applying pressure to his wound with one hand. He was still unable to fully get up without losing more blood. 'That sandstorm attack shouldn't have done that much damage, he must have reflected that with greater force!' Jura thought as he watched in awe at what Meliodas just did. Meliodas sheathed his blade again and patiently waited.
The air around them was still filled with sand but Meliodas noticed two small figures moving quickly towards him, hidden mostly by the sand in the air. He turned his head and saw them both jump at him with their tiny blue arms stretched out towards him. One managed to grab his left hand, however, before Meliodas swatted them away with his right hand, sending them flying back into the cloud of sand.
Meliodas watched the cloud of sand carefully as it began to clear up, revealing Angel's figure limping towards him. Scorpio was nowhere to be seen. Angel had blood dripping down her head and mouth and several large bruises all over her body. As she walked slowly towards Meliodas, she grasped her side.
"You.. You use reflection magic! You may have caught me off guard with that attack. But it won't happen again. Gemini!" Angel said as she called her celestial spirit over to her. The two celestial spirits touched hands and began to glow, their bodies melding with each other and growing into a familiar shape.
"Me?" Meliodas commented as he watched Gemini transform into him.
"That's not good...it transformed into you. It now has access to your memories and- wait… something's wrong." Jura commented as he looked at the copy of Meliodas. The left half of Meliodas's body was formed yet the other half looked like a mutated, slimy blue substance that dripped to the floor.
"My memories?" Meliodas narrowed his eyes as a brief instance of seriousness appeared on his face.
"Memory transfer incomplete. Transformation, unstable. Unable to copy magical abilities." Gemini said as it began listing out Meliodas's information in bullets.
"Full name, Meliodas."
"Loves booze but loves Elizabeth even more."
"Age is...o-over three thousand."
"Originally from a-nother world as s-son of t-t-t-t-the…"
Gemini's words began to slur into an incomprehensible mess. Eventually, it fell silent as it continued reading through all of Meliodas's thoughts and memories, and stood there with a blank expression on its face. As it stood there, more of its body began to melt into a blue mess.
"Three thousand?!" Jura exclaimed with noticeable surprise on his face. 'That can't be right, he looks like a child.'
"Huh...it's been that long already?" Meliodas commented indifferently, to Jura's surprise.
"Gemini what are you doing? Continue!" Angel ordered. Gemini remained standing still with a blank expression on its face.
"I said continue!" Angel continued nervously. Gemini turned around and gave Angel a horrific stare with its beady black eyes.
"A-Angel...Don't fight this man. He's dangerous. Run." The misformed copy of Meliodas said before glowing and splitting up into its original form.
"An incomplete transformation… is this guy actually stronger than me?" Angel said to herself, confused and shocked as Gemini retreated back into its key. "That must be why the age was listed over three thousand. No one could actually be that old..."
Angel pulled another golden key out from her dress.
"Gate of the White Lamb, Aries!"
The key began glowing and a figure formed in front of Angel. It was a woman with pink hair and twisted brown horns on her head who wore fluffy white wool clothing.
"I-I'm sorry!" Aries cried as she raised her hands out in front of her, forming a small pink cloud that suddenly grew, filling the remainder of the mansion with an expanding puffy cloud of wool in a short amount of time.
"Aghh...what is this?" Meliodas said as fluffy pink wool began to push him and Jura back towards the mansion as they got swallowed up by a giant pink cloud. The large cloud of wool was not painful and was actually quite pleasant, surrounding both Meliodas and Jura with a comfortable feeling as it also restricted their movements.
"Thousand Divine Slashes!"
With a single swing of his blade, Meliodas cut through the wool multiple times in an instant, freeing him and Jura and causing the wool cloud to begin to disperse in the area around them.
"You okay Jura?" Meliodas asked as he turned around.
"I'll be fine here. I can join up with you guys soon enough. But right now, you need to chase after that woman. She knows our plan." Jura said with a serious expression. Meliodas nodded in response and ran out of the mansion clearing a path for himself as he cut through the remainder of the wool that blocked his way.
As Meliodas cut a path through the wool, Jura attempted to sit up again as he watched Meliodas. 'Was that really a mistake? Is he actually over three thousand years old?'