Laxus.
Opening his eyes, Laxus found himself floating in darkness.
Laxus.
Whirling around, Laxus glared at his surroundings. "Who are you?" he called to the voice that echoed within the space.
Laxus.
Glancing back and forth, Laxus couldn't pinpoint where the voice was coming from. "Show yourself," he commanded.
"Don't you see Laxus?" a form began to appear in front of him. It was blurry but he could make out glowing gray eyes, spiky blond hair, and blood covered canine teeth. "I am you." The vision grew clearer each second.
He stood before himself, smirking.
No… this wasn't him. This was something else. A monster with claws, blood, and sharp teeth.
"There is no stopping this, Laxus. You are me, after all. It is inevitable." It spoke with his voice, but it wasn't him.
"You aren't me." Laxus growled, sparks of lightning forming at his fingertips.
"You're right. Right now you are weak, but don't worry. The time will come soon. You will get the power you so desire, and this world shall burn."
"What are you talking about?" Laxus struck at the monster only to have his hand pass right through it, as if it was an illusion.
"Soon Laxus, soon..." It laughed before the illusion dissipated into the darkness.
Growling in frustration, Laxus felt himself falling downward deeper and deeper into the darkness.
"Laxus!"
As he fell, he scowled. Was that monster thing still calling him?
Laxus!"
Two other voices pierced through. They didn't sound like that monster.
"LAXUS!"
Feeling his eyes snap open to meet a blinding light, Laxus groaned. Covering his eyes with his palm, he mumbled something about killing his team before sitting up. Opening his eyes, he blinked wearily.
He was in his bed, in his room. His window was open, letting in a fresh breeze and calm lighting filtered through the room. Moving to stand up, he trudged towards the window and peered outside.
Freed, Bixlow and Evergreen waited for him below.
"Laxus!" Evergreen called, waving cheerily.
Freed almost squealed at the sight of him, waving wildly. "Good morning Laxus! We've come to pick you up!"
"Pick me up?" Laxus grumbled, reaching up to rub his eyes. "For what?"
"Today is the party!" Bixlow grinned, sticking his tongue out. "Y'know, the one to celebrate our victory in the Grand Magic Tournament!"
Laxus paused momentarily. A second later, he scowled. Oh yeah, that was today. "Whatever, I'll be down in a few." Laxus waved them off, moving away from the window to stretch.
"We'll wait right here!" Freed's tone almost sang.
Wanting to roll his eyes at his green haired teammate, Laxus moved towards his bathroom. His mind began to wander back to his dream.
What the hell was with that dream?
That wasn't the first time he had a dream like that. He had been having the same dream now for almost an entire week. All of them ended the same way; he would see that weird monster thing and then fall.
He wasn't sure what he was falling from, but he seemed to fall farther and farther every time he had that dream.
Starting the water in his sink, Laxus splashed some on his face. Feeling the cold against his cheeks and eyes, Laxus let out a low sigh. He felt mentally exhausted. Wiping his face roughly with a towel, his thoughts returned to the party.
Might as well go get a drink or something. His old man would want him to at least show up to the party, so why not?
Moving back to his room, Laxus quickly got dressed, brushing his hair back. Looking at himself one final time in the mirror, Laxus frowned.
The time will come soon.
He wasn't afraid of some stupid dream. He was Laxus Dreyar, no one else. So that ghostly monster thing could go to hell.
His lips curled into a smirk at the thought. Laxus reached for his jacket that hung off a chair. As his fingers touched the fabric, he froze.
Why was his hand shaking?
Bringing his hand closer, his eyes widened at the sight of his fingers twitching violently. His hand trembled for some unknown reason. Suddenly, a sharp pain shot up through his arm.
Gagging in shock, he wrapped his other arm around his throbbing wrist.
"What the hell?" he muttered, holding his wrist tightly, trying to ease the pain. Hunching forward, Laxus shut his eyes tight at the burning sensation that coursed through his right arm's veins.
After a few seconds, the pain subsided, as if it had never occurred. Taking deep breaths, Laxus narrowed his eyes at his right hand.
What in the world was that just now?
Clenching and unclenching his hand, he shook his hand slightly. Nothing.
"Laxus!" he turned his head at the sound of Evergreen calling to him again.
"…Coming," he mumbled softly, looking back down at his hand. After a few more seconds of staring, he shook it off and moved down the stairs and out the door to meet them.
Since returning to Fairy Tail he had decided to live out in the forest. Somehow Freed and the others had found out where he lived and would come every morning to wake him up.
They even offered to walk him home.
The weirdos.
"Laxus, are you ready for the party?" Evergreen cooed as he stepped outside. He scowled when Evergreen wrapped her arms around him.
"The party is suppose to be huge." Bixlow cackled, his little puppets circling above his head cheering.
"Huge! Huge! Huge!" they chanted.
Blinking at his team, Laxus sighed, "Let's just go."
As if he had said some great and mighty speech, they nodded in agreement, smiling brightly.
Evergreen didn't release her viper like grip and dragged Laxus forward while Bixlow and Freed surrounded him like bodyguards.
"Annoying team," he muttered under his breath, but he could feel himself smirking.
They had always been like this, ever since he first made the team. He didn't even understand why. He treated them terribly sometimes, but they just came right back like he was some sort of god to them.
With how Freed acted sometimes, he wouldn't be surprised if that was what Freed actually thought of him.
Twitch
Snapping his attention down to his hand, he narrowed his eyes when his pinky suddenly jerked.
Staring at his right hand to see if the shaking, he frowned to see that it had returned to normal. Rolling it into a fist, he stuffed his hand in his jacket pocket.
For a second, he contemplated telling his team what happened back at his house, but thought better of it. For starters, it would be his team he would be telling. That would never end well.
They would think he was dying or something and take him to a hospital when it was probably nothing. Then they would stay by his side 24/7 till they were sure he was better. Worse, they might tell Gramps and just make an even bigger deal of it. The last thing he wanted was his noisy guild members, or kami forbid, that new chick, tell him what to do. Lucy was her name, right? He had seen how involved she could get into some one else's lives, so that is definitely a no.
Then of course there was the fact that today was suppose to be a celebration. He didn't need anyone worrying or babying him.
It was probably just some after-effect of all the magic he used during the Tournament and the fight with that Dragon.
That was all it was.
-000-
As team Thunder God Tribe marched through the forest, all of them chatting to their leader excitedly for the party to come, a lone shadow watched them from a tree.
A head concealed by a dark hood only revealed glowing golden eyes.
It was coming.
They could already sense the power coming from the lightning mage. The dark power within was growing more and more each day.
They had to act quickly. If they didn't everyone, along with the mage himself, would disappear.
*In the distance, a small hand emerges from the ground. A figure pulls themself up from the dark depths of the earths crust, and peeks around wearily. Sniffing the ground, it looked left and right, as if afraid it would suddenly be attacked.
For this creature was a rare, and practically extinct ALLIEJENZIE?! We come to you live to see this almost unseen moment in time. For AllieJenzie, has returned.*
*peeks out slowly* Um... hehe, hey there guys. What's up? *Cringes when you all start yelling at me demanding to know where I have been the past few months* Oh um... yeah uh... about that, hehe... *sighs* Yeah, sorry. I know I said I would be continuing my "I Never Should Have Joined' Story, and I WILL, I promise, but just not now.
I'm completely stuck on what to do next and I was talking to my beta-Reader, and she suggested that I try writing something new to get my brain working again. I took her advice, and am going to start making this story. My third Fairy Tail fanfic.
I'm honestly really freaking out and panicking on whether or not you guys will like this or not. I know there isn't much to go off of right now, but I will explain more of what is going on in the next chapter. So I hope you like it.
Thank you for being patient with me. I'll try to make it up to you all as much as I can by working as hard as I can on this story!
-Allie Jenzie-