I Do Not Own Fairy Tail.
After reading that Fairy Tail Omake 'Welcome Home, Frosch'. That was it. I had to write a story about Sting and Rogue.
The Story takes places after the Grand Magic Games.
Where am I...?
Am I dead...?
No...
"...hira! I promise! I'll ...ber you! Then I'll ... You!"
Who is that...?
"You can't ...ina!"
Who are these voices...?
"...leave us!"
Who am I?
It was getting pretty late, most of the members of Sabertooth were in their rooms preparing to go to bed, although the guild master was the only one wandering around the halls. The blond mage let out a loud yawn as he walked in the hallway to his room. Presently, Sabertooth's master was Sting Eucliffe. After Jiemma and Minerva were no longer in the guild, Sting was chosen as its new master. Everyone was okay with that.
The White Dragon Slayer walked to his room with his maroon exceed following closely behind him. Once he reached his room, he yawned again and opened his door. The first thing he did was let himself fall into the soft mattress of his room. "Damn it... I'm so tired..." He muffled. He lifted up his head and looked at the window, he sighed and got up. He walked to the doors of his balcony and opened them, he went outside on his balcony to get some fresh air.
He inhaled and deeply exhaled, Sabertooth was no longer number one, Fairy Tail regained their rightful place as number one. But that was okay, this would give Sabertooth a chance to finally change their ways...
Sting did a small smile as he stared at the moon. "A guild with strong bonds... And values their members..."
When the dragon slayer was still lost in thought, he didn't notice something raising in the air. When he finally blinked, he saw a purple crystal floating up into the air. Greatly confused, he quickly looked down and saw a purple magic circle, probably showing where the crystal came from. But that's not all, when he took a good look at the crystal, he noticed something strange...
There was a little girl imprisoned in it!
It stopped moving and just stayed in the air. Now he was getting nervous, what if it suddenly fell and the kid died?! As the wind blew softly around him, he noticed that the kid who was inside slowly began opening their eyes. And as if time froze, it felt like an eternity as he stared at her. He watched as the child imprisoned in the crystal fell and collided with the floor, causing a shattering sound. Sting cringed with a gasp, he quickly looked down.
"Hey, Sting... What was that?" Lector asked as he flew next to his best friend.
"W-Well... Some kid just fell down...!"
The purple fragments shined in the moonlight around the little girl. She didn't seem to move for a while, after a few seconds of just standing there like an idiot, Sting jumped over his balcony and landed next to the little girl. Lector flew down as well, he watched as Sting checked to see if she had any injuries. There was only a fresh scrape on the side of her head and she was bleeding.
Sting quickly picked up the girl and went back inside the guild.
-XD-
Sting went to bring her to the infirmary of the Sabertooth guild. After the nurse did her job she went to see Sting who was waiting patiently on a chair.
"She'll be fine, just let her rest here for night."
"Okay, thanks."
"I'll be sure to tell her you brought her here, master Sting."
With that the nurse left the room. Sting approached the unconscious girl on the bed. She was wearing a simple red long sleeve shirt and blue jeans. She didn't have any shoes on, only white shocks. He kept looking at the child's body, there seemed to be a couple of cuts and bruises, that was obviously given way before she fell. He took a good look at her face, she looked so peaceful... But her most notable feature was her hair... Her hair color was black, but there was two white lines that cut across the right side of her hair, stopping in a completely straight line along the front and probably the back of her head. "Is she going to be okay?" Lector asked as he stood on the bed next to the child's head. Sting sighed, he stuffed his hands in his pockets, "You heard the nurse, she just needs some rest. Come on Lector, let's go to bed, we'll see her tomorrow."
"'Kay."
THE NEXT MORNING...
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BANG! CRASH!
"AHH!"
Annoyed, Sting rolled over and pulled the blanket over his head muttering a small 'shut up'. But then, his partner Rogue opened his door. "Sting!"
Sting groaned, "Ugh, what?!" He rolled over with an annoyed expression.
"There's an intruder in the guild, they're causing trouble downstairs." Rogue spoke with a serious look.
Lector rubbed his eyes and looked up at his friend. Sting frowned and looked a Lector. "Hey, do you think it's her?" The exceed asked, Sting sighed, "Probably..." he quickly got dressed and left his room with his partner and the two Exceeds. The four of them were making their way towards the ruckus. Once they got downstairs they saw a crowd of people surrounding a place. As they pushed their way through the crowd, they saw Yukino and Rufus who were watching the scene before them.
"What's going on?" Sting demanded. Rufus turned to look at him, he smirked. "Oh master, you're finally awake."
"You don't need to call me that, now what's happening?"
Yukino pointed up, "Look up."
Rogue and Sting looked up, their jaws dropped open. There, on the golden chandelier, there was a child with black hair and two white lines on her hair swinging and holding on tightly on the chandelier. Orga who was on a higher floor was trying to reach her from where he was standing.
"How the hell did she get up there...?!" Sting asked who was greatly amazed and confused.
"She was in the infirmary last night... How..." Lector wondered bemused.
"You know her?" Rogue pointed at the child, Sting flicked his hand to dismiss the question, he said he would explain later. He turned to Yukino and asked what happened. "Well... Orga went to visit the infirmary because he wanted something to ease his hangover from drinking too much. And when he saw her, he jumped to conclusions and tried catching her, in the end she somehow climbed the chandelier..."
"She's like a monkey." Lector commented.
"Fro thinks so too!" Frosch agreed while waving his arms softly.
"Okay, we gotta get her down." Sting rubbed his face with a frown.
"Well, let Orga give it a try." Rufus gave a sly smile.
Orga tried reaching for her, but all she did was move even farther on the chandelier. She growled at him and glared with her cobalt colored eyes. "Come and get me gorilla!"
Orga's right eye twitched in annoyance, he reached out further and grabbed a piece of the chandelier then pulled her closer to him. "Come here!" The girl only growled, she used her foot to softly push his face, causing the object to swing away from him. Unfortunately for him, he was pulled along and he fell down. When she heard him collide on the floor she laughed and stuck her tongue out. "Bleh!"
"Way to go Orga." Sting clapped with a grin. Orga stood with up an angry face, "Shut up!"
"Sting, do you want me and Frosch to go get her?" Lector asked as he already took his wings. Fro did the same and flew above Rogue and Sting. The guild master nodded, the two exceeds flew up to the chandelier and approached the frantic girl, they both grabbed the back of her shirt, causing her to protest very loudly. Then they softly lowered her onto the floor.
Once she was on her feet, she stared at Sting with annoyance. She looked at his appearance, he was wearing a dark tan mid-riff shirt, a dark blue vest with light tan fur around the edges and he had dark blue gloves that almost reached his elbows. His pants were light brown in the middle and black on the side to match his same colored boots. He stared down at the little kid with piercing blue eyes; he seemed a little annoyed with her. (Mostly because she woke him up) She stuck her tongue out and began running away, the blonde mage's eye twitched, he quickly ran after her. He caught her and effortlessly tossed her on his shoulder, "Okay! Go mind your own businesses every one! I'll deal with her myself!" Sting shouted before running off with the loud girl.
"LET ME GO!"
"Ah! Sting wait for me!" Lector cried before flying after them.
-XD-
Sting kicked open the door of the infirmary. The girl on his shoulder kept thrashing around. He kept yelling at her to stop moving as he tried to close the door. He approached the beds and set her down on one as gently as he could, which was pretty difficult considering how violently she thrashed around. Once she was on the bed, she sat indian style and crossed her arms. She looked away from him, causing a sigh to come out from Sting. He grabbed a chair and sat near her bed.
"Alright, who are you?" He asked nicely.
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"Hey! I'm talking-"
Growl...
The black-haired girl hunched over and covered her stomach. Lector and Sting looked at each other with exasperated looks. The blond dragon slayer tapped her shoulder, she looked up at him, not without glaring of course. "I'll get you some food, in exchange for some answers to my questions, deal?"
With that proposal, she immediately went under the blanket and covered everything below her eyes. She innocently blinked at Sting and gave him a small nod.
"Come on, you're not eating in here."
Later...
Baffled, Sting who was sitting across from her, watched as the little girl ate her fifth bowl of noodles. Once she was done she slammed the chopsticks down onto the table and let out a laugh with a small grin. Why did it remind him of Natsu? Probably the grin was what was so similar. Yukino and Rogue, who had joined them not too long ago, sat next to Sting with surprised expressions. She stared back at the three older mages with her confused cobalt eyes. "Whaaat?"
Sting shook his head, "Now that you're all full... Ready to answer my questions, little girl?"
"No."
"What?!"
"Kidding~ Go right ahead, ask me!"
Lector and Frosch stood next to the empty bowls in front of the little girl. The first question was predictable, it was 'Who are you?' and as simple as that question was, she had a difficult time answering it...
"Good question... What IS my name?" The little girl questioned herself. She leaned back on her chair and made a thinking pose. The three mages looked at each other, Sting and Rogue kinda looked unconvinced. What if she was lying? What if she saw just a short person from a dark guild? No, that's impossible, from what Sting saw last night he doubt that was the case... He watched as the kid tried thinking, but then got distracted and played with Frosch. Did this mean Sabertooth's master just picked up an amnesiac?
"Oh! Now I remember!" The little girl exclaimed with a goofy look. She pulled away from Frosch with a grin, feeling proud that she remembered her own name. "Will you tell us your name?" Yukino asked kindly, the little girl looked at Yukino with her cobalt eyes. She could see kindness in her brown eyes, and for some reason she felt like she saw those kind of brown eyes before... But nonetheless, she decided to tell her name.
The girl with black hair and and two white lines stood on her chair and pointed at herself with her thumb. She grinned, "The name is Saphira Kacelet! I am currently eleven years old! And... Um... Uh..." She held her head in her hands and looked at the floor. She shut her eyes as if she was trying to remember something. When she was finally able to remember she clapped her hands together.
Sting raised an eyebrow while Rogue's eyes narrowed at the girl, why did her name seem so familiar?
"Right! And I have no parents because I was-!"
CRAAASH!
She was suddenly cut off when they heard a huge crash outside. Alarmed, the three mages present in the room ran to the nearest window with the best view. Saphira did the same while she held the two exceeds in her arms. Apparently, a cart full of sand was spilled on the floor due to being crashed with another huge cart full sand. This made something click inside of the eleven year old child, she tapped Rogue and Sting's arms. They looked down at her and saw her giving them Frosch and Lector. She gave them a grin as they took them. She turned to the window and opened it wide, what she did next was not what they expected. Yukino seemed to notice what she was doing, "Saphira-!" She tried reaching out for her, but it was too late, she already jumped down!
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"HOLY CRAP!"
Sting's eyes literally popped out of their sockets! What a perfect way to change! He was betting ten million jewels that there was a huge crowd down there! They'd be known as Sabertooth who let and innocent eleven year old fall to her death! Feeling suddenly scared for the girl's safety, he followed her by jumping as well, the red furred, feline followed by flying his way down. Rogue and Yukino took the stairs, deciding it was best to act like normal people.
People surrounded the area, curious to see what happened.
"What are you going to do with all this sand?"
"I don't know, I was going to throw it away somewhere near a river."
The people were now uninterested and began leaving. Saphira slowly made her towards the fallen sand. She crouched and touched the soft grains on the floor with her fingers. She stared up at the man with a grin, "Can I take it off your hands?"
"Um... Sure?"
Saphira lowered her head, she then began sucking on the air. Sting and Lector finally caught up with the girl, but when they found her they didn't expect to see her absorbing the fallen sand by sucking and eating it. When she was done she let out a tiny burp.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" The poeple around her exclaimed.
Saphira finished eating the sand and politely thanked the man. As she turned around she saw Sting and Lector with bewildered faces, Rogue and Yukino who arrived not too long ago, seemed to already have a logical explanation in their minds. Saphira smiled at Sting, "As I was saying, I don't have any parents, because I was raised by someone else!"
"Well, where are they now?" Yukino asked feeling she should take on the questioning. Saphira squinted and tapped her forehead with her index. She looked up with a frown, "I don't know, I don't remember." she shrugged.
Rogue held Sting's shoulder to gain his attention. Sting turned his head to look at him, "I think now would be a good time to explain."
So he did. Sting told them that last night, he was on he balcony trying to get some fresh air before heading to bed. But then he saw a purple crystal rising in the air, Saphira was imprisoned in that crystal. She seemed to have risen from underground, and he witnessed her crash onto the floor. Saphira was too busy cuddling with Frosch to even listen to Sting's story.
"I see. That's odd... A crystal underground near Sabertooth... I wonder how long she was trapped in there for." Rogue wondered.
Yukino felt bad for the eleven year old. What was she going to do now? What was she going to do by herself with her memory loss? Just a moment ago, she didn't even remember her name. They couldn't just leave her alone... Yukino tapped Sting's arm, "We can't just leave her alone. Why don't we let her stay at Sabertooth for a while?" Yukino suggested, Sting looked back at Saphira. Even if he didn't know this child, he was kinda worried at the thought of leaving her be. He sighed, he crouched down and smiled.
He placed a hand on her head, she stopped moving around and stared at his sapphire eyes. "My name is Sting Eucliffe. I am Sabertooth's guild master. How would like to stay with us for a while, Saphira Kacelet?" He asked nicely, Saphira's cobalt eyes widened. He opened a hand out to her, she frowned and furrowed her eyebrows. "Even after this morning? I thought you only wanted to know who I was... Then I'd have to travel around alone." She said bluntly as if it that's what he was actually planning to do.
Sting chuckled, "Don't worry. What happened this morning was nothing. It's Orga's fault for being an idiot and suddenly scaring you."
She grabbed Sting's hand and shook it. The white dragon slayer grinned, he stood up and placed his hands on his hips, he pointed a finger at Saphira, practically poking her nose. "You'll definitely enjoy your stay at my guild! That's a promise!"
Saphira's face broke into an unexpectedly sweet smile. "Thank you nice brothers and beautiful sister!" She beamed.
"Fro will be your friend!" Frosch said while waving his small arms. Lector nodded, "Of course, and I'll have to tell you all about Sting too!"
Yukino just gave her smile, but Sting could tell she was flustered at the sincere compliment paid. Rogue was a little taken back at the way she addressed him.
"Let's go!" He took Saphira by the hand after patting Yukino and Rogue on their backs. The group swiftly went back inside and decided it would be best to give her a tour.
-XD-
During the 3/4 of the tour, Rogue left the group along with Frosch, probably to go tell the other guild members to not be alarmed if they saw Saphira. So that left: Sting, Saphira, Lector and Yukino. They visited every single place, Sabertooth still had its luxury-like look from being number one. Now that they had finished their tour, it was time for lunch, they were on their way to the cafeteria.
Yukino was busy holding Saphira's hand, since she kept stopping once in a while after getting distracted by something. When they arrived, there was not a lot of people, but Saphira knew Sabertooth members were taking their time to come to the cafeteria.
"Hey! Master!"
"Huh?" Sting looked back to see who called him. He saw one of his guild members approaching him.
"Rogue said you brought a girl." The guy looked down at Saphira, then grinned."Ooh… Sting's got a soft spot for a little girl?" The guy clicked his tongue at him. "Didn't know you had that kind of fetish."
Sting raised an eyebrow."What fet- Oh what the hell?!" Sting lifted his hands in frustration. "I bring back a little girl and now I'm a pedophile?"
"Well-"
Saphira quietly chuckled at the scene.
-tzzz
Saphira winced, she held her head with one hand. There was a sharp pain, and the pain she was expressing seemed to go unnoticed by the Sabertooth members...
"...hira! I promise! I'll ...ber you! Then I'll ... You!"
Who is that...?
"You can't ...ina!"
Who are these voices...?
"...leave us!"
Who am I?
... I am Saphira Kacelet, an eleven year old whose been invited to stay at Sabertooth!
...right?
Fairy Tail is coming back in a few hours. Nuff said.
Saphira Kacelet is pronounced Sa-phi-ra Case-let