Fairy Tail FanFic
Taiyou
Chapter 1: Escape
By I-Darkness
Taiyou ran the last stretch of his journey, clutching his schoolbag to his chest. Only the knowledge that he will soon be safe kept him from submitting to mind-numbing fear. Experiencing and learning new fears had always put him on edge; he would stumble in things he had practiced over and over again. But this kind of fear, the hunted kind, was completely different to anything he had ever experienced or been told, and it heightened his already keen senses to the point of exceeding the human-animal barrier. For the first time in his life, he had thrown away his unusually matured common sense, and grabbed the opportunity presented to him on the shiniest silver platter he'd ever seen.
Flashback
He had just finished his homework for the week. His teachers at the local school were always puzzled as to why he never tried to achieve anything beyond schoolwork. He was incredibly smart, fitter than most of the older students and he had the potential to be so much more. Instead of being rather uninterested, it was the complete opposite. He has been training with his mother's spirits in secret in everything and anything they could offer. Ever since he was able to understand what was happening around him, he learned to move very carefully. After all, he and his mother were prisoners in there own home.
Their jailer, Jung, had turned out to be the leader of the guild his mother had tried desperately to quell. Apparently, 8 years prior he had cornered and violated her, or so he was made to think. Convinced that the unborn child she carried was his, he had spared her life. To protect her child, she dyed his hair black and did what she could to protect others from the same fate. Taiyou had understood at an early age, and tried to help his mother anyway he could, including sneaking whatever food and keys he could get his hands on. It had been 4years before their captor allowed her to return to her formal work life, keeping her son as hostage.
It was where she was at that moment, secretly working with the Magic Council to bring down the guild that killed so many mages and several of her personal friends. The only obstacle was to safely extract her son from their prison like house. It was this very dilemma Taiyou finds the long awaited solution. He stood gaping at the sight in front of him. Jung and his henchmen were all dead drunk in the living room, and they had left the keys right out in the open. Berating himself for pausing a second too long, Taiyou gently, so very gently, detached the keys from the snoring leader's belt. Tip-toeing to his room, he grabbed his emergency backpack, which both he and his mother prepared against this day, and his full schoolbag. He had never bothered to empty it, and thanked the heavens for that fact.
He crept to his window and inserted the magical key into the lock. The house was a one-storey house, and all the guards were snoring their life away inside. Not looking back at the dark monster behind, he jumped out with as little sound as possible. Before closing the window, he gently placed the keys on the desk below the windowsill. He sneaked past the front door and did not start running until he was well on the road.
End Flashback
Afterwards, Taiyou reached the Magnolia Train Station, the conductor was nice enough to give him directions to the one place he knew he would be safe. His mother's old guild and where his real father was.
According to the directions, he was coming up to the last corner before his destination. It had started raining while he was still on the train, making the ground slick with mud and almost causing him to slip. Breathing heavily he stopped in front of the large gateway, topped with the guild name, flanked with fairies. It took him a moment to break away from the enchanting sight. Even in the gloom and rain it radiated peace and safety, although the stories his mother told him may have had something to with it. Approaching the sizeable double doors, he could already hear the laughter and commotion inside, the windows flickering with light.
(A/N: I know this is really short! Just bear with me... please... The next chapter will be the same size... BUT! Chapter 3 will be longer! I promise!)