Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; they belong to the one and only Hiro Mashima.
I do own Nova Scarlet and the idea for the fic though.
WARNING: POSSIBLE SPOILERS FROM THE "KNOWING IT FROM THE BEGINNING" STORY AHEAD.
READ UNDER YOUR OWN DISCRETION.
Dad's friend.
(A I.-.-.I Kuroyagi I.-.-.I original fan-fiction story.)
My name is Nova Scarlet, I'm fifteen years old and live with my mom.
Yeah, that didn't sound as good as I feel it to be, right?
Well, that's because you weren't born where I did. The guild in which I am a member is a warm one, everyone is ready to give a hand to you if you ever needed or kick your ass to make you understand if you ever do something wrong, make a big party for your return or just for whatever reason, the second was something which to me happened most of the time. I might be the daughter of one of the veterans and strongest wizards of the place but I'm not exempted of punishment when I do something recklessly or lectures when I don't learn the lesson… so… yeah, I'm just another one of the young ones that is hoped to look after the guild when we grow up.
Something that I cannot wait for it to happen!
Don't tell it to my mom though, every time I come up with one of my crazy ideas or my proclamations she hits me in the head with her steel-gloved hands and it hurts a lot! So, let it be a secret between us, okay?
And talking about my mom, you should meet her! She's awesome in every little thing she does, so much that I always have someone close to me asking about her and all. Which bothers me somehow; I want the people to come asking for me not for her! That's why I challenge her every single time I saw her with free time, she denies every time but that doesn't matter; someday she'll accept and will beat her! Probing to everyone that I'm stronger! Yeah, that's a nice thought.
But there's something that always bothered me with her… and with the rest of the guild now that I realize.
No one talks about my father.
Not even Mira-nee or Lucy-nee, all stay quiet when I suddenly brought up a question about him and my mom leaves the place in a hurry to avoid talking about it. I don't get it at all, I know his name thanks to some friends from the other guilds but nothing more, not even how he looks like, which is the thing that bothers me the most. I cannot even check in the mirror if I have something from him cause I'm like an exact copy of my mother… with a carefree attitude though, which most surely is from my father's side.
All pictures of him were hidden and not even one single thing about him can be found in the guild's records.
Did he do something wrong? Maybe it was because he left us; mom and me, alone or perhaps it had something to do with the reason behind why the Council always had a watchful and careful eye over Fairy Tail…
Oh! Yes! The guild in which I'm in is called Fairy Tail! Don't ask me why though, I think that the reason is silly… which makes mom hit me harder than when I do something wrong or don't listen to her lectures.
Okay, I got sidetracked there, returning to the subject of my dad, I'm still trying to figure out what is the reason behind so much hiding about his persona. I asked every possible person and I'm close to getting nothing so far but that doesn't drive me back; it encourages me into continuing with the search.
Maybe I could ask that weird man that it's always watching me when I got out of town for a job, what a weirdo, he stalks me to the train station and after finding out where I'm heading, he goes there by foot. That's the weirdest, why doesn't he just jumps up on the train and sits with me instead of walking long distances from one town to another?
His dressing is weird too, he wears a light brown cloak and his entire body is mostly covered in bandages, he wears a brown bandana and a black mask to cover the bottom half of his face… He looks like that Mystogan guy that the old archives show from twenty one years ago.
I'll ask him next time I see him… For what he told me, he was part of the guild a long time ago and he even went on missions with Dad, Mom, Gray and Lucy! He surely knows something about my dad and since he isn't inside the guild and their secrecy circle, he might be able to throw some light on the subject.
Damn, I'm starting to write like mom. Forgot what you read before or add some insults to it so it looks a little more like my writing. Agh! Okay, enough writing for today, I'll go check if he's when he's always at.
(Magnolia's forest, a clearing hidden in the between the dense mass of trees.)
There he is! Sitting all by himself under that tree with his head down and his arms crossed, looking like he enjoys being alone in there; which I hope he doesn't because if he did, I'll be in trouble for disturbing him. I got near to him and he looked up in my direction, waving a hand for me to know that's it okay to approach. I ran to him and sat on top of his lap, earning a grunt from him and a small laugh, that was something that I liked about him, he didn't have a trouble with how I acted which always made my day happier. He looked at me through the narrow space that his mask and bandana left and waited for me to say something, another thing I liked; he knew when I wanted to say something to him or when I needed to hear something to encourage me.
"Hi again! How are you today?" He shrugged, like saying that it was another normal day to him. "Good! 'Cause I wanted to ask you something!"
"And what could that be?" He said with his low and deep voice, sending a shivers down my spine and a blush to my cheeks; it wasn't that I liked him like him but more like his voice always made me feel little… I don't know if that even has sense, but anyway…
"Do you know about my father?" I asked innocently while looking at his reaction, he seemed to be raising an eyebrow at my question; even if the bandana didn't let me saw it, I knew from experience.
"Yes, I know a lot about him, but why do you ask me? The people in your guild don't talk about your father?" He said with a hint of something that sounded like sadness in his voice and that he already knew than that was the case. I shake my head in answer, looking how he seemed sad with my response; maybe he was a good friend of my father and he was sad that my friends and mother didn't talk to me about him? "That's… to be expected, after what he did, even I talk little to nothing about him…"
"Really? And what did he do?" He looked at the cup of the tree that was making a shadow for us before replying.
"Well, it's a long story but cutting it shortly, he betrayed the guild and attacked the Council to free an old friend…" My eyes widened at what he said, standing up and getting a few feet away I shake my head in negative; not believing what he said.
"My father is not a criminal!" He looked at me with softened and regretful eyes before looking back ahead.
"He was, even if he did what he did for a good reason, he was excommunicated from the guild and made a public enemy of the Council; whoever sees him needs to warn the Rune Knights immediately and those who give him shelter are accused of conspiring against the Council and the Kingdom…"
I shook my head again, tears threatening to fall from my eyes, he was surely mistaken! My dad couldn't be a bad guy; otherwise mom wouldn't have fallen in love with him in the first place! "You're lying!"
"What makes you say that?" He said terribly calm to my current state, his eyes looking at me through the corner of his eyes. "Do you know something that I don't?"
"Mom wouldn't have loved him if he was a bad guy…" I said in between sobs, looking at him with angry eyes; he just stood up from his position and put his large hands on my shoulders, sending a warm sensation through them to my whole body and helping me relax.
"Sorry, Nova…" He said after a while, kneeling in front of me with an apologetic look. "You're right, your mom wouldn't have loved him if he was a bad guy, but the thing is much more complicated for your young mind to understand…"
"What do you mean?" I said with my tears now dry but leaving my eyes puffy. He chuckled lightly at my question before standing up and going to the border in which the shadow of the tree ended and the sun touched the grass.
"It means that you're too young to understand the motives of your father betrayal, but not for long…" He returned to his sitting position against the tree and crossed his arms behind his head. I looked at him questioningly before going to seat beside him, my head lying on his lap; which didn't seem to surprise him.
"So… when I'm older you'll tell me about my father motives to leave mom and me alone?" He flinched at the question before making a sound that seemed like an affirmation. I smiled softly before closing my eyes, a last question for him. "Can you tell me about father? But, from the time before to when he did… you know…"
"Sure… I'll give you two options and you must choose one of them, both are important moments in your father's life but it's up to you to decide which one to hear first…" I raise an eyebrow at his words but nodded nonetheless, expecting him to tell me my options. "Tower of Heaven or… S-class trial…"
I asked for the first one, since it sounded more interesting and I wasn't disappointed. I heard the story of how my mom was kidnapped and my dad along Gray, Lucy, Juvia and my friend here went to rescue her from the hands of an old friend of her that wanted to sacrifice her to revive some dark mage and create a free world. I heard how my dad went to the extremes and even ate Etherion to defeat the guy called Jellal, awakening his true strength, defeating him and saving my mom from certain dead… only that the tower was going to explode, the magic material being unstabilized after the fight in between my dad and the kidnapper; the building wasn't going to hold together much longer so mom tried to sacrifice herself in order to return the favor to my dad.
"Your dad refused vehemently to her decision, not accepting a world without her as much as she didn't want a world without us; her friends from Fairy Tail…" I heard him say while my eyes grew heavy and a stifled a yawn from coming out with a hand, and though he noticed it, he continued with the story. "I don't remember much of what happened next and they didn't either, but the next thing that I saw when the tower's energy was directed to the sky and we went to the shore with Juvia's magic, was your father holding onto your mother with a determined face before falling to the water from the side effect that what he ate had in him…"
"Um…" I said, his voice sounding more distant with each passing second until I finally fall sleep.
"Nova…" I asked while looking down at her, founding her sleeping quietly over my lap. I smiled nostalgically before moving a few strands of her bright red hair that were making her uncomfortable away from her face. "You looked so much like your mother…"
"Are you done?" I heard an all too familiar voice coming from in front of me; I didn't move my eyes from the sleeping girl in my lap though. "Nat…"
"Don't say my name in front of her, old man…" I said dangerously to him before getting up from the ground with the girl in my arms. "She looks just like her when she was younger, don't you think?"
"Yes, she does, she even has the same magic…" I lowered my eyes in regret for that, if I would have been with her since her childhood I could have taught her my magic. "I know what you're thinking and I don't like it, there're enough damages to pay off with this generation of Fairy Tail kids to even think about teaching her your magic…"
"It was just a thought, old man… A silly thought…" I said while handing her to the brown haired man. "Does her mother know that she meets with me? Or does anyone know?"
"No, just me and her…" He said while looking at the sleeping beauty, I sighed tiredly, turning my back to the man and walking away from the clearing. "You do know that if she ever finds out about your true identity…"
"I know… I don't like to think about what could happen when that event occurs but…" I turned around to face him, lowering my mask to let him see the big grin that I had on my face; some stubble around my mouth and chin which reminded the old man of the time in which his beard wasn't so grow out. "I also can't wait for that to happen…"
He give a smile of his own before turning his back to me and walking away from the place with she still sleeping. I covered my face again and went to the forest, it was time to eat and I needed to hurry so that I could also search for food for dinner. "I can't wait…"
The End
There you have it, sad story, not my best material but something that I needed to get out of my mind quickly.
This isn't the actual end of the main story but one of the possible futures that Asa saw for Natsu when he first meet with him.
Enjoy it, I'll be sure to do it after I finish with the main story.
Saludos.