Prologue: The Shinigami's beginning
A/N: Just before we get right into the story, I would just like to say enjoy and I hope you would give me your feedbacks. It's my first attempt of a Fairy Tail story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail at all! But I do own my OCs.
Kaito stood by the back of his door, surrounded by a mob of outraged villagers. The 13 year old boy raised his head, meeting the villagers' eyes and trembled by the amount of anger they were pouring out directly at him.
"There he is!" A villager cried as he pointed at Kaito with a bony finger.
"It's the cursed boy!" Another yelled from the back, causing most of the villagers to start throwing whatever they picked up from the ground at the boy.
Very soon, it all stopped.
Kaito looked up once more at the villagers, only to see the chief of the village standing before him with a glare that made Kaito shiver in fear. The chief stretched out his right hand and gripped onto Kaito's hood, lifting the poor boy off of the ground. Before he knew it, he was thrown against the wall of his house and his hood fell off, revealing the facial features he had.
His short spikey black-hair was the first thing revealed before he lifted his head to show his half-scorched face. His left eye was purely white with a large scar across it while his right eye was blood-red. His nose was slightly bleeding from a stone to the face from the earlier assault he had faced. On his un-scorched cheek, a cut was noticed due to a knife thrown at him.
The young boy trembled in fear as he watched the chief spoke in his booming voice which echoed all through the entire village. "Kaito Murai! Ever since you were born with that...curse you bear, we have always kept an eye on you and even warned you of what would happen if you were to show the slightest hint of using that curse of yours. However..." The chief sneered at the boy. "It seems that our warning wasn't enough to keep you from using it. Nevertheless, you will have to face the punishment that we give to anyone who displays the curse. You are hereby sentence to death!"
Kaito's eyes widened in both shock and fear as the villagers cheered loudly. He stumbled towards the chief and fell to his knees as he gripped the chief's clothing. "Please, chief! I-I never meant to use it! I didn't even know how it happened!"
"It is too late to argue, boy!" The chief cried. "Your destiny was to be killed anyway. Fate was cruel to you by giving you the curse that your parents once had before they too were executed." He kicked Kaito off of him and pressed his foot against the boy's chest. Kaito cried in pain as he tried to remove the foot on his chest it was futile as the chief was far more stronger than him.
Soon, two pairs of hands grabbed Kaito's arms and he was removed from the chief's foot and dragged him off towards the center of the village.
When they reached there, Kaito looked up and saw what he had feared the most in the village. Right in front of him was the very same place where he had witnessed his parents' deaths. The execution sight to be more precise.
Before long, the two same villagers had chained Kaito's wrists in the middle of the stage. Kaito struggled to free his wrists but the villagers snickered when they saw this.
"Try all you want, kid. Those chains were meant to prevent magic-users from casting a spell. It's our magic insulator." One of them said as he and his fellow villager got off of the stage while the chief stepped onto it.
He gave Kaito a long, cold and hateful stare before he turned to face the gathered villagers. He raised his hand and the crowd fell silent as the chief pointed to Kaito. "This boy you see here today, just like his disgraceful parents, carries the curse which we all call "Magic". As the village's rules state, no magic-users are allowed to live in this village if they were to use it. Kaito Murai has recently used magic within the village and it will result either banishment or death. However, just like the founders of this village had once done, the boy's punishment will be death!"
The entire village erupted in roars of cheers as Kaito trembled yet again. The chief had spoken his punishment without any hesitation and the entire village had agreed without hesitation as well. To any mages who had been executed, they would have been filled with fear and anger. But to Kaito, it wasn't fear. However, it was betrayal and sadness.
Anger was never an emotion Kaito had ever used before. But he did have known the other emotions and betrayal was one of them which is why he was feeling it along with sadness. The village where he had been raised, cared and nurtured, had betrayed him just because he had been given magic by his parents when he was born.
Just at that point, the chief had received a long katana from a villager which Katsu had no idea of. The chief raised the katana above Kaito's head and smirked. "Any last words, boy?"
Kaito had nothing to say. His mouth was shut, his head hung low, tears ran down his cheeks and his heart pumped with anxiety. He had felt something within his heart ignite after that. Then, he started hearing a voice speaking within his mind.
"Magic is the physical embodiment of the spirit. When the physical spirit of an organism connects with the spiritual flow of nature, the spirit forms Magic as a product of the connection."
Why? Why was he hearing this now? Kaito was nearing his own doom and here, a random voice had spoken to him about Magic. But then, moments later, he felt a burning sensation within both of his arms and he noticed that the chains were changing its color from silver to red with a violet outline. Afterwards, a red aura engulfed his entire body as his heart calmed down.
The chief noticed this and he immediately swung his katana with precision, aiming for Kaito's skull.
As the blade was nearing him, Kaito gave a deadly shriek that caused ripples in the air which knocked the chief into the crowd of villagers.
"W-what just happened?!" A villager cried.
"The cursed boy! He's using Magic! Chief, kill him quick!" Another cried.
Gripping his katana, the chief gave a cry before he charged towards Kaito. "Die! You disgrace of a human!" As he swung his katana, his lips curled into a smirk of victory as he imagined blood being spilled from the young boy in front of him. However, he was mistaken.
Kaito's cowering figure had been replaced. Standing in his place was no longer a cowering figure of who he was a moment ago. But instead, he looked up at the chief with a calmed expression. His shivering body was more relaxed, his breaths slowed down. His right eye glowed while his left eye remained the same. His anxious and fearful look had also been replaced by a glare that gave most of the villagers a chill.
Ironically, the chains that were used to chain him to the stage had released him as they remained attached to his wrists. Then, the chains seemed to defy gravity as they levitated in the air, much to everyone's surprise and shock. The end of the chains became brighter as one of the chains shot towards the chief's face while the other smashed into the chief's abdomen.
"H-how did the boy use Magic?!"
"I thought those chains prevent mages from using Magic?!"
Kaito smirked at their words as he raised a hand and a seal appeared before he spoke. "Spirit Magic - Phantom Chains!" The chains sprang to life as soon as Kaito cast the spell. The chains somehow extended towards the sky, reaching unimaginable heights which everyone thought was impossible for a chain. Then, Kaito brought his hand down, causing the chains to drop as well.
As it did, the chains started duplicating at every passing second. When the villagers saw it, they panicked and stood frozen in fear. The chains then slammed onto them, creating a giant cloud of dust. Then, the chains retracted to its original length and wrapped around Kaito's arms.
Once the cloud had faded away, it was revealed that the villagers were unharmed and they didn't even had a scratch on their bodies. They stared at Kaito for a moment, thinking that he had fooled them by making them think he was going to eliminate them.
"What kind of trick did you..." The chief was silenced when he and the rest of the village fell to the ground. Their bodies had become so weak that they didn't even have the strength to stand up.
Kaito chuckled. "Trick? That was no trick. It was my Magic, "Spirit Magic". But I'm sure you understand what it does. Besides, it was all of you who caused all of this. You caused my Magic to activate after all of the troubles you made me go through all my life. This is simply payback." A seal then appeared in front of his hand and he continued. "And for your punishment, this is how all the other mages have felt when you killed them. Spirit Magic - Binding of the Souls!"
A humongous seal was cast all over the village, denying the villagers any chances of getting back to their feet.
"Here's the real thing. Spirit Magic - Soul Devourer!"
Another seal with the same size of the first appeared above the villagers. Then, the villagers all screamed in pain as their faces paled and their bodies trying their best to even struggle. Then, a translucent silhouette of their bodies began surfacing from their bodies.
"Still," Kaito said. "Why does this feel so wrong? I'm trying to avenge my parents and other mages who died by the villagers' hands but I don't understand why I feel so bad."
"Daddy/Mommy!" A group of mixed voices all cried at once.
Kaito's eyes widen when he heard them. They were the children of the villagers!(A/N: Kaito was locked up in his house all his life. He has never met any other children in the village.)
The children ran over to their respective parents and tears were pouring down their faces when they tried to wake their parents.
"Daddy! Please wake up! You said we would go fishing together someday!"
"Mommy! Wake up! Don't leave me here alone!"
After the rest of the children had tried to wake their parents up, they all turned towards Kaito's direction and there were mixed emotion from them. Some of them were filled with anger while the others were filled with sadness.
"You! Wake them up! You caused this to happen! You should just go away and die!" A child had cried and the rest agreed.
Kaito stared at them for a moment. He did nothing else, just...stared. In his mind, he wanted them to suffer the same thing he had. But his heart spoke otherwise. In the end, Kaito cast another spell and a seal appeared in his hand and under the villagers. The children saw this and they gazed at Kaito, wondering what he was trying to do with his so-called curse.
"Spirit Magic - Soul Disperser!"
Very soon, the souls of the villagers emerged from the seal on Kaito's hand. They hovered towards their respective bodies before descending into their bodies. Soon, the villagers woke up and they were breathing heavily.
"You, boy...Kaito, why did you give us back our lives?" The chief asked as he stood back up and steadied himself using his katana.
Kaito jumped off of the stage and landed on his feet. He put his hood back on, covering his head and walked passed the villagers, who were backing away in fear. When he reached the end of the crowd of villagers, he turned his head slightly, showing the scorched side of his face as he shifted his hood slightly. "You should be grateful to have your children. They're the ones who saved your lives. I don't want any other children to suffer the same fate as me."
As he released his hand from his hood to cover the scorched side of his face again, he walked off and continued. "I will decide on my punishment. I choose banishment from this village. You won't have to see me and vise versa. Everyone wins in the end." Without speaking another word, Kaito stepped out of the village, for the first time in his life.
He felt the wind brushed against his face, stinging the scorched side of his face while giving a cool feeling to the unharmed side of his face. He turned back to look at the village, only to see the villagers shutting the entrance gates. Kaito smiled slightly at this. He was finally free from the village that he called prison. But at what cost?
After all that has happened so far, it was his positive emotions that were lost...
A/N: That's the first chapter of my story: "Fairy Tail's Shinigami." I hope you'll give me your reviews!
Magic used:
Spirit Magic: Spirit Magic is a type of magic which is not well known. Not even the Magic Council has any information on it. The origins of Spirit Magic is that it was created by a mage who had absorbed a small dose of Ankhseram Black Magic from Zeref himself in ancient times. The mage then created Spirit Magic after understanding Ankhseram Black Magic from using it every now and then. Before the mage had passed away, he had transferred all his knowledge of Spirit Magic to his son, which started Kaito's family's "curse". Because the family only use Spirit Magic when necessary, not many people or the Magic Council knows about it, resulting in the lack of information as stated above.
Spirit Magic's "Possession": Spirit Magic was modified by Kaito's great-great-great grandfather, who had Take Over Magic as a Secondary Magic. He was able to make Spirit Magic "possess" non-living objects to allow him to use it in battle. An example of this is Kaito's chains. According to Kaito's ancestor, when the object is "possessed", it will become the sword and shield of the user. The limit to the "Possession" is never-ending, expanding from weapons, objects to other mages' Magic.