:: Fairy Tail and all it's characters are property of Hiro Mashima::


He had never regretted saving the princes life. Never. As he had said to the elders, who had banished him for it,"Even though it's a human, I can't just ignore a wounded creature." He never could. It was, what many people, Exceed and humans likewise, had accredited him as 'kindness'.

But, what would have happened, if he hadn't met, and saved, Jellal back then? He wouldn't have been banished for one. He would not have felt the Exceeds ways, their haughtiness especially.

Thinking back. He had been different his whole life. Being born in a way larger body than the other Exceeds had made him different and prone to teasing and talking from the start. And his interest im humans just made it worse.

He had joined the royal squad for a reason. Not to gain the trust he had later on, and not to keep the queen save, actually. The humans had worshipped the Exceeds as angels, nobody, not even him had thought they'd try and get the better of the whole race. And regardless how close he had been to the queen, how much trust they had in him, they thought he had betrayed them, by saving a child. A human child, yes, but a child nonetheless. It was something he still couldn't understand.

Well, he had never been the person to look away, when someone was hurt. And if they had banished him, because he had saved something, acting after his principles, he'd rather be banished, than betray himself.

When he looked up to Extalia now, he told himself, it was for the better he had been banished. Well, it was what he liked to think, at least. Because he hadn't been if he had just let the prince be.