DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fairy Tail, all characters from Fairy Tail belong to Hiro Mashima.
"Run you stupid, run!", those few words were echoing in her mind while she, a little girl no more than 10 years old was curling behind the trash can in a deserted alley. She was dressed in a blue trash bag, her pretty face was in high contrast with her shaved head.
She loved her hair, but the society have left her no other choice, they were looking for pretty girls for slavery. She was living in this wicked city for whole 10 years. Hades, that's what people living here were calling it, covered in eternal darkness, one of the reason behind it were buildings so high and big that there was no sunlight in this cursed place. That was also the main reason her skin was so pale. And now she was all alone, again.
"Stupid Gajeel-kun!", she was mumbling to herself, through tears.
Gajeel was her childhood friend, son of the miners, he had scary red eyes, long dark hair and metal piercings in his body, but now he was gone forever, they have taken him from her, her one and only friend. He gave up his freedom for her. If only she could see the sun and feel it warm, but in this damn place it sounded like a dream of a madman. No one ever get to the Olympus, that place was too well secured. Rumors said that people there were like demigods, they even say some of them are actually gods and have magical powers. She had also some powers, but they were more like a curse to her, because that constant rain was surrounding her since she could remember.
"Gajeel-kun, you fool!", she screamed, her head hid in her hands.
She had no memories of her family. No, Juvia had no family to begin with, but despite that she was happy. Little girl was living in Hades, probably the worst place in this cursed world, but she had someone that no one over there ever had, a true friend.
"Oi, Juvia stop daydreaming.", Gajeel said. There were in their hideout, because on the Hades' streets you could just get captured and sold as a slave or, what was even worse, raped and killed afterwards, that's why Juvia head was shaved, to do not bring any attention.
"Juvia is sorry Gajeel-kun, are we going for the Trip now?", the Trip was their daily ritual, they needed to find food, it was not an easy task for two little kids, but it was necessary for them in order to survive.
"Yep, but you need to be more careful. I have this weird feeling today.", he said and then grabbed a metal spoon and started to eat it. Juvia could never go over the fact that he somehow possessed Iron Dragon Slayer powers, but her friend never wanted to talk about how or when he managed to do it.
So they went to their standard looking-for-food place, which was the Olympus' dump. It was a place where all the leftovers from Olympus were sent. Juvia was always light-headed, so she was pretending it was some kind of a picnic.
"Would you like some fine bread, Gajeel-kun?", she asked happily, big smile on her pretty face.
"Damn you girl, just hurry up and pick something.", he hurried her while he was watchfully looking around the dump, and in that very moment everything went wrong.
"So I guess we have found ourselves two new slaves, huh?", at those words Gajeel red eyes became wide, in the same time Juvia dropped the basket and was petrified with fear.
"A young boy and girl, it's like hitting the jackpot,", two strangers smiled. Little boy recovered from the initial shock, and rushed at them with his bare fists.
"Juvia run! Go as far as you can, I promise that I will find you." Gajeel yelled to his friend, while he was dodging strangers' attacks.
"N-no, Ju-Juvia can fight too, Juvia wants to help Gajeel-kun!", she yelled, her voice shaking.
And right in that moment one of the slave hunters grabbed Gajeel from behind and immobilized him with some kind of silver wire.
"Now it's your turn, pretty face. I want to have some fun with you. He he he.", Juvia became pale, even paler than her usual self.
"Run you stupid, run!", that were the last word she heard from Gajeel, before she started to run, tears were running down, her cheeks, but she was running, as her friend told her.
"He promised.", a faint smile appeared on her face when she was looking in the Hades black sky, her eyes were still red from crying. Suddenly she felt an arm grabbing her.
"Gotcha! You little bitch, you thought you can get away from us? You and your friend will make fine slaves on our ship.", Juvia was paralyzed with fear so much, that her body won't move even an inch.
"Move you little runt!", he yelled at her, again. Still there was no reaction from the little girl, she felt pain in back of her head and her whole world went blurry, a few moments later she was unconscious.
"Stupid brat, look what you made me to do."
There was fire everywhere, burned bodies on the streets, it was like a bloody carnage, the smell of decay was hanging in the air.
"So they were able to finally break the city defenses, huh?", a woman said to herself, she was looking of what was left of the outer district of Olympus. Captain of the 7th Demi-corps squad, Ur Milkovich, she was wearing blue jeans and black, leather jacket with big roses as an emblem on its back and smaller one on her right shoulder.
"Damn those cursed demons from Hades.", she said out loud, when suddenly she noticed a little boy, lying under the debris, she instantly rushed towards him.
"Hey! Are you okay, boy?", there was no answer from him, his eyes were empty and he just keep mumbling one word "Deliora...".
"Can I finish the dinner later, mom?", little, raven haired boy asked.
"Na-a-a, you know that you must eat all the food, honey", she said with care in her voice.
"But mooooooooooooom.", Gray was relentless.
"No excuses!", his mom said more firmly this time.
"Nyaaaaagh, ok.", small boy said resigned.
"He is a really stubborn kid.", Gray's father said, a big smile spread across his face, he was a handsome man, his hair was raven black just like his son's, but they were swept-back, he also had cross-like earrings and a breastplate.
"You were no better when you were younger, Silver-sama.", woman said with joy.
"I said you a dozen times that I don' really like this -sama thing.", father stated bluntly.
"Oooooooooh really, Silver-sama?", she was trying to irritate her husband, that was her favorite thing to do.
"Ok I finished, can me and dad play outside now?", boy asked.
"Yes, but try not to get too dirty this time.", Silver's wife said with care.
"Yes! It's play time!" Silver and Gray yelled in unison.
They were playing ice hockey, Silver was the captain of the Olympus Defensive Garrison and as an ice demigod he had ice powers, so there was always plenty of snow and ice in their huge backyard, despite the fact that in Olympus there was never such thing as winter. Silver was absorbed with the game, when suddenly Gray asked a rather unusual question.
"Where did that smoke came from, dad?", little Gray asked pointing with his finger at the big dark cloud. In a second his father's face become dead serious.
"Go to your room and do your homework, son", Silver said, his eyes, full of concern, were set on the main entrance to the city.
" But I don't want to!", Gray responded bluntly.
"I said now!", boy have never seen his father so serious before, so he practically run to his room in an instant.
After ten minutes, he hear a loud crash, it felt like an earthquake, he tried to get out of his room, but the doors were somehow locked. There was another crash, which made him even more nervous. In that very moment he heard his mother voice coming from the other side of the door.
"Gray darling, you can't leave this room, promise me that you will not leave this room, no matter what.", she said, her voice was faint.
"Mom, I'm scared, what's happening?", boy was confused, the booming sound was getting louder and louder, as if it was moving closer to their house.
"Promise me that you won't leave this room", his mother repeated.
"I... I promise, mom", he said, his voice was shaking.
"Gray, honey..., I wish... I wish I could be there with you and give you a goodbye kiss.", his mother said, tears were running down her cheeks. He could hear her crying which made him scared, like he was never before in his life.
"Mom?", he asked one last time before he saw it, big dreadful eye was watching him through his window. He was paralyzed with fear, the last thing he saw that day was a devilish grin on the monster's face, he recognized it from his father's book, the one that he was never supposed to read, what he actually did a few times, but only when his parent were away, that book was about demon slaying and the monster's name was Deliora.
Ur was scanning the ruins of the house, that strange little boy passed out so she called and emergency squad, when they arrived they took him to the hospital.
"Where that little brat has learned about Deliora... , huh?",she spotted a woman under the debris. She walked over there slowly, because she was unable to sense any signs of life coming from there. When she removed the debris covering the corpse, her eyes saw a massacred female body, but there was something in her hand, it was a silver cross-like necklace.
I decided to relaunch my old fic(90k+), but I desperately need a Beta/Proofreader. If you're interested in stories like this please send me a message.