May 22nd,
My side still aches when I think of that day. Then my whole body aches all over when the memories of all the painful training come rushing back.
Even when I seat in the guild house laughing and talking with everyone; the pain and sorrow from my past doesn't go away.
But to me that doesn't matter because what has happened in our past is what molds us into who we are today.
That's a lesson I'll never forget.
*four years ago*
"What!?" I sat up rapidly, which I soon realized was a mistake as my head spun around like a running wheel, my vision blurred and a fell back down on top of the comfy backpack that salamander-Natsu?- had put under my head when I was unconscious.
I reached down to my sleepy legs and felt something warm and cozy. I pulled it close to my chin and opened my eyes; I saw a red blanket and the so called Natsu about to answer my 'what?' question.
"Hmm? What do you mean what? Don't you know that guy? His name is Bigbunder, his fat with a huge mustache, his probably you uncle or someth-"
"I don't have any family" I interrupted him and gave him a dead cold stare. He stared back at me with warm ayes,
"I don't have any 'blood' family members either" his voice was warm and not caring. Still I could tell it hurt as his eyes quivered when he said 'blood family'.
I looked down to the soft blanket and sighed,
"I'm sorry, it's just way to mush to take I in, with you and mister bunder and my room being destroyed-" I cut my words as I remembered my room.
I looked tours the horizon and the town light where barely visible. We must be at least four hours away from the town.
"Wait! My room! My stuff!"
I once again sat up rapidly and fell back as my head spun around and my vision blurred. My vision came back to normal as he set me down and tucked me in like a little kid "Don't try to sit up so quickly you have a fever because of all the blood lost" and with those words everything came back to me.
That's right, when they were fighting they smashed threw my window and a shard of glass slammed against my side. Had the glass really gone that deep? I reached and it felt warm but humid.
I jumped as Natsu plopped a bag next to me,
"We can't go back to your apartment that guy might still be there and for some reason he wanted the package-well I mean he wanted you but he didn't know that the package was you- but he wanted it too" he sighed as he grabbed the yellow-ish bag and opened it.
"I took what looked important when I was going through your room-"
"You went through my room!" I interrupted him as those words left his mouth.
He covered his ears at my loud outburst "As I was saying, I took everything that looked important I saw you writing something, I didn't bring it sorry" his words where sincere as he scratched the back of his head.
"It's okay it was something dumb anyways" I waved my hand to show him I didn't care, but then I remembered something.
"Crap!" I sat up ignoring the dizziness that crashed into me. I grabbed the bag and dug trough it in till I found what I was looking for. It was a red bandana, it didn't seem like mush but to me it was the whole world. It spooked me out of my mind when he spoke out of nowhere,
"Oh that? You wouldn't let it go even when you were asleep you put up a good fight, what is it?"
His dark eyes didn't notice that the question might hurt me. Somehow it didn't.
I hugged the bandana and laid down, "my father-well not my real father he was my foster father-he gave it to me but one day he just up and disappeared and I never go anywhere without this".
My eyes started tearing up but I wiped the tears away, "I also promised him I wouldn't cry, I haven't cried seriously in seven years" my last word ended with a smile.
Natsu sat next to me and put his hand on my head
"We all have sorrow in our past, now what do you say we meet up with this Bigbunder and see what his deal is?" Natsu's sentence ended with a toothy grin splattered all over his face. I followed with a smile and nodded.
He started to pick up camp, I stud up to help him but I was stopped by a hand that was on my side. I felt a finger dig into my side and at that second I felt my knees wobble and something dripped all the way down to my ankle. My sight went blurry and all I wanted to do was turn around and kick whoever was behind me but my legs wouldn't listen to me, my voice wouldn't come out and my eyes started to close.
The finger dug deeper into my side-that's when I realized the finger was inside my cut- my voice finally re acted
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Ouch!" I reached for my side and I came across a hand.
I caught the hand in a death grip but it was no use I had no strength.
As soon as Natsu heard my screams he turned around and showed a face of anger "You!" Natsu pointed to whoever was behind me.
A familiar voice came from behind me "Yes it's me salamander, you see their paying me 200 million jewel for the so called package-from what I heard this pretty lady 'is' the package- if their willing to pay so much money she must be something special" the man's words ended with a rough cough.
It's him! The guy who was fighting Natsu!
My pride of actually remembering him quickly faded as the man took the bandana out of my hand sniffed and let me go.
I fell to me knees while holding my side. Natsu ran to me and was surprised at how mush my side was bleeding. I was way too afraid to look; the warm and sticky feeling was enough.
"Hahhaha! The power I weal is called knowing scent, it allows me to see the past of any object I smell and if the object is owned it allows me to see the past of the objects owner" the man laughed manically and continued
"Your past is sure full of sorrow, how can you still manage to put up a smile?" Those words where bitter and harsh. The man smirked as he saw my eyes quiver.
"I'm a mage from Blackskull guild and if you came with me ill erase your past and rewrite it however you want!".
I could feel Natsu's muscles tense in anger next to me and I don't blame him I myself was getting angry but now I'm actually considering going with him.
I mean how do I know salamander isn't the bad guy trying to trick me?
I moved my head in a no sign. I know his not the bad guy, I don't know how but something tells me Natsu is not the bad guy.
"Yeah right like you could do that that!" Natsu snarled at him placing an arm in front of me protectively. The man threw his head back in laughter "Hahahah! Look kid-remember the grand magic games? That guy who used memory make? Well my magic is kind of the same- I can use memory rewrite this magic rewrites the past and changes the present, just like time travel" he smiled as if changing everything was good.
My eyes widened in disbelieve, that's right if he rewrote my past than he could still be here, he could still take care of me, wipe my tears when I cry and making me promise never to cry again. If he were here I could still have someone to call father…..
I looked down at the now red covered floor and covered my face with my blood red hands. I didn't look up when the man spoke to me "I can go back to that day-July seventh seven years ago- the day your father died right in front of you!" I didn't have to see his face to know he was smirking.
I sensed Natsu's head twist my way, "I thought you said your father disappeared you didn't tell me he died?" he soon turned around knowing he asked something he shouldn't had.
Natsu ran tours the man with his fist on fire "Fire dragon iron fi-fi-" he was cut off by a wave of magic.
"Lost magic, MAGIC DRAIN!" with those words Natsu's fire extinguished and he fell to the ground face first.
The man wouldn't stop laughing
"Ha! Your magic is quit filling-my main magic-magic drain drains the magic from my opponent and feed it to me just like food but with magic energy that means that way more magic energy then when you fought me before, but I can't swallow all your magic at once-with a normal mage I could but you're a level six dragon slayer, that's powerful enough to beat the number one person in the ten wizard saints- if I would swallow it all at once it would kill me. Your magic I can sense it is way higher than a level si-" all of a sudden the guy started to choke and pant.
I opened a gap between my fingers to see what was going on and to my surprise Natsu was trying to see what was going on too. The guy was trying to breath but he couldn't as a dark magic cloud surrounded him.
"WH-what is Th-this m-ma-magic its way to ….po-po-powerful I can't drain it!" the guy clenched his head as he screamed. All of a sudden a magic wave flew out of his body and after that Natsu stud up with a toothy grin.
"Guess my magic's back" Natsu cracked his knuckles and ran at him with his fist on fire. He smirked at the guy who could barely stand "Fire dragon iron fist!" Natsu's attack hit him straight on and knocked him in to a tree.
"Come with me! I'll bring your father back!"
"Foster" I interrupted.
"He was not my real father he was my foster father, and there is no way I would ever change my past!"
The guy shaked his head and gave up on the easy side. He grabbed my bandana and threatened me "look girly either you come or I rip this to pieces!" but he didn't even wait for an answer he just ripped on side down about three inches.
I felt like he ripped my heart out of my chest.
Natsu grew a vain of anger on his forehead. Natsu stud in front of me with his whole body crackling with flames "look buddy give her her bandana back or ill toast you alive!" Natsu's flames kept growing. And with that the guy grew angry.
"Fine if you won't come with me ill just rewrite your past so you never met your foster father!" and with that he put the bandana over his left hand and it started glowing.
I sat there wide eyed as my memories from him started to fade. Know I could barely remember him.
I looked up at the sky and screamed in pain. In sync with my scream a wave of magic knocked both Natsu and the guy off their feet.
I was now kneeling on the ground panting heavily. Natsu stud up, took the bandana from the guy's hands and walked over to me.
"Wh-what happened?" my words came in between pants. He grinned than spoke "good news and bad news"
"Bad news is your bandana, it ripped and I can't fix it" he handed me the bandana. I sighed and spoke
"It's okay it's now gone and neither are my memories" I hugged the bandana and continued "but I mean what happened just now" he hesitated but then spoke "the energy within your body connected perfectly with the magic energy within the land-even though it hasn't happened in over 400 years I have read about it- and it allowed you to use magic"
He gave one of his toothy grin and stud up "so how about we go see this mister bunder?" he reached his hand out offering me hand up.
I took it with a smile
"Let's do it!"
*FOUR YEARS LATER*
Memory rewrite and magic drain both are dark magic's I wish to get rid of one day. One day I will rid the world of black magic.
Sincerely,
ELODI 3
