Chapter Two

What is this? What strange mortals would dare to drag me through the dirt? Once I get out of this, I swear I will seriously consider beating them up after I run far, far away.

I have been told that mortals are greedy and do strange things to each other, we have order up in Zion, but down here, not so much. I pouted, dirt was getting in my wings, and these stupid mortals kept laughing with each other and pouring some strange liquid down their throats.

For some reason whenever I saw them do this, I felt my throat feel dry and it had no relief whenever I swallowed. What is this strange feeling? I do not understand why I feel this way, for I have never felt this way before.

Suddenly they dropped the ropes containing me, and stood in front of a large mouth of a cave. For some reason I felt a little uneasy, for it was dark in the cave, and I have never been somewhere as creepy as this cave.

"Take her to the boss and get her fixed up so she is ready to work," the boss of the three men said.

The two minions nodded their heads, before I was freed of the ropes and chains that trapped me. They stood me up, before snapping some weird device around my two wrists. The wicked grin on their faces, it scared the living daylights out of me, what kind of strange things were these mortals thinking of doing to me?

"With that device you will be unable to use magic, so your wings should disappear," the shorter man said. I grinned, when his face froze, yeah my wings aren't going anywhere buddy.

I was shoved into the cave, I almost lost my footing from the force. I rolled my eyes, before walking down a dark tunnel being lit by torches with flames. I growled angrily, when several men with whips started licking their lips when they saw me, I had NO idea what it meant but it was starting to bug me.

The cave smelled like burning metal and gross odor, probably coming from the men who haven't bathed in forever. I flinched when a giant open room came into view, men were standing on wooden outposts, watching people run around with wagons full of coal and other ores.

I saw someone collapse in front of me moaning painfully, their hands were raw and they were dirty, tiny droplets of water glistened on their skin, along with a strong odor coming from their bodies.

I was disgusted by this man, he needed to shower, I do not understand why he kept trying to get up when he clearly couldn't, he should just stop. I almost screamed when a man jumped from his post and started whipping the man with his whip several times before the man finally got up.

I was grabbed by my arms by dirty hands, and taken even deeper into the cave. After a long walk I was thrown into a small room with metal bars decorating the exit, I was assuming this was a dungeon of some sort, we had some in Zion, couldn't tell you how many times I was in one, HA.

I felt better being in a cell, it was something I was used to, but something I was not used to was an outfit on the floor. If I were to put it on it would expose many parts of my body, I mean I didn't care about that, what I cared about was that they were trying to get me to change out of my sacred dress!

"Go ahead and put that outfit on, you will need it for when you meet Gargrid the Iron Fist," a man with an eye patch said.

Gargrid the Iron Fist, that sounds like a strange name what if I had a name like that, Naomi the Iron Fist, it's kind of fitting isn't it? The men saw me giggling, and they each gave me a strange look.

"Look guys, this is a really sacred dress, and I am not putting on whatever that outfit is, because my kind always wears the clothing I have on," I said.

The men smiled at each other, before pulling out a whip and licking their lips. I struggled when the device on my wrists started getting tighter, to where it started to feel strange, it started to hurt!

"The boss said if anyone refused to wear the outfit, they would have to meet him wearing nothing at all," one of the men said.

I shrugged, guess I was going naked huh. I didn't understand how being naked was worse than wearing the outfit, my kind walked around naked all the time, they only wore their scared outfits when addressing the Gods, or when attending certain meetings.

I would rather go naked than wear something a mortal gave to me, but when they saw me struggling to take off my dress with the device on my wrist, their mouths dropped open, how strange.

"Y-You are really going to go naked?"

"Yeah, I am actually surprised mortals don't walk around naked, what's up with that?"

I was surprised to see a little bit of red liquid dripping from their nose, but what was strange is that they didn't seem to be hurt.

Suddenly some explosion shook the entire cave, making me fall flat on my face. The men quickly shouted at each other, before running off and disappearing deeper into the cave. I smiled, they were finally gone, and now I just had to get this stupid thing off of my wrists.

I placed my arms on a ledge in the cell, and then put my bare foot on the device, before trying to pull my arms out of the device. More explosions rattled the cave, several screams and shouts could be heard as I screamed in anger when I couldn't pull my arms out of the device.

I slammed my arms on the ledge, I wasn't going to let this chance of being alone go to waste! I quickly stopped when I heard a voice from the dungeon door, as ice started forming from underneath the door. Ice? I have never seen ice form so quickly before.

"Ice make: Lance!" a voice said.

Suddenly the door shattered into a million pieces, as a man stood in the doorway. His spiky black hair was covered in frost, and his dark blue eyes scanned the room, well this was interesting, this was the only mortal I have seen that didn't have as much clothing on as the others. He was extremely muscular, and had a necklace with a cross on it.

The man walked into the dungeon and started freeing some prisoners from the cells. I didn't understand why he didn't notice me right off the bat, I was the one waving my hands around and whistling for him to help me.

Once the others were free he looked at me, before telling me to put my arms out. I was shocked to see him freeze the device on my wrists, before it fell apart and I was freed.

"Listen my guild is here to save everyone in here, so go and wait with everyone else while we take care of the people in charge of this place, we may need your help so stay with the others," he said.

Um excuse me? He expected me to wait? Uh, heck no, I am getting my ass out of here thank you very much.

I stretched out my wings, making the man stumble back in surprise. I pushed the door open, before shoving the man out of the way and running towards the center of the cave.

"W-Wait, it's not safe, WAIT," the man said. I laughed, now that I was free I could finally get out of this stupid cave. I flapped my wings and I was up in the air, flying over the fire and swords flying in the air from some strange mortals fighting against the people keeping us in the cave.

I was so fascinated I decided to land on a tall wooden outpost and watch, I have never seen mortals fight this way before, I always thought they were weak and stupid, but apparently this was a different earth, one I wasn't familiar with.

"Natsu quit blowing everything up, you are going to make the cave collapse!" a red-headed women said. I laughed when the red-headed women slapped the man on the back of his head, mortals are entertaining, but now that I was free, I will just kill them all, they were stupid and no one in Zion cares for them anyways.

I needed to test out if I still had my powers, and this was the perfect opportunity to do so. The Gods got mad at me for blowing up their main hall? Just wait until I blow up this entire cave with everyone in it, I am already banished what were they going to do?

I stood up and grinned, before putting my hand out and letting a giant beam of energy come out of my hand. The beam of energy went straight towards the mortals fighting, before exploding and creating a giant ball of light that melted everything it touched.

I laughed hysterically, as the victims of my explosion tried crawling away from the light. I put out my hand again, as the whole cave shook and another explosion destroyed the cave wall, making rocks fall and they crushed people trying to run away.

I was having so much fun, as I watched the mortals cover their wounds as they tried to figure out where the blast was coming from. Soon enough the cave started to collapse, and I casually strolled out of the cave, as heavy rocks fell from the ceiling, I completely forgot that I was still in the cave when I was destroying it, and I screamed in pain as a rock pinned my wing to the ground.

Damn it! I tried pulling my wing out from the rock but it wouldn't budge. I couldn't blow the rock up, unless I wanted to get caught in the explosion. The cave shook and crumbled, and I suddenly realized if I didn't get out soon I would be buried alive.

Many injured victims ran from the cave, each one trying to help someone else, I snorted, they would rather help someone else out then save their own lives? I slammed my fist into the boulder, making a tiny crack but other than that it didn't budge. My wing was ripping, I could feel the tendons starting to separate from the weight of the rock and my struggling.

I felt the rock's weight lighten, and I quickly pulled my wing out from under it, before looking to see the same man who freed me from my cell picking up the rock.

"Get out of here, this cave is going to collapse-" he was stopped as a wooden outpost collapsed and crashed on him. The boulder he was holding fell on his leg, and the impact of the wooden outpost, knocked him out. The cave would collapse any moment, and if he didn't leave he would die a very painful death.

Oh well.

I shrugged my shoulders too bad for him, well I probably shouldn't leave here without someone protecting me though. I looked back at the knocked out mortal, before pulling him out of the wreckage and using him as a shield against any falling rocks.

He was already half dead anyways, a few more rocks would probably kill him, but I mean, someone had to make the sacrifice so I could stay safe.

I carried him on my back, as several rocks fell on his body, I smiled, this was the perfect plan, and now I wouldn't have to worry about being knocked out anytime soon. Suddenly I could see the outside of the cave, it looked like everyone made it out safely, much to my disappointment.

Someone saw me carrying the man, and three people ran over to me, one had pink spiky hair, and a strange scarf, another one had blond hair and brown eyes, the last one was a red head with a scary expression on her face.

"Gray! You saved him! Thank you so much!" the blond said. Wait SAVED? That was the complete opposite of what I was trying to do. The pink haired man took the one named Gray off of my shoulders, before Gray opened his eyes and groaned.

"Gray are you alright," the red-headed girl said. Gray groaned again before rubbing his head, the pink haired boy laughed at him, but not before Gray tried to hit him over the head.

"Yeah, but I have had better days," Gray said with a smile.

I let them reunite with each other, but I had no interest in any of it, I started to walk away when someone ran over to me and put their hand on my shoulder.

"Hey where are you going you are hurt, and the least we can do is help you after you saved our teammate Gray," the blond said. I growled, I was fine, they needed to leave me alone, I freaking hated mortals.

I gave the blond a dirty look as I opened my wings, she seemed shocked by my huge wings, but I didn't really care.

I tried to fly off, but the pain in my wing made me crash into the ground just a few feet away from the blond. She gasped and ran over to me, helping me up, but I shoved her away, I WAS FINE.

"Look, I am fine and I don't need your help, I don't need anyone's help," I said.

"My name is Lucy Heartfilia and I am from Fairytail, you can trust me," she said. I blinked, did she just say Lucy Heartfilia? Wow luck was definitely on my side today! But wasn't I supposed to protect her if I wanted to go back home?

I couldn't believe how easily I found my target, perhaps someone in Zion was helping me after all. The girl seemed pretty weak, she didn't have a mean bone in her body, and the way she looked at me with concern, it was freaking disgusting.

I pondered for a second, all I had to do was protect her, but I had no idea how long I was supposed to do so. Conos said a great evil was stirring in this world, and I am assuming Lucy Heartfilia has something to do with it. Perhaps I just needed to befriend her and find out some information, but that meant I needed to play nice.

I quickly put on a smile, making Lucy ease up a little, I had a killer smile when I was faking it, and I tricked so many angels with it, making my trials usually end way better than usual.

"You are right, I can trust you, I am sorry for my rude introduction, I am just in pain from my wounds," I said sweetly.

Lucy seemed to have a look of pain in her eyes when she saw my wing, when she was examining it, I wanted to punch her in the face, but I bit my cheek and allowed her to look at it.

"I have never seen a human with wings before, where are you from?"

I felt the blood run from my face, UMM, what on earth was I supposed to say? Perhaps I should just pretend I have amnesia, no, that will never work, perhaps I should just make up a village, no, then they will try to find it.

"Lucy it is rude to ask people where they are from," the scary armored wizard said, as she turned to face me. "Besides, she might not want to share."

"Yeah you are right Erza, sorry um, I am sorry but I don't know your name," Lucy said.

Well I could always make up a name, what about Aenta the God Slayer, that sounds pretty cool, and after what the Gods did to me, they better believe I would take on a name like that.

Nah I will just use my actual name, I need to gain their trust, and I will probably forget my fake name and blow my cover. "My name is Naomi, pleased to make your acquaintance," I said with a bow.

"Well hello Naomi, if you would like, we can take you back to our guild and get our friend Wendy to look at your wounds. I don't think taking you to a hospital will work very well, we don't usually see people with wings around here." Lucy said.

A guild? What on earth was a guild? Perhaps if I went with Lucy, I could quickly befriend her and find out who she is, and her past. I mean I wasn't going to protect her with my life or anything, I wanted to get back home, but I didn't want to get back home as a dead angel!

"Sure I wouldn't mind going back with you," I said. Even though I was smiling, I could feel the hate seething through my eyes, her friendliness was just too damn annoying.

"That's great, we have completed our mission, so we should be headed back to the guild soon," Erza said.

I decided to join Erza and Lucy as they collected their reward from their client, who was living in a hut a quick walk away. It was interesting to watch, apparently they were wizards and got paid to beat up people that their client finds annoying.

Soon enough we were on a train, and I was sitting beside a man named Natsu, who seemed to be less intelligent than the others. Erza seemed to be the peacekeeper between Gray and Natsu, because they were always at each other's throats every few minutes, but Lucy seemed to be a different part of the group, she was definitely not as strong as the others, but they still treated her as an equal. I was very confused by this, in Zion every angel had a rank, and I usually made fun of the weaker ones.

"So Naomi, how did you get captured by Gargrid," Gray asked.

"Yeah, and where did you get those cool wings, I want some!" Natsu said. He touched a feather on my wing, making shivers go down my spine, I HATED when people touched my wings.

If I created a tragic back story to my life, they would stop asking questions, I couldn't be rude, or I would drive them away, even though that pink haired wizard keeps annoying me to death.

"Let's just say I was kicked out of my home, and left to survive on my own, and then I got captured, if you don't mind I would like not to talk about it," I said.

I pretended to wipe a tear from my eye, and Erza seemed to feel sorry for me, as her lip quivered.

"We are so sorry, we did not mean to offend you with our questions, if you want you may strike me now," Erza said.

I reached over and slapped Erza in the face, what, she said I could strike her. Everyone's mouth dropped open, as I sat back in my seat with a nice grin on my face.

"Y-You, slapped the great Erza, and she didn't kill you!" Natsu said.

Why were they shocked? I just did what she asked, and everyone seemed absolutely mortified. Erza rubbed her cheek, but didn't do anything about it.

Suddenly the train started moving, and Natsu slumped over holding his stomach. I blinked in surprise, I have never seen a mortal grow as green as he was. Suddenly Natsu fell on my lap, and started making strange sounds.

"Naomi, just a little friendly advice, Natsu gets motion sickness and he might lose his lunch," Lucy said.

I didn't really know what that meant, but I assumed it wasn't good, so I quickly picked him up and let him lean over the edge of the seat we were sharing. Suddenly a loud noise came from my abdomen, I almost jumped when I felt pain from that area.

I was scared, what was wrong with me? My abdomen made the noise again, and I bit my lip, perhaps I was dying from being exposed to this mortal world too long?

"Sounds like you are hungry Naomi," Gray laughed.

Hunger? What was that?

"We will have to get you something to eat, think of it as a thank you for saving Gray," Erza said.

Eat? I felt dizzy and tired, perhaps this was a feeling only mortals felt, it was an awful feeling and I hated it.

I felt exhausted, and I fell over into Gray's lap much to his surprise, making Erza and Lucy laugh as I growled at their annoying laughter.

So this was the girl I was supposed to protect? Why her specifically, what made her so important? Also why did the Gods say I needed to protect her from a great evil, if they were so powerful why couldn't they do it themselves? Why send someone like me to do this? Don't they know how selfish I am?

~End~

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