Chapter 2: Everything is Gone
Hey guys it's Kookie Thief ! This story is gonna be short and sorta ignores the actually FT timeline. I'm looking forward to writing this and I'm super pumped ! Feel so pumped about this fic and hope that you all like it to. I do have a foreseen ending planned out and as of now the fic is only like 10 or less chapters long.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~The Fairy Tail Guild Hall: After the Grand Magic Games~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everything was normal in the guild, a few mages buzzed around the jobs board, but most were still celebrating the return of the lost mages and the victory at the games and over the Eclipse Gate.
"OI! GAJEEL FIGHT ME!" Natsu cried, leaping on a table it point a flaming finger at the long haired man. The dark man looked up at the flaming teen and smirked.
"Why should I? I'll just kick your ass." The garnet eyed man shifted his gaze down to the little blue haired woman reading in the seat across from him. She was completely absorbed in her book, not even glancing up. Gajeel made a small huffing sound.
"Plus I'm not in the mood right now ok?" The older man looked slightly dejected as he turned back to gaze into his beer. Lily make a small guffawing sound and Gajeel growled lightly.
"I apologize but it is really quite entertaining to see how silly you act around Ms. Levy." Gajeel glanced at Levy, a slightly panicked look on his face, when he realized she wasn't paying attention he just grunted and shot his friend a hard warning glare that screamed 'shut up cat.'
Suddenly right in the center of the room, between where Lucy was trying to pull a shouting Natsu off the table and where Levy, Gajeel and Lily sat. There was a huge flash of light and a clap of deafening thunder. Everyone in the guild jumped, Levy, Wendy, Lucy and a few others screamed. Then the bright light faded and a girl, about Gajeel's age fell from the sky. Her bright orange hair was smeared with blood and dirt, she crashed to the ground with a sickening thud. Blood oozed off of her pale smooth skin onto the floor. Natsu and Wendy were the first to the strange red head's side. They gazed down at her face, her orange blood soaked hair splayed around her like flames, her face was smeared with blood and soot. She was small, maybe a little bit taller then Levy, but muscular. Wendy gasped when she realized that the girl wasn't just covered in blood, she was bleeding. The mysterious visitor wore crude leather armour over her chest and stomach, it was torn open and a huge gash on her stomach was slowly leaking small amounts of blood. Her left arm had several holes in it, spaced a lot like a large bite mark. And there seemed to be something hard and shimmering pressing into the wounds, blood flowed freely onto the floor.
"She reeks like dragon." Natsu said, warily gazing at the girl. Gajeel grunted in agreement.
"I smell it too but I don't care. She's hurt and I need to help her." Wendy dropped down to her knees beside the girl, just then, her eyes flew open. Violet purple ords with a slit dragon's pupil gazed up at the three dragon slayers.
"Where are my companions." Her voice was scratchy and dry, like she hadn't had enough to drink in a long time.
"What companions?" Natsu asked confused. The girl sniffed and her slit pupils got very thin very fast. Panic evident in her face. She bolted upright.
"No you can't!" Wendy cried holding up her hands to try and stop the blood soaked girl. The girl shoved Wendy out of the way and shot to her feet. When Wendy tried to stop her again she shoved the small healer aside, smearing her with blood. The unknown girl sprinted for the door and crashed out into the sunlight.
"DARK! LESLIE! VINNIE! GREGERY! WHERE ARE YOU?" The dragon slayers followed the girl out into the courtyard. Gajeel seemed very wary of the girl currently shouting and dripping blood, Natsu continued to sniff the air tentatively and Wendy was lightly flinching every time the girl's blood dripped onto the flagstones. The girl whipped around to face the dragons slayers,
"Where are they?" she stood in the center of the courtyard, feet braced, fists clenched.
"Who?" Natsu asked, just then Happy fluttered over to land in Natsu's hair.
"The people I brought with me." Her voice rumbled with a half hearted growl.
"You didn't bring anyone with you." Charle said, standing beside Wendy, arms crossed, nose turned up. The girl curled up her lip, revealing razor sharp fangs, much like Natsu's.
"I brought four other people with me if you're hiding them…" She let her sentence trail off, but how she said it, the threat was received.
"Why would we separate you from your companions? We don't even know how you came to be here." Lily intoned hovering just above Gajeel's shoulder. The girl whipped around again and began to frantically call out for her companions. after a moment she glanced over her shoulder. The dragon slayers and their exceed were all standing in the doorway watching her. A few curious faces peered out of the doorway of the hall.
"Cover your ears." She ordered. Gajeel raised an eyebrow, Wendy raised her hands to her ears and Natsu asked,
"Why?" The girl's pupils dilated even more and a deep growl echoed across the courtyard. It was deeper and much more menacing than any human growl. Natsu slowly raised his hands and covered his ears looking a bit sheepish. Happy and Charle copied their friends. The girl turned her eye on Gajeel, who stood arms crossed eyebrow raised. Lily had a much similar posture as he hovered over the dragon slayer's shoulder. Her visible eye narrowed and a small smile tugged at the corner of her mouth.
"Alright big man, you wanna listen, then listen." She turned back to face the main entrance, she took a deep breath, sucking air in like she wanted to inflate. Then after holding her breath for a second, she roared. It was an ear splitting sound that seemed to boom out into the world like an explosion. It was deep and high at the same time. It shrilled out, shaking the rafters of the hall. Gajeel and Lily both slapped their hands over their ears, wincing as the sound rent the air. After what felt like an eternity the sound faded and then ceased. The girl swayed then collapsed, her chest rose and fell in desperate gasps. Wendy raced to her side, hands glowing with healing magic. She was conscious, barely, her eyes were half lidded and glazed over from pain and blood loss.
"You" Wendy started to say something but the girl growled again and Wendy clamped her mouth shut. The young blue haired girl silently reached down and began to pull the blood soaked leather away from the gash in the girl's stomach. She made a pained hissing sound. Members of the guild started to slowly trickle out into the courtyard, apprehension and curiosity. The girl seemed frantic, she didn't move but her violet eyes were flashing back and forth,
"I can't hear them." She looked past Wendy to meet Gajeel's eyes. Gajeel's garnet eyes held steady, and then the girl seemed to calm significantly, like she had made a decision. She slowly sat up, ignoring Wendy's many protests and threats. She swayed on her feet, obviously very unstable.
"How do I get to the East Temple from here?" The girl, stopped swaying, her solid resolve apparent in her stoic stance.
"East Temple?" Lucy asked, peering at the girl over Natsu's shoulder.
"Yes, the East Temple, I need to go back, we were under attack."
"The East Temple was destroyed centuries ago." Levy said, tentatively making her way toward the girl from around Gajeel.
"What?" She turned her fierce eyes on Levy, rage lacing her voice.
"I read about it, the ruins are in the mountains south of here." The blue haired girl pointed over her shoulder. She studied the panicking stranger with a gleam of deep thought in her eyes. The girl raised her eyes to gaze at the mountains that peaked over the horizon. Panic was obviously pushing her body much father than she could go. She took a step forward, and fell. Wendy reached over and brought her hand toward the girl's face, her hand glowing with magic. The girl growled at the young healer. She slowly forced her self to to her feet, swaying and gasping for breath.
"Star Dragon's Galaxy Wings." Her voice was dry and cracking. And despite her pitiful appearance all the mages in the courtyard felt a great magic unfurl from her. Then there was a loud popping sound and two great wings grew from the girl's back. Each wing was as wide as Gajeel was tall. Black as night, with iridescent scales that glimmered and shimmered at random places along the thin spines that supported the wings. She staggered dangerously to the side, the wings hanging limp and useless behind her. She righted herself, shaking her head and slowly, painfully, brought her wings up. She took off with a sudden flap. Her flight was wobbly, but she slowly flew over the courtyard. She slowly and unsteadily made her way over the roof of the guild. She wobbled in her flight.
"Happy! Go after her!" Natsu's voice had a strange tone to it, like he wasn't sure how to feel about this strange violet eyed girl.
"Aye Sir!" The little blue exceed grabbed onto his pink haired friend and glided up after the girl. Lily looked at Gajeel, needing only to meet his garnet eyes for half a second before he knew that they would be following as well. The two dark haired fighters were burning with the same curiosity. After Gajeel took off Wendy and Charle had a five second fight. Wendy pleaded with the white exceed with her eyes, begging to follow after, the little cat girl flatly refusing and then caving under Wendy's puppy beg eyes. The three exceeds followed after the bobbing weaving, surprisingly fast winged girl.
Pixie's POV
I was pushing myself too hard and I knew it. My arm was dead, her back wasn't sitting inside me right. My scales burned and tingled in all the wrong places. But I pushed, I kept flapping. I felt my breathing growing more and more ragged, panic racing through me, pushing the miniscule amount of magic I had left along. I recognized this mountain side. But the guard house was gone, so was the village. I pushed faster. I smelled the three people from the strange building following her, but I didn't care. I sniffed, hoping, idiotically for the smell of dragon, or blood, or something. To indicate that the blue haired girl had been lying.
Then I saw it. The empty shell of her old home. There was nothing left. only the North wall was recognizable. It was a mess of fallen rock and growing moss. I felt my heart give for half a second. My magic wavered, my wings buckling. I fell, my mind racing as fast as the wind past my ears. I managed to catch myself, hissing in pain as my wings jerked my back. I forced myself to keep flying, the pain was lost in the waves of confusion and panic racing through me. I made it to the wall. Not far from where we had last been together. The Quartet. My family. My wings faded away as my feet hit the crumbling ground. The pain lightened a little as the thin membranes dissolved from my back. I scrambled over the stones, I felt stone tear at my flesh, but I wasn't able to feel anymore pain than I already was. I made it to the spot. And there was a boulder. I felt like my heart would explode. Panic. Fear. I saw Leslie's smiling face, Vinnie, Gregory. Dark. They swam before my mind's eye as I stared at the spot where I had left them. And that thought. That was what broke me. I left them. I felt a wave of guilt. But I beat it back. They could have survived! The lie echoed in my mind, my pain stricken, exhaustion riddled mind. They could be! I raced to the boulder, grabbing onto the bottom. I pulled and yanked and tore at the unforgiving stone. Finally, after what felt like hours of tearing at the rock, it shifted. My bloodied fingertips shook as they moved to touch the damning proof. They were dead. All of them. And I could never fix it. I touched the familiar pendants, my heart seeming to jump and pound in erratic shocking
ays. Dark's pale blue aquamarine. Gregory's sharp edged coal. Vinnie's circle of smoothed wood. And Leslie's emerald. I picked them up. Not realizing. Not accepting. Dead. all of them. Gone. My family. My sister. My lover. My bestfriend. My future brother in law. All of them gone. Dead.
The best way to describe what happened was that the mountainside exploded. Gajeel, Natsu, Wendy and the exceeds were all blasted back like grass in the wind. Gajeel felt magic like nothing he had ever felt. It was dragon, through and through. Rage and blood lust. Wendy and Charle were shaking. Natsu had a gleam off fear in his eye, but his face was set. Happy was looking at Natsu, not sure how to respond. Gajeel and Lily were like statues. The two experienced fighters knew what this was. A soldier's rage, a fighter's guilt. The three dragon slayers hovered, with their exceed, above the mountain. They watched as magic, pure and raw, ripped apart what was left of the "East Temple." As soon as it started it stopped. The magic was gone, and so were the ruins. Wendy looked ready to run, but she stayed, worried about the fire haired girl's injuries. Natsu stayed, not sure what to do. And Gajeel stayed, his curiosity building with each passing second. The exceeds flew slowly as they made their way to the only place that wasn't destroyed. She laid there. Her fire orange hair splayed out around her. Her hands bloody, her chest barely rising and falling. And in her hand, a set of four pendants. One blue, one black, one wood and one green. When Natsu tried to take them, the little bloody hand clenched down so hard and fast, even Lily jumped. Wendy spent a few hours working on this strange girl, before she finally demanded that they take her back to the guild.
"I don't know who she is, but she's fought a lot of battles. And she's a dragon slayer."
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