Here's another chapter. So this will be mostly in Kera's point of view. We will be following her and her crazy adventures with the group. The first few chapters will be about when they were kids and then it'll flow into the story when Lucy joins.
So enjoy!
The next day arrived and Kera was allowed to leave the infirmary. Since then she hasn't said a word at all again. Gray and Natsu pulled her out of the room since they wanted to get to know her but she simply decided to just stay away from them. The last people she let close hurt her and she really didn't want that to happen again.
So now, a few days later, she was sitting at a table with some food that she was trying to eat with her left hand. She was right handed but her right arm was in a sling so she couldn't use it. Using her left arm was frustrating her slightly. But of course she didn't show it.
Grabbing a piece of bread with her left hand she started to eat. Her right arm was bugging her but she guessed it was normal. Since she was out of the bed she noticed something. There was another girl that was sitting mostly alone. The girl had scarlet red hair and was wearing what seemed to be armor and a skirt.
What was noticeable though was the eye patch over her right eye.
Maybe she was the girl that Gray was talking about. She saw how she humiliated Gray in front of the whole guild. She could never do something like that. She was just weak… she couldn't do anything…
"Hey Kera, are you alright?" A voice asked her. She turned her head back in front of her to see Natsu sitting there with a worried look on his face.
Kera hung her head. "Yea… fine."
Natsu cocked his head to the side as he sat down. "You know, it's been a few days and you're not making any friends. You're pushing yourself away. Just like Erza."
"Who?" She asked confused.
The young boy nodded towards the red headed girl. "Erza over there, she came three days before you woke up. She almost looked like you with those tattered clothes she was wearing. The only difference was that she wasn't injured… well not that much."
Kera hung her head and looked at her food. "I see…"
"You don't say a lot do you?" Natsu stated with a blank look.
She fell silent again, but only for a few seconds. "I… was taught not to speak…"
"What?" He asked shocked leaning forward. "Who would say that?" He asked getting mad, but noticed that this frightened Kera. Immediately he stopped and sat back down. He probably had a hunch why.
Kera hung her head. "Could… could you please leave?" She asked quietly.
Natsu blinked, confused why she would ask him to leave, but he didn't say anything about it. He simply nodded and stood up leaving her alone. She thanked him quietly knowing that he wouldn't hear it, but what she didn't know was that he did indeed hear it.
The next two days went exactly like every other day. Kera had gotten her guild mark from Fairy Tail for some reason. She wondered why they would want a weakling like her? She didn't even tell them that she was a wizard or not.
She was asked where she wanted it and what color. She showed them her right arm and motioned for the top of her arm and just muttered blue. It was her favorite color after all. It was a strong powerful blue, not too dark and not too bright.
Then the day came when she had to go to the old woman to check on her arm. It was a normal day with Kera just sitting at the side minding her own business when suddenly Master Makarov came to her.
He smiled at her. "Come on Kera, it's time for your checkup with Porlyusica."
Without saying a word the brown haired girl nodded and stood up. Walking out of the guild with the master she noticed the red haired girl standing there with her head hung low and her arms behind her back.
Makarov just smiled. "Alright, Erza, this is Kera, she'll be coming with us since she has a checkup with Porlyusica for her arm. Kera, this is Erza." He announced. The two of them shared a quick glance at each other before looking away again.
The Master smirked. "Alright girls, let's go. She hates it when we're late." He muttered the last part.
It didn't take them long to get to the strange house. Kera didn't say a word and neither did Erza. Makarov sighed as he saw Porlyusica standing there already. "So what is it that you want Makarov?"
He sighed and motioned for Erza. "This is Erza. I want to see if there's anything you can do for her eye."
Sighing Erza took off her eye patch and Kera almost had to gasp. She couldn't believe what happened to her eye. It looked… she shook her head and out of respect she turned away.
Porlyusica knelt down and examined Erza's eye. "Hm… this is hard to fix." She stood back up and Erza put her patch back over her eye.
Makarov glanced at Porlyusica. "Isn't there anything you can do? It's just so sad that her eye has to be so, when her face is just so beautiful." Suddenly he was pulled up by his ear and he started to cry out in pain.
The old woman glared at him. "You're not going to move on her when she gets older are you?"
"Not little old me." He said while playing with his fingers. Rolling her eyes she dropped Makarov to the ground. Turning around she looked at Kera. "I see you're here as well. That's good, at least you listen to my instructions."
Kera nodded silently and the two girls followed Porlyusica into her home. There she told them to sit down. While Porlyusica gathered the ingredients for the recipe to heal Erza's eye, the whole room was filled with silence.
The two girls were sitting next to each other but neither said a word. Kera sometimes fiddled with her sling but didn't do anything else.
It had gone like this for half an hour until Porlyusica had enough. She turned around and shook her head. "You two have to stop this right now."
Both girls looked up with a confused glance. First Porlyusica pointed towards Erza. "I have heard that you haven't tried to make any friends back in that pathetic guild. You're just pushing everyone away."
And then she turned towards Kera. "And you hardly talk at all. You may not be pushing people away but you're not letting in anyone either! Now do me a favor and at least become friends with each other! The two of you don't seem like you're not going to let anyone else in your life."
With that she turned back around and continued with her mixture.
The two girls looked at each other, but Kera turned back down. "I'm sorry…" She whispered.
Erza blinked in confusion. Why was she apologizing? She noticed that the girl was shy and held herself back.
"Okay, I'm going to put a bandage on you now Erza, it's going to stay on for a few minutes. During that time I'm going to check up on Kera."
She nodded and just sat still. When Porlyusica was finished the woman turned around and started to check up on Kera. It was a normal checkup like with a doctor. At first she checked for the other injuries, especially the one across her stomach. There was a light scar that ran across the stomach, but Kera didn't mind.
Next was her arm. Slowly and carefully she took her arm out of the sling. Porlyusica examined her arm. "Does this hurt?" she asked while moving the girls arm and Kera slightly yelped while nodding.
Sighing she nodded. "Alright, well your other injuries have healed. You're arm… not so much. It may take more time than I thought."
"It's okay…" Kera whispered and the old woman raised an eyebrow, but didn't say anything. She started to think. "I could try and bandage your arm with some lizard ointment but I only have one and…"
"No…" Kera stated simply. She knew what it meant. She heard that tone of voice before. The one he used that one time. The tone where you had to choose, but Kera didn't want it. "She needs it more. I don't."
Erza, even though her eyes were covered at the moment, was shocked to hear what Kera said.
Porlyusica nodded. "Alright, now then, you'll have to come back once every week. Also you have to rest your arm. No fighting, you hear me?"
Kera simply nodded and watched the old woman walk back to Erza. Without a warning she removed the bandage from her eyes and let it fall to the ground. Next she gave the red head a mirror.
Erza took it and looked at it. Kera saw her gasp and heard her next words. "I-It's healed."
Porlyusica nodded. "Can you see with it?"
"Yes miss." Erza said still shocked that her eye was back. Kera had to say she looked beautiful, just like a girl should look like.
"Now if the two of you would please leave my house. I really don't like people." Porlyusica said while turning back around for her studies.
Kera stood up with her arm back in the sling. She was about to leave but turned to Erza and saw she was about to cry. "Thank you so much." Erza said, but that's when it happened.
Kera watched how a tear feel from her left eye, but not her right. "Miss?" She asked Porlyusica.
"What is…" She stopped as she turned around and also saw that Erza was crying from her real eye, but not her artificial one. The old woman shook her head. "This can't be, I checked the ingredients, the mixture was right! Maybe there…"
Both Kera and Porlyusica heard a chuckle. Kera looked up and saw Erza smiling. "It's not your fault. It's probably because I already shed so many tears that there aren't any left."
Kera wasn't quite sure how she should take this. She probably couldn't since she was so weak. Who would want someone as weak as her anyway?
And the second chapter is finished! Hope you enjoyed it and don't forget to leave a review!
