Wah... Didn't get as many favorites, follows, and reviews as last time and as much as I was expecting... T^T But I will still do my best and make this story a suspense-filled one to make everyone love it! *-* HUAHAHAHAHAHA!
Thank you so much, IzzyLovesRolu, for reviewing! T^T You were the only reviewer! I'm glad you liked the last chapter. :D Now you're my mega love rival... *0* I think it's Sting, too, so I'm making it as Sting killing Frosch! ;-;
I'm seriously making Frosch die in this chapter (I sound so evil and harsh.. O.O) so... -throws a box of tissues in your face- you may need that. xD
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"Why do we have to come out here again today!?" groans Sting. "We already have enough food that'll last for about a week so whyyy!?" he cries dramatically as he falls to his hands and knees.
"Stop acting like a whiny baby and deal it with," says an annoyed Rogue. "It's not like you don't know that we have to train."
"Yeah," Lucy agrees with a cheerful smile, "Rogue's right. And we barely even defeated those monsters from yesterday. I know there are some even stronger ones, and what if we unfortunately bump into one of them!?"
Rogue nods.
"Yeah, yeah, whatever, I can just take them down with one shot!" Sting bigmouths.
"Sting-kun is the best!" says Lector.
"Fro thinks so, too!" says Frosch.
Rogue sighs. "Cocky bastard..." he huffs.
"Oh come on, Rogue, now you're also acting like a little kid," giggles Lucy teasingly.
Suddenly out of nowhere, a giant bird dives down and scoops up Lector from the ground by his blue vest up into the air.
"E-Eh..?" Lector questions, puzzled at what just happened. The others also took a few seconds to take in what in the world just happened because it was so sudden.
"LECTOR!" they all yell.
"W-Wait, what!? Sting-kun! Help me!" Lector cries as he struggles in the bird's grasp.
"Hurry up, people! That feathered-bastard flew that way!" shouts Sting, running forward as fast as he could.
"Come on," says Rogue, placing Frosch on his shoulder before chasing after Sting with Lucy tailing him close behind.
"Lector..." Frosch sniffles with watery eyes.
"Don't worry, Frosch! I'm sure Lector will be alright," comforts Lucy.
"Nnn." Frosch bobs his head.
They came to stop when they saw two different paths they could take. Now they had to decide which path the bird went.
"Oh great..." groans Sting in annoyance. "No time for this crap!"
"Looks like we'll just have to go separate ways, eh?" asks Rogue.
"Alright! All three of you can take that path-" Sting points to the path on the left "-and I will take that path," he says, pointing to the path on the right.
"Are you going to be okay by yourself?" Lucy asks worriedly. "Why don't Rogue go with you and me and Frosch will go by ourselves?"
"That's too dangerous!" Rogue says.
"Fro wants to go!" exclaims Frosch, running into the path on the right.
"Frosch!" Rogue calls. "Ugh... Sting, you can just take that path with Frosch. We'll take the one on the left like planned."
"Alright, it's settled!" Sting says. "See ya later!" He gives them a quick wave and hurriedly goes after the little green exceed in the pink suit.
"Come on, Lucy, before Lector and that bird gets far," Rogue says softly, a little embarrassed by the fact that he'll have to be with Lucy - alone.
"O-Okay," replies Lucy. He could sense that she was feeling the same way he was.
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"Frosch! Wait up!" Sting calls, but the little exceed just continues running as if it didn't hear him. Darn this little cat. Who knew he'd be such a fast runner?
"Lector!" Frosch cries.
"Frosch! I said wait up!" Sting commands.
"Lector!" Frosch cries again.
Then the gigantic bird from before landed into front of them, causing a whoosh of dust to fly into the air. After the dust cleared, Sting got a better close-up view of the bird.
The bird was a royal blue color with elegant and soft-looking feathers. It's tail consisted of large, elegant dark blue and green feathers with a green feather brushed back on it's head. It was about five Sting's high, which definitely was very tall.
"Arghhh! You..." Sting growls in a low voice. "Where the hell is Lector!? I'm warning you - if you don't want to get hurt then you better hand over Lector right this moment or you'll have to face the Great Sting Eucliffe who will give you no mercy, you feathered-kidnapper of Lector!" Sting points his index finger towards the bird, trying to act like powerful and cool as he can, but...
"Caw! Caw!" was the bird's only reply.
A moment of silence for our dumbfounded warrior...
Sting sweatdrops and drops his hand in frustration. "I see... So you're just a regular over-sized bird, huh?"
Without a warning or sign of any sort, the bird shoots a beam of black light from it's mouth, forming a large, deep crater in ground between Sting and Frosch.
"Okay, I take that back..." Sting says while sweatdropping.
"Fro thinks so, too," whimpers Frosch, putting his paws over his mouth.
The bird delivers another dark attack at them, and while it did, Sting noticed its elegant feathers turn from blue and green to black and its eyes turning from a sapphire-blue to a blood-red.
"What heck...?"
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Meanwhile, Rogue and Lucy were just roaming through a haunted forest. There was a scary tension around them but the awkward tension easily overpowered that. Neither of them really minded the silence and actually enjoyed it at first, but now it was kind of getting awkward and disturbing.
"So, um..." Lucy says, attempting to break the awkwardness.
"So you're Lucy Heartfilia, the daughter of Layla Heartfilia and Jude Heartfilia and the heir to the Heartfilia Konzern, correct?" Rogue asks, not looking at her. It wasn't really much of a question since Rogue already knew she is but he didn't have anything else to say.
"Mm." Lucy nods. "I've heard that you're father was Skiadrum."
"Yeah," replies Rogue. "He was a great father and it was very hard for me to kill him."
"I understand," says Lucy, closing her eyes. "Do you like books?" was the random question Lucy asks.
"Yes, I do. But I don't really read a lot due to training and lack of money for Sting and I's apartment rent."
"Well, you don't have to worry about apartment rent anymore," Lucy laughs halfheartedly.
No reply.
"Uh... Heheheh..." Lucy laughs nervously before turning her attention back to the road. "Why did you let Frosch go with Sting?"
This caught Rogue's attention but he still didn't look at her. "What do you mean?"
"You know what I mean!" Lucy yells as her attention turns back to Rogue. "I noticed you have been quite distant with Frosch lately! Why is that!?"
"Well..." he hesitantly starts. "I've heard about how Frosch was going to die...in a year..." His bangs shadow his eyes, making it hard for Lucy to read his expression, not that it wasn't already hard enough. "I was afraid that I would be the cause of his death," he continues darkly, "that's why I tried keeping my distance."
Lucy was taken back by the response. How would he be the reason? And more, how did he know about this? "H-How did you know?"
"I talked to my future self...and he told me," Rogue replies.
He met his future self!? Lucy screams inside her head.
"So, is it true? That Frosch will die?"
"We don't know," Lucy answers honestly. "Future Rogue claims that Frosch does but we don't know if it's true or not. But I know one thing..." Rogue finally directs his full attention to her, waiting for her reply. "You're not the reason of it," she says with an assuring and serious look.
Rogue turns away from her and takes a deep breath. "Yeah...I guess..."
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"Who the hell are you?" asks Sting. It sounded more like a demand than a question. Sting's expression has quickly changed from a shocked one to a serious one.
"I am known as the Black Bird, Syria," the bird introduces herself in a surprisingly, soothe goddess-like voice.
"I didn't mean an introduction! Where the hell is Lector and why the hell did you take him, you feathered-bastard!?" Sting yells at him.
"Oh, you mean that feisty little cat? Why, he is right here," replies Syria, revealing Lector from behind one of her wings.
"St-Sting-kun..." shivers Lector.
"Lector!" Sting shouts. "Give Lector back to me!"
"I can't just simply hand the hostage over to you, child," says Syria.
"Damn you, bird!"
"It is also against my wishes to have this innocent cat like this and to have to cause you trouble. But if that's what it takes to save my sister from Motherglare then I won't hesitate!
"Motherglare..?" Sting questions, slightly confused.
"That dragon Motherglare has taken my sister, Symphia, and if I want her back then I'll have to do this," explains Syria determinedly. "If you want this cat back then you must kill that other cat - the one beside you."
"The one...beside me...?" says Sting as he slowly and nervously turns his head to face a teary-eyed Frosch.
"Sting..?" says Frosch.
"I-I can't do that!" yells Sting. "That's just insane! I would never hurt my partner's best friend! Frosch is my friend, too, but he means a lot to Rogue! I can't just do that! I can't!"
"Well, then. Your little cat's life wouldn't be kept then..." threatens Syria.
Sting eye widen and mind goes blank.
What should he do? Should he kill Frosch? If he doesn't then that stupid bird will kill Lector! But if he kills Frosch then who knows how Rogue kill take the news and who knows what he'll do to him!?
His eyes to from Lector to Frosch. Lector to Frosch. Lector to Frosch. Of course Lector is a more important friend to him than Frosch, but Frosch was also his nakama and friend! He can't do it!
Then finally, he came to a decision.
"I won't do it," says Sting darkly. "If I can't just simply go back with both of them alive then I'll just have to fight for it to happen!" He activates into his Dragon Force mode, knowing that this bastard won't be very easy. Yes, he's not as dumb as Natsu. He has a brain, and he uses it. "White Dragon's Holy Breath!" he attacks. This attack was the same as White Dragon's Roar but stronger.
"A White Dragon Slayer? Sounds interesting," Syria muses.
Sting ignores her comment and continues to throw all the attacks he can on her, but she ends up dodging all of them. "GRRRR!" growls Sting furiously. "I've had enough of this bullshit! Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Holy Nova!"
"Hmm?" Syria shields herself with her wings...and blocks it. Holy Nova was Sting's most powerful attack, and for Syria to just block it that easily without making even a scratch on her was amazing!
Sting gapes. Grr... If it continues like this then I'll use up all my magic power and that feathered-bastard would just keep dodging it! Sting thinks. "Holy Ray!" A light generates between his hands and creates a large sphere, which fires multiple white rays at Syria.
Due to the large number of rays fired at her, it was hard to dodge all of them so she decides to show him what she is really made of. "Dark Windmill Slash!" she says, sharply flapping her wings once, creating a black boomerang-like attack towards him.
Sting could feel the high level of power in that attack. There was no way he was going to do it if he didn't use that attack. He positions his hands stretched out on either side of him, his palm facing up. "Holy Dragon's Forbidden Spell: HOLY CIRCLE RAAAAAGGEE!" Sting yells. A large magic circle surrounds him, and blinding white light shoots out from the parts the magic circle has conquered. It grows larger, and larger, and larger.
"Sting!" calls a frightened and crying Frosch.
"Sting-kun! You can't use that!" screams Lector. "You may not be able to live after using that spell!"
Syria was completely by the outburst. "What!?"
"GAHHHHHHHH!" yells Sting, trying his best to endure the pain. After he really couldn't take anymore pain, his palms immediately make contract with the ground, and the light becomes even more blinding and brighter before it was disappeared in one flash.
Sting slowly opens his eyes again to meet the blue sky. He was panting - hard. That forbidden spell took up all of his magic power. But did he get that bird away? Did he...win?
"Sting-kun!" yells an all-too-familiar voice.
"Ah! L-Lector!" Sting yells back, sitting back up and forgetting all the pain in his body for a moment. Lector leaps into his arms, and the two share a tight embrace. "I-I'm so glad you're okay!" Sting sniffles.
"Me, too."
"Where's Frosch?" Sting suddenly asks.
"Frosch..?" questions Lector. "Ahh! Frosch!"
"Frosch! Frosch! Frosch!" Sting shouts as he stand back up on his feet. "Oh god, why do I have a bad feeling about this?"
"Sting-kun, do you think Frosch will be alright?" says Lector worriedly.
"O-Of course," replies Sting, who was unsure himself.
They continue searching and searching until...
"STING-KUN! STING-KUN! FROSCH IS HERE! FROSCH IS HERE! HURRY! HURRY! HURRYYY!" Sting hears Lector yell at the top of his lungs. He was slightly confused by the rash tone of Lector's voice but still jogs over towards Lector.
"What is it, Le-" Sting's eyes go blank when they meet the sight of a blood-drenched Frosch, laying there lifelessly. "FROSCH!" He quickly squats down next to Frosch and cradles him in his arms. "FROSCH! FROSCH! IT'S NOT TIME TO BE PLAYING GAMES RIGHT NOW! FROSCH!"
Frosch's eyes weakly flutter open. "S-Sting..?"
"Frosch!" Sting says, slightly relieved.
"I-Is Fro going t-to die..?" Frosch asks weakly. "Fro can't move. Fro feels hurt."
"Of course you're not going to die! W-We'll get you all bandaged up once we get back to the cave, okay!?" Sting says in his most assuring voice.
"I-I wanna see Rogue..." sniffles Frosch. "I wanna see R-Rogue..."
Did Frosch just talk in first-person!? Well, it's not a time to be thinking of these kinds of stuff. He needed to quickly find Rogue and Lucy and get back to the cave!
"Hey, Rogue, did you hear something?" they hear a female voice ask.
"Mm, I heard with my dragon slaying hearing," replies a male voice.
"I-It's Rogue and Lucy!" panics Sting.
He was correct. It was Rogue and Lucy. They push their way pass trees before coming into view.
"Sting, Lector!" exclaims Lucy happily, as she tails behind Rogue towards their direction.
"Sting, where's-" Rogue had the same reaction as Sting when he saw the state Frosch was in, except worst. It looked like Rogue was breaking down. Even though he was silent, his expression says it all. "F-Frosch..? FROSCH!" he yells as he takes Frosch in his arms. He didn't care if he was getting his clothes dirty. Frosch was much more important than that! "Frosch, what happened!?"
"Fro d-doesn't know," Frosch answers. "Fro is happy to see Rogue again."
"Frosch, are you alright!? How are you feeling!?"
"Fro doesn't know...anything," he says, as his eye lids begin to close.
"Hurry! Get back to the cave immediately!" Sting orders. Everyone runs as fast as they could back to the cave with Frosch weakly in Rogue's arms, wrapped in his cape.
"Y-You're going to be j-just fine, Frosch," Rogue pants.
"Fro..." Frosch starts.
"Frosch, d-don't talk," he orders.
"F-Fro...thinks so, too," were Frosch's last words before his eyes shut and his body relaxes.
"Frosch!?" Rogue shouts, stopping on his track, making everyone else stop, too. "Frosch! Don't scare me like this! Frosch! Frosch! F-Frosch..?" Tears gather in his eyes and fall freely onto Frosch's lifeless body. Rogue slumps to his knees and hugs Frosch close to him. "Frosch... FROSCHHH!"
Lucy cries with her hands over her face. Lector cries onto Sting's shoulder. And as for Sting... He couldn't help but feel guilty. Frosch died because of his spell. He wasn't even thinking before he used it. All he thought about at that time was saving Lector and totally forgot about his other friend.
"I-I'm so sorry, Rogue," Sting silently cries. "I-I was the one who killed Frosch. It's all my fault!"
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Well, was it sad enough..? ^.^' I just realized I'm horrible at writing these kinds of scenes so I don't think you'll be needing that. -takes back box of tissues- This chapter was 1000 words longer than the last two ones! 0_0
I hope this chapter wasn't too boring, everyone.. T^T It was so sad writing Frosch's death and I ALMOST cried.
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