Chapter 4: The Chance Encounter
One month later:
He sat there in the shadows as he watched the comings and goings of the members of this dark guild. All of the guild members were unaware that this was most likely going to be their last day alive.
"They all are just acting like as if it is another day." the Salamander thought to himself, and this made him sick. Salamander wanted to see them all frightened and scared for their lives, just knowing that he was out there and would be eventually coming for them.
"I guess I will have to change up my strategy then, since what I have been doing up till now hasn't been working." he thought to himself as he looked at the well-fortified castle that was their guild hall.
"Maybe I should start killing off some of those corrupt Rune Knights and employees of the Council, and expose them for their crimes. That will bring more attention to what I am trying to do." thought the Salamander with a sadistic grin on his face that was shaded by his hood. But first he would have to eliminate this dark guild before him, and make them experience a small fraction of what she went through.
Flash back:
"Natsu I can't take this anymore." she whimpered as she lay curled up in the fetal position in the corner of her cage.
"Hey I thought that we agreed you wouldn't talk like that anymore." said Natsu with his usual grin, just trying to cheer up his only friend in this god forsaken hell hole.
"We did Natsu, but I just don't understand how you have been in here for over three years and can still grin like that?" asked the lady as she was now sitting up and looking at him.
"Well I know that it is only a matter of time before my friends come and get us out of here." replied Natsu with a big smile.
"How can you have so much faith in your friends Natsu, it's been more than three years? They all probably think you are dead or left the country to never return." asked the lady finding it impossible to just have faith in her friends like Natsu.
"Simple, were not just friends we're family. And that means that we never give up, even if the odds are a million to one. We don't back down because we would do anything for a fellow member of Fairy Tail." declared Natsu proudly.
"I wish I had people still looking for me." replied the women with a frown as the lowered her head so that it rested on her knees.
"That's why I told you to not listen to them, so that you would still have hope that your guild would come for you." replied Natsu with a small frown on his lips.
"How can you still say that after what they were doing to you?" asked the women loudly.
"Because it was going to happen to me no matter what, and I have already been through everything that they can throw at me. And I really didn't want you to write that letter to you guild members when everything on it was a complete lie." answered Natsu with a big grin directed towards her.
"I'm not like you Natsu, I can't handle the constant torture and fear of what's to come." said the lady as she broke down and started to cry.
"Yes you are, and if not I will do everything in my power to help you because what else are friends for?" asked Natsu with that goofy grin of his.
"How are you still that same Natsu that I knew three years ago?" asked the women having stopped crying and looking at her fellow prisoner and wondering how in the world he was still alive. All she could think about was what incredible will power and determination he must have to not have gone insane by now, and she decided that she was going to try and be just like him.
"HA it would take more than this to change a dragon; we dragons are very stubborn creatures." Natsu explained with a big smile.
"Natsu you aren't a dragon, but I do admire your determination and strength." replied the women with a small smile.
"I am too, and those are just a few of my winning traits." said Natsu once again grinning even though he was still in a terrible situation.
"HEHEHE still the same Natsu, to dense to know that we won't be getting out of here." giggled the girl who was amused by the dragon slayer.
"Hey we just said that you weren't going to talk like that anymore." said Natsu with a very serious face.
"Sorry Natsu it's just I can't have the same faith as you, since my friends aren't looking for me they all think that I just went on a long trip to a neighboring country for some relaxation and training." explained the lady.
"What about me, I'm your friend and I will make sure that you and I both get out of here alive." declared Natsu with a grin.
"Natsu, don't make a girl a promise that you can't keep." stated the lady with a small smile at Natsu's words.
"I won't, which is why I promise that I will get both of us out of here or my name isn't Natsu Dragneel the Salamander." said Natsu proudly with so much conviction and determination in his voice. That it actually made the women trapped with him start believing in his words and just like that, she once again had hope all thanks to the pink headed dragon slayer.
"You're right Natsu, we will both make it out of here alive." she replied with a huge smile that Natsu didn't know if he was ever going to see from his friend. But man was Natsu glad to see it again because it only strengthened his resolve to keep his promise to her and make sure that she could keep having that beautiful smile.
End of Flash back:
The Salamander watched as the sun started to set behind the mountains that he was in, loving his new favorite time of the day. The time when most would turn in for the night and go to sleep excited for what tomorrow would bring, but that wasn't what the Salamander would do, no this time was when he would start his hunt.
"Well it's time to start the hunt." thought the Salamander as he started to jump from ledge to ledge slowly descending from his vantage point over the castle as he got nearer to it. Once he was about forty yards away from one of the guard towers the Salamander did a quick burst of red flames while jumping to launch himself on to the roof of the tower where he landed on all fours like a cat barely making a sound.
"What the hell was that red light I just saw?" asked the mage on lookout duty inside of the tower, as the Salamander lowered himself down on the other side.
"That would be me." replied the Salamander as he was now right behind the mage, who quickly turned around at the voice behind him. But it was already too late for him as a flaming red hand grabbed his mouth and slammed him into the floor boards and slowly burned him while he kicked and tried to fight off his assailant that is until he stopped moving meaning he had passed on to the next life.
"This is just too easy, why didn't I do this in the first place all those years ago. If I had she would most likely still be here." the Salamander growled to himself as he went down the tower. Along the trip down he did the same thing to any guard that he ran into as he did to the mage who was on lookout duty, which the Salamander couldn't help but think that the mage sucked at otherwise the guild would know of the his presence.
Once exiting the tower the Salamander found himself in a long hallway with doors on all sides. On closer inspection he realized that he was in one of their dormitories where their members have their rooms and are most likely asleep right now and it was probably their only one since this guild only had about sixty members. Which if he wasn't mistaken there would be just as many rooms in this wall way that went on for a ways, and each door had the name of the mage staying there.
"Really, seems like fate really wants you fuckers dead." said the Salamander to himself as he went up to the first door and tried to open it. It was in fact locked which only slowed him down for a few seconds, he lit a red flame at the tip of his finger and increased the intensity of the flame and with one quick swipe the lock was cut clean through.
Without making a noise he slipped into the room that was completely dark, after a few moments of letting his eye adjust he could see that someone was indeed sleeping in the bed. He crept up to the person as if he was a ghost not making a single sound, and looked over his victim and took in their scent and appearance. The Salamander wanted to still make sure that if he was killing people in their sleep that they were indeed dark mages, as he took in the aura that the person gave off. Which while sleeping is something that you can't change, he now knew that they were indeed a dark mage so with a sinister smirk he once again covered his hand in his blood red flames.
And with a swipe of arm he slit the throat of the person in the bed. Said mages eyes shot open as they clutched their throat trying to stop the blood from oozing out, while trying to figure out what just happened. His eyes finally fell onto the red glowing eyes glaring back down at him from the darkness that just looked like those of an apex predator looking at its feast. The mage tried to scream out for help but all that happened was the spluttering of blood and gargling noises came.
"Don't worry, it's soon going to be over and I will be sending your friends right after." said the Salamander while smirking at the terrified mage that was slowly dying in front of him.
"Well I will be going now, I have a lot more people to send to the same place you're going." said the Salamander as he left the room. Salamander completed that same routine for each room, with the occasional one being empty, except for the last four he just knocked them up and cuffed them with magic suppressing cuffs because he had different plans for them.
"Well that takes care of the grunts now time to deal with the boss." said the Salamander as he went to the only other source of magic in this place. Once he got there, he was standing outside of an office that was similar to Master Makarov's office at Fairy Tail, it would have made the old him smile at how similar their two guilds could be. But right now all it made him was actually get angrier at this dark guild trying to be like a real guild when he knows that they are despicable humans who are willing to do anything as long as they get their jewels.
So the Salamander just opened the door and walked in to see a man in his late fifties sitting behind his desk reading papers. And continued to do so not caring that the Salamander just came in or maybe he didn't even notice, so the Salamander cleared his throat with a deep cough.
"Yes I know that you are there, so what do you want?" asked the Master while not even looking up.
"What do I want, well for starters I think your head will do just fine." replied the Salamander with his deep voice, which shocked the Master because none of his members had a voice like that so he looked to see who it was. Once looking up he saw a man that he had never seen before standing there in his office, with a smirk on his face threatening his life.
"Who are you, and what makes you think that I will let such a threat slide?" asked the Master now angry at this stranger.
"Little old me, I don't even know if you have heard of me since you all were going around your business as if you had nothing to fear." replied the Salamander with a big grin.
"Why would we be afraid of someone like you?" asked the Master as he flared up his magic.
"Because I am the Salamander and it wasn't a threat that I was going to take your head that was a promise." replied the Salamander with a grin as he slowly walked over to the Master.
"Gravity Change!" shouted the Master as he swiped his arms down so that this man would be crushed and he could go back to reading. But that didn't happen the stranger didn't even act like anything happened to him and just kept walking towards him, now causing the Master to start to panic.
"What the hell are you, that should have flattened you to as thin as a piece of paper?" asked the Master as he back away from this man that took one of his strongest attack as if it was nothing.
"I already told you who I am; the Salamander and you can thank the Rising Tide for how I am now. So let's see about separating that head from that pointless body of yours?" asked the Salamander as he picked up the Master by his throat.
"Please don't, you don't have to do this to me. I never did anything to hurt you so please don't kill me." begged the Master while he was being chocked by the Salamander.
"I don't care if you never harmed me, what I do know is that you and your guild members did harm others which is why they are all dead now. And you will be to, after you tell me everything that you know about all of the other dark guilds that you are in contact with." growled the Salamander as he lit his other hand on fire and brought it up to the Masters face.
"I would rather die than let you go and do this to a different guild." spat out the Master and literally spit in the Salamanders face.
"I was actually hoping you would do that. You see after being tortured for four years you learn a lot, like first off and at least for me there is no reason to start of small." replied the Salamander with a smirk and then sent a stream of fire go straight into the Masters left eye destroying it completely while sealing up the wound when he stopped. The Master was now screaming at the top of his lungs at the pain he was feeling.
"So that was level one, lets' see how far you can make it before you cave?" asked the Salamander with a big smile.
"Please no more, I will tell you everything you want to know just, no more." begged the Master.
"Wow what a bitch but hey that means I will get my information faster and then I can finish a few things then be on my way to the next guild. So start talking otherwise your other eye is next." replied the Salamander while still holding the Master by his throat. An hour later he walked out of the office with the Master's head under his right arm and explored the rest of the guild for things that he might find useful or must be destroyed before they fall into the hands of another dark guild or the Council for that matter.
Anything that that he found interesting he would slip into one of his pouches on his belt, which seemed to have an unlimited amount of space in them considering that he kept putting tons of things into them. The rest of the stuff that he didn't want he piled up so that once he left he could easily burn them. Content that he gathered anything of value and the only people alive where the four members that he spared he headed to the room that he threw them in.
"Good you are all awake, I am going to make this quick. Hi I am the Salamander that you should have heard about by now and here is you Master's head. I want one of you to take that with you when you leave this place. So I am going to take you magic away from all of you in a little bit, after which I am going to light this place on fire which will make it really dramatic when you try and save your friends that I didn't kill and just tied up." explained the Salamander with a big smirk as he tossed them the head and they all were too scared to do anything but just sit there and wait for him to take their magic. Which he started to do and once he got to the last member she was now begging him to just kill her.
"Please just kill me, I don't want to go through what they just did." she said as she motioned to her three friends who were writhing in pain on the floor.
"Well there was a lot of things that I would have rather not happened to me, but guess what, life is sometimes a bitch. And if I didn't do this, then who would go out and tell the others of what happened here?" asked the Salamander not waiting for an answer and then destroying her magic. After which he took off their cuffs and then headed to the pile of things that he set aside to burn.
With a flick of his wrist the pile was ignited with his blood red flames and slowly started to spread to other things around it. With a proud smile on his face the Salamander turned around and started to leave the burning castle while whistling the only tune that he seemed to know with a glint in his eye that meant that this was still just the beginning.
The next day at the Council's meeting chamber:
"So are we still going to do nothing about the Salamander going on a killing spree while also taking away magic from mages?" asked a disgruntled Councilman Fujimoto.
"Yes we are, and we would be fools to stop him. He is only targeting dark guilds which we keep reminding you of, meaning that by our own laws he is still not a murder. Also we still don't know how he is able to get rid of someone's magic, but once again he is only doing that to dark mages so I see nothing wrong with it." replied the Chairman.
"Mark my words, you will all be sorry that you didn't listen to me sooner when he all of a sudden turns on people who haven't done anything." said Councilman Fujimoto with a frown.
"I am confident that day won't happen and if it does, then you will finally get your wish and the Salamander will become a wanted man by the council." responded the Chairman.
"I agree with the Chairman on this, but if he does start killing innocent we definitely won't be able to stop him with simple Rune Knights." pointed out a councilwoman.
"We could send some guilds to take him down." suggested a councilman.
"I really don't think any of them would accept that for numerous reasons, like he used to be their friend and he is also single handedly taking down dark guilds every week, sometimes two of them." replied the Chairman.
"You do have a point there Chairman." replied the councilman.
"What about one of the Ten Wizard Saints." suggested a different councilman.
"That could definitely work." agreed a councilwoman.
"Well we can cross of Makarov and Jura from accepting that mission." said a councilman.
"Okay it's settled then, if Natsu Dragneel kills someone other than a dark mage we will send a Wizard Saint to go and capture him." said the Chairman.
"Capture, why isn't it to kill him?" asked Councilman Fujimoto with a frown.
"Because that is not what we do to all other mages that have committed murder. Especially one that has helped the country from being destroyed numerous times, who still now is helping the country by eliminating all dark guilds in his way." replied the Chairman who was tired of Fujimoto and his hatred for all things Fairy Tail.
"Once again you are making a big mistake." replied Councilman Fujimoto.
"I am thinking right now that our biggest mistake was letting you onto this Council Fujimoto, and if you continue your irrational hatred for Fairy Tail then we will be forced to fix that mistake. Is that clear enough for you Fujimoto?" asked the Chairman while glaring at Fujimoto, who now was quiet and a little afraid of the Chairman.
"Speaking of Fairy Tail, why did they stop bothering us for information on the crime scenes?" asked a councilwoman.
"I don't really know or care, whatever the reason is, is also probably why they haven't been destroying things like they usually do. So I say we just leave them to whatever they are doing." stated the Chairman.
"That is a good point." replied the councilwoman while nodding.
"Now moving on to the normal part of you meeting." declared the Chairman as they then started to discuss the conditions of different branches of the Council.
At Fairy Tail:
A select few have been going through the documents and recordings that Silverbane left them, and it was one of the worst months that they have ever gone through. But they just recently made some big discoveries and were now going to report them to Master and a small portion of the guild who were all really concerned about Natsu.
"Okay guys what have you learned?" asked Master Makarov with an expressionless face.
"Lu-chan if you would go first with your findings." stated Levy who had a serious face just like everyone else present as Lucy then got up out of her chair.
"I got it Levy-chan, so I was tasked with finding out all of the experiments that they did to Natsu while he was there. They seemed to really like to test poisons that they were making on him, but after the second year Natsu somehow became immune to all forms of poison. This was confirmed by them after they were seeing no effects from any of the low doses of poisons that they were giving him. So they started to give him doses that would take down an elephant but they still did nothing to Natsu and they tried to figure out how he did this but came back with nothing." explained Lucy while frowning.
"One of the other main things that they experimented on him was potions that were supposed to give you great physical strength. This had a lot of side effects for a really long time but then after a few months they gave Natsu one that apparently worked so well that he surpassed his old physical physic and is now as built as in the latest video. Now this is really significant since after two years he looked like this." said Lucy as a picture of Natsu strapped to the table was displayed and he looked like he hadn't eaten in more than a month and no longer had the muscle definition that he always had.
"The first two years they didn't allow any type of exercise since they had this in plan. But according to their notes after seeing the results the potion had on Natsu they asked for a guild member to volunteer and got one. Right after the volunteer drank the potion he turned purple and died, which then caused them to give up on that potion attributing the success it had on Natsu due to his immunity to poison." explained Lucy while frowning the whole time.
"While working on that potion they were working on two other ones that if they perfected would be worth millions of jewels. One of the potions was supposed to make the mage not need as much sleep as they usually would, while the other one was supposed to reduce how much food you need to survive. Just like in the other potion there were tons of side effects while working on the formula, and once again they thought that they got it figured out but instead of using a member they abducted a random citizen and unfortunately it once again resulted in death." said Lucy who was almost crying thinking about the people that died.
"They continued this until something extremely unexpected happened and that was both potions effects, which were supposed to only last for a week at max, became permanent for Natsu. And they stopped testing to see how long it would last and for the next year and a half the effects lasted, making them think it was permanent but couldn't do anymore testing since he escaped. According to the notes the max that he can actually eat in one day is just one average sized meal, and that one meal can last him for as long as a week. As for the sleeping he now only gets ten hours a week max and can function perfectly with just four." continued Lucy.
"That is most of the significant things about their experiments. They did try to make some potions that were supposed to speed up the healing process but they were never able to tell if it was the potion or just because of Natsu being a dragon slayer. Thus concludes my part on their experiments related to Natsu as of right now, which were ones they did on their earlier subjects but was never able to get anywhere with them." finished Lucy and then sat back down in her seat.
"You have to be kidding me." stated Grey.
"As if the Salamander wasn't scary enough, now they have made him into someone that barely needs to eat and sleep." stated Gajeel while shaking his head just thinking about how handy that would be, but was not willing to go through what Natsu went through to get it.
"Don't forget that he can't even be poisoned now." stated Mira.
"This also explains how he was able to get so much done within that last month." said Laxus not even knowing if he would have made it through just that.
"What else were you able to find out?" asked Master Makarov.
"Well besides that they were all twisted mages who I have no idea how the Council allowed to become a legal guild." stated Levy.
"Yes, besides that Levy." replied Master Makarov.
"Freed it you would tell your part now." stated Levy.
"So I was the unfortunate one who mainly focused on the torture. And from what I saw they learned a lot from their previous subjects, and were very skilled at inflicting pain. But it would appear that all of that meant little when they tortured Natsu because he never once cracked for the first three years. He just took it and never once tried to bargain for his freedom or tell them anything about anyone even remotely related to him. Which is why they brought subject 8 into the mix, her main purpose was to in fact just make Natsu watch them torture her, and this was the only times they got responses out of Natsu which mainly turned into threats. But after a while they were able to get Natsu to start begging them to torture him rather than subject 8, now I could go into detail about how they tortured him but you would only get nightmares from it. And I have only watched about half of them and it appears that they were getting really creative on how they tortured him, such as doing things that used his enhanced senses as the way to inflict pain." said Freed who looked terrible the whole time just from remembering what he saw.
"Like what?" asked Erza who just had to know what they did to Natsu that caused him to be able to kill so easily.
"One example is that they got some really bad smelling stuff and put it right under his nose while he was strapped to the table. Another was them playing really loud noises right next to his ears, I am actually amazed that he can still hear." explained Freed with a frown.
"Were you guys able to find out anything on this subject 8?" asked Master Makarov.
"That was what I have been focusing on, and Silverbane was correct when he said that Natsu was trying to cover up things related to subject 8. I still don't know why he's doing it, but what I was able to figure out that Natsu knew her before she was captured, and that no one is looking for her or knows that she is gone since the forced her to write letters to her friends explaining why she will be gone for a while. And as Freed said her main purpose was to be a different kind of torture for Natsu. I was also able to find out that she would pretty much fit your standard woman's physic and anytime it looked like it was about to say something that would help us identify her, the next page was torn out or the page had burn holes where the information was at. So to sum it all up we still don't know much about her or why Natsu went to such great lengths to hide her identity or what happened to her." explained Levy.
"Thanks you three, and I really hate to ask this of you but will you be able to keep going through all of the information?" asked the Master with a frown.
"I will still do it, if Natsu can actually live through it then I will be strong enough to learn about it." declared Lucy.
"I am with you on that one Lu-chan." said Levy.
"Count me in too, but my main reason is so that no one else has to see as much as I have already seen." said Freed with a pissed of look that everyone knew was meant for the people that did all of this to Natsu.
"Thank you so much you three, alright so how has the tracking party been going?" asked Master Makarov as he looked at the group of mages that made up that group. This consisted of Laxus, Gajeel, Wendy, Happy, Erza, Grey and Cana.
"I don't know how he is doing it but I can't use my cards to pinpoint his location to anything smaller than a fifty mile radius." replied Cana who was disappointed in herself for not being able to help more.
"He hasn't visited any of his old spots that he would go to when he wanted to be alone, Wendy used her nose to check." said Happy who now almost always had a frown on his face.
"We reached out to all of his friends at the other guilds and none of them knows any more than what has been in the magazines, and all of them are still finding those articles hard to believe." said Erza with Grey nodding his head in agreement to what she just said.
"It has been completely unproductive for us as well, Natsu was always the best tracker out of all the dragon slayers." said Laxus with a frown.
"And now that he doesn't need to barely sleep or eat, Salamander has indeed become a fearsome predator. And because of those enhancements Salamander has always been miles away when we investigate his latest work." explained Gajeel.
"Darn I was really hoping that we would be able to at least talk to him." replied Master Makarov with a frown.
"Master I have a question." stated Erza.
"Yes, what is it Erza?" asked Master Makarov.
"Now I am not complaining about this, but why hasn't the Council done anything about this?" asked Erza.
"Simple Titania, Salamander is doing the job of the Council for them so they are completely fine with just sitting back and letting him make their jobs that much easier. Also the Council approves of lethal force when dealing with dark mages so right now Salamander isn't a murder to them he is just a mage that is taking the problem of dark guilds and shutting them down permanently." replied Gajeel.
"Well that's good to know that he won't be in trouble with the council when we get him back." said Erza with a faint smile.
"I wouldn't be too sure of that Erza." stated Laxus.
"Why Laxus, Gajeel said that they are okay with him killing dark guilds for them?" asked Erza losing ther faint smile.
"Well that is as long as there is no collateral damage which I am amazed there hasn't been, he seems to have gotten smarter within the last four years as well." explained Laxus.
"That means we need to find him before that does happen." said Erza ready to charge out there.
"That still wouldn't mean that the council wouldn't eventually come for him, think about it Erza he is single handedly taking down dark guilds and a few of them weren't push overs either." said Laxus who is impressed with Natsu's results on his little revenge campaign.
"Not to mention that he can take away your magic." inputted Grey as he shivered at the thought.
"Those two things don't give the council any reason to go after him." stated Erza angrily.
"You are correct Erza, but like that has ever stopped the Council from doing whatever they wanted." said an angry Master Makarov as everyone sat in silence for a little while.
"Well let's get back at it then." said Master Makarov as everyone left to go get back to the individual jobs.
"What could they have done to make you have so much hatred Natsu?" asked Master Makarov.
"Whatever it was must have been really bad to get someone, who never really hated anyone before to do what he's doing now." stated Mira as she stood next to the Master.
"If we can figure that out then we might be able to help him." said Master Makarov who was mainly just thinking out loud right now.
"Master do you think we will be able get him back to how he was before?" asked Mira with hopeful eyes.
"Sorry Mira but there is no way for that to happen, especially after everything that Natsu has gone through and done. But that doesn't mean he won't be able to become similar to how he used to be." replied Makarov with a frown.
"This still feels like a nightmare that I can't seem to wake up from." stated Mira with her own frown.
"I know what you mean, I really wish that I would have put more effort into looking for him but I thought that he might have just left for training without telling us. But that is just the excuse that I keep telling myself so that I can hopefully fix my mistake." said Master Makarov with a big frown.
"Don't worry Master, we'll get him back and you'll be able to do that." said Mira with a faint smile as she finally left.
"I hope that you are right Mira." thought Makarov.
At Crocus market district:
"Come on you piece of shit, lead me to your dirty friends." thought the Salamander as he trailed a Rune Knight from a distance. He had been following this dirty Rune Knight for the last two hours and hasn't gotten any knew information on who else was dirty.
The Salamander was growing impatient and if nothing happened in the next ten minutes he was going to go to plan t. Plan t had so far never failed him and always got the answers that he desired while also a few more that he didn't even ask them. Yep the Salamander just decided to start plan t that is until he bumped into someone he hadn't seen for over five years, and didn't know what do. He also didn't know that his hood was knocked down in the process meaning that they could easily recognize him now.
"Natsu is that you?" asked Gildarts Clive as of Fairy Tail, but the Salamander was still too shocked to say anything.
"Of course it's you because I have never seen a male with your hair color except for you Natsu." said Gildarts loudly which finally snapped the Salamander out of his shock.
"Hey keep quiet Gildarts I am kind of on a mission here." said the Salamander hoping that Gildarts would leave.
"Oh sorry, I didn't know, I was just happy to see you. Especially since you were gone the last time I was at Fairy Tail. I think they said that they had no idea where you were at and assumed you were training." replied Gildarts.
"Most wouldn't call it that but I guess you could call it a type of training." said the Salamander.
"I bet you are really strong now aren't you?" asked Gildarts with a smile.
"More than you could possibly imagine, but as I said I have a mission I have to complete." replied the Salamander.
"Okay, Okay, who would have thought that you would become so serious about jobs. Oh and what happened to your scarf?" asked Gildarts as he looked at the scarf that was now red rather than its usual white.
"Oh this, I got some blood on it and liked the color so I made the rest of it match it." answered the Salamander as he remembered that it did turn red after all of the people he killed.
"Well I guess as long as you are okay with it, well I guess I will let you get back to your mission and I will see you back at the guild." said Gildarts giving him a wave goodbye, while the Salamander took off after the Rune Knight that got a ways away during his little chat with Gildarts.
End of Chapter
Author's Notes:
Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it. So as always feel free to leave me a review.
Until the next Chapter
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