Sooooooooooo. If you haven't noticed, my procrastination instincts found their way again. Otz (bows down to all those who actually waited for this) I'm sorry I haven't uploaded in so long , but you know. No crying over lost time I guess. My fault for not updating. Got too caught up in my life of being a lazy bum and crying over the fact that Code: Breaker ended so many months ago. Or at least finally got translated into my native english language. But anyway here is the newest chapter. Be prepared. Yelling. Criticisms. Life questioning. Jokes that are actually corny puns. Parties. BIG reveals. All of this and more in the newest installment of Blind Truths.

Chapter 4 - The Truth Revealed

Arina's POV

"What do you mean you can't fight me! I don't care if you're a girl as long as you're strong! If Vitali's strong then that must mean that you're strong too!"

"I TOLD YOU I CAN'T FIGHT YOU!"

'This guy just doesn't get it! I mean it when I said I can't fight him and I mean it! Vitali is the strong one. He's the one who gets things done. He's the one with resolve. He's the one who people go to when they need help. I can't compare to him. Its as simple as that. He's a tiger and I'm a wounded kitten.'

"Why? Anyone can fight. Why won't you even try to fight me? Are you scared of losing? It's not like if you lose, I'm gonna kill you. Lose today and get stronger for tomorrow. That's how the saying goes doesn't it?"

'Is he really going to make me say it? Does he really not realize? Not once have I looked at him. Not once have I opened my eyes. Not once have I really even hinted to knowing what anyone in this room looked like. Do I really need to spell it out for him?"

"I'm blind. I can't see you! How am I supposed to fight what I can't see!"

'I imagine his face was one of shock when he heard that. I mean with the way he was speaking to me he must not have realized the impossibility of my being able to fight him. The impossibility of me even being able to do anything against him.'

"Hahhhhh? And what does being blind have to do with being able to fight? If you think not being able to see makes you weak go talk to Aria. He could tell you otherwise. At least when the old guy had his blindfold on. Beating youreself up over something so small, no wonder you never win. You got a losing attitude. Yah Gotta think 'I'm strong so I can win' yah know?"

The whole room exclaims and does a double take, "Did Natsu just say being blind is a small thing?!"

Natsu didn't seem to be alone in his thoughts though, a small presence after a light tap onto the ground and a swish through the air as a weight then finds its way onto my shoulder. "Natsu's right! Being sad over something isn't fun! Strong thoughts make you a stronger person! That's why I'm always happy, so that I'm strong!"

I turn my head towards the origin of the voice on my shoulder. Bringing my free hand up I start to feel the structure of the creature on my shoulder. I say creature because although I could feel the fur lining its body soft as it was. Two pointed ears coming of its head pointed at the end clearly showing that this soft furry creature probably? a cat. Protruding from its back though were a pair of wings soft to the touch that fluttered at each brush of my fingers against them that made me question whether or not this creature was a cat or not.

Just as I starting to relax, the wings I was just petting vanish. The perches my fingers had before disappeared and now they clawed through the air instead. A gasp pushes its way through my lips and the sudden surprise.

"Don't touch my wings please."

"W-wings?" Those were really wings? I-I I just couldn't believe it. I just touched a cat's? wings. And they were so soft too. "W-what are you? You're not like any cat I've ever met before."

The creature then seems to puff out its chest and say, "Cat? I'm not a cat. I'm the Exceed, Happy."

Happy? " What an adorable name~" I reach out my hand again and start to pet Happy on his head even more and forget about the arm holding down my other limb.

As I continue petting Happy, he seems to squirm about as though to dodge my hand. He seems to not want to be pet. By why would that be? Don't animals like to be pet? I can't help but be curious. But just as I'm about to let the question roll off my tongue, I get interrupted. A smell of smoke also seems to find its way into the air and for some reason standing next to this guy was making me hotter on one side than the other.

"Hello. Hello? Earth to ? Stop ignoring me! I asked you if you wanted to fight me and I want to fight you! So answer!"

Fight? Oh yeah, this guy wanted to fight me even though I can't see him. And then he started to spout something about 'How it didn't matter about whether I was blind or not'.

"Ummmm. I'd rather not fight you. My ability isn't really meant for fighting at all. It's not really meant for that I think. Also I'd rather not fight someone I just met."

"Ability? Oh yeah, all you guys said you have abilities! Tell me what's your ability it better not be breathing fire or anything like that! Cause that's my thing you got that!"

In the background snickering is heard as Yuuki nudges someone and says, "You hear that Ogami? This guy won't stand for having someone stand him up in flame using. Maybe you should give a taste?"

"Umm? My ability? It's to control the placement and composition of my body. In other words I can turn my body parts into precious metals at will if I want."

"Waaahhhhhhh. That sounds cool. Can you show me!" As he says this he grips me harder and causes me to cringe a little from the pressure.

"I'd rather not."

"Why?"

I start to try and remove myself from his grip but it doesn't seem to help so i give up and start to turn my head to the ground in conceit. He doesn't seem the type who'd give up just because I asked him to.

"The reason is because I've never been able to fully control it. As a result, if I were to try to turn an entire limb or something sometimes it would go back and other times it just wouldn't. It would stay as gold or whatever I decided to change it into. That's how I lost my eyes. I turned them into Sapphires to match the eyes I once had. I just wanted to know what the real thing looked like and then I could never go back to the serene blue I had before. It's been so long now I've started to forget what it was like to see." A crooked grin makes its way onto my face that probably looks as though it might crumble in a second if touched.

The boy took a step back and removed his hand from my upper arm. He seemed to think about what I said for a second and then exclaimed, "So it never turned back even after it's been so long? Shouldn't it have if it's been so long?"

A shake comes to my head and a single tear falls as I say, "Not if my eyes were removed. When my father learned of what I did, he took a single look at my new pair of eyeballs and was overcome by greed. The impatience radiating off him could be felt even by my newly blind self as he got the surgeons prepared to take the twin sapphire orbs out of my sockets."

A cold silence seems to fall over the room as I shed off the story that has been locked in my heart since it happened. After it's done I feel the load that has been crushing my heart lift just a little and give a little more breathing room.

The quiet that had fallen started to affect even me as I was feeling better. To get rid of it spew the first thing that comes to my head. "So I guess, that means I never had an eye for greed."

The degree seems to lower even more as I say it. Ugh, I never was good as making jokes and that clearly did not help this situation at all.

Just when I think that , the boy in front of me, Natsu, starts to rumble out a loud laugh that rolls through the room. "You know what? Arina, you're not that bad a person are you! I mean it sucks what happened, but you clearly just leaped a hurdle in a new direction. " His hand makes its way to my back and gives it a hard push in a direction. "Hey, Everybody! Let's go to the main hall and through a party! To welcome these guys to the guild before they go off to wherever they want to go and celebrate to Lisanna's return!"

A cheer resonates in the wood of the building as the crowd of people in the room stampede to what can only be the main hall.

After sometime, almost everyone has everyone has left the room, but there were some straddlers at the end of the group. Specially these people were the group of people completely new to this world. The Rare kinds and Power users.

Seconds float by until someone finally talks, "So what are we going to do?"

A clear cut voice says, "You mean what are we going to do now that we can never return to our old lives now that the only place we've ever known is probably destroyed like a puzzle that has lost all its pieces and so only the image remains of what it was supposed to be?"

"Thirty points for the statement, though I'm going suggest that you phrase it nicer next time, Toki. The point was made though, what are we going to do now that we're stuck in an alien world with only us here as the people who shared the same fate?"

I think about it for a second and can't help but gather up my courage to share the idea that comes to my head. Like a light bulb that's always been there but I only just noticed it.

"Couldn't we join these people? They seem like the kind of people who wouldn't mind a few extra people blending into their crowd, even people they just met."

Who knows when the next time I'll post again is gonna be, but lets hope that its soon. I at least hope so because now that i'm starting to type this again I'm having fun once more with these character thingys ^.^ Well lets hope that I see you guys soon or whatever~ And how'd you like the reveal? Boom! Things got serious. Fast~ And bye for real this time! Til next time. Tah tah~