Hello! I am on fire with this story, this is about to get intense...but thats all I say! Enjoy!
Lets go over to the group of Fairy Tailers that are on their way to the place where they saw the Purple flare.
"This way!" Levy called, leading the group consisting of the Connell couple, Vijeeter, Max, Warren, Gajeel, Lily, Jet and Droy, and the Master towards where she had seen the fire erupt into the sky.
Max suddenly pointed up ahead while shouting.
"Look, in that clearing! It's Natsu, Gray, Lucy and Erza!"
They stared down at their fallen friends, Levy dropping to her best friends side.
"Lu-chan! Are you ok?" Levy asked, grabbing her friends hand.
Lucy sat up stiffly.
"Weird, Romeo used some sort of jabbing move, then I went down, I couldn't move." Lucy explained.
"ROMEO!?" They all screamed, not aware that it had actually been the boy they knew.
"Where is he? Dance of Confusion!" Vijeeter cried while striking an odd pose and staring to do some sort of weird modern dance.
"I don't know, you can see where he entered the forest." Lucy said, pointing at the broken twigs and crushed leaves as he other friends pulled Erza, Gray, and Natsu up, they were all mobile again within minutes.
"Ok! Let's follow that trail!" Erza ordered, Alzack and Bisca, the guilds resident tracking team, had already entered the forest, and a few moments later.
"Y'all might wanna see this!" Came Bisca's voice, sounding slightly strained.
They followed her call to find her and her husband bent over the immobile form of Romeo Conbolt, truly unconscious this time.
"What the heck happened to him? He was barely scratched during our fight!"
Gray cried, astonished.
"Doesn't matter, what matters is this." The master said, stepping forward, he carefully rolled Romeo off of his right shoulder.
The master placed his hand over it, then revealed it to his members.
They all saw the guild mark emblazoned there.
"This is without a doubt Romeo Conbolt, any thought of this being an impostor should be banished from all of your minds now. If this is Romeo, then it is highly likely that the girl that had accompanied him is Wendy. Now, let's get him back to the infirmary. I'll outfit it with bars and a lock so he can't escape." The master said.
It hurt the people gathered there to think of having to imprison Romeo, but it was the only way.
TIME SKIP, A FEW HOURS LATER AT FAIRY TAIL
Macao burst through the doors.
"I'm back!" He shouted, instead of being greeted with the usual shouted hellos and fight challenge's he was met with glum silence and a few grunts of acknowledgement.
"Jeez, guys, calm down, it's not like I was gone for months or something."
Macao muttered, then he sighed, it had only been a few months since he had finally picked himself up and carried on with his life after his only child's disappearance and presumed death.
Mira smiled at Macao, cheery as every, but even her ever present smile was slightly forced.
"Hello, Macao, how was the mission?" She asked, Macao smiled, at least someone wanted to here about it.
"I was literally on fire! I was firing purple webs to trap them! I slammed those thugs into the ground! Especially after one of them had the nerve to diss Fairy Tail within earshot of a veteran member!"
Macao said with a grin, he had shaved off his mustache recently, so he looked nearly identical to how he had looked before tenrou.
"Sounds like you did us proud, now, umm, could you just wait right here a second, I'll be right back." Mira said, she flashed him another smile and hurried off towards the master.
This is weird, even Natsu is out of it. Somethings seriously wrong, but I won't push on anyone to tell me, I'm sure Wakaba will fill me in later, like he always does.
Macao thought, settling down into a stool and dropping his pack down onto the floor next to him. He watched Mira whisper to the master, who glanced over at him, then he turned and nodded to Mira, who came hurrying back over to Macao.
"Come on, the Master said you deserve to see this before everyone else." Mira said somberly.
Macao was now officially confused, something was up and he wasn't in the loop.
"Macao, something, important, happened while you were away."
Mirajane began, Macao nodded, "I had figured, it takes a lot to dampen the spirit at the guild, after all. What?"
Mira shook her head as they walked up to the infirmary door, there was a very secure lock on it.
"Why is there a lock on the door?" Macao asked, feeling wary.
Mira unlocked the door and allowed Macao to enter, she stood in the doorway and said.
"Maybe when he wakes up, you of all people could get him to talk to us."
She said, then she shut the door and locked Macao in with whoever was in the last bed, closest the the window, which Macao observed had been barred with a spell.
Macao walked carefully towards the bed, her words had set alarm bells off in his head.
Me of all people, what's that supposed to mean? If he refused Erza and Mira, who are practically demons, then why would he, he speak to...
The words in Macao's mind trailed off as he got his first good look at the boy lying in the bed.
It was, of course, his only son.
Macao's eyes went wide as he studied his features.
You of all people could get him to talk to us.
Macao realized what that meant as the enormity of the situation landed on him so hard he felt like had couldn't breath.
He sat crumpled into the chair set up next to his bed and kneaded his temples.
Romeo was older, his feature's sharper, more defined, his hair was now cropped and controlled tightly around his head instead of in wild loose spikes, and he was defiantly taller.
"My little boy's alive..." Macao couldn't believe it.
He could hear his sons soft breathing, he could see the guild mark on his shoulder.
Macao needed to know why Romeo was locked in the infirmary by himself.
But for now, he supposed the best thing to do was wait.
Another hour later, a little past noon.
Romeo winced as the bright light entered his dorm room window.
He sat up, surprised Kye's snoring wasn't shaking his bed like it usually did.
He groaned, he had some headache from that dream.
I dreamt I had gone on my first mission outside of the island, and that it was in the Magnolia east forest, and Wendy and I ran off to check on the guild, and then they saw us and we, wait a second, my dorm room doesn't have a window...oh no...
Romeo's thoughts were ended by the sight of the flag hanging in the room he was in, the Fairy Tail flag.
He was in the Fairy Tail guild hall.
Romeo then glanced to the side to see his movement had aroused the man beside him, upon closer examination Romeo realized this was his father.
"D-Dad?" Romeo asked, sitting up, amazed.
"ROMEO!" He shouted, seeing his son was awake.
"DAD!" Romeo fell out of the bed the opposite of his father with the blanket tangling up his legs.
Macao's chair tipped backwards and sent him sprawling across the tile floor.
They both shot up from the the ground, Romeo groaned and fell backwards into sitting position, clutching at his throbbing head, Macao stood up.
"Romeo...your alive..." Macao was feeling a seize in his heart in shock.
"Easy, Dad, don't have a heart attack." Romeo said, standing up and grabbing his fathers shoulders to steady him, shoving away the increasingly bad pain in his head to deal with later.
Macao looked up at Romeo, correct, he looked up, Romeo had passed his father in height by a few inches.
"Oh, dear god." Macao moaned.
"What?" Romeo asked, then he realized that he was looking down at his Dad.
"Wow, I actually am taller than you? Yes! I wasn't sure, I thought I was taller, not by much though. Maybe in a few more years..."
He mused to himself, as any teenager, we was indeed concerned with his height.
"Where the heck have you been, you nearly killed me with grief!"
Macao shouted furiously.
"I'm sorry." Romeo sat down on the edge of the bed and Macao settled back into his seat.
"I just, was, taken, on the way to our first job, they came and took us away. Then I couldn't leave, but then, I didn't want to leave."
"Where?" Macao asked, then he saw what his son was wearing, which could only be classified as combat gear.
"And what the heck are you wearing?" He finished.
Romeo groaned, "It's, umm, it's..."
Romeo found he just couldn't bring himself to lie.
"It's a school uniform." Romeo said, standing up and turning around so his father could see the insignia on his back.
"I was taken to an academy." Romeo began, not looking his father in the eye. "The Chrysalis Academy."
"I assume that's why the logo is a butterfly?" Macao asked sarcastically.
"Yeah...Dad...Pops...I've gotta go back." Romeo said.
Macao's eyes bugged.
"What?!" He asked.
"I...have friends there, and it's not so bad, you know, except for the hard core training, and the strict masters and all of the stupid rules, and being stuck inside almost all to time. Not seeing the sun for six out of seven days a week can really do a number on you." Romeo mused unknowingly to himself.
"Y-You can't be serious! I just found you, I'm not losing you all over again. I-I can't handle that again, Romeo, you don't understand...wait...you don't understand because they're controlling you!" Macao shouted.
Romeo sweatdropped.
"Dad, they are not controlling me." He said simply.
"That's exactly what a person being controlled would say!" Macao cried.
Romeo sighed, "Dad...how can I..."
"And on the way here I sensed Purple Flare energy, even though I was still out of sight of the town! It was you, huh? If they've been training you their doing it right!"
Macao said, now swelling with pride.
"Dad, that's not it. I, actually haven't gotten any training in magic there."
Romeo said.
Macao waved him off.
"Then how else could you have done it?" Macao asked smugly.
Romeo gulped, he knew how his father would react to this already.
"Dad, magic is banned there. No one is allowed to use any form of magic unless they're in a life or death situation or approved by a squad master."
He said.
Macao's eyes went wide.
"Your, your kidding?" He choked out.
Romeo shook his head.
"No, it's banned, it really is, that spell was so powerful because I've got so much magic energy bottled up inside of me. I haven't created even a wisp of fire in five years. So that was five years worth of fire that just came tearing out when I was in trouble." Romeo said.
Macao erupted in rage.
"THATS NOT RIGHT! I KNOW HOW IT CAN FEEL, IT HURTS TO KEEP IT INSIDE FOR TOO LONG! ASIDE FROM OVERLOAD OR MAGIC POISONING!"
Macao screamed, Romeo sighed.
Well, I'm already in enough trouble as it is. Might as well just show him.
Romeo thought, then he held up his bracelet, he twisted one of the pips on it, and a lacrima screen shot out to hover in front of him.
"State your name, year, and squad." Came the monotone voice.
"Conbolt, Romeo. Year 5. Squad Black." Romeo said clearly.
Macao watched in confusion as the screen flashed to show Romeo's student space, a picture of him surrounded by lists, smaller pictures, and other things. Containing his lists of assignments, classes, instructions and also his video's, pictures, and clips. It was basically an iPhone on his wrist.
He tapped at the screen, pulling up his first year squad picture.
"This is me in the first year." He said, pointing himself out.
"Oh..." Macao said, recognizing his face.
"There's my best friend Kye. His parter Anne, our other friends Sammy, Shawn, and Isabella, and my partner, you know, Wendy." He said.
"You...hmm.." Macao was struggling to find things to say as he looked at the image of all of the uniformed kids lined up in neat rows smiling.
"Oh, here, check this out." Romeo swiped over to his video archive.
"Watch this." He pulled up a video taken in his second year.
In the video, someone was taping Romeo and Wendy swinging through an ariel assault course.
"Dodge! Romeo! Look out behind you!" The person filming shouted.
"Shut it, Kye! I need to, whuff!" Romeo got pegged in the back by a swinging log and was sent flying.
"I tried, man, I tried to warn you!" Kye laughed as Romeo went flying off of the trapeze he had been sitting on and slammed into Wendy.
"Romeo!"
Wendy shrieked as they both went tumbling down into the water twenty feet below, peals of laughter resounding around the huge cavern they were in, Macao could see several more kids in uniforms of different colors pointing and laughing as Romeo and Wendy fell down into the pool of water beneath them.
"You two really need to learn how to focus! Romeo, Kye tried to help you, but naturally you decided to backtalk instead of trust him and move out of the way. You need to learn to listen. Wendy, we've been practicing catching your parters, have we not?"
Came a stern voice, a moment later a woman in a full combat jumpsuit came marching in, she looked scornfully down at her two dripping wet students.
"We'll be doing this again, up to the top!" Romeo and Wendy pulled themselves from the water and began to walk towards the ladder leading to the platform.
"MOVE!" Master Vivian shouted at them, causing them both to jump and go sprinting towards the ladder while their classmates laughed harder.
The video ended with Romeo smirking.
"What was that?" Macao asked.
"Your telling me. I can run that course in less than a minute now, if I've got Wendy, we can make it in under thirty seconds. Pathetic, it really is."`
This was clearly not what Macao was referring too.
"So...what exactly was that?"
Romeo realized what he meant this time.
"Oh, that was the level four ariel assault course, it's to teach us how to swing through any elevated terrain." Romeo said, reciting most of it from one of his textbooks.
"Oh." Macao said simply, as if that had explained what he had wanted to know.
"So...where is this place?"
Romeo frowned, "Can't say."
Macao groaned, "Come out with it! Your trapped here and no one will be letting you out of here unless you prove your not under their control! Remember what happened with Gray? A giant dragon nearly destroyed the entire town because of that whole episode! Just tell me!"
Romeo glared at his father, "I can't because I don't know, the Ray's don't have windows, and it takes forever to get there from Magnolia, so it could be pretty much anywhere. I normally fall asleep within the first hour of flight anyway. It's boring, we don't have anything to do but sit there."
"Oh, sorry, I thought..." Macao began.
"It's fine." Romeo said shortly, the two sat in silence for a minute, then Romeo met his fathers eyes and said.
"Dad, I am not staying, not only because I kind of like it at the academy, but because I don't have a choice."
Macao stared at his son, hearing the truth ringing in his voice.
"But, you do have a choice, I swear it, you can stay here with us. We'll stop them from getting you."
"And what about Wendy? Kye, Anne? Sammy? What about all the other people I met there? My friends. People I care about. I learned a lot growing up at this guild, one thing was that you never turn your back on your friends. We never gave up on Gray during the thing with the Dragon."
Romeo stood up and looked his father straight in the face, not showing any sign of letting up.
"And Natsu never gave up on you at Mount Hakobe."
Romeo knew this had hit home.
Macao opened his mouth and began his rant.
"Young man you are staying her because I demand it, I refuse to let you run back to some villains school and be turned into a killing psychopath! I could care less about those children from who knows where! I will not allow you to return to that horrible place!"
Romeo scowled, Master Vivian's words echoed in his head, her speech from five years ago, to them on that empty forest path.
We are not a school for villains, or dictators, or psychopaths, as I have heard some say.
They weren't killers, or villains, or psychopaths, they were warriors.
"You aren't in charge of me anymore."
Romeo growled, feeling so insulted by his fathers words that it felt like a physical wound in the pit of his stomach.
"I don't give a crap what you will or will not allow. I could destroy you with one hand and no magic. I could take out half of this guild with the element of surprise and a bo staff! Thats what the academy had taught me, not to kill, but to fight without hurting, to catch without hurting, to stop without hurting,and to hurt when I need to hurt. I can do so much more than you. Fairy Tail wouldn't stand a chance against the academy. You never want to make an enemy out of us."
Romeo swung his hand to the side, cutting off the furious words he could feel brewing in his fathers throat.
"I'm going back, do you hear me? You have no say in my future anymore."
Romeo's words sliced through the room like a cleaving sword, and they shocked Macao, so much so that he turned and walked to the door, knocking on it, it was unlocked and Mira peeked through.
"He's awake?" She asked.
"Yeah, let me out." Macao walked out, without a second glance back at Romeo, who turned to watch the streets thought he bars on the window.
Romeo's not as respectful to old Macao as he used to be! All done for this round! Hope you enjoyed, please review, and remember to check out my other stories!