As the cheers closed to an end erza called out "what was that one about?!"
"Well… as I told you,i wrote this song when I was locked in the camp. it was when i felt worthless, helpless, hopeless and I wanted to die every day. And my friends at the camp always told me to just keep waiting for the day where we are set free and just keep your hopes up. I got mad at them because I felt so suicidal that I didn't believe it. I didn't want to. So I ignored them and one day I snapped and yelled at them. I yelled at them that they don't know know what it's like. They didn't know what know what it is like Being the favorite and but they had this look of understanding. It was like they understood what i was going through and undeerstood why I was mad. So i ran back to my room and wrote this song. I made the tune of the piano out of instinct."
Eve walked down from the stage and towards the table that held gray, erza, natsu, happy and bliss. She sat next the natsu who wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into his lap. She blushed a faint pink.
"So anyways, erza when are we going to have our fight?"
"Uhh never."
"Wait why?! Did I do something wrong? I'm sorry. I leave the guild if you wish."
Wendy walked up to the table.
"Um mrs. eve, i think erza doesn't want to fight you because she knows she'll lose. I think you are so powerful that gildarts doesn't even have a chance. You could be stronger than makarov." wendy explains
"I agree my children. I think i don't even hold a candle to eve's strength." makarov stopped the think. "Eve angel, i am naming you the ace of fairy tail!"
Everyone gasped.
"Can someone please tell me what that means?" she says.
"Well that means that you are fairy tail's strongest wizard!"
"M-me? I'm not that strong. N-not at all! My weakness is pathetic and my magic is sad. Let gildarts be the ace of fairy tail."
"First of all, i've never met a psychic wizard besides you and zeref because it's a lost magic, so your weakness won't be a problem." makarov starts.
"Second, eve your full power psychic storm has the power to destroy our whole solar system. And acnologia doesn't have mark on you!" natsu says.
"Well even if that's true natsu, we would never test that theory because of 2 reasons. First, you would never allow me to fight acnologia. And second he would never allow it either. He wouldn't ever do anything to hurt me."
Eyes turned to eve in a surprise confused manor.
"What? What you mean my child." makarov asked.
"Well… as a told gray, natsu and erza, acnologia was the king of dragon city. He was the best father anyone could ever had, but a bad king. He was kicked out of dragon city for bad behavior. He turned to a life of evil, but still remained a role as my father, visiting only me for holidays and my birthday. He was the only father i ever had, and I know he would never allow me to fight him. And i heard what he did to your guild so i'm sorry. He truly was a great person to people who he held dear to his heart."
Makarov face turned furious as he turned into his giant form. "After all acnologia did to us and this guild, you have the nerve to say he was a good person. He almost killed gildarts! Leave my guild at once and never return. I have no choice to do this because you associate yourself with him and he is not around to be punished. He loves you so he would be guilty for his actions if this happens. Leave and never come back!"
Eve started to cry but she put on her tough act in front of all these people. She pretended to be mildly upset but didn't show how truly hurt and broken that statement that made her feel. Gasps exploded through the guild.
"I-i understand why your upset and I understand why i am being punished. Goodbye everyone" she looked at natsu. "See you around… maybe."
As she walked towards the door lisanna and gajeel blocked her.
"LISTEN HERE MASTER, EVE HAS GIVEN TWO PEOPLE WHO HAD DONE HORRIBLE THINGS TO HER A CHANCE AND THIS ISN'T EVEN HER FAULT AND YOU ARE PUNISHING HER. THAT ALONE IS A HORRIBLE THING TO DO OUT OF ANGER. YOU OUT OF ALL PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW THAT!" natsu yells.
"I say eve stays. I'm not one for caring for people, but eve gave me a second chance even though i did something horrible to her. If she leaves I leave." gajeel says.
"And i will to." lisanna says.
"Obviously i am loyal to fairytail but i'm much more loyal to eve, anywhere she goes I go to, so that means if she leaves fairy tail i do to." Natsu walks up to eve, gajeel and lisanna.
"Eve sacrificed her life for the safety of this guild so I leave as well." Erza and gray walk to eve's side.
"I-i-i'm sorry master but this is uncalled for" wendy, carla and lily walk to eve's side.
"Guys you don't need to do this. I will leave and you will stay." eve says. "Obviously i'm upset but i'll get over it"
"No ya won't eve, i don't know if anyone else sees through this tough act, but i do! Ya'r devastated and if ya leave i know ya will try to kill yourself as soon as ya leave this place."
"I can't allow that." natsu snarled.
"OK OK! I GET IT! I'm being insensitive and eve should stay. Fine she can stay! Just stop! I feel horrible. Eve i'm sorry."
"That's okay." she whimpers. "but i do want to go home for a while. I'm so frazzled that I'm afraid i'll snap at someone."
She ran off after that. Bliss was one step ahead of natsu and she ran after her because she knew what she is gonna do.
"Natsu please help me! Your much faster than me ya have to get to eve before she gets to your house!"
"Why? What's gonna happen?"
"Remember when i told ya she suffers with self harm? She uses er' psychic power on herself!"
Natsu ran as fast as he could after eve. He didn't want her to get hurt. It's his duty as her mate. He eventually made it to his house but he was to late. He heard her scream from the bathroom. He pounded on the door. She jumped and squealed at the sound.
"What do you want natsu?!"
"Don't ya act like this is normal get in here now!" bliss yelled.
"Oh… i didn't know you were with him bliss."
"Well of course i am here with him! I knew what ya were doing and he is much faster than me. Now get in here."
She slowly opened the door and was pulled in to natsu's arms.
"Why did you do that? You don't need to do that ever again. Get it out of your head."
"Bliss can you leave please? Go to the guild and I will call you when i want you to return"
"Okay! Are ya kay'?"
"I will be eventually."
She left the house not a moment later. Natsu turned towards her.
"Do you always do this?"
"Yeah. it's an easy way to ease the pain in my brain. I hurt myself instead."
"Why."
"Because that was overwhelming. Having all those people care about me staying at fairy tail. I didn't know what to do."
"That's okay. Just don't hurt yourself. You hurt me too. Emotionally and physically." he pointed at his mark.
She giggled. "I-i'll try. Habits are hard to break you know."
"I know but you can do anything. You already proved that to me" he kissed her full lips.
"I love you so much" eve says.
"Can you tell me why you freaked out when i said we should should see our dragons?"
She froze. "Ugh….."
she started to slip into a panic attack as the marks on her ankles started to throb. Natsu shook her violently and she snapped out of it.
"Holy fuck you scared me. You can tell me anything."
"I think you will hate me once i tell you."
"Me never! Tell me"
"Well there is something i never told you that happened at the camp." she began to take off her shoes." on m-day, 2 dragons slayers named rogue and sting"
"Rogue and sting?! What did they do?" he snarled.
She removed her socks and showed the 2 marks on her ankles on her left ankle was a sun tattoo and on her right was a moon tattoo. "They claimed me as their mate. I didn't claim them though. They forced me but i refused and I got the overnight treatment for a week, but it was worth it. They came by every day after that day to check up on me because they said I was only theirs. They raped me so hard every day. Then one day they disappeared and they stopped feeling my emotions and so did I. i don't know what happened but i'm stuck with these marks now."
Natsu was shook. He didn't know what to say. His mortal enemies took something that wasn't theirs long ago.
"I knew I shouldn't have told you." started to release all of her stress and heartbreak at that moment. "Y-you hate m-me now!"
Natsu head snapped up as he smelled her heartbroken tears. He wiped them away carefully and softly.
"I'm not mad at you. Not at all. This wasn't your fault. I can't hate you. It's physically impossible. We will get more information on what happened. And we will get this mark off of you." he snarled the last sentence.
She jumped on him into a heartbroken embrace.
"Why?Why did you save me? Why did you claim me? Why do you care so much?Why do you love me more than i love myself?"
"I saved you because you were in pain and distress and i felt it was my job to save you. That's who I am. I claimed you because I knew you were the one and I loved even before we were mates. I care so much because I love you so much and don't want you to be in pain, mentally or physically. I don't know why you hate yourself so much. I don't know what you could hate about yourself. But my guess is because you've been abused for so long that you are broken and need fixing, and that's where i step in. now let me ask you a question, why are you so afraid about telling me things, or exposing your emotions? Why are you afraid?"
"Well… i'm afraid of exposing myself to you because i'm terrified that you will leave. I'm scared that you will admit i'm too broken to fix. And now that I learned that mates can be separated, i'm horrified. I don't know what I would have done without you. I would be probably hanging on a tree." he cringed at the thought of that. " I love you so much natsu, so don't ever think that i don't. But it will take some time before i get back into a normal life."
"I never said I wanted a normal life with you."
"What… do you mean" she whimpers.
"Not like that silly. I just mean i don't want to be normal and neither should you. Normal is for boring people and that's not you at all. I want us to have a happy life not a normal one." he pecked her on the cheek "Now let's go figure out these marks."
She put on her sandals and walked out the door with natsu trailing behind. They eventually got to the guild and she put on a sweet smile for everyone, but inside she was frightened. Bliss saw through her and walked towards her.
"What is wrong eve?"
"I need your help can you get happy too and meet me in the infirmary?"
"What's wrong?' she looked around her. "Are ya hurtin?"
"No… i don't know how to explain it but just get happy and meet me in the infirmary."
"Ya got it!" she ran to happy.
Eve grabbed natsu's wrist and he willingly followed to the infirmary. Happy and bliss were behind them. They closed the doors behind them.
"Okay are ya gonna tell me what in the heck is goin on? I'm goin crazy here!"
She took off her sandals. "When I was in the camp, it was m-day when 2 dragon slayers came to me and… mated. I got these marks and for the year after that happened they would come in every day to rape me. One day they stopped coming and i stopped feeling their pain and emotions."
"Oh!... that's why ya wanted happy! Because he knows more about this stuff!. kay."
Happy turned into his cute medical mode. "Okay eve, when did they stop… returning?"
"Oh i remember this clearly is was m-day the next year."
"Well that explains it." happy says.
"What? What happened!?" natsu says.
"Well what happened is an extremely rare case. What happened was that the 2 dragon slayers thought you were the one, but you weren't so they got a new mate the next m-day. But you remain with these scars… or marks. Now tell me, what was the names of the 2 dragon slayers?"
"Rogue and sting." natsu growled.
"THEM?!" happy shrieked. "Well, we get our revenge."
Eve groaned. "What?" natsu asked.
"Might as well not have a door at all!" then she opened the door and there was mira, erza, gray and wendy by the door. They chuckled nervously.
"We were just concerned okay?" gray says.
"Yeah but you can fucking ask when i'm done! How much did you hear?"
"I'm sorry mrs. eve! They dragged me in! I said it was a bad idea!" wendy pleads
"You still haven't answered my question!"
"We heard the whole thing. I'm sorry eve." erza says.
"Also, damn happy, i didn't know you knew so much about dragons slayers!"
Happy blushed. "Well, after i learned that natsu was a dragon slayer, i did extensive research on everything about them because I know natsu is too dumb to remember what to do."
"That's actually kinda sweet!" wendy says.
"Well, it came in handy today!" happy says.
"Happy, are you calling me stupid?" eve says. She seems really offended by his words.
"No of course not. Why would you think I am?"
"You just said natsu is too dumb to remember what to do. And I was never taught what to do!"
"Well natsu was taught because he is a male dragon slayer and he must learn that. You are a female and have a less complex mating system. Not being taught and forgetting are two very different things."
"Wow happy, that was very kind and wise of you to say. I'm impressed." erza says.
Happy stuttered. "Well.. don't get used to it. I'm only nice to her because she has depression and other disorders! It's only to ensure her recovery!"
"Still, i appreciate you kindness and reassurance happy." eve mumbles.
Happy smiles. "No problem!"
"Happy, what is the difference between male and female dragon slayer mates?" wendy asks.
"Well it depends if a female dragon slayer marks a non dragon slayer male nothing happens besides the mark on the male. If a male dragon slayer marks a non dragon slayer female, she gets the mark and he still has to protect her at all costs. The male knows the females pain by a headache instead a mark because a normal person can mark. Now this is where things get weird. If a male dragon slayer marks a female dragon slayer but the female doesn't mark back, that means they aren't true mates. Eve's situation. They will become" he makes air quotes "mates until next m-day then the mate effect wears off. And the female is left with these marks. There no such thing a female marking a male but the doesn't return the mark because the female is very picky about their mates so if a male has a mark. That is their mate forever." eve sighed in relief. "There are different attributes of the male and female. Such as the male has to protect at all costs, he gets jealous easily, they feel their mate's emotion oln some level. He feels her pain and finally gets surges of magic energy when his mate is in pain. Females feel their mate's emotion, gets jealous easy, she feels his pain as well. "
"Jeez happy you are fucking smart." gray says.
Happy blushes.
"Well is there anyway to get these marks?" eve asks
Happy cringes. "There is only one way."
"What is it?" natsu blurts out.
"You cut off the marks and the skin that grows back is mark free."
Natsu is stuck in a dilemma. He doesn't want eve in pain, but he will do anything to get off the marks.
"I'll do it." eve says.
"WHAT!" natsu yells.
"I want these gone. I will cut them off and wendy will heal them. Is that okay wendy?"
"Of course."
"Eve think this through! Please, please please. I don't want you hurt. We can figure out another way. Don't do this."
She closed her eyes and used her psychic to get a knife from the kitchen downstairs.
"If you are afraid of blood then look away." eve says.
Natsu snatches the knife from eve. "I said don't do this. You are not doing this."
"I thought you wanted these gone! I want these gone! It will only hurt for a moment."
she uses her psychic power to take the knife back. Then she places the knife in her hand. She decides to cut of sting's mark first because she felt like it. She put the blade right next the mark.
"Please stop" natsu whimpers.
But she doesn't listen she slices through her skin in one clean stroke. She screams in agony. Natsu's mark changes to a shade of black and he winces at the sharp sensation in his wrist. Blood starts to pour out of the cut and she starts to tear up at the horrid stinging pain. She throws her cut off skin away.
"Wendy" she breathes out.
Wendy gets to work on the cut. In a few seconds her first cut is healed with no mark.
"Is this really worth the stress and pain i'm going through?" natsu breathes.
"I'm sorry natsu, even you said that you don't want anything that reminds me of the camp. And a tattoo slash mark is a huge thing that reminds me of the camp."
"Well there is only one left." erza says.
"I'm gonna get a towel for the… blood." bliss flies off.
Eve lifts her other ankle, exposing rogue's mark. She lifts the blade, takes a deep breath and slices through her skin. This time she only winced in pain. Natsu's mark turned once more to a darker color and he winces in pain. Blood spills on the towel that bliss laid out. Wendy doesn't spare a moment healing the wound as eve throws away the flesh. One wendy was done eve stood up and grinned.
"That wasn't so bad was it?"
"It was really hard the first time when you screamed in pain." gray says.
"Gray… do you have a crush on eve?" wendy asks
Gray blushes. "Ugh…. yeah. Natsu don't kill me." but he was hit with a fire dragon iron fist before he could finish his sentence.
"Mine!" he playfully yells while standing in front of eve.
"You are dead eve." erza says.
"What did I do?"
"Juvia is gonna kill you."
"Dear lord. Fuck no!" eve says
"Don't worry, i'll protect you from juvia… and I guess gray now."
"It was obvious first of all. Second, I can read emotions and that includes emotions like lust. Sorry i never told you guys."
"Fuck. so you knew I liked you before hand?" natsu asks
"Well… yes and no. I saw your emotions like lust and love, but you could have been feeling those emotions for someone else. I thought for a bit that you liked erza. Because she was always around you and I along with gray and I had a feeling you weren't gay."
Gray and natsu burst out in laughter.
"I suggest you don't do that." happy whisper-yelled.
But it was too late. Tears spilled over the edges of her eyes as bliss frantically tried to wipe them away. Natsu and gray stopped laughing at once. Natsu punched gray in the face.
"Why do you always make her cry!?" he yells
"You also made her cry. Eve i'm sorry i was being insensitive."
Childishly, she turned her head away from him. A warm hand caught her cheek and forced her to look at the them. Natsu's eyes met hers.
"I'm sorry. Please forgive me." and he kissed her but she didn't kiss him back.
"Are you really that mad?" he asked.
"I wouldn't be that mad if you didn't just kiss me to make up for what you did. If you keep up with that mindset you are gonna lose people."
"Well I don't go waltzing around offending people and then when they get offended I make out with them."
"So you were purposely offending me?"
"No that's not what I mean! Listen." his voice turned soft and comforting. "I am very sorry I offended you. I didn't mean it. I promise. I love you with every fibre in my being. Understand that."
"Thank you." she smiled sweetly. Then her face turned confused.
"What's wrong?" bliss asked.
"Is this was happiness feels like?"
"Well… yeah!" natsu says.
"I… like it. It's been so long since I've had this feeling."
"That is so sad." erza says.
"Oooh! Eve can you sing a song! I love your voice! It's beautiful!" happy says.
Eve blushes. "Well when you put it that way, i just have to go and sing."
She walks out of the infirmary and goes to the stage.
"Ugh do you mind If i sing a song?"
The crowd cheers in approvement. As the piano and mic are being set up, natsu and the others sit down at an empty table.
"So I have no idea what i'll be singing, so that means i'm improvising."
She starts the tune of her piano.
I remember years ago, someone told me I should take caution when it comes to love.
i did.
i did.
And you were strong and I was not.
My illusion my mistake.
I was careless.
I forgot.
I did.
And now, when it was done.
There was nothing to say.
You have gone and so effortlessly.
You have won.
You can go ahead tell them.
Tell them all I know now.
Shout it from the rooftops.
Write on the skyline.
All we had is gone now.
Tell them I was happy.
And my heart is broken.
All my scars are open.
Tell them what I hoped would be.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Falling out of love is hard.
Falling for betrayal is worse.
Broken trust and broken hearts.
I know.
I know.
Thinking all you need is there.
Building faith on love and words.
Empty promises will wear.
I know. I know.
And now when all is done.
There is nothing to say.
And if you're done with embarrassing me.
On your own you can go ahead tell them.
Tell them all I know now.
Shout it from the rooftops.
Write on the skyline.
All we had is gone now.
Tell them I was happy.
And my heart is broken.
All my scars are open.
Tell them what I hoped would be.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible
She let the piano linger on as she thought of the next line, but somehow it worked.
I remember years ago, someone told me I should take caution when to comes to love.
I did.
Tell them all I know now.
Shout it from the rooftops.
Write on the skyline.
All we had is gone now.
Tell them I was happy.
And my heart is broken.
All my scars are open.
Tell them what I hoped would be.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
Impossible.
I remember years ago, someone told me I should take caution when I comes to love.
I did.
The song closed into a perfect ending. The crowd erupted in cheers once more. She walked from the stage to her friends and mate. Without hesitation sat in his lap and in return wrapped his arms around his waist.
"I'm so confused on what that song was about." erza says.
"My fears. I'm terrified in falling in love. And that was why am what i'm afraid of."
"That makes so much sense." gray says.
Eve could feel natsu disappointment in her. "Stop it natsu."
"Stop what?"
"It's only a song after all."
"Yeah, but you put your heart into every line of the song so that doesn't change a thing."
"Singing is my way of expressing myself and you are totally ruining that. That is one of the only way I express my true feelings. I'm scared natsu. I'm sorry but i am. I will eventually not be so scared, but that's the way I am for now."
He took a deep breath. "You right. I'm sorry. I understand why you are afraid and I will do my best to make you not scared anymore"
"And I will too!" wendy exclaimed
Everyone at the table nodded their heads in approvement. Eve blushed.
"Thanks guys. I don't know what I what I would have done without you. Probably either dead by zeref or death by my own hand."
"What are you referring to?" wendy asks.
"I would have commited suicide."
"Oh poor wendy is too innocent!" happy says.
"Well as fairy tail's ace, what kinda missions are you going to go on?" erza asked.
"We should make fairy tail's strongest team!"
"A team? Mission? I don't know what those are!"
"Oh.. well a team is a group of people who go on missions together. It used to be natsu, happy, wendy, carla, erza, me and lucy."
"W-who's lucy? Is she on a mission? Whatever that is."
Eve senses despair in everyone but mostly natsu. She gets jealous of who ever this lucy character is but she shoves it to the side for now.
"You don't have to tell me. I understand."
"No, i'm the only one who knows what truly happened to her. And I will tell. Lucy and I were best friends. We were our own team. We were like siblings. But one day after a mission that I ruined, she didn't have enough money for her rent and was kicked out of her house. We got into a huge fight and after that left the guild. One day I got a message from an unknown source and I open it to find out it was lucy's suicide note that she wrote to just me. It told me that she has had self harm for her whole life and when she left, she felt nobody cared enough to go after her. So she felt worthless. She wanted to tell me that she fell in love with me and I never noticed and that hurt her. A lot. She commited suicide by burning herself. To represent the pain i made her feel. I killed her technically. I killed my best friend by being oblivious." natsu started to tear up.
Eve hugged him tight and wiped his tears. "It wasn't your fault. You didn't know."
"Eve's right! We should just keep moving forward. As tragic as this information is, we must live in her name and care and understand each other." erza says.
"Aye sir!"
"So will someone tell me what a mission is?"
"Oh, well a mission is a job that you take from the request board that has you follow tasks in order to make money. So require guarding an artifact at a masquerade ball, or others are defeating an evil monster that has been killing people in a town. Rewards vary on the difficulty of the task." gray says.
"Oh I guess that makes sense. But are you sure you want me on your team?"
"If you say you are too weak to be on our team imma lose my mind." gray says.
"Well.. no, i guess i can't say that anymore can I? I just feel like if i'm on your team, i will get in the way, i don't exactly know how to fight."
"You have so much power and skilled in your talent. What do you mean?" wendy asks.
"I guess you're right… okay! I will join your team. But… that is quite a big team. Wendy, carla, natsu, gray, erza, happy, me and bliss"
"Well we also split up for some missions. Like you and I just go on a mission. Or wendy, carla and happy, or sometimes gray and erza. But we can also go as one big team!" natsu explain.
"I usually don't go on big missions with them, but I'm always there when they need me!" wendy says.
"Well.. do you want to go on a mission with us?"
"Maybe not all of you, that might be overwhelming. Can we do happy, natsu, bliss and me first. Just to get the swing of things?"
"Of course. I was going to suggest that anyways." erza says.
"Aw.. I wanted to go on a mission with eve." gray whines.
Natsu pulls me closer to him. "Mine" he says in a cute protective manor.
"Yeah, yeah don't remind me."
"Yeah but you seem to forget."
Eve giggles. "Enough both of you." she gets up. "Let's go pick out a mission." she turns to gray. "I will go on a solo mission with you eventually."
"Ha! In your face natsu!"
"You didn't let me finish. I will go on a solo mission with you eventually, as friends." she smirks.
Natsu starts laughing at gray. "you just got friendzoned!"
"I kinda expected that though."
Well. are we going on a mission or not natsu?"
"Of course we are. Let's go!"
That's a wrap for chapter 10! I hope you like this chapter. I worked really hard on it! I love you all! Bye!