Jade's eyes darted around the black and purple terrain. She was searching for any possible way out of this place. Her mind still wasn't completely convinced that this was completely real. 'It must be an illusion' she kept trying to tell herself. There was no way that Nathan could summon up enough magic to create this whole place. And according to him they were still in the room from before. There had to be some sort of trick to it.
Nathan suddenly appeared behind her and kicked her forward. She flew forward and, strangely enough, landed. From that she could tell that there was still a firm ground underneath them. She just couldn't see it because of the space-like appearance of everything.
"Oh my dear Jade," Nathan said in a smooth, dark, voice. "I only wish that you would've agreed to my terms so I wouldn't have to do this," and once again he appeared behind her. Jade quickly made one of her own dimensions around the two of them. "That won't work," Nathan chuckled and then kicked her again. 'How the hell is that possible?!' Jade yelled inside her head. When she had created that dimension she made it so that everything else would be frozen but her. She regained her footing and then brought out her gun and shot. This time she tried to make a dimension around the bullet in order to speed it up. "That won't work either my dear," he said and then the bullet stopped in midair.
"How can you do that?" Jade finally asked.
"How indeed?" he mused as if he didn't know himself. Jade shot him a glare. Nathan stepped forward to where the bullet was and then used his fingers to spin it around. A smile came upon his face and then the bullet shot forward as if just fired by the gun. Jade was barely able to dodge a fatal blow but it still scathed her arm. The clang of her gun dropping to the floor could be heard as she grabbed her bloody arm. She then looked up at Nathan 'the only way someone can do that is if…' her thought was stopped when he once again appeared beside her and kicked her down to the floor. "This is my world, I can do whatever I want here," he proclaimed. Jade put her good arm on the floor and then swiped her leg under Nathan's feet and he fell to the floor.
"That doesn't mean that I can't do anything at all," Jade retorted and then took a few steps away from him. It didn't keep him down for long though. All Jade could do now was try dodging as Nathan kept punching or hitting her. It was hard but by dodging she was at least able to lessen the damage as she thought. Her mind went through everything he said, every phrase, every sentence, and every word. Then she thought back to all his actions. Not only of when she first entered the room but she also thought back to everything involving him.
"Stop trying to think so hard, you won't get an answer. What you see is what you get," he told her whilst gesturing around the Null Void. Something, somehow, just clicked in her head. At the thought of it, it sounded impossible to her but it was the only thing that came to her mind. She slowly stood up straight while picking her gun off the floor. 'Fast, I have to be fast' she thought. Jade took aim on him and shot her gun with a dimension around it. Right when she created the dimension around the bullet she created another between the two. Nathan put up his hand and stopped the bullet once again. 'Faster,' she thought to herself and then created another dimension. After quickly creating two more she was finally able to keep him frozen and then with all the speed she could gather she ran forward and kicked him down. She stayed on top of him and held his arm behind his back so he couldn't do anything.
"I'm quite surprised that you were actually able to figure it out," Nathan muttered when he was unfrozen.
"Shut up and make it so that we're in that room again," Jade snarled threateningly. Even though she was obviously weakened Nathan did as told.
"As you wish," and with that the purple and black space image disappeared. Right when that happened the door busted open and the one's that stayed outside entered.
"Jade!" they all yelled when they saw her.
"Don't worry I got him," she mumbled as they ran forward.
"My dear Jade I just have one last question, how exactly did you figure it out?" Nathan questioned from underneath her. They all stopped and waited for Jade's response. All of them were curious as to what magic Nathan had.
"Well, in truth I wasn't completely confident that what I thought was true but somehow it was. How I got it was probably just luck. When you said 'what you see is what you get' my mind went back to that time when I read that note that we uncovered in the book about the runes. It said that I could control sight. Since we were so busy I never gave any thought to it until now. The only thing that came to my mind was that you could also use dimensions and you already knew how to control sight. Within the dimension you created you controlled my vision making me think that I was in some sort of messed up space," Jade explained.
"I should really learn to keep my mouth shut then. Though that isn't completely correct as to what my magic is, but go on," Nathan interrupted. Jade hit the top of his head for interrupting and then continued.
"Anyways once I figured that out I wondered why my dimensions were ineffective. At first I thought if two dimensions come in contact they'll explode but that didn't seem to be the case. Maybe I made that happen with my dimensions because that's what I thought would happen the first time I made them cross over eachother. So then it came to my mind that every time I made a dimension you would just make another one a second later cancelling out my own without me knowing. After that I just figured that all I had to do was create dimensions faster than you to catch you off guard and it worked," Jade shrugged at the last part.
"You really are a smart girl aren't you?" Nathan complimented. He seemed very calm for someone who was just defeated.
"I guess you could say that but I still have a question. If you have the same dimension magic as me then why did you need me to join you?" Jade asked him. This had been bugging her the most. Everyone else was curious to know the answer as well.
"Like I said before I don't have the same magic as you. I have a special magic known as copy magic. I'm able to copy any magic I come across with some exceptions of course. For one thing I have to come in physical contact with the person who uses the magic and they can't be further than five miles away from me in order to use it. I can use that magic for a full 24 hours until I need to come in physical contact with them once again. There are some magics that I can't quite copy though. For example I am unable to copy magic from three of you in this room," he said. They all looked between eachother questionably. "Those three would be the requip mage, the celestial spirit mage, and the dragonslayer."
"Why not?" Jade asked. She somewhat understood it but she wanted a clearer explanation.
"In order to use requip magic I need to have armor stored away somewhere, same with gun requip. That's pretty much the same with celestial magic; I'd need celestial keys to preform that magic. Then there's the dragonslayer. For one thing, in order for him to gain magic power he must eat fire, which I can't do. There is also the fact that a magic used to defeat dragons can't just be copied," he explained.
"That's quite a tricky magic," Erza commented.
"That is why I have my other magic to rely on, which is my memory magic. It allows me to make people forget certain things or give someone complete amnesia," Nathan said. "Now Jade can you please get off me, you're kind of heavy," Jade could feel her eye twitch at that.
"I'm heavy huh?" Jade asked in a dark voice. "Fine then," she grabbed the collar of his shirt and threw him up and kicked him into the wall. "I hope that wall isn't too heavy for ya!" she yelled at him. The others stared at her uneasily and took a step back.
"So what are we going to do with him?" Lucy questioned as they stared at the now unconscious Nathan whose head was still stuck in the wall.
"Send him off to an island far away where he has no connection to Fiore and no way of getting back," Jade mumbled with crossed arms. She was all bandaged up now and they were just sitting there thinking of what to do.
"I say we should call up the magic council and have them take him away," Erza suggested and they all nodded. After that they did as planned and called up the magic council. They explained everything to the officer that came and then they agreed to take him. Apparently Nathan had caused some trouble with them before so they were more than happy to take him away. The council members that had come took him from the wall when he woke up and cuffed him. Before he was taken into the SE-vehicle he stopped them from pulling him and turned to face Jade.
"Thank-you Jade, this was fun," he then smiled as the officer tugged him into the vehicle. Jade couldn't describe it but she felt something strange when he said that. When he was shoved into the vehicle she walked up to one of the officers.
"How long will he be kept away?" she asked him.
"A few years at most," the officer responded and then the council members left. She frowned as she watched them go away.
"Jade we're about to go come on," Gray walked up to her. He stopped when he saw her facial expression. "What's the matter?"
"I know this may sound stupid but I'm kind of sad. Nathan put me through hell but somehow I still feel like he wasn't that bad of a guy. It was as if he was just trying to have some fun even though it was bad," she explained to him. "Because of those runes he had put on me I ended up hurting people and even killing them, and also the wound that kept happening over and over again. But somehow I keep overlooking that. I know that I shouldn't but I just can't help it."
"Don't think about it too much Jade. What he did was bad, at least he can think about what he's been doing in prison," Gray tried his best to give her some sort of reassurance. Her lips curved into a small smile.
"Yeah," and with that they left. The group entered Fairy Tail when they got back.
"How did it go?" Mirajane asked when they sat at one of the many tables.
"Good, I was able to kick his ass," Jade told her and she let out a giggle.
"That's good," she said and then went back to cleaning glasses behind the bar.
"Jade," the voice of her brother sounded from behind her and she turned around. Freed was standing there with a soft smile on his face.
"What is it?" In Jade's perspective it looked like he had something to tell her. Then out of the nowhere he hugged her. She was surprised and so was everyone else. "F-Freed do you… remember who I am now?" she questioned and he nodded.
"I'm so sorry I forgot about you but I'm glad I remember now," he said while parting with her. She smiled.
"If you remember that means I can do this!" she proclaimed with a laugh while taking the band that held the bottom of his hair. Freed's green hair flowed outward and Jade began to take steps back. Right when he noticed what she did he tried to get the band from her hand. "Not a chance," she laughed and then made a run for it. Surprisingly enough Freed ran after it.
"What are you smiling about?" Erza came up next to Gray who was watching Jade with a small smile on his face. He looked at Erza in shock.
"It's nothing," he muttered after calming himself. "It's just that… I never thought she'd be able to laugh and play around like that," Gray told her. Erza placed her chin in her palm and watched as the girl was chased around the guild by her brother. Of course with this guild that only caused more commotion.
"You're right. Even though I'm sure that her smiles before were truthful they seem lighter now," Erza agreed with the ice mage.
After all the commotion had died down in the guild some people started leaving. Freed and Jade had left as well to go to the park. They were sitting under the huge tree in the glow of the sunset.
"So are you going to speak with mom and dad?" Freed questioned her. Now that his memory was back they assumed that their parents would remember her too.
"I'm not sure. Even if they do remember me I doubt they'd want to see me," Jade answered while hugging her knees to her chest.
"Yeah but they'll probably want to know why they forgot their daughter ever even existed," he noted factually. Jade was silent for a moment as a swish of wind blew leaves out of the tree. She caught one of the leaves in her hand and stared at it.
"I highly doubt that they'd want to see the daughter that just walked out of the house one day," she told him. "You know, when I was in need of help I went to them. I didn't know what I was thinking but I went back to the home I left. When dad opened the door he seemed completely quizzical as to whom I was. It's a terrible feeling… being forgotten. But at the same time I was glad because I had no idea what they'd say if they actually did remember me." The sun finally disappeared from the horizon and they were left in the dark of night. Jade got up and pulled out her pocket watch in order to check the time.
"I can't believe you still have that," Freed said when he saw the pocket watch. "I gave that to you about six years ago on your birthday."
"Well of course I still have it. When I left the house 5 and a half years ago I wanted to keep something that would remind me of my brother, especially because you weren't the one that made me leave. I would've never left if I knew that just six months later I would meet Nathan and be screwed over by his twisted plan," she told him. Jade looked over to him and then smiled "but it's okay now." Before she could do anything Freed gave her a brotherly hug. "W-What?"
"I'm sorry I couldn't help you the moment you needed help. Instead you had to suffer for five years," he said to her but she shook her hair.
"Five years is nothing. I don't care if it's five or ten years; as long as I was able to meet you again and everyone in Fairy Tail I'm fine. I thought it'd take even longer to regain my smile but they brought it back in almost an instant. Time is nothing compared to that," Jade explained to her brother and he smiled. After that they parted ways for the night and went home. Jade let out a sigh as she walked in her home.
"Yo," she heard a voice and then opened her eyes. Natsu and Happy, along with Lucy, were sitting in her living room.
"What the hell!" she exclaimed.
"Natsu I told you not to do this," Lucy scolded him. Jade let out another sigh. She remembered that Lucy said something about Natsu's trespassing habits.
"I'll go cook some dinner," Jade said knowing that it'd be useless to try and get them to leave.
"You see Lucy, Jade is cool with it! Why do you always yell at me when I come into your apartment?" Natsu said as Jade went to her kitchen.
"Because it's trespassing!" she yelled back at him. Jade let out a chuckle. They were such a cute couple. When she finished cooking she came back with three plates and a fish. Happy gasped in excitement when he saw the fish and began munching on it straight away.
"Natsu," Jade said while she gave him his plate.
"Yes?"
"If you ever break into my house again I'm going to have to pulverize you," she told him with a threatening smile. Natsu gulped and Lucy put a hand over her mouth to hide her chuckle. "So why'd you guys even come here anyways? Did you need something?" the green-haired girl asked while they ate. She didn't even bother asking her how they found the place.
"I just wanted to see where you lived, nice place," Natsu said with a stuffed mouth. Jade let out yet another sigh. That was so typical of him. Lucy was probably dragged along while trying to stop him. Once the three left Jade was washing her dishes. After that she got changed into light blue pajamas and then got into bed. She couldn't sleep though. Her conversation with Freed kept going through her head.
"Mom, dad, how are you guys?" she asked the air knowing full well that her parents couldn't even hear her. After that she drifted into a dreamless sleep.
A/N: Hey you guys! Sorry for the long wait! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Please review on your thoughts of the story so far because I would love to know.
To those of you non NaLu fans sorry for the slight moment where Jade thought they were a cute couple but you're gonna have to deal with it! And to you actual NaLu fans, you're welcome. I don't really plan on including many Fairy Tail pairings or anything so other then a little comment here and there, there won't be too much of that.
And a slight spoiler for those of you who actually liked, or hated, Nathan... he will be back!... But way later.
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