Alex awakes after his fight and learns of the S-Class Wizard Exam.
Chapter 10 Start
Noise. Alex was vaguely aware of it. He was floating in darkness, no destination in mind and monsters waiting for the perfect chance to strike. Yet the thoughts in his mind were focused on one person. Lisa. He knew he fought her, but he couldn't remember the result...maybe he was dead and that's why he was in darkness and couldn't remember things about when he was alive. He suddenly heard a voice he knew. It was...he wasn't sure exactly who but he moved towards it through the darkness. Alex saw a light and he moved closer and closer, trying to reach it. As he got closer to the light it shone brighter and he suddenly found himself looking up at a roof. He heard a voice call out.
"Master, he's awake." a female voice. Alex turned his head and saw Wendy sitting on a chair beside the bed he was on. Makarov came over and stood at the end of his bed.
"You managed to win against a strong enemy again Alex." Makarov said
"Won?" Alex laughed a bit "I lost. Big time."
"You lost but she didn't kill you?"
"No. I talked her out of killing me and she left...after she had me defeated."
"You took quite a bit of damage Alex..."
"I know."
"I managed to heal your lung." Wendy spoke up "So you're not in danger of dying...but why is that patch over your eye?"
Alex reached up and felt something hard as stone "Ah...I used this on myself."
"But why?"
"I've lost an eye. My left eye got cut very badly."
"That's horrible..." She muttered.
"Well I don't have a choice. I need to deal with it."
"Alex." Makarov said "Do you remember Porlyusica?"
Alex thinks for a moment "The one that tried to help me with my loss of magic power?"
"Exactly. She helped Erza when she first arrived, with the same problem you have. If all goes well you're be back to normal soon." Alex jumped to his feet and smirked.
"I'm fine. Just my vision is halved." Alex walks out of the room "But I'll go see her in a bit Makarov."
Alex went down stairs and was immediately noticed by Natsu.
"Alex! You managed to beat the other Dragon Slayer, right?" Erza and Gray come up behind him.
"No. I was completely destroyed. Not even my Dragon Force or Blood Drive had any effect against her..."
"Did she use that move on your eye to blind you on one side?" Gray asked.
"No...I did this move."
"Don't tell me she-" Erza started.
"Yes. She cut my eye, it's unusable."
"Where did she go if you didn't defeat her?!" Natsu shouted "I'll get her back for you!"
"She took my advice and is trying to use her magic for good, instead of trying to kill me."
"What advice?" Erza asked
"To try join a guild, to make friends, and to make memories with them."
"You could have asked her to join here you know. The master would have let her."
"Sorry. I was kind of on the verge of blacking out when she was leaving." Alex said.
"If you see her tell her she is welcome here."
"Will do. I'm going to see if I can get my sight back now." Alex left the Fairy Tail building, only to be greeted by another voice calling him.
"Alex." He didn't turn around
"Yes, Dai?"
The Exceed flew to his side "What do you mean yes?! You were out for a while."
"I know. Now I need to get my sight repaired."
"What happened?"
"My eye got slashed."
"Your eye...ouch."
"It did hurt. Now either follow me or stay here."
Alex arrived at Porlyusica's house and he walked over and went to knock when suddenly the door opened and he missed. Porlyusica stood in the doorway.
"Oh it's you. What do you want?"
"I have a favour to ask of you..."
"You hurt yourself again?"
"No...I got into a fight with-"
"Another Dragon Slayer?"
"How did you guess that?"
"Just a guess."
"Well yes. It was another Blood Dragon Slayer."
"Well come inside and tell me what the damage is." She walked back inside and Alex followed her. She motioned Alex to sit on a chair.
"So, what happened?" She asked looking at the patch over his eye.
Alex made his claw appeared "Something like this managed to connect with my face, cutting my eye."
"Remove the patch."
"Okay." Alex made the patch disappear.
"Now open the eye." Alex did as he was told and she examined it. It felt odd for her to being looking at where his eye use to be but he sat still.
"Your eye is completely gone, cut right out."
"She only slashed at me...I don't know how my eye is gone. Can you do anything?"
"Yes. I've only done this once before so it might not be perfect."
"As long as I can see from it, then do it."
"It's going to be painful."
"I don't care just do it. I don't care how much it hurts.
A few hours later
"Fuck! She wasn't kidding." Alex's new eye was burning and was under the patch of blood again for it to get use to being there. Porlyusica told him he had a scar over his eye, so it would be a constant reminder that he had a new eye. Another scar to add to the collection Alex thought bitterly. He walked into Fairy Tail and Natsu ran out right by him, Happy close behind.
"What the...?" Alex mutter as he walked in.
"Alex, come here!" Makarov called to him.
Alex went over "Yeah?"
"You missed the Fairy Tail S-Rank Exam participant pick."
"The what?"
"Each year we have an exam where mages are picked to try and become an S-Class mage. It always takes place on Fairy Tail's special island, Tenrou Island. Each mage picked also picks a partner to help them pass the exam."
"Who was picked."
"Natsu, Gray, Elfman, Cana, Freed, Levy, Juvia and Mest." Alex had no idea who Freed or Mest were, but he knew the other ones at least a bit.
"I see. How does it concern me in anyway?"
"Because I am inviting you to come as well. For two reasons. First: I feel something bad might happen and we need your strength and Second: So you can see Tenrou island for yourself."
"If it was anyone but the guild master I would decline...but fine."
"Good. Now the exam will start in a week, we leave around noon. But you will travel there alone earlier then the rest of us. I don't want to concern the other members and they, mostly Natsu, might complain if you get to go when you were not picked."
"Understood."
"So in 7 days we head to Tenrou Island."
Chapter 10 End