Hello viewers, here's chapter ten. I really don't have too much to say this time, so I will just leave you to reading. Fun fact of the week: I've actually completed several of the following chapters, so be ready for some of this coming soon.
I was, for the first time, ready to kill someone out of sheer anger. My eyes were full of rage, and anyone within a square mile would have been able to feel a sudden and steep rise in temperature. It took every drop of self-control I had to not burst into flames and burn him to a crisp, "Sayume," I said, quite obviously seething with anger, "why don't you go scout around for a minute?" Sayume nodded and dashed off, not wanting to see what I was about to do to Raniel. "Now," I said turning my attention back towards Raniel while tightening my grip on his throat and reaching for my scythe, "You have about five seconds to elaborate before I turn you into a pile of ash!" "Your parents, Alexander and Katria Kasai, were astounding wizards, and I believe were some of the candidates for being members of the ten wizard saints. They had the, umm, 'hobby' of destroying dark guilds. Mine and several other dark guilds were worried about their safety, so they sent some of their best wizards to kill the two of them. I believe that other than me, the roster consisted of, the wind mage Erigor, the poison dragon slayer Cobra, and the flame god slayer Zancrow. We were all sent to where we were informed that they were living, and like the "heartless bastards" we were, we killed them both while they were asleep, and proceeded to burn the house down. But, as we were doing so, yours truly was approached by an eight-year-old boy named Nicholai. Going against my better judgment, I hit him on the head and set him down somewhere in the woods instead of killing him. Now, as you can see, that decision has come back to bite me in the ass." My rage towards him grew more and more, until I couldn't prevent myself from bursting into flames, "You insane, sadistic, COLD BLOODED BASTARD!" I made my grip on his throat even tighter, also making my hand over his throat even hotter, "DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT YOU DID TO ME? DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE TO LIVE WITHOUT ANYONE TO CALL FAMILY, ANYWHERE TO CALL HOME? FOR SIX LONG YEARS I SCRAPED BY, LIVING WITH NO PURPOSE, IT WAS THE SAME AS BEING DEAD!" Raniel began to gasp for air, "Rock make: H-hammer." "Huh?" I suddenly received a hard knock to the head, causing my vision to get blurry. I wasn't able to maintain my grip on his throat, and he began to run away. Despite being on the verge of passing out, I chased after him with all of the strength I had left, "GET BACK HERE!" however, it wasn't enough, as my vision began to go dark, and I fell to the ground.
"Nicholai! Nicholai wake up!" My head was throbbing, my vision was cloudy, and it hurt to move. "Ugghh." "Good, you're conscious." "What a cowardly bastard, knocks me out and runs with his tail between his legs." "I'm sorry Nicholai, I came over as soon as I sensed Raniel running away, but I couldn't catch up to him." "It's alright, we can easily find him again, but right now, I need you to find three other mages. A flame god slayer, a poison dragon slayer, and an extremely powerful wind mage." "Alright," Sayume answered, slightly confused, "Umm, you probably aren't going to like this, but these will be a bit trickier to track down. That wind mage you are looking for doesn't exactly stick out, as you can imagine. In the case of the other two, I didn't even need to try and focus on any of the energies close to them to tell that other, powerful wizards surround them." "We can figure out how to deal with the other two later. We need to get some information about Erigor, do you know anything in particular?" Sayume thought for a moment, "The name sounds slightly familiar, I do believe that Erigor only accepts assassination jobs, so we may be able to get a lead from that." "Alright, let's see what we can find out." I drifted off into my own world as I had before, "Don't worry. Mom, Dad, I won't let them get away with what they did to the two of you."
*6 weeks later*
Sayume and I sat in a pair of barstools, moping over yet another one of our leads not working. "Nicholai, I don't want to be disrespectful, but is it really worth going through all of this just to find this one guy?" While him saying that did make me angry, I tried to act as level headed as I could, "Yes, it is, and I'm not going to stop until I get back at each and every one of those jerks. Now come on, lets try and find another lead." Sayume reluctantly got up, "Alright." So, I talked to the rest of the people in the bar as Sayume left the bar and flew around, asking anyone if they knew anything. We met up about ten minutes later, and I, with no lead, was having low hopes. Then, Sayume flew towards me with the largest grin on his face, which then mirrored onto my face. "Nicholai! While this will make you feel stupid, I've got great news! Erigor was apparently defeated and arrested about a week ago by your brother, so if we want to talk to Erigor, all we need to do is talk to the magic council about it. Although I don't exactly know if they would be ok with that." "Don't worry, I will convince them, whether it be with words," I lit my hand on fire, "or with force. Either way, let's go. You know where it is?" Sayume sprouted his wings, "I sure do."
*Several hours later*
As we flew through the town of Era, we began to be able to see the magic council's headquarters. After we touched down near the front gate, several guards confronted us. "Stop! What is your business here?" I attempted to act as formally as I could, "We request to see the prisoner Erigor, as I specifically have business with him." "Sir, while you may seem to have no bad intentions, I cannot allow you to see the prisoner without proper clearance." Frustrated, I began to lose my polite tone, "If you do not let me pass, I will have no quarrel with introducing my fist to your face." The guard also began to act more aggressive, "Any sign of aggression will be treated with extreme measures. So if I were you, I would watch your tongue." Sayume, being the quick thinker and level headed cat that he was, quickly de-escalated the situation. "I do apologize for my friend's behavior here. You see, we are reporters from sorcerers weekly, and our boss asked us to see if we could get an interview with the prisoner. I know it may be a bit unconventional, but our boss is quite the demanding man, as you can imagine." The guards, after several minutes of talking amongst each other, sent someone from the group to speak to us, "Alright, you can talk to him. Just don't do anything stupid, it took one of Fairy Tail's top tier wizards to defeat this guy." As I was in a better mood, I saw no reason not to act polite once again, "Thank you kind sir!" "Yeah yeah, just get the interview done and be on your way." As the gates opened and the guard led us down to Erigor's cell, Sayume and I were constantly checking to make sure our weapons weren't visible. "Well, here he is. Erigor, you've got visitors." "Do I now? Who would want to visit me?" "Now," I said turning to face the guard, "I do believe that the prisoner would be more comfortable being interviewed if he didn't have you standing there." "Are you sure you'll be alright being alone with him?" "Of course! Now, if you please." "Alright," the guard left, leaving just Erigor, Sayume, and I in a cell together. "Now, getting back to the interview," I hid my anger behind a false sense of peppy interviewer attitude, "Hey Erigor, I just wanted to ask you some questions, is that ok?" "Whatever fly." "Ok, well, lets get started. Can you remember the names of people you were assigned to assassinate?" "These are some weird questions you're asking here, but whatever. You'd be surprised, but I do in fact remember a lot the names of the people I am assigned to kill and those related to them." "Alright, now, does the last name Kasai, ring any bells?" I remember that name. I was assigned to take out Alexander and Katria Kasai, but they were both worthless flies. I do also remember their kid; I think his name was Nicholai. I left the decision of what to do with him up to this rock make wizard I was working with; I can't remember his name though." "Good," I began to shift my voice to a darker tone, "Now, could you please tell me my name?" I slowly made my hand hotter and hotter, "How do you expect me to know your na-" He just got a sudden look of realization on his smug face. My hand began to become coated in flames, "You killed my parents, and make no mistake, I don't care if it's the shinigami himself I need to fight, I will pay back the men who killed my parents ten fold." He got a grin on his face, "Bring it on fly."
Hello again viewers, thank you for reading this chapter of my story. By the way, just two little side notes. 1. Just because I'm having Nicholai fight the same people that Natsu did does not make me not creative, it is supposed to show how they both overcame the same obstacles. 2. If you are wondering why these time skips are on scales of weeks, it is because I am having Nicholai's story develop alongside the actual anime story (Yes, I checked the timeline and all of the time skips will be completely accurate). Anyway, see you next upload!