"RAAAA!" the scream echoed throughout the forest, birds were startled into flight, deer like creatures bolted into the undergrowth away from the thrashing human who had just landed near them, "AHHHH! Where did it all go… AHHHH!" Crimson screamed as his body convulsed with another pulse of pain, 'aggg, ok think, I can't see anything, can't hear anything ether, can't feel anything but pain, let me try…' as he thought this he successfully flipped himself over and got to his feet and staggered at the new pain that came as he stood, "GRRRR, you won't beat me, you'll never beat me, never..." Crimson muttered to himself as he took one pain filled step after another, with each, a stream of blood flowed out of his sleeves, pooling at his feet and soaking into his boots.

'Squish' 'squish' his bloodstained boots made this sound as he painstakingly made his way through the dark forest, pain flowing with each step.

Finally Crimson's stamina ran out, he crumpled against a nearby tree and fell into unconsciousness.

? weeks later

"I can't remember, I can't remember anything before the accident, why can't I remember!" These words swirled inside Crimson's head, repeating over and over, then suddenly, light pressed against his eyelids.

Crimson felt a prod near his stomach, "Get up, I can tell your conscious" a elderly voice said from nearby and the prodding resumed. Crimson's eyes cracked open and were met with the sight of a elderly woman wearing a red cloak, who light pink hair. Once he met her serious gaze, Crimson recognized the woman. "Porlyusica..." his hoarse voice trailed off as he finally noticed the bandages covering most of his upper body. "...Sorry for the trouble. I'll be taking my leave now, I have things to do." Crimson said as he sat up and winced as his muscles screamed at the sudden usage of his body. Porlyusica started to speak as he stumbled across the floor. "How do you know... - never mind, leaving would be suicide! Not that I care for the affairs of humans, but ever since you showed up out of the blue, injured, your body has been slow to heal. I've been around for longer than most, and treated more injuries than you can imagine, but even I can't do anything. If you were a normal person you would be dead, and I don't want people saying I would simply abandon someone to their death." Crimson ignored her, and continued to rise from the bed. Porlyusica, growing irritated, snapped "Fine! Go kill yourself, I don't care." She rubbed her temples as Crimson made his way to the front entrance and, with weak hands, opened the door, and walked into the shadows of the forest.

Crimson silently walked through the trees, trying not to succumb to the aches of his body. Birds sang, crickets chirped, a stream gurgled, but Crimson was too preoccupied with his thoughts to notice.

'If what Porlyusica said was true, then months have passed in the world, I need to find out what arc is happening, otherwise…' he cut his thoughts short as he stumbled into a shallow stream. It was at this moment that Crimson remembered two important things. The first was the realization that he had left his boots with Porlyusica, and was currently barefoot.

The second was much more important. "Creature of the internal blaze, hear my cry and manifest" with this the bandages across his chest started to glow, out of the many folds of bandages came a signer mark, "RED DRAGON ARCHFIEND!" a roar echoed through the nearby area, the mark of wings disappeared from Crimsons chest as the enormous dragon landed with an enormous crash that shook the earth, "SO WE MEET AGAIN LITTLE HUMAN" the dragon said in a deep booming voice that sounded almost jovial. "Time is not our ally Archfiend, I fear that there's something bigger than the rifts, something the Crimson Dragon hasn't told me. He never did say what I was supposed to do with you and the others, after all." Crimson finished. Archfiend burst into loud booming laughter and spoke, "YOU CATCH ON QUICKLY, WARRIOR! GRAB A HOLD, I WILL EXPLAIN ON THE WAY!" Archfiend offered a leg for Crimson to use as a foothold. Then the dragon lifted itself out into the starry night sky.

A/N:

I'm sad to say this, dear readers, but I'll be putting my fics on hiatus for a while because:

The Crimson Dragonslayer: I just put that up for the experience, and I found the complications of writing the adventure away from the rest of the Fairy Tail gang to be too difficult and mind-numbing.

In Another World with My Cell Phone: This was just too weird, especially with the original version not having any plot whatsoever.

Bionicle: The New Guardians of Metru Nui: Eh... I got bored of it.

But Good News!

I'm starting a brand new fic, and this time, I'm gonna do it right!

So, See ya later!

-Ghostly