Author's Note: Still no offers to Beta-Readers. There will be a Beta-Reader status posted upon my profile from now on.

Chapter 10

"You're kidding. The hell is this?!" Sting's furious voice boomed from inside the house. "Old lady explain yourself!" Sting's voice shouted as he could hear the old lady sighing. Already acknowledging that Sting had tracked his scent from earlier towards the room that Lady Obba had showed him. "He would never do something like that! Especially not to me! No matter what the circumstances." Sting shouted it sounding as if he were slowly crushing one of the crystal balls in his hand. "I can't control what's inside the crystals dear. They only change depending on who's around. Different types of future in different crystals." Lady Obba sighed as Sting's voice seemed unstable and shaky. "How...how could you show this to him? This...mess." The blonde's voice whispered the cracking sound of the crystal stopping as Sting was attempting to keep his composure being the leader of SaberTooth. Footsteps echoed back out on to the porch. Sting was standing next to him, one of the orbs within Sting's hands as he crossed his wrists over the wooden balcony. The orb illuminating the already white-night. "How..could she show such a thing to you." Sting grumbled as Rogue sighed glancing towards him.

"The only reason you saw my future's is...because in my futures you don't exist anymore." Rogue sighed as Sting nodded replaying the recollection of where he would be cut from the orbs and the orbs would follow Rogue around as over and over he attempted to fix everything.

Sting glanced down once again at the orb. Lady Obba's favorite orb as he rolled it around within his hand. The young shadow dragon slayer was within the hospital struggling with being beaten up, the cause apparently never being found, as he glanced over to Levy. Weaker than before. Already dealing with his magic eating him. As his eyes opened obviously not himself.

" He thinks you like Gajeel more huh? Well guess what?" Rogue's smile suddenly slanted as he looked towards her climbing out of bed as she rushed to help him up. "Are you awake?" Levy asked not sure if she should whisper or not since she was in a hospital. As she glanced into his eyes. "You don't want to do that." Rogue smiled down at her his eyes flashing.

"What is it?" The girl looked as if she was suddenly being overtaken by some form of unnatural fear. "Come here" Rogue had smiled roughly grabbing her forearms leaning closer he whispered into her ear. "I can do things to you that would make you forget everything about Gajeel." His words curling around her ear that made her heart jump, this Rogue that she was looking at now though sent a different type of fear through her.

"Its funny..I've all orbs..this is the one that ended the nicest." Rogue sighed glancing down at the scene again, as Sting attempted to understand what Rogue was feeling about such a vulgar display that almost seemed like it was on video as they stared into the orb lacrima. The emotions that usually swirled in his rubies all carefully concealed still obviously deep in his own world of thoughts.

"Wait Rogue you don't know what you're saying. Wake up." Levy muttered, turning red.

"Of course he does. I know his inner intentions he's not as good as you think he is. If you knew Rogue like I did Rogue is such a bad person, you'll never understand how much he hates.." Gajeel. Anything that will take you. How much he wants to reach for you but never does. The red eye's of Rogue smiled down at her a sly smile stretching across his face. Levy felt herself backing away till she felt her back slam against the window glancing down at the drop. A person somewhere in the distance their shadow emerging to probably open the hospital for the day.

Rogue was whispering something barely comprehensible as suddenly his lips slammed against hers. Levy felt herself suddenly become completely confused as his other hand reached up playing with her hair. Observing her, she had never seen such a critical cynical look upon her before especially by him. "Let go Rogue, Rogue you're hurting me." Levy whispered her hand reaching towards her forearm. As he glanced down quickly his red eyes flashing towards her. "I'm not Rogue babe'." He was practically laughing at her confusion.

"Duck!" A voice yelled as the room's door slammed open a chair being flung into the room as 'Rogue' suddenly slammed them both down to the floor hands still wrapped around her. "Levy the minute you get free get as much distance from him as possible!" It was Sting apparently he was the second one to come along in the early dark morning hour thankfully. "What's going on?" Levy shouted back as Rogue glanced down at her. "This is what you want Sting? You always piss me off so much...where do you even come from, out of the blue every single time." Rogue grumbled towards him as Levy glanced at Rogue no that wasn't Rogue he wouldn't say something like that towards Sting would he? They were always together but he wouldn't say something like that towards someone he had begun to call his brother in his own guild.

"You can't use magic unless you let her go."

"Same for you. You can't use magic unless I let her go...You did throw a chair at me." 'Rogue' smiled as she felt herself suddenly shift position and be thrown against the wall into the corner of the room. "Hey babe' i'm not done with you, so stay right there." Rogue smiled at her pausing for a minute. "Or I'll come back to kill you." he laughed turning to Sting.

"That's low man, she's just a fairy let her go."

"She's not just a fairy she's important to Rogue."

"So why does that matter?"

"I want it...I want to take it all from him, and he finally left me a valuable vulnerable spot to start."

" She's a person not an it- I mean leave her alone. That's totally lame."

The two argued for a little all the while attacking each other destroying the hospital room. "So anything else I can take from him?" This Rogue asked as Sting swung at him.

"Yeah."

"What?"

"This punch"

The two seemed pretty evenly matched but that was to say they were sparring in a hospital room in a hospital. "Ugh!" Sting felt himself dragged backwards almost shot out the door as he grabbed his side looking up at the shadow, it was hard working struggling not to hurt the person he cared for while trying to help them.

The man standing in front of her flinched as he tried to unsuccessfully glance at Sting who hit him in the back sending him flying against the wall. Leaving Sting standing in front of Levy, Rogue knocked into the wall, and damaged hospital equipment.

"You haven't had a problem with your shadow magic lately have you?" Sting asked waiting impatiently for the answer. The Sting within this pathway seemed to be fighting the problem the entire time, as if he knew since childhood. That he was baring the secret of Rogue's magic possessing him...that he was becoming a different person. A more sadistic, violent, sexually abusive, abusive in general person. There was a silence from Rogue. "Rogue.. is there something you aren't telling me?" Sting asked as Rogue sighed glancing away obviously not ready to share whatever he was hiding. "...Rogue?'

"I don't know okay! I don't! I can't remember my fight with Gajeel if that counts for anything."

The twins fell silent glancing inside once again where Levy was glowering at Juvia who was sighing in reply to her still trying to explain that she belonged to FairyTail's guild. "This is what we need to focus on now." Rogue whispered as Sting nodded, Rogue beginning to walk back inside, as Sting placed a hand on his shoulder. "What is it Sting?" Rogue sighed glancing at the blonde who was apparently trying to readjust his words. "Our guild is going to become one that protects its own." Sting said as Rogue nodded back, already knowing that was what Sting had wanted from the beginning being taught such from the Grand Magic Games. "No matter what happens.

I'm not going to let anything happen...

...to my little brother."