Memory

"Darkness...is it a curse or a blessing" said a deep tone voice that echoes around the area. "It gives the holder great power as well turning themselves into something more"

The person who spoke stands with his blue hair being pushed a little by the wind. His eyes glows dark with a spiral in them. His hands were covered in a thick coat of darkness. His eyes were focused on Yusei who slowly gets up on his feet.

"Jellal..agh..why are you doing this-" Natsu said still weak on the ground.

"Because...of this new power" Jellal answers him with wide eyes. "Can you feel it"

"The darkness is consuming him" Kira states.

"No, it can't be.." Erza said shaking her head not wanting to see Jellal being controlled again.

"Don't tell me he's are enemy again" Wendy said in fear.

"No!" Natsu growls on the ground and clenches his hand. "He's our friend...If I have to beat you down again to normal...I will!"

Natsu glares at Jellal and pushes himself up but can feel a strike of pain hit his arms. He grits his teeth. He is no condition to fight Jellal but he can't see him like this. Not after meeting him at his cell. He suffered to long for something he was forced to do. He won't let it happen again.

"Gahh!" Yusei screams in pain after feeling a strange pattern crawl on him. It binds him where he stands.

He can feel it dig into him slowly. He breathes heavily looking at Jellal. He can feel himself about to lose consciousness which can not happen. Staring into Jellal's eyes, he can see a man being controlled so easily. The temptation of the darkness is hard to overcome. He knows it more than anyone. He bathed in it.

Jellal snaps his fingers causing the pattern to shock Yusei who screams and falls on one knee. Jellal had a big smile liking the sound that came from Yusei.

"Pain...the best feeling.." Jellal said gripping his hand.

"Jellal, stop this!" Erza shouts to him who turns one eye to her.

"Your not the boss of me" Jellal said in a cold tone.

Erza can feel her skin crawl after hearing his voice. This Jellal is different from the one she met in the tower of heaven. He looks more insane to her.

"Now wait your turn…" Jellal said shifting his attention to Yusei. "After I'm done with him...you all are next"

A big evil grin appears on his face. Everyone can feel his power coming out from him. It was making it hard to breath. Yusei had his hair covering his eyes.

"Haha...too bad..you lose this time.." Slayer spoke from a far with a grin staring at Yusei.

"Behold...my darkness" Jellal said closing his hands together.

Hands of darkness is created out of thin air, smashing together with Yusei in between it. Yusei can feel every inch of his body get stung. The force of the hands is compressing his body.

"Aaargh!" Yusei yells with his eyes widen.

"Yusei!" Everyone screams in a worried tone.

"Damn it" Natsu said clenching his teeth.

Jellal's attack fades causing Yusei to fall forward. Erza eyes widen fearing that Yusei died once again and to make it worse by Jellal. Which she thought until Yusei stopped falling. His body is a few inches on the ground but his toes was supporting his weight and pushes him up slowly. It surprised everyone even Jellal.

"Your darkness.." Yusei said slowly biting his lip. "Is nothing...compared to..mine"

Suddenly, the space around him goes black. Chains starts wrapping against Yusei tightly in place. His eyes turned black like coal. Jellal didn't understand whats happening. Everything around turns dark. Jellal soon notice he couldn't move.

"What's going?" Jellal spoke.

"I want to know that too" Gajeel states feeling creeped out.

"hmm" Kira bites her lip and tightens her fist.

"Kira..do you know?" Lucy asked seeing something wrong.

She didn't answer instead she kept her eyes on Yusei who is all chained up. Natsu recognized this from before when he synced with him but he thought he was seeing things.

"Its so dark here" Levy states not being able to see any light.

"Is this the inside of Yusei's heart?" Markov spoke.

"No.." Kira said. "This is where all the darkness Yusei absorbs is stored"

"All of this!?" Gray said shocked.

"Why are we here? And how is this possible!?" Levy said confused.

Suddenly a image appears in the darkness catching everyone's attention. The chains gets covered by dark energy.

The image reveals a dark room with the moonlight appearing through the window. A young boy is revealed looking pale staring at a pool of blood with two bodies over it. Another young boy is seen through the shadows with a evil grin and bloody hands. Tears fall from the scared young boy.

The image soon cracks and changes. A dark cloudy day is revealed and the young boy lays on the stoned path with rain falling from the skies. His eyes were half opened and can see two people walking close to him. The image changes again into a room with the boy resting in the bed.

His eyes slowly open and sees a green haired girl at the end of his bed with a older woman next to her. His eyes were faded not being able to see their faces clearly.

"Mommy, he's waking up!" the little girl said in a happy tone.

"Indeed he is…" her mother replies with a smile and looks at the boy. "What's your name.."

He hesitates and shakes a little underneath the sheets. He tries to speak but nothing was coming out. It was more like he couldn't remember how to say his name. It took some time for him to speak and the mother and daughter waited for him to speak.

"Y-Yusei.." he finally spoke quietly.

"Yusei..an odd name" the mother states.

"Hello Yusei...I'm Hisui!" the green haired girl said with a smile.

Yusei showed no reaction to her and lays on the bed. He looks up at the ceiling and slowly remembers what happened. That terrible night. He feels his sheets being tugged and notice Hisui is the one who is causing it.

"Lets go out and play!" Hisui said with sparkles in her eyes.

"Hisui...let him rest...he seems like he gone through alot" the mother tells her.

"But he is the same age as me right.." Hisui states.

"He does…" The mother looks at Yusei a with a small frown. "Too young to have that expression"

Yusei soon gets pulled out of bed by Hisui but showed no reaction by it. Instead, he feels nothing. Not even her hand touching his. It felt invisible.

"Don't worry Mommy...I will take care of him" Hisui states with a smile and pulls Yusei through the door.

" be careful!" her mother said.

OOO

When Yusei got outside, his vision gotten worse. The light kept on hurting his eyes and yet can see the little green haired girl pulling him around. The two spent time walking around Crocus with Hisui trying to make Yusei crack a smile but nothing did.

Not even giving him food. Yusei kept the same expression like the life was taken out from him. The day is almost over and Hisui brought him back to the castle. She sees her father waiting for her return.

"My lovely daughter!..your back!" the king said hugging her.

"Daddy..stop" Hisui said blushing, hugging back.

"I hear you made a new friend" the king said taking a look at Yusei.

"Ya, his name is Yusei...he doesnt talk much" Hisui states with a slight frown.

"Yusei...well thank you for spending time with my daughter" the king said but gets no response. "Hmm...oh, Hisui I have a message for you"

"Oh what is it!" Hisui said excited.

"A surprised guest will come to the city to see you tomorrow" the king said in cheerful tone.

"Who!" Hisui asked.

While the two were talking, Yusei just stands watching the two interact. It bothered him seeing them so he decided to walk away from them. There isn't a reason for him to stay. Actually, what other reason is for him to live.

OOO

Yusei stands in front of the gates with Hisui waiting for the guest coming today. He was dragged here yet again by Hisui who couldn't wait. Yusei still couldn't see things clearly but there was something red coming from a far. It reminded him of that night. He clenched his fist.

"Erza!" Hisui shouts and runs to her.

"Hisui" Erza replies getting surprised by her hug. "It's been so long"

"Oh, your not wearing the eye patch" Hisui states noticing Erza's new eye.

"Well, things changed…I'm glad you're looking well" Erza states with a smile and notices Yusei. "Whos your new friend?"

"His name is Yusei...he's not much of a talker though" Hisui exclaims looking back at him.

Yusei notice something appear in front of him. It was Erza's hand.

"Hi, I'm Erza…" she said with a grin.

There was no response from him just a look away. He then gets pushed into the ground by Erza who stomps on his chest not liking to be ignored.

"Hey!, it's rude to ignore someone who is talking to you…" she tells him and feels a little shaken by her.

"Well then…" Erza said getting off him. "Its time to go on an adventure...ready"

"Yay!" Hisui states.

OOO

The three enters the forest with Erza leading and Hisui right next to her. Yusei was all the way in the back looking at the ground. He can hear the two chatter but his mind kept going back to that memory over and over. It made his blood boil.

"Yusei!" Erza shouts.

However, Yusei is too deep in his memory to hear her. He gets pinned to the ground again by her.

"Have you been listening to me?" Erza asked in a serious tone. "You need to cut it out with this act of yours...in this mission we all need to work together and protect each other from danger...that's what friends do"

"..friends.." Yusei spoke softly with his eyes widening.

"He spoke.." Hisui said shocked.

"Ya...friends...when a friend is in need..their a friend indeed...remember that" Erza tells him.

She gets off of him and walks to Hisui. Yusei stays on the ground a little longer before getting up. "Having a friend...is the most painful thing" he thought feeling his heart hurt getting a flash of the young boy with that evil grin appear in his mind.

What the three thought would be an easy adventure of picking special strawberries became a dangerous mission involving them risking their lives. Hungry wolves appeared. Yusei is right on the line of the hungry wolves. He felt scared and couldn't move from his spot. He didn't know what to do.

The wolves jump to him but Erza jumped in and struck them with her sword but gets slammed into a tree. She screams in pain. One of the wolf continues to go for Yusei but Hisui stands in front of it with a blade she got from Erza. From her last visit, Hisui learned a little from Erza.

"Runaway...runaway Yusei" Hisui tells him shaking in fear.

Yusei eyes widen didn't understand what she told him. He soon hears Erza saying the same. He didn't get it. Why did the two want him to be the only one to run. His eyes rapidly blink causing his vision to clear up. He sees Hisui getting thrown to the ground by the wolf. Yusei looks at her then at Erza. "when a friend is in need-" he thought and looks at the wolf.

He can feel a warm breeze pass him. He stands up from the ground and walks toward the wolves without fear. He ignores the screams from the girls and continues to walk to the hungry wolves. He glares at them. He raised a hand to them. They charge for him.

"Get away from them" he said in a cold tone and a burst of fire comes out from him covering the area.

OOO

Yusei eyes widen slowly feeling his strength drained. He notice he wasn't in his room and that he is tied up with his knees on the ground.

"I hear you saved the princess little boy.." said a voice unfamiliar to him. "From what she said...you summoned fire"

Yusei can hear the man coming from behind him. He isn't sure how it happened but he just imagined fire.

"A boy your age with this kind of power is rare...and must be...tested"

"Tested?" Yusei said confused.

Suddenly a streak of pain appears on his back causing him to remember his past. The thing that changed his world. Witnessing a murder of his parents caused by someone close to him. He feels it again and remembers again.

"Arghh!" he yells in pain and sweats.

"Show me...that hidden power of yours!" the man said slicing his back with energy that doesn't cause marks on his back but does damage internally.

Yusei screams again feeling something want to come out. He grits his teeth in anger and looks over his shoulder and sees the man who is causing this. He gets sliced again. That's when a burst of his energy comes out from him. He soon blanks out.

OOO

It became morning and a bell rings. Yusei finds himself awaking in his room. He soon hears a scream and runs to the window. The scream came from Hisui that he sees being taken away in a carriage.

"Hisui" he said and leaves his room.

Hisui was getting kidnapped and couldn't stop crying and screaming for help. She soon sees Yusei running to her.

"Yusei!" she yells his name with tears sliding down her cheeks.

Yusei hears her but the carriage kept getting farther away from him to reach. What happened last night still affected him but he couldn't do nothing. He trips and hits the ground. The carriage enters a trail along side a cliff. Yusei pushes himself, not going to let her go away.

"No.." he said in a deep tone. "No!"

He can't lose another person in his life. Not again. He feels a warm breeze brush against his skin. He can feel heat coming out of his hands. He looks up and sees a tree on top of the cliff which wasn't too high. He starts to climb the cliff faster and faster, until he was running along side it.

There was smoke coming out from his feet. He makes a huge jump and grabs the branch. He makes a flip and starts free falling down to the other side, spotting the carriage down below.

"Hisui!" he yells and lands on it scaring the kidnappers.

Yusei used this moment to kick two out then push the driver out. Hisui hugged him, shocking him. However it wasn't over. Yusei turns and notice where the carriage is going.

The carriage jumps off the edge of the cliff. Yusei eyes shift to Hisui and takes her hand. He used all his strength to throw her to safety while he pushes himself further away.

"YUSEI!" Hisui yells at him at the edge.

Yusei looks back at her. He remembered the times he spent with her and Erza. As well in this strange place. When his vision cleared, he realized something. "This isn't...my world...I don't belong here...but.." Yusei thought turning his attention to Hisui. "Thank you and Erza...even though she scares me to death...thank you both for being my friends" he thought and gives her his first smile in a long time.

He free falls deeper in the darkness. He can hear Hisui's yell but his life is done. He will get to see his parents. Until he heard a growl causing him to turn his head.

Crimson flames appears in a flash and envelopes Yusei causing him to drain in fire yet doesn't feel it burn his skin.

"Your not done yet...Yusei" a deep voice spoke in his head.

A portal opens and he falls straight in.

"This is only the beginning...I've decided to chose you..you must not die!"

OOO

Yusei eyes opens. He gets up feeling like he got pinned down by Erza a hundred times over. A spot light turns on blinding his vision. It clears up revealing him to a building in the middle of nowhere.

This wasn't Crocus anymore but somewhere else. He didn't know where but once he entered this building. His life will change. For the worse.

OOO

A image flashes with Yusei being strapped into a table. He was wearing a hospital gown. He was breathing heavily and couldn't move. He is struck with a beam of energy causing him to scream in agony. He began remember his worst memories and the pain that came with it. He has been remembering his parents death over and being torched by that man as well as falling to his death. The outcome from this was Yusei's power was being sucked out along with a new power revealing itself. The Darkness.

His mind couldn't take it anymore or his heart. He let himself go which caused his mind to go dark.

A fuzzy image appears involving screams and yells. There was blood splattered everywhere and multiple scientist dead on the ground. Yusei lost control and got consumed. His mind was full of rage and hate. He wanted to kill. Soon a man appears at the end of the hallway which caused Yusei to dash to him with speed.

The man did not move or fear him. Instead, he pound his palm right at Yusei's chest knocking him unconscious.

OOO

Yusei eyes opens and first thing he sees is a smiling old man with a beard and long wavy hair up to his neck.

"Who are you" Yusei said softly unable to remember anything except.

"I'm..Shin" the man replies. "And you are.."

"..Yusei" he answers him like he never heard of his name before.

"Well then Yusei...from this day on.." Shin said placing his hand on Yusei's head. "I'm going to take care of you"

Yusei didn't know this man or himself but can feel like he can trust him. He wonders why. It could be his smile but he isn't sure.

OOO

Five years as past and the sky was clear blue. Yusei is 15 now and is outside wearing baggy grey pants and wearing a white robe. He was sweating and had a grin on his face. Shin is right in front of him with the same grin and breathes heavily. The two swings their wooden swords at each other. They connected and were inches away from each other.

"My, have you gotten strong" Shin said grinning.

"Well.." Yusei said and swings. "I had too when I have a strict teacher"

Shin blocks it and smirks. He swings his sword but Yusei dodges.

"Call it...being kind" Shin tells him and points his sword to the ground.

"What...you're done for the day old man" Yusei said putting his sword on his shoulder.

"...aren't you eager to fight" Shin said wiping the sweat from his face.

"Can't help it...it's fun" Yusei said grinning.

"Fun...heh" Shin said then looks at him in a serious tone.

"Whats the matter?" Yusei said noticing his expression.

"I know that you want to become strong...but, there is a right way...and a wrong way of going at it" he tells him.

"Uh?...so, you've been teaching me the wrong way all this time" Yusei states, in shock.

Shin smacks Yusei's head with his wooden sword.

"Ouch!" Yusei said rubbing his head.

"Don't get tempted by power to much...it alone can't make you strong" Shin tells him.

"What else is there?" Yusei asked confused.

"Ugh..I should bring you to the outside world more often…" Shin said shaking his head. "A reason to become strong is one...along with people you want to be strong for"

"...like?" Yusei said trying to get the answers from him.

"Your going to have to find the answers yourself….I won't always be around..you know" he said walking away from him.

OOO

One night, a fire breaks out in the city where Yusei is staying. He left is room and goes on his balcony. He wondered what is causing it. His eyes widen sensing something behind him. He jumps off his balcony that exploded. He lands on a roof and begins to run. Small bombs were thrown at him. He didn't have a sword on him to defend himself.

A masked man soon appeared in front of him and pushed his gut. Yusei spits out blood and hits the ground. Fire blocked him from escaping. Yusei looked at the masked man in fear. He moves back but can already tell, he is done for.

"Surprised your alive...thought you burned in that lab" said the masked man.

"What?...what lab?" Yusei asked confused.

"You dont remember...the screams...the blood shed" the man walks closer to him.

Yusei eyes widen and images starts flashing in his head. It begins to hurt. He can feel is heart being choked. The memories are becoming clearer now.

"I-i remember" he said shaking where he sits.

"Good...but now its time for me to take that hidden power of yours" the mans hand glowed green then turning into a blade. "It should be matured now that it can be extracted from you with ease!"

Yusei sees the blade come closer to his chest. He close his eyes and waits for the pain. He soon hear drips and a cough but no pain. He slowly open his eyes. His pupils shrunk seeing Shin in front of him with the blade through his chest.

"S-shin…" Yusei stutters not wanting to believe it.

"Its alright now…" Shin said coughing out blood a little. "I'm sorry that your seeing this old man this way..haha..but dont blame yourself...I haven't told you this but, i have sealed your memories because I knew...they weren't happy ones...so I wanted to make new memories for you so you can prepare yourself but seems like...things didn't end that way"

Shin smiles while Yusei tears slide down from his eyes. It was painful to watch this. He wanted to look away and run but regaining his memories brought him the feelings he felt before. Sadness, hate, anger, frustration and tears.

"Yusei..I dont have time left so…" Shin places his hand on Yusei's forehead. "I'm going to have to seal them away again...along with our time together"

"No wait-!" Yusei said until getting pushed by Shin.

"Just know...I had fun being your guardian" Shin smiles while Yusei falls into a portal Shin opened.

Yusei eyes were blanked and his tears were breaking. His memories are becoming clouds of nothing in his head. A few minutes has passed and Yusei finds himself laying on a bench. He sits up and notice it's dark out. He touches his cheek feeling it wet but didn't know how it got there. It didn't seem like it rained. He gets up from the bench and starts to walk to a random direction not knowing anything about his past just his name.

OOO

The image slowly fades. Yusei stands breathing heavily still in chains. He had his eyes locked on Jellal who looked shocked as well as afraid from his gaze.

"Those were-" Natsu spoke in a shaky voice unable to react to what he saw also felt.

It was like he was that boy in the images shown. It wasn't just him that felt it but everyone else. He turns his attention to Yusei and is surprised to see a small smirk on his face. The chains around Yusei begins to spiral around him, covering his arms and legs then neck. The dark space around everyone soon cracks. They return back to where they were before.

Yusei is cloaked with darkness that slowly transforms. His robe changes colour to pure black along with his nails. His hair covers more of his face and dark smoke comes off his body slowly. He put his right arm out causing the darkness to materialized into a sword with sharp triangular blades on the side of it. The sword glows in power.

"heh...I'll show what true darkness is...that will make you shake" Yusei said in a deep tone wearing a evil grin on his face.

He turns his sword horizontally in front of him. Jellal steps a foot back seeing his vision fuzz up a little just by looking at Yusei.

"Yusei.." Hisui spoke rubbing her water eyes shocked seeing his memories. "He suffered so much"

"Why did we all see his memories?" Gajeel asked feeling bad for him but seeing him now just caused his feelings to be mix.

"The darkness…" Makarov said with a fearful expression. "He forced himself to relive those memories to obtain it.."

"yes...Yusei is also able to make someone relive their memories along with himself...and now" Kira said gripping his shoulder. "He entered his other form.."

Jellal can feel Yusei's power and can feel every cell of his body shake. He didn't understand why he is even afraid. He has the same power too. He clenches his fist and glares at Yusei ready to fight him.

However, he didn't know that Yusei was waiting for him to act like this. He appeared right in front of him with an insane grin and slashes across his chest causing him to smash into a building. He isn't given time to stand and Yusei dashes to him with the darkness spreading from him like wildfire.

"You don't understand...how it feels being in the darkness…" Yusei said and swings his sword again but Jellal jumps away with a scared expression and sees the building get covered by darkness.

"He's going to kill him" Natsu states seeing Yusei's expression and can smell his blood lust.

He wanted to stop him but with one glance from Yusei. Natsu trembles. There is a moment that Natsu swears that its Slayer attacking Jellal but knew very well that its Yusei. Everyone else felt the same. Even master Makarov but he sees something else.

"What a drastic change...this boy...looks like he as the darkness under controlled but he's going wild like a wild animal hunting his prey…" Makarov thought sweating and thinks back at the crimson slayer. He questions himself if it wasn't the dragon Nexus to be afraid of but the one who he choose. Yusei.

Jellal creates a magical circle in front of him and shoots out magic through them at Yusei who creates black feathered wings out of darkness that covers him from the attacks. He spreads his wings and flies to Jellal and slams his fist into him. Jellal hits the ground hard.

Erza couldn't watch anymore. First it was Yusei getting beaten by Jellal but now, Yusei is the one doing the damage. She need to stop this but how can she. The darkness is the main cause of this. Forcing them to relive those painful memories. She can imagine what pain Jellal suffered. One being killing their friend who died protecting her.

"Yusei!" Kira shouts causing Erza to turn to her. "That's enough...you're going to far!"

"Are you scared…" Yusei said with his hair covering his eyes and raised his right hand to the sky. "I control the darkness...it does not control me...I'm the one you should be scared of…"

A spiral of darkness hovers over Yusei, swirling the clouds in the sky that turns dark. Thunder can be heard within and a evil grin is given by Yusei. His speech wasn't for Kira alone but for everyone and they heard him loud in clear. They shiver on the spot.

The ones closest to Yusei can feel it more. Natsu and Jellal feels like their suffocating by fear. Yusei eyes shift to Jellal who can feel himself fall. In one swoop, Yusei has Jellal's throat in his grasp and pinned against a building. Streams of darkness gripped Jellals wrist and ankles. Yusei stares deeply into his eyes.

"Its time for you…" Yusei's said cold tone, with a spiral of black fire cover his left arm. "..to disappear"

Jellal eyes widen seeing no hesitation in Yusei expression. Screams and yells are heard in the background trying to stop Yusei who ignored him. It was too late for any of them to change his mind. It was already filled with one thought. "Kill"

"NO!...JELLAL!" Erza screams causing a thunder to clap loudly.