Okay, I can't believe it took my this fricken long to get here, but I promise after this, days will change between chapters. Promise.
Ignia POV
I couldn't believe that we were actually telling them this. Ria would've never allowed it, but then again, she wasn't awake.
Amy stepped forwards, saying. "My name is Amy. Amy Redfox, and yes, before you say anything, I am the daughter of Levy and Gajeel."
She then proceeded to tell them everything, except Ria's part in all this.
"My friends and I are from the future, but not just any future. . .your's. If you want to know when, or how far, we can't tell you, because 1.) We have no idea what year it is. and 2.) I personally want to be born, and not have any of these events mess it up. Sorry. Also, I can't tell you anything about Ria, because that's her story to tell. But my name is Amy, and I'm an Iron Dragon Slayer, second generation. I can do a little solid script magic, but it's limited to simple things. Levy Mcgarden, Gajeel Redfox, you're my parents."
At this statement her parents stepped back, and slightly away from each other. Levy blushed, and Gajeel sighed. "Ah well, I can't really deny it can I." Then kissed Amy's mom soundly on the mouth. Jet and Droy who had been standing nearby gaped, went "Wha-!", then finally tried to tear the two apart.
Which just made Gajeel knock them out, and clutch Levy tighter.
Amy turned to the triplets and nodded. Hey! What about us!
"Okay," Star reminded me of a cheerleader. "Well, my name is Star, and this bluenette is Lumie, and our purple headed brother is Marco. We're the kids of Grey and Juvia." She then pointed at said mages, and Juvia promptly fainted into her future husbands arms, with perfect pink hearts in her eyes. "Now, I'm an Ice Make mage, Marco is a water wielder, and Lumie is a Card magic user. Why'd she faint?"
Wow. Leave it to Star to talk a mile a minute and not notice a thing in the space around her. Grey was holding Juvia, looking awkward and a little guilty. Maybe he'd yet to tell her.
But I couldn't think on that now. It was finally my turn. "Well, I'm Ignia, and this twin of mine, is Nashio. As you've probably guessed, we're Natsu and Lucy Draganeel's kids."
This got the best response yet. Lucy looked at Natsu ,who smiled and stepped closer to her, which caused the already emotionally strained girl to run out of the guild. Screaming.
"I guess I've gotta go chase after her." Natsu said.
"Aye sir." Happy followed him out.
"Huh." My brother turned to me. "Who knew that mom and dad could get less weird."
"I know right? I guess it increases with age." I shrugged back.
. . .
"Wait." Grey put the now awake Juvia down. "So you're saying that those two get worse?"
"Yep!" We responded at the same time.
Half an hour later, Lucy was back, being held prisoner by Natsu's arms, silent. Ria was also awake, sitting on the table drinking a glass of water Loke had given her.
We were ready to talk.
(Nashio Ignia)
"Now that you're ready to listen, we'd like to continue in our part of the explanation, and then it's Ria's turn." Nashio smiled.
"We're Natsu and Lucy's children or as Ria likes to call us, Idiot 1"
"And Idiot 2. My sister's the dragon slayer, but younger than me."
"I'm also the smarter one."
"No you're not!"
"Oh, fine. We're both smart. Oh, and Nashio here does Celestial Spirit magic. Like you mom." Here I gestured to Lucy.
"Yea, plus Ignia and I are slightly telepathic."
"Okay, buddie, that was an out right lie!"
"And that's the end of our explanation." I said.
Everyone looked at us, as if we had both grown an extra head. Man these people were weird.
"Thanks for that." Gajeel stated dryly. "Makes me feel a lot better about not being related to you."
Oops. Didn't mean to say that out loud.
"Now, I guess it's my turn." my favorite Lighting Dragon Slayer stepped forwards. "And trust me when I say, this is going to take a while."
"Also, I'd like to do it in private."
"I'm the only daughter of Mirajane and Laxus Dreyer. Please don't react just yet." She added when the couple moved closer together in the master's office. We were there with Team Natsu, Juvia, Mirajane and Laxus, and of course the Master! Along with Amy's parents. Basically everyone important. Which also somehow included Loke.
"And before we continue, I want to make one thing quite clear; whatever you hear, I want you to know that the events are in the future, and therefore are not something we want you to try and stop. Because it's impossible. Everyone get that?" She looked around as all the people nodded. "Good, and back to my explanation. I am a Lightning Dragon Slayer, second generation. Not third, because we found the Lightning Dragon Levia, and I trained with her for several years. Before I learned all I could. But that isn't what I need to tell you."
"What you're probably wondering is, what the hell happened yesterday with Phoenix. Here's the simple answer; I died."
Gasps filled the room, and the Master stood on his desk. "What do you mean my child?"
"I mean exactly what I said. I died, and Phoenix escaped her prison in my soul and brought me back. But when she used her Heart and Soul spell, she used up all the energy that kept her out, so Phoenix is now back inside my head. Which, Loke, is why I have control right now." Ria smirked.
"But, how did she get inside you in the first place?" Mirajane asked.
"Another simple answer, she possessed me when I was seven years old. I was laying on my roof, and suddenly, there was a flaming thing floating right above me. It was in the shape of a bird, the same thing you saw yesterday when I defeated Daramour, that was Phoenix. She hugged me, kinda, and our souls merged. Phoeix was expecting to have complete control, like she had with all the rest of her hosts, but she didn't. My soul overpowered her's.
Which I'm glad of, but it does mean she can speak in my head. Like she's doing now."
"How many times, exactly, has Phoenix brought you back to life?" Loke asked, looking curious and confused at the same time.
"Trying to figure out how many I've got left?"
"Yes actually."
"Wait," Lucy said. "what do you mean by "got left?"
"Well, when a host, Phoenix is still a spirit, with limited power. So each host she gets, sh can only bring them back a certain number of times. Ria's died at least 8 times now right?" I told her.
"Yea Ignia, but now it's nine counting this one. Which means I've got four lives to go. Four lives till I can't come back anymore."
"What!" Mira looked heart broken, I guess this news would be a shock. "What the hell do you mean by that!"
Again, every single person in the upstairs office, was shocked into silence. Mira probably didn't make outbursts like that often.
"Well, it would give someone too much power to regenerate every time they died, so in each host, there is a number of regeneration. And that number is thirteen. For everyone."
"So what you're saying is," Loke tapped her shoulder. "That you have died nine times, and you have another four deaths to go."
"Exactly. And I think that's all the explaining that needs to be done."
"Not all of it, actually." Amy looked determined, and I knew why. Ria hadn't talked about the rest of it since it happened. On the outside, as far as she was concerned Rokurou never existed. Which wasn't good in the present situation, because if we wanted to keep our sanity here, the secrets needed to be shared.
"Amy." Ria warned, but the Iron Dragon Slayer would have none of it.
"No, Ria. They need to hear this, even if you don't want to remember that it happened. I'm sorry."
"But. . . .Fine Amy. Just don't expect me to fill in the details." And with that last snarled comment, the girl with the broken soul, ran out of the room.
Loke moved to follow, but I held him back saying "No, she needs to be alone for this. Ria's suffered more than most, and this was her worst moment. So don't go after her. Please."
He nodded, but seemed regretful.
"You might want to take a seat for this, it's going to be. . .shocking." Amy waited while Levy made chairs for everyone, the she leaned against the Master's desk. "It started when Phoenix possessed Ria. Before that she had always been slightly self-destructive, but after that, she nearly killed herself twice, and did kill herself three times. And the incident when she threw herself off the guild roof was when we discovered Phoenix brought her back to life. With the little price of Phoenix getting control of her body for a couple minutes."
"Ria would have used all thirteen lives, if not for Rokurou, her older brother."
"Wait." Laxus stopped her. "Exactly how many kids do Mira and I have?"
"Three. Makarov, Ria, and Roku." Lumie answered. Then nodded her little head to Amy.
"Yep. But for the last two years, you've only had two. Roku. . . was. . .killed. And Ria has always been convinced she killed him."
Yes, I did just cut it off at the best part, but this chapter already has 1,683 words, and that's only the story. So sorry, but you have to wait till next week. It'll happen I promise.
Also, I won't be updating as frequently, because school is starting, and that brings on a whole new level of work.
Have a fun end of summer!
