Sorry the last chapter was short! It just seemed like a good point to cut it off. Here we will hear Rea's story explained! I don't own Fairy Tail, and please review, follow, or PM me!

Chapter 11

I groggily awoke the next morning with a glance to my right to look to see how Levy was doing. To my surprise, she was no longer there which caused me to panic. I shot up going to get out of bed swinging my legs over the side, but the world seemed to spin due to me being light headed.

"Woah, easy there," a calm, cool male voice says. I blink up at Gray who has placed both of his hands on my shoulders to steady me. The world slowly rights itself as I look up at Gray confused. "Levy woke earlier this morning and is downstairs."

I grimace at the fact that I sense many people downstairs. My hand goes to my belt to amp up the crystal, but to my dismay it's gone.

"I'm sorry to tell you this," Gray motions to the pile of shards on the table, "They still kinda work, but not well." He scoops up the pile and sets them in my hands. I feel a small drop, but not nearly enough. Crap, this is busted…

I dump the crystals in the trash nearby and sigh. Gray is about to say something, but then Mira barges into the room with a tray of food and drinks. When she sees us, I cringe realizing that this looked like a lot more than it was. To Mira, our position looked compromising to say the least. Gray was standing between my legs one hand on the side of my arm, while I was looking up at him. I blushed at hearing her thoughts which only confirmed her beliefs. Gray was oblivious.

"Oh, Rea your awake! We'll be downstairs, but take your time!" Mira titters excitedly. With that, she slams the door shut taking the food with her. I groan realizing that I was starving, and that food smelled so good.

Gray raises an eyebrow in confusion, but sees me wistfully glancing at the food. "Trust me you don't wanna know…" I mutter to him in regards to Mira's behavior.

"Come on. Let's go get you some food," Gray says offering to help me up.

I still wobble slightly, so Gray helps steady me. I stop him when we are at the door suddenly nervous for what's about to go down. Gray looks at me sympathetically, "We knew you had your secrets. Figured it was for a good reason. Now, we just want answers. Won't think different of you either way. To us, you're always gonna be Rea, the girl who packs one heck of a punch." He teases me at the end making me feel better. It was also nice to know that he had my back facing the masses. I nod, and he helps me make my way downstairs.

Lucy, Natsu, Erza, and Happy rush to me. Happy hugging me then placing himself on my head. Natsu gives me a rough bro hug then complains about Gray being the one there when I woke up sending those two into a mindless argument. Erza crushes me into her armor glad her companion is safe, and lastly Lucy wraps me in a warm hug. I regretfully let go and search the room for Levy who with the help of Jet and Droy was already on her way over. I hug her tight then eye her bandage and search her for any other wounds scanning her mind and body for any remaining poison. Finding none, I let out a breath.

Levy laughs at me, "I'm fine thanks to you! You had me worried when you didn't wake up for a while."

I smile, but it doesn't reach my eyes, "Levy, I'm so sorry. You got hurt, and it's my fault."

Levy grabs my shoulders hard about to rebuttal, but Makarov cuts in, "You're right. You put my children in danger. Now I want to know why." Levy looks both shocked and angry at her master's words.

I nod, and with Gray by my side one again, I make my way over to the bar and sit on top of it folding my legs in and lean against the wall so I'm looking at Makarov. Gray takes his place up right beside me, Team Natsu and Levy right behind him. Their show of solidarity gives me strength.

"I didn't mean for anyone to get hurt," I start and when Makarov looks skeptical I just sigh and continue, "the other night we had a pre-initiation party," I glance at Cana who giggles but Makarov looks slightly pissed at this. "I had to leave my dampening crystal at home that night, and my magic spiked as a few of you noticed," I nodded at Laxus and Erza. "That spike was enough for those I've been hiding from to find me. Obviously, they are not the friendliest individuals." Cana looked guilty, so I added, "Cana, don't. I should have been more careful. That night was still the most fun I've had in a long time." She nods at me not totally convinced, but there was nothing more I could say.

Makarov continued to glare at me, "Why are you running from these people? Who are they?"

I get annoyed with his glare and get a little bit sassy with him, "So many questions Makarov. Why don't you answer a few of my own as well? Only fair right?" I sense the tension in the room at the way I just regarded Fairy Tail's Master, but no one steps in.

His glare hardens and he motions for me to continue. I sigh and oblige, "That was Doku one of the top ranked assassins from the nation of Peoria. He was sent by my brothers to retrieve me and bring me home. My oldest brother is Alexander Valentine, King of Peoria. Before I answer, why I'm running, what do you have against telekinetic mages?"

There were a few gasps as I had just admitted what my actual magic was. Everyone knows that telekinetic mages are powerful, but they were very rarely seen in Fiore. For some reason, Peorian people who had magic had some variation and strength of telekinetic magic. I never understood why. Many people didn't trust telekinetic mages due to the fact that many could read minds and manipulate people, but most likely it was people feared what they didn't know. Although this was common place, Makarov's felt like more than that.

He scowled at me thinking I had read his mind, but Porlyusica smacked him, "She didn't read your mind stupid. You obviously hate the child."

He glared at Porlyusica, but didn't deny it. To my surprise, Erza spoke up slightly hurt, "Master, how could you hate her? She can't control what kind of magic she has."

"No, no, no, it's not that my child," he says it softly to Erza, but his glare hardens when it turns on me.

Porlyusica scowls at him again seeing as he won't go on, "The second master had a run in with a group of telekinetic mages. He was never the same after. Not long after he passed on his title to Makarov and disappeared to travel the world."

"It's obvious that they did something to him," Makarov growled looking at me.

I nod looking between them. These stories weren't uncommon and did nothing to lessen the hate between telekinetic mages and the rest of the world. Porlyusica opened her memory to me allowing me to see the situation and one of the men caused me to gasp.

"But Master, how can you blame her for mages she never even met? Just because she uses the same magic," Levy started, but I cut her off.

"Actually, that's not exactly true Levy." Everyone looked at me shocked. "Porlyusica showed me the man who did it. Unfortunately, I do know the man that attacked the second master. He was my uncle."

There were gasps and mutters around the room, and Makarov looked at me with a victorious glare.

"Wait a minute, was?" Lucy asked quietly. With that, the room went darkly silent.

"He's dead," I say with a nonchalant shrug.

"How?" Makarov growls obviously wishing for some payback of his own.

"Mysterious accident," I say curtly showing them that it was no accident. There were some horrified faces around the room, and I wipe my face with my hand in frustration then go forward, "It's not uncommon for Peorian royals to die of mysterious accidents and incurable diseases that no one has ever heard of. All three of my uncles, my mother first, then my father, and I'm sure more before them if I looked hard enough." I wring my hands in my lap thinking of how my mother mysteriously died after giving birth to me. I feel Gray's shoulder brush mine in support, and Lucy lunges forward grabbing my hands. She says nothing, but I can hear her thoughts screaming about her heartless father and loving mother who had passed on. I give her hands a squeeze back to comfort her.

Makarov wouldn't meet my eyes, but continued to scowl at the floor. I decide it's my turn to answer his question, "I ran from them for obvious reasons. I want nothing to do with my murderous bloodline. However, there's more." I took a deep breath. "Every generation of royals has a different number of sons and one daughter. Every single generation. What you find, if you look hard enough is that this daughter, then goes on to become queen."

"But, I thought Alexander was already the king," Levy asks horrified of the conclusion she comes to.

I scowl at my lap trying to hold in my own vomit, "Exactly. The daughter of each generation marries the oldest brother on her eighteenth birthday."

There was appalled gasps around the room. Gray stiffens causing it to snow. Natsu punches the wall. Cana stops drinking and looking for the first time in her life like she would puke. Lucy and Levy cling to each other thinking of the scars on my back.

Now that I had started, I couldn't stop, "The ceremony is more than a wedding. It binds my magic to him. He can use my magic whenever and however he wants. I lose my free will." At this point, I had gone pale. I wanted to puke. I couldn't take their disgust. But once again, Fairy Tail surprised me. Levy and Lucy wrap me in a large hug bawling their eyes out. Soon to be joined by Mira, Cana, and Erza.

After their tears had changed from a downpour to a light drizzle, I turned on Makarov, "So now you know. I ran. I'm a coward, but I will not go back there."

Makarov did seem shocked at this development, but I could sense that I had only strengthened his hatred of telekinetic mages. There was also a small part of him that looked at me with a disgust. I was now mad at this point. He can hate my family all he wants, but he could not hate my people!

"I won't deny the royalty is a messed up bunch. However, Makarov, your hatred for telekinetic mages is unwarranted. They are no more or less dangerous than any other mage. How dare you discriminate against my people!" I had turned to a yell at the end. This shocked the room back to silence. I was also slightly shocked to hear myself loudly proclaiming them as my people. Since when did I have that right? I heard him scoff at that which caused me to leap from the bar.

"Look, I'm capable of most of the abilities of telekinetic mages. I'll show you everything we can do. We can teleport," I popped around the room. "Levitate and manipulate objects." I picked up a chair and threw it into the wall. I then picked up all of the pieces and reassembled them into a chair, albeit a broken one. "I can't add to what's not already there." I released my magic and the chair fell apart as the pieces had nothing to hold them together anymore. "I can manipulate people," I sensed the room getting uneasy, "BUT, we cannot manipulate someone's magic. For example," I look at Gray and he gives me a trusting nod. He does his ice make magic and makes a small snowflake in his hand that needs his energy to stay floating. "I can control Gray's body, but the minute I take over his magic stops." There was a moment where he went rigid and the snowflake disappeared. To prove my point, I had him put his clothes on. There were a few hesitant giggles at that. "The same goes with everyone here, I can't make Lucy summon a spirit, Natsu spout flames, Happy fly, or Elfman do a takeover." I glance around and people nod seeming to understand. Levy seemed to be eating up the knowledge I was giving her.

"I can also read people's thoughts," And project my thoughts, I say the last part in everyone's minds. They all gape at me, but Warren doesn't seem shocked at all used to his ability. I look at him curiously and suspect that one of his ancestor's was probably from Peoria for him to be a telepath. People look shocked at my magic, but no one in the room looked uncomfortable with me. Well, everyone except one.

I raise an eyebrow at Makarov waiting for his rebuttal. "That's all great, except you forgot the part about how you can manipulate minds." I hear the nervous titters resume.

I sigh, "Yes, telekinetic mages can manipulate people's minds forcing them to think, see, hear things that didn't happen. They can also dig around in people's minds finding their inner most secrets." At the nervous shifting in the room, I quickly add, "None, of which I could do without you knowing! Most likely, you'd be in some decent pain if I did! Everyone has secrets and unknowingly locks them away in their mind. It's human nature. I can't just hear those thoughts unless you want me to!" Seeing the skepticism of people, I glance around.

"Mira, I know that you used to be an S-class mage. I know something happened to your sister Lisanna. However, I don't know what and beyond that you're a takeover mage I don't know what you can do. You've locked that part away." I hear a gasp as she feels me inside her mind, but can sense where I had to stop at the wall she put up. I look at Laxus, "I can't get anything from you Sparky. You shut me out completely which I have to admit is impressive," I add begrudgingly. He smirks at me. "It's mostly the same for you Erza. Also, Lucy I can't read your spirits minds, not sure if it's 'cause they're spirits or if they've just trained themselves to this over time. I'd guess the latter. Also, surprisingly I can't get anything from Loke." I nod at him in appreciation. He looked uncomfortable at the eyes on him fidgeting at everyone's gazes.

"The most important thing, is this can be taught. I can teach you how to recognize and defend yourself against an attack on your mind. This also helps when someone tries to take over your body," I look around at everyone hopeful that they won't shun me. Many people still look defensive around me and unknowingly people put more walls up already. I smile at them, "Most of you are already doing it." This takes them off guard and smiles spread around. At those smiles, I relax seeing that I haven't hurt my chances at befriending this obnoxious bunch I've become rather fond of.

"You could teach them, but you won't be around long enough to do that," Makarov grumbles. I look at him shocked my hopes dashed at ever becoming a Fairy Tail wizard.

"Master, please!" Erza starts. But Makarov silences her with a wave of his hand. Glancing at Mira to silence her protests as well.

"I've made my decision. Rea, or Restia, whatever. I will not allow you to become a Fairy Tail wizard. I'm truly sorry, but your magic is dangerous, and you've already caused one of your fellow members pain." He motions over to Levy.

I look down in shame. He isn't exactly wrong, but that doesn't mean I'm just giving up, "Fine. I won't be a Fairy Tail wizard." There was exclamations of protest, but I wave them all to silence them. "However, that doesn't mean I will stop coming around to see my friends. There's nothing you can do Makarov to keep me from seeing them."

Makarov and I have a stare down, and the whole guild is deathly quiet. I sense him weakening when he sends me a thought, You will not be here day in and out. Or yesterday's events will only repeat themselves. I nod at him admitting to this compromise. I would need to travel around to help Irene and Sam anyway.

The guild sensing our agreement lets out a collective breath, and I immediately start my mental training with Team Natsu and Team Shadow Gear. Loke had immediately slipped out of the guild avoiding prying eyes, and Laxus shocked everyone except Mira who asked him for help.