Author's note: Sorry guys! A little bit late! I had physics homework which took like 3 hours this morning, a soccer game, and a 5k to run - does that make up for it? Sorry I hope the chapter is good enough.
Chapter 11
"Get out! I don't know you! I hate people like you!" The voice shrilled without the entire house as books were chucked disregarding towards two of them. "Let me out!" The girl screamed, "Levy, we're just trying to protect you!" Gray's voice argued with her as suddenly magic threw him against the wall, a magic similar to Mard Geer's overflowing throughout the house that was now littered in plants. The twin dragons swirled around heading inside the house struggling against the occasion cold wind that attempted to brush them away from where they were heading with the mountain weather. Sharp vines grew out from within the living room entrapping the water and ice mage against the walls as they struggled to figure out how to get out of the vines without hurting their friend. "Is everything alright in here?" Lady Obba's voice asked beginning to open the door as Gray shouted at her: "No! Get back! Whatever you do don't open that door!"
"Its not fair! Its human's fault! I can't believe my mother why'd she have to be a human!" The girl screamed throwing another bit of magic that was misdirected as the twins entered the door attempting to avoid the magic quickly. "Its humans' faults that people like me can't live with their families in peace!" She shouted, more magic being thrown around, as if it were a toy being thrown during a temper tantrum. "I can't believe...we aren't war weapons..you heartless beings!" She screamed another piece of magic being thrown a crossed the room that wasn't identified yet almost falling into Sting's head as Sting dodged Rogue jumped down into one of his shadows swirling behind her. "Levy, stop." He whispered pulling up behind her.
"I'm not Levy! I don't belong to anyone! Not any evil mage guild or any place! I'm just me!" She shook her head her hair moving along with her as he shook his head, a look in his eyes that could melt the hearts of almost anyone as he attempted to talk with her. "I can't! Not to places like these! I don't want to be some sort of weapon kidnapped from my family to be used for war! Why can't evensomeone like me, even someone with my status stay safe! That doesn't say anything to the younger children of lower ranks about how safe they are!" She shouted as Rogue could almost see the gleam in her eyes that she was holding back thinking that she was surrounded by the enemy. He lowered his voice to a whisper "I watched it so many times...call me a little selfish.." He said staring at the floor somehow managing to get her attention without having magic thrown at him, it was more than likely his eyes and that was all the only reason she was hesitating the only reason she hadn't hurt him yet. "I'm not ready to lose you yet." He whispered as her eyes went wide as if something was clicking within her mind. Questions obviously rising to the surface as she stared at the boy who was pulling something slowly out of his pocket. A tiny little orb. A memory lacrima. "What's that?" She whispered reinforcing the barrier of vines quickly before turning to him, hesitantly, as he made it a point not to make any sudden movements. Her fingers slowly reaching up scraping against the edge of the orb it looked almost similar to the crystals that were scattered around Lady Obba's back room. The girl's intrigued eyes glowing as the colors lit up within it.
"Can...can I hold it?" She asked as he sighed not sure if that meant he was allowed to move or if she was going to quickly snatch it away. "I'm not sure...when you find what's inside, you may drop it." He said as she nodded slowly taking the lacrima anyway, carefully, gently, as if she was afraid everything around her was going to shatter at any moment in time. He watched her closely as she flinched glancing towards the vines behind her as she added more struggling to stop Sting as he attempted to come to the rescue screaming, shouting, and asking "Are you alright?"
"Wait."
"What?"
"What...do you remember about time with Mard Geer?"
"...everything, I've met him this past year or so, so he tells me, I'm having kind of issues right now, but he's been there. I remember first meeting him and as he was explaining how they had kidnapped my mother and I, my mother as ransom, and me to raise as a war weapon. His worried face I can't believe I did that to him for so many years." The girl let her hair fall in front of her face as it almost cascaded to the floor tears welling up further in her eyes. "But i'm not going to let that happen again! I was down here hoping to find my mother and I promised him I would be back soon!" She smiled as him as he blinked at her.
"Why are you so trusting towards me but rejecting everyone else?" He asked as she shook her head, her voice lowering as she clicked on the lacrima. "Your eyes...I was hoping...that maybe you would want to come back with me. I wasn't sure if you would...especially since they've influenced you that the blonde is your older brother." She sighed as Rogue shook his head.
"No, that blonde you're talking about is Sting and he's always been there. I made that decision myself." He said not sure if he should control that small smile that was surfacing to his face, the glow of the lacrima echoing upon Levy's hair making it radiate her original blue in the darkness that the vines had created. Her eyes scanned over quickly what was within the lacrima, disbelief and confusing flashing through the beautiful brown color.
"This lacrima...its a lie...a fake." She whispered as he sighed.
"There's a reason Sting's trying so desperately to get in her right now." He explained as a pounding came on the wall near her causing Levy to squeak and move away from the wall, stumbling and falling into his laptop. She looked at him quickly, lighting up red before moving away once again. "I don't want to go with him. I don't want to go with anyone. I just want to find my mother." She whispered moving to the corner of the vines as more entangled around her slowly separating the two rooms as she was apparently losing the battle between her, the vines, and Sting. "Levy, what's ever in your head...we'll help you. In due time you'll figure out for yourself what's real and what's fake...please come out of there!" Sting shouted, a voice that sounded almost like he was begging her to come out, both of his hands slamming against the vine wall on the other side as he struggled to break through the vines which were now thicker than a rainforest. "I don't need help." She whispered pressing her hands to her ears as she stared back towards the wall of vines eyes showing that she was already creating a plan of escape. "I'm going to find my mother." She whispered as Rogue sighed crawling over to the ever growing smaller vine jungle of where she was hiding herself further away. As his fingers reached up slowly tracing each vine seeming as though these vines were delicate beings, fragile even, as he attempted not to rip each of their lives away from them. Rogue's hands encircling the vines as he begun tugging them away. "Levy, don't give up! Not yet!" He said struggling to reach into the vines. Something in his heart...was screaming at him. The images from all of the crystal lacrimas flashing in his eyes all over again. That wasn't what he wanted. What he wanted was to find a way to live happily. "This one time! We deserve it!" He said pushing more vines away. "This one time we deserve to find a way where we can both live in peace" He said pushing more vines away finally being capable of coming into the space where Levy had created for herself. "How...how could he have done that! He's my father! Tell me this lacrima is fake." She whispered attempting to cover any of the noise and ruckus being made by Sting breaking viciously through her barriers. "I'm scared. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to be alone." She whispered as his hands reached up curling around her pulling her into a hug. "Shh...we're all a little alone and confused in this world." He whispered as the confused girl nodded seeming to grow more trust in him by the second. He glanced down at her watching a single strange of blue hair light up and echo down her back, just a single one. But that was a start. Hopefully a sign of hope of regaining her memories.
"I don't plan to give you up. Not this time."
