Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, the Naruto Themes, or the Dungeon and Dragons Themes, Golden Sun, or Final Fantasy themes and characters input into story.

A/N: Remember how my last two chapters were each over 10,000 words? Well I realize that too much for one chapter so I decided to split the next chapter into smaller chapters. Sorry if this anger you but guess what? I'm on vacation right now so I won't be distracted by work and have all day to write chapters.

I like to thank Alzedi98 for the Fav, Follow, and Review. Also BreeTannerHuang for the follow. And lest not forget: Goldstripes, Aquacharles,frozem1,anon, and starica for the reviews. Enjoy. Chapter 15 coming out later today. Please Fav, Follow, Review if you want. Also there been some criticism about the rating of the story. While I'll admitted most parts are Rated T there are somethings I believe count as a Rated M, but if you believe otherwise please feel free to tell me. Also to answer Starica's question, It would be extreme difficult for Acnologia to leave Romeo's body entirely due to their souls be linked together, I guess you can compare it to the movie Dragonheart or Naruto in a way. But I said difficult not impossible. We'll see in the future.

Also just a reminder: Katja is NOT related to Wendy in anyway whatsoever. I'm sure you all have seen doppleganger before, or people who look like people you know.

Chapter 14

Arguments

"Aren't you going to answer my question?" Romeo ask the trembling pair with his eyes still glowing white.

All that either of the women could do was back away to the very wall of the train in pure terror.

"How rude", Romeo said as he stepped a little closer to them, "Let me teach you some manners."

Romeo is mere seconds away from ending the lives of both women when suddenly a hand places itself on his shoulder. Turning in anger to see who to be the newest member of his body count list his glowing white eyes come face to face with Katja's light brown eyes. And the sadden look on her face was more than enough to bring him back to his senses as the scales disappear on his hands and his eyes go back to normal. Luckily the women have been so frightened of Romeo's eyes that they didn't even notices his arm changing, also the fact that Katja came from Romeo's left side while the scales were on his right arm.

"Great job there Romeo. You were about to kill two people in front of the girl who done nothing but seem people died her whole life", Romeo thinks to himself as Katja turns to face the two frighten women.

"You'll have to forgive my friend here. It been an extremely tiring day for him and he really need to get some rest. Forgive us and I hope you enjoy the rest of your trip", she says. Katja then does a polite bow towards them, grabs Romeo hand and lead him back to their train seat. The two ladies take this opportunity to leave the train car and head to the next one.

Romeo and Katja are seating alone together alongside a sleeping Deez in complete silence for two minutes before Romeo says something.

"Weren't you scared when you approach me like that?"

Katja looks towards him, "No, why would I have been?".

"You didn't know whether or not I would have attack you."

"I doubt you would have."

"You don't know that", Romeo said.

"Actually I had a good feeling you wouldn't have."

"And that feeling base off what?", Romeo ask.

"Let see, first of all after you let me out of the bag you could have kept the restraints on me and when the ninja guy left you could have had your way with me, because it didn't look like the ninja guy care too much about what happen to me."

Romeo moves to say something, but Katja continues on.

"Second, you didn't have to step in front of Valefor when she was berserk to protect me but you did. And lastly you didn't have to bring me along at all but you did. That show me that you're a good person."

"What about the two ladies though?", Romeo counter.

"No one perfect", Katja merely says.

"Aren't you going to ask me about the glowing eyes bit?", Romeo ask already prepare for the answer.

"Did you ask me about my summoning?", Katja ask back.

"No."

"Alright then, I see no reason to dig", Katja said, "You'll probably tell me about it eventually."

Romeo can only gawk at her at this point.

"My, my, and here I thought she was just a naive little girl", Acnologia chides in.

"Where were you during all of this? You could have said something!", Romeo tells Acnologia.

"Why would I do a stupid thing like that little vermin? In case you don't remember, I was the one telling you to attack those people in the first place. I was enjoying the show until the girl step in."

At this point Romeo should have respond back at Acno with a rude remark but it seemed his adrenaline and anger had died down and motion sickness kicks back in.

"I'm about to hurl here", Romeo thinks before Katja's soft hands grabs his head and bring it to her lap.

Romeo is a little surprise at this but decides not to question it.

"Hey Romeo", Katja says after a few moments.

"Yeah Katja?"

"What did they do to make you go at them like that?"

Romeo turns his head up to give Katja a quizzical look.

"I'm just curious", Katja confess.

Romeo huffs a little before telling her, "They said that you were my whore."

Katja quickly goes red in the face, but whether it was from anger or embarrassment Romeo couldn't tell.

"You shouldn't attack someone because of what they said", Katja preach.

"Then they shouldn't say it to begin with", Romeo replied. Katja shakes her head at his before saying…

"Get some rest Romeo, I got the feeling you have a long day ahead of you", she said in a soothing voice.

Romeo begins to drift off to sleep, forgetting for the moment all the mayhem that possibly awaiting him upon his return to Magnolia. All the while Acnologia is giving the whole scene a look of contempt. But this is not out of anger but out of jealously.

"I remember the days when Aeriva and I uses to do that during the more peaceful moments of the war", were the Dragon King last thoughts before he too drifted off to sleep and dream of days gone by.

But for Katja the last thing on her mind was sleeping. As she scratches Deez's belly one thought plays in her head.

"There was lot of noise going on around the train and we were pretty far back from those two. How did Romeo hear what they said?"

Magnolia

The train pulls into Magnolia train station hours later. Romeo, Katja, and Deez get off and make their way toward Romeo's house.

"I want to check in on my father and see how he doing", Romeo tells Katja and Deez, "And if we're lucky, I can get the Mines to let you stay at their place for the night."

"Who are the Mines?", Katja asks.

"They're neighbors from down the street. My dad and Mr. Mine or Uncle Wakaba as I call him have been friends since before I was born. Their daughter Lindsay is also my oldest friend."

As the trio walk toward Romeo's house they pass thru some of the major gathering spots for Magnolia at night. They pass thru the taverns, thru the park, and finally thru the market place which was still open even at night.

All the while Romeo once again notices the looks and hear the whispers going on all around him.

"It the Conbolt boy. Wonder where he been?"

"Have you read the article on him?"

"He used to be such a nice boy, my son use to played with him and Mine's girl all the time."

"It seem joining Fairy Tail changed him."

Romeo goes against the voice in his head and decides to just ignore them and move on toward his home.

They come up to the house just as Millgana Mine comes walking out the door.

"Oh, Romeo dear you're back."

"Hello Mrs. Mine. How my father doing?"

"Oh don't worry sweetum he doing fine. I just got done fixing him some dinner and he supposed to be walking about in a few more days", Mrs. Mine reassured him as she looks toward Katja and Deez, " Now tell me dear who is this beautiful girl you got with you? Is she your girlfriend?"

Katja blushes deeply from the compliment and looks away out of embarrassment.

"No. This is Katja, I met her while I was training. She here in hope that she'll get to join Fairy Tail", Romeo answers.

"Oh, I'm afraid everyone already with home for the day at the Guild Hall."

"Damn, I had a feeling they would have by now. In that case, is it alright if Katja stays over at your house tonight?", Romeo asks.

"I don't see why not, we have a spare guest room and Lindsay gone for the moment."

"Gone? Where she go?" Romeo ask.

"Oh that right you probably haven't heard yet. Well Lindsay help the guild out during that whole Legion business a while ago. She like it so much that she officially joined Fairy Tail not too long ago. Therefore, she went with the other to train for the upcoming Grand Magic Games."

"Lindsay joined Fairy Tail? That's great!", Romeo yelled.

"Ha ha, Don't tell her this Romeo but I think you're the main reason she joined."

"Huh? Why me?", Romeo said with a baffled look on his face.

"You have go to be fucking kidding me", Acnologia profanes in frustration.

"Oh I'm sure you'll find out sure enough, dear. Now let get this girl home and in a bath", Mrs. Mine said.

"What are you talking about?", Katja said while her face took on a surprise look.

"Now I'm sure Romeo must have been just being a gentleman for him not to say anything, but honestly dear I can smell you from here. When the last time you took a bath?"

Katja takes a whiff of herself and reel back in disgust.

She then looks at Deez and Romeo with a comical sadden look on her face, "Why did neither of you say something?", she cried.

"You humans all smell alike to me. I can't tell the difference if you're dirty or clean", Deez said.

"To be honest while I was training with Gildarts I took a bath in the river every few days, but after he left I was too focus on training to remember to take one. After a while I guess the smell just became the norm for me, so I guess I just didn't notice your smell. I'm-", is all Romeo could say before going stiff and sensing a deadly aura from behind direct at him. He slowly turns his head to see a smiling Mrs. Mine giving off a sinister presence toward him, like Mira only worse.

"I mean I didn't want to be rude. That it, I didn't want to embarrass you so I decide to play the gentleman, ha, ha, ha", Romeo laugh nervously.

"That very kind of your Romeo, anyway come along dear we'll get you clean up and that dress of your clean as well. See you tomorrow Romeo", Mrs. Mine said while taking a now depress Katja toward the Mine household.

Romeo watches them until they pass thru the front door before turning back toward his home.

"Here goes nothing", he says to himself before walking in.

The house looks oddly cleaner than usual no doubt thanks to Mrs. Mine. From what Lindsay and Wakaba use to say she had a serious case of OCD that would put Ezra and Freed to shame. Oddly enough she was the first person he with to see to learn more about his mom after his dad exploded on him.

Unfortunately, all she did was give him a gloomy look and tell him, "Honestly I don't believe it my place to tell you about your mother. The only person who can answer your question is your father", before she send him on his way. Oh well.

He walks up to his father room and slowly opens the door.

He sees his father laying down in his bed trying to eat some soup that Mrs. Mine had made for him. It looked like he was having a hard time doing it though. The fact that his right arm was in a sling, he had bandages wrap around his head and chest and finally his left leg was also in a cast might have something to do with it.

"You need some help there, old man?", Romeo asks.

Macao looks up to see his only son leaning against the door frame, trying his best not to laugh at him… and failing.

"Romeo! Son, how was your training with Gildarts?", Macao says as he tries to get up and greet him.

"Dad, lay back down before you hurt yourself", Romeo said as he walked over and gives Macao a genuine hug.

"For someone who was always complaining about how his dad is a deadbeat, you sure do get worry when he in trouble", Acnologia said while resisting the urge to gag.

"Deadbeat or not, he still my father", Romeo responds.

"Training was… unique. Yeah that the best way I can describe it", Romeo told Macao with a deadpan look on his face.

"Well that good I guess. Could have been worst", Macao said. Romeo couldn't help notice though that his father looked uncomfortable.

"Everything okay dad?"

"Uh? Oh yeah, yeah. Everything great."

"So what happen?", Romeo ask.

"I'm assuming you're talking about the attack. Kind of strange when you think about it. I was just walking home from the bar when suddenly these two cloak men appear behind me just as I was unlocking the front door to the house. They were saying how I should tell them where you're were at or else suffer the consequences. I could tell immediately even in my drunken state that they mean to do you harm. My guess was that they were friends of Velveno looking for revenge."

"Well I guess neither Master Makarov or Gildarts told him the truth yet. Don't know whether to be grateful or annoyed at this."

"Anyway I fought them and was even able to knock one of them out, but afterward the other one got a hold of me and slam me against the canal wall a couple of times. I black out after this and when I came to Master Makarov was standing over me in my bedroom telling me not to move."

Romeo in silence during this time, at least on the outside, inside is a whole another matter.

"Should I tell him the real reason behind why he was attack?"

"And what would that accomplish little vermin? As long as he believes that the attack was because of a different matter then we have no problems."

"But this is my father we're talking about."

"The same father who has been keeping quiet about what happen to your mother twelve years ago. The way I see it the day you tell him about me should also be the day he tells you about her."

"Damn it, you may have a point there," Romeo replies.

"Plus I am curious myself about why there are no memories of your mom whatsoever. And this barrier around your mind. It seems all this point toward the mother," Acnologia thinks.

Romeo and Macao chat for a little while about the training session with Gildarts, before Romeo decided to turn in for the night. As he gets up too leave he notices once again that his father looked uncomfortable for some reason. As he about to walk thru the door he hears his dad call out…

"Romeo."

Romeo turns to look at him and see his father looking at him with a serious stare.

"I need to know", he says as he sits upright and continues looking at the secret Apocalypse Dragon-Slayer, "Did you kill Velveno in self-defense?"

"So that why he been acting so awkward", Romeo thinks.

"I believe when Velveno came running at me with swinging a sword that counted as self-defense when I killed him."

"And how did you kill him?", Macao asks.

"Does it matter?"

"His face was caved in Romeo. I know for a fact that you're nowhere near strong enough to do that."

"Guess that just go to so how much you know about me, huh old man?", Romeo answers back while trying his best to keep calm at the fact that his own father basically call him weak. "And where was this conversation three month ago, huh?! We could have talk about this the night I got home after my fight with Gajeel, but we didn't! We just argue about how I was grounded for staying out too late!"

"Don't raise your voice at me, young man!", Macao yells back, "The whole guild had to deal with reporters chasing them all over the place, asking questions for almost a month because of what you did!"

"Because of what I did?! All I did was killed a wanted dead or alive convicted criminal in self-defense, and for some reason I'm got in trouble for it! Why that?!", Romeo roared.

"Because a thirteen-year-old boy killed a full-grown man and he seem to be just fine with it, that why!"

"Oh for the love of the Gods! We have a sadistic chick who throws swords at people if you so much as look at her wrong, three Dragon-Slayers who could each destroy a town quite easily, a guy who steals people's souls and places them in flying wooden containers, his teammate who turns people into stone, a married couple with a kid whose magic evolves around shooting people with guns, a chick who most people believe is a literal demon!"

"You shouldn't talk about Mira li-", Macao started to say.

"I'm not finished!", Romeo screamed out before continuing on, "Our strongest mage can destroy almost anything by just touching it, we have a girl who could drown a whole village without even trying who happens to be head over heels in love with a male stripper who could quite possibly freeze hell over! Oh and let's not forget the fourth Dragon-Slayer who happens to be the master's grandson who actually tried to destroy the fucking town! It's only a matter of time before one of them kill someone and chances are it will be an innocent bystander, not some felon who trying to kill them!"

"Stop changing the subject Romeo!", Macao hollered, "We're talking about you here, not them!"

"Why not?! You do it all the time! No wait, you just don't talk about the subject, like with mom leaving!", Romeo yells back getting closer and closer to losing his patience.

Macao is shock at first by Romeo's reaction but that soon changes to outright fury.

"I thought I told you to never talk about her again!"

"Once again, why not?! Everyone else I have asked doesn't know the reason why she left, only you and for some reason you're not talking!"

"It nothing that you need to know!", Macao holler back.

"I'm her son! I have every right to know!" yelled Romeo who at this point had to turn around to keep his father from seeing his eyes shine white.

The duo stayed like stay for several moments before finally Macao said…

"What wrong with you Romeo? Why are you acting like this?"

Romeo remains silent for a bit before finally answering….

"I'll make you a deal dad. The day you tell me about what happen to mom is the day I'll tell about what going on with me", he said before closing the door and going to his room.

Macao could only look at the door before finally putting his hand on his face and try in vain to hold back the tears.

While inside Romeo's room he was sitting on the bed looking down at a picture of him as a baby alongside his mom and dad and he not evening trying to hold back the tears.

"Little vermin", Acnologia tried to say.

"Not now Acno. Please just...just not now", Romeo pleaded.

"Very well."

Romeo continues looking at the picture, all the while there are…

Teardrops.

Falling like the rain.

A/N: Sad note to end a chapter on. Chapter 15 coming out later today. Please Fav, Follow, Review if you want. Also Romeo killing those two women would have may to story to complicate, at least for now.