Flare is missing and Darius has asked Raven Heart's help in finding her, now with former Fairy Tail members will they find her safe?
Chapter 14-A redhead, a white haired and a black haired person, all in an Abandoned Guild:
Flare Corona turned her head at the black haired figure leaning against a wall, they played this game every day, they would stare and see who moved first.
Flare's hair was bound under a magic nullifying cap, meaning she couldn't fight, so she played his game, she would not break.
"Hey could you maybe let me go now?" another voice broke their silent game, the man looked to the boy who spoke. A fool teenager who had talked himself into exploring an abandoned guild, only to find it wasn't abandoned, just used in secret.
"No" he answered simply returning to stare at Flare, she stared back, she'd learnt this trick from him, did he think she would forget in only a few months?
The white haired boy fidgeted with something in his pocket, something Flare had noticed to be a nervous habit for the boy.
His short white hair was slightly shaggy, his eyes were pitch black, he wore black sweat pants, a sleeveless white sweat shirt and black runners.
He was eighteen. She knew because he told her, when Kurohebi wasn't in the room they were chained in, he would talk, she would sometimes as well but mostly she was silent.
Memories would come back often in this familiar place.
Memories she wished she could forget but could only feel guilty over.
The boy's name was Hank Ore another thing he had said to both Flare and Kurohebi, Kurohebi didn't care, Flare couldn't do anything with that information so it bothered her very little. Except when in the deep recess of her mind worried that Kurohebi would kill him.
He had no reason to let him live and he would not let him leave, it was the only course for him to take.
Flare could not let this affect her, should Kurohebi feel that she was showing any kind of weakness he would hurt her and so she tried to remove all feeling for the poor boy who walked into something he shouldn't.
She also knew it wouldn't be her he would hurt if she showed weakness for the boy it would be him; that was what he did, who he was.
How could the council let him out?!
Flare was careful not to show any emotion even as on the inside she raged, she removed those emotion filled thoughts and continued staring at Kurohebi.
That was when Darius entered her mind…Darius the person she hadn't known existed and yet was with her for so long.
She would admit only to herself those years at The Sun Village she always thought someone was watching over her, she had thought it was the Eternal Flame, but no, it was his son, the burnt orange haired boy no. Man, he was a man.
A man who became her best friend, blondie she guessed was her friend as well and the red head and the blue haired girls maybe even the pinky and black hair boys from Fairy Tail too.
But Darius was her best friend.
She remembered how angry she was at him for lying to her, for keeping himself a secret.
Oh what she would have given to have known he existed!
What might have happened otherwise?
She was sixteen when she left The Sun Village and found Raven Tail, she was there for eight years.
Eight years they poisoned her mind, turned her into something she couldn't recognise in the mirror.
And then she was free and home and had a new friend she would talk to every day.
Who would give her new clothes and random odd things he had managed to get for her.
He was a powerful mage, she could tell, she even got him to show her a few times and she showed him what she had learnt, he was impressed she could tell and that made her like him more.
She should have known it couldn't last.
Kurohebi decided he was bored of their game and leaves the room, the door closed with a metallic clank.
"Flare do you think we'll be alright?" Hank asked after a few minutes.
"No" Flare says honestly.
She didn't think they would be alright.
Sooner or later Kurohebi would kill Hank Ore and then he would slowly torture her to the point she would beg for death.
He called her a traitor for not helping them escape, a coward for leaving and returning home, for abandoning them, Raven Tail the guild she should call home.
But it wasn't home for Flare it never was, it was the place she was too scared to leave, too scared to return to the place she did call home.
Little did she know it was because of a man she had never met.
"We will get out of here" Hank says confidently, Flare turns her head to him.
"How?" she asks in an emotionless voice.
"I'll think of something, I get into tight scrapes all the time, the key is not to let fear control you" he says with a confident smile.
He was right, she realised.
She was giving into fear and hopelessness, Darius would know she was missing; it had been days since she had been kidnapped, Darius wouldn't abandon her.
Darius would come.
She was certain.
"You are right" she finds herself saying, Hank looked at her in surprise and then smiled.
"Of course I am, you'll see even if we can't get ourselves out of here, someone will come, that snake guy won't get away with this!" Hank says, he started going back to trying to wriggle his wrist out of the chains that bound him.
"Do you have anyone, back home?" Flare asks, she had avoided this topic in fear of putting them in more danger but Flare decided to stop being afraid.
"I have a family if that's what you mean but I don't live at home, I don't live anywhere actually. I'd just quit working at a treasure hunters guild, I got bored so I decided to go try something new, which got me caught in here. But that's okay it's just another adventure" he says with a smile.
"What about you?" he asks, Flare blinks at him before responding.
"I have a family" she says slowly.
"I have a best friend…he will come" she says looking to the metal door.
"I am sure"
"Me too" Hank agrees overlooking her creepy way of talking, Hank was good at overlooking peoples quirks. His own quirk was he couldn't say no to people, if he couldn't say yes he wouldn't say anything at all. It helped his optimistic personality but tend to get him into trouble, like right now. Whatever he needed to focus, once he could get out of these magic nullifying chains he could get them both out of here.
You can see how Flare's mind works in this chapter, rather fractured but succinct. Review what you thought!
Fun Raven Heart Fact 5# - Hank was originally called Austin and was 16 rather than 18.