Okay, the chapter is up and it did not take me days to update...and it is not as long as 13! Yay!
Oh, hey, a few days ago, my region of the USA got some snow! *runs around in the snow like a child...then a dog comes out and body checks me...*
...So...we finally get to see what Rin has to do with the library and we get our answers!
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Chapter 17: The Story behind the Library and the Mad Man
"What the fuck?!" Gajeel snarled at Rin.
"Is he always like this?" Rin asked as she rubbed her temples.
"Always," Lily nodded.
Gajeel gave Lily a hard look, but the cat only smiled.
Rin sighed.
"So where are we?" Gajeel asked as he looked around the room.
The room was more of a very long hallway, it was long and narrow that was lined with bookshelves, books, and some light lacrima. The ceiling fell just above Gajeel's head.
"Where is Levy?" Gajeel asked with a serious and slightly murderous tone.
"Over here," Rin said as he walked down the hallway.
Gajeel followed Rin to a small room. The room itself was dark, but stopped just outside of the room. He smelled something familiar, but it was faint.
Rin snapped her fingers and a few light lacrima lit the dark with faint blue light, revealing an unconscious body of Levy.
Levy looked pale, weak, and barely alive. The only thing that reassured everyone that she was alive was her chest slowly moving up and down.
The girl was on top of several blankets for added comfort.
Seeing Levy, Gajeel felt a sudden heavy weight in his chest…was it guilt or worry?
Rin proceeded into the room until she just stopped at Levy. The silver haired woman then knelt down next to Levy.
Gajeel could feel that Rin was going to activate her magic.
"What are you doing?" Gajeel growled.
'Why did I just growl?' Gajeel thought, was he really that possessive of Levy?
"I'm going to help her," Rin hissed, annoyed with Gajeel.
'How?' Gajeel thought as a frowned appeared.
Rin wrote alleviate, mend, regenerate, rejuvenate, repair, restore, and treat above Levy.
One by one, each word floated down and landed on Levy. Each popping like a bubble once they landed on the girl.
As the words disappeared on Levy, so did Levy's injuries.
Soon Levy only had some minor scrapes, her rosy color returned, and her breathing returned to normal.
"Alright," Rin breathed, "all she needs now is rest,"
Gajeel grunted.
"If you want, you can rest here for a while…it's been a long day," Rin said forcing a smile.
"Thank you for the offer Rin," Lily smiled.
Rin nodded and walked around Gajeel to leave the room.
Gajeel sighed and made his way near Levy to sit down; he looked over at the girl and smiled a bit. "She looks a lot better," Gajeel admitted.
Lily nodded, "I would have to agree, Yama definitely did a number on her,"
The large man growled, he was going to take care of Yama if it was the last thing he did.
"We should take Rin's advice and rest," Lily advised.
"You go ahead," Gajeel said, "I'll make sure nothing happens to her in her sleep," Gajeel gestured to Levy.
Lily smiled, "you're like her guardian angel,"
Gajeel rolled his eyes, "Go to sleep already,"
Lily made himself comfortable and slept on Gajeel's shoulder. After a few minutes, the cat was taken off his shoulder so that Gajeel could cuddle with his cat.
Gajeel enjoyed the quiet, but it was too quiet for him. He was too used to the loud, wild, and drunken guild. In the past he would complain about the noise, now
A few minutes passed as Gajeel was long in thought until some movement interrupted his train of thought. He looked around and found that Levy was moving around. Apparently, she was going to wake up soon.
"Oi," Gajeel poked Lily, "the midget is waking up,"
"That's good," Lily said as he got out of Gajeel's arms to stretch.
Levy tossed and turned a few more times before she rubbed her eyes, the girl went to sit up, but her body protested.
The girl looked around her new surroundings; however, because Levy just woke up, her eyes have not adjusted to the limited light. All that she could see was that the room looked small and that there were some light lacrima that surround her.
"What took ya so long to wake up?" Gajeel asked getting up, so Levy could see and hear him.
Levy turned to face Gajeel, the small mage gave him a small smile.
"Sorry to make you worry," Levy said as her smile disappeared.
Gajeel crouched down near Levy and placed a hand on top of her head and said, "Don't worry about it,"
A smile returned on Levy's face.
"How are you feeling?" Lily asked.
"I'm a bit sore, but other than that, I'm fine," Levy shrugged.
Lily nodded, "When we rescued you, you had severe burns and bruises on your arms, legs, and parts of your face."
Levy tensed, her small hands turned into fists, "I should have been stronger," the small mage muttered.
Gajeel frowned and pocked Levy in the middle of her forehead, "You're tougher than ya look,"
The small mage blinked a few times, as the words sunk in and the smiled, "thank you,"
The cheeks on Gajeel's face began to burn; he quickly turned his head a bit so that Levy did not see him blushing.
Levy was about to say something when Rin entered the room.
"Oh, good, you're awake," Rin smiled.
"Rin?" Levy blinked.
"How are you feeling?" Rin asked.
"Sore," Levy frowned
Rin nodded, "At least you're okay,"
Levy looked around at her surrounds again, "Where are we?"
Rin sighed, "we are someplace safe,"
Lily frowned, "You seem to be avoiding certain questions," the cat pointed out.
"Yeah," Gajeel agreed, "You mentioned earlier that you forgot to mention something important,"
Rin sighed in defeat, "Okay, I'll explain everything…please sit down," Rin gestured to the blankets that Levy was laying on earlier.
Levy moved so that Gajeel and Lily could sit comfortably.
"I'm sure you guys are wondering why I'm not with Yama and the others, how Yama cannot die, and how he has unlimited magic.."
The three nodded.
"It began about two hundred years ago, I just left town to go visit my dragon…"
"Wait, you had a dragon?!" Gajeel interrupted.
Rin nodded.
"…So, you're the dragon slayer that Ellie mentioned earlier…" Levy frowned for a moment, "she said that you were a he,"
Rin rolled her eyes, "why do people assume that dragon slayers to be boys?"
"We have a female dragon slayer back in our guild," Lily informed Rin.
"I believe it has to do with the societal notion, that men are stronger," Levy thought out loud.
"You're damn straight," Gajeel grinned.
Both Rin and Levy turned to look at the Iron Dragon Slayer and both gave him an annoyed look.
"What?" He asked.
Levy rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to Rin.
"Like I was saying," Rin began, "I went to visit my dragon when I saw an injured man. He looked like he was attacked by some dark guild members and barely got away with his life. So I took him into my home. I could tell that he had severe injuries and if I was not there sooner, he could have died. Thankfually, I acted quickly and he recovered within a few days. When he finally woke up, I learned that his name was Alec…We got to know each other and we got along well," Rin said as her face began to blush a bit and a small smile appeared on her face, remembering and enjoying the memory.
"It was when we found out that we had the same kind of magic, it was almost felt like I was in love," Rin cooed.
Levy cooed and smiled.
Rin smiled at Levy, but it quickly disappeared.
"I went to show him my library," Rin gestured to the room, "and this area is where we spent the most time in here…so, when it was time for Alec to leave, he promised me that he'll be back and went to hug me…"
Rin paused for a moment and began to tear up a bit.
"I felt something sharp and painful hit my back…it took me a while to understand that he literally stabbed me in the back with a blade…he punctured one of my kidneys…"
Levy gasped and she too began to cry.
"I thought he love me…but he told me that he didn't really love me, he just loved the information that I had and he was going to use that…I was out raged…so I did the unthinkable…I did the chained spirit spell,"
Levy's eyes went wide, "You didn't!"
Rin nodded.
Gajeel and Lily were confused.
"Um, ladies, please explain what this spell does and why is it bad that she use it," Lily asked.
"It's a spell that kills both mages and traps them in a certain object, place, or location until either the object and or place is destroyed, or someone comes and helps break it," Rin explained.
"So," Gajeel folded his arms, "That's why we're here to help you…to free you,"
Rin nodded and tried to wipe away some of her tears.
"I couldn't let him take the library and it was the only thing that I could think of that would stop him permanently," Rin sighed.
At this point, Levy was in tears, Gajeel and lily had a slight look of shock on their face.
"And what makes it worse, is that Alec was not his real name…it was Yama…"
Silence fell in the room, no one spoke, no one moved, and no one bothered to even breathe.
"And because of the spell, I put on ourselves, he can't leave…and neither can I…but over the years, he somehow got people to side with him…and I've tried to reason with them, but for some reason they never do…" Rin sighed.
Levy got up and tried to give Rin a hug, but her Rin's body felt very cold and it was almost unbearable for Levy.
"Don't worry about it," Rin reassured, "because somehow you did not listen and follow Yama…and I'm glad," Rin smiled.
Levy smiled back, happy that she helped Rin feel better.
"Now, are you willing to help?" Rin asked.
Levy looked at Gajeel, who just shrugged. Lily gave levy a thumbs up. Levy turned back to Rin and nodded.
"Good," Rin chimed, "Now, there is one more thing you should know about the pins that Yama gives," Rin warned.
Levy blinked, "What's that?"
"The pins slowly take magic and life energy away from each person…somehow, Yama obtains that…"
Levy frowned, "With that magic, could he…" Levy stopped talking and looked at Rin wide eyed, "Do you think…"
Rin nodded, "I think that he's trying to leave the library…" The silver haired woman said darkly, "to cause havoc and destruction,"
*sniff* poor Rin, she's had it so hard! I'm so glad that the three are going to help her! (tries to smile, but fails...miserably) *grabs a tissue and blows nose*
Now it is time for the reviews! *throws the tissue over shoulder*
To hm123, That is interesting...I thought people would like to see what the detailed life of Levy and what it would be like, or something close to it. Since the series is generally about Lucy and Natsu, so I'll keep that in mind with future stories ... And I'm really sorry about the typos T-T I am the author and editor of the story, and I have heard that being both is not advised...also, along with that note, somehow, I got a B- in my Writing class...I don't know how I did it, because writing essays is my weakness (I am kind of bad at writing essays)...as well as shopping *cringes* but I'm glad you like the story despite the typos :3
To Digi-fanCatt, where is superman when you need him...I mean seriously?! Or better yet, a T-Rex comes in and just eats Yama?! (Jurassic Park reference) Problem solved! But that's not how it's going to end... darn :C I wanted to see some dino action...
To DeathStar6305, I am so glad you are enjoying the story and staying with me for this long! I do enjoy writing this story for you guys, I especially like to read the reviews and see your reactions to each chapter...it's fun C: and without you guys, I would have stopped posting the story ages ago...since that didn't happen, I don't have to worry about it...And I'm also happy that my story is a good distraction from studying and or reality
** This is the Author, I have finished the story and I would to ask of you a favor, I would like you to go to the last chapter of the story called 'The Surprise'. Don't worry, it does not ruin the ending if you want to continue with the story And if you do not want to continue, this is your chance to decide on the next story I write...please vote before the end of February. I really want to know your thoughts :)**