Hey everybody. One review, Leyan, pointed out that bringing in people will change their personalities. Yes, to an extent. Nature vs Nurture is about a 50/50 split when it comes to personality, but you will see people act a bit differently. Also, Elle didn't tell Makarov everything. Makarov knows the danger of knowing too much, and he's trusting Elle with the future. He doesn't want too many people messing with the future at all, so he's leaving that up to her.

Chapter Five - Laxus, Part One

I sighed as I entered to the guild.

Now that I had the basics of my other magics down, I turned to my planetary magic. I was able to manipulate the elements to a certain point, but I couldn't create them, and I definitely couldn't cast any spells with them. Most of the spells were pretty powerful, too.

"You are weak!"

I stopped in my tracks as I heard a voice.

"You are a failure, you weak little shit! I'm disappointed in you. How can my son be so weak? And after all I did for you!"

I followed the voice, sneaking along as I did so. Peeking into the training room, I saw something I didn't want to see.

Ivan Dreyar stood over his son, who he was yelling at angrily. While he didn't raise a hand to his son, I could easily see what it was; abuse. Verbal abuse was still abuse, and Ivan was a piece of shit.

"You should have never been born!" Ivan yelled as he stalked away. I hid as he neared the exit to the room, and then waitied for him to completely disappear before entering.

"Are you alright?" I asked quietly.

Laxus, who had faced the other wall to hide his tears, wiped angrily at his face. "I'm fine."

"You're not fine," I said. "Was that your father?"

He paused, still without looking at me. "Yeah."

"Well, your Pa's an idiot," I told him plainly.

At that, he spun around, and looked me in the eyes. "What?"

"You're only a kid," I said. "What, did he expect you to be one of the Ten Wizard Saints?"

He frowned. "Don't talk about my dad like that! He helped make me strong!"

That confirmed it. I had thought so, but I wasn't sure. I originally thought he didn't get the lacrima implanted until later, but he had a fresh lightning scar over his eye.

"He was yelling at you!" I said.

"He was encouraging me! He'll help get me stronger!"

"You're already pretty strong, you just need to train, stupid!"

"Don't call me stupid!" he shouted.

"Then don't be stupid!"

"I'm not being stupid!" he yelled back.

"Yes, you are!" I yelled. "He's abusing you!"

"No he's not!" Laxus yelled.

"There's more than one type of abuse, idiot. Yelling at you like that counts as abuse. Plus, you're plenty strong already, so it shouldn't even matter!"

He quieted down after that. "Really?"

I sighed. I knew I wasn't going to get anywhere with this argument for now. "Yeah, I could feel you outside the room. You just got to practice."

We were quiet for a bit. I noticed his eyes were a bit like mine, except they were the color of storm clouds, while mine still looked like moonlight.

"My name is Elle," I said, holding out my hand.

"I'm Laxus," he said, quietly taking it.

"Do you want to be friends?" I asked.

"I don't have any friends," he said quietly.

"Well then that means I get to be your first!" I said happily.

"But we were fighting," Laxus said.

I snorted. "So? Friends can still fight. Anyway, you're my friend now. So let's train together!"

A smile spread across Laxus's face. "Okay!" Laxus plopped down on the ground and started meditating. I smiled at him and sat down next to him, before closing my eyes.

At some point later, I was brought out of my meditative state by yelling. "You think that simply meditating will help you? You little weakling! You're a disappointment."

"Hey!" I yelled at Ivan. "Meditating is how you get stronger, only idiots don't know that. And you shouldn't yell at your son, dickwad!"

He looked at me, growing enraged, and I suddenly remembered that I was a tiny nine year old without much magical power. He threw a punch my way.

"Dad, don't!" Laxus shouted.

As the fist neared me, I quickly activated my teleportation magic, and phased out of the way.

Laxus looked kind of impressed, while Ivan only grew angrier. He activated his magic too.

"Dad, stop it!" Laxus shouted.

Ivan's weird paper doll things (seriously, what the fuck were they?) came flying towards me. I phased out of the way again, but the dolls just turned around and came after me again.

"Dad, I said STOP IT!" Laxus shouted. His magic activated and he gave Ivan a huge jolt.

Ivan's magic stopped in surprise, but not before one of the dolls sliced past my cheek.

I felt a sharp pain follow it, and then I felt warm blood start to spill out of the cut.

Ivan stared at his son murderously.

I quickly did the only thing I could think of.

I phased next to Laxus, grabbed his hand, and then phased directly into Makarov's office.

Makarov looked up from his work as Laxus and I phased in front of him. Once I had finished, I let go of Laxus's hand and nearly collapsed on the ground. Laxus, tiny eleven year old that he was, still managed to catch me, even though I nearly brought him down on the ground too.

Makarov stood up, unto the desk. "What happened?" he asked seriously.

"Elle?" Laxus asked as he led me to the couch. "Are you alright?"

"Just tired," I said, panting. "I've never teleported with another person before, and I teleported three times before that, too. They were relatively short distances, but still."

"Elle," Makarov's voice brought our attention back to him. "What happened?"

I looked at him, and tried to signal with my eyes that this had something to do with the future.

"Laxus, leave us please," Makarov said.

"Master, I would actually like Laxus here," I spoke up.

"You would trust him on this?" he asked.

I nodded.

"Very well," Makarov said. "Now, if you could please-"

"Oh, right. Master…what are you going to do about Ivan?"

He looked at me sadly, and sighed. "I suppose since you're asking, I do something in the future?"

"Yes," I said. "But I'm not exactly sure when it happens."

"Alright," he said. "And you would like me too…?"

"Move your actions up," I said. "And go through them sooner."

"What are you talking about?" Laxus asked.

I didn't want to tell too many people, but I wanted Laxus to know. Since he was the only other kid here around my age, plus he was pretty strong, I was thinking of bringing him with me on certain quests I had to do. If he can trust my judgement on some things, that will make it easier.

"Laxus, I know the future," I said, turning to him. "And I'm here to help change it."

He stared at me in shock. "Really?"

I nodded. "Yes. For instance, when you said that your father helped you get stronger, you really meant that he implanted a dragon slayer lacrima in you."

"WHAT?" Makarov boomed, standing up and radiating magical energy. "ELLE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?"

"She's right," Laxus said quietly, looking at me in shock and amazement. "Dad told me not to tell anyone."

Makarov calmed down. "I've been thinking about excommunicating him from the guild, but I didn't know what I would use to back up my decision."

"You have three reasons, actually," I told him. "One, he's verbally abusing Laxus." Laxus tried to protest that but I shut him up with a glare. "Two, he physically abused Laxus by placing the lacrima in him."

Laxus couldn't keep quiet anymore. "He did it to save my life, Elle! Look, I know you have something against him, and it probably has to do with future things, but he's still my father!"

"I know that!" I shouted back. "But he still hurt you Laxus! Do you have any proof that what he did saved your life?"

He quieted after that.

"And third," I continued, turning back to Makarov, "he attacked me. Granted I called him a dickwad, first, but who the hell attacks a kid, even if they call you that. And when I teleported away from his punch he sent his weirdo paper doll things at me." I pointed at my cheek. "That's how I got this. It probably would have been worse, if Laxus hadn't shocked him. Then I was scared of what he was gonna do to us so I grabbed Laxus and got out of there."

Makarov sat down on his desk. "I see."

"So what now?" Laxus asked.

"Now, I shall excommunicate Ivan. For the safety of the guild." He looked towards me. "You are not the first guild mate he has attacked out of anger, Elle, but you are certainly the youngest."

"No, you can't do that!" Laxus shouted. "Give him another chance, Jiji! Please, he's my dad! He's your son!"

"No, he isn't!" I yelled. "Laxus, he's not your family. Family doesn't abuse each other, or bully them. I know you say it's not abuse, but I know that those words hurt you when he says them! You want his praise, you want his love, but you're not going to get it, because it's not in his nature! All Ivan has ever done is hurt you! And that means he is not nakama!"

Laxus froze at that, and I was suddenly reminded just how young he was, even though I thought that I had known. "Laxus, I know it hurts to hear, but it's the truth. Stop thinking about him! He's not your family, but we are. Fairy Tail is your family, Laxus. Your father may not love you but we do."

And then I held out my arms to hug him and he collapsed in them, crying, and I could only hope that by him accepting us as family that it would stop him from ever even considering what he did at Fantasia.