The Wild Master

by chaosphoenix123

(Slight AU) In a world where magic is more abundant and dragons are a common sight, the ability to talk to animals is considered a myth at best; that is except for a small boy who was born without magic. After certain events transpire, he will travel to Cait Shelter and start up a friendship, and perhaps something more later on, with a certain Sky Dragon Slayer.

9. The Savage Blade of the Wild

Disclaimers: I do not own Fairy Tail.

A/N: Okay, chapter 9. Going to shift my focuses a little to work on my non-Fairy Tail stories for a minute. I'll be writing Fairy Tail stories here and there, but I have to consider all of the followers for my non-FT stories.

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The Savage Blade Of The Wild

Fonaar was getting more on edge with every passing moment as he watches the ceiling. Something was up there, he knew it in his gut and the increasing footsteps he was picking was a clear sign that they weren't alone. He needed to get Romeo out of here as soon as possible but when he mentions this to the boy, he nervously declines and said to wait on Wendy. Internally, Fonaar was fuming at the "order". Why wait for the girl when there was clearly something dangerous here? Why hasn't the girl simply grabbed the weapon so they could go? Why had the movement in the ceiling suddenly stopped?

Fonaar tilts his head in confusion at that last one. Why did the noise suddenly stop? It almost sounded like it...was…moving…. away.

"It's getting spooky down here", Romeo tells himself as he hugs Fonaar's side, "I'm ready to go anytime now, Wendy!"

"Hang on, Romeo, I'm almost done", Wendy reassures him as she examines all sides of the blade while it still lay on the altar, taking in itself finer details, especially the mysterious energy she was sensing from it. All the hairs on the body were on edge as she moves to touch the handle only to stop herself just as her fingers were about to glance the handle. Something dark was within the dagger, though that didn't exactly mean it was evil. If anything, it almost felt like it was natural, like it belongs in the world more than Wendy herself did. It was at that moment that Wendy decided that it would probably be for the best that Romeo didn't touch this weapon until Master Roubaul has had a look at it.

With Fonaar's focus solely on the ceiling and all of Wendy's attention on the blade, no one notices what was going on in the hallway outside the room. At least, no one did until Romeo heard a voice that sounded like someone scrapping a knife along a sidewalk.

"Yes Yes, feast we will! Two humans for snacks! One dragon for a meal!"

Romeo slowly turns his whole body around to see a cluster of eight-legged, eight glowing red-eyed spiders the size of Fonaar crawling fast down the hallway toward the room. They were moving along the floor, spread out across the walls and traveling on top of the ceiling. From what Romeo could see, they were coming through the entrance of the temple as the thick moving mass of legs and fangs drew closer to the room. The frighten boy could only hold up a shaking finger as he found his voice caught up in his throat.

"S-Sp-Sp", was what Wendy heard Romeo stutter out as her back was turned to him, "Spi-Spi-Spid"

"Romeo, what is it now?", Wendy asks from her position as she was still trying to think of a way to take the dagger out of the temple.

"SPIDERS! BIG SPIDERS!", Romeo finally manages to scream out, drawing both Wendy's and Fonaar's attention to the small army of giant arachnids just as the first one bursts through the entrance and made a headlong charge toward Romeo. Fonaar quickly snaps out of his shock and lets out a roar of defiance as he moves to intercepts the massive critter and the two collide into a large heap of scales and legs. As the two wrestle about on the floor, each trying to gain an advantage, their bodies become something akin to a bowling ball, knocking all of the other spiders aside and in some instant, using their combined weight to simply roll over and crush the spiders that unfortunate enough not to get out of the way in time. In the confusion, one of the more intelligent arachnids spotted Wendy who was by the back of the room and decided that she would be a much easier target for the moment and with eight powerful legs, leaped over the commotion, over Romeo, and toward Wendy.

Wendy saw the spider coming but when she tries to draw breath in an attempt to roar it back she was swiftly reminded once more that her wounds have not healed all the way as she clutches her side in pain. The unhindered spider lands on the base of the altar with a resounding stump, shaking it with such force that Wendy and the pillar both go toppling to the ground. The Sky Dragon-Slayer hits the ground first and the blade falls next to her. She sees the behemoth spider slowly start to crawl toward her, all eight of its eyes targeting Wendy as it rubs its fangs together and for a brief moment, Wendy was sure that it was doing all this to savor the moment. The girl's eyes flicker toward the dagger and linger on it for a second, her mind trying its best to rationalize the decision she was about to make.

"With my wounds, I'm almost defenseless at this point and Fonaar won't be able to handle all of them and protect Romeo at the same time", as reaches for the handle, all while trying to ignore the ominous feeling that swelling up deep inside of her. As she takes hold of the handle she felt her entire world change.

Romeo was now regretting not listening to Wendy back at the village. If he had only listened then he wouldn't be in the mess he currently found himself as he frantically backing away from an approaching spider that somehow got separated from the main body that was currently finding its hands full with Fonaar and was currently set on making the small boy its next meal.

Surprisingly though, that was an enigma in itself. Romeo has had two spiders already walk pass him without so much as glancing at him, despite the fact that he was standing in front of them and had to move out the way to avoid them. This third spider barely notices Romeo's presence and it was only after shaking its head a bit that it gave chase.

Anyway, Romeo turns and begins to run only for something to grab his foot and yank him to the ground. He turns around and is horrified to see a sticky white substance wrap around both of his shoes. He follows the line that it was forming and began to scream hysterical as he realizes that it was coming out of the spider's mouth and that he was now being dragged toward its gaping maw. Suddenly something flies through the air and smacks the spider in the head, temporarily distracting it from Romeo. Both the creature and Romeo turn their attention to the object in question….

Only to be stun at the sight of a severed giant spider's head laying there with all its eyes devoid of life and green mucus oozing out of its bottom.

"What did that?", Romeo whispers as a blue blur streaks across his vision and he sees the spider that currently had him entangle get slam into a nearby wall with such force that it shook the temple room and yanks the shoes straight off of Romeo's feet, but he paid no mind to this as he watches in both horror and amazement as whatever tackle the spider was now vigorously stabbing its head in a frenzy of mucus and blood that was spraying everywhere.

Fonaar had just finishing impaling a spider through its abdomen before flinging it back into the swarm and watches with distaste as it was immediately set upon by its fellows, its limbs being torn apart from its body while it still lived. He watches as it was hungrily gobbled down by those it might have considered kin. Fonaar has seemed a few scenes of cannibalizing like this during his travels where the weak and wounded were considered nothing more than food for those still consider healthy and strong when supplies were low. His only experiences so far have been with some of the smaller Vulcan tribes that inhabited the area around Magnolia but even then, it was a sickly sight to behold.

But there would be time for that later as he disembowels another one of the hairy eight-legged freaks with his left claw while crushing the chitin skull of another with his right all as he catches the third spider in its lower eye with his stinger. The problem he was having right now had nothing to do with the arachnids as individual attackers, they were far too fragile for that. No, the main source of Fonaar' s dread was the fact that they kept coming and coming, an endless ocean of creepy crawlies and he was beginning to tired from the constant struggle as well as running of out space to work in. He brings his tail crashing down on top of a spider that got a little too bold, cracking its body straight down the middle before sweeping his tail to the side, knocking back two more of the critters.

This grants him a brief moment of rest which he used to scan for Romeo, hoping that the boy was alright all the while curses himself for losing track of him so easily. He's able to spot the boy's purple mob of hair over the crowd of approaching monsters and find himself briefly rejoicing that the boy was currently not being targeted at the moment. So, preoccupied with the sight that he failed to realize that one of the giant arthropods had moved up on the wall until after it had already pounced on him. Fonaar instinctively rolls forward in an effort to dislodge the beast but the spider wraps his legs around the dragon in a tight vice and sinks its fangs into his neck. The dragon scales again prove their incredible tensile strength as the spider's fangs were unable to pierce through his draconic skin and Fonaar used the temporarily distraction cause by its realization of this to jump backward and slam it hard into a nearby wall, making it release its legs around him and allowing him to swiftly turn around slash it deep across its lower body with his razor claws, leaving a massive hole in it from which it bodily fluids pour out onto the temple floor. Fonaar couldn't help but smirk at the sight of this. Still got some fight left in him he told himself as he dove once more into the fray in an attempt to clear a path to Romeo.

Who was currently petrified by who his "savior" was…

"W-Wendy?", he croaks out toward the figure that was still vehemently stabbing the already dead spider, as he had regained enough sense to recognize the blue hair and the sundress it was wearing. Without warning, the person who Romeo presume was Wendy stop stabbing the spider and began scratching frenziedly at their neck, letting out a series of growls and howls, while revealing through her wild hair to Romeo a set of white scales that reminded him of Fonaar. They were in small patches here and there on the upper part of her neck near her head as well as the lower parts going down toward the shoulders. But it didn't matter where they were as the girl was scratching them with a gusto that Romeo had only seen once before when he dad came down with a rash.

"Wendy?", he tries once more and this time the girl takes notices as she turns around to face Romeo. But what was once the nice girl Romeo met yesterday morning had been replaced with someone that Romeo six-year-old mind could only compare to a monster from those horror films that his father secretly let him watch when his mom wasn't around. She was hunched over with her hair in a tangled mess, much longer than Romeo remembers it being and at the very ends of her strands, the tips were bright pink. Clutch firmly in her right hand was the dagger that Romeo saw her looking at earlier while her left hand was empty but no less dangerous as it seems five sharpen claws have extended from her fingertips making her once gentle hand look more akin to a talon.

Her pupils were silt and seem to take on an appearance that Romeo only saw once before, yet he was instantly reminded of Fonaar's eyes from yesterday when he lunged at Wendy at the beginning of their brawl. As the boy's eyes moved downward, he audible gulps at the sight of pointed fangs that were now puncturing out from Wendy's teeth should be and suppress a shiver as drool came oozing out of her mouth. She didn't call out his name and she instead let out a snarl as she quickly closed the distance between Romeo and her, moving on all fours and quickly snatching the boy up off the ground by the collar of his shirt and bringing him closer to her face than Romeo would have liked to examine him, sniffing him all around and looking him over.

"W-Wendy? W-What's wrong with you?", Romeo stammers out before seeing a fury of movement coming from behind Wendy as about half a dozen spiders have broken off from the main fight with Fonaar and were now advancing toward the two. Before Romeo could even scream, he is dropped by Wendy who turns around to face her opponents, the dagger position in front of her as her free hand was out to the side. Letting out a shrilling howl that is amplified by the room and sends a series of shivers down the young Conbolt's spine the Sky-Dragon-Slayer launches herself forward, fully intending on meeting the attack head-on with wanton recklessness.

The spider at the front of the advancing pack was the first to meet her in battle as its moves to bite at the girl, only for its fangs to snatch at thin air as Wendy slid underneath the creature at the last moment, holding the dagger upward and stretching out her free hand. The Savage Blade easily penetrate the spider's abdomen allowing it to slide forward within its internal, while Wendy newly razor-sharp claw take the bottom portion of all the legs of the monster's right side clean off, causing it to collapse into a slump of mucus and blood. But Wendy wastes little time before going forward with her attack for as soon as she clears her first victim, she propels herself upward toward the ceiling. Turning upside down in mid-transit, she impacts the surface with the flat of her feet, hitting it with a force of such great magnitude that large chunks of the ceiling broke off and plummet to the ground, raining crushing death on those unfortunate enough to get caught in the middle of their transition to the ground floor.

Such pieces narrowly avoided Fonaar during his ongoing melee with the hoard while Romeo was scrambling as fast as his little legs could manage to keep from getting flattened like a pancake. Looking none worse for wear despite the impact and using her claws and the Savage Blade to plant herself into the stone ceilings, Wendy surveys the carnage beneath her, looking for her next target. Upon spotting it, an uncivilized grin graces her lips as she then propels herself downward at an angle toward one of the spiders which had reared up its upper half in a vain attempt to look more imposing than it actually was. Half a heartbeat later and that same upper torso was sent crumbling to the ground as its lower body stays in place and Wendy appeared on the opposite side, the dagger and her claws drench in mucus.

For her position, Wendy arches her back and bellows a triumphant roar that resounds throughout the room, halting all activity and compelling every one of the room's occupants to direct their attention to her. For a few tense moments, not a single living thing move. Romeo, who was now up at the altar, Fonaar, who was in the process of ripping one of the arachnids in half, and the rest of swarm all took motionlessly, waited on baited breath to see what this dangerous, feral, Wendy would do next. And they did not have to wait long as Wendy suddenly pounces on the closest spider, reducing its mass to nothing more than chunks of flesh and mucus in mere moments. She then strafes across the room, using the walls as anchor points on which to she ground herself momentarily before launching herself to the other side, slashing and clawing while in mid-air, leaving either a trail of corpses in her wake or spiders missing both legs and eyes before she lands again and repeats the process.

During one of these aerial attacks, a particularly bold spider tries to snatch Wendy out of the air, using its bulky fangs in an attempt to catch the nimble girl. As if the girl already, heightened senses had been given a boost, she spotted the beast trying to set forth its ambush and instead of evading it she met the attack head-on, placing the Savage Blade within her mouth by the vine handle and now using both of her free hands to grab the mid-section of the fangs. Using her momentum, she flips over the giant spider, easily taking control of its immense bulk and lands on the ground, the beast now firmly in her grip. Before the eight-eyed demon could react to its new predicament Wendy sets about using it as a improvise flail, swinging wildly in all direction and battering any nearby foes and sending entire groups flying about.

Fonaar was able to witness all this up at the altar by Romeo. Thanks to the girl's new-found ferocity, the spiders eventually decided that she pose the bigger threat and have since long abandoned their attacks on the dragon and the boy. Still though, despite the fact, the dragon could probably use this distraction as a mean to escape from this hellish situation, but despite his better instinct, Fonaar wanted to see how all this played out and he wanted answers.

Where was this girl yesterday? Where did this sudden burst of power and strength come from? Would she be able to call upon it again at a moment's notice later on and if she could; should he deal with her now while she was distracted?

All these questions race through Fonaar's head as he wrapped his tail protective around Romeo, keeping a watchful eye on everything going on around him but never losing focus on the Sky Dragon-Slayer.

For what seems like an eternity, Wendy dealt death to all arachnids who were foolish enough to try and close in all her. Smashing heads, shattering bodies, and cracking the fragile legs of the giant spider hoard all while elegantly, yet savagery, dancing around their attacks like a ballerina on stage. Finally, after the broken yet still alive, spider outlived its usefulness, Wendy brought its face close to her, close enough that she could see her reflection in its eyes and after taking a moment to grab the Savage Blade out of her mouth while now holding both of its fangs in one hand with ease...

She opens her mouth.

Holding tightly to the fangs with an iron-tight grip, Wendy unleashes a turbulent swell of winds from her mouth, hitting the spider at point blank range and sending it flying back into its brethren, creating a cannonball effect of scattering the swarm upon impact. When all was said and done and dust from the attack finally settle down, Wendy was still standing there, clutching the Savage Blade in one hand and a pair of giant arachnid's fangs in the other.

"Overwhelm the human! Swarm her from all sides! Devour her!", Romeo hears the spiders scream even in their death throngs as they throw their bodies at the savage Wendy, her only response to this tactic was to simply deal out more death as she began to wield the two severed spider's fangs in her hands like thrusting swords while keeping the Savage Blade in her mouth once more. She was jabbing the fangs into the eyes of any nearby spiders and leaving them to writhe on the floor in agony before swiftly moving on to her next victim. She repeated the process until her improvised weapons began to lose their wear and she once more acquainted the spider hoard to the deadliness of the Savage Blade and her own body-grown weapons. Using both her claws and the blade, she slashes off all eight of the legs of an unlucky nearby arachnid, leaving it an amputee as she picks up each leg one by one and hurled it into the surrounding mob. Each leg struck with deadly accuracy into its target and because they were thrown with such force, they easily impale multiple spiders.

Fonaar had seen enough. Wendy newfound savagery was putting him on edge and he needed to get as far away from her as possible before she decided to turn her attention toward him and Romeo. The higher powers of the world must have been in a joking mood as Fonaar watches in amazement as the girl suddenly vaults out of the center of the steaming mass of legs and fangs and sails through the air toward the altar, landing gracefully no less than ten feet away from Fonaar and Romeo, soak from head to toe in spider mucus and guts, but still looking every bit as deadly while clutching a severed arachnid head in one hand, the Savage Blade in the other, and a sadistic smile on her lips. Her hungry eyes now setting their gaze upon the young dragonling.

Fonaar slowly puts himself between Romeo and Wendy, spreading his wings and lashing his tail behind him. He extended his claws, bared his fangs, and let out an threaten growl in an attempt to deter Wendy away, but to no avail. The girl was no more faze by Fonaar attempt than she was by the army of giant spiders that was standing motionlessly behind her. Wendy slowly turn her head and glare over her shoulder at arachnids, observing them with steel eyes. She then dropped the spider's head and the moment it splatters to the ground, mayhem erupts as the great hosts flee from the room. Along the walls and up into the ceiling, their huge bodies disappear into the large cracks and crevices located through the room. Through the hallway and even into the forest outside the temple, the arachnids depart from the scene of battle, dragging their fallen and wounded with them, though in Fonaar's mind, he knew it wasn't for treatment or proper burial. Within moments, the sounds of thousands of footsteps go silent and the only people standing in the hall were Wendy, Romeo, and Fonaar, accompanied only by a few scattered arachnid's limbs.

Fonaar was on edge, his muscles poise and tense ready to spring into action at a moment's notice. This wasn't the girl from yesterday so the whatever he used to defeat her then more than likely wouldn't work now. Worse yet, he still had to worry about Romeo and he was still restricted from using his sonic breath, even more so since the girl damaged the ceiling. He briefly wonders if he could snatch Romeo up in his tail and make a break for the entrance. He wonders if he could get far enough away from her to spread his wings and take to the sky. He was given little time to dwell on this as there was sudden movement from Wendy who had begun to walk forward toward the dragon, though her movements were strain from what Fonaar noticed.

Without warning, Wendy drops to the ground and the Savage Blade comes slipping out of her grasp. Almost instantaneous her hair shrunk back to the length it was when they first enter the temple, her natural blue tips returning while the pink strands fainted away. Her claws reverted back to regular fingernails and her fangs disappear from sight. Romeo and Fonaar also see the white scales on her neck and shoulders fade away until there was no trace of them left. Soon she was just lying on the temple floor, her shallow, raspy, breathing the only sound she was making.

"Wendy!", Romeo screams as he rushes toward her from behind Fonaar. The dragon himself was about to intervene and stop the boy from getting too close to the girl when he thought he spotted movement in the temple hallway out of the corner of his eye. He looks up the wall but nothing was too been seen.

Meanwhile, Wendy was starting to come too. The first thing she sees upon opening her eyes was Romeo kneeling down next to her with a panic look plastered on his face.

"W-What happen?", she croaks out as she tries to stand up only to immediately go back down as her entire body is engulfed in pain. Her muscles felt like they were on fire while at the same time feeling like they were made of iron, making her movement painful and sluggish.

"Ahhhh!", she screams out before realizing one more thing, "What am I covered in?"

"Spider's gut, but I think you need to lie down", Romeo tells her completely ignoring the disgusted expression on the girl's face, "Mommy always tells me that when you're in pain you should lie down and wait for someone to come to see what's wrong with you."

Wendy cracks a little smile at Romeo's innocence despite her appearance and decides best not to comment on his statement. She notices that they were standing alone inside of the room, "Where all the spiders go?"

"They ran away after you beat them all up", Romeo explains, causing Wendy to throw him a baffled look.

"I what?"

"You were crazy! You were like boom! And the spiders were Ahhhhhh! Screaming as you bash them around! How could you not remember that?", Romeo says.

Wendy takes a moment to recollect her memories, but she only seems to recall the moments leading up to her grabbing the…

Brown eyes scan the immediate area around the girl until they finally fall on the green dagger that was laying right next to her. Ignoring her pain, she backs away from it.

"Romeo, whatever you do, don't touch that blade!", she orders.

"What? You mean this blade?", Romeo asks as he grabs the Savage Blade by its vine handle, causing a gasp to erupt from Wendy.

"Romeo!"

But the boy pays no heed to her as he felt a strange energy coursing through his body. He was overcome with a vast amount of feelings that he has never felt before.

Survive. Hunt. Kill. Dominate!

These words repeated in his head until they turn into a blur and become one with his mind.

Survive. Hunt. Kill. Dominate.

Survive! Hunt! Kill! Dominate!

SURVIVE! HUNT! KILL! DOMINATE!

"CEASE SUCH THOUGHTS!", a new voice rings out, one that Romeo has only heard once before, "Do not let the blade cloud your thoughts and warp your mind! You are not this blade's servant, you're it's master! You command it and tell it when to give you its power! Only my chosen children have the power to control this weapon!"

Fonaar and Wendy watch in amazement as not only Romeo's Wild Mark symbol lights up but his eyes as well, but giving off the emerald green light that illuminated the temple.

"You will come into your role soon enough, young one! But for now, learn the ways of your predecessors! Work! Train! Fight! Gain knowledge! And one day soon you will show the world that the balance has returned!"

The dragon and dragon-slayer look on as the light began to fade away from Romeo and he crumbles to the ground. Fonaar is at his side a moment later, looking him over. After briefly examining him, he gently takes him in his mouth and places him on his back. He throws a glare at Wendy who was still on the ground and after an intense stare-off between the two, motions his neck to tell the girl to get on. Wendy found herself having to crawl over to the dragon, who refuse to move closer to her, but eventually, she was able to get on top of him. Fonaar then spares the Savage Blade a look and after an internal struggle with himself, scoop the dagger up into his mouth and makes toward the entrance of the temple.

The whole trip of the corridor was slow and tense as both Wendy and Fonaar were constantly looking all around for any signs of the giant arachnid army hiding within the walls. They made it out of the temple without further incident and Fonaar took to the sky as soon as he had room to spread his wings and the trio made their flight back to the village. If they had taken a moment to look behind them as they flew away, no doubt they would have spotted a lone spider slowly emerge from the tree line, all eight of its eyes narrow in a rage only equal by its hunger at the retreating dragon form.

The flight back was long and silence despite the fact that Fonaar was going faster than he did when they were traveling to the temple and Wendy made no attempt to converse with the dragon who was already on edge with her when Romeo was awake, no doubt was not in the mood for talking while he slept in her arms. She had played with the notion of trying to see if she could heal him but was quickly reminded of his anti-magic ability upon her trying to call forth her magic.

"Guess all I can do is make sure he doesn't fall off", she thought as she glances forward at Fonaar's mouth and sees the Savage Blade sticking out of it, "Why did he bring that with him and why isn't he going berserk?"

Now while Wendy didn't consider herself a genius, she was far from stupid. The flight back to the village took at least an hour, so she had time to ponder over everything that has occurred and come to a conclusion.

"Hmm, based on the name, Savage Blade, and the inscription that was on the blade itself, I guess holding the dagger reverts your mind and body back to a primal state", Wendy rationalizes as fragments of the temple battle with the spiders started to pop up in her mind, "Maybe the weapon doesn't affect animals."

Without warning, a surge of pain races through her body, originating from her ribs. She clenches her teeth and hugs her side with one arm while keeping the other one on Romeo as she does her best to mentally block out the pain.

"Great, my wounds are hurting just as bad as the day I got them! Miss Porlyusica is going to kill me", Wendy tells herself, though after a moment of dwelling once again on the Savage Blade and its effects, another thought came to mind….

"Did Master Roubaul know the weapon would have that effect on people?"

Back at the village

To Wendy's utter shock and surprise, Master Roubaul not only admitted to knowing what the Savage Blade could do to a person, he even came forth saying that he was hoping that Romeo would take hold of the dagger first.

"From a logical point of view", he stated, "Romeo had a greater chance not to go savage than Wendy did. On the off chance that he did succumb to the effects of the weapon; Wendy, even in her wounded state, could have easily subdued him."

Both Porlyusica and Carla were quick to point out, and quite loudly too, that even if Wendy was able to defeat a savage Romeo, she would have more than likely still have to deal with a fully-healed and tick off Fonaar who more than likely wouldn't have been too pleased with the dragonslayer attacking the boy seeing how he is already aggressive toward her and probably would have seen it as an excuse to put Wendy down for good. After Roubaul thought about this for a moment, he admitted that he did not consider that factor. This sets off Carla who proceeds to give the guild master an earful while Porlyusica tended to Wendy.

Oh my gods, it would seem that not only did you manage to reopen your wounds while in your uncontrolled state but you succeeded in making them worse", Porlyusica states as she shook her head, "Taking your higher recovery rate into the equation, you're going to be down now for at least a week."

The Potion mage then turns her attention toward Romeo and Fonaar who were quietly sitting still. Romeo already got his tongue-lashing upon landing at the village, (he awoke mid-flight just a few minutes before they landed and this was only after Roubaul instructed him to tell Fonaar to place the Savage Blade on another altar inside of the main building), and now was sitting quietly, waiting for his punishment. At the moment, he was pretty sure that if he was still back in Magnolia both his mom and dad would have torn up his hide before sending him to his room. With the glare Porlyusica was giving him right now, he was almost certain she was thinking about it.

Porlyusica takes a deep breath and exhales before speaking, "All three of you need a bath."

Three different faces all adopt the same expression of confusion.

"All you need to take a bath", Porlyusica repeated as she looked directly at Fonaar, "You more than anyone else."

Fonaar lets out a snort at this, but Porlyusica ignores it as she looks down toward Romeo, "The last time you took a bath was the night before we came here, wasn't it?"

"I think so", Romeo admitted.

"More than enough reason for me to believe you need one", Porlyusica says before looking at Fonaar, "I can't even begin to fathom when the last time you clean yourself."

Fonaar snorts in annoyance before turning his head with a grumble.

Porlyusica finally lands on Wendy, "I believe there's a natural hot spring nearby if I'm correct."

Wendy takes a moment to answer, "Um, yes. It's in the forest right behind the village."

"Good, go help Romeo gather his things and makes sure he gets scrubbed clean. All three of you reek of spider mucus and we'll talk more about what happen tomorrow", Porlyusica points out as she started to walk away.

"Umm, Miss Porlyusica? It is really all right for Romeo to be taking a bath with me?", she hears Wendy asks her.

"He's six years old, Wendy. He doesn't even know what to look at. Besides, he'll be too busy playing with his toys he brought with him", Porlyusica assures her without breaking her stride, "Now go, I have to talk with Roubaul."

Wendy merely shakes her head and she motions Romeo toward the main building where all his stuff was kept, being mindful of the dragon that was following close behind.

Meanwhile, Carla finally finished giving Roubaul a piece of her mind and headed back toward her room to rest up once more, leaving Porlyusica alone with the guild master.

The two of them stood in silence for a moment as a gentle breeze ran through the village and the sun began to dip underneath the horizon.

"I wasn't unaware that giant spiders were native to this region of the country. I was under the impression that they were usually found in the forest near the border", Porlyusica started off as she continues watching the sunset.

"For as long as I have been alive, I have never seen nor heard of a single giant spider making a home in this forest, let alone in such numbers that Wendy described", Roubaul said.

"Then what is the reason behind a horde of spiders the size of Fonaar infesting the temple?", Porlyusica questions as she turns to face Roubaul.

…..

"For years, my hunters have avoided that temple due to them believing it was haunted. Now I feel something far worse has tainted the temple in the short time since Wendy, Carla, and I, went there", Roubaul said while still looking ahead, "I got a bad feeling, Porlyusica. I feel our troubles with the Wild Master temple are just beginning."

"I see", Porlyusica says as she turns to leave but stops once her back is to Roubaul, "Master Roubaul."

"Yes, is there something else you require, Porlyusica?"

...

"If you ever recklessly put Romeo's life in danger again, I'll pack up our things up and we'll walk back to Magnolia if we have to; visions, destiny, Spirit of Nature, be damn. Do I make myself clear?", Porlyusica states in a voice so cold that it sent shivers down Roubaul's spine.

"You have made your point clear", Roubaul simply replies as he watches the Potion Mage walk away, "In the morning, we will go into further detail about the Savage Blade and do not worry, I won't let Romeo touch it."

At the hot spring

"Well, at least Porlyusica was right about one thing", Wendy thought to herself as she laid in the soothing waters of the hot springs, a pink towel wrapped around her petite body, "Even if Romeo knew what to look for, he would be too busy playing with his toys to do so."

The Sky Dragon-Slayer cracked a smile as she watches the spectacle of Romeo playing with his toy boats, taking in the innocence he was displaying despite the events that occur only hours before.

"Captain, our lookouts have reported something coming right for us!", Romeo mimicked as he propels the boats along the top of the water, "It's huge!"

Suddenly the top of Fonaar's head appears out of the water, mere inches from the toy boats, with his yellow eyes fixated on the rubber objects.

"By the gods! It's the legendary sea monster, Fonaar the Sea Dragon! All ships, full-steam reverse!", Romeo screamed out as he pulls the boats back in a vain attempt to escape, only for Fonaar to blow some water at them.

"Oh, no! He has caused a tidal wave! We're sinking! Ahhhhh!", Romeo quotes as he pulls the boat to the bottom of the medium-size hot springs that was just big enough to fit Fonaar and the kids.

"Such childlike innocence", Wendy sighed as she remembers that she was tasked with making sure Romeo was scrubbed clean. Grabbing the soap bottle and pail next to her, she moves up behind the boy while spraying the soap into her hands and began lathering up the boy's purple hair, setting the pail down next to her to float around.

"Ack!", Romeo lets out and Fonaar almost stood straight up out of the water, teeth bared toward Wendy before Romeo held up a hand to stop him.

"It's okay, Fonaar! She's just doing what my mom does whenever I take a bath at home!", he assures the dragon and Fonaar reluctantly lowers himself back into the water, his eyes never leaving the two.

Wendy and Romeo are quiet for the first couple of moment of his hair-washing but after a while….

"Hey, Wendy", Romeo says in a mild voice.

"Yes, Romeo?", she answers, wondering what has caused him to get so quiet all of a sudden.

"What would you grow up to be if you didn't have magic?"

Wendy's eyes widen a bit at this question for it was the last thing she expects for someone as young as Romeo to ask. But once she recovers over the initial shock and gave the question some thought….

"I suppose I would be a nurse or maybe a doctor. I've always enjoyed making people feel better and I feel toward jobs would best suit me", she answered.

"Oh…. I see", Romeo merely said as he stares straight ahead.

"Something wrong, Romeo?", Wendy asked.

"Not really, I just remember that the day I came here, I overheard my mommy and Granny Porlyusica talking about how hard it would be for me to be a grown-up", Romeo answered, "It not the first time I heard someone say this about me."

Wendy moves to ask what he meant before stopping herself. It took a moment for it to dawn on her that in a country like Fiore, where magic and magical items were everywhere, someone like Romeo may have a hard time blending it and having a normal life.

"I suppose his anti-magic ability would do that for him", Wendy thought, "Well, Romeo. What do you want to be when you grow up?"

"I want to be an adventurer and travel the world and see new places! Now that I got Fonaar, I can go anywhere!", he shouted, he spirited attitude returning once more.

"That sounds like fun!", Wendy smiled, "But what would you do once you traveled the whole world and seen everything?"

Romeo ponders for a moment, "I don't know. Dad's always telling me to get a girlfriend once I'm old enough."

"What kind of dad tells their six-year-old son that type of advice?", Wendy thought in the back of her mind before noticing Romeo's face drop.

"What's wrong?"

"For me to get a girlfriend, someone has to like me first and I doubt I'm going to find someone like that. Most of the other kids don't even talk to me because I can take away people's magic", Romeo confess.

Wendy shakes her head at Romeo's words and moves to tickle him underneath his armpits.

"Ha, ha, ha! Wendy, stop it! That tickles!", Romeo shouts, splashing water everywhere and surprisingly, Fonaar did not make a move upon seeing this, he merely observes the two humans as they played.

Wendy stops and turns Romeo's head around so that he was facing her.

"Now you listen to me, Romeo. Don't you ever think that you're not going to find someone who likes you", she tells him as she lets him go and started washing his hair again, "You're going to grow up to be strong, brave, and handsome!"

Romeo starts to laugh at the comments Wendy was giving to him, "Thanks, Wendy."

"I'm not done yet!", Wendy says as she fills the pail and pours it over Romeo's hair, "And when you're older, you're going to make some lucky girl very happy."

A/N: Foreshadowing much, who knows?

Savage Blade- the main weapon of the Wild Master which has the ability to bring out ones inner beast if not used correctly.

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