Okay so here is Chapter 8. It is a really long chapter so that is why t took me a little longer than normal to post this one, but i hope you all like this chapter. Alot of things happen and many lead up to some things that will be happening soon enough, though im not giving you any spoilers but if you watched the anime you should at least know where i might be going. On another note, once this semester of college ends i should be posting more chapters more frequently so in about two to three weeks you should see that. So im going to leave you to enjoy this chapter, but as always please leave a review containing some things you think i should try to improve on. Thanks for reading this chapter and have a good day/night!
They received a warm welcome back once they entered the guild hall.
"Welcome back!" Mirajane yells out.
"Thank you, it was a hard fought battle, but the alliance pulled through. We defeated the Oracion Seis!" Erza yells out to the guild to inform them. The guild responds by yelling out in joy.
"So who is this you have with you?" Makarov asks looking at Wendy.
"My name is Wendy Marvell, I was hoping I could join Fairy Tail," Wendy says, introducing herself to the guild.
"I promised her that she would be allowed to join. She was a big help against the Oracion Seis. She is also the Sky Dragon slayer," Erza states. At first the sudden quiet unsettled Wendy. Where they upset with her being a Dragon slayer? Then Makarov spoke.
"Wonderful! She is more than welcome into this guild! We will party for our new member tonight!" The guild yells out in happiness, relieving all of Wendys tension. Makorov lets them celebrate for a little while before speaking once again, "But before we celebrate I believe punishments are due for the two that disobeyed what I said." This quiets everyone down as both Mikoto and Touma stepped forward.
"I let you into my guild and only after a couple of weeks you disobey my order and join a mission you should never have join, especially for ones that cant use magic." He looks Mikoto over, noticing how heavily she was bandaged up from her rib injuries and continues, "And it looks like I was right by how badly you are injured Mikoto. Do you care to explain yourself before I decide your punishment?"
Mikoto looks over to Touma and he returns the look with one telling her to do the talking. So she turns to look Makarov and says, "I have no regrets about choosing to go. Despite the injuries I received, they pale in comparison to the injuries everyone else would have received If Touma and I had not gone. We saved the lives of many of the wizards that went on that mission, though that is not all the explanation I want to say, if you will permit me to say the whole story."
"Go on,"
"Touma and I knew about the Oracion Seis long before this mission was even decided on. I already told those present at the time, but I will say it again for all of those that did not hear it. Touma and I do not come from this world. Our world is called Earth, and it is a lot farther ahead in time than this world. My mentor, Raiden, created a device that would transport Touma and I to this world." Mikoto begins to explain.
"Why would he do that? Sounds like a lot of work," Gajeel asks
"Raiden is the kind of guy that will try to save everyone that he can, same with Touma and Myself. He found out about this world from another experiment and he saw the future it was heading towards. It's a future of darkness and death, and one he knew could be changed. So he sent Touma and Me after we did some studying of what is going to happen in this world. We both know what's going to happen up to 7 years from now if Touma and I stood around and did nothing, but of course that's not the goal. We came to lead this world to a better future," Mikoto continues to explain.
"By disobeying your Guild Master?" Makarov asks, still upset.
"Unfortunately that is one of the things we had to sacrifice. The first meeting against Oracion Seis ended up horribly for the Alliance. Everyone but Happy, Carla, and Wendy were knocked out in minutes, with Erza poisoned and on the fast track to dying. Thats when Touma and I showed up. I first had Touma defend Wendy, as I already knew she was the only one who could save Erza while I tried to beat Oracion Seis with my sword. I fared well until Cobra got involved, and then I was forced into revealing my true self." Mikoto says.
"What do you mean by "true self""? Makarov asks
Mikoto didn't respond right away, instead opting to show him. Electricity began to flow around her as she activated her power. This stunned all of the members that had not been there the first time. Mikoto continues, "When I first joined the guild I was not lying that I didn't know magic, but I did have a power. In my world I am called an Esper, or a person born with a special power. I am the rank 3 level 5 Electromaster, otherwise known as the Railgun because of my signature move. This makes me the 3rd strongest fighter in my world in this form. I also have an even stronger form, one called level 6, but Im not going to show it to you because it is not necessary any time soon. Anyways with my ability I managed to knock away all of the members of Oracion Seis until Brain got away with Wendy. After that I stayed mostly out of the rest of the battles, as to not affect the future to much except for one fight against Oracion Seis master, Zero, after he attacked Touma. Then the badly damaged magic bombed, Christina, which had just saved Cait shelter from a devastating attack, began to fall out of the sky with members of the Alliance trapped on board. I went up there to hold the bomber in the sky using electromagnetism. But because of my earlier fights, my ability began to fail me. That's when I unlocked the ability to use magic." Mikoto says
"What kind of Magic?" Mirajane asks. Again instead of just saying it, Mikoto decides to show everyone.
"Summoning Magic: Wolf!" Mikoto says as a magic circle spawns next to her and a Wolf walks out of it. The guild couldn't believe what they were seeing.
"Wow that's the Summoning magic you read in that book! You actually learned it!" Levy states in wonder.
"Yeah and it happened the same way that it happened to the other guy, I just mysteriously learned it, though I have yet to learn how to summon my guardian creature." Mikoto responds. She then continues, "So I learned the magic and summoned a creature that held the bomber in the air while others got the Alliance members safely to the ground. But then the bomber exploded, sending me flying into Nirvana and that's where I got my injuries from. The rest of the story Is better filled in by someone else."
"Well I am glad to hear that you got hurt saving others, though none of this means I will change your punishment," Makarov states.
"I am okay with a punishment to myself. I only ask two things. Do not punish Touma, as I was the one that dragged him into it and he was only trying to be a good boyfriend by supporting me. Secondly, I ask for you to forget about this for today only, so that my punishment does not steal the spotlight from Wendy joining the guild." Mikoto states, bowing her head.
"Well that's fine by me. Lets party for Wendy and Carla! Fairy Tails newest members!" Makarov yells out, surprising Mikoto at how easily he accepted what she asked. The party begins, with everyone having fun. Of course Natsu and Gray get into a disagreement but of course Erza brings an end to it. The night goes and goes until people start to leave because it is getting very late. Wendy leaves with Erza to go find a room in the place that most of the female wizards stay. Mirajane looks around and notices that Mikoto was nowhere to be seen, even though Touma was still in the guild hall.
"Master, have you seen Mikoto since the party started?" She asks Makarov as she walks over to him.
"I thought I saw her walking out back, lets go and check." Makarov says. The two of them walk out to the back courtyard and immediately find Mikoto. She had been out there training. She was currently using her iron sand ability, a sight that shocked Mirajane and Makarov. Mikoto notices them and stops her ability, turning to face them and says, "Hello Master, hello Mirajane. How may I help you two?"
"What were you just doing Mikoto?" Makarov says, talking about her iron sand.
"Oh you mean this?" Mikoto asks as she uses her iron sand once again. When Makarovs answer was a nod she continues, "Its called Iron sand. Its all of the iron particles in the ground being controlled by electromagnetism. They vibrate much in the way as my HF blade, and can also be used as a shield in battle for me," Mikoto explains.
"Yet this isnt any form of magic, impressive." Makarov states, a smile on his face.
"Having a non magic related ability opens up a lot of possibilities you can do. Where if this was magic, i would not be able to use any other kind of magic, yet with my esper ability, i can use it in other ways as well. Also esper abilities are naturally stronger than that of a wizard." Mikoto states.
"Well I dont know about that." Mirajane says lightly.
"Well from my calculations I am strong enough to beat all of the wizard saints at full power in this form, let alone my level 6 form." Mikoto says with slight arrogance.
"I really doubt that. Nobody is capable of doing that." Makarov says.
"My ability allows me to move as such a speed that nobody is capable of seeing, let alone dodging. The strength of my power may not be greater than the first wizard saint, but I am alot faster than him. I use that speed to increase my own power. My powers can also be used as shield, and at their max nothing can get through the electric field," Mikoto explains.
"Well that makes sense a little. If your opponent can't touch you then they cant hurt you." Makarov says, agreeing with Mikoto finally.
"Besides, my signature move can beat almost anyone. The nickname, the Railgun, comes from my signature move. I can show all of you if you would like." Mikoto offers.
"Sure why not, just aim it over the water." Makarov says. Mikoto walks over to the end of the water that was behind the guild hall and begins to power up. Huge amounts of electricity begins to build up around her in a dramatic fashion. She was charging to full power at level 5, her first time in this world. This draws the attention of everyone still inside of the guild hall, and they all walk out to watch. Mikoto feels their gazes on her as she reaches her max. At that moment she pulls a coin from her pocket. She flips it into the air, and at the exact same moment all the electricity that was flowing around her disappeared. Everyone observing believe that it had just vanished, but in reality it had all went into Mikoto in an instant. Then as the coin falls right back into her hand, she flicks it forward at the same time as releasing all of that electricity into the coin. This creates a tremendous Railgun that fires over the water, parting the water underneath it because of the shock wave. The blast also creates an indentation in the ground under Mikoto. This Railgun was by far larger than any she has fired in her normal form ever before. Touma was shocked at how larger it was, it was very reminiscent of her firing a Railgun at 20% of her level 6 powers. The Railgun reaches a distance of over 200 meters before it dissipates, this is a huge increase over her original 50 meters since before she had meet Raiden. Over the past couple of weeks before coming to this world, she had taken her training to another level, and was now at a total of over 20 times increase of her level 5 powers from the day that she meet Raiden. This means that her level 6 form is 100 times more powerful than this new baseline, which means in theory she has enough power to destroy the world. After the Railgun dissipates, Mikoto begins to build more electricity around her, then uses it to transport her around the city at tremendous speed. All everyone could see was the electricity left behind because of her movements. Touma realized that she was now just as strong as her level 6 form used to be, so he could only imagine how strong her current level 6 form is. Finally she returns to her starting location, and stops charging up. Static electricity was still flowing around her, but she was done showing off.
"How are you that powerful?" Gray asks in shock, having also been watching.
"Back in my world, how strong you are as an esper means everything. It gains you money, fame, respect, even sometimes love. But it also gains you enemies, people wanting to exploit your power and use it for their own goals. When I meet Raiden, I was about 20 times less powerful than I am today, yet I was considered the third most powerful. I didn't want to become more powerful for any other reason but to protect my friends. Eventually I got so strong under his training, that things changed. I was powerful enough to protect my friends, but not a whole city, and I realized that the officials didnt have everyone's best interest in mind, so someone needed to protect everyone else. I used my ever increasing power to push myself past the control of anyone else, so that I could use that power to protect everyone. But do you know the two truths about having a power as strong as I do?" Mikoto asks the guild.
"I believe I have an idea, but im not sure," Levy states trying to think.
"There is always someone either at your heels or stronger than you," Natsu states walking over, showing a rare moment of brilliance.
"Yes, thats one. The other is that you may be trying to protect others, but you will also always bring danger with you as well, sometimes the danger you bring is stronger than you can face alone. Thats why I have learned now that Im not going to try to get my power any stronger. Im happy where im at, and if cant win alone, than my friends will be enough help to win together." Mikoto says,
"Then why did you push yourself as far as you did?" Lucy asks
Mikoto smiled at this and walks over to Touma, grabbing his hand with hers before answering.
"Sometimes, things happen. I left my home city to go and hunt down those that threatened it. Touma, Raiden, and Raidens fiance came with and we faced some very strong opponents. There were times where we almost defeated, but each time one of us would rise above and overcome the odds. In a way I guess you can say it was out of fear of losing the one I loved the most," Mikoto states.
"Mikoto gets stronger through her emotions, about in the same way that Natsu does. Make her angry, or put enough fear into her, and she will rise above and break through her limits," Touma explains further.
"Ah I see now. So Mikoto didnt increase her powers on purpose," Levy states.
"No, it happened because it was forced to happen. When I first unlocked my level 6 form, i was scared of pushing it past 50% of its maximum, as that much power could have had a chance to destroy the very surroundings I would be trying to protect. But now I have learned to control it better, and it has gotten stronger. I can go 50% in my level 6 form, and not have to worry about my surroundings as much," Mikoto says.
"Some day you are going to have to show us this level 6 form you keep talking about." Mirajane says.
"Yeah I will, probably sooner than any of us think. Right now though, I think I need to rest these wounds," Mikoto responds pressing the hand that was not currently holding hands with Touma against her injured ribs.
Finally after a little more talking, everyone leaves to go to bed. Tomorrow was going to be an eventful day, Mikoto could see that. But for now she was glad to just have a peaceful sleep with Touma by her side.
The next morning everyone was again gathering in the guild hall, with some people looking for jobs. Erza just walks in, noticing something different. Touma was there gossiping with some of the other members of the guild, but Mikoto was nowhere to be seen.
"Touma, where is Mikoto? I expect that the master will want to speak to her today." Erza asks, walking up to Touma.
"Shes up there." Touma replies, pointing up to the rafters making up the top of the guild hall. Erza looks up and see Mikoto sitting down on the rafters, with her back against the wall. Mikoto looks down and says, "are you looking for me Erza?"
"Im not, but the master might come looking for you soon." Erza replies.
"Oh well. If he wants to talk to me, I will be there to talk to him," Mikoto replies. She looks around noticing that certain members of the guild were sitting around doing nothing. Gajeel was there, so was Grey, Erza, Natsu, Happy, Lucy and Wendy. They all were either not doing anything or were just talking.
"Hey, Natsu, Gajeel, Wendy, Erza, Grey, and lucy, would you all like to do some training?" Mikoto asks.
"Yeah!" Natsu exclaims, never wanting to miss a chance to train.
"I dont know….." Lucy mutters, not all that excited about training with wizards as strong as the ones that Mikoto had called out.
"Okay sure. Im game for it. I get to beat up Natsu again." Grey says, agreeing to train.
"Fine, just for the chance to beat all of these idiots up, and because I got nothing better to do." Gajeel says.
"Okay, I guess I will join in as well." Erza says, not one to miss a fight.
"I dont know. Im not much of a fighter." Wendy says, looking down.
"You wont ever be able to protect yourself, or get stronger at supporting others unless you practice Wendy." Mikoto says
"Fine, I guess i will go as well then. That way I can practice my support magic." Wendy says, deciding to join then.
"Great. Meet me at the open hill outside of the town. I want us to be able to have enough room to train properly." Mikoto explains.
Only a short while later everyone meet at the top of the hill that Mikoto had asked them to meet at.
"So what is your plan for training?" Erza asks.
"Well the one thing i want to work on is my magic. From experience with my power, increasing ones abilities is easier to do when pushing yourself to the max. So i want all of you to try to fight me. That gives me the chance to improve my magic, let you all improve your own, and helps with your teamwork." Mikoto explains her plan.
"Do you really think that will help? I doubt that some of us will be able to do anything to you," Lucy states.
"I think you will do better than you think," Mikoto replies.
"Well im ready." Erza says, transforming into her black wing armour right off the bat.
"Im all fired up!" Natsu exclaims, smashing his hands together.
"Im ready!" Gray also exclaims, taking his shirt off.
"Summoning Magic, Raptors!" Mikoto exclaims, activating her magic. 4 Utahraptors spawn out of the magic circles she created and charged forward. They were fast, faster than everyone but Erza, and wendy noticed this. So she used her support magic to make everyone faster. This put them on par with the raptors. The fight commences with both sides dealing damage to each other. For all the raptors speed however, they had no ability to take damage. Mikotos summoning magic gave health points to each creature she spawned, as well as for stamina, attack, and speed. The only stat that could be seen by both sides was the health. The other wizards easily took out the raptors, with Natsu trying to launch an attack on Mikoto. But Mikoto easily dodged his attack, before sending him into the ground with an electric pulse. But while she was distracted by Natsu, Lucy and Erza launched a joint attack. Lucy used Sagittarius to fire multiple arrows at Mikoto, and the moment she tried to dodge, Erza went in with a swing of her sword. This forced Mikoto to go from dodging the arrows, to trying to block an attack. So she discharges her electricity into the surrounding area, forcing anything with metal away from her at a fast rate. This means that the arrows sagittarius fired were then reflected back at him, and erza was sent flying backward. As the others finished dodging sagittarius arrows Mikoto prepared more summons. The others looked up, and saw two magic circles created next to mikoto.
"Ice make! Lance!" Gray yells out trying to hit Mikoto before she could complete the summon. Yet mikoto completes it at the exact same time.
"Summoning Magic! Dual Wyverns!" Mikoto yells out as the ice attack flew towards her. Then just as it was about to reach her, a huge stream of flame hit the ice, melting it. The others watch as two creatures walk out of the magic circles. One was a dark colored wyvern with red speckled throughout its body. This is the one that shot the fire. The other was all black, as dark as the midnight sky, except for its bright yellow eyes. Also it has a skrill on the back of its head.(the first one looks alot like drogon from game of thrones, while the second one has the same body style except for the skrill.)
"Well i guess names are in order for these two," Mikoto comments. Both of the wyverns walk over and nuzzle against Mikotos side. She turns to the first one and says, "This one will be called Drogon, after a dragon in a tv show I watched in my world." Then she turn to the other and says, "This one will be called Midnight, for its dark black skin."
"If you dont mind, lets get back to fighting!" Natsu yells out, charging forward with his fire dragon fists. Midnight steps forward and fires a breath attack, one that turns out to be electricity. The lightning breath hits natsu, knocking him back. Erza leaps forward in her lightning empress armour, but Drogon steps in with his fire breath, forcing her to change to her flame empress armour. But at that exact moment, Mikoto uses her ability and hits Erza hard before she could requip again. Then her wyverns fly into the air, raining attacks down from above.
As the wyverns and the wizards fought, it became apparent that the wyverns could not be hurt by attacks of the same element. So Natsu could not hurt Drogon, while Erzas lightning empress armour could not hurt midnight. Then a stray lightning breath attack flies towards Wendy, with her having no time to defend or dodge. But the attack is blocked by gajeel.
"The others are neutralized by the wyverns, but it seems like our magic may still have an affect. Lets both use our roar attacks on the wyverns, then go after Mikoto." Gajeels suggests to Wendy.
"Right. Lets do it," Wendy responds, the light of battle finally entering her eyes. They both use their roars on mikotos wyverns, severely injuring them but not taking them out. Yet Mikoto calls them back, cancelling their summon so she doesnt waste more magic energy on having creatures that are one hit from being defeated still summoned. Gajeel charges forward, preparing another attack when Mikoto makes one last summon.
"Summoning magic! Rex!" Mikoto yells out, using the last of her magic energy in one big summon. Gajeel decides to ignore the summon and continues to attack with his iron dragon fist. A huge magic circle was created infront of Mikoto, and a very large creature spawned from it. This creature bits down on Gajeels arm, though not piercing through the iron dragon scales, and tossed him back to the other wizards. They were all amazing by how big this summon was, as it was easily taller than most buildings in magnolia.
"This is my best summon, Rex. He is a very good balance of attack and defense, as both are extremely high. The only thing lacking is that he is also the slowest of my summons," Mikoto informs the others, deciding to give them a way of beating her summon.
"Hey, everyone listen up." Erza whispers to the others.
"What is it Erza?" Lucy whispers back.
"Look at Mikoto. She looks exhausted, and since she has mostly been using her magic, I assume she has used up all of her magic. If we beat this creature we will win," erza states. It was true that Mikoto had no more magic to summon with, but she still had her esper ability, and that was her trump card.
"So basically we just have to pummel this thing till it disappears? Im fired up now!" Natsu yells out, and charges forward, as does Gajeel. They both manage to land a couple of hits before then using their breath attacks. But the rex just charges through the attacks, and rammed its head into natsu and gajeel, sending them flying. Lucy opened lokes gate to have him join the fight. Erza requiped into her black wing armour and also joined in. Then natsu got involved, but he made a bad move and got hit to the ground by a turn of The rexes head. Then the rex crushed him under his feet, taking natsu out for a little bit. Then the rex charged forward, and gray used ice make floor to cause it to fall. But its momentum carried it forward, slamming into gray. As it slide, it was going to go past Lucy and wendy, so in one movement it opened its jaw and snatched both of them into it. It struggled to its feet while holding the two women in its jaws.
"Help us! I dont wanna die!" Lucy cries out
"Damn! How do we get them out without it killing them?" Erza wonders out loud.
"Hit it hard enough and it should open its mouth in pain," Gajeel suggests.
"I like that plan!" Natsu agrees. They launch their attacks. First Gray freezes the rex to the ground. Then both Natsu and Gajeel hit it as hard as they could. This manages to make it drop Lucy and Wendy, but both of them were almost completely drained of magic energy. This causes all spells wendy had cast, and for loke to disappear.
"What happened to them?" Erza exclaims.
"All of my summons have a special ability. For Rex, if it bites down on something, it is able to drain the magic energy from what it bites into," Mikoto states. As the others recoiled in shock, Mikoto notices Wendy fighting back to her feet, a light of determination in her eyes.
"Im not going to give up. Im going to prove myself to the Guild!" Wendy exclaims. The Rex tried to bite her again but Wendy dodged its strike, then hit it from point blank with a sky dragon roar. This sent it flying past mikoto, forcing her to desummon it. Using this to their advantage the others charged forward. Right before they were to land their blows against Mikoto, she uses her power to blast them back with an electrical blast. Only erza got back to her feet quickly, but she noticed that it wasnt smart to charge head first again.
"Well, I didnt think this would work out as well as i thought it would but it did. I can tell that everyone is low on energy, and thats a good thing. Now we just have to push through that to find a new limit." Mikoto states.
"What do you mean by that?" Gray asks, getting back to his feet.
"Im going to push you to your limits so that you may make a new limit." Mikoto says, a gleam in her eyes.
'How are you going to push us that far? By using your esper power?" Gajeel asks
"Yes i will use my power, but I will go level 6 to do it. Be glad, you all are the first ones in this world to ever see my level 6 form. Hope you will never need to see it again." Mikoto states. The others only glared in shock as she began to transform. She took it slow as it had been a while since she had used this form. The electricity around her began to condense, and her hair began to flow like there was wind as it flashed blue repeatedly. Also the guild mark on her left thigh pulsed with the same blue lightning color. Her eyes turned dark, and all you could see was lightning flying through them. Then finally all the built up energy was expelled, completing the transformation. Mikoto was now standing in front of them at 20% of her maximum in level 6. Yet the others didnt know this was only 20%, and Mikoto didnt bother telling them that.
"So, how do you like my level 6 form?" Mikoto asks. She walked forward, and as doing so, her electricity began to seep into the ground, causing very small craters under her feet because of the intense power. Other than that, there wasnt as much electricity being thrown around Mikoto like past times using level 6. This is because of her greater control of the form.
"Its amazing. Its unbelieveable how much power that is expelling, with so little of a visual sign." Gray exclaims, truly shocked at the form.
"I have never felt a power like this before. Not even masters, Gildarts, and Laxus ever came close to this level in front of my eyes." Erza says, pure shock in her eyes.
"Its scary. Those dark eyes make you look evil." Wendy states quietly.
"I dont care! Lets fight!" Natsu exclaimed, leaping into the air and slamming his fist hard down on Mikoto. But she takes the hit without even moving a centimeter, and then an enormous electrical pulse sends Natsu flying straight up. Then before he could reach his apex, Mikoto transports herself ahead of him and slams her hands down hard into his body, sending him crashing hard into the ground. This should have taken Natsu out, but true to himself he got right back up and charged forward again, this time using every Dragon slaying attack he knew. Again none of them had any affect on Mikoto, as the electricity around her was too good of a barrier.
Erza tried to attack, but one bolt of electricity was enough to completely destroy the lightning empress armour Forcing Erza to again requip into her black wing armor. Even that armor was defeated in seconds, and now Erza tried her purgatory armor, but just like the others, it was destroyed. Gray was next, but his ice make magic was unable to contain the raw heat an energy of Mikotos electricity. She electrified the ground around him, shocking him till he went down. It didnt take long before Mikoto had defeated the rest of them, though both Gajeel and surprisingly Wendy were able to hold up for a short time and all of them showed a remarkable ability to improve while in battle. The rest of the day was uneventful, as everyone spent the day recovering and spending time at the guild hall. Night came, and with it, everyone went to their respective apartments to sleep for the next day. Yet for now Mikoto didnt join in that, as she couldnt help but wonder of what to come.
Everything is going to be changing from now on. I told everyone that I know whats coming next, and that I will do whatever I can to stop it, but do I trully know whats coming next? Did my interference already cause enough changes to make all of my previous information outdated? How do I trust myself when im not even sure that i know whats going to happen? Mikoto thought, looking out the window of her apartment. She sighs loudly at this thoughts, and not a second later, she feels arms wrap around her waist.
"Dont worry Zapper. We can only do our best and hope its enough. And I can tell you, it will be enough. We will change this worlds future for the better, it may just take us a little while." Touma whispers into her ear.
"And that view is one of the many reasons why I love you so much Touma." Mikoto responds, turning herself in his arms to face him. Toumas response was a smile and pulling her into the bed. In his embrace, Mikoto finally allows sleep to claim her.
I'm just a step away
I'm just a breath away
Losin' my faith today
(Fallin' off the edge today)
I am just a man
Not superhuman
(I'm not superhuman)
Someone save me from the hate
It's just another war
Just another family torn
(Falling from my faith today)
Just a step from the edge
Just another day in the world we live
I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero (save me now)
I need a hero to save my life
A hero'll save me (just in time)
I've gotta fight today
To live another day
Speakin' my mind today
(My voice will be heard today)
I've gotta make a stand
But I am just a man
(I'm not superhuman)
My voice will be heard today
It's just another war
Just another family torn
(My voice will be heard today)
It's just another kill
The countdown begins to destroy ourselves
I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero (save me now)
I need a hero to save my life
A hero'll save me (just in time)
I need a hero to save my life
I need a hero just in time
Save me just in time
Save me just in time
Who's gonna fight for what's right
Who's gonna help us survive
We're in the fight of our lives
(And we're not ready to die)
Who's gonna fight for the weak
Who's gonna make 'em believe
I've got a hero (I've got a hero)
Livin' in me
I'm gonna fight for what's right
Today I'm speaking my mind
And if it kills me tonight
(I will be ready to die)
A hero's not afraid to give his life
A hero's gonna save me just in time
I need a hero to save me now
I need a hero (save me now)
I need a hero to save my life
A hero'll save me (just in time)
I need a hero
Who's gonna fight for what's right
Who's gonna help us survive
I need a hero
Who's gonna fight for the weak
Who's gonna make 'em believe
I need a hero
I need a hero
A hero's gonna save me just in time