new update and like i said before, dont get your hopes up for quick and consistent update. (plus I have exam for two weeks now as well).

i was never good at English so if grammar sucks, I'm sorry.

Year X771

Two years have passed since Zain's village was destroyed and life hasn't been nice to Zain as well. The dark guild name was called Oracion Seis and their Guild Master is a person named Brain. The guild consists of many mages and also many normal people as well. On that fateful night, Brain and his guild had taken Zain back to their guild building that resided deep in the forest. It was a building with a decent size hall with long tables in it. Downstairs in the basement were prison cells for people they have captured and the colouring of the guild is just dark, the colours black, navy blue and purple were the primary colours of the guild so everyone could tell that the guild is a dark guild.

Currently in the basement and locked inside a prison cell was Zain Durand. Zain is now around 130 cm tall and his hair has grown, his white hair is now up to his shoulders. However, he is now very skinny, not healthy skinny but over the top skinny. He now weighs extremely below what his average age should be. His clothes are now all dirty and torn to the point that people would consider him a beggar.

Zain could use his repair magic on his clothes but he wouldn't, or to be specific, he can't. For the past two years, he had been locked inside the prison cell. Brain had forced him into repairing all the broken magic items and equipment that his guild had that was needed to be fixed and this has been happening pretty much every day for the past two years. Zain kept on using his repair magic after and after to the point that he was too exhausted to use his magic on his clothes. Even if there was a day that he didn't need to repair equipment and other stuff, he still didn't use his magic on his clothes because that would just tell Brain that he was still able to use magic and more work would be put on him.

The only blessing in disguise Zain could say about his circumstances is that his magic amount has increased significantly after all the labour he has been through. Compared to two years ago when he had three slots in his pocket dimension, he now has ten slots in his pocket dimension. While inside the dark guild building, Zain had never used his Requip magic in front of the dark guild members. He had only used it if no one was around him secretly. The reason for that is Zain was afraid that when Brain knows that he could use Requip magic, he would destroy the flower vase and take away the magic sealing handcuffs from him.

Zain also learned that the entire village was destroyed and everybody in the was killed. He learned that piece of information from Brain. It was when Zain first tried to escape from Oracion Seis a year ago, Zain was repairing all the damaged equipment. While he was repairing the pieces of equipment, one of the mages that were on guard duty took a break and accidentally dropped the keys to his prison cell.

On that night he unlocked the cell that was trapping him and quietly tried to escape. It wasn't long til Brain found him and a battle happened. To be fair, it wasn't even a battle. It was one-sided domination in advantage to Brain. No matter what Zain did, Brain would always react and push him back and the amount of muscle mass that Zain lost didn't help either as well. This carries on until Brain taunted him about how he is useless in a fight and that he should just be a slave repairing equipment. Zain was having none of that and continued to try and beat Brain so he could escape. Once again, nothing would work and Zain was knocked down to the ground. Before Brain knocks Zain out cold, he wickedly told Zain that everyone that was in the village was dead and that included his parents as well. Then Zain was knocked out.

Zain hated Brain, he hates him with a strong passion and he wanted revenge but he needs to get out of this place first. So he thought of a plan, first thought that was in his plan was to wait until Brain would be gone from the guild for some time because he was too powerful for him to handle. Second, he needs to find a way to escape from the prison cell and he couldn't count on the members to drop the key again because Brain has now taken the key into his possession at all times after what happened.

He remembered what his mum taught him before when he was younger. His mum was an exceptional water magic mage and she knew a lot of ways to use water. She once taught him that if you expose iron with water and air, then the iron would rust. The metal would be weakened and be brittle and flakey. He didn't understand the chemical stuff that his mum told him but he does know that it will rust and luckily when he was repairing magic items, he found an item that sprays out of water. When no one was paying attention to him, he quickly opened up his pocket dimension and put the magic item into it. Now all he had to do was wait.

A month ago he eavesdropped on a conversation between the mages that were on guard duty. He heard them talking about that their guild master was preparing a trip to the Tower of Heaven so that he could find young kids with great magic power and train them to be powerful members of the guild. Zain also picked up that the Tower of Heaven is located on a small island on the coast of the Caelum Kingdom which was south of Fiore and that it was probably going take around a week and a half for Brain to come back.

Now with high determination, Zain ignited his plan to escape. Because it would be suspicious if Zain suddenly uses the water spraying magic items on the iron bars. So every day, when no one was paying attention, he would secretly spray water and wet the iron bars. He would then quickly wipe the water that was on the ground with his tattered clothes so it wouldn't be suspicious. Thus day by day, this process was repeated and repeated and as time goes on, progress could be seen. The once smooth shiny black iron bars were now an orange-brown colour with a rough texture.

To cover up the rusted iron bars, he took off his long-sleeved white shirt and used the sleeves to tie the shirt around the rusted iron, leaving the main part of the shirt outside to cover up the affected area. Luckily, the members of the Oracion Seis Guild members thought that he had finally gone crazy with the confinement and the labour so they didn't even bother with why the shirt was tied on the iron bars.

Today was the day, Brain has left the guild to go to the Tower of Heaven and Zain couldn't wait to escape soon. At first, he waited for a couple of hours just in case Brain suddenly comes back but after hours has passed, he had not returned to the guild. So dead in the night when everyone in the dark guild has either gone home or was asleep due to drinking too much.

Zain carefully untied his shirt that was around the iron bars and double-checked if there was anybody nearby or had woken up, seeing no one was nearby or has woken up, Zain was now going to break out from his cell. Luckily the iron bars were not super thick so after a month of applying water to the bar, letting it rust. Zain was able to use his feet and break through the rusty iron bars.

The gape was small and if it was him two years ago, he wouldn't have been able to fit through. But because he was now skinnier due to the lack of nutrition he was provided, he can easily go through the gape. Once Zain has made it out of his cell, he looked through his pocket dimension and got out the wooden sword that he had since he was still living in the village. Realising that the wooden sword would do nothing against the dark mages, he went to the armoury room that was next to the prison cells and got himself an iron sword.

The iron sword was chipped but that was nothing to be worried about as Zain used his magic to repair it instantly, making it as good as new. Zain put the sword into his pocket dimension went over to the stairs and tiptoed upstairs to the main hall area to find some members of the guild sleeping soundly all over the place with spilled drink everywhere.

Zain carefully maneuvered his way around the sleeping guild through the hall and silently went over to the front main door. He slowly opened the door and walked out quietly before slowly closing the door, making sure no sounds could be heard. Once the door was closed, he had a huge sigh of relief and turned around so he could leave this place once and for all.

However, fate sure seems to like making its bitch because standing right outside of the guild staring at him was a guild member of Oracion Seis who was holding a paper bag full of alcohol inside it. Zain was shocked to see one of the guild members and to be fair, so was the member as well. The member quickly got a hold of himself and gently put the paper bag full of alcohol on the ground.

"Well, well, well." he began, "look at who we have here, the little white slave that does our repair." he finished as he cracks his knuckles on both his hands and started to slowly walk over to where Zain was.

"Can you just let me go, mister?" Zain tried his luck and unfortunately, nothing seems to be going his way.

"Fuck no! You piece of white shit," he shouted. "Every day, the members that can use magic always shit on me for being weak and useless! Even today, they forced me to buy drinks for them while they were having fun! If I stop you from escaping then Master Brain would reward me." the man continued as he rant about his life in the guild and what he intend to do with Zain. Zain felt a bit empathetic for the guy but ultimately, he couldn't care less because he was a member of the dark guild who was the reason why his parents, Jura's parents and everybody else in the village dead.

"I need to leave this place," Zain said as he grabbed the iron sword from his pocket dimension and prepared to fight the man in front of him. The man did the same as he held his axe that was about a meter hanging behind his back.

"I won't go easy on you and a few scratches would be fine, as long as you're still alive." the man said and made the first move. He swung his axe directly at Zain with all his power but Zain simply dodge the attack and tried to counterattack with his sword. However, the sword was much heavier than the wooden sword he had and his strength has been greatly reduced over the two years. So the swings were slow and sluggish, making it easy for the man to block the sword with the axe's handle.

he kept the pressure on Zain with swings after swings and Zain could barely dodge the barrage of attacks thrown at him. At his limit now, the axe was heading straight for him from the top and Zain tried to block the attack with the blade of his sword. Zain was unharmed but the blade was shattered into pieces, Zain was about to repair the sword with his magic but he suddenly stopped. He thought that the way the fight is going on, no matter how many times he repair his sword, the same outcome would happen.

He thought of ways to defeat the man who was stronger than him and had way more stamina as well. He thought about the advantage he had over the man and there weren't many because after all, he was a nine years old kid and the man was a full adult. All of a sudden it clicked. He was a kid who doesn't have any offensive magic so more than likely, the man is looking down on him. He thought of a plan and after many scenarios that went through his head, he thought of one that might work. He never tried it and it was all of nothing.

With his hand holding the sword with the broken blade, the two stared at each other and Zain moved first. He charged at the man with the broken sword and started to get ready to swing at him. The man watched Zain movement and hold his axe to the side, getting ready to swing at Zain when he is close enough.

Once Zain was close enough to him, he swung his axe with all his might and expects to hit Zain. however, he didn't feel any contact and over swung, hence he lost his balance. Zain had ducked under the attack, he waited for the man to lose his balance and once he did, he proceed to stab him with his broken sword. All that did was a loud metal sound came out and even more parts of the blade were chipped away.

he was scared for a second before he calmed down and then quickly started to laugh cockily, "are you fucking stupid? I have armour underneath my clothes and you tried to stab me with a broken sword!" he mocked, "why don't you use your repair magic and fix the sword," he then taunted and expecting Zain to remove the broken sword that was held against him and fix it up with his repair magic.

But Zain didn't move and he heard him mumble something and couldn't pick up what he just said. "Oi, you! What did you just say?" the man demanded and Zain simply stayed silent until he spoke again.

"I said… get ready then," Zain said and he used his repair magic on the sword. All the broken pieces of the blade were now coming over to the two, trying to piece back together to form the sword again. But because the tip of the broken sword was against the man, the pieces has to dig inside the man's flesh to be repaired. Blood was gushing out from the man's body in multiple areas and screams could be heard from everywhere.

This was the first time Zain ever inflicted an attack that resulted in so much blood coming out and he was shocked at the aftermath of what he did. It wasn't like he never made someone bleed before. Back in the village when he was sparring with Jura, he made Jura bleed through the nose but what he did to the man was nothing compared to that time. His scream was so loud that it woke up the drunk guild members inside the building and they all came rushing out to find out what's going on.

To their shock, they saw Zain with blood splatters covered all over him and right next to him was the man they had made to go buy more alcohol for them, on the ground with blood spraying out like a water fountain from him. Zain saw the other members gathering around and with nothing else to do and he definitely will not confront them, he quickly ran away from them as fast as possible.

"Guys! Chase him. If we let him escape then master Brain would kill all of us," the acting leader of the guild shouted out as he regained his composure.

"What about him?" A member asked as he pointed his finger at the man who was slowly dying.

"Forget about him, he was trash anyway," he replied and everyone that was outside started to run and hunt for Zain or else Brain would without question kill each and all of them. Brain was a cruel man, even to his, etc. guild members. His guild is just puppets to him, if they are useful then he would keep them around but if they were not, he would kill them straight away without giving the said person a chance. After all, he could always replace them and find new criminals that were on the run from rune knights or are just bloodthirsty.

Zain was running as fast as he could and he can't help but get deja vu from two years ago, him running away again from the same guild into the woods. He could hear the members right behind him and he was exhausted from the fight with that man before. He kept on running and running, weaving through the trees and jumping over the overgrown tree roots. As time went on, the slower he gets, the closer they are to him.

Slowly and slowly, the dark mages were catching up to Zain and he could barely run anymore. A couple of meters later, he tripped over a tree root that was overgrown and fell headfirst onto the ground. He was now surrounded by all the members of Oracion Seis and they were all staring down at him.

"You sure gave us a little bit of trouble." the acting leader of the group said and giving Zain a sinister smile. He then walked up to Zain and stood right next to him and stared him down like he is his bitch. He went down on his knee and with his hand, he grabbed Zain by the neck and lift him forcefully. Zain could barely breathe as the man slightly tighten his grip around Zain's neck so he could lose consciousness. Once Zain was now unconscious, the guild members of Oracion Seis was about to go back to their building before they were interrupted by someone else.

"Yo what the heck, I picked up a mission to destroy some dark guild and I see some human trafficking shit going on right now," the voice said. The members of the dark guild quickly turned around to see a man. He was a tall, muscular man with shoulder-length orange hair and a stubbly beard paired with it. His attire was a long, black, high-collared and tattered cloak with armour plates on his shoulders. He had an armoured waist-guard that was similar to his shoulder plates and was wearing loose dark long pants which were supported with a simple belt. That of all, he had boots on with the pants tucked inside.

"Who the fuck are you!" the acting leader demanded and dropped Zain hard on the ground without any care for his well being.

"Just a mage taking on a mission," he replied. "Say… you guys wouldn't happen to be Oracion Seis guild?" he then asked.

"That us all right," he replied with a boastful manner, "what? Are you scared now?" the acting leader then taunted.

"Nah," the man paused, "you just made my work easier." he finished. This made the acting leader angry so he rushed the man and with his fire magic, he engulf his fist with fire and tried to punch him. The man simply grabbed hold of his hand and gave him a punch of his own which sent the acting leader all the back to his guildmates. The acting leader got up and shouted "what are you waiting for?! Everybody go attack him now!"

All the members that could use magic gathered their magic and prepared to fire them all off at the same time. Once finished preparing, they all shot their magic at the man expecting that it would destroy him into oblivion. But the man simply put his hand forward and said.

"All Crush"

The next day

Zain had woken up from his sleep and was inside a sleeping bag that was way too big for him. This felt weird to him because he thought he was going to wake up in his prison cell and be chained up or something. He then suddenly remembered what happened yesterday about how he was held by the neck and had lost consciousness.

He looked around his surrounding and it seems like he was inside a tent, inside were some stuff that was necessary for travelling, for example, there was snacks, tools, clothes, etc. he then heard noises and smelt something outside of the tent and decided to check it out, so he got out of the sleeping bag and opened up the tent entrance.

There, he saw a tall man with orange hair who was sitting down next to a campfire eating cooked meat. The man saw him said "oh you're awake now, I just finished cooking so why don't you join me" and gestured him to sit down next to him by patting the ground.

Zain was suspicious at first and didn't move at all and man could see that Zain don't trust him at all by his facial expression. "I won't hurt you kid." he began but saw that Zain still don't trust him. "I dealt with the dark guild so they are no more." he then added. To his relief, Zain slowly came over and sat next to him. The man then grabbed a piece of meat that was cooking in the campfire and gave it to him.

"So what's your name kid?" the man asked as Zain had just grabbed hold of his food.

"Zain, Zain Durand." he replied. "What your name mister?" he then questioned.

"Gildarts Clive." the now-named man answered.

"What happened to the dark guild?" Zain asked again.

"I beat them all up and they were then arrested by the Rune Knights late last night," Gildarts replied and took another bite of his food. He then took a look at Zain and saw that he was incredibly malnourished and that he wasn't eating. "You look skinny as heck Zain, you have to eat," he said in concern for Zain.

Zain turned his head to Gildarts and gave him a sceptical look. Gildarts understood that look of doubtfulness so he then quickly added on "there's no poison or anything I promise." convinced but still not too sure, Zain took a bite and expects the worse but nothing happened to him so he took another bite and another.

Seeing that Zain is now eating again made Gildarts glad that the kid wasn't going to starve or anything now. He remembered what he saw outside the dark guild's building and couldn't believe that a boy in his state could have pulled that off. At first, he thought maybe amongst the members in that guild there was some argument and one thing leads to another and they tried to kill each other but that seems unlikely because why would they use a sword if they have magic. The only other explanation was that the kid did it.

"So Zain," he began and then paused. "Outside of that guild building there was a man and uh… he is dead with some wounds that looked brutal-." Zain knowing what Gildarts was trying to get to and interrupted Gildarts and said "yeah that was me" he then paused and took a deep breath "am I going to get taken by the Rune Knights?" he meekly asked expecting the worse.

"Nah." Gildarts simply blurted out. "Screw the Rune Knights and it was self-defence right" he continued and Zain simply nodded but he can't help to feel a bit guilty about it "but I killed a person," he stated. In Fiore, killing someone was a big crime that could get you arrested by the Rune Knights.

"Don't worry, he was from a dark guild so I don't think the magic council and other people would care that much. If it was an innocent person of a mage from a legal guild then it would be different but he was from a dark guild." Gildarts reassured Zain and Zain simply nodded and continued to eat his food.

The day has passed and it was now about midday. Gildarts had now finished packing his stuff and put it into his travelling bag that was carried on one of his shoulders. It was now just the two of them and nothing else could be seen except for trees and bushes. Right now Zain don't know where to go, he thought that he would go to his destroyed village but what would he do after that, he didn't know.

"What are you going to do now?" Gildarts questioned as he turned his head down to Zain.

"Not too sure Gildarts," replied Zain. "I was thinking about going to my destroyed village but after that, I don't know." he then finished.

"Mmm," Gildarts sounded out as he thought about what he should do with Zain. he thought of sending Zain to an orphanage but then he thought of a better idea.

"Zain."

"Yeah"

"I assume you can use magic right, judging by the wound you gave to that man." Gildarts assumed and Zain nodded. Before Zain could say anything else, Gildarts quickly continued with excitement. "How about this, why don't you join me and go to my guild?"

"As long as it's legal" Zain lightly joked and Gildarts let out a short chuckle.

"It's legal alright," Gildarts replied.

"Then sure, I'll go with you then. But can we go to my village first?" Zain accepted Gildarts offer and then asked to hope that he could see his village again.

"Yeah sure," Gildarts replied.

The days to travel from their previously campsite to Zain's destroyed village took two days to get there. During the travel, Zain talked about why he was in Oracion Seis and what magic he used as well. Gildarts was surprised to hear about the magic that he hadn't heard of before. Gildarts also talked about his crush magic as well and there was a slight hint of jealously in Zain as Crush magic was extremely powerful.

Once they got to Rose Village, the state of the village was terrible. Debris was everywhere and building that was once standing are completely gone. Zain and Gildarts walked through the village and Zain were surprised that there was tombstone everywhere. He went through the names of every tombstone hoping to find his parents. At first, he found the Neekis family's tombstones and saw that there were flowers next to them.

Zain was happy that Jura was still alive and his sacrifice wasn't for nothing. He then continued to look for his parent's tombstone but still couldn't find it. Zain kept searching and searching until he was at a spot that was familiar to him. He realised that this spot was the place when his parent's sacrifice themselves for him and he turned his head around and could see the destroyed house that he used to live in.

He went over to the backyard of his old home with Gildarts and saw two tombstones on the ground next to each other. One was his father and the other was his mother. Zain walked over to the tombstones while Gildarts stayed back to give Zain some space. Zain opened up his pocket dimension and grabbed out the items that were given to him by his parents. The flower vase and the magic sealing handcuffs.

He went down on his knees and put the items on the grave. The flower vase on his mother and the handcuff on his father. "Hey dad, hey mum." he began, "after two years enslaved by the dark guild, I was able to get out thanks to you two and Gildarts. If it wasn't for a mum teaching me about how iron can rust and dad telling me to be creative with what I do with my magic." Zain paused. "I wouldn't have been able to get out of the prison cell in the first place and beat the man when I was exhausted." he finished.

Tears started to come out now and Zain was now clenching his hand tightly now. "I will find Brian and give him what he deserved for doing this to us, Jura and his family and to everybody else that was in the village," Zain vowed out his new determination and paused again.

The long pause of silence finally finished as Zain grabbed the handcuff and the vase and put it back into his pocket dimension. He got up and walk back to Gildart who was patiently waiting for him.

"Let's go now Gildarts," Zain said as he picked up his portion of baggage as he felt bad for letting Gildarts carry everything. He would have put everything inside his pocket dimension but there were not enough slots so he had to carry some stuff.

"Ok, let us go then." Gildarts agreed and grabbed hold of his bag that was on the ground and slung it over to one of his shoulders.

"Oh yeah Gildarts, there was one thing that I still don't know," Zain said.

"What is it?"

"What is your guild's name," Zain asked.

"Fairy Tail" Gildarts replied and they started to walk towards Fairy Tail.

finished

like I said before, don't get hopes up for quick updates and I also have exams for two weeks now as well.

oh yeah, I thought that this chapter was really rushed and some wording was bad so im sorry.

also the chemistry stuff with the iron oxide and the water and stuff. I don't exactly know the timing of that stuff so if it not true, then bear with it. this is a fanfiction.

if grammar sucks, im sorry.

thanks for reading