Disclaimer: I don't own Terminator or any characters or anything from the franchise. I only referenced it.
... Dark...
... Cold...
Slowly, I awoke to the sounds of loud voices and screams, or something...
"Huh...? Where am I?" I sat up slowly, trying to suppress the explosion within my head. Checking my surroundings, I realized I was on an icy mountian being perpetually battered by a ferocious, howling blizzard. Suddenly, amidst the sub-zero freezing climate, a horrible sight sent chills rushing through my nerves, making my blood colder than the fierce blizzard above me.
Standing in front of me tied up, hostage to my new enemy, was my mom.
"Mom...! Are you alright?" I edged closer to see her face, all bloody and bruised, but the figure keeping my mom hostage morphed its arm into a blade and put her into a headlock.
"If you move an inch further, I'll slice her head off without regret," growled the figure. I hesitated, as if a wall was keeping me back.
"What do you think you're doing?" My voice trembled and my fists clenched. I was scared shitless, confused, but also angry, above all else. My eyebrows curled and lowered, and my eyes became dark. I rolled up my sleeves and got into a battle stance, but holding to fight. The figure brought its arm closer to my mom's throat, so I stopped. I Summoned my Book of Magic to look for a spell to use, but once I found one, I looked up and the figure and mom were gone. I looked up to see mom suspended high up in the air, but the figure was nowhere to be found. Then suddenly, from behind me, a powerful burst of energy blasted me in the back and sent me flying forward, headfirst, into a thick pile of snow and ice.
"What do I think I'm doing? I'm wiping out every last one of your filthy kind. You can't defeat me, you're not strong enough. You're not even worthy to face me," it spoke in a deep, masculine voice. He disappeared in a flash and gripped my head, making my fedora fall off. He crushed my fedora with his mighty foot and tossed me up into the air, wildly unleashing an insane amount of attacks in a split second. His final attack upon my chest caused me to plummet back down to the mountain, fracturing my metal spine.
"And they called you the True Descendant? Pah! Descendant my ass! Look at you. You can't even defeat a single wimp on a bridge! Erigor isn't even that strong, compared to me. And you want to avenge your father? That poor excuse for a Charizard? What's with these names? The 'Great Charizard'? Ha! What a laugh! If he was so great, he might've been able to land an attack on me. No on has ever been able to even come within a two foot radius of me because I'm so strong. I should be labeled as Great! The Great Sorcerer! The Great... Elementia." A hollow, maniacal laugh escaped from his mouth, shaking the surface of the mountain. "And you? You're nothing but a pest. A wannabe mage. Look at you, you pathetic weakling." He planted his foot on my back and grabbed my metal arm, twisting it around and snapping it off my body as if it were nothing but a twig. The pain immediately surged throughout my body like a rushing wave of water. I couldn't scream, because the amount of pain immobilized me completely, nearly making me pass out. He flipped me into the air and jumped to match my height, then morphing my arm into a sharp stake, he forcefully jammed my metal arm into my chest over and over, cracking my rib bones, ripping my stomach open, goring my liver, bursting my intestines open, piercing my lungs, and stabbing my heart, unleashing a deep red, gushing fountain of blood out both sides of of my wide open chest, staining the snow a deep crimson.
Why?! I screamed internally. Why am I so weak? Why is he so strong? It's like putting a chicken in a ring with a hungry lion, except it's on extreme steroids and is a self-righteous bastard with a crazy bloodlust. Why is this happening?
Suddenly, all my thought came to a complete halt when I saw that Elementia grabbed hold of my mom in the same headlock as before, and slit her throat, then he threw her body down into the snow and completely hacked off her head. I froze. Now, not only my father, but my mother was also dead, murdered by the same asshole.
I couldn't hold in what happened next.
I became so unimaginably infuriated that my whole body combusted, erupted into flames as my boiling, burning rage consumed my soul. My body vibrated intensely, faster than an earthquake ever could, my teeth clenched so hard that I could hear and feel my molar smash under the pressure. My face first turned red, then deep purple, then pitch black as my eyes bulged crazily and my only hand clenched up with this new energy I never knew I had. That's not to mention my fire which was burning hotter than every attack I had ever used, combined. The energy caused me to evolve spontaneously, to Mega, then bigger, then to further evolutions that I had no idea what were called until I evolved into a glowing, burning beast that I couldn't even describe because at that moment, the fire energy focused into my feet, and I dashed forward at insane speed that Elementia obviously wasn't expecting. I unleashed a huge, swirling fire attack in a crazy fraction of a second, screaming my nonexistent heart out-
"AAAAAAAAUUUUUURRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH!" I screamed myself awake, engulfed in flames, as I used a stronger version of Flare Burst in my Mega Evolution on... nobody! Once I gathered consciousness, I saw that I was lying on the ground, with Gray, Natsu, Mewtwo, Erza, Lucy, and Happy all looking down on me, eyes wide open as my own snapped open and I reverted back to my original form. I was still a bit weak from the bridge fight so I had a bit of trouble standing. I immediately checked my chest for any blood or any opening. Fortunately, I found nothing.
"Are you alright Vinny? What was that?" said Lucy.
"I guess it was just a dream... thank god. Wait, what happened? Since the bridge, I mean...! Hold on! Where's Fearow?!" I looked around frantically, and Mewtwo held out Fearow in his arms who, luckily, was still breathing, but very slowly. I took Fearow into my arms, patting his head. I noticed his Pokéball was gone and made a mental note to visit Professor Oak or someone about it. Then that reminded me. I was worried about my mom. I didn't care if it was just a dream, I figured I should tell her about the dream I had and some of my suspicions.
Snapping back to reality, I realized we were still fighting Eisenwald. I assumed my dream must've been pretty long, because the first thing I noticed was that it was dark out.
"How long was I out for? What happened?" I asked.
"You were out for a pretty long time, since an hour ago," said Erza. "Kage stole the magic mobile and the Lullaby, so we're chasing him down so that nothing bad happens. Then you started having a fit in your sleep, I hope it was a dream, and I had to drop you to avoid any harm to myself. By the way, I had to carry you all the way here, and let me just say, it wasn't an easy task. You are unbelievably heavy. It's like picking up a giant monster."
"Who picks up a giant monster anyway?" questioned Lucy.
"Damnit! I knew I should've destroyed the flute when I had the chance! I should've destroyed it on the train!" I groaned. "Well, with the situation at hand, there's no use in saying what I should've done. Right now, I should be chasing after Kage. We all should."
"Vinny's right. We must go now!" Erza shouted, and everyone ran off. Mewtwo was about to go too, but I stopped him.
"Stay here with Fearow and watch him. Since he doesn't have a Pokéball to return to, you need to watch and take care of him. By the way, where's yours?" He used his telekinesis to pull up his Pokéball, still in good shape, and handed it to me. I Destroyed it and started to run ahead, but then I remembered something that could possibly cure Fearow.
"Mewtwo, give Fearow to me." I Summoned a revival herb and fed it to Fearow who stirred a bit after feeding it to him. "Right. Make sure his heart rate doesn't go down. If it does..." I Summoned a hyper potion and gave it to Mewtwo. "... spray Fearow with this twice. Once he's healed, find us." I ran off to meet up with everyone else, who formed a crowd with a bunch of other people. I didn't recognize any of these people, but then I saw Makarov giving Kage a pep talk and realized they must all be masters from other guilds.
"What's going on...?" I whispered.
"Hush, Vinny! Listen!" whispered Erza back.
"...Weakness is not always a bad thing, because humans are naturally weak," Makarov spoke mightily. "To be alone is not easy. That's why we establish guilds, where we have friends and allies. To flourish, we work together and strive. The weaker ones, sure they run into more walls than others, and they might take longer to get there. But, as long as we just believe, we'll be able to find strength." Kage was looking quite frightened, so I assume Makarov must've said something I missed. "If you lead a strong life, you'll be able to smile, without having to rely on something like that flute."
After a few seconds, just like that, Kage dropped the flute and to his knees in surrender. Everyone ran up to greet Makarov, and I stood there, in awe at him. Not only did he have power in his magic, but he also had such power in his words. I looked down at myself, my hands. One powerless, normal hand, and the other a metal hand, yet still powerless. I couldn't get over the fact that I was so weak.
Maybe Elementia was right, I thought. Back home, I was a champion! Here... I looked upon everyone else who was semi-celebrating the defeat of Eisenwald, and then back down at my powerless hands. Elementia was right. I'm nothing but a weakling. But... I clenched my fists hard. I don't see that as a reason to give up and quit. I don't want to just lay down and give up. My father... the fate of his legacy and the entire Charizard Legion is in my hands! I have to... become-
"Mrahahaha! Cowards! Nothing but a bunch of cowardly mages, every single one of you!" What interrupted my thoughts was a dark, demonic voice coming from at first what seemed like nowhere, but once I saw a purple cloud of smoke rising into the air, I saw that the flute had begun to create a huge magic circle looming overhead.
"You're calling us cowards?!" I yelled. "Says the one who remained a flute for so long, hiding! Why don't you show your true form, coward?!"
"I'd be glad to! I can't stand it anymore! I'll devour you all myself!" Out of the magic circle, came one colossal foot, followed by another equally as big, then the monster's whole body, and finally its three eyed head. "All your bastard's souls, that is!" A big grin spread across its ugly, crooked face.
"What is this...?! I had no idea about this!" gasped Kage.
"Its a demon from the book of Zeref," said a guild master, I assumed. "That is the Lullaby, Zeref's magic; Living Magic."
"Zeref? You don't mean, the wizard from ancient times?" said Kage.
"Zeref was known as the most terrifying mage in the history of the magic world!" said a different guild master. "I never thought the centuries old magic would show up now!"
"Whose soul shall I devour first? Perhaps Mr. Fedora down here who thinks he has the balls to stand up to me?"
"Oh, YOU WISH!" I shouted, clenching my teeth and rolling up my sleeve, exposing my metal arm. Behind me, I heard Erza ordering Natsu and Gray to get everyone away from the area. Good, no one else will die when I destroy this guy, I thought. Far away, I heard voices cry out, "Attack!", followed by the monster's bellowing response of, "Begone, small fries!" and with that, a large beam of energy shot out from its mouth, completely obliterating a distant mountain. The far away cries turned into cowardly shouts: "Retreat! Retreat!"
The monster turned back to us. "I've decided! I'll devour the souls of all of you pathetic mages! Mrahahahaha!"
"Pathetic?" I said calmly. The Lullaby cocked its head.
"Why are you calm about this? I suppose you want your soul to be devoured, is that correct?!"
"You're big. You're the Lullaby," I said, a sudden realization washing over me. As I spoke, I began to Mega Evolve. "And I'm Vinny. I'm small. So is everyone else here. But frankly..." A dark look grew in my eyes. "... Who gives a shit?" I said loudly. "You think you're all high and mighty, just because you're so big and you have a kill streak of 9 million people- alright, who gives a crap? You might be scary to some, feared even, but you know what you are to me? You're just another monster. Another mindless, cowardly monster." The Lullaby bent down low and snarled at me, barring its teeth so hard, I saw its head vibrating. "Do you know who I am? No you don't. Because you're a mindless killing machine. I'll tell you who I am, though." I straightened my fedora and glared at the Lullaby, cracking my knuckles and my neck. I took a few steps forward. "I'm a monster hunter. Fairy Tail's Monster Hunter. Do you know what I do?" I charged Flare Burst in my hands, larger and larger, until it was massive; much bigger than before. I dashed forward, towards Lullaby.
"I hunt monsters, like you. Flare Laser." Unleashing the mighty attack, Lullaby tried dodging, but being as big as the monster was, it also meant that it was slow. "Everyone! Attack it!"
"Alright!" cried Erza as she Re-quipped into a different armor.
"I don't need telling," said Gray, preparing an ice attack.
"Already on it!" yelled Natsu, flaming up his fists. All at once, Erza slashed away at the monster, Gray shot Ice-Make Lance at it, and Natsu jumped and used a Fire Dragon Iron Fist right at its face.
"She's a Re-quipper!" shouted many people below.
"And he punches with fire!"
"He attacks with ice!"
"The other guy..."
At that moment, the Lullaby crashed its fist down onto my place, which I jumped to dodge. I ran up its arm, but it shook me off and slapped me away. I thought I was going to fall and crash down but just then, out of nowhere, Fearow swooped in and caught me on his back.
"Fearow, buddy! You're okay!" Fearow nodded and flew in towards Lullaby.
"He's an... animal tamer...?" said the people down below.
Animal tamer... shut up, I thought. "Fearow! Keep this momentum! Fly in and use Steel Wing!" Fearow dived in, while I jumped off his back. He stuck out his wings and sliced the monster with razor sharp feathers. In the air, I used my Dimension Magic.
"Dimension Drain." I absorbed the Lullaby's Magic Energy through my hands, keeping me suspended in the air as I sucked up most of its power.
"No, he's a Mage as well!"
"Then what was with the pet bird?"
Do they have to say everything out loud? I thought, annoyed.
"Aw, sorry, did I take your Magic Energy? Do you want it back?" In my hands, I formed a large ball of energy, then holding it above my head due to the size. "Take it then!" I did a midair somersault, then hurled the ball of energy down at the Lullaby as if I were dunking a basketball. The flow of energy stopped, and so did my midair suspension, but Fearow caught me before I started to plummet.
"You're all pissing me off! Die!" The Lullaby swiped its fist at where we were standing, but we jumped out of the way and prepared to attack.
"You want another one? Fire Dragon Wing Attack!" cried Natsu, bringing large ropes of fire from his arms crashing down onto the monster. At the exact same time, Gray unleashed another mighty ice attack, and Erza skillfully slashed and dodged the angry monster's swiping attacks.
"Oh yeah, another thing I realized; you're made of wood, so you're flammable. Not so good against fire type users, are you now? Sure you have a song of death that can kill thousands..." While talking, I charged my Flame Ball to Giga then unleashed it on Lullaby. "... but you're going to have a hard time actually playing the song, aren't you? Why don't you sing us all a song? Sing us a song, creepy flute monster, sing us your song tonight! We're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feelin' alright!" I taunted.
"Oh yeah? You want my song? I'll sing my song for you, and see you at the gates of hell!" Then, the Lullaby began to suck up all the magic energy around to use its song, as he had none left after my Dimension Drain. As a magic circle appeared above its head, it let out a deafening cry, making everyone cover their ears. Then...
Squeak!*
... was all that came out of the Lullaby's gaping mouth.
"HUUUUUNNNHHH?" everyone cried, mouths agape in disbelief.
"It's the holes," I said.
"Huh?" said Lucy.
"Oh, now I get it. I understand what you mean. The holes made from the attacks earlier..." said Kage.
"...Are what's preventing the Lullaby from playing its song," said Lucy with a sudden realization.
"My voice! My beautiful voice! I can't play anymore! I'm ruined!" cried the monster. Then, with a dark glare, it turned on us and swept its hand, capturing me. The monster went on a complete rampage, kicking down hills and mountains as if they were simple dirt mounds, and ever increasing its grip on me.
"You! You've done this to me! I don't care about your little friends either! This is your fault! I will destroy you now!"
All I could do was smirk.
"Why do you smile? Why do you think this is funny? ANSWER ME!" the Lullaby bellowed.
"I'm just laughing at how pathetic you are. And you're calling us pathetic? You're one to talk. Looking for someone to blame. Ha! You call us cowards? You only name us so because you're afraid. You have all this power, but yet you're afraid."
The Lullaby looked me in the eyes closely. "Afraid? Of what? I've nothing to be afraid of! You yourself put it clearly! You said that I'm big and you're small. So tell me, you pathetic coward, what do I have to fear?!"
My eyes went dark and shadowed, and I said:
"Me."
With that, I took advantage of the monster holding me in its giant hand and sucked up all his stored power with Dimension Drain, except what happened next was greater than what I expected. The Magic Energy being sucked up converted within my body to pure energy, and then, already being in my Mega Evolution, I began to grow even larger, experiencing a whole new wave of power and energy I had never experenced yet. My Mega Evolution was simple, just grow a little bit larger than my normal self, hair becomes sort of fire shaped, power is increased, and steel arm becomes bigger and more jacked. But this new form, this new evolution was quite something else.
This was my next evolution... Giga Evolution.
My hair started to grow longer and I grew a bit larger, then my steel arm began to glow, morphing much like Elementia's arm in my dream. The properties of my metal arm suddenly changed from solid steel to liquid, like the T-1000, then hardening back into steel. Through my evolution, I had learned a new move: Steel Morph. I morphed my arm into a blade shape, making it razor sharp, then I sliced off the Lullaby's hand causing it to scream and howl in pain. I cut myself loose from the dead grip and ran up the monster's arm, who grew angry and swatted at its arm, but missing me completely. Taking advantage of it, I sliced off its whole arm, then jumping above its head, charging my Flame Ball. With the new amount of power surging through me, I was able to charge Flame Ball even larger than before. Creating a small Flame Ball in my hand, it started to grow larger, to Mega Flame Ball, then to Giga Flame Ball, and even larger to the point where it was larger than my arm's length, so I held it at my side. I was using up most of my physical energy, but I strained. I pushed myself to the current maximum level, until-
"Monster... Flame Ball!" The roar of the the surging Flame Ball was louder than my mighty cry, as I sent the monstrous ball of fire crashing down onto the Lullaby. As soon as it made contact, the roaring flames surged around the Lullaby, burning as bright as a star, incinerating it down to ashes, utterly demolishing it, reverting it back to Magic Energy once and for all.
The area was surrounded in flames. Weak and wavering, I struggled to stand, but I rose up slowly and marched triumphantly out of the raging sea of flames.
"Look! Coming out of the fire!"
"He... he did it!" cheered the people. The people started cheering for me as I walked out of the fire storm, but I couldn't hear anything that was being said. I trudged slowly, my movements growing more and more sluggish until my legs completely gave out and I collapsed on the ground.
"Vinny!" cried Natsu. He ran over to me, looking down on me, eyes wide open. "Don't you die on me!"
"What?!" I jolted upwards. "No, you dumbass! I'm not dying...! I'm just... exhausted. Man..." I exhaled heavily and my head dropped. Everyone else ran over to me and exulted my victory.
"You did well, Vinny. However, I think you overdid it a little..." Erza said, gesturing to the nonexsistent meeting building.
"Oh shit..." I mumbled. Erza slapped me across the face but hurt her hand instead.
"Oww... just... watch your mouth, Vinny," she said, soothing her hand.
"Sorry..." I whispered.
"Vinny! That was totally awesome the way you handled that giant Lullaby!" said Lucy excitedly.
"Good job, dude," commended Gray. "That's way better than what I could've done."
"That was so cool Vinny!" exclaimed Happy. "You attacking with a giant fire ball was so awesome! And I thought Natsu was the only one! First you grew big, and then you grew even bigger, and your arm did this crazy thing..." I didn't hear what he said next, because I passed out from exhaustion.
xxxx
I woke up in an unfamiliar bed. It was all white, bedsheets and all. The blanket was pulled up to my face, so lowering it, I looked around the room. There were two other beds that were just the same, so I assumed that I wasn't in my house or (god forbid) Lucy's house. A sudden horrible realization then came to me.
"Oh no..." I groaned. "I went a whole DAY without exercising!"
"GOD DAAAMNIIIT!" I got out of bed and grabbed my jacket, hat and scarf from a coathanger and darted out of the room, not exactly sure where I was or what I was doing. I flung the door open...
"AARRRGH!" Realizing too late that I was actually at Fairy Tail, I ran out of the room and paused. There was awkward silence that followed.
Then all at once, everyone erupted into applause and cheering. I had forgotten about my daring feat. I walked over to the bar and raised up my hand, silencing the whole guild.
"Everyone, please listen. While I defeated the monster, yes, I only finished it off. You're all acting as if I defeated it alone. If you want to praise someone..." I gestured to Natsu, Gray, Lucy, and Erza who were standing in different spots. "Look no further, because they were truly the ones who defeated the monster like it was no one's business. Honestly, I couldn't have done it without them. If you want to applaud someone, then give a round of applause to the strongest team in Fairy Tail." Immediately, everyone bursted into applause and shouts of joy, commending the conquerers of the Lullaby.
"That was really cool of you to do, Vinny. How are you?" said Mira.
"I'm doing a little better, thanks," I replied.
"What was that? When you bursted out of the emergency room?"
"... I'm not strong enough," I said, my expression growing dark.
"Huh?" questioned Mira. "What does that have to do with-"
"I'm bothered because I went one day without working out. Exercising. It may not seem like a huge deal, just one day, but you must understand. I have an exercise routine that I must follow every day. I must build up my physical strength along with my magic. If I just strengthen my magic, that leaves me weak. I must be able to not rely on just my magic all the time, and work on my combat skills, my strength and all around muscle training, endurance, and balance in energy and spirit. If I don't work at this, then I'll remain as the weakest member in Fairy Tail."
"But you're not the weakest! No one is! If anything, you're one of the strongest members, and on top of that, you only started a few weeks ago!"
"Mira, while that may be true, I can't not push myself harder. If you look at Natsu or Erza, their power level is way beyond my own. If I don't strive for that, at this rate I'll be nothing more than a weakling. I do this..." I closed my eyes and thought of my father, and the fate of possibly all the Regions, or even the entire world. I thought about Elementia, how he wasn't even using a fraction of his power in my dream, to kill me. I didn't even want to know what his full power could do; with his power, he could destroy whole planets.
That was the moment that I set an even greater goal to strive for. Screw Natsu or Erza's level, or even the strongest Mage in the entire world, god knows who that is, I thought. There's a saying, which says, "Shoot for the stars, and if you don't get there, you'll land on the moon," but now with my greatest enemy at stake, possibly the strongest being in the world, there's no "landing on the moon". It's either the stars or- no, not even the stars. At this point, I need to shoot for far more than just the stars.
"I do this... to stand above all else." I said triumphantly. Mira looked down, then looked back up and nodded.
"But... make sure you don't push yourself too hard," she said.
"... Alright." No, I thought. I'll push myself as hard as possible, until I reach Elementia's level, and beyond.
"Hey, Vinny! Remember our fight?" called Natsu.
"Hm. Yeah, I remember. Couldn't it wait though? I just woke up-"
"Naw, we should fight right now!" He exclaimed. At this point, everyone was listening to Natsu, anticipating a fight. I knew I couldn't back down, because I had already postponed it once, and pushing off a second time would make me look like I was chickening out.
"... Alright. I accept your challenge. Let's take this outside, because I don't want anything getting ruined."
"Alright, just a heads up, I'm going all out. I'm not taking it easy on you," he said.
"Alright. Fine by me." I had a bit of doubt, because I still labeled him as weak in a way.
Everyone cleared out of the guild pretty quickly, me and Natsu being the last ones out. Everyone formed a wide circle around us, with me and Natsu at the center facing each other. Mira stood to our side as a referee.
"Each person will fight against each other. Vinny, Natsu, each one of you will fight until one of you has no strength left," shouted Mira. She looked over at me, making eye contact. She gave a little smile, and I swear I could see her blushing. "Both sides may not acquire any assistance. Once knocked down, the opponent is given ten seconds to get back up. If they fail to do so, then the other opponent wins." She held her hand out, gesturing to both of us as she spoke. "May the challenge begin!"
I wanted to say, "You're going to have a hard time fighting fire with fire, Natsu," but he had already started moving, and really fast at that. I held out my arms as if to say, "Let's see what you got, fire boy!" and Natsu moved in for his first attack, Fire Dragon Iron Fist. I'll say, the fire didn't do any damage, but the force of his fist hitting my chest was enough to send me flying back a few feet. I flipped a few times in the air and tried landing on my feet.
"Not bad. How's your fist?" I said.
"Shut up! Fire Dragon-"
"Attack, don't speak," I cut him off by slashing him with Flame Claw. A simple attack, with no need to say what it was.
"Fire-"
I quickly flipped through my Book of Magic and deflected the attack with Wave Blast, but Natsu had found a way around it and punched me in the face with Fire Dragon Iron Fist. Recovering quickly, I tried morphing my arm, but Natsu acted quickly and punched me in the gut with Iron Fist again. Then he began to unleash an impossibly quick amount of attacks all at once, beating me down and not giving me any chance to attack.
"Quit it, pest!" I began to Mega Evolve, then jumping up into the air to use Hammer Fist. Natsu took advantage of this though, and boosted me up into the air higher with a Fire Dragon Roar, and another Iron Fist which I couldn't evade in time...! Just as I had reached the height of my boost, I saw Natsu jumping up to me, boosting with fire on his feet. I then Giga Evolved, which alone took most of my energy, and I dived back down, cloaking my fist entirely in flames.
"Fire Dragon..."
"Flame..."
"Wing/Punch/Attack!" Natsu grabbed hold of me with the ropes of fire while I failed to punch him, and he threw me back down to earth, causing a hole to form in the shape of my body. As his finishing move, Natsu brought the ropes of fire crashing down onto me. I couldn't stay in my Giga Evolution any longer, so I reverted to my original form, nearly out of energy. I couldn't even stand. Natsu dropped back down the ground, practically unscathed.
I never should've underestimated his strength.
When I failed to stand up, Mira announced Natsu to be the winner. I couldn't even describe my anger and frustration.
"Haha! Looks like you lost, Vinny! I warned you that I would go all out!" While he taunted and mocked me, a sudden reflex of rage shot through my arm and as Natsu bent down, my arm shot out and punched him in the face, sending him sprawling backwards on his ass. My burning rage grew higher and higher, but I didn't want to make an even bigger fool of myself, so with as much dignity as I had, I stood up unsteadily and walked into the guild building. Everyone was dead silent. Only one thing was on my raging mind: training. I walked slowly over to the request board and searched for a monster hunting quest. There was one with a 10,000 Jewel reward, but I didn't care what it was. Ever since I got up from the ground, I couldn't stop repeating in my mind over and over, "I'm weak. I'm weak. I'm weak."
The only solution to me was to train until I passed out from exhaustion.
As I trudged slowly outside, eyes shadowed but burning hot with anger, I called Fearow (I hadn't mentioned this, but I couldn't directly Destroy Fearow's molecular structure, otherwise it would kill him. I had tested this with a flower before; I Destroyed it, then Summoned it again, and it was completely wilted and dead. So I couldn't Destroy Fearow because he's a living thing. (Also, Fearow had been hanging around the guild ever since we returned from Clover.)) and hopped on his back.
"Fearow. House," I muttered. I had a lot of training to do.
