Chapter 12! I left the last chapter on a cliffhanger because I wanted to get what happens next right. Review!
Lisanna got between the monster and Mira. She opens her arms.
"Don't be afraid big brother. We still love you."
Elfman readies his fist to strike.
"NO!... Star Dragon Roar!"
A black sparkling vortex consumed Elfmans right arm and he is knocked over. Lisanna looks over to see Kiryu running towards them.
"Kiryu? What are you doing here?" Lissana asks. He stops in front of her.
"I was on my way back when I saw the smoke." He turns to the beast.
"So that's Elfman?" He asks.
"Yeah, he messed me up pretty badly." Replies Mira. Elfman begins to stand back up.
"I have a plan. But I need you to do something Mira." Says Kiryu.
She stands up.
"Alright. What do you need me to do?"
"Do you have any magic left in you?"
"Yeah just a little, why?" She asks.
"I need you to blast me with all of the magic you can use."
The two females look at him shocked.
"That's insane! That'll kill you!" Says Mira.
Kiryu takes a few steps forward. Lisanna grabs his hand.
"Please don't! What if something bad happens?"
He turns towards her and smiles.
"You know me. Everything will be fine. I promise."
Lisanna smiles a little. "Okay. I trust you."
She lets go, but Kiryu stops her for a second.
"Be careful alright?" He asks.
She smiles. "I will."
They turn to Elfman who was finally able to get to his feet.
"Alright. What I'm gonna do requires a lot of focus so is it alright if you can distract him Liz?"
She nods and transforms into a bird with her animal soul.
"Hey big brother! Follow me!" Lisanna taunts.
Elfman roars and begins to follow Lisanna, going in the opposite direction of where Mira and Kiryu were.
"Okay Mira, get ready to blast me with everything you have."
Mira nods and raises her hand, a purple sphere begins forming. Kiryu closes his eyes and steadied his breathing. Meanwhile Lisanna tried her best to distract Elfman. He raises his arm to swipe at her vertically. She sees this and barely avoids it by a foot. The force from the swing nearly sent her spiraling out of control. She flaps her wings a couple times and she maintains her control. Mira had a sphere the size of a melon in her hand.
"Alright Kiryu, I'm ready! Let's do it!"
"Not yet!" He responds.
Mira looks over to see Lisanna barely dodging.
"Kiryu!" She says in desperation.
"One second!"
Elfman springs horizontally and scrapes Lisanna. She falls a few feet away from them.
"Lisanna!!" Shouts Mira.
Kiryu opens his eyes. "Mira now!"
"Evil Explosion!"
Mira launches the sphere and Kiryu grabs it. He grunts and crushes the ball, turning it into a large amount of stardust.
"Hey Elfman!"
Elfman hears this and turns to see him and raises his arm. Kiryu draws back his fist and swings.
"Star Dragon Stardust Bind!"
The stardust flies towards the behemoth, turning into long wires. The wires constrict around Elfman, making him fall. Kiryu breathes heavily.
For my first time using it, I didn't do half bad. I should thank Natsu for helping me remember.
As soon as this happens, Lisanna and Mira go to Elfman, who was struggling to get loose of the bind.
"Come on Elfman, snap out of it!" Shouts Mira.
"You can do it big brother!" Says Lisanna.
Elfman stops struggling. He turns his head towards his two sisters. Slowly he transforms back into his human form. He lay there motionless, tears in his eyes.
"I'm sorry."
The two siblings ran to him and dog piled him. They laughed, cried, all of it.
"Its okay. I'm glad you're alright!" Says Lisanna and Mira.
Kiryu releases the bind and let's them have their moment.
Man, some things never change.
After a moment, Kiryu felt a small wave of pain enter his head. He winces.
What the hell?
The other three join him.
"Thanks for that Kiryu." Elfman says.
"Yeah…… don't……. mention……. It."
They look at him confused.
"Are you okay Kiryu?" Lisanna asks worried.
Another wave, but more painful. He grabs his head. And another wave.
"Aaaaaaagggghhhhh!" Kiryu screams, falling to the ground, balled up.
"Kiryu!" Lisanna shouts.
They rush to his side.
"We should find a doctor!" Mira says.
A few feet away, about 10 villagers armed with pitchforks and small swords from the town arrived.
"Is everything okay? Is the monster gone?" One of them asks.
"Its gone, but we need a doctor immediately!" Elfman responds.
Kiryu tries to uses his legs to stand up, only for them to slide against the dirt. After the third time, he looks over to the villagers. Instead of 10, there were 11. At the back, a figure moved behind a tree, he wore a long cloak and had long hair. Thoughts came rushing through his head, but, for an odd reason, they didn't feel like his own.
Kill…….
"Who said that?" He says in pain.
I must kill……..
"Who are you!?"
It's him…….. I must…….. Kill……
Elfman puts a hand on Kiryus shoulder.
"Kiryu, you say something man?"
Kiryu lifts his head slightly, then punches Elfman in the chest.
"Agggh!" Elfman grunts as he is slammed into a cliff wall due to the force. Everyone looked at Kiryu, shocked and confused by what had just happened.
"Elfman!" Shouts Mira.
"Kiryu! What are you doing!?" Shouts a confused Lisanna.
Slowly Kiryu stands up. The villagers froze with fear and confusion. He gets to his feet and stumbles for a second. One of the men finally found the courage to step forward.
"As the mayor of this town, I demand you tell me what is going on!" He demands.
Kiryu looks up, a psychotic grin on his face, and his red left eye revealed. He takes a single step forward, and in a split second, he was standing in front of the mayor. Kiryus fist connects to the mayor's face with a right hook and he is slammed into the ground. Mira and Lisanna look confused and scared.
"Kiryu!" Lisanna shouts.
He turns his head, with the same menacing grin.
"This isn't like you! You're acting like a different person!"
Kiryu looks at her for a second.
"Don't compare me to that weakling!" He says.
"Wait, so he started acting differently?" Asks Lucy.
Mira nods.
"But, how could you tell?" Wendy asks.
Mira looks down. "Because…. The next thing he said was……"
"Think of me as another part of his soul, or personality, or whatever you think." He says.
Elfman stands up, shrugging the blow off.
"So, 'Other Kiryu', what should we call you?" Elfman asks.
He turns and scoffs.
"My name is Dragunov, and I have been inside this boy for a long time."
They all look at him like he is insane. One of the villagers lost it and tried to jab him with his pitch fork. Dragunov dodged it and sucker punches the man in the face. The villager goes out cold. The rest of the villagers charge him.
"Get him!" One shouts.
(Begin Akito the Exiled ost No Choice Left But To Fight)
Dragunov side steps away from multiple swings of a sword. He grabs the young mans head and slams him into the ground. Another villager charges with a pitch fork, but Dragunov grabs it and uses the momentum to throw him backwards and into a boulder. Two spears came at him from his left and right sides. He grabs right below the points, pulls them, and the two spear users slam into each other.
Lisanna watched as the fight continued, watching helplessly as the friend she had known since joining Fairy Tail, turn into a completely different person.
Three villagers surrounded Dragunov on all sides and jabbed, but he jumped onto the spears, and sent the flying with a single kick. The last man swung his sword frantically, trying to hit him out of fear. Dragunov ducked under the sword and slammed his right elbow into his chest, knocking the air out of the man. Mira and Elfman couldn't stand watching the brawl go on, so they joined into the fight. Both with partial take over, they began to throw punches at their changed friend, only for him to dodge every single blow. After a few punches, Dragunov releases some of his magic energy in the form of a wave (similar to Kiryus but with a purple hue to it.). It sends the two flying back. They hit the ground and skid to a stop. Lisanna finally snaps out of her daze and sees her siblings in trouble. Dragunov walks over to them.
"My business isn't with you guys. I have a different opponent. You should be glad I didn't go all out. If I did…. Well…. It wouldn't have been pretty."
Mira begins to sit up as he walks away. She does a partial take over on her right arm and throws a blast at him, blowing up right behind him. A cloud of dirt surrounded him for a moment. Elfman sits up. "Did that get him?" He asks. The dirt clears. Suddenly, an arm appears from the cloud and grabs Mira by the throat.
"Mira!" Shouts Elfman.
Elfman rushes to get to her, but a purple blast blows up in his face, leaving a cut over his right eye. He falls to the ground, out cold. Dragunov holds his hand up to Miras face, gathering his magic into his hand, creating a sword like a buzz saw.
"Star Dragon Star Blade."
Mira struggles to speak.
"Let…….. Kiryu……… go….."
Dragunov raises the blade, and grins.
"He's gone. And so are you."
Lisanna wraps her arms around his waist.
"Stop it!!!"
Dragunovs red eye widens. "Let me go girl!"
He struggles to get her off.
"No! Let Kiryu go!"
After a moment, he pried her off and swings the blade, cutting through Lisannas red dress, making a large slash from her left shoulder and down below her right breast.
(End song.)
Miras eyes widen with shock.
"LISANNA!"
Lisanna falls to the ground and Mira crawls towards her.
"Lisanna! Lisanna! Please don't die!" She begs.
For a moment, Dragunov looked irritated. "Well, that was intere-!" He is cut off. He grabs his head and howls in pain. His right beautiful blue eye is revealed and tears begin to pour out like water falls.
"GET OUT OF MY HEAD YOU BASTARD!"
Mira looks up, knowing it was Kiryu who just spoke. Soon, the tears stop. Dragunov wipes the tears away.
"Ha….. I guess I should get back to what I was going to do."
On her knees, Mira was struggling to stop Lisanna from bleeding. Tears were falling out of her eyes. As she tries to work, Lisanna begins to glow and her Fairy Tail mark disappears.
"Why are you glowing?" Mira asks, a tone between worried and desperate. Lisanna begins to rise off the ground. "No!" Mira pleads. Mira grabs onto her, but, eventually, Lisanna just fazes through her, and disappears into the night sky.
"Lisanna….." she says in a sad tone as the tears continued to fall. Dragunov takes a few steps forward until he is standing above Mira.
"Woooow…… didn't see that coming." He says. Mira turns her head to look at him.
"Why? Why would something like this happen?" She asks.
Dragunov lifts his hand, star blade against her neck. "Fate." He says with a psychotic grin on his face. Mira closes her eyes and grits her teeth. But then, she feels something, something powerful, or to be more specific, someone. She opens her eyes and turns her head. A man with a long black cloak with a tall collar and weird markings (the one Kiryu saw.) appeared from the tree line and approached the two. Mira could not see the face of the unknown person.
"So….. you finally show up." Dragunov says.
The man says nothing.
"You know I've waited a long time for this. I will get my revenge. And I won't stop until I achieve it."
Still, he stays quiet. Dragunov scoffs.
"Fine…. I guess you won't have any last-"
He is cut off as if the man teleported behind him and knocked him out with a chop to the neck. Dragunov falls to the ground with a loud thud. The man turns away.
"The boy has another person's mind inside of him. None of this was his fault." He says in a stoic and calm tone. The man starts to walk in the opposite direction from where he came from.
"Wait!" Mira shouts.
The man stops.
"How do you know his other personality?"
The man looks up at the sky, then continues to walk away, leaving Mira to continue crying.
"Once we got him back to the guildhall, Master thought it would be a good idea to put him in one of the guildhall cells." Mira continued.
"What happened afterwards?" Wendy asks.
Natsu walks in through the door. Everyone looks at him.
"Its up to you." Says Mira. The others looked at them confused. Natsu looks at the ground.
"When I heard what happened, I lost my temper."
X782. 1 day after Lisannas death. Fairy Tail guildhall.
Bam!
Bam!
Bam!
Natsu threw punch after punch, pummeling an already beaten Kiryu, who was pinned to the wall and handcuffed. A few members stood outside the cell, waiting for their chance to start beating Kiryu to a pulp.
"Natsu stop!" Shouts Cana.
"Yes that's enough!" Says Levy.
Natsu continues his assault.
"She cared about you! She helped you here! She was one of your first friends here! And you killed her!"
Happy flies in and gets between the two dragon slayers, tears in his eyes.
"Natsu! Lisanna wouldn't want this!"
Natsu stops what he is doing.
"He is right Natsu." Master Makarov says walking into the cell. Natsu let's go of Kiryu and angrily storms out of the cell, all members getting out of his way. Makarov turns to everyone. "Leave us! Mirajane, stay here." He says. Everyone leaves, leaving Makarov, Mirajane, and a battered Kiryu. The short old man turns to the young woman.
"Tell me everything from the beginning."
She tells Makarov about what happened the night before.
Makarovs eyes widen with surprise. He looks over to Kiryu, knowing that the dragon slayer didn't want to believe that he has another personality in him. He looks back to Mira.
"The Magic Council will be asking questions about what happened. But for now, we should leave him where he is. If that other side shows himself, it won't be pretty." Makarov turns to leave. Mira leaves with him, leaving Kiryu alone in his cell. Tears begin to pour from his eyes.
I'm sorry. I didn't want this to happen.
2 days later.
Makarov brings Kiryu to his office. He hadn't left the cell for 3 days.
"Well….. seems that you have been the center of attention for awhile."
Kiryu says nothing. Makarov looks at him with a serious look.
"It wasn't your fault for what happened. But at the same time, you can't stay here."
Again, Kiryu stays quiet. The old man rubs the back of his head.
"Honestly, I don't know what I should do about this. I have never had to solve a problem like this. I guess it was-"
"I'll leave." Kiryu interrupts.
The room goes quiet for a moment, then Makarov looks at the ground.
"I see." He looks up at the young man. "You're not quitting though are you?"
"If I do this, the magic council won't know what happened, and the guilds reputation will remain intact."
"That's not what I'm asking."
Kiryus eyes widen. He looks at Makarov with a blank expression.
"I don't deserve to be part of a guild. Part of a family." He says saddened.
Makarov stands onto his chair then jumps onto the desk. He takes a step forward and puts a hand on Kiryus shoulder.
"You and this Dragunov person are not the same person. Your actions are different from his. It might take you time to figure this all out, but just know that it's not your fault. And you are part of this family, no matter if you like it or not."
Kiryu looks down again. "Thanks Gramp."
Most of the members of Fairy Tail left to go home or were on jobs, leaving only Natsu, Gray, the Strauss siblings (minus Lisanna.), Cana, and Erza. They were all quiet, still feeling sad with the recent loss. Erza hears a door shut up stairs and they all look to see Kiryu wearing his usual attire, carrying his sword and a duffel bag. He walks down the stairs, walking past his friends. As they stare, Natsu steps in front of Kiryu, standing between him and the door. Kiryu stops and their eyes lock. The two stand there for a minute. Grays hand is covered in ice, just in case the two dragon slayers decide to brawl. Erza grabs Grays wrist, showing that it should be fine. The stare down continues. It ends when Kiryu walks past Natsu.
(Begin Alumina by Nightmare)
As Kiryu passes, Natsu notices a tear fall from his face. Natsu turns to look at him, but he continues on, all the way until the door slams behind him. As the door shuts, the others slowly realize what Kiryu is going through. Soon, the others begin to cry. As Mira begins to cry, Erza gently embraces her, letting her cry in her shoulder. Natsu watches as the waterworks begin, until he starts crying himself.
Outside, Kiryu walks past the cemetery at Kardia Cathedral, knowing that Lisannas grave is there.
I can't see her. I don't deserve to see her.
"After that day, I told everyone what happened, just to try and make things better. But, nothing changed." Mira says, tears falling down her cheeks.
Wendy started crying herself. Lucy patted her head. After a silence Lucy stands up.
"We need to tell him it's not his fault for what happened with May and what happened with Lisanna." She walks over to Natsu. "And you need to apologize!"
Natsu nods.
Wendy dries her tears. "Are you coming with us?" She says to Mira. She shakes her head.
"No, if you can get him to snap out of it, I'll talk to him."
Volk stays next to Mira as the others leave.
"Before you all leave…."
They turn to Mira.
"Tell him tomorrow will be two years since what happened, and that he should go see Lisanna."
They nod, and shut the door, leaving Mira and the white wolf behind.
The rain continued to pour as Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, and Happy ran to the apartment Kiryu was staying at. They reach the complex and find where Kiryu stayed. Natsu was about to knock, but Lucy and Wendy stop him. Lucy knocks.
"Hey Kiryu? Its Lucy."
No answer.
"Mira and Elfman told us what happened with May and Lisanna. And it's not your fault." She continues.
Still no answer. Wendy steps towards the door.
"Hey, its Wendy. Mira wanted us to tell you that tomorrow will be two years, and that you should go see Lisanna."
No answer again. This time Natsu.
"Its Natsu. I'm sorry about what happened when they brought you back that day. I should have trusted you a little more."
Lucy speaks again. "Just know. We are here for you."
They leave. On the other side of the door, Kiryu sat up against the door, holding his sword in its sheath and a cigarette in his mouth. He wore just blue jeans and an under shirt. He looked up at the ceiling.
My god what is wrong with me.
The next day Kiryu woke up in the same spot still holding his sword. He rubs his eyes and stands up. After taking a deep breath, he felt something was off. He looks out the window and notices the clouds swirling in the sky overhead. All of a sudden there is a flash of light, and everything fades.
And that's Chapter 12! Sorry that took awhile, I wanted to get as much good stuff in this as I could. Review and tell me what you think!
