A/N: After 10,000 years, I have arrived with a new chapter. More development and story to come. I hope you all enjoy. Let me know any of your thoughts on the story. If you enjoy, then make sure to Follow, Favorite, and/or Review.
When Wendy woke up, a great pain entered her body. She felt the stinging in each of her limbs. Wendy looked and noticed that her body was bandaged up. Surprised at this, Wendy looked and saw Romeo sitting across from her tending to a fire. Romeo noticed that she was awake but didn't say anything.
"Why are you still here? Wendy asked.
Romeo remained silent, continuing to stare into the fire.
"Romeo why are you still here?" Wendy asked for a second time. "And why did you bandage me up?"
Romeo continued to ignore the questions. This caused Wendy to get annoyed.
"Aren't you the enemy. Why save me? Why let me live when you killed so many other people."
"I never wanted to kill anyone. I never wanted things to go this far." Romeo muttered quiet enough that anyone without enhanced hearing would have missed it.
"But it did go this far. You still killed many people. You abandoned your morals and abandoned your guild. You abandoned your family." Wendy jabbed.
"I abandoned them, Fairy Tail, that's not a family. That is just a sick twisted lie. Maybe one day you'll realize that Wendy but as long as you stay the same, you won't ever learn." Romeo replied.
Wendy tried to get up but flinched as she felt her wounds writhe in pain.
"Rest, your body is beyond exhausted." Romeo told the bluenette.
"And why should I trust you, after everything you've done." Wendy questioned.
"Because you're one of the few people I don't want to die." Romeo answered.
Wendy finally succumbing to her exhaustion passed out. Romeo took a look at her before he looked back into the fire.
"Wendy, if only I could tell you everything, but you'd never understand." Romeo uttered.
Porlyusica woke up and realized that she was in an unfamiliar place. The walls seemed to be natural, but they had obviously been messed with. The room was barely lit. Porlyusica looked around and noticed that she was all alone. She got up and tried to go to the door. The door opened to reveal a young man who blocked her path.
"I thought you woke up. I suggest that you don't try anything dumb. Evan will be here in a minute to let you know why you're here." the young man explained.
"If you think that you can use me as a hostage, then it's a bad idea." Porlyusica warned.
"We've made enemies from the entire country already, what worse could happen?"
Porlyusica decided to stay quiet and wait. After a few minutes, the door opened to reveal Evan. Porlyusica stood there, staring at her captor.
"Come." Evan ordered as he held the door open.
Porlyusica walked out and followed Evan. They walked throughout the base, passing many people before they arrived outside another door. The two went in and Porlyusica was a girl she recognized as Emma laying on a bed.
"She suffered many injuries because of Gildarts. Multiple fractures in her ribs, torn muscles, a punctured lung, and a fractured skull. You need to heal her. Any supplies you need will be given to you upon request." Evan explained.
"And why exactly should I do that, tell me?" Porlyusica demanded.
"There are bombs underneath every single guildhall, large or small, in Fiore. Each bomb is heat based and detonates in an instant. There would he no time to react. If she dies, so does a majority of the magic population. While it probably won't kill some of the top class mages, the others won't be so lucky." Evan revealed.
"Do you know how many people you would kill with something like that." Porlyusica yelled.,
"There are currently 8,754 active mages who belong to guilds in Fiore. There's another 3,241 less active or inactive mages who still belong to guilds. At least 7,000 mages will be killed if you fail." Evan commented as he left.
Many hours passelooked d before Wendy woke up. Once she did, she noticed that the sun was starting to rise. Wendy and saw that Romeo was still sitting in the same position, but he was now staring into embers. The two remained silent for a considerable time. Neither one knew the words to say.
"Chelia missed you. Even with everything that's happening, she still cares for you." Wendy stated.
"I never wanted her to come into this world. After all the years she spent to get her magic back, she doesn't need another war." Romeo replied. "Everything that I've been trying to do has just kept falling apart."
"What do you mean?" Wendy questioned.
"Many things I've planned up went wrong. Erza was never supposed to get hurt like she did." Romeo revealed.
"What do you mean?" Wendy asked.
"You were supposed to find Kagura and Erza that day. You have the ability to heal them both. That's why I tried to lead you to them. But you didn't make it." Romeo explained.
"How was I supposed to be led to them? I didn't have any way to know they were in trouble." Wendy argued.
"Wendy, I know how you are, I know how you act and how you react to a situation. I set up a situation where you'd have to go back, go make sure that your make sure that they're okay. You saw the bodies where they were supposed to go. You knew that they were gone. But you also got ahold of their scent. You could have gone and found them. Where did you go instead?" Romeo shouted.
Wendy looked away, quiet for a moment, until she decided to answer. "I got ahold of a familiar scent. I didn't know what it was but I thought I recognized it from somewhere. So I went and followed it." Wendy responded.
"Wendy, I don't want to blame you but a lot of these problems are because of you. If you were there, Erza would be fine. Since Erza got into a coma, the guild became angry and wanted revenge. That caused Gildarts to want revenge and chase us. That caused us to fight him and eventually kill him. If only you wouldn't have gotten curious." Romeo accused.
"Don't blame me for this. If you didn't betray everyone who cared about you them this wouldn't have happened." Wendy snapped.
"Do you really think that? The guild isn't a family like it claims to be. If anything it's a fucking dysfunctional family. The only people who ever matter are all of you who disappeared on Tenrou. Look what happened afterwards. The guild fell apart. The few who stayed barely managed to keep the guild running. We became the laughing stock of the county. But once you all get back, everything is suddenly fine. You all just came in and were basically like 'thanks for everything but we'll just take over again. You basically ignore most of us. The rest of the guild who are basically just fodder are almost completely ignored by you all. You don't care about the destruction you cause to people every time you go on a mission. Just because people don't die doesn't mean that what you do is okay. You can ruin people's lives and make it a lot worse, even if they are still alive. Romeo vented.
"Why can't we talk like we used to? Why do you keep talking so cryptically? Why don't you trust me?" Wendy asked.
"It isn't that I don't trust you. But I'm not the same Romeo who you could stay up and talk to when the nightmares from the Alvarez war come. I'm not the Romeo who would try to be like Natsu. I'm not that Romeo anymore." Romeo answered.
"Enough with this cryptic bull, just talk to me Romeo." Wendy shouted.
"I'm not being cryptic, I'm not that Romeo anymore."
The Fairy Tail guild was going through a lot of panic. When Wendy never returned from visiting Porlyusica, Carla became concerned. When she went to the home of the old potions master, she discovered that nobody was home. The house seemed to be abandoned. Some of the supplies Carla remembered seeing before were gone and parts of the house were trashed. Carla quickly flew back to the guildhall to get help. Now it was the next day but there was still no work from either of the guid's healers. Carla was terrified not knowing what could have happened to Wendy. The guild wasn't the same knowing that two of their members disappeared and they had no clue anything was going on.
"I need to go out there and look myself." Carla said as she started toward the door.
"Carla just calm down, we have our best trackers looking for them. They'll find Wendy and Porlyusica. Just have a little faith." Laxus told the white exceed.
"I do have faith, but I can't help but be worr…" Carla started as her eyes turned white.
Carla seemed to enter a trance for a few moments. Her eyes turned back to their normal color as she got a terrified look in her face.
"Carla what's wrong?" Lisanna asked.
"A vision, I know where Wendy is but we need to hurry. She's east, where the forest meets a set of mountains. She's with Romeo and she's badly injured."
"What else did you see?" Laxus asked.
"This vision wasn't as clear as the others that I've seen. There was a fight going on. The forest was burning, and I saw someone I never seen before, holding a bloodied version of Romeo and Wendy. We need to hurry."
"Mira, get whoever you think will be useful that I haven't seen out already. I'm going to contact those we sent out and see whose closest to them." Laxus ordered as he ran towards his office.
"Wendy, I'm not the same person I was. I e dine a lot of horrible things."
"I know that but that doesn't give you a pass to do them. You don't just get to just get to do whatever you want because you know it is wrong." Wendy argued.
"I'm doing this because it needs to be done. What I'm doing is necessary for the world. You don't seem to understand it. There will be a day when I have to pay for my crimes but that day isn't coming yet. There's too much for me to do to be defeated now." Romeo explained.
"No one's going to just let you do these things. You're doing too many crimes in to short of a time. You are one of the most wanted men in Fiore right now. There's no good way for this to end for you." Wendy replied.
Wendy tried to continue but suddenly all the air in her body seemed to be gone. A rough cough and blood came from Wendy's mouth. Wendy looked down and saw a spear going through her chest.
"Wendy!" Romeo screamed.
"Well well well, look who's getting friendly with the locals. Looks like I got a nice hit. It's not every day when you get to hunt a dragon."
Wendy turned and saw a man standing behind her. The man stood about as tall as Gildarts. He had short brown hair and wore a simple black hoodie and a pair of blue jeans. He had a cocky smile in his face.
"Connor, you bastard!" Romeo yelled as he activated his Dragon Slayer's Secret Art: Night of the Big Wind.
Romeo rushed forward and sent a powerful punch at Connor. Without even moving, Connor caught the blow. Romeo looked shocked seeing now his attack seemed to have no effect.
"I've told you that no matter what you do, you can never defeat me." Connor replied as he raised his own fist that glowed with a red aura.
Connor hit Romeo, knocking him through dozens of trees. Connor grabbed Wendy by her hair and pulled her with him. When they caught up to Romeo, they saw him lying in a bloody pile on the floor. It looked as if every wound Romeo had opened up.
"Now isn't that just a waste. Go on, heal. We both know that you can heal so why haven't you? Maybe you can't heal anymore is that it? When did you lose your ability to heal Romeo? Maybe it was back during your fight with Gildarts. His magic is weird, maybe he could have done something to stop your healing." Connor diagnosed.
"Go… go fuck yourself." Romeo managed to say.
"Well don't you still have some fight left in you." Connor grabbed Romeo by the neck and held him in the air.
"Maybe I should remind you who I am. Your SS class bounty doesn't mean shit to me I'm Connor McGregor. Anything you try to beat me will always fail." Connor spat.
"You… you… your going to die… by my hand." Romeo threatened.
Connor let go of Wendy and Romeo and jumped back. Wendy looked up and saw Evan standing there, sword drawn. Connor put his hand on his cheek and felt a small amount of blood oozing out of a cut.
"You bastard, how dare you cut me!" Connor screamed.
"No one who can fight Connor is at the base so I'm here." Evan revealed.
"What's the plan?" Romeo asked.
"Well some members of Fairy Tail are on their way here. We also have reinforcements coming. It just to see who gets here first." Evan answered.
"How long can you fight him?" Romeo questioned.
"As long as I need to." Evan replied.
A/N: So what did you guys think? Who's going to arrive first and can Evan manage to fight Connor of long enough? Just who is this Connor and why is so strong. Questions to be answered in another day. Hope you all enjoyed.