When the World Became Dark

Summary: Kae loses her sight in an accident while on a mission. She struggles day to day on how to cope and get around. But nothing is impossible with a family like the Fairy Tail Guild.

A/N: This story has no real plot, and it is just some short scribbles that are helping me cope. They can be read as oneshots in a way, and may not be in order. I'm just writing them as they come to me. The reason for this is that I got some news about a week ago that I am slowly going blind and in a few years I will completely lose my sight. I'm pretty devastated right now… Everything is a mess, and this story might be a mess too, but it's a way for me to get everything out.

OC Notes: Kae Dragmire's magic is Shadow Summon and Shadow Make. Laxus and Kae are in a relationship. Kae is part of the Thunder Legion. Kae is 21 years old, and has long black hair and violet eyes. (May add more notes in future chapters)

Chapter Two-Frustration

After days of being hovered over and treated like glass by everyone, Kae had finally snapped. She yelled and cried, telling everyone off, as she vented her frustration and anger, until finally she melted into the shadows and zoomed off. Which, once she phrased back out, she realized was a dumb idea on her part because she had no clue where she was.

"Must be in the forest outside of Magnolia." She murmured, listening to the sounds around her.

Still in a mood, Kae wandered aimlessly, tripping over roots and rocks and whatever else was in her way, until she finally just plopped herself down against a tree. She was getting nowhere fast, and had even started to worry that she might walk right off a cliff or something if she kept going the way she was.

That's when she had the idea of summoning her own guide. One that wouldn't be annoyingly overbearing. She really did love her summon and maker magics and was happy to finally be able to use them again.

"Shadow Summon: Wolf!"

A large dark wolf appeared at her side. She placed her hand on its back, feeling the cool wisps of her shadow magic.

"Can you guide me back to the guild?" She asked it quietly.

She felt the wolf move and they began their slow trek back to Fairy Tail.

When the two arrived back at the guild, it was surprisingly silent.

"Are we in the right place?" Kae muttered uneasily.

Suddenly she was hugged tightly, and the scent of gardenia flowers assaulted her nose.

"Ever?" She asked hesitantly, recognizing her perfume.

"You idiot! You had us all worried!" Evergreen scolded and drew back but kept her hands on Kae's shoulders. "Several people went out to look for you. How in the world you made it here without running into any of them beats me."

"Could be that I had some help from the shadows." Kae smirked, patting the shadow wolf, before looking sheepish, "I might have also gone all the way to the forest outside of town…"

"You must have been pissed to go that far…" Bickslow snickered.

"Even so, come Kae, you should sit down while we wait for the others to return." Freed said, placing an hand around her elbow.

Kae promptly swatted it away, and ignoring the looks she could feel on her, rounded on Freed.

"Hands off unless I ask for help! I'm blind, not dying, not glass, and not helpless!" Kae snapped, "And as soon as I figure out a way to, I'm going to kick everyone's asses who treated me so!"

She reached out and placed a hand on her shadow wolf. Her expression softened slightly with her next words.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for everyone, but I want to do more for myself and be as independent as I can. I want to be treated normally…" She sighed and shook her head.

And with that she clicked her tongue and her shadow wolf guided her upstairs. The others let her be, completely understanding her anger. After all none of them liked to be coddled either.

Kae headed over to a secluded corner table where she sat and pouted until the others returned. Then she went off on them as well, even sicing her shadow wolf on Laxus and nearly destroying the guild in her rage when he continued to be stubborn about her condition. After that no one treated her differently anymore.