Italic = narrating

"Speak"

- Thought

"CAPS LOCK" = SCREAMING

Disclaimer: not owning Fairy Tail nor the original fairy tales


Jellal and the armor clad princess

Siegrain was left alone in the Dragbuster´s smaller mansion, remembering how it once had been. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the household sat in the carriage and rode in silence.

Natsu broke it. "Why didn´t you let him come?"

Mrs Dragbuster blinked, as if surprised he said something. "What, Natsu dear?"

"I asked, why didn´t you let Siegrain come with us?"

Mrs Dragbuster tilted her head, as if she didn´t understand how Natsu could ask her such a question. Gray knew why she did that, she wanted Natsu to feel like he was wrong and stop questioning her. She wanted him to feel like a stupid child. Gray wouldn´t ever admit it to someone, but Natsu wasn´t dumb. He could seem dumb because he didn´t know some things, but Natsu knew what was right and wrong – that was one of the most intelligent abilities one could have.

"Natsu honey, you know he needed to clean it up."

"Why couldn´t it wait? Why did he need to clean up after you?" Natsu started to sound upset, even angry, and Gray gave him a warning glance which he didn´t notice or didn´t care about. "Why didn´t you stay behind yourself and clean it up?!"

Their mother gave Natsu ´the look´ and said slowly and coldly; "Siegrain take care of our house grounds. That´s why he lives with us."

The way she said it Gray knew was because she wanted him to feel stupid and be quiet – that´s why she talked slowly. Normally Natsu would stop by now. But for some reason he didn´t shut up, even though Gray kicked him discretely to make him keep quiet. He shouldn´t say that. But he did it anyways.

"It hasn´t always been like that", he said quietly and their mother got something dangerous in her eyes.

"Enough Natsu."

And this time he kept quiet, but all of them remembered how it had been once, Gray was sure of that.

When Siegrain first had come to their house, their mother had taken him there. He had been found after a storm, and said he couldn´t remember anything. He had already had that tattoo below the eye back then.
When Siegrain had come, he hadn´t even known his name. Their mother was the one who had named him Siegrain and in the beginning neither Natsu nor Gray had liked him at all. But that was just the first day, before they got to know him and realized that he was a nice guy and a good brother. Because that was what he had been back then, a brother. He had called mrs Dragbuster for ´mom´ just like the other two and they had been raised together, getting the same education and treated the same way – equally loved.
But after two or three years, things changed. Their mother asked Siegrain to help clean and similiar instead of studying. She had started to treat him colder, and he had eventually stopped to call her ´mom´. He had been transformed into a servant instead of the son he had been before that. And Gray couldn´t understand why. Siegrain was always better than both of them. He was smarter and kinder, he never fought. He calmly found solutions in a civilized way. He had always been like that.

- Why did mom turn away from Siegrain? He was more or less a genius. Why did she stop to encourage him?

Gray suspected he would never find the answer to this question.

The tournament was beginning in fifteen minutes, in ten minutes they wouldn´t let in more participants. Having finished cleaning, Siegrain would have been able to make it. If he only had had some way to get there.

Siegrain was looking out the window, in the direction of the tournament.

"It´s probably really boring. And I would only have lost, and that would have been boring too. I wouldn´t even have been able to catch a glimpse of the princess. It would be boring to go there…"

A picture flashed before his eyes. A smiling girl, with red hair. She extended her hand towards him. It only lasted for a second, but Siegrain saw every detail.

"… and amazing."

He sighed deeply. Why couldn´t he just give up? Looking out the window, something caught his eye. He just saw it in the corner of the eye, but it was enough for him to go and check it out. Leaving the second floor and heading out the door, Siegrain set his aim for the where they grew the pumpkins. He didn´t really know what had caught his eye, but he knew he needed to find out what it was.

As he arrived by the plants, he looked around but found nothing. Then he was suddenly blinded by a very bright light close by him.

"Hello there, young man."


Sorry for the late update, I had the flu so I didn´t have any energy to update, but it´s realy no excuse since these chapters are pre-written... Expect fewer updates this month - I´m working on a short Christmas Special I hope will be finished before Christamas Day so I´ll be focusing on that.

And I don´t really have any motivation to write chapters to this story right now - though you might be able to help me with that. It´s so dark now that I really only wanna be inside anyways...

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