Me: Hello once again readers. Before we get on to that character commentary and the chapter, let's say our fun fact of the week. Fun fact of the week: I honestly had a tough time at first figuring out who the hooded figure would be.
Nicholai: Yet I already knew it immediately after you posted the chapter, and I must admit, it both makes me happy and pisses me off.
Sayume: You STILL haven't told me!
Me: Well, all that don't know will be sure to find out in this chapter.
Sayume: *sighs*, you really enjoy doing that. Don't you?
Me: *Grins* Yeeaaaahhhh...
Nicholai: So, can we start the chapter now?
Me: Oh, right. Back to that, here's chapter 13
*8 Weeks later*
*NICHOLAI POV*
We both flew slowly, observing anything and everything that was happening with the Grimore Heart guildhall from a somewhat safe distance. Who left, who entered, keeping tabs on absolutely everything that we could see. We had decided to take a break, after all, flying after an airship was pretty tiring. I was quite content to continue observing for a while. However, unlike me, someone was being impatient and forgetting the plan, "Nicholai, we've been surveying their guild hall for literally five weeks, not to mention that even with my powers, it took three weeks to track down after fighting the Oracion Seis. When are we going to attack?" Sayume had been complaining for a while now, and I was honestly running out of reasons why we couldn't move foreword with the plan. "We need to know what we are actually going up against. From what I can tell, even one of their seven kin of purgatory could easily take out several of the members of Oracion Seis. All of them together could like this could kill us with ease." Sayume jumped to his feet, "Who's out there?" I had a pretty good idea. A female voice responded, "Don't worry, I'm a friend, I do believe you have both met me before." I easily recognized the voice as the one of that woman I had met in the alleyway, "Is that really you… sister?" She stepped out into the light. Her height left her just a few inches shy of reaching my forehead, she had long, dark brown hair reaching down to her shoulders, and piercing blue eyes, "So, you did figure that out from last time." She walked closer to us, "Well, I guess I couldn't keep that under wraps while helping you." "Sister." "Hm?" I walked up to her with tears streaming down my face and hit her, "NICHOLAI! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" I snapped at him, "STAY OUT OF IT SAYUME." He backed off. I didn't care that she was a woman, I didn't care that she was my sister, I was angry with her, "WHY WOULD YOU HIDE FROM ME FOR SO LONG? I SPENT SIX YEARS OF MY LIFE THINKING THAT I HAD NO ONE! YOU DON'T SEEM TO HAVE LOST ANY MEMORIES, THAT MUCH I CAN DEDUCE EASILY, BUT WHAT I CAN'T UNDERSTAND IS WHY YOU WAITED SO LONG TO EVEN SHOW YOURSELF TO ME! EVEN WHEN YOU WERE TRYING TO HELP ME AVENGE OUR PARENTS, YOU DIDN'T REVEAL YOUR IDENTITY, I COULD ONLY GUESS WHO YOU WERE!" I broke down in tears. I was unable to stop crying. I just laid there on the ground, in front of my sister, with my palms pressed against my eyes, sobbing. After what seemed like an eternity, but what may have only been a matter of seconds, I felt an embrace. I took my hands off of my face to see my sister that I had just smacked and yelled at, hugging me. I saw tears in her eyes and a smile on her face, "I was worried you might forgive me too easily, I've harbored so much guilt from what I did to you. We were so happy when we were younger, running around and playing as brother and sister, without a care in the world. But, that all changed on that day, the day that they attacked. When the dark mages attacked, you kept a level head, you tried to get me out of there, and in the end, you stayed behind and told me to run. Our parents were dead, and I had no reason to believe you weren't dead too, until two years later, when by sheer luck, I saw you, roaming through the woods. You were older and more developed, but I could tell it was you. I was so happy to finally have found you, to finally have a part of my family back. Then I remembered how all of that disappeared in the time span of a single night, and I almost didn't want to go talk to you, just from the fear of losing my family again. At first, I didn't pay much attention to those feelings, but the more I thought about it, the less anxious I was to say who I was. I had been tailing you for almost an hour, but in the end, I was just too afraid of losing everything again. I had even learned magic at one point, in hopes of avenging our parents myself, but I couldn't even beat Raniel, the weakest of their group. Then, four years after that I heard that an incident had happened involving Raniel, and one of the newest members of the mage guild Fairy Tail, Nicholai Kasai. When I heard this, I had to find you, I couldn't help you by fighting, but I could share with you some information I had gathered. Although, the first time around I didn't have the guts to talk to you directly, so I gave the information you needed to the cat you were traveling with. The next time around, I could face you, but I wasn't willing to tell you who I was. And now, here we are. I finally had the courage to face you, and, although to most it'd be heartbreaking, I felt a great weight lift off of my shoulders when you hit me. So there you have it, my life after becoming an orphan, summarized into almost twenty measly sentences. I am Samantha Kasai, the coward of a sister who didn't even let her own brother know she was alive. A person who, after everything she's done to her little brother, doesn't deserve his forgiveness." I lifted my arms up to wrap them around her, "She's still going to get it." "W-why? Why after everything I did to you?" "To be honest, just knowing that there is someone out there who has suffered to the same extent I have is enough for me, and it's not like I can stay mad at you after hearing that. After all, we are brother and sister." We let go of each other, "Thank you, thank you." Sayume flew over to us, "So, touching moment aside, was there any new information you had for us?" "Actually yes, and you may want to hurry after that airship after you hear this. I found out that Grimore Heart is planning to attack Tenrou Island since they apparently found the black wizard Zeref in that area. It'll be really bad if they do find him. Also, since we both know whom you are going after, know this. You will need to fight Zancrow alone and only alone, and if you don't exactly want to remain completely undetected, you should avoid three of the members of the Guild. Hades, who is their master, Bluenote, who is on par with your guild's Gildarts. and Azuma, who can produce and manipulate trees, even being able to blow them up. Other than these guys, you should be fine fighting anyone else, so long as you don't take on the entire guild other than those three." "Alright, thanks sis. Come on Sayume, we've got to go after them now!" Just before we took off, Samantha grabbed me, "Brother, two things," She reached down to her neck and removed a bronze necklace with a locket matching my bracelet. "Sorry about being four days late, but happy birthday." She clicked the knob on the side to show a picture of a family of four, with the son sitting in the father's lap, and the daughter standing behind the mother, who was sitting, holding hands with the father, "That's us, before everything else happened." She closed it and buckled the necklace onto my own neck, "Keep it, and when you're done, meet me back here." "No problem, and… thanks."
We then both took off at top speed, chasing after the airship, "Sayume, forget observation, we're going full on assault. Don't hold anything back, we have to stop them. This is beyond revenge, we have to do this to help protect my guild mates on the island." "Yeah, in that case, let me carry you so we can at least get rid of Zancrow first. I can drop you straight into the part of the airship where he is, and we can progress from there." I cut off my fire so he could grab me, "Sounds like a plan little buddy." I began to be able to see the massive airship, and below it, vast blue ocean. Sayume pulled to the left of the airship, angling himself facing downwards towards it, "NOW, MAX SPEED!" about twenty five feet away from the wall of the airship, he let go of me, and in the same instant, I burst into flames and braced for impact. I broke through the wall, to see a man with red eyes and long and messy blonde hair, reaching down to his knees, tying a ribbon around his waist. I looked around to see a bed, a closet, and a door most likely leading to a restroom. Apparently, Sayume had thrown me right into Zancrow's bedroom. "Who the hell are you, and why the hell are you in my bedroom?" I gave him a false grin of anger, "Gimme a moment," I turned to Sayume, who was just now flying into the hole I made, "SAYUME, WHY'D YOU THROW ME INTO HIS GODDAMN BEDROOM?" "HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT HE WAS IN HIS BEDROOM? I JUST THREW YOU WHERE I SENSED HIM!" "Oh well, just go make sure no one comes in here, but don't try fighting the three that Sam warned us about," I turned back towards Zancrow, "To answer your questions, I am Nicholai Kasai, a fire dragon slayer from Fairy Tail, and I'm here to avenge my parents, the ones you killed." He smirked, and slowly started to giggle, "Did I now? Oh well, if it were important I would have remembered. Too bad for you dragon hunter, you're not ringin' any bells." At least the others remembered their sins; this bastard just never gave a single damn. "YOU! I'LL DEFEAT YOU!" "Good luck with that, and could you hurry it up? I need to be up at the bridge shortly." I grabbed my scythe and coated it in an even larger coat of flames than usual. "DON'T WORRY, I'LL MAKE THIS QUICK!" "Oh, interesting, I can do that too." He created black flames on his fists and brought them together, forming what looked like a scythe of pure fire, "FLAME GOD'S SCYTHE!" He swung his scythe just as I swung mine, and he parried my strike perfectly, "I… WILL… END YOU!" he smirked, "Heh, you're pretty good for a dragon hunter, but I'm afraid that your power won't be enough." He jumped over me and swung again, I barely managed to block. He then swung his blade one last time, landing a hit on my lower back. "Damn, he's fast. FIRE DRAGON ROAR!" Zancrow just stood there, not caring about my attack. The instant it reached him, he opened his mouth and swallowed my attack whole. "Mmm, those were some tasty flames. Too bad that you won't be able to do anything to me with those things though. Now, to finish you off, FLAME GOD'S SUPPER!" He formed what looked like two halves of a jaw made out of his black flames on his arms. "What the hell?" He sent them flying straight towards me. They were too fast, I couldn't evade, and the black flames swallowed me. I grinned, "Did you forget that a dragon slayer can eat their element?" I tried to swallow them, nothing. Once again, still nothing. One more try, yet again nothing, what the hell is going on? "WHY CAN'T I EAT THESE DAMN THINGS?" Zancrow started uncontrollably laughing, "A mere dragon hunter could never consume the flames of a god. It looks like you'll be the one to die toda-!" He was cut off from a strong swing to the head from Sayume. The flames dispersed and Sayume yelled at me, "NOW NICHOLAI, HIT HIM WITH EVERYTHING YOU'VE GOT!" His attack dispersed, "POISINOUS FLAME DRAGON MODE!" I gathered all the power I could into this attack, "HOW ABOUT YOU TRY EATING THESE FLAMES ZANCROW! POISONOUS FLAME DRAGON ROAR!" Zancrow jumped to his feet, rubbing the side of his head, "WITH PLEASURE!" Cockily, he stood there, ready to once again eat my attack. Just like I planned, he swallowed the entire attack. he let out a small burp, "Fool, just like I said, I can eat anything you dish ou-" Just as Zancrow was gloating, he fell to the ground, clawing at his chest. He could barely even choke out words in his state, "W-WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO?" I smiled, "Those flames of mine were also mixed with the poison of Cobra, the poison dragon slayer. You ingested enough poison to kill dozens of men, I'm surprised you're even breathing. That confidence of yours was your downfall." "Y-YOU!" In his writhing, he turned his head to face the door, "M-MASTER HADES!" Sayume quickly turned towards him, "Wha-" "Amaterasu: Formula 28." Magic circles formed all around Sayume, and then created a catastrophic explosion "AAAAGGGGHHHHHH!" Sayume dropped down to the floor, unconscious, "NO SAYUME!" I faced Hades, "YOU!" I was too tired from that last attack. He extended his thumb, index and middle fingers, and pointed them at me, "POW!" intantly, a small ball of energy shot out from his fingers. He effortlessly continued to shoot me, "POW! POW! POW! POW!" Before I could do anything, two chains linked directly to him attached themselves to mine and Sayume's shoulders, "Now, the both of you, BEGONE!" he swung the chains, hitting me and Sayume against the wall again and again and again until our limp bodies broke through the metal walls, and he threw us off the airship. Sayume and me were free falling towards the ocean, with no way to stop ourselves. I saw a far off image of a tree sticking out of he ocean, "Tenrou… Island."
Me: Well, are you happy Sayume?
Sayume: Quite.
Nicholai: I didn't really want to say this in front of my her, but thanks for completely ruining the moment between me and my sister.
Samantha (I will refer to her as Sam from now on in these): Boo!
Nicholai: YOU COULD'VE TOLD ME SHE WAS HERE!
Me & Sam: But where's the fun in that?
Nicholai: *Groans* First I'm thrown into Zancrow's bedroom, and now this? When do I get a break?
Sayume: It seems the only breaks we get are the periods in-between attacking the dark wizards
Me: Don't worry. You'll all get a break relatively soon. Depending on where you are in the next chap (HINT HINT!) Anyways, as always, thank you for reading, and I will see you all in the next chapter.