GrayLu chappie 4
Ice can heal a broken heart
A/N: chapter 4 is here, everyone raise your hands; scream and cheer!
Disclaimer: I do not own fairy tail.
3rd person POV
"I'm Daire. Daire Heartfilia. And I've finally found my twin sister…"
Lucy looked astounded as she heard those words. "T-twin?!" she had never before believed that she was anything but an only child. However, as she thought on Daire's words, flashes of memories sprung up in her mind, accompanied by a sharp pain. She contorted her face to match the sensation she was feeling, as if something was trying to break out of her mind.
That was when she remembered everything, the barrier placed there by her mother disintegrating slowly, and Lucy being able to remember, everything.
Her father had wanted a single male heir to uphold the Heartfilia name, and instead her mother had given birth to a pair of twin girls. He believed this to be a disgrace to their family, and made a deal with Layla, that he would keep the eldest of the daughters, and she could take the youngest and leave. He made out that she was dead when the time came, and had Layla alter Lucy's memories so that she never left the Heartfilia grounds.
Lucy blinked as she felt the pinpricks of tears coming to her eyes as she remembered her sister. Her twin. "D-Daire? How. How can it be you? You… you left with mother..." Lucy's shoulders were shaking and Gray put his arms around her unsure what to do about her tears.
Daire looked uncomfortable to have made Lucy cry, whether it was happily or not. "Umm… I did. But we met a couple of…" Daire had remembered that she wasn't supposed to mention what they really are, so she dodged around the question "She took me to somewhere I could learn magic"
Gray had a sneaking suspicion about this girl, he didn't disbelieve what she was saying, yet he knew she wasn't telling the whole truth "So, why don't you tell us what magic you can use then?" he targeted the question at the strange girl, who was now fiddling with one of her piercings.
"Oh umm… it's hard to describe it to someone who doesn't use it…" again, she tried to hedge her way out of the question, but Gray wasn't falling for it
"Show us then" he leant back in his chair now that Lucy had calmed down, and crossed his arms across his chest. "If you can't explain, the second best thing is to showcase it." Lucy looked thoughtful for a moment when Daire shot her a pleading look, but decided that what Gray suggested would be best, and so she nodded for Daire to go on, not trusting her own voice not to break when she tried speaking
Daire sighed and threw her hands up and sighed, "Fine, I get it there's no getting past you." She held both of her hands out, with the palms facing up and on each was a small ball of magic.
Above her right hand was a ball of magic mostly black in colour but with tinges of red flowing through it like smoke, whilst above her left hand was a ball of magic that was pure white with a bright blue; they each looked similar, but each with their own colour suggesting two different types of magic.
"This is the magic of the demon dragon" Daire said, lifting up the black and red ball of magic and making to dance in the air separate to her hand, "And this is the magic of the Angel dragon" she did the same with the white and blue sphere, until they were dancing around each other in perfect synchronisation, despite them being the complete oxymoron they were.
Lucy had finally grown the courage to speak, though she had a lot of questions to ask her twin, she held back and asked one at a time, "How do you know Dragon slayer magic?..." She was curious, after all, the other slayers had all been abandoned by their parents when their dragons found them
Daire seemed to become depressed slightly at that point, and had stopped smiling at Gray's confused expression "Layla... Our mother... She died. The pressure of the magic growing within her had grown to be too much, and it killed her from the inside." Lucy looked similar to Daire, but she had been living as if her mother were dead for a long time before that
"Oh... Do you mind us asking more questions when we arrive? There's a lot of people who could hear something to use against us..." Daire shook her head and smiled at Lucy's question, indicating she was fine with it. Meanwhile, the cogs in Gray's head were turning as he thought about this mysterious girl, and the fact that Lucy had a twin was baffling him beyond his own belief.
The three of them stayed silent for the rest of the journey: Lucy falling asleep on Gray's shoulder, Gray resisting the urge to strip after being, technically, left alone with an unknown mage , and Daire spent the whole time watching the other two.
When they arrived, Gray nudged Lucy awake who smiled in thanks and led the three of them off of the train, not really worried who saw them due to the time being 1:34 in the morning. Daire followed them to a small inconspicuous inn at the centre of the town where both Gray and Lucy gave false names.
Lucy fell on her assigned bed and sighed, before sitting up and looking at Daire "do you feel up for questions now?" She knew that Virgo had not long ago, popped out and set up a sound barrier for them
Daire shuffled slightly before sitting down to answer the questions, " yeah, I guess nows a good a time as any. So, what do you want to ask?" She pulled her legs into a crossed position and watched as Gray threw his shirt off and leant against the wall.
Gray was the first to speak up, "How are you able to hold two types of dragon magic? The people we've met have only been able to have one and incorporate others only occasionally, yet it leaves them immobile and without energy for days so... I want to know"
Daire smiled at the question, knowing it would be brought up sooner or later. "The dragons who taught me were mates. Meaning that they shared each other's magic and therefore if I learnt one I had no option but to learn the other, seeing as though it's the dragons that give us our magic" she quieted an eyebrow as a query as to if that made sense to him.
Lucy looked contemplative, "That makes sense. I read a book a while ago about dragons and it said that when they mated, they share everything about one another, so the fact they share magic isn't all that surprising to me." She thought back to when her and her twin sister were together on the Heartfilia Konzern, and recalled Daire practising celestial magic with her and their mother. "What happened to your celestial magic?..." Lucy asked warily
Daire then grinned, /much like Natsu used to/ Lucy thought before shutting that thought completely from her mind so that Gray didn't see what that name would do to her life. "Well me and you are twins, so our magic is linked. In other words, I can do celestial magic because it's your magic, and I can teach you dragon slaying magic, because that's my magic" Daire kept grinning as Lucy's facial expression morphed into one of shock and then into a mild version of excitement.
"So that's why you still look the same age as me! I was confused because you would be seven years older than me, when we got trapped on Tenrou island. So if our magic is connected in that way... What else is connected?..." Lucy trailed off trying to think how else they could be similar
Daire's grin turned to a sad smile as she looked at Lucy and Gray, "Well... When you get injured I can feel it, and it gives a weakening effect on whatever became injured..." She rubbed her wrist, in the exact place Lucy had cut herself time and time again. "And when you die... I'll die too"
Lucy saw Daire rubbing her wrist and immediately thought of her recent attempt to escape from her fate, now feeling guilty that she could have caused the death of her own sister. Unconsciously, she began rubbing the same wrist, the one that had recently been healed and the same one that Daire was now rubbing.
Gray frowned at the new information. He didn't know what to make of it, or the obvious connection between the two. He had come to terms with himself loving Lucy after what had happened, but the sudden appearance of Daire had him hesitant. He mentally cursed himself before turning to Daire.
"Then... What about emotions? If you two feel the same physically, what about mentally?" Gray asked this cautiously so as to avoid suspicion, but Daire's smirk told him he knew exactly hey he'd asked. He spared a glance at. Lucy, seeing her think about it but not fully understanding why he had asked
"Well we don't feel the same emotion. More that we get an impression of what the other is feeling. Take right now for example, if I focus I can tell how Lucy's feeling" she squints at Lucy as if showing concentration, "right now she's intrigued yet confused and a little hurt, I'm guessing, from having memories suppressed."
Gray looked at Lucy for confirmation on what she had said. "She's right. That's exactly how I was feeling just a moment ago. Impressive..." Lucy stifled a yawn when she had finished her sentence. Seeing this Gray offered to get off of the bed. She accepted it with a smile and fell asleep swiftly, clutching a pillow gently. He couldn't help but look down at her sleeping form worriedly, not knowing if she would have a nightmare after her ordeal.
Daire folded her arms and sat back on her bed, "she's peaceful. Stop worrying about her." When Gray looked at her slightly shocked she had already changed her focus, which was now wandering to the balcony window. "We'll be at the new guild soon. When we get there, I'll help you out. I already heard what you were going to do, but I think having me around will make it easier to take Lucy's mind off of what happened."
Gray watched her carefully, still not trusting her enough to sleep whilst she was there. "I hope there's no funny business going on here. I won't have Lucy broken again. Seeing it once was more than I ever want to see it..." He looked down again, a frown forming on his forehead.
Daire only chuckled slightly before her response. "Don't worry lover boy. I'm not going to get in the way of you trying to get her attention" Gray froze at having been caught and looked up to Daire.
"Am I that obvious?.." He said it quietly, his bangs covering his eyes and a small tick mark appeared at the taunting name. She only replied by nodding and diverting her attention back out the window. "Don't tell her. When she gets over... Whatever happened to her... Ill think about what I feel for her. Right now I just want to avenge her..." Gray looked up with a fire burning in his eyes and looked directly into Daire's eyes, shocking her from the intensity. "And I hope, that you'll help me."
Daire grinned at this and looked over at her sleeping twin. "Not to worry. I'll beat them to a pulp before you get there frosty. No one, I mean no one, messes with a Heartfilia"