Another chapter up, I am really sorry about the horribly long time between updates but hey, a guys gotta make a living right? So without further adieu...
ON WITH IT!
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Clank, clank, clank, clank...
Rouki's armored feet continued to make the metal against stone sound as he walked through Magnolia's streets. His face showing no emotion but that of someone who was only looking forward. People around him looked at him with interest and surprise at his attire and armor. His hands in his coat pockets and his sword tucked under his arm. As he walked he noticed the sky was changing color due to the sunset of the evening.
'Night's coming. Hmm, would it be better to fight at nighttime? Maybe, then again I might sleep tonight to ensure that I'll be at my full strength. The guild has gotten stronger just as I have. Hmmm.'
Rouki continued his thoughts on battle strategy as he continued to walk down the street towards his set target.
The Guild of Fairy Tail.
"So when is the bastard gonna get here? The sooner we beat the crap outta him the better!" Natsu said. He was standing right at the guild doors inside of the building. "You'd think someone who was dead set on killing us would get to it faster!"
"Why would you say such a thing? It sounds like you actually want him to try to kill us?" Lucy yelled, shocked by Natsu's words.
"Hell yeah I want him to try! That way I can burn him up and beat him down!"
"You're bound to do better than last time Natsu." Happy said while sitting on a table.
"LAST TIME WAS A FLUKE! He caught me by surprise that's all!"
"Which time are you referring to?" Gray asked. "When you were younger or earlier this morning?"
"SHUT UP! He won't get the drop on me this time!" Natsu turned and put his face right in front of Gray's.
"Don't tell me that actually do it this time! I'll even hold him down with ice if I have to!"
"Juvia will be there to help Gray in any way she can!" Juvia said with a determined face.
"I don't need your help underpants perv!"
"A record of zero and two argue against that, sulfur breath!"
"Is this their way of discussing about joining forces?" Lucy wondered.
"Aye!" Happy said next to her.
"YAAAHHHH! THIS IS IT! THIS IS WHEN WE PROVE WE ARE MEN! I WON'T LET ANYTHING HAPPEN TO MIRAJANE!" Elfman roared with an arm already transformed.
"We're all going to protect Mira!" Said Wakaba.
"But he's coming after all of us so shouldn't we save at least some concern for ourselves?" Another member asked.
"Oh crap...that's right..."
The entire guild had a war face on. Each member was motivating either themselves or another member.
Mirajane was looking at them all with soft eyes as they rallied themselves for battle and sat down at a table. She looked down at her lap and placed her quivering hands in it.
"Mirajane are you alright?" Lucy asked sitting next to her.
"Oh, I...it's just...well..." Mirajane began but couldn't seem to finish her sentence.
"Gah! I'm so stupid! Of course you're not alright, you've got a complete psycho coming after you! I'd be scared too."
"It's not that. It's just...maybe Rouki has good reason to come after me."
"WHAT!" Lucy yelled. "Mirajane, you-you're not giving up are you?"
"Oh no of course not. Everyone is so riled up I wouldn't dash their hopes away like that. I'm just saying that, well I wasn't the nicest person to Rouki when he was in our guild. Maybe if I was kinder, he wouldn't be doing this."
"What are you talking about Mirajane? You're one of the nicest people I know...sure from what I heard you had some, uh, spirit in you when you were younger but you couldn't have been THAT mean to anyone." Lucy said with a smile.
"No Lucy, I was not kind. I remember one time when we were younger and he had joined the guild a week and a half earlier..."
~ ~ ~ ~Years ago~ ~ ~ ~
"Hey hood boy!" Mirajane yelled from her table.
"Hm?" Rouki turned and looked at her from under his hood. He had just grabbed a request for hunting down a pack of Forest Vulcans for taking and eating a farmer's sheep.
"What the hell do you think you're doing taking all those tough missions? Trying to act tough in front of everyone?"
"No." Rouki said before turning to leave.
Mirajane, who was annoyed that Rouki only said a single word without any other explanation, got up out of her chair and started walking towards Rouki. Rouki heard her foot steps and turned to face her, his free hand flipping the shoulder cloth part of his hood off of his wrapped up weapon.
"Oh and you think you can take me on do ya?" Mirajane said with a smug face.
"If I have to I will."
"Ha ha ha! You're a million years too early for that! You wanna fight me? You're going to have to train till you're bones ache."
Rouki put down his arm and visibly relaxed. "I'll be sure to use that advice."
Mirajane raised her eyebrow at his response. As well as the fact that he was looking very intently at her.
"You know, for a member of a guild, you're not really friendly are you?" Rouki asked her.
"Heh, I may be a hard ass but I know how to treat friends and family." Mirajane responded.
"I doubt that." Rouki said as he turned to walk away.
"I'm more kind that you I can guarantee you that."
"I know what kindness is, I'm-GAH!"
Rouki was interrupted by tripping on the back of a chair that was laying on the ground.
"Grrrrrrr...STUPID DAMN CHAIR! DIE!"
Rouki then proceeded to take out his broken down and jagged looking blade and stab and chop the chair into pieces, while yelling at it.
"Stupid chair! Stupid chair! Stupid chair! I'll kill you!"
'What the hell is that all about?' Mirajane thought with a sweat drop on her head.
After the chair had been thoroughly 'killed' and Rouki had regained his regular pattern of breathing, he turned back away from Mirajane and lifted his weapon to his shoulder.
"I know what kindness is. I'm going to ensure it's all there is in the world for someone." With that Rouki sheathed his broken sword like weapon and walked out of the guild into the sunset's light. But not before he heard Mirajane's final words to him.
"Heh, be prepared for failure then hood boy."
~ ~ ~ ~Present~ ~ ~ ~
"Hm? Yes I'm sure I'm going to go through with this. They'll be no different than anyone else."
Rouki was walking down the last street he had to go down before arriving at Fairy Tail, speaking out loud as he did so. To whom was a mystery because there was no one around him.
Rouki stopped to look up at the sky and gazed upon the sky. The eastern portion was already darkening while the western was bathed in orange light. He closed his eyes while turning his head back towards the street ahead. He reopened them and started walking again.
"So that's how it was back then. I would say mean things to him and he'd always say that he would never fail at whatever I told him he would fail at."
"Well..." Lucy began, "That may have happened but that was in the past, and all that's no excuse to kill you."
"That may be so but, I can't help but feel that I might have provoked him and this may be all my fault." Mirajane said with her hands closing in her lap.
"No way!" Lucy exclaimed standing up. "There is no way that you started this! This is just because some crazy guy with a sword has a chip on his shoulder for some reason! You are not to blame for anything Mirajane!"
'Though I wonder,' Lucy thought, 'Who is he trying to give a world full of kindness too? Doesn't sound like something a psycho would say.'
"Lucy..." Mirajane began with a smile on her face.
"That's right! This is all cause of that lousy Rouki! Who does he think he is? Joining the guild and being all rude, and loud, and breaking things!" Levy said from her spot in the guild hall near the door.
"Isn't that what the guild itself is usually like when it comes to two out of three of those thing?" Lucy said sweat dropping.
"Yeah! I am pumped up now that I've heard Levy's pep talk!" Droy yelled.
'That was a pep talk?' Lucy thought.
"Me too! We're going to bring down all the powers of Fairy Tail to crush this guy!" Jet yelled.
"We are all ready to fight for Mirajane!" Erza joined in.
"Yeah! See that Mirajane? The whole guild is right beside you! Besides, we've got Natsu, Gray, Happy, Erza, Juvia, Gajeel, Cana, Elfman, and the master on our side, he couldn't take us all on at once could he?"
"Actually Gajeel is gone on a mission and shouldn't your name be added to that list as well?" Happy said floating above Lucy.
"That's besides the point!" Lucy stated.
"Ha ha! With he way I'm feeling now we won't need everyone!" Jet yelled, "Heck, I feel like I can take Rouki on myself! Ha ha ha ha ha ha!"
"Really? Wouldn't that be something." Said a smooth voice outside the guild. Jet froze where he was and one could almost hear his bones shake as he turned his head around to see the source of the voice he heard.
"R-R-R-Rouki!"
The entire guild turned to the building entrance and there, standing in front of the guild in the street was Rouki. His armor somehow shining in the setting sun's light, his onyx coat flapping in the wind.
All was silent. Rouki stood there not moving an inch. The guild stood ready to move at a moments notice. Makarov was the only one that moved, he was walking up to the front of the guild to stand ready and strong.
'Would someone say at least say something?' Lucy said while sweating bullets.
Rouki made no aggressive motions. He continued to stand there with an emotionless face. That is until he closed his eyes and took in a deep breath. He let it out and opened his eyes to look at the guild again. Then suddenly...
His eyebrows angled down to show a more aggressive look on his face.
Immediately, the guild responded.
Natsu formed his flames around his fists, Gray placed his hands in their usual Ice Make positions. Cana drew her cards while Macao formed his dark blue waves of magic with Wakaba next to him blowing more smoke out of his mouth from his cigarette. Erza summoned a sword to her hand and Juvia turned her arm to water. Elfman's arm was at ready while Alzack and Bisca readied their firearms to aim at Rouki. The rest of the guild readied their magics as well, their personal spell seals forming and ready to let lose their power.
Lucy. Was. astounded.
'What's going on here?' She thought, 'The entire guild armed themselves, readied their magic, steadied their intent to fight this one guy...all at once when he moved his eyebrows! How big of a threat is this guy really?!'
"I am ready."
At Rouki's words the guild tensed even more, if possible.
"But," Rouki spoke again, making Makarov's eyebrows move this time into a questioning look, "It's sunset. I don't know if people go to bed around this time or not, but I do on occasion. I usually sleep only the minimum hours of sleep a human needs to function, but I want to be at full strength when I fight you. I want you all to be at your best as well. So I believe it will be in both of our best interests to get a full night's rest, and continue this in the morning at, hm, how about eleven in the morning."
At this Rouki turned and started to walk away.
"You're not getting off that easy bastard! Come back here and fight me now!"
Rouki turned to see that Natsu had run out of the guild and was standing three feet in front of the doorway.
"Natsu! Stop! Don't provoke him, we have some time now to prepare for him!" Makarov yelled to the pink haired dragon slayer.
"Come one old man, that's not the Natsu we know. He's not going to back down until that skull of his is shattered from the fight he wants." Rouki said as he turned back to Natsu.
"Don't talk as if you know me!" Natsu yelled.
"Natsu!" Lucy called out. She had never seen Natsu like this. Usually Natsu just shows the determination to defeat whoever he needs to in order to protect the guild. Now he just had a look in his eyes that screamed of pure violent intent.
"You came to our guild, treated it like trash then threatened it's members, my FAMILY, and then say your going to kill us starting with Mirajane...YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO TALK AS IF YOU KNOW ME THAT WELL!" Natsu finished his words by setting himself aflame and sending a death glare at Rouki.
"Hm, I suppose you have a point. I didn't really get to know you very well did I? But all the same, you want something to happen? I'll give you a single attack to give you a taste of what's coming tomorrow." Rouki said before he let his sword fall from under his arm into his hand.
He lifted it up and thrust it down into the ground so it stood up by itself. Rouki then took a few steps forward and pulled back his right arm as if he was going to punch Natsu from where he was. Which was impossible considering he was a good twenty feet away.
"Natsu move! He's going to do something!" Gray shouted to his guild mate.
"Gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Natsu screamed as he charged forward, ignoring Gray.
But just as his foot left the ground, Rouki spoke.
"D-..."
"NATSU!" Makarov shouted.
"Impact."
Fwoom, fwoom, fwoom FWOOM!
Rouki disappeared from the spot he was standing at and had reappeared five feet ahead of where he was with a 'fwoom' sound to announce his relocation. This event happened three more times five feet ahead of each spot he was last until he was right in front of Natsu.
BOOM!
Rouki's fist connected with Natsu's solar plexus and a tremendous wave of force was powering the hit to make the flames around Natsu blow back as Natsu himself was flung backwards with multiple rocks forced loose from the ground.
Natsu flew back into the guild and was sent through a few of the guild's pillars and through a wall until he ultimately stopped in the guild's storage room, where he lay unmoving.
"NATSU!" The cry of the dragon slayer's name was let out from multiple voices. Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Erza were the first to get to Natsu and pull him from the wreckage.
"He's alright, but he's unconscious." Erza said while examining him.
"How can you call that alright?" Lucy questioned frantically, "His chest has turned purple!"
Just as Lucy said, Natsu's upper chest had developed a large purple bruise.
"At least he's alive, no thanks to him." Gray said before turning to send a death glare at Rouki. Said person was standing there staring strait back at Gray. Rouki broke the stare only to turn and walk away, pulling his sword from the ground while doing so.
"I will see you all tomorrow, for now I will rest at this town's inn. Sleep well all of you. I need you to be at your best." With this Rouki walked down the street and disappeared around a corner.
Makarov stood in place. His fists shaking in anger.
"What was that? He just took out Natsu with one hit!" A young guild member asked.
"That was Rouki's magic. He can relocate himself anywhere he wants, and in less time it takes to blink." Macao explained, remembering Rouki's use of said power when he was younger.
"So he can teleport or something?"
"Guys enough talking! We need to get Natsu treatment!" Levy said while trying to help Erza steady herself with Natsu on her shoulder.
"Erza." Makarov called. Erza quickly turned her head to Fairy Tail's master and payed attention. "Take care of things here. I'll be back later."
Makarov started to walk down the street Rouki had walked earlier.
"Master, where are you going?" Erza asked.
"To punish a very bad child." Was Makarov's only reply.
"Yes! The master himself is going to take Rouki down! There's no way even Rouki can stand up to one of the Ten Wizard Saints!" Droy said with glee.
"But why didn't the master fight Rouki in the first place?" Laki asked out loud.
"I...don't know." Droy said back.
Max came forward to offer his thoughts. "Maybe it was cause master was hoping Rouki wasn't going to do anything. He's pretty bad but he was still a member of the guild right? Maybe he wanted to give Rouki a second chance."
"Even so, it looks like Rouki's actions have dug himself a deep hole. Very deep now that the master is on his tail." Warren spoke.
"Oui." Reedus agreed.
"Happy," Erza called to the flying cat. "Follow the master but keep a distance. I want to know what happens and just how Rouki fights in case the he comes back after the master is done with him."
"Aye!" Happy said saluting the armored woman and flew off into town.
It was night now. Only the bright moon provided light from above. On the ground light came only from the street lamps.
Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.
The sound of Rouki's armored feet resonated throughout the street with every step he took. He walked casually as if nothing had happened earlier. Nothing about him showed any sign of off behavior. However...
Rattle, rattle.
'Why are you shaking?' Rouki thought. In his hand his sword was moving in his grip very slightly. It almost looked like Rouki himself no longer had an unsteady hand.
'Ah so that's why. You felt it from the red head. She must be something special to get you interested. I wonder what our fight is going to be like, both hers and the fight with the rest of those in the guild I have never met... in the mean time, everything is ready.'
Clang, clang. Rouki's footsteps came to a halt.
"Come to wish me a good night's sleep old man?" Rouki said turning his head to his side so that he could look behind him.
Standing down the street was Makarov.
"You came to us a child who's body was ridden with scars. Your eyes showed nothing but curiosity and a steely gaze into the future. We accepted you into our guild, our family, with open arms and you bared your fangs at us."
Rouki turned around to face Makarov fully and look him in his eyes.
"Why Rouki?"
"..." Rouki stood there, not uttering a word. But continually gazing at the aged guild master.
Meanwhile up above them Happy was flying up to a rooftop and landed, hoping that he could get a good seat for the master's triumphant victory against Rouki.
"You..." Rouki began, causing Makarov to raise his eyebrows. "Are not my family. You are a part of the world I must conquer. You, and everyone else in the guild was, is, and always will be..." Rouki looked dead into Makarov's eyes. "My stepping stones to another level of power."
"Gck!" The sound made by Makarov's voice barely made it out of his throat and clenched teeth. Tears were starting to form in his eyes from Rouki's statement. His fists clenched tighter than ever. "So, you really intend to kill us?"
"Yes." Rouki replied.
"All of us?"
"Yes."
"Everyone in the guild?"
"Yes."
"Then I have no choice." Makarov shook his tears from his eyes and prepared himself. "If you have such strong desires to draw blood then let it start with me, though I will warn you now, hold nothing back against me and bring forth all you possess! I don't know how much power you have but for the sake of my children I will surpass it and crush it down!"
"He's in for it now." Happy whispered to himself.
"No."
"What?"
"Huh?" Happy was so shocked he almost fell from the roof he was on.
"I will not bring all that I have against you old man. All I need is one thing."
"And what pray tell will that be, ROUKI?"
"Hmph, you can answer that yourself. In the five months I was in Fairy Tail, did I ever pick a fight or make a scene?"
"Huh?"
"Answer the question Makarov. When have you known me to showboat like I did today?" Rouki said while holding his sword in his right hand, still sheathed, and pointing it at Makarov.
The moonlight started to get brighter. But not because clouds were being blown out of the way of the moon's light.
Makarov thought about Rouki's question and quickly came up with an answer. Rouki never made a scene when he was younger. He never showed off like many of the other members. He NEVER drew attention to himself.
"You don't." Makarov answered.
The street lights grew brighter very slowly.
"Exactly, so why did you think I made such a show in taking down Natsu?"
It hit Makarov then.
"To get-"
"You alone and to face me by yourself."
BANG! BANG! BANG!
BANG! BANG! BANG!
The street lights all around Rouki and Makarov exploded in bursts of light. From the shattered bulbs beams of light shot out to the ground around Makarov. When the beams struck a circle of yellow light shown beneath Makarov's feet.
"What? What is this?" Makarov could barley form his spell seal to form his magics. It was as if some tremendous power was crushing his own magical force.
"In my need to gain power I created my own magic: Dimentia. It allows me to teleport and open and close dimensional doors of almost any sort. But I wanted to expand on this and so I went in search of individuals of great power to teach me their ways, and so I wouldn't be limited to just one type of magic. Among these people was an immeasurably powerful individual. I think you may have heard of him. He's the second person out of three in the entire world who ascended to the title of 'Magus.'"
"No...you couldn't have...it's impossible..." Makarov started, struggling even to move.
"Yes, I was trained personally under the great Magus Wiset Cagliostro, holder of the Akashic Records."
BOOOM!
A loud sound like that a gigantic bomb going off miles away was heard. Suddenly a gigantic ray of light shot strait down to envelop Makarov with winds gusting in all directions.
"What's happening?" Happy questioned to no one. He looked up to find the source of the light thinking that maybe Rouki had an accomplice. But instead Happy saw...
"THE MOON?"
The light came from the moon itself in a stream reaching strait to the earth.
"I know very well that it would take all my strength to fight you Makarov, so I'm saving our fight. After Fairy Tail is dead, I will rest and regain my power to fight you."
"GYAHHHHHHHH!" Makarov tried as hard as he could, but no magic could be formed apparently inside the circle of light he was bound in. Then Makarov noticed something. His feet were turning black. His shoes and socks and skin were becoming a colorless void of emptiness.
"THIS SPELL IS-!" Makarov began.
"Yes, a spell just as legendary as your Fairy Law. Taken from the Akashic Records themselves. Not used in a millennium. For an above average mage it would take three days of speaking the incantation to perform it, Wiset himself is the only one who can perform it in an instant. I planned ahead and placed power enhancing runes and scriptures with the incantation itself written on them."
Just as Rouki said, thousands of ancient looking words from some long forgotten language formed on the houses and streets around them. All in a multitude of colors. Makarov looked down at his body again and saw his entire lower body was now looking like a three dimensional shadow.
"I even added a few extra ones to camouflage us so your guild wont come charging in to help and the people of this town won't make an annoying ruckus. It's ready, but I still have to say the last part. Now sky above and earth below separate yourselves so that the void may show! Return now this man to the empty void, that which existed from when time stood still! By the words now come and take thy prize, add his essence to your list of lives."
Makarov's upper body was gone now. His arms now slowly being consumed by the blackness as well.
"His name is Makarov, his life now stun. Remove him from this earth, it's moon and sun."
Makarov's head was last to go, but he could still see.
"MASTER!" Happy yelled but it was no use the winds would not carry his voice. Rouki raised his sword to the sky and shouted to the winds blowing around him.
"FINISH! BY THE WORDS OF ETERNITY'S DEMON:..."
It stopped. The wind and the ray of light stopped. Now only a circle of light was shining under the three dimensional humanoid shadow being of Makarov. But Makarov himself changed once more. From the inside of his shadowy body was stars.
Thousands and thousands of beautiful, brilliantly shining stars. It was as if Makarov had become a canvas of the night cut into a human form.
"Amazing...the amount of stars you have in this stage is to show how much magical power and strength of will you have. Indeed, I will need everything I am and everything I have at my disposal to fight you." Rouki slowly started to lower his sword to point it at Makarov.
Makarov's face, even though was now black and starry as a night sky on a clear summers night, moved to look at Rouki.
Drip. Drip.
Rouki looked to the ground to see that tears were dropping from Makarov's now non existent eyes. 'That should be impossible.' He thought. Rouki pointed at Makarov again with his sheathed sword.
"Why...why Rouki...why would you do this to us?" Came the ethereal voice of Fairy Tail's master.
"..." Rouki closed his eyes and breathed deep. He needed to stop wasting time and finish the spell. "I assure you, it's nothing personal. I'm just trying to make sure I'm strong enough to take on the world. So that someone very special to me will never know sadness ever again. If you will have the ability to think in the three months you'll be spending in eternity, think of and remember this. I have nothing but the utmost respect for you...Makarov of Fairy Tail."
"Rouki..."
Rouki then turned his sword as if he was turning a giant key in his hand.
"LAPLACE'S ETERNITY PRISON!"
Crack. Crackle.
Cracks of light formed in Makarov's body as if he was glass and something was breaking out from inside of him.
CRASH!
In an instant Makarov's shadowed body was shattered and crumbled into dust that disappeared from sight.
Rouki put his sword back into his left hand and stared strait at the spot Makarov was mere seconds ago.
"MASTER MAKAROOOOOOOOOOOV!" Happy cried out with tears dripping from his eyes.
Rouki turned to happy and looked at him on the rooftop.
"YOU-!" Happy flew at breakneck speeds to Rouki with anger in his saddened eyes. Though he never got a chance to do anything. As his head was suddenly gripped by and armored hand and slammed against the ground. One of his wings surely broken.
"Listen well cat-creature. You will go back to Fairy Tail, you will tell them of what has transpired here. Then you will tell them that tomorrow at eleven o'clock I will walk through the doors of that inn," Rouki pointed to a building at the end of the block. "and our battle will officially begin. Now go." Rouki finished throwing Happy to the side in the direction of the guild. He turned and walked towards the inn.
Happy was still crying. He got up and started walking with his broken wing dragging on the ground behind him, heading to his home.
"Master..."
~ ~ ~ ~An hour and a half later~ ~ ~ ~
Natsu was currently in a bed with a number of ice packs on his chest and Lucy was keeping watch over him with Mirajane. All was silent in the medical room of Fairy Tail as was the entire guild. The reason was because they were trying to hear the sounds of combat, but they heard nothing.
"Lucy," Mirajane started, "Would you like something to eat? I'm sure I can find something. I'm getting a little hungry myself."
Lucy smiled in appreciation at Mirajane's offer. "Thank you Mirajane but no thanks. I'm not hungry right now."
"Alright. I'll be right back then." Mirajane said before leaving the room.
Lucy sighed a deep sigh. She had never thought something like this would happen. She had lived through a fight on an island made to wake a demon, survived the fight against Phantom Lord, and talked with the King of Spirits himself, but a rogue member of Fairy Tail itself has come to kill all of it's members.
'This was a nightmare that can only get worse.' Lucy thought.
CLANG!
The sound of something being dropped immediately caught Lucy's attention. She ran out of the room as fast as she could.
'Sometimes I hate it when I'm right.' Lucy thought as she ran. When she got to the main guild hall she saw Mirajane on her knees and her hands covering her mouth. Her eyes watering with tears severely. The other members crowded around her trying to ask her what was wrong but she wouldn't speak. Lucy ran up to her and held her by her shoulders.
"Mirajane whats wrong?"
Mirajane removed one of her hands and pointed forwards while saying one word, or rather name.
"Happy..."
The guild looked to the entrance and saw Happy, his furred face stained by his tears and a broken wing being dragged behind him.
"HAPPY!" Lucy cried out and ran to the cat picking him up into her arms. "Happy what happened to you? Where is the master? Did he defeat Rouki?"
"...He's gone..." Happy sadly stated through sniffling.
"Rouki? The master beat him?" Erza asked.
"No..."
The guild grew silent.
"MASTER MAKAROV IS GONE! WAHHHHH!" Happy cried out in sadness.
~ ~ ~ ~At the inn~ ~ ~ ~
Rouki sat there on his bed looking at his sword. Starting from the guard of the handle, a red fluid ran down the blade.
"Kazuvath..." Rouki began, "Why are you crying?"
Well that's my latest chapter! I swear to got I almost brought myself to tears at Makarov's confrontation with Rouki. I kept imagining the song that plays at Prof. Broom's funeral in Hellboy.