Wow, it's been a while. Before I start I want to point out that a few characters I've had to make up in this chapter and for the most part they'll be nameless cause we all know that there's more people in Fairy Tail than the main characters we know but we don't know their names or what they do so I''ll just go with one of the phrases I live by: When in doubt, IMPROVISE! Oh and I don't own Fairy Tail.

ON WITH IT!

"WHAT?!"

The entire guild of Fairy Tail was sent into a wild uproar at Happy's declaration. Their master was 'gone.' What Happy meant by that was what they were currently trying to figure out.

"Happy what do you mean gone?"

"There's no way! Rouki couldn't have-"

"What the hell's going on?! Rouki couldn't have gotten THAT strong could he?"

Question after question was thrown at Happy and he couldn't answer them while in his state of great sadness and pain. Mirajane was doing everything she could to help keep pressure off his injured wing by holding him gently.

"QUIET!"

Erza's voice boomed to settle everyone down. She moved through the crowd to stand by Mirajane to talk to Happy, intent on getting more information.

"Happy, what do you mean gone? Did Rouki defeat him?" She asked calmly.

"I-I don't know what happened," Happy started to say while still in tears, "Master followed him and they stopped in the middle of the street and Rouki said he was using us as stepping stones. That's why he joined the guild in the first place."

'He was using us? For what?' Erza thought before Happy continued.

"Then when the master said he was going to fight Rouki, Rouki said he wasn't going to fight him. Then there were these big lights and huge booming sounds, then a light came down from the moon and-"

"THE MOON?!" Erza exclaimed, shocked as the rest of the guild.

"Rouki said he prepared a spell to use on master to put him somewhere while he came after us."

"So the master's not dead?" Macao asked. The guild was hoping that was the case, but obviously weren't letting go of their worried breath.

"I don't know. The master was stuck in the light that came down from the moon and then started to look like he was made of stars and then, and then...then he was gone!"

The guild was stricken with fear and panic like they had never felt before. Their master had been defeated by a man who wished them all dead. Without him, what was going to happen.

"Happy do you know what kind of spell it was Rouki used? Maybe we can fix it and bring him back." Mirajane asked gently.

"I'm not sure, there was a lot of wind blowing and it was really hard to hear."

"Is there anything at all you can remember? Incantations? Did he use a magical item? Was there a spell seal used?"

"Rouki said an incantation but I can't remember any of it except... at the end he said something about a prison."

"A prison?" Mirajane asked.

"So the master is alive! He's just been locked away somewhere!" Jet shouted thankful that Makarov wasn't dead.

"Happy what did he say? Did this prison have a name?" Erza questioned once more.

"He said it was and eternal prison for someone named Laplace."

"Laplace?" Erza couldn't make out anything from that. It wasn't exactly her area of expertise.

"LAPLACE'S ETERNITY PRISON!"

The guild all turned to Levy who seemed shocked beyond recognition.

"Levy, you know that spell?" Erza asked.

"I don't believe it, that spell hasn't been used by anyone other than...it CAN'T be used by anyone other than him." Levy said thinking aloud.

"What? Levy what do you mean? What spell is this Laplace whatever?" Droy asked his teammate.

"That spell," Levy began with a serious look on her face, "It's an extremely powerful spell, part of a magic that was a part of the creation of Solid Script magic. It's very old and very few people know about it."

"So how do you know about it? What's this magic all about?" Lucy asked her friend.

"Anyone who knows Solid Script magic has heard about it. It's thought to be just an old tale anymore because no one has seen it done in forever. The spell is a sealing spell of the highest kind. It traps your mind, body, and soul all at once in the greatest prison imaginable."

"What prison?" Gray asked. He, along with everyone else was getting more concerned by the second as Levy kept explaining.

"Eternity itself."

"What? What's that mean?" Lucy asked confused, "How can you be trapped in eternity?"

"Supposedly the spell traps your very existence from one point and on in a prison that actually is time and space. I'm not sure if that's what it genuinely is or not though. Only one person knows for sure because they're the only one to master the spell."

"Who's that? Maybe we can ask them for help!" Lucy asked hoping for some answer to this disaster.

"I don't think that's possible Lucy." Levy said sadly.

"Why not?"

"Because the man I'm talking about is Wiset Cogliostro, one of the three people in the history of magic to earn the title of Magus."

"What the hell's a Magus?" Gray wondered aloud.

"JUVIA KNOWS THAT NAME!" The guild looked to Juvia at her outburst in question.

"You know who that is?" Gray asked her.

"Yes, back in Phantom Lord Master Jose spoke of the three Magus at times. He said that he once tried to find one of them to learn from in his youth. He said that the Magus were supposed to be three of the most powerful mages in history. Jose also said things about each of them."

"Like what? Did he know anything about this Wiset" Erza asked.

"He said that he would do anything to have his book." Juvia said.

"Thats right! Wiset is the keeper of the Akashic Records!" Levy stated as she remembered.

"The what?" Elfman questioned.

"The Akashic Records is a book said to hold chapters of the world's entire history from the beginning of sentient life in detail. A magical artifact of tremendous power!"

"Whoa." Elfman could only say in response to such a fact.

"So let's get this strait," Cana began, "The master is now trapped in who knows where by a spell that only one super powerful person is supposed to know but Rouki knows, which means Rouki might know a lot of things that said super powerful person is only supposed to know because he has access to all of history written in a super diary?!"

"Umm, I guess something like that." Levy said downcast.

"I think I need to sit down." Lucy said with despair on her face. Needless to say the guild was not taking this well.

"You got to be kidding!"
"Rouki was taught by a super powerful mage and defeated the master!?"

"We're done for!"

The guild started to panic as they expressed their dismay. If Rouki could take down the master, what chance did they have?

"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

The guild instantly quiet down as they looked to the back of the guild and saw Natsu walking towards them with his hand on his bruised chest. "One guy just pulls off some fancy schmancy spell and you're all panicking. That's not what Fairy Tail is! We don't start crying 'Oh boo hoo' or any crap like that when something comes at us. We charge right back at it!"

"Natsu..." Lucy looked over to her friend slightly smiling.

"I don't matter what he did, or what he says he's gonna do. What matters is what we're gonna do, and we're gonna KICK HIS ASS!"

"But Natsu Rouki took down Master Makarov, what could we do against him if he could do that?" Macao asked.

"Wait a second!" Levy shouted. The guild looked to her as she walked over to Happy in Mirajane's arms. "Happy, you said Rouki did an incantation right? Did he say anything else about the spell?"

"He said he had to make it a few days ahead of time so that he could use it on the master." Happy said.

"YES! I thought so! There's no way Rouki could have done the spell on the spot, only Wiset himself would be able to do it on the spot1 Not even the master himself would be able to do it!"

"There ya see?! He's not so hot after all!" Natsu shouted.

"Natsu is right." Erza said walking forward to present herself to the guild. "Rouki may have had some form of study under a powerful mage but that doesn't make him invincible. He's promised to come for each and every one of us and that will bad news for him. One man against all of Fairy Tail, what does that sound like to you?"

"IT SOUNDS LIKE OUR CHANCE TO BE MEN!" Elfman shouted with a fist in the air.

"Rouki is coming after us whether we like it or not, and when he does I say we meet him head on and show him just how little Fairy Tail fears him." Gray added.

"I certainly ain't going down without a fight." Wakaba said lighting his pipe.

"Rouki said he would come at us at eleven right? We have plenty of time to prepare so I say we think up something to whup his ass!" Max added in.

"Then it's agreed, tomorrow we will show Rouki just what Fairy Tail can do!" Erza exclaimed, making the guild give off a final yell for confidence before beginning their plans to fight Rouki the next day.

~~~~~~~~~The Next Day~~~~~~~~~~

10:35 AM

Rouki was standing next to his bed making the final adjustments to his clothes. Rouki had a colors change dial he used to change his clothes colors depending on some situations. Black was mostly used with stealth, green for deep forests, white for snowy regions and so on. Recently he hadn't changed his clothes colors in a while so he was changing them now before he left.

His greaves and gauntlets were now their natural metallic silver and his pants changed white in color. His undershirt was black and he changed his long coat to match with the linings colored gold along with the silver armor he wore on his chest. After he had the colors set he requiped the dial back to it's holding spot.

He reached down to the bed he stood next to and picked up his sword. Gripping the handle he took a calm, slow breath.

"How will you look today, Kazuvath?" In one swift motion Rouki pulled loose his sword from it's sheath to reveal a shining broadsword's blade. "Going with the simple yet effective look? Fine by me." With that Rouki re-sheathed his sword.

~~~~~~~~~~Meanwhile, somewhere far away 10:40 AM~~~~~~~~~~~~

A single pedestal stood in the center of a dark room with very few candles lighting it. In the dim light you could see bookshelves and a desk under a window with the shades closed. On one side of the pedestal in the dim light were two figures: one sitting down in a chair and another standing. The one standing was clearly a female and she had a small gem in her right hand. On the other side was another figure sitting in a chair and wrapped up in a brown raggedy cloak.

"OK sooooo your really sure about this?" The cloaked one asked.

"Yes, I got a little worried when I hadn't heard from him in a while to I checked up on him recently to find out he left for Magnolia in Fiore. Apparently Rouki intends to make good on that promise he's been carrying around all this time." The figure in the chair opposite replied. "My dear, if you would please?"

The woman next to him lifted the gem in her hand and tossed it to the pedestal where it froze in the air above it. It started to glow until it shone a light above it that spread out to look like a screen. In the screen was Rouki preparing himself for a fight.

"Woooooo." The cloaked man whistled. "He's all decked out in his finest isn't he? He's even got his limiter rings on and everything. So how you think this will turn out?"

"Honestly? It won't be pretty. Rouki always did aim to absolutely destroy his opponents when fighting them. I believe you know that first hand."

"Aha ha ha ha! Yeah I remember that, guy couldn't take a joke." The cloaked man said scratching his head.

"You call almost burying him in a mudslide a joke?"

"He got out of it didn't he?"

"Honey I think he's about to get things started." The woman said to the man she stood next to.

"Oh boy, I get the feeling we're gonna have to do something later. Or at least you two will." The cloaked man said.

"We do usually get stuck having to be the ones that clean up the blood after he's done. But, such is the life of a doctor. Let's see how it goes."

After those words they watched the screen intently as Rouki made his final preparations.

~~~~~~~~~~10:58~~~~~~~~

Rouki made his way down the steps to the inn's lobby to the main desk where he placed his room key on the desk. As he did so he felt his sword rattle in his hand.

'Alright, alright I'll tell him. Knowing Fairy Tail it's likely to happen.' He thought. "Excuse me sir." Rouki began.

"Yes?" The desk attendant replied.

10:59

"I'm just letting you know, now that I'm not taking up a room here I'm not the one responsible for the damages that will take place."

"Uh what? What damages sir?" The attendant asked in alarm.

"Damages from what is very likely to happen." Rouki said as he walked to the doors. His sword rattled more in his hand the closer he got to them.

'Humph, so they did come here after all...here we go.' Rouki placed his hand on the door handle.

11:00 AM

He pushed it open.

BANG!

The desk attendant was blown off his feet when dust blew everywhere from the explosion that had apparently blew a giant hole where the door was!

"Oh so that's what he meant. Ugh." The man said before he fainted.

~~~~~~~~~~Outside~~~~~~~~~~~

"Did I get him?"

"Didn't I say wait until he came outside?"

"He was outside! He took one step out the door and that's considered outside!"

Two mages of Fairy Tail, one male and one female, stood in the street in front of the hole that was the door to the inn. Around them were townspeople looking shocked and dumbfounded.

"So do you think I got him or what?" Said the man.

"I don't know I can't see with all the smoke!"

Both mages looked into the smoke hoping to see Rouki either wounded or at least staggering from the attack.

"No you didn't. Why did you all do this?" A voice said behind them. Both mages turned around to see Rouki on the other side of the street with his arms crossed. "I thought I made it clear, Mirajane first and then the strongest members of the guild, and then the rest of you."

"Too bad! You threaten our guild and you have to deal with all of us, there is no schedule for the ass kicking you've got coming."

"Oh how terrified I am." Rouki said sarcastically. "I don't have time for you. Wait until Mirajane is dead then I'll come looking for you."

As Rouki started to walk down the street the two ages became furious. Not just because he threatened Mirajane again, but because he did it so casually and because he was dismissing them as nothing to pay attention to.

"Your not going anywhere you bastard!" The male mage yelled as he reached into two bags he had at each side of his waist. "Take this!" The man threw the ball in his left hand first then his right at Rouki as he walked away.

Rouki didn't even look back or turn his head as the orbs came at him. Instead he moved to the right slightly as the first orb flew by him then he moved back to the left as the other orb came after.

"Alright Gala do it now!" The man said to his partner.

The woman named Gala next to him threw her hands up towards Rouki. "Gotcha Volce, you won't get away from us! Space Bar!"

In front of Rouki two three dimensional transparent rectangular blocks appeared in the air and quickly moved to intercept the orbs in the air. When the orbs hit the blocks a dull tone was heard and the orbs bounced right off of them back towards Rouki. Rouki's face showed no signs of worry or concern as he quickly moved out of the way again but he had to move once more as another two pairs of orbs came at him.

Each orb that missed was bounced back off more of the floating blocks being made in the air and sent back around Rouki soon he had a total of eight orbs bouncing around him like a game of pinball.

"You're not going to get anywhere like this you know!" Volce said as he pulled out a bright red ball from his pack.

"True this is rather distracting, and I have places to be so if you don't mind I'll just put a stop to this." Rouki said back as he quickly shot out his left arm to grab and orb mid air. But when the orb was caught in Rouki's hand it suddenly exploded out into a lumpy mass of goop that covered his entire hand and forearm. "Interesting." Rouki said looking at his arm. "So that's your game."

As Rouki was looking at his arm his right leg was hit by an orb and was covered in the same substance, he also noticed that he couldn't move his foot from the ground.

"GOT HIM! That goop is a super strong magic glue that hardens in seconds when exposed to air. It's like instant cement that'll keep you right where we want you!"

Rouki continued his uninterested look as the orbs hit his right arm covering up to his shoulder with the glue, another at his left knee, then his chest and lastly his other foot.

"No one escapes this combo, Space Trap!" Gala shouted as the floating blocks came together and formed a rectangular structure around Rouki who was looking at his newly formed 'prison' with an eyebrow raised.

"A hard-light construct? Or just a very focused area of molecular mass in certain targeted parts of the air? Either way, I'm genuinely slightly impressed. I know how hard it is to make these sorts of things." Rouki said as he looked to the woman who was controlling the prison. Gala had a sudden slight redness on her face.

"D-don't try to butter me up with compliments! Hit him now!" She yelled as she opened up a small square hole in the prison she had Rouki locked in.

"No problem!" Volce said as he leaned back and lifted his leg like a pitcher and threw the orb in his hand as hard as he could. The ball went strait into the hole and not a second later it sealed up after it went through.

"SPACIAL FURNACE!" The two mages shouted as Rouki looked down as the ball hit his chest and suddenly burst into a gigantic flame.

"WE DID IT WE GOT HIM!" Volce yelled, "No one can beat use when we use our patented sticky ball-fire ball-super trap!"

"Why do you have to call it that? Why can't we just keep going with Spacial Furnace? It gets the point across doesn't it?"

"Well I wanted it to have a super special long name and I'm still working on it. Everyone knows that the best attacks have super long names!"

"Uh, no they don't..." Gala said sweat dropping a little.

"Whatever the point is we got him! He's probably roasting in there! Ha ha, Natsu would be so proud of us!"

"Speaking of which isn't this a bot over board? What if he's dead?"

"Well... you remember what Erza said?"

~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~

"You two know what to do now right?" Erza asked.

"Are you sure you want us to use that combo on Rouki? It might kill him and we only use it in emergencies." Gala said after she received orders along with Volce.

"This is an emergency! Rouki is coming here to kill us, this includes you two! What we need you to do is help us to figure out what all he's capable of. You two need to do is hit him with the best you can, if he gets up from that we will move on to phase two. Warren will be ready to receive mental messaging at any time."

Erza motioned towards Warren sitting in front of a map of the city on the table.

"Rouki said that he would only go after the other members of the guild after he's gotten to Mirajane so you should be safe if he keeps his word and he hasn't shown that he will."

"So basically if we get him bad good for us, if we don't we'll still get to see what he's made of and we'll tell you guys so you can expect it."

"Exactly. But in the mean time.."

"Yeah?" Both Volce and Gala asked.

"YOU NEED TO ATTACK WITH ALL OF YOUR MIGHT! CRUSH HIM BEYOND RECOGNITION AND MAKE HIM REGRET EVER CHALLENGING FAIRY TAIL! DO YOU HEAR ME?!"

"Yes ma'am!" Both mages said frightened.

"Well I think we got him." Volce said proudly.

"Yeah the guys gotta be charcoal by now."

The inside of the see through box was a blazing inferno with the fire churning and swirling around in the confined space.

"A good effort..." A voice spoke from behind the two.

"What?!" Both mages yelled astonished turning around. Standing several feet behind them was Rouki with his hands crossed.

"But you still failed."

"But how?" Gala asked before she looked back to her trap and canceled the effect. The fire rose up into the air as it was released from it's confined area to reveal the smoldering,boiling remains of her partner's adhesive.

"No way! Even if you teleported you should have stuck with you! The glue was made for situations like that! It should only come off if I poured the anti-stick liquid to deteriorate it off!" Volce said trying to figure out how he was completely free.

"That probably would have been the case if I had teleported but I've been in a situation not unlike this before. Instead of teleporting I relocated myself through dimensional relocation. I would tell you the specifics but I see no point in telling you." Rouki said while walking forwards.

"Then we'll have to do it again! Space Trap!" Gala called out as she formed her see through box prison around Rouki, who brought his right hand over to grip the handle of his sword.

"A good attempt but it won't work, because you may be able to solidify pieces of space..."

Clang. Rouki took a step forward as his right arm blurred forward and back to holding his sword in it's sheath. In front of him several criss-crossing beams of light appeared.

"But I am able to cut it."

The front area of Gala's trap fell to pieces like freshly cut paper and faded away with the beams of light as Rouki continued taking steps forwards. Gala and Volce both took a step back and the instant their feet touched the ground behind them Rouki vanished from his spot in front of them and reappeared in between them. Neither mage moved.

"I said I would start with Mirajane..." Rouki asked them looking ahead.

"Wha-?" Volce barely spoke through his shock.

"Then continue with the stronger members of the guild. I am going to keep my word. You won't die...yet. But if you continue coming at me and slowing me down, I may have to hurt you. Now if you'll excuse me I have business to attend to."

Rouki then started walking forward and neither Volce or Gala moved. Until..

"We're going to beat you!" Volce shouted. Rouki did not stop walking. "It doesn't matter what you say or how scary you make yourself look! We're Fairy Tail damn it and we're going to throw everything we've got at you for everything you've done to us! Do you hear me?! We're not going to stop until we beat you!"

Rouki was still walking when Volce stopped yelling and didn't look back but both Volce and Gala heard his next words.

"That's what I'm hoping for."

~~~~~~Back at the guild~~~~~

"Erza! I've got a message from Gala and Volce!" Warren yelled to the acting guild leader.

"What's the outcome?" She asked him.

"Hang on a second." Warren said before gaining a more focused look on his face. He continued his concentration for a minute or two before speaking again. "It was no good. Gala and Volce's fire trap didn't work, they couldn't lay a scratch on him."

"Are they alright?" Erza asked.

"Yes they're fine. Rouki apparently wants to stick to what he said earlier about waiting to kill the other members of the guild until after he kills the strongest. He didn't touch them, and it appears that he's en route to the guild now."

"Alright, on to the next phase."

"Understood. I'm contacting her now." Warren went back to concentrating on his mental abilities as Erza walked away to the back of the guild and down the steps into the basement. From there she stopped at a door and held her hand up. A magic seal appeared before vanishing and allowing Erza to open the door. Inside was Lucy, and Mirajane with Happy in her arms.

"Erza! How did it go?" Lucy asked.

"Not well. Although we know now that Rouki won't try to kill any of the other members he sees not in the category of stronger members of the guild." Erza replied.

After the main acts of planning had been done by the guild it was a unanimous vote to keep Mirajane safe by keeping her in the guild basement's back storage room. On the door a magic seal was placed with the strongest protective spells of the guild members combined that only came undone when someone with an unscathed fairy tail guild mark wishes it to. With Rouki having cut his guild mark he wouldn't be able to get in the room if he got past all the other parts of the plan the guild had made.

They hoped.

"So he's still coming here?" Lucy asked with great worry in her eyes.

"Yes but rest assured he's not getting here so easily. We've got everyone in on the plan and we're going to do our best to stop him before he gets to our doorstep."

"Erza." Mirajane started to say looking up to her red haired friend.

"Yes? What is it Mirajane?"

"What if I went out to speak to him? Maybe I can-"

"That can't be done." Erza said cutting her off.

"But Erza if I just talked to him..." Mirajane said leaving her sentence in the air.

"Mirajane you saw the look in his eyes didn't you? When he first came back and looked directly at you, you saw his eyes right?"

"Yes I did."

"Then you know he meant every word he said. I could see it too. There doesn't seem to be any room for talking with him. He's dead set on taking your life Mirajane, if we let you go anywhere near him he will kill you."

"I know but, there must be something we can do to make him stop this. He may be our enemy now but he was a member of our guild at one point, for five months! For almost half a year he shared his time and life with us as our friend. There just has to be some way to reason with him." Mirajane said sadly.

"If there was one I would gladly take it, but it doesn't look like it's going to go that way for us Mirajane. I'm sorry." Erza sullenly said looking down before back up to Mirajane. "How is Happy doing?"

"He's doing well. Especially after he canceled his Aera. He wont be able to use his wings but he'll be fine." Mirajane said while looking at the resting cat in her arms.

"That's good to know. Natsu will be relieved to see him flying around again when this is all over. I'm going back up, is there anything you two need?"

"No I'm fine." Mirajane replied.

"I'm good too but Erza," Lucy started.

"Hm? What is it Lucy?"

"Rouki can do that teleport thing right?" Lucy asked.

"Yes he can. Why do you ask?"

"Well if he can teleport, why hasn't he just popped in the building and started a fight? Isn't that something we should be preparing for?"

"It was something I had thought of. That's why I have Gray and Natsu just outside the grounds in case he does show up here. But I don't think he will."

"Why not?"

"Rouki said he was going to fight us to prove to himself how strong he was. He wants to find out if he's at the level he wants to be at. Killing Mirajane a former S-Class mage is a step towards that. The other S-Classes is an even bigger one. Killing the entire guild will affirm him of his level of strength. That means one thing: Rouki is purposefully giving us a chance to go at him. All so he can show his current strength to force us to show ours."

"That makes some sense. Rouki wants to make sure he's strong and he can't do that when he's fighting someone who's not going all out against him." Lucy said getting Erza's explanation.

"Exactly. He knows that we will come at him but he wants us to get riled up and bring everything we have against him so that if he wins against us he'll know it wasn't a fluke or a mistake, it'll be because he was strong enough to beat us at our best. I know we're playing right into his hands by doing so but if we don't come at him with all of our strength we won't stand a chance. Especially with the master out of commission for the time being..." Erza finished with a downcast look. "I need to get back up stairs. If either of you need anything just contact Warren, he's got his telepathy open for the guild."

Erza turned around and left after that leaving Lucy and Mirajane to continue pondering about the current events.

"Lucy?" Mirajane said. Lucy turned to her friend to speak.

"What is it Mira?"

"Thank you very much for staying here with me. I really appreciate it." Mirajane said with a smile.

"Oh think nothing of it! I'm just being there for a friend!" Lucy said with a smile. 'That and the fact that I probably wouldn't do much to help outside with the plan.' "Don't you worry Mirajane, this'll all be over before we know it. Rouki may be strong but he's got the entire guild to deal with, and with us being known as one of the best guilds in Fiore he won't last long!"

"Yes, I suppose but.." Mirajane began.

"What's wrong Mirajane?"

"I just wish it didn't have to be like this." Mirajane said with a deeply saddened face.

"Umm, Mirajane If I could ask, why are you defending Rouki?"

"Hm?" Mirajane replied with a surprised look on her face.

"I mean if I heard that a guy had come back after so many years to try to kill me and my friends just to make himself feel more macho about himself I'd be scared witless!" 'Not that I'm not feeling that now...' She added mentally. "Aren't you even the littlest bit angry at him?"

"Oh well," Mirajane began, "It's not that I'm not scared, worried, or angry. It's just that...this Rouki is so different from the one the guild came to know when we first met him."

"What do you mean? Wasn't he always all 'I must get super strong!' Or something like that?" Lucy said doing a mock flexing pose in her sentence.

"I don't really think it's that simple Lucy." Mirajane said with a smile at her friend.

"What do you mean?"

"Well.."

~~~~~~~~With Rouki (Mirajane Narrative)~~~~~~

Clang. Clang. Clang. Clang.

Rouki's greaves repeatedly made the sound of metal touching rock with every step he took. His coat slightly flapped in the breeze and swayed with his steps.

"The Rouki I remember was always quiet and diligent in his actions. He rarely spoke to anyone and hardly interacted with anybody unless they started to talk to him first. And he would always speak like an adult with someone and seemed to understand a lot of things other people where saying right off the bat. Rouki seemed to have the impression of maturity around him for someone of his age."

Above Rouki a white streak flew threw the air and swirled around before another joined it and started to fly in a circle.

"That sort of attitude, along with what he once said to me about knowing kindness and wanting to make the world full of it for someone. I never knew who he spoke about but they must have been very important to him. But what I do know is that one fact about him."

Rouki stopped walking and slowly looked up to the sky. Up above him were at least fifty white streaks flying through the sky in circles above him.

"He wasn't trying to make himself stronger just for his own ego or because he wanted to fight people.."

"Chico." Rouki said simply, squinting his eyes.

"But it was because he wanted to get stronger for the sake of someone else."

~~~~~~~~~~Back with Lucy and Mirajane~~~~~~~~

"That's the Rouki of Fairy Tail I remember." Mirajane finished gently with a far off look in her eyes.

"Oh." Lucy said, understanding Mirajane's opinion but something came up in her mind. "Ummmm, Mirajane?"

"Yes?"

"Did you, uh, have a crush on Rouki?" Lucy asked slightly blushing.

"Me? Oh well...umm..."

"YOU DID?!" Lucy yelled almost completely floored.

"Oh no no! I didn't have a crush on him...exactly. More like I was just curious about him. Interested that's all. It wasn't me who had eyes for him back then." Mirajane said with a slightly embarrassed smile.

"Oh OK. For a second there I thought that-wait a second!"

"Huh?"

"What do you mean 'it wasn't you who had eyes for him?'" Lucy questioned.

"Uh oh..." Mirajane left off.

"SOMEONE HAD A CRUSH ON ROUKI?! WHO?!"

"Sorry Lucy, I can't say. I'm sworn to secrecy by the promise only young girls can make." Mirajane said smiling.

"Oh come on Mirajane, really who was it? I won't tell any one!" Lucy begged.

"Sorry."

~~~~~~~~With Rouki~~~~~~

"Legend of City, a magic to use ghosts. I remember you Chico." Rouki said looking up to the ghosts flying above him in a circle. "I've been wondering when somebody I knew was going to pop up."

~~~~~~~~~In magnolia's bell tower~~~~~~

'Warren...this...is...Chico...I've...found...'

'Chico, could you please try to get past your speech habit we're kind of doing something important.' Warren replied mentally.

'SorryI'mjusttellingyouthatI'vefoundRoukiandI'maboutreadyto-'

'Gah! Chico slow down to normal speech I can barely understand what your saying!'

'I've got Rouki in my sights, now do I have the all clear?'

'...Erza says go for it. Weaken him as much as you can!'

'Got it.' Chico thought back as she raised up a pair of binoculars.

~~~~~~~~~~With Rouki~~~~~~~~~~~

The ghosts above Rouki started to spin wilder and started to make eerie noises as Rouki looked on.

"Oh boy." Rouki said off handedly. "Time to move."

That was when the ghosts started to fly down at high speeds. Just as they almost hit Rouki he disappeared from where he was standing and many of the ghosts flew into the ground before coming back up again. The ghosts looked around to find their target and soon found it.

"Follow me little spirits." Rouki said from atop a building. He then turned and started running across the roof until he reached the edge and jumped into the air and disappeared again to reappear in the middle of the next roof where he started running to the edge again.

'Heh, I got him...running.' Chico thought. The ghosts quickly resumed their flight after Rouki soaring through the air. 'One...touch...then...you'llbe weakenedtothepointwhereyou'llbe...easy...pickings.'

Rouki kept running across the rooftops changing his direction every once in a while. While running he felt a familiar rattling in his left hand.

"Yes, yes I know we can't do anything here. I'm just trying to remember where the place is."

Rattle.

"Thought that was where it was." Rouki suddenly turned hard right and jumped to the next roof then teleported to it's edge and was bout to jump off.

'Gotcha.'

"Woooooo!" Rouki heard down near his feet. He looked down to see a white form emerge from the roof and fly swiftly to his legs where it phased through them.

"Tch." Rouki sounded. After the ghost phased through his legs he looked back up in front of him and saw what he was looking for. He let his upper body go limp to have his body fall off the roof.

"What's he-?" Chico started to say confused before she saw Rouki right himself before he hit the ground and land on his feet and bend at the knees while leaning forwards. The to Chico's shock Rouki jumped forwards at least seven feet before running again.

'How did he...do...that? If...one of my ghosts touches someone they getreallyweakfromtheghostdrainingtheirstrengthwhentheypass through...their...bodies. If...he's...fine...thenthatmeans he's got a lot of stamina, strength, and endurance.' Chico then noticed Rouki had suddenly stopped running.

Rouki slammed his sword into the ground and turned around to face the oncoming ghosts. He held out his hand and a bright light started to glow in it.

"Requip."

The light dimmed down to show a square flask with a strange looking medallion tied to it. Said medallion had three bones engraved in it crossing over each other and a black orb in the middle with a brown colored liquid looking pattern on it. Rouki held his arm out strait and the ghosts kept coming.

"I believe I'm close enough now. I regrettably cannot fight the dead as I can the living but thankfully there are other magics besides my own I have dabbled in."

"Woooooooo-WHAAAAA!" The ghosts seemed to yell in triumph then in horror as they were tossed back by an invisible barrier around Rouki. After the ghosts stopped coming at him and were flying around him trying to figure out what to do Rouki put out his hand towards the sky.

"Spirits unsettled now go to rest," Rouki slowly brought his hand down and from his fingers came slight sparks. "be at peace forever in your calm beds.

Rouki's fingers were leaving a trail of sparks in mid air and when he stopped his arm's motion he raised it again to the left.

"Go back to the earth that holds your mortal shells," the same thing was happening when he moved his arm down diagonally this time to the right "know your peace be it the heavens or hells.

Again Rouki raised his hand but to the right this time.

"Begone I say, BEGONE, as I send you from my sight," Rouki finished moving his hand and the sparks in the air shown the same pattern as the crossing bones on the medallion. It started to glow with a dark blue light that seemed to change the color of the ghosts to dark blue as well. "leave us now, or become a mortal blight."

Rouki pulled back his arm and made a fist aimed at the center of the crossing bones.

"BE AT REST!"

Rouki punched forwards into the center of the light structure and a black spot appeared where he had hit it and it expanded greatly before suddenly shrinking back down with a resounding 'Boom.'

"WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Every ghost was suddenly looking like they were flung from where they were in the sky to the area behind Rouki. When they were they shot strait into the ground. When all was quiet Rouki turned around to see the ghosts had gone back where they belonged: in their graves, in their cemetery.

'Whatwasthat?! What did he do?' Chico thought astonished. Rouki had somehow canceled out her magic with a spell that had sent all her ghosts back into their graves. 'Now I have to go around gathering them up again! Wait...what's...he...doing?'

Rouki stood with the flask now open in his right hand as he plucked out the marble-like orb with his left from the center of the medallion. Rouki held out both arms and slowly turned his right to make the flask start forming a drip on the edge of the open lid.

"I think a week would do." He said before letting seven drips fall onto the marble. Afterwords he held out his left hand and readied the marble to be flicked with his thumb. "Nice try Chico."

Flick!

The marble flew threw the air into the cemetery and turned to dust when it hit the ground.

"AHHHHHHH!" The sound of multiple screams came from the cemetery as large smoking black spikes shot from the ground of certain graves without disturbing the earth. Shortly after the spikes disappeared and so did the pained wailing cries. Except one.

"AHHHHHHHHHHH! AHHHHHHH!" Chico screamed as she clutched her chest. She felt like a searing blade had just been stabbed into her.

"Ah!" Warren yelled as he stood up abruptly holding his head in pain.

"Warren what's wrong?!" Erza said rushing to his side.

"I don't know! It's Chico, somethings happened to her! I don't get it though Rouki didn't do anything around her from what I saw through her thoughts."

"Quick, tell Jet to go get her and bring her here!"

"On it!"

"AHHHHHHHH! HOW?! HOW COULD HE KNOW THAT KIND OF MAGIC?! IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE KNOWN ANYMORE! IT'S FORBIDDEN! IT'S FORBIDDEN! UGHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

~~~~~~Far away~~~~~

"You taught him those spells didn't you?" The cloaked man asked the other across from him.

"Yep. Kinda does me proud to know he still remembers a few things I showed him." The man sitting said.

"Yes but that poor girl. A brutal severing to those spirits like that will leave her unconscious for nearly a month. Once the pain stops." Said the woman next to the sitting man. "Dearest...you think we should tell her?"

"Hmm." The man in the chair leaned forward deep in thought. In the dim candle light it was revealed that the man had long brown wavy hair that covered the sides of his face and a bit of the front. "That might be best. This could get more out of hand than it should be. Rouki is going to be completely remorseless. It's up to you my sweet." The man said before he took the woman's hand and kissed it before she walked to the door to the room and opened it. The light from the doorway shone into the room and revealed that the man with the cloak had black, short, spiked hair that seemed dirty and bristled and his eyes shined brown like tigers eye gemstones with a black slit for a pupil.

The door closed and all was dark again.

"Ahhhhh!"

Rouki could faintly hear Chico's screams made from the backlash of her link with the ghosts being so savagely severed. He requiped his flask back to where he stored it and looked over his shoulder to the bell tower Chico was in and lowered his eyebrows in what could have been a look of annoyance.

"Hopefully this will light some fires under they're asses." He said before walking away from the cemetery, pulling his sword from the ground as he walked. "They had better get the message that they're fighting for their lives here. If they don't...I think I might get a little irritated."

Clang, clang, clang, clang.

How was that? Hopefully I kept our favorite characters in character.