Chapter 4: Pit?!
Pit's POV:
It's been three days since Dark Pit was thrown into the portal, and Lady Palutena still can't find him. We know that he's with Ayumi, though: that's reassuring.
"Lady Palutena?" I asked the Goddess of Light through my laurels.
"Yes?" She responded.
"I'd like to go after Dark Pit."
Silence. Lady Palutena seemed to be thinking it over.
"Are you sure?" She asked after a while.
"Yes." I told her. "Portals will open in the same place, right? So I'll come falling out of the sky right where Pittoo did!"
Lady Palutena sighed. "Okay. But you need to remember this: Earthland is different than here. How will have the ability to call your wings at will, as well as cast the Power of Flight."
"Really?!" I exclaimed happily.
"Yes. You will also be able to call upon your weapons at will. But you will not be able to use your laurels."
"What?" I responded sadly. I'd never been outside of Lady Palutena's range of hearing before. To be honest, the idea sort of scared me.
"Take this." A soft light appeared next to me, bringing with it a quill and parchment.
"Use this to communicate with me in real time." Lady Palutena told me. "You ready?"
"Yeah!" I told her.
She opened up a portal and in I went.
Lilith's POV:
'HOLY CRAP WHAT AM I DOING!?' I mentally panicked, yet staying in Gray's arms. 'We are on a mission…. No distractions... ' The Angel on my right shoulder told me. 'No he's the one you love! Just do what your heart tells you!' The Demon on my left shoulder exclaimed. I sighed and I looked up to Gray and said, "Why don't we go make sure that theory is correct…. After all… Natsu hates the cold..". Gray looked down at me and smirked, "I need to pound him anyway for last fight anyway…" as he said that he walked off to find Natsu.
I sighed and sat back down. 'What am I doing?' I wondered and then my thoughts were placed back on the New people. 'I swear if there is another one of them or they destroyed the guild I'm going to go insane!' I mentally screamed. 'Maybe…. I already am…' I thought and then I got up, and I heard yelling and the noise of destruction and I smirked.
Lucy tried to get them apart, yelling at them, telling them to stop, but I just sat and watched. My thoughts and memories took over. "We need to get them out of here!" my mother yelled. "Not until they are prepared! They aren't ready to take on the world yet! Especially Lilith!" My father yelled back. My mother in tears, I held my brother in my arms. "Have faith in our daughter! She's beaten you before…" She then looked at me. "She is going to be cursed if you don't let her leave!" She was on her knees, begging father to let me go. That's when I ran out of the cave with my brother, leaving them behind. That was 7 years ago. "SNAP OUT OF IT LILLY!" Natsu yelled, shaking my shoulders. I just looked down, not realizing I was crying.
Ayumi's POV:
I was outside the guild hall. I had left because everyone in there was drunk. "I can't believe you can drink at 15 here!" I told Dusk, who Hooted in response.
As I sat in front of the river, my mind drifted to Pit and Palutena-dono.
I wondered if it was fate or a coincidence that caused Kasai to find me.
I looked up at the "star" that Kasai fell out of.
It started to get bigger.
"Oh, great…" I said, shaking my head and watching it. It seemed to be screaming.
My mouth fell open as I realized who it was.
Pit landed in the water with a splash, soaking me.
After a couple of seconds, Pit emerged, coughing and spluttering.
"I'm gonna feel that tomorrow." He said shakily.
I laughed.
"Pit!" I exclaimed, running over and helping him out.
"Ayumi!" He said happily, hugging me.
"Ayumi, are you back-" the voice of Kasai came from behind us.
"Pittoo!" Pit exclaimed, running over to his twin.
"How are you here?" Kasai asked him, confused.
"Lady Palutena sent me here to find you!"
"Shh!" I told him, and he fell silent.
"His name is Kasai here, Pit." I explained.
"Kasai? Didn't see that coming!" He said happily.
"Yeah." Kasai commented.
"We should go somewhere else." I said suddenly.
"Why?"
"Because everyone in that building is drunk, and I don't want to go back for a while."
Pit wrinkled his nose. "Yeah."
A giant ice dragon growled, perched on top of the building. It was clearly disappointed.
Lilith's POV:
'Well I'm dead… I can't hide it from them anymore…' I thought to myself.
"We need to get out of here… now." I told them.
"Why? What's wrong Lilith?" Lucy asked, confused. "This is where I trained as a kid… whoever doesn't use ice magic will be eternally cursed with insanity…" I tried to explain. "And I can't take this place anymore… too many horrible memories…" my voice started to crack. "Ok…" Gray said, trying to reassure me that everything will be ok. "We didn't find anything here anyway…" Lucy said. "Let's get out of this freakishly cold cave anyway!" Natsu exclaimed, already at the exit of the cave. "Aye!" Happy agreed with Natsu. "Then let's go!" We all went out if the cave. 'Farewell Lilith…' I could practically hear the cave call out to me. 'Goodbye mom…' I mentally said and then ran out with the others. "Where to now?" Lucy asked. "There is a village nearby… we could stop there." I said. Natsu was already running with Happy down a trail which lead to the village. I smiled as Lucy ran after them. Gray and I just walked the rest of the way, not minding the freezing winds and snow. After all… we are Ice Wizards.
~Timeskip to the Village~
"YOU DIDN'T TELL US THE RUIN WAS IN RUINS!" Natsu yelled at me. "How was I supposed to know it's been 7 years since I've last been here!" I yelled back. Lucy was groaning, "We're going to freeze to death…".
"Not on my watch! Happy get some sticks!" Natsu said, trying to reassure everybody. I start wandering through the ruins of houses and I see a piece of paper sticking out of the snow. "What's this…?" I picked it up and wiped the snow off and then was shocked. "This is Ayumi's Family… this must be the village she was talking about…" I said to myself. I put it in my bag and zipped it closed. I wandered through the house even more and something sparkled and caught my eye. I go investigate and I picked it up, "It's a necklace with different colored feathers…. It's probably Ayumi's or something…" I said and I put that in my satchel as well. I remembered a spell that makes shelters, out of ice and I smirked and walked over to an open area and got into the spell's stance. "Ice Make: Shelter!" I said and a giant ice circle formed around me and a giant igloo appeared. "Wow!" Lucy exclaimed, walking inside the igloo.
Natsu, Gray and Happy sighed as they were trying to make one themselves and brought the firewood inside. "Lilly's igloo is better than yours…" Happy said. Natsu growled but then smiled, "Thanks Lilly you're a lifesaver!" Natsu admitting that I'm actually better than him. Shocked, I examined him, "Are you feeling alright Natsu?"
"I'm perfectly fine… why?" He asked confused. Gray was laughing his butt off. I smirked, "You just admitted that I won and you lost." I said.
"Yea… so?" Natsu questioned. "Nevermind…" I smirked and I help set up the campfire. "I'll be looking around some more.. I'll be back later…" I said, at the entrance of the igloo. "Ok be safe!" Happy said, happily.
"Did you want anyone to come with?" Gray asked.
"Only of they want to…"I smiled and walked out.
Gray got up.
"You love her~" Happy teased. Gray blushed ever the slightest. "No…" he growled.
Natsu looked at him, "Are you sure… cause it seems like it…" he responded. Lucy laughed. "Well… it's not like you don't love Lucy!" Gray fired back at Natsu. Lucy stopped laughing. Natsu looked over to Gray, "You want to fight, eh?" He growled. Gray sighed, "Look..m I may have developed feelings for Lilith… but then you never denied you loved Lucy… so.." Gray explained.
Happy smiled and said, "He got you there Natsu."
Natsu was dumbfounded, and Gray left to find me.
~Outside of the Igloo~
I looked around and I saw what was left of a graveyard and I started brushing the snow off of the names on the tombstones. "The people who did survive probably didn't have time to bury the ones who didn't make it after Zeref's attack…"
But then I remembered what Ayumi said.
I was the only survivor.
I got up and looked down. "It's just sad…" I sighed. "What was?" Gray asked. "Ayumi…. She was the only survivor of Zeref's attack…" I responded. Gray looked down and said, "Sounds familiar…"
I looked down. "She has to live with that… her family.. her friends… all…
Gone…" I said. "Something still doesn't feel right… doesn't that sound strange… how she was the only survivor?" I asked. "Come to think about it…. Yea it does…" Gray had come to realize the same thing.
I turned around and said, "We should get back…"
"Yea…" Gray said.
I started walking but then Gray grabbed my arm, but it was a soft touch. "Wait… I wanted to tell you that I-" I cut him off with my finger to his mouth, telling him to 'Shh…' and smirked. "Tell me later.." I whispered and then pointed to inside the Igloo, Natsu and Lucy were kissing and Happy was banging his head against a wall. I held Gray's hand and with the free hand I knocked on the side of the entrance, "Well… took long enough…" I said, smirking. Lucy and Natsu jumped and immediately started blushing. "Awww" I smiled. Happy growled at Lucy, "What did you do to Natsu!?"
Natsu was completely lost. I smiled, and I mentally told Gray that I feel the same way. Gray was shocked but didn't really show it and blushed only a little. 'I'd do anything to make him happy… especially after what he has gone through…' I thought to myself.
"We will be going back to the guild tomorrow…" I said.
Ayumi's POV:
The next day, the three of us went back to the guild.
"Maybe we can get you into Fairy Tail!" I told Pit as we came through the doors of the guild hall. No one seemed to be drunk anymore, except for Cana. We sat down at the bar and got sodas.
"Hey Mira, is the Master here?" I asked Mirajane.
"No, He's taking the day off." She answered brightly.
Behind us, Team Natsu came in through the doors.
To my surprise, Lilith came up to me.
"Hey… um… on our last job…. We came across your 'ruined' village… and I found these…" Lilith put a necklace and a photo next to me and then left.
I gasped. The necklace that my Mother had given me a week before she died was right in front of me, along with a family photo.
"Lilith?" I called out to the rain/ice Mage and she turned around.
"Yea?" She responded.
"Thank you. My mom gave me this a week before she passed. It was the last thing I ever received from her. Oh, that reminds me, can we speak in private?"
She nodded, then noticed Pit.
"Another one…"
She followed me outside that back doors and eat the river.
"I can tell you're suspicious. Ask me anything, and I'll answer with complete honesty."
"As I said before… I already know enough about you...at least to trust you…"
"What about Kasai and his brother, Pit?" I asked.
"What of them? You clearly have some connections with them… so you'll be able to make sure they don't hurt anybody or the guild… I have no problem...but if they or you do something… there will be no mercy." She said and then walked off.
"Well that was cheerful." I told Dusk, who hooted.
"But really...I thought I'd never see this necklace again." I told myself, putting it on. I then picked up the photo and examined it.
"Good thing we were in Earthland when this was taken, or it would raise a lot of questions."
Lilith's POV:
'What did he read?' I wondered. 'Oh well…' I shook off all the panic, trying to relax. Then I thought of something, 'Deliora… Zeref's demons… could it be connected somehow?'
I kept on thinking about how the two may be connected, then I realized, 'Could those twins be angels? Or at least fallen angels…'. I sighed and I put on some soothing music on my record player.
Drake flew in. "Hi Drake…" I said, kind of in a depressed manner. Drake perched on my shoulder, ruffling his wings.
"What if I am crazy?" I randomly asked Drake. He cocked his head to the side, probably disagreeing.
I started reading another magic book, then Natsu walked in. "Why are you always reading you nerd?!" He obnoxiously asked me.
"Do you want me to hurt you?" I threatened. Natsu smirked, "Well Ice Princess is reading too… and I'm bored."
I smirked and closed the book, "Outside or inside?" I asked.
Natsu was shocked, "Wow you're actually going to fight me?"
"Why else would I be asking?" I asked.
"Outside…" He said, then running back downstairs.
"Well… this will be fun…" I said then jumping out the window.
~In the Guild Hall~
"Oh wow they're actually going to fight each other?" Lucy asked Mira. She nodded and said, "They're fighting outside."
"Why?" Came a voice from behind them. Ayumi had come to watch, Pit and Kasai at her side.
"Well… they usually fight all the time… except… Natsu never challenged Lilith before.." Mira explained.
"I predict a quick win by Lilith." Ayumi said, smirking.
"Who knows who will win…" Gray said. "I've never seen her fight before… at least against someone in her own guild." He added, then getting up to go outside. "This will be something I'd like to see…" Erza said, smirking. Lucy sighed, "Well… everybody's going to go watch...I don't low who to vote for…" She said confused.
"You guys going to go watch?" Mira asked the trio of newbies.
"Are you kidding? This is so gonna be great!" Pit exclaimed to nods of the other two.
"I've not seen Natsu's magic before." Kasai commented.
"What does he use?"
Mira smirked, "He's a Dragon Slayer…. He uses fire magic… don't get on his bad side…" She explained.
"So, he can breathe fire and such?" Ayumi commented.
"Natsu can take on any trait a dragon has...so yes… he can."
Mira said.
"Cool!" Pit exclaimed, eager to see Natsu's magic firsthand.
~Outside the Guild Hall~
I noticed that almost everybody came outside to watch Natsu and I fight. "I'll go easy on ya, Ice Princess.." Natsu taunted. "You're the one who's going to need a head start, Flamey.." I fired back.
The audience 'Oohed' as in 'Oh you just got burned'. Natsu growled, "Now I'm all fired up!".
As he said that he came in headfirst to attack me, I easily dodged. "Olè!" I said, smirking. Half of the audience cheered, including Pit, Kasai and Ayumi. Erza chuckled.
"You're gonna regret that! Fire Dragon: Talon!" He yelled, attacking me.
"Ice Make: Shield!" I quickly put up and ice barrier between Natsu and I, causing him to faceplant into the shield.
More of the audience laughed more than cheered. Natsu growled, 'Why is she beating me up so easily?!' He wondered.
"Do you give up yet?" I asked in a sweet voice.
"Not in a million years!" He yelled back at me, getting up. "Fire Dragon's: Roar!" Natsu used his attack.
"Ice Make: Lance!" I quickly attacked him back.
The attacks collided and then dissolved when they hit.
"What!?" Natsu and I both questioned at the same time. I looked down and then back up at Natsu. "Water Lock." I said and then trapping Natsu in a water bubble, that he can't escape.
'She didn't even break a sweat!' Natsu mentally screamed and then passed out. I let him out of the Water Lock and then his body fell on the ground. "What did you do to him?!" Happy yelled at me.
"He's just sleeping…" I told him.
'I just framed myself… they're going to want to know…'
Ayumi's POV:
After Lilith's easy win, I invited Pit and Kasai to my house.
"Why did you leave?" Pit asked abruptly as I served Blondies.
"W-what?" I stammered, taken aback.
"You left without warning! Why?" Pit repeated.
"I'm being hunted back there, you know that. Remember the injuries I had the day before? I couldn't take it, I had to flee!" I told him sadly.
"Okay. By the way, these are good!" He changed the subject quickly.
I know I should have told you, but the less anyone knows, the better, I thought, taking a blondie.
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