Chapter 8:
Ashkar's POV
I really wasn't thinking when I challenged them all to a fight. But I had to prove to them that they weren't better than me and that I belonged in Fairy Tail. Gramps had already told me that I belonged here but I had to prove it to myself. I entered my apartment and took in its bareness. At first I didn't know where to begin to start my search but when I had told the master my problem he gave me a lacrima that would make it easier to find her. I spoke into the lacrima saying, " Show me Misaka Nakamura." The lacrima immediately zoomed in on a beat up woman hanging from the ceiling. The only thing holding her up were two chains attached to her arm. I covered my mouth with one hand. My eyes widened and I felt tears gathering up.
" Mom, what has done that monster done to you? Why did this have to happen to you? It should have to have been me."
" I'm glad you're feeling that way Ashkar. That means that you should have no trouble coming and exchanging yourself for your mother." I hissed at the lacrima.
"Father. Tell me where you are and I will come and make the exchange. That's all you want right? To have me dead." He laughed humorlessly.
" I'll tell you where we are located but there is something else you have to do before I tell you where we are. You have to bring me back a lost treasure. It's cursed so that anyone who claims it as their own will die almost immediately. I'm sure you're familiar with it aren't you? After all you were about to go on that job before you quit that guild." That jerk said all of this with a smile on his stupid and ugly face.
" You were the one who posted that job and you were the one who met with my friends. You were the person who Riley and the others talked to."
" That all was me yes."
" I can't do the job. There is no flyer and without the flyer I can't get the treasure."
" That's not a problem. I made another flyer and put it on the guild board already." I turned the lacrima off immediately. I ran out of the apartment and headed towards the guild. I couldn't let anyone get that job flyer before me!
I ran as fast as I could. When I opened the guild doors, everyone stared at me but I ignored them. I was getting used to it. I headed to the request board and pushed everyone out of the way. I saw the flyer and grabbed it without second thought. I headed to where Mira was so I could get the job approved.
" I would like to go on this job Mira."
" Alright, but you need to be an S-class mage to go on this job." I was getting annoyed. I had to get on with this job so I could save my mother and kill my father.
" Please Mira. I'm just as strong as any S-class mage. I really need to do this job!" Mira sighed.
" If I talk to the Master and he allows you to go when are you planning on leaving?"
" Right then!"
" You can't do that. You still have to fight everyone and even then you might be too hurt to even walk." Shoot! I had forgotten about fight with Fairy Tail. If I got the job approved then I would go on it after I fight everyone in Fairy Tail. Mira was seriously doubting my abilities if she thought I wouldn't be able to walk after I finished fighting. But then I remembered that Mira hadn't seen "Nakar's" power. I just asked her if I could ask the Master about this and she just nodded her head and pointed towards the Master's office.
As I entered Master's office I noticed pictures sitting there. Some of them looked old while others looked new. In one of the old ones I saw myself, Natsu, Gray, Erza and Laxus. I couldn't believe that I meant that much to Fairy Tail. But I also caused them too much pain-something which I couldn't afford to do ever again. Then I remembered what I had come here for. I went up to Gramps' desk and told him about the job.
" I would let you go alone but are you sure that you can handle this job by yourself?" I nodded my head vigorously.
" I can't let anyone else come on this job. My father would try to kill them. I'm not letting him touch another one of my nakama ever again." Master nodded his head thoughtfully at this.
" Let's make a deal. If you can beat everyone in your fight tomorrow then I will promote you to S-class so you can complete the job and save your mother."
" Thank you Master!" Gramps then said that I could keep the flyer with me so nobody else could take the job. I left his office feeling very satisfied with myself. As I walked down the stairs, Mira looked up from the cup she was cleaning and asked,
"How did it go Nakar?"
" Master said that if I beat all of you tomorrow he will promote me to S-class and I could go on the job."
" Are you going to take anyone with you?"
"Absolutely not!" And with that I made my way out of the guild.