Elloh everyone! I am back for this week. I will try to post next week but it might come a day to late because next Friday I am moving to Cape Town for five months.
I don't want to let you all wait too long all the time. Besides the inspiration came back sorta.
Chapter Twelve: Oh my Zeref
TARTARUS SPOILERS!~
I closed my eyes and planted both my hands on the ground in front of me. I made a scan but not to feel where my friends were but to get a grip on all those offspring dragon-monsters. It was tiring, I had all of them and then I opened my eyes. "What was that?" I didn't move yet but I could feel the dragon-monsters coming closer. I had a vision. A vision clearly of seeing myself die. I quickly pulled my hands off the ground. This was not the solution. I needed to do something else and not throw my life away that easily. I stood up and looked at the approaching monsters. "I am a Fairy Tail mage!" I yelled and attacked. I took steps back to go back to Hibiki and Jura and help them. "What happened?" I yelled, "I have no idea. It is like something went wrong with time." I froze, did someone turn back the time? That must be a tough price to pay. There was only one person that I knew whom had the lost magic: Arc of Time.
"No time to freak out!" We were surrounded. "Earth Dragon's Roar!" So I fought alongside Hibiki and Jura and although I could not overpower the Dragon I didn't feel sad about it. I was not Acnologia. "Dragon Slayer Secret Art! Rock Storm!" I said but the rocks seem to go right through the Dragon. He lighted up like a Christmas tree. He turned yellow. "Hibiki…. What is happening?" I looked at my left at the Archive Mage. "I have no idea." I saw him tapping on various things.
There was a kind of firework and the Dragon was gone. I fell on my knees and looked at Jura and Hibiki. "We've done it!" Hibiki said with a smile and he pulled me up in a hug. Right now I had the time to feel sad about the fact that I didn't overpower the Dragon. What kind of title was Dragon Slayer?
"Let's find the others." I said and I let go of Hibiki his hand and hurried through the rubble to find my friends and Ultear. The first four people that I found were Juvia, Lyon, Gray and Meredy. I ran the last few steps to one of my best friend and flew her around her neck. "Juvia! I am so glad to see you!" I hugged Gray and Meredy. "I have to find Erza!" and I stormed off. I didn't want to bother Meredy with my thoughts. I took a quick scan and stumbled to my sister and annoying-person-number-1: Jellal.
"Luka!" Erza looked worse than I did but still she gave me the vibe as if I should lay down and be taken care of. "Are you alright? And you?" I asked when I looked from one to another. "We are fine." Erza said with a smile and she exchanged a look with Jellal. I could only raise my eyebrow. "Where is Ultear?" Jellal looked at me with a questioned look. "I don't know. Why?", "Come on, there was time magic used. Where is she?" Jellal looked guilty to Erza. "I have to go. I have to look for her." I didn't want to say that it wouldn't be good news, since I couldn't catch her essence but I shut my mouth. "You should go anyway. The council is here too. I don't want my sister to go to jail because she was hanging out with you again." Yes after his behaviour during the Grand Magic Games, I only hated him more. "But don't bother about me. I will leave anyway so you can spend another five minutes in hurting my sister.", "Luka quit it!" Erza said with a pained tone in her voice. I looked at her and after that at Jellal but I didn't say anything anymore. I walked away, I had enough people that I wanted to see to make sure they were alright.
I meet Bisca and Alzack along the way. They were unharmed, only tired and out of ammo. I continued to run, for as fast as I still could, to the castle. It took quite some time with the rumble, my tiredness and every other aspect. When I finally arrived I saw the happy faces of the Exceed, Lucy, Natsu, Wendy, Mirajane, the Princess and most important: Laxus!
"You are alright?" He asked me and I nodded. "Tired, almost died but still alive." I smiled and kissed him after that. I didn't need to talk about my fight. I didn't need to know the art of Dragon Slaying. I didn't want to kill them and become like Acnologia, I wanted to push them away from hurting my friends. Cordelia purred inside me and I understood what she meant. Still I was a tad angry about the fact that she made me froze in fear when I was in a life or death situation. I would forgive her eventually.
There is something I have to tell you, Luka. I looked up from my conversation with Wendy and Laxus about their Dragon fight. Tell me what? I said with a snide remark to the Earth Dragon. Not here. Go back to the Library. I sighed and apologized to Laxus and Wendy. "I want to find Sting and Rogue and I need to talk to Bisca." When I start walking away, there was a voice in the night that asked for attention. "This is your King speaking." I looked up towards the Castle and found a tiny man at one of the balconies with a megaphone. "I want to thank all the mages that fought for their kingdom. I also want to invite you for a Grand Banquet here." I stamped away after that. I would love to join that, but if I had to go to the Library now, I wouldn't make it.
I found Bisca again and explained to her that I had to go to the Library. "Don't worry. You don't have to come along. I will go alone." She frowned very deeply and I laughed to make her at ease. "Listen, mom. I'm going to be fine. You stay here with Da and little A-chan." Alzack blushed and I laughed only more. "Fine. But if something is wrong, let me know. I want to help you. That's what friends are for right?" I was touched by her concern and I pointed that out to Cordelia. Talking to Bisca instead of handling thing on my own would be a lot better. "Could you tell the others for me? I really need to go now." The two of them looked at me with a questioned look. "I can't explain. Trust me." They nodded and I hurried off. Why did I always had to make things more difficult. Probably because there was a dragon stuck inside me.
With a quick scan I found Sting, Rogue, Lector and Frosch. When I arrived I lifted up Frosch and stroke him softly over his head. "Emilia!" Sting said with quite some enthusiasm in his voice. "Ha, funny." I said because I knew he was teasing him. I handed Frosch to Rogue and smiled at the both of them. "Have fun at the Banquet. I won't be there.", "Why not? Is Fairy Tail not joining?" Rogue said and I laughed at his innocent question. "If they are not there, something will be wrong." I couldn't stop laughing and I actually I didn't want to. It felt so good to laugh after this horrible fight. "Did you..did you guys.." I felt uncomfortable asking them. "No we did not. Besides we didn't really kill our foster parents. Only because Weisslogia asked me and Skiadrum was ill." I nodded and although I felt sorry for them, not beating their Dragons here. I was relieved to know that they didn't kill their foster parents in cold blood. "I will leave now. I hope to see you guys again." They waved and I heard Frosch say: "Frosch hopes so too." Which made me a little bit happier. Although getting out of town was a lot easier than I had expected, I was really tired and I could barely put my feet in front of the other. But I had to go on. Cordelia wanted to tell me something.
I had slept somewhere along the road and when dawn arrived I continued to walk again. When I finally arrived at the library, I first had to sit down before I could climb the stairs. There were a handful of other people so I went along to find a corner where I was alone. "Okay Cordelia. Tell me." The Dragon within me didn't answer, so I sat there, doing nothing and wondering about my friends and what they would do right now. If Bisca already told them that I was simply gone or would she say that I went to Magic Library? That would mean that Laxus and Erza would be here any minute to yell at me. I chuckled in myself and almost fell asleep when Cordelia finally answered: Get the book about Zeref and the Demons of Zeref.
Great I could go to the highest level in this damn tower. Didn't she have feelings anymore? When I finally arrived upstairs, there was no one there. Which was good enough. I grabbed the two books that I needed and stared at the pages. "Remember when you thought about E.N.D." Cordelia appeared again in front of me, the Library was gone. "I thought that it was weird that there was no information given. Only that Igneel fought him. There is more known about Igneel over 400 years than of this E.N.D." I stared at the pages, there were only three lines:
E.N.D
The strongest Demon created by Zeref
Fought with Igneel 400 years ago.
Is a Fire Caster.
"I know who it is. Or I think I do." I looked up at the Dragon her green eyes. "Acnologia?" I asked and she shook her huge head. "No. He wasn't a fire caster." I stared at the page. Fire… Flames… My eyes turned big when I stared at the pages. "You-you-you don't think it is.. it is.. it is him.." I looked at Cordelia but she was gone. Without me realizing the situation had been changed back to the Library. "I don't like noisy people." I jumped up and dropped the book that I was holding. In front of me was another mage. He leaned nonchalant to one of the bookcases a few steps away from me. He didn't look much older than me, his face familiar. His black hair and red eyes. His toga kind of freaked me out and he gave me the creeps. "Did you forget who I am?" I frowned. "You were holding my book. I expected you to be a lot smarter."
Zeref. The Zeref was standing in front of me. "You are not here. You are an illusion." He laughed, which gave me apart from the creeps, the shivers.
"No I am not. I am here because you seemed to study a lot about me and I don't like it." I remember him from Tenrou Island. There he was more stressed and worried about his power and here he looked so confident of himself. "You changed." I squeaked. Again he laughed. I remembered! He was saying Natsu his name back when we were at Tenrou. Back when he changed Natsu his scarf into a black one. Was that because he wanted to change Natsu to E.N.D.? Did that make sense? I mean Natsu couldn't possibly be E.N.D. That was a Demon, a 400 year old Demon. Natsu was nineteen year old stuck on it for seven years because of this guy his Dragon.
"What do you want to do about it? Destroy your book?" I said braver than I felt. My insignia was burning hot in my shoe, as if it was an alarm that went through my Guild.
He lifted up his hand and I felt weaker than yesterday. "Goodbye. Luka Scarlet, Princess of Fairies." I gasped and the rim of my eyesight became black. "No wait. I barely know a thing. You cannot do this to me." I lost the control over my body and fell, the pain shot through me. "You truly are an evil man." I said and I heard him scream in anger. I coughed blood and it felt like a giant fist was squeezing my body. However this time it was not Jura whom tried to save me. My eyesight disappeared and my body became limp. "You will say hi to your parents for me." I felt that he was leaving thanks to his footsteps but that was everything.
I don't know for how long I lay there and for how long I still will be here. I believed that the live was slowly sapping out of me. I heard people scream my name but didn't feel anyone coming, no footsteps, nothing.
When I woke up, I was still blinded, or maybe the lights were out. I was no longer on the floor of the library. I was in a bed. "Hello?"
There was nothing I could see, everything was dark and because I wasn't touching the ground I couldn't feel anything. "Anyone here?"
"Calm down, you are save.", "Who are you? Who am I? Where am I?" I felt the need to panic. There was someone I couldn't see talking to me, to tell me that I had to calm down. My name was Luka. I have been looking for my sister and my foster parent, Cordelia the Earth Dragon, for a long time. Right now that was all that I knew. There was a feeling in my head as if someone was pushing his finger on my forehead, trying to get it. I touched it but there was nothing. I tried to find the edge of my bed with my fingers and sat there. "Who are you?"
"I'm Sting Eucliffe."
The name didn't ring a bell.