Happy New Year new chapter up enjoy!
Mavis followed along with Zeref all day, Yury ignored them trailing behind as they chatted…well Mavis mostly chatted and Zeref mostly smiled and sometimes told her something. Yury uncommonly pissed just followed having no interest in the conversation whatsoever.
"So you were in the war"
"Yeah the soldiers didn't take me seriously at first but once I finally got my point across and the idiots realised I was smarter than them, they listened to me and we won more than we lost and fewer people were killed" Zeref smiled looking at Mavis he knew Yury was trailing behind them but it didn't bother him.
"So what really happened? I saw the light like most of the region two days ago" Mavis blushed a little.
"We were doing a job, it turned out that it involved a dark guild and we got rid of them…however the master had Blood Magic, he controlled Yury's blood to attack me…since my magic is Illusionary and Fairy Law wouldn't work on him…it was hard to beat him. Yury ended up stabbing himself so he couldn't hurt me and I used Fairy Law on the master"
"Perhaps you shouldn't be going on jobs, aren't you a guild master?" Mavis smiles.
"Yep Fairy Tail, Yury, Prechet, Warrod and I started it thanks to you teaching us magic"
"Fairies huh" he says with a smile.
"Yeah…fairies" she says blushing but smiling back.
Yury kicked a rock a little too forcefully against a tree and a deranged squirrel came charging down and attacking him!
"Ahh!" he yelled before frying it with his lightning, the squirrel ran away back up the tree, its fur singed.
"Aw Yury don't hurt the poor Squirrel" Mavis says, she and Zeref had stopped, Zeref with a polite smile at Yury.
"The crazed thing attacked me!" Yury defended, Zeref begun softly laughing and Mavis's smile grew wider, Yury's frown grew deeper and he continued to stomp after them.
"So what are you thinking of teaching me?" Mavis asks a few hours later getting off the topic of berries.
"Well as shown by your recent run in I think you should learn some attack magic, you have misdirection in your illusions, power over enemies with Fairy Law, now for something with a bit more punching power" Mavis was practically jumping up and down with excitement.
"What's it called?" she asked excitedly.
"Well…it isn't really named anything, even Fairy Law I just called Law, so I guess you can call it whatever you want" Zeref says with a slight shrug, Mavis looked like he couldn't have told her anything better.
"Yury! Yury! Yury! Did you hear that I get to name a magic!" she squealed, Yury just nodded eyes looking elsewhere, Mavis pulled a face at him not paying attention but she turned back to Zeref.
"Okay how do we start?" she asks enthusiastically.
"Well this magic is different from Fairy Law not just because of its function, both are very powerful but for this one it marks its user, only for a short time, it's like holding a magic until you call for it again, do you understand?"
"Like Celestial Spirit Keys?"
"In a way yes, only this won't be an object to summon the magic, it will be a mark on your skin which is the magic until it disappears inside you until you call it again" Mavis nods following him.
"Now what this magic will do is create a huge magic burst of energy, it's usually a onetime shot so use it wisely okay?" Mavis nods.
"Alright, do you mind if we stop somewhere so we can start?"
"Yeah I'm sure Yury could use the rest" Mavis agrees.
"I'm fine!" Yury snaps, Mavis ignores him as they get off the path.
They come to a small spring, Yury sits under a tree nearby and let's himself rest a bit but watches Zeref and Mavis sit on the bank, they sit facing each other, cross-legged. Zeref from his cloak pulls out an inkwell.
"Do you always carry ink?" Mavis asks, Zeref nods.
"If I ever come up with an idea I write it down, I carry paper too, but I just need the ink and my pen" he produces a quill from his pocket.
"Can I have your right arm please" he asks, Mavis holds it out and he takes it, shifting forward so they are closer and lays it facing up on their legs.
"Alright, I'm going to draw the mark on your skin so try not to move okay?" Mavis nods.
"Is this going to hurt?" she asks.
"Drawing it on no, once I make it set in your skin like a tattoo yes"
"What's a tattoo?" Mavis asks.
"It's how people used to mark their skin before magic stamps were invented" Mavis nods, Zeref pushes up her sleeve so it's out of the way of her forearm and begins carefully drawing.
"It tickles" Mavis remarks with a smile.
"Sorry but you'll have to stay still" Zeref says with a smile holding her arm as he draws.
"Zeref?" Mavis asks a little later.
"Yes" he says patiently still drawing.
"So you are him" she says softly, Zeref realising he had indeed just revealed his identity only nods.
"How can you touch me with your curse?" she asks still softly so Yury couldn't hear.
"Because you have the same curse as me…at least the beginning stages of it"
"What?" she breathes, Zeref stops to look her in the eye.
"Don't worry I won't let you become like me, like I said it's only the beginning stages, no aging, no need to eat, probably a few antisocial tendencies" Mavis looks down at the drawing on her arm and Zeref continues.
"You're going to fix me?" she asks softly.
"Yes, it'll take a while but as long as you're you we have time" he promises, Mavis felt a tear fall from her eye, and Zeref unconsciously wiped it away.
"Don't cry, I won't let you become a murderer because of me"
"I wasn't thinking of that…I was thinking of living forever and never having anyone with me…you must have been so alone" she says softly, her eyes shining at him, he gave her a soft smile.
"My life has been a long one Mavis, and most of the time I hate it, other times I don't mind or I love it, it changes constantly. But one thing has been constant for the first time in a long time"
"What's that?"
"You, I want to protect you, that's why I taught you and your friends magic, that's why I'm teaching you more now, that's why I'm going to save you from my curse…Mavis I'm going to save you…it won't make up for 300 years of death and destruction but it'll mean I finally did something good" Mavis touched his face with her left hand.
"I think you have far more good in you than you realise" she tells him with a smile, he returns it and goes back to drawing on her arm, Mavis looked up to where Yury was but he was no longer there.
Yeah I know it's been forever I'm sorry but here take it! The feels! Also I went back and edited the other chapters so it's a lot better :) I'll do my best to get another chapter out soon.