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Chapter 4: Flashbacks & Crazy Magic Powers!

~~Gray's POV: ~~

'She's here…I don't believe it…can it be her?' Gray thought, staring at Darkness.

Those purple-silver eyes he never forgot them, that girl…that girl.

'Zeira,' he thought. The memories swirling through his mind:

"Brat! Get back here!" the man cried, running towards Gray. The young boy had kept running but he knew he couldn't last long. He had been starving for the past days, stealing food was all he could do to survive. But he got caught.

'Damn it!' he thought, as he ran. He kept running. Not willing to stop and too absent minded to look where he was going. Till he bumped into someone.

"OW!" he yelled, falling to the floor. He grunted in pain and realized that he had landed on his foot wrong. It was sprained. 'Damn,' he thought, to preoccupied by the pain to apologize to the person he had bumped. Then, he heard the thumping of boots and the storekeeper's shouting. Before he knew it, the stranger grabbed him by the neck, forcefully, and began to drag him. "HEY! WHAT'S THE BIG-"a hand clamped over his mouth. Gray realized that the stranger had dragged him to a hiding place. His only thought: 'why?'

The storekeeper passed the stranger let him go he was about to say thank you but he was cut off short. THE STRANGER WAS A GIRL! He stared; in turn the girl stared at him. "Are you going to continue staring or get up?" she asked. Gray struggled to get up but his foot prevented him too. The girl muttered something, knelt down beside Gray and touched his injured foot with a gentle hand. "It hurts here?" she asked. He nodded. She closed her eyes and her hand began to glow. Gray watched her, awed. 'Healing magic! A lost magic!' he thought. After awhile the glowing stopped she looked at his face and smiled. His heart nearly stopped beating. "Does it still hurt?" she asked. He shook his head. The girl stood and helped Gray up. She was a few inches taller than him but even though she was tall, her purple-silver eyes were soft with kindness.

"What's your name?" she asked.

"Gray, what's your name?" he said.

She chuckled.

"What do you want it to be?"she said. Gray became puzzled but when he looked into her eyes, again. He saw her eagerness as if she was waiting for him to say it. Gray thought hard and long. Then, like turning on an electric bulb the name came.

"Zeira." Gray said.

It seemed as if her eyes had lit up like stars. She tried to say something but she only smiled.

"Thank you," she replied and without warning hugged him on the spot. Gray's cheeks heated up.

Every time he remembered that event, his cheeks heated up once more. His hand went immediately to his cheek. It was warm. He felt it. Not to mention the fact he was probably red as a tomato by now. He took a glance at the girl everybody called 'Darkness,' she looked like her. He had never forgotten those purple-silver eyes but now they had an edge. There was anger. Pain. Most of all, loneliness. He shook his head as if trying to get water out of his ears.

'Focus, Gray, focus,' he thought. He knew he had no time of thinking of old crushes.

Crushes! Wait…

~~Darkness' POV: ~~

'Gray?' I thought, watching the retreating figure of a boy with black hair and…no shirt.

I chuckled, softly, I still remembered him as the little guy who used to follow me around. How long ago was that? It only seemed like yesterday when he gave me a name.

Zeira, I let out a soft sigh, it was one of the sweetest names I've been given. I relished the name with care. Zeira. I closed my eyes for a moment. The image of Gray as a sweet little boy came to my mind. Gray. I covered my eyes to prevent the tears to be seen.

I hate it when I cry.

"THE CHALLENGE IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! DARKNESS VS. FAIRY TAIL!" an announcer cried.

I clenched my fist and took my other hand from my face. I inhaled and slowly exhaled. I felt everything. The way the energy moved through the earth and most of all the energy I felt from the people around me. I felt this often. It was part of the type of magic I used.

I felt that energy flow to me. To me. Like water and it didn't stop. When I opened my eyes, my hands were glowing. I clenched my hands.

'Be prepared, Fairy Tail.' I thought, as the light from my hands faded.

~~Lucy's POV: ~~

Lucy felt uncomfortable about all this.

'She helped me! I shouldn't be fighting her!' she thought. Lucy didn't want to fight her. No, big NO-NO. But she knew that it was different for the others, they didn't have reason not to fight Darkness. She instantly felt guilty about not defending her at that time.

'She can handle this; you saw how powerful she is….' Lucy thought, trying to convince herself. She found a nice sight-seeing spot and sat down with Levi. Some of the members didn't want to fight but most of them wanted to fight. Like Erza Scarlet, Natsu, Elfman and a whole lot more.

Lucy was worried. Even though Darkness was powerful can she stand up against FAIRY TAIL? 'Lord, help her.' She thought, staring at Darkness.

The members were all surrounding her. She was calm and surprisingly indifferent about everything. How could she not be in panic? Lucy had no idea. Natsu stepped forward an evil grin was on his face. Darkness stared at him, she showed no emotion.

"ALRIGHT LET'S DO THIS!" cried Natsu, his arms aflame. Darkness didn't move or flinch. With a roar, Natsu ran toward her, his arm prepared to through a punch. Lucy cringed. Darkness didn't move. Then, at the last minute Darkness moved, she ducked as the punch came her way. Her hands began to glow and she placed her hands on Natsu's chest.

Natsu's stance wavered slightly. His eyes widened in shock. "WHOA!" he yelled as he went flying away from Darkness! He crashed into the wall. Darkness was in kneeling position her hands still glowing. "This is all you can do?" she asked, slowly standing up. "This is what I am up against?" she asked. Then, her arms burst into flames.

Natsu stood up, his expression shocked. "Dragon-slayer magic? He cried. At that point Lucy stood up, staring at Darkness, she was petrified. Dragon-slayer magic? How? Her magic wasn't Dragon-slayer the last time Lucy had seen her! Darkness looked at the flickering flames around her arms. Then, without warning she blasted flames around herself. Everyone ducked.

Natsu growled and ran toward the flames around Darkness and began to eat them. Then, a blast of light came from the flames, making Natsu flinch he staggered backward, cursing, as he rubbed his eyes. "Wha-wha-what's going on?" stuttered Lucy. Levi was standing beside her, as shocked as she was. The other members of Fairy Tail went barging full force. Their powers on high and attacking swift strokes on Darkness but amazingly none hit her and every time she dodged she touched each one of them and after that it seemed like she became more powerful!

'First Dragon-slaying magic now this? It seems like she has the powers of everyone who's trying to beat her!' thought Lucy. "So, it has begun," said someone from below. Lucy looked down and saw the Master. "What are you talking about sir?" asked Lucy. He looked up at Lucy his face grim. "As you should know Lucy there are many Lost Magic's in this world." She nodded, Lucy knew very well about the Lost Magic's it was extremely rare to find them now. Then, it struck her like cold water.

"Master, you mean that Darkness has one of the lost magic's?" said Lucy.

Grimly, he nodded. "Look closely, Lucy, every time she touches someone you can see that her power grows with everyone she touches. A very ancient type of magic. Said, to have not existed at all…until now." Lucy's nerves went sky high when she realized what the master was talking about.

"Parasite Magic," Lucy said, awed.

The master nodded. "Parasite Magic. From its name, like a parasite, it will absorb all of the things that give off energy, including the flow of energy in the earth. With but a single touch the user of the magic can gain its opponent's magic, absorbing a small amount of his or her power into the user and turning the opponent's magic into the parasite magic user's self. With that, the parasite user knows everything about the opponent the extent of the opponents' power and most of all their weakness'."

Lucy began to shake in fear. Parasite magic. To think PARASITE MAGIC!

'She's unbeatable! The flow of energy from her opponents and the earth make her stronger! Plus, the fact that with a single touch she can gain the power and know the weaknesses of the people she's battling…this…it's insane! And her power won't wear off! With parasite magic it will just absorb and absorb!' thought Lucy.

Lucy watched on as the fighting continued one by one, her fellow comrades fell to the power of Darkness. While, Darkness seemed to be getting stronger and stronger.

Lucy felt her stomach curl up and her knees began to buckle.

'What are we going to do?' she thought.

CLIFF HANGER! I know you'll want the next chapter soon but please just wait, I have exams and I really have to study! :(( so, I'm sorry for causing delay, please wait! I'll try to update as soon as humanly possible! Stay with me! Please Review! :)