AU- It got a little heated last chapter but I don't intend to leave the guild burning down without some sort of reason. Here's a chapter showing what happens next. FYI constructive criticism is welcomed because I know I need to improve. And on that note, chapter 3!
Weather Changes
I opened my eyes, looking around I noticed that I was the floor in a dark building. "I'm so tired" I think to myself. Groggily I move my body only to notice some rope on my wrists. Its starting to scare me. "Where's Kacey?" I wait until my eyes adjust to the oddly too dark room, however when I can finally see what is around me, I couldn't help but catch my breath in my throat. "Why is are the villagers here? And why are we all tied up?" Suddenly I hear footsteps and some people begin to whimper like they know something bad is going to happen which makes me only feel fear in my chest. "We need to get out. I need to find help… I need to find my sister" Those were the only thoughts swimming around in my head as I wait for the person to come in. The door swings open with blinding light that we all cowered from and squinted to see. The persons figure in the light was dark, shadowy. Evil. It looked evil and scary. A tall man stood in the doorway and ordered "Get the hell up! You've had your damn rest!" That angry voice made some children cry but silently so they wouldn't face the man's wrath. The man had dark hair and a bandana mask covering the lower half of his face so his scowl in his bushy eyebrows was visible, I could only follow the others in fear of what would happen to me. We were pushed out roughly and guarded to be kept in line by 3 other intimidating men whilst following the other with the bandana ahead of us. We eventually arrived to the mayors front door which caused confusion among those in the group, "Get inside!" bandana man ordered. "What the hell are you doing?! Why are we here?!" one of the villagers shouted, a man in his late twenties wearing a baking apron, in response to his comment he got a kick to the gut and a punch in the face. "Know your place rat! You don't demand anything from the Black Wasps. Your unlucky enough that I can't end your filthy existence. Instead your fate is to work the mines and other jobs for us" the bandana man chuckles loudly after he finishes his sentence. It sends shivers down my spine, I suddenly realise just how useless I really am, if I can only control clouds then how can I even think about escape. I look down hiding my face from the others as we slowly walk in the mayors house. We come to the mayors office and go in one at a time. Some people don't come back out and the ones that do are either women, children or men without any magical ability and they all came out with smoking clothes and burns, then they are pushed away towards the exit of the mansion by one of the Black Wasps, I think they were called? I'm suddenly pushed into the mayors office and I look up. I see our mayor, a fat, balding old man who has a shiny chin and a cloaked man who stares at me from underneath his hood and he slowly walks over towards me and I see his face. I tremble in fear at him. A monster. His eyes were black and he had scars forming odd shapes on his face, he smiles a sharp wide toothy grin right in front of me and bends down to get right in my face. My legs shake and I can feel tears stinging my eyes but I can't tear my eyes away from the sight. He touches my shoulder and inspects me from top to bottom making verbal notes as he does so. "Blonde hair, blue eyes, small frame… you look fun to break" he states while slowly backing away and I feel his bony hand slowly leave my face. "Such soft skin, it will be a shame to ruin it with work" he laughs to himself, a devilish noise that I will never forget. "W-why are you h-here?" I stutter trying to sound less afraid than I actually am. "Wouldn't you like to know" he grins leaning on the desk and a black flame forms in his hand as I see him look towards me with a crazed smile. He pulls out a large metal stamp thing from his pocket and heats it till it burns a bright orange. "Without some righteous guild to protect you, I thought me and my guild would be so kind as to help this little town out, give you all jobs and eliminate the weak" as he says that I instantly became conscious of that odd metal bin at the back of the room and the strange smoking coming from it. "Ah, that," he looks at what I'm looking at "its just a bin, I like being tidy and burning things is my hobby" he says turning back to face me and smiles that evil smile while the mayor is sat at his desk happily looking in a briefcase which I can only guess is full of jewels. "Y-you burned our towns guild down!" I shout with a small stutter gaining some confidence with the distance between me and him, which is slowly shattered back into fear as a slowly walks up to me with that heated stamp and I can only guess what he's going to do with that. "W-wait. Pl-please" I say with tears falling down my face as I back up and he grabs me when I get to the wall. "All of this village is owned by me now, girl" he spits in my face with sudden anger. "You and these villagers included. Accept it. Now" I struggle to try and get out of his deadly grip and he burns my shirt open and throws my scarf to the side and the flames scorch my stomach and I realise why the other villagers had burnt clothing, it wasn't from the fire in town, he brings the stamp closer towards me and I can clearly see what is shape is. Its that same symbol on his cloak, a sword with an odd wisp of something around it. Probably a flame. I cry out as he leaves the scorching stamp on the stomach just under my ribcage. "Stop! Please! I-" he clamps a hand over my mouth "BE QUIET, no one can hear this" then after a few moments when I stop resisting he looks down at me and walks away and one of his men grab me and forces me out the door "Wait! Get off me!" I shout with new vigour before I'm forced out the door, "Why have you done this?!" I ask angrily. He looks at me and chuckles "Why do you think, little girl?" and I scowl at him still struggling from the other man until he punches me in the stomach and relights the pain in my body. The cloaked man just laughs at my futile attempts at a struggle when I go limp in the man's arms gasping for breath. "hmmm," the cloaked guy fakes contemplation "because its fun" he grins his wide toothy grin that makes my skin crawl once more before I'm dragged out by this other guy and on my way down the hall I can feel the villagers stares and see Laurette being forced in line while I listen to an endless cackle of that cloaked man in my mind. I'm dragged into the mayors courtyard and see a sight that makes my heart stop. I can't feel the burns any more, just a numb feeling and a wetness on my skin, small soothing cold droplets as I'm forced to watch the town I was raised in burn to the ground with giant grey clouds looming high in the sky from the small hill the mayors courtyard was built on. The air was choking me and I struggled to breathe, if the other towns and cities can ignore carnage on this scale then- "This is fun to these people? Fun. Isn't fun enjoying time with your family? These people enjoy ruining lives?" I think darkly and an anger rises in my chest. They have no right to take what little life I already have. No right at all! "This isn't fair!" This unacceptable behaviour from these damn crooks deserves to be corrected. "I will have my revenge" I said to myself but the guy dragging me heard and just laughed to himself. "I will have my revenge" I think to myself and let my mind remember what they had ruined to fuel my anger even more while I didn't notice the hail throwing hard pellets at everyone in the courtyard.
It took the legal guilds 2 months to decide to do something about the Black Wasp menace in Restibou and two guilds came in and started to fight the Black Wasp while I had gone to find the Cloaked man, he was called Scorch or boss by the other Black Wasp members, all the older people were killed by Scorch and others lives ruined and made miserable with the labour and service we were forced to provide for Scorch and his men, we had to build new homes, clear up our own dead friends and family and bury whatever Scorch decided to not burn to ash, all in all. It was a traumatising experience but I could only give it a cold shoulder as I went to the mayors office as the guilds were fighting with the overwhelming numbers of Black Wasp and although they weren't too powerful and had several ranges of different magicks they had numbers. I put my ear to the mayors door and heard arguing between Scorch and the Mayor. "You idiot! I knew that burning the town would cause an uproar! Now what do we do?!" the mayor screeched "Shut it Fatty! We need to calm down, they only sent 12 mages to fight us and with our numbers it wouldn't be hard" Scorch said. "No way fire rat! I'm out of here!" the mayor said coming closer to the door but suddenly heat burst inside the room and I could see ashes spilling from the crack under the door and shrieked in horror at the sight. The door swings open and Scorch comes out and kicks the ash around without a care "Useless fat ass" he says before noticing me and when he tries to grab me but I dodge swiftly to the side and sprint down the hall. "What was I thinking?! I can't take this guy on!" I thought frantically to myself as I ran. "Hey, little girl. I don't have time for tag" he says with a deeper sounding voice from behind me and then. I do something stupid. I trip up. But as I tripped a whirl of scorching black fire whooshes over me, narrowly missing and I hear a 'tsk' from behind me. It was uncharacteristic for Scorch to not sound like he was enjoying himself, I guess with the legal guilds here he's actually worrying I hope in my heart. And I then scramble to the nearest corner to get out of firing range of his fire balls "Oh good lord, oh good lord. I'm going to die" I think to myself as fear crawls back into me, picking myself up I sprint to the door to the backyard where I hear fighting. I open the door and a guy with a sword charges at me full speed and before I thought about what I was doing I put my arms up in defence and a shot of green illuminated magic shoots from my arm and disarms the man from his weapon and he stands in shock, as do I and some legal guild mage smacks him in the back of the head "Hey there little one, I saw you were having some trouble over here" the mage looks at me and smiles kindly. I hear Scorch running out of the building and he stops in the doorway and looks around at the sight of his men littering the floor and while he scowls I hide behind this mage guy who looked to be in his late twenties, the mage saw that I hid from Scorch and frowned, "You the boss man here? Are you going to put up a fight" this mage also produced a purple flame in his hand as he got into a battle stance in front of me. "Why does everyone have weird coloured fire?!" I think to myself as a fight broke out in front of me. Fighting fire with fire had no effect so both of them resorted to fist fighting and all of a sudden a pink fist flies into Scorches stomach as another one hits him in the face while several others attack him over and over. The purple fire mage steps back "Hey Wakaba this one was mine" he says. Wakaba, the one with a pompadour replies with "I saw you struggling a little Macao, so I thought I'd help out" he laughs and they begin to argue. I ignore their argument as I walk up to Scorch's still breathing body. I kick him. Again. Again. And again until Macao speeds over and puts a hand on my shoulder to make me stop "Hey, he's already been beate-" "NO. He ruined everything! You have no idea what he's done!" I say collapsing to my knees holding my stomach where that mark will linger, crying out. I feel relief and grief at the same time and I don't know whether I should be happy or sad at the turn out of these events but that man, Scorch, killed all the kind oldies and burned my sister. I still have the nagging feeling that I must make him pay, make him suffer but Macao stops my thoughts when he says "That man will be taken in by the council, I promise that he can't do anything else" both him and Wakaba share a concerned look when I don't calm down and continue to cry. "Say," Wakaba started "Do you have anywhere to go?" he finishes and they both look troubled when I shook my head "I-I'm an orphan" I hiccup and then Macao picks me up and takes me to the rest of the victims who were just outside the town sat with each other drinking soup and eating bread while the magic council showed up to take away the criminals. One of the Rune Knights, overseeing the operation to assist the towns folk should any other dark guilds attempt to show up, came up to me with a stiff forced smile asking me if I was okay "I guess" I replied with since I really didn't know how I should be feeling. I sat down away and alone from everyone to eat my soup because they were all complete strangers, I couldn't see anyone I knew but I had a feeling I knew where they were. I looked up at a now clear blue sky. I finished my soup and sat down looking at my hands wondering how I used wind magic. "I thought I could only move clouds" I began thinking to myself "Maybe I really can be like my sister" I thought with a sad smile. I gasp loudly and check my neck, "Its not there" I began to cry silently to myself but Macao comes over "What's wrong?" he asks worriedly "My scarf… its gone, my sister had made it for me" I sniffled, crying sadly. "What does it look like?" I hear. Looking up I stare at Macao questioningly, he repeats "What does it look like?" I look down "Its blue and it has a few strands of wool coming off it… she didn't quite tie it off right" I giggle sadly at my sisters antics. Suddenly I saw Macao heading for the town again and he turned back and shouted "I'll get it for you so just sit there and wait!" and before I could reply he sped off. With a sigh I look back down to my hands and attempted to make something appear. A faint glow and whoosh of wind appeared above my hand and I just stared at it not noticing Wakaba appear behind me. "Hey kid, have you se-… You can use magic?" he sat next to me as I jumped and hid my hands, "Well, before today I thought I could only move clouds but then this..." I say summoning the wind to swirl around my hand again. Wakaba just watches smoking from his pipe as I cough and the wind dissipates again. "Sorry." he apologises with a light chuckle putting his pipe away. "So moving clouds huh? Ever tried to control them, like lightning and stuff? That'd be pretty cool." he says with a grin looking up towards the sky. "No, I never thought about trying that…" I trail off my sentence in thought. "Could that weird freak storm months ago have been caused by me?" I wonder. I try out his theory and summon a cloud, looking up to the new cloud I attempt to create lightning but with no basis except that thought it didn't seem to work. Wakaba saw what I was trying to do and looked at the cloud "How about instead of lightning try to just make a light rain or make it do that dark gloomy thing clouds do" he says fiddling with his pipe, I know he wants to smoke right now but he's being polite. I do as he says and try to make the cloud go dark, the cloud turns a dark eerie colour and I feel sweat on my forehead. Knitting my brows in concentration I feel a small patter of water on me, its a welcome coolness from all the fire from recent events and a light rain begins from the cloud I summoned. Wakaba looks impressed that I actually managed to do it but then his face turns into a distraught expression as he attempts to cover his pompadour from the rain. I laughed lightly at the situation as the cloud dissipates and is replaced by the clear blue sky once again and Macao runs over from the town with a smile and a small blue bundle on his hand. "I wasn't sure if this is it, I found it in the mansion in the mayors office. Sorry it took so long" he said with a small frown. "No! Its the right one, thank you so much Macao" I said with new tears but they were happy tears and wrapped my scarf around my neck, they both smiled and Wakaba turned to me as he got up from next to me "Well kid, we gotta go back to our guild or our buddies will get worried but I was wondering, after you sort out the problems here, you should go to the town a few miles from this one. I have a mate there who can help you with that kind of magic." Wakaba said as he and Macao got turned to leave, Macao got his backpack on one shoulder, turned around and said "Don't forget Fairy Tail! We'll welcome a good mage any day!" which made me smile "Fairy Tail huh? Certainly sounds weird" I thought to myself as I watched them both head off towards their destination. I turned back towards the other towns folk and went to take my bowl to clean, I think I'll head to the other town soon. Hopefully I can train this magic and become a great mage, I sat down and held onto my scarf and went to sleep.
AU- I think having Noel join Fairy Tail instantly would ruin the potential of her doing more around Fiore first so she's going on a training trip instead and we'll see how it develops from there. I hope you enjoyed chapter 3!
