A good day, everyone! I'm here !*jumps happily*
Today was a freaking tiring day. I was forced to get up at 4 am and work and work and work before going to sleep at 1 am. How worse it could be? I looked at the mirror and saw a ghost….NO! It was me.
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Okay, I did looked like a ghost back then. But after I took a shower and all that daily routine, my pretty self was back again! :3 Thank god!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail(sadly). If so, I would have added Reika in the saga for real! XD
"You're lovestruck."
"Excuse me?", he retorts.
Ren repeats. "You-are-lovestruck."
Hibiki seems uneasy. "How do you know?"
"Easy", he walks towards the chair Hibiki is sitting and stands at the side of the decorated desk. "You space out often, you smile and giggle while there's not even a single living thing around you, you're listening to sentimental songs-". Before Ren could finish his sentence, Hibiki moves his hands to stop the 'You Belong With Me' song that was echoing before at his Archive screen. He blushes.
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The sounds of crickets fill the atmosphere. "Is it that obvious?", he asks.
Ren giggles. "Hey, man up! Just tell her that you like her already", he pats Hibiki's back. "You wanna tell me that a player like you are afraid to confess? Geez, how ironic that can be."
He snickers. "As if you're not a player too."
"At least I have had my say to my true love", he counterattacks. Dumbfounded, Hibiki remains silent for a few seconds.
"Well", Hibiki hesitated for a moment before he continues, "Actually I have this one problem."
"Don't tell me it's Jenny."
Hibiki looks at Ren straight at the face. He answers the statement with a slight nod.
"What's up with her?", Ren sympathized his friend, forced to be together with her for the sake of popularizing their guild. Jenny herself can't help from falling to him as they spend too much time together. Yes, their relationship was not real. It is solely for commercial values.
He shrugs. "You know how Jenny is. She would start catfights with the females that tried to be close with me. I hate it. It was as if I was controlled under her hands, like a puppet."
Frankly said, he was annoyed by the way Jenny reacts to the girls. He is a FLIRT. It is his job. It is their job. She was like despising her task to make Blue Pegasus famous. Instead, giving herself pleasure was more important than that. The fight with Mirajane in the recently Grand Magic Games was one of the obvious proofs. She did not jump to Mira right after the start but filling most of the time cosplaying with her, in order to earn the title the hottest mage of Weekly Sorcerer.
Honestly, he was a bit pissed off by the way she changed her dress to seducing ones, making the male spectators drooling over her. Mira...Well, let's just say she's not to be worried about, she's not even a part of Blue Pegasus. Jenny, however, brings the name of the guild and even if she had become famous after that, the purity of her beauty was stained. Her picture wearing only bra and panties that barely cover her private areas was being used as a poster. POSTER!
Hibiki reminisces his spent moments with her. Most of the time, she wore sparkling strapless dress or any shirts that can reveal most of her skin. Reika, though he just met her three times, was comfortable with her beloved black leather jacket and jeans with any designs of shirts as the inner clothes. A bandana tied at her hips made her resembled a yankee, making her unattractive to be looked at from an opposite gender's point of view. He liked her choice of fashion, though he may prefer it if she varies the outfits. She had never wore a dress, he just realized, or any kinds of girly accessories. He suddenly thought of buying some for her...
"There you go again...Spacing out", Ren sighs. Hibiki just giggles. Love really can drive people crazy.
During the escorting mission…
The Trimen's wagon takes the lead at the path. The elder they are protecting are following them close behind. Eve and Ren preferred to sit at the inner side of the carriage as Hibiki's on the watch at the entrance of the back of the wagon. They are chatting about random things when….
Eve glances at Hibiki at the corner of the wagon they are riding. Just now, he saw him smiling and now, he is...grinning. Goosebumps grow quickly on Eve as he continues observing him. He looks really creepy the way he acts right now.
Jenny is not coming with them that day.(Author: Great! XD) Ren and Eve restricts her from coming along. They said they have a plan to accomplish, which is to convince Hibiki to KEEP CALM AND CONFESS.
"Hey", suddenly, a voice interrupts their silent journey. "Why are you guys sitting so far?"
Eve and Ren face Hibiki. -Thank goodness, he has come back to the real world...-, they thought.
"We thought that you wanted some time alone",- for you to be back after being insane for a few minutes-, the rest is left unsaid.
"I could hear that, okay", he retorts.
They are stunned. -RIIIGGHHHTT, he has telepathy magic. Almost forgot about that.-
"I was talking with Reika back then."
They lift their brows, thinking about how the heck did he was connected to a girl that was miles away?
"I have my own methods", he grins playfully.
After that, they shift their places from another corner of the wagon to the empty space nearby Hibiki. Eve at the right and Ren occupies his left. They stare at him, long. Hibiki seems restless.
"What do you guys want?", he asks as he can't stand the pressure given by the both.
Eve grins. "When do you want to tell her, nii-chan?"
"Tell what?"
"Don't act so dense. I know it."
"What?"
"Reika-san!"
His body freezes. That name always managed to give an electric shock to himself. He wondered if that's what people call love.
"Look. He daydreams back."
"Nii-chan, please come back to the real world."
He cocks his brow. "You two are insane."
"I don't want to hear that from you."
"Yup."
-These two are getting annoying -_-+ -
"Would you just tell me what's going on here?", he grows impatient.
Ren smirks and says, "We are here to tell you to be a man and tell that love of your life you like her and get married fast!"
Eve sweatdrops. "Umm...Ren nii-chan, isn't that a bit rushed?"
He turns his face to meet Eve's eyes. "What's the best solution for this severely lovestruck guy? "
"Wow wow, there...", he swings his palm forward to halt their conversation. "What are you guys planning actually?"
"To get you guys together, obviously!", they say in unison.
He is speechless. They would go that far to help their hopeless friend. He is touched but still...
"Ignore Jenny. We would want you to end up with Reika", Eve's eyes shows enthusiasm.
"But guys", he sighs, "Who knows maybe it was just a crush that will go away after a few days."
"A few days had passed and you're still in love", deny them.
"Maybe there's another man that suits her more?"
"Who are more suited to be with her than you?"
"Why?"
"Couples are supposed to perfect each other."
"For example?"
"The brainiac and the dense?"
"The matured and the naiveté?"
"The graceful and the forceful?"
"The weak and the strong?"
-Ouch- , he thought, -the last one really hit me hard.-
"Stop denying the truth, Hibiki", Ren advises him. "Grab her before someone does. Or else, you will be left partnerless for the rest of your life."
-He really practices the word 'denotation' often, doesn't he?-, he thought. As he is about to reply, a shadow came out of nowhere to the front of their wagon. He is holding a sword.
"Get the Duke out of that damn vehicle!", the could-be-leader shouts. His underlings scatter to the wagon behind but is blown backwards when Ren activates his magic.
"Don't you dare lay a hand on him while we are still standing!", he shouts in rage. Eve, on the other side, performs his White Out on the sneaking kidnappers that managed to get past Ren. Hibiki is also trying his best using his Force Blast to some of the culprits. Well, his forte is not physical stamina anyway.
After a few outrageous fights, the group seems to be reduced to half. The Trimen are still working on to successfully vanish the whole crew. Out of the blue, the leader unleashes a strange magic that glows in his hands.
Nuke: Dance!
A strange glistening ball floats slowly to the struggling men.-Nuclear Magic?!- Hibiki, who knew what type of power that is, warns his companions as soon as possible-
"Guys, duck!"
-But it was too late. The floating ball suddenly explodes with an incredibly high Richter scale. The things surrounding the place before has gone, leaving the place barren.
Hibiki forcefully tries to get up from his current lying position. It was only him that managed to dodge the shock, while the others had fallen unconscious to the ground, including Ren and Eve. He winces as he felt pain coming from the lower part of his body. He glances.
-Shit. My leg's broken.-
He watches the leader sneers. All of his underlings are wiped out by himself. -Gosh, doesn't he even feel sorry towards them? Despicable honcho!-
The head walks towards the elder and he grabs him by the collar. "You're coming with me, you old bastard." With that, he drags him out of the broken wagon and ties him up with a rope. As he is about to move out of the crime scene, Hibiki yells, "Don't you think you're forgetting someone?"
With the least of energy left, he stands, putting aside the stinging pain at his left thigh. He grits his teeth. The pride of Blue Pegasus is more important than a mere broken leg. Even he would be the last man standing, he would held high that name.
"Oh, a rat still has the guts to show up." The leader throws the elder to the side of the street and thrusts his kick towards Hibiki. He coughes out some blood before collapsing onto the ground.
Continuing his tracks, he keeps mocking the guild while he drags the elder like useless trash on the rocky path. Hibiki closes his eyes tightly. Is this the only strength they keep boasting about before? He felt his pride came crushing to the hard ground, shattering to tiny pieces.
"Stay where you are, sissy."
A growl comes from the back of the dusty broken wagons. A figure of a well-built man….wait, it's woman! She walks towards the leader like a tough hero who usually comes to save the day. Along the way, she glares at him, as if looks could kill, the head would be long dead by now.
The leader fumes. "Who're you calling sissy again?"
She smirks. "Are you too retarded to understand what I had just said or just plain deaf?"
Hibiki shot up his gaze. That style of talking….
This time, the leader throws a punch towards the brave lady. Instead of seeing someone flew away by the impact, he felt that his fist is being halted by a hand, which is hers.
"Sorry. Do you feel insulted?", she slaps hard his arm away from her face and lifts her right leg to do a powerful turning kick to his tummy. The kick is too much for him too take as his body flew metres away backwards. He spits blood as his vision starts to become blurry. -This bitch is no kidding.-
The woman walks towards him and grabs him by the collar to blow a series of punches when suddenly-
"-WAIT!"
Hibiki yells. The woman stops her motioning hand, right in front of the leader's face. The blow of impact hit his face but not the real punch. He would be dead if it was.
"Reika, that's enough", he coughs some blood as he blurts out the words.
Reika's face soften up. She releases the shuddering leader and he came crashing to the ground with a loud thud. The wrath can still be smelled by him as he keep trembling there.
She walks over Hibiki and helps him to stand up but he fails to stay upright. She eventually let him sit on a rock and off to find another two of the Trimen. After she had found those two, she asks Hibiki.
"What should we do about him?", Reika sits beside him. They look at the shuddering leader.
"I had just contacted the police officers to come here and arrest them. They are one of the dark guilds that's been talked about lately. Kidnapping famous people and blackmailing the relatives to get Jewels are their common methodology. Sounds lame but it works-Ouch", he pauses as his teeth gets in contact with the wound inside.
Reika quickly gets up from her position and looks at his wounds. Her face seems troubled. By her actions, she unpurposely made Hibiki stunned. He has fallen for her once again, this time for her caring attitude.
"You should be more careful next time", she says in an ordering tone, but still, her motherly instinct can be seen.
"I will", he retorts whilst smiling. Ho doesn't care about the cuts anymore when his pillar of strength is nearby. "By the way, how did you get here?"
Reika lifts her face to look straight into Hibiki's black pupils. "I don't know. It's just the pendant that you gave me had made me somewhat feel the trouble you went through. So, my feet moves here like it was guided. But seeing you-"
He feels delighted when she says his name only as if he's special to her.
"-and the other two lying here, I knew something has gone wrong." She completes her sentence.
STAB!
Okay, he almost forgot about Eve and Ren. Maybe he's still not special to her, yet.
-Hnnh…I will make her realize it someday. Just you wait, dear.-, he promises himself. Then, he freezes. -Did I say 'dear' just now?- He looks at Reika once again and felt like falling for her over and over.
-Tch. Lovestruck doesn't sound that bad…-, he smiles.
And again I wrote some fluff this chapter. XD How was it guys? Like or dislike? Leave me reviews so I can know what should I improve. *determined**fiery eyes*
Some great news! Fairy Tail's movie "The Priestess of Phoenix" are now available at fairy tail. tv! (Is it just the trailer or the whole movie? I don't know…Check it out yourself :) )
I hope I will continue to write better stories each chapter and all supports from you guys are HIGHLY appreciated!*hugs and kisses* Well then, till next time!