A good day, everybody! :D Tonight I felt happy because I had finished this chapter! Yay! *Banzai! Banzai!*

Okay, let me tell you this beforehand. This chapter may be a bit gore and …pervy. So, beware! 3:D

Enough said! Let's read!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. It's Mashima-sensei…Yeah, I know you all are aware of that.

Sunlight shines through the crevices in the small room. He opens his eyes. "Where am I?"

He tries to move his hands to wipe his dusty face. Unfortunately, his hands are tied for an unknown reason. His feets are becoming numb, and it is disturbing and uncomfortable. He snuggles with difficulties on the cold floor, trying to sit upright.

His eyes wanders throughout the dark room. How the heck did he get here again? While trying to reminisce back, he felt pain under his pants…Damn! Where's his shirt?

He glances at his legs. Maybe there are some bruises underneath it. And then again, how did he get those? He pants lightly, his nervousness is slowly overtaking his mind. By the time he was about to remember back the scenes, a door opens with a loud creak echoing in the room.

-Since when there is a door?- The room is so dark that his pupils are trying hard to adjust with the light that gushes in through the opened door. A chubby silhouette stands at the entrance.

"I see that you are fully awake there", he giggles. A grim one actually. He glares at the man.

"What do you want?"

The chubby man steps closer to him and whispers, "I just want to find some entertainment from the spies of Fairy Tail-Blue Pegasus alliance." He laughs loudly seconds after that. "How would they react when they knew about this pitiful state you're in now?"

He widens his eyes. "What did you do to Reika?" His voice sounds venomous.

"Oh, that girl", he chuckles, "My companions still haven't found her yet, but we'll just wait and see. She's not that far away I think. Seeing you two going on separate ways made our task an easy one."

He sighs of regret. He shouldn't have argued with her back then. If only he was a bit patient, things like this could have been avoided. Now, not only he was left alone helpless in this little dark room, they might cannot accomplish their mission too. And their lives could be in danger!

"And for now…", the man moves forward, getting closer and closer to him. "I would love to make you suffer…". He snaps his fingers and a few numbers of males start to crowd the room. They all have this sly smile plastered on their face. Hibiki, on the other hand, knows what they are about to do, and he is very scared to the core. The chubby man walks out of the room and the group of people moves forward, cracking their knuckles and-

AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHH HHHHHHHH!

Reika felt a tad of uneasiness in her steps. She tries to chase it away but ended up getting worried more and more. She is restless.

She searches for the source that was making her feeling that way. At last, it stops at where the pendant is placed. She freezes.

Hibiki!

Her legs are tired of running but her mind tells her to continue moving on. She does not know where to start but she continues to run despite the fact. Her onyx pupils are searching through the whole place thoroughly. -Where the heck is he?!-

Knowing the fact that he lacks in stamina-involving battle makes her picks up her current pace. But she notices something. During all the time she was searching the town, there were no signs of females. She wonder if there was even any of them at the first place. Well, apart from the shop assistant yesterday, she even had this empty look in her gaze. It was like she was not alive. Then, she realized something. Her legs stop.

FLASHBACK

His gaze wanders through the walking people around them. His face turns sullen, as if regarding those pedestrians as a menace. But they, on the other hand, keep looking at Reika, which is staring at Hibiki with a blank look.

END OF FLASHBACK

Astonished, she looks around her. Yes! They are looking at Reika! With a dirty look. Some of them are also smacking their lips. It makes her grows goosebumps. Now she needs Hibiki by her side! These guys are creepy!

The thing that keeps her not in motion now is only his location. She does not know where to go.

She breathes calmly to settle herself down for a moment and something crossed her mind. She remembered the time when Hibiki was in his escorting mission. Now…How did she knew it again?

Shutting her eyes, she inhales softly and…...

Her eyes snaps open. She knows where he is!

Cahynn smirks. Seeing that man is tortured inside that small room makes him feel satisfied. He hates those sluts, since his guild and town had been deprived by the Council. His life was miserable as the effect of the sudden retrieval of his town. After that incident, he started his own illegal Tsul Town, resembling his previous glorious trading centre. But the town is no longer a respectable one. He had made it a prostitute centre, lying behind the well-known 'trading' spot mask. He outbursts his tantrum towards the foreigners and passerby who still regard the Tsul town as the trading market. The females were raped and sold as whores to the black market after that. For the males, they must be molested first by his underlings before getting their heads off. For those who begged for mercy, he had made them his slave back in his mansion. This ruthless behavior of his has been sniffed by one of the Era members, and hence, his town was made portable after that, preventing them from getting caught. Using some kind of forbidden magic, Tsul town is now movable.

The screams of Hibiki is getting louder and louder. Later, it turns to whimpers before it becomes silent. His men come out through the door, with creepy smiles across their face.

"This guy here is done, sir", says one of them.

Again, Cahynn smirks. He'll never get enough if this. Suddenly,…

KABOOM!

Surprised, they look at the source of the noise. It is at the entrance of that building. Cahynn pokes his head out of the window. When he is about to look closely at what the hell is going on, one of his men comes flying at him. If he does not see him, he would most probably got knocked out in an instant.

After removing the limp body, he shoves his head out of the window again. But this time, he sees nothing. Seconds after that, the roof above him is pierced with a figure. She stands slowly after ambushing the building.

Reika looks around her. "Hey pig. Where's Hibiki?"

Cahynn, who is stunned just now, makes its way back into the real world and smirks. He jeers, "Oh, that pretty boy?" Behind him, his men starts to laugh. "He had passed out after series of tormenting session." They look at the room behind them, showing to Reika that the room was occupied by Hibiki.

"Good grieves", one of them spouts, "He's got some abs despite the flirt he'd been. I was enjoying it too!" They laugh after making fun of him. Her eyes enlarges with horror.

Reika pushes them aside and hastily opens the door revealing-

-an unconscious Hibiki with bruises and blood cakes his body. His shirt is nowhere to be found and his pants is ripped at the knees. He looks so….broken. Thank goodness he's unconscious, he would be in trauma if he wasn't. Her legs become wobbly.

"Sheesh, he fainted too fast!"

"I was starting to get the rhythm, then he got lights off." They laugh again.

The endless mockings behind her is burning her patience, flaming up her fists.

"Hey bastards", she says. Her grip tightens. "Have you ever experienced Hell?"

Reika has made sure that Hibiki is covered up nicely in her jacket. She let him ride her back, gently and carefully. She does not want to add the wound he'd got. The sun had set hours ago. They are resting at the abandoned building she's staying the night before. He's still unconscious.

She walks to the water-closet and washes her bruised and bloody knuckles. Dumping the clothes covered in dirt and the sluts' blood, she takes a shower and plans to wear her own clean outfit. Her heart is still pounding of anger. She sneers. Reika had made sure that those dirty minded animals will not gonna have the same life with the broken limbs they have now. Every single inch of their body is smashed by her kicks and water whips. She hopes they will learn their lesson.

By the time she had finished bathing, she heard a sound from the room. With her dripping hair, she wraps herself in towel and walks out of the toilet before pushing the door. Hibiki has woken up.

She can see that his eyes are empty now, showing the same shine as the shop assistant's. Well, who wouldn't? He DID get…you know what. Maybe the assistant had faced the same scar. His sight is so dull and somber, different from before. And what hurts her the most, she couldn't do anything to reduce his pain.

"Reika….", he croaks. He looks at her with eyes full of tears. His hands involuntarily stretches out to hold her. "I'm scared."

Reika quickly pulls him into a hug. God, he is shivering. Just how much did he had seen? He is acting like a kid who had lost his beloved toy or pet. Heck he is even crying now! Her naked shoulder is soaked with his tears. She pats his back softly, trying to calm himself down.

A few minutes later, she tries to get herself out of the hug. But his embrace feels heavy and tight. -Man, now how am I supposed to wear my clothes?- She takes a glance at Hibiki. -Wait! He's asleep? Seriously?-

Judging from the position they are now, together with the clothes, someone might misunderstood. She cocks her brow. Now is not the time to think like that! He needs her by his side!

Laying him slowly on the cold floor, she pillows his head with her arm, hoping there's no serious injury at the head or any concussions. He sleeps like a log. But still, he looks as perfect as ever. She smiles. Looks like the towel will wrap her body until morning comes.

He opens his eyes slowly. He felt a bump pillowing his head, giving his skull a comfort in sleeping throughout the whole night. He lifts his head to examine the 'bump'. It is an arm! He follows the arm until the tendon connects to a shoulder. Then, the shoulder is at someone's body.

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Reika!

His eyes widen. The hell? She's even in her towel! And loosely wrapping her, to be precise! Sure, she snuggled a lot last night. But she's still sleeping, undisturbed by his little movements just now. He tries to move away his gaze, but he can't. His eyes are glued to the wonderful sight in front of him. The lump of saliva in his throat is swallowed slowly.

"You're awake?"

He flinches. Did he get caught red-handed?

He nods. Then, he gets up from his lying position and sits up, looking away. Reika, on the other hand, is oblivious to the situation before, yawns while stretching out her hands, making her towel on the verge of falling. Only after that she realizes, her hands quickly tightens the towel back and stands up.

"Well, this is not the first time you've seen me in this. So I guess it's okay." She walks away. "I'm going to take a bath. Let's go."

Not believing what she'd just said, he quickly turn around his head, facing Reika with her poker face. "What? Don't tell me you still have the strength to take a bath all by yourself. Now, be a good boy and come to me."

He sits still in his position, reluctant. -Though I'm crushed from head to toe, I would not let myself lose virginity like this!- , he swears. Reika comes towards him and pulls him gently. "You still have to clean those wounds. Move, NOW", she orders.

The word 'wound' makes his mind rushes back to the nightmare yesterday. His body freezes. Reika takes this opportunity to pull him to the bathroom.

She throws a clean pair of shorts to him. "Change into that. I'm not that mean to let you strip naked just to clean those wounds."

He catches it and asks, "Where did you get this?"

"I took it."

"Where?"

"From your backpack."

"My backpack?"

She nods. "I got them at your inn last night. You're unconscious."

He raises his brow.-That was fast.-

After cleaning the injuries and taking a bath (not together okay?), they decided to organize a plan for their next move.

Reika, who had changed into her beloved black jacket and jeans, sits in front of Hibiki with a questioning look. "Are you sure you want to continue this mission?"

He lifts his head from the Archive screen. "What? You're underestimating me?"

"For God's sake, you're….", she is hesitant to say the word, "You are raped! And you still have the guts to go on?"

His fingers stop from typing on the magic keyboard. "Reika", his tone turns sober, "Any mission has its own risks. And this is what I deserve for allowing myself getting careless. I hope we will not talk about this anymore."

She gulps. This is the first time she had seen him being mad. "But I just do not want you to push yourself. You know, we still have a few days left for this missio-"

"-I said don't talk about this anymore."

They went silent for a few seconds. Reika is a bit upset by the way he acts. But she can't force himself to open up to her just like that. His voice sounds sturdy. Reika doesn't dare to ask any more of him.

"What about you plan something? I will just follow your instructions. You know, like a puppet, haha…", she tries to joke around to make the situation less serious. But it comes to no result. His face is still as tight as ever.

"You'll follow? I doubt that", he snickers. She looks at him at once. -Is this the same Hibiki? He will not underestimate his acquintances like this!-

"You'll just end up wrecking things all by yourself. And we will get to pay up a large amount of bills and you will run away, leaving only me to settle those and-"

"-Hibiki."

"-You will enjoy yourself like a child who didn't care a damn about this world!"

"HIBIKI!"

His nostrils flare of anger. She stares at him. "Give yourself some tranquil." With that, she walks away. After she closes the door, Hibiki calms himself down and covers his face with his hands.

"Argh…", he groans. His nightmare yesterday is too much for him to take. He sighs. -Reika was right.-, he thought, -I shouldn't push myself. She was just worried about me. And I snapped at her. God…..- He felt really guilty for getting mad at Reika for no reason. -How am I supposed to make it up to her?-

Regretting what he had done before, he searches for her outside of the room. But she is nowhere to be found! -Okay, this is weird.- , he tries to look in other rooms in the building too. -Where did she go?-

He is starting to feel worried about her when suddenly a voice greets him.

"What are you doing?"

Shocked, he jumps a bit while standing in front of a room's door. He turns around. It is Reika!

"Where did you go?"

"I went to fetch some food for us." She grins while showing him a plastic of onigiris and two canned drinks. "Sorry, not much. I can only afford these. My Jewels are spent too much on the suit before."

He looks at the plastic bag and Reika after that. Now he felt more guilty! He had thrown his tantrum on her and she still did not forget to get him some food? How thoughtful of her. She is just too kind for this corrupted world.

"I'm sorry", he says, bowing his head. "I'm really sorry about earlier." For a man, bowing down means lowering one's pride as well. In his case, he does not care anymore about ego and stuff. What he knows, he owed Reika, BIG time.

Reika smiles. "You're sorry for what?"

He lifts his face. "I'm apologizing for…", seeing Reika's smiling face makes his sentence dies there. She knows why but she chooses to forget about it. He can read it through her smile. He is touched. She is too kind.

"I-I ….I'm sorry…..Arrgghh!", eventually, he cannot put it into sentences and ends up hugging her. It makes him frustrated not to apologize to her. So, this is the only thing he can do.

Seconds after that...

"Can I ask?", she says in between his crumpled shirt.

"What is it?"

"Why do you like to hug me?"

He breaks the hug, his face is flushed red. "Aaa…That's…."

She stares at him, confused. "That's….?"

"Your…"

"My…..what?", tilting her head slightly to the side, she follows what he says. Hibiki found himself admiring her cuteness.

"Your….body is like a pillow, it's soft to touch", reaching the end of his sentence, his tone becomes lower and lower.

SMACK!

"Perv."

XD Do you like the ending? Hahaha… I was laughing my ass off when writing this scene. It's just too…..What should I say? Pervy? Never thought Hibiki would actually say that…

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