Chapter Two
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"Hey Gramps?" Gray asks sitting down at the bar.
Makarov opens one eye. "What is it Gray?"
"Where can I find dried rainbow sakura and blood grass? I need some for a mission, but I've been stuck on it for a while."
Makarov thinks. Where can he find such rare or out of season plants? He snaps his fingers. "Go to the forest outside of magnolia and find Porlyusica. I'm sure that she'll have some.
Gray nods his heas. "Thanks Gramps."
Gray sniffas the air and smells something burning. His eyes dart around suspiciously. A small cloud of heather gray smoke erupts to his left. He rushes to the site and hides behind a bush.
Seven identical, rather tall, lean young men stand in the middle of the clearing. They have waves of spiky teal hair, snake like lime eyes, and a faint scaly patterns on their skin. They have dartmouth green wing projections from their backs that have teal membranes and dartmouth green tails with teal spikes. Their nails are long and they snort fire out of their noses. They all wear hunter green v-necks and formfitting gray jeans with hunter green sneakers.
They form a semicircle around a petite, slender girl of average height with long black hair that parts down the middle and stormy gray eyes. She wears a short, sleevless teal kimono tunic. The robe is held together by a dartmouth green obi with a lime green ribbon tied around it. Around her biceps are flared shirtless sleeves. Her feet are shod with sockless tabi sandals. She holds a tall golden staff with vines and snakes twisting up it and at the top is a golden apple. A tawny ion skin is thrown over her shoulders.
The serpentine men are protecting the girl from several forest vulcans. Gray watches in amazement as the men protect the girl from the forest vulcans. They slash with their claws and burn them with their fire breath. But then, a vulcan appears from behind the semicircle and knocks the girl out. her clothes morph into simpler clothing, a long sleeved black crop top and black leggings and boots. The serpentine men de-materialize and the vulcans advance.
"It's a woo-man and woo-man," they chant in unison. Gray, heroically if he may put it so, leaps in front of her and freezes a vulcan stiff.
He pauses in the middle and takes a deep breath. "Ice blade: seven-slice dance!" he calls out and takes down two. "Ice make: impact!" one more. "Ice make: lance!" and with that he takes down the last vulcan. Each of the vulcans shrinks down considerably until they become other animals. Squirells, rabbits, and one becomes a slim and tall elderly woman with pink hair.
"Fool," she whispers before passing out.
Rin observes Miss Porlyusica yelling at the man from her bed. Somehow, he seems, familiar. But why? His spiky nay blue hair, his coal black eyes. Her head starts to hurt from overthinking.
"And your name is?" he asks interrupting her thought process. He stares at her.
She clears her throat. "Rin. My name is Rin."
"Rin?" his eyes seem to pop open. "Your name is Rin?"
She nods slowly. "Yes. My name is Rin. Why?"
"I-I used to know someone named Rin. She was someone very dear to me. And in the end I couldn't protect her," he says with a slight scowl.
-F.L.A.S.H.B.A.C.K-
"Gray. Come here," his father called to him.
Gray leapt off of Aunt Muzumi's lap. "You're back already?" He was so excited that he stumbled and fell face first into the snow. He almost cried, but he stopped himself. He was a big brother now and he needed to set a good example. He stood back up carefully and sniffled. Then he threw his chest out and strutted over to his mother and father.
"What a big boy. You are going to make a wonderful brother," his mother praised.
With that, Gray threw his chest out a little more and held his hands out. "May I hold it?"
"It?" his mother giggled. "This is your little sister. Her name is Rin. Take good care of her," she gently placed the baby into Gray's small arms.
He gazed into her small face. He became so overwhelmed with happiness that he held her to his chest tightly. "I will protect you," he whispered into the small baby's ear.
Then it happened.
They were all sleeping and the ground started to shake. Scream sounded throughout Brago. Gray was shaken awake by his panicked mother. "Gray! Gray, you must get up! We need to leave!"
Gray watched as his father, the man he had thought be invincible fell as he was fighting Deliora. Then, as his mother went into forest to Aunt Muzumi's house to get her the trees, they burned. They collapsed. He watched in terror as the flames swallowed his mother. He could no longer see her. And Rin. She was in his mother's arms. Suddenly, all was lost.
His mother. His father. Rin. They died.
All because of Deliora.