Yay for the new chapter! I'll be having my exams next week so I think it is all I can do for this week. Bix and Lis will meet sooner hopefully. It's all because of my habit of explaining everything instead of narrating can be a pain in the neck. I apologise!

To Forget to Remember

Chapter 2:

All about the Human Nature and

Giant Bugs

Fried and Bixlow were having their free time, settled at one of the tables in the huge Fairy hall, lazily drinking and chatting on various issues. Bixlow's babies were whizzing around his head randomly, while Fried's attention was focused on the entrance door. Evergreen, on the other hand, was off to visit her mother.

Yes, Evergreen did have a mother; probably she was the only being that Evergreen placed before herself. Fried, Bixlow and her own mother were the three people that Evergreen had ever exchanged more than a couple of sentences (Nowadays, Elfman was being categorized alongside Fried and Bixlow as being a person who had enough guts to speak to her with a free will).Fried and Bixlow didn't even get to meet Evergreen's mother. However, they knew that, from Evergreen's description, she was truly an amazing person and was the only one who supported Evergreen.

Of course she would, she was her mother.

To Fried and Bixlow, "support" seemed as a covering word. Clearly, praise, laud and other synonyms of those words would be more suitable and match Evergreen's understanding of the meaning of support. Being too much praised also perfectly explained Evergreen's over self-confident behaviors and calling herself as the Fairy Queen.

Fried and Bixlow were chatting about that more than half an hour. It wasn't because of they didn't like Evergreen and her mother.

Honestly, they didn't have anything else to do.

"Guess that's enough of talkin'. Tellin' this to her face would do the trick. " Bixlow cracked his trademark grin; a tattooed tongue was hanging out of his mouth while he comfortably laid his back to the chair. Fried nodded slightly, silently agreeing to Bixlow's first comment. His gaze was still locked onto the entrance door though. It was not like he was anticipating a certain someone to enter. He decided to occupy himself just watching people.

"Are we waitin' for someone?" Bixlow questioned.

"No, I am just gazing around." Fried responded calmly, not turning his face back to Bixlow.

"…Whatever." Bixlow rolled his eyes under his mask.

"Whatever, really!" Pappa said.

"Whatever!" Peppe moaned.

Bixlow shrugged as his babies blurted in unison. He didn't bother to understand Fried because he knew it would be a waste of time. A mysterious man as he is, Fried sometimes had a goal on his own that he didn't prefer to reveal. However, he was obvious when he was eyeing Mirajane. That bastard certainly liked her and didn't miss his chance to talk with the cover girl of Fairy Tail.

"Your lover is runnin' around, serving her orders if you're lookin' for her." Bixlow pointed where Mirajane was hurryingly to another table.

For just a few seconds, Fried's eyes widened as he turned his head to Bixlow but later on he was able to stabilize his sudden shock. He knew Bixlow was doing this to tease him, so that he could have his fun out of it, and he couldn't bear to just give in. After all, except the "girls in bikinis", nothing could shake Fried's structure of focused calmness.

"Pointing someone with your finger is a really rude attitude. I didn't think you were that low." It was enough of a reply for Fried; so he turned back to where he was looking at.

" Jeez, You are no fun." Bixlow sighed heavily.

Damn you Fried.

Finally, Bixlow's gaze aimlessly turned to the entrance.

"Boring!" Poppo shouted.

"Yea, Boring!" Pippi agreed.

Bixlow didn't need to think out loud, he could count on his babies about it. Whether he liked it or not, his babies were a projection of his very truthful being.

Few minutes later, a petit mage headed out of the guild door. It was Lisanna, Fried and Bixlow realized, walking out with a paper in her hand.

Approximately twenty minutes ago, as the two members of the Raijinshuu were chatting, Bixlow saw the same white haired mage heading to the table that was across theirs. At this table, there was that Fire Dragon Slayer sitting, and he looked as if he was high rather than starving, Bixlow could tell.

His attention turned back to the girl when the friends greeted each other. That was the time when Bixlow realized, something was wrong with her.

Her fists were clenched and she was stepping towards his table with delayed footsteps as if she was going to face with her worst nightmare. If you didn't know that Lisanna and Natsu were very close friends, you might have faintly realized she was daring to talk to him because she was being threatened. On the contrary to her physical structure, the tone of her voice had its friendly cheer and her face was definitely lightened up to be able to greet him again.

After Cosplay Maniac Queen's debut, Bixlow was pretty much certain that his observations and his notions were generally correct. Lisanna's hasty depart just concluded it.

Bixlow summarized in his mind. She is in a chaos within herself.

Bixlow, out of all the guild of Fairy Tail, had never been someone that people went and shared their worries with. To most of them, Bixlow was a maniac on his own without sensation. It wasn't like Bixlow minded his reputation in the guild. He wasn't asking for people's company either, he was very fine with being on his own. Fried and Evergreen were enough to be friends too.

Although, it didn't mean that he was a being without emotions. As a user of human possession magic, rather than only being able to control their physical movements, he was also able to sense the thoughts and feelings of the person who he possessed. As a result, he began to develop an understanding of the emotions of humans generally.

He understood she was still uneasy with Natsu and Lucy dating. Was she that much of a holder of the past? He reminded himself that whether she was or not, it was none of his business. Possibly she was PMSing or… Bixlow didn't even know how many different possibilities there could be. Maybe she broke her nail, because when Evergreen broke hers, he knew he and Fried should be making off to avoid Evergreen's high pitched shout. All girly reasons that he was never going to understand ,so were the girls, they were completely insane.

"Bixlow, are you there?" Fried clapped his fingers in front of his team mate's face.

Bixlow turned back to the present and sighed.

"Let's get out of here. This place makes me go nuts. There's nothin' to do."

Fried blinked at the statement but didn't refuse. They went out of the guild to waste more time.

The whistle of the train echoed through the empty walls of the train station of Dejakmara. After 3 hours of travelling, Lisanna was strolling around with her backpack to find someone to learn how to get to the town center. She was lucky to find one of the farmers of the town, and he was kind enough to offer her to give her a lift.

"We were expecting a group of mages, to be honest," said the farmer.

They were travelling on a coach on the sandy roads. Lisanna wondered when they would be able to reach to the civilization. There was nothing to be seen at the dusty horizon, neither at the both sides. There were massive canyons and rocky statues all over the place.

"I am sorry; you should have mentioned it in your advertisement..." Lisanna had an urgent feeling that she was being offensive so she added:

" …but don't worry, I'll make you sure that everything will be alright in just a week."

"That would be really revealing to see, child. However, the situation is worse than you could have imagined."

"Could you briefly tell me what exactly happened to the town?"

"Where we are placed, is a fertile land. As you can see though, the surroundings are parched and deserted . The reason of the fertility of our lands is what happens under the surface of where we live. Once, there were bugs living under, called as "Deganor". Deganors have a habit of placing their eggs just under the first layer of the surface. When the eggs hatch and the shell of the egg remains connected to the ground, it merges with the soil and makes our lands healthy and giving."

"One day though, these creatures decided that the underground was not big enough as a habitat. They crawled out of the ground to our lands, causing massive destruction to our homes as they wandered aimlessly. We called our local guild and wanted them to destroy deganors. They are gone now but the destruction they brought about still affects our conditions."

Twenty minutes later, Lisanna understood what he was talking about. The coach stopped on the hill that was towering the town with an eagle eye. The land was very green indeed but the buildings were harshly destroyed and there were huge cracks at the town center. One of the cracks even divided a road that was passing by. The condition of the farms weren't better. Tents were all over the safer areas.

This was going to be a bunch of work, Lisanna thought.

Suddenly she had a feeling that it was going to take her forever.

I really like to add some abilities to characters which is related to their power. I have some few in my mind! Stay tuned and don't hesitate to review!