"Sophronia! You are not to search for Vela until you are stronger is that understood?" The Guild master booms. I grasp the railing on the balcony and pull myself up. "I am not part of this guild and have no reason to listen to you. I will go after her and kill her for what she has done. If I die then so be it." My voice is icy even to my own ears. Heartless Sophie keep being heartless. I watch him pick his way through the debris towards me. He stops once he is right in front of me. "You came to us for help and I intend to do just that."
"I came for information not for you to patronize me." He looks at me studiously inspecting all of my face… and my body too the pervert.
"Help is help. We will make sure Vela is dealt with but I won't allow you to go on a suicide mission." The guild downstairs is staring now and I can hear them whispering. "You will stay here and train while we gather information on her whereabouts." I open my mouth to argue but before I can speak he holds up a hand. "That is final. If I must I will put you on house arrest. Your family might be dead but you are not." I wince inwardly when he mentions them. I don't want to live though. Not without them. Lucy comes up next to Master with a shocked look on her face. "What do you mean you don't want to live?" She asks horrified. Whoops apparently I said that out loud. I turn my head and look her straight in the eye. "My whole family is dead because of me. Can you tell me you would want to live with that guilt? That you would carry on with life always knowing that it YOUR fault that everything that is important to you can never see the light of day again? Jasmine was four. She has, HAD only been talking for a year now. Drake was eighteen. He was going to open up a car shop. My mom." I pause and look down. Heartless Sophie. No crying. "My mom worked two jobs so she could make sure we had a better life than she did." I look at both of their faces. "You can't look at me and say everything is going to be okay that I will be happy. When it's MY fault their dead. I WILL kill Vela or I will die trying." I brush past them and stride towards the stairs. "I will not let any of you stop me." I say turning to look over my shoulder. I continue towards the door when I am grabbed. Not again! I look up and it is non other than Laxus. "Let me go." He shakes his head and pulls on my hand until he can grab my wrist effectively trapping me. "Gramps said you are staying. So you ARE staying." Oh hell no. I need to go prepare their funerals and then I am out of town. I growl a little it and pull at my wrist. "The hell I am!" I yank my wrist until it pops free and race towards the door until I am tackled by Gray. I flip over and send him flying across the room with my legs. I scramble to my feet but am again yanked by someone trying to submit me. It's the white haired behemoth from earlier. He wraps one of his arms around my waist and hoists me into the air. I push at his arm trying to loosen his grip and kick my legs trying to kick him. "Put me down you freaking Vulcan!" I end up kicking him where it hurts and he drops me. I roll to my feet and sprint to the door. AGAIN. I will say these people are persistent. I see Laxus looming above me as I near the door and charge at him my head tucked low when I am suddenly hit with an electric shock rendering me paralyzed. He comes and picks me up carrying me towards the guild Master. "Thank you Laxus. If you could take her to the infirmary that would be great." Laxus nods and heads that way. "Freed! Go with Laxus and put her in confinement." Our party of three makes it to the infirmary and I am set on a bed getting a good view of "Freed". He is an aristocratic looking man with green hair. "Sorry Sophie but gramps is right. We can't let you go in fighting blind." If I could I would say something sarcastic back but because I am still paralyzed it comes out like a garbled mess. Laxus smiles a bit and walks to Freed. "You will have to use strong runes for her. She's smarter than she looks." He winks at me and leaves the room. Oh just wait. He is soo going to get it. Freed starts writing stuff in the air and soon I am caged in by glowing figures. Great. Freed tips his head at me and leaves. Alone at last. My thoughts take a dark turn. I'm sorry guys. I'm sorry that it's my fault your dead. I promise that she will pay. I can finally move my toes now so it shouldn't be too long before I can try to escape. Okay so priorities: one prepare the funerals, two get the hell out of dodge, three find Vela, four kill Vela. Sounds like an a-okay plan to me. I try moving my arms and to my surprise I can. I guess the effects wore off. I swing my legs off the bed and stomp over to the translucent wall that Freed set up. What the heck is this stuff? I poke the glowing figures and am instantly reprimanded for my act by a searing pain being sent down my arm. Okay so no touching got it. How the heck am I supposed to get out of here? I sigh exasperated and sit to think. Suddenly I get a brilliant idea. It looks like a big rumbled mess right now but maybe if I unravel it like a knotted rope I can get out. I study the glowing images for a bit searching for a pattern. Maybe if I can figure out the pattern I can untangle it and get out of here. After watching them for about 20 minutes I become aware of a figure standing outside the doorway but choose to ignore it for the time being. I am never going to figure out the pattern if I don't have something to write with I stand up and start looking around the room for something to write with. "What are you doing?" I hear a soft voice ask from the doorway. I straighten and look; it's a little girl with long blue hair. "I am looking for something to write with. You don't happen to have a pen or something do you?" She shakes her head. I figured but it wouldn't hurt to ask. I go back to my search. "My name is Wendy." I hear the girl say as I crawl under one of the beds. "Nice to meet you Wendy I'm Sophronia." No pen under here. I head to the next bed. "There's a pencil in the bedside table there." I jerk up and look to see where she's pointing. "Thanks." I rush over and jerk open the drawer. YES! Now I can get out of here! I sit on the floor and start writing the pattern on the floor in front of me. About ten minutes later I am finishing up writing down the pattern and Wendy is still here. "Why are you standing there?" She looks startled that I spoke to her.
"I'm curious."
"About what?"
"You. " She blushes. "You seemed so sad earlier and I wanted to make sure you were okay."
"I am fine so there is no need to worry about me. Go back to your friends." I wave dismissively and turn back to my writing. "I know you're not fine. You may act fine but you're not. You have this sadness and anger all around you it's suffocating."
"Then go away. It won't be as bad from far away." She shakes her head.
"I can feel it out there too. I'm a sky dragon slayer my magic is healing. I can heal physical wounds but I can also feel mental wounds and you are covered in those."
She's not wrong. I am traumatized but it's not like she can do anything.
"Well everyone has their own demons my just happened to grow in the last 48 hours. Go back to your friends Wendy I don't need your help and I don't want it. So just GO AWAY." Her face falls and she has tears in her eyes. I watch as she runs from the doorway. I sigh and turn back to write the last figure. Finally done now all I have to do it type these in order… I think. I tentatively approach the wall. Here goes nothing. I touch the first figure and nothing happens. I guess that's a good sign. I continue to type until all the figures are entered and watch as the barrier shatters in a blink of green light. I grin. IT WORKED! I stick my head out of the doorway and glance around. It doesn't look like anyone is here time to make my escape. I close the door and run to one of the windows in the infirmary. I open the window thankfully we are on the ground floor so no jumping for me. I clamber out the small opening and fall into a heap on the ground. Very nice Sophie very spyish.
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The funerals are taken care of. They were quick and to the point only I was in attendance. Now I just have to gather supplies and I am on my way. I skip a bit on my way to my first stop. The weapons store. I know I have to be careful Fairytail has to have noticed I am gone by know but I already bought new clothes and have them on now my hood is up and my face hidden there is no way they can find me. I enter the shop and make my way to the counter. "Excuse me." I say sweetly trying to catch the shopkeeper attention. "Yes girl?" His back was turned to me until now. I let my eyes run over his figure. Black haired man, blue eyes, early twenties. I smile "I need to buy a few things." He smiles back. "Well I can help. What do you need?"
"I need two katanas, four daggers, two kurkis, a bow, a quiver, arrows, two ankle holsters, and some light armor something I can run in." He looks a bit shocked but nods and yanks out a few choices. I pick out what I want, pay, and leave my pouch of money quite a bit lighter than it was before. No matter I don't need much more. I scan the street and start to run to the otherside when I hear a voice, a familiar voice "SOPHIE STOP!" I turn my head to the voice and see the pink haired idiot running at me. Well crap! I thought I lost them! I quickly bolt in the opposite direction that pinkie is going. "I SAID STOP!" I snort. Yeah sure that's going to happen. I keep running until I get to a bridge that goes across the river. I think I lost him. I stroll across the bridge and walked towards the forest. That was too close. I need to look out for more of them. I am lost in thought until I walked into someone. "Oh I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention."
"No problem." I look up. It's the guy from the weapons store. "Oh you're the girl from earlier the one who bought a whole bunch of stuff." I nod my head and stick my hand out awkwardly. "I'm S…Supuringu." He grabs my hand.
"I'm Orion."
"Nice to meet you Orion but I have to be off now bye!" I wave and start to walk away when Orion grabs my arm. His smile drops. "I'm sorry Sophronia but you are not going anywhere."
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~FaeBo