Her Story Chapter 3
A/N: Hey guys, as you all know Sunday are mother's day, and I just wanted to say People reading this on Sunday. Go enjoy your mothers they won't be here forever. I just recently lost my great aunt, and I wish all you people who don't have a mom, will give that mom figure in your life some gratefulness. The biggest problem with generation is we are too caught up in our technology and stuff that we don't realize we're missing out on out mother's great years. So please appreciate your mom's this Sunday, and I hope y'all have a great mother's day. I didn't only come here for that really emotional opening; I came here to give y'all a new chapter. I'm gonna start doing Response time in the begging of my chapters, because I had to delete and re-upload the last chapter, because I forgot the response time.
Glasses: Thank you for being patient. I am not a very patient myself, but I'm glad you are. The plot, in my opinion, will make up for it. It has a much unexpected ending. That's all the spoilers I'm going to say. When it's five chapters I will give a preview.
Bianca: I would like to thank you for reviewing on my story. Thank you, I am a very descriptive person (As you may know) and I don't like it when I can't picture something, so I try to be as descriptive as I can without making it seem like the chapters are all descriptions.
Those are all the guest reviews. I hope more people will review. The only reason I am updating is because I got five different reviews from five different people. This chapter will be the first interactions with the cannon characters. This will be A LONG CHAPTER, SO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THE RIDE!
Date: July 9, X777
A boy, age 7, with raven hair and ice eyes climbed the steep cliff. He sighed as he looked up and saw that he was near the top.
The boy had needed some money, so he took an urgent job offer. It paid well, plus it offered transportation to and from the job village. It was a small rural village, but it was booming fast. The village council man was very torn up about the missing girl; he cared for her as if she was his own. The job was to save this abducted child who has been missing for five years. They had found her in a cave at the top of a nearby mountain two days ago.
The local guild had tried to reach her days earlier, but failed due to 'an enormous golden dragon that had the breath of light.'
"Almost there." He grunted, but of course, the universe hating him so, the boy lost one of his two hand holds. He gave a strangled cry for help as he tried to regain his hand hold to no avail. His only hand started to slip due to his internal turmoil, but he felt a light hand grasp his wrist. He looked up and saw a girl of the age of 7 gripping as hard as she could onto his wrist. His eyes flicked from her eyes to his wrist.
"Don't just hang there, looking at me! Grab on!" he did as he was told, and grabbed her wrist with his free hand. She started yanking up, and soon he was lying, facing the bright blue sky. He looked to his right and saw a sickening drop of 200 feet and to his left was the opening of the cave he was supposed to go into. The girl who pulled him up was gasping for breath as she sat on her heels; clutching her chest.
"Why… are… you… here?!" She gasped/yelled.
"I got a job for saving some abducted girl from a dragon. Why else?" The boy assumed she was here for the same reason. She just didn't accept the job formally.
"No seriously, why are you here?" She had gotten up and placed her hands on her hips.
"I'm serious. That's why I'm here."
"What's your name anyways?"
"Gray Fullbuster, Fairy Tail Ice mage."
"I just asked for your name." she turned to walk into the cave. "Not your entire life story." Just like that she left him lying at the mouth of the cave.
Gray could tell she was being sarcastic, but it still hurt. "Hey, don't walk away from me!" he yelled as he scrambled to his feet.
"I just did." She said emotionlessly over her shoulder.
"Wait, are you affiliated with her?" Gray voiced.
She turned and strode to him, poked a finger at his chest, and got real close to his face, "The only times I have been out of this cave was when I was three, and even at then I don't remember much of it." She stepped and started to pace. "Even then I wasn't… normal. Now she's gone, and I don't know how to control it yet. Now, people are looking for me…" she started mumbling while she paced. Gray could sense this going on for a while, so he perched on a nearby rock. When she wasn't up in his face, his savior was actually kind of cute.
Her gold eyes seem hard and cold, yet comforting like one of his deceased mother's hugs. She had long black hair that was in three braids braided into one (So her hair was in three braids, then she braided them into one if I wasn't clear. All my 5 friends said I wasn't clear enough.). Her hands were covered by black scaled looking cloves; navy blue jacket was partially unzipped, which showed her white tank top underneath; Navy blue jeans; and, her Chuck Taylor's were caked in mud.
"Hello… earth to ice mage." The girl waved her hand in front of Gray's face.
"Huh?"
"You were staring at me. Why?" she placed her hands on her hips and gave him a death glare.
"Wait, who are you? I never caught your name."
"The girl who just saved your life. Who else?!"
"No, I mean like your actual name."
"…" The girl was silent.
"What's your name?"
She fingered the choker necklace she was wearing; Gray caught a glimpse of something black. She mumbled something.
"What?"
She hid her face in her jacket, but spoke a little louder, "Hikari."
"Nice to meet you, Hikari. I'm Gray. I'm not here to hurt you. I'm here to find a girl who was abducted. Her parents are worried about her. They brought me here to bring her home. Do you know where she is?" He extended his had to Hikari.
"Thank you, and Yes. I know the girl you're looking for." She took his hand and shook it.
"Great, where is she?"
"You're looking at her."
"What?"
She faceplamed, "I'm the girl you're looking for. Didn't you infer that? I'm the only one up here, and… ugh, never mind."
"Oh, I knew that… Okay. How do we get down from here?"
Both Gray and Hikari were at the edge of the cliff, and Gray peered down the side.
"Did you expect to fall down snowflake? You can hitch a ride with me."
"What is with the nicknames?"
"'Gray' is just so… boring. I'm gonna give you a nickname. It'll light up the darkness inside you."
"So you'll be my Light in the Dark. That's ironic. You're starting to sound like my old teacher."
"What's ironic?"
"Well, your name means Light, and…" he saw Hikari's glare. "I'm just gonna shut up now."
"What do you mean?" Before Gray could process anything, a golden magic circle appeared at his feet.
Hikari had her arms out stretched out, "Dragon board." Gray was sitting in mid-air now.
"Whoa!" He flailed his arms, and Hikari started swaying Side to side.
"Stop, the board isn't stable to take on rough terrain yet. It's completely made of Light. Try to stay calm."
Gray looked closely at the ground and sure enough it was slightly shimmering. "Cool." He whispered.
"Hold on."
"What?" Gray was still mesmerized by the shimmering ground. It was suddenly ripped out from under him. Gray and Light plummeted downward, the ground coming closer at a sickening rate. They stopped when the ground was inches from their feet.
When they stepped off, the board dissipated.
"So where are you taking me?"
"To the village, I'll collect my reward, heed back to my guild, and you can forget my forever." He turned his back to Hikari and started leading the way to the village.
Hikari grabbed his wrist, "Is that seriously what you're gonna do?"
"I don't really have a choice."
"How 'bout we break the rule."
"What?"
"You're cool Gray, (No pun intended) and you kind of saved me. I can't go on with my life and pretend it didn't happen. I am forever in your debt. How about, we... become friends." Hikari smiled.
Gray looked downwards, "I've never had a real friend." He mumbled.
"Me neither. We can work it out I'm sure."
"Alright." They both smiled.
A distant scream was heard in the direction Gray was walking in. the two friends Shared a scared look.
"The village!" they said together. Gray took off running and Hikari was soon to follow. What they saw was completely horrifying.