Chapter Seven
After those three weeks, I'm starting to notice something different about her. Her once joyous face whenever she bullies them, or goes in on them for her revenge that's filled with triumph and pride is now changing into a face filled with confusion and a hint of sadness every time she hurts those who used to hurt her...
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"You, know..." she said. "I'm not sure that I'm even me anymore..."
"This was what you wished for, ain't it?" master asked. "To be someone else? For your revenge purposes."
"Yeah, but..." she sighed and sat on one of the big rocks in the forest.
Have I told you before that they often talked? No? Sorry if I haven't; it's just that if I get excited on telling something to people, I often tend to leave out some small and a little bit important parts...
"They got what they deserved," Gajeel smirked. "It's what you kept telling me, and yourself, too, isn't it?"
She nods and stays silent for a while. "But... I'm also ruining myself, am I not?"
"I... I'm turning out to be someone else... Someone farther than the real me could ever be... And also turning out to be like them - once, I was the one they bullied, belittled, said and done bad things to; and now I'm the bully, the one who bullies them, and the one who says and do bad things to them..."
"But isn't that what you wanted?" he asked, with a hint of amusement in his voice. I suppose hes probably amused because Levy realized her mistakes earlier than we were both expecting.
"I... I... I don't really know myself now!" she said and looked down on the ground.
"Because revenge really wasn't that sweet, now, was it?"
"It was... I'm only ruining myself... and becoming like them." she said."I've... decided on my second wish now."
"Tell me, then." he grinned.
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Chapter Eight
"I... I don't want to be like this anymore."
"I don't want to keep pretending, to keep being someone I'm not... someone who I never really wanted to be."
Yeah, and there I was thinking that she really was entirely poisoned by revenge and greed already; got myself proved wrong when I found out that it hasn't really entirely gotten into her yet, and that she's wanting to be her real self rather than someone she's not.
"I... wish to be back to my old self again... I wish that everyone in our school would forget about me ever being that person..."
"But you know that this would mean that they're gonna bully you again, ain't they?"
She just nods and forces a small smile. "It still is better... rather than loosing my real self to being someone I'm really not."
"Your wish is my command," he says with a grin.
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The next day at school, Levy was already back at her usual self again. Well, not entirely usual, because this time around, she's learned how to avoid these bullies and Gray in a more polite way, we can say - she doesn't say mean words this time, doesn't use her magic to hit them or anything; she just smiles and tells them what she thinks as politely as she can, which of course made them more hate her, but, it still is better. She realized that she really didn't have to be like them just to be able to fight them back - she just had to be her.
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The next day, I heard her and master talking alone together. I was pretending to still be asleep on Levy's bed as I listened to them.
"But I thought you told me that today you're gonna tell me your story!" Levy whined.
"What story?" Gajeel answered, making it sound as if he really doesn't know what they're talking about.
"One how you got to be like this!" she said.
"Oh," he answered with a fake surprised tone, "that."
"Well," he sighed. "You're not really planning to stop asking me about this unless I tell you so, aren't you?"
"You know it!" she answers with enthusiasm.
"Fiiiiiiine," master said. "It was a long time ago, really."
"Hundreds of years ago, I guess."
"I also made a wish, got blinded by greed and power."
"I wanted revenge on those who killed my whole family, so I wished for it."
"Then afterwards, power and greed blinded me."
"I wanted more power - more than the Iron Dragon Slaying magic that I have."
"I wanted to have everything that I wanted."
"So I wished for more."
"Then on my last wish, I really lost myself with all those thirst for power already..."
"I wished to be a demon, like the demon that was granting my wishes."
"I thought by being one, I could also grant my wishes; but I never could."
"The demon who made my wish come true never told me about the rule that we can't grant our own wishes until after I've turned like this."
"So that's why I consider this a curse, sometimes. Because it was still my fault, ya know."
"End of the story."
Levy fell silent for a while, maybe she was thinking... I still have my eyes closed, so I can't really see what their facial expressions are, or what they're doing right now.
"I see," was all that she said. "Well, how about Lily? How did he get to be with you?"
'It's Pantherlily! Not just Lily! It makes me sound like a girl exceed.' I protested in my head.
"Dunno," he said. "Exceeds are born every time a wish demon is created."
Then he pats my head. "You don't have to pretend to sleep, Lily."
He grinned when I opened my eyes. Yeah, the pretend sleeping doesn't work out around him. I just sit and shrug, then give him a grin.
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Oh, and well, yeah... When Levy wished to be back to her old self again and make everyone at their school forget what she ever did the past weeks, it surprised me. Because I never was expecting it... I thought that she was already taken in by greed and power, but I guess she still wasn't. She's still good at seeing light in the dark, I suppose. Every time, she kept surprising me with how she really is; and I grew curious on what her last wish will be during these times. I wondered, maybe she'll wish herself free from being taken an important thing she really treasures so much? Yes, that wish is possible, that's why it's 'any wish', humans just don't bother trying to.
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No, this won't be another note saying an apology~ I'm just cutting this part now and then write the next part today, too xD
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