Chapter 5: A reminder of the past Part2

The two boys were shocked to see an old friend from the past. It has been a long time since the day that they met. They never expected that they will meet up with him after a long time of being separated with each other.

Flashback:

After a long time of staying in bed, Rogue got bored and asked his friends if they can go for a stroll in the forest. At first, Lucy and Sting rejected Rogue's request since Rogue's injuries weren't fully healed yet Rogue still insisted to go since it has been a long time since he left the mansion. Rogue pleaded to Lucy and Sting until they finally gave up.

"The air is so refreshing." Rogue said inhaling the air around him. Lucy was still assisting Rogue as they walked through the forest since he wasn't fully recovered yet. Sting was just at their back, making sure that the forest was clear of assassins when he suddenly heard rustling in one of the bushes. Sting told Lucy if someone appears, she must get ready to run with Rogue with her while he tries to hold them back. The rustling got louder and louder, Sting and Lucy was about to get ready but to their surprise, it was only a little blonde boy.

"Huh? How did I get here?" the boy asked himself, puzzled by the unknown area. When he finally noticed the three children in front of him, he apologized for startling them and asked which part of the forest were they.

"I think we're in the Eastern side of the forest" Sting said, trying to calculate their position.

"So I think I'm not that far from my house. That was close." The blonde boy sighed in relief, thinking that he might have walked far.

"I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Blake. Blake Etoile" Blake introduced himself in gentlemanly way.

"My name is Rogue Cheney."

"I'm Sting Eucliffe."

Blake shook both of their hands in friendly manner then he suddenly noticed a cute blonde girl next to Rogue. Blake walked towards her and bends down as he kissed Lucy's hand asking her what's her name.

"U-um, it's L-Lucy H-heartfilia." Lucy trembled as she got shy when Blake kissed her hand.

"Lucy. What a beautiful name for a beautiful girl like you." Blake said, letting go of Lucy's hand.

This scene really made Sting and Rogue jealous causing them to yell at Blake for no reason. All of the yelling stopped when another rustling can be heard. This time the people who came out of the bushes were three men wearing bodyguard outfits. Sting thought that they were henchmen of another mastermind who wants to take Lucy away from them so he pounced off trying to punch one of them in the face when he was suddenly stopped by Blake.

"Sting, what are you doing to my personal bodyguards?" Blake asked.

"W-wha?" Sting's head tilted when he heard that the person he just punched was Blake's bodyguard.

"Are you okay, master?" one of Blake's bodyguard asked as he was helping the other bodyguard to stand up.

"I'm okay. I'm sorry for my friend's behavior; he didn't know that you are my bodyguards. So are you alright?" Blake apologized to his bodyguard whom Sting punched.

"I'm alright, Master Blake. We should better get going now, the sun is already setting. If we won't get you home in time, you father will get worried."

"We should better get going, too. You're parents will get worried if you don't get home, Lucy-chan."

"I insist that you three come with me and stay at my place for the night since my house is just a few steps away from her." Blake said stopping his newly found friends from leaving and insisting them to stay at his place. The three looked at each other if each was fine to stay at Blake's house, it was deeply dark that night and Sting and Rogue were thinking about Lucy's safety so they hastily accepted his offer. Blake was happy that they accepted his offer; it was his first time to make friends with other children so he tried to be extra nice to them.

"I thought you said that it was just a few steps away." Sting started to get impatient since they've been walking for 20 minutes and there were still no signs of being closer to Blake's house. While Sting kept on complaining, the people in front of him had already stopped walking, making Sting to bump into Rogue.

"Oof… why did you stop walking Ro…" Sting stopped complaining as he was amazed by the gigantic mansion that was standing in front of them. The mansion was as huge as the Heartfilia's, the house had over a dozen cars parked in front of it and there were maids and butlers lining up in the gateway as they were greeting Blake's return.

"So shall we go in?" Blake said, looking back at his surprised friends. As Blake, Sting, Lucy and Rogue went inside; they were more maids that greeted Blake and the others.

"Blake."

"Father." Blake shouted, running into his father's arms, giving him a quick embrace before his father could carry him in his shoulders. As Blake's father puts him in his shoulder, he noticed that there were three children standing in front of him.

"Are this your friends Blake?" Blake's father asked nicely, putting his son back to the ground so that Blake can introduce each and one of them to his beloved father.

"Yep. This blonde boy is Sting Eucliffe. He almost had beaten one of our bodyguards." Sting felt a bit embarrassed as he was being praise by Blake.

"He, on the other hand, is Rogue Cheney." Blake's father smiled as he saw how happy his son was, just by introducing his new friends. Suddenly, Blake's father asked who's the blonde girl standing between the two boys.

"Oh right! She's my beautiful friend, Lucy Heartfilia." This introduction made Lucy blush into a deep shade of red also making the two dragon slayers jealous again.

"Did you just say Heartfilia?" Blake's father asked but this time he wasn't very happy to ask his son. His son nodded carefully since it was the first time Blake saw his father unhappy. There was silence between them after Blake nodded.

"So let's start eating dinner, shall we?" Blake's father asked, returning back to normal. The four children in front of him nodded. After eating a delicious meal, Blake's father asked his son if they can show them their rooms. Blake happily accepted his father request, as he left the dining room with the others, leaving his father all alone in the dining room.

"This is perfect timing to take revenge on those useless Heartfilias." Blake father said, smirking as he thought of an evil scheme.

Meanwhile… upstairs…

Blake was guiding his guests to their rooms when Lucy suddenly stopped. Lucy was admiring a portrait of an elegant girl. The girl had long wavy white hair that was just falling down at her waist level; her eyes were as red as a rose and as for here skin tone, it was white as snow.

"She's beautiful. Blake, is this your mom?" Lucy asked, being amazed at the woman's beautiful appearance. Blake nodded, being a bit sad that Lucy mentioned about his mother. Sting asked Blake where was his mother since they haven't notice her ever since they came in. Sting's question made Blake even sadder. Rogue hit Sting's elbow, thinking that Sting might finally realize that Blake gets sad when they mention his mother.

"Actually, my mother had already passed away when I was just three years old." Blake's eye saddened, just thinking about his beloved mother. Blake tried to hold onto his tears when suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw Sting and Rogue giving him a "I-know-how-you-feel" look which made Blake to cry a bit. After crying for quite awhile, Blake wiped his tears and continued to show them the way to their rooms.

"This is your room, Lucy-chan." Blake said politely, opening a lovely room for Lucy. "And the room, over there will be Sting and Rogue's room." After showing them their rooms, Blake quickly left them so that they could get some rest. In the middle of the night, when everyone in Etoile's mansion was fast asleep, a certain father crept into Lucy's room, gently carrying her in his arms and had taken her into a hidden room at the rear part of the mansion. After a few moments, Lucy suddenly woke up not knowing that she was in another room this time.

"Well…well… I see you're finally awake Ms. Heartfilia." Blake's father said in a sinister way.

"Mr. Etoile… why did you brought me here?" Lucy asked, finally realizing that she was sitting in front of him. Mr. Etoile answered her by giving her a sinister smile, making Lucy nervous. Lucy crawled away from Mr. Etoile, trying to make a distance between them but no use, Mr. Etoile suddenly appeared at Lucy's back. As he was standing behind her, he kicked the defenseless Lucy into a corner without giving a thought that he was fighting with a child. His kick was really intense which made Lucy to cough up blood. While Lucy was being beaten up by Mr. Etoile, the two dragon slayers suddenly woke up from a deep dream.

"Sting…" Rogue said.

"I know Rogue. I can smell her blood, too." Sting said seriously.

The two dragon slayers quickly stood up from their beds and headed towards the door but to their surprise, the door was locked from the outside. It took awhile before Sting can opened the door by smashing it with his shoulders. When they finally got out, they suddenly heard Lucy screaming in agony. The two dragon slayers sniffed her blood, trying to figure out where their dear friend was taken to.

"I finally caught her scent… but it seems like she's losing a lot of blood. Let's hurry!" Sting got worried as he smelled Lucy's fresh blood. The two ran as fast as they can, the faster they ran, the louder they can hear Lucy's screams. When they finally reached the rear room of the house, Sting kicked the two huge doors in front of them. Rogue and Sting's eyes widened as they saw Mr. Etoile beating the life out of Lucy. After beating the crap out of Lucy, Mr. Etoile turned away his sight from Lucy and towards the young dragon slayers. Sting tried to launched an attack at Mr. Etoile but with the snap of his hands, Mr. Etoile simply teleported himself, dodging Sting's attack. Mr. Etoile suddenly appeared behind Sting's back, kicking the blonde boy on the face. His hit was as intense as Lucy's, making him to cough up blood, too. After successfully attacking Sting, he went after Rogue. Mr. Etoile disappeared like before, Rogue suspected that he'll do the same trick as what he did to Sting so he tried to prove his theory by waiting for Mr. Etoile to appear at his back. When Mr. Etoile appeared behind Rogue, Rogue quickly turned around, punching Mr. Etoile's stomach. Rogue thought he finally caught Mr. Etoile but to his surprise, the Mr. Etoile in front of him was just an illusion.

"Hmmm… You're quick as I thought, Rogue." Mr. Etoile snickered, appearing right next to Rogue. "But not quick enough." Mr. Etoile launched another forceful kicked, making Rogue to fall down in front of him. Mr. Etoile walked away from Rogue and Sting, thinking that he already beaten them easily and there's no use to use all of his power to attack them.

"Why?" Rogue tried to stand up, not wanting to give up just yet. "Why do you want to hurt Lucy? Answer me!" Rogue and Sting gave out a death glares at Mr. Etoile. Hearing her friend's voice, Lucy regained consciousness, her sight was still a little blurry but she can still see Rogue and Sting standing in front of her. Lucy quickly stood up as she saw that Rogue's past injury was bleeding. Lucy tried to ran towards her bleeding friends but she was stopped when Mr. Etoile caught her by the hair.

"Let go of Lucy-chan!" both boys shouted. Mr. Etoile pretend to not have heard them as he started to explain why he was hurting Lucy.

"The Heartfilia's are the reason why Blake's beloved mother died. Those atrocious Hearfilia's are the reason why my wife died. If Layla and Jude didn't insisted Silvia, my wife, to stay, she wouldn't have been killed by the surprise attack at their house. Those two took the most precious person in our lives so I'm going to even it out by taking away their most precious daughter." It was so obvious that Mr. Etoile had gone nuts in taking revenge at the Heartfilia's that he was already ready to kill Lucy. Sting and Rogue attacked Mr. Etoile at the same time but they were still no match for Mr. Etoile especially he was holding Lucy in his hands. Before he attacked the young boys, he quickly knocked out Lucy with his bare hands.

Time skip (in the morning) (A/N: I think you already know what happened in the middle of the story in Chapter 4)

The next morning, Blake woke up really early so that he can make some breakfast for his friends. The cooks and maids were amazed to see their young master cooking in the kitchen. It has been a long time since Blake cooked for someone other than his father.

"Hmm… 2 eggs… I wonder where they put the eggs around here." Blake asked himself, looking around the kitchen.

"Young master, do you want some assistance?" a pink-haired maid asked, handing Blake some eggs. Blake nodded with anticipation. While they were almost finishing making breakfast, they suddenly heard a loud scream. People inside the mansion went running towards the source of the scream. Blake and the maid followed the people who were running frantically in one direction. Blake heard a lot of squabbling as he ran nearer to the rear point of the house.

"What's the matter?"

"There's blood. Blood everywhere."

"Oh no. We shouldn't let the young master see this."

Blake got worried as he heard some of the maids mentioned that there was blood in the room. He couldn't see what really happened since most of the staff was blocking his view. Blake crawled his way into the room and saw everything. His eyes widened as he saw his father covered in blood, just lying down on the floor.

"Master Blake…" As one of their bodyguards said, trying to stop Blake from going further. Blake turned around facing the man, as his blue eyes turned into scarlet which made the man to let go of him since it was a sign of warning. Blake ran towards his father as soon as his bodyguard let go of him.

"Dad! Don't die on me… you just can't leave me now." Blake cried, putting his father's hand onto his hand.

"Listen to me Blake *cough* *cough*… the people who did this were those treacherous friends of yours… *coughing more blood*… they wanted to kill you while you were sleeping *cough*… so I tried my best to save you… *cough*… remember this… never trust them again… take vengeance for me… I know you can… you're my one and only son… I love you Blake." Mr. Etoile commanded, obviously still not contented on how he beat the life out of Lucy. Blake's eyes widened when he heard the people who killed his father were his friends. The death of his father really made Blake mad at his friends.

"I will never forgive them… Never!" Blake shouted, still crying onto his father's lifeless body.

*Present time*

"You were the ones who killed my father!" Blake shouted.

"Blake, you don't know what really happened…" Sting shouted back, thinking that he might listen to them.

"It was your father who tried to kill us. We were just protecting Lucy-chan from him."

"Stop putting stupid lies in my head. My father told me you killed him and I believe in him." Blake became in rage as his blonde hair turned into white and his azure eyes became scarlet. Sting and Rogue had no choice but to fight him since Blake finally lost it. Sting tried to just punch him in the face so that the fight could be over but Sting underestimated Blake. As Sting was fast approaching Blake, Blake just simply waved his hand in front of him and a giant wall just appeared, making Sting to hit his fist on the wall. While Sting was rubbing his arm, Blake suddenly showed himself in front of Sting, kicking him on the head, which made Sting falling down to the ground. Lector quickly flies his way to Sting to catch him but he stopped when he notice someone holding his tail. It was Blake. Lector got confused, he just saw Blake standing in front of Sting and now he's holding onto his tail. Blake gave an evil smile at Lector before he threw him up into the sky.

"There are two of you?" Rogue said, looking at the Blake in front of him then looking at the Blake who was floating near the building. Blake snickered, looking at Rogue's puzzled face.

"I thought you were better than that, Rogue." Blake said, uncorking a vial in his hands.

"Wait! What is that?" Rogue said but he was too late since Blake just splashed some of the liquid at Frosch, making Frosch unconscious again. Rogue was about to help Frosch when he suddenly smelt Frosch's aroma, it was the same smell as the water surrounding the area.

"How come you're still awake?" Rogue said since he saw Blake using his hand to splash the liquid on Frosch.

"It's simple. I'm immune to the clouds and water that are surrounding this area."

"What do you mean? I've never heard of someone being immune to the Star Island's curses."

"This island didn't used to have curses on it." Blake started to explain."When my great-great-grandparents were young, they were forbidden to see each other so they ran away into this island. Both of my great-great-grandparents put up a dream spell near the island so that their parents won't come near them. When their son grew up, he saw a beautiful girl on a boat that was passing by this island; he really wanted to meet the girl so he put another spell on the island which was only immune by the Etoile family. Now you know, so what are you going to do about it?"

Rogue was stunned; he fully underestimated Blake's abilities. How can he defeat him now? Blake has a total advantage, now that he knows that Blake was immune to the spells that was casted on the island. If he tries to get the vial away from Blake, Blake will just pour some on him. Rogue couldn't move, it will be too risky for him to snatch the bottle.

"I'll take that." Sting said, simply taking the little bottle from Blake's hand.

"Wha-… I thought you were still unconscious." Blake said.

"Thanks to you, Lector landed on my head which made woke me up." Sting said, analyzing the vial. Blake tried to take the vial from Sting but it was no use Sting just put his hand on Blake's face, stopping him to get any closer. Blake finally gave up on the vial and went on to his plans. In a blink of an eye, Sting and Rogue were surrounded by a dozen Blake, each Blake were casting different spells while the others were giving out different kinds of attacks. One Blake tore up the ground, making jagged stones to appear but Sting merely jumped out of it, another Blake went running near Frosch, thinking that he might just use Frosch as his hostage but Rogue outran the Blake illusion. Each Blake was beaten until one was left; the last Blake was trembling since he doesn't know what to do next. Sting walked towards Blake and was ready to punch him with all his might.

"Sting! Don't hurt him!" a voice shouted which stopped Sting from punching Blake. It was Lucy. She was shouting out loud so that Sting would stop his fist. Sting had let go of Blake when he heard Lucy's voice.

"Oi! Lucy-chan are you okay?"

"I'm fine Sting. Blake just made me stay here while…" Lucy stopped talking when one of Blake's men covered her mouth with his hand and grasping her arms, putting it on her back. Lucy tried to struggle her way out but another guy appeared, touching her neck which made her unconscious again.

"Hey what the hell do you think you're doing to Lucy?" Blake shouted, getting mad at his own men.

"Sorry Mr. Etoile but the deal is off. We are taking your money and this fine young lady with us." The guy shouted as he carried off with Lucy in his arms but as they turned around they saw Blake becoming angry again. The other guy tried to cast him a sleeping spell on him but Blake just shoves him off as if it was just an insect flying around.

"Don't you come any nearer or else…" the man said, shivering from terror, as he draws out a dagger.

"Or else what?" Blake dared, as an evil aura was coming out of him while he walks towards the man.

With just one attack, Blake had easily defeated his own men. After defeating his people, he teleported Lucy and himself to where Rogue and Sting were waiting. As he arrives at Rogue and Sting's location, he gently laid Lucy's body on the ground and waved his hand in front of her body, releasing the sleeping magic that was on her. It took a long time before Lucy woke up.

"Why did you help us in the end? I thought you hated us." Rogue said calmly. Blake shook his head, admitting that he really didn't intend to kill them. Like they were kids, Sting just put his hand on Blake's shoulder which made Blake calm down as his white hair and scarlet eyes turned back to its original colors. The next morning, Lucy was awoken by the sun's bright rays as it was hitting her eyes. Lucy stretched her arms up in the air then she suddenly noticed that she was sleeping on a comfortable bed; she looked around the room and noticed the window next to her, it had a beautiful view of the beach. As Lucy stood up, she felt that she stepped on something. When she looked down, she saw Sting and Rogue with their exceeds by their sides, sleeping.

"Good morning, Lucy-chan."

Lucy turned around and saw Blake coming in the room, carrying a tray full of tasty foods. The smell of the delicious food made Sting and the exceeds to wake up in an instant, leaving Rogue by himself, sleeping. As Sting and the others were eating, Blake walked out of the room but only to be stopped by Lucy. Lucy insisted Blake to stay for awhile so that they can talk.

"Why did you do it?" Lucy asked with a straight face, as she was sitting next to the blond boy.

"Because my father told me to."

"But do you really want to do it?"

"No… but my father was my only family left… and I just felt like…"

"I'm sorry." Lucy said out of the blue which made Blake to stop uttering his words.

"I'm sorry for your father's death. It was my fault that Sting and Rogue even killed him."

"I'm sorry, too. For not believing you at first and for almost trying to kill Rogue and Sting and their pets."

"We're not p-…mmmm" Lector said, unable to continue since Sting put a tasty fish on his mouth.

"I just felt useless when my father had died. My father once said "A family is consisted by people that you love and people who love you back" but now, I have no one to call my family."

"That's not true." Lucy replied back.

"Blake, you do have a family and their in this very room right now. We don't care if you tried to kill us; all we know is that we care for each other like a true family does." Lucy said, as her eyes were becoming gentler and gentler in each word that she spoke out. Blake couldn't help but to hug Lucy as a sign of appreciation. It took a long time for Blake and Lucy to hug each other, making the two dragon slayers to shout "Why are you taking a long time hugging her?" Blake finally have let go of Lucy when their two friends shouted at him because of their jealousy.

"Blake likes her." Lector said mimicking Happy's catchphrase again. The teasing made Blake to blush a little but he tried to hide it from his friends. That afternoon, Lucy and the others were getting ready to ride on the boat when Rogue and Sting started to feel queasy just thinking about the word "boat."

"These are for you, Sting… Rogue." Blake said, handing out a couple of herbs and vials.

"What are these for?"

"If you eat one of those herbs, it won't make you feel nauseous when you ride on any kind of transportation and if you ran out of herbs, drink the liquid in the vials, it'll also make you feel better. If you ran out of both of it, just come back here anytime." Blake said, making Sting and Rogue to thank him for his kindness.

"These are for you, Lucy." Blake said, handing Lucy 3 silver keys.

"Blake! Where did you get these keys?" Lucy asked, being amazed by her three new keys.

"I got them while I was traveling. I thought it would be better if you take them since I'm not literally a Celestial mage."

"Thanks, Blake." Lucy said, quickly giving Blake a surprise hug.

"You should better be going now, Lucy-chan." Blake said, pulling away from Lucy's hug.

"But before we leave, I want you to do a formal farewell to your spirits. I open thee gate of the hero, Hercules. I open thee gate of the water snake, Hydra and last of all, I open thee gate of the dragon, Draco." Lucy summoned all of Blake's spirits, amazing Blake with her power of opening 3 gates at once. After the white smoke disappeared, there was a large dragon, a beautiful girl made out of water and a muscular man wearing ancient Greek clothes that appeared in front of them.

"Master Blake, did you summon us?" the dragon asked Blake, politely.

"It must be important since he summon the three of us together." The water-made girl said. Blake shook his head at both statements.

"Then why did you summon us, Blake-dono?" the ancient Greek asked.

"I wasn't the one who summoned you, she did. I want you to meet your new owner, Lucy." Blake said, showing his spirits their new owner.

"But why do you want to give us away?" the dragon asked, puzzled at his master's decision.

"Have we displeased you in anyway, Master Blake?" the water girl said, starting to cry. It was difficult to know if she was really crying or she was just being herself. Lucy could tell that Blake did a very good job on taking care of his spirits while they were still with him.

"No, you didn't. For the past 4 years, all you did was to make me proud of you but I think you three needs a new owner and Lucy's the only person I can trust to give your keys to. I hope you never forget the fun time we used to do." Blake said giving his spirits a farewell hug as his spirits started to cry and so did Blake.

"Goodbye Master Blake… We will never forget you…" were his spirits' last words before they disappeared into thin air. The scene really made Lucy and the exceeds to cry, seeing Blake and his spirits having a tight bond.

"Are you sure that you're ready to give up on them?" Lucy asked, wiping her tears. Blake nodded, as he too, was wiping his tears. As soon as Lucy and the others have already departed from the island, Blake started to cry again but this time it was tears of joy.

"Thank you Rogue… thank you Sting… and especially thank you, Lucy-chan." Blake said, finally releasing his grudge towards them.

Finally, my hard work is already done...
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sorry if it took me longer than before...it's just that when i get started on the story, a new story just pops in my mind and i couldn't help it but to type it down so i wont forget

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a hint for the next chapter... team natsu will be going to the beach but they'll be in a big surprise when they reach the beach

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Thanks for reading this chapter..hope you like it and review it X3