A/N: So….. No reviews. Not a single one… I know the last chapter wasn't my best work, but still….
ON: Thanks guys, I REALLY appreciate the feedback. I know it wasn't as good as chapter 10, but some sort of review would have been nice.
Alice: Yeah, what the hell guys? No wonder this is the last chapter.
ON: Alice!?
Alice: Come on, you know it's true.
ON: I know that, but they don't.
Alice: Well, now they do.
ON: *Sigh* Well, like Alice said, this is the last chapter of Water Dragon Slayer. If you're sad, don't be. The sequel has been in my thoughts for a while now and I have a pretty good idea on how I want it to go. If you're happy, then I'm sad. But if you're happy because the sequel is coming soon then that's fine.
Alice: You're not going to take forever on updates again are you?
ON: I wish I could say yes, I really do, but I can't. I have school.
Alice: That didn't stop you before.
ON: That's when my amount of stress wasn't giving brain damage. Besides, the chapter lengths bother me, A LOT.
Alice: Still….
ON: Speaking of which, I might go back and tweek the first few chapters. Anyway, on with the FINAL chapter!
Chapter 12:
When I woke up, the room was dark and empty besides a plate of food and a large glass of water on the small table next to me. My stomach growled loudly and I chuckled. 'I didn't realize how hungry I was.' I thought before I devoured it all in less than a minute and chugged the water. I let out a large breath and looked out the window. It was dark out with a full moon in the sky that dimly lit the room. I lifted up my blanket and was disappointed to see my legs still broken. I laid back down in defeat, trying to think of something to do. Almost immediately, my head was full of thoughts of what the person in my dreams what talking about. 'Choices? Affecting the guild? Intentionally sending me memories of Chand?' I felt my cheeks go red when I thoughts about Chand. 'What could she be planning and why can't she tell me?' I thought about it for a while until I got an idea. 'Maybe she left hints in the dreams and what she said." I tried recalling what she told me directly. 'She mentioned Chand a lot so maybe this has something to do with him. She's also trying to be vague with the details, so something very bad will probably happen. (Mental sigh). I wish I wasn't stuck here so I could, at the very least, go train.' My thoughts were going in circles, which ended up giving me a headache. 'You know, I'll just plot out the moves in need to work on when I'm better. Liquefy could definitely use some work, I need to decrease the amount of magic that uses. Hurricane and tsunami work fine, but I could still tweak them a little. I haven't used breath of water for a while, so I should make sure I can still use it. There's also those final spells that Mizuine left me. Evaporate is the one I want to work on first, it'll let me pretty much teleport anywhere where there is water. It'll be much easier than sleeping through train rides to prevent motion sickness, it's not as bad as Nastu's, but it's still bad. Then I'll try replenish, that'll restore other people's magic by surrounding them in a veil of water. I'm not sure how long it'll take to fully restore a person's magic, but we'll see.' Suddenly, I realized something. 'I can use liquefy to slither out of here. I'll just leave for a few minutes for some fresh air. It's so stuffy in here." I casted the spell and slithered down the stairs and outside. It was freezing outside, but I didn't care. I leaned against the guild with my legs stretched out and took in the fresh air. 'I never thought I'd be this happy to just breathe outside.' As the cold breeze hit my face, I started feeling a rush of nostalgia. Chand and I use to sit by the tree of our secret hangout and watch the sun set. Sometimes we would even fall asleep and wake up later almost frozen. We did that every day until the day I left. I frowned at the thought of why I left, it's not something that I like to talk about. Subconsciously, I reached for chest, thinking I had Ryou's necklace on. I looked down when my fingers hit skin instead of the small pendant he made and sighed. When I left Chand's house, I gave him my necklace so that we have reason to see each other again. 'I hope he still has it. I might kill him if he doesn't.' I chuckled to myself. 'I know he wouldn't lose it. He knows how precious it is to me.' I started blushing as I finished that last thought. 'So I should be heading back inside soon.' Suddenly, I was overwhelmed with exhaustion and my eyelids started falling. 'Damn it, I thought I was done with this' was the last thought I had before I fell asleep.
I looked around and saw that I was standing outside Chand's house with all my stuff was in my small, blue backpack that had a spell on it that let it carry as much stuff as I wanted to, while still only weighting about a pound. Chand was standing outside with me, a sorrowful express on his face. 'I guess that person was reading my thoughts. Hey, I thought she was going to keep sending me good dreams, why is she making me remember this? I guess I'll just live through it like usual.' This was about 3 years later, after, something that I WOULDN'T talk about happened. I was about to leave Chand's house to resume my search for Mizuine.
"Are you sure you want to leave?" He asked me.
"Yeah, I'm sure. I've spent too much time here, I could have found Mizuine by now."
"Then let me come with you, you can find her faster with help."
"No, after what happened, your dad needs you here, more than ever."
"Which is why you should stay, he needs you too. We both do. I do." I felt my lip quiver.
"I need to go. Good bye Chand." I turned around and started walking, but before I could take 5 steps, he grabbed my arm.
"Please, I just lost Ryou, I can't lose you too." I pulled him into a hug.
"You wouldn't lose me. I'll always be with you. Even if I'm not here physically, I'll be in your memories. Just like Ryou." We both started tearing up.
" And just in case you forget…" I took off my necklace and put it on him. He pulled away and looked down at it.
"I can't take this. Ryou gave this to you."
"Well, think of it as a loan. The next time I see you, you can give it back. Besides, this way Ryou can stay with you."
"Promise that there will be a next time and you have a deal." He held his hand out.
"Deal." I grabbed his hand and we shook on it. I pulled him into another hug. We stayed like that for a few minutes, neither one of us wanting to let go.
"I'll miss you." I said, finally pulling away.
"I'll miss you too."
"Good-bye Chand."
"Good-bye Alice." I turned away from him and ran away, never looking back.
The next thing I knew, I was sitting near the lake in the forest near the guild with a familiar light floating around my head.
"Is this still a dream?" I asked out loud.
"Yup, I felt this was a better backdrop than just a dark room."
"Well, you're right on that one, so what did you want to tell me this time?"
"Right, I'm in a rush so I'll make this quick. From that last dream, I know that you want to go show Chand again. I'm here to tell you that you can't go see him yet."
"Wait, didn't you make that last dream?"
"Nope, that was all you. I was curious to see if your nightmares were over. Looks like they are. Anyway, back on topic. It's important that you not go to the Neve Caduta Mountains."
"And I assume that you aren't going to tell me why because it will effect whatever choices I have to make later."
"Glad you're catching on. You can do anything else but go there. There's an event coming at your guild soon. I believe it's called the S-class exams. I suggest training for that."
"I was planning on doing that anyway."
"Good, just don't go anywhere near the mountains or Chand. Now I have to go, good luck!"
When I woke up, I was back in the infirmary and Mika was bringing in a new plate of food for me. I sat up and stretched my arms.
"Morning." I said putting my arms down.
"It's one in the afternoon." She replied handing me the plate.
"Morning or not, I'm starving." I drove into the food and finished it in a few seconds.
"That was a nice little escape attempt last night." Mika pointed out.
"I wasn't trying to escape, I was just getting some fresh air."
"Of course you were." I stuck my tongue out at her.
"So how much longer am I going to be in here? Lying in bed all day isn't exactly the way I want to spend my time."
"I'm not sure. If your narcolepsy is gone, then in two days when your casts come off. If not, well you know."
"Yeah, I get it. So while I'm still stuck here, finish telling me what happened in Edolas. I think we were floating into the sky."
"Oh yeah, so….."
Flashback (Third person POV):
Mika woke up, confused why she was lying on the ground in the forest. She shook her head for a second and remembered everything that happened. She sprang to her feet, feverishly trying to spot Alice. When she saw Alice was nowhere near there, she spread her wings out and flew around looking for her. Then, to the west, she heard some giant footsteps and someone mumbling to themselves. Hoping that it was Alice (panicking=no logic), she flew over there as fast as she could. She gasped in horror as she landed behind a tree trunk next to the lake and saw Alice being carried by her legs by a giant green forest Vulcan. The Vulcan was sniffing and examining her to see if she was alive.
"Women, are you alive or not?" He said as he started shaking her in hopes of getting a response. When nothing happened, he got furious.
"Women, WAKE UP!" He started flinging Alice around, slamming her against several trees over and over again. Mika was mortified and was about to leave for help when he stopped and examined Alice to see if anything had happened.
"Guess women not alive." He shrugged, threw Alice like a ragdoll into the lake, and walked away.
"ALICE!" Mika screamed and dived in after her. Alice was already at the bottom when Mika reached her. Mika wrapped her tail around Alice's waist and pulled her out as fast as her could. On the surface, Mika was relieved to see Alice cough up the all the water in her lungs and to hear her breathing, but it was quiet and very short. Mika was on the verge of a heart attack. 'I have to calm down, panicking will just make things worse.' She took a quick breath and eased her mind a little, allowing her to think with a little more logic. 'Now, I better get Alice to Fairy Tail as fast as I can.' Assuming that she her ribs were probably broken, Mika picked up Alice from the back of her shirt and flew over the forest as fast as she could. When she arrived, the guild was full of smiles and laughs until they saw Alice.
"Wendy, Alice needs help, please!" Mika shouted right after entering the guild. All the noise and partying stopped and all attention was directed towards Alice and her injuries.
"Mika, what happened?" Lucy asked, being one of the first responders.
"That can wait, we need to get Alice up to the infirmary." Mira said as they carried her up to the infirmary on the second floor and set her on one of the beds. Wendy was working on her more severe internal injuries while Mira helped with the one that weren't as life threatening. Everyone else was told to leave while they were treating her so that they had some space. Mika sat outside the door, thoughts filling her head of how badly she could be injured or she could die. Lucy and Charlie tried to cheer her up, but she was lost in these thoughts. After half an hour, Mira and Wendy stepped out, Wendy looking completely drained and let Mika in. Mika rushed in and gasped when seeing how Alice was. An IV tube was strapped to her arm and an oxygen mask was on her face. Alice's face was completely pale and the expression on her face made Mika assume that she was having some sort of nightmare. Her waist and the top of her head had bandages wrapped around them and her legs were now in real castes instead of the make-shift ones from Edolas. Mika ran up to the seat next to Alice's bed and looked down at her face. She was in pain, Mika could tell.
"Alice, please wake up." Mika unconsciously said. Alice stirred like she heard her. Mika saw her and couldn't hold it together anymore.
"Alice!" Her head fell on the side of the bed and she started bawling. Some of the other guild members watched from the door.
"Mik-" Wendy was going to say something, but Mira stopped her.
"She needs some space." Mira said and Wendy nodded.
Present, First Person POV (Alice):
"I didn't sleep, eat, or leave you're side for ten days until you woke up." Mika said, concluding her story.
"Wow, thanks Mika. Also, remind me from when I get out of here to beat up that pervert that put me in here when I get out." Mika smiled.
"Well, at least you have you strength back."
"What do you mean? I've always had it!" She laughed and stuck my tongue out at her. It was nice to see her laughing after all this insane Edolas happened.
"I'm going to go get you some more food and water." Mika said, hopping off her chair.
"A wheel chair would be nice so I could move around the guild."
"You only have to stay there for two more days then you can run around the guild as much as you want." I sighed, lying back down on my bed as Mika left the room. My thoughts were immediately directed towards the mysterious voice again. 'Why wouldn't she want me to go near Chand? I thought she wanted me to go see him from all those dreams she sent me. This is giving me a headache.' Little did I know that all my questions would soon be answered, all right before the S-Class exam.
A/N: Well, there's the obvious lead up to the sequel. If you want to find it, the prologue is already up on my account. The title is Dragon of the Sea. You'll see why when I get around to it.
Alice: Hopefully that would be soon.
ON: Hopefully. So what are you going to do now? Since this story is finished.
Alice: I think I'll go bug you in some of your other stories.
ON: Author's notes right?
Alice: Of course.
ON: Good, if you randomly appeared in, say, The Zodiac Keyblade (btw, chapter two was deleted from my laptop somehow for those who are wondering XC).
Alice: Don't worry, I'll just hang around here until the sequel comes out.
ON: Good.
Alice: Which means I'll probably be waiting for a month and a half.
ON: Hopfully sooner.
Alice: Doughtfully.
ON: Hush yourself. Now, for the last time, please review and favorite!