Chapter 20- 'I'm such an idiot'

Somewhere outside the guild through the hole in the wall (courtesy of Gildarts Clive)…

Kinana, Laki and Bickslow had managed to find themselves fighting side by side against a young boy who looked about eight years old and looked rather like a young Natsu but with blonde hair and red eyes. (Put an 8 year old Natsu and Zancrow together and that's what he looks like).

"Who are you?" asked Kinana,

The little boy didn't respond using words but held up three fingers on one hand and five on the other. Laki raised an eyebrow and Bickslow sported a confused expression, though not that you could really see it.

"No, not how old you are, what is your name?" Kinana asked again rather politely,

Again the boy simply held up the same figures on both hands. The young boy requipped a small magic hand gun in each hand. Laki took a battle stance and Bickslow was prepared with his baby's ready to take battle formation. The boy who claimed his name was 8, aligned the guns with Kinana and Laki. Laki leapt forward as 8 fired.

"Wood make: Wood wall!" Laki successfully created a wall in front of the three in enough time to block the oncoming magic bullets.

"Requip." Whispered 8.

A giant axe swung down, splitting Laki's wood wall in perfect halves. Laki, Kinana and Bickslow dove out of the way quickly.

"Baryon formation!" Bickslow commanded directing his baby's. Bickslow's dolls created a circle formation and produced a bright concentrated beam aimed at 8.

The beam struck the ground near 8; he dodged with a dramatic dive and tucked up into a roll. 8 emerged suddenly from the excess smoke of Bickslow's doll attack, with a giant scythe in hand. 8 took a swing at Bickslow who dodged only just in time. Laki appeared behind 8,

"Wood Make: Dam of shy love!" she cried as stake-like wood emerged from the ground crossing over like a hash-diagonal picket fence. (really bad simile, sorry couldn't think of better description).

8 jumped high into the air as the stakes rose from beneath him. He requipped once again, this time holding a sword in each hand. 8 cross his swords in front of his chest and in one swift movement dispelled two magic beams from the sweep of his twin swords. The beams struck Laki and Kinana but Bickslow managed to dodge somehow. 8 approached Bickslow who was bruised and had cuts from various attacks and dodges during the battle. 8 was holding his scythe again with a deadly look in his piercing red eyes for such an innocent looking young kid who couldn't even tell them his name. Bickslow sighed. Such a shame, kid. Bickslow thought almost sympathetically. Bickslow revealed his previously hidden, glowing, green eyes.

"Figure eyes." He said,

8's eyes widened. Bickslow knew he had won this fight. He had no use for the kid, so he punched him in the gut hard enough for him to pass out. That should keep him out of trouble. Bickslow watched as 8 slept peacefully on the grass next to Laki and Kinana. How many more Fairies have been struck down? Kind of reminds me of when we tried to take over Fairy Tail. How did seeing them like this not make me feel anything back then?

Back in the guild somewhere….

Warren, Max and Romeo were confronted with a young girl around Wendy's age. Her hair was a fusion of lime green and black and she all of a sudden looked about seventeen, she had jet black eyes and one had a white quarter moon pupil inside. She bore a wicked smirk upon her beautiful face.

"Who are you and what do you want with my guild!?" Romeo commanded,

"It is not my intentions to harm you're guild. We are only restoring our dignity by stealing it back from those who took it to begin with." The girl giggled and smirked devilishly, looking at Romeo and twister her hair around her finger.

"I said, who are you!?" Romeo growled,

"Calm down and keep your pants on! I was getting there. But first you tell me?" The girl winked at Romeo and waited for an answer.

"I am Romeo Conbolt. The mage who will be responsible for your defeat!" Romeo spat,

At this comment the girl's imagination seemed to be off with the fairies, but then a serious gaze lowered to his eyes. "I am the Dreamer, as they call me. I use dream-maker magic see. I also use a bit of various others magics. That's what makes our guild strong! Because we aren't limited to anything! We are unstoppable! We create the silence everyone dreads! We don't need alliances with the other dark guilds. All we need is each other!" she said airily.

A dark guild that cares about each other?….thought Romeo.

"Okay, enough introductions. Let's fight!" Romeo called to Max and Warren.

"Dream make: Python Vines!" The Dreamer extended her arms toward the three Fairy Tail mages, thick, green, snake-like vines emerged from the palms of her hands. The Dreamer snaked her vines around all three mages in an instant, wrapping around her victims like Pythons, The Dreamer took on a sadistic persona as she tightened the vines grip around the three. Max, Warren and Romeo all struggled, Romeo realised his squirming was futile and attempted to think of an escape, desperate to be able to breath freely . Purple flame has sticking properties, yellow flame has stench properties, blue flame has cold properties…. I can't believe I am a fire mage but have no flames with burning properties! thought Romeo. Dreamer's vines smacked his across the face, back and forth, eventually releasing Romeo from the python vines' grip and whacking with across the guild like a tea ball. Max squirmed and wriggled feeling the grip around his waist tighten again, Max turned head toward his comrades, Romeo had stopped squirming and Warren was on the verge of passing out. Why hadn't Warren seen this coming? thought Max. Warren passed out and Romeo was thrown across the room. "Shit!" Max sighed, This little bitch has already won. What has Fairy Tail come to? Why can't we win? We are the strongest guild in Fiore! Max's eyes rolled back into this head and his eye lids fell shut. Dreamer giggled and released him.

"That was too easy. Couldn't even touch a fourteen year old girl with a single attack! How sad." Dreamer looked down on Max and chuckled again whilst kicking him around on the ground. This girl is a sadist. thought Max. Dreamer's gaze wondered from Max, "I fancy a new look I think…. Dream make: Mirror!" Dreamer stared at the mirror for a while as if lost in its depths, "I got it!" she said as she walked away, turning her back to Max. "Dream make: Vision 0.42!" The Dreamer altered her appearance so that she looked her real age (14), she had short dark blue hair with a black rose adorning it, and the same black eyes with one quarter moon, also tanned skin and her guild mark appeared on her neck which was a black quaver rest. Good, thought Max. The Dreamer girl was happily changing her appearance when Max Alors' eye's cracked upon. Her backs turned, I can strike, playing dead only worked too well!

"Sand rebellion!" Max began using his attack. The Dreamer girl turned around startled as the sand began to surround her. The sand exploded and the girl was tossed through the sandy air and rolled onto the floor. Max smiled as she lay on the floor, eyes closed and still.

"Ouch." She coughed and opened her eyes. In an instant she was at her feet. "Dream make: Zombie apocalypse!" she moved her arm in an upward motion as if the lift up something invisible. Corpses began to rise from the ground, souls, they were, taking the form of who they used to be with blood dripping from their mouths and chains clasping their wrists. They walked groggily toward Max, slowly but surely closing in on him,

"Sand wave!" Max knocked away all zombies in a single attack, and they disappeared with a poof! And storm of ashes. But when Max's sand and the zombie's ashes cleared, he realised that it was all just so she had him distracted. The Dreamer smashed a fist into Max's head, only to realise it was a sand clone. Max kicked the girl in the middle of her back from behind and she fell to the ground again. "Dream make: Laki Olietta." said the Dreamer, still on her hands and knees. Max bore a look of confusion as a girl who looked exactly like Laki appeared before him.

"What is this!?"said a startled Max.

"You dreamed of her. So I dream-made her for you, I can see into everyone's dreams." the young girl grinned. She had a nice smile for an evil child.

"Wood-make: Dam of shy love!" Laki punched the ground and weapon-like wood erupted from ground under Max throwing him into the air and letting him slam down into the ground unconscious for real this time. Laki beat me? This is so not cool… How am I supposed to tell people how I was beaten?... Max's eyes closed wearily.

Romeo Conbolt woke back up and made his way back through the commotion to find his fight against that girl. He finally reached the spot where they were fighting. The girl was all of a sudden younger again, she had short dark blue hair and the same eyes, her skin was slightly tanner and her guild mark was now on her neck. Max was unconscious in front of Laki which puzzled Romeo.

"Laki!?" Romeo asked, but Laki didn't even flinch.

"She's just a dream projection, idiot." commented The Dreamer.

"How did you dream-make Laki!?" demanded Romeo,

"Her boyfriend dreamt of her!" sniggered The Dreamer gesturing to Max.

"Do you think they'd make a cute couple?" giggled the Dreamer making an adorable face toward Laki and Max. She'd get along well with Mirajane's demon side….

Romeo engulfed his right fist with purple flames and threw a fire ball straight for the Dreamer girl's head. She ducked quickly and the flame ball flew past her. Romeo threw another.

"Dream make: Wendy Marvell." whispered The Dreamer. Romeo saw the girl smirk. All of a sudden in front of her was Wendy and the flame ball tackled her to the ground.

"Wendy!" Romeo ran to her aid, he rolled her over. Her eyes were closed and she looked peacefully knocked out. "Shit." muttered Romeo to himself. What have I done? Romeo cursed himself, looking at Wendy's sleeping face.

"Idiot!" The Dreamer rolled her eyes and kicked Romeo hard in the head as he lent over Wendy. "Did I not just show you that I can create anything or anyone from someone else's dreams? So this is your girlfriend or something? Oops, kicked you a bit hard did I?" She smirked and giggled and walked away leaving Romeo and the others to fall into a deep sleep.

I'm such an idiot. thought Romeo as he felt a sharp pain in his head, surely he'd wake up with a bruise and a lump.