A/N: WARNING: This chapter contains some stuff...yeah...stuff...
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Esther now sported Lucy's celestial keys as bracelet, a loud metallic clang escaping them with each step and motion she took. The loud noise was enough to drive Rissy five inches away from insanity due to her enhanced hearing. As Esther flicked her 'bracelet' clad risk for the umpteenth time causing their surroundings to change once more to a desert. However it wasn't the desert that bothered Rissy, it was the loud metallic clang from the keys.
"Just stop!" Rissy shouted as she slammed her hands against her ears.
Esther stared at the salmon haired woman wide-eyed...it seemed that she had lost it "We're in the middle of a fight..."Esther started
"No that...!" Rissy exclaimed as she used her elbow to gesture to the keys around Esther's wrist.
Esther glanced down to the keys before her eyes widened "Oh these..." She said with a smirk.
"Yes that..." Rissy hissed.
Esher smirked before she closed the distance between the two women, leaving Rissy confused.
"What are you doing?" Rissy asked through narrowed eyes as she stared at the older woman.
Esther smirked once more "Nothing..." She said innocently. And then all hell broke loose. Esther had the keys in the salmon haired woman's face and was furiously shaking them. Rissy placed her hands harder again her ears in trying to dull the pain of the intense sound, however Esther had now changed position and started to shake the keys next to Rissy's ears.
The clang echoed throughout her body, causing her to fall to her knees and squeeze her eyes shut.
Then suddenly it stopped. Rissy slowly opened her eyes before she glanced up to see Esther sitting on her knees in front of her "Just give up and join us..It'll make things easier for the both of us" Esther hissed.
Rissy clenched her teeth together, her head still spinning "No..." She answered her voice thick with pain.
Esther shook her head before sighing "Fine. Have it your way" She said before bringing the keys up to Rissy's ears. Counting on this to happen, Rissy quickly snatched the keys before Esther could shake them. Before she placed them round her own wrist and began to shake it.
"B..But how?!" Esther exclaimed as she stared at the girl, who moments ago was groaning in pain.
Rissy flashed a toothy grin before shaking the keys some more "My ears are naturally sensitive but I was over exaggerating the pain...and you fell right for it" Rissy explained, causing Esther to growl.
"You- give them back!" She shouted as she attempted to reach for the keys; however Rissy was two steps ahead and managed to keep the keys out of her reach.
"Try and catch me!" Rissy shouted before she darted out of the room.
"Rissy!" Esther shouted as she proceeded to run after her.
There was a loud crash as Natsu was sent flying through the thin walls, with one of the duplicates climbing through the wreckage.
The fight had been going on for a while since the duplicates where stronger than they appeared, each still having obtained Emmanuel's magic and ability absorption skills. So every so often the duplicates would drain their magic energy ever so slightly weakening the Team Fairy Tooth members.
The floating lacrima's around the room suddenly caught the blonde dragon slayer's attention, his eyes widened at the sight before him. Both the cyan haired woman from before and Rissy where dressed only in underwear and were...just talking.
"Rogue...you really need to look at this!" Sting shouted over to his friend who was still now fighting both duplicates.
Rouge sighed before sending a 'shadow dragon's roar' at both duplicates which sent them both staggering back.
"Is what you want me to see the reason you abandoned the fight?" Rogue asked.
Sting paused "Yeah..." He answered after a short silence.
Rogue walked over to his Sting who was now holding a video lacrima,
"Look..." Sting said before he placed the lacrima in Rogue's hand. Rouge stared at his friend before looking into the lacrima.
"What the..."
"I know right, you picked a good one" Sting stated as he never took his off from the lacrima "Hey what are they doing?" Sting asked as both dragon slayers watched the women leave the room in what appeared to be a chase. Not too long later there was loud shouting coming from the corridor and all mages glanced round. Even Emmanuel stopped mid swing to with a look of clear confusion on his face.
"No...Finders keepers!" Rissy shouted as she ran straight into the room, and all eyes immediately landed on her.
"Rissy...what are you doing?" Erza asked as she turned to face her.
"Running from Esther..."She stated as if it were obvious. Erza just shrugged her shoulders before re commencing the fight with Emmanuel.
"There you are!" Esther exclaimed before she lunged at Rissy, which sent the two women to the floor.
Esther had now straddled Rissy and had pinned her wrist to her back in trying to pull the celestial keys away from her.
"Uncle, Uncle!" Rissy shouted as she slammed her free hand against the ground.
Emmanuel paused to glance at the women fighting on the floor "Are they both like that?" He asked
Erza nodded "Pretty much, Rissy's pretty much a female version of her brother" Erza stated before she blocked Emmanuel's oncoming attack with her own.
"Oh..so they're pretty much the same" Emmanuel sighed
" Of course not!" She happily exclaimed whilst appearing right next to the cyan haired man "Natsu doesn't have these!" She happily exclaimed whilst squashing her breasts together in Emanuel's face.
Emmanuel started incoherently babbling before he passed out on the floor, leaving Rissy confused "I think I broke him..." She stated before Esther once again tackled her to the ground, leaving Erza wondering what the hell just happened.
Sting just stared at the two mages rolling around the floor wide-eyed "Rogue...are you seeing this!" He exclaimed
Rogue merely nodded "I'm seeing this..." He stated as he watched the two women as they started to roll around on the floor.
"Don't put your hand there!" Rissy shrieked
"That's your arm!" Esther shouted back.
"Like you believed that..." Rissy snapped as she managed to push Esther from her and stagger upwards.
Turning to face the twin dragon slayers she tilted her head to the side in confusion "Aren't you guys in a fight?" She asked
Sting turned to face Rogue only to realize that the dragon slayer had gone and was busy fighting off the two duplicates "I should help him" He said before he too jumped into fight but not before glancing back in time to see the two women fighting once more.
Team Exceed minus Lavender carried on walking through the museum corridors, the remaining exceeds had been searching for their lost companion which only succeeded in delaying their original mission.
Lector and Frosch checked on the ground whilst Happy flew over head if he caught any sight of the lilac coloured exceed from above, however all of their joint efforts came to no use since they still had no sight of her.
"She has to be somewhere" Lector sighed once he pulled his head from a large vase, to his surprise Lavender wasn't in there.
Happy landed on the ground next to the brown exceed and as his wings vanished "Yeah...she can't have vanished" Happy added
"Frosch thinks so too" It agreed as it popped out of a large vase, sadly cracking it during its escape.
"It was my fault she ran anyway" Lector said sadly
"Frosch thinks so too!" it happily declared only to get a glare from Lector, which it took no notice of.
"She's just a bit...what was that word Lucy used" Happy mumbled to himself "Sensitive...yeah Lavender's sensitive" Happy concluded.
"...Catch!" a familiar voice shouted which caused all the exceeds to exchange glances.
There was a loud screaming sort of noise before the clear sound of small footsteps were heard.
As the footsteps neared the exceed group, Happy was the first to notice the figure as their lost friend.
"Lavender you're alive!" He happily exclaimed.
Lavender smiled as she ran over to the group "Sorry guys...for being annoying...forgive me?" Lavender asked
"Only if you forgive me first" Lector stated which caused Lavender to frown.
"But I asked first" She said with an over sweet voice as she took a step closer to the brown exceed.
Lector only shrugged "Too bad I called it" He sighed.
Lavender shook her head "Well I un call it" She said.
"That isn't a word!"
"Is too!"
"Is no-"
"Are they Lucy's keys?" Happy asked whilst stepping between the arguing exceeds.
Lavender nodded "Rissy-Chan gave them to me, but we have to hurry because the twins don't want Lucy to have them" Lavender answered.
"Why?" Lector asked
Lavender shrugged "Don't know but we need to give these to Lucy" Lavender stated.
"I call leader!" Happy shouted as he ran ahead, leaving the other exceeds confused about what happened.
"Who made you leader of Team Exceed?!" Lavender exclaimed as she ran after him "I have the keys!"
"And I'm way smarter" Lector added
Lavender stopped and turned to face him "Are not..." She said as she stuck out her tongue.
"Are too..." He stated matter of factly
"Fro thinks to too" Frosch declared as he ran along his friends.
Lavender turned to him with a smile "I'm sure you do..."
The two women found themselves on the second floor of the museum, Esther wasn't exactly pleased about having the celestial keys taken away from her, however she was going to put her frustrations out on the salmon haired woman who was hiding from her.
"Clarissa George Alexandra Dragneel...come out here and fight me!" She shouted as she slowly walked the floor.
Looking down at herself Esther sighed, she was wondering why she felt a chill so raising her hands a magic circle appeared around her. Her favourite spell, the clothing illusion allowed her to be dressed in whatever she desired.
Hearing a noise she opened her hand where a knife instantly appeared and with an intense speed she flung at where the noise originated from.
The knife landed square in the wall, and walking over to where it landed, Esther found herself somewhat relieved that no one there, or more particularly a certain salmon haired woman.
Rissy watched silently as she sat in the Vulcan display, it was pretty impressive how the museum managed to catch the detail of the different variety of vulcans.
Hiding behind the large mountain Vulcan she sighed as she watched Esther slowly walk around the large room with a knife in each hand.
The entire fight, if she could call it was just like the fights the two women used to have when they were children. When each girl would have competed to see who was faster, prettier and downright better than the other.
A young Rissy around twelve was sat at on a branch in the forest, she never really was afraid of heights scratch that she wasn't afraid of anything...well except snakes they terrified the hell out of her.
Reaching for the next branch she glanced down at her cyan haired companion, at fourteen years Esther was certain that she was two years older than Rissy however without actually knowing the smaller salmon haired girl's actual date of birth it was never confirmed. Esther reached for the next branch, which happened to be the one right under Rissy.
Rissy smirked as she glanced down at the older girl "I'm going to beat you, Esther!" Rissy happily exclaimed as she pulled herself up to the next branch, she almost lost her footing however at the last possible second she thrust her arms tightly around the tree's trunk.
Esther growled, there was no possible way that she could lose to someone as small as her. Clarissa or Rissy as she liked to call herself was the youngest in the guild, her older twin brother often referred to her as the 'guild baby' however even being the guild baby she was still strong for a small one which often annoyed Esther.
"As if...I won the last few challenges so you have now chance!" Esther responded as she pulled herself up to a higher branch.
Rissy scrunched up her face "Well I'm faster" She stated matter of factly before she stuck out her tongue at the older girl.
"You're so immature!" Esther shouted
Rissy stopped climbing to turn to the older girl looking very confused "What?" She asked
Esther smirked "You're so dense...immature...childish?" Esther explained, which caused Rissy's mouth to form an 'o' shape.
"I don't know why you guys use fancy words" She mumbled to herself before she reached for the next branch.
As Esther reached for the next branch she gasped as it snapped between her fingers. Looking down she watched as the broken branch fell to the ground and that was then she realised that very high up and it was a very long way down.
"Rissy...maybe we should go back down this is looking dangerous" Esther suggested to the younger girl.
Rissy shook her head before reaching for the next branch, it was an inch out of her reach which caused the girl to tiptoe to reach it. She let out a loud gasp as she grasped onto it and started to pull herself up. "No way...you're just scared that I'll beat you..." Rissy began as she started to place her foot on the branch below her.
"Fine, I'm going back and you can stay here!" Esther shouted as she proceeded to climb down.
It was then that Esther heard an ear-piercing scream and a blur that she realized was Rissy fell past her.
Looking down Esther spotted the younger girl hanging for dear life from one of the braches and from the look of it the branch which she was hanging on wasn't going to last longer.
"Maybe you were right..." Rissy said the fear clear in her voice as she clung to the branch.
Esther watched from above as the younger girl attempted to swing closer towards the tree's trunk however with her small arms and the creaking from the branch Esther knew that it was impossible. There were two ways that it would end. Rissy falling to the ground below with many broken bones and possible brain trauma which could lead to death or Esther helping the girl up which could lead to them both in a hospital wing.
Sighing Esther climbed towards the girl, she heard a faint whisper from the younger girl as her grip on the branch loosened, meaning that she had little strength left. "You need a hand?" Esther asked.
Rissy pounyted before turning her head in the opposite direction "You just going to make fun of me" She said sadly.
"No I wont" Esther answered
Rissy sighed "Why don't you just let me fall...we both know that you hateme"
Esther stiffened, to be honest she never did hate the younger girl, she actually hated her the least out of everyone in the guild. As soon as the younger girl had walked through the guild doors she relised instantly that there was something special about her. to be honsest Rissy reminded her of herself. The side of her n=that never gave up, that never gave up hope. And she hated herself for giving up hope but she nver hated her.
"I don't hate you..." Esther answered after a short silence. Suddenly the branch snapped however with a speed that Esther didn't know she possessed she grabbe the younger girl's hand .
A toothy grin spread across the younger girls face once she had found her footing and stood on the branch underneath Esther. "I knew you never hated me..." She stated
Esther smiled "Guess you were right..." Esther sighed
"But I still won" Rissy quickly added, which caused Esther to face palm.
"Now I'm starting to think that I should have let you fall" Esther said with a giggle
Rissy turned to face the older girl with a smile "You'll never let me fall..." She said, her dark eyes making contact with her own light ones and that was when she realised that he salmon haired girl trusted her with her own life.
"I won't" Esther answered, meeting Rissy's own gaze so that she would see that she meant it...she would never let her down. She would never let her fall.
A visible tear leaked down from Esther's eyes as she remembered that memory, she let her anger get the best of her she thought that Rissy had let her down...that she had betrayed her. but now Esther had come to the conclusion that it wasn't Rissy that let her down it was her. Rissy had asked her leave...but she refused...she let her fall and now she hated her herself for it.
Wiping the tears from her eyes she walked over towards the middle of the glass floor...they were so high up. Just like that day...a high way up and a long way down.
Opening her hand she grabbed her knife by the hilt and with all the strength she could muster she slammed the blade in the glass floor. There was a sickening crack and Esther watched as the crack formed in the middle of her feet in a sort of evil hand shape.
Grabbing the knife tighter she motioned to stab the floor again, only this time a loud scream stopped her.
"No!" Rissy shouted as she ran onto the floor standing only a few feet from where Esther stood.
Esther wiped the tears that threatened with the back of her hand "Why...Rissy I let you fall...I failed" She said sadly, which caused Rissy's eyes to widen.
"Is that what this is about..?" She asked "No I failed I should have never left-" She started only to be stopped by Esther.
"No...You gave me a choice...yet I refused...I let you fall and now it's time for you to do the same" She stated matter of factly.
"What if I don't want to" Rissy asked which caused Esther to smirk slightly
"Always trying to bend the rules.." she started "We did have some good times..." She sighed as she twirled one of her knives between her fingers.
Rissy watched the knife intently before glancing back to Esther "We did..Remember how we would always compete?" Rissy asked with a small smile.
Esther nodded "Oh...And remember the eating contest?"
Rissy nodded with a wide grin "How could I even forget...you couldn't eat for days" She giggled.
"And I put on two dress sizes" Esther sighed
"We can do those again...after all this is over?" Rissy asked with a smile
This time Esther shook her head sadly "No...We can't"
Before Rissy could react Esther had already slammed both of her knives into the glass floor and instantly the glass shattered around her.
Everything played in slow motion around the salmon haired woman; she instantly fell to her stomach on the part of the floor which hadn't been shattered, completely ignoring the pain of the glass cutting into her skin. She reached her arm over the edge and grabbed onto Esther's before she plummeted even further.
Rissy stared down at her friend with a pleading look in her dark eyes; the cyan haired woman appeared so lost and distant as she hung over the edge of the cracked ceiling.
"Just let go..." Esther said quietly
Rissy squeezed her eyes shut before she shook her head "No" She stated and Esther smiled.
"Always the stubborn one..." She sighed
There was a loud crack noise that caused Rissy to gasp; it seemed as if the extra weight on the already breaking glass was causing the floor to give way even more.
"You can't hold me forever, Rissy..." Esther began with a sad look in her eyes.
Rissy gritted her teeth as a chunk of glass below her stomach fell beneath her, causing her to jerk forward slightly however she kept her tight hold on Esther's arm "Well I can try" Rissy answered.
Esther shook her head "No you can't..." She said sadly.
"Esther, I'm not going to let you fall..." Rissy exclaimed and this time she didn't bother to stop the tears from falling.
"I know...you never did" Esther whispered and suddenly she wriggled her arm out of Rissy's grip and fell.
Her hair fanned around her face like some sort of cyan halo and the light shining down through the glass roof only made her appearance seem more angelic. All was silent as she plummeted and Rissy watched with her vision foggy from the tears, however once her own gaze met Esther's she let a small smile for that split second she saw the eyes of her sister.
So what did you think of that?
I don't know what to say...I just watched 'Donnie Darko' and then I wrote this so thank Jake Gyllenhaal.
Stay tuned for the next chapter 'Homicidal Muffin'
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