The Next Day, Mt. Hakobe
"*grunts* Why...won't… this thing…..BUDGE" I yelled pulling the hatch down, I but I couldn't get it to move anymore than an inch. I know it's not Bellaruse resisting against me, in fact, she hasn't said a thing since yesterday after she caused the avalanche. Even with my Dragon Slayer strength I couldn't make a dent. *sigh*, what the hell was with Bellaruse yesterday anyway, what the hell was it that made her so pissy? Honestly only half of me cared, the other half of me just wants to get out of this damn room! I'm going crazy sitting in this cramped space, solitary confinement is not something you want to be subjected to,trust me on that. I don't remember exactly, but I see fragments from my past life. I'm locked in a room with nobody else except the walls to keep me company, but that's about it. While we're on the subject of that, whenever I try to remember something about my past life, my head begins to hurt. I can't remember if I had any family, friends to talk to, only...who I was, but barely remember that either. The biggest thing, at least to me, is that I can't remember my last name. Beyond that, it seems like I can only remember bad things that happened in my life-
(Are you going to continue blabbing your little sob story to the people reading this, or are you gonna move on with the story)
*Cue fourth wall break* (You couldn't go more than one chapter without causing a fourth wall break?)
(I was getting impatient, you need to keep it interesting otherwise the audience is going to get bored.)
(This is the chapter where i'm going to meet Lucy though, that should count for something.)
*Punches self in face
(STOP DOING THAT!)
(Then put me back into the story then, I'm not going to feel sorry for what I did before)
(If it'll shut you up fine. Sorry bout that folks carry on)
"Human I do not think that opening the hatch yourself is very wise." said Bellaruse finally deciding to show herself, well not "show" herself exactly but you know what I mean.
"Bellaruse, I am not in the mood to speak with you, I'm trying to get us out of here." I said continuing to attempt to pull the hatch open.
"Human it is best to listen to me right now, if you open that hatch without my acceptance-"
"The snow fall in I get it, you seem to have forgotten that I can inhale the snow. So you shouldn't be worried" Suddenly I felt the hatch snap off from the outside, then a bit of snow began to fall in. But as I reached for the snow, it melted into water. Not only that, but the room seemed to feel a bit warmer, then I realized what Bellaruse was trying to tell me, but not before that magic flame grew out of control and blew me out of the chamber In a fiery inferno.
Third Person POV, Same Location Around the same time.
"Brrr, it's colder than the last time I was up here."Lucy said walking through the snow. Lucy had been searching arrived at the mountain earlier in the day, searching anywhere and everywhere anything could be hiding, she even went back to that Vulcan cave she was taken to last time. She was both upset that no one was there to be seen, yet at the same time, glad that there wasn't anymore pervy Vulcan to kidnap her again. Sadly, being back at that cave brought Lucy to tears. She remembered that this was where her first mission as a Fairy Tail mage, and how she had gotten herself captured. The sound of her former teammates echoed in her head, reminding her that she was weak because she relied on her spirits to fight for her. She screamed out 'I AM NOT WEAK' Hoping that someone would hear her. SHe truly believed that they were right.
"I wonder if the rest of the guild thinks the same way as they do. Do they think i'm weak" as she said it, LUcy quickly shook her head and put on her serious look.
"It doesn't matter, once I bring this thing down all on my own, i'll prove to everyone that they were wrong". Lucy continued her trek through the snowy mountain side, when suddenly.
"*BOOM*" As soon as Lucy heard the explosion she ducked for cover to avoid any possible debris. Once she realized the explosion was far off in the distance she got back up and wiped the snow off of her clothes. She gazed off into the distance and saw that not to far from her current location, a flame was flailing out of control, pieces of fire trailing off and hitting the mountains adjacent. Immediately Lucy assumed that it was Natsu, and immediately became enraged. However that rage quickly when she heard someone cry out.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH" Lucy looked up and saw someone falling down from the sky and landed not too far from her. Lucy approached with caution, grabbing a key from her pouch just in case the person tried to attack. This was it, Lucy's chance to prove to herself that she wasn't week, that could stand up to an enemy by herself (ok, with a little help from her Celestial Spirits). She looked down at the crash point and saw a man laying unconscious in the snow. He looked about 16-17, maybe, he had dark brown hair with platinum streaks in it, thin but muscular build. He had no clothes other than his now burnt black trousers. He had burns covering most of his body.
"Oh my god, are you okay?" she asked, but the man didn't respond, the only sound coming from him being his shallow breathing.
"Oh god, I better get him back to the guild" she thought to herself. "Open Gate of the Gol-" before Lucy could finish summoning her Celestial spirit, the man grabbed her by the leg.
"Help me" he said in a raspy voice. Lucy let out a horrified scream and kicked him in the face shouting "AHHH GET OFF ME"
"AHHHHH" the man said screaming out in pain, then e began flailing out all over the snowy ground. "GODDAMNIT MY BODY HURTS ALL OVER" The man's breathing became more rapid. He then shoved one of his fists into the snow, which began to trail up his arm and then to the rest of his body.
"*gasps* You're a mage?" she asked.
"Really, the snow running up my arm didn't tip you" he said before the snow reached his Lucy knew it, the snow had completely encased him in a human cocoon of waited for him to move, be he stood perfectly still, almost as if he was dead. With caution, Lucy approached the now encased mystery mage to see if he was dead.
"Hello," she said examining the cocoon, "are you still with me". No response,he kept silent. Lucy continued to examine the cocoon, jumping around him, making goofy faces,taunting him, hoping to provoke some kind of reaction, but he remained as solid as a statue. "Come on at least give me a sign that you're still alive." Be careful what you wish for, because immediately, the young mage's arms broke free from it's icy containment, "*screams* stay away from me". With his arm free, the mage smashed what was left of the shell and fell back to the ground, with all of his burns completely gone.
"Brrrrr, wow, no matter how many times I do that I will never get used to the chill that spell sends through you , hah WOOOOOOOO" he said jumping to his feet. his good move quickly disappeared, he clutched his head as if he were in pain, but then he started to yell back.
"SHut up Bellaruse, I'm sorry, I forgot about the flame, but I thought it would just incinerate everything, you never said that it would cause an explosion that could nearly kill me." He grabbed his head again with a slightly annoyed look. Lucy looked at him like he was crazy, there wasn't anyone up here besides her or him.
"This guy is the one who's been causing the disturbances for the last six months?" Lucy thought to herself as the mage continued to shout out to his imaginary friend. "Then again it does make sense, only a crazy person would actually try to cause an avalanche and…" she looked over to the roaring fire off in the distance "...that. *sigh* Oh well let's get this over with" Lucy was about to attempt to summon Taurus when she notice that the mage had stopped his crazy ramblings, and his face had changed to one with a serious look. The
"Oh god, the tome!" He said before turning to face the increasingly large fire. He started running towards it before he turned and helped a reluctant Lucy up. "Come on, I need your help." He grabbed her arm, and charged straight towards the flame.
"*screams* what are you doing, put me down" she said.
"Can't do that, I need someone to help me put out that fire." he replied
"Well why me? can't you put that flame out yourself?"
"You're a Celestial Spirit Key mage right?" he asked, surprising Lucy , "Or was that a fake Gate of the Golden Bull key you have in your hand?" He said glancing at the Zodiac key held in Lucy's free hand.
"Yeah it's real, why does it matter?"
"Do you have the Gate of the Water Bearer?" Lucy nods, "Then you're just who I need. Hang on" said the mage. He clutched Lucy in his arms and jumped off a ledge, with Lucy screaming as the quickly descended to the bottom of the pit, and to the source of the flame.
"*screams* Are you crazy?! You're gonna get us both killed! Do something, SAVE US! SAVE US!"
"Uh Miss"
*screams*
"Miss?"
*screams*
"WE'RE NOT FALLING ANYMORE!" he screamed, and immediately Lucy stopped screaming long enough to notice that he was pointing down to the ground. When she looked, she saw that her feet were firmly planted on the ground. She looked at the mage with a look of slight embarrassment and started chuckling softly, while the mage looked at her with exhaustion. "I'm gonna go on a limb and say that you have a tendency to overreact in certain situations?" he asked.
"*scoffs* I do not, I had every reason to freak, you basically threw us off of that ledge." she said pointing to the 10 foot ledge, with a look of even more embarrassment , "Oh, well look at that, it wasn't that high after all."
"LOOK OUT" shouted the mage, pushing Lucy away from an oncoming flame protruding from the ground and into the deep snow. "We gotta contain this flame before it gets control. BE ready to summon your spirit." he said to Lucy
"Hey, who do you think you are telling me what to do?" asked Lucy
"Name's Ross, get it memorized or don't, right now I don't care, now stand back" he said. Ross began to inhale deeply, and suddenly the snow around the field started flying into his mouth. Lucy remained on the ground, observing how the mages ability reminded her of a certain pink haired Dragon Slayer.
"*pants* well that cooled me off." said Ross wiping his mouth. "Let's see if this works this time" Ross leapt into the air, turned upside down over the fire and shouted, "ROAR OF THE SNOW DRAGON." He clapped his hands over his mouth and unleashed a torrent of snowy death from his mouth directly into the flame. However, instead of calming the flames, the flames melted the snow into scalding hot water which fell into the snow which in an instant melted that into more water. Ross landed on the other side of the pit of hot water, with Lucy running over to him, completely shocked over seeing what type of magic he just used.
"You're a Dragon Slayer?" she asked
"Snow Dragon Slayer to be specific. Contrary to what the name suggests, I can also control ice." he said.
"Yeah well that's great and all, but your plan failed, the flame's still growing."
"No it didn't, me shooting my dragon roar into the flame was part of it" he said.
"What are you talking about?"
"I know to summon Aquarius you need a source of water," Ross said, pointing to the pit of water, "there's your source." At that moment the flame began shooting into the sky and shoot out fireballs in every different direction. "Summon your spirit, NOW!" he demanded. Lucy took a quick glance at the flame, and she immediately knew that the situation was growing more dire with every passing second. She had no choice, she had to do it.
"Alright, but I hope you're ready for a bath" she said reaching into her pouch, pulling out another key, "OPEN, GATE OF THE WATER BEARER, AQUARIUS". There was a bright flash of light, but once it faded, a mermaid with blue hair carrying an urn stood towering over the two mages, but by the look on her face, she wasn't please to see either of them.
"HI Aquarius. See, I know that today isn't one of our scheduled days, but it was kinda of an emergency-" Aquarius cut her off with a quick whip to her butt, sending Lucy screaming out in pain and running around clutching her butt.
"Foolish Girl, how dare you call me away from my romantic date with my boyfriend." scolded Aquarius, who quickly turned her gaze towards Ross "Oh I see,you must be the one who convinced me to summon her. What, did she wanted to brag to me that she's actually found a boyfriend that? Or are you just some kind of pity date?"
"I could probably say the same thing about you and your so-called boyfriend, you seem to brag about him a lot to Lucy" he said. Lucy turned as white as a sheet when Ross said that to Aquarius, and as for Aquarius, well, the look on her face when Ross said that can only be described as a 'stare that would put a demon's to shame'.
…..
"INSOLENT LITTLE BRAT, HOW DARE YOU INSULT ME " she roared raising her urn, which began to absorb the water flowing underneath her. Lucy began trying to pull Ross out of the line of fire, but he stood as solid as a statue." THIS WILL TEACH YOU TO LEARN YOUR PLACE!" she waved her urn and sent a tidal wave of water roaring towards the tow, with Lucy panicking even more so than before.
30 feet….20 feet….10 feet… and just as the the wave was about drown the two of them, Ross shouted out :
"SNOW WALL!" Two magic circles appeared on his hands, and a wall of snow rose from the ground, and directed the water into the flames, which quickly eradicated it. With a quick wave of his hands, the snow wall disappeared and Ross approached Aquarius.
"MY apologies spirit" he said bowing in a mix of shame and respect, "I didn't want to say what I just said, but it was necessary in order to quell the fire. I promise you the next time you see me, it will be under much better circumstances". Aquarius retained her look of disgust and approached him.
"The next time you do something that stupid again, i'll make sure you suffer horribly for it. Good day" and with that Aquarius returned to the Celestial Spirit world.
"Well, I have to say that went off pretty well don't you think-" said Ross who stopped mid sentence when he saw Lucy passed out on the ground. "Oops"
Writer's Notes- Sorry this chapter came so late, I had to run out and buy a new computer, but hey I could've given up right. Anyway until next time, This is TwilightBlaze18 (aka Ross) saying BYE BYE :)
BR: *Ahem*
R:OK, and Bellaruse, please don't hit me again.