Night fell upon the town of Magnolia, the night sky filled with a silver crescent moon and an array of stars twinkling in the darkness. Wendy and Cynthia were sitting on top of a hill, lying on their backs as they observed the night sky. "It's a nice night, isn't it, Cynthia?" Wendy asked, turning her head slightly to look at her friend.
"Mhm…" Cynthia nodded. "I never got to see the sky like this from where I came from…"
Wendy blinked; she just now realized that she knew absolutely nothing about Cynthia other than that she was a Dragon Slayer of some kind. "You haven't…? Where do you come from anyway…?"
Cynthia was mentally kicking herself for saying something about where she came from. However, she realized she had to tell someone, and she trusted Wendy enough to tell her. "You can't tell anyone, okay…?"
"I won't…" Wendy nodded and rolled over onto her side to look at Cynthia, who paused before speaking.
"You see…I'm a…what's it…Second Generation Dragon Slayer…" Cynthia started. Second Generation Dragon Slayers are Dragon Slayers who gained their power from a special lacrima.
"Second…Generation…just like Laxus-san…so you have a lacrima in your body…?" Wendy asked, sitting up.
"Mhm," the young girl sat up, bringing her arms around her knees as she sighed. "Second Generation Omega Fire Dragon Slayer…"
"What IS the Omega Fire Dragon…?" Wendy asked, hoping she would get an answer.
"I'm not too sure myself, to be honest…" Cynthia sighed, "Only the creator knows that much." Cynthia averted her eyes from Wendy, continuing with her explanation. "You see, all I know about Dragon Slayers is that they can eat their element. Even though it is hazy, I remember my fight with Natsu. I could eat his flames, but he couldn't eat mine; meaning that my flames must be stronger than a normal Fire Dragon or something…"
"I see…When you fought Natsu-san, you seemed to be beating him even in his Lightning Flame mode…and the same thing against Gildarts-san, you actually did damage to him…" Wendy thought back to both fights and how Cynthia's personalities changed within both of them.
"Where I came from…I heard that my power comes from my emotions," Cynthia nodded slowly, thinking back to the lab from where she escaped. "If I'm happy, sad, determined, anything, I've been told my power skyrocket…that's why they kept…" She stopped herself, images flashing in her mind as she whimpered.
"Cynthia…You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to…" Wendy frowned at the sound of her friend whimpering. "I won't make you."
Cynthia shook her head slowly before sighing heavily once again. "My power…I'm afraid of it…" She said in a low tone. "When my emotions get too much, I can't control it, and I could really hurt someone in that state…"
"You mean…like up on the mountain…?" Wendy asked once again, in a softer tone.
Cynthia nodded slowly. "If I wasn't so exhausted, it could've ended badly…"
Wendy sighed, letting the silence hang in the air for several minutes before a light bulb went off in her head. "Hey, I have an idea!" She said with a slightly excited tone.
"What is it…?" Cynthia tilted her head as she looked over at Wendy.
"If I'm nearby when you lose control…."
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Lucy was walking on the railing near the river as she made her trek home, in her usual outfit in this current time, pigtails included. The men on the boat passing by warned Lucy not to fall off, but she assured them that she would be fine. "Today's been a busy day," Lucy said to herself, realizing that she was in desperate need of a shower. "Ew…that's me…Shower, and then bed…" The blonde girl nodded to herself as she hopped onto the street, humming a light tune to herself as she approached her apartment. "Oh man…rent's due soon too!" She sighed, realizing she would have to start working soon as she neared the front door. She was about to open her door when a silver arrow nearly cut through her hand, causing her to jump back. "W-What the?!" Lucy looked around to see where the arrow came from, her eyes widening when she saw a figure standing on a building nearby. The figure jumped off, landing right in front of Lucy.
"Hello there, Lucy," the figure said. Did you like my silver arrows? Gray-sama used the same thing against me during our fight awhile back!"
"M-Melody!?" Lucy took a step back, looking at the silver haired girl.
"In the flesh!" Melody grinned sadistically at Lucy, placing her hand forward as a silver magic circle appeared. "Silver Make: Lance!" A multitude of silver lances shot out from the magic circle. Lucy yelped from surprised and took a hard roll to the left, avoiding the silver lances.
"W-What are you doing!?" Lucy shouted, putting her hands on her keys in case she really needed to use them.
"Sending you a message! Silver Make: Disk!" A silver disk formed, shooting out towards Lucy. The disk was razor sharp, showing this by easily splitting through the ground as it traveled towards the Fairy Tail mage.
"Wah!" Lucy dove out of the way, and into an alleyway. "Gate of the Madien, I open thee! Virgo!" Lucy held a key out, Virgo appearing.
"Is it punishment time, princess?" Virgo asked with a nonchalant tone.
"Can you drop the punishment for a second and get her!" Lucy pointed towards Melody who just turned into the alleyway.
"Yes, Princess," Virgo drilled underground; a few seconds later, Melody yelped as she fell into a waist deep hole. "Punishment time?"
"…Nice work, Virgo! Go home, now!" Lucy forced a gate closure on Virgo as she held another key out. "Give up, or I won't hold back!"
"Silver Make: …A!" A silver magic circle appeared in front of Melody.
"…A?" Lucy just tilted her head in confusion, unsure what Melody was even trying to do. Her eyes then widened as giant silver "A" appeared in the narrow alleyway, giving the celestial mage no time to dodge as it slammed into her, causing her to drop her keys.
"Perfect!" Melody hopped out of the hole like it was nothing and waltzed over to Lucy, picking up her keys. "You don't need these, right?"
"H-Hey!" Lucy started to stand up, but Melody placed a foot on her stomach, keeping her pinned down to the ground. "L-Let me go! Give me back my keys!"
"If you said please I would've…" Melody smirked tauntingly as she started to slide the keys into her back pocket…
Being pinned down in the middle of an alleyway was not exactly a ideal situation for Lucy. She grit her teeth, hands on Melody's ankle to try and muster the strength to push her off. Even if she could manage that, swiping her keys would be another issue. "How did you even escape from the Council? I thought White Eclipse had that covered!" There was one thing she could do though...
"We gave them the slip." Melody shrugged. "It wasn't easy, but luckily there are more of us than you realized, so they were able to give us a hand. So! Because you gave us a hard time, and because you're an easy target, I'm taking your keys as payment for the job we failed!"
"Don't be so shady and maybe you wouldn't have to worry about that!" Lucy huffed in turn. This Melody girl was crazy!
"Maybe I should've gone after Gray-sama instead of you..." Melody pondered. But it was too late now. Because she failed to realize something. The noise of their conflict caught a certain someone's ears, and that person was rushing onto the scene as they spoke.
"Iron Fist of the Fire Dragon!" A fist slammed into Melody's face, causing her to yelp and stumble back, dropping the keys as she rubbed her face.
"Natsu…!" Lucy looked up, grinning to see her pink haired savior. She has a feeling if she stalled for just a little while, someone from Fairy Tail would have her back.
Natsu had his teeth bared against the silver haired mage, growling lowly, yet audibly. "You thought you would get away with something like that?" Natsu asked, glaring.
"Where did…I made sure she was…what!?" Melody frowned heavily. "NOT FAIR! Silver Make: Wall!" A silver wall appeared, separating Melody from Natsu and Lucy as she ran off. Natsu quickly punched the silver door, though it took a while.
"Lucy, are you okay?" Happy asked from above.
"I'm fine, thanks to you, Natsu…" Lucy let out a soft sigh as she reached for her keys. "What was that about…"