CONBOLT SECRET

Edward conbolt had lived along time, he had been born in the valiant clan of conbolt, his family was one of the founding families of bellum,esteemed for their magical prowess, his great grandfather was even given the chance of becoming a wizard saint, though there was a secret to their power a very dark secret, one that probably only he and a handful of other people knew and the danger it brought to every conbolt and now on his deathbed he could only hope that the conbolt family could deal with this

Romeo conbolt was returning from a job in a train along with natsu, lucy and gray. Wendy hadn't came because she was training with porlyusica on her healing magic come to think of it she wasn't doing a lot of quests Erza had stayed back in magnolia because jellal had came to visit her, it had almost been a year since the two had seen each other, romeo thought since his crimes were absolved jellal would probably settle down everyone else from crime sorciere did

"You have gotten stronger romeo" lucy complimented him rubbing the back of the dragon slayer whose face was outside of the window

"Yeah" gray said "you got a new flame now"

"Yep" romeo replied a smirk on his face as he extended his hand, palm facing up and made a small orb of bright orangish flame, the fireball made a pop sound

"Its got explosive properties" romeo explained with glee as the fire ball burst and made a sound similar to small firecracker, a few heads turned their way "it was a bitch to figure out man, i have practicing with this for about six months now and i can only do like two techniques"

"This ball and those firegloves" lucy asked a little intrigued

"Yep" romeo confirmed "pretty awesome right"

"Yeah it is" lucy agreed "you know your magic really is very incredible, its so versatile"

"Thanks man" romeo smiled happy from the compliment, he was proud of his magic and the versatility it had held, it had been a tough thing to learn though, training to get a good grasp of each flame had been very time consuming and learning to use it all in conjunction even more so, it was finally paying off though, he not necessarily stronger but having so many tricks that he could punch people a few weight classes above him

Twenty minutes later the train reached magnolia, they headed off, the guild hall came into the view

The old guildhall, the one in the middle of the city, where he had spent his happy childhood, people were entering and leaving the place. It was a Monday after all, usually peak time for mages to get a job. Romeo moved his head around to see the mages around him, he saw alot of new faces alot of new faces

Guilds around fiore had recently had a influx of people join them as there was alot of jobs available so much infact that people from other countries came to fiore looking for job opportunities, the magic population in fiore during the last year had rocketed and it was only increasing

To romeo it was nostalgic the guild was returning to what it was when he was a kid, back then he was as attached to the guild as it was his home after the tenrou incident though he had felt a little disconnected, when the crew returned it was repaired but now with returning to the old guild hall that connection was fully back on

"We are back" natsu shouted, the guild responsed by a cheer, gray grunted, lucy went to the tavern where levy and mira were chatting

Romeo looked at the tavern and noticed that his father wasn't there it was his usual place, he checked around the guild macao was no-where to be found

Mira noticed romeo gaze "hey romeo" she called as she picked up a envelope

"After you left yesterday a man came to meet your father, he gave him this letter"

"Your father read it, chatted with that man and then left the guild" she handed the envelope to him "he said he was going out of town"

He opened the envelope inside was a white paper card, its borders were separated by two gold lines which met at the edges to make a design. There was a photo of a very very old man ,oldest man romeo had ever seen, his face was withered and wrinkled to a extreme he had very thin somewhat long purple hair starting from the middle of his scalp, below the picture was written

'In the loving memory of Edward Conbolt'

The three ladies in the tavern were looking at the card very intrigued and interested, it came to when romeo opened the card, showing them the front

When romeo closed the card, levy asked "who is that"

"A very distant relative" romeo replied "elder brother of my great grandpa"

The girls eyebrows did a quick jump in surprise, "great…grandpa" lucy asked making sure she heard correct

"Yep" romeo replied amused

"Can i see it" levy asked and extended her hand, and took the card from romeo, placed on the tavern table in the middle so that lucy and mira could take a look too

"X650 to x794" mira read "that is crazy"

"By the way, who was the guy that came to meet dad" romeo asked looking at mira

"I didn't ask" mira replied looking up from the card to romeo "he had purple hair too though and looked close to macao's age"

Romeo hummed, this must be a relative from the great-uncle's family. He hadn't met anyone from that side of the family his father had never talked about them and neither was he really interested in knowing, he knew that they resided in bellum and a cousin of his father had shifted to crocus just a couple of months ago

'Maybe it was that dude' romeo thought as he got out of the guild and back onto the street, and headed to his home wondering what could be so important he left the town in a instant, and what should he do?

He didn't have any means of communication, he didn't knew where he had gone and he had told no one, anxiousness started forming in his mind his brows tensed and came together with was contemplating if he should track his father down, it would be tough though

He reached his home took of his clothes, headed into the shower and then sat on the couch, never once stop contemplating what to do

The internal struggle was great, macao running off wasn't like him especially without telling anyone

So it's definitely an emergency, but what? And why was that cousin's of his father here?

He shifted his mind from what he should do, to what happened? Why would his cousin need his father?

Romeo sat there thinking as the time passed the bright sun that was there when romeo had returned to magnolia had now turned a shade between red and orange, he would have sat there till it went under the horizon had the doorbell not rung

The shrill ringing noise made romeo snap his neck at source of the sound, he got up from the couch walked to the door and opened it to see wakaba mine standing there his tobaco pipe in his hand and his white eyebrows tensed

"Ayy kid" he said as he came inside, his voice was a tad bit deeper and his tone was serious

He hung his jacket on the coat stand and took of his shoes and went inside romeo followed behind him, wakaba sat on the couch with his elbows on his wrists and body leaned forward,romeo sat on the sofa chair opposite to him

"You know where your old man is?" wakaba asked looking at romeo

"No, i don't" romeo replied shaking his head "he didn't tell you either?"

"I was out on a quest" wakaba informed, "he met milgana though, she said he is in crocus, enmano's square"

"I'm worried" Romeo said sighing and leaned forward "do you think we should track him?" romeo asked looking down

"Don't get worked up" wakaba said rhythmically, and got up "lets wait till we hear from him okay" he said looking at romeo wanting a acknowledgement "if we dont tomorrow, we will check it out"

Romeo looked up at him and relaxed into the couch chair "alright" romeo uttered softly looking up at the ceiling

"Take care kid" wakaba said as he left

The sun went away and the world darkened, street lights came on, the only sound to be heard was the rustling of the cold December wind. Christmas was in a few weeks and it felt like it could snow. Romeo loved nights like these the wind touching his body and giving him chills when he was a kid he would even ask gray to freeze him when the excruciating summer came, the ice mage would only make a small breeze though, but sometimes when his father wasn't there he would freeze his legs completely and let him be and then natsu would very carefully melt the ice when he had to go

The winds comforted romeo, standing in his lawn he took of his shirt just to be able to feel the wind all through his body, he appreciated the location of his home in times like this, it was situated at near outskirts of the town where the the night was around 3 hours faster, it was 9 right now but it felt like 12, the only thing to be heard were the leaves in the wind and hooting of the owl, romeo's tv had been running as well but romeo couldn't hear it clearly, it was like a slight background noise that one could only hear if he was concentrating on it and romeo wasn't all he could hear was the night

The night had comforted him made him feel lighter and he was ever so grateful for that

He went inside his house and put back his shirt on, he was gonna go up to his bedroom to sleep but then he heard a sound so familiar to him

a flame burning, burning on wood, his flame, the purple flame

He turned to look at the source of the sound from his left to see that it was coming from the tv screen, it was showing a view of a fire, purple fire burning a few building and nearby woods, he turned completely and took a few steps forward his eyes subconsiously widening with his steps, his ears only hearing the sound of the television

"on the outskirts of enmano's district of crocus a sudden fire erupted,15 city's fire department water mages were send to control the fire, the mages couldn't extinguish the fire though backup was called and it took 43 water mages to finally put out the fire residents of the district reported the fire fifteen minu….

A middle aged man was lying on the ground, the forest around him burning was the same shade as his hair, burning hot and burning bright if his eyes weren't blurry and his whole body wasn't in agony he would have admired the unique symphony of the dark night, the glowing moon and the bright soft glow of the flames, he somehow crawled to a tree near me, the broad trunk emphasizing his lean frame, his dark brown coat the same shade as the tree's bark

He closed his eyes, steadying his breath, calming his nerves and relaxing his body. He heard the sound of tapping of footsteps, he turned his neck and opened his eyes quick to see that a men clad in black, he leaned forward, placed a hand to his side bends his knee and got up on his feet facing the two men, he prepared himself for combat as the two men closed the distance, he curled his hands into a fist and raised the left hand in level with his eye and right one parallel to his chin, crouched his upper body putting his weight on his front foot

He exploded from his front foot while winding his right arm back and slammed fist into the gut of the man, hurting himself in the process, a mixture of a cough and grunt escaped from the man. The purple haired man rotated his hip back, pulled his left shoulder and threw a punch upwards at the man only for him to step back and give a punch of his own to the temple

The man stumbled two steps back, his legs buckling, his fists shaking, his head pounding. The black clad man walked towards him with fury, the man in the brown coat no being capable of any action with his fists threw his body to towards the waist of the man in a sloppy attempt of a tackle

Unfortunately the injured man neither had the strength nor mass in his body to do any damage to the man in black who caught the grabbed the arms of the man from the biceps, his fingers and thumb separated by the brown coat bulging out, the man in black twisted his body back a whole 180 degrees and threw the lean man

The old man tried to break his fall by falling on the shoulder and rolling, he succeeded in the process but his shoulder still hurt as it dragged against the dirt ripping away at the shoulder of his coat, a loud grunt of pain came from his throat he couldn't help but lay on the ground making multiple short breaths in pain

"AAH"

He heard a screech of pain from behind him, he turned his neck to see the man clad on his backfoot with blood running from his temple, courtesy of macao conbolt who was standing there breathing heavy his knuckles bleeding his white coat burned at random places, his hair disheveled, his eyes serious

He stepped towards the black clad man in instensely, fist ready for striking he threw a right straight to the man making him stumble, he grabbed the black collar and pounded him repeatedly in the face, after the 3rd strike his nose broke and blood flowed from his nose, after the 7th strike the man limped on macao's arm

He let go of the man and who fell to the ground making a soft thud, he looked towards the other purple haired man who was laying on the ground watching him nursing his shoulder, he walked towards him and gave him a hand

"You have gotten better fredrick" he spoke gently in between his tired breaths

Frederick took his arm and got on his feet. Macao supported him on his shoulder and both the conbolts left the scene

THUMP

Came the sound on magnolia station's ticket counter as a hand slammed jewels on the table with urgency

"A ticket to crocus" romeo said panting, his eyes intense, his body tense and his demeanor hasten