Chapter 35

Brawl-Fest

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters, only my own OC's, Energy Magic and my Ideas

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The next week passed by and the entire time Frea hadn't shown up at the Guild Hall. At first a few people had just assumed she had taken a job, but neither Mira, Kinana, or Macao had approved of her taking a one. But Macao had explained that she had showed up early at the Guild at the beginning of the week and told him she might be gone for a while, but she never gave an explanation as to why.

Laki and Chase had come back to the Guild half-way through the week.

Natsu's Mission with Lucy and those who he tagged along to capture Velveno had gone ok, though they hadn't gotten paid because Velveno had been allowed to propose to the Counts daughter during the mission. Natsu had even completed a mission with Wendy, Happy, Carla and Lucy to deliver some gold to a client.

Natsu kicked the Guild doors open, toothy grin spread across his face with fire blazing up around him.

"Who wants to fight?!" He yelled but everyone in the hall shook their heads. The only people present today were Bisca, Alzack, Macao, Wakaba, Kinana, Chase, Erza and Sam. Wendy, Happy, Carla and Lucy walked up behind Natsu with exasperated sighs.

"Do you always have to fight?" Lucy grumbled. Natsu looked over his shoulder at her,

"But I'm bored!" He complained and Lucy simply shook her head and walked past him toward the bar. Natsu glanced over toward Chase who was talking with Kinana, "Frea not back yet?" He called over to the Energy Mage.

Chase glanced over his shoulder at Natsu and shook his head.

"Nope, she might be gone for awhile yet." He told Natsu before looking back at Kinana.

Natsu frowned, "Aww man, she would have fought with me.." Natsu grumbled.

"How about we go fishing Natsu?" Happy suggested as he floated around his partners head. Natsu grinned at the idea and spun around sprinting out of the hall.

"Good Idea! Lets go Happy!" Natsu yelled.

"Aye sir!"

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Frea let out a heavy sigh as she closed the book and let her head fall back against the tree she was sitting under. She looked up at the leaves of the trees above her and she frowned. The book was proving very hard to read, and Jynx was right when she had said the entire thing would be in the Dragon Language.

The small snippets of the Language she had heard Chaitanya use when she was younger weren't helping much. She only knew the simple things, like words 'Energy', 'Magic', 'Mage', and a few other things. She had only skimmed over the first few pages, and the writing was so old the ink had faded and in some places she couldn't read it at all.

She was sitting under a tree in the forest not far from the Guild Hall. She had been expecting to be trying to figure this book out for a few days, hopefully getting something out of it. That was the reason she had told Macao she probably wouldn't be around for awhile, but she hadn't gotten far due to some interruption from the Council.

She let out another sigh at the thought, they had sent one of their members to collect her on the third day of that week, and she had been brought to the headquarters to answer questions.

The only reason she had been summoned was to answer the questions the Council had about past things like Senna and Winter and Shadow. She honestly didn't see why they were asking now of all times, it had been a good eight years since all of that, though it felt shorter to her.

But she didn't have to admit that the council definitely wasn't as annoying as it used to be, though it still wasn't great.

But she had run into someone unexpectedly while she had been there, and her eyes closed as she let her mind wander off to the memory.

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She walked down the walkway of the Council building slowly with her eyes narrowed.

Those were stupid questions! Why ask now after all this time?

She shook her head in frustration as raised her arms above her in a stretch as she let out a sigh. She couldn't shake the feeling that the Council just didn't have anything better to do so they were bothering her.

She let her hand drop down to her sides as she kept walking. There had been a guard ordered to escort her out, but the look she had given him made the guard leave her be, to leave on her own.

She placed her hands atop her head and closed her eyes as she walked along. The book Jynx had given her should be sitting on her desk at home, and she sighed again at the thought of trying to read it.

Why did it have to be in that Dragon Language? Couldn't it have been in English?

But she had to wonder why it wasn't in English, but in a language she was fairly sure only the dragons knew. Who wrote this book?

She slowed a little when she felt an Energy Signature start to approach her, but she didn't open her eyes. Her head tilted slightly to find she sort of recognized it, and when the footsteps of the other person echoing down the walkway suddenly faded, only then did she open her eyes.

She glanced to the left to see a man with a two scars running near his left eye and black hair, wearing the cloak all Council Members wore. He froze upon meeting her gaze and she slowly came to a stop, his hair was longer since the last time she had seen him.

"DoranBolt right?" She murmured and he struggled to nod.

"Y-your alive?" He stammered and she smiled a little.

"Your part of the Council aren't you, shouldn't you know that already?" She asked and chuckled a little. "Yeah, everybody's fine. Missing for a good seven years sure, but nobody died at least."

"That's good to hear..." Doranbolt murmured as he fell silent and Frea raised an eyebrow when she felt the sudden guilt surround him.

"Don't blame yourself for it." She told him quietly and he blinked in surprise, and she could tell he was wondering how she had known how he was feeling. "I know you tried to persuade everyone to evacuate the Island before Acnologia came. And I don't think your evil at heart, I would be able to tell if you were." She told him quietly.

"At least now you can relax knowing everyone is safe. And I just hope you don't try to sneak into Fairy Tail again," she gave him a toothy smirk. "It won't work as long as I'm around to set everyone straight." She chuckled and he blinked in shock for a minute, before smiling a little.

"I have to know," he told her and she blinked a few times. "I couldn't use my Memory Altering Powers on you, why is that?" He asked and she smiled as she chuckled quietly.

"Maybe someday I'll tell you," she murmured as se began to walk again. "Take care of yourself, alright?" Se called over her shoulder with a warm smile as Doranbolt watched her disappear down the walkway, smiling once more before continuing in his own direction. For once, he didn't feel as if he had to know something.

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Frea opened her eyes again and smiled a little, even if she didn't know him that well, DoranBolt really wasn't a bad guy at heart.

Her eyes slowly swept back and forth as she traced the edges of the leaves and branches overhead.

She stiffened and glanced sideways as a roll of thunder rolled over the sky and a bright beam of lightning rise up from somewhere below in the trees. She blinked in surprise and sighed.

"Look whose back." She murmured. She lifted the book up in one hand and let her Magic wrap around it, she had figured out how do send this book back and forth between herself and her room at Fairy Hills earlier that week.

Her silver magic spiraled around the book several times before in a flash of light it disappeared and she got to her feet, raising her arms above her in a stretch and looking towards where the lightning had flashed up into the sky.

Her arms dropped back down her sides as she hooked her arms whined her back and started walking in its direction. She had to wonder why he was here, considering he had pretty much disappeared after they got back to Magnolia.

She blinked in surprise when se felt both Natsu and Gajeel's Energy Signatures flare up ahead of her, and of she strained her ears she could hear the two running and arguing ahead of her.

She took a deep breath to scent the air and smiled, Happy was with the two and she was able to catch on to the scents of the Thunder God Tribe as the breeze blew toward her. And then his scent, the scent of lightning and the sweet tinge to it that Wendy, Natsu, and Gajeel all had mixed in with their scents as well.

She could only guess why the two of them were rushing, they probably wanted a fight.

She slowed to a stop under the deep shadow of a tree and leaned up against the trunk with her shoulder as she peered through the trees toward a small clearing. There she could see a small group of the Thunder God Tribe, Natsu, Gajeel, Happy and Laxus standing there.

"Oi! Laxus, why are you here? Do live around here it something?" Natsu asked and Laxus crossed his arms over his chest as he gave Natsu a flat stare.

"Yeah, it just so happens the place I got us around here." He replied.

"Great! Lets fight!" Natsu yelled as fire began to surround his clenched fists.

"We have to get back at you." Gajeel grunted as he moved into a fighting stance.

Freed stepped forward with Bickslow and Evergreen beside him.

"No, we'll fight you for Laxus." Freed told him but Laxus raised hand to block his path from moving forward any more.

"Nah, better I beat them with my own hands." Laxus smirked as Lightning began to flicker around him and the Thunder God Tribe stepped back.

Before any of them could make a move, they all jumped a little as Wendy and Lucy came out of the trees directly across from where Frea stood.

"Stop!" Wendy told them quickly. "I think things like this should be planned out. You will fight tomorrow." Wendy told them and Natsu glanced her way, his flames disappearing.

"Fine," his gaze rested on Laxus. "We'll fight tomorrow under the Solo Tree in the park, alright?"

"After Natsu you'll fight me." Gajeel stepped up and Laxus smirked at the two.

"Sounds good to me. Is Frea around? I'll think a fight with her will be good after I beat both of you." Laxus chuckled and Natsu and Gajeel frowned.

"Frea hasn't been around for a week, we don't know when she'll be back." Lucy piped up quickly and Laxus shrugged, sticking his hands in his pockets and turning around. "To bad, see you both tomorrow." He murmured as he walked away and the Thunder God Tribe followed him.

Frea smiled a little and turned to quietly walk back into the forest. She hadn't come forward just now because she wasn't sure if she wanted to fight with Laxus. The next time she had a serious fight with him, she hoped to win, and seeing as how she missed seven years of potential training time to get stronger, she wasn't sure fighting him now was a good idea.

She let out a sigh as she continued heading away, she was definitely planning on seeing Natsu and Gajeel fight, but maybe if she really felt like brawling tomorrow, she would agree to fight with him.

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Frea shook her head and smiled as she sat on a hill with her legs crossed and watched the party go on down below her. Night was falling and it looked to be someone's brilliant plan to turn this whole fighting thing with Laxus against Natsu and Gajeel into a big party. It was reasonable she supposed, how often does agree to have an Organized fight with someone?

The entire park danced around with light and music and people laughed and talked, eat and drink, tonight was the post-celebration for the fighting tomorrow. She didn't feel like joining in though, she was too wrapped up in her own thoughts to even have a chance at enjoying herself down there.

The book Jynx had given her was sitting in her lap and slowly ran her fingers over the cover as she glanced down at it, before opening it up to the tenth page. It was covered in writing that was faded, smeared in some places and in the same ancient language she was having trouble reading. Her eyes settled on the center of a large paragraph, and she placed her finger under a few words.

'Drearand en Dargerio wel hume dogeter om fon nadare.'

She knew that 'Drearand' meant light, and she was fairly sure Chaitanya had once used the 'Dargerio' word before, though she wasn't sure what it meant. She shook her head a little, she really should have paid more attention to Chaitanya when she had used the Dragon Language around her.

She closed her eyes and sighed, I wish you were still around Chaitanya... you could be so much help right now...

Her eyes napped open when she felt the book move under her hand, and she drew it away watching in shock as the book flipped page after page rapidly by itself. It was moving by itself..?!

The pages stopped flipping at least twenty pages in and she looked down on the page, it was covered in words, and her eyes widened in surprise when she noticed the English footnotes at the bottom, written in a different handwriting than what she had seen so far. There were only a few, and most were so faded she couldn't make them out, but her eyes trained on to one note in particular.

'Dargerio- Darkness, shadow, evil'

She looked the book over slowly, wondering why it seemed to know what she had been thinking. Darkness and Light? Darkness and Light what exactly, she still didn't know what the rest of it said.

"What does it say...?" She murmured and the book didn't move again. She tossed the two words over and over in her mind until it was well into the night and she finally closed the book, and got to her feet. She needed a little break from it, maybe sleep would bring her more clues.

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Frea sat on a lower branch of the Solo Tree in SouthGate park with one leg propped up on the branch with her, and the other hanging down with her back leaning up against the trunk. The park was filled with people below her as the Festival went on, the sun was shinning high in the sky and she shook her head when she heard someone yell,

"COOL!"

Apparently Jason from Sorcerer Weekly had showed up to announce for the fights, and he was excited as ever. She honestly thought that guy was the most annoying person she had ever met. She saw Laxus arrive and he looked over toward a young kid with his grandfather, and he smiled at the scene. Frea smiled too, he wasn't so grumpy and moody all the time.

"COOL! Laxus has arrived looking cooler than ever!" Jason announced and Frea cast a glance below her where Laxus had taken a seat on a chair below her with the Thunder God Tribe stood around him. "And Now Natsu and Gajeel have arrived, both looking ready for their battle!"

Laxus got to hid feet as Natsu stepped forward and they two stared each other down before fire began to circle around Natsu and Lightning circled around Laxus. The two stood still as their magic grew bright and stronger.

"Such anticipation! This is sure to be a great battle! COOL!" Jason announced. Frea glanced between the two and sighed,

Whoever makes the first move...

Natsu rushed forward and everyone in the crowds tensed in anticipation, Natsu came so fast and before anyone knew it, he was face down on the ground in an instant. Frea shook her head and sighed again,

"And Laxus takes Natsu down with one blow! So Cool!" Jason called out. "The next fight will be Laxus against Gajeel!" Jason turned around to gesture toward the Iron Dragon Slayer, but all he found was that Gajeel had disappeared.

"Gajeel ran away?!" Lily exclaimed.

"Find him, we are seeing him battle with Laxus!" Macao ordered as he ran off into the town with all the crowds people, and most of the Guild with him. Frea slowly stood up and placed her hand on the trunk as she stood on the limb. Natsu was still on the ground and she sighed, sweatdropping a little.

"Come on Natsu, he didn't even hit you that hard!" Frea called down and she heard Natsu let out a low and pained grumble. Laxus glanced up into the tree along with Freed, Bickslow and Evergreen.

"So you were here." Laxus murmured and she stepped off the branch to land neatly on the ground. "How about a fight with me since the Iron Freak ran off?" Laxus asked with a smirk. Frea glanced his way, a fight wouldn't be too bad she supposed, and she was about to accept the challenge but stopped herself upon seeing Master Makarov walking toward them with a very serious look on his face. She sweatdropped a little at let out a sigh,

"Maybe some other time..." She replied quietly and Laxus finally noticed where her eyes were looking, and he turned to see his Grandfather walking toward them. The two simply looked at each other with neutral expressions, and Frea found herself fidgeting a little at the emotions dancing off the two. It was more tense between the two of them, than she had originally thought.

Without a words Laxus turned and began to walk away, Freed stepped forward and fixed his gaze on Makarov.

"Master, I think its time you lift Laxus' expulsion." Freed told him quickly. Frea didn't look at the two and Makarov never answered, her eyes were fixed on Laxus' back as he walked away and she frowned a little. She wished the two would make up, there was no need to still be this tense around each other.

He's not like he used to be anymore...