Chapter 43

Moon

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"Miss Frea? Nya~" Nadi murmured and Frea nodded at him.

"Nice to see you again, Nadi." Frea told him and he smiled a little. Frea's eyes switched over to the other Exceed, who simply stared back with her pale blue eyes, before looking away with an annoyed huff.

"Whatever..." She growled and Frea smirked. Nadi helped her up and set her down on a limb of a tree just next to where the dark grey Exceed was tangled in the vines, Nadi hovered next to her. Frea's hands lifted up to start untangling the vines, and her eyes narrowed in concentration.

"What are you guys doing out here anyway?" Frea asked as she began her work.

"My queen sent me out here." Nadi started, and sweatdropped at the very unhappy look the other Exceed gave him. "I came across Miss Moon in another forest near here, while I was on my way to my destination..." He trailed off and the other Exceed known as Moon huffed.

"He chased me all the way here, and I ended up getting caught in these stupid plants." Moon hissed and Frea blinked a few times.

"Why did you run away from him?" Frea asked.

"I wasn't running from him!" Moon snapped and Frea sighed.

"Then what were you doing then?" She asked and Moon fell silent.

"I was trying to get him to leave me alone." Moon growled after a while. Frea paused for a minute to meet Moon's gaze and she looked away to continue what she was doing.

"But Miss Moon, I was only trying to explain everything to you." Nadi told Moon.

"You don't have to, I already scanned your memories and got all the information I needed." Moon answered and both Frea and Nadi looked surprised.

"You what? Nya~?" Nadi asked, looking completely dumbfounded. Frea watched Moon silently, she was becoming more interested in the dark grey Exceed. Moon closed her eyes and looked away, if her arms hadn't been caught up in the vines she probably would have crossed her arms over her chest.

"You heard me." Moon answered. "I learned how to use Magic other than Aera while I've been on EarthLand, I can use Memory Magic. It lets me scan the memories of anyone I want, it makes it easier to know if someone's lying. I can also talk to others telepathically if I want to." Moon's eyes opened back up and she looked back at Nadi. "Like I said, I know all about what happened and why you chased after me. You want to convince me to come back to your home with you, but I wont." Moon murmured.

Frea let out a soft sigh, Moon had seemed stressed and on edge when she found the two, but now that they were talking she could tell Moon had calmed down a little.

"Why not? Nya~?" Nadi asked.

"That's a stupid question." Moon replied almost immediately, and she paused as the vines loosened and she dropped down a little before being halted by the green plant again. "Even though I know you sent all of the eggs here to 'protect' us when Extalia was finally destroyed, I don't believe its a very good reason at all. All of us had to fend for ourselves, with only a few lucky ones who were found as an egg and taken care of as they grew up." Moon told him and her blue eyes narrowed and suddenly darkened.

"Some of us were unlucky from the start." Moon growled and Frea found herself looking at the white wrappings all around Moon's body, and she faintly wondered what happened to her. "I wont be going back with you, and that's final. So drop it."

Frea gave one last pull on the vines and Moon was released, where she easily spread her wings out and stayed afloat. Frea crossed her arms over her chest and watched as Moon dusted off her clothes. "Thank you for helping..." Moon murmured as she glanced up at Frea.

"No problem," Frea told her with a small smile, and Moon smiled back. "Nadi, I have a question." Frea glanced his way.

"Nya~?"

"Why did Chagote send you this way? Did she have an idea where you might find Moon?" Frea asked.

"No, my queen did not know that Miss Moon was in the other forest, it was coincidence that I ran into her." Nadi replied. "She sent me to investigate a more serious matter."

"And that would be?" Both Moon and Frea asked, Nadi blinked in slight surprise at Moon and so did Frea.

"I thought you already scanned his memories?" Frea asked and Moon shrugged.

"I only chose to scan his memories of Extalia and why 100 Eggs had been sent here." Moon replied. "I do try not digging any farther into someone's head than I need to, its sort of an invasion of their privacy." Moon told the two and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't go digging into things I shouldn't, you know." She growled and Frea smiled a little at the Exceed's honesty.

"Why did Chagote send you out here Nadi?" Frea asked, steering the conversation back to the matter at hand.

"Didn't you two see it last night?" Nadi asked. Frea stiffened slightly at the question, and Nadi continued. "The very large Magic Source going up into the sky and stretching across the clouds? More than half of Fiore saw it." He told them. Frea sweatdropped a little,

Over half of Fiore...? Crap... if anybody figures out that was me, I'll never hear the end of it! But it couldn't have been that big could it? The Celestial Spirit King's powers should have hidden most of that spell from other's eyes! Shit... So much for your supposed Time-stopping powers Spirit King!

"I saw it, it was powerful, really powerful." Moon murmured. "You had to have seen it too, it was hard not to see it." Moon said as she gestured a paw at Frea and she quickly nodded, looking slightly nervous.

"Oh, yeah I saw it too." Frea replied quickly, no I didn't... I was sort of was that Magic Source...

"My queen sent me out to investigate what it was, she hoped it wasn't one of the hidden Anima here on Earthland. Though we aren't sure those would work anymore, and we were fairly sure it was something other than an Anima anyway." Nadi explained. "Miss Frea, why are you out here? I thought Fairy Tail was in the Grand Magic Games this year? Nya~" Nadi asked as he steered away from his original subject.

"We are, but I ended being a little busy with a job I took." Frea told him. "I finished it, and was heading toward the Capitol before I ran into you guys." She glanced up to see the sun moving farther across the sky through the canopy of trees. "I should probably be heading off again if I want to make it there by tomorrow." She murmured.

"I should be heading off too." Nadi told them. "Are you sure about coming back with me, Miss Moon?" He asked tentatively and Moon cast an annoyed look at him.

"I'm sure." Moon growled and Nadi nodded, turned, and took off.

"Goodbye!" Nadi called out as he disappeared into the forest. Frea looked away from where he had disappeared and looked at Moon who was staring at her intently.

"Where are you headed off to?" Frea asked her and Moon shrugged.

"I don't know, I'm usually always traveling." Moon replied as she looked away and Frea narrowed her eyes. In an instant Frea leaned forward and swiped Moon out of the air, wrapping her arms around the Exceed and stepping out of the tree to land neatly on the ground. "What the hell are you doing?!" Moon gasped in surprise and Frea gave the Exceed a toothy grin.

"Taking you hostage." She replied in a teasing tone. "Your not going with Nadi, and you said your always travelling. How about you come with me? Spend the day travelling with me as I head toward the Capitol, we can get to know each other more." Frea told her and smiled a little more at the shocked look on Moon's face. "You have to get lonely traveling all by yourself all the time, and I think we could both use the company."

Moon simply stared for a minute, before smiling and nodding a little. "Alright." Moon murmured and Frea chuckled a little. "But I want to ask you something."

"Hmm?" Frea asked and Moon tapped a paw to her head.

"I can't read your memories, I cant get anywhere close to your mind. Why is that? I've never had this problem before." Moon told her and Frea gave the Exceed a teasing look.

"So you were trying?" Frea murmured and Moon looked a little nervous.

"Yeah..."

"I would tell you, but I think its better not to." Frea explained and the trees thinned out all the way so they were walking over a bare stretch of the land, on a road leading straight toward the Capitol. "But don't worry, its nothing wrong with you, I know somebody else who couldn't use Mind-based Magic on my either. Just know there is a good reason no-one is able to get inside my head." Frea told her.

"Huh... alright. Can I ask another?" Moon began again and Frea nodded.

"Ask away." Frea invited.

"Nadi, he said something about Fairy Tail? Are you part of that Guild?" Moon asked and Frea nodded. "Then what was your mission about?" Moon asked and Frea paused a minute.

"Take down a Dark Guild, it was a favor for a friend of mine." Frea replied and Moon blinked. "How about I ask you a question? Like... What happened to you?" Frea asked quietly and she motioned toward the white bandages all over the Exceed. Moon looked shocked at the question, before looking away and closing her eyes. Frea could feel the apprehension coming off from Moon and she frowned a little. "You don't have to tell me if you don't want to." Frea put in and Moon looked at the ground, before letting out a heavy sigh.

"No...No... it's alright, I suppose I ought to tell someone..." Moon murmured and Frea perked up. Moon slipped from Frea's arms and positioned herself on Frea's shoulder as she kept walking. "The first time, it was soon after I hatched and found myself all alone in the world. I was attacked by his huge creature that I think was looking for an easy meal," Moon's paws reached up to rest on her torn ears. "I got away with only my ears ripped and torn."

"I spent years living on my own, always hungry, always cold and never knowing when I would get my next meal, or find a place to sleep. I was to scared to go into any human villages for a long while. As cliché as it sounds, I've always seemed to have rotten luck. It was so bad, that I was picked up by these Dark Mages while I was walking through a forest at night. They were nasty, dark, cold-hearted, and horrible. They happened to come across me and all I could do was try and run, but they caught me."

"I was brought into the Dark Guild and worked as a slave for years and years. They were unforgiving, and cruel. Every time a slipped up, every time I dropped a mug, or even made a noise out of turn." Moon ran her paws up and down her arms and closed her eyes tight. "They made it a habit to give me a new slice in my arms and legs, and now all those damn scars will never go away..." Moon trailed off and Frea's eyes narrowed as she listened silently to the story.

"Even after all of that... there was still one person who I really ever cared for, and only one person who ever really cared for me." Moon spoke up again. "He was a wizard in that Dark Guild, and his name was Kyo. He wasn't like all the other mages, he was kind, sweet and caring. He only ever joined that Guild because his father was part of it, but he didn't belong there. He didn't fit in with all the bastards in that guild, and he always tried to stick up for me. One time he went as far as knocking one of his own Guild-mates out when they came after me."

"His father was the Guild Master, and he didn't like Kyo's protectiveness over me one bit. At first, Kyo was warned to stop showing me kindness, but after a while, when Kyo didn't stop, he started getting slashed as punishment too." Small tears formed in the corners of Moon's eyes as she stared at her paws and Frea frowned a little more. " I begged Kyo to stop so he wouldn't get hurt too, but he wouldn't listen. He finally hit the last straw with his Father... and he was killed, right in front of me... All I could do right after that, was fight to escape and I finally did, and I flew and flew until I was hundreds of miles away from the Guild, until I finally collapsed out of exhaustion."

The tears started to stream down Moon's face as she kept talking, and her pale blue gaze filled with memories. "I've been on my own since then, and I've managed to stay out of too much trouble. The only thing I have left of Kyo is my name, when I was captured I didn't have a name, and he gave me one; Moon." Moon fell silent as she closed her eyes and cried silently. She had needed to tell somebody about her past, but talking about it made all the painful memories reappear.

Moon's eyes snapped open as Frea came to a sudden stop and she glanced over to see Frea's head tilted down with her bangs shadowing her eyes and a frown spread across her face. For a long time Frea didn't move or say anything, and Moon only continued to cry silently.

"Quit it." Frea said suddenly and Moon blinked in shock. "Don't cry anymore, crying won't do you any good." Frea muttered. Moon opened her mouth but suddenly found she was lost for words, she had nothing to say back. Before she even knew what was happening, Frea had pulled her into her chest and squeezed her tightly. "I don't care if your luck is rotten, I don't care how bad your past was. Those bastards that hurt you and killed your friend all deserve to burn in hell." Frea hugged her a little tighter.

"I've had enough of Dark Wizards and Dark Guilds, they are all horrible, despicable, disgusting. But now, your not going to travel alone anymore, your not going to be hurt by anything ever again. I'm never going to let you get hurt like that again, so stay with me Moon, I'll take care of you. I will make sure your always safe." Frea told her firmly and Moon's eyes widened at the Fairy Tail mages words.

"A-Alright..." Moon shocked out as she forced her tears to stop. Frea pulled her away and held her out in front of her, toothy grin spreading across her face.

"We're going to be great friends Moon." Frea told her. "Don't worry about anything anymore, because I'll be there for you, always."

Moon blinked in complete shock at the Energy Dragon, before a smile spread across her face.

"Thank you..."