~Magnolia's Number One Assassin~ (Fairy Tail)

Chapter 62: Natsu's Hurt

Natsu's Hurt

Laughter rang out around us and my heart clenched painfully in my chest at the blood chilling sound. Natsu and I went back to back as we faced off against our unseen threat. The Dragon Slayer and I were both silent as we watched and waited.

The shadows seemed to shift and move. Then they pulled away from the darkness that hid their forms from us. Men that I had never seen before came out of the thick shadows and quickly surrounded us on all sides. They were all wearing all black and they had masks that obscured their faces from view. I could sense their Magic, it was coming off of them all in powerful waves. These people were strong. I smirked, but not strong enough. We were trapped in on all sides as the snow continued to fall soundlessly around us. Our breaths mixed in with each other's in a cloud of white as my eyes darted around each and every one of my enemies. Just as I was about to bash in some heads movement from the front caught my attention.

In front of us, a man shifted, and broke away from the rest of the group of silent men. This man was much more powerful then the rest. His Magic Energy nearly knocked me over as he came a few steps closer. I had never felt so much power. I could tell Natsu had also felt it, cause his body stiffened against mine. We were both thinking the same scary thought. We couldn't defeat this guy. Not alone.

I had already decided that this man was the leader. It was the way that he held himself and how some of the men visibly stiffened or moved away from him. From how most of the enemies reacted to him, he must be ruthless. The leader of the powerful Mages, stepped forward in the snow, his black boots crunched through the snow like the sound of snapping bones. His dark black eyes with bloody red pupils landed on me. His intense, almost mocking, gaze made my skin crawl. When he opened up his mouth, his voice made me shiver, it was deep and hissy, and full of hidden secrets. "Ah, Freya! Long time no see." The man chucked lightly at my shocked expression.

He...he knew my name? I cocked my head at him as I studied him. He had black hair, that was so black that it had a blue tint to it. The man's dark, calculating, black eyes had swirls of red in them. He was much taller than me and I had already sensed that he had powerful Magic at his disposal.

However I didn't recognize him.

Nothing about this man seemed familiar to me and yet I felt like I knew him. A memory was tugging at my mind but before I could grasp it, the memory slipped away as fast as it had come.

"Don't remember me?" He asked me as a knowing smirk made its way onto his face. I didn't say a word. "Ah, it doesn't matter anyway." He said as he took a step forward while waving his hand in a nonchalant gesture.

Before he could take another breath my daggers appeared in my hands in a flash of blue. "If you wish to keep that smile of yours," I crossed my daggers in front of me in an X, "Then you will not take another step forward."

He stopped and chuckled as he raised his hands in front of him. "We can have it your way, Freya." He grinned, "You haven't changed a bit"

I didn't like how he spoke to me as if he knew me, when I didn't even know him.

"Don't say her name." Natsu growled as he looked over his shoulder at the man, pinning him with such a bone chilling glare that it made my breath catch. In that moment Natsu looked completely different from the boy that had been smiling only a short time ago. The man looked at Natsu for a moment, unfazed by his glare, and then back at me. "So, this is the boy that you have been seen with?"

Seen with? These people had been watching me? For long? It was just like that other dumbass guy that had taken me. I was starting to get seriously annoyed about how people kept watching me and trying to take me.