Fairy Tail Rare Pairs Week 2022

Day 1- Dream (Mest x Lahar)

Mest looked around at his surroundings, his eyes landing on his partner and best friend. He had relived this day several times now and knew how it always ended, the Magic Council headquarters would explode, he would try to save Lahar, only to fail and then wake up. He would never forgive Tartaros for what they had done, not only to the Fairy Tail guild but also to the Magic Council. Just as he suspected the explosion happened and everyone died but him, and as always he woke up right after.

Mest sat in bed, his head in his hands as he tried not to scream in anger. Even after a whole two years he still couldn't move past this, let alone get over his feelings for Lahar. He had been in love with him for several years now, but he never got to confess. Although as he thought about it he concluded that it was for the best, after all the Mest that Lahar knew and trusted was not Mest, but Doranbolt. He was about to try and go back to sleep when he remembered something Wendy had told him.

~Flashback~

Mest sat at the bar watching the chaos of the guild and praying he wouldn't become the victim of Ezra's rage. Beside him sat Wendy, a very noisy Wendy at that. She had been trying to figure out if Mest liked anyone, saying she was worried that he would be lonely for the rest of his life. In Mest's opinion, Mira had bribed the young girl into retrieving this information, something she wouldn't be ashamed to do again.

"Come on, there has to be someone," Wendy sighed, taking a bite out of her giant piece of cake, the item which Mira had used for the bribe.

Looking over at the sky mage, Mest let out a sigh of exasperation and decided to give her some information, he wouldn't say who though. "There was someone, in fact, we were very close, but they are dead now and I can't tell them how I feel."

Wendy seemed to take this time to think or maybe she was just chewing, either way, the silence was starting to freak out the older mage.

"Well, I think they can still hear you even after death, whoever it was. I still talk to Grandine every day." Wendy finally said, giving Mest one of the biggest smiles he had ever seen.

~End of Flashback~

"I can't believe I'm going to do this, I hope you're happy Wendy!" Mest shouted to himself. Throwing on a shirt and some shoes, Mest left his house and walked to the train station.

It didn't take long for the train to arrive in Era and for Mest to get to the graveyard. Standing in front of where Lahar lay, Mest started to feel like this wasn't a good idea. The only thing that kept him there was the fact that the next train for Magnolia didn't leave until after lunch. Sitting down, Mest read the tombstone trying not to cry.

Lahar, captain of the Rune Knights
A good leader and friend

"You really were. I don't know why I'm doing this, maybe I actually think there's truth to what Wendy said. Anyway, it's me, Mest, although I guess you know me as Doranbolt. There's a lot you didn't know about me, for starters, I'm actually a member of Fairy Tail. That doesn't change how I felt about you, you were my best friend and maybe I had wanted you to be more, but that can't happen now." By this point, the tears that he had been holding back for so long were freely falling and he didn't care, he had every right to be this upset, the man he loved was dead and the only way they could be together now was in dreams.