Fairy Tail: The Dark Swordsman

1 - The Origin

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[Year x770, a village on the eastern side of Fiore]

— Dannis Martell —

'What...What happened? Where am I?...' thought a child barely 8 years of age. He was lying still on the ground, with a cut right above his eyebrow. The blood from the cut dripped over his eyes, covering them in a layer of dark red.

"Hey look at that! The kid is still alive!"

"Stop messing around and just kill him. We already got what we came for. Boss will kill us if we're late."

'Wait what..? What are they talking about?'

The boy could hear muffled sounds of people talking. His head was still spinning and all he could see was the blurred surroundings. There was a ringing in his ear that contributed much to the headache that he could feel was growing in pain little by little. Everything was so delirious, he could barely make sense of anything.

"Alright alright, sheesh. Ya don't have to be so stuck up all the time y'know."

The sound of footsteps was getting louder and louder. He could also barely make out the sounds of burning and screams in the background.

'Last thing I remembered, mom was preparing dad and I dinner. We just sat by the dinner table, talking... and then...'

Not yet recognizing his incoming peril, he ignored the sounds around him and tried his best to remember. Memories flashed for an instant into his mind.

'My name is Dannis Martell. My parents were regular farmers and village workers. We were having just another normal day when...fire...explosions...and then...'

A stinging pain suddenly flared as the ache in his head grew even more. A painful throb that forced him away from the memory. That was when he felt someone grab him by the back of the neck and lift him up to eye level with his captor.

"Lookie here, sheesh you're all messed up." Dannis could barely see the look of insanity and blood thirsty smile of the man holding him up.

"That eye of yours looks pretty bad there kiddo, let me help with that."

He only had a second to prepare himself before the thug took out a knife and slashed him right at his left eye.

"AAGHHHH!"

Dannis screamed as the most pain he's ever felt struck at his nerves. He could hear the insane laughter as the man let him go. He dropped unceremoniously to the ground, both hands clutching his now injured eye.

"Oi, make it quick. We gotta go."

One of the bandits that spoke the first time reminded his friend, completely ignoring Dannis's bleeding state on the ground. The other bandits simply had smirks at the sight of the cruelty.

"Tch, fine then. Always ruinin' my fun." The thug mumbled as he walked closer to Dannis's small frame.

Dannis, still clutching to his injury, retreated as far back as he could, the blood creating a trail on the ground beneath him. But he soon found his back against the wall of the broken building that he barely recognized as his old home.