Fairy Tail: The Dark Swordsman

2 - Introductions to Fairy Tail

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— Dannis Martell —

The days that went by for Dannis after he met Makarov were a blur.

He remembered the first thing he requested of the old master after waking up was his help to bury his family on a clearing close to the village. Their graves were built underneath a willow tree by the riverside.

He was still too young to help much in the ceremonies, so he just stood there in melancholy as Makarov slowly put down his parents' bodies before digging them back in.

It was when the graves were finished that he finally realized the fact that he would never see his parents again. His one lone eye gained a glassy look as he quietly mourned for the loving family he once had. Makarov just stood to the side with arms behind his back, a silent companion in his moment of grief.

After about a minute, Dannis then took out a white rose, his mother's favorite flower, before he kissed it softly on the crown and placed it on the center of the two graves.

No more words were said as he turned around and began his journey with Makarov to the city of Magnolia, the home of Fairy Tail.

Ever since then, to Dannis, it was as if the world lost its color. Makarov tried his best to cheer him up, and he certainly appreciated his efforts. But the darkness within him grew stronger day by day.

Makarov also took the chance in their journey to teach him about the basics of magic. Apparently, there are only 10% of people in the world that are capable of accessing and harnessing the ethernano in the air to be able to utilize magic, and he is among the lucky few.

Honestly though, considering the price he had to pay, he sometimes wondered if it was worth it.

Dannis didn't really know much about the kind of magic he possessed. All he knew was that whatever it was, it was capable of pushing against the bandits back in the village and subsequently saved his life.

According to Makarov, that whole stunt just proved that his personal brand of magic falls into the Caster Magic category and that he'd have to experiment more to find out what it really is.

And despite his annoyance on how his magic awakened, Dannis was pretty excited about the idea.

It took them around 3 days to finally reach the city, and the first thing that Dannis noticed was that the city was huge. It was far grander than anything he had ever seen, not that he'd seen much considering that he lived his whole life in a backwater village, but still.

Much to his surprise however, the first place Makarov took him wasn't the guild building, but to a weird looking hut on the outskirts of the city.

"We're here to visit a friend of mine. She's a healer of sorts and I want her to do a check up on you, just in case of anything."

Dannis just nodded in understanding of course, and when he was introduced to the old woman named Porlyusica, he was initially concerned with the apparent hatred the woman had to humans in general.

But the look of contempt that he was initially greeted with immediately changed the moment Makarov told her of his story.

"Fine then, let me take a look at you."