Of Fire and Ice

C.62

They were all bickering until I heard Grey scream. "Would you idiots quit yelling at each other?!" "Practice what you preach, Grey!" Me and a bunch of other people yelled back. "Henley! You're supposed to be on my side!" I heard Grey say.

"I have a migraine and a bunch of people are shouting in my head and you just overpowered all of them!" I yelled angrily.

I kept bickering with him until Lucy yelled for us to shut up. She made her little speech, and soon everybody was fucking apologising.

"Hen? I'm sorry I yelled." Grey said and was waiting for me. "Henley?" He asked and it was oddly quiet. "Henley, please say something." He sighed. "Sorry doesn't fix my migraine." "Well, I didn't cause your migraine." Grey said. "See? You take everything out on others." Ari said from beside me. "I KNOW I DO! I CAN'T EXACTLY HELP IT, OKAY?!" I screamed and she flinched. "Ugh! Sorry for yelling at you both!" I sighed and Ari just glared at me. "What do you want from me?!" "I want you to go into some serious therapy after this." "I'm already in therapy!"

"Well I'm talking to your therapist!" "Fine! Can we just get this over with already so I can fucking sleep?!" I growled.

"Right. Let's do this." Lucy said. " Uh they've got that body link magic! If we destroy them, it's just gonna hurt!" Happy said. "Then we just fucking deal with it." I spoke up.

"I'll take the two hundred to the North!" Erza said. "I got the West!" I said, jumping on Ari and she took off the the West quarter. "You sure you can handle that many?" I heard Grey ask. "I have the perfect spell." I grinned, looking at Ari.

"Stay on the ground, Ari. I don't want you hurt." I said and sprouted wings as she dropped. I positioned myself and held my hands out, readying myself.

I heard explosions around me and started to cast the spell.

"Oh misty eye of the mountain below
Keep careful watch of my brother's souls
And should the sky be filled with
Fire and smoke
Keep watching over Durin's sons..."

I sang and the sky erupted in fire as all of them exploded. I kept my place as the sky cleared and it was completely silenced, until I felt intense shocks running through me.

I couldn't help but scream in agony, because holy shit, it was the most painful thing I've ever felt.

I heard the others screaming in my head, but theirs were over faster than mine. I kept screaming, and could barely hear them over myself.

"Henley! Henley!" I heard Grey scream. Suddenly, the lightning stopped and I fell back down, blacking out.

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I opened my eyes in a bright room on a soft bed. I sat up quickly, my head spinning. "Whoa. Be careful!" Grey said from next to me and slowly lay me back down.

I took hold of his hand and smiled. "Grey." I said and kissed his knuckles. "Hey, Henley." He said and tears sprung up in my eyes. "Oh, you don't hate me do you? I am so sorry I screamed at you. I really didn't mean to take my anger out on you." I said, sitting up again and he shut me up with a tight hug.

I relaxed and closed my eyes, hugging him back. I took a deep breath and was back in my senses.

"So... why am I in the infirmary?" Figuring out that's where I was. "Oh, you had a really bad migraine, and after being electrocuted, you kind of fell unconscious." He said. "How long have I been asleep?" "Just one day." "Did I miss the parade?!" I panicked. "No, Gramps delayed it until he was better, and now you're better, and everyone's fine." Grey smiled and I grinned, then the Master walked in with the rest of our team. He didn't look happy.

"Hi, Master. You don't look happy..." I bit my lip nervously. "I want to know where you learned that magic." He said and I tilted my head. "You're going to have to refresh me. I don't remember much." I said. "The spell to set the sky on fire." He growled and I flinched a little. "Well, along with dragon slayer magic, I was also taught a bunch more of ancient magic that either isn't used or is banned. That spell was just a small one." I said, shrugging nervously.

Master just stared down at me. "Henley, that is dangerous magic. You're only getting away with it now because it ended up saving lives. But I don't want to see you using it again, do you understand?" He said and I hung my head ashamedly. "Yes, sir." I said.

"Good. You're still singing in our parade, but you better not spell anything with that magic." He said and I nodded, then he walked away.

"I don't see what the big deal is. You just sang a song and stuff happened." Natsu said. "That's the deal, Natsu. It's ancient magic that's really dangerous." I said. "What's so dangerous?" He asked. "It takes a lot of magic energy to pull off a spell like what I did. That's because it's not a real spell. It's just taking normal words and forcing them to be magic, and it's not an easy thing to do. My guess is that the electrocution or my migraine knocked me out. I was already running low on energy and I used something that required more than what I had to offer. Basically, casting that spell drained me. And I don't blame the master for telling me not to do it again. I've only done it three times my whole life, this being the third. It doesn't usually end well." I said.

"Anyway." I coughed, swinging my legs over and getting out of bed. "We have a parade to rehearse for, don't we?" I smiled and they copied it.