Warning: Abuse, blood and torture
CLANG
CLANG
CLANG
"A-AAAHHHHHHH!"
The boy fell to the ground, screaming in pain as he clutched the large slash across his leg. Blood splattered on to the ground, spreading across the dirty gray rocks.
"Stupid boy," the man scoffed, lowering his bloody sword. "Stand up! You still have training to go through!"
The boy choked back another scream as the man slid the tip of his sword down his back, drawing a bit of blood. "I SAID STAND YOU UP LITTLE BRAT!"
The red haired boy stumbled onto his feet, using his sword as his support, the two ball and chain weights on his either ankle proving to be easy for him to move.
"Come at me!"
The boy hesitated before running towards the man, slashing his heavy sword upwards, but the man dodged and knocked his sword aside before piercing his sword through the boy's left torso.
He screeched in pain, stumbling away before falling on to his knees, blood pouring to the ground like rain.
"Don't scream, you little baby!" The older man commanded, pulling him up by his hair. "Or I'll just make it worse!"
The boy struggled to close his mouth, his eyes going hazy as he slipped into unconsciousness. The man scowled, dragging the beaten, bloodied boy to his cell and threw him inside. "Treat his wounds! He has to be healed up by tomorrow morning!" The man shouted to the red haired girl in the room, who looked at the boy in horror, scrambling over to him and leaning his stained head on her lap.
"Y-Yes, sir," she replied, ripping off part of his shorts and wrapping it around the boy's leg. A roll of bandage hit her in the head, and she looked up to see a blue haired boy smiling at her.
"I managed to scavenge that...we need to take care of him," he frowned, seeing the extreme wounds. "Do you know him, Erza?"
"He shares our cell...but he's only here when I'm around, and never talks to me. Only saying things like 'thank you,' 'hello' or 'good bye...' " Erza frowned, trying to clean the wounds before wrapping them tightly. The white bandages quickly stained red.
"He looks a lot like you...hair wise and all," the boy explained, sitting next to Erza and assisting her in treating the red haired boy.
"Then...maybe he can join our family," Erza suggested happily, smiling as she wrapped his leg.
"...maybe."
There was a moment of silence before the two children finished wrapping his legs and leaned him against one of the rocks, the previously tensed muscles around his eyes relaxed and his breathing evened out.
The boy and Erza gazed at him for a moment before they also lay down. "Good night, Jellal."
"G'night, Erza..."
As they closed their eyes, the red haired boy's opened, and his dull maroon eyes scanned over the room before settling on to the two other children whom had treated him. Quietly, though labored, he stood and used a bit of his blood to write on the stone before limping to the bars, and walking through them as if he was a ghost.
"Thank you..." he murmured, looking at the two before disappearing down the 'hallway.'
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One Man Strong
Fanfiction[Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic X Fairy Tail] He had been a slave, held in the Tower of Heaven until he fled with Erza, back to the guild of dreams and possibility; Fairy Tail. Now an S Class Mage, it is his turn to find his former slave companions, w...
