You're Warm (Fairy Tail)

Tricks and Thread

You're Warm

Chapter 20: Tricks and Thread

Sting and Rogue pushed themselves away from the door as the thing, or Belladonna, charged towards them with its scythe raised in the air. The both of them diving as she swooped over them, Rogue clicked his tongue where Sting gritted his teeth in annoyance.

"What the hell did Sakura leave us to look after?!" Sting growled where he looked up to Belladonna floating in front of a spectating Lucy.

The hospital staff retreating in horror as they dreaded the outcomes of them trying to hold back such  a beast, they never looked back in fear of their lives. With no one now in the way, Lucy smiled before pointing to Sting and Rogue again, "I want them to scream in pain... I want them to see who's the alpha here."

Belladonna's eyes shone brighter as she smirked down to the two Dragon Slayers on the floor. "Ne... Did you know what being the thing I am... I can have more than a face and a body?" she said where her body began to get shrouded in a thick cloud of dark purple.

Sting and Rogue using that time to quickly get up on their feet, they turned the bodies to only face a crying Sakura who was sitting on the floor sobbing. "Sting... Rogue... Takuto actually cheated on me and I can't stand it - Smiling when I'm actually in pain!" she cried out where the two boys looked down to her bewildered.

Their assumptions of Sakura being there in front of them getting the better of them, they slowly approached the girl where Rogue quickly widened his eyes to her scent. "Wait Sting," he whispered, stopping him with his arm raised.

The male blonde looking to his best friend in confusion, he looked back to Sakura with a pain-stricken expression. "What is it now Rogue? The monster's gone and Sakura's crying over that jackass - I knew having mates was too good to be true," he grunted through gritted teeth where Rogue rolled his eyes.

"Her scent is different. The scent is like poison and I don't think that Sakura's smells like that. Remember - Scent is different," Rogue reminded, snapping Sting out it where he warily eyed the crying crimson on the floor.

Sting slowly approaching Sakura, the girl slowly lifted her head up to show them her tears where the boys felt their hearts being tugged. Her position revealing her most vulnerable state in the middle of the empty hospital hallway, they looked around before seeing something on their left.

"S-Sting... R-Rogue... Am I really not worth his time? I'm I really the ruthless Crimson Dragon that they call me to be?" Sakura whispered as she rose from the ground.

Her tears falling to the tiles where her sniffles echoed through the silence, she rubbed her eyes where she then looked at them with her glowing crimson eyes. "Just what am I to him?" she asked began before suddenly pierced through Rogue's stomach where Sting looked over his shoulder with wide eyes.

A chilling laugh replacing those sniffles, the boys both slowly turned their attention back onto the girl who was floating in the air. Her red eyes now replaced with blue, it looked at them in amusement before raising its arm. "You know... Everyone always falls for these tricks. It never seems to amaze me," Sakura chimed before semi-transparent threats began to grow more noticeable by their eyes.

A figure watching in the far distance, they smiled to themselves as they watched Sting and Rogue dodge the threats of wire. They all knew that touching those moving things could mean an easy death - How they were somewhat dripping in an unknown fluid that could be guessed as poison...

Both boys panting hard as Sakura's body began to change back into Belladonna's form, they narrowed their eyes before looking at each other. Coming into mutual agreements, they snapped their heads back to Belladonna where Sting pulled off his earring with Rogue slipped off the ring from his right hand. "Roar!" they both cried out, releasing their magic that was once restrained by their accessories.

"You cannot defeat me... But let's see you try..."

"Do you sense something?" Takuto asked as he looked over to Sakura that was sitting on the bench. Handing over a bottle water to the girl, she looked at it with narrowed eyes before taking it from him. His eyes watching her drink where she then sighed tiredly, she wiped away her sweat where she looked out to the window in their private room.

"I feel uncomfortable. The night is restless, and even I don't think that I'll be able to rest peacefully tonight. I feel a stabbing pain but I don't know what's wrong," Sakura replied before looking down to her free hand where Takuto held onto it.
   "Is something happening to my family? A family bond... Is it really them that's hurting?" she whispered.

"White Dragon's Roar!" Sting bellowed as he ran towards Belladonna with his mighty roar already out of his mouth.

Rogue easily running along the walls, he jumped and landed behind Belladonna where he took in a deep inhale. "Shadow Dragon's Roar!" he cried out.

The beast chuckling, she easily blocked it with scythe blades sprouting from the floor. Her eyes displaying her emotions, she sliced her hand through the air where both of their roars were silenced within in instant.

With a smile, she looked back and forth to them. "You're more weaker than I thought you guys were. What a waste of time - Even with my master wanting to destroy you all, I see no benefit until they arrive," she said before vanishing.