The Taste of Blood [Fairy Tail FanFic]

Chapter 16: The Fairies

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The Fairy Tail teams in each city were anxious in a each place they visited, they were surprised as well as the people of each town. They said wizards on a quest rarely go to their places, and they also seldom heard of a guild before nor have they ever thought of creating one, because the idea of a guild filled with wizards with blood based magic powers is just terrifying. That said, not everyone in the towns had magic that was based on blood, over the years it just became what they call an ancient magic. Only a chosen few or a tribe may own such powers, and a tribe like that couldn't easily be found. Now, the normal magic type for them had something to do with water, the closest element to blood because of its liquid state.

In Lican and Heacan, the team of the Strauss siblings and Levi's team asked around if they have heard anything about the dark side of the forest, a guild with only five members and maybe a story about a dragon. On the other hand, even far away from each other, The team of Erza, Gray, Gajeel and Cana -who were in Jypsum- thought of the same thing as the team of Freed, Bickslow and Evergreen -who were in Theria; search the forest immediately.

The final team was the team of Natsu, Happy, Lucy, Wendy, Charles and Kuro who were assigned to Ryuuketsu. It looked like a ghost town. The houses were all made out of wood, broken and chapped up wood, like they haven't been touched for years. The whole place was silent in a way that it just gave them a bad feeling. There was no people in sight upon entry, and they were all just hoping that they'd be able to find at least one person soon.

They checked from house to house, to find that it was all just empty, no furniture, no decorations, no anything, which they found weird. They checked not only houses but the farm lands also that were at the outskirts of the other side of the town, which led to a forest. Seems like Natsu and his team were on track.

As they walked through the city to get to the other side, it was really creepy that it gave them the chills, except for Natsu and Kuro who were so focused at the current mission. There were libraries, schools, stalls and other facilities and all of them were abandoned. There was one building exactly at the other end of the place just before they could enter the farmland, an orphanage. Remembering that it was part of Aka's story, they decided to investigate the place further. Entering it, at first sight it was all the same, it was empty, so they decided to look inside the house's rooms. There were at total of 7 rooms, each of which contained 4 beds. Nothing was left in the rooms instead for dust and dirt.

They were about to conclude that the orphanage was of no use, but before they could say a word, Kuro suddenly found a secret room in the topfloor, alone. It was like an attic, no, it was an attic that was just transformed into a room. Unlike the other rooms, it wasn't empty, it had pictures on the wall, and the drawers were open that showed used and dusted dresses.

They scrutinized the whole room, they checked every corner and they examined all the things in the drawer.

They found a drawer filled with crumpled up paper. They checked to see what was written on it... and it shocked them all.

'You are different!'
'Your red eyes are scary'
'You're a monster'
'Don't eat us..'
'Go away!'
'We don't need you here'
'No one cares about you.'

Lucy...

Red eyes? Being scared? Monster? Isn't this a form of bullying?

"Hey... do you guys think that this might be the orphanage where Aka lived?" Charles suddenly suggested "I mean, it's right beside the forest and it has proof that there was someone here with red eyes who is getting bullied. It fits Aka's story perfectly."