Fairy Tail: Black Blood [Book 2/2]

Chapter Thirty: Escape From Tenrou

     Taiyo

     I was walking with dad and Nashi home from school one cool winter's day. Dad wore no jacket, gloves or anything winter related except for his scarf; Nashi (for some reason) didn't need it because she claimed she wasn't cold, even though the weather was about forty degrees Fahrenheit. Even with my cozy black jacket and white gloves with a skull emblem on each hand, I still felt the bitter cold and I watched my dad chuckling with Nashi on his shoulders, letting her watch the snow fall while I held his hand in silence. He looked down at me and ruffled my blond hair, I swatted his hand away with a pout as he laughed.

    "Aaa!" Nashi giggled, opening her mouth so that some of the white flakes of snow could drift in. She closed her mouth and laughed, clapping her hands. "Daddy, the snow tastes delicious!"

    "Sure does, my lil' devil!" Dad agreed heartily, Nashi slapped him on the back of the head and he laughed again.

    "Daddy! I told you I don like devils!" She scolded him.

    "Why not?" Dad asked.

    "They're meanies! Emotonless, big fat meanies!" I thought I was imagining things when I saw dad flinch.

    "They're not all that bad!" Dad protested.

    "Nuh-uh! They're a hundred thousand gazillion person BAD!" Nashi said with an insensitive grin on her face. Dad just laughed at her and he turned down to look at me.

    "So, Taiyo, what did you learn at school today?" He asked.

    "I learnt about space," I said, feeling slightly more comfortable as I began telling dad about what I've learnt of space and the planets.

     Honestly, dad may not know what mom and I were talking about most of the time, but he always seemed to listen and that was one thing I liked about dad. Mother, as traits have it, was insensitive like Nashi and always reminded me when I was down that I just had to look on the positives without even trying to understand what her son felt. Dad was different, he listened and he understood, and instead of giving me a reason to think about other things, he made me by having fun with me! I didn't quite understand it myself, my relationship with my dad was confusing and was usually passive-aggressive. I never knew why, but its like I don't know whether to embrace dad or to... to kill him.

     When we got home, mom was there with hot cocoa ready for us and we sat by the fireplace with our cups of cheer ready. Dad vanished into his room and returned later wearing a Santa Claus outfit and beard, I knew it was my old man prancing around with a pillow stuffed under his shirt, but Nashi  totally bought it and went as far as to forc- I MEAN hand feed dad cookies! He almost puked but that was besides the point. I loved my family and I wouldn't change a thing about them.

     And here I was now, stopping one of my family from hurting themselves, no, killing  themselves! I didn't know how E.N.D. was tied into all of this, how Tartarus somehow held dad captive when I saw their little group not too long ago, or what the heck that giant serpentine creature was! All I did know was that right here, right now, I'll have answers. Answers about what Fairy Tail is planning, answers about who my dad really is, and answers about myself... All that's stopping me now is these demons.

     As the other mages began fighting the demons, I found myself staring up at the giant white one with the wings. The creature stared down at me with those unsettling pitch black eyes, it was as if I was staring into an abyss, but this abyss was literally staring back at me. We were like that for a while, one standing still and the other beating it's powerful paper-mache wings. Then it opened it's mouth and exhaled some sorts of mist, a thick layer of mist that surrounded the battlefield and filled the tunnels. The moment it touched my skin, I found myself seeing colors of all kinds at my vision, the colors becoming stronger the more the mist devoured me.