Fairy Tail: Black Blood [Book 2/2]

Chapter Thirty-Nine: Taken Down A Darker Path

[A/N]: Alright. I've been stalling the plot long enough. It has taken me a long, long time to think of a way to go about this, but with my inspiration for this series diminishing, it's high time for me to get serious and move on with this book. Of course I'm still debating on whether or not this series will continue being a trilogy or if this book will just be a 2/2, and it solely depends on how I choose to end this book.

Live and let live, or die and kill all. This is the true beginning of Fairy Tail: Black Blood.

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     Gajeel

     I stared at Acnologia, the gears in my mind struggling to comprehend the new information. What in the hell did he just call me? Gajeel... ototo? But isn't that the suffix used to address... SIBLINGS?

    "Ah, so you really don't remember, what a pity," Acnologia said, his voice laced with false disappointment. He released my hair and I slumped back against the rock, the rough surface pricked at my bare back. I glowered up at him as he retreated a few steps, crossing his heavy arm(s) over his chest.

    "How the hell-" I started but he raised a hand to silence me, and with the murderous gleam visible in his green eyes, I knew I had to obey. I shut my mouth.

    "I don't quite blame you for forgetting me, Gajeel, the same has happened to me when I myself passed through the Eclipse Gate. So I will make our little back story short and sweet: Five hundred years ago I had a little brother. We lived off the streets and were quite nomadic to towns. Back in the day I was the cowardly one while you used your stupidity and recklessness to scavenge and argue for us. You see, our parents didn't want kids, but they tried it out with me and when they had you, they decided we were too much so they dumped us in the town over. I was five and you were only eight months. You see those scars on your arms? That happened when you tried escaping the police, you cut your arms on a barbed-wire fence and split open a few tendons. Even though we lived off the streets, we lived well and you always were demanding fights from your older brother. The dragon civil war began and it was around that time I lost you.

    "The town we were currently taking refuge in was caught in a crossfire between the eastern and western dragons, I escaped but I found you were gone, so I looked everywhere until I finally saw you... in the clutches of a giant metal dragon. I thought the dragon had killed you, so when it fled with your 'corpse' I swore that I was going to massacre every last dragon on this miserable planet. So imagine my surprise when the queen of the dragons herself, Eileen Belserion, seeked me out and offered me to join the war and become a dragon slayer. She taught me dragon slayer magic and decided a good starting position for me was torturing hostages. I found out why I hated humans so much thereafter. I was fed up with shit from both sides and I decided to kill them all, every last one of them. When I killed off all the soldiers from both sides, I left and became a recluse. But guess what? Then the queen of the fucking lizards herself became a dragon only three years later!"

     Acnologia stomped up to me, a sinister grin plastered over his face. He grabbed my neck and began closing his fingers around my throat. "But dragon slayers are the perfect combination of the greed of both sides. All of you don't deserve to live.... and unfortunately for you, dear sweet little brother, that includes you... You betrayed me!" My lungs were screaming for oxygen and I could almost feel my wind pipe being crushed, I became aware that my skin was turning blue and I tried uselessly to pry off his hands. God damn, if only I still had my dragon slayer magic!

     A strange emotion flickered over Acnologia's eyes, something akin to that of distress, but it was gone so quickly I thought my oxygen-starved brain had imagined it. Sweet air filled my lungs when he released me and stepped back, I greedily began inhaling the air and fell on my sides. The fucker started laughing.