A Railgun In Fairy Tail, Book 6: Apocalypse

Railgun V.S. Jackal

"Zzzzz....fish." Happy murmured as he sat half asleep on Natsu's shoulder.

"Yeesh..." said Mikoto as she walked alongside Natsu. "I didn't think that nightmare would be that big a deal to him."

"Me neither." said Lucy. "I mean Happy's always been big about fish, but this is ridiculous."

"He didn't drink about any old lake." said Natsu. "It was the one by Magnolia we always used to hang around."

Mikoto raised an eyebrow at this. In some of her classes back at Academy City, in many of the brain developement courses she had learned about how someone's reality and view of life was very important to them. And how when one's reality was wrenched away, it could be a very mentally damaging or traumatizing thing.

Could Happy's nightmares be him worrying that the war might make things...different? Indeed..with Dravis invading, there was a chance that fishing and hanging around with friends might soon be drawing to a close.

Right now, Mikoto and the rest of the entire company were traversing through the thick tree covered wilderness along with the other soldiers in their group. Mikoto, Natsu, Lucy, and Accelerator had been assigned to the rear gaurd by a liutenant named Rufus, a man from Britian.

Given the history between Mikoto and Accelerator, had Erza done the squad assignments she probably wouldn't have assigned them.

"Regardless of history, they're in the same guild and they are two of our strongest powerhouses." Rufus had said. "Our rear is the most likely area any ambush would come from, so it's important we have strong ones up back."

The entire hike, Accelerator had remained silent, walking silently on his futuristic looking walking stick, wearing the same angry/bored expression he always had. This wasn't anything new. Unless you counted Gildarts, Accelerator rarely talked with anybody.

Natsu narrowed his eyes as he watched Accelerator. "Eh...he must be constipated.."

"Natsu, just because somebody scowls doesn't mean they're constipated!" said Lucy.

"Hmmm.." said Elli. "But I wonder what it's like when he smiles."

Mikoto suddenly remembered a psychotic laughing face reveling in the blood of destroyed enemies. "Trust me Elli...you probably shouldn't think about his smiles.."

Everyone in the guild was pretty cautious around Accelerator. Of course, as was common in the guild, many thought of him as part of the Fairy Tail family, some even called him the second Gajeel.

Mikoto liked to think that Accelerator was definitely a second Gajeel, he had definitely changed a lot from the demon like boy who murdered 10,000 people for a cruel experiment.

Laxus had once had a talk with Mikoto about Accelerator.

It had been around sunset, and Mikoto was sitting inside an old straw hutt she had found in the woods. It wasn't until 2 weeks before then that she had found out that Natsu and Lisanna had built the hutt as kids when Happy was still in an egg.

Mikoto sat in the hutt watching the sun set for a bit before Laxus showed up much to her surprise.

"Yo!" said Laxus. "What are you doing here?"

"Just relaxing I guess." said Mikoto shrugging.

Laxus sat next to Mikoto and sighed. "Truthfully, I sometimes come here too...it's a nice place. So, what do you think about Accelerator?"

"Eh?!" said Mikoto slightly taken aback by the sudden question. "Well I guess he's...erm...okay.."

"Really?" said Laxus raising an eyebrow. "I hear you avoid him more then the other guild members. I think Natsu's already tried to fight him 5 times."