Beast Tamer

Episode 9: Overcoming the Past

"The tower is gone."

Erza had approached Shikako at the guild asking to go somewhere private, but she hadn't expected this. Shock flooded her system "gone... What happened?" The red haired teen nodded as they sat down.

They had taken their conversation to the Beast Tamer's office, where Erza explained everything. Jellal had been the one to continue the construction of the tower with the other slaves help in keeping order.

They came to Akane and took Erza back, there, she found out that they thought she had abandoned them. Team Natsu followed them to the tower where Simon helped the Fairy's. Shikako took a shuddering breath when the young woman told her Simon and Jellal died in the blast.

Erza left telling Shikako that Natsu ate pure etherion and was at Lucy's sick.

'Gone... That place is gone.' The Beast Tamer thought in shock, she really didn't know what to think. It had been ten years since she 'left' that place.

Flash Back

Shikako had been sent to Fiore to learn more in how to control her magic, both of them. Groaning she squirmed slightly uncomfortable in her body at this moment, her father had a gender spell tattooed on her right shoulder.

At first she was against it, she liked being a girl. A strong girl at that. But her father said women and girls had been going missing lately and he didn't want anything to happen. So she let it go and thought of all the places she could nap without a problem as a guy.

Shikako giggled as one of her guards picked on the driver of the caravan, something about a lady back in Bosco. It was as sudden as thunder, one man dropped, then slowly one by one all the men were dead before she could take a second breath.

She felt someone appear behind her as they pushed a needle into her neck, injecting her with some kind of tranquilizer.

The next thing she could remember is waking up in a rotten smelling cell. She was scared but she couldn't let that control her 'an Atarangi thinks there way out of situations. 'She could hear her father's voice reminder her as she took deep calming breathes.

For the next couple of days they kept her separate from the other slaves, trying to break her. They kept cuffs on her wrist that sealed her magic, that were starting to chaff her wrist. she sighed then winced as the large breath agitated the whip wounds on her back.

The next day they moved her to a larger cell, ignoring the others in the cell she took the time to sleep and get her strength back, even just a little. Like every morning the guards beat on the cell bars waking the girl only furthering her darkened mood.

A growl sounded throughout the cell scaring the guards and inhabitants alike. Weeks on end it was like this, and they couldn't punish her for talking because growling isn't technically talking.

Glancing around she calmed down as she saw a group of kids a little younger then herself, carefully and quietly as not to alert the guards, the young teen made her way over.

"Sup." Shikako huffed as she crouched down next to the tan boy about a year or two younger then her. He gave her a unreadable look but nodded his head anyways. Warily looking at the others he introduced each kid.

"I'm Erik, the pale kid is Macbeth, the girl is Sorano, and the other guy is Sawyer." He pointed to each as he stated their names. Macbeth was the one with duel black and dirty white colored hair and dark red eyes, like the wine her aunt used to drink.

Sorano's white hair slightly dulled to a gray as her blue eyes darker with mistrust, she was the only girl of the group. And Sawyer's blonde hair and brown eyes, were pretty common altough his nose was slightly more pointed then average.