Fairies or Foes

Chapter 3.5

    Rorian had to admit: he missed her.

    The strange girl his father had adopted after she wandered into the village. He remembered with clarity the day she left, and how she punched him. She nearly broke his jaw.

    But still he missed her.

    Four years had come and gone. He had wanted to see her again, and he knew she was a mage. If he learned magic, he would be able to cross paths with her again. At least, that’s what he kept telling himself. He didn’t know what happened to her. He didn’t know if she was dead or alive. Well, until the wanted poster was on the town billboard.

    Rorian would know that smirk and that silver hair anywhere. It was Alice. He recognized the girl that was dwarfed by her in the photo. The girl Alice left with. They were from Moonlight Insomniacs, the notorious dark guild.

That’s when he fully immersed himself in studying magic. Nothing seemed to suit him until he found sound magic.

    It was subtle, it was meticulous, it was almost underhanded, it was annoying and arrogant, and it was so him.

    The magic just seemed to click with him. Eventually, his own father begged him to stop, as he was reading about magic morning to night. If it wasn’t that, it was news on Moonlight Insomniacs. He had to know more about Alice.

    And then the day came when he, at sixteen, decided to leave his home town in search of how to increase his chances of finding Alice. So, he joined the ranks of the magic council. Despite his young age, he easily wove his way up through the ranks of the council, until he found a position suitable for his goal.

As a dark guild hunter, he had access to secret files about dark guilds, their members, where they were located, recent crimes, et cetera. However, there was virtually no data on Alice, or her small companion, save the numerous files on assassinations they had carried out. There was no background, no family, no power profile, nothing.

But he was determined to find her, and so he made it his mission to take down Moonlight Insomniac.  He had spent months tracking the dark guild, but still had no idea where they were, who ran them, and where they got their missions. There seemed to be no organization at all to the guild. No one had any information on them, of course, except for the fact that they were evil, and he had never captured one of their members to interrogate.

The closest he had gotten was about two months ago, in some coastal town. He had gotten a tip from some Fairy Tail brats that two members of Moonlight Insomniac were in town, apparently on some sort of a mission. Two adolescent members, one with silver hair. He had immediately dispatched as many troops as he could to the area in the hopes that he would be able to catch her, even just catch a glimpse of her.

What he found when he finally arrived in the city was a guild burnt to the ground, all of its members horribly disfigured in death. And he knew she had done it. Only she could do something like this. But she wasn’t there anymore. She had slipped through his fingers once again. Only after a few days in the village did he get the report of what had appeared to be two girls climbing up a cliff. But it was too late. He doubted that she knew he was hunting her.

Rorian Hawthorne was frustrated. But he knew his efforts would not be in vain. Someday, he would meet her. Someday, he would see her again. And this time, he wouldn’t be overpowered. He had his own magic now, and he intended to use it. Someday, he would defeat her, once and for all. Or at least thats what he kept telling himself his ambition was.