Phoenix

Prelude

"Again!"

"Globus lumen!"

A ray of light shot out of Emi's hands and formed a whip. Cain and Emi sparred for twenty minutes before Cain had gained the upper hand.

"Pretty good, kid. You've improved a lot."

"Well I would sure hope so. You've been traing me for ten years now."

"Are you really fifteen already? Time really flies."

Emi picked herself up off the dirt and brushed her cloak off before approaching the demon.

"I think you should teach me that spell now."

"Really? You think you're up for it?"

"I've been waiting ten years for it."

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"Wait! Why did it change? We didn't get to see the new spell!" Natsu complained.

"Natsu," Lisanna said, "we don't have any control over it, so we should just watch."

"You sure you wanna do this, kid? I can go take care of her myself."

"No," Emi sternly replied, "I need to do this myself. If you insist, you can stay nearby to watch."

"I was gonna do that with or without your permission."

The two approached a burning city, a large demon currently aiming green lasers at buildings before they erupt into flames.

"Delorca..."

Emi slowly stepped so that she was in front of the demon. She made a "w" with her fingers and whispered the light spell.

"Ad deum."

A blinding light covered the demon who had lost her sight from the spell.

The group all watched as Emi battled Delorca. Gray looked on in horror.

"You tried to defeat a demon on your own? Do you know how dangerous that is!"

"Juvia thinks that Emi did fine."

Gray whipped his head back to the memory to see Emi smiling as she wiped the blood off her face while standing on Deleroca's dead body.

Laxus, Sting and Gray all breathed out a "holy shit" before looking at Emi to see that she was crying.

Sting immediately went back to her side.

"Hey," the dragon slayer whispered in her ear as he hugged her, "what's wrong?"

Emi turned her head upwards to look at the blond with tears in her eyes.

"I'm so happy. I'm glad I was able to defeat her. For my parents. And for Arthur."

Sting smiled down at his mate before giving her one more squeeze and turning her around to see the next memory.

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"So now what do you wanna do? You defeated Delorca, which was kind of your goal in life. Have any other ideas? Maybe go after Deliora next?"

"No," Emi started as she walked with him, "Deliora is someone else's battle. I have no business with him, but those who he's harmed do. I'm not taking away their battle."

"Look kid, I'm gonna be honest with you. You're going to be in a lot of danger because of--"

"Who you are and what I'm doing. I know."