Finding My Way - Fairy Tail

Fairy Tail

Chapter 3: Fairy Tail

Saxe walked back down the staircase, having just left Master Makarov's office. While he wasn't really glad about having to join a guild, he was sort of happy he'd get to stay with Eliana and Elpis. The other thing that he would also have to do would be to hide his real magic, the one he used almost as much as requip magic, from them. It was, after all, a Lost Magic, and not the most pleasantly used one either. It had a few.. darker aspects per se. He was, however, glad that he'd finally get to meet another strong Requip mage, which was the scarlet haired woman that he had seen earlier. He hoped he could improve with Requip magic, as it was one of his most used ones, and he was happy that he might just get more powerful. In this world, the more powerful you were, the better you could survive on your own, so this would help him out a little. He was actually headed right now to get the guild mark put onto him and his collar off. Makarov had told him, after examining the collar a little bit, the Gajeel Redfox, the Iron Dragonslayer, would easily be able to get it off of his neck.

As soon as he stepped out of the staircase, he was greeted by the loud rowdiness of the guild once again. He spotted Elpis and Eliana together talking with a man and a woman. The man had long, messy, black hair and he had iron studs in place of eyebrows as well as iron ear piercings. The woman had shoulder length blue hair and glasses. They all looked to be having a laugh, even the man with the iron piercings. That man was most likely Gajeel Redfox, the mage Makarov had told him to go to. Saxe walked towards them and the four turned to look at him. Elpis ruffled his hair and he tried to pull away as she grabbed his cheek playfully. Saxe pulled away, smiling and turned to look at Gajeel, who seemed to be trying to intimidate the eight year old. However, Saxe just looked right back at Gajeel, holding eye contact with him while the women just looked at each other with weird sort of grins on their faces. Gajeel blinked slowly and gave him a slight nod. Saxe returned the gesture and grinned at him.

"What do you need, kid?" he asked stooping down to Saxe's height.

"I need you to bite this collar off. Master Makarov told me to come to you about the issue. It nullifies my magic so I'm unable to really use any of it. As a result, I can't really block my aura either, and it's just a tad bit odd. He said that you were the Iron Dragon Slayer and that you shouldn't have a problem biting it off my neck without hurting me. You think you can do that, Gajeel-san?"

He laughed, grinning down at the eight-year-old, "Of course I can, kid. Shouldn't be a problem at all. C'mere."

The Dragonslayer turned Saxe around and wrapped his fingers around the collar that surrounded his neck. Gajeel pulled it to the point where it would start to hurt if he went any farther. Saxe both heard and felt him lean in and bite the collar, creating a crunching sound. Saxe sighed in relief as he felt his magic rush back into him, the collar now broken around his neck. Gajeel lifted it off of Saxe's head and he felt his magic fully coming back to him, the power embracing him with open arms as it treated him like a long lost relative. Saxe had never been without his magic before, and it was great to feel normal in his own skin once again. He could feel the surging power in his veins as a bright aura surrounded his entire body, Saxe looked around to see everyone staring at him, even the noise levels were down to a low. He cursed himself before forcing his magic power to be less visible to others and he lowered it down a few notches. He never should have raised it in the first place, much less let it loose like he had so foolishly just done.

"What was that, Saxe-chan?" said Elpis, reaching out and turning his chin gently upwards to look at her.

"That was my magic power.." whispered Saxe, softly looking around at the other people in the guild. They had started going back to talking with each other and just generally having a good time but Saxe noticed there were a few people that were still looking at him.