NOVEL NEXT Chapter 56: Farewell
Fairy Tail World,
The boy looked over at the sleeping Mirajane by his side and then stared at the blue screen:
"The time for us to part ways draws near."
The Cold screened showed him the ruthless reality:
Mission Completion 80%
Last Quest: Bring the Strauss Family and Erza Scarlet over to Fairy Tail Guild in Magnolia.
He then lightly caressed her beautiful hair:
"Turns out my mission in this world was as simple as that."
A gentle voice was then heard just in front of him:
"Turns out you really are not from this world."
The boy who didn't not see the man coming, looked over in panic only to find a black haired youth with a peaceful aura around him.
He looked extremely young, but something was clearly out of place. The clear term would be…
'He reeks of death'
The boy took by surprise easily regained his bearings:
"You only came here, to say that?"
He still had the same plastered smile:
"I heard that cult that were 'worshipping' me were massacred by a demon with weird eyes and a monkey tail."
"Since when did I create a Demon like that? I was curious so here I am."
The King Piece suddenly started flickering:
"Secret Achievement: Meeting the Black Mage Zeref."
"Downloading the secret recording…"
Suddenly the blue light started shining brightly as it invaded the boy's consciousness.
Suddenly, the boy's expression started slowly transforming from a little boy's to the prideful face of a Mighty Emperor!
The clear, mysterious eyes had a sense of Power, the expression had a trace of deep pride and hegemony, the slight smile that had a tinge of excitement.
Even Zeref felt a sense of threat just looking at his face, he finally opened his mouth:
"Black Mage Zeref, I knew you would come to visit me."
…
The boy reopened his eyes, but this time the dangerous man was nowhere present. He looked at the King Piece:
"I suppose you can't tell me, what happened…"
"Negative."
The boy sighed:
"Anyway, it doesn't really matter. It will really be over anyway.'
The Day After, all the little family was surprised by the announcement their Aniki made:
"We are joining Fairy Tail Guild."
He smiled to them:
"Your new home is there."
Elfman and Lisana had excited faces, but Erza and Mira felt their heart tighten. The boy said 'your'.
They knew this day was coming, sooner or later.
Yet none of them, made any remark.
And with that the road to Magnolia was traced. The Family advanced in their usual banter.
The boy teaching Elfman how to be a Man. Erza bickering with Mira. Mira playing pranks on her Aniki. Erza telling him to get his lifestyle together. All seems to go…
…Like usual.
Except that, they've been going around Magnolia for three months now.
Everyone acting oblivious to the situation.
The boy was slowly getting his heart prepared for his farewell.
He secretly checked out the Fairy Tail Guild numerous times. Erza and Mira were getting clingier than ever, as if never wanting to let go off him.
Until one night…
Erza and Mira were woken up by the boy.
They followed him discreetly until he took each one of them and made them sit on one of his shoulders as he flew up.
The two girls knew the night they've been dreading has came. The boy had finally made up his mind.
They flew over Magnolia in silence until the three of them stopped over a large building, that of the Fairy Tail Guild.
He flew down in an adjacent building. Mira and Erza who saw the Guild, felt their eyes become watery. The boy smiled warmly at the girls:
"My Empresses, as the day of our separation arrived. I finally realized my real purpose in coming here."
He grazed both their cheeks:
"My only purpose, the reason of my existence, is meeting you."
He looked over at the weeping Erza:
"Erza, the Strength and care you could gather when protecting what is important to you, still makes me wonder in awe."
"You will continue to grow, to get stronger the more people you have to protect. I am sure you will turn into a beautiful warrior."
Her snot and tears got all mingled up as she dropped on the ground:
"Maa-niii! MAAA-NIII!!"
He then looked over at the saddened Mira, with a satisfied smile:
"You still look so beautiful when you cry, my Empress."
She continued to weep:
"Spending those last years with you, have been a blessing for me."
"Seeing your care for your siblings, seeing endure silently, seeing you take the burden of being a parent and sister, have only made me love you more and more."
Mira still could somewhat keep together as she asked:
"You will be back, right?"
The boy immediately responded:
"I will be back. Without a doubt, I will."
"This is only a goodbye. "
Finally the boy started to slowly turn into white particules. The both of them had their eyes wide open:
"Aniki!!"
"Maa-nii!!"
"Take care of Lisanna. Elfman can be clumsy but he has a great heart."
He laughed lightly:
"Do not worry about that."
"It's only the way it's supposed to be."
His gaze became more profound:
" I still have one last thing to do before leaving this world."
He grinned lightly:
"I finally remember who I am. So as a farewell gift-!"
He took both of them in his arms, both of their ears near his mouth and as the last bit of his body disappeared into the world only a happy voice was heard by the collapsed girls:
"Marek Vega…My name is Marek Vega…"
Hyperbolic Time Chamber, Black Hole.
A man in tatters was sitting in the absolute darkness, where light doesn't even come. A place where time and causality is distorted.
In a state of fanatical concentration. His body kept getting crushed again by again the Infinite Gravity.
A gravity, capable of crushing a universe!
Time, aging, consciousness everything loses it's meaning in this deep darkness.
His training had been going on for hundred of years already, memories of the time he passed with the order kept coming through to him, like millennial old signals…
The only thing that kept him from going insane in this ordeal.
The Soul-crushing gravity, the deep and silent darkness only begging for him to let go, the hellish training he has been going through.
He has long lost the concept of time, he only kept track of what's happening with the memories he kept receiving.
His concentration was kept to an all time high, all the time, in each of his training movement.
One could say, that 'he' became the Training itself.
Suddenly in the middle of the darkness a little blue portal opened up, from it appeared a blue chess piece. He smiled:
"Already? As expected of me, should I say…"
The King Piece rested on his hand as he got a lifetime of memories…
Memories of Erza, her bravery, her resolve, her strict side, her cuteness.
Memories of Mirajane, her stubbornness, her aggressiveness, her spoiled side
Memories of Elfman, the little brother he always wished he had.
Memories of Lisana, the cute little sister.
Memories of the night before the farewell.
How he passed the whole night looking at Lisanna and Elfaman's sleeping faces, ultimately unable to tell them news.
Memories of the last scene, of Erza's and Mira's weeping faces…
His heart filled up to the brim, as tears started falling on the cheeks of the Hegemon. Tears that even unrivaled tragedies, even Vegeta's punches, even this nightmare of a training couldn't bring to drop, dropped in the middle of the somber darkness.
He opened his eyes, as he found himself in front of him two people.
Those two who he knew better than anyone, and who knew him better than anyone.
They were looking at him with one eye tearing up in each of their faces.
Tarek who had a tear stream from his right eye smiled warmly at Marek:
"Finally, you too, get to live a childhood. Marek."
Malé who had a tear stream from his left, grinned:
"And what a life it was…Bittersweet yet warm and beautiful."
Marek also grinned:
"It was the best."
Tarek had a difficult face:
"Why am I the only one who doesn't get to have sweet childhood friends? Is there something wrong with me?"
Malé immediately responded:
"Don't act like you are a victim! There were plenty of girls who liked you in your childhood!"
"It just they didn't like you nearly as much as you liked yourself!"
Marek laughed loudly:
"You are right!! He kept saying 'Please don't bother me, I am fated for greatness.!' Hahahahaha…What a fool!"
Tarek lost his composure as he had an ashamed face:
"Dammit! Malé! Why couldn't you let me have this one?!!"
Malé responded:
"Don't you see? It's because of you that Marek is this shameless!!"
Tarek sighed:
"Anyway…Let's talk about real stuff now."
Marek had a solemn face:
"The 'Technique'…Huh…"
Malé immediately jumped in:
"We could still give it some more! There is still some time since the order is done!!"
Tarek nodded:
"Malé please, just hear me out…It's great you two still had this much drive to continue, but you should have realized by now…"
Marek sighed:
"I cannot get any further no matter how much I train."
Tarek continued:
"I actually doubt that even your Nakara Path could take it if you go one step further. After all this technique can't power up your Rinnegan."
Marek:
"We did achieve the first part…"
Tarek smiled devilishly:
"The second part can only be left until our body break through it's limits again."
Marek smiled ferociously:
"When we turn into the Legendary Super Saiyan."