...The Light Burns Out, A Sudden Farewell...

The Imp skipped down the darkened street of Magnolia with a stupid grin on his beak. It was returning from a job that ended up running late into the night. This was the first time the little moron had completed a job without someone walking it through every step of the way. It couldn't have been prouder of itself that night. Oblivious to what was going on The Imp skipped right past Famine on its way without thinking anything significant about her. It was going back to Fairy Tail tot sleep for the night, the little hobo that it was, but was caught off guard by a savage red glow down the street. The Imp was dumb but it wasn't stupid. Terrified it ran towards the glow knowing it was the blaze of a fire. Being made of wood The Imp feared fire more than anything but it didn't care what scared it more was that which was burning.

The animated wooden doll stared with horror at the sight of the burning building. If The Imp had any recollection of passing Rita on its way over it was shoved out of the little brain space available to make room for its fear of the flames. The Imp wasn't thinking at this point, too busy feeling, and lacking the IQ points to do anything it just stood there stammering "No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no..." Needless to say The Imp wouldn't last one day as a fire fighter.

It's time at Fairy Tail was short by anyone's standards, only a few days. But something about The Imp's origins had always given it an unnatural bond with the building. Even when it stepped inside on its first day it felt it had been there its entire life. A human crying over the destruction of something it owned for old a few days would be accused of crocodile tears but those shed by The Imp were sincere strange as it may be.

Nightken was walking through the streets of Magnolia when he saw the large cloud of smoke was coming from the guildhall. He knew it was coming the guildhall since he's been in Magnolia so long even from ground level he knows the location of spots. Using his Lightning Body spell Nightken quickly moved to the guildhall. Seeing the building burning he acted quickly by taking buckets of dirt to put out the flames as fast as possible.

Lance walked through Magnolia with a bit of a slow walk. He was wearing a metallic like mask and a cape that cloaked him fully. On his arms were bandages that wrapped around the full like of both arms. His legs were no where hidden by the cloak. He had just returned from Sin and now only felt despair for what he went through. He no longer felt happiness, behind his mask wore a sullen face.

When he arrived back at the guild hall however things were a bit different than usual. Flames burned with passion. His face did not change at all as all he could say was "Such despair fell onto this place..." he walked into the burning building. He did not care about how much the fire hurt him seeing as his body was already mutilated with burns and scars already underneath the mask and cape. After looking around he walked outside of the guild hall to find a girls crumpled body lying on the floor.

He knew this girl. He loved this girl. Well, love was a feeling he had before he went to Sin. He usually felt nothing but seeing this girl's body lying on the ground, Rita's body, sent a spew of emotions running through him. He did not change his face behind the mask but he did clench his fists "Whoever did this... I shall make them feel more despair than anyone in this world has ever felt..." he muttered as he gently lifted his mask from his face and planted a slight kiss on the bodies forehead before putting the mask back on "I will find whoever did this to you..." he muttered as he walked out of the guild hall and back onto the streets.

A new day was ahead of Daiki, as she had been away for a short bit of time and had arrived back in Magnolia the day prior to having went to her house and relaxed before heading to bed and eventually waking up. It took her a moment to wake up, since it was earlier than she was hoping. As she sat up in her bed, yawning slightly she would move the covers of the bad so that they weren't on her anymore, swung her legs over the side of the bed and slowly stood up, stretching. As she stood, she would yawn again before turning around and slowly making the bed she had just woken up from. After finishing making the bed, she would get out her clothes for the day, set them on the bed, and walk over to the bathroom that connected to her room after grabbing a towel.

She would take a shower and did showery things while in said shower, before getting out, drying off, getting dressed and making sure her hair was right, which didn't really take long. As she finished getting dressed and went to her door after having put on shoes, she would open the door and head out to the Guild Hall. She would make her way to her destination for once without getting lost, but as she had made her way towards the Guild Hall, she could see small amounts of smoke rising from near the building, if not the building itself. She would quickly use her Light Gods' Speed spell, and she would run as fast as she could to the Guild Hall, taking long strides with each step.

After a few moments of running at her top speed, she would reach a burnt Guild Hall, with one member just standing there, Nightken scooping dirt onto the fire, and a masked one walking away. She would start panting as her body caught up with her from the run, but it wouldn't last long as she soon saw a body laying there. Once she had seen the body, which would quickly run to it, making sure to not hit a member she hadn't seen before who was just standing there. As she had gotten closer to the body, she had recognized it right away. But... it couldn't be... Memories flashed in Daiki's head of her first ever job when part of Fairy Tail. It was with Rita Stebern. And that was who was laying in front of Daiki, with her throat slashed. She would slowly walk up to the body, tears forming in her eyes, before falling to her knees, ignoring the pain as well as the feeling of one of her knees landing in the small pool of blood that she was laying in. "R-Rita..." She said, before breaking out into a full sob. It took her a while before she spoke again as she hugged the lifeless body. "You were my first friend when I arrived here... You helped me on my first job..." She would say to herself, pausing here and there as her sobbing continued.

"Why...? Why Rita?! Why did this have to happen to you of all people?!" She would start becoming louder, even with her tears that were running down her face. She continued to hug the lifeless corpse, and held it close to her. "W-We were never really close, but I cherished our friendship so much, and now... you're... gone... My best friend... is gone!" She would exclaim. Her tears right now seemed to be in a never ending supply. Sure she didn't know her for as long as some of the other members, or even as well, but Rita was her best, and first, friend. Even if the same feeling wasn't felt back to her, she was fine with it just her considering Rita to be her best friend.

As time passed, she would continue to hug the corpse close to her and still crying. She didn't much care about the blood that was on her, since her first friend in the guild was dead, laying in the street. Her legs felts weak, even without her standing. Not more than a few minutes after she had finished talking to herself, one would see several circular lights slowly becoming prominent on Daiki's back, which she didn't notice due to all of her attention being focused on the corpse she had been hugging closely to her. This was a new day that had quickly turned into one of the worst nightmares that Daiki would ever expirience.

Apollo saw the smoke in the distance and rushed there almost immediately. He used his shields to run over building giving him a direct path to the guild to ensure he got the quickly. As hey got there he looked in horror as the Fairy Tail Guild Hall has burst into flames. Apollo saw his other guild mates there and began to help out. As he started to help put the fire out He saw Ritas body being held by Daiki Apollo took a step back in horror "no..." he muttered scared "this, this can't be." He looked down trembling in thought then looked at the guild hall. He regained enough composer to put a shield around it from burning as bad. Apollo has teas flowing down his cheeks but had to deal with on problem at a time. Though he couldn't save Rita...He could save the guild hall. Nothing but darkness clouded his mind as he thought about who could have done this. apolloknew they would find out but for now we had to do what we can. Apollo had nothing but fear in his eyes as his past is now creeping up on him again.

Vierorin had just reentered Magnolia when he looked up at the starry sky, He let out a deep sigh, he had been out training intensely as Zekkaria slept at the hotel they had been staying at. “When will he calm down… and I-“ Vierorin was suddenly cut off when someone ran into him and sent him sprawling to the ground and kept running. Vierorin Quickly stood up and glared at the culprit as they ran, the person was a female and was wearing a black hood with a very light outfit and tattooed arms, “Wait St-!” He was cut off when a scream echoed from down the street as he heard the words, The Guild Hall is on fire, his eyes widened and turned to see the blazing inferno of the Guildhall. Without another glance back Vierorin dashed towards the Guild hall, eventually getting on the roof tops and getting to the area in front of the Guild Hall within a minute.

He looked on in shock as the Fairy Tail Guild Hall was completely ablaze, a few of the members were trying to douse the flames whereas a few huddled around a specific spot. “Why…” He then walked forward towards the group his eyes completely at their widest as they saw nothing but flames, he then got to the spot right behind Daiki and looked down… and what encompassed his vision made him freeze. There in Daiki’s arms laid the body of Rita Stebern…a young woman who greeted him on the day he arrived at the Guild, “Why….” Vierorin then clenched his fists and stood there, as the heat from the inferno that encompassed the Guildhall blew against his skin from the front, his own heat signature began to grow itself… He then took a step forward, smoke coming from each spot his feet had been as he took a step. “Who…” He then Got to the front gate and placed his hand on it, however instead of pushing it forward it began to melt infront of him, “…Why…” At this point Azure flames started to wrap around his fists as he walked into the inferno being completely incompassed by the flames.

In that minute a large flying insect the size of a house landed infront, her abodomen had sparks flying off it randomly and her glowing blue eyes studied the scene intensely, “Oh my goodness… no… no… this isn’t good…” Zekkaria at her full size then looked to the sky as she began to be encompassed by blue light, “Oh rains of this world… take this water and shed your tears upon us…” She then formed a sphere of water between her claws and then shot it into the skies above, which shortly afterword storm clouds started to form in the skies, “Good thing I got here before he did or el… oh no…” She then stopped as she saw area of the flames burning azure and the growing into a tower in the midst of the Guild hall, “WHO DID THIS AND WHY DID THEY KILL RITA!” Vierorin roared this out with a roar that seemed only partially human, his skin had started to darken and his eyes started to glow, in that instant Zekkaria took off and carefully reached in and pulled Vierorin out of the wreckage and threw him out towards the bay as the rain started to fall… “Lord Magmus… why did I choose this path… this path full of grief…” Zekkaria said that has she looked up into the sky as she then shrunk down and sat down next to the body of Rita, glowing droplets of water starting to fall from her eyes.

Things became rather busy rather fast. The Imp being small, impressionable and weak had little to no idea how to react. So it did the natural thing. When faced with pressure: crack. So being scared by the commotion and disoriented by strong emotions The Imp ran and hid in the town. This is the stuff real heroes are made of.

Stepping out of the burnt guildhall Nightken looked down at Daiki holding Rita's lifeless body and something in him snapped it was as if his anger couldn't be contained any longer. The normal silver lightning he used began to turn black with demonic energy coming off of it as it sparked from his body. While this happened a demonic aura began to emanate from him rivaling that of his magical presence. Nightken's magic started to interact with the rain making it turn into a thunder storm and started striking the ground around him as if the lightning itself was frightened of his anger. "Whoever did this will suffer. When I find them there won't be even their ashes remaining." He said as black lightning pulsated from him over the entirety of Magnolia and for those listening to him knew he was truly pissed cause his emerald green eyes had turned black. Walking over to Daiki he put his duster over her, but was still giving off the demonic aura.

As Daiki continued to kneel down next to Rita's corpse, still hugging it and sobbing, she would feel an extreme heat building near her, but would soon disappear as rain started to fall. She would partially summon the Light Barrier spell, but would only have it in such a way that would prevent the rain from directly falling on Rita. It would also protect her from the rain, due to her still hugging the corpse of her best friend.  She did hear shouting from nearby but none of it was enough to draw her attention. The formation of lights on her back continued to emit the small amount of light as they had since they had appeared, in an upside down v pattern of her upper back.

She wouldn't even really notice the large bug-like creature that had landed near Rita. Though once Nightken's lightning started to interfere with the rain, and starting to strike the ground around him, one of the bolts of lightning that would have hit the ground had turned and had stricken the small partial barrier Daiki had made to protect the two from the rain.Though the instant the barrier had been broken, and would have passed through the barrier to hit her and Rita's corpse, but something had protected them. It wasn't Daiki's doing, so it had to be something that was on Rita's body had activated, though probably due to the fact that she was touching it as well. She would open her eyes, tears still rolling down her face as she had noticed that Rita was wearing a pendant

She would slowly move to remove the pendant from Rita's body, as it was covered in blood, though due to being covered in blood herself, she would hold it within both hands before closing her eyes again, failing to calm herself down. Once Daiki had removed the bloodied pendant from Rita's corpse, the barrier that surrounded them, and protected her and the corpse from the bolt of lightning, had faded. She would hug Rita's corpse once more before she would set the body down before speaking. "I once thought I was the light of the guild... but I guess I was wrong..." She would say, slowly standing up afterwards. She still had the bloody pendant in her hand, which was also covered in blood after having hugged the bloody corpse of her best friend.

She would soon feel that someone had put something on her back, though she would look back slightly to see that it was Nightken, and would grab the duster he had put on her back with her free hand and would pull it off, tossing it a foot or two more away from Rita's body. "Don't..." She would say, trailing off and slowly walking away from the group of people that had gathered, and even Rita's corpse. She would make sure to never forget Rita, but this would effect her more than she would have thought, or even if she had to guess how she would be affected by a death. For now, though, she would be gone away from the area.

Yuna was just finisheing her shopping to see smoke rise in the distance.d

Oh please god no no please don't it let be own home not there...
Yuna places her her beats on over her head and lays them on her neck she uses the sound as fuekl to go faster. she runs as fast as she can to the guild hall as fast as possible.
by the times she's there the rain is puting out the fire and she sees a member dead. The rain seems to cry for her as she does something no one expects she sings a lullaby for a fallen freind. She sings it loud and clear, beatiful even but ts in honor of Rita. Although a girl she barely knew but a friend nether the less. Yuna cries in the rain with her head down as she does hands clentched.

They will pay for this.. 
"
So hard to let go
And I still hear the sound
Of your voice singin’ in my head
I can’t surrender
‘Cause the rope’s slowly coming apart
But hangin’ by a thread

It’s gone on
For too long
And this is it

So take a look into my eyes one last time
So we never forget
The way we were before
When we came alive at the moment we met
This is still worth fighting
Still worth fighting for..." (song: Still worth fighting for)