Angel in the Crystal!

So cold, so alone. but yet surrounded by people that see her. A cursed existence, a ghost, is this what she has become? This was her plan, a cursed existence, darkness in a familiar place? For the princess to suffer a loneliness only bound to her and no one else. So close to her home, to her family but her she is stuck in this hellish battle. In this crystal her body could not move but trapped in her mind she was stuck in a torrential battle. Ghouls and visages of familiar faces come after her trying to finally end her.

"Give up yet sister, dear?" the sinister voice said. She wasn't real here in Raina's mind. Only her spirit was. "Aria! I won't let this continue anymore. I will not take your torment, witch!" Raina screamed out as she cast a magic circle above the ghouls and struck them with a massive wave of light annihilating them. Raina looked down at her hands and the magic floating around them. "My magic, it has evolved. I have never been able to do that." Aria was no where to be found after the spell.

Suddenly a bright light split the darkness in half. She could see the crystal trapping her start to crack. People around it started to scream or prepare to fight it must. The crystal shattered into nothingness and out fell the enigmatic beauty that is Raina Lynna Dawne Scylar, the lost Princess of Fairy Tail.

Raina looked around her surroundings and realized she finally did it. She broke free of the curse! She stood up almost wobbly and falling over, before she managed to catch her balance and look at the man with the blade. She was afraid, was this one of Aria's goons? Her eyes welled up with tears from the fear of what will happen to her. Will she never get home? Is there even a home to get to? She took a few steps back from the bladed man and stuttered out. "Aria... she sent you didn't she! I won't let you stop me from returning home!" She said as the clouds grew dark and rain started to torrent the ground. She channeled water around her wrists and prepared to fight.

"I won't let you stop me! I am Raina Lynna Dawne Scylar, Princess of Fairy Tail!" She called out as the water whipped around her forming a menacing wave. "I will not let you hurt me!" She exclaimed!

"Breathe. Breathe. Breathe Raina, he will not hurt you." She spoke very softly to herself as the storm died down to a mere drizzle. Apparently the weather decided to rain after all. She looked up at the man who stated his name as Ardere. Her white dress billowing in the soft rain's breeze. Even with the rain, Raina never seemed to get white. A perk of her magic, the elements bend to her will. Fire the element of compassion, Water the element of knowledge, Wind the element of grace, Earth the element of strength, and Holy the element of life. All five were under her command, a gift from her heritage.

"Aria.. Aria is my sister, at least she used to be. She became mad with power and destroyed my world and has tortured me here over the last few years. For the last year she trapped me in this cursed crystal, so close to place I once called home, but yet no one knew I was here. No one knew what happened to me." She said as she hugged herself and turned around starting to cry. Her sobbing was angelic but yet saddening.

Raina wiped her eyes and stuttered out, "There is a good chance no one there will remember me. This is not the first I have disappeared. Aria always swoops and steals me away and I am never strong enough to stop her. Damnit!" She exclaimed as she threw a fireball breaking a nearby bench. "Ooops, I guess I got carried away." She said as she started to giggle sweetly.

"Sorry, my magic is heavily tied to my emotions. Sometimes I need to let some fire out. And trust me, Aria is a bitch. But she didn't always be. In my wor... I mean back home when we were little, we were so close. But power drove us apart. My power to be exact. A lost magic power with the abilities of the five elements that support life. Fire, water, earth, air, and holy. All flow through my body like blood." She finished as she smiled at Ardere. She refrained from mention the not being human part to the man for now, she did not want to spook him.

Her flames, the man ate them. She remember a guild member so long ago with a similar power for light. "You use slayer magic, don't you? There used to be a member in Fairy Tail with a light slayer type magic. He used to do the same thing when I used light magic for fun. Used to tell me it tasted sweeter then normal because it was holy." She said as her eyes sparkled a little remembering past experiences.

How long was she going to hide in this park? Fairy Tail was so close to here and yet she had not moved an inch. She sat on the basin of a nearby fountain and let the gentle water caress her skin. "Honestly not seeing humans in a year never really bothers me." She said not catching her mistake. "I was always a solitary person, always reading or practicing magic, never socializing." She said as she smiled.

Raina sat on the basin of the fountain and let the breeze of the gentle rain surround causing her hair and dress to billow wildly and regal like. She opened her eyes and looked at the Fire God Slayer and smiled. "We.. we do not have to go anywhere, honestly. I'll be okay for a moment. Really, I promise." She said as she enjoyed the breeze. Her words were gentle and sweet but not entirely true.

"Why.. Why am I so afraid to go back? Fairy Tail was my home. I know a lot happened since then but I am sure they will take me back. I miss them so much. Ebony, Leo, and all my other friends, did they realize something happened to me? I need to stop doubting myself, they love me. No way they would have forgotten." Raina thought to herself.

At a less crowded part of town, there was a man hooded in cloaked in brown with its ends looking torn. He walked to town from the east entrance, and with every step he took clanking metal would be heard. It was coming from his steel-plated footwear, heavy shoulder guards and a big sword wrapped in brown cloth with its hilt protruding from it. No one can see his face, but they could tell that he had a beard, as it is the only thing visible from his face.

Despite the mysterious visage, everyone knew he was no threat. Possibly because they saw the pommel of his blade: a dragon's tail.

As he reached the center of town, the man turned and looked towards the horizon. There he would see the guild hall of Fairy Tail. Starring at it for a few moments having feelings of nostalgia. He would remember the years that went by since he was last on the very brick road he stood on. And that last time it was covered in blood. He looked down upon the road. Thinking. Deciding. Regretting. until he finally decided to walk towards it. However, he was intrigued by the fact that so many people were going to the same direction. He excused one of the civilians and asked what was happening. Obviously the man was cautious at first, but when he saw the mysterious figure's blade pommel he calmed down and explained. Saying that the crystal in the park that supposedly encases a Fairy Tail mage cracked open.

The figure gave no clue of reaction, only that he went to the same direction as the others in the same pace he came into town. Until finally he reached the area and made his way through the crowd until he was in front to see who it was, but he was behind it.

From what he can tell, it was a girl. One with pink long hair, and an aura soothingly, and lovingly familiar. He didn't approach her immediately, he observed first. And there he saw a man approach the girl. He was unfamiliar; a stranger to the hooded figure, but he knew he meant no harm. However, the weather began to change into a storm. That only confirmed to him who the figure with long hair was. What's more is that she actually made him smile when he saw her throw a fireball. Fortunately, the Slayer was able to calm him down. After that, nothing.

He thought it would be a good time to interfere, he walked towards the two and stopped just directly behind the girl, softly uttering a single word... "Rain..."

Raina hopped up and turned towards the man who seemed to know her. A familiar warmth but yet a darkness she did recognize. She held her hands against her breasts shy like as she tried go remember him. "I... I am sorry. You seem so familiar but yet so unfamiliar, who are you? Have we actually met?" She said as her eyes flashed with worry and concerns.

She looked at the man with her crimson globes of kind and tranquil intelligence. It was one thing to forget him but what if this was Aria's curse? "Have I forgotten you? Can i t rust my own memories?"

The swordsman was not surprised that Raina did not recognize him. He did change a lot, and his aura, tainted by darkness. It was a sad thought indeed, but he meant no harm. He knew three words that can turn the emotions of Raina around. All it needed were actions but that was his problem.

Can he finally show himself to the world once more? The light that shines in the world, especially in Magnolia might be too much for his eyes. But nonetheless this is an opportunity he cannot miss. To be reunited with Raina. And he won't let a hood get in the way.

Lifting the hood, the man showed his bearded face and long hair (for a man). And thus, the three words were uttered. "It's me, Leonard..." in a tone so soft to hint any hope, but his smile says otherwise. "It's been so long, my dear. I know I ma have changed a bit but it's still me, but I shouldn't keep this hood off for long, I'm sorry. It's best you keep distance. Things have happened since we last met..." He put his hood back afterwards

"Now come, let me take you back home, my dear. It's where we belong. Where we will be safe from what demons are lurking about."

"It's me Leonard." Three words she did not expect to hear. Thump, thump, thump. Her heart was beating quickly. "Leo... Leonard..."She managed to say. Her eyes welled up with warmed tears they fell from her face like waterfalls. She threw her body into his arms and hugged them tightly as she broke down in front of him. All of her fear, her doubt no overcome with the need to be with this man again. "Please.. don't let me go.." She said as she started to sob loudly. It was an emotional scene for sure. The rain seemed to distort even more around them and almost sparkled around her skin.

It was Leonard. It had to be. He has the same warmth, the same gentle strength that she loved so dearly. She laid her head over his heart as she calmed herself down. "It really is you. I am not dreaming. She is not screwing with me anymore. I am home, my love." She said as she looked into his eyes.

The Slayer took his leave, and Leonard and Raina got some time alone. The atmosphere in the air was so heart-warming. The girl was once again in the man's arms. In response, he held her tight not wanting tk let go. But there is still a hint of hesitation because there was a slight pause before he held her.

Indeed Leonard was happy, but he was afraid of himself. Raina battled her demons whereas he accepted his, as a part of him. He thought that things can nevrr be the same between them again. A thought he kept to himself, besides who knows what evil he could do. Nevertheless it was clear that at this very moment he was happy. He kissed her in her forehead and held her hand. Promising her that she is indeed home and that they will go together.

With that said, he lead the way towards the hall. It was at this moment that the people in the park began to disperse with smiles on their faces. This will definitely be news around town. That the blademaster, and the fairy princess hace returned.