A chance to change [Private/Heero]

As Heero walked through the forest, Rose alongside him. They passed through several beams of sunlight. However, Heero didn't seem to be his usual jovial self. He seemed to be deep in thought.

As he walked, Rose would look up next to him swishing her tail playfully as she did so. Putting one hand on her hip, she would smirk slightly.

"Well, for once I'd say you're actually thinking...what's up?" as Heero pulled himself from his own thoughts. He would look down at the cat and smile a soft smile.

"Yea it's just...if this is who I think it is, it brings back a lot of memories." Heero would say as he looked down while walking. Images flashing before his mind. He would settle on one in particular.

Three young wizards, all with their hands in--three musketeers style. All psyching up for a mission.

A young man, with dark hair. Who seemed like he didn't really want to have his hand in, but he was smiling nonetheless with a sweatdrop over his head. Lance.

A young girl, with a confident smile; eyes closed as if she was ready to take on the world. Long brown hair past her shoulders. Rita.

A young man with long baby blue hair, tied into a pony tail. Fistpumping with his other hand as he held his hand in, and sparkling. Heero.

The vision would end as he continued to walk through the forest. Up ahead, he could sense some magic power. Although it seemed to only be coming from one person or area, whoever it was...was alone. As he rounded the corner, he laid eyes on her. It was her. Jade.

He would nod to Rose, to take off as the Exceed looked surprised. But then smiled as her white wings appeared in a glittering flash she would take off in a trail of wind and rustling leaves as she passed upward. Leaving the two alone. He would slow his walk as he approached her.

When he was just in front of her, he would reach out and pull her into a hug. A super soft one. Probably one unlike she'd ever had before as he wrapped his arms around her, he would talk.

"If you're going to shank me, go ahead and do so now." he said as a shot of him embracing Jade was shown, from this hug and his body language she would feel a brotherly embrace like none other. The type of unwanted hug a brother gave to a sister, but she enjoyed. As he pulled back he would have his hands on both of her shoulders. "So....what made you take up my offer?" he said as he took his hands off of her and crossed his arms raising an eyebrow. "You're a smart girl....I'm sure you have some questions."

Heero would blink a few times as she casually addressed him as uncle, being only 21 he sweatdropped as she continued to talk. Although on the inside he was laughing. She sure had some boldness to her. It was a shame she was with Basilisk Fang.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm sure that's what you're here for......" he said in a comforting manner as he looked down at the ground. "No deal, unless you stop calling her Master Famine when you're in my presence. Her name is Rita Stebern." Heero would get a somewhat serious expression, but then soften again as he looked at Jade. She just had a natural way of making him a bit nicer than usual. "Jade.....you must realize how futile you sound, I trained your Father to become stronger with that Magic, there's no need to explain to me what it is...honestly it's like picking up a burger and telling me it's a sandwich...." Heero would sweatdrop crossing his arms. "Yes, indeed, I know all about Lance's fall to darkness...and all the blood he took with him......are you going to talk to me....or hide behind your history? I'm more interested in the real Jade, and what you care about now." he wondered how long it had been since someone had told the young lady that they actually gave a literal damn about what she thought. Perhaps no one in her life cared for her at the moment. "So seriously, enough rehashing. We both already know what I know and don't." he shoulder bumped Jade, letting her know she didn't have to be so formal with him; even though he was rumored to be a wizard who rivaled Zeref.

Memories flashed through his mind, as Jade asked him to tell her about her parents as he decided he'd show Jade. As he held a hand out, he would wait for her to take it. "Come then, I shall show you." as soon as she took his hand, the camera would zoom out; and Heero and Jade would be thrown through time.

Landing out of a portal like something out of Naruto, they would appear in what appeared to be mid-battle. Watching from the sidelines as 3 wizards took on a giant Boar made of Lava and Rock. Dripping lava all over the town it was attacking and standing 40 feet taller than any house. Appearing as ghosts through time, Heero and Jade would stand by as people literally ran through them as they scrambled throughout the city. If Jade was smart, she'd notice that it was River Village.

"Hey! We've gotta stop this thing now you two! Stop holding back!" the dark haired wizard with handsome sharp features would say, the tallest of the group. As the gigantic Boar would charge again, the black haired wizard would clap his hands; causing a storm of shadows to roar and rise up and grab onto an entire house; an amazing sight to be hold as the house was actually picked up from it's foundation by Lance's magic, sending bricks tumbling beneath it---flinging it through the air, it shattered onto the side of the gigantic Lava Boar and sent it crashing through a few houses.

"That's Lance your father." Heero said watching on as a ghost with Jade as the camera showed Lance barking orders at civilians trying to escape town after his spell.

"Fine, you're no fun. I swear." the camera would show a fist, slamming into a hand as Rita would punch a bandaged hand from her training into her other hand; and get fired up. The camera zooming up, showing her beauty, as her long brown hair, and soft blue eyes were shown; she smiled excited for battle with her signature bandaid on her right cheek. "You ready Heero?!" she said as she bent her knees, taking a fighting stance just as a pissed off Giant Lava Boar rounded the corner, searching for Lance as he'd thrown him halfway across town.

As Rita looked around with anime speed; she spotted Heero flirting with several of the village girls who were supposed to be escaping, but instead were giving Heero their number in the middle of all this chaos. As the current ghost Heero facepalmed, watching himself with a long blue pony tail that he'd cut long ago he shook his head.

"And.....that's me...." he said ashamed as he watched his sparkling long haired self, a bit shorter than he was now; maybe 16 to his 21 now. Heero remembered and realized that this was the Job that Rita laid the absolute smackdown on. Perfect.

"If you thought your Dad was amazing.....watch your Mom. And you'll see what I mean about...Rita being much more powerful before she became Famine. The evil in her heart is holding her back from true power she used to have....watch carefully. You won't see Famine fight like this anymore. She's too weak, and allows others to do her bidding now; she's lost her touch." as Heero said this, Rita would lower her hands to her side.

"Fine, I'll just handle this myself." she said as Magic Power began to charge through the area. Rita's hair began to sway around her, blowing in front of her face furiously. The Magic Power went beyond B-Class in a huge burst as Rita would rocket forward with such speed, that a swirl of wind as left exploding in the spot she'd been.

The boar would spew lava, splashing it into the street in front of Rita in a huge river, as Rita would flip to the side and run on a house sideways; as the lava leaped up to smack her while running on houses, she would clap her hands and turn into a shadow; whipping across the street and forming into herself with a sideways ninja run on the houses again. As the boar noticed this, he would roar again and cause giant sharpened rocks to appear mid-air with Magic; they would then begin to sail towards Rita mid-air like a wall of spikes heading down the street toward her.

Smirking mid-leap off the houses, toward the giant boar; Rita would clap her hands, as all of the spiked rocks were covered by shadows in a swoop of shadows, and parked mid-air, as now black sharpened pieces, frozen mid-flight. Rita would then come hopping between them, kicking off of one and flying out of a shadow at the boar's face. Landing a right hand directly on it's nose that was the size of an entire wall, Rita's knuckles would explode with shadows.

The camera would zoom out, as the boar was shown being ping ponged left to right as Rita appear out of a shadow again, again, and again on every side of the boar. Everytime it was struck, Rita would hop out of a shadow, using her fists to move a being bigger than a house; on her will alone, which was amazing. The combo would build up to the rate of a machine gun as Rita's shadowmelding skill had been WAY more powerful as a Fairy Tail wizard, she used to brawl more and not order minions around.

The shadow even playfully wrapping around the boars belly before Rita appeared above the giant Lava Boar; letting out a howl as she delivered a final crushing elbow to the giant monster before flipping upward and snapping her fingers, calling into existence a huge cannon made of Shadows that began to build Magic Power on it's barrel. As Rita fired Black Cannon; the entire town and vision would go white with the power of the explosion. As a young Heero, Lance, and Rita were shown standing around a defeated Gigantic Monster as the smoke cleared from Rita's spell...with Lance putting a foot on it's head. Which was actually blown off and separate from it's huge body now.

"A boar this size made out of Lava and Rock...what a bother." he said dusting off his long black jacket.

"Yea I don't know how we managed to take it down." Heero said trying his best to look serious as he put both hands on his hips like Superman. At this moment both Rita and Lance would backslap him on the head, yelling at him for not doing anything again on a mission.

As the young Heero rubbed the back of his neck; the entire group would laugh as the people of River Village poured in from all directions and began to celebrate. With Rita at the center, they would all hold hands and raise them in a cheer like a championship as the vision would end at this exact moment. With Rita, Lance, and Heero shown smiling holding their hands up like champions.

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As Heero and Jade would zip back through time, he would let go of her hand. The guy standing before her was older and taller than the one she'd seen in the vision. His haircut was different as well. But he still had on the same long violet scarf that nearly touched the ground behind him.

"So you see......I've been fighting alongside Shadow King magic for some time...." Heero said looking at the ground and smiling, but his smile faded quickly as something seemed to be bothering him. He missed them both so much. He hadn't ever really thought about it. He would remain silent for five or ten minutes, not even speaking again unless Jade asked him too or said something.