A walk through Magnolia (Raven, Lance)

Lance and Draco were walking down the streets of Magnolia looking for some fun. Lance wore his hood and had his hands in his pockets as he walked. The hood made it so no one could see his face and made people stare at him suspiciously. "Draco... why are people scared of me?" Lance sighed as he looked straight ahead. Draco sat on Lance's shoulder and made even more people be scared of them because it wasn't every day you saw a baby dragon. "I don't know Lance. You have a dragon for a pet and you look like your up to something evil when you have your hood on." Draco said sarcastically. Lance smirked at that comment and shook his head.

Eventually they got bored of walking and stopped "Hey Draco what do you wanna do today?" Draco shrugged and told Lance to sit down against a wall and rest a little. Lance walked over to a wall and sat down leaning his head against it and fell asleep with his hood still on.

Raven was bored and lost in the great town on Magnolia, home to Fairy Tail guild. Currently, she did not even have a clue on why she was in Magnolia. She should be in her guild with her guild mates. So why is she wandering around the streets of Magnolia again? Well, that’s the question she wants an answer to as well. She guessed that she just wanted to find a way to get to Sabertooth and since she was in Magnolia, maybe walk around the town and get used to it.

She had let her hair out which was lazily brushed just a little that morning for the sake of it. She wore a loose white shirt with black shorts and white flats. She was walking down an empty street at the moment with a map on her hand. She was trying hard to figure out what on earth all of these lines in the map meant. Having come from the raven world, she had absolutely no idea of how most things in this world worked although she has been around for years.

“Ah I give up!” she screamed at nothing in particular and crumpled up the map to throw it away when she felt her leg hitting something and she fell down unceremoniously. Looking back up from the ground she saw a man sleeping and a baby dragon? She looked intently at it in wonder. She had only heard of these creatures and seeing one up close was cool although the dragon was still a baby. She crawled closer to the man, more interested in the dragon than the strange man sleeping in the middle of a street. She poked the dragon with her index finger. “Hello?”

Lance felt someone trip over his leg and woke up "Eh?" Lance mumbled as he slowly turned his head toward the ground to see a girl laying there poking his dragon. "Hey Draco wake up it looks like we have company. Draco wake up as he got poked and giggled "That tickles you know!" Draco said as Lance got up and looked down at the girl with his hand extended as if to say he wanted to help her up "Ya know its not healthy to be on the ground like that." he said still looking down at the girl when all of a sudden a breeze came through and blew the hood of his head making it so people could see his face.

The hood revealed a young man with long black hair that stopped at his ears and golden eyes. "Damn it....." Lance muttered to himself as he looked back down toward the girl, his hand still extended "You gonna let me help you up or what?"

Raven saw the man stirring, indicating that he is waking up from his sleep. “Good Morning, sir” Raven commented sarcastically since she just found him sleeping in the middle of a street. She wondered if it was possible for anyone to sleep so defenselessly in such a place. Sure, she is a careless fellow as well but being this careless might just cost one’s life if he or she is not careful.

She giggled with the dragon when it giggled. She liked the white little dragon he had. It was cute and not as scary or ferocious as people described dragons to be like. She kept her eyes trained on the dragon even as the man got up and only turned her attention to him when he spoke to her. She stared at him for a second before looking down to see that she was still indeed on the ground. “Now whose fault do you think this is?” she asked as she looked up to him in time to see his hood being blown off by the wind. “Pretty face..” she commented casually while getting up on her own.

“You know what is not really healthy? Sleeping in the middle of a street defenselessly where one could easily kill you,” she said while shaking off some dust on her shirt. “Can I hold him?” she asked pointing at the white dragon he had.

Lance blushed a little when she commented on his face and stammered a little when the girl asked if she could hold Draco "su... sure." He said suddenly shy as he handed the little white dragon to the girl. "My names... Lance, and this is Draco." Lance scratched his head and laughed a little "Sorry about that..." Draco shook his head smiling.

After Lance had returned back to normal he addressed the issue of him sleeping in the street "I am pretty sure I can protect myself in a street fight." He said laughing.  "I was actually planning on heading to a restaurant before you came along." Lance said as he stared at Draco. The small dragon looked comfortable in the arms of this girl and he was happy. Lance started to walk away when he called back to the girl "You coming or not? If you do I must warn you there always seems to be a fight were ever I go, but don't worry I will protect you if any of that happens." Lance said as he continued to walk.

Raven widened her hands happily to catch the white dragon in her hands. It was so cute and it seemed like he enjoyed her company.  “Nice to meet you, Lance,” Raven smiled “I’m Raven” she introduced herself before hugging the white dragon “and hello Draco!” She had a big grin on her face by then and nodded at Lance when he said sorry.

She was starting to tickle Draco when she heard Lance talking about him sleeping in the street. She looked up and raised a curious eyebrow at him. He could protect himself when he was sleeping? Either he had super senses or he had some type of barrier protecting him. She didn’t think he had either of them at the moment though and wondered if he was truly okay about sleeping like that.

She didn’t reply to it though and bit back the snarky comment she was about to make. She wanted to make friends, not enemies. She already had plenty of that.  The second time she looked up to him was when he asked her if she wanted to go to a restaurant with him. She nodded, flashing her bright smile at him again. It wasn’t everyday that people asked her for her company. Most people would always get scared of her because of her crow like ruby eyes.  “Hmm sure and I don’t mind a fight. Don’t expect me to take part in it, I just enjoy seeing one. Especially if it is a good one,” She said honestly, almost devoid of expression on her face. “Getting involved in fights is a waste of energy.”

Lance nodded happy to hear that she was happy to see a fight and that she wanted to go to a restaurant and laughed as he walked away hoping Raven was following him he heard Draco giggling behind him and assumed she was so he kept talking "We are almost there just a few more...." he got cut off when he got pushed down by a group of people looking for a fight.

He heard the group of people laughing behind him and slowly got up "Hey you little shits..... that hurt." Lance mumbled as he looked up at them. It was a group of 7 people who looked a little mad now. They all ran toward him and tried to hit him but he dodged and ducked all of there attacks until one of them grabbed a metal pole that was on the side of the street and the other guys pulled out knives. Lance have had enough of this nonsense a he decided that even though it was going to cause havoc he would use his magic anyway. The guy with the pole ran toward him and Lance swiped his hand side ways through the air "Darkness!" Lance yelled as the sky turned dark all of a sudden and the guy slowed down a little and looked up at the sky. Lance jumped back "Shadow ball!" he yelled as several balls made out of shadow came out of his hands and blasted into each member of the group and ropes came out of the ground and wrapped around them so they couldn't move as other ropes came out and whipped them. "Lance that's enough!" Draco yelled but Lance ignored them knowing that this was far from over. "Shadow claws!" Lance yelled as claws came out of his hands and he ran toward them stabbing all of them at fast speeds several times each... Lance was done. "I am Lance Knighthunter hear my name and tremble in fear." He spoke to the people as the sky turned back to normal and he put his claws back in as he walked toward Raven and Draco "Idiots..." He said quietly as he decided to tell Raven to take them somewhere.

Raven started following him silently, keeping the white dragon in her hands busy by petting him. The day was very bright and she found a warm breeze blowing across the area. This kind of atmosphere was completely different from her raven world. In raven world, the sky was usually red or dark and there were no days, only night prevailed in there and the world seemed dark even under the occasional pale light of the full moon. She, somehow, have always felt that she hated that world from the very beginning. Even though it was her home and she should, like a normal being, love her home, she had always felt that the world was supposed to be destroyed a long time ago. It was this feeling of hers’ in the end that caused her to unleash all of her power and destroy her home. And when she came to earth, the dark voice she heard at the back of her head that night was no longer there. Her mind seemed as peaceful as the calm sea at the moment. Hopefully, a storm won’t be coming anytime soon.

Her train of thoughts ended abruptly when she found Lance being pushed down by a group of men. They looked drunk and dangerous to her. She frowned at their actions and was about to take a step towards them when Lance got up and then the sky turned dark. He was using a spell, it seemed and she watched without much expression shown on her face. Her eyes momentarily traveled towards the sky and her lips formed a thin line, not liking where this seemed to be headed. When she saw him starting to attack the group, she wanted to stop him even though the group probably deserved what was coming at them. She could feel the white dragon in her hands moving around and yelling in protestation. She only tightened her hold on him, not wanting him to get in between the fight.

When everything ended and Lance came back towards her, she just stood there looking at him for a moment before turning around, complying with his request on taking them somewhere else. Her flats made no sound on the stone ground as she walked slowly towards another part of Magnolia that she liked very much. “Your temper is quite short, isn’t it?” she asked, not bothering to look behind her, knowing that he should be following her since she had his little dragon. “I wonder if you know the value of life, Lance. It’s easy to take one, very easy actually. But you should know every life is valuable. This is not a lecture but something you should think about.” Raven’s eyes became distant and it looked like she was looking somewhere far away when she continued. “You don’t want the type of sin I have in my hands. It’s….It’s scary” she ended the conversation, walking directly towards the forest close to Magnolia. Memories of the men, women and children that died flashed into her mind for a moment.

Lance stopped in his tracks and let the wind blow through his hair making his coat sway in the wind and his hair blow in the wind "Trust me... I know what its like to kill someone.... To kill many people." Lance said as he had a blank stare on his face remembering his past "Those people were part of my family..." Lance said as he remembered going on a rampage through the base he grew up in and killing everyone in there except his uncle he regretted not killing them all. "They aren't dead" Lance said as he turned around to see them getting up "I know how to control my magic I made it so they were passed out for a while..." Lance said as he started to follow behind Raven again.

"Your going to pay for this! I am going to tell my boss about you and he is going to kill you!" The leader of the small group said as they ran off. "Maybe we should find some place to go before that happens." He smirked as he said it. Lance couldn't help being shy around this girl... it wasn't normal for him and Draco noticed it also. When Draco peeked over Raven shoulder and saw that Lance was blushing again he sighed and returned to Raven's arms. Lance didn't know how he felt about this her but he trusted her and so did Draco.

A while later he saw the group of men again but this time with someone big and meaner "Um, Raven you may want to either run or walk a bit faster!" Lance said in a hurry trying not to alarm her.

Raven nodded at Lance when he told her about him killing people. For some reason she wasn’t surprised and she wasn't disgusted by the fact or anything either. After all, she had killed many people too and she understood him. She smiled at him, silently conveying that she wasn’t going to judge him or anything on that. “If I had a choice, I would have never killed off my whole world…”she mumbled more to herself than Lance. Her grip on the dragon tightened as memories of that day kept flashing before her eyes. How many lives have she taken with her hands that day? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? She couldn’t remember. All that she knows is that she has not left a home for her to return to.

"Your going to pay for this! I am going to tell my boss about you and he is going to kill you!" the shaky yet angry voice brought her back from her thoughts and she saw the men getting up and run away. From what they said, she figured that they aren’t going to let this go without a proper fight. She sighed wondering why some people were stubborn. When they know they can’t win, they should stay down and get stronger to fight and win another day. But there are just some people with too much pride.

She turned her attention back to Lance who seemed to be blushing and raised an eyebrow at him. She didn’t voice out the question that was at the back of her mind though and decided that it really would be wise for them to leave the place at that moment. “You are right. We should get out of here soon. I don’t want to waste my time being involved with those guys,” she said and was about to take another step forward when she saw the men returning with some big guy who is obviously their boss. She looked at them, then Lance and them again and sighed.

“Are you okay with flying?” she asked Lance simply, letting her black wings spread behind her. When the men rushed towards them, Raven just took Lance’s hand, not waiting for an answer before flying up, hovering above the men. Her big black wings blocked out the sun and casted a big shadow over the men on the ground. She could feel them stare at her. “Hope you are okay with this sudden development,” she told Lance, giving him a smirk of her own.

Lance was silent for a moment when the wings appeared because it wasn't everyday you saw something like this come out of a person but he went with it and let her take his hand and fly off. "No its fine." Lance answered when she asked if he was ok with what she was doing because if anything he was exited. There is a place I think we can rest up ahead Lance said to Raven as he looked forward. When they got to the place he let go dropping to the ground softly. He faced Raven and started to thank her when a knife was put to his throat from behind "Wow you guys really wont stop will you?" Lance said smugly as he slowly pulled the arm with the knife down off of him and turned to face the guy.

The guy was big and looked mean and compared to Lance he looked way stronger. Lance smiled as he welcomed the guy to the place they were at and making the guy even more mad. The guy threw a punch at him and made Lance fly backwards and hit the wall making Lance fall to his knees. The guy then went up to him and cut his cheek with the knife making it bleed then kicked Lance into another wall. Lance had stopped moving completely "Come on get up and fight!" the guy yelled laughing "Show me your strength!" The guy said kicking Lance again and turning away "Ok, I guess I killed him." The man started to walk off and Lances body twitched behind him. "Hey you bastard you wanna see my full strength?" Lance said and as he stood up an evil grin crossed his face. Lances eyes were blood red and he now had a deeper more demonic voice to him.

"What the hell are you?!" The guy said getting a little bit scared now making Lance laugh "I am your worst nightmare." He said calmly as he started to run toward the guy at blinding speed and punched him in the stomach making him fly out into the street. Lance then walked up to the guy up picked him up by his shirt making him stand and repeatedly punched him hard and extremely fast and as the guy staggered to stay standing Lance grabbed his head and twisted it hearing a cracking sound. The guy fell to the ground dead and Lance looked toward the rest of the group "You want some to?" They all shook their head and ran off. Lance laughed a little as he fell to the ground passed out and didn't come to until a few minuets later.

"You okay Raven?" Lance said as he got up off the ground still a bit tired after the fight and walked over to Raven. "Sorry about that.... if I didn't do that I would have been dead by now and maybe you to." Lance said as he put his hands in his pockets "Please don't judge me after I just tried to save both of us." Lance sat down and leaned on a wall.

Raven was carrying Lance as well as Draco with her. She was a bit slower than usual, so when Lance talked of a spot where they could rest, Raven let him go. She saw him land but kept floating on the air to see if those guys were following them. And just as she expected, those guys really were following them and now, one had even managed to sneak up on Lance with a knife. Now she was starting to get annoyed by these men. What on earth was their problem anyway? She narrowed her eyes at them and was just about to use her powers on them when she noticed the sudden change in Lance.

In place of the person whom had a calmer spiritual energy, there was someone more violent and unrecognizable. He was starting to take down those guys again and even killed their boss. She could feel the little dragon sigh in her hands and sighed along with him. She understood why he was doing it but seeing someone get killed still brought bad memories to her. In all these years that she has been to human world, she had not killed a single person because she didn’t want more blood on her hands.

After the whole commotion died down, Raven went down and her wings disappeared in a light burst of black feathers. She went over t where Lance was resting and sat down along with him. “I understand why you did that, Lance. It’s fine but don’t act too rash all the time, alright? Remember, there are always other ways,” she said looking up at the sky. “Well, anyway, since our plan to go to a restaurant had gotten cancelled so rudely, what are you planning to do now?”

“AHHHH” a sudden cry caught Raven’s ears and she turned her head to the direction of the sound. “’what was that?” she got up and walked a few steps before looking up to find a raven on a branch. She stared at it for a minute, silently communicating. ‘Go see what that sound is’ she ordered the raven and it nodded its black head before flying off to the direction of the sound.

She closed her eyes, seeing what the raven was currently seeing. She saw building first, then the Magnolia market and then a child being dragged off from his mother’s hand. “You little thief! I won’t let you go! You and your mother are going to the jail!” a large man shouted. Raven understood the situation. Apparently, the boy had stolen some bread from the man for him and his mother out of hunger. The big man was obviously not going to let this go and he was starting to hit the boy.

Raven opened her eyes, slightly muttering curses to herself. What’s wrong with that day? “Lance, I think we should go and help”