Fairy Tail: The Strongest Fairy (Rewritten Version)

Zack blinks his eyes at the sight before him.

One moment ago, he was studying something he borrowed from guild's library.

And before he knew it, he stood before this apartment.

It looked different to the apartments he has seen before, and yet, as he doesn't understand why he is here, and yet he felt oddly familiar with this place.

It is like he has been here for a long time, but also a long time ago at that.

Just being in this place, made him feel many different complex emotions, that he wasn't even aware of.

He could feel fear, just by walking around the place. It felt he is walking around eggshells, watching his every move for some reason, that Zack doesn't understand himself.

Along with fear, sorrow and sadness flooded the place, Zack stood aimlessly, as he didn't understand why he feeling such things, that he never experienced until now.

Not to say… among the sorrow, sadness and fear, Zack can also feel an urge to destroy this apartment he is in.

A burning desire to completely use his Quake-Quake Magic to bring the whole place, no, building down.

This feeling felt like an endless sea of flames, that wanted to burn everything. And this feeling flooded Zack's confuse mind, were hatred, complete state, that only further confused the clueless teenager, as he trying to understand what the heck is going on.

What is this place?

And why is he feeling such things?

Are these emotions truly his own?

Because for some reason, they both felt as his own emotions, but also someone else as well.

Not to mention… why does this apartment he never seen before. Feels like a prison, a place of nightmares, the very place where all of it begun?

But as in what has begun, is also something our clueless protagonist also wanted to know.

In the moment as overwhelming emotions clouded Zack's judgement and mind. His eyes widen, as he noticed his hands for some reason, can be seen through, like looking at the pair of hands that belongs to some ghost that haunts this apartment.

Or maybe this was actually a memory, a memory about his true hidden past?

Of course, no one could expect our clueless protagonist to realised this.

Especially in the situation where such overwhelming emotions will turn any sane man into a madman, with all this overwhelming fear, hatred, and sorrow they being flooded with.

Zack took a deep breath, trying to not let these unknown emotions any longer control him.

And when he managed to control himself, he noticed he also seems to not standing in this apartment, but floating. This made Zack realised, this must be a dream, but what this dream is, he has no clue.

Zack then begins to look around the place, realising he seems to be in a living room. He looked at the place, he looked at the strange flat black flat thing, where all the chairs and sofa are pointing at.

The sofa and the chairs all seems old and worn out.

And yet, there is a sense of comfort looking at the old things. As Zack checked the sofa, his eyes noticed pictures on the wall.

But for some reason, Zack cannot see any of the faces shown in the pictures, however as he looked at them, many complex emotions could be felt deep within himself.

However, before he could figure any of them out. Zack frozen, when all of the sudden the sounds of crying was heard.

Two voices, similar to each other, but he knew they are two voices. This alerted something in Zack as he didn't understand or has time to understand any of it.

Before he knew it, he bolted towards the crying.

Zack didn't understand why he did this. Why he felt sorrow, sadness, and guilt upon hearing these crying voices, as his body moved on its own. Leaving Zack confuse of these emotions he never felt before.

But in this place, he could understand what they are, as these emotions are more than just strangers to the clueless protagonist. Causing more questions in Zack's head than anything else.

Zack floated in the kitchen, towards the sources of sorrow and crying could be heard. Then he halted his steps, as he looked at the sight before him, at the kitchen that no longer looked like normal kitchen he seen before

Blood, crimson red blood spatted all over the place. It looked like a horror scene, a thriller at most. Zack stood looking at the blood, as something threaten surface in his mind.

But the crying voices halted whatever about to happened, snapping Zack back to his original purpose.

That is to look for the source of crying, then he saw them, three people, or more like two children and a lifeless woman.

The two children looked like twins, both of them has blond hair, and blue eyes. They looked very thin, like they haven't eaten something for a long time, as they went on their knees, and begin to cry and hugged the woman laying lifelessly on the ground.

Zack stared blankly at this, as he looked at the adult woman with the same blue eyes and blond hair as the twin girls has. Zack doesn't understand the meaning of death and life at this moment of life.

But at this moment, he felt he could understand it, he knew this woman he never seen before, is dead.

This woman who has a rounded belly, telling anyone she will be expecting soon, is dead, covered in black and red markings, like she was beaten to death.

Zack stared blankly, as he can feel hatred and rage, not towards this woman he never seen before. But… to himself?

Zack held his head, as none of this made any sense… why he seeing this…? Why he experiencing so many complex and confusing emotions, causing the clueless protagonist of ours, to doubt everything before his eyes.

Why… why he feels such things? And why he felt guilty of not saving or protecting the woman he never seen before?

The sorrow and guilt he also felt from those twins, didn't make things easier for Zack to handle the flooding of emotions, he is not used to.

Then it happened.

Overwhelmed by the emotions and the situation he is in. Zack's eyes widen noticed there also two more people besides the dead woman, the twins, and the unborn dead baby that will never be born into this world.

Zack looked at the corpse of someone else, that covered in the pool of blood. And overlooked the young blond boy that seems 10 years old, that right next to the corpse, with a bloody knife in hand.

From the very moment Zack's green eyes looked at the dead man on the ground with their own blood.

Was the moment Zack tried to activate Quake-Quake Magic at full force at the already dead man.

Of course, nothing happened. Nevertheless, a confuse and lost look formed on Zack's face, as he didn't understand why he just tried to not attack, but destroy and kill someone who already dead?

Overwhelming hatred and fear surrounded Zack from the very moment he looked at this dead man.

Why did he fear someone whose already dead?

And why he did hatred this man so much… that he had to stab the knife into their body over and over again… wait, he did??

Zack stepped backwards, if he wasn't like a ghost in this place, he knew he will find it hard to breathe at this very moment, as chaos and confusion overridden Zack state of mind, to the point, Zack failed to noticed the young boy that ten years old, stood right before Zack, looking at him, with his own blue eyes, that also shared by the mother and daughters on the other side of this room.

It only until Zack forces to look away from the dead corpse, he noticed a pair of blue eyes looking into his green eyes.

Zack froze seeing the young boy looking at him, he felt familiar, too familiar with this boy who looking at him with amusement, sadness, envy, and even joy as their eyes met.

"Seeing you being so overwhelmed by this place, which meant, not even a year is enough, don't you agree, my other self?" Askes the boy, causing Zack lost in words due to the overwhelming emotions this place gives off to him.

"You don't have to say nothing… you clearly not ready for this place, nor for us to meet like this. But it's not like it matters… it's not like you will remember anything, until we meet again, I hope you can resist this place… and refill my one and only wish, Zack."

Went the young boy, who suddenly morphed into a young handsome man, with long tied in a ponytail blond hair, and stood over 180cm tall.

Before Zack can understand anything, the former boy, now young man pushes Zack, causing Zack to fall backwards.

When he did, like he fallen onto glass itself when the surroundings shattered like a broken mirror, only to turned everything into complete darkness.

The last thing Zack saw, when the realm of dreams shattered into darkness, was the young man, who smiled and waved at Zack, as everything turned to darkness.

And when everything became black, was the moment Zack was force back to reality, but also forgetting everything that just happened.

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Hope it's not too dark, originally in the original fanfic, this was supposed to happened, right after Zack got knocked out by Mirajane for the first time.

But this time around, I made it happened after the first long time skip. (Not because I forgot about it… okay I did…)

I cannot say this fanfic is not dark. It fair to say, it is 10% or even higher percent dark. There many things in this that can be dark at times, but most of the time, it is not, or least I am trying not to.

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Anyway, thanks for reading.