Raiden

"Fey..."

The nickname rang sickeningly through my head as the Dark Wizard Master towered over me. I clutched Natsu tighter to me, afraid that he would try and take him away from me again. The man laughed deeply down at me. I still couldn't believe that he was still alive and kicking. "How...?" I choked out.

He smiled down at me with yellow teeth and then touched his cheek. "Let me show you..." Before my eyes the skin around his fingers began to glow an off white color.
That color...I thought tiredly...I know that color... It looked so familiar to me. I had seen it before.
But...where?

As I struggled to remember, I watched in a daze as the skin beneath his fingers begin to peel away. My eyes widened and my breathing became more ragged as I stared in horror at the man. I clenched my teeth as the sound of ripping skin filled the others silent air. He pulled his skin even more until a new face could be seen from beneath the torn, old skin. My breathing hitched as his new eyes locked with mine.

Black, with red pupils, and soulless eyes, met my own eyes.

I jerked back in shock. I knew him. Now I remembered where I had seen that light. It was the same light that I had seen before that man had taken Natsu away from me. This...this was the same man that Natsu and I had encountered in the snow. He studied my shocked looking face and that seemed to amuse him to no end. He laughed again as he pulled the last of his fake skin away from his real and very familiar face. The man spread his arms out wide and smirked down at me mockingly. "Remember me now?"

Oh, yes, did I ever remember him now.

The memories trickled into my unwilling mind. They twisted, twirled, and wrapped around me in their deathly, cold grip. My eyes shook as I looked up at him.
I opened up my mouth and whispered out one word. A word that I had hoped I would never hear or say ever again. A word that I despised and could send fear shooting up my body. One word that could bring my world crashing down.
I whispered my once best friends name.

"Raiden."

He let out a howl of joyful and dark laughter. He smiled brightly at me and flicked his fingers at me in a small wave. "Did you miss me, Fey?" I flinched and bit out. "Don't call me that!" I didn't want him to taint the nickname that Natsu had given me.

His eyes ranked over me and his intense gaze made me shiver in disgust. He took another step closer to me and I tensed when he reached out a hand toward me. He crouched down to my level. Raiden's cold hand touched my face and I jerked my head back. He rolled his eyes at my reaction. He leaned a little back but kept his nightmarish eyes on me.

"Why won't you let me touch you, Fey?" I bared my teeth at him and refused to answer him. I didn't even want to look at him. But I forced myself too. I was afraid if I looked away, even for a second, he would slit my throat. Natsu suddenly shifted in my hold and he let out a painful sound. My heart clenched tight at the sound. I needed to get him out of here. Now.

Raiden's dark eyes flicked down to the boy in my arms. I leaned in closer to Natsu, trying my best to block him from Raiden's sight. Ice shot through my body when I saw his eyes turn from lifeless, to pure hatred, as he stared down at the Dragon Slayer in my arms. However, they almost immediately went back to cold and lifeless when he lifted his head to look back at me. "I miss you, Freya..." Raiden told me as he reached for me again.

I clenched my teeth and forced myself to stay in place as he grabbed a lock of my hair. He twisted the black strand around his finger as he continued to talk to me. "I've missed you so much over these pasts couple of years." He twisted the little strand again. "I just wanted to let you know that I forgive you." My eyes widened for a fraction of a second.

There was no way that he had forgiven me for what I had done. What was he playing at?

Raiden raised a dark eyebrow at me. "Don't believe me?" He asked me in a somewhat fake, hurt voice. I barely shook my head at him. No, I did not believe him. Not for a second. In all the years that I had known Raiden, I had learned the hard way that he was an excellent liar, and manipulator. Oh how he loved to mess with people's minds. That I remembered all to well.

"Why?" I asked him as I forced myself to look into his cold, calculating eyes. He stared right back, "Why? Why what?" I clenched my teeth together and bit out. "Why did you come and take him away?" I tilted my head to the side so my hair shielded my face from view. "You were after me. Only me. So, why did you target him?" Him of all people. Raiden looked at me with an indifferent look on his face. As if he was bored with this.

"That's a pretty simple answer, Fey." He told me as he leaned in closer to me. "I," he leaned in even closer to me. "Wanted you," Raiden's hot breath touched my ear. "To feel the same pain." He smirked as he whispered, "As I felt." My eyes flashed open wide and I struck out. Raiden saw my hit coming and he leaned his head a fraction to the right. My fist scraped across his cheek but didn't leave behind any damage.

I cried out as his hand that had been playing with my hair suddenly tightened its hold. He yanked his hand back and my head whipped backwards. I lost my hold on Natsu as I reached up and dug my fingers into Raiden's eyes. He jerked back as he gave a low growl of pain. His hold on my hair loosened and I didn't waste anytime to escape his hold fully. I hit his hand away from me and I punched him in the chest. My blow made him skid back and away from me.

I scrambled to my feet and stood shakily in front of Natsu. I held my still bleeding chest with one hand as I stared down at Raiden. With a low chuckle he stood up. I braced myself for any attack he could throw at me. If memory served correctly, Raiden was a very skilled Mage, and swordsman. I still bore the scars that I had received from him when we spared and from that night all those years ago.

"It's like old times, isn't it?" Raiden said as he straightened and rubbed the spot on his chest where I had delivered my punch. I didn't say anything. I stared at him with a blank face as I got into my fighting position. With a half smile, Raiden also got into his own fighting position. "You know, we don't have to do this anymore." He told me as he started to circle me. He was looking for an opening. A weak spot in my defensives. He should have known better. He wouldn't find any.

My eyes followed him as he continued to circle me with a lazy, laid back posture. He reminded me of the time that I battled Laxus. The Lightning Dragon Slayer had had that same laid back air to him. It meant that neither one of the men had taken me seriously. Like I had taught Laxus, now I had to teach this bastard just how much of a threat I truly was.

Raiden's eyes kept racking over me as he kept talking to me. "Fight, I mean. It's kinda pointless now." He told me as he ran his fingers through his black and blue hair. I blinked at him as I shifted closer to Natsu's unconscious form. Raiden's eyes tracked my every movement and his eyes flashed towards the Fire Mage. I tensed as my hair stood on end.

"Tch. It's all because of him, isn't it?" Raiden said, his voice was laced with disgust as he stared down at Natsu. "It's all his fault that you won't come and join me." Raiden's dark eyes met mine. "I wasn't lying when I said that I wanted you to come and kill for me." I ignored that and instead asked lowly. "Why did you pretend to be someone that your not?"

He blinked at me and crossed his arms over his chest. "I pretended to be this 'Dark Wizard Master' so you wouldn't know that it was me." He laughed as he tilted his head to the right. "I couldn't have you know that I was still alive. That..." He looked up at me with a tilt of his lips. "Would complicate things." He started walking again. "I tried to hire Wizards that I thought were strong enough to take you. When you just kept on killing or escaping them, I decided to put up a wanted poster of you and put it into a Job Request for
S-Class Wizards."

Raiden sighed dramatically. "When that one Dark Wizard took you, I had been so happy." He looked over at me and I saw his jaw clench. "But then," he thrust a finger at Natsu, "he came and took you before I could get to you." A dark aura began to surround him. "Then I began to plan. I came up with a most brilliant plan to draw you out." He pointed at me and chills made my body lock up. "I would take him away from you." He laughed loudly, "It worked out excellently! You fell right into my trap! You came straight to me!"

I still didn't make a sound as I listened to his crazy plan. My blood had already begun to boil as rage took over my senses. I wanted him dead. I wanted to kill him. I wanted to feel his hot, sticky blood on my face, on my hands, dripping off my daggers. I wanted him gone.
Raiden looked over at me and smiled darkly. "What? Nothing to say?"

"Oh, I have plenty to say." I smiled from behind my hair as I slowly lifted my head. "I," icy blue light began to slowly crawl across my skin and my eyes started to glow. "Want," my hair begin to whip across my face as my cloak began to flap around me. "You," my twin daggers appeared in a flash of blue light in front of me. "To," I reached up and gripped my daggers in my hands. "Disappear." I brought my daggers up to eye level and slashed them in the air in an X. "Raiden."

My once trusted best friend looked at me and smiled widely. He spread his arms out wide and grinned wildly at me. "So, Fey, it's gonna be like that now, is it?"
My blue light pulsed around me as my eyes began to glow brighter. "Yes, Raiden, it is."

Raiden smiled as his blinding white light began to glow around him just as brightly as my own light.

I outstretched my hand and flicked my dagger in a 'come on' gesture.

We stared each other down as our Magic Light began to grow brighter and brighter around our bodies.

Blood dripped down from my lips as I clenched my teeth tighter together.

Raiden's black and red eyes bored into mine as we both braced ourselves.

I snarled.

He smirked.

Come at me, darling.

Nothing was going to get past me.
Not even Raiden.
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Another chapter finished.
The Dark Wizard Master was really a boy that Freya has known for years.
He was her best friend.
But, what happened to cause this much anger and hate?
Raiden Vs Freya is coming up in the next chapter!
Who will win?
Who will fall?
Who will keep on breathing?
I dedicate this chapter to @Bowties_r_cool_