Chapter 13: Two Truths and a Barrier of Lies

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The hooded figure panted as they rose to their feet.

Nashi and Jace caught their breath as they stood not too far away. Blakey hissed and coiled around the duo.

"Time for you to talk!" Nashi bellowed above the wind.

She stormed forward.

"Nashi! Told you I can hear it! He thinks he was abandoned by Fairy Tail!"

"You already SAID that, Snake Charmer!!"

"Why won't you listen!"

"Because those are false memories! I'll burn that blasphemy!"

"Wow! Nashi, that's a big word for you!" Jace jeered.

"Shut up!!" she snarled over her shoulder.

Nashi planted her feet in front of the hooded figure. Her spiky salmon hair and white scarf flew in the cyclone's wind.

"Guthrie Conbolt! Let's go!!"

Jace facepalmed.

'Determined. Determined.' Blakey hissed.

"No s*** scalelock," he grumbled.

The hooded figure remained silent. The worn, dirty cloak barely moved around the wearer's still legs.

"Cut us out of this cyclone and come home!!"

Jace narrowed his green slits.

"Everyone has been looking for you for NINE AND A HALF YEARS!"

Only the howling wind responded.

Nashi started to move forward.

"Nashi!" Jace cried.

"I'll drag you myself if I have to!" Nashi shouted.

The hooded figure didn't move.

"Nashi! Please listen to me!"

"Guthrie, even though that memory of abandonment is false, I can understand why you would resist," Nashi uttered.

Her fists started to light on fire.

"Nashi! I can he–"

"BUT YOUR PARENTS WOULD NEVER ABANDON YOU! SKYLER WOULD NEVER ABANDON YOU! COME HOME FOR THEIR SAKE!"

Jace took a deep breath.

"I CAN'T HEAR WENDY, ROMEO, OR SKYLER IN HIS MEMORIES!" he screamed.

Nashi stopped. She glared over her shoulder.

Her chocolate eyes had burned to yellow pupils with black slits.

"What did you say?" she growled.

The Poison Dragon Slayer gulped.

'Scary! Scary!'

"I said, I can't even hear his parents or his sister in his memories!" Jace shouted above the wind.

"But he remembers Fairy Tail!"

"Fairy Tail," the figure said.

Nashi whipped her head around.

"Yes! Fairy Tail is your guild! Your home!! SO LET'S GO!" she screamed at the person.

"Fairy Tail," the figure spoke again, "Is the worst guild in history."

'Insulting! Insulting!' Blakey hissed.

"I tried to tell you Nashi," Jace muttered. "In a nice way."

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