Fairy Tail Origins Episode 1: The Eternal Journey

"I will," she breathed back, too stunned to find her voice.

"So you didn't mean to do it? You didn't mean to kill them?"

"Evening, ma'am! Did the Wizard from Silver Chimera manage to reach you?"

Senna returned the salute of the two Seraph Knights guarding the Command Tent, and inclined her head to the one that spoke. "Yes, he did. Just a present from an old friend. I'm making a quick supply run to Ambrosia, so the XO will be in charge while I'm gone."

She walks past the knights without another word, and quickly retrieves her swords, strapping them to her waist as she walked back out. If the knights thought it odd she was bringing her weapons on a supply run to a well populated city, they kept their thoughts to themselves.

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A few minutes later, after changing in her small room in the Inn, Senna walked up to the bus stop. Gareth had arrived first, and she easily picked him out of the small five person crowd waiting for the bus to Ambrosia. She had to give him credit. As she sat down on the bench next to him, he didn't say a word about her new appearance.

Instead of her uniform, she wore a simple, loosely fitting white sleeveless shirt, a pair of black leather pants, and worn brown travelling boots. A long, brown cloak with jagged edges was draped around her, concealing most of her body, and the cloak's hood concealed her face. But if one looked closely, someone who had seen her before would notice a single, glaring difference; she had cut her hair. Her hair, which had been fairly long before, now only fell to the top of her shoulders, and she wore it freely, instead of in a ponytail or a bun. A tarnished golden pendant also hung from her neck, which hadn't been there before, and she wore her twin rapiers slung over her back by a black leather strap around her chest. A second, brown leather strap crossed her chest, forming a X-pattern, which held her leather pack against her back. Both her pack and swords were concealed beneath her cloak, which was long enough to do so without making an obvious bulge. She wore a brown leather utility belt around her waist, which had two full canteens of water and a small leather pouch fastened to it.

The bus arrived after a few more minutes, and Senna and Gareth filed into the back. Taking the window seat, Senna merely looked out the window and said nothing for the first few minutes of the trip. Then, as the bus rolled out of the city and onto the open road, she turned to look at her new companion.

"Why did you offer to help me?" She asked suddenly, her voice barely more than a whisper. "Why are you here?"

"Grigori... I-... I don't know what to say. But... It wasn't your fault," Eden said.

"What do you mean?" she asked.

"Grigori. What do you mean?" she said, taking on a more serious tone but not losing any patience with him just yet.

"For what, Grigori? Your hope for what?"

"What kind of new life?" she asked as gently as she could.

She took his hand in her own, and spoke to him softly, "You need to calm down and rest, Grigori."