[b]Sable Rhodroth - [color=red]WRETCHED ONE[/color][/b]

He was wet, completely submerged in water and yet he felt nothing but a searing and white hot sting over his body. Pieces of his skin hung off of his face from the explosion, deeps burn razed his skin, barreling deep to the bone in his side and right arm. He was unconscious and in this, had felt a odd sense of serenity and clarity. Was this what people called Twilight Wisdom? A certain precognitive superiority that only came when death's touch was inches from the flesh. 

[i]I shouldn't had gotten so close to him,[/i] he admitted to himself. [i]How stupid was that? I should had just let Aiden kill him... but I-I just couldn't ignored his plea. Oi, Hydrologia must've really wanna die.[/i]

[i]I wonder if the others will fair okay.[/i] He felt like he was shedding a tear but was uncertain. He forced a ugly and awkward smile. [i]Shit! I don't wanna die like this! Please, Rhodroth, I don't wanna die like this![/i] 

A voice answered back in his weary delusion. It was rambunctious, brave, and honest. But it brought a familiar calm to his doubtful thoughts. It sound like the echo of an echo, a very faraway memory that found its way to the surface. It shouted at him but he knew it was directed towards other people.

[i]"So you're gonna end this by dying, huh? Stop running away!"[/i] It bounced off the walls of his mind.

Than another came and another after it, all sounding the same and voiced by the same guy. 

[i]"Gramps, lets fight. I know there are times when you have to fall back, Gildarts taught me that. But this ain't one of those times. The bastard who makes an enemy of Fairy Tail, we need them to remember the power of our guild with all its heart and soul. Lets fight gr...gramps!"[/i]

[i]"It's for our comrades. For seven years... Always... They were waiting for us... No matter how tough it was, no matter how sad; even if they were made fools of, they endured and endured... and protected the guild. For our comrades, we'll show you... The proof that Fairy Tail has kept going! And that's why we'll keep moving forward!!!"[/i]

Sable lips parted but took no breath or spoke, they only mouthed the words that stuck out the most. "Fairy Tail."

His consciousness started to return, the warmth and bliss that enveloped him when Cynthia healed him earlier flowed through him. As he blinked his eyes open, fluttering away the voice of encouragement and inky blackness, the stranger spoke once more. 

[i]"If you're a guild, take care of your friends. That is all I have to say."[/i]

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He woke up with blank but furious eyes, the sparkling flames covering his body boiled the water around him so fast, that the surface bubbled with the heat. A roar escaped him as he righted himself in the water, the roar echoed into the air  as water attempted to flood his lungs but the flames surrounded him evaporated it far quick than it could. His space in the ocean was literally without liquid, only oxygen existed from the leftover H2o. 

"Hydrologia," he spoke out, voice as clear as on land. "I don't wanna kill you but to protect my Nakama... I'll fight until my eyes are filled with salt, my skin is wrinkled beyond recognition, and my fist are broken!" A crimson flame erupted from a clawed hand and stretched through the water to form a sharp crescent. "I'll regret it but I will-- Secret Art" he uttered, the sparkling flame buffering and engorging to the point that large and quickly popping bubbles trailed the surface of the ocean where he floated. 

"Come to your senses, Hydrologia. Last chance," he muttered.