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Beta Reader: volfwildman

I had just woken up an hour ago in a hospital room. Apparently, my flare had been seen by a passing patrol of Rune Knights who had found me and the Mage. I had been thrown in the city hospital and the Mage had been thrown in the city jail.

A doctor had come in and informed me of my injuries. My left hand was in a cast as it had been fractured from the Mage's kick, my left side had a patch on it from the dagger, my back had a very long stitch from my right shoulder to my left lower back and finally there was some thick stitches that were currently holding half of my left cheek together, so it could heal.

My arm and side should heal just fine, but my back is gonna have a nasty scar across it and another thin scar is going to be forever on my cheek as well.

I had spent most of the hour both staring at the stitches on my cheek in a mirror to my left and being in deep thought. I was an idiot. I had grown far too complacent thanks to my successes from before. Successes that now look like child's play compared to what I just went through.

Over the past two years, I had slowed down in my training. I kept pushing off pain tolerance training and slowed down in physical training as well. I would need to fix that when I got back.

Other than that, I need to work on the magic of my illusions. I knew most mages had a magic sense, but I had thought that an illusion that could trick the main five senses would be able to get past the magic sense. I was wrong. That mage had easily sensed what was and wasn't an illusion and my large magic core probably ended up giving away my location as well.

After some thought on the subject I came to two options I could so to fix this. I could pump lots of magic into my illusions and trick the magic sense into thinking it's real. The other option is suppressing the magic of both my illusions and magic core and trying to make them invisible to the magic sense.

In the end, I choose option two since I felt like pumping my illusions with magic would be a waste even if I had the magic storage for it.

I was writing down some things to remember for later in my notebook when I heard the rush of feet out in the hall. As the rush got closer to my room I put the notebook back into hammerspace and watched as the door to my room busted open.

Two small bodies emerged from the doorway and frantically looked around the room until their eyes settled on me. Cana and Gray. There was a second of silence and before I could say anything I found myself holding back a groan of pain as two small kids all but crash into me causing my injuries to flare up.

I somewhat heard the two of them ask a hoard of questions as they hugged my body. Most of these questions were focused on if I was alright with a few outliers like Gray asking if I would have any cool scars. I would have at least tried to answer the questions had it not been for the pain they were currently causing me.

I had just started to debate whether I should whack them on the heads to get them off when a familiar voice came from the doorway. "Cana, Gray let him go you hurting him." Said Mom as she entered the room.

My adopted siblings promptly jump off me and started to apologize at the same rate as the questions from before. "Why don't you two head into the hall for a bit. I need to talk to Bishop for a bit." At mom's words, they looked like they wanted to protest but both knew better and just made their way into the hall closing the door behind them.

"Thanks, Mom they wer-" *SMACK*

A hand had slapped the right side of my head, opposite of the cheek stitches. When I looked back to Mom she had a cold look in her eyes and face as well. It looked insanely out of place on easily the nicest women I knew.

"Twice," Mom said with a cold and even tone "Twice you were warned about this job and twice you not only ignored the advice of two more experienced people but acted like a jackass as well."

I could only stare in shock at my Mother at her words. She wasn't wrong but hearing her say them in such a cold and emotionless tone was unnerving. We ended up staring at each other for a few seconds before an emotion broke mom's emotionless face.

Sadness.

Tears started to stream down her cheeks as she slowly got close to me and gave me a gentle hug. "I already lost my husband. Please don't let me lose my son as well." as she said those words I felt tears fall onto my shoulders.

Guilt filled my body. Unlike all the times before when I had hated the feeling, this time I welcomed it. It made me feel better that I felt guilty for what I did to my mother. It made me feel human.

"Promise me you be more careful." At those words, I promptly started to hug her back as I closed my eyes. "Promise," I said.

I had made two promises. One to myself about getting stronger and one to my Mother to keep safe.

Both I had no intention of breaking.

I had to give the doctors at the hospital credit, I only spent a few days at that place before I was near fully healed. They might not have healing magic but magic in general really helps with the healing process.

My arm and side were fully healed but the same couldn't be said for my back and cheek. My back now had a large scar where the slash had been and another scar on my cheek as well. The scar on my back wasn't too bad considering a shirt could hide it but the one on the cheek was another story.

The left cheek scar was a thin but noticeable line that keep straight until it ended midway through my cheek, at which point it curved upwards slightly. As a result, it made my normal neutral look seem like I was grinning if you just glanced at my face. I found both amusing and annoying. At least Cana and Gray like it.

I had found myself back in Magnolia a few hours after release where the guild threw a little party for my safe return. I would have rather just went home and relaxed in the library, but the gesture was nice. The scolding from Makarov was less nice.

The next day I was already starting to implement my new training routines. It was this reason that I found myself in the backyard of the mansion. I spent a minute or two making sure I was alone, what I was about to do would not be a lovely sight.

Once I was sure no one was around I reached into my hammerspace and pulled out a decently large vile full of dark green liquid. This was Yearning Death, a poison that was outlawed in Fiore and for good reason.

It was the same reason chemical warfare was banned in my old world. It was simply too cruel.

The poison would almost affect every nerve in the human body and make them hypersensitive. So sensitive that just the act of living was painful, like having your entire body on fire without the fire. I had gotten this as a just in case type of thing about a year ago, it had cost a very pretty penny.

With slight hesitation, I flip the vial open before taking a small swig then closing it and putting it back in hammerspace. It would take a few seconds before it started working. I reach for my magic and made an illusion in the middle of the field I was in.

The image of the Psychotic mage came into being. I flinched at seeing him but relax after a second and started to walk around in a circle around the illusion. The effects of the poison started to take effect.

At first, it wasn't so bad, like a slight ache after a good day's work. But as the seconds ticked by it got worse and worse. It felt like a wildfire was using my body as kindle, each step was like spike piercing my foot. The illusion was becoming very fuzzy, but I keep it up as I tried my best to power through the pain.

After an hour had passed the effect of the poison started to fade. My entire body was numb and I had slight trouble walking. The illusion hadn't faded which was good but during the entire time, it looked horrible. It had gotten slightly better as things went on, but it would be a bit before I could keep concentration though the pain.

I would have to wait until the day after tomorrow to do this again, but I was a necessary evil. Better to hurt now rather than later.

With the training done I slowly limped back home. Ready to start reading a book and letting my body heal.

I walked into the guild and started to look around. I ignored the members that were trying to make conversation with me, yes, I almost died let's move on and stop pretending like I was your best friend.

I found the people I was looking for after a few seconds and made my way over to them. As I took a seat at the table, Macao and Wakaba looked at me in surprise. They glanced at each other before Macao started to talk.

"You ok kid?" He seemed very confused that I was there, natural considering I never talked to or interacted with them before despite their attempts to do so in the past. Truth was I would rather not interact with them but once again this was a necessary evil.

"I need some advice and a sparring partner," I replied in an even and professional tone. They both looked unnerved and stayed silent for a few seconds before Wanaka spoke.

"This is about that job of yours ain't it" I simply nodded at his words. No point in lying about this. "I need some advice about suppressing my magic and a person to spar with for practice."

Macao let out a light hum before speaking "And why us?" I looked to the side for a second trying to not look embarrassed before composing myself and said, "You two are probably the only adults in the guild that don't dislike me beside the guild master."

Both went wide-eyed as Macao stammered out a response "N-no one here dislikes you. It's just…..." He trailed off until Wanaka pick up for him "You give off a weird vibe. Not to mention you refuse to talk to anyone in the guild beside Makarov, Cana, and Gray."

Yaaaaaaaa my loner act was coming back to bite me on this occasion. "Will you help or not?" I said while trying to not sound annoyed. To my surprise, both chuckled at me before Macao spoke up "Kid this is Fairy Tail. We always help each other. Even if said person is a bit of an asshole."

I roll my eyes at the asshole remark but couldn't help the small smile that appeared due to their words. "Thanks. I appreciate this."

And with those words, the two proceed to talk to me about what I wanted to know. They seemed to understand my line of reasoning about wanting to suppress my magic but warned it would not be easy. It wouldn't be rewarding if it wasn't hard was my reply.

They chuckled at my remark before the conversation continued. It was pleasant and the advice they gave helped too.

"Two Pair-Fire and Ice" Cana yelled out as she throw two pairs of elemental infused cards at me. Well, she throws them at the Mirror Image I had left right after I had used Vanish.

Cana started looking around rapidly with a confused look on her face when her cards just passed through my false self. I simply just got behind her and put my seethed saber against the back of her neck. She pauses for a second before letting out a tired sigh "You win again."

We had been doing some sparing in the backyard while Gray practiced his Ice-Make magic off to the side. Cana had been getting better at both her physical fighting and her Card Magic as well. Card magic was a very basic but very versatile magic.

Card magic worked by infusing magic into a card and giving it some form of elemental effect or more complicated effect later. Then you have a magically charged card that you can do all kinds of things with. Like throwing it at people which has been Cana's favorite thing to do so far.

She had been getting rather good with her magic. She had come to me a few times for ideas and during one of those times, I had offhandedly mentioned poker. After an hour of explaining the game, Cana seemed obsessed with the game. Much to both my and Mom's annoyance when she tried to organize a poker night. This was the reason her spells all involved poker combos in the name.

"You always just disappear and attack when I'm not looking," Cana said this with a pout. I simply shrugged "You can't fight people like me in a straight fight. You got to outsmart them like pretending to be distracted or attack them before they even start to fight."

Cana let out a little hum before a mischievous grin appeared on her face. "Before they fight ugh. "High Card-Ligh-" Just as she was midway through throwing the card at me when my improved reflexes kicked in and an illusion spell was ready to be cast in my mind.

"Shattering Light" *BBBBBBEEEEEeeeee*

An intense light filled the area along with a very high-pitched sound. Cana stopped her spell and held her hands to her face as the light blinded her and sound rang in her ears. The effect only lasted three seconds but that was enough time for me to poke her forehead with my sheathed blade.

Shattering Light was basically a flashbang in illusion form. I had created it as a last-second spell to use if an opponent was able to attack the real me up close. Its creation had revealed another annoying thing about illusions to me. Illusion didn't have the impact or longevity of the real thing.

Basically, making an illusion of a flashbang didn't hit as hard as a real one nor did it last long either. Had that been a real flashbang Cana would have fallen to the ground and stayed like that for at least ten to twenty seconds. It really limited my illusions, not to mention that pain was just something that I could create for a millisecond and it was gone.

Had a few ideas to get around this but those were for later after I finished up mastering smell and taste. Maybe fine-tune all five senses afterward as well.

Cana left out another sigh as she dropped to the grass on her back. "Dammit" she muttered, I let out a small chuckle "Don't let Mom hear you."

She grumbled a bit before her eyes widened as if remembering something and she turned to me with a grin, "Did I do a good job today then"? At her question, she also tilted her head toward me as well. I just rolled my eyes and proceed to say yes to her while rubbing her hair. She always tries to get me to rub her head. I have no idea why, but I guess it's a side effort of me doing it to her when she was younger when I had no idea how to communicate with her.

"Hey, guys are you done," Gray called from the side without his shirt. He had been getting better at not stripping and usually stopped himself from taking off his pants, but he was still having trouble with his shirt.

"That should be enough for today," I said while stopping the head rub and was about to leave the backyard and head into the mansion when Cana appeared in front of me with a grin. I stopped, and we ended up staring at each other for a few seconds before she broke the silence.

"Can we go get something to eat Big Brother Bish," she said this in a bit of a cutesy tone despite the fact she knew it annoyed me more than anything. I just let a sigh as I look between her and Gary who also had a hopeful look on his face.

"Don't you have a mouse to take of?" At my question, Cana simply grinned "I fed Thunder the second before sparring. He should be fine. '' Still can't believe that she got another mouse after the first died of old age. The fact that she named him Thunder the second was simply salt in the wounds.

"Fine. I hear that there's a new pizza place down by the dock. Let go there." Cana promptly fisted bumped the air and ran towards the docks as Gray ran behind her while trying to put his shirt back on.

I just stare at them for a second before letting a small smile spread across my face, which looked far bigger thanks to the scar before I started to follow them.

I found myself reading a book that detailed common and rare enchantments while sitting at one of the tables at the guild. I had originally been talking to Macao and Wanaka about some general stuff like grocery prices and bandit activity in the nearby villages.

Macao had left to go on a date with his new girlfriend and Wanaka had decided to call it an early night and leave which just left me to wait while Cana and Gray finish the card game they were playing at the table beside me.

I had ended up heading to the small library in the guild and found a book that talked about enchantments and even had a decently large list of them as well. I had started to do jobs again about two months ago but decide to just stick with C ranks for now. Still left me with some good money for an enchanted item or two.

I was currently leaning towards a magic suppression enchantment. My own natural magic suppression was coming along nicely, and I could completely hide the magic of my illusions. The main problem though was that my magic core was currently six times larger than the average mage and while that had helped me in the past, it wasn't the easiest thing to hide.

The magic suppression enhancement wouldn't fully hide it either unless I paid a lot of jewels for an enhanced one. It would still help me hide my magic along with my natural suppression.

I was just doing some math in my head about the prices and how much jewels I had when I heard Cana win the game between her and Gray. The victorious shout from her and the groan from Gray made it very clear she won.

"Hey Big Brother Bish, let go home. Mom should have dinner ready." Said Cana as she walked toward the door with a skip in her step. I moved to follow her along with Gray when I heard someone shout my name from the other side of the guildhall.

I looked over to see the guild master coming towards me with a sad smile. I was confused about his smile but before I could ask he shook his head a little to get the sadness away and addressed me. "Got another one for ya." and with that said he sidestepped to allow me to notice the person behind him.

She was a young girl of about 11 years of age. She had short red hair and a messy white dress on as well as a medical eye patch on her right eye. She bowed to us and said in a nervous tone "Please to meet you I'm Erza Scarlet."

I felt my left eye starting to twitch as I stared a yet another main cast Fairy Tail members who would be worming their way into my mom's heart. It didn't help that I head Gray groan out "Another girl to deal with." while Cana was doing a little celebration dance while chanting "I got a sister, I got a sister".

So, business as usual.

AN: I big thank you to all of you for the more than 300 followers this story has right now. Really can't believe so many people are interested in this story. Really can't thank you guys enough.

Nothing much in this chapter. Just the fallout of battle and Bishop doubling down on his training. Erza is her now, considering I got a few reviews asking for her I guess people are going to be happy with that. Hope I can write her character good.

Thanks once again to volfwildman for being a Beta. A huge thank you to Lull Meister for pointing out a part of my grammar I had been incorrect on. Basically I had thought that when it comes to writing dialogue you put the last punctuation on the outside rather than inside. I made sure to go back to all my chapters and fix it, hope I got them all.

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