9 'Fairy tail'

Ella didn't go back to the orphanage. Because she know, if she go back, she Will get a lot of question from the Sisters because her body is covered with a blood. She can't change her clothe with the men's clothe because their clothe also covered with their blood. But Ella did loot them, but there's nothing much on them to loot. She get 2 copper from each of them, make it 4 copper. It didn't much but Ella happy with that. And thats it, nothing else.

Right now Ella is on the alleyway with no people around. She sit on the corner of the alleyway where darkness hide her body from the light so no one can see her. She hug her leg, hoping she can warm her body because that night is cold. But she already used to it since she always sleep on the ground before for 5 years. But still, for a child, cold is cold. Used to it doesn't mean she didn't feel anything or like it.

She still have her bread. There's only two left. She want to eat it but she decided to keep it for a bit longer. She want to eat it right away but, the taste of those guys's meat is still in her mouth and she don't want to erase it yet.

She enjoying it.

While looking at the night sky, she wondering, why she can kill those two men but she can't even counter the stall owner. Also at that time she even kill the bandit with more strength than the stall owner, so why she can't even fight back?

Why? What's the difference? When she kill the bandit, she even skinnier than now, so why?

Licking her lips, something suddenly come to her mind.

"The meat." she said.

Right, the difference between them is, when she kill the bandit and those two men, she ate their body part. And suddenly she get a strange power inside her body that make her able to kill them. With the stall owner, she didn't ate him, that's why she can't fight him and get beaten instead.

"Does that means i become stronger when i ate their meat?"

What if she just eat something before he fight? Does that can make her stronger too? But when she fight with those two men, she already eat the bread but she didn't feel the power come to her. Does that mean the trigger is her opponent's meat?

While thinking that, her eyelids become closer and closer to each others and then she close her eyes and fell a sleep.

The next day, she wake up when the day almost noon. Because she in the alleyway, the sunlight the sunlight doesn't get there. And since she in the corner, the noise of the busy people couldn't reach her ears. Maybe it reach but she ignore it.

The blood on her clothe already dry and become black. It doesn't look like blood anymore. She take the two bread and eat them.

She come out from the alleyway and start walking. She planning to go back to the orphanage and train with her sword again. Even if she have that mysterious power, she can't rely it everytime. What if she can't bite her opponent? What if her opponent wear armor so she can't bite them? Then she doomed. There's no way she can fight them, so she need to become stronger.

She want to be happy, that's why she want to become strong. There's no way the weak can become happy. The strong will always take their happiness away and make them despair. Is what she think.

"Hey, do you know, my mom last night tell story to me, she said there's a place where people can live to their fullest."

While walking, she hear some boy talking to each other. Usually she will not care, but what the boy said is make her interested.

'Live to their fullest?'

"What do you mean?" the other boy ask.

"It means, you can live however you like, and you can be happy forever!"

"What? Do you really believe that?"

"I don't know. It just story afterall. But it will be amazing if it really exist. Everyone can be happy forever, you know? isn't that great?"

"Well, sure it will be great, if it really exist, hahahaha."

The boys start laughing and continue playing together. They didn't think much about that place, since it was just a night story that their parents tell them before they sleep. It just fairy tail. But Ella is different.

'Place where people can be happy forever.'

Her eyes is full of hope. She widened her eyes and her body trembling. She don't know why but tear start flowing from her eyes.

'Happy forever!'

Right now, she full of hope. Her chest is really warm. It's her first time feeling something like this. She want to go there. She want to know where that place is. She want that place. But she don't know where that place is. She don't know how to go there.

Suddenly she start run. She run to the orphanage as fast as she can.

'Maybe the Sisters know!' she think.