Fairy Tail x Avatar: The Last Airbender

"Oi, breakfast isn't gonna make itself kid. Now up!"

"Shut up and lemme sleep. You could try making it yourself ya know!"

"I almost burned the house down last time, remember?"

"Bleh."

"We've got a job so hurry and get up."

I groaned as Gajeel took my blanket off me and strode out of my room. That jackass. I went to shower and dress myself before I headed downstairs to make breakfast.

"Hey, what do you want?" I asked Gajeel.

"Iron."

"I'll get some in town today."

"Then anything with meat."

"Will last nights leftover stew be okay?"

"I suppose."

"Lily?"

"Milk please if that's alright Azrei."

"Sure!"

I warmed up the stew, watching it bubble and boil as I did so (I really do sound like a witch now...), made some more dumplings for Gajeel and I, then gave Lily a bowl of warm milk. We ate silently. Like always. Unless we've got guests round, which is very rare, we eat in silence. Ever since I moved in with Gajeel that's the way it's been, even when I was younger.

After the Gods and Dragons had disappeared, leaving their children on Earthland, I was alone. My mother had taught me many things about magic and "the meaning of life." (and when I say "life." I mean all life. From the gorgeous Moon-iris to the one really annoying fly that keeps head-butting the window) yet never told me a thing about survival; I had to learn that on my own. When Gajeel found me I was around nine, sitting at the side of the road. I'd managed on my own for around 3 years without Meldaya, but I was getting weak and skinny, if I wasn't already before.

I was hobbling to Oak Town to find shelter and food, just as two street boys decided to try and mug me; they wanted my mother's staff. I remember feeling so enraged that I wanted to murder them right there, How dare they think they can use her staff. How dare they have the nerve to try to steal it. However, due to my malnutrition, I collapsed. I kept a firm grip on the staff though. There was no way in Heaven or Hell they were going to get it. That's where Gajeel came in.

The boys were about the same age as him, maybe older, but still Gajeel traipsed up to them, punched one in the nose (causing it to bleed, I think a nasty fracture too) and the other in the stomach. They let go of the staff and ran. I didn't really know how it happened, but I knew Gajeel saved me. After that I just clung to him like a toddler, he didn't seem to mind though. He took me to Phantom Lord and we stayed there until the Fairy Tail incident. I knew Gajeel wasn't the person Phantom Lord had made him, yet still I was terrified that he had chosen the path that they had laid out for him to take. Fairy Tail changed Gajeel in a way I was too young to understand how to do; it was definitely for the better though.

"So what's going on today?" I questioned.

"We're finding a criminal who uses void magic." Gajeel replied, wiping his mouth and excusing himself from the table.

"Void magic?"

"If he touches you skin-to-skin you're teleported to a different land, even dimension. No-one really knows what happens."

"Then how do we know the magic doesn't just kill people?"

"We don't."

"So we could die?"

"Yup."

"Well, it pays the bills."

We both stared at each other for a while then started laughing at each other, we knew it would be okay. It always was. I do the tricky bits and Gajeel does the ass-kicking. Simple really.

That time though, it wasn't all okay.

There wasn't a happy ending.

And we didn't get the job done.

At least, that's how it began.