~IQ Zero: Cardmaster~
-:Prologue:-
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Six years ago
"Happy birthday Lucy." her mom's soft voice congratulated her with a warming smile together with her father standing beside his wife with a hand around the waist on the beautiful woman.
"Where is my present?" it was their daughter, Lucy's tenth birthday and she had tried to pretend sleeping but ended up waiting for her parents to wake up in the living room. "Is it a pony?"
"No dear, it's something very useful."
"A lacrima ball?" her father chuckle gave his daughter a thought of coming up with something else that is very useful. "I can't think of anything.."
"We figured." the woman got out of her husband's embrace and crouches down in front of her daughter and patted her short blonde hair. "Listen honey, the thing you will be given is something that you have to treat well."
"By the words it sounds like if I am going somewhere."
Her parents were not so much surprised by her words. Lucy is a smart kid, though her young age, and have already outclassed some of her teachers in school.
Judo, her father, smile softly towards her. Lucy gave a skeptical look before she found something sticking out of her father's jack pocket.
"Papa, what is that?" she ask and point at the piece of paper. Layla gave her daughter a light pat on the back.
"Why don't you take it and read the description?" hesitation wash over her sense before slowly walking over to her tall father who smiles to her as she take the thing in his pocket, eyes widening by each millisecond.
"For real? !" the girl exclaims as she jumps up and down on the place while looking at the picture of a big building with white façades and fire red copper roof shining in the sun up in the blue sky. In front of the port walk people in snow white uniforms. The girl's using skirts and the boys trousers.
Fairy Academy
Our students are and will quit this school with the top skills of Cardholding magic.
You will start as a "IQ Ten, Rookie" and will therefore after travel down to "IQ Zero, the ultimate Cardmaster." But before you will have to prove you are worth the title as the most powerful Card-user.
Rank system below.
IQ Ten: Rookie
IQ Nine
IQ Eight
IQ Seven
IQ Six
IQ Five: Powerful User
IQ Four
IQ Three
IQ Two
IQ One
IQ Zero: Cardmaster
You are very welcome, Lucy Heartphilia, to our school year X784 in the 18th of August.
Sincerely Master Makarov Dreyer.
"X784? One, two, three.." counting down on her fingers as help she frowned. "It's six years until then!" disappointed over the timeskip she stomped her foot down on the floor like an five year old. "Too long!"
Her parents had expected this and sighs in sync.
"Lucy, you have to be sixteen to attend the school." he mother said and took her daughter much smaller hands in hers. "But father and I have another surprise for you."
Judo fumbled in the other pocket and held out the object for her. The present were wrapped in red silk paper and pink bands in curls on the top.
Carefully she took it into her own hands and stared at it. It wasn't big, maybe 10x5cm.
"What is this?" her parents chuckle but nothing else came from them. With a frown occupying her petite face she open the present, her eyes widen in total surprise. "S-Sa…"
Present
"I call out Salamander!" the powerful voice of hers made her opponent quiver in displeasure when a tall pile of flames came out from the card in her hand. The flames twisted and shifted and people around them gasped when it slowly took form to a human's body.
"She can't mean…" a girl whisper to her friend who nods.
"She mean it. The strongest fire card among them all. The fire dragon king, Salamander."
Quickly people searched through their books and searched for more information about the girl's card.
"Salamander is the strongest fire card with score on 2000xp. Strenght: 667, Speed: 667 and Stamina: 666." a boy with thick glasses pronounced without a book. "After you have called out Salamander he takes form as a man with hair spiky as flames of the fire, clothed in vest, waist cape, knee high trousers and open black sandals."
People around the boy listened to his words, taking it all in.
"Weakness, unknown. His attitude is like fire, dangerous and extremely wild."
"I heard that he once were a Card-user but got cursed into that card when he broke one of the Golden Laws." someone said out loud as they admired the man with his fists, legs and hair enflamed. Chains hugged his wrists as he stood there. The chains didn't melt by the heat instead they were glowing red and not so inviting to be touched.
"¿Qué es lo que quieres, Lucy?" ("What do you want?")
"And he usually speak in Spanish."
All sweat dropped, not getting what he said. The owner of the Card point toward the girl in front of them who's own Card were a small Cherry Fairy.
"Quemar o una patada en el culo?" ("Burn or kick his ass?")
"Both please." the girl said with a sweet smile, her attitude matching perfectly together with his.
"As you wish." he said, now in the right language. Like the sound of a shotgun his whole body were enflamed and his hands slowly lift up towards his mouth. "Fire Dragon's Roar!" he cried and a long pile of flames spurt out from the his mouth and out through his hands, aiming straight at the opponent's Card who tried to block the attack with a wall of Cherry Petals. "Crimson Lotus, Exploding Flame Blade!" bands of flames punched the wall with such force that there were nothing else but ashes left of the wall lying on the ground, smoke raising up from it and onto the sky.
"D-Don't hurt m-me!" the Cherry Fairy stammered with her hands up in defends to protect herself from the heat of the flames.
"Fire Dragon's…"
People leaned closer in excitement, waiting for the final blow.
"Iron Fist!" the fist of the Salamander hit the poor Cherry Fairy under the jaw, sending her up in the air and slowly enfolded in a cherry red glow and disappeared into it's owner's card.
"Cherry, rest well." the opponent whispered comfortably to his Card and laid it back into the inner pocket of his jacket. Looking up to the Salamander he bowed down. "Thank you for the match."
Salamander's owner smile with her eyes closed.
"No problem, Ren-kun."
"Can I maybe ask you out on a date?"
"Salamander, please." the girl sighed and turns around. Salamander's eyes look into Ren's as a cruel chuckle creeps though with a smirk.
"With pleasure." he answered as his fist raised up. "Fire Dragon's Flame Elbow!" fire spurt out of the back of his elbow. The fist his the poor boy under the jaw, sending him skyrocket up in the sky just like his Card.
Laying a hand on his right shoulder he rolled it with a satisfied expression as Ren's falling figure landed in the school pool with a huge splash.
~õ~
School Cafeteria
"Lu-chan's Card sure is strong." a petite with blue and quite spiky locks said to her friend, Lu-chan who rubs the back of her neck awkwardly.
"Levy-chan, you flatter me." Levy smiles big at her friends pose.
"Keh, I am the strong one here." a raspy and very familiar voice of a man came from the opposite seat of the two girls.
"Go back to your card already, Salamander." Lu-chan hissed to him. But instead of obeying his owner he snorted and leaned back against the chair.
"Try me to, Luigi."
So arrogant… Levy inwardly sighs at how another bicker between the two of them flare-up another brawl of meaningless words and acting.
"Lucy! My name is Lucy!"
"Tch."
Levy sweat drop at the scene in front of her. "You two…"
READ A/N:
I now I should update but this idea have been playing with my mind for two days now and I felt like doing it.
If you find it annoying with Natsu speaking Spanish sometimes, please bare with it :3
More information with the rest of Team Natsu and other students will be revealed in later chapters, probably the next.
Actually… the title "IQ Zero, Cardmaster" taken from a book I am currently writing. XD It's on Swedish of course and so are the plot taken from it too. ^^'
But instead of using the strange powers I have been coming up with in the book I took Fairy Tail's characters' power instead XD lol
Leave a review if you want ^3^ lack of feedback is like the beginning of Writer's Block (: so if you want more of this, please, review and fav/alert! :D
Love F-T-K~