AN: This fanfic was not in my plans. Forgive any crazy stuff.
This is an AU, it'll have a different storyline from the Manga, but not all. I'll try to keep as much in character as I can.
In the future will be rated M.
English's not my first language, so bear with me. ;)
This is a prequel to my other story: Omega, a Gruvia fanfiction. It's set around eighteen months before Omega started.
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In the world there are a few types of people. Normal and Mages. Of course, as the minority, Mages were not known by society, only a few knew about them. And unlikely the name suggests, they couldn't do magic, even though magic was within them.
Mages were stronger, faster and with senses much sharper than normal human beings. Some even had an extra gift or two. And of course, they had ranks, and those were difficult to argue about. Once a person was born in a rank, they would be in it until death. Changing ranks was almost impossible.
There were Alphas, the ones who take charge, strong, decided and natural leaders. There were Betas, they support the Alphas in whatever way they can and are very loyal. There were the Deltas; they were mostly ordinary, part of the flock and submissive to their Alphas. And of course, there were Omegas, the lowest in the rank: they were bullied, last to receive anything, and were called pathetic often.
It was also general knowledge that a Mage couldn't decide who their mate was. After finding each other, the couple would be marked or not as mates after having intercourse. If it never appeared after six months, the odds were that they weren't meant to be. Most would break off any relationship after said period of time, but a few stayed together even though they were never marked, and were very happy about it.
But to find a mate was not like finding a husband or a wife; it was to find the part of you that you always knew it was missing. At least it was what most of mated Mages would say.
Mages were not known to exist by the Humans, but they often gravitated towards each other, since most acted like a pack of wolves and stayed together, an institution with Mages, was called a Guild and once a Guild was installed, there was an Alpha, a Beta, Deltas and Omegas.
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Lucy Heartfilia was always a nice girl. She graduated from High School top of her class, made the right connections, never got into any trouble, did what was proper and dreamt about the stories her mother told her when she was little.
So, to summon it all: she never really lived.
She never broke a rule, she was always too proper, she was scared to let her father down – he had changed so much since her mother died thirteen years before. But Lucy had a fire inside her, a fire that no one could take away from her.
The girl always dreamt of seeing the world and having adventures of her own; not the ones she remembered her mother telling her, and knew that wouldn't have it if she stayed at the mansion she grew up in; going to the same fancy parties and surrounded by empty people who only care about how many digits there were in someone else's bank account.
So, the moment she turned eighteen and she could access the trust fund her mother left her, Lucy ran away from home.
The bitter side of her brain told her that Jude Heartfilia, her father, wouldn't even notice her absence until there was some party they needed to attend and the blonde girl wasn't around to meet some boring and rude suitor.
The blonde girl knew that her father wanted her to marry some snob as soon as she was of age, but that was not going to happen. With heartache for leaving the wonderful employees of her home and feeling guilty for not care too much for leaving her father, who had become strange, different and empty; she was gone.
With the money, she went to college and with 23 years old, already with a diploma, decided that she would live in a city called Magnolia; it was no metropolis but it wasn't a small village either. She got a job as a journalist at 'Magnolia Today', writing small articles about the even smaller news of the town.
Lucy accepted it eagerly: she knew the ladder until she was an investigative journalist was long and hard, but that was the why the girl worked her ass off for the past six years. She had studied, lived in a small apartment and waitressed during night shifts so she could take control of her life.
At first she did hide from her father, but soon enough he found her. It was not a pretty encounter, but Lucy didn't give in. Her dad told her that she would have enough of living like most, that she was coddled and a rich girl who was passing through a phase.
'Well, dad. Look at me now.' The young woman thought with pride as she went to a bar close to her house to meet a few friends. She had a job, she had a nice apartment, and she had friends. Lucy Heartfilia had a life. A life she chose to have and couldn't be happier.
Entering the bar, it wasn't too difficult to spot her friends, since they were always the noisiest people around. And it all started four months before when she was saved by Natsu Dragneel, her current crush.
She spotted him arguing with another friend of hers, Gray Fullbuster and chuckled at the not-so-odd sight. Natsu was taller than her, but a little smaller than the dark haired man. His eyes were in a dark green color, almost black (but Lucy had looked enough at him: they were dark green); his hair was a light tone of pink which made him much more special and unique. He also had a small scar on the right side of his neck – he told her it happened when he was a child, it almost killed him –, and his body, oh hell, his body.
Being a fireman had its perks, Lucy could clearly see. That night he was wearing a sleeveless shirt and boy, were his muscles defined. Underneath the garment, she was certain that he had a six-pack just waiting to be touched by her hands.
The girl blushed slightly and shook her head. Maybe she was spending too much time writing her novel – even though she was a journalist, Lucy also was writing a book: a romance about a princess and her protector, The Dragon (that may be or may be not based on Natsu) and was almost getting on the part where the Princess and The Dragon consummated their relationship; the brown eyed girl had her imagination go wild, a perk (or not, in this case) of being a writer.
As if sensing her presence, Natsu turned to her direction and with the widest smile, a smile that could make a crying child smile back, called her name: "Lucy! Come on or we'll be starting without you!"
"I'm going, I'm going." She laughed and went to drink with them. The celebration was because two of their friends started dating: Elfman and Evergreen, even though they seemed like an unlikely couple, him being so… 'manly' while she was a bitchy girly girl, they were definitely together, so their friends decided to go and celebrate.
That night changed Lucy Hearfilia's whole life.
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AN: This was supposed to be a massive One-Shot like Omega was at first, but I decided against it; so, it's a three-shot now. Chapter two is already done, by the way, and bigger too haha! I hope to see you next week!
08/10/2013 ~ BonneyQ
