Yet another test run of something, I'll see how it goes and based on feedback I'll decide whether or not to continue it.
Writers Block has been a real pain as of late so I'm hoping these will help to break it...
Starts right after the Moon Island event (Forgot the actual name of the island...)
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Lucy sat on a stray box with Plue on her lap, shaking as usual... she sighed exasperatedly at Natsu's disability to keep his lunch down once again due to his motion sickness... eye twitching as she watched him hurl over the side of the ship.
"Once again, I don't know whether to laugh hysterically or hang my head in shame..." she stated to a nearby Erza who was leaning against the ship's cabin.
Erza didn't reply, rather just humorlessly chuckled a single time... more like a "Hmh!" if anything else...
"We should be back in Magnolia within the hour." Erza said. "Give or take."
Lucy was glad to hear that, although considering what was supposed to be planned for them when they got back suggested otherwise.
Lucy stood up and walked over to the spot where Natsu was laying on the ground, curled up in the fetal position. Lucy sighed and looked off the side of the ship... the water was a clear crystal blue, in fact it was so clear one could see right to the bottom where tons of oceanic fauna and flora resided. It would have been Happy's dream come true if he wasn't too busy trying to talk Natsu's stomach out of climbing up his throat.
She looked up towards the skyline...
"Uh-oh..." she muttered and the Captain of the Pirate ship took notice as well.
"Beware me beauty!" he said, most likely to Erza given recent circumstances. "A storms a comin' in! I can feel the Waves already choppin' up! And if it really is that far out and affecting us this much already, I'm afraid of what will happen should it get any closer..."
*Crack-Boom*!
Lucy jumped in place, her hair standing on end... Erza was... unfazed, naturally...
"Hold it steady, head straight to Magnolia!"
"Yes ma'am"
Five Minutes Later...
The waves lashed against the hull of the ship with the fierceness of a Dragon Slayer, of course not like the one on board given his current state...
"I don't know if we're even headed towards Magnolia anymore my lady!" said the Captain "I've lost all sense of direction!"
"At this point just head for any dry land!" yelled Erza over the bellowing storm, which poured rain, threw waves around and shot lightening here and there in a tempest.
Lucy glanced back at Natsu, who if his condition had been bad a few minutes ago, surely it was worse now...
"Are we going to make it?" she asked
"Yes we will!" replied Erza with full confidence.
Lucy turned around after being tapped on the shoulder, Grey stood there with a worried look on his face. "I wouldn't be so sure if I were you."
Erza heard this and wiped around "What do you mean by that?!"
"This storm doesn't seem natural... like someone sent it at us on purpose..."
"A Magic storm?" Erza pondered
"Is that possible?" Lucy asked
"Not that I've heard of..." replied Erza "At least not one so wide and powerful..."
"Brace yer' selves me hearties!" yelled the Captain and the three turned back to the Bow just in time to see an enormous wave headed right at them... before it crashed into the ship, sending everyone on deck overboard...
They were all strong swimmers, but in this storm, staying afloat alone was a severe challenge...
"NATSU! ERZA! GREY! HAPPY!" Lucy yelled, getting no response as another wave washed over her...
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*Hack hack, cough, weeze*
Lucy pushed herself up after expelling a large amount of salty seawater, along with some sand. She looked around, taking in her surroundings... a thin white sand beach overlooked by a grass plain, risen about a meter above the sand.
"Natsu! Happy! Erza! Grey!" she yelled... "Where are you?"
Natsu's POV
Natsu and Erza had pulled themselves off the beach and started walking along it in hopes of finding the others.
"You think we're still on the mainland?" he asked
"From the looks of it I'd say we're actually not that far from Magnolia, maybe only an hour or two's walk..." replied Erza
"Aye!" chirped Happy.
As they made their way down the coast towards Magnolia, they came across Grey who was still unconscious along the beach line. Natsu took the initiative by running towards him, digging his foot into the sand and coming up and kicking him in the stomach.
"URRGH!" Spat Grey as he was abruptly woken. "What the hell man!?"
"Just making sure you're still alive is all!" said Natsu in a smart ass tone.
"Why you fire faced-"
"Oh c'mon I mean it was effective right!?"
"Stop your pointless fighting! We need to find Lucy!" exclaimed Erza
"yes ma'am!" Grey and Natsu squeaked as they stood upright.
Another several minutes of walking revealed that the group... was not alone...
"Stop" said Erza
"What is it?" Natsu asked
"I feel a presence..." and a shadow passed behind them... Erza turned around to face a person who hadn't been there a moment ago...
"W- how'd you sense him!?"
"I think it's a her..." said Erza "And the real question is how didn't I sense her... her magic power is... incredible..." she mused, the regained her composure "Who are you and why were you following us!?" she demanded to the slim hooded figure.
The hood of the new character covered her face with the hood itself and a pull up cloth mask... her clothing was made of a deep, dark red, almost black fabric with a lighter red and golden trim... a small symbol of a red jewel encased in winged fire was emblazoned on the right side of her chest. A symbol resembling the Omega sign was patched into her leggings with a dot in the center, the Omega sign around the dot was jagged, with four spikes sticking out of it... on her back she had a large wooden stave with a green gem mounted on the end... at her side she had a nearly blue steel short sword with red runes written along it's scabbard.
"Natsu... Natsu Dragneel?" she said, her voice holding a sense of nobility.
"Who's asking?" Natsu said.
The obvious mage rolled up her sleeve revealing a golden tattoo in the shape of a tall thin tower with two dragon wings sprouting from either side. "A messanger"
"For me?" asked Natsu
"No, but for someone you know... I am under the impression you know someone by the name of Igneel"
Natsu's heart nearly stopped, he furrowed his brow "What do you know about Igneel!? Why should I tell you anything about him!? We just met how can I trust you!?"
"So you don't know his location I take it..." said the newcomer
"Why are you even searching for him!?" yelled Natsu.
"That... is a long story" her voice was flat and unmoving, nearly emotionless... "I've traveled the land for ten years time, and when I nearly thought I'd found him, he was gone... I knew you knew Igneel, and that was my goal from then on. To find you, Natsu Dragneel, in hopes that I may finally deliver my message... and go home..."
"So you can't tell me who the message is even from!?"
The girl giggled "Who it's from? Hehe... it's from his mother of course."
"W-what!?"
"I didn't even know Igneel had a mother." Said Erza
"I didn't think he did either..." said Natsu
"What?" laughed the hooded girl. "You thought that Igneel just appeared out of thin air one day?!"
"So if you were really sent by his mother, surely you would know Dragon Slayer magic?" said Natsu
"Dragon Slayer Magic?" asked the girl "I've heard of it, but no, I don't know any... I have my own form of magic... I don't need Dragon Slayer Magic..."
"Are you saying you could beat me without Dragon Slayer Magic!?" yelled Natsu
"Natsu! Don't get like this just because someone might be more powerful than you! That's for you and Grey to fight about!" exclaimed Happy
"Yeah man, we can't just go around picking fights with random strangers just because they bug you!"
"Oh yeah? Well I just wanna see if this girl is just all smoke and no fire!" Natsu said, causing Erza to cringe in annoyance... "FIRE DRAGON! IRON FIST!" he yelled and his hand engulfed in flames racing towards the hooded girl...
Impact!
"AAHHHH!" Natsu yelled as he was sent flying back easily ten meters into the sand... he raised his head to look at the girl... who had not only countered his attack so easily but now a large orb of fire circled around her shoulders... she'd stolen his fire... slowly the color changed... the fire lost its red and orange color... becoming more green and white...
"Green... flames?" Natsu wondered
"I know your powers Natsu... and I wouldn't eat these flames if I were you..."
"I'm a Dragon Slayer! I can take any flames! Nothing burns me!"
"Fel Fire will..."
This caught everyone's attention abruptly...
"Fel Fire is nothing like normal flames... to those untrained to handle it specifically it will burn and poison all who touch it... if the flame doesn't kill you... the taint will... especially if you are to eat it... then for sure it would kill you..." the girl paused "But I don't seek your demise..." she stated and the flame subsided...
"Who are you?" asked Grey "I know we should have asked this sooner but... really..."
"My name is Sarandara Dawnbreaker..."
"That tattoo you had..." started Erza "You must be part of a guild then I take it?"
"Guild? No... that's just the symbol of the Wyrmrest Accord... from which Igneel's mother sent me.
Natsu who finally struggled to his feet, had the nagging question to ask... "So who exactly is Igneel's mother?"
The girl chuckled "Why, Alextraza... the queen of Dragons..."
"Q-queen?" he stuttered "I didn't know dragons had a ruling system..."
"It used to be Deathwing, the Black Dragon... but he was lost so long ago that Alextraza now takes the role..." she paused "Which is why I've come seeking Igneel... his mother... sensed that the time was coming... when Deathwing would return... she sent me to find him and bring him home before another great sundering of our world began..."
"Are you saying th-" started Natsu but was cut off.
"Deathwing is the Destroyer of worlds... if he breaks ours... there is no telling if he'll be satisfied or not... as I said I was sent here ten years ago... this was before the... Lich King... even fell... assuming he... did indeed fall..." when she said the words Lich King the girl looked over her shoulders franticly then returned her gaze back to the three wizards... she sighed apologetically "Sorry I... get nervous whenever he is mentioned... even by me..."
"Well... if you are guildless... you should come join ours!" smiled Natsu "You seem pretty powerful and I'm sure the others wouldn't mind a new addition!"
The girl smiled under her hood "The offer is nice... and if you will help me look for Igneel... then I will agree to come with you."
"Alright!" Grey happily sighed "Glad that's settled..."
"Right, but remember we still need to find Lucy..." reminded Erza.
Sarandara pointed down the beach towards Magnolia "Is that her?"
Everyone turned around to see a skimpily clothed girl in a white sleeveless shirt and blue mini-skirt... her blonde hair tied up in a ponytail...
"Lucy!" exclaimed Happy, flying over to her "We got a new addition to Fairy Tail!"
"All the way out here?" she asked, then noticed Sarandara... clad in her dark robes...
"My name is Sarandara Dawnbreaker, nice to meet you." she said...
Lucy nodded respectfully "I guess I'll hear the rest from you guys later" she said.
Sara smiled but suddenly gasped for air... "Ghhhh" she moaned
"Are you ok?" asked Grey
Her shaky hands reached for a satchel wrapped around her waist "I-I-I'm fine... I j-just need to take something..." she reached into her bad and pulled out a small black potion filled with some kind of disgusting looking sludgy substance... a sudden chill ran through everyone's spine...
Sara's hands had been perfectly tanned and cream colored when she'd reached into the bag... when she pulled it out they had gotten darker... greyed... as though her skin was decaying... she pulled the cork on the bottle and drank the contents... color quickly returned to her body and her shaking died down along with her hardcore breathing...
"Are you sure you're ok?" asked Erza.
"F-fine... just had to take some medicine was all..." replied Sarandara.
"Disgusting looking medicine..." commented Grey "Uhg... I can smell it from here... what the hell is that stuff made from?"
No one saw it but the girl hid a smirk behind a lock of her hair... which redness was returning to as though it had just been bleached out... "Oh trust me... you don't... want to know..."
She brushed herself off and regained her composure, she clasped her hands together like Grey would before he used his ice-make magic, but instead she reeled back bringing her hands to her hip and then lifting them to the sky. "Re-spec!" and a golden symbol of a Arcane Wand appeared, cycled around showing a few other symbols before landing on the symbol of a bow and wild beast... her hands dropped and her weapons and armor vanished in golden light before being replaced instantly with reinforced red and brown scaled armor, a scale plate across her upper chest and scale skirt around her waist with leather leggings and half-cut leather top with a single scale claw shoulder pad. (Hunter PvE BOA set) A crossbow with a red shield covering it taking place of her staff, a hood of chains replaced her hood of cloth and a large wolf appeared next to her. "Hunter!" she waved her hand behind her back and the wolf disappeared.
"What kind of magic is that!?" Erza exclaimed
"Specialization Magic... though in truth I'm neither really mage, hunter, warrior or whatever... before I came to this world I learned and mastered almost all the techniques of fighting in my world in order to prepare myself for this one... Re-spec is not much different than your Requip magic Erza... However each specialization I change to has a set armor and weapon combination that I can modify as I see fit. Now then. Aspect of the Pack!"
A Cheetah glyph appeared over her head, as well as the rest of group, causing them to move faster.
"Now then lets head back to this guild of yours"
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"Ah Erza your back, how was your island vacation?" said Mira Jane as they entered the guild hall.
"It wasn't a vacation it was work..." Erza replied sternly "Where might the master be?"
"Some last minute meeting or something, he's been gone since yesterday."
Natsu and Grey heaved large sighes of relief "Good then we won't have to deal with that until gramps gets back."
"Would someone please tell me what that is!?" Exclaimed Lucy.
Mira looked past Erza towards someone standing cross armed behind her, dressed in armor and petite in figure. "Who is this?"
"A potential new member who we found on the beach, turns out she's been looking for Igneel just like Natsu and she seems friendly enough, so I offered to take her into the guild, we just need the master's approval." Replied Erza.
"She's so cute!" Several of the guys randomly shouted out... mainly Wakkaba, Macco (Spell check that) and Elfman... causing Erza, Mira and the new girl to roll their eyes...
"Ah, well then allow me to informally welcome you to Fairy Tail!" Chirped Mira just as Sara finished Specing back into her Mage Class. (Dreadmist PvE BoA set)
"Thanks."
No one noticed Lucy creep over to Natsu and Grey, to whom she whispered "Hey, ever find it creepy that she never pulls her hood up? I've still yet to see her face clearly."
"So?" Questioned Grey "Mystogan isn't much different, no one has ever seen his face and we're all fine with it."
Lucy looked back at Sara who was talking with Erza now, their conversation could be just slightly over heard, something about where Sara would live for now... Lucy just hoped the strange new girl didn't get stuck at her place...
*one strange changeling event later...*
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Makarov had returned and everyone had been returned to their bodies, thankfully, and Gramps was running through the rules and procedure with the new girl.
"Hey that makes me not the newest member now!" Lucy exclaimed randomly.
"Aye, shame I was getting used to you..." said Happy.
"I'm not leaving you stupid cat!"
Suddenly the guild went quiet... something uncommon with Fairy Tail... a gust of ice cold wind blew through the door and chilled everyone to the bone... oddly enough... it affected Grey as well, who broke out shivering.
"What the hell kinda magic is this!?" he exclaimed
The only one not shivering was the new girl... then a voice echoed out. "I... come..." Sara looked suddenly more pale than she had a moment ago... muttering something under her breath...
Then just like that all the heat returned to the room...
Grey who had gotten his cool back walked over to Sarandara and demanded "What the heck kinda magic was that!? Why were you the only one not affected!?"
Sara drew her runed short sword... staring at the blade...
"He wasn't killed..." she replied...
"Huh?" the whole guild looked at Sara, their expressions pleading for an answer...
Then a name Sara wished she'd never have to say slipped through her mouth... "Arthas..."
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"I want to find this Arthas guy and punch him right in the mouth! Who does he think he is that he can freeze our guild hall just like that!?" Natsu raged.
"Hey you think the rest of us are cool with this!? We don't even know who this Arthas guy is!" exclaimed Grey
"He... is a lord of terrible evil... he caused much pain back in my homeland... and suffering... I fear that if he is here then he looks to rebuild what he lost in Azeroth... my home world... the Scourge..." explained Sara, with all of Fairy Tail's strongest listening to her "If he even has a fraction of the former Scourge's numbers, This place... Earthland will be in grave danger... consider him my number one priority."
"Yours!?" Natsu bellowed "You wanna hog all the fun for yourself huh?!"
Sara huffed "NO! I have a score to settle with that bastard! For this is also personal! Arthas murdered my people and turned me- I mean my people into monstrosities! He's the lord of the undead!"
"Your people huh? Back on Azeroth how many countries were there?"
"Few real ones... mostly the map was split into regions, with no real government... Just a Race war I guess... and I am one of those races..." she smirked "Which is not human..."
"Y-your not human?" Asked a skeptic Lucy.
"No..." Sara lifted her hands up to her hood and Lucy jumped back. "What? You've got dog people, cat people, weird ass block men but an Elf unsettles you!?" two foot long ears poked up out of Sara's red hair. Her eyes shone a bright green, some kind of magical energy flowed through her veins, Arcane power. "I'm what most on Azeroth call a Blood Elf... and no... we don't drink blood..."
"Blood Elf...?" Lucy muttered
"Yes... and my kind especially has a score to settle with Arthas... I'm going to pay him back for all the pain he's caused my kind..." Sara clenched her fist "You can count on it!"
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Pretty short I think but I'm running short of motivation already, Well... like I said its just a test run and I may or may not continue it depending on peoples response to it... I meant for a more dramatic reveal but... well... time and inspiration were lacking...
Also if I do continue it I will probably write from now on in first person, I strongly dislike writing in third person (To which I feel there was no perspective in this chapter) so that will likely change.
Anyways if you liked please leave me a review, lemme know what was good, what was bad and maybe what was in between. If you really liked it then add it to your faves and follow it to know if I actually update it.
This has been Rogue and I leave with my usual saying
WTYL fanbros! (Write to you later)
-Rogue
