Chapter 1

A Brand New Love Story.

I pushed my legs to the limit pedaling my bicycle as fast as I could. Perhaps it was a sense of excitement that I had finished high school, or maybe it was because I wanted to see her.

I finally stopped at the river gazing at the girl who was looking out towards the water. Despite wearing a sweater and skirt, she was soaked from head to toe.

A soft light illuminated from her around her mouth, telling me that she was indeed smoking.

I placed my bike against a nearby tree before sliding down the inclined hill. It was close to summertime, so the heat was somewhat uncomfortable, but I didn't mind it.

"Congratulations on graduating..." The girl said, not bothering to remove her cigarette while she spoke. She ran her fingers through her short red hair before her green eyes scanned me.

"Told my mom I was going to be hanging out with the guys for a while, so we got plenty of time to spend together," I said.

"Ah..." The red-head removed the tobacco stick from her mouth before turning and grinning at me. "Do you have a hotel we could stay at or something?"

"Mimi, I was thinking of just hanging around town for the day," I replied, a feeling of guilt welling up inside of me.

"I want to take a shower before going anywhere..." The red-head grabbed her skirt, wringing out some of the water.

"How did you fall into the river anyway?"

"I dropped something important, so I had to search through it." She waved her hand. "A lot of my cigarettes got wet, so that's a pain in the ass."

She pulled out her carton, just like she said a lot of them were drenched, but a few were still okay. She popped one out, pointing it towards me.

"Do you want one?" She asked, causing me to shake my head.

"No, thanks," I shook my head. I smoked maybe once a month if I was lucky. Hell, I only started smoking because of Mimi, but it wasn't something that I did if I wasn't with her.

"That's right you have to go home after this," Mimi replied creeping closer to me. "Logan your mom hates the smell of smoke, huh?" Once again, Mimi crept closer towards me, tugging on the collar of my shirt.

"H-hey!" I frowned, causing the red-head to smile.

"The marks from when we had sex are still on your neck. You didn't even try to hide them..." Mimi's voice rose as if she had pride in the fact that she marked my skin.

She then wrapped her arms around my body, blowing a large puff of smoke directly into my face. "You don't mind the smell...do you?" Mimi ran her fingers through my black-hair before chuckling. "I do like black-haired men."

"Man..." I repeated those words. I was eighteen now, so I was technically an adult. Hell, I could buy cigarettes if I wanted to, which was weird.

Mimi was only a year older than me, but her age felt so far ahead. Maybe because since the day I met her she was always skipping school and just hanging around the park and river.

"Yeah, you're free now..." Mimi smiled nearly yanking me down to the grass. "We could go somewhere anywhere..."

"We can't go anywhere..." I said, sitting up ever so slightly. "We can't go to the moon, for example, and I don't think we could reach Mars anytime soon."

"Pfft," Mimi held back a laugh blowing more smoke in my face. "Maybe we should settle on the library then. I want to take a quick wash up and charge my phone."

I often wonder what Mimi's home life was like. Considering she never invited me to her house, and often I would catch her sleeping at the river or in the park. When I first met her four years ago, she was going to school but dropped out at sixteen.

I was pretty sure that Mimi was homeless; she had probably been that way for a while now. Though, thinking about it now that I was eighteen...

"Hey, if you get a part-time job we might be able to get a cheap apartment together..." I said something without really thinking about the implications.

Mimi looked at me before taking out another cigarette. "Job, huh?" She walked towards my bike as if telling me the conversation was over.

Perhaps that was a bit too forward. Despite the sex, it wasn't like me, and Mimi was officially a couple. The truth of the mater was, I didn't know what Mimi's feels were.

"H-hey wait..." I called out, running up to her. "We're going to the Libary, right?" I asked, picking up my bike. "Why didn't you go ahead of time?"

"They won't let me in anymore without you..." She said point blank taking in another deep breath. "They say all I do is loiter around and take too long in the bathroom."

"Maybe if you if you read something they wouldn't complain." I pointed out.

"It's not my fault, none of the manga there are interesting."

I wanted to tell her there were more to read besides manga, but even I was guilty of just reading manga and comics myself. "Speaking of that, Fairy Tail ended recently."

"I know, don't care...I never really liked that series," Mimi said as the two of us walked along the water.

Mimi only liked a handful of action series. I know since she could only really read them when she snuck over my place when my mom wasn't around. Besides those, it was mostly just romance and mystery stuff.

I knew because she never cleared her browser history once she as done.

"I mean, I thought it was okay, not my favorite series. I like the general character designs, though," I said.

"..." Mimi didn't reply; instead, she just blew more smoke in the air. Right as she did, I noticed something...strange happening.

The ground in front of us slowly started to fade away. At first, I thought all the smoke that Mimi was blowing in my face was beginning to get to me, at least until she spoke.

"Huh?" Mimi stopped in her place. It seemed I wasn't the only one noticing what was happening.

In an instant, before we even had time to comprehend what was going on the earth beneath us vanished. No, it was almost like the entire world had vanished.

"Eh?"

Just like that, we were falling. Almost like we were falling to a separate earth.

While the wind rushed past us, Mimi's cigarettes fell out of her pocket. I didn't know why I focused on that of all things while we were plummeting to our death.

I started screaming, Mimi, on the other hand, just remained silent. Perhaps she had convinced herself it was some dream. That or she was in so much shock her mouth wasn't moving.

Then again, this had to be a dream; at least that is what I assumed as the ground got closer and closer to us. There didn't seem to be a convenient lake anywhere, not like it mattered since we'd probably die either way.

As the earth grew closer, I closed my eyes, hoping I'd wake up once I hit the ground. Luckily, or rather unluckily, the impact never came. Instead, we hovered inches above the grassy field like the wind had picked us up.

Then like a thud, we finally landed. I had finally stopped screaming, but that didn't mean my heart wasn't still racing. Mimi was still in a daze, her head was firmly planted on the ground, and her skirt flipped completely exposing her panties.

We were in the middle of nowhere. There was no doubt about it, wilderness and rolling hills as far as the eye could see. It was like we were in the middle of the country or something.

"H-hey Mimi, are you alright?"

"No," Mimi said bluntly brushing her hair slightly. I noticed her usually green eyes were suddenly red though I decided not to bring it up, mostly because we had far more critical matters to attend to.

"Are we dreaming?" I asked like Mimi would know the answer.

"I don't know, how would you check if you were dreaming?"

The natural reaction would be to pinch yourself, and I did just that. I dug my finger into my skin, pinching it as hard as possible. "S-shit, I guess we aren't dreaming..."

"We could also be hallucinating," Mimi said as her hand started to shake. She reached into her pocket only to realize all her cigarettes were gone. "D-damn it."

Mimi usually smoked about nine cigarettes a day, but when she was stressed out or nervous, she would start chain-smoking. She could easily go through half a pack in a few minutes, depending on the situation.

"Did we get drunk and just end up somewhere?" It happened plenty of times in movies, but we hadn't been drinking, and I doubted smoke had this sort of effect on people.

"I only drink when I have enough money to," Mimi sat on the ground running her fingers through her hair. "You have a cellphone. You can call someone."

Mimi's suggestion had one small flaw in it. "That won't do us any good if we don't know where we are," I said, causing Mimi to look around.

"There is a road there, maybe we can follow it back." Mimi pointed to a dirt trail.

A part of me wanted to tell her it was a bad idea.

"It's not like we have much of a choice..." I said, letting out a groan. We walked down the large hill, Mimi nearly tripping over herself.

We made it down to the trail causing the two of us to take a deep breath. I look down the road, wondering just how long it went.

"Looks like it's going to be a pretty long walk..."

"Not used to walking?" Mimi shoved her hands into her pocket. Probably to hide the fact that they were still shaking for a bit.

"I rode my bike everywhere before now, speaking of which where did it go?" I looked around. Due to the height that we dropped from, I doubt my bike survived in one piece, which was a damn shame.

I was planning on replacing it and giving Mimi the old one. Since she was already walking everywhere her having a bike would make things a little easier on her.

As we continued down the road, I let out a sigh. "You know this reminds me of a field trip that I took, but I can't remember much of the details."

I remember walking through a field at least once, but it was so long ago. A small part of me wondered if it happened considering I didn't remember any specific details.

Just when we were getting into our groove of walking a distance sound of a car was heard, there was no doubt it was a car of some kind.

A wave of relief filled my body, even if they didn't offer us a ride we could at least find out where we were.

A dust cloud slowly started to appear in the distance. I wondered if it would have been a good idea to step off the side of the road or force the people to stop.

Given the circumstance, I opted for the latter. There was no telling when another car would pass us, and we needed to get home as soon as possible.

Though once the car came into view, I noticed it was odd. Not like any vehicle that I had seen. It looked thrown together in an unusual way.

Regardless the vehicle slowed to a stop as the owner peeked their head from out of the side.

"Um, if you guys don't mind..." The voice was soft, but yet familiar. I then noticed the blue hair and outfit making me wonder if I stumbled upon a cosplay group.

Mimi frowned stepping to the side. She probably wasn't going to talk to anyone. She often opted to just ignore people she didn't have much in common with, which was most.

"S-sorry, I was just wondering if you know where we are?"

"Hmm?" The Blue-haired woman tilted her head. "Are you two lost?"

"In a way...just wondering where the next town is," I asked.

Before she could respond, two people looked out of the car. It was a black-haired man with a strange hairstyle and someone wearing an extravagant hat.

"Hey what are you two doing? It's pretty dangerous to stand in the middle of the road." One of them said.

I just stood awestruck for a few moments. There was no doubt about it. It was Team Shadow Gear or at least a group of people doing a pretty good cosplay of the trio.

"S-sorry about that," I replied.

"Ignore those two, and to answer your question, we are near Splinter Town. We were on a quest, but we don't mind giving you two a ride.

"Um, that sounds great..." I said, there was still a sense of unease to what was happening. At the same time, it's not like we could ignore a free ride.

I got in first, sitting next to Dory, this allowed Mimi to get a window seat and not have to sit next to anyone she didn't know.

Thinking about it, Mimi was probably was still wet, and the odor of smoke was still on her body. I couldn't imagine it being very pleasant for her.

"By the way, my name is Levy!" Levy said, starting the car once again. "That's Dory and Jet."

"My name is Logan, and this is Mimi," I replied.

Mimi had lost all interest in the trio staring out the window like a bored cat. She often got like that when she didn't have any cigarettes.

"So, what are you two doing here anyway?" Jet asked. "Seems like an out of the way place to be having a walk."

"We just got lost that's all," I said, allowing the wind to rush by. There were plenty of thoughts running through my head. I pretty much decided to wait and see before jumping to any conclusions.

"A romantic getaway?" Levy teased.

"You...could say that," I glanced over to Mimi who was still watching the passing trees.

The scenery slowly started to change as we got closer to the town in question. It became humid and dry, despite that the trees and area remained lush, causing me to wonder if the heat was natural.

When we finally arrived at Splinter town, it felt somewhat rural. With a few modifications, it could have easily been a strange western town.

"We should probably talk to the town's mayor first," Levy said stepping out of the driver seat.

Mimi quickly got out as I did the same. Sure we managed to make it to the next town, but now what? The only thing I had in my wallet was a debit card, and I had a feeling that they weren't going to accept that.

"C-can we ditch them now?" Mimi whispered into my ear.

"Not yet, we should probably follow them a bit longer," I admitted.

The best case scenario would be them taking us back to Magnolia town, but it would have been too awkward for us to just ask that.

Though it would have been even stranger if we tried to accompany them to the mayor's house, at the very least we'd be able to follow them through town for a little while.

We did just that, taking note of the scorched buildings and broken bridges. It seemed like some giant monster had come through on a rampage.

Outside of one of the largest building was a short woman standing before us. From how she was dressed, I could tell she was most likely the mayor.

"Are you a lot from Fairy Tail?" The short woman asked, causing Levy to nod quickly.

"Yep, though it's only us three!" Levy pointed to herself along with Dory and Jet. "We heard you are having a firebird problem."

The short woman let out an irritated sigh. "The creature keeps attacking pets and livestock. It's only a matter of time before it takes a person as well."

"It's a good thing you sent us the quest before that happened," Jet commented. "So where is it anyway?"

"Ah, well i-" The mayor couldn't even finish her statement as a horrid screech echoed through the air. The sound of flapping wings sent a shiver down my spine as everyone turned their attention to the giant creature that had perched itself on top of one of the buildings.

It was huge, a little larger than a van. Both I and Mimi stood there, frozen in terror. If this was a dream, it had to be a nightmare.

The few villagers that were out screamed running away from the brown and red creature feathered creature. The monster scanned the area before soaring into the air and flapping its wings.

At that moment a rain of feathers like areas descended on everyone.

"T-this is way too fast!" I held up my hands, preparing to be struck by some of the quills but for some reason, a familiar wind causing the flaming feathers to change the trajectory.

"Huh?" I wondered if Levy casted some spell to protect me. That was before I remembered how Levy's magic worked, which made me wonder what exactly protected me.

"Wait, Mimi!" I shouted to my friend. I noticed her cowering in a nearby corner. Her hands over her head with her eyes completely shut.

It probably wasn't the safest area, but the fact she was unharmed was enough to make me relax, if only for a moment.

I noticed Levy drawing something in the air. It was the word Water as she sent the attack directly to the soaring creature.

The moment the water hit the creature, the monster screeched in pain, causing a heavy mist covered the area.

"So it is weak to water, but I don't know if I can take it out alone." Levy swallowed harshly.

Dory and Jet were taking care of the civilians. "We should probably lure the creature away from the town," Jet shouted.

I was shocked that one of them mentioned that considering Fairy Tail's had a pretty lousy reputation about causing destruction. Then again, the members that did that the most were Gray, Erza, and Natsu. I assumed at least a few of the other members took some care not to destroy the town they were trying to protect.

After the mist cleared, I noticed the Firebird swooping low. The force nearly pushed me on my back. It's talon's were outstretched as if aiming for someone.

At first, I thought was aiming for me, but it flew straight past my head aiming for the cowering red-head.

"H-hey Mimi, move!" I shouted.

"Huh?" Mimi lifted her head, the moment she did, the creature grabbed the girl in its talons. Once again, Mimi didn't scream. Instead, her eyes just widened as she began to be carried away.

"Mimi!" I shouted, running after the monster. I swore the creature was going to vanish over the horizon and I wouldn't see my friend again, that was until something strange happened.

The creature started to fall like a giant weight had been tied to its ankles. The creature desperately flapped its wings trying to gain altitude, but it was no use. Both it and Mimi crashed into the nearby wooded area.

"W-what happened? Did it get tired?" Dory asked, being just as confused as the rest of us.

"Damn it, Mimi!" I shouted, ignoring everything else.

"W-wait, Logan!" Levy called out to me as she and the other members of Shadow Gear chased after me.

Luckily the bird wasn't able to fly too far before it crashed. I quickly ran through the thick bushes and trees, paying little mind to the branches trying to cling to my clothes.

Once I reached the clearing where the Firebird and Mimi landed, my heart raced. I looked over to the downed bird still trying to recover, next to it was Mimi clinging from a nearby tree from her skirt. I had a feeling if she moved even an inch, she would have suffered from an extreme wardrobe malfunction.

Though thinking about it, now what I was going to do? I was so concerned about Mimi I didn't have a plan once I reached her and the bird.

"A-ah..." Mimi started to speak. "G-get me down..." Despite her situation, even she knew to keep her voice down.

I tried to inch myself closer to Mimi, but the moment I moved the creature turned its attention to me. With a loud clicking noise, the Firebird raised its talons heading straight for me.

"L-Logan watch out!" Mimi raised her voice, something that she rarely did, which made the situation all the more all, the more creepy.

Sadly my reaction time wasn't fast enough as the creature struck me with its talons. I thought I had been impaled, I was pinned to the ground after all, but strangely an odd clanging noise was heard. I looked down, noticing the creature trying to wrap its talons around me, but ultimately failing.

A harsh wind like a barrier had wrapped itself around my body without me even noticing. This was the third time something like this had happened.

"Is this, my magic?" I wondered. It was logical, perhaps it subconsciously activated when I was in danger. Regardless of the situation, a barrier of wind wasn't going to help me rescue Mimi.

"I need to find a way to slip out..." I grumbled, just when I went through my options. Something hit the bird with the force of a truck.

I looked up noticing Jet had kicked the bird causing it to stagger back.

"Are you okay?" Jet asked as both Levy and Dory appeared behind him.

"Yeah," I stood up my attention being drawn back to Mimi.

"I'll try to pin it down while Levy finishes it!" Dory said sending a dozen seeds to the ground around the Firebird causing them to sprout vines instantly.

The vines wrapped themselves around the bird, allowing Levy to hit the creature with another Solid Script: Water spell.

I, on the other hand, kept trying to make my way to Mimi, trying my best not to get involved with the battle.

"Maybe one more attack will finish it!" Dory smiled, unfortunately for us, nothing was that simple. Flames slowly started to build around the creature, quickly burning all of Dory's vines in an instant.

"I-it's like I thought, my Solid Script isn't enough. We need something to douse it completely." Levy bit her lip. "If only we had a water mage or something..."

"Or even some rain..." I groaned trying my best not to attract the wrath of the monster. I was halfway up the tree, mere inches away from Mimi.

"Alright Mimi, just grab my hand," I said clinging to the bark. Mimi did just that, but the moment I fingers touched a horrible tearing sound echoed through the forest.

It seemed that Mimi's skirt had had enough, and it tore off, causing her to plummet on top of me. We both crashed to the ground causing the bird to look towards us.

"H-hey, you two need to get out of here!" Jet called out to us.

I already knew that, but both me and Mimi were still recovering from our fall. There was no way that Mimi and I could scramble to our feet fast enough.

"Damn it, if only if it was raining..." I winced as the bird raised its wings, preparing to fire more of its feathers in our direction. That was until the sound of what seemed like rain droplets hitting the leaves rang out through the forest.

Everyone froze, a random drizzle appearing would have been far too convenient. That is precisely what was happening. A sudden downpour of rain completely doused the bird causing it to screech in pain.

The creature tried to take to the skies, but the water tore holes into its wing span grounding it. The raindrops continued to cut through it until the creature stopped moving.

It was like someone had poured acid all over the creature. A part of me felt bad for it until I remembered that it was going to have Mimi for lunch if it didn't fall out of the sky.

"I...didn't think we'd get this lucky..." Jet eyes widened looking at the corpse of the creature.

"Yeah, especially since this is a dry area," Levy added. "It doesn't rain much here, if at all."

It made sense, a creature that was weak to water probably wouldn't be hanging around a place that rained a lot.

Levy then looked at us before smiling. "Are you two okay?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," I said.

"Logan, can I borrow your shirt so I can tie around my waist?" Mimi completely ignored Levy words.

"S-sure," I said, removing my top shirt. Even during the summer, I wore two layers of clothing. It was a habit that I picked up from when I was younger.

Without saying another word, Mimi tied it around her waist, covering her undergarments. "Damn it. I liked that skirt..." She grumbled. She was more concerned with the loss of her clothing than the fact she was going to have to walk around with her panties nearly exposed.

Then again, Mimi did have a strange habit of focusing on the wrong things.

"I guess the only thing left is to say we completed the quest." Jet smiled.

"Yeah," Levy said before looking over to me. "You guys need a cut of the jewels too right?"

"W-wait what?" I was confused for a moment. I didn't do anything that would deserve a cut of the pay.

"You technically helped us out by drawing the monster away from town, even if it was unintentional. "

I had a feeling that Levy was just being kind, but I wasn't going to look a gift horse in the mouth. Mimi and I were going to need money no matter where we went.

"Thanks..." I said.

With the firebird slain, there wasn't much reason to linger around the body. The five of us headed back to Splinter town as team Shadow Gear collected their reward.

The reward was about 200,000, which seemed fair. Though I suspected that wouldn't go far with how everyone was splitting it.

"By the way, where are you guys headed next?" Levy asked as we headed back to the car or rather magical vehicle.

My heart skipped a beat. "Um, we are headed to Magnolia Town." I pursed my lips, waiting for a reply.

"That means we are headed the same way," Levy said. "We don't mind giving you a lift."

That was perfect, while I didn't have everything planned out just yet the most logical step was just getting to Magnolia down, whether we officially join Fairy Tail.

"That'd be perfect..."

Author note.

Some cut scenes.

A scene where Mimi and Logan talking about how the former took the latter's virginity, along with a scene of Mimi talking about how she lost her's.

A scene where Logan talks to the mayor about how it suddenly started raining for a few seconds only for the mayor to point out it had been sunny all day.

Romance will be a substantial factor in the story. More so between Logan and Mimi. Most people don't talk about sex in relationships in fanfic, unless it's to show how super duper cool the character is.

As a result, I wanted to make Mimi an overtly sexual character. Not in a sense that she wears revealing clothing or anything, but rather how she interacts with Logan.

I wanted to present Mimi as also somewhat emotionally stunted. She acts more like a middle schooler than a nineteen-year-old woman.

Logan, of course, had to be written as a more traditional lead character compared to my usual character writing.

Mimi is actually based on one of my favorite characters right down to the name of the character.

I wanted to make Mimi not like Fairy Tail, even if she still likes manga and other comics.

Instead of just making one character based off myself, I decided just to split my traits between two people with some added flavor. Most people also don't do romance between two OC so I wanted to do something different.