The Dark Fairy Chapter 1
Macao is sitting there looking out, "my son has not been happy since Tenrou island fell into the ocean." A 6 year old girl opens the guild doors. She collapses to the floor exhausted. Macao runs over he shouts "get her to a bed." Reedus said "yes, master." He carries her upstairs, he pulls out a a photo of the old guild members. Macao walks up, he asks "why are you looking at old pictures?" Reedus said "she reminds me of Wendy except with black hair and being slightly taller and slimmer." She wakes up, "urggh, where am I?" Macao said "you are in the Fairy Tale guild." Macao them asked "who are you?" She said "I don't remember anything at all about who I am." Macao said "I don't trust you, your black eyes don't give me a lot of faith, I can see only darkness in your eyes." She said "sorry, but may I join your guild." Macao turned away and walked down stairs, she followed him "please." she begged.
5 men came in, the one in the center said "this place is really disappointing. Another one piped up "you have no ambition." Macao said "I thought I said for you not come here again, Teebo!" Teebo said "you shouldn't talk to me like that, we are now the ones who represent Magnolia, Twilight Ogre, your time is up your guild is old and decrepit." Macao said "we don't lack spirit." Teebo replied "spirit can only get you so far." Macao asked "why are you here? Teebo said "why do you think, payment." Wakaba asked "Macao, you did pay them right?" Macao got angry "call me master." One of member of Twilight Ogre said "we rescued your rundown tavern." Another continues "we loaned you money when you needed it." Jet got angry "we would not have asked for your help if we knew the interest was this high." The last Twilight Ogre member got angry back. Macao said "stop Jet, we are already in enough trouble." Macao said "we will pay next month." Teebo kicked Macao into the bench. Teebo said "you sure flew." Several of his members laughed. The girl steeped up "I will not stand for this." Teebo laughed "you are going to stop me." The girl said "I only know these people who kindly gave me a bed to rest on while I was unconscious, and you hurt them." Teebo swings his huge hammer but she blocks it with her hand. Teebo looked shocked. The girls shouts "fist of the dark dragon". She knocks him flying with punch covered in dark magic. Teebo yelled "get her." She roared "roar of the dark dragon and blew them all out the door of the guild." They all ran off. Macao said shocked "you're a dragon slayer." She said "yes and I remember my name now, it's Sarah." Macao said "well, Sarah you have proved that you care for this guild, you can join our guild." He said "give me your hand". He chants a spell and a black Fairy Tale symbol appears on her hand.
Suddenly a loud sound came from outside. Sarah runs out only to see a giant flying ship.A short man jumps of the ship to hit his head on the ground. Sarah asks "uh I need some context here, who is this guy?" Macao said "he is the leader of another wizards guild which we have worked with in the past, before our guild was in such a sorry state, his name is Ichiya Wanderley Kotobuki." 3 men float down one of them said "Couldn't you wait for us." Sarah asked "who are those 3?" Ichiya said "these are my 3 mehhhnnnn, Ren, Hibiki and Eve." Ren, Hibiki and Eve started to flirt with 2 of the girls. Ichiya shouted "Mehnnnnnnnnnn, that is not we are here for." Macao asked "why are you here?" Ichiya said "I can't forget the parfum of camaraderie of those who I fought and struggled with." Ren said "analyze information provided to us by the archive combined with Christina's mobility, our investigative efforts into the ethernano readings of Fiore have paid off." Ichiya said "that means Tenrou Island still exists. Everyone except Sarah looks shocked .Sarah said "this is my first day, so can someone explain." . Macao said "our strongest mages disappeared 7 years ago along with the island where our magic comes from." Macao sent some people to get them. Sarah and the others re-enter the guild.
They wait a few hours, then Twilight Ogre returns, we are gonna get you for that. Sarah stands up "you want some more punishment." They roar "we won't lose to you." Teebo attacks Sarah only to get kicked away, by someone. Macao shouts "The Tenrou team, their back." Twilight Ogre look back, the Tenrou team send them packing. Macao asks "why do you look so young." Lucy explains to everyone what happened. Romeo welcomes everyone back crying. Macao said "I happily hand the former master back his position." Sarah asked "who is the former master." Macao said "Makarov he may look small but underestimate him at your peril."
Makarov said "I will pay will visit to Twilight Ogre to sought out our debts." Sarah asks "may I tag along I want to see how the guild operated under your leadership." Macao said "are you sure about this." Makarov said we will sought this out peacefully." Makarov sat down with the master of Twilight Ogre, Banaboster. Banaboster said "pay up and the slate will be wiped clean, no negotiations." Makarov said "we have a surprising lack of money, so that would be difficult." Mirajane said "One look at the accounts book something obviously is odd about income and expenditures." Erza said "take heed". Sarah said "this seems like a peaceful negotiation." Banaboster asked angrily "are you accusing me of foul play?" Makarov said "perish the thought, we will pay back the money with legitimate interest eventually." Banaboster shouted angrily "you will pay me back now." Makarov said "we can find a peaceful solution, can we start with a recalculation on the interest." Banaboster roared "you put five of my guys out of commission. First our debtors hurt some of our members, then they don't pay us our due, you wound our honor." Makarov said "huh, I came to talk about money not honor." Banaboster angrily shouted "we have neither money or honor thanks to you." Makarov said "pay back what you ow that's what your guild is based of right." Makarov gets serious, "that's how you want this to go down, yes." Erza said "7 years of damaging our guild's property and hurting our members." Sarah asked "isn't this supposed to be a negotiation?" Mirajane said "we have an obligation to pay you back for all of it." Makarov as he starts to glow said "you've made my brats suffer for seven years." He grows in size. He said angrily "you want to be at war with me." Sarah look at Erza and Mirajane who are ready to fight. Sarah said "well this may not be peaceful but it will be fun. Hers hand glow with darkness as she laughs. From the outside the guild many the current Guildmaster is watching as the building gets knocked around. Wakaba said "we thought this was going to be peaceful." Macao said "I should have known this would happen."
A few hours later, they return to see. Natsu fighting Max and not doing very well. Natsu shouts "roar of the fire lightning dragon". This singes Max's hair and he gives up. Makarov said "we have severely declined both in power and standing." Makarov said "I think it's time we have a new master." Macao said "that is a good idea." Makarov said "I think Gildarts should be the new master." Mirajane however hands him a letter. The letter said Gildarts only has 2 things he wants to do as master 1, Laxus rejoins the guild and 2, Makarov will be the sixth Guildmaster. Sarah said "you guys power is 7 years behind you need to put in some real effort to catch back up." Makarov said "Porlyusica may know something, go talk to her." While they went to do that. Sarah asked "do you know anything about me?" Makarov said "no, why?" Sarah said "I don't remember much about myself except my name and what I can do." Makarov asked "Do you know the dragon that taught you?" Sarah said "no, I don't." Sarah sits there for a while, Romeo starts arguing with his father. Sarah falls asleep listening to the arguing.
A long whole later she wakes, Macao and Romeo hare arguing again. Natsu and the others return. Sarah said "that are arguing." Erza asked "what are you arguing about?" Romeo said "In 3 months, there is a tournament called the grand magic games which chooses who is the number one guild in Fiore." Macao said "we are greatly under powered, our A team missed out on 7 years of training." Natsu shouted "that sounds like a great idea." Sarah said "I wouldn't mind testing out my abilities." Makarov said "I don't think it's a good idea." Romeo said "there is a reward for winning." Makarov said " we are competing, end of discussion." Sarah said "we better do some training, 3 months to get our main team up to scratch."
Sarah went to the beach to train with Natsu, Erza, Grey, Wendy, Juvia, Carla and few other members of the Tenrou team. Sarah started to practice her techniques on the beach. However, she noticed many of the others got distracted. She sighed and kept training for the morning. The rest of the team started to train seriously in the afternoon. Wendy is reading a book about magic and doing some practice with some spells. When suddenly Virgo turned up "The celestial spirit world may be destroyed." Natsu said "we have to go and help them." Sarah said "I'm not going, you should be able to handle, I won't go there unless they try to affect this world, I am of the dark element I will damage the celestial realm by just being there." Sarah trains for 3 months. When they finally return, Sarah asks angrily "what took you so long?" Lucy said "well they wanted to throw us a celebratory return party." Sarah sighed "great, we have 5 days left, I will basically have to push to the point of death if you guys are going to be ready."
A pigeon with a letter on it's leg landed just before Sarah was ready to start. Sarah read the letter, it said go to the broke bridge. Sarah said "hmm, interesting." Erza said "we should investigate." Sarah said "yeah, even if it is a trap better we fall for it than someone else." They head to the bridge to see no-one there but then the bridge magically fixes itself. Sarah said "the bridge is rickety." Sarah said "Natsu, go first and the others should follow." Natsu moved forward awkwardly and the others followed him across. When they cross they see 3 shadowy figures. Sarah asks "who are you?" When they reveal themselves "everyone is shocked." Sarah asks "Why do I keep not understanding what goes on here." The man in the center walks over, "who are you?" She replies "I am Sarah a dark dragon slayer." He replies "I am Jellal, this is Ultear and Meredy, I'm surprised you didn't know." Sarah said "I have only been with the guild for about 3 months with very little memory of what happened before that, I hope to regain my memory." Natsu and Lucy prepare for a fight, Grey however said "they are on our side now." Ultear said "I can't change the past but I can help those who I hurt such as Jellal and Meredy." Erza asks "why is Jellal out of prison." Ultear said "me and Meredy broke him out, we are now a independent guild known as Crime Sorcière." Ultear said "please don't blame Jellal for my past mistakes all the bad he has done is because of me." Natsu said "you should be an official guild." Jellal said "you should all know why we can't do that."
Sarah asks "so why are you here?" Jellal said "we have felt a magical power very similar to Zeref's coming from the Grand Magic Games but we can't get close so we need your help to investigate." Ultear said "We will pay you." Sarah asked "how will you pay us?" Ultear said "most mages have something akin to container and when it runs out they can no longer perform magic and it will absorb Eternanos from the air to recharge, however recently through research they have discoverer there is another part of the container that doesn't get used normally this is called Second Origin every wizard does has it. My Evolved Time Ark will allow me to unlock your Second Origin. This will allow you to use your magic more often and employ more powerful magic." Natsu got really excited and many of the others let out a cheer. Sarah said "this will help us a lot." Ultear said "However, it will be a battle against excruciating pain at level you can't possibly imagine." Natsu didn't care saying "thank you, thank you." He was very excited but many of the others had doubts. Sarah asked "I know I did train for the 3 months unlike everyone else but please can you please unlock my second origin something in me makes me think I'm going to need it." Ultear said "sure, since your willing you will be after Natsu." She starts on Natsu, who squirms in the dust. Sarah notices Jellal and Erza walk off. While Natsu was still going, Sarah walks over. Ultear said "it would be easier to do it bare, clothes get in the way." Sarah did as she was asked and Ultear put the magical symbols on." Ultear started on her. Sarah said gritting her teeth "you certainly were right, this really hurts." Ultear said "I'm surprised you aren't screaming or groaning." Sarah said "I now i have something important to do and this won't stop me." After the next person started, Sarah walked into the building carrying Natsu with her. She sits there in pain whole thing to be done. She hears Erza talking but is too busy focusing on getting through the ordeal to make out anything.
Sarah and Erza are the only 2 not collapsed on the ground. Erza said "I'm surprised your still standing". Sarah helped Wendy,Natsu, Lucy, Gray and Juvia get into Fairy Tale's guild hall. Sarah watches many of the other guild members show of their abilities. Makarov announces the 5 who will participate in the games the 5 who announced are Natsu, Gray, Lucy, Wendy and Erza. Sarah walks out to sit down a tall yellow haired wizard stood above her. He said "My name is Laxus, me, Gajeel and a few others would like to speak with you." Laxus walks over and Makarov is standing there, looking at her "I have a plan for a second team." Gajeel, Mirajane and Jellal are standing there. Sarah asks "why is Jellal here?" Jellal said "I will acting as Mystogan to infiltrate the games to investigate why an energy similar to Zeref's is coming from there." Sarah asked "Who is Zeref anyway?" Jellal replied "Zeref is a wizard who will end an age along, he also has connections to the dark dragon Acnologia." Sarah collapsed after hearing Acnologia mentioned. Jellal tried to wake her up.
After an hour she woke up. Jellal asked "what is wrong?" Sarah replied "I remember some parts of my past." Jellal asked "what triggered it?" Sarah said "you mentioned my father, Acnologia. I learnt dark dragon slaying magic for him during his time slaying dragons. I promised him when I started to learn from him, if you become a monster I will strike you down so you can find true peace I practiced on my own ,only to find him return home as a dragon. He tried to kill me that day but due to his his inexperience in his dragon form I managed to escape." They all looked shocked, Jellal asked "Acnologia is a being of pure hate, why would he have a kid?" Sarah said "he wasn't always back when humans where slaves, he was pretty kind until he was granted a chance to fight back and free his family. They drive eventually changed to a hunger for power and a love of killing dragons." Jellal asked "what are you going to do? Sarah said "you may cause too much risk for the guild, I will take your place Jellal after all, Zeref must know here Acnologia is." Jellal said "fine but who will be number 5." Sarah said "I say Juvia that way she will be in the tournament with Grey." Makarov said "very well, that is settled."
Sarah, Laxus, Gajeel, Mirajane and Juvia entered early and then got to their quarters while making sure that no-one knew they were there." They read the manual for the competition. Sarah said "so we have to be there by midnight, and all members have to have the guild symbol. The Guildmaster can't join, well that should have been obvious and we don't know what the rules are until the day." Juvia asked "why did i have to join this team?" Sarah said "because you wanted to be in the tournament with Grey." Laxus said "we better be prepared." Sarah asked "where is Gajeel." Gajeel enters the room holding a bunch of iron things, which he starts gorging on. Panther Lily said "Gajeel, you eat too much." Gajeel yelled "I can eat as much as I want?" Sarah said "ughh, we can't go on like this." Several hours later, Mirajane said "look at the time we have 10 minutes before the games begin." Gajeel said "But I ain't done eating." Sarah grabbed him "you have eaten plenty." She chucked him out the window.
Sarah looked out hologram of Mato that the 113 teams will be reduced to just 8 teams for the main event. Sarah laughs "I wonder if the other team will get through." The cities inns rise into the air. A hologram of Mato said "this will be a race, we are not responsible for anyone who dies." A huge labyrinth in the shape of a sphere appeared behind him and paths from each inn's window went up to the labyrinth. He announces the Sky Labyrinth to begin. Sarah and the rest of her team enter. Sarah looks around. She said "So we have to figure out which way to go". Mato said "you are free to use magic and are disqualified if you fall out." Gajeel said "that's strange, that I am not getting motion sickness." A screen with Mato in it that delivers the message "anyone who has motion sickness or fear of heights will not be affected due to magic around the arena." Sarah said "Well maybe we should just beat up other guilds they may have some clues." Laxus said "well it is a place to start." They find a guild, that is holding a small piece of paper. They beat them up and take the piece. Sarah said "this looks like a small piece of a map." Laxus said "let's fight more guilds and get more pieces." The arena starts to move. Sarah said "Juvia use you water to steady us." Juvia uses it to steady everyone. They plow through guild after guild until they get enough pieces and find their way to the exit.
They ask Mato "how did we do?" Mato replied "you got here second." Sarah said "I'm curious who got here first." Gajeel said "I'm curious too." Mirajane and Laxus said "we should continue." They get ready in the Domus Flau for the games. Laxus is sitting there. Someone brings them some food to the room which they are sitting in. He puts the tray down and they all eat their fill. The man is about taker the tray but then Gajeel eats the tray because it was made of iron. The man was shocked. A message came into the room via hologram. The last team has qualified, we will introduce you shortly, head to the door saying second. They enter the door there is only 1 door. Once the door seal it rotates them to a room. They hear announcement after announcement. Sarah laughs "looks like the A team only barely made it." A while later. Sarah's team corms up to everyone's surprise they announced as Fairy tale B team. Sarah lets her power flow for the first time in centuries. Every other wizard starts to shudder even her own teammates. She smiles and said " I wonder how powerful all these other wizards. Even the next guild that comes out Sabertooth all start shuddering.
The End of Chapter 1