Wow, I'm finally using this account! I'm happy got around to it, finally. I actually can't believe how long it took me to pick a ship! I needed help… But yeah, this probably won't be as good as my main series over on Wattpad but this should be pretty fun to write. I like the idea and I'm pretty much in love with the love in here because it's gonna be really challenging to get around the barriers I'm gonna smash their faces in with. Oh well, let us put my violent tendencies aside! This story will be OOC, so sorry.
Disclaimer - I'm not Hiro Mashima the great (as we call him over in the FTA) and all rights belong to their respective owners. LET'S GET ON WITH THE STORY!
Life for people like me has never been easy. Hell no. But for some reason, I enjoy being who I am. Doing what I do, professionally.
"Ow, shit" I started to suck on the finger I just cut. "Stupid dagger, how dare you fall out if your sheath!" I complained, jamming the blade back into its case.
"Only a bad artist blames his tools." The red head next to me commented. "Also, that's really childish Lucy." She pulled out a bottle of water and began to wash her hands with it. She was never a fan of having her hands dirtied, especially with blood.
"You're wasting it Erza! STOP IT!" Erza looked at me with a pretty fed up look, then just returned to her cleaning. I could hardly stop myself from lunging at her but being who I am, self-discipline is of upmost importance. She noticed my intent staring, and then turned to face me with her hand on her hip.
"Just lick your own hands; did you forget you dirtied yours too?" I looked down at my red hands and felt the urge to rip both off. Instead I just proceeded to lick the red from them, savouring the salty flavour and the thick texture. Yeah… everyone considers me a weirdo. Erza's one of the few people who talks to me on a daily basis.
It wasn't long before we got home, it never is. Master never trusts me and Erza with jobs too far away. We live in a guild-type-thing filled with people like us. I say that it's a guild-type-thing because being a guild sort of implies that people know you exist and that people join and leave and that shit, Fairy Tail isn't like that anymore. It used to a highly respected place but when our craft got outlawed… well, I guess we just went downhill from there.
Oh yeah our craft. We, at Fairy Tail originally specialized in wizardry. However, that died out. Nowadays no one uses magic as much because if we're caught using it we could be executed. Most of us took to business, others just took random jobs. Then there are people like myself, who took to doing exactly the same thing as was done in the old days but replaced magic with weapons… yep. My whole group does this. There is a reason my friends are my friends and no one else really looks at me, it's because of what we each do.
"Hey guys! So… how'd it go?" a black haired male came up to us with his hands in his pockets, topless.
"Gray, clothes," Erza said without a hint of bother in her voice. He shrugged and carried on his way to greet us. This guy is called Gray Fullbuster. He is a member of our little group. He is known around, everywhere, as the 'Ice Freak'. This is because of his favourite weapon. Now, he rarely has access to his favourite weapon but when he does, he becomes out of control. To everyone else in the world he is known as 'Ice Freak' because of an incident with the weapon. Due to the ban of magic, no one besides the guild knows how or why the incident happened; they just know that he froze half of a city. Personally; I enjoy calling him by his name… or Jack Frost. What's weirdest about him… is his stripping habit.
"It was fine… Lucy was happy with the outcome." Erza glanced at my fidgeting and rolled her eyes.
"Watch it Titania" She laughed at my threat because I wouldn't hurt her even if my life depended on it, she's one of my best friends, or as friendly as a person like me can get.
"I can imagine." Gray smirked and I pointed a knife I was playing with at him so he jokingly put his hands up. "Whoa there vamp, that's enough. Hide ya' fangs already." I bared my teeth and shoved the knife back into my belt.
"Did anything happen while we were gone?" I leaned in waiting for my answer. He leaned in too so we were face to face.
"Not really, but Master told me to tell you to go and see him once you were back." I jolted upright, and promptly made my way up to the second floor and Masters Office.
*BANG BANG BANG* I beat my hand on the door which was greeted by a 'Don't break the door in! Get in here!' I opened the wooden door and was greeted by an understanding face.
"I shouldn't expect anything less than a broken door from you Lucy. I see you're back." He rested he head on his hand and gestured for me to sit down.
"Well, I hadn't noticed," I retorted
"Don't be clever girl," Master warned. "Now the reason I asked Gray to send you up here was because I have something for you to do." This was surprising; Master was strongly against my choice in specialization.
"Really, I never thought you'd be the type to want someone dead Master" I rested my head on my hands and looked up at him innocently.
"No. I don't want this person dead; I want this person here, in front of me." He looked at me seriously. This old midget can be terrifying when he wants to be.
"Hey, dude. I'm an assassin, not a kidnapper. Sorry gramps, not for me." I waved my hands in a cross gesture as if to say 'out of the question'.
"No, Lucy. This isn't a request, this is an order. You will do this for me, no 'if's or 'but's about it." He somehow grew even more serious, making me uneasy.
"It's that serious, well I guess I don't have a choice in the matter then. Who am I getting for ya?"
"I don't know." The old man looked at me blankly while my face morphed into one of pure shock.
"What do you mean you don't know you old fart!?" I stood up suddenly, causing the chair I was sitting on to topple over. I could practically feel the steam coming out of my ears.
"What I mean is I don't know their appearance. This is why I chose you instead of Juvia."
Juvia is another member of our group. Naturally she's a water mage, a powerful one at that, but now she's a professional kidnapper. Juvia would be pretty normal, except for the fact that she is head over heels for Jack Fr-, I mean Gray. Literally. She's nice enough but because me and Gray are close friends means that she sees me as a 'love rival'… HA! As if: 1) It's Gray, no thank you, 2) We're only friends and 3) I hate to admit it but I know I'm gonna die alone. Who in their right mind would fall in love with an assassin who drinks blood but isn't a vampire? That's right no one. Well, maybe one person… I hope they do anyway.
"So why me?" I sat back down, leaned back and crossed my arms as calm and as cold as rock. "I mean, she is the best for the job."
"But she can't smell blood a mile off."
"So… that's why you need me. I get it now, but… blood? Is she a cannibal or sumthin'?" It's unusual to find someone like me, but why would you need that 'skill' to find someone.
"Well, something a bit like that, all I know for definite is that this person is currently homeless but at the same time, is the cause for much bloodshed of late. I'm sure you heard about the murders in Hargeon?" I nodded "Good, because this is where you be going to find the target." He looked at me for agreement.
"So… I'm going to Hargeon, to find a bloodthirsty killer, of whom I have no idea of the appearance of, not to do what I've been trained to do, but to capture them and somehow, get them here without being killed myself?" He nodded. "Sure, it'll be nothing." I put my feet up in his desk as if to show how relaxed about it I was. "Oh and… can I bring Juvia with me, I could use some expertise in this area on my side."
"Sorry, Juvia is planning for a journey at the moment and will be leaving in the morning, she can't go. What about Gray?" Master suggested.
"NO! No, if Juvia found out, oh god… no, I can't. Oh! Can Erza come?!"
"That is out of the question. If she were to go with you, the subject will be coming back with you dead and drained dry. I know, you will take Levy with you. She can restrain you." Master placed his hands on the desk as if to say 'and that is final'.
"What!? Levy's a Librarian now. She gave up magic and combat ages ago! I mean, she's my best friend but… she can't come, I'd ruin her life!" I looked at him desperately. She's innocent, I don't want to take that away from her and she's my best friend… out of the few I have.
"She'll be fine, she hasn't lost any skills and she can carry out orders exquisitely. Now, go get prepared." I stood up in defeat and trudged towards the door. As I closed the door I looked back at him to see that he had picked up a phone and was dialling a number, probably Levy's Library. I decided to go home and get some stuff ready; I'd call Levy and explain when I was ready. I took off my cross body weapon belts and stuffed them into my bag. I then went into the girls' bathroom so I could rid myself of my incriminating bloody clothes so that I don't get arrested the second I step out of the door to the guild.
I live in an apartment block in one of the more beautiful parts of town. The road is alongside the river that runs through the city and there is a low railing running along it, of which I enjoy walking on. In my part of town, everyone thinks I'm an innocent young girl… they suspect nothing. I like to laugh at the thought of the look on my neighbours faces if they were to find out that I'm a bloodthirsty assassin/murderer/mage.
I unlocked the door and trudged in, like always. After stretching and kicking to door shut behind me, I went over to my room to put back the bloody bag I had back in my closet and get a new clean one. I emptied the contents of the old one: 2 cross-body belts with twelve daggers attached to each, 3 sets of black and red bloody clothes (there's a reason I have so few white or colourful clothes), 2 spare sheaths, 3 machetes (need to return Erza's to her), 2 blood-stained info sheets… stuff like that.
I put one of the cross-body belts, a set of black and red clothes, socks, a machete, a couple of glass bottles, a clean information sheet and a bottle already filled with blood into the clean bag. I just hope the blood doesn't leak. I picked up my phone and dialled Levy's number. She picked up.
"Hello?"
"Hey Levy, it's Lucy."
"Lu-chan, Master called! I'm going on a request with you! YAY!" she sounded so happy.
"Um, you're okay with it?"
"Well, duh! It's been ages since I did anything like this!"
"You do know what we're doing… right?
"Master told me that we were going to Hargeon to investigate that murderer… why?"
"Well… we aren't investigating… we're gonna' find and kidnap the murderer, okay? Not my usual job, I mean… no death and yeah I guess this is more in Juvia's area of expertise but it was an order and… you don't want to come do you?"
"… no, I do want to come. When do we leave?" So… she wants to go. Nothing I can do about it I guess.
"I'll see you at the guild in 5 minutes." *click* I hung up. So, I'm taking more innocence… again, nothing I can do though.
Five minutes later I was in a car, leaning out of the open window waiting for Levy to arrive. A small bluenette came around the corner and waved at me. I waved back and sat up and got into the passenger seat as Levy fell into the driver's seat and flung her bag in the back alongside mine.
"To Hargeon then?" she looked across at me for approval.
"Let's go catch ourselves a killer, well… another one."
There's chapter one, in case you've already read chapter one and are wondering, Hmm... This is slightly different. That's because I'm proof reading the chapters I've already posted (again). Also I didn't say goodbye at the end of this chap, so here is my signature goodbye. This was Alpha, so long and thanks for all the fish! (I don't know why I like saying goodbye like that, I just do)