I do not own Fairy Tail.
That said, this is my first Fanfic and my first language isn't English so please be kind.
Updated With a newer version 21-08-15
Chapter 1: Waking up.
She woke up with a loud gasp as she jumped up into a sitting position. Hazily looking around she became perturbed to find that she wasn't even in her room. she wasn't even on her floor, something that was a pretty regular occurrence for her. She was a heavy sleeper, but holy hell she twisted and turned in her sleep. So it wasn't all that uncommon for her to end up waking on her floor.
She rubbed her hands together, trying to warm them up when they became cold from being on the cold cobblestone she woke up on. She looked around the small alley she had woken up in, it was covered in soot, everything was black and brown, but nothing looked burnt. It was like someone had dumped an enormous amount of ash in some random alley.
Squishing her growing panic back into her mind, she decided to first find some people and then begin asking for some directions…
This is just perfect. She thought as she began standing up but quickly realized that her legs wasn't obeying her when they buckled under her and it became impossible to stand up.
She rubbed her head in frustration and paused when she noticed something strange. Her hand became wet at the contact so she furrowed her eyebrows and looked at her hand. It was covered in blood. But something about it seemed odd and it wasn't the fact that she had a head wound.
A squeak tore its way from her throat as she stared at her hand, her baby hand, well not baby but at least around 8 year old hand. Looking down she closed her eyes and breathed deeply as her hands spasmed slightly. Her body had somehow transformed into the body of a child.
She - it was wearing a deep red dress which went down to her knees, a light brown jacket and brown boots.
This was wrong. Everything about this situation was wrong, waking up in some strange alley covered in ash and becoming a child. It was like all those stories that were so popular among her friends.
Leaning forwards she put her hands on the dirty ground, getting her hands covered by the strangely black ash and pushed her body up from her sitting position. She used a few wooden boxes - that was also covered up by black - as support and began to force her legs up so that they would stand straight.
She staggered out of the ally, moaning quietly in dismay as she tried to rub the black dust of her hands and began listening after people.
"It's Maginus from Static Light!" A woman shouted and she began moving her shaking legs towards the sound. She arrived at a sort of festival - like event when she finally found the talking people.
She blinked once, not really believing her eyes when another woman screamed.
There was a red haired guy dancing around on the air as he did something with the air around him, making things float along with his movements. He was waving around spoons, a pair of glasses and several other miscellaneous objects. And the guy was freaking walking on air like some air Jesus. And people were just clapping at his supernatural performance and shouting encouragements like it was the most natural thing in the world.
What. the. fucking. hell.
The performance was very mesmerising and she found herself just standing there, watching as the man did a complicated back flip. But he didn't land back on his feet - not on the ground but on the air - no he was held suspended in the air by some invisible force.
She made a sound of disappointment as he stopped dancing and stepped back down to the ground and bowed down to his audience.
"Thank you, thank you" he said as he went around collecting some weird money in a cup. As the crowd finally began to disappear it dawned on her what she had just seen, she was clearly dreaming. But dreams weren't this vivid. Pinching herself on the arm for good measure, she began walking down the street hoping to find something about this weird place she'd been dumped.
"That would be 1000 Jewels please." An odd looking man with rainbow hair said to his customer as she dug into her leather wallet and gave the man some more of that strange money she had seen earlier.
Putting the currency's name back in her mind, she continued down the street in hopes of collecting some sort of information. She stumbled a bit, getting dizzy as she dodged around an elderly man who looked at her with a worried expression but continued on his way.
"Oh! So you're a celestial spirit mage? Here! Here! I have several different keys from bronze to silver ones!" A excited voice rang out over the mass of busy people.
She slowed down some more - well considering that she was already walking at turtle speed, then that wasn't saying much. - when she heard the word mage and looked towards another strange shopkeeper. This one had a long hat on, it was almost as tall as himself. The man was trying to sell some fancy looking keys to the red haired man she had seen dancing on the freaking air earlier.
"Here," The shopkeeper said as he held up a silver key. "I trust you recognize this one; Gate of the racing unicorn: Monoceros."
The man jumped of delight when he saw the key. "Wow! That one is really rare! How much?" He said reaching out to touch the key. But the funky shopkeeper pulled it back and Red-y as she dubbed him gave a whine of annoyance.
"ah ah ah!" The man said almost mockingly. "That'll be 30.000 jewels"
If the man was a mage that would mean that he used magic to stand on the air, which would make sense if magic existed... She needed to find out what was happening and fast. Magic didn't exist so something was happening to her, she obviously wasn't dreaming... maybe someone drugged her... or this was like all those stories her friends loved so much where a person gets reborn in Harry Potter or another crazy fandom.
Ugh. If that was the case - a crazy case admittedly - she would need some plans for the future.
Her best bet was probably acting like she had lost her memory. First order of business was probably to get to some sort of hospital, then she'd have to establish a life here or ideally wake up from this dream or get told that someone drugged her-
Her train of thought got interrupted as something fast bumped into her and threw her to the ground. She felt a sharp pain in her head when she smashed into the paved road.
"Hey! Are yo..." was the last thing she heard as a sea of darkness swirled towards her and she slipped from consciousness.
She blinked awake and sighed happily when she felt a madras under her.
"Just a dream." She murmured but winced when her head gave a sharp pain of protest as she rolled onto her side to check the time. Blinking hazily, she reached out after her phone. She drew her hand back with a screech when fingers brushed over her hand.
"Hey," A deep and nervous voice said softly in front of her and a hand swarmed her vision. She slapped at it so that it would go away. "Are you okay? I'm sorry I bumped into you."
"Whaa?" She replied foggily and focused her eyes to observe the man who sat by her - it was that red haired man. Red-y. Gazing around she took in the white room she was in, it had white walls and white furniture. The only thing really breaking of the color was the soft blue curtains and the various equipment on the shelves.
"Where am I?" She asked and narrowed her eyes, trying to convey a message. Don't mess with me.
"My guild's infirmary," He said. "I bumped into you, what do you remember? You got a pretty nasty head wound when you fell unconscious or that's what Sasha said - she's our healer, well as much of an healer you can be without healing magic" he blabbered.
"..." She blinked, not really understanding him.
It wasn't a dream. She's here and that Air - walker guy bumped into her and kidnapped her to his guild thingy. Oh my God. What if this is one of those things where they make you a slave or something equally horrifying... probably not if I can guess from his expression, but let's mess with this guy. She thought smirking to herself.
"Why did you kidnap me?" She asked trying to seep some panic in her voice.
"What?" He immediately squeaked in shock. "Y - you were hurt! I couldn't just leave you in the middle of the street!" He fumbled nervously through his words and looked sickened at the notion that he would kidnap anyone
"I'm kidding. Unless, of course you did kidnap me," She looked at him suspiciously. "What's a guild anyway?" She continued.
"Whaa!?" He exclaimed in surprise. "You don't know what a guild is!?
"I don't really know what anything is," She admitted. "I think I lost my memory, but I don't really know since I don't remember if I ever knew. I was just walking 'round town when you rudely walked into me. So you tell me."
"A guild is a family that takes requests and earn Jewels! We take quests like Hunting a monster, protecting someone, finding special and rare plants to being hired to be a barmaid. But above all Static Light is a family." He said, practically shoving his shoulder into her head as he shoved her a lightning bolt like tattoo on his right shoulder.
"Errrr... not that I'm not interested in your tattoos but..." She trailed off, unsure of how to continue.
He looked at her like she'd just said magic didn't exist before it dawned on him how he must have looked to a person who didn't know what a guild mark was, he had probably looked like he was mental.
"It's a guild mark." He explained.
There was a knock on the door and a voice followed the loud knock. "Hey. Maginus! I heard you talking, is she up yet?" A woman asked as she opened the door and made her own question invalid as she could see that she was awake.
"I see. She's awake! I'm Sasha! I'm the lady who put that bandage on your head," She said and gestured to the girl's head. "Pretty nasty injury you got yourself there. This red haired dork here haven't even left your side since he brought you here, wailing about how he killed you." She sighed mumbling something that sounded like 'pathetic.'
Maginus looked embarrassed and hung his head in dismay. "No I didn't," he defended weakly, raising a hand. "I was just worried about her head injury! It looked really bad and she was bleeding all over the place! You would have panicked too Master."
"Right, if I didn't know anything about injuries, then maybe. But," She paused "As it stands I know what to do when kids are injured because I walked into them," As an afterthought Sasha added. "Not that I would have pushed her down in the first place."
"So" She said pulling out a book, not letting them talk. "What's your name so we can get you home again?"
She stared at her for a minute trying to decide what to do, should she just tell her name or get a new one?
Decisions...
Decisions…
"Ummm... Master?" Maginus piped up for her. "She lost her memory."
"WHAT!?" The woman shouted and threw the book in Maginus's face, making him fall of the chair almost comically. "Not only did you hit her! You caused her amnesia! Foolish boy!"
Sasha then looked at the girl and her angry expression changed into a gentle one.
"Do you remember anything?" She asked in a soothing voice. "Like your name?"
The girl turned a younger girl looked at them and said in a hesitant voice. "Ummm... Pagan, Pagan LeMagson."
"Are you sure?" Sasha asked.
"It's the only name I remember," She replied bluntly. "So I can't really help if it's not really my name."
"It is a name? right?" She quickly added, grinning internally.
"Yes," Sasha said as Maginus climbed back onto his chair, rubbing his head where the book had hit him. "So... Pagan. Remember anything else?"
"Jewels." She said.
At their owlish stares she elaborated "That's money."
Sasha sighed. "Nothing else? No family, house, places or even names of food?"
"Nope."
"Great," She sighed. "What about magic?"
"Nope" She replied cheekily.
The older woman grunted in frustration. "Maginus? Can I talk to you for a minute?" She said and gestured to the door.
"Okay" he agreed and stood up and followed her out the wooden door.
Waiting patiently Pagan began looking through the book Maginus had placed on the bed. The book was filled with all kinds of journals about different patients or that was what it seemed like. Apparently a guy named Alexander had his left hand bitten off by a monster while on a job and Sasha had replaced it with a crystal one.
That's awesome. Making a fully functional hand out of magic. Pagan needed someone to teach her magic... but what kind? It seemed that Sasha use some kind of crystal and Maginus a kind of gravity or float Magic.
Maybe some fire magic or if there's magic involving plants!
Oh!
Or water magic!
This was actually exciting! Who hasn't wanted super powers when they were a kid? Seeing all fantasy series and movies, like Superman, Spiderman, fantastic 4 or The Last Airbender! Those always made her imagination run wild and now she, dare she say it. If she was able to do those things, then she almost didn't care if she couldn't get back home.
She paused and put the book down. If she was stuck here then that would mean that she'd never see her family or friends ever again.
Would it be worth it?
No, it wouldn't. But she would definitely be using her time here having fun with magic.
...Unless of course she's just unable to learn magic like a muggle.
Glancing at her hands and clenching them she couldn't help imagining water swirling above them and stretching out making different forms.
Click.
"Hey," Maginus said when he opened the door, walking inside with a nod in her direction, before he pushed the door closed with his foot. Sitting down in the chair again, he pulled out a round glass globe, holding it out to her he said. "Here. This is a Lacrima that records how much Ethernano - that's magic power, a person has. If you have the capacity to use magic, Master has offered a place here in Static Light and if you don't you can stay here until we've found your family."
Pagan nodded and took the globe into her hands. "What now?"
"Errr? You put magic into it?"
"Really?" She asked deadpan as she raised the ball slightly.
Turning her attention to the glass ...or Lacrima globe she imagined magic running into it and lighting it up. Continuing to focus, she almost missed that he had said something in her pointed concentration.
"What?"
"Uhhh," he looked embarrassed as he rubbed his neck. "If you can use magic, can I teach you?"
Pagan looked at him and narrowed her eyes. "What kinds of magic do you us-"
She stopped talking as the sphere began glowing a light blue colour, illuminating the room in its glow.
"Woaa..." She breathed. She did that, she made a weird ball glow.
She looked at him prompting him to tell her what the results are.
He looked at the globe with a huge smile on his face. "Congratulations! You can learn magic! What do you say? Want to learn?"
The girl looked him up and down. "What kind of magic do you use?"
His face lit up like fireworks. "I use Celestial Spirit Magic! - You summon spirits with keys - and air magic! What ya say? Cool huh? Want to learn? I'll also try and get your memory back!" He said it all in one breath and looked at her like she was santa claus.
"No. I want water magic."
His face fell. "Please..! I'll teach you everything I know! with Spirits you both gets a bunch of partners but also friends! That's waay better than water! And with Air Magic you can float, lift things, make barriers and-"
"-you can fly?" Pagan interrupted.
"Yes. But it's more like walki-"
She interrupted him halfway through again and stuck her hand out.
"Shut up and take my money. Now teach me how to fly."
He lit up again and gave her an awkward hug before holding her shoulders at arm's length and looking at her like she was the Easter bunny.
"Get some sleep first. You must be tired between your injury and all this mess, I would be exhausted." He said and began rising from the chair.
"Okay. I am a bit tired" Pagan admitted as she looked at him.
Maginus smiled as he stopped by the door. "I'll introduce you to everyone tomorrow and then we can begin teaching you about life."
The redhead winked at her and closed the door with a soft 'click.'
A/N:
I hope you liked it.
Fairy Tail will have a bigger role later in the story, when it becomes Fairy Tail 'centric.'
Chapter 2 should be out in about a week for those interested, I'm almost done making it and was thinking about putting it out when I finish chapter 3.