A/N: I'm just getting back into the swing of things, so I rolled out this, just to see if people like it... also the story doesn't really have a name yet so the title there is only temporary...
Full Summary: Found without memory by a young boy named Selim, she is named Franca and raised and taught magic. Years later, he has disappeared along with their teacher, and Franca sets out to find him - but with a Dark Guild with a familiar face suddenly after her, what will she do? AU!ContainsOC
Disclaimer: I DON'T own anything to do with the Fairy Tail franchise mentioned in the story. And no Selim has nothing to do with the Fullmetal Alchemist anime/manga.
EDITED 10/9/2011: formatting added, changed some words and some spelling/grammer corrected. Also just realized that I was calling Levy 'Lavi' and changed it the moment I noticed... -_-"
EDIT 8/10/2011: I was reading it through again and saw some more mistakes - I rewrote it a little too. Nothing major, I was just fixing 'the flow' and MiraJane's character a bit - but it might be a good idea to read it again.
Chapter 1 - Fairy Tail Meet Franca
Falling through the air, kilometres above anything, with wind screaming past my ears, long brown hair flying in my face and arms pressed to my sides at the force, I let tears of frustration fall from eyes as I glared at up at the blue sky.
That bitch!
I can't believe this is happening!
I was so close! So damn close to finding him!
Then she showed up and ruined everything!
No, no, no, no, NO!
It's just not fair!
It's not supposed to be like this. Not in this show. Not in Fairy Tail.
The good guys always win. They always-
Meanwhile, in Magnolia, Gray Fullbuster was walking down the street towards the Fairy Tail Mage Guild HQ, when he started to hear a whistling sound.
Frowning, he looked up in search of the source, when all of a sudden, something slammed into him from above, creating a shallow rut in the street as they hit it below them.
Gray mumbled out a,"what the-?", before he realized there was an unconscious girl laying in his lap and they were sitting a pretty big hole - right in the middle of the street.
It was noisy by the time I regained consciousness, my eyelids were still closed and I remained still as I tried to figure out where the hell I was now.
The texture of the ground below me didn't feel like earth, it felt like material... and a mattress? I must be in someone's house.
Suddenly, a familiar voice came to forefront of the arguing.
"Who is she, Gray?".
"I don't know! Like I said already! She just dropped out of the damn sky, okay?".
Oh shit... is it possible that I landed right in front of the one guild I was trying to avoid all these years?
I decided to risk it and open my eyes.
Yep.
There, standing at the end of the bed I was laying on and arguing, was Erza Scarlet and Gray Fullbuster.
You should note that there was someone else there, but my brain's recognition function stopped working after I spotted the blue-haired ice-make mage...
... who was currently not wearing a shirt for some reason.
"Are you feeling better now?", came MiraJane's voice from my left. She must've been the other person. And from looks of things, she's the devil S-class mage at the moment.
I managed to tear my gaze away from the shirtless Gray (a miracle in itself) and faced her enough with enough brain power left to say,"huh?".
"Gray brought you inside after your... fall", Erza put in.
"Yeah - after you almost tore my ear off", Gray mumbled, massaging a red ear.
~Flashback~
As Gray sat there in shock, white-haired MiraJane happened by Gray pulling the girl that literally landed in his lap out of the hole.
"Gray! What the hell are you doing to that girl?", she growled, disturbed.
"Nu-, nu-, nothing!", Gray stuttered, dropping her.
"Gray Fullbuster!", bellowed Erza Scarlet from behind him, the demonic aura she was exuding darkening the whole street.
"OWW!".
~Flashback End~
"Do you remember anything? Like your name or something?", MiraJane asked, grudgingly helping me sit up and handing me a glass of water which I accepted gratefully. Yep, this is weird.
Though mostly because she's still in the rebel-bitch phase.
Then the door slammed open without warning, making me choke.
"Yeah, like why you were fallin' from the sky in the first place?", asked Natsu Dragneel.
Erza had to give me a good 'pat' on the back before I was able to breathe again, and then I gave them the only answer I had.
"My name's Franca - and if you really need to know, I was fighting off some mages from a dark guild".
"What?", exclaimed half the room.
"Why were they after you?", Erza asked.
"No idea. One minute, I was following up on a lead to this abandoned Council fortress outside of the town, and the next, I was ambushed", I explained,"they just came out of nowhere...".
"Do you know which dark guild?", MiraJane asked.
"Yeah, it was Shinobi", I replied, nodding, a grim look on my face.
"Shinobi? The ninja guild...?", Erza started, mumbling to herself.
"I recognized their leader", I bit out,"her name's Carmen and although she's young, she's a formidable mage. A-Class, I think - she's the one that sent me flying".
"How do you know her?", Gray asked.
"I knew her when she was younger...", I replied, evasively,"I guess you could say we had the same teacher - but when Selim-ni-san's dad, who was our sensei, disappeared... she only really traveled with us for a little while after that, before running off".
"Who's 'Selim-ni-san'?", Mirajane asked.
"He's technically my senpai, but he's more like a big brother then anything else. I mean, we're not actually related, but I started calling him that when I was little just to annoy him, and after a while... it just kinda stuck...", I replied, frowning as my gaze wandered to the open window.
"And where is this Selim now?", Gray asked.
"Missing", I explained, my eyes snapping over to him,"has been for a couple of years now. The lead I was following said that he was going to be, or had been, there - why, I don't know. But I don't care about that, I not angry about it anymore. I just want to find him".
He's all I have left in this world...
The room was silent for a moment as the people there processed what I'd said.
I don't have time for this, I have to find Selim.
With my plan decided, I ignored the pain I felt all over my body, and got up, shoving my feet into my boots and grabbing my coat by the door before anyone could stop me.
"Where are you going?", Gray asked - and if it had been anyone else who'd asked, I would've ignored them.
"To find him", I said, and then I ran out the door, across the landing and down the staircase before they could stop me, all the while hearing MiraJane's angry protests.
I made it to the main bar room where everyone else was before they caught up and Natsu demanded to know what the hell was going on.
That was when Makarov intervened.
"Oh, you must be the guest!", he chuckled, a mug of beer in his hand.
I stopped and turned to face him - Makarov was the Fairy Tail guild master, a Wizard-Saint, and an honorable mage. I respected him too much to just ignore him.
"Actually, I was just leaving", I informed him,"thank you for your hospitality, sir", then I turned to leave.
"You're not going anywhere with those injuries". I froze at the deeply serious tone of his voice.
Of all times...!
"Pardon, sir? What injuries do you speak of?", I asked Makarov, not turning back to look at him as I noticed that the normally rowdy bar had suddenly become silent.
"The ones that are barely allowing you to move", he responded.
I looked down angrily at my boots for a moment, then whirled around to face him again, fists clenched and short nails digging into my palms.
"And so what if they are?", I growled,"I'm not going to lose him again!". I froze, my stance stiff in shock as I realized what I'd just said.
But that didn't stop my voice having a mind of it's own again.
"Selim's my brother! Even if there's just the smallest chance that I'll find him there, I've got to take it! He's all I've got left, damn it!".
Suddenly, Erza was standing beside me with a reassuring hand on my shoulder,"don't worry, we will find him", she said as I stared up at her with wide, shocked eyes.
"Wha-", was all I could say, before I blacked out.
A girl with light blue hair, wearing an orange dress and an orange headband was sitting at the desk in the corner of the room intently reading a book about runes, but it didn't take long for her to notice I'd woken up.
"How are you feeling?", she asked, looking worried,"I saw Erza hit you pretty hard - we thought you weren't gonna wake until at least tomorrow night".
"Yeah, well, I've always been able to shake off stuff like this pretty easy", I replied, stretching my arms up over my head,"it's kind of a requirement for my magic type to have a strong constitution...". An awkward silence set in.
"Soooo, your name's Franca, right?", she asked, and I nodded,"my name's Levy - it's nice to meet you!", Levy said, smiling brightly.
There was a knock on the door."Come in", Levy said and a girl the looked a lot like a young MiraJane edged her way into the room with a tray of food and a jug of water on it.
"Lisanna! Let me give you a hand!", Levy blanched, getting up quickly to assist the girl.
... Lisanna? I suddenly felt really sad.
Damn it, this is reason I avoided this Guild all this time! They're so damn distracting!
They set down the stuff on the table,"nee-san said you might be hungry, so I brought you something", she said, smiling.
"... thanks", I replied, pulling out a pouch from my pocket as Lisanna poured me a glass of water.
"What's that?", Levy asked.
I looked over at her, wondering if I should tell her - no, Franca! That would WAY over complicate things!
"Medicine", I said, then sprinkled some of the brown powder into the glass, waiting until it turned the colour of earth before I drank the whole glass.
Lisanna raised an eyebrow in suspicion, but didn't say anything as I started eating the loaf of bread.
When I was finished, I brushed clean my hands of crumbs,"okay, well thanks for your hospitality and all, but I really have to be going to find my brother now", I replied, getting up slowly from the bed.
"What? You're leaving?", Levy asked, getting up from her seat, a panicked look on her face,"but you can't! Erza, Gray and Natsu, have already left!".
I stopped. They, what?
"Levy!", Lisanna admonished in a hushed whisper,"we weren't supposed to tell her that!".
I sat back down on side of the bed facing the window, away from them,"oh...".
I could feel their eyes watching my back in concern, then,"um, do you guys have a bathroom?".
"... yeah, sure. There's one down the hall, I'll show you", Levy offered and we left the room, walking down the hall.
As we went, I saw Lisanna leave the room with the tray in her hand out of the corner of my eye.
Good, that means I can go back for my stuff.
"I'll be right here if you need anything", Levy said, and I nodded my thanks before closing the door behind me.
The bathroom was nice, tiled floors and a few stalls, sinks, mirrors and a small window at the far end, high near the ceiling - but that's okay, I won't be using the window anyway.
For the first time in a while, I took a look at myself in one of the mirrors closest to the window.
Staring back at me was a girl who looked about thirteen, maybe fourteen, with round cheeks, a light speckling of freckles, button nose and lips that if they weren't chapped would've look nice. She had nice bronze eyes and messy long dark brown hair that fell down past her shoulders and wore a white singlet tank top and very short white shorts.
Ignoring the fact that I was wearing different pants from before, I washed my hands and ran my wet fingers through my hair before tying it back into a ponytail with a hair tie that was on my wrist, then I walked over to the wall beneath the window and placed the palm of my hand on the cool earth.
I'm lucky this wall isn't made of wood or something...
Outside the bathroom, Levy was starting to get bored - Franca had been in there a while - then she remembered the book she left in the room. So she quickly walked down the hall and went into the room to grab her book.
Smiling, she was about to go back to the bathroom door - when she noticed all Franca's stuff was gone. Her smile faded when she noticed the piece of paper sitting next her book.
Levy,
Thank you for the hospitality, but I really had to leave. I know you all mean well and I'm sorry I left without saying anything - but I don't think your friends realize what they're getting themselves into by involving themselves in my life.
Thank you for everything, and please apologize to MiraJane and Lisanna for me.
From,
Franca Erde
End Chapter
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