Well I'm back after a long hiatus. I suddenly was struck with an idea for a Fairy Tail Self Insert and since I like these kind of fics a lot I decided; What the heck, its summer. I only have one class at college right now and have plenty of free time between that, work and Melee practice. I felt the need to express myself through writing and all of my work posted here on this sight is the product of that.

I hope you guys enjoy it.

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The first thing I noticed when I woke up was was the sky seemed especially beautiful today. Naturally, that made me decide to go and experience the wonderful day myself. So that is how I found myself laying on the grass outside my college dorms. Luckily for me, the college put a "nature trail" outside the back of the college grounds and it was perfect for days like this.

I could feel the warmth of the sun above radiating its warmth, and the grass beneath the backs of my hands. The cool breeze playing with my brown hair. Off in the distance one could hear the telltale sound of water flowing and the chirping of birds. I honestly felt more at peace then I had in a long time. After all college could be rough sometimes and a person really needed to learn to enjoy the small things like laying in the grass staring up at the sky and admiring its simple splendor.

I unzipped my simple blue hoodie, exposing my gray undershirt to the world and crossed my hands behind my head, fully content to just relax. I could feel the soft fabric of my gray basketball short pooling outside my thighs, and the warmth of my grey converses on my feet. It seemed like perfect day to just laze about. All of my home work was turned in for the week and I didn't work until tomorrow night. I could just sit back and kick it. Maybe I would play a few video games, I hadn't beat Shining Force 2 yet and that obviously needed to get done. I smiled and closed my eyes, yes, that would be what I would do after I got done enjoying the sun.

… Or I would have been if a giant black hole hadn't opened not ten feet in front of me.

And that, my friends, is the begging of our story. Starting with getting unceremoniously sucked into random black hole ass over crown, cursing aloud like a sailor, into a brand new life. Once I was engulfed by the black hole, it promptly shut. The day continued like it never happened, the breeze tickling the grass gently.

In entirely different universe, one where the magic that we once thought only existed in fairy tales flourished, the black hole opened on an island far, far away from the main land. The most noticeable feature of this island was the giant tree that shot up from the center its canopy covering a huge portion of the island. As I tumbled out of the hole and landed in a heap on a hard surface.

I shakily got to my feet and looked behind me, just in time to see the hole shut. I just stared open mouthed, still in shock from the weird albeit incredible thing that happened to me… No, not just happened to, but lived through. I rushed to pinch myself on the arm and cursed vividly when I felt the pain race up my arm. So it wasn't a dream either.

I slowly lowered myself to the floor and sat cross legged on the ground. I knew that going into shock would not help my situation at all so I needed to rationalize all of these… events. "Everything started out like normal this morning…" I grabbed the back of my head with hands, trying to calm my accelerated heartbeat. "Then that damn hole showed up, and now I'm here. Where the hell is here?"

For the first time since arriving I took stock of my surroundings. It appeared to be a cave of some sort. The rock I was sitting on looked cracked and ancient. The walls even had moss growing off of it giving the cavern a greener look then one would expect. There was a soft light, letting the cave be visible but I could see no opening for light in front of me, so I turned around.

A structure, about a foot bellow my head consisted of six small pillars sitting on some sort of stone stage. Four in a rectangular pattern around the center two. The outside ones were short, stubby, and nondescript, while the inside ones seemed to have more of a design to them. The outside edge was like a shelf that fell down at least four inches from the other half. Halfway down the inward facing side there were half circles carved to give the appearance of a full circle between the two.

I stood up and cautiously made my way over to the structure. It was still giving of the candid otherworldly light, and it almost seemed to brighten as I approached it. As I got closer it became much harder to see and eventually I climbed the two steps up to the top of the stage. I stood in front of it, arm raised to protect my squinting eyes.

"Is this what brought me here?"

The structure only continued shining in response. My brows furrowed, and the corners of my mouth dropped into a frown. "This is going to be a pain in my ass, huh?" Once again the only response I got was being blinded. I sighed heavily and stepped closer to it. "Maybe touching this will bring me back?" My hand slowly came closer to the… memorial? It seemed to represent something anyway.

As soon as my hand made contact with the stone a golden flame suddenly ignited in the middle of the half circle. I gasped sharply and tried to pull my hand. "W-what the hell?! My hands stuck!" The light began shining even brighter causing my vision to whiten, to the point where it seemed to burn through my eyelids.

"What is it that motivates you?"

A cool, but youthful feminine voice whispered, and just like that the lighted dimmed to acceptable levels and I stumbled back , and landed on my ass for the second time that day. I looked up in shock to see a short blonde girl with hair down to her lower legs and what seemed like winged ornaments in her hair just above her ears. The most noticeable feature was her solid green eyes, devoid of any kind of pupil. She wore a white dress with a blue pattern and loosely tied ribbon around her neck. Her cute face set in a monotone expression as her verdant orbs seemed to look at my soul.

I could only gawk at her, jaw flapping up and down like a fish out of water. My reaction broke her expression slightly, a little smile playing on her face. "I have seen glimpses of your life through your contact with my grave." She started walking, "You let yourself go with the flow, and don't like confrontation. Preferring to either ignore it, or, in the more extreme circumstances you shut down completely."

The smile was gone, and I withered slightly underneath her stony gaze. "But…" She began as she stopped in front of me. "You always kept a certain tenderness in your heart. Integrity and honesty in your fellow dealings with people. You went out of your way to help a friend in need more than once." She held her hand out to me her smile had returned bigger. "…and that is why I think you would be perfect in my guild."

I took her hand cautiously, eager to look at anything but her eyes, the girls hand was soft and hid her uncommon strength as she hauled me to my feet easily. "…Guild? And what do you mean your 'grave'? Where am I? Who are you? How did you kno-" I was cut off abruptly by the girl placing a single finger on my mouth. "To answer those questions, in order: Yes my guild Fairy Tail, exactly how it sounds, you are Tenrou Island, I am Mavis Vermillion, and when you touched my gravestone I used my magic to see your memories."

The newly dubbed Mavis removed her finger from my lips, that small smile still lingering at the corners of her mouth. I looked at her incredulously, "How can you have a grave when you're standing right here?" She raised a thin brow. "That's because I'm dead."

At this point I was beginning to worry about my safety with this clearly crazy blonde haired 'dead' girl. Still, she was the only person around that might know how and what happened to me. I cleared my throat and started to speak before she cut me off. "You are here because this world needed something to balance the forces of evil that are at work, the gods of this world summoned you from yours in order to combat this."

To be frank, this was blowing my goddamn mind. How the hell could my peaceful day have turned into this insane bullshit? My shoulders tensed as I cleared my throat and spoke in a low tone "What if I don't want to fight these forces of evil?" Once again, Mavis only smiled softly, only this time it was sad. "Then you don't have too, and we will send you home if that is your choice." I dropped my shoulders in relief. "But, I know that you've always wanted to be part of something that's bigger than yourself, to know what it is you should be doing with your life. To help others."

I stopped. That… was true. I had always seemed to lack direction in my life. Even when going to college I picked a medical field solely because I wanted to be able to help people. I felt a pull in my heart. It wanted to accept her offer, but my brain still had its doubts. This could be someone pulling an elaborate prank but if it was damn this person was good at yanking my heart strings. Mavis must have seen me hesitate because she continued, "Fairy Tail is the best guild in Fiore. The people there call each other family and are treated as such."

"What kind of guild is this Fairy Tail?"

I sat across from Mavis outside of the cave as she explained how this world worked. Mages, people who could use magic, made up ten percent of the population in this world. These mages banded together into guilds to take on jobs and the like. All of the guilds in the country of Fiore were overseen by the Magic Council, Rune Knights, and the Ten Wizard Saints. Fairy Tail was a guild located in Fiore and had a reputation of being rather destructive, but very good natured and accepting.

It seemed in the next few months that a chain of events would happen, that would put Fairy Tail smack dab in the middle of apocalypse-threatening crisis. These events that would lead to this threat would start when the guild had three 'First Generation Dragon Slayers', mages who specified in killing dragons. They were taught the magic from their adoptive draconic parents. That seemed a little weird to me, why would you teach someone the specific way to kill you?

"So do you understand the situation?" the blonde's pupil less eyes boring right into my soul as she tilted her head to the side. I scratched the back of my head before nodding slowly. "I think I get the gist of it, but you said that Fairy Tail is a guild for mages, correct?" She nodded, "Then how am I, someone who doesn't possess any kind of magic power, be able to join them?"

She frowned slightly, "Well… that's the thing… You are not from here so you don't have that natural magic flowing through your body. So thus we are going to have to expose you to the Original Magic Flow, and change you so your body can use magic." I raised an eyebrow, "And let me guess this magic flow is for, convenience sake, right here on this island." Mavis chuckled, "You would be correct. Come on then, we need to reach it before night fall. The creatures on the island are… not exactly fond of people, but you should be find as long as you are with me." Well that didn't instill the greatest amount of confidence in this walk, but hey, I had been trusting the ghost lady for most of this experience, might as well continue to do so.

True to her words, the monsters just seemed to ignore us as we made our way closer to the giant tree in the middle of the island. If I had still thought this was a prank, the giant monster with creepily long neck, and Jim Carey-esque grin that made my skin crawl.

As we got closer to the giant Tenrou Tree, as Mavis called it, I realized how much more massive it was then I originally thought. I think it would be safe to assume that the ridiculous growth of the tree would have something to do with how the Original Magic Flow. I couldn't help but wonder how exactly I was going to get magic from it. She said it was going to change me? What exactly did this 'change' entail?

I couldn't help but imagine my scrawny form, becoming muscular and toned. Or… wait. Magic doesn't require muscles. So would this transformation be metaphysical? Altering my DNA like a Mutant from the X-Men comics? No, she never mentioned that mages looked different from a normal person, but she never said they didn't either. What if-

"Stop. I must open the entrance."

Oh, I hadn't even realized that we had made it to the base of the tree. The roots that were sprawled all over like enormous tentacles were about the height of a larger sized building. I had to crane my neck to the max to see the top of the tree, and it was… beautiful to say the least. The leaves gave only slightly to the wind on the island. The branches gently swayed to and fro with the soft sound of the leaves brushing against each other. It made me feel… a little more at peace.

I brought my eyes back down to where Mavis was pressing her hand against the tree's bark, and somehow the bark faded away exposing an small entrance barely big enough to for a person Mavis's height could pass through without ducking. That means that my 5'8" frame had to crouch as we walked through the tunnel.

Eventually, as we made our way down the tunnel, the light from behind us faded and visibility was reduced to nil. I could barely make my guide's silhouette out as she led us further down into the depth of the Tenrou Tree. As soon as I thought that I wouldn't be able to see Mavis at all, a pulsing, otherworldly light shimmering from deeper in. Soon I could only see Mavis's profile for an entirely different reason.

I couldn't help but feel apprehension at coming so close. Did I really want to 'change' for this? It seemed like a pretty big commitment. Was this something I would be willing to dedicate a big portion of my life to?

"We are here."

That otherworldly light gave way to a large cavern, and at least fifty feet down was the reason that we were here. The Original Magic Stream resembled a whirlpool of liquid light… If you can imagine that. I stood next to the edge of the stream. There was a small path along the side wide enough for one person carved through the bark to the bottom of the stream. Mavis wasted no time gawking and began striding quickly down the path. After only a split second of hesitation I followed. I felt a weird sort of determination budding in my chest.

Mavis and I came to halt at the edge of the stream. I turned my eyes to look at her, "So what do we do now?" the ghostly guild leader tilted her head at me with a smile, and instead of the friendly one she had shown me before it was mischievous.

"You need to jump in."

I paled, loosing all of the determination I had gathered. "Wha-? Hey!" Suddenly Mavis stepped behind me and shoved me into the vortex. I'm not proud to say that I screamed like a little girl right up to the point that I hit the Stream. I screwed my eyes shut as soon as I got close enough.

The instant I hit the Stream I instantly felt relaxed. The magic swirled around me, comforting and holding me in a gentle embrace. I opened my eyes and watched in awe as the stream swept me around, pulling me closer and closer to the center of the stream. I frankly didn't care where I was at the time, the magic flowing around me had me in a lethargic state.

Young one of another world. Your choice to aid this world, one that you have no bond to. Why do you choose to help this world? What motivates you?

I… had honestly no idea. The voice hummed.

This transformation will not be painless, one cannot harness the powers of the void without the pain. The type of magic that you will receive is one of a kind. No one else has used it in thousands of years.

The voice seemed almost... regretful. Was this transformation going to be that bad?

If you can survive the Void then power to manipulate it will be yours, but the Void changes everything that it enters. You will not be the same person.

That was all the voice said before the pain started. I felt like all that I was being ripped out and something completely different be put in my body. I gasped wordlessly in pain, writhing in agony. Then as soon as I didn't think that I could take any more it stopped, and then I passed out.

When I came to, my whole body was screaming. My throat was dry. The worst parts were my chest, ears and eyes pounded. I felt an odd sort of wind hitting the tips of my ears, a sensation that I hadn't felt before. I could feel a hard surface beneath my back, the same kind of feeling as the cave where I met Mavis, and all I could feel above me was a heavy blanket. At some point during my loss of consciousness I had lost my clothes. Whether it was the Stream, the Void, or if they simply had been removed by Mavis I didn't know, or frankly didn't care with the pain I was experiencing.

I tried to open my eyes only to be met with a whitish blur to the right of me and a gray blur on the other. I could help the groan slipping from my mouth, causing the whitish blur to wobble some. The blur became larger, and I could feel something pressing on my lips. I opened them to let sweet, sweet water inbetween my cracked lips. I greedily took three gulps before it was pulled away from me.

"Good. You are awake. How do you feel?"

"..."

"Your eyes and ears need time to adapt to the changes the Void made to you. As well as the rest of your body. Your body is fundamentally different then it was before." I nodded and let myself be content with trying to focus my vision. I sighed heavily, this was going to take some time.

"Thanks for the warning, by the way. I really appreciate when people push me over a cliff to my possible doom."

"Would you have jumped in if I hadn't?"

That was a fair enough question, I probably wouldn't have if we were being honest. I was still uncertain, but I guess now the choice in the end had been made for me. I had said that I would help, and I planned on keeping my word. I had always secretly craved adventure. That is why I liked video games, and fantasy books so much. I could have my adventure in the game.

Through time, my vision came back slowly, and the pain faded. I could make out the whitish shape on my right was Mavis while the gray one was her tombstone. Somehow, she had brought me back to the cave, but how she did it was a mystery. When I asked her, she would simply say "Magic" like it explained everything about the situation. While I couldn't see it, I was pretty sure that she had a smile while saying so.

The sun was rising when my vision came back fully. I sat up slowly first, grunting in pain as I forced myself into a sitting position. My chest was still throbbing with the same intensity as the when I first regained consciousness. I took a shaky hand and brought it to my chest over my heart.

"What the hell?"

Instead of the soft skin I was expecting, there was hard, cool, metal surface. My hand tingled on contact with it. I craned my neck down and pulled the blanket off myself. There in the middle of my chest, over my heart, I could see the dull silver shine of metal. From what I could feel it was circular in shape and has some sort of etches engraved around the outside. From the center a purple light was flickering, making my hand cast a shadow on the wall in front of me

Naturally, the first thing that came to mind was Iron Man, and the device he had on his chest to prevent shrapnel from working its way into his heart. Was this something similar in nature to that? Everything was still slightly blurry for my vision but I turned to where I last saw my ghost friend. Sure enough she was sitting that small grin.

"Are you ready to stand?"

I tried pushing myself up from my sitting position only, feeling nausea, but succeeding at coming up to my feet. My body still pounded and the room was spinning, but I grit my teeth and refused to fall over. I could see the blonde guild master nod approvingly. "We don't have much time to spare. We need to begin your training in Rift Walking magic."

"I hate to tell you this but I don't think that I can train if I can't see very well."

"This kind of training won't require eye sight. I cannot use the specific magic you were gifted with, but I can teach you how to access your magic and control it."

I stood up straight and looked her in the eye the best I could. A weird sort of determination that I had never felt before coursed through me. "Then let's get started." Mavis only smiled.

The past month was spent learning my magic on Tenrou Island. It was difficult to grasp how to access it at first, but once I got it the rest came easier. My magic had the ability to manipulate the void to my will, but only slightly. I could open portals, or rifts to the void or anywhere on the planet, in theory anyway. At the moment twenty feet was my limit. On top of being able to rip open space, I could compress it and use it to bolster physical blows, or send compressed space as projectiles.

But of course, as with everything, my magic had several key weaknesses. The first, and foremost one was cold. If I sat in a room below thirty degrees for more than ten minutes it would kill me. The second was predictability. It wasn't as much of the magic's weakness as it was my own. I just happened to fall into patterns and found them hard to break.

And the third, and probably most important one was the Rift Seal on my chest. The Rift Seal represented the first point of contact with the Void, and it kept the corruption of the Void magic in my body and in the Void to a minimum. So I didn't grow grotesque, fleshy wings or anything else like that. It was rather sturdy, but if someone hit with enough force and shattered the seal and the lacrima (which is some kind of crystal containing with magical power) I could be in serious trouble.

In the book that Mavis gave me on Rift Magic I learned about Derson Black, the original Rift Walker thousands of years ago. Derson came to the point where he spent more time in the void then outside of in Earthland. This eventually led to his mutation into the creature called Cthulhu. It was said that each part of Derson's body; eyes, spine and brain, and the limbs became their own separate entity that would prey on any fool who wandered into the void unprotected.

Speaking of corruption, I received some slight corruptions that, apparently, every Rift Walker had obtained. I now possessed pointy ears that stuck up past the top of my head, and my brown eyes had changed to whitish grey color. I had freaked out when I had first found out about the changes to my appearance, but eventually just learned to accept them as part of who I was now.

All of the training and transformation led came to this. I stood in front of Mavis, in simple blue fighting gi, book of Rift Spells in hand. It was time for me to join the Fairy Tail guild now, I looked a little nostalgically around the cave that had been my home for a month. I… actually don't think I am going to miss this place that much. Between the powerful monster outside that I had to run from, and having only a dead person as company didn't leave much to be desired.

The blonde hair girl was in a stance, casting a magic spell that would teleport me to Magnolia with the last of her magic power. I voiced my concern over this and she just shook her head, "It will come back over time, just don't expect to hear from me for a while." She seemed to have a thought strike her just as she finished the circle.

"I never did ask for your name."

I laughed, "It occurred to you to ask that after a month?" I let a small smirk show as I felt the teleportation magic begin to activate.

"It is..."

Using my old name didn't sound right, I had changed so much from the person that I used to be that it didn't seem fitting anymore. I could still remember that fateful day clearly, laying on the grass and staring up at the sky without a care in the world.

Huh… sky.

"Sky."

"In that case, Sky, it was a pleasure to get to know you."

"Same to you Mavis…"

And just like that I was gone, and Mavis disappeared. The only thing in the suddenly empty cave now was the gravestone glowing softly.

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