Wolf and Wizards
The breeze swayed gently throughout the wheat, where a young girl sat, watching the birds and listening to sounds much too far away for any human ear to hear. Her startling red eyes closed, and she layed back. A beautiful tail swished lazily in beat with the wind. The wheat tickled against her bare skin and the sun's brightness blazed through her eyelids. Though this was a peaceful life, there was not much happiness that it could bring her. She craved the company of another. A partner who she could trust and who could deal with her wise comments without taking offence to them. Humans, she has learned, are creatures with a sensitive nature who feel as though they are constantly being made fun of. Her prideful personality can be a lot for someone to handle.
It had been a long time since the villagers of Pasloe have moved on after a deadly sickness had fallen upon the village. Everyone had been forced to either move away, or stay and slowly and painfully die of a sickness that had no cure and no hope of disappearing until everyone was consumed by it. So she was alone once more. The illness had no effect on her, because it only attacked humans. She was not human.
As the years went by, the virus seemed to die out. With no one left to prey on, it could not survive. She could sense that it was gone. She hoped that someday, someone would come to the village and find that it was safe now, and her loneliness would end. However, everyday that hope grew weaker. The villagers had abandoned her many years ago, even before the village was plagued, telling the promise, that she had made with them and had kept for so many years, as nothing more than a bedtime story to their children.
As she lay, she could feel the temperature rise and fall, as if nature could not decide what it wanted to do. The girl could sense something happening elsewhere, however, that had nothing to do with the weather. It felt as though two forces were battling each other. She stood up and gave a slight stretch. As she walked to a nearby tree, preparing to climb it in order to get a better view of the situation, her animalistic instincts sensed something in the distance. Her ears, long and pointed and covered in fur, stood up and pointed towards the direction where her instincts told her there was something unknown and unnatural happening.
Suddenly, fire had appeared, scorching some of the wheat. She felt a tingle in her soul. She could not let this wheat die. This was more than just wheat, this was her life! Grabbing a handful of wheat in her small hands, she put it in her mouth and swallowed. Concentrating on another form, she could feel the change approaching. There was a loud popping sound and she could feel herself growing larger, her hands and feet changing into giant paws that landed on the fire, putting it out immediately, and her mouth and nose growing outwards. Fur covered her body and now she towered above all the trees, howling to the sky above her. It was over in half a second.
What stood where the girl used to be, was a giant wolf glaring in the direction of where the fire appeared with the same red eyes that the girl had used to gaze in the same direction.
The wolf could sense the ones who were the cause of the fire approaching. With the hairs on the back of its neck standing up and its teeth bared, it waited for the ones who caused the disturbance.
MEANWHILE, WHAT ARE OUR BELOVED FAIRY TAIL MEMBERS DOING!?
Natsu and Gray were taking a break. The guild master had sent them on a mission to explore this new continent that had recently been discovered. Or so they thought, once they looked around a bit, they found that there were actually many people who lived here.
Magic appeared to be something that was unheard here, judging by the looks of terror and the people that chased them when they saw Natsu light a small fire on his fingertip. They started to yell things like "They are unholy offspring!" and "Kill the sorcerers in God's name!" which just seemed like a hunk of bull to the two of them. They didn't really want to hurt the people, so they just ran into the forest. It wasn't really hard to lose the townsfolk who were chasing them. But it was the first time that they ever had to hide from people who were scared because they've never heard of wizards before.
Deep in the woods, they were having a practice battle to touch upon their skills. Gray had made an icy wind appear that made Natsu shiver.
"Oh yah icicle-head, watch this!"and he unleashed a flame that shot out ahead of him, scorching the ground and the raising the temperature. "Pretty impressive huh?"
Gray huffed. "You think you're so tough, how about-" but he was cut off by the howl of a wolf, except much louder than any wolf should have been able to make.
"What the heck was that?!" Gray yelled, slightly rattled by the sound of the howl.
"I smell something. Let's go!" Natsu started to run towards the sound of the howl, not bothering to notice if Gray is following or not.
"Guess I've got no choice." And Gray ran after the dragon slayer.