Chapter One -
Mist swirled around the legs of the porcelain skinned girl, nipping up to the hem of her platinum colored frock. Her sandle clad feet were all but lost amoung the thick mist that coated the ground she walked.
The hood of her cloak was pulled up, across half her face, obscuring her long golden hair that glower in the dark, from anyones view.
She held a glass staff in her right hand. A glass staff with a blood red heart shaped top with an unmeltable block of ice in the center of the heart. From the bottom top of the heart, three lines spiralled down to the end of the 4 and a 1\/2 feet long staff.
It was the only indication there was that she was no ordinary human, but she was, in fact, a mage.
Suddenly she whirled to her right, her staff held up, where a white magic circle appeared at the top.
"Ice Maker, Lance." The soft voice that left her plump lips sounded almost bored out of her mind.
Ice lances shot out of the magic circle and shot into the mist, impaling the mist shrouded monster that had been almost silently stalking her. She had a feeling that not getting a glance of this monster was for the best, so she moved on, not bothering to see if she had sucessfully killed the monster.
However, the moment the beast was impaled, the mist cleared and she stood in front of the ruins of an old Castle. Unimpressed, the girl looked around with an annoyed frown marring her face. Her icy blue eyes narrowed as they darted from left to right, talking in her surroundings. She bit her bottom lip in thought, before she stomped her staff directly in front of her.
Then she spread her hands on either side of her, a magic circle appearing at her feet, this time a golden circle. She closed her eyes, concertrating on building her magic. Swirling dust seeped out of the magic circle, seemingly tearing away at the landscape around her.
She opened her eyes to find that she was finally standing in front of her true destination. The Howling Howlers Guild.
A smirk adourned her lips at the sight before her, glad to finally be done with the hunting. Now, all she had to do was eliminate the guild, take care of the mages, and she could finally continue on her way home.
Still, she took slow deliberate steps as she walked over to the doors of the guild - showing none of the hurry she felt at finishing this little charade and continueing on her way home. Ah, how she couldn't wait to go back to that place again, where everyone was extended family. Everyone a friend and rival. Where everyone cared about everyone. The very definition of... home.
Lightly touching her staff to the door, she had the ice spread over the door, making the door nothing but a block of ice. One gentle tap and the whole door burst apart in thousands of tiny icicle shards.
There were many exclamations from inside and may insults hurled at her, but that all seemed to bounce right off the strangely, very young girl who walked in through the blasted apart doors. Seeing her everyone stopped short. It wasn't often you saw a young girl take on an entire dark guild on her own, for she was truly, very much, alone.
"What the -" one man started to say, but stopped short upon noticing the girl walking into the guild.
"How did she get past Ulke's illusion barrier?" Another demanded, staring stay the girl with wide eyes.
"She sure is a pretty little thing isn't she?" Another pervert asked, almost drooling at the sight before him.
He wouldn't have been saying that had her hair not been entirely covered by the hood drawn half-way across her face. Even her icy eyes were hidden behind the hood, so he was completely judging her appearence from her figure - which he could only see because her cloak was open on the front, and her knee high frock was like a second skin to her.
However, the man did get many approving nods and snickers, again, all that seemed to go right over the girls head.
"Can you tell me?" She asked, almost like no one had said anything, addressing the man who was closest to her. "Where I can find your leader?" The question was asked in a childish voice, soft and sweet and kind. A kind of voice that didn't belong to a mage who could annihilate an entire guild all on her own.
Most of the men laughed at her request.
Again, she didn't seem to register this, continuing to stand in front of the addressed man, waiting for an answer.
"Why are you looking for Jarvy little girlie? You have no business with all these big men." One man called to her from admist the laughing.
"Forget about Jarvy, come play with us." Another man told, sliding up to her from behind.
He reached out a hand to touch her, but her reaction was much too faster than anyone anticipated. She whirled in on him, her staff held out in front of her. Everyone only heard the loud 'whoosh' that left her staff, her cloack belowing out around her. When the swirl of magic died down, everyone could see the man who'd tried to touch her turned into an ice statue. A living statue.
"You *****! How dare you -" the frozen mans partner yelled, breaking off in half when he couldn't find a insult, insulting enough to call her. Instead, a magic circle appeared over his fisted hand.
With a completely impassive - not to mention unimpressed - face, she muttered, "Nemesis: Reverse Sheild." She was instantly encompassed in a glowing bubble at the exact moment the mages in the guild attacked her.
More than a dozen magic spell hurled towards her as she stood immoble, the golden bubble encompassing her at the last possible minute.
And all the spells that knocked on the heavenly sheild was seemingly swallowed up entirely by the bubble. A stunned paused followed as the dark mages noticed the girl was untouched by even a single spell.
Then all at once, the whole guild shook as an explotion followed.
All the magic the bubble swallowed was just as suddenly let out in random directions, hitting unsuspecting mages and wiping out the entire guild hall.
When finally the dust had settled down, one unfortunate man - who was still conscious - found the strange girl standing over him, her ice staff pointed right below his chin.
"Where is Jarvy?" She questioned in her innocently childish voice. It didn't sound threatning enough to scare a dark mage. And it wouldn't have... if the man hadn't seen the girl take out all of the other mages in a single swipe. It was as impressive as it was scary.
The man shivered with fear, shaking his head. He was unable to answer the strangely young and extremely powerful mage.
Her mouth pressed into a thin line - actually that was the only part of the face he could really see - and she let out a disappointed sigh. She withdrew her staff and the man let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding. But she wasn't that merciful, by withdrawing her staff, she let the chill mist curl around the man, slowly turning him into another living ice statue of hers.
She was gone form the mans side even before the spell had completed, going over the next conscious man. This process continued with no weilding results, as no one there really knew where Jarvy currently was. Maybe if she had come a day before she'd have managed to find the dark mage, but she came too late. They were long gone and the members left in the guild had no idea where he and the rest of the Howlers had gone.
But her luck hadn't entirely run out, because half-way through her interogation, three mages burst out to the guild hall from the back of the guild. Two men with a woman in the middle.
"W-what the he'll is going on in here?"the man on the right demanded as he stepped forwards, staring around the guild with twitching hands.
"You!" The lady pointed at the girl in the middle of their guild. "Did you do this all by yourself?" She questioned sounding more annoyed than worried. Then again, they were a dark guild, it wasn't exactly like they actually cared about the members in it.
"Oi, oi. Aren't you assuming a little too much here, Vru?" The man in the right turned half his torso back to look at the woman. "Isn't she a little too small to do this much damage by herself?"
Truthfully, he couldn't even see her face properly to assume as much, though he could see her height and build - that was, admitedly like a childs as she wasn't very tall and was rather on the skinny side. Then again, this was a mistake most people made, so it didn't effect her at all. A mistake, the three mages were soon to find out could as well cost them their lives.
For all her childish appearance - and most of the time even nature - she sure wasn't a little child.
"Do any of you know where Jarvy is?" The girl asked the three new comers, completely ignoring their talking to each other. She spoke almost like no one had talked at all.
"What if we do?" The woman asked, tilting her head challengingly at the girl. The man on the right turned back to facethe girl, frowning.
"What of Jarvy girlie? You have no business with the man." The man said glaring a the girl hoping to intimidate her. It probably would have worked, if she could see his face through her hood that covered her eyes. The fact was, she could only see the the lower half of the three dark mages - what with her being short and all.
"I heard some very bad news from the Akane resort owner about this guild, I was only hoping to stop him before he could cause too much damage to the people." She pouted, crossing her arms across her chest stubbornly, almost like an errant child.
"I'd like to see you try you little brat!' The man on the right exclaimed.
"Finally, some worthy opponents." The girl grinned a grin that had the three feel a shiver run down their spine. The grin had 'no mercy' written all over it. A look that really shouldn't belong to such a cute life face. Actually a grin any small child should not possess.
"Don't expect me to go easy on you because your a little girl!" The man on the right yelled as he started running towards the girl. As he ran he worked up his magic.
"Shadow blades!" The man exclaimed thrusting out his hand. A magic circle appeared in front of his hand, from which shot out a few dozen, pitch black daggers - that she had a feeling would cut through skin just fine.
"Ice Maker, Star Shot!" She retaliated, not even looking slightly fazed. The magic circle appeared from the staff and shot out the same amount of ice stars as there were shadow daggers.
The stars took the daggers for the girl and ice trained down on the mages.
"Hecate: Pixie Dust!" The girl then shouted, sending her second spell with such speed the man didn't have a chance to retaliate. She flipped over the man, dust flying out from her huge bell sleeves to shimmer down on the dark mage below her.
The man clutched his throat as he felt his throat closing in and findng it impossible to breath.
"Why you little -!" The woman then exclaimed, seeing her comrade taken down so easily. And by a puny little girl too. She was so mad, that she couldn't finish her sentence. Instead she attacked the girl with her skeletal magic.
Again, the girl didn't look at all fazed or even put out. Holding up her staff, she pointed it in the direction where something was forming with bones. Mist curled out of her staff and froze the skeletans as they were building. Then she easily took it down shooting it down with her stars. She continued her Star shot attack even when the thing that had been building broken to splinters, making the woman to build a skeletal sheild to take cover.
"Wormhole!" The last man finally attacked seeing that the woman couldn't attack with the very capable little girl raining down very pointy ice stars at her.
A huge black hole speed towards the girl in record timing, forcing the girl to stop her attack on the woman and jump back to get away from the speeding wormhole that was pulling her towards it. Dropping her staff in mid-air, she held out her hands at Eight O'clock. A golden magic circle appeared in front of her.
The magic circle glower rather very bright - alittle too bright - that it hurt to look at it head on. Unaffected by the light - as her hood covered her eyes from most of the magic circles brightness - she brought her hands together in front of her.
"Zeus: Showers!"
A meteo rain of light shot out of the magic circle feeding it to the wormhole which deteroited at the touch of such pure light magic.
"Darkness Fury!" The man yelled next, attacking her before she could take him out as well.
This time the darkness that speed towards her was so fast, she was buried under it before she could so much as blink. A scream left her lips as she felt the essence of the man seeping into her very being, burning her up as is seeped deeper and deeper in.
With a lot of difficulty she shut her mouth, falling to her knees in the process and started fighting the magic seeping into her being. It was an internal struggle that took a while, was soon won just by the girls will power and memories of happier times, when everything was perfect. The warmness of all such memeories had no place for darkness, or fury, and the mans essence was soon driven out of the girls body.
The magic the man used was a bodily take over magic. Instead of changing his form, he takes over the body of his victim, like a vulcan. This technique, if failed, kept the man unconscious until his essence could find it's way back to its own body- which could take a while.
The girl got back to her feet, looking in the direction of the last remaining mage, the woman. Only, when she looked, she saw the woman was kneeling with her sheild shattrered around her, staring with wide eyes and her.
With a pang, the girl realized she could see the face of the woman, which meant her hood had fallen back (during her struggle to fight off the man from talking over her body).
Now the woman could clearly see the girl, she started sweating buckets. With the lighting within the guild being so dim, the girls golden hair glowed like a bright golden light, surrounding the area she stood with enough light to light up everything around her.
"You... you... you can't be. It's not possible. You are... the famous God Maiden!" The woman strutted, looking at the girl with her jaw hanging open in shock.
Pretending she didn't hear a word the woman said, she leisurely walked over to her staff and picked it up. Making sure the staff was unscratched, she turned towards the woman, takng he time with everything she did.
"I- I - I surrender!" She woman squealed holding her hands up, sweating even more than she already was.
Sighing, she pouted - as if she hoped for more fighting. "Very well, then you can tell me where I can find Jarvy and I can be on my way." She told, her voice soft and pouting, but there was glint of steel in it that told the woman she wasn't playing around.
The woman paused, wondering out of the two who was the most scary.
Jarvy seemed the obvious answer when looking up at the pouting child of a girl, but seeing the destruction she had caused around spoke otherwise. Fortunately for her, she was saved from answering by a boy with pink hair and flying cat came bursting into the guild.
"Aka! Are you here!?" The boy yelled at the top of his lungs, holding a flaming hand up.
Startled to recognise that voice, the girl whirled around with wide eyes.
"Natsu! Happy! What are you two doing here?" The girl - Akaliya - asked the pair, turning completely away from the woman. "What happened to you? Are you alright? Should you even be walking around?" Akaliya then demanded noticing the status her pink haired friend was in. He was covered in so much bandage, Akaliya was actually surprised he could even get out of bed.
"Man! You've taken out everyone." Natsu grumbled seeing that he had no one to beat up or fight - he wasn't counting the woman as she seemed weak. Akaliya would have smiled if she wasnt fretting with worry about the dragon slayer.
"Don't worry Aka, Natsu is fine. He are eitherion a while back while fighting Jellal." Happy told the golden haired girl, both didn't even blink at the fact the girl's hair was glowing - actually glowing, which confused the woman watching the exchange.
So the boy and cat were actually friends with the little freak, how charming,
"Aitherion?" Akaliya asked, looking between Natsu and Happy like they were crazy. She knew what Aitherion is, so how on Earth did Natsu eat it. Like actual consume it..., that's what Happy meant, right? And what's up with this Jellal fellow?
"It's a long story, I'll tell you some other time, but now we should go home." Natsu told seeing Akaliya's confused face. Talking her hands in his he looked at her pleadingly while saying the last part.
Akaliya blinked still processing 'how on Earth Natsu ate Aitherion!'
"Skeletal darts!" The woman, deciding enough was enough - of being ignored - and time to make her escape while the girl was distracted.
Akaliya and Natsu reacted on instinct, feeling the hundreds of darts - poisoned darts - speeding their way. It was rather Unfortunate that Natsu was still recovering from eating the Aitherion and lost his balance when he tried to jump out of range.
"Natsu, watch out!" Akaliya shouted as she aimed her staff at her hurt friend. An ice shield formed in front of him covering him from taking any hits from the poisoned darts. Unfortunately, this left Akaliya unprotected. While she dogde out of the way of most of the darts, one lucky dart nicked her arm as it shot past her.
Once the attack stopped, Akaliya fell on one knee, holding the arm that the darts had nicked and looking in the direction of the escaped dark mage.
"Aka! Are you alright?" Natsu screamed as he hurried over to the girl and caught her arms, peering at her with concern. He could smell the poison in her and knew she was hurt.
"I'm fine, but Natsu, don't let her get away." Akaliya told, about to send Natsu after the woman. Being a healer mage - part of her God Magic - she could tell she was in no condition to move with the poison rushing through her veins, sapping away her energy. It just so happened, that before she could ask him to chase the woman, she felt her vision bluring and lost her balance, falling right into Natsu's arms.
"Forget about the guild, first we need to find you a doctor. Your scent is smelling all wrong and poisonous." Natsu told her, not unkindly, bundling her up in his arms and standing up. Her lifted her up as if she didn't weigh a thing, whereas she knew she must be heavy.
"Natsu, you're burning like the inside of a furnance." Akaliya complained weakly, a sweet little smile on her lips as she said it. Then she clutched her staff tightly. A magic circle appeared cooling the air, but she was too weak to encase herself in ice, and the strength it took to cast that spell - however small - drained her of energy and she ended up fainting."
A/N~
So, this stories been bugging my heard for a while now and i cant concerntrate on anything else, so i though to just go ahead and publish this. This takes place right after the tower of heaven arc - for those of you who didn't get it. Im dont think ill keep exactly to the main story line as i was still watching the battle of fairytail arc when i plamned the plot lne and i dont want to stray from it. I'll try to keep up with the storyline when eber possible, but we'll see.
Anyways, let me know wha you think.
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