A/N Hello readers! Welcome to my version of Sin. I'm testing myself. After Soul Shatter my muse sent me in this direction. I've made a few OCs and a guild. I hope everyone enjoys. I will be having my OCs travel throughout Ishgar and our loveable Fair Tail guild will be there don't worry.

I wanted the opportunity to build my own OCs in my own setting and see how I do. I hopw you enjoy them and my version of Sin. Please read and review. I appreciate it.

Welcome to Sin

West Nitespring is nestled on the southeast side of Sin. It started as a small seaport city but with time, it became a booming international harbor boosting trade from Minstrel, Midi, Enca, and Bellum. The government entered into trade agreement with Bosco to bring airships into the port of West Nitespring for trade from the countries further west such as Bosco, Fiore and Seven. With the booming trade industry and commerce, came tourism to the area. West Nitespring had grown from a small seaport to a sprawling metropolis over the span of twenty years.

Like every city, there were the growing pains of a small seaport exporting raw materials for creating silks and cotton across Isghar to now boosting several different types of industry such as manufacturing company that make the silk, cotton, and blended fabrics. A growing chemical industrial is aiding the boom in the pharmaceutical companies in the city. With this large of growth in any city, there is the negative growth that happens. Human animal and drug trafficking are a major issue as well as the minor crimes like pickpocketing and assaults. West Nitespring being the largest international port to and from anywhere in Ishgar made it an ideal place for dark mage and non-mage guilds activity.

The government looked to other countries on how to handles these major issues and modelled the response on how to combat the illegal activity. The Great Tribune agreed on combating mages with mages and dealing with the non-magical issues with non-magical tactics. The Great Tribune went one-step further and created laws for guilds to combine mages and non-mages. They reasoned it would allow for wider range of skills in guilds around the country, thus giving a cohesive working relationship between mages and non-mages. This idea worked better than anyone imagined. Several guilds started being established around the country. One guild took root in West Nitespring, The Red Foxes.

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Rain drizzled down on West Nitespring. Gray clouds hung low over the cityscape of the skyscrapers of the commercial district. Typical spring weather on the south side of Sin's peninsula, weather pushed in from the west off the sea bringing moist air and rains with it. Rain or shine, it didn't matter to Piper. She was up at 0600, coffee made, put into a thermos, put into her back pack, hair braided and up in a bun, jogging shoes on and out the door for her run to the University. She remembered her light hoodie this time. Placed her earbuds in her ears and started jogging toward downtown where The University of Sin was located.

Piper enjoyed jogging to the university. It gave her thirty minutes of no students, no teacher aides, and no other professors talking to her. She enjoyed teaching biochemistry and toxicology especially when it involved venom of reptiles and arachnids. She was fascinated on how the venom affected the human body and how a poison mage could manipulate it to affect others. She was no herpetologist but she wasn't just a fan girl. Her studies required samples of venom for test. Some professors liked to call her an alchemist since she was able to manipulate poisons and toxins to either be used medicinally or increase it deadliness by tenfold. She'd be lying if she didn't say she had multiple job offers from big pharmaceutical companies in Sin or big time drug lords that are based out of Pergrande or Bellum. She even had dark guilds trying to recruit her. She always turned them down. She wasn't in this for money, to make designer drugs or whatever the hell dark guilds were in it for, like resurrection of dark wizards, it just was not her cup of tea. She just enjoyed studying the effects of venom on the human body and how to combat it and poison mages.

She just wanted to study her hypotheses, prove theories, play with her snakes, and maybe one day find Mr. Right. At least that what most girls wanted, Piper had found plenty of Mr. Wrongs and Mr. Right-Nows. She would meet guys and once they found out she was actually an intelligent woman and had a large terrarium in her apartment, they bolted never to be heard of again. She did meet this one guy. He was pretty cool. Smart challenged her mind, body built by the Gods. He was a seith mage. His eyes were a beautiful amethyst purple with those concentric circles. Her brother, Riko, found out about him and she never seen him again. Piper hated when her brother interfered in her love life. He made sure she had protection in her apartment. Three deadbolts, a security system linked to the guild, and a 9mm handgun in her nightstand drawer. He even taught her how to use it. She wasn't as good as him but in her apartment she didn't have to be an expert marksman.

Piper reached the university. She started her cool off walk toward her office. The rain had let up half through her run. Her pack dried a bit during the run. She hoped her other clothes wouldn't be soaked. She entered the Science Building, hustled into her office to get her wet clothes off and get prepared for her first class of the day.

Piper's office was a typical office. She had a desk in the corner that she had a few papers stacked up on and a filing cabinet that might have stuff in it. It was older than she was. She kept most of her class lectures on her Lpad and laptop. She was young for a professor at the age of 26, but she pushed herself hard. She loved what she studied and didn't feel like it was tedious when she was a student. Mom and Dad always told her and her brother "If you do something you love it will never feel like work". Piper frowned at thinking about her parents. She stripped off her wet top and jogging pants, traded them for black loose slacks, and a light blue loose blouse that buttoned to just above her bust. She had a silver necklace with a pendant that had a little silhouette of a fox sitting with its big bushy tail behind it. Riko got it for her for her 24th birthday. He told her to think of him when she wore it. He tried several times over the years to get her to join the guild. Even told her they took non-mages, she would be a great asset with her smarts, as he called it. As she thought about the entire conversation, she rolled her eyes and took a look at herself in the mirror to make sure she looked presentable for her day worth of lectures and lab time. She walked out of her office locked the door and went to the lecture hall.

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It had been a long day and Piper was so ready to go home and soak in her tub until she was a prune. Her back ached from being bent over a microscope and laptop. She would normally job home but she was exhausted more than usual. She entered her office and her Lphone went off in a special ring tone for her dad. "Hello, Papa." She said with a drained tone in her voice.

"Buenas noches, sweetheart. You sound exhausted. Did you remember to eat today between your classes and snakes?" Oscar Hatchet asked his daughter. He was always concerned about his daughter. He didn't think that she should be living on her own and should be married with at least one grandchild for him to spoil by now. Although, he learned the hard way not to push his hard headed daughter. He learned to respect that she was very capable to live on her own and make her own decisions. He was very proud of her accomplishments, PhD in biochemistry and head of her department at The University of Sin, his Alma mater. He just worried now that she would forget to eat and care for own self as she does her little pets.

"Papa I'm fine. Just a little tired. Yes, I did eat lunch today. I haven't had supper yet but I'm meeting Riko for that." Piper soothed her father's worries. She knew he worried about her not eating. She did sometimes forget. Riko always had dinner with her though.

"Muy bien. Let you brother know I called and that I pray for him all the time. I know his work is dangerous as a guild mage." Oscar told his daughter.

"Papa, you can call Riko yourself you know." Piper told her father with a slight annoyance.

"Yes, Piper I know I can call your brother but that doesn't mean he will answer his phone when I do call."

Piper sighed, "I'll talk to him about it. So why did you call me Papa. It's not like you to call without a reason. I know it wasn't to tell me that Riko doesn't answer his phone."

"Well, sweetheart. Lucas and I wanted you to come visit us in Fiore. We have gotten settled and Lucas would love to meet his beautiful and intelligent step daughter." Oscar asked with a hint of hope. He knew the divorce between Nicole and himself didn't sit well with his children even though they were adults when it happened. Of his children, Piper was more open to his relationship with Lucas than Riko. The divorce was amicable. Georgia was still his best friend. Oscar himself wouldn't have come to term of being gay without her help. Georgia was very supportive. Most wives would have been angry and vindictive, but not his Nicole.

"Papa, I would to come visit you and Lucas but…I can't…"

"…leave your work or your little pets. Piper of course you can. I know you have teacher aides that can feed you little friends that eat what once a week and you do all your work on your laptop. Just come visit your Papa. Maybe we can find you a new pet for your personal terrarium?" Oscar called her out. He knew his daughter was married to her work. It was one of the many reasons she was still single.

"Fine Papa. I'll come to Fiore." Piper finally gave in. "Give me two weeks so I can make arrangements."

"Of course. Lucas will be excited to know that he gets to meet you finally. You will like him." Piper could hear the smile in her father's voice. They ended the call. Piper's phone went off again but it was a text message from Riko.

BigBro: Running l8 4 dinner. Meet me at usual place?

Piper: Sure :( order same thing? And how late?

BigBro: Uh…1 hr…tops no frowny faces. Job is running over

Piper: kk I'll be w8ing

Piper stuffed her phone into her pack slung it over her shoulder, checked her babies real quick and left for the day. Piper had to kill an hour so she wonder over to the local pet shop to see if they had any pinkies for her snakes and crickets for her spiders.

The little bell dinged as she entered Jeff's Pet Emporium. "Good evening Piper. Are you here for some yummies for your babies?" an older man asked from behind the counter.

"Hi Jeff. Yeah I'm getting low and need some more pinkies and crickets." Piper greeted Jeff with a smile. As Jeff went to the back to get her order, she walked around and looked at the puppies, kittens and birds. Adorable little fuzzies that made most people go 'aww', Piper wondered away from those and made her way to the reptiles. Jeff had the usual constrictors, lizards, frogs and toads. She slowly worked her way down the line of glass cases when her eye caught something she had only seen in books. A small white egg with small black swirls on the upper edge that to the untrained layperson would have just been wrote off as a defect in the eggshell, but to a trained eye, it indicated the species type. Piper was ecstatic over the find. She kept her excitement contained when Jeff returned with her order. She asked the older graying haired man, "Jeff how much for that egg in the case?"

"Uh…the egg…I just got that yesterday. I'm not even sure what it is. What would you give me for it, Piper? You know these things better than I do." The man offered with a smile. Piper was his best reptile customer.

"Hmm…I'll give you 1000 Jewel for the egg, Jeff. Fair?" Piper offered.

"Sounds good to me. I'll get it prepared for you to take with you."

Piper left the pet shop happier than she had been in a while. She was so excited that she found a Havati flying serpent egg. She was curious as to how Jeff came across it since that species is only indigenous to Bosco and not just Bosco but an island in the Great Grass Sea. These serpents were venomous. They were beautiful and a revered serpent by a once thriving clan. The literature reports that they even have wings and their poison is highly toxic. Piper was so lost in her thoughts she almost forgot where she was going. She adjusted her pack and headed towards Frank's Crab Shack. It started drizzling again as she made her way there.

The hostess seated her in her and Riko usual table. Their waitress took her order which was always the same. Riko finally showed up fifteen minutes later than he said he would.

"There's my beautifully weird sister." Riko said as he draped his arms around her shoulder and gave her a quick hug and peck on the cheek. He sat himself down in his seat. It was a corner seat where he could see the entire restaurant while they ate and talked. Even since he was kidnapped when they were teenagers and taken to Pergrande. Piper isn't sure to this day how Riko got out of that mess and made it back home. "How was school?" He asked as he took a long drink of his ice water.

"Uh…how about we start with why you have a black eye and busted lip…I thought you stayed out of the hand to hand shit?" Piper gave him a hard concerned look at her brother. She knew he tried to stay out of the hand-to-hand combat because he was a gun quip mage. He would rather shot a target from far off than be up and personal. She narrowed her yellow eyes on her brother's identical ones.

"Yeah…well…you see there was this mage…and well…he decided he wanted to…uh…yeah…be in my personal space…but don't worry sis, he got a good look at my twin ladies. Hehe" Riko laughed darkly. His twin ladies were his twin Berettas he only pulled out in case he was in confined spaces. Otherwise, her brother uses a long range Remington with a scope. He keeps them all in his pocket dimension at fingers reach. Her brother was a very accomplished gunquip mage.

His smile of course disarmed her. She could never stay mad at him with his boyish smile. Piper just rolled her eyes at him. "Whatever. You're alive. I ordered you're regular seafood dish. Oh, Papa called he wants to talk to you…and uh…he wants me to come to Fiore to meet Lucas."

Riko stilled and looked up at his sister. He hated that their parents divorced. He felt like their father betrayed their mother even though they both explained that it wasn't like that. Riko had a hard time accepting that his father was gay. "Uh…ok…you want me to feed your critters?"

"Yes…but that's not why I'm tel…"

"I'm not talking about it Piper. Can we change the subject?"

"Sure"

Their food came and they ate in silence. When they finished, Riko paid for the food, "I want you to join the guild Piper. It would make things easier for you if you did. Sam has already approved you as a member and has a lab set up for you to move right in. You can teach there and do whatever you do with the backing of a legal guild. I don't have to worry about drug lords and dark mage guilds abducting you. Think about it, ok." He picked up his duster and left.

"Well there is one of the things that's bothering him out in the open. He thinks I'm going to be abducted by drug lords or dark mages." Piper said to no one with a sigh. She was always so frustrated with her brother. He was a closed up person unless it involved the guild, guns, or him shooting things.

Piper got back to her apartment before a downpour started. She was still thinking about what her brother said. She made her mind up. She was going to talk to Papa about it and think it over the next two weeks. She hurried into her apartment to get her newly prized possession into one of her terrariums. Since she was going to be gonna for two weeks she had to clean her cages and milk her babies. She didn't keep constrictors. She only owned the venomous variety at home and milked them every three weeks. She had an empty area that she set up for the same conditions as the Great Grass Sea and gently placed her egg. Now she just waited.

After all her babies were taken care of, she went to her bathroom and started the water with her favorite bubble bath scent lemongrass. It was so refreshing and invigorating. She loved the scent of lemons in general. She cleaned with lemons in her apartment. It was a natural cleaning and didn't harm her little scaly friends. Piper checked her water temp, disrobed and slide down in the water. She let out a huge sigh as the almost too hot water warmed her to the bones.

An hour later, Piper got out of the water, toweled off, and wrapped her deep purple hair up in the towel. She put her lotion on her tan skin and pulled on one of Riko's old t-shirts that was three sizes too big on her petite frame. She walked out into toward her bedroom but noticed a hint of cigarette smoke in the air. Piper didn't smoke. Her blood ran cold and fear gripped her. She got her body to move toward her bedroom. She scrambled for her nightstand but the handgun that Riko gave her was not there. She heard a deep male voice laugh. "Oi, cutie. Don't boddah for dat pea shootah. We's already got it whiles yous was in da tub. Aren't wes gentlmenly? Ha Ha."

Piper slammed her bedroom door. She was breathing hard trying not to panic but it was difficult considering there was at one man in her apartment that she didn't let in. "Who the fuck are you and why the hell are you in my apartment?" She yelled through the door.

"Bossman wanted us to come and change your mind about coming to work for 'im. He said to tells you he'll give you whatever you want. He needs a good alchemist or something like that. Besides, you're a pretty dame too. Yous look good on da boss's arm. Ha ha look at me playing match matcher."

"I don't work for drug lords or dark guilds. I work for myself. You can tell your boss that. I've turned down all the drug lords. At least they've had the decency to NOT break into my apartment and scare the shit out of me." Piper yelled trying to hide the shaking in her voice. All of that is true. Drug lords have always been after her to design drugs for them. They are usually polite despite their volatile nature. They like to keep their candy makers happy. This is a first, breaking into her apartment.

"Bossman says yous say dat. He says he's not taking no for an answer this time…" the laughter in the voice disappeared.

Piper started panicking. She needed to get out now. She ran to her bedroom window and shimmied down the fire escape in the rain no shoes and only a t-shirt and panties. She started running. Her mind was reeling of thought of fleeing. She was able to get a few blocks was before her mind could think a bit clearer. She needed to get to the guild. She knew the guild was a few miles from her apartment to the west. It was dark and raining. She started hearing male voices shouting. She took off running toward the guild. She knew Riko would keep her safe. She wasn't a mage and how was she supposed to stay safe if anyone could just break into her apartment with three deadbolts and a security alarm without her knowing it. She knew there had to be a mage among them. She ran faster, her lungs burning, her legs burning. She saw the guildhall. She rushed through the courtyard and started banging on the door. She didn't have a guild emblem so the doors wouldn't open for her after hours. She kept banging until the doors opened and she spilled into the main hall soaking wet with bloody bare feet.

Nick heard the banging on the door and wondered who the hell was banging on the door this late. He opened the door and as soon as he did a wet bloody shaking purple mess fell into the main hall. He instantly recognized that purple mane anywhere, Piper Hatchet. "What the fuck Piper?! You're soak and wet in just a t-shirt and your feet are bleeding! What happened? Do I need to pulled Riko back from his mission?"

Piper had to get her brain out of panic mode to recognize the blond man that was picking her up off the floor, "Nick! Oh Gods they broke into my apartment and were gonna take me to go make their drugs and my babies are there and they got through my deadbolts and security system and took my gun that Riko gave me and…and…and…" Piper just broke down into sobs as Nick carried her to the guild infirmary so he could look at her feet. She clung to him for warmth and safety. Just knowing that someone she knew she felt safe and started relaxing but her mind wouldn't stop reeling.

Nick placed Piper on the cot and looked over her feet. They were dirty swollen and had several abrasions but nothing that needed to be sewn up. He cleaned them up and wrapped them. He was a water mage that used his magic for healing. His magic healed deep wounds deadly wounds. For non-lethal injuries he was stuck with traditional methods. His healing wasn't as powerful as a dragon slayer's healing that he has read about in magazine and books. He was a bit envious of Wendy Marvell and Cristoff Pradesh. They could heal would so completely, there was no scars. He wasn't a shabby just a different school of healing. He kept his guild mates alive to get to the hospital more often than not.

Nick was able to get Piper settled down warm and dry clothing. He wouldn't push her for any more information. He had enough to tell him what had happened. Riko told him that she would get offers all the time from pharmaceutical companies' dark guilds and drug lords. She always turned them down without issues until now. Someone wasn't taking to take no for an answer this time. It was late and Nick made sure Piper was comfortable before he went to wake the Sam. He knew he wasn't going to be happy about this. No one was gonna be happy; Piper and Riko grew up around they guild. Piper hadn't been to the guild in years. This was probably this first time since she left for the University when she was sixteen. Nick sighed and thought to himself, yep somebody just went an pissed in Sam's Wheaties.