Fairy Tail
True Light
Well, I've been following this manga/anime for a while and once again the gears in my head began to turn. And what I came up with was something that I usually don't do. Usually when I do a fan fiction I try to stick with the official main characters and their lives, only inserting my own fan characters as part of their friendship circle.
However, this story took a different turn than I expected. I thought about it for a while and I decided to take a whack at it. So this story is kind of an exercise to help broaden my writing talents and such.
I will say now that there is going to be some harsh language, but I refuse to use the inappropriate swear words (I'm not going to drop the f-bomb or things like that). I also will not go into any adult content. I'm going to keep this as PG-13 as possible.
This story is going to take place several years in the future. Although I don't know how the canon series of Fairy Tail will end, I'm just going to assume that it ends with everyone defeating Achnologia and Zeref's army.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters; I am merely exploring a possible story.
With that said, let's begin.
"Breaking the dark of night, piercing through the painted white. Cut it all away from yesterday 'till a new era's in sight. Unlock the heart within, let it spread its wings and soar. Rising up in flight, through the night of white, and fly on forever more"
~True Light (English Version)
Chapter 1
A New Beginning
In the magical land of Fiore, there stands a strong and infamous wizard guild known as Fairy Tail. Many of the nation's strongest wizards reside in this guild, and the family of Fairy Tail continues to grow.
It is now that a new generation of Fairy Tail wizards begins to rise.
On a clear, sunny day, in the port town of Hargeon, a teenaged girl was walking down through the streets. She wore an olive green, loose fitting jacket with the hood up over her head, concealing her hair and the upper part of her face. The jacket reached down to her calves, hiding her cloths underneath. On her feet, she wore pair of sandals that had red straps and black bottoms.
The girl looked down at the piece of paper she was carrying in her right hand. It was a job request to catch some deranged convict who has been setting fire to houses at random. At the bottom on bold print, it said that the reward for the capture was 200,000 Jewel.
"Well," the girl smirked, "if fire is involved, then this will be no problem for me."
She turned to look at the clock tower to see what time it was. Her grin turned into a concerned frown when she saw that it was fifteen minutes past noon.
"I better hurry," she mumbled. "Gotta get back to the guild before I'm missed."
At that moment, the girl heard the sound of an explosion that was immediately followed by frantic screams and shouts. She looked over in the direction it came from and saw a pillar of smoke billowing up into the blue sky above the rooftops of the city.
Her confident grin returned to her face.
"Looks like I found my target."
Without a moment of hesitation, the girl set off running as fast as she could through the streets of Hargeon. As she did, she passed by screaming citizens who were racing for dear life in the opposite direction.
As she ran by a man and a woman, she heard something that made her stop for a brief moment.
"Did that guy say he was Salamander!?"
"Yeah, but I never thought one of Fairy Tail's S-Class wizards would go rogue like this!"
The girl's dark eyes briefly appeared from under the shadow of her hood. They had a kind of wild look to them, and they glinted with suspicion.
"Salamander?" her whisper bordered on a menacing growl.
Gritting her teeth and narrowing her eyes, the girl set out in a dead sprint until she came upon a burning building that looked as if it was once a Magic shop.
Standing in the middle of the wreckage and amongst the flames, laughing maniacally was a man with spiky pink hair.
The girl scowled when she saw him.
"Are you the one who claims to be Salamander?!" she shouted and pointed a finger at him.
The man in the flames turned to see the girl and grinned wickedly.
"That's right!" he sneered. "And who are you suppose to be?!"
"Prove it!" the girl replied snappishly. "C'mon, I dare ya!"
"Huh, cocky little brat, aren't ya?! Okay, but you're going to regret it!"
The girl stood her ground as the man before her took a deep breath before shouting.
"FIRE DRAGON ROAR!"
A funnel of flames shot from the man's mouth and enveloped the girl in a blaze of destruction. The man only smirked for a moment before he was met with a shocking revelation.
Although the fire was burning bright, he could just make out the girl's silhouette standing in the middle of it. She wasn't writhing in pain or screaming in agony either. She was just standing there.
And…was she yawning?
"Ugh!" she said tauntingly, and loud enough so that he could hear her. "I knew something about you was off! Not only do you smell wrong, but your flames taste awful!"
The girl opened her mouth wide and the fire that surrounded her began to flow right into it.
Once she had consumed all the flames, she stood up tall and wiped her chin.
"Still," she smirked cockily, "thanks for the grub."
The man in front of her was dumbstruck by this.
"Who ARE you?!" he demanded.
The girl looked at the man in front of her and scowled viciously.
"You don't know who I am?" she said in a low voice.
The girl then threw off her jacket to reveal her identity.
She had on a deep purple vest with gold trimming. Underneath it was a light grey sleeveless shirt that went up to her collarbone. She had on loose, tannish pants that went down to the middle of her calves, and around her waist was a purple skirt-like cloth with gold trimming that went down to her knees, and was opened in the middle.
Her skin was a peachy beige color, her eyes were dark, piercing green, and her short, spiky hair was sakura pink.
On the upper part of her right arm was an emerald green marking that looked like a tattoo of a fairy skipping.
"My name is Alu, I'm a Fairy Tail wizard!" she declared angrily. "But if you were really Salamander then you'd know my name already! You're just an imposter!"
"What?!" the man was taken aback.
"And that stuff you call "Dragon Slayer Magic" is pathetic!" Alu raged, "You insult the real Salamander! And I'm not going to let you dirty his good name!"
Alu slammed the palms of her hands together and streams of pale fire began to swirl around her. She then spread her arms out like wings and leapt high up into the air. Balls of fire emanated from her hands as she curled them up into fists.
With a flip and a swing of her arms, she shouted at the top of her voice,
"FIRE DRAGON WING ATTACK!"
Flames streamed out from her hands and crisscrossed down towards the Salamander imposter. He leapt out of the way and back flipped out of the burning building, landing outside of the wreckage.
Alu gracefully landed back down onto the road and looked up with a grin.
"Why didn't you eat my flames?!" she jeered. "If you were really Salamander you would've greedily gobbled them up! Another proof that you're a fake!"
"SHUT UP!" the man bellowed.
In a whirl of white light, the man changed his physical form. Now he had straight, onyx-black hair, grey eyes, and he was dressed in some kind of weird crimson robe that left only one of his right arm bare.
"Transformation Magic, eh?!" Alu sneered. "You really think you can beat me with that?!"
Suddenly, a black rope shot from the man's hand and began to wrap itself around Alu. Although she was late to respond with an escape, she managed to raise her right arm in time as the rope pinned her left arm to her torso. She grimaced and squirmed as the rope tightened around her.
"Try getting out of this one, brat!" the man shouted, his voice now a very different tone than his previous one. "This rope is resistant against any fire attack!"
Alu just gave a impish grin.
"Really?!" she said, gritting her teeth. "Well guess what; Dragon Slayer Magic isn't all I've got up my sleeve!"
With a swift flash of her hand, Alu grabbed something from off her belt underneath her vest and held it high above her head. It was a curiously shaped golden key that looked like it had some kind of crab-claw motif.
"OPEN, GATE THE GIANT CRAB!" Alu commanded. "CANCER!"
Out of a blue and gold magic circle, a Celestial Spirit in the form of a man came through. His skin was tanned and he wore a striped blue shirt with black pants and shoes. He also had on a pair of green shades, which concealed his eyes. On his back were six crab legs on his back, and he had a pair of scissors in each hand.
"What's up, baby?" he said in a cool, collected voice that reminded Alu of chocolate. "You need me to style up that hair of yours?"
"Eh, maybe later, Cancer." Alu frowned awkwardly. "Right now, I need you to get me out of this."
"Wait!" the man who had Alu caught exclaimed in shock. "You're a Celestial Wizard, too?!"
"Yeah, you better believe it!" Alu shouted with a confident smirk, remembering she was still in the middle of a fight.
Cancer leapt into action. In less than a second, moving so quickly that no one could see him clearly, he had cut the rope that was binding Alu to pieces. The release of tension caused the enemy wizard to stumble back a bit.
"Thanks a million, Cancer." Alu said to the Celestial Spirit, winking. "I can take it from here."
"No prob, baby." Cancer replied before disappearing in a glitter of golden light.
Alu turned back to the wizard in front of her and called forth some flames to the bottom of her feet. Each of them burned intensely, but her skin and sandals were left unscathed. Alu then rushed forward with a battle cry and kicked her right leg out.
"FIRE DRAGON TALON!"
Before the wizard in front of her had time to react, Alu's foot made contact with the center of his chest. He let out a sharp gasp of pain and flew backwards straight into the wall of a nearby building.
"Ha!" Alu scoffed. "That's what you get when you mess with a Fairy Tail wizard. Especially one that's - UGH!"
Alu didn't get to finish her sentence because at that moment she felt all of her energy drain from her at once. The pale fire around her feet flicked for only a moment before extinguishing completely. She fell to her knees and panted for air. Sweat began to drip down her face and her limbs felt shaky.
"No, not now!" she thought desperately to herself. "I can't be out of Magic now!"
To make matters even worse, the wizard criminal emerged out of the clouds of dust and rubble like some kind of nightmare. He had a very nasty smile on his face that was only accented by a horrible cut on his chin. When he saw Alu down, he let out a maniacal laugh that sent shivers down her spine. He then began to walk over towards her. Alu tried to get up and move, but her legs were so weak that she ended up stumbling before falling over on her right side. Although she was scared, she hid her fear behind her scowl.
"Did you honestly think that rope was just merely for knotting people up like pretzels?" the criminal wizard said jeeringly. "From the time it was on you, it was slowly sapping away your magic power. Not that there was much to take."
The wizard reached Alu and shot a hand out, grabbing her by her hair. She let out a painful scream as he hoisted her up to his face. She curved in pain and discomfort, wrinkling her nose at the smell of his horrible breath.
"I know you now," he sneered. "You're Fairy Tail's Weak Link."
"I'M NOT A WEAK LINK!" Alu protested fervently, kicking her legs with what little strength her body had. "I'M A CELESTIAL WIZARD AND DRAGON SLAYER! PUT ME DOWN OR YOU'LL BE SORRY!"
The man ignored her and continued to gloat.
"It's a shame," he said in a dark, mocking tone. "You're the daughter of two S-Class wizards of Fairy Tail, yet your strength pales in comparison to theirs. How misfortunate they were to produce such a weak offspring like you."
Before the wicked man could continue, something happened that changed the situation completely.
There was the sound of water being sucked into a tube. Both Alu and the wizard holding her captive suddenly remembered the burning house just beside them and looked over to see what was going on.
The fire was rapidly growing smaller. Streams of it were all being absorbed by something that was standing in the middle of the rubble. When the flames had died a little more, they could both see that it was a man in a one-sleeved dark blue coat with a long cloth trimmed with gold around his waist, loose-fitting pants, and black sandels.
They also realized that he was eating the flames.
Alu's eyes widened in shock and she inhaled sharply. She who this person was. There was no mistaking that scaly white scarf, the spiky sakura-colored hair, and the red Fairy Tail guild mark on his exposed right arm. Not to mention, his scent of burning mahogany embers was more than enough to confirm it.
It was Natsu Dragneel of Fairy Tail. The real Salamander.
Once Natsu was finished devouring the flames, stripping the building clean of any fire, he stood up and looked at the enemy wizard with an angry glint in his onyx-colored eyes.
"You let her go right now!" he demanded in a strong, deep voice.
The wizard holding Alu by her hair turned pale and quickly let her go. Alu fell to the ground and winced as the impact shot pain up her back. She only took a second to nurse the ache on her rump before looking back up at what was happening in front of her.
Natsu began walking toward the wizard who had just released her. He was scowling so hard that Alu could see the veins popping out of his face. His fists were curled up so tight that the knucklebones underneath were visible, and strong orange fire was quickly forming around them.
"Trying to impersonate me is one thing, you punk!" Natsu growled. "But harming and mocking a member of my guild is unforgivable! Especially her!"
The enemy wizard stammered as he backed away from Natsu. He was so terrified of the Dragon Slayer that his mouth was unable to form any words. He tried sending out the same black ropes that he had used on Alu before, but Natsu kept walking forward, cutting them away with his fire like they were just little flies.
Alu gave a nervous grin. This wizard had every right to be afraid of Natsu. After all, he wasn't an S-Class Wizard of Fairy Tail for nothing.
"This guy is toast." Alu mumbled.
At that moment, Natsu's fist flared up with even more Dragon Slayer fire.
"But thanks to your little arson crime," he snarled viciously at the enemy, "I've got a fire in my belly that's raging to get out!"
Before anyone could blink, Natsu darted forward with incredible speed.
"FIRE DRAGON IRON FIST!" he bellowed.
The flames around Natsu's hands lit up with an honest and powerful red glow, and he swung his right fist right under the enemy wizard's chin. The uppercut sent the man flying high over the rooftops of the buildings. He sailed straight over the city and hit the city bell, which let out a resounding "GONG". This knocked him out cold and he fell down to the marble floor underneath the bell.
With the threat nullified, Natsu loosened his shoulders and grunted. He then turned around sharply to look at the girl behind him. When he saw her, his appearance softened, but only just a little bit. The blood vessels that were visible before had vanished from his face, and his eyes became less narrowed. Still, he was looking at the young wizard with a stern expression.
Alu looked up at Natsu and shrunk back. Her eyes were filled with concealed worry, and her cheeks were red with embarrassment.
She could tell by the look on his face that she was in trouble. Deep trouble.
"Alu Layla Dragneel." Natsu said firmly. "What've you got to say for yourself this time?"
Alu lowered her gaze and grumbled miserably, "Thanks for the save…Dad."