I just thought that it would be a cool idea to write a story about a cold case in Fairy Tail. Except, of course, the title is called, "A Cold Request". Though, it was just a witty title because Fairy Tail's missions are like requests. :3
Anyway, enjoy the first chapter.
(In the Fairy Tail guild)
"Ahh! There's no good requests!" Lucy complained as she crossed her arms.
"Lucy, just pick one." Natsu hurried her in annoyance.
"Okay, okay!" Lucy accepted willingly and continued to analyze the multiple requests.
Lucy ravaged through the various requests, distastefully reading the odd requests and skimming the rewards. She sighed as she looked at the obviously impatient Natsu.
"Still nothing?" Natsu asked, slightly angered.
"Yep." Lucy nodded in reply and sat down on the nearest chair.
Natsu rubbed his forehead in annoyance and sat down next to Lucy. I mean, if one of your friends was looking through requests for over an hour, only to decide there was NOTHING, you would be annoyed too. He laid back comfortably and thought about what was possible on what to do.
"Sorry about not deciding, Natsu." Lucy apologized, realizing Natsu's disappointment.
"It's okay, Lucy. They weren't that great anyway!" Natsu happily grinned.
"Hmm? What's with the sudden change of mood?" Lucy queried with a cocked eyebrow.
"Well, let's just say, that I have a great idea." Natsu replied and grabbed onto the confused Celestial Spirit mage's hand. He quickly dragged her to Makarov's office whilst Lucy was screaming at him on why he was taking her there.
(Makarov's office)
"Makarov! It's me!" Natsu claimed loudly after breaking down the doors.
"Natsu..why can't you ever knock?" Makarov asked with a slight sigh.
"Oh yeah." Natsu answered and knocked on the door that was now lying on the floor. "Knock knock."
"Ugh..come in." Makarov invited, slightly sweat-dropping at Natsu's naive actions.
"I need to ask you something, old man." Natsu requested after letting go of Lucy's hand.
"Oh? What is it?" Makarov questioned, now intrigued.
"There seems to be no good requests for Lucy and I, and I just wanted know if there was any cold requests." Natsu answered, giving Makarov a serious look.
"Well, there is one." Makarov claimed and grabbed the request paper for Natsu.
Natsu accepted the paper and skimmed the request, his usual smirk, dropped down to a horrible frown.
"We'll take it." Natsu exclaimed and grabbed onto Lucy's arm, and dragged her outside to her apartment.
(In Lucy's apartment)
"So why did you drag me here?" Lucy questioned as she rubber her rather sore arm.
"I wanted to read it to you privately." Natsu answered with utmost seriousness in a deep voice. Lucy nodded an, "okay", and Natsu began reading the slightly torn paper.
"For one-million jewels, we need to find out who murdered Jazzie. Apparently, in our guild, there was a woman named Jazzie, and she was brutally murdered by someone possibly in our guild. Though, nobody found out who it was, leaving this as a cold case, and nothing more." Natsu read as sweat began dripping down his chin in anxiety.
"Someone..in our guild?" Lucy repeated in utter shock. She didn't even know what to think at this point. "How will we even know who it is?"
"I don't know..we can ask around..." Natsu answered and looked at Lucy. "Did you kill Jazzie?"
"AS IF I WOULD!" Lucy yelled out after she roughly punched Natsu in the stomach.
"Well, you do have murderous intent, but I'll let that slide for now.." Natsu coughed in pain from the rough punch, and walked back to the guild.
"Yeah.." Lucy growled as she followed the limping boy.
(Back to the guild)
As soon as Natsu and Lucy walked, they were glared at by just about everyone in the guild. Apparently they knew about the cold case being brought back for business. So everyone was on edge.
"This is uncomfortable.." Lucy whispered to Natsu, getting a nod in agreement. She sighed awkwardly at this odd watching, but she continued to search for Erza and Gray, to get help on the mission.
"There they are." Natsu declared with a vivid pointing session towards Erza.
"Ah, Erza!" Lucy waved frantically to get her attention.
"Hmm? What?" Erza asked after rubbing her eye tiredly.
"Want to do a mission with us?" Lucy asked hopefully.
"What mission?" Erza questioned, furrowing her eyebrows questionably.
"It's a cold request.." Lucy whispered cautiously, noticing the eyes gluing down at them.
"I'm sorry, but I can not." Erza whispered back uncharacteristically, and walked away without saying another word.
"Was that weird to you?" Lucy asked Natsu, cocking her eyebrow at him.
"Well, she's Erza." Natsu replied simply.
"Oh..yeah." Lucy sweat-dropped and began walking around the guild aimlessly with Natsu by her side. "What about asking Gray to help?"
"I guess we could ask, just in case the murderer tries to kill us, we could push him in front of us." Natsu agreed, seeing the advantage of having Gray join them in this request.
"That's not why! But we could do that.." Lucy stated thoughtfully, also noticing the advantage. "Ah! There he is!"
Natsu instantly looked ahead, and saw that shirtless fool doing..stretches? He sighed deeply and walked towards him with Lucy behind him. For just a few minutes he watched Gray stretch for some unknown reason, just because he thought it was humorous.
"Ah! Hey guys." Gray greeted after finishing his last stretch.
"Hi..why are you stretching?" Lucy asked quickly, not thinking about anything else, but this odd new thing that Gray was doing.
"Why? Are you..attracted by it?!" Gray questioned with a failed sexy wink.
"No.." Lucy said simply, waving her hands frantically in protest.
"Man..they said stretching gets a girl's attention." Gray muttered depressingly.
"Well..they were right about the attention part.." Lucy whispered to Natsu, comically sweat-dropping as she did so.
"Anyway! Gray, we need your help with a request.." Natsu exclaimed, hoping at least he would want to join. I mean as much as Natsu hates Gray, Gray IS strong.
"What's this request about?" Gray asked with noticeable excitement in his voice.
"It's a cold request, about a murder." Natsu replied, noticing the instant fear in Gray's eyes.
"I'm sorry, but I just can't!" Gray shouted quickly and dashed away.
"Everyone..is acting so differently after we accepted this request.." Lucy noticed, seeing the fear in everyone's eyes. Why was everyone like this? They were only doing a cold request.
Suddenly, a hand touched Lucy's shoulder, causing her spine to chill in a way that would stop anyone's heart. She looked behind to see who it was, and it was actually Mira. She huffed in relief, seeing that it was just sweet, little Mira. Thank goodness!
"Lucy..Natsu..come with me." Mira ordered in an oddly serious tone.
The two nodded slowly and walked behind Mira, still getting glares and stares from everyone in the guild. Finally, Mira took them to the woman's bathroom door, and told the two to go in.
"Umm..I'm a guy.." Natsu pointed out, not wanting to go in.
"And? It's just for a minute." Mira argued and began pushing him inside.
Natsu finally gave in, and the three locked themselves in a single stall. Mira took a deep breath and looked at the two.
"I know you're wondering why everyone is acting odd." Mira said out of the blue. "I would like to tell you the story of this cold request..if you wouldn't mind of course."
"Not at all." Lucy and Natsu accepted in unison, hoping for answers.
"Well, ten years ago, a girl named Jazzie joined our guild.." Mira began saying. "She was liked by just about everyone in the guild, and she was extremely strong. She even liked my brother, Elfman..."
Lucy quickly noticed how Mira said the last sentence in disgust, was Mira one of those people who didn't like her? Nah, she was Mira after all.
"Anyway..she and Elfman went on a mission together, and when they came back, Jazzie was injured. So, she was taken to the hospital, and on that very night..she was murdered.." Mira finished telling.
"That's it!?" Lucy queried in shock. Was that really all that Mira knew? There had to be more!
"Well..after that, Makarov made a request to find out who did it, but nobody could bring themselves to do it, due to the fact that they thought someone in OUR guild did the murder.." Mira added, looking down sorrowfully.
"I see..so that's why everyone is on edge.." Natsu said softly.
"But why are Erza and Gray acting weird?" Lucy questioned. "They joined at practically the same time Natsu did."
"Because..Gray and Erza went on this exact mission." Mira replied, shocking Natsu and Lucy to the point to where they fell back.
"What!?" The two yelled in unison.
I might continue this later on, but I'm very busy with other stuff, so it will take a while to update. I will most likely continue, but don't be too hopeful. I was just bored anyway while making this.
Reviews are loved, but requests are not being taken at the moment.