Author's Note: Hello this is HappyCamper999 and I am back with my THIRD ever story on this website. I am pleased to announce this is also my first ever crossover story!
It is important to note there will also be one Original Character featured in this story. He is featured in my last two fanfics, but you don't need to read them to enjoy this story! Everything you'll need to know about him will be included! :D
Without further ado, here it is, and I hope you enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. It, its story, character, settings and all other aspects are the property of Hiro Mashima. I also do not own Pokémon. It and all of its branches are the property of Nintendo and the Pokémon Company. The only pieces I can clam to this story are the themes and plot regarding this specific crossover, and several original characters.
Fairy Tail - I Choose You!
Prologue
It was a dark and rather stormy mid-Autumn evening in the town of Magnolia. The leaves in South Gate Park were all beginning to change color, and everyone in the village was preparing for their treacherous winter to come. Despite their efforts, tonight was not a good night to spend outside in the streets or in the shops, because the winds and rain were quickly descending on the peaceful town and turning the scene into a chaotic maelstrom.
As the storm whirled around the town, the weather started growing nastier as the night progressed. It was here that our heroes from Fairy Tail were preparing for their next mission.
Tasked with testing a new video game, and some new equipment from the Fiore Energy Company, Natsu and his lovable team of Fairies found themselves waiting in the basement of their crossed-town friend Nigel Thomas's luxurious three storied home on the east side of town. Here, Natsu and his friends waited in anticipation for their new mission to eventually be revealed.
"Oh man!" The pink haired Fire Dragon Slayer began cheering with excitement. "I can't wait to test this thing out! Nigel says it's a pretty popular video game!"
His little blue friend, Happy, chose to respond first. "Aye! I bet it's gonna be loads of fun! He even said you get to go inside the game and play it through virtual reality."
Despite the two wizards and their childish wonderment, their blonde friend Lucy, who was also sitting with the group in wait, decided to clarify a few things before everyone grew too excited.
"Hold on. Let's just consider the fact that this whole virtual reality thing may not be as exciting as it sounds." She tried reasoning with them as her mind filled with the worst thoughts imaginable. "What if something bad happens, or the game decides to crash with everyone inside? It is storming after all!"
Carla, the little white exceed fully agreed with Lucy's concerning message. "I'm with her. What if the game breaks down while everyone is trapped inside? For that matter alone, how can you all be so excited about this nonsense!?"
Wendy, her blue haired friend, chose to respond. "Relax, Carla everything will be fine! After all Nigel's company is full of professionals. He won't let anything bad happen to us!"
Gray chose to reply. "Yea, plus his company's board is deciding to give us a pretty big donation for testing it out when it's all said and done."
Erza, among all the bickering decided to chime in as well. "Either way, this is a rather unique experience for everyone involved. What about you Cana? Have you heard from Nigel about any of the issues the game might have from previous tests?"
"Hehe, well..." Cana spent the most time with Nigel out of anyone in the group, because his usual spot of visitation inside the guild hall was the bar. She took a drink from her own jug of liquor and tried to explain what she knew. "Look, it's like what Gray said; the guild will get a lot of money for doing this, and that's not even coming out of Nigel's pockets either. It's practically a win win for everyone."
Juvia, the beautiful Water Mage sat next to her beloved Gray in concern as well. "I'm not sure what will happen, but as long as you join me, Gray I will be alright!" She glowed with delight and enthusiastically latched herself onto his right arm.
On the other hand, Gray sat next to her in pure discomfort. "Yea, just don't get too close during the transfer, alright."
Lucy turned to her friend Levy McGarden, who was deep in through as she read a large encyclopedia on a desk in the room. "So Levy, did Nigel decide to bring you on as a researcher?"
Levy stopped her studies and replied with a friendly expression. "Yea, it looks like he's really counting on me to help keep things running smoothly."
Sitting next to the card mage was a sleeping Gajeel and a rather concerned Pantherlily. The latter chose to speak on the pending mission. "I hope Gajeel wakes up in time to prepare for the transfer. I can't imagine it will be very light on the mind. He should be awake for this."
Natsu chose to laugh. "Ah let the guy sleep. After all he'll need it to get through the game. I bet that punk won't even last five minutes in there!"
"Sorry I'm late! I'm glad you guys made it in alright." Just then, the doors to the basement opened, and from them emerged a rather formally dressed but frantically paced Nigel. He was wearing one of his black suits reserved for business meetings, and his wavy brown hair was all messed up in short little tangles, which means he clearly just made it back from either Hargeon or the capital Crocus itself.
Nigel Thomas was a shipping industry leader that came across the Fairy tail guild not too long ago. He owned and operated a blanket company out of Crocus titled the A.N.T. Konzern, and his main focuses included shipping, manufacturing, and engineering. With that in mind, his very own company's engineering branch, the Fiore Energy Company, was having him invest in a new line of games that were known as a hit throughout the entire world.
Nigel seemed to be just as eager to test the newest Beta for the game as well, and hired his close Fairy Tail friends to help him accomplish that goal. He poured into the room carrying a mound of paper work in one hand, and a glass of liquor to help him get started on the project in the other.
The brown haired mage then addressed the group as he took his chair at the center of the computer monitor. "Okay, I hope everyone is ready? Cause my day has been pretty long so far, and I'm only looking forward to testing this game!"
Happy jumped out of his seat and cheered him on. "Aye Sir! Let's throw these guys into a video game!"
Nigel laughed and clapped his two aching hands together. "Alright, glad to see some enthusiasm! Okay like I explained last time we met, I'm gonna need six volunteers to enter my virtual reality pods, and jump into the game."
He then gestured to eight dormant sleeping chambers that sat at the side of the room. They appeared to be hooked to wires that ran through a system of computer-powered lacrima, and made their way to the main computer at the very back wall of the room.
Nigel paused after explaining the situation in order to make room for responses, and without fail Natsu was the first to jump up. "Okay! Sign me up!"
The pink haired mage then ran for one of the middle chambers, and slammed the door/roof shut immediately after climbing in. He was shortly followed by Wendy, who seemed rather eager to join in on the project as well.
"This sounds like it's going to be really fun! I've always heard these games are a blast!" She cheered enthusiastically as she climbed in to her pod, which was clearly labeled #1.
Gajeel was the third to step forward, apparently waking up just in time for the mission. He was shortly followed by Erza, but carried on marching as he raised his voice. "Okay, time to show these idiots who's boss!"
Erza laughed and softly shook her head. "You truly are a fool sometimes, Gajeel." She continued grinning as them both climbed into two of the extra pods sitting in the row of eight in total.
Gray started walking towards the fifth pod, and as he did, Juvia continued latching on to his arm and pleaded for mental comfort. "Oh Gray, darling, can't we just share a pod!? I'm sure nothing awful will come from it! I'm tiny enough for both of us to sqeeze into on, so I know we'll fit perfectly inside!"
Gray looked at her like she was completely crazed (and she probably was.) He slowly explained his reasoning as he stepped into his pod. "Juvia, I don't think that's such a good idea…"
Just then Nigel recalculated a few inputs on his sheets of paper, and sat down at the main computer. He paused while the others finished loading themselves into position and began addressing the remaining group. "Oh shoot…it looks like I'm gonna need a seventh member to join in after all…"
Lucy, Levy, and Cana all paused with him, because they seemed to be the only remaining humans left in the room.
Nigel chose to continue. "Relax, you won't have to do anything. I only need an extra person to step into the game and act as an official for the battle sequence."
Because the game is not able to compute exceeds into its system, one of the three girls had to eventually step up to volunteer.
Levy tried ignoring everything around her as she read her books from the desk chair next to Nigel. "Um…I'm sorry but I already have a job here."
Cana on the other hand continued sipping from her bottle of liquor with a sarcastic expression on her face, as she lounged around on Nigel's side opposite of Levy. "Yea…so do I..."
Left all alone, Lucy Heartfilia was the only one there who had no excuse to deny Nigel's request.
The Celestial Spirit Mage started turning red with raw anger, and yelled out with an annoyed tone in her voice. "Ugh, FINE! But I better get something extra for doing this!"
Nigel laughed and gave her a sarcastic clap. "Oh relax, Lucy. You actually the one who's gonna relate to this game the most!"
She looked puzzled. "W-why is that?"
He responded. "Because this game is all about the player controlling different beings and creatures to fight for them in intense battles. It's called Pocket Monsters."
She looked even more confused. "Pocket Monsters?"
Levy shot up. "Oh, you mean Pokémon? Yea it's those games about little creatures that fight each other!"
Nigel replied with excitement. "Yea! Those games! Our energy company just purchased the production rights for the newest series, and now we're revamping the game to feature all new three-dimensional graphics and virtual reality playing. We're calling it X & Y"
As Lucy ignored their cheery attitudes, she continued acting grumpy while stepping into the seventh pod. "Ergh...Okay, if you guys insist…"
The group chose to ignore her as well and carried on with the preparations. As they did, the three humans and 3 exceeds looked away from the pods all at the exact same moment, and just then Juvia decided to do the unthinkable.
Before all of the pods sealed shut, she slid out of her own pod, and open up Gray's from the outside in order to climb in with him...just so she would feel more comfortable playing the game closer to her beloved.
Gray woke up and immediately shrieked as he started clawing at the ceiling of his now shut pod. "JUVIA! DAMN IT, WHAT THE HELL!?"
As the poor Ice-Make mage yelled and yelled, his favorite person in the world shut the cabin door behind her, and from there all the pods finally sealed shut, right as Nigel turned the entire computer system on.
Then Nigel and his team of Levy and Cana continued with the game's introduction.
However, it would appear that the video console was not responding very well with all of the magical energy inside the seven contestants. As it charged for play in its battle mode, the console started to produce smoke.
Lily sniffed the air and immediately looked around in concern. "Um, does anyone else smell that smoke?"
As Nigel and the others went to respond, a large lightning bolt form the storms above struck the top of the house, and as it sent a charge through the building walls, it also caused the video game to short circuit and restart, leaving only a black screen frozen on the monitor.
Nigel dropped his drink on the ground and stared blankly at the blackout monitor.
The room got quiet, and Happy chose to respond first. "Um…Nigel…What just happened?"
Suddenly the game powered on, and the title screen for the video game popped up in a near blinding white light, followed by and introductory screen.
The only issue was, the option to play the quick and simple battle mode that they were anticipating was greyed-out and left un-clickable.
From there, all's that showed up was the words "Story Mode" and "Options."
Nigel looked on in awe as he voiced his concerns.
"Well…sh*t…"
So yes! Nigel, my OC, is a businessman from Fiore, and a friend of the guild. He is here to introduce the Pokemon games into the Fairy tail universe for me, without having to use a different person!
I've actually gone back and corrected some things throughout this story, and I will easily say this always remains one of my favorites I've ever written. If you're new to my page I thank you for finding me, and for giving my story a try!
Anyways, Chapter 1 is up next! :)