She is a water dragon slayer that had been living, and aging, under the sea for 17 years. She is as old as Sting and Rogue, but unlike the rest of the slayers, when her dragon disappeared, she had been left alone in the underwater cave she had grown up in. It isn't until an accident breaches her cave, causing the only home she has ever known to begin the collapse, that she dares to venture into a world she couldn't even fathom.
A/N: Hey guys, Gwen here! Just wanted to welcome you to the story, which I hope you will enjoy!
"Natsu look! There's someone out there!" Lucy exclaimed, pointing out to the ocean. Natsu had just pummeled a weird slug monster into the ground, causing a deeper than normal crater in the ground nearby.
"Huh, where'd they come from?" Natsu said, looking out to where Lucy was pointing. Sure enough, floating about forty feet away from shore was a person. From the shore, they looked to have ghostly pale skin and dark, maybe purple, hair. One thing that Lucy hadn't noticed initially, however, was that, without disturbing the water at all, the figure seemed to be getting closer.
As they approached, and subsequently rose from the water, the Fairy Tail mages realized that the figure was distinctly female. She was wearing an incredibly long white skirt and the only thing covering her ample bosom was her long violet hair. Natsu looked away after a brief stare. Lucy's jaw hung open as the girl, or more aptly, woman, rose from the surf and stood on the rocky shore. The girl approached them, apparently unconcerned with her lack of clothes.
"Um, Hello. Do you want something?" Lucy asked. The girl looked at Lucy and gave her a look that was very familiar.
"Tsk, not with you," the new woman said towards the celestial mage. She turned from Lucy and looked at the vaguely pink-faced Natsu. In the blink of an eye she was lifting him up by the scarf, her grey eyes darkening. "You destroyed my home!" Natsu looked confused.
"What home, all I destroyed was that slug monster." he replied, obviously not understanding what the angry top less lady was talking about.
"Your reckless use of slayer magic caused my cavern to collapse! Now where am I supposed to wait for Marianna to return! She told me that she would always come home, but now home is gone and so is she and and..." She shouted at the fire mage, losing steam towards the end. She dropped him, as if suddenly realizing that something much worse than losing her home had happened. She turned away. Lucy noticed that this girl was obviously not ok.
"Hey, hey. What's your name?" They blonde asked. The girl didn't turn back to look at Lucy.
"Rio..." the new girl replied.
"Alright, and you lived underwater? With this person named Marianna?" Lucy prompted. Rio looked back at Lucy and shook her head.
"Marianna isn't a person, she is a Dragon," Natsu's eyes grew wide "They Sea dragon, to be precise. She can fly and swim and she raised me in a cavern that was-" she glared at Natsu "directly below this location," Rio finished.
"Did she disappear on July 7th 777?" Natsu blurted out. The girl shrugged.
"I'm not sure. She often would leave for days or weeks at a time to get me stuff like books or clothes, but this last time was different. Weeks bled into months bled into years bled into twelve. She told me she would always come back, I just had to be patient, but now I'm not so sure," she said sadly.
"So you have been alone all this time?" Lucy asked, reaching out to touch the girl, who only leaned back to avoid it. Rio gave Lucy a small smile.
"Well, no..." The girl said, looking down again. "A little after Marianna left, this giant egg fell into the water. I was afraid the pressure would cause it to crack, so I swam out and caught it before it could go too deep. A little while later this-" she reached into a previously unseen slit in her skirt and pulled out a pink cat in a cute white dress made out of the same material of Rio's skirt "hatched out of the egg! I call her Nila!" Rio said. Suddenly Happy, who had been uncharacteristically quiet, piped up.
"If you were raised by a Dragon, and you have an Exceed, then you must have dragon slayer magic!" the blue cat said. Natsu nodded and looked down at his friend
"Well, if she is a dragon slayer, than she has got to be pretty tough,"
"If would say so, considering I had nothing to do down in the caverns other than train," Rio tossed in. Lucy looked between Natsu and Rio and knew what was about to happen.
"OK then. If you are so tough, I guess that means we have to fight!" The pink hair boy shouted, fists lighting on fire. Rio smirked.
"Well I would love to, but I'm really not dressed for it," she said, popping her hip and gesturing to her top less frame. Natsu turned off the fire fist and stepped out of his fighting stance.
"Right, oh and I guess I'm sorry about you cavern," The boy said. Rio shrugged. Lucy let out a breath she hadn't known she was holding.
"It's alright. I think it might have been the wake up call I had needed this whole time,. If it weren't for you, I might have waited for Marianna my whole life," Rio told him.
"Ok, now that Natsu has apologised. We need to figure out our next steps," Lucy said, putting her fist in her hand and looking at the two dragon slayer before her. The both looked at her like she was stupid.
"We take her home to Fairy Tail, of course!" Natsu told his partner as if it was the only logical option. Rio nodded.
"Yes. In stories that Marianna told me, whoever rescues the damsel, me, from her tower, cavern, is then responsible for said damsel," she explained logically. Lucy thought about that reasoning for a second.
"I guess that makes sense. I mean, we destroyed her home, so I guess she is now invited to stay at ours!"
A/N: I am not good at ending chapters. I would love it if you guys could review with your thought, feelings, and questions!