Fairy Tail Academy

Prologue:

Lucy stood before the magnificent grand iron gates that surrounded the castle-like academy in front of her. The pink haired boy who had saved her earlier on – Nathan or something. She couldn't remember properly – was tugging at the rusty chains that kept the gates together, swearing at every failed attempt. Finally, he gave up and slumped to the ground, banging the back of his skull against the metal. "Damn fucking gates."

"I don't see what you're so angry about." Lucy chided him, tugging her bag back up onto her shoulder and striding forward, setting down her guitar case before leaning over his shrunken form and inspecting the chain. When she found nothing, she leant back. "If you're a student here, then they're going to have to let you in sooner or later, right?"
"Nope." He yawned, stretching him arms upwards and closing his eyes. "You can only get in with a card."
"Let me guess," Lucy drawled, sighing. "You lost yours?"
"Bingo. Now we just gotta wait until someone else gets here."
"You're kidding. Isn't there some sort of intercom somewhere? How do visitors get in?"
"You can look all you like." He said, opening one eye and watching her look around. "You ain't gonna find an intercom. This school don't get any visitors."

"Every school gets visitors." She hissed, glaring at the pink haired male.

"Like I said: not this one."
"What kind of school is this?!"
"The special kind."
Suddenly, a friendly voice came from behind the bickering pair, making Lucy jump. "Natsu, did you forget your card again?"

Lucy turned to see a petite blue haired girl – who couldnt've been more than 15 – place her hand son her hips mockingly and smile down at the pinkette. "You did, didn't you?"
"Might've."
"You really need to keep that thing in a safe place you know – one day someone might not come to your rescue like I do."
"Blah blah blah."
"Anyway," She sighed, before turning to rest her gentle gaze on Lucy. "Who're you? I don't think I've seen you before?"
Lucy returned the smile, glad to find someone normal for the first time today. "I'm Lucy. Natsu said he could get me enrolled here."
"Well hello Lucy," The bluenette smiled again, ignoring her slip up. "I'm Levy McGarden - 6th year student here. It's nice to know Natsu's made a friend."
"She ain't my friend."
"Oh shut it." Levy snapped suddenly, making Lucy jump again. "Sorry about that – he's not very polite. Anyway, shall we go in? At least I've got my card, unlike someone."
"No need to be like that."

"I need to be, or else nothing's gonna sort you out." The bluenette snarled before sliding her card across a glass panel that Lucy hadn't noticed beforehand. The iron gates slowly creaked open, and the threesome walked inside, allowing the gates to slide shut behind them again. Together they walked into the building and instantly Lucy's ears were filled with the sound of playful screaming, soft impacts and laughter.

The blonde stared in wonder as students began walking past her little trio with different reactions – most people nodding politely; small, friendly smiles sent in her direction.

"Oi, Featherbrain!" A loud, harsh voice cut through Lucy's day dream, and a tall, pale teenager about Lucy's age stalked forward, his arm pulled back, his fist clenched. "Where'd you go?"
"Gray-sama!" A small voice came from behind Gray's back, and Lucy noticed the shaking hands clutching his bicep, trying to restrain him. "Juvia doesn't think this is a very good idea."

"Yeah, listen to Juvia, Gray. Don't give Lucy here the wrong idea about Fairy Tail." Levy snarled, but ending up looking more like an angry puppy than anything else.

Gray shook off the hands that held his arms and lunged forward, digging his knuckles in Natsu's stomach. Instantly, the pinkette retaliated, and Levy sighed, turning Lucy around to face her.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail Academy."

And boy, what a welcome it was.

Lucy loved it already.

So here's the prologue to my version of the Fairy Tail Academy AU. I've never been truly happy with a FT school AU, so I wanted to try and take a shot of one myself. To me there's always been something missing from other school fics, and I realized what - some sort of adventure! Usually High School fics are 100% romance, or full of unnecessary love triangles, so I wanted to have a different plot line with my version - to which I decided that I would have a bit of mystery mixed in.

Don't worry, there will be some romance, but it won't be the main focus - I want to write something worthwhile and enjoyable, not just a romance with no plot.

If you're interested in reading more, here is the extract of the next chapter:

"I used to think that we were forever, ever,

And I used to say; 'Never say never'..."

Lucy grinned lopsidedly, and stopped strumming, reciting the next few lines. "Ugh... so he calls me up again, and he's like; 'I still love you' and I'm like... I just... this is exhausting! You know, like-"
"We are never getting back together! Like ever!" Cana screamed, finishing the line and jumping upwards clumsily, her fist pumping above her head in joy, laughing gleefully.

"NO!" Lucy sang, well more like laughed, picking her guitar back up and strumming randomly, not bothering to keep with the actual chords anymore.

We are never ever ever, getting back together!

We, are never ever ever getting back together,

You go talk to your friends-"

"Talk to my friends!" Cana grinned, throwing herself back down, cross-legged.
"Talk to me!
But we, are never ever ever ever getting back together."

Lucy slowly untangled herself from her guitar strap and placed it next to her as she watched Cana fling herself down, the upper half of her body dangling off the bed, her hair pooling on the floor. She smiled as she watched her friend's hands move animatedly as she began to mumble, all sign of consumed alcohol long gone.

(Just how much did this girl drink?)
"I am so over that bastard." She flapped, shaking her head. "I don't even know why I liked him! There's nothing special about him – he's just a teenage dirtbag who's obsessed with wooden children's toys. Whoops, did I say that out loud?"
Lucy giggled. "Yeah."
"Fuck it." The brunette pounded her fist on the floor and flung herself off the bed. Quickly, she got to her feet and rushed to the door, throwing it open ceremoniously and hanging her head out of it.

"Cana, what're you-"
"OI, EVERYONE!" She screamed, laughing hysterically. "BIXLOW, THE FUCKING DIRTBAG WITH A BAD HAIRCUT, IS OBSESSED WITH DOLLS. YOU HEARD ME RIGHT – THAT 18 YEAR OLD BOG IS OBSESSED, AND PLAYS WITH, WOODEN CHILDREN'S TOYS. THIS HAS BEEN A PSA, GOODNIGHT!"

By the end of her scream-fest, all the doors of the female dorms where open, the student's of Fairy Tail Academy hanging out of them just as Cana was, their mouth's hung open in shock. Suddenly, they all started laughing – a chorus of high and low female voices that Lucy suddenly thought sounded better than any musical composition she had ever been forced to listen to as a child. Cana's head jerked, and she whipped her face around to smile smugly at Lucy before turning back to stomp out of the door and into the passageway, another idea coming to mind.

"AND BIXLOW," She hollered, cupping her hands around her mouth as a makeshift megaphone, shaking her head to free her face from her unruly, unbrushed curls. "IF YOU CAN HEAR ME; YOU ARE A FUCKING ASSHOLE, WHO CAN'T LAST FIVE MINUTES IN BED. I HOPE I MEET THAT GIRL YOU CHEATED ON MY WITH SO WE CAN LAUGH ABOUT YOUR PATHETIC EXCUSE FOR A PENIS TOGETHER. CANA OUT!"

Lucy felt her mouth drop – did Cana really just-? Well, the answer was yes, because suddenly, all the older girls rushed from their doors and surrounded Cana, all taking turns slapping her on the back and laughing just as much as she was. The girl in question was stood, beaming, and practically oozing with pride. Lucy heard the sound of hysterical laughter from below her, and assumed that the guys in their dorms had in fact heard Cana's outburst, and were beside themselves just as the girls were. The blonde placed her head in her heads, shaking with compressed laughter. So this was Fairy Tail, huh?

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