For those who don't know, this is the second in a series of inter-dimensional stories featuring OC's that I had planned on doing about a year ago, but had just never got in to doing. If you haven't read the first one it's titled "The Time Alchemist" and it would be good if you take a look at it before going with this. now I present, Silence at Midnight, a Doctor Who/Fullmetal Alchemist/Fairy Tail X-over.
Last Two Months
Pepper Miller, a fourteen year old girl, four foot ten with shoulder length curly black, and licensed monster hunter sat at a table in the Fairy Tail guild hall, a croissant in a plate in front of her still steaming fresh along with a side of poached eggs and a cup of black coffee, her usual breakfast for every Friday. On a normal day for her she would find herself walking the guild hall with Pippin, her Exceed partner, dropping in and out on random conversations that caught her ear, or just hanging around the bar with her friends and making childish jokes towards her friends, and teasing them in a friendly way, or just walk around Magnolia with her best friend Wendy Marvel and her Exceed companion Carla. That would be a normal day for the mage. But today was not one of those, and neither was it the first. She looked at the newspaper article that had her eye caught for the last two weeks, a case that seemed very similar to a series of events that she had come across before.
What are you? What are you doing? Are you even human? She thought, looking hard at the newspaper she had bought this morning, and leaving the rest of the world tuned out as though it didn't matter
"Pepper what are you doing?" Pepper jumped at the voice that had come out of nowhere, she hit her leg on the table, causing her coffee to fall over and fall on her lap, and still piping hot. Pepper let out a shrill yelp as she stood up, tossing the chair she was sitting on to the floor flailing her arms around as the coffee dripped down her mini skirt and leggings. She eventually tripped over it as she walked back and ended up "sitting" on it on her back. When the moment was over she found herself looking up at a very pretty young girl perhaps around twelve, with long blue hair and wearing a light blue and yellow spaghetti strap dress, and floating next to her on a pair of wings was a white anthropomorphic cat wearing a light yellow and pink frilled dress, also known as an Exceed.
"Oh, hi Wendy, Carla." She said to the two of them in an almost bored monotone.
"Oh, Pepper I'm sorry, are you okay?" the young girl, Wendy, apologized. Pepper looked up at the young Dragon Slayer.
"It's fine, I'm okay." She said getting up.
"Oh good." Wendy said relieved. Pepper stood up and looked around, taking in the sight of the guild hall. Then Pepper felt a look on her, something not uncommon made towards her, but all the more worrisome still. She turned to her friends and saw that it was Carla who was looking at her, her arms crossed across her chest. Pepper felt uneasy as the Exceed looked at her, as it she were trying to pick her apart and study her.
"Okay ill bite, what is it?" she finally asked unable to handle the staring.
"How has your investigation been going?" Pepper was taken aback at Carla's comment. When has she ever been this blunt before? Yes she does act like a mother when motivating a child, but this was out of place for her.
"What do you mean Carla?" pepper retaliated a little harsher than she intended.
"I'm afraid that was me." Said a masculine voice from behind. They all turned to look as another exceed had come in, with black fur except on his ears and paws, and dressed up as a bartender, a serious look on his face that was direct at Pepper, who did not seem to be happy to see the cat that was approaching them. Pip Miller was Pepper's ever loyal companion. Since the day he had hatched seven years ago, she had taught him how to assist her in her monster hunting journeys, and has proven to be formidable on his own. But at the same time he acts like an older brother to the girl, letting her have fun, but still keeping her in line and out of unnecessary trouble.
"Pippin what did you say to them." Pepper only ever called Pip by his full name whenever she was peeved with him.
"Do you remember what you have done the last two weeks?" Pip said harshly before Pepper could continue. "Doing nothing except look at the paper and walk around Magnolia all day, stopping at the murder sights."
Over the last two months, a series of unnerving murders had cropped up throughout Magnolia. The first one reported was of a young man found in an alleyway, his body seemed unhurt and untouched, and it did not appear to be a mugging because he still had his valuables on him. The only marks on him were a heavy black burn mark that was in the shape of a human hand. The autopsy said the man had died of an electrical shock caused by the burn marks. The unnerving part of it all though was that there was not a trace of magic on the man, his injuries, or the crime scene, but worst of all was that there was no identifiable motive for the man's murder; he had no enemies, no debts, and his slate was clean, and foe the month following there would be two more murders of the same caliber, but outside of the way they died the other victims had nothing in common with each other. And since the last death, Pepper has had her eye on the case.
"oh god you guys, throw me a bone here." Pepper groaned. "I'm not getting obsessed with these murders. I just find them curiously fascinating."
"the same way you've been walking around the city to look at the murder sights?" Carla said.
"Christ Carla." Pepper turned from her and headed to the guilds bar where Mirajane waved them hello while Carla, Wendy and Pip followed behind. "Even if I was investigating these murders, it's not like I have credentials to get access to the information." She took a seat and ordered a glass of orange juice. When it arrived she took a sip and turned to face them. "And if it's any consolation, I'll most likely forget about it in a few days." Wendy took a seat next to her while Pip and Carla flew and stood on the bar. The four of them sat there in an awkward silence, looking at nowhere except each other. Pepper sipped her juice, Wendy bit in to a strawberry crepe she had ordered, Carla simply sat there, and Pip fiddled with his bow tie.
Pepper let out a sigh. "you guys want to go for a walk?"
The four of them had been walked Magnolia for the last half hour. They had done nothing more than make small talk and buy an occasional snack at a nearby store.
"Guess there's nothing much today." Wendy finally said. Pepper didn't say anything; she kept her gaze on the ground as she slowly thought back to the article. "Pepper, are you okay?" Wendy asked. She looked up at her friend giving her a false smile.
"Everything fine do-." But Pepper was interrupted as they heard a loud scream from afar.
"What is it?" Carla asked looking in the direction of the scream.
"Let's find out." Pepper said and immediately dashed off.
"Wait up Pepper." Wendy said as she and the others followed close behind her. Seconds later they rounded a corner where a large crowed had already gathered. Pepper wasted no time in going in and pushed people aside, making her way to the center. She soon found herself at the origin where the crowd stood a little ways back leaving room around the center of attention. Wendy, Carla and Pip made their way in as well, taking a spot next to Pepper.
"What is it?" Carla asked. In front of them a man laid limp on the ground, his face frozen in an expression contorted in fear and pain. Wendy and Carla cringed from the sight of the man, but Pip and Pepper looked with wide eyed realization as they looked closer at the man's face, which had a burn in the shape of a human hand. Neither of them said anything as they looked upon the scene, a chill running through them as the police had arrived.
"What could be doing this?" Pip asked no one.
Pepper said nothing. Suddenly something had caught her eye away from the body. She looked up and saw a pair of people, a young man in his early twenties or late teens, with tan skin and a mop of strait black hair. He wore a white button up shirt with the sleeves rolled up with a pair of jean pants. The person next to him, a woman in her early thirties with short black hair wearing a grey shirt with a black pencil skirt and grey leggings with a black trench coat. They looked at the scene, but not in the way others were; they looked at it as if they were investigating it like a pair of detectives. The woman then pulled out what looked like a large bulky skeleton key with a purple light at the end. It emitted an odd whirring sound as she pressed a button on it while the light turned on. Pepper looked to Wendy. She noticed that the girl had also been looking at the pair as well.
"Wendy, Carla." The two of them looked at Pepper who had called them. "let's head back to the guild."
Within the hour the four of them had returned to the guild hall. They sat at a table not saying anything about what they had witnessed at the scene. Finally Pip spoke.
"I hate to sound like a broken record, but what could have caused these murders?"
"Let's ask Wendy." Pepper said.
"Me?" Wendy said at her mention. "But I don't know anything."
"Not true." Carla said. "You saw something there that the police missed didn't you?" Wendy stared at Carla, then at the rest of her friends before giving in.
"There were two people there."
"They were investigating the scene?" pepper said bluntly.
"Yeah, how did you know?"
"Saw them too. A young man and a woman wearing a trench coat."
"That was them but…" Wendy stayed silent a minute. "There was something I can't explain."
"What is it?" Pip questioned.
"It's their scents. The man smelled normal, but it was like he wasn't from here, it was like in Edolas."
"So then he's from another world?" Carla asked as she took in the information. Wendy nodded in approval.
"But it's the woman that I'm nervous about." Pip, Carla and Pepper looked at her intently waiting for her to finish. "She wasn't even human, either from Edolas or Earth-Land. Almost… another planet."