Note: Hello and welcome to the first chapter of my new fanfiction the guessing game! Now, to those of you who are waiting for my other stories to update I can assure you that they will be updated this week according to my schedule. I was very busy the last week making last minute preparations to my cosplay for a convention I just returned from on Monday. If you are curious who I went as, I went as Kaneki from Tokyo Ghoul, the white haired version after season one. I hope everyone here enjoys this story as much as I enjoyed writing it. I will also remind everyone once more that I write for my pleasure hence why I use my own characters. I also apologize for the short chapter, I mainly use the first chapter to describe my OC a bit.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, if I did it would be so full of crack like Lucy and Laxus pairing would be the big thing. Then again it would probably just be a Lucy harem kind of thing…full of crack like I said. I do own my OC in this story though!
Charlie looked up from where she sat, Laxus had just entered the guild and the stares he was receiving from his fellow guild mates were full of hatred. Natsu, he was the only person whom seemed to be staring at him as if he were still a part of this guild. Charlie's own gaze was somewhere between fearful and curious rather than full of malice, after everything he had done it seemed like he genuinely regretted it. She herself had been subjected to his 'games' after having been turned to stone by Evergreen. She had been told to stay behind in the safety of the runes but, as if she would do that, she was too much like Natsu and Gray to just sit around while her family was out there fighting. She had ran through the streets, wanting to help in some kind of way, but instead she had been quickly knocked out by the odd mage Bickslow. He had told her he would not hold back against her even with her age, but she had stated full of confidence that she wouldn't have had it any other way. It was safe to say that the young girl was quickly knocked out and kicked from the game. Charlie sighed rubbing the back of her head that was currently sporting a nice sized lump from when she took one of Bickslow's 'babies' to the back of her head. She slowly turned her attention back towards Natsu and Laxus, the pink haired Mage demanding a fight from Laxus, but of course he didn't get one.
Charlie watched for a moment as the older Mage made his way up the stairs to speak with his grandfather, when he was no longer in sight Charlie stood up and quickly closed the distance between herself and Natsu. "Eh Natsu, why aren't you afraid of Laxus or at least mad at him?" she asked bright pink eyes staring down at him, watching as he stood up more or less towering over the young ten year old. "Well that's because I don't think he actually hates everyone. We're his family after all. He just made a mistake and like any family we forgive each other," he stated, toothy grin spread across his face as he raised a hand and gently ruffled the young girls brown hair. Charlie blinked a few times starring at the man she viewed as an older brother with slight amazement. She hadn't expected words like that to come from this man, but then again Natsu was always full of surprises. She beamed up at him trying to copy the same smile he sported. "Alright, if you can forgive him big brother than I can do the same!" she spoke voice still full of happiness, but her happiness was short lived when the announcement of Laxus's punishment came up.
Charlie stood around with everyone else watching as others made some sort of attempt at 'good bye' with the blonde Mage. Charlie didn't quite understand what was going on, but she knew enough to understand that this would be the last time she would probably ever see the blonde man despite him being part of her 'family'. She frowned lightly before making her way toward the blonde male whom was currently trying to handle his three friends, they were talking about going with them but, he didn't want that from what Charlie could hear. The four of them paused though when Charlie finally stood in front of them not far out of arms reach, her pink eyes starring rather intently at Laxus. "I forgive you," she said rather bluntly leaving the four mages to blink at her with a bit of confusion spread across their faces. Laxus was the first one to break from his confusion a slight smirk forming on his lips as he raised a large hand to place on top of the child's head and muttered out a word of thanks, but Charlie quickly slapped his hand away a look of embarrassment forming on her face. "Only big brother Natsu and Gray are allowed to touch my hair," she said pouting lightly before sticking her tongue out toward the man. Bickslow snickered from beside Laxus quickly earning him a glare from both the young Charlie and Laxus. "I still haven't forgiven you yet!" Charlie yelled pointing accusingly at Bickslow who only began to laugh louder at the child's temper in turn Charlie's cheeks lit up bright red. She swiftly kicked the masked man against his shin laughing manically as he quickly knelt down to cater to his bruised shin. Charlie slowly looked back toward Laxus, from the corner of her eyes she could see a small smile curved at his lips and the saddened expression for his terrible deeds hidden in his eyes. She blushed lightly when he caught her starring, but instead of turning away she grinned at him and held up a peace sign with her right hand.
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Charlie slowly opened her eyes, pink hues starring up at a ceiling that was completely unknown to her. "Ugh, what happened?" she muttered out placing a hand against her forehead as she glanced around the foreign room. 'That's right...I'm at an inn,' she thought to herself before slowly sitting up in her bed, her mind wondering back toward her dream. That day had been about Ten years ago, back then seemed to be so much easier than what she was having to deal with today. After Laxus left, Charlie had been rather happy with her life, she wasn't strong enough to adventure with Natsu and the others but, that hadn't meant she wasn't trying in her own way. She had made fast friends with Wendy when she came around despite the difference in personalities and every chance she got Charlie was going on some kind of quest with her. The good days came to an end though seven years ago when the more powerful mages of Fairy Tail disappeared along with the guild master. At first everyone went searching for them, but after a long time of searching with no results most people began to believe in their deaths, Charlie was not one of those few people. In fact, she forced herself to grow up as fast as possible depriving herself of the normal teenager activities, Charlie spent most of her days out doing any quest that came by the guild stating that she wanted her family to have a home to back to when they came back. Charlie's hands gripped at the sheets of her bed...it had been so long since she had seen them and every day she found herself questioning their return a little more than the day before. Charlie shook her head ridding herself on the depressing thoughts that were plaguing her mind.
"No use sitting around here," she muttered under her breath before throwing the sheets from herself and swinging her legs over the bed. She quickly moved to get ready for the day and once all was done she stood before the full length mirror looking over herself. A lot had changed since the others had last seen her, she wasn't the small little thirteen year old girl anymore, oh no, she had long since grew into her womanly curves. She no longer sported a short boy cut anymore having decided to grow her hair out, she even dyed it a pitch black color which only accented her bright pink eyes. She traded her white sundresses for skinny jeans and black v neck shirts, she really wasn't that little girl anymore. Charlie shoved her white ear buds into her ears before tying the laces to her sneakers. She gave herself one final look in the mirror and lightly nodded in approval before exiting her room. She was finally going to go home today, back to the guild, she had been gone for about three months now working with a client on a request he had to protect his daughter until she was finally married off. The mission was a success something she was overly happy about since she needed the money desperately not only herself but, the guild as well.
The moment Charlie stepped out into the open air, the morning sky greeted her and the smell of fresh cut grass tickled her sense of smell. She smiled lightly, for some reason, she felt like today was going to be a good day. Charlie took one more look over her surroundings smiling at a few citizens passing by before she enclosed herself off in a light blue barrier that quickly took off into the sky. She had found that traveling in this manner not only saved her quite a bit of cash but, it was a hell of a lot faster as well. It wasn't long before she had landed outside the run down guild hall for Fairy Tail, a light smile plastered on her lips as she stepped from her barrier. She was just about to make an appearance into her guild hall when quite a few beat up Twilight Ogre members came running out screaming profanities toward her guild. Charlie blinked a few times in surprise watching as the mages ran passed her with their tails between their legs, slowly Charlie moved to enter the guild herself. The first thing she saw was a group of people she hadn't seen in seven years, one of them she hadn't seen in ten. She stood behind watching the reunion between everyone her pink eyes large with shock.