Iced Over Horizon

A.N:I don't own Fairy tail Mashima does.

So I have decided to finally do a fanfic myself and see how it goes.

Huge thank you to grifman275 for checking the errors in this chapter.

And also thanks for the awesome cover


Prologue

What happens after we die?

A question that has been around since the start of humanity, one that has been left unanswered, until today.

Over the course of our history, humans have always tried to think of what comes afterwards, of what will follow.

Many people say you will go to Heaven or Hell, others might claim that there is only darkness after death, an endless void of nothingness that awaits you. A pretty negative train of thought, if you ask me.

In Buddhism, they believe in reincarnation, the prospect of living life time and time again. But why would I tell you all this?

Well, because I did die. But before we jump to that, let me start from the beginning. It all started with a normal day like you imagine it to be.

Waking up in the morning, then breakfast and so on. There isn't really much to talk about. I was a regular 18 year old teenager living in Germany, who graduated from school with a somewhat good grades, and started to work at a supermarket. Everything someone could expect from an teenager.

And the day I died would been pretty much like any other day for me, if it weren't for a little change of plans. A party with friends. Now you might think, what is so harmful with a party?

Well let me tell you, never get drunk and then try to drive a car afterwards, because it will end up badly! So me, being the genius that I am, left the party in a drunken state and got in my car to drive home.

And you can imagine what happened next. Another car crosses the street, and I react too slowly in my drunken stupor. I hear only a loud screeching noise, before my gaze flips upside down, and my vision slowly darkens.

In hindsight, it is pretty scary to remember your own death. But I can definitely now say that the latter out of the three afterlives happened to me. Out of all the things I expected to happen in my life, being reincarnated was the last one on the list.

My plan was to have children, live a long, fulfilled life and then die of old age; but well.. car crash. Let me tell you, life will always throw blocks in your path, and won't make it easy for you. But let's cut back to the whole thing with me being reincarnated.

You may wonder what happened after I died? Do I remember how I was born? Luckily that's not the case. Being reincarnated is one thing, but to be a baby again, and to be aware of it with an adult mind is an whole another experience. Just the very thought of it makes me shiver.

But why didn't that happen? I can't tell, I just know that I wasn't always aware that my soul was reborn into a whole new body. You could say that my memories "slept" for the first three years of my new life.

When I was three, they started to slowly come back, but only my memories. I don't know why they decided to only come back then, but my only guess is that my brain couldn't handle all the information, and so my memories were suppressed until my new brain had enough capacity.

Though, my adult mind seemed to be kind of unconsciously awake, even during my "sleeping" state, thus enabling me to learn things faster than normal children my age. But like I said, my memories weren't all back yet, only slowly coming to me over time

At first, I had strange dreams of large cities with high "towers", those turned out later to be skyscrapers, and a whole bunch of other things I couldn't fathom in my "sleeping" state.

But after several months of having strange dreams one night my mind decided to be a bitch, and let me "dream", or more accurately "relive", my own death and let me finally come to the realization that I had indeed been reincarnated.

I awoke with an gasp, sweat covering my body, and my breath uneven. Opposite from me, was my brother, yes my new brother, who stirred in his bed, before opening his eyes "Something wrong, Saph?" he asked in a concerned, childish voice.

I had to take a moment to compose myself, before I replied with the best reassuring voice I could muster "No, everything is ok, Nii-san."

He looked at me one more time, before shrugging it off, and going to bed again, leaving me to my thoughts.

Rapidly, pictures and scenes played through my mind. 'This dream was different than the others. No, it wasn't just a dream! I was seeing through my own eyes on how I died! And all these places I see are so familiar. But wait, I live on Earthland, not Earth. Oh, no, no it couldn't' be real... could it? These aren't dreams, but memories of a... previous life? But not just any life, it was my life!' I realized in shock.

If I told you that I suddenly flipped out and started to cry, it would be an understatement. A huge understatement. I let out a scream that made my brother jump out of his bed. And even with an little bit of my adult mind back I couldn't help myself.

The shock of the revelation was just too big for me. I started to cry, and my screaming fit continued. My brother, meanwhile, had come to my side and panicked over what to do.

The logical thing he did in this kind of situation as a kid of his age, was to cry out for his parents, who came in a second later through the door, with worry evident on their faces.

Motherly instincts seemed to overtake my new mother, who took me in her arms and tried to calm me down, while my new father reassured my brother who babbled questions that I couldn't understand.

After a while, I had finally calmed down enough to pretend I was asleep, and my parents and brother went to bed again after they were sure that my screaming fit had ended.

I can hear my parents mutter to each other in worry. Seems like I gave them a pretty big shock, which made me feel bad, but I had bigger worries to worry about.

From what I could gather from the information in my head of the 3 years I "slept." I wasn't on earth anymore.

My name is now Sapphire Fullbuster, and I was born in the year x767, a year after my new big brother, who goes by the name of Gray Fullbuster. My two new parents are Silver, and Mika Fullbuster.

'At least I still have the same number of family members' I thought dryly to myself.

After some more thinking and grumbling over my situation, I decided the best course of action was to wait for tomorrow. Eventually, sleep finally overtook me after all the emotional stress.

But there was something I missed over all the commotion and the shock of my realization.

And by all means, it wasn't a small detail like a different hair color, or different looks. I was a girl now, and no longer a boy...

Let's just say my new parents had yet another rude awakening the next morning.

1 month later

By the end of my first month since "awakening" in my new environment, I could say three things for certain.

Number One: My new father Silver was very, and I mean very protective of me.

Heck, as soon as I screamed the next day, he came barreling into the room that Gray and I shared. He took me in his arms, not as gently as my mother, but more like I need to be protected and hidden from the world, or else something would happen to me. I couldn't breathe for a while, since he strangled me with his grip.

Even though I didn't understand most of his gibberish, I could still make out things like "Is my baby girl ok? Did you have another bad dream? Don't worry your daddy is here now."

So I had a very overprotective father who liked to coddle me... just great. Luckily my mother, Mika, saved me by taking me from Silver, and then scolded my father, who adopted a pouting face that made me snicker.

This made Silver smile, but he quickly dropped it again when my mother hit him on the head and told him, "Jeez! With you being so protective of her, she will never find a friend!", with these words, Silver seemed to be literally on fire, and furiously declared "Oh don't you worry, I won't let anyone touch my-eh... our sweetheart!"

Great, so I could already cross out dating from my list, because I bet he wouldn't leave me alone with a guy.

"That's not what I meant you idiot!" and Silver was launched across the room from my mother's fist. And I think I heard his nose crack or something else.

"Come on, Sapphire, let's leave that idiot alone. Silver, you quite being so clingy to our daughter, or otherwise..." she left the sentence hanging.

Leaving the room, I had only one thought in mind 'Ok I definitely won't pissmy new mom off...'

Even after my mother's warning, I felt like afterwards he didn't leave me out of his sight. Not even for even a second.

However, even if he is overly protective, he still is a decent dad as well, and is very dear to me. I will never say that to his face though.

Number Two: Being the opposite sex was absolutely weird. Just imagine yourself in my situation.

One day you wake up, and suddenly everything you knew about yourself is suddenly turned around. A few days after I "awakened", I finally had the courage to look in the mirror, and see how I looked and couldn't distinguish myself one bit.

Gone were my green blue eyes, the brown hair, the male features and my mature body.

Looking back at me was a three year old girl with sapphire eyes, hints my name Sapphire, and raven hair unlike my brohter's dark blue. It was quite the shock to be honest, but luckily I didn't scream out yet again.

Number Three: During the month, and from the memories of my three years already spent in my new life, I recognized that the spoken language was entirely different from what I was used to.

I used to speak German and English. So even with my adult mind awake during my sleeping state, I would still need to learn a lot. I did recognize here and there English words in an odd mix with Japanese, but I wasn't able to make out that it was Japanese until I read a book about it.

Which brings me to my next strange point. From bits of my old memories I tried to remember everything I could know about Japanese and how it was on earth.

I didn't really ever learn Japanese but I know for sure from some bits, that it was written in Kanji, and not normal English sentences and words. Well, I'm not complaining it made it easier for me to understand the spoken language.

So instead of playing around with the other kids, I decided I would concentrate on learning everything about my new world, because I'm sure as hell wasn't on earth.

I mean the country I live in, the Isvan region of Iceberg, is a part of a peninsula called Ishgar, on the eastern continent of Earthland, and I'm one-hundred percent sure such a place didn't exist on earth.

Add in the odd language, non-modern houses and so on, even a fool will come to that conclusion. But anyways, I started reading a lot of books after I reached my decision, which brings me also to my current situation.

I am sitting on my mother's lap right now, in front of us is a book lend from the town library. Mika is a very beautiful women with a round angular face, and almond shaped sapphire eyes.

She wears her straight blue hair in a short chin length bob cut, with some bangs covering the right side of her face up to her nose.

Nevertheless, back to the book, which was not just any book, but a book about magic. You think magic is only a fantasy ?

Yes that would be a correct fact on Earth, but Magic is a real thing in my new world, Earthland. After I heard the first time that Magic was in fact a daily part of life here, I sought to immediately learn more.

For starters magic is the physical embodiment of the spirit. When ones spirit connects with the spiritual flow of Nature, the result is that the spirit forms Magic as a product.

But this rarely every happens, because only ten percent of the populace of the planet can use magic, who are called mages. To utilize magic, the mages use magic power in their body, which is the source of their power.

"So once their magic power runs out, the Ethernano in the air will get absorbed into their body, which gives them new energy?" I ask my mom.

"Yes sweetheart" She confirms.

"And Ethernano exists in every living being?" I clarified.

"Yes, from the sky to the deepest depth of the earth, everything is filled with Ethernano, even the smallest living beings and plants" she replied.

"This is so cool, I want to be a mage too!" I exclaim excitedly.

"And I'm sure you are going to be a great mage just like your father." my mother laughs with a smile when my face drops at the mention of my dad. For all that I love him, he is still annoying the hell out of me.

But I'm sure you are asking yourself right now one question. He is a mage? Yes he is. My father was once a guild mage before he met my mother and decided to quit. Now he works his days as a courier with his teleportation magic.

Since Isvan is located high up in the northeastern part of Ishgar, in the country of Iceberg, and near the border of Seven as well, it snows most of the year, and the winters were even worse here.

Here is where my father comes in. Since he can teleport over very large distances, he has no problem to deliver messages, packages, etc... to even the outermost villages.

That was also one of the reasons why I started to read about magic, because there is a high chance that I could become a mage myself.

At that exact moment, the door opened to our two story house. "I am home!" boomed a voice from the entrance. "Ah, speaking of the devil" Mika said to herself.

The door to the living room and kitchen opens to reveal a tall muscular man in his late twenties.

His most outstanding feature is his black spiky hair, which is kept in a short cut and styled into a number of spiky strands pointing backwards with some prominent spikes topping his forehead.

He has a sharp face, marked facial features and already some slight wrinkles under his black eyes. To sum it up, he wears a white shirt with a brown vest over it, and black baggy pants stuffed into his brown leather boots.

Silver, my totally awesome, amazing, wonderful father stands in the doorway. That was all now irony, just saying. Don't get me wrong he could be awesome if he wasn't just hugging the life out of me.

My mother went to greet my dad while I continued reading. "Welcome home, how was your day?" Mika greeted.

"Ah you know, the daily routine, just miles and miles over snow." he answered with a bright smile.

After talking to my mother for a while, she left for the kitchen to make dinner. His attention then turned to me. "Oh no..."

I couldn't even finish my thought before I was YET again crushed by my father's strong arms. Seriously, he needed to stop that or I wouldn't make it over ten. "Is my baby girl already reading books about magic? You are so clever for your age. You make daddy so proud!"

"Dad... can't.. breathe." I gasped.

He finally let go of me, and I take a huge mouthful of air. "Hah, sorry about that but you are just way to adorable I can't help it." he stated with a sheepish smile.

"That's no excuse for killing me nearly every time" I tell him.

"Oh come on now, you are exaggerating."

'Exaggerating!?' Oh no I was so not exaggerating.

Our banter was interrupted by Mika's voice coming from the kitchen. "Could you two stop playing around and help me? Sapphire lay the table will you, your brother should be here any minute, and Silver come here!" she declares in a commanding voice.

Not wanting to get on Mika's bad side, we immediately followed her orders. After a while, the house door opened once again, this time with a more childish voice announcing "I'm home".

Trudging through the second door was a boy that was a little taller than me with blue hair and blue eyes, and had the typical chubby face that most kids have.

"Welcome Home!" we all said in unison. I move my attention to my brother Gray, and noticed he had a huge bruise on one of his eyes. Coming up to him, I asked curiously "What happened to your eye?"

Gray shifted his face to the side with an uncomfortable look. "Nothing happened." he responds.

"If nothing happened, why would I see a bruise on your face then" I ask once more.

All I get as an answer is an annoyed glare.

Finally giving in with a sigh when my parents took notice of the bruise, he utters "I was beaten by some older boys who talked bad about dad. I wanted to make them pay, so I started to fight them and if I were strong enough I would have beaten them!"

Oh... didn't expect that. I am not the best at comforting others, however, I would try nonetheless. Gray is my brother after all.

But before I could make a move towards him, Silver walks past and kneels down in front of Gray with a stern look on his face, and puts a hand on his shoulder to get his attention.

"Gray... I'm proud of you that you stood up to these kids. But strength isn't easy to archive, nor is it the only important aspect that you need."

Gray looked at him in confusion. "What do you mean Tou-san? If I had the strength I would have pounded them to a pulp!"

"Yeah, sure. Nonetheless you need to train hard to gain strength, and then there is also the people close to you that you need to remember. Sometimes the bonds you have are the strongest thing. Gray, you love your sister dearly, don't you?"

"Of course I do" he replied with an offended face.

I am a little warmed by his words, it's good to know you have such a caring brother. I just hope he wouldn't overdo it like a certain someone...

"Good, then keep that in mind, and protect Sapphire with your life... and become a strong man like your father." he adds with a smirk.

Feeling left out, I come to my brothers side and look up to my father with a determined look. "Hey, don't forget about me. I can become just as strong as Nii-san and protect him too"

My father looks at me surprised, but then a proud smile graces his features. He takes us both into a hug and chuckles "Ok, then become both strong and protect each other." We both return his smile and start to laugh with him.

"If you are finished, dinner is ready," comes Mika's voice from the side. While my new family got ready at the table smiling, and laughing with each other, one thought crosses my mind

'Maybe it wasn't so bad to get reborn... after all, I have a nice and loving family that looks out for me'


Hope you like the prologue of Iced over Horizon.

Just to clarify, for now Sapphire doesn't remember anything about the Fairy tail anime she will get her memories back at some point. However since its boring if she would know everything ahead of time I have come with something that would make the plot interesting. Also this is why she isn't regonizing Gray as the Gray Fullbuster from Fairy tail.

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