A/N: ^ ^ I hope you enjoy my fanfic, Nalu all the way! This chapter will be a bit of a reenactment of the first episode, only in game. Future chapters will be a bit different. Constructive criticism, if helpful, is always welcome.
Hiro Mashima owns Fairy Tail, I just own this plot/MMORPG idea, and the cover image belongs to isa-chan194 (tumblr)
Lucy Heartfilia tightened her green apron around her waist and flattened out the bumps in her tight t-shirt as she eyed herself in the mirror.
'Time for another wonderful day at work, I sure am looking forward to cranky customers who wanted decaf instead of regular or whose coffee was too bitter.'
Lucy snorted, at least she looked great in the uniform.
'The guys can't deny it, I look super cute' Lucy smirked and put her hair in a high ponytail before heading to work.
After a few people came and went, the shop was pretty quiet for once and Lucy was happy. That is, until she heard footsteps and looked up to see a tall, slightly tanned guy walk in. He seemed pretty normal, other than being good looking, until her eyes met his pink hair.
'Wait what... pink!?'
"Can I get a cappuccino please, and can you put a little pepper on it?"
Lucy's eyes widened at the unique specification, but then she nodded and made his order before returning to the counter.
"Anything else?" she asked but he smiled and shook his head.
"Nah." he gave her a toothy grin. "Bye.." He looked down at her name badge "Lucy" he smiled and left the shop.
'Oh shit he forgot to pay..' Lucy put some of her own money in the register for him and sighed. It was gonna be a long day.
Lucy scrolled down her Facebook. It was 9 pm and she was sprawled down on her bed lazily, then she saw a few people talking about a game.
'Huh? What's… Mage..?' Lucy googled the game and went on the page.
Mage is an MMORPG in which the player can choose what kind of magic they major in. Take jobs to level up different skills and earn Jewel to customize your character and join guilds to become stronger with friends! You can also enter parties with people and partake in jobs with them. Enter the fantastic land of Fiore, and rise up to be the top mage in the game.
'That sounds… fun, I'm not usually big on MMORPGs, but I guess I could give it a try.'
Lucy signed up as Lucy4102 and then downloaded the game. She went through the tutorial and decided to be a celestial mage, then she customized her character, she had long blonde hair and wore one of the default outfits, white and blue shirt and a blue skirt with a brown belt and black boots. She walked through the marketplace after checking out some keys, but they were mostly too expensive, she managed to buy Aquarius, Taurus and a couple others.
(A/N:Sorry i'm not 100% sure what keys Lucy had at the start)
Lucy continued walking through the town, she looked up the guilds and read the guild guidebook about some that she could join, she looked at one of the top ones.
'Huh.. Fairy Tail?'
She read about some of them, including someone nicknames the Salamander but she was stopped in her tracks by a mob forming, it was full of screaming girls.
"WOW! Salamander!" The chat was filled with his name and Lucy was shocked.
'Wow… maybe if I talk to him he'll invite me to the guild!' She walked over and then watched as her character had heart eyes and looked at her potion effects
'Eternal Love? This guy put a spell on my character… jerk...'
Suddenly, a character ran into the crowd "Igneel!" he yelled and then stared.
"Who are you?" The man had pink hair and a blue cat pet following him, the women were angry about that question and started to beat him up, till Salamander gently told them to stop.
"It's okay ladies, I'm sure he didn't mean anything.. Malicious" He chatted and the women swooned. When the man entered the mob, Lucy noticed the potion effect stopped.
Lucy private messaged the guy, who was called FiredUpNatsu
"Hey, thanks for entering you totally took off the potion effect he had on me. Is there any way I can make it up to you?" She pressed enter and he started to reply
"No problem, and I am kinda hungry, my HP went down a bit with all those women beating my character :P"
"Do you know any places to eat?" Lucy wasn't sure seeing as she only just entered the game.
"No… I'm new to this place, just got here actually."
"Me too! :)" Lucy interrupted him "although, I do know a little, so I guess I can teach you while we eat."
Natsu was scoffing down virtual food while Lucy chat, telling him about the game, if there wasn't a cool down period after eating he could've finished more a lot faster.
"So you see, there are these guilds made up of players, and the top guilds go on the most dangerous jobs and get the best loot, they're the ones with the top levels." Lucy grinned "I reaally want to get into the top guild, it's called Fairy Tail, because they sound super cool! But I'm not sure how to, I just hope they accept me even though I'm kind of a low level, do you think they might? I really hope so." Natsu didn't reply and just kept eating, and Lucy kept blabbering on about guilds till he finished.
"Oh well, I guess I should go level." She smiled and put down a vast majority of her starter money on the table.
"Thank you for the food, Lucy4102!" Natsu kept spamming the chat to show his appreciation and some of the other players were starting to get irritated by it.
"Hey, could you stop that! You're embarrassing me...!" She groaned.
"Oh wow... Mirajane has such a pretty avatar! And I hear she looks just as good in real life..." Lucy was reading a magazine she had picked up from a shop she had visited earlier. "I wish I could get into Fairy Tail... What an honour!" the bush rustled behind her and out stepped the Salamander guy from earlier.
"I can get you into Fairy Tail, all you have to do is come by my yacht party later" He proposed and Lucy raised an eyebrow, she was kinda creeped out on how he had just appeared in the bush though.
"How?" She asked, intrigued.
'What a weirdo... although, if he gets me into Fairy Tail... I wonder if they're all like that though'' She shivered
"I happen to be a member." Salamander's character smirked and Lucy's eyes widened.
"Whoa... you're THAT Salamander!?" She felt like fangirling
"Uhuh, so will you come?"
"Sure! What time?"
"7 PM, EST, goodbye!" He logged out and Lucy spammed the spacebar, jumping in happiness. 'Hooray!'
Natsu stood, looking over the horizon out to sea, looking at a yacht in the distance.
"Oh my god! That's Salamander's yacht, isn't it!" A girl chatted to her friends.
"Yeah, he's having a party tonight on it!"
"OMG! we should go!"
"But would we even be allowed on I mean.. he's super amazing and a member of Fairy Tail!"
Natsu narrowed his eyes thoughtfully. 'I guess I have some time to kill.'
Lucy sat on a sofa opposite Salamander.
"So.. Lucy4102 huh? Lovely username..." He flirted
"Hah thanks" she nodded
"I'd like to toast your beauty." He cast a spell and a mysterious liquid floated up near her.
'WTF? I'm a new character.. I've barely customized myself... plus I'm just pixels..'
Suddenly, she saw a sleep effect loading onto her screen, she snapped out of it and glared at him. "What do you think you're doing? I know what you're up to, you're trying to use sleep magic on me..."
"Hmm." He smiled "you're quite the handful, aren't you?" Suddenly, a bunch of big guys holding passed out women appeared. They were muted from chatting and their movement was temporarily disabled because they were passed out. Lucy gasped
"What's going on here?" She asked, shocked and confused
"Welcome aboard my ship, and you'd be wise to behave yourself until we get to Bosco." Lucy hadn't even seen that place on the map yet.
"You said you'd get me into Fairy Tail!" She fumed and made her character have an angry emotion.
"Forget it, I just said that so you'd come here so we could make you one of our slaves."
'What is he going to do? Make his character crouch over the female players?'
"You're going to kidnap all of these players?" she glared
"That's our salamander alright!" A guy exclaimed happily
Lucy pulled out her keys.
"Why you!" she started, but Salamander used a spell to take the keys off of her and he chucked them into the sea. Lucy was pissed, it took her money to get those keys!.
"You're the worst wizard alive!" She yelled and then suddenly Natsu appeared, crashing down into the yacht.
"Hey! I know you! ;D" she chatted and his character fake vomitted, he obviously had the motion sickness negative trait. Natsu made Happy fly off with Lucy, his tail wrapped around her waist.
"What the hell? How do pets take control of players..." Happy kept flying for a while, until a bar flashed saying his transformation had run out, and his wings disappeared. Lucy and the NPC fell into the water. She noticed a glint of light and swam down, where she found her dropped keys! she clicked to pick them up, and then she summoned Aquarius.
"Push us, and the yacht to land!" She commanded. The NPC gave a sassy look for some reason and then made a huge wave, which push them to land, almost drowning Lucy's character in the process.
"Hey!" Happy started walking in front of Lucy, getting in the way. 'Stupid NPC pets.' She glared at Aquarius and the water-bearer disappeared.
Lucy turned her gaze up to the boat, and saw Natsu stand on top of it.
"Natsu!" She exclaimed and ran over and then stopped when his character didn't reply.
"So you claim to be a member of the Fairy Tail guild?" He narrowed his eyes
"So what's it to you? Get him, men!" Salamander ordered, and Natsu took off his coat.
"Let me get a better look at you." He said fearlessly while the guys ran at him.
"Watch out!" Lucy sent the chat and watched worried about the obviously new but overconfident player, but then she watched in shock as he decked the guys.
"My name's Natsu and I'm a Fairy Tail mage, and I've never seen you before!" Lucy's jaw dropped
'You've gotta be kidding me!'
"I don't know what you're trying to do here buddy but I'm not going to let you dirty the Fairy Tail guild's name!" He yelled
"And how are you going to stop me?" Salamander cast a spell at him and Lucy watched in shock as it got sucked into Natsu's mouth, his HP was going up.
"Thanks for the grub, poser." He grinned.
"What's going on here?! WHO IS THIS KID?" Salamander was fearful, and suddenly Natsu cast an incredibly powerful spell at him, he was breathing fire!
The spell was very destructive.
"Whoa.. there's no doubt about it... those eyes, he's gotta be the real one!" Salamander was in shock and Lucy looked at Natsu's eyes, they were orange in this lighting, even the eye whites...
'Whoa.. wait.. Natsu's Salamander?' She remembered reading about his eyes turning orange. If he IS Salamander, it means he learned those spells from a 'dragon', which would explain the fire breathing abilities...
Game masters are kind of like moderators for the game, but to stick with the fantasy feel, their characters are dragons. They use dragon themed magic and it's super powerful.
"This is what a Fairy Tail mage can do!" Natsu fought with the fake Salamander and overpowered him easily, causing yet more destruction though... until Natsu finally won, knocking the guy out.
'Whoa that was amazing, although he over did it...' Suddenly, she saw a bunch of npc guards marching over, if they caught them, the players would be charged Jewels for the damage.
Even though damages can very easily be fixed, the game creators wanted to avoid players blowing up towns... So they made the guard system.
"Come on, let's go!" Natsu dragged her along.
"Wait... Why!?" She was confused, where were they going..
"You said you wanted to be a member of Fairy Tail, didn't you? ;D" They kept running and Lucy could barely contain her excitement
"Alright!"