The events of this story take place a couple of years after the Grand Magic Games and any events after that arc in the Manga are ignored as this was written while they were going on. For reference this would make Romeo 15 and Wendy 14 when these events are happening. Unfortunately I don't own Fairy Tail or any of its characters. That right goes to Mr. Mashima
The town of Magnolia was quiet. There were no festivals making a clamour and the street vendors booths were all tattered and destroyed. A cold morning wind rushed through dirty alleys and broken windows. Unmaintained roofs creaked and groaned and leaked whenever it rained into houses and shops that were now uninhabited by living people. There were people though, even if they weren't exactly alive. The shuffling and groaning of hundreds of decayed bodies moving through the city were the only signs of what could be considered life, that was until a scream of pain echoed out into the clear blue sky.
"Bickslooooooooow" Lisanna cried out and ran through the small horde that covered her boyfriend, swinging her halberd in large deadly arcs that took them out while their limbs flailed in all directions. Blood and brain matter were flung everywhere as she took one more wild swing to make sure they were all in fact dead.
"Bickslow! Oh my gods no, please no." Tears had already started to form as she brought the sleeve back on his right arm revealing the chunk that had been taken out of his arm. The wound was deep, almost going right through the arm and the mage yelped in pain as Lisanna tried to cover it up with a piece of cloth.
"Shit. Wish I could use my babies. This would never have happened if I could use my babies."
"You'll be fine. I know you'll be fine please please please we both know you'll be okay."
"Lisanna. That isn't true." Bickslow took his left hand and stroked away the crying girls' tears. "Don't worry hun, it'll be okay. You'll live on for us."
"No! No I don't want to live on for anybody!" Lisanna held his arm tightly against her, desperately trying to come up with a plan while tears streaked her dirty face. "We'll hide it! Yes that's what we'll do! If she never finds out then-"
"You truly think I'd never find out?." A shadow loomed over the young couple making Lisanna shriek and cover her love with her body.
"Please. Please no."
"You know the rules."
"Lisanna. It's okay." Bickslow took his helmet off and brought his head back and placed it on the cement, looking up into the great blue expanse above him. "I want to see the sky one last time. Just give me that much."
"You can't kill him. Please you can't! I don't have much left please just leave him be! What would you do if it was him?!" There! Her last words got to the woman that stood above her. A single tear rolled down her left eye across the newly healed scar that would have given Laxus a run for his money. Lisanna went to push farther with her defence but the shadow promptly raised her sword above her head into a striking pose.
"This world can't sustain that kind of weakness anymore." The sword point drove itself straight through Bickslow's right eye ending the mages life swiftly and decisively. Lisanna just lay beside the body screaming bloody murder as the shadow pulled its sword out of the dead mages head sending brain matter and blood everywhere.
"Fuck you Lucy. Fuck you and your rules." Lisanna looked up at her leader with steel cold eyes waiting for the ever-ready reply that Lucy had become accustomed to using.
"If you don't like my way then you can fuck off." Lucy promptly turned on her heels and headed down the street, pulling a card out of her blue short-shorts as she walked.
"Bisca, give me a status report on our route home." The blonde mage waited a couple seconds as the sniper checked their position from the top of the Fairy Tail guild.
"Looks like you're good Luce, use the backs streets if you wanna be extra cautious but I don't see any resistance all the way here." The hollow reply came back through the card.
"Good, Lisanna and I will be there soon. Bickslow is out."
"Shit. By the way Lucy. I'm not sure but I think those cloak things are back. They watched the whole incident."
"Fuck. Next time you see them, give a warning shot." Lucy shoved the card forcefully back into her pocket and turned around to sneer at the white haired mage that was still crying on the ground behind her. "Get the fuck up, we're going home." With that she continued walking up the street, not caring if she was followed. Lisanna glared after her begrudgingly before succumbing to the facts and rising to her feet to follow. The whole way back to the guild she shot the back of Lucy's head with her eyes, not caring if she could feel the cold stares she was being given. With Lucy's hair cut short to just under her ears and the scabbard that hung off her left hip with her keys, this was not the Lucy that Lisanna had come to call family. No, this Lucy had accepted the harshness of the world all too quickly, especially after the disappearance of him. Him, another love that would never be seen again. If him and all the other Dragon Slayers hadn't just disappeared night before all this had all begun then none of it would have happened! People closer to her would still be alive! All to quickly did Lisanna realize that her nakama was being picked off much quicker than it should have and now there was only one left who truly held her love.
Flashback
The Strauss siblings ran through the cold early morning as the horde of dead moved slowly through the streets of Magnolia. Mirajane had opted out of her dress into jeans and a pink blouse while Lisanna had her blue jean short-shorts and green top alongside Elfman's black pants and, of course, no shirt. As they turned a corner to take a regular short cut through the alleys another horde of evil came washing out of the darkness, making the sisters scream as Elfman reacted. Changing his right arm to stone he bashed in the heads of the first couple of zombies but very quickly it became apparent to the three that there were just to many.
"Mira-nee, Lisanna, continue on." Elfman called to them as more and more of the zombies started to crawl and bite, taking chunks out of his body as he cursed and screamed. He put up a good fight though and the use of his magic helped as the zombies became more focused on the prey that was falling to their onslaught than the two still free. Crunching bones and bloody messes were thrown down into the pavement as Elfman used his Beast-Takeover to turn his arms into stone.
"Elfman no!" It was to late though, the Beast-Soul mage had disappeared under a massive pile of rotting, writhing flesh and had become nothing more than a distraction. Crying and wailing the white haired sisters ran hand in hand towards the guild, hoping to find safety among the numbers that were gathering at their second home.
Present Day- Lamia Scale
"Run! Get the fuck up the stairs now!" Jura fired off a blast of magic into a swarm of zombies as his guild members charged up the stairs to the roof. Screams and the sounds of fighting came from the lobby as more and more of the horde got their teeth into members.
"I can't believe they broke through! How the fuck did they break through?!" Lyon shot an arrow from behind Jura into the head of a zombie that had escaped the last wave down the stairs.
"Sherry!" Lyon turned around to the pink-haired girl that was cowering at the top of the stairs wailing with all her might. "Get to your fiancee and let them know what's going on! Hur- AAAAARRRRGGGHHHH" The mage screamed in pain as the swarm finally overwhelmed Jura and got to him, sinking their teeth into his flesh and dragging him back down the stairs into them.
"RUUUUUNNNNNN" A still crying Sherry picked herself up off the balcony and ran while Lyon thrashed and screamed in pain as pieces of his flesh were torn off, throwing herself out a window and landing in the bushes below.
SNAP
"Shit!" She wailed and hobbled along, ignoring the pain that was firing through her leg. She needed to get to Blue Pegasus. She needed to get to Ren.
The beginnings of a new story! What's going on and why is Lucy...well...acting not like Lucy? Weekly instalments are abound and life will definitely not get any easier for the members of FairyTail! Reviews and comments are more than welcomed!