This story takes place about 6 months after Tenrou Island, and 3 after the Grand Magic Games. It's mainly RoWen but will contain Jerza, Gruvia, NaLu, ElfGreen, Macana, Miraxus/Laxira, and maybe more. It's also my first story on this site, so I'm really excited.
Romeo is 14 and Wendy is 13.
I do not own Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail and all its characters belong to Hiro Mashima.
It was a sunny day in Magnolia. The children played, the birds sang, everything was calm.
Except for the Fairy Tail guild.
Most people would think that, after winning the Grand Magic Games, the Fairy Tail mages would become cocky and arrogant. However, they retained their usual destructive yet determined personalities. Mages from other guilds tried to join Fairy Tail, but upon realizing just how crazy the strongest guild in Fiore was, had left. It seemed as though nobody could handle it. Some people wondered how innocent, shy souls like Wendy could handle being with violent, rough people like Gajeel.
On this fine day, the guild was in its usual chaos. Natsu and Gray were in their routine fight; Elfman was preaching about manliness, which caused Evergreen to smack him in the head repeatedly; Lucy was hiding under the table; Levy was reading her book, oblivious to it all; Cana was drinking her usual barrel of alcohol; Alzack and Bisca took their part in the brawl, all while trying to keep Asuka from getting hurt. On a typical day, Erza or Makarov would have stopped them, but Erza was out on a mission with the recently declared legal Crime Sorcière while the 3rd/6th guild master was at a meeting.
A table flew across the room and nearly hit the short elder male standing by the door. The guild turned silent when they realized that their master had returned. If the meeting had gone fine, they could continue their brawl. However, if the meeting went horribly, Makarov could easily kick all their asses within seconds.
"Where are Romeo and Wendy?" he asked. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief; their master seemed to be in an ok mood.
"They're still on their mission, Master," Mirajane answered.
After the Grand Magic Games was over, Wendy had begun to feel left out. She begun to realize that she was somewhat the odd one out in her team. Natsu had always paired with Lucy for missions nowadays; Juvia and Gray had been spending a lot more time together; and Erza was always at some secret place with Jellal, saying that they wanted to make up for the 15 years they had missed. [1]
One day, when Lucy was with Natsu and Gray was with Juvia and Erza was with Jellal, Wendy sat at a table alone. Carla was with Lily, Gajeel, and Levy, trying to fake nonchalance at something Happy was doing. Wendy sighed. She was about to get up and go home when somebody sat down next to her.
"What's wrong, Wendy-chan?" Romeo asked, concerned. He had dropped the "-nee" since he was technically older than Wendy now.
Wendy blushed and looked down. She felt sort of silly for being so worked up over a simple question from a fellow guild mate. "It's nothing, Romeo-san."
Romeo chuckled. "I told you, call me Romeo or even Romeo-kun if you want. You don't have to be so formal with me, Wendy-chan. Now, tell me, what's really wrong?"
Wendy glanced up, only to be met with Romeo's dark brown eyes. They showed true concern within them. Wendy sighed and explained to the Rainbow Fire mage about how she needed to find someone to do missions with, now that all her partners were busy.
"I'll be your partner!" Romeo suddenly exclaimed after a moment of silence.
"You don't have to, Romeo-sa - "
"Kun."
"Romeo-kun. I can always do missions with Carla. Besides, you have your own team, don't you?"
Romeo tossed his hands up in the air and stood up. "But Bisca-nee and Alzack-nii are so old! Sure they're fun and sometimes Alzack-nii will give me some beer as long as I don't tell my dad he was the one who broke our wall while trying to teach Asuka how to sharp shoot-" ("So you were the one who destroyed my peep hole!" screamed Macao. "I thought we agreed that we'd both teach Asuka how to shoot!" yelled Bisca. "Uh-oh, is Daddy in trouble?" Asuka asked.) "-and Bisca-nee is really nice but it doesn't feel right. They're twice as old as I am!"
"Ro-"
Romeo was suddenly back in his seat next to Wendy. His hands grasped hers as he looked into her eyes, which were mere inches away from his. Wendy's cheeks went as red as Erza's hair. Mirajane smiled, thinking of another couple very similar that also had to do with Dragon Slayer Magic and Fire...
Wendy sighed and nodded. Carla - Mavis knows where the hell she came from - shot a disapproving look at the 14 year old male but didn't say anything.
"Yes!" Romeo jumped up and cheered. He ran to the request board. "C'mon, Wendy-chan, let's choose our first mission!"
And so began the partnership of Wendy Marvell and Romeo Conbolt.
"Do you know when they'll be back?" Makarov asked.
"They should be arriving today," the barmaid said. As if on cue, the doors opened, followed by a yell of "We're back!"
Romeo and Wendy walked into the guildhall, immune to the usual state of disaster. They headed straight to their usual table when they were called by the guild master.
"What is it, Master?"
"Yeah, Gramps?"
"We need to have a talk," Makarov said. He called for Romeo's father, Carla, and the Connells to come over as well. The group took a seat at a table. As Makarov spoke, he handed Wendy a document.
"It seems that the Magic Council is worried about the future of Fiore. They believe that the the youth of today are not educated enough to control the country when the rest of us are too old. They also fear that you youngsters will be unable to fend for themselves should their parents be on a mission or something similar." Therefore, the Council has decided to make it a law that all children under the age of 16 be required to attend school."
"Do we have to?" whined Romeo. He had heard of what school was like from some of his friends in the village. They described it as a "boring, useless hell-hole." He'd much rather do an S-class mission than go to the fabled "school."
"It's required by law, Romeo," Macao said.
"But Asuka is too young! She doesn't even know how to requip yet!" Alack exclaimed.
"And there's no way in hell we'll let some reckless, not-good-enough-to-be-a mage teach our daughter some half-assed method of shooting," Bisca added.
"It says here that magic, though not prohibited, will not be taught at the school," Carla said, reading from the paper. "So, all they're going to do there is learn how to read and write?"
Makarov nodded. "They will also learn the history of Fiore and great wizards in time. It is required, in case any old villain suddenly comes back from the grave. We will know of their weaknesses and flaws."
The group thoughts all went to the same person: Zeref, who was currently somewhere with Mavis trying to redeem himself. Wendy stayed silent the entire time, keeping her thoughts to herself.
School sounds fine, she thought, but I won't know anyone there. At least Romeo-kun will be with me.
"When do we start?" Wendy spoke for the first time.
"In about a month. Also, in order to better prepare you for school, I've decided to ask Levy to help with your studies," said Makarov. The group turned to the petite Solid Script mage, whose head was still buried in a book. The guild master turned to the Connells. "That should give you plenty of time to teach Asuka the basics of Guns Magic and requipping."
The mages went back to their usual places while Makarov called over Natsu, Gray, Laxus, and Gajeel over.
The short man's demeanor quickly turned serious. "I already have Crime Socière and Erza investigating, but it seems that there is a dark guild that wants to take over the school."
"For what reason?" Gray asked.
"I'm not sure, but if I had to guess, it's because of all the magic power. Hundreds of kids will be attending, nearly all of them with some type of magic power."
"So with all of that into one building, it's a gold mine for a dark guild," Laxus said.
"Exactly. I want you to watch over Romeo, Wendy, and Asuka, even before school starts. It's common knowledge that this guild is very close. Should they try to kidnap any of our nakama, let alone our three youngest, the guild would go into chaos, and that may be our ultimate downfall."
"This'll be easy, Gramps! We'll take 'em down easily!" yelled Natsu.
Gray chuckled and Gajeel scoffed, causing Natsu to get offended. Another fight started amongst them. Laxus rolled his eyes and went back to Mirajane and the Thunder God Tribe. Makarov smiled.
"I sure hope so Natsu. The fate of the future may depend on it."
[1] I just wanted to clarify that this is a flashback and takes place about 2 and a half months before the story. Crime Sociere is not legal yet. Also, Jellal and Erza missed 15 years together because Jellal was at the Tower of Heaven for 8 years and Erza was at Tenrou Island for 7. 8 + 7 = 15 years of Jerza not being together (and probably more when Jellal was in prison).
