Let's say this happens at some point before Edolas.

Chapter 1

The first thing I noticed when I woke up was that I was dressed. Not just dressed. I was dressed in something thick. Maybe three layers, including something partially made of chainmail and partially a winter coat. I removed that immediately and looked around to see where I was.

I was on a bench in front of a fountain in a strange town. It certainly wasn't Magnolia. It was too crowded for that, and the architecture was weird. Lights everywhere were being produced by what I assumed to be a lachryma. Signs dangled in midair. A man sold misshapen carrots at the far corner of the room(?).

My chest itched, right where I'd had my Fairy Tail mark placed. I rubbed the spot. It felt weird, like someone had maybe glued rough diamond to it. Removing my shirt, my first thought upon seeing my chest was that someone, I think I was guessing it was Natsu, had glued rough diamond to my chest, and in the exact shape as the Fairy Tail mark nonetheless. At first it felt a little weird to move with it on me, but as I flexed enough I noticed it was moving just fine, not like any sort of diamond. It didn't really look the right color anyway.

I got up to leave the fountain area. I wouldn't learn anything about my situation from just sitting there. People were staring at me. At first I just stared back. Most of the looked different. Women's hair would shoot out all different angles and grow out in three different colors, and the men were hardly any better. I figured I probably looked out of place too, until I noticed that the occasional people who looked more normal were staring too. A little boy pointed at the crystal where my Fairy Tail mark had been, not that I knew at the time what that meant, I assumed he was noting I had no shirt (his pointing being what made me notice).

I backtracked to the fountain to retrieve the clothes I'd removed. I wasn't putting more than the shirt back on, but I took the jacket with me anyway, just in case.

People still stared on my way back, but once I'd passed up all the people who saw me walking around shirtless no one seemed to pay me much heed. I blended into the crowd after that. The only path I could find eventually led to what looked something small boarding platform for a miniature train station. Several other people were waiting there, so I just waited for a moment too.

What pulled up wasn't a train. The attendant called it a shuttle. It was sort of like a large magic four wheeler, only it didn't have wheels. It hovered in the air. Another lachryma lookalike powered it. I was thoroughly impressed with their vehicle technology. For a minute I wondered if I'd landed myself in the future.

The shuttle stopped at a much larger platform. I wandered around there for a while. I didn't want to seem like an idiot for asking about what everyone here was treating as perfectly normal. The clock, though, I had to say something about. It was just outside the platform, people would look at it and say they hadn't realized how late it was, so it had to be a clock. I turned to the nearest man (one of the weirder looking ones) and said "How can you tell time with that?"

He shook his head at me and said "Clavat peasant" before turning and walking away, leaving me more confused than before.

I probably could have tried to figure out more at that point, but a handful of huge, brutish men(?) ran by right then, saying something about 'crystal bearer' and 'illegal arcane arts'. One shoved me to the ground, and I obtained a rather nasty bump on the head which destroyed whatever sense of direction I'd been maintaining.

From there I made my way closer to the edge of the city, though at the time I was just wandering. I was so confused at the time that looking back I can't remember exactly where it happened, but at some point a large dog tried to steal the jacket/chainmail. I was still disoriented, and it was clothing anyway, so I hadn't noticed the dog until it was already running away with my jacket.

Why I cared to retrieve it I don't know. I guess it was a good thing I kept it in the end, since Jellal ended up getting a lot of use out of it, but it's not like I knew at the time that he'd want it, or even that he was there.

Oh, wait, I just gave that away, didn't I? Oh well, he came into the picture almost immediately after the dog. Or, was it a few days after? I think I was only unconscious for a couple hours…

Getting back to where I left off before going off on a tangent, I chased after this dog for a little while. Finally, I gave up on chasing it and fired some ice at it. Not like a spike or anything, just a cage to trap it in, I like dogs, honestly! Stop looking at me like I'm some sort of puppy killing monster.

The dog dogged the ice, and my attack instead crashed into what I guess was some sort of engine. There was an explosion. I mean, the type of explosion Natsu creates when he gets too carried away, only this one had metal in it to turn into scraps and send flying everywhere. One large chunk dug right into my leg. Scraps got into my eyes, making it impossible to see. I don't know what hit me next, but at least I got hit with the flat end of it. That's what knocked me out.

When I came to someone was carrying me. I was imagining Natsu laughing at me for such an epic failure when they set me down and started speaking. "That was stupid of you. Magic is forbidden inside the city. Didn't you know that?"

"…no"

The voice, which sounded just the slightest bit familiar, suddenly sounded much brighter "Thank god. That means I'm not the only one who got in trouble for that this week. I think we're far enough that it'll be alright…"

The pain in my leg started to ebb. Next the vision in my eyes started to return. At first it was blurry, then the vague mix of colors became poorly defined shapes, then, after a few more seconds, I could make out the face grinning stupidly at me. I'd only ever seen him once, but I recognized Jellal none the less. Like my Fairy Tail mark, the tattoo around his eye had been replaced with some sort of crystal.

"…Jellal? What the hell are you doing here?"

He shrugged "Dunno. Is that my name?"

"Why else would I call you by it?" He'd only just claimed amnesia a few days ago. I felt insulted that he'd try and say he had it again so soon. I'd never thought I looked like an idiot, but figured I must have to him.

Jellal shrugged "I wouldn't know. I just came to a few day ago with no memories." Oh, so I guess I was out for a few days "Actually, I got arrested almost immediately because I didn't know you couldn't use magic inside the city. They let me off the hook for having amnesia, and it helped that the power shut off in half the city around then." I was getting tired of his grin really fast. "I followed them to the power generator that failed and found you there. I thought they'd suspect you since you were also a crystal bearer, so I hid you in a different portion of the city." A look of guilt crossed his face "But then there was a mass evacuation because of the power outage. I didn't even have time to fix your wounds. I only just managed to get back to you today, and I had to take you out here before I could use any magic."

"You were a lot less talkative the last time I met you."

Jellal shrugged again "I wouldn't know if I'm more talkative or not." He reached to his side and pulled over that damned jacket that I'd gotten injured trying to retrieve and said "This is yours, right?"

I nodded. When he leaned over to hand it to me I saw a gun strapped to his back, but didn't comment on it. Jella sat there in front of me in silence for a little while before finally asking "Do you really know me?"

"Not well. It's more that I know 'of' you" I tried to explain "I only ever saw you once, and it wasn't for very long."

Looking a little dejected, he said "Oh. That's too bad. Like I said, I can only remember back a few days. I thought maybe you could tell me more about myself." Standing up, he added "You can at least tell me what your power is, right?"

"What?"

"You're a crystal bearer." He tapped the crystal on his cheek, and I glanced down at my chest. "You can use magic, can't you? What type of magic do you use?"

"Ice." I replied. "Is magic rare here?"

He gave me the same 'weirdo' look I'd gotten when I'd first left the fountain area "Yeah. At least, as far as I've heard. Only crystal bearers can use it, after all, and their supposed to be uncommon." He paused "Are you not from around here?"

"No. And neither are you."

Jellal didn't seem to care much about this news. He'd probably already figured that. I was about to tell him I knew someone who knew him well when he asked "Is your magic any good for fighting?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I want to go to the Selkie guild. I'm a Selkie after all, so I'm more likely to find someone who knows me there, but the train isn't running to the capital right now, and when I tried to go to the next station on foot there were a bunch of monsters in the way. My power isn't much good for fighting, and some monsters are hard to damage with a gun." Which explained why he had one.

Rather than question the issue of monsters, I said "Selkie?"

"One of the three tribes…" I shook my head to show I still had no idea what he was talking about "Are you from a really rural area? I'm not much of one to talk, since I had to have this explained to me a couple days ago, but it's like this. There are three tribes. Or clans. Or races. Or whatever. Clavat, Lilty, Selkie. You know which one you are, right?"

"Clavat?"

"Lilty run the city we were in, and just about everything else. Most of the Selkie live far away because of that. Since I'm a Selkie it makes sense that another Selkie is the most likely to know me, that's why I want to go to the guild. Can you help me get there?"

"Yeah. Sure." It was easier to ask him about the new world I'd landed in than someone who was actually from it. And he got me out of being arrested for taking out a large portion of the city's power. Plus, since he'd helped us with Nirvana and Erza had forgiven him, it didn't feel right to completely hate him for that anymore. It seemed fair to help him get to this guild. Not that I expected him to find anyone there, but if we were both in this world it stood to reason that someone else could be, so we might run into them along the way.

Also, it just felt really good to have someone around who I actually knew from before everything got completely turned around.

OXXXXXO

Rune Caster: So TECHNICALLY this is a crossover, but I'm only using Fairy Tail characters, chucked into a different setting with their usual personalities (or at least I'll try to write their usual personalities), so I'm not bothering to list it as one. Anything that doesn't make sense because it's from the other world should be explained by the end of the second chapter.