Flip Flop

Fairy Tail Fanfiction

By: Dragonll237

Summary: They just wanted a normal day in Fairy Tail. Turns out that's too much to ask for as they are sent to a future timeline. Will they get back? Or will they just have to live in the future?

~~~Chapter 1~~~

It has been not even a week since the Grand Magic Games and things still hadn't settled down from the dragon fight. Fairy Tail was as lively as ever from celebrating our victories. If we could just settle down, that'd be great. I couldn't even tell you how many brawls I've been dragged into.

I sighed and rested my head on the bar table, staring at the glass of ice water next to my head. Mira chuckled from behind the bar and stated how bored I looked. Well, I was. Bored of the fights going on constantly. Usually I'd be the one to start it with Natsu, but this was just out of hand. Isn't much better with Erza in on the brawls instead of stopping them.

"Is Gray-sama alright?"

Only one person could have asked me that: Juvia. I picked up my head to look at her. My lips picked up a bit. She had declared that she would try even harder this age, and I said I would tell her off directly this time. However, I don't think I'll really ever have the guts to.

"Yeah, never thought I'd ever say this, but: there are too many brawls," I answered.

Juvia nodded in agreement then took the stool to my left. She then suggested, "Maybe, you want to take a job request? It could get us away for a while."

Maybe she would have ideas of us being alone together. But she didn't say it like that. See, I don't have the heart to just turn her down…

"Yeah, sure, you wanna pick one out?"

"Oh, it doesn't matter to Juvia," she replied.

"Alright, let's go check out the board," I suggested, picking myself up off the bar stool.

I trotted over to the board with Juvia right on my heals. My only hope was that Erza didn't have a similar idea and take us on a job. That would only mean more brawls with Salamander and Titania. There were a few on the board that were actually interesting, but they either seemed too long or too short.

Juvia pulled one off to inspect it closer and it seemed to be easy enough. The location was actually close to Lamia Scale so we could drop by to see Lyon when we return home. It was some search mission for a guy that went hiking then never returned. Probably was caught by some Volkans.

We took the paper up to the bar and told Mira that we were taking the job. After a quick pack, we met up in the train station. It was just after noon so the second batch of trains were about to set off for their destinations and we didn't have to worry about waiting for long. The ride went well and we made it to the town in record time. We went straight to the client's place to gather information on our mission.

The client informed, "Michael was last seen a week ago, heading up to the falls. He has a cabin up in that area and he goes up every year to clean it. Katie, his wife, said he was just going up for three days, but when he never came back she got worried. I'm a friend of theirs and I truly just hope that Michael is alright."

"What was he wearing? Or carrying?" Juvia asked.

"He was just wearing his old green hiking pants and red rain coat. He had some equipment for the cabin in a brown duffle bag. He was carrying light," the client answered.

"What about food? Volkans could have attacked him," I added.

The client replied, "Just some sandwiches and a few water bottles."

"Thank you, we'll head out tomorrow. You said he was headed towards some falls? Would you have a map so we can track where we searched?" Juvia asked.

"Yes, of course!" the client exclaimed as he jumped over to a desk and pulled out a map of the woods and handed it to her.

"His cabin is labeled, along with the falls. Oh, I hope you find him. It would mean the world to Katie and me," the client stated.

"We'll do our best, sir," I said, and Juvia and I departed for an Inn.

Night came and went. We set off first thing in the morning into the woods. We weren't trying to be rushed, but it turned into that as we raced down the forest path towards the cabin near the falls. We found no signs of struggle nor of Volkans on our travels. In no time we made it to the cabin, but there was no sight of the man we were looking for. The cabin doors were open, and it looked like the guy was there at one point but then he just disappeared.

"Juvia will check the upstairs," Juvia suggested as she walked towards the wooden staircase in the center of the cabin.

"Alright, I'll look around outside for any signs of him," I said as I went for the door.

I walked around the house twice before noticing a flash of color underneath a bunch of leaves. I picked away the leaves to find the red rain coat of the man. My eyes narrowed at the fact that he probably didn't leave his jacket outside on purpose. I looked carefully at my surroundings and noticed the fire lacrima was still on in the grill, and still glowing strong. The man mustn't have left too long ago.

I retreated back inside to ask Juvia of her finds. It was a mysterious disappearance. There was no struggle signs anywhere to show that he was captured or anything. The man just disappeared. Volkans were out of the picture because they weren't smart enough to not leave a trail behind and we saw no signs of the ape-like creatures on our route up to the cabin.

"Oi, Juvia, you find anything?" I asked as I climbed the stair case.

"Not much, just some fresh sheets and a wind lacrima still on," she answered as she exited what looked to be the master bed.

I nodded and stated, "There was a fire lacrima outside on as well. His jacket was covered by leaves. Where do you think he could have gone? He couldn't have been captured, could he?"

She thought and replied, "Not sure, but Juvia hopes we find Michael. Katie is waiting for her husband to come home."

"Agreed," I sighed. "So, what now? We don't have Natsu to track the guy's scent."

"Juvia can work around that. It's safe to say that he was outside last so we should start from there. Juvia's been on other tracking missions before," she reassured with a cunning smirk before she disappeared down the stairs.

She deduced that the guy we were looking for was going to cook up something and traveled to the kitchen to find the meat he was going to cook laying on the counter of the island. The back door was connected to the kitchen so we wandered outside to see a path or something that the man could have taken to check out something he saw in the open fields behind the cabin. I had noticed a path that lead through the wall of the property out into the fields before when I walked around and we wandered out into the open. The path was just large enough for a fun magicmobile and was ridden over many times.

"Think he saw something and rode after it on his magicmobile?" I asked.

"Maybe, why else would he leave behind his meat with everything still on in the cabin?" Juvia returned.

We continued to walk down the trail. It wasn't long before she spotted something in the distance and we ran towards it. A magicmobile was crashed against a large boulder. By the look of the tire marks, the driver was spooked by something and weaved around something before flipping over. There was no blood, nor body of the driver.

"This crap just gets creepier and creepier," I stated and Juvia nodded in agreement. Something wasn't right with this. "The driver should have at least broken something from a crash like this. And what did he swerve from? He didn't hit whatever was in front of him, apparently, because there's also nothing showing that he did."

Juvia asked, "You think it was an animal, or something supernatural?"

I answered, "Not sure, but I doubt that an animal could have survived and the driver got away okay. Something fishy's goin' on here, and I don't like it."

We looked around the area for any signs of what happened to the driver and Juvia pointed out, "Hey, Gray-sama, is that a building in the distance? You think it's possible that he went there? Maybe someone captured him and took him there?"

"Only one way to find out, I suppose," I responded and we made our way up the hills to the dark, old, wooden cabin in the distance.

The building was worn down and looked to be burnt down many years ago. The roof was caving in and the wood was all covered in black soot or charred. My gut told me that something wasn't going to be good. I hate when it does that, because more times than not it's right. There was little choice, we had to find this guy and he could be in the creepy burnt cabin.

I carefully opened the old, falling apart, rusted over door. Inside there was a lot of dust collected, though there were many openings to the outside. There was little to no furniture, but from the looks of it, the cabin was more of a home than a vacation spot. Broken picture frames, cracked glass vases, scattered pots and pans, tipped over tables and chairs, tattered and burnt curtains and blankets. A couch was turned into a base board with springs and burnt chars with little fabric and cushioning left.

"This is terrible," Juvia announced as she looked upon the destruction.

"This is old, so the guy we're looking for couldn't have possibly gotten caught in this. Come on, we need to search this place for him," I declared, getting back on task.

The destruction was too much. We had encountered many abandoned or battle beaten lands and houses. But for some reason, this creepy house brought back bad memories. My parents' memories. Deliora destroyed my home and killed my parents, flames engulfed the town as he reigned devastation down on my home. And again with Ur, when my teacher protected me from killing myself by taking her own life to Deliora's hands. Chars were extinguished flames that connect to the killing of many people.

"It isn't safe here," I declared halting my search around the destruction. We had to get out before something bad happened.

"Eh?" Juvia questioned as I grabbed her hand and head for a sprint at the door. We were almost out when the door closed on its own to lock us inside. I slammed at it, but it was no use. Though the door could fall apart at any moment, it wouldn't budge. There was magic enforcing it to stay closed.

"Trapped, damnit," I cussed under my breath and looked wildly around the cabin for a sign of the trapper or an escape route.

A creaking of the floor boards from the kitchen area caught my attention and out of instinct I pulled Juvia behind me and took a defensive stance. There was a glow of some sort coming from the doorway. Great, there were ghosts?! I didn't sign up for this! Our first master, Mavis, was enough!

There was a shredded white dress in the doorway, and pale white skin of a hand wrapped around the door frame. The rest of the body slowly followed to show its entire form. A pale white girl with similar white hair stood in front of us. Her eyelids were closed, and I couldn't tell if that was a good or bad thing.

Juvia walked out from behind me. I grabbed her arm and tugged her back, but it was too late. The girl opened her eyes and a field of white light filtered into the house, blinding us. It wasn't long before I blacked out…