Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail. Hiro Mashima does. This story was made for fun, and not for cash. (How unfortunate.)
Chapter 1: Shadows and Secrets
Cana had been taking a long and hot shower, feeling the warm beads of precipitation latch on to her skin, and she had not gone to the guildhall of Fairy Tail today. She was not sick with a cold or injured in any way, and it had nothing to do with Lisanna's return from the world of Edolas all those years ago. Cana had been in the shower room for a long time now, still showering while the other girls would come in to take baths that would last only twenty minutes at the most, and they had simply ignored her while minding their own business.
As steam from Cana's hot shower had filled up the room, she gasped as a wave of nausea rose from her gut while she began to have the feeling of nervousness enter her purple eyes. She looked utterly ashamed at the fact that she had taken a job in the Desert Resort yesterday, thinking that the job of stopping a criminal would be easy, but her opponent was a woman who had green hair. She was Suna Shiro, the Earth Dragon Slayer, and she had been boasting to the card mage about how elite she truly was. Cana thought that her cards with the abilities to create explosive fire and humongous waves would be powerful enough to stop Suna, but she had really been proven wrong.
This woman had definitely lived up to her claims of being elite, such as how she was able to create a giant fist of sand to completely cancel out Cana's Tidal Wave Cards, and Suna had also slammed her palms against the ground to make two walls of earth rise up from the ground and crush her foe with a hard slam. Even the Explosive Fire Card had done nothing to the rock walls, based on its low level of power, and the brown-haired girl had found herself having to use a Teleportation Card to be warped back to Fairy Tail. Even though she had left the hot desert, Cana knew that her humiliating defeat tasted worse than having sand in her mouth if she ever got sunk down into quicksand.
However, despite getting beaten so easily like that with only mediocre-level spells from her Card Magic, that was not exactly the main reason why Cana was now crying while she stood under the warm water. Sobs wracked her body, and she had puffy red eyes while sniffling. Her throat constricted while the temperature heightened, and the card mage felt really upset about a different kind of defeat that she had recently gone through. It had really made her wonder if she would ever find what she was looking for, and Cana also wondered if she would ever be strong enough to assist her partner on missions.
One day, she had gone to the beach with Mira to relax after they had finished doing a simple job of catching an amateur bank robber. Mirajane wore a sexy two-piece orange bikini that showed off most of her cleavage, and Cana simply wore a two-piece green bikini that showed off her beautiful curves. She was busty like Mira, and she certainly did have a rear that was just as nice. Even though Cana had looked sexy, she thought that Mira had looked much sexier while she laid down on the sand with her eyes closed. She let out a sigh of pleasure from feeling the sun's rays shine down on her, and the white-haired woman laid on her back while Cana laid on her stomach.
Mira had asked in a sweet manner, smiling at Cana with joy in her blue eyes while she giggled a bit, "Cana, could you please put some oil on my body? I really don't want to get sunburned from the heat, and just thinking about it reminds me of Natsu's flames. They're hot enough to make anyone start sweating, and Lisanna is lucky to be liking him. I think that they should get together, since everyone needs love, and they would totally be a cute pairing. Anyway, just apply the oil to every part of me. I know that you'll be gentle."
The purple-eyed girl responded kindly, as she looked a bit shocked at her friend's request, gasping a bit while trying to hide the light pink blush on her face, "Y-Yes, Mira. I'll be gentle with your beautiful body, and I think that you have very nice legs. I'd love to get you oiled up and feeling good on this nice day at the beach."
Cana had been blushing while she said that to Mira, and it wasn't really because she had perverted thoughts in her head. She had never really told anyone about her sexuality, not knowing how they would react to the news of one lesbian girl being in the guild of Fairy Tail, and the card mage did not want to be judged. She had found herself being attracted to other women, never having any romantic feelings for guys, and Cana did not want to look very odd around girls who were straight. Mirajane was one of those girls, since she had been dating Freed Justine for a few months now.
She noticed the white bottle of oil on the golden-brown sand, and it was right next to Mirajane's left hand. The brown-haired girl continued to blush while she picked up the bottle, noticing how Mira had such a beautiful body, and she noticed that Mira had already opened the bottle of oil while holding the small cap for it in her left hand. She squeezed out some of the oil onto her hands, rubbing them together gently, and she simply put her oily hands on Mira's back while rubbing it. Cana gasped while noticing that her right hand had quickly gone further down to touch the nice cheeks of Mira's rear, and a warm feeling made her feel really hot about this.
She had only touched Lucy's butt when they were both in Fairy Tail's heated pool, and Cana had found her blonde friend's cheeks to be rather soft while they were large like her cleavage. Lucy had sighed happily from the feeling of Cana's hands touching her soft butt, blushing in bliss while she wore a beautiful pink bikini, and Cana had liked Lucy. She knew that the blonde mage was bisexual, meaning that she would date guys and girls, and her cute lips looked so very kissable. However, Lucy had been more into Natsu. The way that she giggled about him was a sign to Cana that the blonde mage wanted to be with the fire dragon slayer, shooting down Cana's thoughts of dating a sweet girl like Lucy.
As her thoughts had drifted to seeing Lucy coming out of the heated pool while she blushed cherry red, her cleavage bouncing nicely while Cana unhooked Lucy's bra, the card mage was snapped back to reality when Mira had suddenly pinned her down on the ground while looking stern about the fact that Cana's oily hands had made her orange bra become covered in oil, and it slid down Mira's body while showing her mounds to Cana. They were also covered with oil, mostly because Cana had not focused on where she was applying the oil, and she had even squeezed the bottle of oil onto Mira's whole body to make her now become really slippery.
Cana had indeed oiled up Mira's body while not paying attention to what was going on, having been thinking about Lucy instead, and Mira noticed that Cana's cheeks were blushing a light shade of pink. She could see that the card mage was nervous, especially since their lips were only an inch away from having any contact with each other, and Mira angrily got off of Cana before she walked back to Fairy Tail while feeling miffed. She could not believe that Cana would be so lewd to try and touch her private areas, but it was a total accident on Cana's part. If her mind was thinking of happy thoughts, could her body think any differently?
"I never meant to touch Mira like that, and I was only thinking about Lucy. I let my thoughts and emotions get the better of me again, and it's not like I'm even strong without my cards. I had the Fairy Glitter spell from the First Master, but that was only temporary. My cards can only be used to assist and defend me, but their level of offense is hardly anything. In order to survive on jobs that turn out to be hard, I've had to run away. Even if my hands liked Mira's body, she's with Freed. She would never want to date me, so who would?" Cana thought to herself with a saddened look on her face while she turned off the water to end her shower.
While Cana had walked out of the bathroom, she narrowed her purple eyes as she hid behind a potted plant near the guildhall of Fairy Tail. She was careful enough to sit down with her knees huddled up against her chest, just in case anyone would come down this hallway, and she sat in the darkness to get away from some sunlight that would probably expose her. She could see Lucy crying while she ran upstairs to presumably see Master Makarov, and Cana's purple eyes also took notice of Gray scolding Natsu for what he had done.
He had kicked Lucy off of the team to replace her with Lisanna, something that could really be seen as hurtful to anybody, and the brown-haired girl had to wonder about what Lucy had ever seen in Natsu. If he was really so dense to kick her off of the team in a way that made both Gray and Erza scold him while respectively delivering a punch and a kick to his face, then he really wasn't the person that she needed to be with. Also, almost everyone knew that he liked Lisanna more than Lucy. She hadn't seen the hints, but it definitely had to be a clue to her if he had ordered pancakes from the bar for Lisanna instead of Lucy.
As Cana was about to go upstairs to talk with Lucy, the brown-eyed girl cried while she ran out of Fairy Tail's entrance doors. Cana could guess that it was probably because she just saw Natsu and Lisanna kiss only a few moments after the fire dragon slayer kicked the blonde mage off of the team, and she probably never wanted to see that dense guy ever again. The brown-haired girl sneakily moved over to the glass window to see where her friend was going, and it looked like Lucy was running back to her apartment while she ran down the dirt path.
However, Cana gasped curiously while seeing a woman with silvery-blue hair go down into what looked like a shadowy black puddle. She had been standing on the dirt path for a while now, looking interested about something now, and Cana found that to be really weird. Seeing that the shadowy woman was following Lucy, Cana looked a bit suspicious while opening the window to get out of the guild. She ran down the dirt path to get out of the guild, wanting to investigate the mysterious shadow, but it surprisingly came back quickly like the woman knew that Cana was following her.
The shadowy puddle placed itself directly underneath Cana, and a pair of hands grabbed her while pulling her down into the shadows. She gasped in shock while knowing that she probably wouldn't be able to escape this, and the brown-haired mage found herself falling down far into what seemed like black water in a raging sea. She certainly made a loud splash into the water, hitting it hard because she had been falling so fast from a high height, and Cana knew that this was the end for her. She probably would not survive this, and she could only lose consciousness while she began to drown into the water.
How was Chapter 1? Did you like it? This is a retell of "She Will Be Loved" that focuses on the plot of Cana and Karen, the two females in the underplayed pairing, and you will all get to see how this pairing truly came to exist. Sorry if this chapter seemed like nothing but fan service, but I wanted to change the starting atmosphere a bit. Anyway, will Cana survive? Who saves her? Where does the water take her? Standby for the update!