Looping Fairies
Chapter One
A First Time Looper
Hello there! RpM here with a brand new story! This is my second Fairy Tail fanfic that I've actually written down, so I'm downright curious of how this one will turn out. I'm also going to be posting the first chapter of the first one right around the time I post this ,so I'm going to be monitoring them to see which is more popular. As you've probably already figured out from the title (or read in the description, either way) this story is about time loops! That's right people, I fell in love with the idea of time loops since I read my first time looping fanfic. Now, for those who don't know what time loops are, I'm not the best person to ask about it. I don't know very much, meaning I can tell you WHAT they are just not the theory on WHY they happen.
Here goes nothing:
Time loops are when a person, called a looper, keeps restarting their life and experiences, typically beginning and ending at certain points. Sometimes the loop variates from what happens in the baseline loop, from a tiny inconsequential event to something that dramatically alters the loop from what the looper expects it to be. There are certain loops, called crossover or fused loops, where several or more loopers are swapped or replaced with loopers from another dimension.
The most important thing about the loops is the Anchor. They are the first person to start looping in their dimension, and they keep their dimension stable. The Anchor is always looping, unless replaced with a different Anchor in a fused loop. Once the Anchor starts looping, eventually more loopers appear. They are usually people that are close to the Anchor in the baseline loop, though there are a few exceptions.
When a loop restarts, nothing is carried over from the previous loop except the looper's memories. Experienced loopers have a small pocket dimension where they store things that they want to keep throughout the loops. Loopers are insanely stir crazy, especially the Anchors. A loop where the loopers decide to say 'frag this' and do whatever the heck they want without following the baseline loop are called 'vacation loops'.
I hope I explained that good enough, and if not I'm so sorry! For anyone who likes good looping stories or any My Little Pony fans out there, look up the fanfiction "MLP Loops". It's an awesome story, not to mention incredibly hilarious and very well written. For anybody who doesn't like My Little Pony, I hold no grudges against you so I ask that you do not hold one against me. There will possibly be MLP: FiM fused loops in the future of this story. Before you click that back button, at least try and imagine how the characters are going to react if they are talking to/in a world full of/or are turned into colorful girly looking ponies. Is that mental image hilarious or not? I'd also like to say that the reason I'm not putting this among crossovers is because the story is not focused on other dimensions. There will be plenty of parts where they are in other dimensions or deal with people/creatures from other dimensions, but that is not all that the story focuses on. Plus, there would be so many crossovers that I wouldn't know which category to post it under, so it's just going in the Fairy Tail section.
*looks back* AAAHHH! I TURNED INTO ONE OF THOSE AUTHORS WHO POST RIDICULOUSLY LONG AUTHOR'S NOTES! QUICK, START READING BEFORE IT GOES ANY FURTHUR!
I'd like to say right now that I own NOTHING in this story except the plot, and no copyright is intended.
(1.1)
Lucy was confused.
Her past day had been completely normal. Well, normal as in it happened all the time. The problem was, that day had happened before.
Several times.
That day in question was the day she had first met Natsu, Happy, and the rest of Fairy Tail, nearly getting captured by a slave trader in the process.
The first time she had thought it was just a dream, and did the exact same thing she'd done before. Only thing was, the dream didn't end. She lived her life exactly the same as the first time, except for some weird reason after the Nirvana incident she'd woken up to restart her life. Again.
She then became very careful of everything she did, making sure to do everything the exact same as before, terrified of the repercussions of doing something wrong. There was only one difference in each reset: It always ended at different points. Sometimes after the Nirvana thing, sometimes after the GMG, etc.
After exactly thirteen times of reliving her life, she made sure to keep perfect count, she tried a little experiment. After two more resets, she came to the conclusion that nothing she did transferred into the next reset. After that she decided to say eff it and have some fun.
And so she usually did things her own way, unless she needed a break and then she would let things go normally with only a few tweaks here and there. At her current time she had been through exactly forty-three resets, and was on her forty-forth. One thing she enjoyed about the resets was that she always retained her level of magic, and so was much stronger than she had been at this point in the beginning.
At 'this point', she was going through her 'first' meeting with everyone at Fairy Tail. It went the exact same way it always did.
Pfffffft, yeah right!
Instead of freaking out and running away once he realized she was a Celestial wizard, Loke had just stared at her and walked off muttering to himself while his eyes twitched. Later, he had asked if he could talk to her in private.
As soon as they'd gotten far enough away that two certain Dragon Slayers couldn't hear them, she'd figured out the exact range of their super sensitive hearing and smell eleven resets ago, he'd turned to her and looked her over with a nervous look.
"Uh,, L-Lucy? Do you maybe... Um.. Remember.. uh..." He stuttered and scratched the back of his neck awkwardly. The possible meaning of his actions hit Lucy like a stir crazy lion. (lame pun intended)
"You're resetting too?!" She squealed with glee as she proceeded to glomp him.
"Um, resetting?" He questioned with a blank face, surprised at how she seemed eager to touch him.
"Yeah! Resetting, that's what I named it! You know, things are suddenly started over back in the past?" She looked at him warily. Maybe he wasn't, and this was just something going differently without her influence for once?! Maybe he would think she was crazy!
He seemed to melt with relief. "Thank God, I thought I had lost it!" He hugged her back.
"So what are we going to do about your whole, 'banned from the Celestial world' thing..." Lucy muttered with a look of concentration, seeming to forget to explain to her friend what exactly was going on.
He looked at her confused, and then she explained all she knew about the weird resets, including how nothing carried over and how completely and utterly infuriating things got sometimes.
He frowned and looked like he was concentrating on something for a second, before his eyes widened and his jaw dropped. At the confused look he received from Lucy he explained. "My gate isn't blocked off..."
Her jaw dropped too before she smiled and jumped back from him excitedly. "Well what are we waiting for? Let's go and figure out what's going on!" Loke looked at her strangely before shrugging. They then disappeared in a swirl of light to the Celestial world.
Long story short, turns out that Loke wasn't the only spirit to remember. The entire Celestial realm did.
The Celestial Spirit King had even shown up, just as confused as the rest of them. Lucy explained what she knew to everyone and all the spirits wondered one thing.
What happens with their contracts?
Nobody had an answer to that, but Lyra did happen to know something about the situation.
"I believe that we are experiencing something called 'time loops'. It's a very popular theory that many writers use." We all stared at her and she ducked her head shyly. "I don't know anything more, I never believed it was possible so I never tried learning more about it." We all nodded and thought about it for a minute, not very long though. The name was pretty self explanatory. The Celestial King finally spoke and resolved their major issue.
"All spirits will retain their contracts with the mages they have currently in this 'loop'. Those that have contracts that do not exist yet may only create them when their current contracts are void." He declared and disappeared to wherever he spent all his time.
"So basically it's just the same as usual?" Loke summarized the entire thing with his question.
"No! For one, we can create our contract now!" Lucy said with a bright smile as the spirits who didn't have contracts with her left to their homes.
Her spirits looked at her worriedly. Seeing their looks and understanding why they were confused she gave them an embarrassed laugh. "You try doing everything over again forty-three times and not get a little loopy." There were several Ahs as the rest of the spirits, minus Loke, left once they realized she had it all under control.
Loke smiled at her. "No need to make a new contract, ours can be the same as before."
"Okay!" She said with a little too much enthusiasm. "But we need a story for how I found out about you being a Celestial spirit, or if you'd like we can just let things go normally!" Lucy said. For some reason, Loke was betting on the stress of thinking she was the only one looping, almost every sentence she said sounded like it ended with an exclamation point. Her excitement over the situation was also almost palpable.
"No, if it gets like you said then I think I'm going to start this thing off with some fun." There was silence for a moment as they both thought of possible plans. All of a sudden, Lucy smiled.
Loke couldn't decide he should feel nervous or excited about that smile.
(1.2)
Natsu and the rest of the guild waited impatiently for Lucy to summon the spirit of the new key she'd gotten, she'd offered to show everyone how Celestial wizard contracts worked. Having already seen how she did it with Plue, Natsu wasn't exactly excited about it.
Lucy stood and raised her key, making a slightly weird but cool looking pose. "Gate of the Lion, Leo!" There was a flash and jaws dropped all over the guild as the spirit bowed in front of the Celestial mage.
"Close, but not quite. The name's Loke, sweetheart." Half of the guild fainted and the other half was incapable of forming a coherent thought.
"So, when are you free?" Lucy said pulling out her notebook, seemingly without noticing the reactions of the rest of the guild.
"Oh, anytime for you." Loke said kissing her hand. "But I won't be available if I'm on a mission, is that alright?"
"Of course! As long as you let me know before and after."
"I'll make sure to do that. May I buy you a drink to seal the deal?" He waved an arm to the bar.
"Sure!" Lucy smiled. Then, as if only just realizing the shocked expression of the rest of the guild. "What? You didn't know he was a Celestial spirit?"
Loke shrugged when she looked at him. "I never told anyone, I thought it'd be obvious."
Lucy just shrugged back and followed him over to the bar to where Mirajane was the only one reacting well to the situation.
"Two strawberry margaritas." Loke said sitting down on a stool.
Mira smiled wide as she got to work making the drinks for the two. "Of course! And don't worry, it's on the house!" The rest of the guild members still awake fainted from Mira's cheerful and completely unsurprised response.
Later on, at Lucy's place.
"Well that went better than expected." Lucy managed to choke out in between laughter.
"Their faces!" Loke sputtered, shaking so hard he fell back on the arm of the couch they were sitting on.
"Now, what other mischief can we get up to? Lucy asked the spirit with a grin that could taken as either evil or deranged.
"I don't know, but I can't wait to find out." Loke practically purred, mirroring her.
(1.1)
*Lucy, The Anchor!
*Also I decided, if one spirit loops then all of them follow. :3
(1.2)
*On her twentieth loop, Lucy discovered a deep passion for pranking her non-looping guildmates. It helps keep her moderately sane. Plus it's also a great means of entertainment!
*On the other hand, Loke discovered his on his very first loop.
Please read and review, tell me what you think. :) I'd love to hear ideas from you guys for future stories. ;D
~RpM