AN: Hey guys! This is my first fan fiction so please review! I already edited it since the first format really sucked… so please review and enjoy! ;p
Twin Fairies
daydreamer09
Chapter 1: The Request
It was another normal morning for Lucy Heartfillia at the guild, trying to pick a request with a big reward that could pay her rent for the next few months. Numerous requests were posted on the board but none of them gained her interest.
From the corner of her eye she spotted Natsu and Gray fighting again.
"Squinty eyes!"
"Droopy eyes!"
"Dumbass!"
"Stripper!"
Lucy sweat dropped when the verbal fighting turned into a physical one, wreaking havoc in their surroundings. She sighed with relief when Erza managed to stop them from damaging the guild by punching both of them in the face. However, what she didn't expect was Natsu flying towards her and landing on top of her, injuring her as well.
"Boy, Erza is sure strong…" Lucy said as she struggled to get Natsu off of her.
"Aye sir…" replied the dragon slayer
While Lucy helped Natsu stand up she noticed the request paper that landed shortly on Natsu's rosy hair.
"Eh? Natsu, what's that on your head?" the blonde mage took the old piece of paper before Natsu could even reply. As Lucy read the request her eyes widened, she finally found a request that would suite her.
"This is it! I'm going to take this job!"
"What job? Let me see that –" the pink-haired dragon slayer quickly took the paper from Lucy's hands and read it out loud.
"Help us! Save a princess from an enchanted black witch. Warning: witch possesses extremely powerful magic that could kill you in less than seconds!? Why do you want to go on a job like this?"
"Because of the reward, look!" Natsu continued to read the rest of the request.
"Rewards: 1 000 000 Jewels, a golden key from the zodiac and the princess herself?!"
"Wow. That's a lot of reward. The princess must be something." Gray said as he read the request
"Lucy, are you interested in the princess?" asked Natsu.
"No silly! I'm interested in the money and the golden key!"
"What does the princess look like anyway?" Gajeel asked curiously, swiveling the bar chair to face the trio.
"It says here, the picture is at the back." Gray pointed out while looking at the request.
Natsu hurriedly flip the paper revealing a picture of a tall, blonde princess with fair skin and a plum face. Natsu, Gajeel, Gray and Happy were suddenly starstrucked that their eyes turned into hearts and started drooling all over the picture.
"P-Pretty" they all said in unison.
"Lucky for me, I'm gonna help Lucy and be the first to save the princess!" Natsu proclaimed.
"What makes you think you'll be the first? I bet I could save her faster than you." replied the Ice mage.
"Who says you're coming droopy?"
"Got a problem with that, squinty?"
"Lucy and I are the only ones going, got that?"
"It's a guild request dumbass anyone can go, besides, with that birdbrain of yours you probably don't even know how to get there!"
"Stripper!"
"Dumbass!"
And then the fighting started.
Lucy sighed "What a pain." She grabbed Natsu by the scarf and started dragging him out of the guild "I don't care who gets to come with me, as long as I do this job and get my reward the better! Let's go!"
"Ack! Lucy! W-wait a sec.!" Natsu choked out before she let him go. He straightened and fixed his scarf and shouted with renewed enthusiasm. "Yosh! Now I'm fired up!" grabbing Lucy's hand he raced out of the guild with Lucy in tow. "Let's go Lucy! Happy!"
"Aye sir!" replied the blue exceed following them.
"Hey, Natsu! We're not done yet!" yelled Gray
From the bar Erza silently watched the bunch and sighed inwards. She knew with Natsu's sense of direction they'd be lost the moment they step into the forest. Shaking her head she called out to the Ice mage. "Gray! Follow Natsu and make sure he doesn't mess things up again" she said in her commanding voice.
"What?!"
"You can bring Gajeel if you want, just in case" she added
"What makes you think I'm gonna bring metal head along huh?" he asked, surprised that she could even suggest that.
"Gajeel has a good sense of smell just like Natsu's, he can track him down easily by following his scent, so its best if you should bring him along"
"No way! You don't get to tell me who I want to bring along!"
"Fine, then who do you want to bring?"
"Uh-well… Uhm… Juvia!"
"W-What?! Gray-sama wants Juvia to accompany him? Juvia is so happy!" shouted the water-woman while dancing around the guild with hearts in her eyes. "Gray-sama! Juvia will take care of you ~ 3!"
"On second thought, maybe not" he muttered.
"Alright then, you can bring her along too" replied Erza.
"Wait a sec.! Why don't you follow Natsu yourself?"
"I have some important business to attend to."
"No way! You're just gonna meet up with Jellal!"
"I said go!"
"Y-yes ma'am!" immediately he ran out of the guild with Juvia following after him.
Just as Gajeel was about to follow after the duo, Erza called after him. "Gajeel…" he turned back to look at the warrior mage and rose an eyebrow "Hm?"
"Take this." She handed him another poster similar to the one that Lucy had. "It came with that request poster. Apparently, Lucy forgot to ask Master's approval. Lucky for her she didn't pick an A-class job."
Gajeel took the paper without question knowing full-well not to provoke her.
"Follow them and make sure they don't get into trouble."
"That's a bit hard, don't you think?" he smirked. "Knowing that pea-brain, he could attract all kinds of trouble."
"That's why I'm sending you after them, do you understand?"
"Yeah. Sure" he put the poster in his pocket and whistled for Pantherlily. The black exceed ran to his side and the both of them made their way out of the guild.
"Oh, and one last thing" Erza called out. The black-haired mage stopped on his tracks. "There'd been rumors around here recently, about someone stealing magic from mages. It could be related to that witch in the poster. Anyway, be careful out there."
"Gihi." He grinned "Sounds like fun to me" and went on his way.
When he finally caught up with Gray and Juvia, the ice mage asked "Where to?"
Gajeel took the crumpled paper from his pocket, inspected it then put it back.
"East Forest"
The sunlight shone bright over his eyes turning the dense forest into some sort of mirage.
"(Sniff) Hmm… we better walk quickly, they're moving pretty fast, I don't think I can catch up with their scent."
"Juvia is so happy that Gray-sama picked Juvia to accompany him!"
"Nah… I just couldn't think of anybody else other than you, besides, you're much more comfortable to be with than that Iron head"
"Hey! Don't call people names just like that!"
"Juvia is so overwhelmed! Juvia don't think her heart could handle so much happiness!"
"Shh! Quiet down!"
"Gajeel-kun, is there something wrong?"
"I think I heard something"
When Gajeel took another step, a rope caught his ankle and the bent tree that was holding it stood upright that sent him hanging upside down while another rope got loose making a rock tied with ropes fall from the tree and a giant net that was hidden from where Gary and Juvia where standing sprang upwards catching the two mages and left them hanging in mid-air. The three mages struggled to get out of the trap but nothing worked, the ropes were just too strong for them to cut. Just then a familiar laugh was heard behind the bushes.
"Hehehehe…. Think you can sneak up on us and steal the princess now do you? Well you better think again 'coz we're a lot smarter than you!"
"Put us down doofus! We're not here to steal the princess from you!" exclaimed the Iron dragon slayer while swinging hard trying to cut the rope tied to his ankle.
"Then why are you all following us?"
"Erza sent us to keep an eye on you!"
"Hmpf! Well tell her that I'm not a kid anymore that needs to be watched over!"
But before Natsu could get his reply he was pinned down to the ground by Gajeel who has finally released himself from the tight bonds in his ankle.
"Look Salamander! I'm not your servant boy that you could just order around! The only reason I'm here is because that scary woman said so! So stop complaining!"
When Gajeel released Natsu he immediately apologized and cut the ropes that held Juvia and Gray.
"Alright so I apologize for acting so selfish"
"Well you should be! 'Coz next time I'll strangle you to death!" shouted the Ice-make user
He scoffed. "Good luck with that"
"It's alright Natsu-kun, Juvia understands what Natsu-kun feels about having love rivals!" Juvia stated while shooting a glare at Lucy.
"So this means we're gonna save the princess together then?" asked the blonde mage.
"We have no choice. We're all a team after all." stated the ice mage.
"Alright! I'm getting more fired up than ever! Let's go save that princess!"
"Aye sir!"
And so their journey begins…..
AN : Finally edited chapter 1! BTW, just in case some of you are confused, this story takes place after the Edolas arc and also this story will be focusing on Gray, Loke, and Gajeel because I'm a huge fan of those three hehehe. Again please review!