Hello dear lovely readers, welcome to the rewrite of "The Protector of the Stars". It doesn't really matter if you haven't read the original version of this story because quite honestly I've forgotten most of the stuff I've written. This story is going to follow the same concept but hopefully be written more fleshed out and realistic (as realistic as fantasy fanfiction can be that is). But I don't want to make this AN too long so I think I'll just jump into the chapter. More important information may or may not be at the bottom.
Disclaimer: Just like everyone else on this website I own nothing of these two franchises. Also, self-betaed (with help of an app) don't be too harsh.
Prologue:
Lucy Heartfillia was bored. This by itself was an abnormal feat for if one knew Lucy they would know she was part of a crazy but wonderful guild known as Fairy Tail. Fairy Tail was no average guild either, Fairy Tail was a wizards guild. So as one can assume, Lucy Heartfilia was a wizard. So that begs the question, how can one be bored when they can do magic? Well, the answer is quite simple, Lucy couldn't use magic at the moment. She was a Celestial Wizard, one that can call upon the spirits of the constellations to aid her. But the trouble was, no one was coming to her aid. The keys she used to call on the spirits simply weren't working. Because of this strange occurrence, Lucy's team thought it best that she didn't go on missions with them until it was all sorted out. "It's for the best," Erza had said her hand on Lucy's shoulder "With your magic gone and your whip broken it's safer if you stay here." So, Lucy was bored with nothing other to do than go to the guild and stay at her apartment.
Lucy sighed as she walked down the street beside the river, the wall she normally chose to walk on beside her. After three days of not hearing from her teammates, she was rather nervous. Who knew what kind of trouble Natsu, Gray and Erza would get into. Lucy reached for the ring for Plue before realizing her error. She frowned, not only was her team gone, but none of her spirits were coming through their gates.
It started just two weeks prior, she was on a mission with Team Natsu and as soon as the fighting started she grabbed her keys. She attempted to call out Aries but nothing happened. Sagittarius, Aquarius, Loke, Virgo, even Crux didn't come out when called. In her stupor she never noticed the attack coming her way, not until she was hit. Knocked onto the street they were fighting in Lucy turned to the magical gang member that attacked her, a sneer on his face. Quickly she grabbed her whip on her side and attempted to hit him. After attacking with nothing but her whip for what seemed like hours she finally managed to wrap the thug in her whip. Only to see her trusted whip break under the continued stress.
Lucy hadn't been on a mission since, and while she normally loved breaks she liked having her friends near her more. Her rent was also due in a couple weeks time. The blonde looked up as she approached the guild door. She'd taken to spending most of her time there in the past week, if she couldn't be with her team at least she could be around her other friends and guild mates. She pushed open the door and shuffled into the guild hall lost in thoughts about her lack of magic.
"Good morning Lu-chan!" Levy called, looking up from her book as she sat at one of the many tables.
"Morning Levy-chan," she mumbled back, making her way to the bar. Levy frowned, she hated seeing her friend in such a sorry state. As Lucy slumped down into a bar stool Levy closed her book and stood up from her seat. She made her way over to where the Celestial Wizard sat and plopped down beside her.
"Lu-chan, you need to stop brooding," Levy scolded, "I'm sure Erza can keep Natsu and Gray out of trouble." The blonde wizard sighed as she turned looked at Levy.
"I know she can, but Erza not all powerful. She can still get into trouble too," Lucy sighed as stirred the Mira had set in front of her, "I guess I'm just nervous, they promised they'd call and I haven't heard from them in three days!"
"They're probably pretty busy working on the mission, they might just not have the time," Levy argued, "Or maybe their lacrima broke, I'm sure there's a perfectly reasonable explanation."
"You're right," Lucy agreed, shaking her head with a small smile, "I'm probably just overreacting." Lucy relaxed a bit in her seat the tenseness in her body that she hadn't noticed finally fading. The two girls smiled at each other and began talking.
Without warning Loki appeared, ragged and out of breath. "Lucy," he gasped "We need your help."
So we go, the prologue to the re-write. I seriously hope that I can make this version better than the original. Not super proud of this chapter, I find it kind of short but it is just a prologue. This is actually my second time writing this because this one app on my Chromebook is extremely stupid and didn't save my work correctly (I do not recommend the writer app). I prefer this version anyway, just took me a while to get out of the slight breakdown I had when It didn't save xD. In other news, I have the first arc planned out. Yes FIRST arc, I plan on making at least two maybe more if this gets a good enough response and I feel like continuing it. I still need to work out some details like foreshadowing and all that fun stuff (My English teacher would be so proud of me). I also plan on updating hopefully every other week. But keep in mind that I'm starting high school this Thursday and I'm in the school band and on my school's dance team. But I do believe that's all for this chapter (if you can call it that).
Constructive criticism is welcome, flames are not.
Question(s): What magic would you want and why? Also, does anyone know a someone who would be interested in betaing this story? If so, shoot me a PM.
