High School: Fairy Tail Style
A/N: This is my first story on FF so please bear with me… Don't forget to review and favorite this story; however, NO FLAMES ALLOWED, but constructive criticism is welcomed. Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters; they belong to the awesome Hiro Mashima, but the epic (or so I think) plotline is mine.
Chapter 1 ~The Beginning
All was dark on August 18, 2023 at 5:00 A.M. No one was awake, and no creature even stirred, all but in one house. "Dang it!" Erza Scarlet's curse rang out all around the mansion, waking up her best friend, Lucy Heartfilia's spectacular slumber. Erza stumbled around because she hit her big toe while trying to wake Lucy up. It was almost as if fate hated her because she lost her footing and ended up making a trip down to the floor to say hi. Lucy groped around trying to find the light, and when she found it, flicked it on. The light, being way too bright, blinded both of them.
"AHHHH!" they screamed in synchronization. Their eyes, still closed, they tripped around trying to turn off the bright light, in which they managed to bump their heads together. Both Erza and Lucy lay on the floor, wondering how much weirder the day would get before their first day at Fairy Tail High School. And it was just the beginning.
Gray tossed his head this way and that, looking at how his precious home was burning down in the light of beautiful but deadly orange flames, which danced across and left nothing behind in its massacre, reducing everything to tainted ashes. The burning smell of smoke clogged his nose, causing him to jump up from the bed and scream, "FIRE!" Fully awake, Gray sniffed the air around him, detecting the heavy smell of smoke. He zoomed to the kitchen and reached there in two seconds flat. Everything was a disaster. There was burnt food on the pan, and a lumpy thing that looked like bread was inside the, literally, smoking hot oven. He turned to his rival but ultimately best friend, the only person in the world who was capable of doing this. He took a nice, long, deep breath. Instead of letting it out slowly, he started to scream.
"Natsu Dragoneel! Why do you even try to cook, when you know that you will end up burning the house down as well as the food, you pink-haired idiot! Tch."Natsu, instead of being perturbed, took a deep breath to counter-attack.
He scoffed, "So what?! At least I know where my dang T-shirt and pants are, you stripper."
Gray was about to retort when he caught a glimpse of the time. When Natsu saw the normally aggressive person become stunned, he looked where Gray was looking.
"OH CRAB!" Natsu yelled. "It's 5:05 A.M! We need to get to school in less than three hours!"
Now, with everyone else, it only takes about one hour to get ready for high school, two at most. However, with the kids who are fairies, it naturally takes more than that. The Fairy Tail High School is the most prestigious high school in all of Tokyo, Japan. The students who attend are the best of the best, all from noble and rich families. They bow down to no one; they are the mountains that refuse to bow to the strongest of winds. Fairy Tail High is where Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, and many others will start their fun of love and adventure. However, they have to first get there on time first.
Both Erza and Lucy were on the verge of a panic attack. They agreed that Lucy should take shower first since she takes longer than Erza, while Erza, who can cook like it's no one's business, would cook breakfast for the both of them without destroying anything. As Lucy headed upstairs to take a shower, Erza began to mutter to herself about breakfast.
"So what should I make? Monster fish sticks sound like a good option, accompanied by scary berries, with the flames and all, with monster popsicles as dessert. Definitely overboard, but when did Fairy Tail students not go overboard? The day we are normal is the day the Headmaster dies."
Erza spends an hour in the kitchen, cutting the monster sticks exactly five inches of width and five inches of height, only the way Erza can. She literally flamed up the berries, causing them to burn, and brought out the frozen monster tentacles known as "Monster Popsicles". At that moment, Lucy decided to head downstairs.
What Lucy smells from the kitchen makes her speed- run down the fifty something steps. She inhaled something that scented strangely akin to fire, and started to freak-out before she even got to the kitchen. What greeted her left her in awe. The grand table was set with the grandest breakfast that not even the Heartfilia family could supply. In a trance-like state, Lucy slowly sat down at the dinner, now breakfast table. She eyed the grand feast that was meant to be breakfast, and promptly lost her appetite. The food looked terrible and disgusting to her, even if the aroma was kind of nice. Lucy was having second doubts about the food, unsure if it meant food-poisoning for her or not. Of course, one can never be too sure with Erza Scarlet, the queen of unpredictable. Erza, detecting her friend's frantic look, quickly grabbed a piece of the stick and promptly shoved it into her own mouth.
"See," she mumbled around her food. "Perfectly edible. Just give it a try." Lucy stuck one into her mouth, and quickly did an epic spit-take.
"It tastes perfect alright." She spat. "Perfectly terrible!"
She ended up choking half-way through her rant, making her sound strangled. She ended up severely choking on the piece that was lodged in her throat, with Erza hitting her back as hard as possible to get her to cough it out. In the end, they both agreed that it would be best if they just ate at the big buffet with everyone else at school, laughing and joking just like they always did. There, the food was not only to be edible, but perfectly scrumptious. The girls met eyes and nodded. Everything was set. Now there was just a small thing left do do. Namely, get ready for school. Both ladies raced up the steps to change into their school uniform, with Erza's being red because she was class presiden and Lucy's being the standard uniform. They proceeded to get ready in a calm and orderly manner, meaning that there was much arguing, digging for clothes to pack, yelling about hair and makeup, and "Where the heck are the dang bike keys?!" After two painstakingly long hours, Lucy and Erza jumped o the bike, with Lucy at the head so that she could drive the monster. The high schooler revived up the engine and shot forward, at last ready to start their adventure to Fairy Tail High School.
Natsu and Gray were having a competition about who could get ready and get to school before the other. Since there were two bikes, one with flame designs for Natsu and one that was a solid blue for Gray, there would be no complications. First person to reach school would have the loser so all the homework for a month. Natsu raced up the stairs to grab his ordinary school uniform since he was not the class perfect. Which, in his eyes, was highly unfair because he believed that the title should have been his. Instead, it went to the worst person ever: Jellal Fernandes. Natsu got so furious just thinking about it that he started jumping up and down, REALLY HARD. In fact, he did it so strongly that dust started to rain down upon Gray. Gray looked up at the ceiling just in time to catch a mouthful of dust flowing down, directly into his throat. Coughing and hacking, he managed to grab a drink of water- that had an uneeded amount of ice- and chug it down his throat, along with the ice and all without choking on it. He began to formulate a plan of revenge. Phase One is try and not die in the process of killing his life-long enemy, Natsu. Phase Two involved murdering Natsu. Phase Three meant kicking Natsu's dead butt into tomorrow. Final Phase, also known as Phase Four, meant that the process was completed, and Gray would be free to celebrate a Natsu-free life. Gray proudly nodded to himself. This would work, perfectly. But he would not do it in their, soon to be his, house and risk destroying it. No. He would do it at school, the perfect place to execute the perfect plan. Gray cackled to himself. It was going to be one heck of a first day back to school.