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Not really sure what this is. Story ideas anyone? I'm thinking of something with secret guild and rebellion-ish-ness. Got lost magic and epic plans for this, but I seriously need a co-writer or someone to bounce ideas with, for all my stories preferably. Any advice would be fantastic, I'm desperate and will soon be dragged off by the gorgeous plotbunny that is Sesshomaru.
Facts that may help your understanding of this bunny: Greza, Nali, Jellu, and other pairings that have not yet been decided. Mainly jellu because I think Erza is too hard on poor Jellal, who's actually very sweet. This fits during the Magic Games, though at this point they've barely begun in the actual manga and the anime is going off on an arc. Urtear, Meredy, and Jellal are all (secretly) hanging around fairy tail. Laxus has been re-admitted to the guild. Jellal has been staying with Erza because he'd rather be around Fairy Tail then go on jobs for long periods of time. Ultear and Meredy might take him shopping. 0_o
Sting and Rogue have zero screen time in the anime, so sorry if they're OOC. I read the manga, and this is kind of my interpretation of things... If you hadn't noticed, I have a bit of a problem with authority. And letting attractive villains go to aste and disappear at the end of an arc.
This whole thing is unbelievably off-canon, but it's fun to write, so oh well.
Picked the name at random. Just liked the way it sounded.
As for the disclaimer, it's on my profile page. That way I don't have to type it at the top of every chapter.
Chapter 1 (Fairy Tail Guild)
Erza sighed, watching Jellal from the opposite side of the guild.
Mira noticed her uncharacteristic behaviour. "Is something the matter, Erza?"
"Jellal's been acting strangely," Erza explained. "He seems tired and distracted frequently, and I know he's been sneaking out at night."
"Hmmmm..." hummed Natsu, eyes like equal signs. "Lucy, too. She didn't even kick us out of her house yesterday."
"Really?" leered Cana, eavesdropping. "I wonder if they're together~?" she smirked.
Levy, overhearing, squealed in delight. "That would be so cute! Their magic even matches!"
Across the guild, Jellal, while not hearing the conversation, still shrunk into his seat under the intense stares of the crowd whispering frantically at the end of the bar.
Gray 'tch'ed. "So what if they are?" While a stranger would have been offended, Gray's nakama understood this was Gray for 'I don't care how curious you are, if you upset Lucy I'll turn you into a popsicle.' The Ice Mage viewed Lucy as a sort of younger sister, going to great lengths to take care of her.
"Hmmm..." mused Erza. "That would explain why they're both acting strangely."
Cana's eyes turned devious. "Let's follow him tonight!" she suggested.
Natsu was looking forward to ambushing Lucy, and the girls were fantasizing about the two's relationship. Gray resorted to glaring.
Jellal glanced around, having gone to bed fully dressed. Breathing softly, he padded across the room, barefoot, and slipped through the window.
Erza's eyes gleamed in the darkness as she followed her roommate's progress silently. Requipping into burglar-like attire and earning a sweat-drop from the other girls staked out around the building, she lead them after his swiftly fading form.
Jellal leapt from rooftop to rooftop, silent and surprisingly agile. He ran along gutter pipes, walking over laundry lines like tightropes. A black cap mashed down over his spiky blue hair muffled the noticeable color.
Along the way, they bumped into Gray and Natsu. Gray immediately clamped a hand over the Salamander's mouth, stifling what would have been a greeting loud enough to wake all of Magnolia.
He dragged Natsu behind a large potted plant, urging the girl's to follow him. They crouched low, throwing glances over to keep watch on their prey.
"What are you doing here?" hissed Cana.
"Following Lucy," was the hushed reply.
"Eh?"
The group, clumped together in two's and three's, skirted the shadows, diving behind random objects whenever their respective quarries slowed or glanced around.
They scurried through thick shrubbery, following the two under the bridge as they came down from opposite sides, though still on the same bank.
A giggle echoed through the hidden spot, Lucy tugging off Jellal's cap in favor of tidying his rumpled blue locks.
Jellal sat obediently, a small smile tugging at his lips as he enjoyed the simple attention. "Are we early, or are they late?"
"You're early," stated a dry voice from the other side of the bridge.
Lucy waved in greeting. "Hi Rogue, hello Frosch, Lector!"
"What about me?" whined Sting childishly, offended.
"Hello to you too, Sting," Lucy laughed.
The 2 exceed waved in response, Frosch soaring over to give Lucy a hug as the two Dragon Slayers forded the river, Lector riding on Sting's shoulder.
Gray noticed a small firepit built out of rocks and filled with driftwood. Lucy's question pulled him from his thoughts in surprise.
"Who else is coming?"
"Um... Let's see," mumbled Sting, counting on his fingers. "She's busy..."
Rogue stated flatly, "Laxus, if he bothers, Midnight, if he's awake, Cobra, Shou, Zeref, and Meredy."
Sting glared at his dark-haired partner in annoyance, noting the faint smirk tugging at his lips.
Erza and Gray exchanged a sharp glance. Zeref?
A few rocks tumbled down the opposite bank with a skittering sound as three smaller figures hurried down the slope. Shou, Meredy, and... Zeref?
"Sho, wait up!" he yelped, stumbling.
"You'll have to catch me!" Shou called, laughing as he picked up speed.
Meredy trailed after them as fast as she could, struggling to keep up. "Guys! Wait for me!"
Shou pushed through the river quickly, Zeref and Meredy pausing to catch their breath before following him. All three snagged hugs from Lucy, Zeref lingering to stand beside her as the other two began to strip down to their swimsuits.
Shou wore red swimtrunks decorated with a cluster of black spades at the cuff of one leg. Meredy's was a one-piece with orange and pink stripes, matching her pink hair perfectly. Zeref, though also wearing a dark hoody, had of course chosen all-black trunks.
Midnight slowly meandered nearer, appearing from a patch of shadows as Cobra slinked around a bush. Laxus was last to arrive, his favorite jacket draped over his shoulders.
The Fairy Tail Mages-turned-spies were shocked. This unlikely group gathering had stunned even the dense Natsu into silence. Jellal was a fugitive, Laxus was ridiculously anti-social, Midnight and Cobra were from Oracion Seis, Shou was supposed to be travelling the continent, the Twin Dragon Slayers were members of Sabertooth, and Zeref was the most powerful Black Mage in history for Merlin's sake!
"I'm sorry we're late!" apologized Meredy breathlessly. "Shou was teasing Zeref again!"
Lucy laughed. "It's fine Meredy. It's not like the city's on fire." She frowned thoughtfully. "Yet. I don't know what Natsu is up to tonight. Definitely yet."
Gray snickered quietly.
"Tch," snorted Laxus. "We're not here to listen to you whine about that flame-brained idiot, we're here to take a break from training."
Lucy pouted. "I know that's Laxus for 'Don't worry about him, just have fun' but it still sounds mean."
Sting snickered as Laxus' eye twitched. The two began to bicker until the small, dark-haired boy knocked them both over the heads.
Lucy smiled sweetly. "Thank you, Ze-nii."
"Ze-nii?" whispered Gray, mind pretty much entirely blown.
"Any time, Nee-san," he replied. His smile was all teeth, canines looking almost like fangs. Smiling, he looked incredibly young, the tuft of black hair sticking straight up at the back of his head not exactly helping.
She ruffled his hair fondly before he went to sit with Shou, the latter showing him cardtricks as he cheered him on enthusiastically.
Frosch and Lector soon settled beside the water, Frosch begging 'Fairy-san' to catch her a fish.
"Awwww~" cooed Lucy. "You're so cute! Of course I'll catch you a fish, Fro!" She crouched beside the water, hand held just above the surface. Cobra knelt beside her, taking up the same position. Their hands shot out at once, splashing two glistening fish up onto the bank for the Exceed, who grabbed their snacks quickly.
"Are we going to swim or not?" complained Sting.
Lucy shook her head. "So impatient... but I guess that's what we came here to do..." she trailed off as she shimmied out of her clothing. She was left in a white bikini with a few blue sakura blossoms scattered across its fabric.
Sting whistled appreciatively before Rogue emotionlessly knocked him over the head with his sheathed katana. Jellal settled for a mild glare, more amused than anything else, before stripping down to blue trunks with a cluster of vivid red stars on one hip.
The others mimicked their actions, compliments and friendly banter passing between them, inspired by their swimwear. Laxus was teased for his lack of originality when it was discovered his trunks had lightning bolts on them, but he was quick to throw Shou under the bus as an escape.
"He uses card magic, and his have spades on them," he grumbled.
"That's not fair and you know it Laxus," accused Shou smoothly. "I'm dashing. I can wear whatever I want and still look good enough that no one will make a comment on my clothes."
The surprised silence was slightly awkward, Shou just smirking.
"Somehow, he sounds like Sting," Jellal mused.
Sting prepared to start an argument, but was smacked upside the head by Rogue.
Lucy, still staring, wondered, "How is it that I was actually considering the possibility of that statement?"
Meredy blushed ridiculously, then murmured, "Maybe because it's only a slight exaggeration of the truth..."
Shou cracked his signature crooked grin. "It's my roguish charm."
Jellal hummed innocently. "Somehow Rogue doesn't fit into the roguish charm section."
"Yup," agreed Lucy. "More like tall, dark, and emotionless type."
Even Laxus managed a snort at that. "I think you've twisted the phrase."
"Nope!" chirped Lucy. "I just live in another reality than you."
"I think Jellal lives there too," confided Meredy. "When you startle him he says really weird things."
"Like what?" demanded Sting, looking for potentially embarassing information.
"Really, really weird," warned Meredy.
Lucy snickered. "One morning, he fell asleep at the guild. He was lucky it was just me and Mira, when he woke up he yelled, 'Monkeys!'"
Most of the group burst out laughing. Rogue's lips twitched.
Jellal, thoroughly embarassed, rested his chin on Lucy's shoulder, arms about her loosely from behind. "'s not my fault," he mumbled.
Meredy smirked evilly. "Another time, he was teasing me by calling me Mer-Mer because it annoyed me. He spaced out in the middle of me yelling at him, and only came back to earth right before I finished. Do you know what he asked me?"
"What!?" was the unanimous response.
"Do you think that when penguins die, they go to a giant igloo in the sky?"
There was a moment of stunned silence, before rib-aching laughter possessed them all.
"He was dead serious too!" Meredy insisted.
Blushing furiously, Jellal buried his face in Lucy's blonde hair.
She took pity on him, distracting the others the only way she knew how. Lethal combat.
"Water fight!"
An all-out water-fight battle royale broke out, Shou dunking Zeref before being tripped into the water by Meredy. Lucy dove into the river, clinging to the bottom. Jellal went in after her, but Sting perched atop a boulder, out of splashing-range.
"Try to splash me now!" he cackled.
Rogue smirked. "Behind you."
"Wha-"
Splash!
Sting surfaced, spluttering and coughing. "Lucy!" he growled.
Lucy, having flying-tackled him into the river, squeaked with fear before diving again. He dove after her, the two knocking over the others in thier haste. Lucy finally managed to dive behind Midnight, making Sting slam into him and both of them go under.
Breathless but triumphant, she collapsed back into the water, floating on the surface lazily.
Jellal swam up beside her as Sting and Midnight began to duke it out.(Midnight was winning. He had no issue with pulling hair or biting, whereas Sting thought they were 'sissy' moves.)
"Having fun?" he asked, smiling.
"Yeah..." Lucy sighed. "It's nice to get everyone together for something other than training."
Jellal chuckled, threading his fingers through hers as they floated side-by-side. "Although, their behaviour isn't all that different."
Lucy smiled. "Yeah, they honestly remind me of Fairy Tail. Always fighting over something, destroying things for fun, and just generally wreaking havoc." Her smile faded after a moment. "I'm worried about our Sabertooth members."
"How come?" asked Jellal, eyebrows furrowing. "They're plenty powerful."
"It's sort of because of that..." she murmured. "I'm worried about Minerva. There's something off about her, and I don't want anyone to get hurt."
"It'll be alright," Jellal reassured her. "You're worried about that vision of Minerva taking Lector hostage, right?"
"I wonder what they're talking about?" whispered Levi.
Erza frowned. "Whatever it is, it seems serious."
Jellal rubbed his thumb over the back of her hand. "We're making a clean break from the ther guilds, remember? Right at the beginning of the games, so Minerva won't get that chance."
Lucy took a shaky breath, pushing away the memory. "Yeah. A clean break. We can do this." Her voice was firm again.
Jellal grinned crookedly. "That's my girl."
The rest of the night was spent in revelry, with drinking, carousing, another water war, and a riverside cookout-style dinner. The unusual group obviously enjoyed themselves, but eventually, each called it a night.
Lucy and Jellal were last to go, stretching their goodbyes out as long as they could.
Lucy leaned against Jellal, arms around his neck.
"I guess I'll see you tomorrow," he supplied reluctantly, movements contradicting his words as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
"We could do a job together," suggested Lucy quietly.
"I'd like that," he responded, with a crooked smile. "We spend too much time apart. I know it can't be helped with the revolution and all, but it just seems like I never get to see you."
Lucy snuggled closer, leaning her forehead against his. "I feel the same way," she agreed, "but we've got just three more days until the games begin, and three more days until we can stop sneaking around. Everyone will know about Rosen Blaue, and then we can go on a proper date." She laughed.
Jellal sighed. "I'll see you tomorrow, okay? Then we'll see about that job, eh?"
The two shared a soft, chaste kiss before parting ways. Their waves goodbye were slow and reluctant, but both headed home.
As the two disappeared into the darkness, Levi stood up.
"THAT WAS SO ADORABLE!"