Who You Are

by celestialbookworm

The guild has been feeling especially comfortable as of late, but dark forces threaten to throw them into a whole new world of obstacles, adversaries, and unexpected grief. Fairy tail can choose to fight...but nobody said they would win. And nobody said they'd come out of it unscathed.

1. Prologue

Who You Are: Prologue

Prologue

She couldn't breathe. Her lungs ached and for a moment she thought that she might collapse. She ran through the puddle-filled streets and in the back of her mind she realized that the air was cold enough for each frantic breath to come out in a large puff. Not many people in Magnolia were usually out and about at 4 am on a rainy day. So, although they would have liked to have known the answer, nobody stopped the young mage to ask her where exactly, she was heading wearing only her pajamas and a muddy pair of socks. The innocent townspeople had simply carried on with their morning, blissfully ignorant, and soon had forgotten that they had ever even seen her. She was desperately trying to reach her guild while simultaneously trying to protect the books and papers clutched to her chest. They needed this information, and they needed it now, or they were all going to be in serious trouble. She had just rounded the corner with her destination in sight when she had been struck from behind. The last thing young Levy McGarden remembered was wishing that she could go back to the beginning and warn every one of the pain that was about to come.

And then everything faded to black.