AN: I got this idea when I noticed just how much Sucy's initial meeting with Akko meant to her. When the moment is shown in her memories, it's drawn in a much more serious and detailed style than the rest of the clips are. When Akko goes missing, the first place we see Sucy checking is the bridge where they first met. It may not have been intended to be taken as a romantic thing, but it was good fuel for me to finally write something for my secondary OTP of the show!

Sucy sighed as continued down the path, looking back at the pamphlet as a guide. It was a pamphlet for the magic school nearby, Luna something rather, she wasn't entirely sure. She had only grabbed it when she got in town because it apparently had a map to the leyline terminal on it. Granted it wasn't a very good map, showing a criminally simple depiction of the terminal and how to get to it, but it showed what the terminal looked like, and that was all Sucy really needed. Once she got to it, it would only be short flight through the leyline before she could get to the Arcus forest. She chuckled darkly to herself as she envisioned all the countless concoctions she could come up with once she had a cockatraice feather.

Sucy was shaken from her poisonous daydream however, when out of nowhere someone crashed into her, knocking her broom and the pamphlet to the ground. Sucy simply stood, stunned as the girl who has just face planted groaned out a pained,

"I'm sorry…"

She was certainly a...curious girl, that was for sure. Her orange coat was quite the stand out, as was her strange little ponytail. For some reason, Sucy felt a fleeting moment of humor, almost as if something about the girl was entertaining. Patting herself down, and picking her broom off of the floor, she watched as the girl's eyes found the pamphlet she had dropped. Her reaction was instant, springing to her feet and getting just a bit too close for Sucy's liking.

"Is this yours?" the brunette girl asked excitedly, pamphlet in hand. "Are you a new student at Luna Nova? Are you on your way to orientation?"

Sucy flinched a bit, internally, at the girl's barrage of questions. She was quite...loud. She spoke with a slight accent to her words, so Sucy figured she wasn't local to the area. Taking the pamphlet from her hand, Sucy lazily turned it to the cover, seeing that the school in question was indeed called Luna Nova. It wasn't long before the chatty girl continued.

"Alright! I was a little apprehensive about going to Luna Nova all by myself!" she said with gusto.

Sucy certainly didn't enjoy the implications of that. This girl didn't seriously think she was going to go with her to the school did she? Even if she had planned on enrolling, there was no way Sucy was going to make the trip with some clumsy, chatter box she had just met.

"My name's Akko," the girl said, introducing herself. "When I was little I saw a Shiny Chariot magic show, and becoming a witch has been my dream ever since!" She gave a bit of a smug laugh before continuing, "Or should I say it's my fate. It's always been more than just a dream to me!"

The pale girl only blinked back at her in response to the barrage of pointless information. Shiny Chariot? Sucy knew she heard the name before, but it wasn't really ringing a bell.

"You know Shiny Chariot right?" As she asked, the girl called Akko pulled what seemed to be a trading card out of her back pocket, shoving it into Sucy's face.

Sucy had thought the girl couldn't invade her personal space anymore than she already had. She was dead wrong.

"See? This is a very rare Shiny Chariot trading card. It's my treasure!" Akko exclaimed happily.

Sucy leaned her head back slightly, allowing her to see the card. It clicked with her then where she had heard the name Shiny Chariot before. She was that hack of a witch from France that went around putting on light shows for people. This girl seriously had a screw loose if she thought that going around telling people she was her inspiration was a good idea. Still, as she glanced past the card at Akko's smiling face, some tiny part of her couldn't help but feel...warmed, by her excitement. There was something in her pair of shining ruby eyes that Sucy felt almost enchanted by. She didn't know why, but the feeling...kind of scared her.

The enchantment didn't last very long however, as it was broken when Akko continued to ramble on about her supposed idol. Sucy rolled her eyes walking past her as she did so. Deciding that she has had just about enough of the annoying girl, Sucy thought of the perfect way of getting rid of her, eyeing the plushie Akko had dropped earlier during their collision. Giggling to herself, Sucy retrieved her puppet potion from her bag, calmly uncorking it, and letting a drop hit the plushie. This should get this, "Akko," off of her tail. No more pointless rambles and more strange feelings.

As the little bird plushie slowly turned from white to light purple Sucy could feel Akko looking over her shoulder. Apparently she had stopped her Shiny Chariot talk long enough to be awed as the stuffed animal began to move on its own.

"Amazing! Puppet magic!" Akko exclaimed. "I've never seen it in person before!"

Sucy had to hold in her laughter, less she spoil her surprise, as Akko slowly got closer to the animated bird. It wouldn't be long before she got a literal eye full of the enchanted object.

"Heh, what an Idiot," the lavender haired girl thought to herself.

Sucy turned and continued on her way, come up on a small stone bridge, crossing a lazily flowing river. A seconds later she heard a scream of pain from behind her, signaling that the plushie had indeed jabbed the other girl in the eye. Good. Now she will know that Sucy wasn't looking to make friends. She'll know not to be so friendly with random people she meets on the street. She'll run away like all the rest, angry and scared of creepy Sucy.

For some reason, that last revelation, hurt. She was...sad at the thought that Akko would be afraid of her. That she would be like everyone else Sucy had ever met.

"Wait for me!"

Sucy nearly felt herself freeze as she heard the shout from behind her. Akko was still following her? Seriously? Why couldn't that girl take a hint? Why did it make her happy that she was? Unable to answer these questions to herself, Sucy just kept walking. It wasn't long however until Akko caught up to her, resuming her air of cheeriness from before.

"What's your name? How did you do that earlier?" Akko asked.

"It's Sucy," is what she wanted to say, but found that she just, couldn't.

Something about this girl was just throwing her off. Ever since she had bumbled her way into her, Sucy's feeling were all out of whack. She had learned from a very young age that feelings were nothing but trouble. They only got in the way, made life more difficult. There was a time, Sucy recalled, when she wasn't very different from Akko, in a sense. She had wanted so badly to make friends with the kids at the foster home she grew up in, but it only led to pain. She could almost still hear the calls of "Creepy Sucy!" and "Mushroom head!" That's when she realized that friendships were pointless. She didn't need them growing up, and she certainly didn't need them now.

Cutting whatever Akko was saying off, Sucy abruptly turned to face the other girl, holding out her hand. If she couldn't scare her off before, then she would do it now.

"Maybe this time you'll leave me alone," she thought to herself as she prepared her lengths of illusionary rope.

Oblivious to the planned trick, Akko eagerly grabbed her hand, and shook it.

"Well it's nice to meetcha!" Akko said with a giggle. A giggle that quickly changed to a shriek of terror as she finally noticed the fake snakes on her arms.

Letting go of Sucy's hand, Akko flailed about, finally toppling off the bridge and into the river. Sucy had already resumed walking when she heard the splash. She was surprised by the twinge of guilt that followed. While she had wanted to scare the other girl, and even found the resulting reaction quite funny, she hadn't meant for her to end up in the river.

"No!" she chastised herself. "That weirdo had it coming. Just focus on getting that damn feather." Sucy let out a frustrated sigh as she consulted the cartoony map again. "Besides, it's not like you'll ever see her again, so stop feeling bad about it."

What Sucy didn't realize at the time however, was that this was far from the last time she would see the boisterous brunette known as Akko. She didn't know that she was going to end up being saved from the cockatraice's breath by her, didn't know that they were going to end up teammates at a school she never had any intention of attending. Didn't know that she would come to be one of the greatest friends she would ever have. Didn't know of all the crazy misadventures that she would get her into. Didn't know that she would come to love using her as guinea pig for new potions, almost as much as she would come to love hearing her laugh.

She had no way of knowing that the encounter she just had would become one the most cherished memories of her life. Sucy Manbavaran never would have guessed that she was going to fall so deeply in love.