Lmao I know that nobody writes fanfiction anymore but I literally just got back into reading it and now I want to write my own story D: it's a sinful guilty pleasure lol. I know that barely anyone is gonna read it or even enjoy it XD but this is just to let it out my brain. If anybody reading this would leave a comment or anything like that it would be greatly appreciated but not necessary as I am not an aspiring writer, this is just for fun :) Also I think anyone reading this will be all 'ugh this is so cliché 'but honestly, I don't really mind cause I know it is XD its supposed to be cliché cause I enjoy this kind of storyline, and so without further ado, here is my story! (Also yes half of this is just made up stuff XD but some of it is researched!)
~Chapter One~
Laughter erupted throughout the guild, the sound of cheers and beer glasses weaved amongst the crowd. Fairy Tail was full of joyous smiles and grins, for everyone was overwhelmed with happiness at the return, albeit odd return, of their beloved youngest Take Over mage; Lisanna Strauss. It was only two years ago that they believed that they had lost her to the grasp of death until she returned alive and well, back home. However, all mages were too busy celebrating to realise that her return was in fact a year ago. Nobody had seemed to escape the trance of partying bar one.
Fortunately, or rather unfortunately, there was one mage who had not let slip of time and reality, who was the only mage left in the guild who continued on with her jobs and was the reason Fairy Tail still maintained such a high reputation. If it was not for her, then no requests sent to Fairy Tail would have been looked at, never mind completed. Whilst the continuous jobs managed to keep her on her feet, when she had time to sit back and relax, it was as though she was a ghost to the guild. Lucy had had her fair share of being ignored, mostly by her father throughout growing up, but the treatment she received from her own 'family' was on a whole new level. It didn't matter how loud she slammed open the guild doors on a morning or shut on a night, how much she tapped for their attention or even how much she tried to join in on all the fun, nothing made them notice her. It was as though she had never been there in the first place.
Of course, this was a traumatic experience for Lucy, she had already lost her biological family but now her new family was beginning to slip through her fingers. Though she did have a year to come to terms with this and that she did. At the beginning, she could feel her heart shatter into pieces almost every day; everything reminded her of the friends she used to do everything with, but now those were only memories. Now, she spent her days completing mission after mission, distracting herself from her supposed family. However, it took her a while to get used to solo missions after being part of a team for so long.
Lucy decided to be strategic at first and pick missions that required less power and worked her way up from there, she didn't want to overwhelm herself from her first mission alone and almost die. So, her first mission was done within two hours, it was a simple job to help an elderly lady find her cat (which confused Lucy because it was such a mediocre request to send to a guild of mages but she did it nonetheless). She took up another mission immediately after, managing to complete all the lower tier requests within two days. While Mirajane was, understandably, still celebrating her sister's return, she had neglected her duty of reporting all the requests that had been received, taken and/or completed. So, Lucy took it upon herself to record the missions she had completed and the ones that were sent to the guild- she had started coming to the guild as early as possible and it was then her who ended up taking the missions from the deliverer.
Soon, Lucy began moving up the board, taking on missions requiring a larger amount of effort and power, which she was able to complete in due time, though she did walk away from each job with at least some cuts and bruises- much to the worry of her spirits. Whilst the experience was all very new to her, she did learn to love the thrill of being in charge of her own missions, her own schedule and being able to play a much bigger role to both her missions and the guild. The more she moved up the board, the more she was able to challenge herself and grow her own magical abilities as well as her spirits, so in a way, she was thankful for the guild's behaviour.
However, her attitude was less kind each time she returned back to the guild, having to record her own efforts and sit alone while she watched from the sidelines. Lucy was a very humble person, but once in a while she would like to boast about her improvements and have her 'family' feel proud of her and today, she just happened to have returned from a very dangerous mission, one that was actually an S-Class mission. She knew deep down that it was technically stealing and she could have gotten into trouble for it, but the guild was starting to get calls from worried and desperate people who had not heard back from the guild about their requests. So she took it upon herself to complete them, lying about her status because who else was going to complete them while the S-Class mages were too busy getting drunk and partying all day? To her surprise, with all her extra training, she found herself very capable of completing these missions.
But that changed on her latest mission. There was a very desperate mayor in need of a mage to destroy a dark guild lurking in the forest, stealing from the town and kidnapping the women, one each week. Lucy felt it was her duty to help them, and immediately set out for the town. Upon arriving, the mayor was overjoyed that someone had finally come to his and his town's rescue; he told her everything that he knew about the guild and even let her stay at the Inn of her choice for free during her stay as a token of his appreciation. Lucy thanked him and left, not bothering with the Inn and headed straight to the forest, determined to complete this mission with no hiccups. As usual, she came up with a seemingly foolproof plan and set to work, summoning both Loke and Taurus to help her take down the guild, after using Gemini to scan the guild and reveal the magical properties of the members inside before sending him back to the spirit realm. So far, everything was running smoothly and the trio managed to take out almost all of the dark mages, whilst Lucy summoned Virgo to untie and help all the kidnapped women escape from their confines and back to the town before she returned back to the Spirit Realm.
There was only the Master of the guild on the second floor to take out before their job was complete. Lucy had raced ahead up the stairs whilst Loke and Taurus finished fighting the remaining five mages left standing. She could sense a strong magic aura coming from the far room of the second floor and crept toward it as sneakily as she could, not wanting to just barge in and give them leverage. The noise from downstairs hid her steps as she carefully opened the door and looked around the room to find no one in sight. Still on edge, she carefully stepped into the room, her whip in hand and in a fighting position. Once she was in the middle of the room, the door slammed shut behind her and she turned around to face her opponent.
Standing before her was a very tall and slim woman with equally long grey hair that was pulled back into a rather long braid that grazed against the floor. Her skin was a healthy tan, contrasting both her hair and her bright mismatched gold and purple eyes. She was dressed in a long green and gold kimono, only short enough to reveal her bare feet. Her hands, arms, ankles and neck were embellished with gleaming gold jewellery containing a range of coloured gems. She made for a very convincing human except for her large fangs, claws and pointed ears. Was this not her current enemy, Lucy would have admired the powerful and seemingly regal woman. Said woman had her red lips pulled up into a cocky smirk, her hands clasped together at her waist as she stared at Lucy.
"What do we have here? A little girl punching much too high above her weight." The woman grinned, patronising Lucy, to which she glared at her. "Perhaps not." She gave her own grin to the woman as Loke and Taurus charged in from behind the woman. She turned but she was only met with Loke's infamous Regulus Punch. Much to the surprise of the trio, the woman was able to dodge the attack skillfully and attack with a kind of her own. "Shadow Inferno." She grins at Loke as his own shadow rose from the ground and engulf his entire body with flames. Were these regular flames, Loke would have been able to withstand them, but these were formed of his opposed element and caused his spirit to disintegrate as he returned tp the Spirit Realm. "Loke!" Lucy shouted, her heart breaking at the sound of his scream before he was forced to leave Earthland. While she was furious at the woman, she had to admit she felt fear for the woman who managed to send one of her strongest spirits back to their realm with only one attack.
She sneered at the woman, who stood grinning at her. "I suggest you go home. I don't need a meddling little girl ruining my plans." It was a sickeningly sweet smile but there was a hint of something else there. Taurus charged at the woman, anger rising in him at the pain she made his fellow spirit endure. He snorted as he charged at her, lifting his axe above his head. "Tension Max!" He swung the large weapon and aimed it towards the woman at high speed. Again, much to their demise, she was able to escape the attack and leapt up, landing on top on Taurus. She growled at him. "Shadow Fusion!" She raised her arm to bring down at the bull, the tips of her claws seeping with a purple liquid. Lucy intervened, she grasped her whip tightly and flicked it towards the woman and it wrapped around her raised hand with a tight grip. The woman gasped as she was flung towards Lucy, who had her fist pulled back, ready to hit.
The unexpected move, however, did not catch the woman off guard and she moved her body slightly to the right, allowing her to claw at Lucy's left eye whilst taking some of the blow. Lucy shrieked in pain, feeling the liquid seeping into her eye and new wound. "I'm running out of time and also patience with you." The woman grinned at Lucy whilst the mage placed her hand over her eye. Taurus charged at the woman again, full to the brim with rage at the woman who had hurt his precious master. "Rampage!" He yelled, swinging his axe to the ground as an earthquake ruined the floorboards and made its way to the woman, avoiding Lucy. The woman, this time, was slightly distracted by Lucy's eye and caused the earthquake to hit her. She was flung back to the corner of the room with a grunt, the attack barely affecting her.
Her eyes were now glowing slightly as she flung herself to the spirit. "Moon River!" A stream of white liquid appeared from her outstretched hands, flowing towards Taurus. The liquid was mixed with streaks of black and midnight blue, it shot towards the bull before he was engulfed in the mysterious substance. He left out a yell before he had to return to the Spirit Realm, the attack too powerful to escape. Lucy felt her rage bubbling inside her, her spirits were hopeless against the supposed Shadow mage. She didn't want to cause her spirits more pain so she opted to not summon any more. The woman sighed before turning to Lucy. "I have to admit, that last attack threw me, perhaps you're not as weak as I originally thought." She mused to herself before Lucy charged at her with an anger filled scream.
However, Lucy was not thinking rationally and charged without even forming a plan in her mind. The woman sighed in disapproval and dodged her sloppy punch, grabbing her head, placing her thumbs on her temple, temporarily immobilising Lucy. Her thumbs glowed a bright yellow as she held onto her. A small smirk made its way onto her face. "Hmm, you seem to be a perfect candidate dear." Lucy felt fear rise in her, she was drastically running out of magic and energy and the woman seemed unaffected by anything she threw at her. Now, she was a 'perfect candidate?', what did that mean?
The woman glanced down at Lucy's eye with an even deeper grin. "Yes, perfect indeed." She answered herself upon looking at Lucy's now cut eye. Her iris had begun to change, the white of her eye temporarily red from her attack. She let go of Lucy and pushed her to the ground, leaning over her. "I will leave you now oh dear Lucy, you can take credit for my disappearance but do not think that this will be our last meeting." She gave a smile now, much to Lucy's surprise. "We may have gotten off on the wrong foot, please accept my apologies." Lucy was stunned at her words, she wanted to apologise?! Though it was in her nature to be forgiving, she couldn't simply disregard the pain she put her spirits through. "See you soon." The woman leaned down and waved her hand over Lucy's face, causing her to fade to blackness, but not before she saw the woman escape from her window and into the distance.
When Lucy woke up sometime soon, she groaned, her body in pain from attaining some new cuts and bruises, the main one was still her left eye. As she stood up, she was facing a mirror that was inside the office and grimaced at the sight of her eye. It was red and puffy, three cuts along here eye, starting from her eyebrow to her cheek, in the shape of an animal's claw. Upon closer inspection, she realised that her iris was no longer brown but a swirl of purple and gold. There was still blood dripping from the cut. She knew that if anyone was to see her, they would scream and run from fear. She sighed sorrowfully and ripped of her left sleeve, tying it around her head like an eye patch, covering her now hideous eye.
She quickly remembered her duty and moved to the first floor, checking all of the mages were still there. They were, thankfully. She pulled out a lacrima phone from her belt and called the Mayor. He was overjoyed at the success and informed the council to head to her location. With another thanks, he ended the call. Lucy didn't move from her spot until the council arrived and she slipped passed them and headed towards the Mayor's mansion. He gave her the money owed with extra for her injuries that she acquired from the job. She thanked him gratefully and left swiftly. She headed on the first train back to Magnolia. Though most train rides were peaceful for Lucy, her mind was a whirlwind.
She couldn't stop thinking about the woman, she was so powerful. She knew her name from touching her head, she dodged all of her attacks, she could have easily killed her but she didn't. Her mind was a mess but she decided not to think about it too much for now, for she still had the chore of returning to the guild and being ignored once again. She sighed and looked out to the window, watching as the sun began to set, the soft glow of the sunset resting on her face.
I was gonna make this longer but I feel like that would be way too much for a first chapter, also I am aware that Moon River is a song XD it's just what I could think of. Also sorry if this is cringey or whatever, like I said, i'm not a write i'm just doing this for fun :) But thank you for taking the time to read this!
