Hello denizens of Fan Fiction, Kallerston here presenting something a little different. I'll explain more at the bottom of the chapter but let's just say this is the start of a completely new story. So I hope you enjoy.
Dawn. The first appearance of light in the sky before the sun takes its place rightful place in the air. On this early winter's day most people were lying in, enjoying the warmth of their blankets and beds. Or alternatively they had begun their day in the early hours of the morning, wishing that they had the luxury of a winter mornings rest. However, on this day there was one who was not like most, one who greeted the daybreak with warmth and enthusiasm ready to mark their influence on the world with a spring in their step.
"All right let's do this one more time." A young females' voice spoke to themselves.
The young woman who looked to be in her late teens was walking through the city that she called home with a written list in her hand. She had blue hair that went down to her shoulders, with eyes just as blue scanning the written note. She wore light blue chest armour, complete with shoulder pads that bore some resemblance to sports padding. The edges of the plating around the neck and the pads were also white and the chest plate stopped close to the centre of her chest exposing her midriff. She also wore a light blue skirt and a pair of dark purple boots with dark blue heels that went almost all the way up her leg.
This young adult would go on to become the founder and first guild master of a guild that would soon affect all of Fiore in the new era. This young lady was called Rebecca Flow, although she much prefers to be called by the nickname 'Beck'.
"Let's see here: Guild entry registration, check. Tax identification number, check. Research licence requirements, sorted. Permits, done and done. Insurance… I'll sort that out once we get started. Beck continued walking, her eyes scanning down her list titled 'Things I need to do to create an official guild'. "Guild mark design, ha! I've had that ready for years! Guild hall registration…" Beck smiled to herself. "Almost there, just a little more-"
Before Beck could finish her thought, she was interrupted by the sound of someone grunting and yelling, catching her attention. She looked up and saw a group of people beginning to crowd around a scene in the middle of the street. She went attempted to make her way through the strangers and see what was going on, only to be pushed out.
"Okay can't go through so…" Beck took a few steps back, enough to stay out of everyone's vision. She bent her legs crouching in place, staring upwards. "Upwards as usual." Beck suddenly leaped upwards high into the sky.
She looked down seeing centre of the crowd, where people appeared to be crowding around a young woman on the ground, who seemed to be injured in some way. Beck looked further up ahead to see a suspicious individual running away from the scene in a panic. She smiled as she felt herself descend towards the ground, as she spied a nearby rooftop. She adjusted her falling position making air resistance tilt her body so that she fell into a rolling start on top of a building, carrying her momentum forward. Running over to the building's edge, Beck jumped skyward landing on the next building along. She ran across it and jumped again with her right fist towards the sky, and her feet pedalling the wind before hitting the next roof running. Leaping again with her hair flowing through the air Beck stared down seeing the suspicious individual more clearly.
From the back-view Beck had she could see the individual had messy red hair and was wearing a green jacket and brown cargo pants. He turned around looking behind him which let Beck see he wore a plain white shirt under his jacket as well as his green eyes and the stubble under his chin.
'Yep. He definitely looks like a crook, why is it always the ones who don't shave.' Beck thought. 'Alright, now all I have to do is leap from the next building and-'
Beck looked away from the man and at her surroundings leading to a rather unfortunate realisation. She had run out of tall buildings in her path, meaning that she was falling towards the ground.
'…Aw shoot.'
Beck began slowly spinning in the air in a failed attempt to readjust herself. Inches from the ground with her exposed belly pointed forward she braced herself for the incoming impact. Her gut slapped down on the ground, the fat and muscle jiggling slightly before bouncing Beck right back into the air.
"Okay, let's try this again. Legs. Legs!" Beck used her arms to spin herself forward in the air once more, having her feet aimed downwards the ground as she ascended. "Perfect." Beck momentarily stopped in mid-air, reaching the peak of her height before falling, the sudden air resistance pushing her legs away and making her spiral once more. "No. No! NO!"
Beck fell to the ground again this time on her back, bouncing back up into the air with her hands clawing the air before falling back down. The sky was clear until Beck bounced back up with her limbs out making her body look like a five-pointed star, until she fell. The she bounced back up, this time in with her arms to the side and her legs straight, until she fell. Then she bounced back up posing with crossed arms. Then posing with her hands behind her head lying down in mid-air. Then flapping her arms trying to imitate wings. Then upside down. Then… well you get the idea.
Back on the ground the crook was running as fast as he could not bothering to look above him. "Alright, I think I'm in the clear." He murmured to himself, proud that he had gotten away with his crime. He began slowing down after he began taking notice of the crowds of people in the streets looking behind him and pointing with bewildered looks.
Looking behind himself, he saw Beck's body bouncing through the city as a human bouncy ball. He like everyone else looked at her with shock and confusion when the two locked eyes.
"Hey you! Red haired! Stubbly! Kinda shifty looking man! Stop you thief! Or assaulter! Or…" Beck paused to think as she bounced again from the ground to the air. "Actually, I don't know what you did, but you did run away which is pretty suspicious!"
The man saw the gazes of the people looking at him making him start running again, making Beck sigh and roll her eyes.
"Why do they always run?" Beck finally positioned her feet downwards using them to absorb the shock and keep her on the ground this time. She bent her legs pushing herself forward on her toes, springing forward to shoot herself at the man. "Ha! Got him now!" The man heard her coming and ran to the left making Beck overshoot as she passed him. Beck looked ahead seeing that she was flying head first into cart full of green vegetables. "Oh no…"
Beck flew into the cart causing it to break, making the vegetables roll onto the ground. The vendor; an older man with a grey hair, a goatee and dark skin who wore primarily green stared at the site in shock.
"My cabbages!"
Beck's head popped out of the wreckage with a cabbage in her mouth. She spat it out and shook her head staring at the owner. "Sorry! I swear I'll come back and fix this! And pay you back at some point! But right now, I've gotta go!" Beck jumped into the air leaving cabbage leaves in her wake.
Beck soared through the air, landing on top of another smaller building and looking around. Staring at the streets around her she eventually saw the man from before running into a dark, isolated alleyway. Beck smiled and jumped across the buildings one at a time, before jumping down into the alley. She slowly walked up to the man trying not to make a sound allowing him to observe something he was getting out of his pocket.
"Pearls?" She whispered.
Sure, enough in the man's hands was a pearl necklace. He grinned at his stolen prize, making Beck shake her head in disappointment. She looked to the sides of the alley, pushing her hand against the wall with her other hand on her hip.
She cleared her throat. "So, wanna try this again?"
The man turned startled frantically, raising his fists. "S-Stay b-back! I'm warning you!"
Beck calmly walked forward. "Listen, you don't wanna do that. Let's just talk this out and I'm sure that-"
"Not another step! I'm warning you!" The main gestured his fist at Beck.
"Easy, let's calm down. I'm gonna step closer okay." Beck slowly raised her arms up and took a step forward.
The man panicked and threw a punch towards Beck. The fist began to sink into her body, her skin and muscle going inwards before stopping for less than a second, quickly expanding back outward, making him punch himself in the face.
"GAAH!" The man screamed rubbing his face. He threw another punch, which again rebounded off Beck's body making him punch himself in the face again. "Why does this keep happening?!" He threw another powerful punch right in Beck's stomach only for the blow to smack him in the face, making him spin and fall on his front knocked out.
Beck just stood there putting a hand over her stomach "I told ya, you didn't want to do that. Good thing my magic is what it is." Beck took another step forward groaning, while her magic allowed her to absorb and resist shocks from falls and impacts, it didn't stop them from hurting at least a little. Beck looked around seeing several trash cans in the alley, beside one of which was a large piece of cardboard. "Hmm~m."
Sometime later two men dressed in official Rune Knight uniforms were walking through the town with a sense of duty and urgency in their step.
"Are we sure this is the right place?" One of them asked.
"It's what we were told." The other answered.
The first knight stopped and looked into a nearby alley. "Hang on a moment. Didn't the tip we have say the man was last seen in an alley?"
The two Rune Knights walked towards the alley, their eyes partially widening at the sight. In the alley was the man tied up in rope, with a heavily bruised face and piece of cardboard in front of him saying 'I stole a strangers pearls.'
"Don't ask…" The man grumbled.
Elsewhere the cabbage vendor was grumbling himself, as he attempted to put his stand back together and collect his cabbages. He hunched over while piling cabbages on cabbages in his arms when he tripped spilling them on the ground once more.
He sighed in frustration. "How am I meant to sell my cabbages now? No one wants to eat food off the ground."
Just when he finished an extra hand started picking up cabbages in front of him. The man looked up to see Beck reaching into her skirts pocket. "I know this isn't much but… it's all I can afford right now."
Beck pulled out several notes that made up roughly 1,800 Jewel plus change, handing them to the cabbage vendor in exchange for another cabbage.
"I know it's not enough but I swear I'll pay the rest of it eventually. And I'll even help clean up and try to fix your stand and, I'm just sorry."
The cabbage vendor looked at Beck then the money in his hand. "W-well, you better pay me back. Now come on, my business won't fix itself."
Beck pulled out the list from her pocket staring at it intensely. "Guess that guild hall will have to wait a little longer… of course I still need guildmates and no amount of money can get me that." Beck looked up staring at a woman walking happily around the city, with a pearl necklace around her neck.
Beck smiled. "No one ever said this dream was gonna be easy, but even if I can't get paid legally at the moment. I wouldn't change it for anything."
"Hey what's taking so long?!" The cabbage vendor shouted.
"Sorry! Be right there!"
Beck ran to the wreckage that was the cabbage vendor's place of business, as up in the sky the sun was beginning to rise on a new day.
And that concludes the first prologue chapter for my new story... 'A Cryptid's Dream'.
A Cryptid's Dream is a Fairy Tail crossover that takes place around four months after the end of the Alvarez Empire Arc. The story will focus on a group of original characters who end up joining together to create a magic guild. The story will then be about them going on jobs to boost the guild's reputation, some jobs will be funny, others serious. Some will delve into the character's backstories and motivations and some could affect all of Fiore as we know it.
I've been working on this for a while so I hope you like it, until then I hope that you can make do with these Character Prologue's until I get the main story out. Think of this like the RWBY colour trailers that came out before Volume 1, small chapters designed to give you a taste of the characters and what's to come in the future.
So until then this is Kallerston, signing out!
