Clockwork Gear
I do not own Fairy Tail or any other thing of pop culture that inspired my OC's (like Cardfight Vanguard). Made for shits and giggles. Sorry if my writing is terrible and if my OC's aren't so original.
Sun Village, Tartaros, Avatar, and Alvarez Empire arcs will be ignored.
Chapter 1: Gears of Fate
Carmellia Town, X792...
Cobblestone streets filled with people as the morning sun rose to signal the start of the day. The great clock tower in the middle struck the 6 AM mark as a start.
"Finally back!" a loud woman's voice erupted abruptly.
Making her way through the streets from the outskirts was the source of the voice. It was a young, curvaceous woman with light skin, golden eyes, and short blonde hair with two long tufts on the sides. She wore a black tube top, white sleeves attached to golden rings on her arm, black pants, brown shoes, and a white scarf around her neck. Imprinted on her left shoulder was the mark of a hexagon with two steampunk gears spinning inside.
"Always looking to eat right after. Where's Ruth's..." the woman muttered, instinctively turning everywhere around the bustling town.
BANG!
"That's where Ruth's is!" the woman's golden eyes widened in terror as she ran to the direction of the explosion. Pushing through the gathered crowd, she witnessed a small, brick orange building with a hole blasted through the wall. Conveniently enough, the place was called "Ruth's". As what appeared to be robbers holding magic guns and swords emerged, weapons aimed at the crowd, the woman was, needless to say, pissed. Golden bolts of lightning suddenly sparked across her fingers.
"No one messes with my favorite steak house an-"
"STOP!" out came a male voice from within the crowd.
The bolts stopped as the woman looked to her left, seeing someone walk out of the crowd.
"Who are you?!" one of the robbers snarled, aiming his magic gun.
The man who called out to them revealed himself. He was fairly tall in height, with light skin, bright red eyes, and blue hair. He appeared to be wearing a white coat with blue lines traveling all over, a light praetorian cuirass underneath, blue and white fingerless gloves with red crystals, and blue trousers, and white boots.
"Just a concerned traveler." the man spoke up once more.
'They have guns...what's he thinking?' the blonde woman from earlier thought. 'I have to mo-'
She stopped her attempt to help when the blue haired man started glowing.
'He's a wizard?' she wondered.
When the light died down, he wore something different: a new set of armor. It appeared bulky with a red and gold color scheme. The helmet covered all but the face and in his hands was an orange sword lined with silver (Evil Slaying Swordsman Haugan)
"Runeblade Armor!" the man declared, raising his sword.
'Requip? He's kinda like Ivy then.' the blonde woman thought, observing the scene before her.
"Die!" one robber suddenly charged the armored man with his sword. He swung, but the man intercepted with his own sword. Despite the bulky looks, he appeared to be moving fine with the armor on. The armored man continued to parry the robber's sword attacks before countering with a quick slash. The force of the blade sent the robber flying to the nearby brick wall, knocking him out with a quick thud.
The other robbers were pissed. They aimed their guns at the crowd, unaware that the armored man had a plan.
"Blast Rune: Confringo!"
The man slashed the air, casting a glowing orange rune. Mid-flight, the rune exploded, knocking out the rest of the robbers. He then requipped back to his original clothes as the civilians cheered him on with applause and woots.
'Well, that was cool.' the blonde woman smirked, then she frowned. Something came into her senses. It wasn't over yet. The blue haired man turned to the gathered cheering crowd.
"No need to thank me. I'm happy to help." he told them before walking his way out.
'But something else is up...What was it that the Master said about suspicious activity? I gotta figure it out.' the blonde woman frowned before making her way out of the crowd.
Later...
The blue haired man was now sitting in another restaurant on the other side of the town. Calmly, he sipped water while waiting for his order.
"Your order, Mr. Morgenstern." a waitress put down a bowl of beef stew on his table with a smile.
"Thank you." the man, whose last name is Morgenstern, bowed his head slightly at the waitress before taking the spoon to dig in. He was only a few scoops in before finishing the whole bowl when a man came into the building frantically, looking like he had just seen a ghost.
"A bunch of creatures showed up at the bridge! They look like they're made of metal!"
The instant the last word was uttered, someone rushed out through the door. It was Morgenstern, as he glowed and requipped to his Runeblade Armor. He aimed his sword at his back as he ran.
"Flight Rune: Volant!" a white rune appeared on his back, sprouting into magical wings that let him glide into the air.
"Wait! You didn't pay yet!" the waitress from earlier called out to him, until another nudged her shoulder and pointed at the table where he was, showing a half eaten bowl of stew and a bunch of money left behind as payment.
Later...
Morgenstern made it to the bridge on the north side of the town. What he saw next shocked him. A group of metallic humanoids were terrorizing that section there. They appeared to be made of metal, sporting steel armor that appeared to be attached to their body, their arms and shoulders sprouted various kinds of weapons, and they hovered over the ground thanks to the boosters on their feet.
"What in the world...I have to stop this." Morgenstern quickly glided downwards towards the nearest humanoid, who turned his wrist mounted gun at the armored mage and fired. A green laser struck true, hitting Morgenstern in the chestplate, sending him to the ground with a crash. As the smoke that formed subsided, Morgenstern stood up, dazed, only to see that all the humanoids had their weapons aimed at him.
"He's the one who stopped the robbery." one of the humanoids told his allies.
"Kill him." the other replied.
They fired.
"Shield Rune: Clypeus!" Morgenstern casted another rune, which was blue in color and large in size. It spun around, blocking the lasers and bullets. However, from the sheer amount and force, it wasn't going to hold for long.
Morgenstern called out, "Requip!" He glowed bright before jumping out of the way of the attacks. In the air, the light died down to reveal his current armor. It was a gray, wolf-themed armor with a figurehead of said animal on his left pauldron. In his hands were two swords with blades on the guard. (Battlefield Storm Sagramore; the original version)
"Stormwolf Armor!" he declared, miniature tornadoes on his feet keeping him in the air. Morgenstern charged in at high speed, meeting the wrist blades of the nearest humanoid. The others fired at point blank range, but he slashed at them with his other sword to keep them at bay.
"Tornado Slash!" he started spinning at high speed, swords out like a tornado. The closest humanoid was cut up numerous times before one final slash from Morgesntern sent him flying with a gust of wind. The others weren't spared either, but they received less hits.
There were only four left, but the metallic humanoids had Morgenstern surrounded...or so they did.
Someone suddenly jumped into the fray, leaving only one of the humanoids unaware, but it was too late. It was the blonde woman from earlier!
"Lightning Dragon's Thunder Fist!" she charged her right hand with lightning, socking the humanoid she was behind as he turned around. It sent him flying to his own ally, making them crash to a wall with a loud thud.
"Another wizard?" the humanoids quickly regrouped near the bridge as they saw the two.
"We must adjust quick-"
The woman was suddenly there in front of them, body blazing with lightning.
"Too slow!" she smirked and fired away another Thunder Fist, the force of the attack smashing another one, the metal body not even helping either against lightning. However, the last two flew off and prepared shoulder mounted launchers. They fired missiles at the woman, who stood her ground.
"Lightning Dragon's Roar!"
From her mouth, she unleashed a beam of concentrated lightning, intercepting the missiles mid flight and forcing them to dodge in separate directions. One was unlucky enough to have to cross blades with Morgenstern. The other tried to fly to his ally's aid, but the woman somehow reached him from the ground to stories above the street with a belly to back hold and leaned back with great force to throw him the other way.
The aerial swordfight continued. The humanoid swung his wrist blades in a frenzy while Morgenstern parried and dodged each attack. Eventually, one parry left the humanoid wide open.
"Tornado Slash!" he spun again, locking the humanoid in a flurry of wind and steel. One final slash from Morgenstern sent him back to the ground, crashing with a loud boom.
The last of the attackers recovered, all weapons out and firing wildly. Both Morgenstern and the woman charged from air and land respectively, the former glowing to requip once again.
"Requip!" as the light died down, his new armor was revealed: it was mostly white and gold in color, with green lines forming on certain portions with a black suit underneath and fingerless gloves with the same green lines. The sword was great in length and white in color with gold on the crossguard. Red crystals adorned the helmet, chestplate, crossguard, and fauld. (BLASTER BLADE...LIBERATOR!)
"Golden Savior Armor!" As the missiles came close to him, Morgenstern casted his own spell.
"Shield of Light!" a great circular prism of light magic intercepted the missiles before they could even get close to him.
'Cool armor.' the woman smirked as the humanoid attacker fired his arm mounted lasers at her. She managed to dodge them while maintaining top speed until she managed to reach the spot behind the attacker.
"Hey, catch!" she called out to the man before delivering a lightning infused side kick to the humanoid that sent him flying, dazed. Seeing this, Morgenstern channeled his own spell.
"Aura Blade: Fortem!" Lining his sword with magic power, it began glowing a brilliant golden light before he reigned his sword down on the flying humanoid, sending him crashing down to the streets as well.
Every single one of the attackers were beaten and the attack had ceased.
"What were those guys..." Morgenstern wondered to himself, then turned to the woman from earlier, who was catching her breath.
"What are...a bunch of Machias...doing under their service?" she panted. Then, she remembered the blue haired guy she saw earlier. She turned around to see him walking towards her.
"I am in your debt." Morgenstern started. "Also, you mentioned something about these men being under someone's service?"
"Aye." the blonde smirked. "Looks like the dark guild Snake Scale is amping up their game. Someone's gotta take care of them..."
"I will." he volunteered, requipping back to his original clothes. The woman raised an eyebrow.
"You sure you want to do that alone? These guys aren't exactly pushovers." she explained.
"Well, I can't just sit around and do nothing. To help and save innocents is what I have learned to do."
With a smirk, the woman replied, "You, I like. What's your name?" she extended a hand.
"Morgenstern. Alfred Morgenstern." the man, Alfred, accepted her handshake.
"And I'm Aella Leonhart of the Clockwork Gear guild. Come on, I should take you to meet the crew."
Well, there are two main characters. If you don't know whom I got the appearances from...
Alfred Morgenstern - Aichi Sendou (Cardfight Vanguard; just make him taller and give him red eyes)
Aella Leonhart - Leone (Akame ga Kill!)
Also, the Clockwork Gear mark is the Gear Chronicle logo from Cardfight Vanguard