Hey People, this is my first fanfic story of Fairy Tail. It's going to loosely follow the events but just some quick clarifications, the OC is not the Main Character, this story is about Lucy, the OC is just a major supporting character. And Of Couse, Special Thanks To Nella Malfoy, who has been an amazing help writing this story, has came up with some Brilliant ideas and over all encrouaged me to actually post this. So check her out, she's an amazing Writer.
Lucy sat by the bar, her head on the counter, and her finger tracing the grains of the wood as one of the mages she'd never talked to before sat on the counter, sighing.
"You're Lucy, right?" The mage asked, Lucy looked up at the purpled eyed woman, she knew she wasn't one for talking, in fact she'd only talk to the Dragon Slayers, and that was rare enough.
"Yeah..." Lucy let out a sigh.
"We ain't you with your friends?" She said, nodding towards the rest of team Natsu who were crowding around Lisanna, like they had for the past week, they hadn't ignored the Celestial mage as such, but she did feel rather left out.
"... They don't talk to me nearly as much... sometimes I feel lucky if I can hold a short conversation with them. I was only a replacement for Lisanna." She grumbled. "They're going on a mission later..."
"Why ain't you going?" The mage asked.
"Natsu said I wasn't powerful enough..."
"... What does he know?" The mage asked as she fixed her dark purple hair and looked over to the pink haired Dragon Slayer. "He knows nothing of power and potential."
Lucy just sighed, turning away from the mage and looked to the other side of the guild. Her brown eyes filled with sadness as she played with her blonde hair. "Who are you?" The words seemed weak, and if she was honest, she wasn't that interested either, she just wanted to wallow in despair as her friends gradually became further and further away from her.
"...Noir." The mage said. "... Apocalyptic Dragon Slayer." The last part was whispered, rumours had spread around that this person did in fact exist, but Lucy had thought she was under the mages council, destroying dark guilds with her ability to kill someone with a look, taking if looks could kill to a whole new level.
"Why do you care so much about me?" Lucy asked and Noir shrugged and smiled. She seemed... carefree but if Lucy looked back at the few times she'd seen her, the slayer was sleeping, glaring at people or eating but mainly sleeping.
"You want to go on a mission?" Noir asked jumping off the bar, and her purple exceed flew to her, settling in her arms. She walked to the board. "This job has been especially directed to me... and it has a silver key as a reward."
Lucy perked up and walked, slowly but walked all the same, to the board and took the flyer from Noir's hands. "... Wipe out a group of dark mages?" She murmured. "Shouldn't this be S-Class?"
Noir shook her head and motioned for the younger and shorter girl to continue reading. "Only one mage who is versed in the forbidden arts, not very powerful and six who are learning from him..."
"You want to go?" Lucy nodded with a smile. "I'm going to train you though; I need a partner for a mission in six months. I believe you'll be the best for it but I need you to be stronger." The blonde's eyes widened as she stared at the Slayer.
"You didn't say anything about that..." Lucy grumbled.
The mage shrugged. "I'll make you more powerful than ash for brains."
Lucy let out a sigh. "... I doubt that'll ever happen."
"Please, you just need to learn tactics to be able to win him in a fight." Noir let out a laugh as her Exceed flew over to Lily, probably to argue over whose master was more powerful. "And you underestimate yourself."
"How can I compare to people like you?" She asked, exasperated.
"How does anyone compare to anyone?" Noir asked, with an indifferent shrug. "You might not be the strongest you, you might be far from it. You're valued here, you're the sort of person who can smile and make people feel better."
"That's... really nice of you." Lucy said with a slight smile but only got a disinterested and cold look.
"It's a fact; I don't give compliments or make people feel better."
"... Aren't you some dark person who sits in a corner, glaring at anyone who comes near?" Lucy murmured in retaliation.
"Yeah, and the joys it brings. When you have to put up with what I do, happiness is not an option, it is never an option." She said with a dark look. She wandered over to Mira, they had a brief conversation before Noir walked to Team Natsu, her face twisted from the blank expression to one that was a sneer. "I'm taking the celestial mage on a mission with me."
"You can't!" The three shouted.
"She's not strong enough to deal with the missions you go on." Erza said.
"She's my partner!" Natsu shouted.
"Do you promise to keep her safe?" Gray said in a low cold voice but Noir just glanced at him, rolling her eyes.
"She's strong enough, you're clearly replacing her with that, and I wouldn't take her if I doubted my ability to protect her." Noir said with no emotions, a lack of care. "You do realise, you're making a bad choice, exchanging weaker for stronger is never a good move."
"Well, we're coming to!" Natsu declared. "She won't be able to handle such a difficult mission without me."
"You're not strong enough." Noir said, placing her hand on his shoulder and holding him in place. "I'm going up against Death Magic, I need Lucy's magic because it's the closest to holy we've got."
The three people just stared at Noir as if she was crazy, perhaps this mage didn't have much sanity but she knew what she was doing. It took insanity to be able to contain the magic within her that coursed through her veins like venom. The only comfort anyone could take was that she was a Fairy Tail mage, she can't hurt another member.
Lisanna ran to Natsu clinging to his arm as Lucy walked to Noir, wondering what the commotion was about.
"Natsu's right, she's so weak." Lisanna sneered, looking at Lucy who didn't say anything and only looked down. "Why would a powerful mage like you ever want to hang with someone so weak?"
Natsu pushed Lisanna off his arm, taking a step away from her, just staring at her in slight shock.
Erza put her hand on Lucy's shoulder, smiling gently at her before looking at Lisanna. "Lucy is not weak. Noir takes missions that are extremely hard, to the point even I have my doubts I can complete them, I only stated that Lucy was not powerful enough to deal with such hard missions."
"Lisanna back off." Gray said, glaring at the white haired take over mage. "You're not the Lisanna I remember, you're nothing like she was. I don't think I want to know you."
"... I can't believe you'd say that about your nakama." Natsu said in disbelief, shaking his head in shock.
Lisanna turned to Noir with almost pleading eyes. "Noir, you remember me, we used to be friends right? You used to buy me and Natsu cakes when you came back from your mission."
Noir just turned away, and walked away with Lucy. They were polar opposites, Lucy wore short skirts, exposing tops and usually inappropriate foot wear, while on the other hand Noir wore all black, black combat boots, black cargo pants and a black top, fully covering one arm but the other was exposed, revealing her purple Fairy Tail mark.
Then there was Lucy's sunny disposition, forgiving and loving nature. She was adored by everyone, friends with almost everyone in the guild. Noir could only claim to be feared by the guild, a dark nature with a killer instinct. She didn't forgive, and she certainly wouldn't forget.
"We're leaving Sunshine." Noir said, her teeth gritted together as she stalked out of the guild, her hands stuffed in her pocket as Lucy followed behind her.
"... Shouldn't we be packing?" Lucy asked.
"... I'm already sorted. We can buy food in the town closest to the place; you can just summon your spirit and get her to pack for you." Noir's words were cold; she was clearly annoyed by something.
Lucy nodded wordlessly despite the fact the mage couldn't see her and summoned Virgo, asking her to pack for the journey very quietly.
They waited for the train to arrive in silence as Lucy pondered where they were going, how long it would take and if Noir was going to stay silent.
It wasn't long before the duo sat in a private compartment, with Noir tense and holding her arms tightly as she waited for the train to start moving. Lucy opened her mouth to ask what was wrong but was quickly death glared into silence.
The train started to move and the slayer doubled over, face white, stomach churning and shaking. "Kill me..." She murmured. "I'm going to die on this wretched thing..."
"... Noir? Do you get motion sick?" Lucy whispered and to her shock, Noir ripped open the window and was promptly sick out of it.
Noir slumped down on the seat next to Lucy, holding her stomach as she contemplated ending it here and now. Every time she got on any form of transport she felt sick, but trains were the worst, hurtling across the ground at an unnatural speed.
"Natsu get's travel sick, I think Gajeel gets it as well but I think he handles it better." Lucy said as if that was supposed to comfort the mage who was about to open the window again.
"... Don't compare me to them." She murmured as she moved back to the seat and closed her eyes. "They don't even know who I am." Her eyes were closed, she looked almost calm, if it wasn't for her need to be sick.
Lucy took hold of Noir's shoulders, the mage would usually have moved away, or beaten the person who dared to touch her but in her current state, she gave a weak grunt. The blonde brought the purple head to her lap and began to stroke her hair.
It surprised Noir that she began to feel better, well she didn't want to puke her gets out of the window onto some unlucky person who happened to be there, and she felt less like ending her life to get away from this torture.
"The mission is about 10 miles from Cedar." Noir said quietly. "It should take about two weeks but if the mages council give me access to my more... forbidden... darker magic, it should take about two days."
"What do you mean?" Lucy asked and Noir gave a small smile.
"I can use Black Arts, which is the grand title put over magic such as Death Magic and Living Magic." She said with a sigh. "Not exactly the first thing I'd want to tell someone but it means that I'm more than adequate to destroy dark guilds single handily." Her breathing began to slow down and equal out, it seemed calm as if the mage was sleeping.
"Why bring me?" Lucy wondered to herself and Noir opened one eye.
"This pays 4 million jewels; I don't need the money so you can have it all." She let out a yawn. "You'll be set for rent for a while and of course, I can't judge you and how much you'll need to be trained if I can't so you in action."
"... Do you have any... legal magic?" Lucy asked sheepishly.
"... I can control the earth, and Void magic to an extent is perfectly legal." Noir said. "... I'll set you up a training guide, I won't always be there, and even I have my duties."
"Why do you want to help me?" Lucy asked.
"I've already explained I need you for a job in the future." Noir said. "And anyway, I owe someone a favour, they asked me to help you."
Hope you enjoyed, I quite enjoyed writing it and talking about it with Nella.