I do not own Fairy Tail or any of its characters. I do, however, own this plot.

This story will probably contain spoilers for anyone not caught up with the main series manga, as well as references to the OVAs/special manga chapters. If you are not fully caught up on either of those I suggest doing so before reading this. Or at least just the special manga chapters.

Enjoy.

It was as loud as ever in the Fairy Tail guild. They were having one of their usual celebrations. It honestly doesn't even matter what the party was for, they celebrated so many things it was hard to keep track of them all. And really, it's not like it was that much different from the way the guild usually is, there was just more alcohol being passed around (though the majority of it was still going to Cana). Everyone in the guild hall was partying like there was no tomorrow. Well, everyone except one.

Lucy was sitting alone right above the guild hall. Her rent was due by the end of the week, and all the jobs that they had were either too dangerous, didn't pay enough, or involved working for some pervert. She had finally settled on doing a job where she just had to decipher an incantation. The reward was 100,000 jewels, so that would be enough to cover this month's rent and have some left over for shopping. Only problem was, she had no idea what she was doing.

"Urrgghh, why is this so difficult!" Lucy screamed, crumpling the request paper with the incantation on it and slamming it on the table in front of her. Then she looked out to the guild. "And could you PLEASE quiet down!"

Lucy heard steps coming up the stairs, and started to get a glimmer of hope when she saw the blue hair of the one person that might be able to help her. Unfortunately, she was drunk out of her mind.

"Lu-chan!" Levy screamed hapilly, "What are you *hic* doing here? Come, *hic* party!"

"I can't, Levy-chan. I need to figure out this incantation so I can earn my rent for this month."

"C'mon! I can do that *hic* for you! Then you can *hic* say you figured it out and *hic* get your rent!"

"No, I can't, Levy-chan. It wouldn't feel right, and besides," Lucy took a good look at the bluenette, who was holding onto the railing so she wouldn't fall over, "you're drunk"."

Levy took her hand off the railing and pointed her finger at Lucy. "I am not!" she said, as she fell over.

"Yes, you are. Go back to the party. I should be able to figure this out soon, then I'll join you."

"Okay, Lu-chan! Join us when you *hic* can! And tell me what that *hic* incantation is as well! I don't think I've ever seen anything like it!"

"Okay, I will, Levy-chan. And take it easy on the drinks."

"I am not drunk!" Levy shouted. Then she fell down the stairs. "I'm okay!"

It was around midnight now, and the guild was now silent. Everyone besides Lucy had passed out from too much partying, even Wendy (seriously, who in their right mind thinks it's a good idea to give this poor child alcohol?! I know they're all pretty much the most irresponsible people there are, but come on! There has to be some limit! But, I digress).

"Ugh, five hours of working on this, and I still have nothing!"

Lucy had been spending the last few hours taking out and studying every book the guild had on these types of incantations. She didn't understand half of them, though, as this was more of Levy's department. She was now regretting not asking the blue-haired friend for her help before the party.

"Oh, man. What am I going to do? Maybe I can wake Levy up and she'll help me! No, no. even if I can wake her up she'll probably be terribly hung over and in no condition to help me."

Lucy felt all her hope draining away as she stared at the request paper, running out of options.

"I suppose I could just read the incantation out loud. I mean, that didn't work so well before, with the whole change ring fiasco. But there's nobody else here, and I doubt that will happen again, so what could go wrong?"

The blonde picked up the paper, held it in front of her, and began to read the incantation aloud.

"Nonac eb dlouhs ulan, nonac eb dlouhs elag, nonac eb dlouhs azrej!"

Suddenly, the paper began to glow, and with a bright flash of light, Lucy fell to the floor.

Lucy awoke in a strange place. It seemed like the entire world around her was made of pink clouds. She walked around for a bit, trying to understand her surroundings.

"Where am I?" she asked herself. She kept on walking, beginning to understand. "Oh, I get it. This must be a dream," she said, a little disappointed, "All that incantation does is put the caster to sleep? LAME! Haha, that's not so bad. I should have just read it to begin with. Now, how can I get out of here?"

Suddenly, a door rose up from the ground with a sign that said "exit" on it.

"I guess that'll work."

Lucy stepped through the door, and fell into a vortex of pink clouds.

She landed on the guild floor with what should have been a hard thud. Instead, it was silent and painless. She wasn't going to question this though, seeing as no pain was generally considered a good thing. She was going to question why she fell, though, because she thought she was on the floor to begin with. She got up, brushed herself off, and looked back around. She could not believe what she was seeing.

"What the?! That's... that's... me?"

And sure enough, there she was, laying down in front of herself, not moving a muscle, still holding onto the paper.

"Am I... dead?" Lucy asked worriedly.

She examined the body more closely, an found that it, er, she, was still breathing. She sighed with relief.

"Okay, I'm not dead, so what's happening?"

She then noticed the pink cloud floating mere feet above her body's head. It looked exactly like the pink clouds her dream land was made of.

"Wait, didn't I fall from there? And what is that? It looks exactly like the clouds from my dream." Lucy then began to realize what was happening. "Is that what the spell does? Allow me to leave my own dreams? Oh well, I figured it out, so I guess I should go back."

Lucy was about to try jumping back into the pink cloud, but she stopped herself. She walked over to the railing and looked out to her sleeping guild mates, all of them having pink clouds above their heads. Each of their clouds had appeared to have images that were constantly shifting in them.

"Hmm... Those must be the guild's dreams. I wonder, if I could leave my dream... then can I also enter other people's dreams?"

Lucy considered this for a moment, then decided against it.

"No, that would be wrong. It'd be an invasion of privacy. Although..."

Lucy began to lean over the railing. Instead of it catching her however, her body phased right through it, and she fell into one of the pink clouds below.

Thank you all for reading. Tell me what you think of this so far. Feedback is always appreciated.

This chapter might have been short, but it was more like a prologue to the actual story. I'm not sure if the upcoming chapters will be any longer, though. I don't prewrite any of this, and my writing process is "35% I already have this planned/50% I'm making this up as I go along/15% oh crap I don't have plot so I'm going to eat something and watch anime".

I hope you're looking forward to the next chapter. I'm going to attempt for updating this daily, sometimes maybe even twice a day since I'm on vacation right now.

Next time, on Dreams of a Fairy: Lucy enters the first dream.