DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters in Fairy Tail, all rights to those characters belong to Hiro Mashima. The only parts of this story I own are my character, Rose Jay, and the plot. I do not make any profit from this fanfiction; it is solely intended for your reading pleasure.
My name is Rose Jay. I have green eyes and long, light brown hair. I am one year older than my sister, and also slightly taller. My title is Rogue Zodiac Leo. Myself and my eleven other comrades are representatives of the twelve Zodiac Signs. We are Celestial Spirits, that much is certain, yet we differ from our True counterparts in that each of us is trapped within a physical body. Don't jump to conclusions, we are still mortal beings, meaning if we're fatally wounded in battle, we die. Just as with any other Celestial Spirit, when we die, the contract with our Celestial Wizard at the time is broken. This is where things start to get exciting. You see, unlike most Celestial Spirits, we Rogue Zodiacs make Blood Contracts, enabling our contracted wizard to summon us without using a Gate Key. Not that we have Gate Keys anymore, to be quite frank. No thanks to the Celestial Spirit King for that. It's because of this that we can never return to the Celestial World. Our sole connection to the heavens that still remains is our unlimited supply of Celestial Magic Power.
I walk slowly beside my younger, blue-eyed sister, Diana Jay. I can tell she's thinking about something that happened quite some time ago. Knowing her the way I do, it's probably a horrible memory of something I don't want to remember, either. Her long, dark brown hair flows out behind her in the breeze in sync with her equally dark cloak, which fades to a light blue-green about halfway down. Her flared dress pants are the same gradient color, yet her blouse is twilight blue and purple with golden dots that are supposed to be stars. She represents the counterpart of a certain Celestial Zodiac Spirit. Her title is Rogue Zodiac Aquarius. Much like myself, she is partly human, with the ability to use Ice-Make and Water-Make magic, and partly Zodiac Celestial Spirit, which gives her an unlimited supply of Celestial Power.
Sure, our lives may seem like nothing but glory at first, but as of late, even bearing the title of a Rogue Zodiac has proven to be life-threatening. There's a new guild full of Dark Celestial Wizards that has formed whose sole purpose is illegally gathering Celestial Spirits and torturing them. Very few Spirits have made it out of that guild without stopping by the house of Death himself for a little tea party. The Celestial World is trying to retaliate, but the rebellions that have taken place so far have ended with more casualties than soldiers. That's why Diana and I find ourselves here, in Magnolia. Our purpose is to locate and join forces with our brethren so we can eliminate our common enemy. With their help and a few True Zodiacs on our side, we hope to band together with some of the stronger minor Celestial Spirits to put an end to Celestial Blood once and for all. So far, we've met up with all other 10 Rogue Zodiacs, and only 3 True Zodiacs. Within Magnolia alone, we've been to a fair number of guilds, including Raven Tail, Sabertooth, Lamia Scale, Blue Pegasus, and our most recent stop… Phantom Lord. Luckily, we found the RogueZ had banded up in pairs to protect each other. I guess great minds really do think alike.
I heave a sigh of relief and stretch for a long moment, reaching to the sky until my whole body trembles.
"Well, Diana," I laugh happily. "We've finally gone through all the possible guilds in Magnolia. To be honest, though, I hate to be leaving Phantom Lord."
"Aw, you poor thing," Diana teases, giving me a knowing smile. "I knew there was something going on between you and Grant." She pauses and goes back to staring into the void. "I really need to come up with a shipping name for you two."
She has a valid point. Grant Hopper, Rogue Zodiac Cancer, was the only person in the entirety of the Phantom Lord guild that I could trust. I could never really understand why he was such a jerk to almost everyone, but he had the same trust issue with most people that I do. It's for that reason that we were able to get along so well, and eventually, he came up to me and asked me out.
"Just wait until the day you find some hot guy in some popular guild and start falling head-over-heels," I snap, giving her a playful shove.
"Hey, wait! I just remembered," Diana chips in, stopping short in her tracks. "There's one last guild we still need to check through," she adds, gesturing with her thumb behind her to a large building with a very familiar symbol at the center of the structure.
"Right, how could I forget?" I laugh, smiling deviously, a flutter of excitement rising up in my stomach. "Fairy Tail."