This is my first fan fiction so please read and leave constructive comments (or just read. Honestly, I'm just happy if you read!). I'm always open to suggestions on how to get better! Ok, here it goes!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or it's characters, only my OCs.
On Wings of Light Chapter 1:
It was 3 am in the morning and Trinity Dragneel was not amused. She had a huge test the next day but her little brother Natsu didn't seem to care. He kept wandering around the hall outside of her door, repeatedly glancing in to see if she'd noticed him, which she had, 10 times. She glared at the door, just as Natsu did another round; peaking into her room and seeing her seeing him, so he ducked behind the door, giggling. This was so not funny.
Trinity took a breath, OK, the next time he does it I'm gonna kick his little butt all the way to Bosco. Soundlessly, she slipped off the sheets and sat with her feet on the ground. As expected, Natsu poked his head from the side of the door, expecting to see her glaring at him from the bed but instead seeing her lunge at him. He shrieked, both because of shock and giddiness as his older sister grabbed him and brought him into a tight hug saying, "Gotcha!" As Natsu laughed, Trinity couldn't help but smile and smother him with hugs and affection, rubbing his spiky pink hair.
"Do you mind being a little quieter out there?" Their older brother Zeref snapped from inside his room around the corner. The siblings' laughs stopped at once. They turned to each other, and Trinity scrunched up her face, mocking Zeref, causing Natsu to burst into laughter again. Trinity giggled softly, and they heard Zeref sigh from his room.
Trinity turned back to her little brother, smiling, before picking him up and walking over to his room.
"Let's get you to bed, Natsu," she said, "hopefully this time you'll stay."
Trinity woke up in the morning feeling like crap. She moaned, throwing a chunk of deep brown hair to hide her face from the sunlight streaming in through her window. She sighed, knowing she had to get up and had to go to school and had to this and had to that, but she really just wanted to stay in bed all day.
Best to get it over with, she thought before hauling herself out of bed and walking over to her closet, rubbing her eyes. It was for that reason that she didn't see the lump on her floor, and why she tripped over it, landing flat on her face.
Trinity sat up, rubbing her nose. She turned around looking for what had made her trip. Her eyes landed on the back of the head of a spiky pink haired boy. She tilted her head at him, wondering what he was doing on her floor, before she walked over to him, gingerly nudging his shoulder
"Natsu," she said softly. Natsu opened his eyes slowly, blinking a few times. He looked up at her, not quite registering who she was for a moment, sleep still thick in his brain.
"Why are you on my floor Natsu?" she asked him as he sat up, yawning and rubbing sleep from his eyes.
"I had a bad dream," he responded, his tiny voice a little frightened. She could see small tear tracks on his face. Trinity looked at him sadly. Her heart went out to her brother. She loved him more than anything and hated to see him cry.
"Well you didn't have to sleep on the floor," she said brightly, standing him up, "you could have woken me up. I wouldn't have minded." Trinity brushed some pink hair from his face, giving him a reassuring smile.
"Now go get dressed, you have school today." Trinity watched him hop out the door and turn left, heading towards his room. She frowned once he was out of sight. He seemed to be getting these bad dreams more often. I wonder… she thought, her mind getting started on what would most definitely be a long train of thought, but Natsu poking his head around the door interrupted her.
"Oh and onee-chan," he said innocently, "I think I saw a spider under your bed last night. K, I'm gonna go have breakfast now!" He smiled at her horrified expression and happily skipped away.
Trinity turned back to her bed slowly, fear making its way up to her throat. She quickly grabbed her clothes and rushed out of the room, deciding to change in the bathroom instead. Trinity Dragneel wasn't scared of much, but spiders absolutely terrified her.
Trinity sat at the table with the rest of the family eating breakfast. She was wearing a plain red dress that's sleeves went to her elbows and skirt went to her knees. Simple sandals that had straps all the way up to just below her knees, and a leather belt were her only accessories. Her deep brown, almost black hair was pulled up in a ponytail, with a chunk of hair on both sides and her bangs hanging out, framing her face. Her pale dark green eyes that everyone in her family had were darting around the table, eyeing the bananas and coconuts. Her family was bar far not rich. In fact, out of the whole village, they were the poorest, but no one in the family minded, as long as they were happy and had food on the table.
"I'm going to go to school now, I've got a big test awaiting me," Trinity announced, standing from the table after finishing her breakfast. She had decided to go with the banana. Trinity was walking towards the door when her mother spoke.
"Oh, Trinity! Can you drop your brother off at school too? I remembered I'm going into the city today," Trinity's mother was a tall woman, skinny and elegant. She had black hair like Zeref, though it was curly not straight like his, and she had the reptilian green eyes that the whole family had.
"Sure," Trinity replied, motioning for Natsu to take her hand.
"I'm coming too," Zeref said, grabbing his bag and walking over to Trinity.
"Well yeah duh, you have school too," Trinity said back to him, receiving a roll of the eye and a smile.
"All right smarty-pants, lets get a move on, don't want to be late for that test now do we?" Zeref said, giving her a taunting eye. Trinity puffed out her cheeks, giving him an annoyed scowl.
"Can we just go?" Natsu whined in exasperation, "At this rate, we won't ever get to school!" Zeref laughed and took his brothers hand before heading out the door. Trinity huffed and stalked after them, still brooding over Zeref.
"Be safe!" their father, a muscular man with short pink hair (like Natsu's) called as they walked out the door.
"We always are!" Trinity called back without turning around.
"Aw, lighten up Trinity. I'm sure you'll do fine on the test," Zeref said, mock reassuringly. Trinity shot him a look, but smiled inside. Yeah, she was going to do fine. Zeref was just teasing her, trying to get her to cheer up.
Natsu tugged on Zeref's hand, "Come on! We're going to be late!" Zeref smiled at him.
"I'll race you there!" he said taking off down the road. Natsu giggled and took off after him. Trinity smiled, watching her two brothers chasing each other. What a great family.
After her classes finished, Trinity made her way to where her brothers and her usually met to go home, but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw it. What she saw at first didn't seem to be too bad, but when she looked closer, she was shocked. Zeref was yelling at three kids who seemed to be Natsu's age. Even though she couldn't hear what he was saying, the rage was clear on his face. As for Natsu, he was huddled in a ball behind Zeref, looking terrified and shocked. It took Trinity a moment to see the black eye and bloody nose.
Trinity gasped and ran over just as the three kids Zeref had been yelling at ran off. She ran passed her older brother and straight to Natsu, crouching down to be at his level.
"What in the world happened?" she asked, her voice shrill as she ripped a piece of fabric from her dress and pressed it to Natsu's nose.
"I…um, well-," Natsu started, averting his eyes as if ashamed.
"Those three kids punched him," Zeref answered for him, his voice shaking with anger.
"Well yes, that part is obvious, but why?" Trinity said, worry and confusion mixing into annoyance.
"I punched him first," Natsu said in a small voice, still not looking at his sister. Trinity was shocked. She didn't know what to say. Her little brother punched another kid? That didn't sound like him.
"They said that Mommy and Daddy are losers. They said only losers work in the fields and can't afford to buy nice things," Natsu finally turned to face his sister and Trinity found convection in his eyes. He believed he had done the right thing. Trinity heard Zeref let out a small breath behind her.
"Natsu," he began, his voice kind but firm, "you know that's not true. Why listen to them? You know in your heart that Mother and Father are amazing people, the best in fact. You shouldn't let it get to you."
"As long as you know that, what other people say doesn't matter," Trinity added, slowly taking the cloth away. His nose had stopped bleeding.
"I'm sorry," Natsu said, really meaning it.
"It's fine," Zeref reassured," just next time, give those dirt-bags a real thrashing!"
"Zeref!" Trinity exclaimed, turning to face her older brother and him and Natsu both laughed.
Natsu skipped along the road ahead of them, kicking dust up with his feet, seemingly forgetting about what had just gone down.
"So how did your test go?" Zeref asked her, trying to change the subject.
"Oh, don't remind me," she moaned, slouching a little. Zeref laughed at her reaction. He gave her a reassuring pat on the back, "you did great, I sure of it. You're the smartest eleven year old I know!" Zeref said encouragingly.
"I'm the only eleven year old you know," Trinity commented, giving him a wry look. The two of them laughed but didn't continue their conversation. They walked on in silence.
Trinity looked to her left, inspecting the windows of the shops they passed. Trinity loved to look at the items on sale almost as much as she loved to buy them. Something caught her eye. It was in the window of a guild hall, on the request board. She paused, letting her brother slip ahead of her. As she stared, she narrowed her eyes, trying to read the words.
"Retrieve…ebony healing stone…Magnolia…170,000 jewel," Trinity read quietly to herself. That's quite the sum of money to just find some stone, she thought, pondering it. Zeref calling her snapped Trinity out of her thoughts.
"Coming!" she said, rushing to catch up to her siblings. Natsu giggled and ran towards her, meeting her halfway. He raced up to her, taggedß her on the arm and shouted, "you're it!" before speeding off, laughing the whole time.
"Oh you're on!" Trinity said, racing after him. The ebony stone was lost from her thoughts as she chased her brother, laughter bubbling up and out of her throat. Little did she know that this stone would have a bigger impact on her life than she could imagine.