I know I am going to get comments on why this is pretty much Fairy Tail: Zero Chapter 7 with commentary here and there. It's because I needed foundation. A couple of chapters will be the same as the actual manga. That may seem annoying, but... I promise not every chapter of my story will be a copy of a Fairy Tail Chapter. Of course it is going to have events and such from the manga, but I will be crating new event, new people, new ideas.
Disclaimer Time: I do not under any circumstances own Fairy Tail. At All. Okay? I am just making fan fiction based on one of my favorite animes/manga series. All credit goes to Hiro Mashima. I am in no way trying to take his ideas and sell them for my own.
[Mavis' POV]
"I... I shall go fetch some water." I mumbled as I walked away from Yuri, Precht, Warrod, and Zera. It was my fault they were hurt. Or is it theirs? Blue. Skull. The guild that destroyed any and everything I ever held dear.
I slowly made my way deeper into Magnolia's western forest until I reached a watering hole. It was an error in my judgment. If only I was stronger I thought to myself as tears slowly dripped down my face and into the water. I saw slight movement in front of me and decided to lift my head. There in front of me was a boy. A boy with black hair that looked rather odd, but that wasn't the odd part. As my vision began to become clearer from my tears drying I saw that this boy was... naked?!
He just watched as my face became completely red and I turned completely around and covered my face. "I... I'm so sorry. I had no idea some else was..." I shrieked.
"Forgive me," He said, interrupting my frantic shrieks. I turned to slightly look at him and he was getting out of the water and begging to put on a black robe with a blanket thing... I wasn't entirely sure. It looked like apparel in my books, apparel that hadn't been worn often in many, many years.
"You must leave this forest," He warned. I continued to stare at him until he spoke one more. "Forgive me, I should be the one who is leaving." That was the last thing he said until he started to head deeper into the forest. As he began to walk everything died around him. Leaves feel, leaving trees naked. Bushes died. The grass turned brown. Ankhseram. Or at least, that's what appeared to be. I had read about it before in books, but never in my wildest imagination had I thought I would ever witness it. I realized that he had turned back around to me to stare. My expression must have been somewhere between shock, amazement, and fear, or perhaps a mixture of both.
"Everything that comes near me... dies."
"You..."
"No stop. Please do not come any closer." He warned, backing up a little."
I was sure that it was Ankhseram. "The Black magic of Ankhseram," I said to him. With the way, he looked at me, I could tell, that I was indeed correct.
I cleared my throat, "I had only read about it in my books. It is also known as the curse of contradiction. The more one holds life dear, the more death comes. " His eyes grew wide. He looked astonished, stunned, afraid. He looked... broken. "Ah... I'm sorry."
"It's okay," He said as he continued to stare at me, "you're quite the knowledgeable one. I've never met someone who knew anything about my curse. I do try to stay away from humanity, but still."
"Have you always been here?"
"No, I travel here and there. Due to my curse, I cannot touch anything or anyone. If I do, they wither away and die." I looked down at the ground. My face broke as I realized how much of a curse that truly was. He must have noticed my features because he spoke once more, "There's no need to make a face like that. You are quiet the sweet little girl."
I looked once more at him and then down at my bare feet. "Do you... Get lonely?" I said gently, trying not to seem rude.
"I do not know," He said. We were quiet for a few moments until he smiled at me. "Being able to converse with you like this, has brought me so much joy. The joy I haven't felt in a very long time." I looked up at him and he was looking down. No longer smiling, but not frowning either. "But at the same time, I am battling the terror that a sweet little girl like you could die from my power." He looked at me again with hurt in his eyes, "I do not wish to kill anyone."
He turned around and began to walk away. "I shall be on my way. I apologize for making you think such scary thoughts." In that moment, I decided to use my illusion magic. To perhaps make him feel more of the joy he said he felt. I conjured up any and all animals I could think of and looked at him. "No, do not come near me," He said with a look of terror in his eyes as hundreds of animals of my creation began to encircle him.
He looked at all of them and his eyes were full of fear and he began to sweat, "and yet... why are all of these animals..."
"You can touch them if you like," I said with a warm smile.
"Eh?"
"These..." I said as my arms hovered over them, "...are my illusions."
"I see," He said as he began to reach out and "touch" them.
"Well, you can't really touch them but..."
"It's okay. They're warm." A smile appeared on the mysterious man's face. "You have my humblest thanks."
I merely smiled at him, knowing that I made a complete stranger happy, made me happy. Was he truly a stranger to me, though? "I think it may be fate that brought us together."
"Hmm?"
"I have a feeling that you are an amazing wizard. Please teach my friends and I magic. We have an enemy that we will be going into battle with.
He looked at me, afraid. Then he nodded in agreement.
I lead him back to where Yuri laid and where my other 3 friends were camped out.
Warrod looked at him and immediately said, "who's this guy?"
"He is the man who is going to train us in the art of magic so that we can defeat Blue Skull."
Zera looked worried and wouldn't take her eyes off the man. Giving him her evil, death glance.
"We will began training, but he has rules." I said in the hopes they wouldn't get annoyed by the rules. Especially Yuri was bad at following rules.