Chapter 1
A lone girl stood in the middle of an icy river.
A circle of 30 robbers had surrounded her.
It looked hopeless for the girl; she had only a small dagger, the weapon looking as if they were made of glass; transparent and tinged with blue. The ice that filled the river was up to her thighs, trapping her legs in the frigid crystal. Her short black hair blew with the violent wind, yet she gave no shiver from the piercing cold.
"Eh? Give up already?" One bandit drawled, a rusty sword hanging from his side.
The girl gave no response, flecks of ice dotting her dark hair.
"Looks like it, Taru," another said, drawing out a crooked dagger. "I say we have fun with her first, though. We can't let that pretty face go to waste."
Still no response.
"What, girl? Cat got yer tongue?" One yelled, and the bandits erupted with laughter.
"Maybe she's frozen!"
"Aw, poor thing's scared!"
More and more laughter followed after every jeer, and one man finally composed himself enough to stand straight.
"But I agree with Tama, how 'bout we play a little with her, and ransack her belongings? I'd bet that she has some treasure in that old backpack of hers," the man declared, pointing at the black satchel that was strapped to the girl's back with a pattern of leather straps that criss-crossed over her torso.
There was a unison of nods, and Toma yelled out once more.
"How 'bout it, pretty one? You'll become one awfully fine pet for us!"
Suddenly, the temperature dropped drastically, causing the bandits to shiver uncontrollably.
A smile had stretched over the girl's lips, but the thin, wide curl of her lips held no warmth, only icy frigidness. Black hair rustled over her face as she looked up, her hands untying something at the back of her head. A pale hand brought down the white eyepatch, and the men in front of her recoiled in shock.
"Her eye!"
"I-It's...!"
"Glowing!"
The girl's right eye was a pure, gleaming white, starkly contrasting against her left eye, which had the sheen of cold steel: a shade mixing of a silvery blue and black.
However, Toma soon lost his patience, his face contorting into a sneer.
"Why do we let her crappy eye scare us?! Men, charge!" He yelled. The bandits barely had time to regain their composure before they, too, followed Toma's example, rushing at the girl with raised weapons.
"Forget about playing with her! Kill her first!" One yelled. There were cries of agreement, and one of the men brought the sword down on the girl, who remained motionless.
"You people are so annoying." Her voice was identical to the icy water drifting at her feet; cold yet mellifluous. There was a roar, and the man with the sword flew back, crashing into the snow with a sickening crack.
"Tobe!" Taru yelled, looking at the girl with relevant terror. "Who are you?!"
The girl no longer smiled, her face instead holding an expression of contempt. Her right eye began to pulse with a white light.
She pushed the sleeve of her royal blue coat up, revealing the dark blue mark imprinted on her upper right arm.
"I am a Fairy Tail wizard," she said, her voice even more frigid than before, if such thing was possible. Her voice grew louder as her right eye grew brighter.
"I am the Cold Water, the water dragon slayer of Fairy Tail."
As soon as the last word left her lips, the ice in the river cracked, then shattered with a shower of shards, the water storming in a rage beneath it. She unsheathed the dagger hanging from one of the leather straps, and the weapon grew in size, until it was a wickedly sharp blade, the surface seeming to pulse and glow like the water whirling around the girl.
The flicked her wrist, and the water responded to her movement, blowing out in a hazardous wave that swept the bandits from their feet, letting them crash back into the white snow with a series of thuds and moans.
The girl remained still for a moment, watching her weapon shrink back into a dagger. She slipped the eyepatch over her right eye, and sheathed the weapon with a small sigh.
Raising a hand in the air, a magic circle began to form on the tips of her pale fingers. A jet of water shot from the glowing circle, growing into a signal flare.
When the hiss of the water flare had finally died down, the girl dropped her right hand, and began walking down the river.
I hope you saw the flare, Master.
I'm finally coming home today.
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