I'm bored and don't want to sleep so have a very random Juvia story that can be a prologue to a story.
Oh and this is AU. And it may also contain a lot of misinformation. But you know... its 3 in the morning so i could be excused for that.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or any of it's characters. They belong to Hiro Mashima.
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Life wasn't fair. At least for her it wasn't. Especially if she has to put up with all the crap her adoptive mother puts her through. It's not her fault that her blood parents didn't want her. It's not her fault she was born with an interesting shade of blue hair. It's not her fault she can't do anything right. And it's also not her fault that she prefers fantasy over reality.
Juvia Lockser has lived seventeen crappy years with more crappy years to come. She spent the first decade of her life in an orphanage where she met and befriended only one person. She now see's that person as her brother. But when he turned fourteen and she still being ten, he got adopted by an old couple who were seeking a grandson to pass on their family fortune. They did not want a child as young as Juvia. So no matter how much she and her brother pleaded for a double adoption, it was not going to happen. And so Juvia was left behind in the orphanage where she will spend two years alone with the constant bullying and teasing from the other kids. By her twelfth birthday she was transferred into foster care. There she went to many foster families and not one willing to keep her since they did not want a teenager who spoke third person. Luckily (not really), her seventh foster parents decided to adopt her. They signed all the necessary paperwork and passed the background check. Once all that was done Juvia was able to live with her new family.
The first few months were going great for Juvia. They had her signed up in one of the best schools in the city, they helped her with her homework, and treated her like she was of their own blood. Juvia thought that she was finally going to be able to live a normal life.
But all good things must come to an end. And for Juvia it was all too soon.
After the monthly check ups from the foster facility stopped, as they deemed Juvia to be placed in a loving family, all pretense of the perfect family was gone. Juvia had to find out the hard way that money is everything, and as long as they kept Juvia, money will be easy to come by for them.
Juvia was told very bluntly that the only reason she was accepted into their home was because they needed the money and she was the answer to their problems. Why did they need the money? Well the answer soon became obvious to Juvia.
It turns out that the couple had a gambling problem and they didn't have the best of luck when it came to wining. So they decided to win by other means; cheating. They got away with their strategy plenty of times. But one could only get away with cheating for so long. They grew arrogant in one of their outings. They challenged anyone who dared to play against them and among one of those many challengers was the very owner of the makeshift casino himself. He played against them. Their game went on for a while and it was clear who the victor was. As the final cards were being handed out both the couple and the owner went all in. As they revealed their cards to each other the victory went to the couple. But it was short lived as security checked them and found cards on them. The couple tried to make a run for it but did not make it far. They were escorted to a private room where they were asked to return all the money they had won by cheating. It was obvious to everyone in the room that they no longer had that money. Which turns out that the owner was expecting that to be that case. He gave them an option, either work for him in his business, which had nothing to do with gambling, or pay off all the money they won with an extra sixty percent for the inconvenience they had caused. Option two was chosen.
And so, for the next four years Juvia was living her life in her own personal hell. She was forced to help out in any way she could to pay the debt. She had no choice on the matter so she resorted to stealing, pickpocketing, and participating in illegal gambling. And no, not the casino kind of gambling but the betting on people's lives gambling. That gambling consisted of underground fights where she had somehow gained the reputation of The Gloomy Woman. She never smiled and always remained stoic throughout her fights. She also had a very depressing aurora. Juvia did not care much about the name. She didn't really care much about anything anymore. She had resigned herself to this life.
In the summer of her soon to be senior year they were able to pay off the debt completely. But the owner did not want to let them go. He saw that he was making a lot of profit from them, specifically Juvia. So he tried to cheat them by telling them that they still owed money. That did not go over so well with the couple and Juvia. There was shouting, lots of it. Someone threw a punch, Juvia doesn't know who, and then a full out brawl broke out. Juvia tried to get away along with her adoptive mother. As they neared the exit a gunshot was heard. They both turned only to see Juvia's adoptive father fall to the ground with a bullet hole through his head.
Juvia's survival instincts kicked in and before any more shots were fired she grabbed her mothers hand and dragged her away from the room. She ran and ran, practically dragging deadweight since the now widow did not want to run for herself. Juvia knew she couldn't head home or go anywhere in the city since they were now wanted. There was really only one option left; flee the city. Right now though, she had to find them a place to wait out the soon to be search. And so, they ended up spending a week in a rundown building at the edge of the city. There Juvia's mother resolved to stay with Juvia since she is her mother and they are now in this mess together. Juvia was not pleased by this but had no choice in the matter.
At the end of the week they had managed to string enough money to make a getaway from the city. And they continued to move from city to city after they managed to hijack a car. From there they went on to the farthest city possible; Magnolia.
There they started anew. Juvia managed to register in a high school just in time for classes to begin and her mother managed to get herself a decent job. She still got treated poorly by her mother but it wasn't as bad as it was when her father was alive. Juvia did not let herself get physically abused but she was verbally abused. Even then Juvia did not show her the pleasure of how much her words hurt, as she smiled and played off the hurt. Luckily, they didn't see each other as much when school started.
Juvia knew she could be herself in this new school. No one knows her and no one can judge her lifestyle since she doesn't have to part-take in those kinds of activities anymore. Here, in Fairy Tail Academy, she can once again get the chance to be a normal person. She can now officially be Juvia Lockser.
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Okay that's all I got for now and I am exhausted since this literally came from the top of my head. I did not plan this and I was merely typing randomly and then BAM! This happened. I don't really know where this story is heading but I do have a sort of ending to this figured out. I can either end this in two or three chapters or make this a multi chapter fic. If that turns out to be the case, be warned that the updates will be randomly.
So umm... I don't know if you guys want me to continue this or not but if you do leave some feedback and maybe some suggestions of what you guys would like to see in the (maybe) upcoming chapters.
