A/N: Hullo! This is M.S., your friendly (or not) author! This is my first Fairy Tail fic, so I hope you like it :)
I will be posting every Wednesday and Saturday I can, and if you don't review, I don't publish because I don't think anyone is reading :D
Alright loves, here is the story…. Yes, I inserted my own characters, but they get more or less ignored when the ball really gets rolling 0D (that face is my Cyclops)
Dawn of the Midnight Sun
"Luuucy… Luuuucy… Lucy!" The voice echoed around her consciousness, slowly seeping into her mind and bringing her out of her heavy sleep.
"Huh?" Lucy mumbled, rolling over in her bed and rubbing her eyes. She opened them to find a face barely two inches from her own. "GAH!" she screamed, lashing out protectively. Her hand came in contact with a face, and then became tangled in a familiar scarf. As the offending person fell backward off the bed, Lucy was dragged off as well, landing on the stomach of whoever it was.
"Oof!"
"Natsu?" She cried in mild alarm, seeing the salmon-haired dragon slayer poking out from beneath her.
"Lucy, I think you should get off Natsu, he can't breathe… he's turning blue!" a piping voice called from above. Looking up, Lucy saw Happy swirling above her on fluffy wings.
"Happy?" Lucy wondered, getting off the now flat Natsu.
"Aye!" the blue cat trilled joyfully.
"What are you doing here in my room?" The blonde girl scolded, shaking a finger at her fiery friend as he peeled himself off the floor and ignoring Happy as he tugged on one of her many stray hairs.
"Wow Lucy, you're heavy…" Natsu gasped.
"Excuse me?" Lucy hit Natsu over the head with a pillow before listening to the rest of his words.
"And I got us a job… You hit harder than you land…" He complained feebly from his awkward position on the ground, a small bump forming on his head. "What do you have in your pillow, rocks?"
"My diary, but that's not important right now… what's the job?" Lucy asked excitedly.
"Happy and I left the paper with Mirajane, we have to go back and get it, but we'd figure we'd pick you up first." The dragon slayer grunted, getting up off the floor for the second time in two minutes.
"Okay, well, wait here while I change! No peeking!" Lucy added the warning as an afterthought as she pulled an outfit from her closet.
"Why would I do that?" Natsu asked. Lucy threw a bottle of shampoo at him from the bathroom. "Ow! You told me not to peek and when I don't show interest in peeking you get mad? What the heck?"
"Never try to understand females Natsu!" Happy said wisely, "It never works anyway."
…..
"'Dear Diary…. Today I went on another job with Natsu. He did really well, aside from the fact that the house we were supposed to be guarding half-collapsed when he torched a couple of thugs.'… Look Happy! I'm in here!" Natsu yelled happily.
"What about me?" the cat asked eagerly. Natsu skimmed the pages and then jabbed at one.
"There! 'Happy is so annoying sometimes, but he is also thoughtful and cute, especially around Charle…' Hm… nah, the bit about me is better." Natsu replied dismissively.
"What. Are. You. DOING?" Lucy shrieked, stepping out of the bathroom wearing her typical short skirt and sleeveless shirt, whip at her side and Plue stumbling around her feet.
"Uh, nothing, nothing at all!" Natsu laughed nervously, stuffing the diary back in the pillow case, "Well, let's get going, I'm sure Mira is getting tired of reserving our job!"
"Get back here you jeeeeerk!" Lucy chased Natsu down the streets as he ran for Fairy Tail, Happy fluttering about in a panicked manner above his friend's head.
Natsu slammed through the double doors of the guild, slipping across the wood floor and smashing into the bar, which he quickly leapt behind for shelter. Happy clung to the rafters where it would be impossible for the raging celestial mage to reach him.
The scene in the Guild was the same as it was any other day. Jet and Droy sobbing together at one table while watching Gajeel compliment Levy as she decoded ancient runes, Gray (conspicuously lacking clothes) pushing Juvia off him, Reedus painting, Mira at the bar, Cana chugging alcohol, Wakaba and Macao checking out girls as Romeo tried desperately to get his father's attention off of women and onto work. Yeah, a typical day in Fairy Tail.
"NAAATSUUUU!" Lucy roared, spotting the pink top of his head poking out from behind the bar.
"Eeeee…" Natus squeaked. The rest of the guild went quite.
"Ten Jewels on a win for Lucy!" Gray called.
"Juvia is with Gray-sama!"
"I'm betting against Natsu." Lisanna pitched in, "He can't hit a girl."
"If you're a man, you don't hit women!" Elfman shouted.
"Thanks for the encouragement guys…!" Natsu said weakly from his hiding place, Lucy's footsteps growing closer. Mira decided to step in.
"Here's the job Natsu reserved Lucy!" she said, cheerfully handing the blonde a sheet of paper.
"Request… treasure hunt through underground tunnels… Find the chest containing my family heirlooms…" Lucy read out loud, "Reward, 200,000 jewels?"
"I figured it would be perfect," Natsu put in, cautiously raising his head above his protective wooded barrier, "Since we can just use Virgo and get some easy cash… then you can pay your rent for a long time, right?"
"Aw, Natsu!" Lucy squealed, seeming to forget about the diary as she leaned over the bar to hug him, "You're so sweet!"
Mira sighed in relief even as the rest of the guild groaned in disappointment at the match that had seemed so likely to take place.
"Uh, yeah, let's get going!" Natsu laughed sheepishly, hoping Lucy's good mood would last. Or that she would just forget he was ever looking through her diary. Either way.
….
"We're here! At last! Gwahhh…" Natsu stumbled of the carriage queasily, Lucy and Happy following in his wake. The old mine looked ready to collapse at any moment, creaky wooden beams the only thing that held it up.
"Oh, this looks like fun." Lucy said sarcastically.
"Doesn't it though?" Natsu cried excitedly, like a child on an Easter egg hunt, and in the process completely missing Lucy's sarcasm, "Come on Lucy, summon Virgo so we can start!"
"Oh, right…" Lucy withdrew a single golden key from the case at her hip. "Gate of the Maiden, I open thee! Virgo!" A girl in a maid outfit appeared, her hair tousling in the slight breeze.
"You called, Princess?" Virgo said with a bow, the chains on her wrists clanking.
"Alright Virgo, we're looking for treasure in those tunnels. Help us out, kay?" Lucy sounded upbeat and cheerful.
"Yes, Princess." Virgo disappeared into the ground.
"Nothing left to do but wait until she gets back!" Lucy sighed happily.
"You're really lazy Lucy." Happy commented.
"Shut up cat." Lucy growled, sitting down to wait.
….
"Princess, I have located the treasure." Virgo announced, suddenly springing from the ground, interrupting the game of tic-tac-toe Lucy and Natsu had been playing with sticks in the dirt.
"Really? Great! Show us to it, Virgo!" Natsu yelped, leaping to his feet.
"Aye!"
"As you wish." Virgo replied, turning back to face the tunnels.
"Yaaay! Treasure hunt!" Happy squealed, zipping after Natsu and Lucy.
…
"Ah!" Lucy sighed happily, "We got out reward fair and square this time! We completed the mission to a T!"
"Hey Happy, how many dango do you think I can buy with 50,000 jewels?" Natsu queried, tipping his head to one side thoughtfully.
"I don't care, I'm buying fish! Salmon, trout, halibut, tilapia, dorado…" Happy began to drool, a faraway look in his eyes.
"Well, my share is going to my rent and maybe a new key if I can find one!" Lucy practically sang.
"You have a lot of keys already, Lucy." Natsu said, thinking back.
"Yeah, but it can't hurt to have an extra pair of hands on our side. Once I get stronger then I can summon multiple spirits." Lucy told him. She suddenly became aware of the muttering and stares her group was attracting as they entered the city limits of Magnolia.
"Why are they looking at us…?" Natsu murmured, "Are we maybe covered in dirt? Do we smell weird? Or is there something like a 'kick me' sign on my back?" he craned his neck to try to see.
"There's nothing wrong with us, especially not that last one…." Lucy muttered back, "I wonder what's wrong?" She listened closely to the words that were being spoken around them.
"Should we tell them? It is their guild…"
"What, and risk getting ripped apart or turned into sashimi by that psycho?"
"But if they just walk in without knowing, they'll get hurt…"
"You tell them then!"
Lucy looked at Natsu with wide eyes, fear reflecting in their depths.
"Tell us what?" Natsu yelled, stopping in the middle of the street. Lucy's stare had galvanized him into action, snapping out of his almost panic-like state of paralysis.
The two men who had been arguing with one another in the shadows fell silent. One of them, throwing a dirty look at the other came forward looking nervous.
"There are strange people in you guild… they just paraded right through the city and slammed into Fairy Tail… one of the men was armed with a vast array of knives, he attacked some of the citizens for no reason before going into the building…" He stammered, tripping over his words in his fear.
Natsu didn't even look at Lucy, already turning and speeding toward the guild. Lucy needed no signal, she already knew how Natsu worked. Whipping around at almost the same time, she sprinted after him.
Fairy Tail came into sight after a little ways of running, and instantly they could tell something was wrong. There were none of the usual sounds that signified the busy guild. It was as if the building was empty.
Natsu kicked in the door, Lucy at his side.
Controlled chaos was ensuing. Every Fairy Tail member was frozen, helplessly watching what went on. Two pure white wolves were cornering Charle, Pantherlily already out for the count as he struggled to escape the huge canine pinning him down. A man who bore striking resemblance to the animals was sitting on one of the tables, watching with amusement evident in his cold yellow eyes, white hair falling over them carelessly.
Another man, this one perhaps seventeen, was sitting on a bar stool, doing nothing. His eyes were only half open, his irises constantly shifting color beneath his lids.
A third intruder was much more conspicuous. Seated on Gajeel's chest, his hair was mostly concealed beneath a hood, but what was visible was dark brown, and his eyes were an odd array of colors. Around the pupil was crimson that paled to gold which in turn faded to green. He was unnaturally tall and skinny, his long fingered hand clutching a bone-handle knife which he was currently dragging through Gajeel's face.
The boy pressed harder, drawing blood in a smooth, clean cut. The red liquid dripped down Gajeel's face, pooling on the wood. The boy dipped a finger in it, placing a drop on his tongue.
"Hee hee hee…. You're blood is so pretty… I've never seen dragon blood. Is it as pretty as this? I want to see more!" the boy raised the knife high above his head, bringing it down in a stabbing motion. Lucy closed her eyes helplessly, waiting for the sound that would signify Gajeel's death, but it never came.
"Shredder!" the man with the wolves was on his feet, one of his pets locking its fangs into the knife boy's wrist to stop the deadly path of the blade. "We're not here to fight!"
"I don't see you doing anything to stop your poodles from trying to rip up the cats!" Shredder shot back.
"They're wolves….!"
"Nnnn…" the person at the bar mumbled sleepily, "Finny won't be happy if you kill a Fairy…" he yawned.
"Shut up Wish!" Shredder snapped at the now snoozing boy. "And Kiba, get your dog off my arm!"
"Who are you people?" Natsu roared, finally breaking in on the scene while Lucy continued to take in details of the room. Something was wrong… some of the guild was frozen in very odd positions… Cana was frozen in the act of leaping to her feet, anger in her face, her feet suspended three inches from the ground. Levy was paused as she removed her glasses, her magic pen poised. Something was very wrong.
"Us?" Wish asked, jerking awake before he fell off the stool, "Oh…"
"We're the Midnight Sun."