Chapter 1: Welcome to my messed up life!

OC POV

I groaned as the afternoon sun hit my eyes. It was the last day of summer, and believe me, I was not looking forward to the new school year. Tomorrow, I'll be a junior in a prestigious, hard-to-get-in-to high school, a school that I've been attending since freshman year called Fiore Academy. None of my friends (or family) is in my school, so it's a living hell.

"Aurora," a voice said, "get up. It's noon already and we should meet everyone else downstairs to train." I heavily picked my head up and glared at the window, where my twin brother Rogue was opening the blinds.
"Well what do you know?" I murmured under my breath, "The mighty shadow dragon slayer is opening the blinds, welcoming the sun and basking in its light." I giggled lightly before rolling out of bed.

"... Whatever."

"Aw come on! At least I, the great moon dragon slayer, frolic in my own element (actually... maybe that's why I'm so dang tired). And talk more! Talk to your widdle twin sister."

"... not interested..." As Rogue left my room, I quickly got dressed into shorts and a v-neck t-shirt, tied up my hair, brushed my teeth, and jumped down the stairs. I need to meet everyone else in Fairy Tail.

I should probably explain. My whole family, along with some of my neighbors and other people around the world, are mages. In this day and age, mages are often hunted down due to "normal people's" fear. I even heard that the government captures some mages themselves to test them in facilities... Anyways, as you already know, my brother is the shadow dragon slayer and I'm the moon dragon slayer. My dad uses rune magic as well as illusionary magic and my mom is a celestial mage who can also make portals between places. We four make the Cheney family.

Now about Fairy Tail, that is a special place the size of a football stadium that is hidden underneath this town. Gildarts Clive, one of my neighbors (and magic instructor), created the room with his crash magic. My father used his rune magic to ensure that nobody outside could detect the magic released and his illusionary magic so that nobody would actually find it. Lastly, my mom used her portal magic to connect houses containing mages to Fairy Tail (my dad also wrote runes around the portals so that only mages and people that mages deemed safe could enter/exit). There are rooms similar to the one we have in different cities all around the world. Those belonging in Fairy Tail are Fairy Tail mages! But a while ago, my family and I used to belong to a different group called Sabertooth. We had to leave when Rogue and I were younger because it was too strict.

Why have Fairy Tail when people are hunting us you ask? Well, it's a place where we could freely practice our magic. We also bond with other mages and get to know them. And, we get stronger by training so that one day, if we get caught, we'll be prepared.

After finishing my breakfast/brunch/lunch/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, I left the dining room and headed down to the basement. I soon reached the "closet" behind the staircase and opened it. Instead of having normal-closet-stuff inside, a glowing, purple tunnel appeared. After walking for a short amount of time, I finally made it to the end and stepped over the boundary. There, in Fairy Tail, were all of my true friends.

I watched silently as my friends continued to either chat or have an all-out brawl: Lucy Heartfilia, Natsu Dragneel, Erza Scarlet, Gray Fullbuster, Yukino Aguria, Levy McGarden, Juvia Lockser, Jellal Fernandes, Gajeel Redfox, Wendy Marvel, Rogue, and so many others from around town. There are rumors of another mage joining us, but I'm not sure if that's true or not.

You're probably wondering how there are so many dragon slayers yet you don't see any dragons flying around. There are a few keys in the world, three to be exact, that are like portals between realms. There are eight realms in total: our realm (Earthland), Edolas, the Dragon Realm, the Fairy Realm, the Phoenix Realm, the Demon Realm, the Gods Realm, and the Spirit Realm. Creatures from one realm can't survive very long in a different realm, with the exception of Edolas and Earthland (which is why we also have some exceeds in Fairy Tail as well), so the dragons that used to roam the earth during the Middle Ages had to return to their own realm. My mother's mother happened to come across one of these realm keys and passed it on. Mom then opened the key to the dragon realm (because it seemed the coolest) where Natsu, Wendy, Gajeel, Rogue, and I trained with the dragons. We still go there once in a while to visit.

"Aurora! Get over here!" someone shouted. I broke out of my daze and looked over to Lucy, who was waving me over along with the others. Well, except for Natsu and Gray, who were going on about which element was better. Grinning widely, I leapt over to join in on the conversation.

After knocking some sense into the boys, Erza began, "Anyways, who's excited for the new school year?" Everyone shared happy remarks while I just groaned. Of course they would be happy, they all go to the same school: Magnolia High!

"Aw come on Aurora," Natsu said, "Fiore Academy can't be that bad."

"Aye sir!" a little blue cat agreed.

I sighed, "It wouldn't be if everyone stopped ignoring me. I mean seriously! Ever since that incident a year ago, no one will talk to me!"

"You know," Lucy thought out loud, "you never did tell us what happened. You always turned red and stormed off."

"Because it was stupid!"

"Lucy's right Aurora, we can't help you until you tell us your problem." Erza sternly said. I shivered under her gaze and contemplated on the pros and cons until I finally decided to just go with it.

"Urgh... fine! Last year, my so-called-friend's crush Jason asked me out in front of her. Yeah he was hot, but I was not interested in him. I said no, but my friend had already run away. I guess that she spread some fake rumors or something, because the next day, everyone began to shun me. They wouldn't listen to what I had to say! I mean, it's not even my fault!" Everyone looked deep in thought, as though they were trying to come up with a solution.

"Why don't you just quit?" Gray asked.

"Juvia agrees with Gray-sama! Gray-sama has all of Juvia's support!"

"I would, but the only way for me to leave is to fail in all of my courses! Sorry, but my grades are more important to me than all of this nonsense."

Everyone went back into a trance-like state before Gajeel said, "Well this'll be another year of hell for you."