Hyrule Online

Chapter One: The Job Request

Professor: Hello again everyone! I have been so excited to start this story! I love crossovers between these two worlds, but we never really see any with Team Natsu going into Hyrule, at least I don't. So that's part of what gave me this idea.

Anyway, some public service announcements.

1) This story will not have my usual quality of writing. There will be time skips (during traveling since I am making Hyrule much bigger than it is in the game), slight OOC-ness, and plot holes. I know this and am giving you fair warning now. Apologies to those who are upset about it.

2) I will not only be doing chapters, but also extras for this story. Deleted scenes, random funny ideas, omakes, parodies, and so on. They will be posted with this story, although listed separately.

3) Yes, Sheik is a male in this story. I am working off of a fan theory and it will be explained in later chapters. Just bear with me.

4) I do not own Fairy Tail or the Legend of Zelda. This story also contains inspiration/references/minor content from Sword Art Online (within the first chapter mostly) which I also do not own.

So, here goes the first chapter! Hope you enjoy and please review!

It was all because of the Grand Magic Games. Ever since Fairy Tail had won, no one in Fiore could get enough of them. That led to job requests by the hundreds, including ones that asked for specific members and teams.

Team Natsu was no exception. And that was how they ended up standing in front of a large video game building corporation.

Lucy sighed, "Natsu, I swear, if you break this building…"

The Dragon Slayer sighed, "The request said it was in Hyrule! Not here!"

Gray hit the top of Natsu's head with a fist, "The point still stands you idiot."

Natsu glared angrily at his teammate, fists already on fire, "Wanna go, ice prick?!"

"Bring it, flame brain!"

"Natsu! Gray!" Erza's harsh voice cut the argument short, "We are here for Mr. Dragmire, not for petty arguments!"

'You destroy just as much as they do…' was Lucy's silent thought as she sweatdropped.

Any further conversation was cut off as the door to the building opened. The man that walked out to meet them made even Erza stop and stare for a moment.

He seemed to command authority and importance, from how he walked to the knowing smirk on his face. Red hair, dark skin, and a suit as black as night. A name badge on his lapel was labeled 'Mr. Dragmire'.

"I take it you are...Team Natsu?" his cool and charismatic voice brought them out of the stupor they had fallen into at the sight of him.

Erza stepped forward, extending her hand, "Yes. Mr. Dragmire I presume?"

He looked at her hand, almost as if her was disgusted, but the look disappeared so quickly that Erza was sure she had imagined it.

Instead of shaking her hand, he turned around and started walking back to the door, tossing a, "Follow me." over his shoulder.

Carla huffed and crossed her arms, "Talk about manners."

"Carla, now isn't the time," Wendy pleaded with her.

The rest of the team didn't say anything. They just following him in silence, thinking over the encounter.

The building, if possible, seemed even bigger on the inside. It was quiet though. All the way to the staircase, the only sound that could be heard were their own footsteps. The offices were empty, no door was open, not even a fan blowing in the distance.

'That's odd,' Lucy thought, 'Wouldn't a big video game corporation have a ton of workers?'

"I bet you are wondering why I hired you." Mr. Dragmire's voice broke through their thoughts.

"Just a bit, yeah." Gray muttered, "There weren't a lot of details on the request."

"Let me explain a few things first," he stopped and opened the door to the staircase, not continuing to speak until they were all walking upstairs.

"In the time that you were stuck on Tenroujima, technology made many advances. Personally, I focused on a way to combine that technology with magic. That's how I created the video game system known as NerveGear. This is a Virtual Reality Gaming System. Following so far?"

Erza nodded for them and he continued, "This is the first of its kind. The technology keeps you alive and puts you in the game while the magic powers the game itself, allowing you to use virtual magic in the game."

"Even for non-mages?"

He nodded, "Yes. The magic being used in the game is virtual, drawing its power from the Ethernano here in Earthland."

"Ok," Lucy said, "But what does that have to do with the job?"

"I used all this to create a game, obviously. An upgrade to the games that you all were used to. Instead of using screens and lacrimas to play, you are sent into the virtual world itself. It's the very first VRMMORPG."

"A what?" Natsu asked, completely lost.

"A virtual reality massively multiplayer online role-playing game." Gray explained.

The others looked at him in shock. He just shrugged, "I've played some games before, ok? I know what a MMORPG is, wasn't that hard to figure out the VR."

"I'm impressed." Lucy smiled at him, "I thought you only cared about fighting."

Gray visibly brightened at that, "I'm surprising like that."

"Flirting aside," Mr. Dragmire grumbled at them (and ignored Lucy's protests that they weren't flirting), "The game is near completion, we were going to release in a few months. There was a minor problem though…"

The group finally stopped climbing at one of the floors. Opening the door, Team Natsu was greeted with a mostly empty looking room. Another door was on the end of it, but their eyes were drawn to the center.

It seemed like a boy was lying on the bed there, but some contraption, powered by a lacrima, covered his head so that they couldn't see his face. Next to him was an IV drip.

"This is one of our beta testers for the game. As you can see, he hasn't logged out yet."

Erza narrowed her eyes, "Why not?"

"Easy. He doesn't believe the game is fake. Something has happened to make him think that it is a reality, we don't know what."

"Can't you just unplug it?" Natsu asked, leaning close and sniffing the boy, getting his scent.

Mr. Dragmire shook his head, "That would harm the boy's mind even more. The game is too ingrained in his mind by now. The only way is-"

"To log off," Erza cut him off.

Mr. Dragmire shook his head again, "Preferably, but we've sent people in after him. He never believes them. We can't get him to log off."

"So what can we do?" Wendy asked.

"Well, the game automatically kicks you off if you die. Won't let you back on for another hour."

"Where are you going with this?" Carla asked suspiciously.

He sighed, "I need you all to go into the game and kill him."