Chapter One

Sky's new family

I sat on the train; I felt the metal wheels start to slow down for the next stop. I looked out the window. It was just another town like the one I lived in only a few months ago before my life changed forever. My family was murdered right in front of me; no one was spared but me. The only thing that I can remember is falling to my knees and crying and the circle of fire around me and my dead family.

I straighten my sleeves of my green and black shirt. I reached for my bag because my stop was next. After everyone in my family that I was blood related to died, I only had a long lost relative in a strange world that lived in a city called Magnolia.

I kept my IPod close to me in case someone got a bright idea to steal it. This is Halloween was blasting and I could feel eyes on me as I looked out the window.

My new life….I believe it really can't get worse.

I stumbled my way out of my compartment and walked right into a guy about a foot taller than me.

"Opps sorry, I wasn't watching my-," I stopped in midsentence at the sight of the guy's eyes.

His eyes were the color of a Blue Moon on a foggy night, his face was pale and his hair was dark with a highlight that covered his eye. He was wearing a shirt that said "Matchbook Romance" and his pants were dark jeans with a chain hanging out of the pocket.

A jolt of fear over took me when he didn't break our eye contact. I was afraid and curious at the same time. I felt my knees start to go weak from the adrenaline that was flowing through my veins.

"Sorry," he said in an enchanting voice and ran off ahead of me.

I was about to walk away when I saw something glisten in the late afternoon sun. It was a charm of a bat that had rubies for eyes and had and onyx gem for its body.

"Wait! You forgot something!" but he had already run off.

Strange…

I walked into the train station and stood at a rusty old pole. I took my bag and slung if over my shoulder and took an ear phone out to hear if anyone was calling me. I kept my eye out for the guy as I held the charm in my hand. Each time I rubbed my finger over the wings I smelled the fresh night air like I used to back home.

"Sky," said a voice next to me.

I probably jumped about five feet into the air at the sound. I turned slowly to see a man about three feet tall wearing a funky hat carrying a staff. I took a step back ready to run if I needed.

"Don't worry Sky I won't hurt you, I see you have everything," he said walking off. I followed him.

"Um, may I ask, are you bringing me to my relative?"

The man laughed, his staff rocking softly.

"I am your relative!"

"Oh…then how are we related?"

"My, you ask a lot of questions, I'm your father's, mothers, cousins, father,"

"So you're my….."

"That's a little too long for anyone to follow,"

"What do people call you?"

"Master Markarov, but you can call me gramps,"

"Okay Gramps, where is the place I'll be staying?"

"We're almost there, hold your horses,"

We walked down a street that held an outdoor market, there were fruits I never seen before and then there were ones that just looked out of this world. People in ragged clothing stared at me as if I was the alien. I looked to Gramps and saw how he was smiling as he past everyone. I tried to force a smile but it only came out as a confused frown.

The brick road seemed to starch on forever in front of me, only to stop at the base of what seemed like an Inn but had to be something more. I could see faint gold letters but couldn't make them out.

"Oh and Sky…what type of magic can you do?" Gramps asked me.

I looked at him confused as if he actually meant hat magic I could do. But there was no thing as magic; my parents put that out of my mind the second I was born. Sure they let me watch Harry Potter and other movies that featured magic but they would always say that it was just special effects and nothing more.

"Magic?" I asked him, I wanted to know if he actually believed in something like that.

"Ah look we're here," he said waving his hand toward the Inn like building.

I looked at its structure; it was completely made of wood and seemed to tower before me. The gold letters formed a name.

Fairy Tail.

I tried not to snicker as I took a double take at the golden sign above. Gramps seemed to notice my restrain.

"Welcome to your new home,"

"Fairy Tail?"

"Yes…."

"I didn't know fairies had tails, but there's a first for everything isn't there?"

"Well what are you waiting for? Step inside; this cool fall air is annoying,"

I wanted to say that I loved the fresh fall air, but I didn't want to sound like I didn't want to go in. In fact I was as curious as a new puppy in a field of wild flowers, trying to absorb every detail. I took a step inside the large wooden doors and saw a sight to laugh at.

About a hundred of people were fighting and throwing beer or vodka. Some people must have set down some crazy movie effects because circles appeared in front of people and objects and elements shoot out of them.

Gramps started to walk toward the bar where a girl about eighteen was standing. I followed after him. Gramps jumped up onto the counter and sat down still holding his staff. I took a stool and sat down.

"Mirajane, what is it this time?" Gramps asked the girl.

She had white hair that had a bow in it and it came to the small of her back as she turned. She wore a deep red purple dress that hugged her every curve. Her eyes seemed to pop out because they were a dark shade of blue.

"Oh, you know how it goes, first Nastu and Gray start fighting, one of them throws something and hits someone else, and then this happens, looks like another day at Fairy Tail," she said with a sigh.

"It's like a food fight, or should I say beer fight?" I giggled to myself.

"And who might you be?" Mirajane asked me as she put done a pint.

"I'm Sky,"

"Sky? So you're the girl that is related to the Master,"

"I guess you could say that,"

"I guess I should put an end to this," Gramps said standing up and slamming his staff on the counter twice. The crowd didn't settle.

"It's this a little intense to be a bar?" I asked Mirajane.

"Bar? This isn't a bar; this is a Guild, for mages,"

"Mages? As in witches and wizards? As in magic?" I stuttered.

"Yes," then she turned back to Gramps who started to grow three feet each second until he each the ceiling. Instead of a dwarf, he was a giant!

"Wha?"

Gramps had to be as tall as the building itself. I jumped from my stool, my heart pounded with the hollers from the crowd, but not from fear, but from the excitement that in gulfed my body at the sight of the fight and was now awakened to its fullest.

"All Fairy Tail Members! Quiet down and listen! This here is Sky!" Gramps pointed a huge finger my way. "She'll be living in the Guild from now on!"

"Why does she get to live in the Guild and no one else does?" called a voice from the crowd.

"Because! She just arrived here and as no place to go, or money, and she is my son's, cousins, daughters, sons, daughter! She is now my responsibility and yours as well," Gramps bellowed through the Guild.

"Wow, where you from?" asked a voice from the crowd.

"Um…America,"

"Never heard of it,"

"Um, it's really far away, took about four days to get here by train,"

The crowd murmured to its self. A man about seven feet tall walked over to us as Gramps became a dwarf again.

The man had the same hair as Mirajane but had a scar on his cheek bone and darker skin. He had the same image of a fairy with a tail on his neck like the one on the sign outside.

"Oh Elfman, what can I get you?" asked Mirajane.

"Oh nothing sis, I'd like to welcome Sky to the Guild, welcome to Fairy Tail,"

"Why, thank you, you're too kind," I said, I saw how everyone in the Guild was looking my way. I wasn't used to so much attention; I was used to no attention.

"Any man would welcome a pretty girl to a place such as this. A man isn't a man if he isn't a gentleman!" Elfman yelled balling his fist and throwing it in the air.

"Elfman," Mirajane scolded.

"Elfman is it? Well, if there were more guys like you back in America, there wouldn't be has many divorces," I said.

The crowd had now built a circle around me as I backed into the counter, I wasn't good in any fight, I remembered when I used to fight with my best friend, she would always find a way to get behind me and pin me down. Before I could react I was tackled by the biggest group hug of all time.

"Welcome to Fairy Tail!"

(Look! I'm amazing, I was thinking back to the second episode of Fairy Tail and I laughed my ass off when everyone started to fight. I loved it so much I just had to put something like that in here, the next chapter should be out very soon, I might get to typing it later today if not...tomorrow)