Authors Note:
Okay this is chapter one! Please tell me what you think! This one will be a bit longer since it's the first real chapter.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail or its characters.
"… And it was like Woosh! And then Slide! And then Crash! And so she kinda broke her leg." The petite blunette sitting across from me finished. My best friend Levy and I were sitting in the cafeteria and I listened as she talked about her latest race. Levy was a speed skater for Fairy Tail, and all though she was really small, she was extremely fast. I didn't know much about the speed skating world but I heard that fans call her 'The Pixie.' I suppose it suited her, she could be pretty mischievous sometimes.
I curled a lock of blonde hair around my finger. 'Maybe I should get it cut soon,' I thought lazily before I noticed Levy starring at me. "What?" I asked, wondering if there was anything on my face.
"You haven't been getting much sleep lately have you, Lu-chan?" Levy asked worriedly. I shook her off with a wave of my hand.
"It's just been pretty hard recently after my mom and dad got a divorce. Mom was the one who supported my skating and Dad didn't and then guess who got custody? Loke's been trying to get me signed up with a skating center but every time he does, Daddy declines on my behalf." I said angrily. "I'm just annoyed because Loke has been working so hard but it's getting us absolutely no where." I picked up my sandwich and took a bite. "I've also been putting a lot more practice hours in at the rink. It's not fair for just Loke to be working hard" I finished, thinking fondly of my manager who was basically a big brother to me now.
Levy slammed her hands on the table, surprising me because it was very un-Levy like. "Come to Fairy Tail! It's not as strict as other places! You wouldn't even need your dad's permission! Loke's twenty-one! He could sign off as your guardian! Plus they send you an invitation every year." I cringed at that, thinking of the five unopened envelopes sitting at the bottom of my desk drawers.
"Lu-chan" Levy looked me dead in the eyes. "They want you. They NEED you." I knew that was true. Even though I was unattached to a skating center, I had heard about Mavis Vermillion, the number one skater in all of Japan. She was incredible and aside from Karen, my number one role model. She was the pride and joy of the fairy tail figure skating team… Until her death four years ago. Mavis' death rocked the figure skating world and I heard that the Fairy Tail team had crumbled.
I sighed and brought my attention back to Levy. "Even if that's true, I don't know how I would feel about being in a center that wasn't solely for figure skating." I stood up from the table to throw my trash away. "I'm sixteen Levy. Now's the time when I need to get serious about my skating. I can't take the back seat at some skating center while a bunch of hockey players destroy the ice."
Levy just rolled her eyes as I walked away. It's not like we were fighting, we definitely weren't mad at each other. We have this conversation all the time, nothing ever changes.
Speaking of hockey players, our cafeteria was full of them. Unlike other schools that cherished their football team or basketball teams, the number one sport here at my school is hockey. Go figure. Although most people just played on the school team, a select few are also member of the Fairy Tail team. Those guys were basically the pride and joys of the school. So therefore, on game days it seemed like I was the only one who thought how dumb a sport it was. Walking to the trash can, literally every table I passed was either talking about the game, talking about players, or the weirdest, trading player cards like they were pokemon cards. It was sickening. I squeezed pasted a group of seniors who were standing by the trash cans. Usually seniors can leave campus for lunch, but since it was game day they all wanted to stand around and talk, making the cafeteria more packed than usual.
"All for a stupid hockey game." I muttered to myself. I quickly threw away my trash and spun on my heel, wanted to get out of there as soon as possible. Unfortunately I failed to another person walking my way and before I could stop myself, we crashed into each other. The remains of their lunch splattered on the two of us and I was vaguely aware of a few spaghetti noodles that had made their way down my shirt.
The cafeteria went silent.
I looked at the girl across from me, not realizing who it was due to the spaghetti sauce coating her face and red hair. Wait. Red Hair?!
I jumped up and offered my hand. "I-I'm sorry Erza-sempai! I wasn't watching where I was going and-" She cut me off with her hand, and I became aware of the death glares people were giving me.
"It's fine. I'm fine, you're fine, we're bother fine, everything's fine." She said, emphasizing fine, but I wasn't exactly sure whose sake it was for. The angry glares started to disappear people went back to what they were doing before our little crash. It was then I realized how bad it could have been if I had hurt Erza Scarlet. Erza was not only the student body president, but also the star player of the varsity hockey team, and the only girl to ever make the team! She did a quick inspection of me and grabbed my wrist. "Come with me." She ordered as she dragged me away.
Levy was watching this whole charade from the other side of the cafeteria. I mouthed help! But she just shook her head no, laughing. Hmph. Some best friend.
I tentatively tried to pull away but Erza's grip was rock solid. "Um… Where are we going Erza-sempai, no san… um hime?" I stuttered nervously. What was this terrifying woman going to do to me? I had heard rumors about her power at this school. Of course she ignored me. Erza kicked open the door to the cafeteria, hitting an unexpecting Gray Fullbuster in the face.
"OW! What the hell Natsu! What was that- Oh! Erza! What's going on?" The guy asked. I'd never met this guy before, but I think he's slightly bipolar.
"Gray. As our local stripper I'm sure you have tons of extra clothes lying around somewhere for Lucy and I?" Erza asked seriously. I wonder how she knows my name…
"Local stripper? I don't mean to do it! It just happens!" Gray cried, trying to defend himself. He took in our spaghetti covered appearance and sighed. "But yeah, follow me; I have tons of clothes in my gym locker." He began to walk down the hall and we followed.
"Our skirts are fine, but if you have any clean shirts that would be great." Erza told him. She had finally released my arm, knowing I'd follow willingly now.
"Yeah, yeah. I got it." Gray said dryly. "Just wait here and I'll go get some." He told us as he entered the locker room to find us some clothing.
"Erza-san I'm so-" I began but she cut me off.
"Just Erza is fine." She said politely. She took a seat outside the locker room door and waiting. "It was my fault too, I wasn't paying attention." She said with a far off look in her eyes.
"Erza I know we just met and all but-" I started but was cut off again when Gray burst through the door, proudly holding up two clean shirts. He threw them at us and ushered us into the locker room.
"No ones in here now so you guys can change in here. I'll stand guard at the door to make sure no guys come in." Gray said.
We walked in and were immediately hit with an awful smell. I held my nose trying to block out the smell. "Boys." Erza said simply, obviously used to the smell.
I stripped off my dirty shirt and went to put on the clean one Gray had given me when I noticed it wasn't a shirt. It was a jersey. A hockey jersey. I dropped it on the floor like it had bit me.
"I can't wear this." I deadpanned to Erza, who had gotten a different colored jersey than I had and had put her hair up into a high ponytail. She looked good. But not good enough for me to want to wear that jersey.
"Why not?" She asked, obviously unaware of the death glares I was giving the rotten jersey.
"Because it's a-" I started to whine before she began talking.
"Lucy, if you want to walk around all day looking like you got attacked by the flying spaghetti monster, be my guest. It's lucky that our teachers let people wear jerseys on game days so it's not like your going to get in trouble." Ohhhh…. She thought I didn't want to wear it because I thought I'd get in trouble?!
I sighed in defeat and put the dumb jersey on. I took my hair out of it's usually half up/half down style, hoping it would help cover some of the shame that I felt.
Erza smiled "Perfect." She smiled and we left the locker room
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Lunch had gotten out by the time we had finished changing so Erza and Gray walked me to class. Erza was a senior so she didn't have anymore classes today but Gray… I learned he was a junior… I'm not exactly sure why he wasn't going to class. He mumbled something about a 'stupid pink headed idiot.'
"So Luccccyyyy" Gray said, drawling out my name. "Are you going to the game tonight? It's the semi-finals and the Fighting Salamanders are going to kick butt! It's definitely something your gonna wanna see." He said confidently.
"Grey's step brother Lyon is on the opposing team, so he's really pumped up about this game." Erza whispered to me as Gray kept going on about tonight.
"Er probably not." I said honestly, earning surprised looks from both of them. "My dad doesn't like me staying out late and I didn't even get tickets!" I explained. I thought my excuse was sure fire, but then Erza pulled out two tickets out of no where and shoved them at me.
"Here. Two front row tickets." She said, her eyes gleaming dangerously. "And I'll be able to see these seats so you better not think about skipping out!" I fearfully took the tickets and I noticed we had stopped in front of the classroom. She smiled like absolutely nothing had happened. "See you tonight Lucy!" she called as she walked away.
I guess I still looked pretty terrified because Gray added, "Erza always plays better when she has friends in the audience; I guess she really wants you to come." He started walking after Erza. "Oh, and make sure you bring that jersey tonight, I need it for tomorrows practice." Gray said with a wave.
I waved back and walked into my class. Luckily it was study period so I didn't get in trouble for being late. I took my usual seat next to Levy and gave her an exasperated look. She just starred at me. Or to be more precise, the bright red hockey jersey that proudly proclaimed "FULLBUSTER" on the back.
I remembered it was a tradition for the girlfriends of players to wear their jersey on game day, and at our school it was taken very seriously. From the back of the class I heard someone whisper "Love rival…." I sunk as low in my chair as I could and laid my head on my desk with a groan. It was going to be a long day.
Author's Note:
I hope you enjoyed this chapter! It kinda explains what's going on with Lucy's family a little bit. I really didn't want to kill off her parents cause that's what everyone does. Or her mom at least.
Oh and basically the skating centers are like guilds, cept theres no magic so I really couldn't call it a guild.
And yeah…. The team name is the fighting salamanders…don't judge… I'm tired.
So to summarize
Lucy- 16, a figure skater
Levy- 16 speed skater
Loke- 21, Lucy's manager (Ill go into that in a later chapter)
Erza- 18, Hockey player
Gray- 17, hockey player
I was sooo tempted to bring in Natsu this chapter but then I was like… nahhhh
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