*Disclaimer: All main characters belong to Hiro Mashima.

Fairy Tail in a fairly odd world

"Raindrops are like fairy whispers." ~Author unknown

Chapter 6; Providing knowledge

Never in her life would Lucy imagine she would come across Levy Mcgarden again. And never in her life would she imagine the dwarfan princess to be living in a hollowed out tree beside a waterfall in the middle of an unnamed forest. Yet here she was, her frail body the same as it was five years ago, along with her unruly short blue hair, handing her a warm glass of tea in her cozy home, carved out of an old willow tree. Levy sat down in front of her and took her hands. "Lu-chan, it's so good to see you again!" Even though they had met five years ago and only talked for two minutes it felt like they were the best of friends. Levy guessed there was a long story to explain as to why Lucy had suddenly shown up in the middle of an uncharted forest on a horse, dehydrated and exhausted. And so, Levy let Lucy explain. The explanation threw them into an emotional ride through tears, maniac laughter, hugs, and yes, more tears. Lucy told Levy everything, because she felt like she could. She started from the beginning. About how her father abused her mother, about her life mission to find the fairies, her mother's suicide, the years of planning, about meeting Igneel, about her departure from the castle, and about her meeting Natsu. Hours later as Lucy finished, Levy sat there quiet and still, thinking hard on the words Lucy had spoken. Then, Levy smiled at her kindly and said; "We'll talk about it more in the morning, go to sleep."

Lucy awoke the next morning to the bird's familiar songs and the beautiful sound of wind chimes. She sat up in the futon she had slept on and immediately found Levy reading on her window seal. "Good morning Levy!"

"Good! You're up! I need to discuss something important with you."

And so, Levy sat Lucy down at the small dining table and set a large, old looking book down on it's surface.

"Do you know why I'm here? I mean, do you know why I'm not back at the dwarfan kingdom where I should be?"

At that moment, Lucy realized she hadn't even thought about it. "Uhm, no, now that I think about it."

Levy sighed, then looked out her window into the forest as she begun to speak.

"As you probably know, I was one of the only dwarfs who loved to read books. All the other dwarfs were always so focused on the cruel reality. And I think that's why they were always so mad all the time. So our kingdom never had a library. Until my ninth birthday. When I asked my father to build a library. He agreed and by my tenth birthday we had an amazing library with a huge selection of books. I loved it and spent all my time there. But one day, my father had something transported into the library. He told me I could read anything in the world, except that one book. If I ever read it, I would be banished from the kingdom. I asked him why, and he told me it was because if he kept me in the kingdom after I read it, bad people would come to kill everyone. But I always wondered, why would he keep it in the library if I wasn't aloud to read it? It was agonizing, to know there was something I wasn't aloud to read, and that I would never know what's inside. But two years ago I couldn't take it anymore. I told myself they wouldn't even know I read it. But I was wrong, I was so so wrong. I shouldn't have read it. I was immediately thrown out of the castle, into the forest left to die. If it wasn't for Gajeel I would be dead... But never mind that. Before I was kicked out, I managed to swap the book with a fake. They still haven't realized. But if they ever did, they'd hunt me down and kill me for sure. Now, I'm positive you must read this."

Lucy was baffled. "What do you mean?! This book that got you kicked out of the castle can't have anything to do with me. I already know the path I'm supposed to take in order to find the fairies. I must meet my mother's friend, this book has nothing to do with me."

"You don't understand. This book has everything to do with you. You may be set on your destination but don't forget about the things you need to do before you get there. This is one of them."

She could see a little bit where Levy was coming from. It seemed as though this book's contents were extremely important. And if she trusted Levy with all that she's told her already than why can't she just read the book? However Lucy had the feeling that reading the book would give her a direct path to death's door. A dark aurora could be felt radiating itself from under the cover. Honestly Lucy didn't even feel like she would read it. She felt like once she opened the cover her life would change drastically. But at the same time it seemed as though the book held information she wouldn't be able to get anywhere else.

"You know you must find the fairies but do you even know what happened to them? Do you know anything about them at all?" Levy pestered.

Lucy's head was spinning. She knew she should open the book, however for some reason she was terrified. Her eyes were glued to the leathery cover, her head pounding with the thoughts her imagination provided her of what could possibly be inside.

"Lu-chan? Don't you want to find the fairies?"

"They want you to find them, so promise me you'll find them someday okay?" That's right, Lucy promised her mother.

Lucy Heartfilia, the elven princess, once more and certainly not for the last time, gathered her courage. Then, all at once, shoved the book cover open.

And suddenly, Lucy's mind was flooded with memories of the past, before she had even been born.

Footsteps could be heard walking forward urgently. A door opened and suddenly Lucy could see. It was a meeting room, with five people already inside. Four men and a woman. The men, she could not identify. But the woman was all too familiar to Lucy. Layla Heartfilia sat there, looking very, very uncomfortable in the wooden seat beneath her. The being who opened the door, swiftly walked in and sat next to her mother. Yes, it was Lucy's father, Jude Heartfilia. As soon as her father sat down, a man suiting a long black beard that rolled to his toes spoke up saying the meeting has started. Immediately voices started talking all at once.

"This means war!"

"We can't let them go like this knowing they have such a powerful weapon."

"It's time for a new era of beings!"

"However we should be cautious. We're up against-"

"It doesn't matter! We need them annihilated. This is for the people, the children!

Suddenly, Layla spoke up.

"EVERYONE SHUT UP!"

And they did, apparently they highly respected Lucy's mother.

"You all need to realize we are up against the oldest of clans, the oldest of kingdoms, the oldest beings, the wisest to have ever existed. Dragons, Centaurs, Demons, and most importantly… Fairies."

Lucy gasped, her… Her mother wanted to wipe out the fairies?!

"Yes, Layla you are correct. However we have been preparing for years with the help of GOD! God himself came to us! Telling us himself he wanted the crystal to be destroyed!"

Suddenly, Lucy could hear her mother's thoughts. 'No, you're wrong. An angel came to us, an angel is not God.'

Tell them mom! Convince them not to attack the fairies! Lucy tried to yell, however no sound came out. Her mother, whom Lucy had admired for years, stayed quiet, while those men planned on killing…. KILLING THE FAIRIES! At that moment, hot blood pounded through Lucy's body. Her vision turned red with anger, as one word ran through her mind. 'Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine. Mine.' Then all of a sudden, 'DO NOT TOUCH MY FAIRIES!'

Lucy had no idea where this anger, these thoughts, were coming from, but soon enough the scene in front of her vanished as Lucy was brought to another scenery.

…….

A beautiful, magnificent forest. Like Lucy had never seen before. Trees loomed over her like a roof of protection, flowers bloomed left and right, the very ground beneath her glowed with warmth melting all the anger out of her. Then suddenly, Lucy saw her, her mother once again. Layla was walking along the path carefully, as if she was going there in secrecy. She kept looking behind her shoulder like someone would show up and attack her. But Lucy didn't see how that was possible in such a beautiful, scenic, majestic, peaceful, forest. Then, Layla came to her destination. A silver, glistening gate loomed over her, opening slowly as if it already sensed her presence. Suddenly a beautiful girl with magnificent pure white wings appeared before my mother. The girl had flowing blond hair, almost white, with green eyes, wearing a whitish-pink flowing dress. 'A fairy!' Lucy couldn't believe it. All her life she had tried to imagine what they looked like, and now one was standing in front of her very eyes.

"Mavis." Lucy's mother said almost in a saddened way. 'T-This is Mavis?! I never knew Mavis was a fairy!' Lucy thought.

"Layla, my child." Then, the two hugged. Like old friends.

At this point Lucy was beyond confused. She had just seen her mother helping to plan a war against the fairies! Along with Dragons, Centaurs, and Demons! And now she was hugging a fairy?! Unless, Layla was acting. Unless, Layla was only pretending to help. But her heart was truly on the fairies side. Is… Is that true?

Before Lucy could pounder anymore, the scene changed once more.

Now, it seemed to be a funeral. Fairies, enough to fill a whole town, were gathered circle by circle surrounding, three fairies, her mother, and an open casket. The three fairies consisted of, Mavis, a short old man with tuffs of white hair a beard and yellow wings and last but not least a tall muscular man with dark red hair and fiery orange wings. The scene went in fast forward. Mavis seemed to say a speech as did the short man and the red haired man. The fairies seemed to be sad, as they held hands with each other and cried. About two minutes of seeing this, Lucy noticed Centaurs had arrived, hundreds of them. One centaur, maybe their leader, went and joined my mother, Mavis, the short man, and the red haired man, in the inner circle. About two more minutes went on with the crying, the speeches, and what seemed like, goodbyes. Until suddenly eight large shadows flew over the fairies and centaurs. They all looked up, as did Lucy, and what she saw took her breath away. A pure white dragon, a pitch black dragon, a beautiful mix of reds dragon, a radiant gray and black dragon, an icy silver dragon, a deep soiled brown and green dragon, a misty silver-ish gray dragon, and an aqua blue dragon could be seen soaring through the sky. The fast-forwarding stopped. Time returned to it's normal speed as the dragons slowly descended gradually getting smaller and more human shaped as they did. By the time they hit the ground they looked like normal adults, five men and three women. Mavis turned to greet them.

"Weisslogia, Skiadrum, Igneel, Metalicanna, Aisusan, Yuuna, Grandine, Unamizu. It's so nice to see you all again! Even if it is on this dreadful day, at least we'll leave the passage of time together."

'Igneel?! I-I don't understand!' Lucy sighed.

"Damn, my son's gonna hate me for leaving him like this… But it's for his future."

"Don't worry Igneel, you'll see him again. We'll all see our loved ones again. We just won't be able to raise them like we wanted to…"

"Remember, we're doing this for the whole. Now is not the time to get selfish and flake out."

"I'm not flaking out! I'm not a coward like you."

"Ya wanna fight?!"

"It won't be much of a fight since I'll knock ya down before you can even beg for mercy."

"You're the only one whose gonna be begg-"

"ENOUGH! You two." A woman whom Lucy remembered as Grandine yelled, a tick mark showing on her forehead.

Lucy's mother chuckled, sighing as she circled her hand over her stomach.

"Mavis, is the prophecy written?" Layla asked.

"Yes, all in the book along with my memories. All that is left is to bless the children of the prophecy. Are you ready?"

"Y-yes."

Mavis held out her hands as several golden lights were created. Mavis chanted a verse, then clapped her hands together. The lights flew in all different directions. However, one light flew directly into Layla's stomach.

"Now, child. It's time to say goodbye."

Layla's eyes watered as she whispered, "I'll always remember all of you."

They hugged, whispered goodbyes, then Layla took the very book that had gotten Lucy into this situation, and ran out of the forest.

Now, Lucy watched as Mavis climbed into the casket holding a magnificent crystal. The fairies, dragons, and centaurs held hands and began to chant in a language Lucy did not know.

Soon enough, a bright golden light surrounded all of them, and with a whoosh, they all disappeared.

Once again I would like to thank,

Kanade Takeda for the incredibly nice and motivating review C:

Honestly I wanted to put more Levy into the story but I couldn't find a way to fit it in. So in the next chapter I'll hopefully talk about her and Gajeel cause I ship them HARDCORE. K bye~