"Haaah..." Lucy sighed, leaning against the wooden table she was sitting at. She looked around at the other Fairy Tail guild members, including Leon, absentmindedly watching what they were sighed again, hugging a bag close to her chest. Lucy peered inside the bag to see a wooden puppet lifelessly collapsed on the bottom. Rin hasn't come back since that day... after she got the rest of her stuff... why did she tell me to look after this?
Three days ago...
"Lucy!" Rin called out.
"Uh... yes?"
"Take this doll! And take care of it! There are dragon slayers at your guild, right?" The black haired girl shoved a puppet into Lucy's arms.
"Hah? And... yeah...?"
A bright glimmer in Rin's eyes shone as she stared at Lucy intimidately. "Don't ever leave it at home. Always take it with you, got that? Do you understand?" Rin growled in a threatening voice.
"Y-yes!"
Lucy groaned, looking up towards the ceiling of the guild. The building had already been repaired and four days had passed since Black Rose, a dark guild of assassin mages, had attacked Fairy Tail. She thought, But... something about this doll really made me uneasy... there's something definitely weird about it... maybe that's why I took it without asking... Lucy remembered the amused grin Rin wore which was shadowed with an expression of pain right before she disappeared.
"What's this?" A voice asked. Lucy nearly jumped three feet into the air from surprise. She sat up to see Cana holding something in her hand. It was the wooden puppet.
"EEEHH?" Lucy gasped, checking the bag on her lap to see that the wooden puppet was gone and now in the possession of Cana Alberona, "Uh... C-Cana... please... give it back..."
"Lucy... I never knew you had this kind of hobby... It's a voodoo doll, right? Who is it? Natsu?" Cana asked, holding the doll loosely by the arm.
"J-Just... please give it back! It's not mine!" Lucy got up from her seat and started to approach her friend, tripping herself in the proccess. The two girls cried out as they fell to the floor. Cana let go of the puppet, which flew up into the air. "Oh no!" Lucy screamed, reaching her hands out towards it.
The wooden doll hit Natsu in the back of the head and he turned around, tightly gripping the puppet in one hand, "Who threw this? It was Gray, wasn't it?" Natsu's flames started to engulf the doll, burning the wood.
"What do you mean? Why would I even have that in the first place?" Gray snarled from nearby. There were remains of cobwebs stuck on his shoulders.
"Natsu! Stop! Let go of it!" Lucy cried out.
"Eh?" Natsu muttered, just before the wood in his hand turned into ashes and a blue stone that was inside the doll started to shine brightly. The dragon slayer dropped the stone to shield his eyes. A painfully bright light shone throughout the guild and disappeared after a few seconds.
Juvia rubbed her eyes, slowly blinking them open, "Juvia wishes to know what that was."
"Natsu! What did you do?" Erza snarled.
"I didn't do anything! I only burned it with my fire..." Natsu trailed off, his eyes widening at the sight before him.
Instead of the stone, there was a boy who looked around 15 or 16 years old with dark hair and dark eyes. He groaned rubbing his head as he got up from the floor, checking his surroundings.
"I don't believe it... he was alive all this time..." Master Makarov breathed, his wide eyes of surprise starting to tear up, "Tobi... Solstice..."
Tobi Solstice looked up at Makarov and a wide grin spread across his face, "Jii-chan!"
"Tobi! You... You haven't aged at all! And what about John?" Makarov stammered, slowly approaching the boy.
"Ah... Well..." Tobi Solstice scratched the back of his head, a sad expression on his face, "He wasn't made into a lacrima like me... He's dead." He looked around himself, his face brightening again when he saw Natsu, "Oi! Natsu! You've really grown! You're around my age now! Wait... how old am I?"
"Y-You..." Natsu gasped, his eyes widening, then suddenly, his expression became blank, "Who are you?"
"Ouch... that hurts..." Tobi chuckled.
Erza gave Natsu a hard smack in the back of the head and replied, "He's Tobi Solstice, an S class mage who disappeared while doing a Ten Year was gone without a trace four years ago, and we all thought he was dead, along with his mentor, John Kimberlee, who used Fire Magic. Wait a minute..." Erza turned to Tobi and asked, "What do you mean, lacrima? That stone... it was you, as a lacrima? And if my memory is correct, you use Thread Magic..."
"Thread Magic? It's the same at that girl's!" Leon exclaimed within the crowd.
"Girl? What girl?" Tobi blinked rapidly, tilting his head in confusion.
"There's a dark mage who has the same magic ability as you, Tobi-san..." Levy McGarden said, "And her name is Rin..."
"...Excuse me? Ne, can you say that name again?" A scary aura started to envelop Tobi as soon as Levy said those words.
"It's Rin! Jeez, are you deaf?" Jet yelled from Levy's side.
"Rin... Thank god!" Tobi cried out, clapping his hands together, his eyes brimming with tears. A wide smile marked his bright, happy face, "I'm so happy that you're alive, Rin-tan!"
"Rin-tan?" Gray echoed.
"But I don't get it... how did Tobi-san appear from a lacrima?" Lisanna wondered.
"In Edolas, most of us were made into lacrima which was a huge stone of immense magical power," Charles explianed, flying over to the white haired girl, "When that kind of lacrima is hit by dragon slayer magic, the stone returned to its normal form."
"Tobi-san.. Tell us..." Mirajane spoke with her soft voice.
"Who did this to you? Who made you into a lacrima? Who killed John Kimerlee? And how do you know a dark mage so well?" Erza demanded.
Tobi Solstice's face grew dark once more and he sat down on a nearby table, resting his arms on his knees. He glared at Erza and snarled, "It's none of your business, Erza. Don't get so high on your horse. And if you did know, what would you do, seek revenge? I'll tell you this, though... Black Rose, a guild that is full of assassins... is extremely dangerous... Their master is even a match for our old geezer, Makarov. But don't just think that the mages there are mere killers... their weakness are themselves."
"Ah... Now that I think about it, Lucy, why did you have a doll that had a lacrima inside of it? Did you know someone was sealed in that lacrima?" Cana asked, turning to Lucy.
"Uh... Ehm... Well..." Lucy stammered, not knowing what to say. Sweat started to gather on the top of her forehead as she thought, I can't tell them that Rin is my roommate! What do I do?
When the spirit mage opened her mouth to answer, the door to the guild opened up with a loud bang, exposing a small black hole floating in mid air. The hole expanded quickly, sucking some of the Fairy Tail members in. Then, the door slammed shut and the black space disappeared along with the Fairy Tail mages who were sucked in. Jet, who wasn't sucked in, rushed over to the entrance and opened it, but the black hole was nowhere to be seen.
"Where did they go? What happened?" He muttered to himself.
"Ow..!" Lucy cringed, sitting up from the floor. She had been taken in by the black hole from the guild and was dropped in a large chamber with stone walls. Lucy rubbed the back of her head, looking around to see Gray, Tobi, and Happy painfully getting up from the floor of the room.
"Hah? Where the hell is this?" Gray exclaimed, quickly glancing around, "It's creepy in here..."
"Natsu? Are you here?" Happy called out.
"It's illusionary magic... we've been taken into a different dimension," Tobi explained with a sigh, "There's something else I wanted to say back at Fairy Tail... Two things actually... One, is that even though Rin and I have the same last names, we aren't related by blood. And two is..."
"Hellooo~! Welcome to my world!" A smooth, feminine voice spoke. From one of the walls, a large screen opened up, revealing Arietta Bloodluster, who was holding her opened umbrella next to her, "To those who want to know, I am Arietta Bloodluster, a proud female mage of Black Rose! Right now, you are under my magic and are in my own dimension! I have used Illusionary magic to crate this world, therefore I create the rules here. Also, this is being shown in every other room in this dimension... well, the rooms that have you Fairy Flies..."
"To finally finish off all the major light guilds, we, Black Rose, have decided to play a game with the last filthy guild, Fairy Tail. Think of it as a survival game! Survival between two guilds! For every level, there will be a Black Rose mage fighting you. Each time you level up, there will be the last boss, our Master, waiting for you! Only the ones from your guild, Fairy Tail, who have enough magic power to play were selected and brought to be players of this game! Be proud!" Arietta giggled.
"Oi... What about this one?" Tobi questioned, holding up Happy.
"Ah... them... the cats are extras," Arietta smiled, "And I thought you were dead... Tobi..."
"Hmf," Tobi huffed, letting go of Happy, who started to sulk.
"I'm... I'm an extra..." Happy sobbed.
"Anyways, this is the status of the game!" Arietta said, "Hope you die, Fairy Tail!"
"Hah... how welcoming..." Gray muttered sarcastically.
The screen now showed a wide bulletin with a bunch of names on them:
Haku Soreta vs. Natsu Dragneel, Lisanna, Freed
Hikari Fullbuster vs. Titania, White Cat, Wendy Marvell, Leon
Carma Sacred vs. Juvia Lockser, Elfman, Cana Alberona, Bickslow
Kaya vs. Mirajane Strauss, Levy McGarden, Black Cat, Evergreen
Raiko Tsumi vs. Makarov Dreyar
Rin Solstice vs. Gray, Tobi Solstice, Lucy Heartfilia, Blue Cat
"This... is getting interesting... first day back to normal and I'm fighting Rin-tan again..." Tobi snickered, "Let's see how much you've grown..."
Hikari... is against Erza? Dammit... Gray thought to himself and said, "That girl forgot to tell us the rules..."
The screen shut to a close and a figure jumped out of it before it disappeared. Rin Solstice landed on the floor with her coffin that was wrapped with chains strapped to her back. She set down the coffin and slowly liberated it from its bonds, pulling out a long, worn out looking sword. Rin straightened up, brushing her long black hair out of her face and glanced at each one of them, her eyes resting longer on Tobi.
"Lucky me..." She chuckled, pulling out the sword from its sheathe, "I get to deal with the two hotties first... Mr. Crappy-brother-with-abs and my first love, Tobi..."
And the fighting finally begins! :D
Arietta Bloodluster ~ MiniMii-chan (I know I made some changes to your OC's magic, but I wanted to expand on it more so that the charries are able to play the 'game', if you don't mind... X3 Sry!)
See you later!
This story is currently on hiatus... sry for telling you guys so late... I don't know when I will upload again... :(
