The Shipping Tails
Hey everyone, Nemon0416 is here and I'm writing my first Fairy Tail fic, I'm not sure how long exactly this story will be, but I will be sure to tell you when I'm on my last chapter. Also, you should know that for this story I'll be going off of the Fairy Tail anime English dub, with the exception of where it ends, and then the rest I just filled in with the manga, but all of the characters will be talking how they do in the English dub, meaning Juvia will talk in first person, Laxus's team is known as the Thunder Legion and so on. So, the time this story takes place is after the final chapter of the manga but without any of the pairings becoming canon (yet) and without the one-hundred-year quest. This story contains many, I repeat many ships, and I mean all the basic and most common ones like Nalu, Gruvia, Jerza, Gale, and so on, just about every important character will get someone down the road. I think that is all I need to discuss so let's get on with the fic...
Chapter One: New arrivals
It was a normal day at the rowdy guild known as Fairy Tail. Natsu and Gray were butting heads, Erza was eating some strawberry cake, Mira and Kinana were working behind the bar, Elfman was talking about being a man, the Thunder Legion were doing their own thing, Happy was attempting (and failing) to charm Carla with a fish, Juvia was gushing over Gray, Nab was staring at the request board, Cana was chugging her umpteenth barrel of booze. Levy was reading a book and Gajeel and Lily were sitting next to her while Jet and Droy stared at them with jealous expressions.
Lisanna giggled as she watched her guild, Romeo was cheering for Natsu while Wendy decided to remain neutral in this conflict, Mest was chewing on random stuff as he tried to figure other stuff out, and Lucy was fighting down the severe headache her guild was giving her. Just then the guild's front doors banged, and four people walked in. Everyone's heads turned to see who it was and almost all of them broke into incredibly happy smiles when they saw who it was.
Standing at the entrance to the guild were four of the seven members of the guild known as Crime Sorciere: Jellal, Meredy, Macbeth, and Erik (or as he preferred to be called: Cobra) Everyone went over to greet the four people. Kinana embraced Cobra in a warm hug, and Juvia did the same with Meredy. Jellal embraced Erza in a hug as well. However, nobody was sure how to react to Macbeth who just calmly stood there watching the rest of his group.
Deciding somebody should address the question everyone was dying to ask, Erza spoke up. "So, what brings the four of you to our guild?" Asks Titania. "We've come to join Fairy Tail." Explains Jellal with a warm smile. Fairy Tail just stood there in silence for a moment before they all shouted at the same time "WHAT!?" Which made poor Cobra recoil in pain. "Allow me to explain." Said Jellal. And explain he did.
(Flashback)
All seven members of the independent guild known as Crime Sorciere were inside the castle that was in the capital of Fiore. They had been summoned by Princess (now Queen) Hisui for reasons that they were unsure of. The seven of them knelt in front of the queen. "May I ask why you have summoned us your Highness?" Asked the leader of Crime Sorciere. The queen looked at the small guild with a warm smile on her face.
"I have summoned you to tell you all tha you have been freed of your crimes and are now able to live your lives however you choose from here on." Said Hisiui. The guild stared at the queen in disbelief. "Y-you can't be serious." Said a wide-eyed Jellal. "But, we were a dark guild, how can we be forgiven like this?" Asked Sawyer. Hisui looked at the independent guild with a kind smile. "After all you've done, how could I not?" Asked Hisui in return.
"I want you all to live freely from now on, Zeref is gone, Acnologia is gone, and we have guilds like Fairy Tail ready to face any dangers that would threaten our kingdom." Said Hisui. Jellal had nothing to say to contradict her because she was not wrong. With a sigh he rose to his feet and his guild mate followed suit. "As you wish your Highness." Said Jellal. With that the seven of them walked out of the castle and began walking through the city with no real destination in mind.
After a while Cobra decided to break the silence. "So, what do we do now?" Asked the poison dragon slayer. "Now that we are free men, and women, I wish to search for my brother." Said Richard. Jellal remembered that Richard's brother was one of the ones who had helped him in the capture of Erza during that whole Tower of Heaven issue. Jellal nodded. Sawyer grinned and put a hand on his ally's shoulder. "You shouldn't travel alone, I'll go with you." Said the speedster.
Richard smiled at his friend. Sorano looked in the direction of the Sabretooth guild. "My sister has been waiting for me long enough, I'm going to join the Sabretooth guild." Said the white-haired girl. Jellal nodded remembering that Richard wasn't the only one with siblings that they wished to reunite with. Cobra smirked and slung an arm over Jellal's shoulder. "Well boss I don't think it's much of a stretch to guess where were going, we've got girls waiting for us" Said Cobra.
Jellal smiled, now that he could walk the path of light he was allowed to be with Erza and Cobra had taken quite a liking to that Kinana girl from Fairy Tail. Meredy smiled. "Where Jellal goes, I go as well." Said Meredy happily. Macbeth sighed. "I have nowhere else to go so I might as well join you." Said the illusion mage. With that Crime Sorciere split into three groups, each with their own goals and went their own ways.
(End of Flashback)
"And that's how we got here." Concluded Jellal. Erza's face lit up and she felt very happy for Jellal. Mira stepped forward. "Where would you like your guild marks, and what color do you want them to be?" Asked the Satan soul take over mage. Jellal rolled up his left sleeve. "I'll take a scarlet mark on my upper left arm." Said Jellal. Erza blushed lightly, he had chosen the color of her hair, and he was putting the mark in the same place she had hers.
Mira stamped Jellal, then she turned to Meredy, the girl held up her left hand. "Make it white please." Said the pink haired girl. Mira nodded then stamped her. Next up was Cobra. He rolled up his right sleeve to the elbow. "Just put a purple one on my arm." Said the one-eyed man. After stamping Cobra, she turned to Macbeth. "Just put a black one on my back." He said turning around and lifting up his shirt. After Mira was done the guild celebrated the arrival of four new guild members.
When Fairy Tail parties, Fairy Tail parties hard. A good majority of the guild was drunk and unconscious within an hour. Soon the dragon slayers, Romeo, Thunder Legion, Jellal, Levy, Strauss siblings, Meredy, Juvia, exceeds, Kinana, and the rest of Natsu's team were the only ones still awake. Wendy tapped on Cobra's arm. Cobra looked at the fourteen-year-old girl. "Need something kiddo?" Asked the poison dragon slayer. Wendy looked at him shyly.
"Can you bend down for a moment please?" Requested the young girl. Not sure what the girl wanted Cobra bent down so that they were eye level. To Cobra's surprise Wendy put a glowing hand over Cobra's scarred shut eye. When Wendy removed her hand, Cobra pulled away blinking in confusion. "Open your eye." Instructed Wendy. Cobra didn't want to, he kept it shut because underneath that eyelid was a very nasty mess. "Do it." Instructed the girl firmly, surprising Cobra.
Wasn't she being super shy just a moment ago? Slowly he opened his shut eye as she ordered, and he couldn't believe what happened afterwards. He had two eyes again. He still had the scar, but he didn't really care, it seemed that dragon slayers had a knack for collecting scars, just ask Natsu and Laxus. Cobra didn't know what to say. "I- I- Uh... Thanks kid." Cobra managed to stammer out. Wendy smiled brightly at her fellow dragon slayer. Just then Kinana turned her attention to Cobra and gasped.
She went over to him and put a hand on the side of his face where his brand-new eye was (I'm phrasing it like that because I can't remember which side of the missing eye was on, if someone could please tell me in the reviews it's be greatly appreciated.) "I can't believe it." Said Kinana, tears in the corners of her eyes. Cobra smiled softly and hugged the girl-turned-snake-turned-girl-again. Romeo smiled and put a hand on Wendy's shoulder. "Good job Wendy." Said the fifteen-year-old fire mage.
Wendy blushed lightly looking away. Suddenly a hand grabbed Romeo's arm pulling it off of Wendy's shoulder, Romeo turned to see Gajeel going into over protective mode. Romeo forgot that the older dragon slayer saw Wendy as a little sister and tended to be a little over protective. "Hands off short stuff." Snarled Gajeel. Romeo sighed not falling for the intimidating brother routine, he knew that if Gajeel attacked Romeo with no real good reason, just about every non-dragon slayer (and Wendy most likely) would pummel him into the guild floor.
Romeo rolled his eyes and pulled his arm away from Gajeel's grasp. Suddenly a loud THWAK! was heard causing everyone to turn their heads to Elfman who was clutching a bump on his head from where Evergreen hit him. "Will you stop with the 'real man' stuff already? It gets real old real fast." Said Evergreen angrily. "A real man should not have to speak differently just because a mean lady says so." Retorted Elfman earning him and even harder THWAK!
Bickslow and Lisanna were both laughing at the scene in front of them, when they realized they were laughing together they abruptly stopped and looked away. Levy was sitting and reading a book, deciding to hang out with the solid script mage Gajeel sat down next to her and looked at what she was reading. Laxus, decided that Mirajane could use some help cleaning up after their rowdy guild, went over to where the oldest Strauss sibling was and began picking up trash and dishes.
Mirajane smiled at Laxus. "Thank you for helping me Laxus." Said the takeover mage happily. Laxus felt the heat rush to his face faster than he was prepared for and turned back to his task at hand so Mira couldn't see him. Mira smiled at the yellow haired man's antics. Erza and Jellal were happily enjoying some cake together (much to everyone's surprise) while Meredy retold some of their adventures in Crime Sorciere. Deciding that Cana had, had enough Freed went over the card mage and proceeded to take her home.
Gray was hanging out and talking with everyone, but he couldn't shake the feeling of being watched. (Probably because Juvia was in stalker mode again.) While Carla tried to ignore Happy's desperate attempts at making her accept his fish. Natsu and Lucy were sitting together just watching all of this. Lucy had to say that she was very happy that she joined Fairy Tail. She leaned her head against Natsu's shoulder surprising the dragon slayer.
"Something up Lucy?" Asked Natsu. Lucy smiled warmly at him. "It's nothing I'm just thinking about how happy I am that you brought me to Fairy Tail Natsu." Replied the blond-haired mage. Natsu's cheeks felt warmer for some reason but he just ignored the feeling. Then a thought crossed his mind. "Does that mean you'll stop complaining when Happy and I break into your house, eat your food and sleep in your bed?" Asked Natsu promptly killing the mood for Lucy.
Lucy's eyebrow twitched before she hit the dragon slayer on the back of his head, which hurt her hand more than his dense skull. Natsu giggled at Lucy's weirdness. This caused the celestial mage to pout. Unbeknownst to all of Fairy Tail, a certain pair of ghosts were watching the guild. "So, what do you think Zeref?" Asked Mavis Vermillion. The black mage sighed. "I think you created a very bizarre guild Mavis." Replied Zeref Dragneel. This caused Mavis to laugh.
Zeref smiled at the giggling girl. Grabbing her hand, he said. "We might be dead, but we can have our own adventures, you've always wanted to see a fairy, right? Well let's go find one." Suggested Zeref. Mavis stared at the black-haired ghost. Then her eyes shone brightly as she smiled widely. Mavis rapidly nodded her head and together the two-ghost set off to fulfill Mavis's dream of meeting a fairy. Cobra was standing there blinking in confusion.
"I must be losing it." Groaned Cobra. Kinana raised an eyebrow and looked at the man. "I thought I just heard the evilest mage in history talk to some little girl." Muttered Cobra. This caused Kinana to blink in surprise, but she shrugged off his words because she was still on bar duty with Mirajane. Jellal sighed happily as he sat with Erza. The scarlet haired woman looked at him with curiosity evident on her face. "I'm just happy to be here, after everything we've gone through." Explained Jellal.
Erza couldn't help but agree with him, their village was destroyed and every adult in it was butchered, then they spent years as slaves in the tower of heaven, then Jellal was possessed by Ultear turning him into more than a bit of a dick, Erza escaped and spent years living with the burden of what had happened to her friends, then Jellal tried to sacrifice her to what he thought was Zeref only to be beaten by Natsu, but not before murdering Simon with his magic.
Then he lost his memories for a while and was reunited with Erza and her friends in the battle against the Oraceion Seis, only to be arrested by the magic council immediately afterwards, Then Erza and everyone else on Tenrou Island was trapped inside of Fairy Sphere for seven years, Jellal founded Crime Sorciere and refused to be with her as long as he walked the path of evil, and the list of issues and heartache they went through went on and on quite frankly.
Romeo Conbolt was so happy. He had been forced to endure so much despite his extremely young age, when he was only eight the Tenrou Team had disappeared, and he was forced to grow up quickly and become the guilds new fire mage in order to protect Fairy Tail. Then they abruptly came back exactly as they left while he and everyone else in the guild had grown seven years older. Then all he could do was watch as the returned mages took action once more.
He couldn't do much in the war against the dragons and was forced to watch his father die in front of him, fortunately the Ultear lady's sacrifice saved his dad but still. Then the war against Tartarus took place resulting in the guild's dispassion only for them to come back together a year afterwards in order to stop an entire continent from invading Fiore. And while he wasn't able to be much help he still fought with all he had, now it was over, everyone was here and together again. He wrapped an arm around Wendy's shoulder's ignoring Gajeel's angry rants as the party went onto the night.
Hey everyone, sorry if the last ten paragraphs were kind of weird and unfocused, I wanted to make the introduction chapter to the story longer, so those paragraphs were mostly just filler that would still more or less have impact on the story sooner or later. So far, I can think of at least ten different pairings that I want to do, most of which were hinted at in the above chapter, this was mostly a prologue to the story, this isn't one big story it'll be a collection of smaller interconnected ones either ones that'll lead to a ship that'll be put together or an in between stories story that I want to do, a kind of misadventure for fun that I want to get out of my head. If any of you have a preferred pairing that you want to see next just say so in the reviews and I'll (most likely) do whichever one gets the most requests. That's all I need to talk about so I'm gonna jet. So, until next time fic fans. Nemon0416 is outta here!