Hello, everyone! I'm so happy to begin a new story and try out my skills in new writing style I had never written before. Also, it is my first fanfic of Fairy Tail, so I got a new audience. Hopefully.
Before starting, I should give you a few warnings. First, English isn't my first language, so I'm sorry for each mistake I do. Also, this story is rated M for a reason. There'll be some intimate moments and mentionings of sex, also violence and unstable mental state of the main character. But I hope you'll still find it interesting to read and in any way I'd love to read any kind of comments.
Also, the plot starts in the beginning of X794, after Natsu and the team has compleated 100 YQ. Since it is possible you don't read this manga, I try not to pull the plot from there (for example, new characters such as Touka and White Wizard or what quest team Natsu had).
I don't own FT either.
Enjoy!
Chapter 1: mind power
I closed my eyes and spred my arms in the air. The wind was tickling my cheeks, brushing my long, light, blue shaded hair. I heard how it went through the trees making them talk. But they didn't have minds. Only the feeling I couldn't reach. I felt a small bird flying not far from me it was bringing some food for its family. I perfectly heard its thoughts which were so simple and clear. I wished people's minds were like that too. But isn't this how this makes them interesting and so different from each other?
I'm Neda Lettercard. My family owns the main Mail Post in the Kingdom of Fiore, and is well-known in the whole Ishgar, but we're living like the normal people. Well, at least we make others believe we do. I bet we were quite rich to be able to have so many posts and employees all over the kingdom, but my parents hide that all from me and everyone. We live in the small house in Magnolia. Yes, it's the same town where the famous guild called the Fairy Tail is. The most powerful, guild in the whole Kingdom of Fiore (and maybe the world) and its incredibly powerful wizards walking around the town every day. You'd guess I was part of their guild? No, though I wished that to happen even before I understood having magic powers.
This is hard to say why I hadn't joined them when I recognized my abilities, but with the time I was more and more scared of it. Even my parents didn't know about my powers and that I'm training them. Only my older sister knew but she left to the capital Crocus a couple of years ago. So basically she didn't know how I lived either. She runs the Mail Post in there though while I'm still staying with my parents. Plus, she's working with Queen Hisui trying to keep the diplomatic relationship with other kingdoms. But I don't stay at home either. I deliver the mail every day and when I have a free time I try to explore the town or nature. Of course, I perfectly knew every inch of Magnolia already even though it was crushed several times already. So I wasn't exploring the place itself. I was floating in other people minds.
That was my power. I had ability to read minds, to control them, to manipulate them. Pretty scary right? That's why I try to keep in silence and not tell anyone about my ability. If people knew it, the wouldn't let me deliver their mail, they'd avoid me because they'd be scared I could read their minds.
And my parents would hate me. I'm afraid to think what'd they do to me if I told them. The thing is, my family is against wizardry and tries to keep themselves from using magic for centuries. So I have to keep the rule too, though I don't. I want to use magic, because it helps me to feel someone I want to be, not the one everyone expect.
And for one I truly ever loved. He left me, but I still keep those memories in my heart. Because how couldn't I? He was my first love, my first kiss, the first person who unknowingly encouraged me to be the one I wanted. But screw him though. He broke me and I'll never forgive him.
I took a deep breath. I shouldn't think about this. He was my past and the past remains where it should be.
Suddently I gasped. I caught the minds of a cat. No, that wasn't a ordinary cat, because his thoughts were different. That was an Exceed. Happy. I knew it was Happy. It wasn't the first time I red his minds. But he always made me feel good. He a really smart, loyal and funny cat. He was a best friend of Natsu, so I guessed he had to be somewhere close too. But I couldn't reach him. Strange.
I focused to get deeper in Happy's thoughts. He was quite far, so I hardly had a contact with him, but I tried my best to improve. I had to train. I wanted to.
Happy was alone near the river. He was hungry. As most of the time, he was dreaming about the fish. He was fishing. Well, trying to catch one, but that was useless. There wasn't much fishes in the river now. He wouldn't be able to catch them. But I wanted to make him happy. I caught a mind of one of the fishes and made an illusion for it. The fish saw a tasty worm and tried to eat it falling in the Happy's trap.
I opened my eyes and fell on the ground. I lost the contact with both Happy and the fish he caught. I never did this being so far so it took a lot of energy from me. One thing was to reed two minds at the same time, another one was to take control of them. I hardly could take care of their actions from such distance.
I somehow managed to stand up again. I ran out of my power. I knew I recharge in a few hours, but I had to come back home before my parents got worried. After all, I was supposed to come back for lunch an hour ago. Well, it wouldn't be the first time, anyway.
"Your food is already cold" was all my mother said when I entered the house. She wasn't very talkative, so I guess that was an advantage there. If she was more sociable, I definetely would have spilled my secret out.
After a couple of more days we got another letter to bring to the Fairy Tail guild. As usual, I was the one delivering it. It was a nice experience, actually, because I was able to face the Master Makarov himself almost every time. Exceptions were only when he wasn't in the guld or they were meant for the member.
I liked that place. The people were so talkative, they didn't hide their thoughts or emotions like in my family. There was always something happening out there, they never stand still. I wanted to feel that kind of life too. But I never believed that was meant for me. I was just an daughter of Mail Post businessmen, a mail delivering girl.
This time the letter was meant to Master Makarov. Again. From the Council. Again.
"This guild never stays out of trouble," my mother said giving the letter together with other ones. That place should be shut down for good, otherwise they'll destroy our or other town once again for sure. How many times will we have to rebuild it? she mumbled in her thoughts.
I took a deep breath. She already despised Fairy Tail for destroying all the mail meant for the other people, for destroying the posts and once our home. What would she say if I was one of them? Would she hate me too? I bet she would. But never mind how much damage they did to our house or posts, the worst is when you have to tell people their letters have burned down, got wet, dirty or something else happened on their way. Just after some time I got used to Fairies little fights inside and outside the guild. First of all, I had to deliver all the other letters around the town and only then to to the guild. Secondly, I was secretly practicing my magic there too, but nobody ever noticed it because of everyone's mixed up magic.
After I deliver all the letters around I came to the guild where Natsu was challenging Gray again. It was nice to see them both after such a long time. I thought they went on a century quest around half a year ago.
I came in without ringing a bell, because I was sure nobody of them would notice that anyway. I smiled of how loud there was in the place. I couldn't even find differences where was the minds and were the real words. My brain soon was filled of other people talks and I quickly was lost in all of that. I had to break the conection I made with each of their minds.
"Come on! Is that all you got!?" Natsu provoked Gray.
I tried not to pay attention to it. The fight wouldn't end anyway, just someone will stop it and I wouldn't be able to know who won at the end. Though I saw some of the screens of the battles when they fall into their memories, I didn't really knew how strong they were. I never saw how much power they had.
I stepped forward looking for the Master Makarov, but I couldn't find him neither with my eyes nor minds. But I caught Mira talking to Cana, so I went their way.
Meanwhile Natsu and Gray started punching each other. A couple of seconds and I saw a flame in Natsu's fist which was extremely close to me. He obviously didn't see anything around except for Gray and I didn't need any magic to say that. Some of the fire was about to burn my cloak when I murmured mind shield. The flames brushed the invisible wall between me and the Fire Dragon Slayer and nobody ever noticed that. This is how I learned this trick. I had to protect myself from Natsu somehow after all. Though it's been much queter around there without him and his friends. Anyway, you could say I learned magic from him and he didn't even know that.
"Hello there. So we got a mail from Council again?" Mirajane smiled calmly. She wasn't worried in one bit there could be something wrong. She was so full of joy all the time. And so beautiful. Like a real angel, though I heard she actually could transform into demon. But I couldn't see anything demonic about her. She was a pure good both in her minds and looks.
"Yes, Miss," I nod.
"What did we do this time? They already should have got used to us. We saved the world, after all" Cana said and drunk some more of her booze.
"They did. They're only informing us they know what kind of mess we make. But we always make it up, right? So there's nothing to worry about," Mirajane shook her shoulders nicely smiling.
I smiled too and nod. It was time for me to leave before anyone sensed my magic around.
"That girl is such a weirdo. She's so quiet all the time," Cana said to Mira when I left. Well, at least I thought she said, because Mira answered.
"Yes, but she's very nice. I bet she isn't that kind of girl she looks. We just don't know her," the former model said.
I smiled. Mirajane was such a positive woman. I wished to have people like her around. But I didn't. I didn't have friends, because they all thought I was a weirdo too. I didn't want to have friends who were with me because they pity me or because I was from one of the most known families in Fiore. I wasn't a doll. I have feelings and I don't want to be used. Of course, there was one person I was very close to, but he left me without warning. And I never had guts to look for him. I actually knew where I could find him, because he was a wizard himself from an official guild. But why should I chase for him especially when it was forbidden for me to be with a wizard to begin with.
But who could have guessed that the whole world I had around me would change compleately with only one mistake and one person to notice it.
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