"Sometimes, all one has to connect themselves to the past are their memories. But today, that all changes with the invention of the Hypercam Lacrima—name still pending—trademark!" The black haired, jump suit wearing woman with googles over her eyes made a showy motion to the levitating orb.
After a beat of silence from the man she was showing the invention off to, Lara Korho coughed and asked. "So what do you think? P-Pretty cool huh?!"
The not-yet-second-master of Fairy Tail relaxed his stance and said, "… Well, it's not exploding in my face this time, so that's something—"
And then the memory abruptly ended after a strange flash of light came from the orb in the memory.
All of present Fairy Tail was silent as Kain caught the orb before it could fall down. The brunette lawyer of Fairy Tail eyed the orb he was holding suspiciously before placing it down gently in a remote corner of the guild.
He then clapped his hands. "Okay, while risking these thing potentially exploding, I kinda wanna see what happens next. Anyone?"
On one hand, a device exploding would be cause for panic, but since everyone knew that Precht lived a full life, maybe was even still alive at that moment, it meant the explosion wasn't lethal. And secondly, Kain wanted to see more of the apparently just as quirky people that the guild just attracts since it's birth. And with how everyone was also curious to see more, Kain picked up the second orb and activated it, bringing the recording back to nearly the same place the last memory was.
"… Oh thank god it's not exploding this time!" Lara gasped in relief within the memory hologram. This time, everyone noticed that the other guild members of the guild had made makeshift barricades around Lara and Precht.
"Are you telling me you just tested it now?" Precht asked with a brow raised over his good eye.
"N-Noooo…?" Anyone could tell by now that a lifeless chair could tell more convincing lies than Lara.
Precht sighed before looking to the orb in question. "Just… be extra careful when making your stuff, Korho." He said before standing up from his seat and calmly walking away. When it looked like that Lara's orb wasn't going to explode this time, the images of older guild members started returning to normal.
Lara in the other hand had a face that was similar to a kicked puppy when she saw Precht walking away.
"Oh Lara," Everyone noticed a beautiful blonde woman walk up to the dirty inventor. "I'm sure Precht appreciates your inventions."
The black haired girl removed her googles, revealing yellow colored iris that were somewhat obscured by tears. "He hates me, Rita."
"Rita?" Laxus repeated before we all looked towards him. "She's my great grandmother."
That made everyone look in surprise. That sweet, beautiful woman was Laxus' great grandmother?!
The memory continued as Lara put a hand on Lara's shoulder as she wiped her eyes. "Precht is just stoic. I'm sure he wouldn't hate anyone."
"Hey, Rita!"
Rita's smile turned into a sour frown. "On second thought, there is someone he might and I would understand why."
Everyone looked towards the right where someone who like similar to Laxus along with a man with hair like a bush, and without a neck connected to his face with barely a jaw or chin.
"Yuri." Rita folded her arms while speaking in a manner that was a far cry than the caring tone she had for Lara.
"Rita, looking as beautiful as ever babe!" Oh, so someone does still do the finger guns in a different world… Kain was starting to see why no one was doing that anymore in both worlds when Yuri did it.
The young man from another world looked towards the guild master. "Let me guess: is that your great grandpappy?"
Laxus could only sigh in response, but that was practically the same as confirming it.
Rita ignored the blonde man's attempts and turned away from him, making Yuri flinch at the cold reaction. The man beside him gave a hearty laugh and put a hand on his shoulder. "Really, Yuri? Where you trying to say hello or shoot her?"
"Shut it!" It was then that Yuri shoved away the hand, but that did little to stop the laughter from the other man.
Lara sighed seeing the two men and walked up to them. "Hey, Warrod, Yuri. I'm surprised I don't see Master Mavis with you."
It was then that everyone in Fairy Tail started to murmur. They had heard only about the name Mavis Vermilion, never knowing anything about the legendary figure of Fairy Tail's founder and first master. They could only imagine what kind of amazing person could be behind the birth of something so great as Fairy Tail.
"We haven't seen Mavis this morning. Who knows where she could be?" After Yuri shrugged his shoulders, more watchers from present Fairy Tail were hooked in even more. The first master was a woman?! She really must have been someone everyone looked up to!
The sound of the entrance doors slamming wide open caught everyone in both the memory and the present as they whipped their heads to see…
"YYYYUUUUURRRRRIIII!"
A small girl wearing no shoes but having gorgeous blonde hair running towards Laxus' great grandfather.
"It's never anything normal with her." Warrod folded his arms but kept his relaxed smile as he said this.
As the young girl came closer to the three, Yuri had a much more easy going smile on his face. "Hey Mavis."
"SHE'S MAVIS!?" A large amount of people in Present Fairy Tail screamed in shock at the fact that the founder of their guild was in actuality a little girl.
The girl, who happened to be Fairy Tail's creator had stars in her eyes as she held up a piece of paper. "Look at this quest that was just posted!"
Warrod and Lara closed in towards Yuri when he was handed the quest flier. Even though the two were on each of his sides, he read out the flier. "Capture the Wandering Myth...?"
"We should take this quest right away! Where's Precht?!" The blonde and excitable girl woman looked around her own guild excitedly.
Yuri actually was able to get the flier and raised his brow almost immediately a few seconds in reading the description.
"Sightings of the legendary Wandering Myth has been spotted, for any real proof or capture the actual faire, the people of Gogre Valley will reward you handsomely." After reading it, Yuri gave a look that was similar to disappointment. "Mavis, don't believe this one. This one is a scam. I've heard of people in that town being nothing but a bunch of swindlers."
"That's right, Mavis, Gogre Valley is infamous for being a tourist trap that tries to get unsuspecting people to lose their money." Warrod added in.
"What?!" Mavis shouted out like a child being told no on getting their favorite toy.
However, during this little back and forth, Lara had raised her a finger up. "Um excuse me, I come from Alakitasia, so what's the wandering myth?"
"Oh right!" Mavis quickly stopped pouting as her smile came back up. "It's one of my favorite bed time stories that I'd read!"
She cleared her throat and started to put her hands together. In a flash of light, she started to show a picture book summoned by her magic in her hands.
In a time when the sky was young and magic was raw, unrefined, and mystical, there was a small, nameless town. And in that town lived a puppet master by the name of Gep.
He was very beloved in his town because he was a toy maker, his toys were beloved by children and sometimes, even their parents. He was a happy man, fell in love with his best friend who was pregnant with their child.
…
However, tragedy came. His wife suddenly grew ill and even died along with their unborn child. Gep was overcome with grief and sorrow. He closed down his toy store, and refused to speak to anyone.
Yet one night, by liquor, or by actual magic, he received a vision, a Faire appeared before him and gave him a message to create a special puppet from the oldest tree in the land. With nothing to lose, Gep followed his vision and soon came across a tree older than their humble town. He noticed a fallen bark of the tree laid before him, as if it was waiting for him. It was a rather large bark, but Gep then had this idea of creating… a larger puppet.
The toy master went to work, creating his new toy with the bark of the tree he had found. The puppet itself was made humanoid like, but towered eight feet tall. His torso was made hollow to place toys and other items inside, but held a large door in the shape of a heart. His face was designed with a crooked but silly line shaped to a smile, googly eyes that for some reason looked full of life; he had long, many jointed limbs so both hands and feet could move in ways to make even the grumpiest of people laugh, and finally… the giant puppet was given Gep's favorite top hat.
The puppet was then laced with some of Gep's magic to help move better. However, it seemed as if the puppet itself had a magic of his own as when he was animated as when he started moving, he almost acted alive.
Gep's puppet soon became popular in the town, giving children the ability to climb and sit on his long, surprisingly sturdy arms to tower and jump into new heights, he would sometimes play pranks on adults, but they were never ill intention. He was dearly loved by all, even Gep felt the void left by his wife and child was slowly being filled by the puppet who just seemed as real as a person despite never uttering a word.
Yet… there was something that no one expected. Gep's puppet never really aged. He was still kind, lived with his creator who taught him many things, but the children were growing up and Gep himself was getting older.
His time was running short, so Gep did one last thing: he carved a name of his would be child into the back of the puppet's door and then told him to go out and see the world for what it was.
The puppet didn't quite understand… only until one day… Gep didn't wake up from his bed no matter how much the puppet prodded.
Even though he was a puppet, even though he was not made of flesh and blood, the Puppet cried for his father...
But he did remember his words: "to travel the world and to be kind to kids who needed it".
And so, the puppet did so. With nothing but the top hat of his father, and strings, the Puppet left the small town, traveling the lands for hundreds of years.
Sometimes, you can hear stories of children claiming that they had been spirited away by this magical, giant puppet, how he could make them touch the sky, swim with the fishes, and make the trees and wind sing.
And who knows, little one? One day, the wandering myth may cross your path and give you a smile that will never fade.
Mavis was practically glowing after finishing that story as she made the illusion of the book go away. "It was one of my favorite stories."
"That is a lovely story—wait." Lara stopped her self as her mind put two and two together. "The job says he's real?"
"No it's not." Yuri stated before pointing at the flier in his hand. "Mavis, this job is a scam. The people of this crazy city are just a bunch of conmen abusing the job request forms as a form of free advertisement for their town where mages and people come in and leave with nearly all of their jewels swindled out of."
Warrod nodded. "He's right, Mavis. Even back in our treasure hunting guild, we were warned about that job and town."
"What!? No way! He's gotta be real!" Mavis stomped her foot on the wooden floor.
Yuri took another look at the flier and looked between it and his master of the guild. "Wait a second, does this have anything to do with the fact that if this is real, you might actually get to see a Fairy?"
Mavis' sudden freeze spoke to Yuri and Warrod more than he next lines, "W-What? D-Don't be silly! I-I wanted us to capture this Wandering Myth to promote Fairy Tail's greatness! Yes! That is exactly what I had in mind from the start!" Yuri was more than likely to believe that Precht was actually a woman all the time he knew him than what Mavis just thought up.
"I say we go."
Everyone turned to the voice to see Precht walking up to them.
"There's no way your serious." Warrod began in aghast.
"Gogre Valley, while a town full off conmen, also ironically contains a legal Bazaar that contains items you would have travel to the opposite ends of Ishgar and Alakitasia to find. I admit, some of their goods there has caught my interest for some time." The blond ancestor of Laxus made a tongue clicking noise when he heard how sensible Precht's request was.
Mavis practically had stars in her eyes. "See! I can always count on Precht! And that's why he's the best member of this guild, just below me!"
Yuri groaned at the thought before pointing to Mavis. "If we are going there, we're going there for the bazaar, not because we're taking the quest."
"Phooey! I'm guild master and I say we can do both!" Mavis exclaimed while flailing her arms wildly in a miniature tantrum.
"Oooh can I come!? I wanna see what they have there!" Lara placed a hand up only to bring it back down when Yuri looked accusingly at her.
"Sure thing, Lara!" Mavis raised a thumb up, eager to gain more points to her agenda. "I guess it's decided, all five of us are going to Gogre!" She threw her fist up in the air, while Yuri could only sigh in defeat.
The sight of his friend made Warrod give out an honest chuckle and Lara looked over towards the floating Lacrima and made a motion to close it.
As that memory came to an end, everyone seemed excited and quickly asked Kain for the next orb.
The next orb lifted up, but unlike before, this time, it only showed a smaller area than when it used to overlap nearly most of the guild. This time, everyone could see the inside of a train along with the founders and Lara sitting in a train booth on their way to their next destination.
"Ah! Yes! The gravity acclimation is working this time!" Lara spoke as the new orb started to fly around the booth. "It's keeping speed with the train in movement!"
"Wow! Lara this is amazing! What more things do you have planned?" It wasn't hard to see Mavis was obviously impressed with the inventions of the female member.
Speaking off, Lara was no longer wearing her dirty jumpsuit. Instead, she was wearing brown trousers with suspenders over a white, frilly blouse with a round, fluffy cap, long black stockings and brown rubber shoes. Her googles were worn over the hat and revealed she had dark green colored eyes. Her hair was now tied up in a pony tail that reached the back of her neck. Overall, Kain noticed that she had a distinct, practically steampunk look to her when compared to her friends. Though, it was kinda funny that an inventor of Fairy Tail had a steam punk theme.
"Oh! I just came up with this one after watching some birds fly over us!" The steam punk themed girl smiled in response to Mavis as she quickly took something out of her satchel—not a purse, a real satchel—and revealed it to be blue prints that she quickly unrolled and showed it to the other four.
"Tadaa! I have these plans to create a massive flying fortress! I don't really know what to name it yet, I'm torn between something with the word 'Heart' in it, or maybe something way cooler and more intimidating like "Grimoire" but check this bad boy out! It can probably fly for days and can potentially manage a special Lacrima that is designed to give an inexhaustible source of magic!"
Mavis practically had stars in her eyes after hearing such a thing. "Wow! That sounds so—"
"Expensive and unrealistic." Precht's voice cut down like an executioner's blade. "Korho, to get even one portion of that idea running would require the most state of the art equipment, which I know you can't afford by rummaging through junkyards. And there's no way you're touching the guild funds."
Everyone both in past and present watched as Lara's enthusiasm died faster than anything that people had seen before and she rolled up the paper in shame after just showing it.
"What! No! Lara, that was awesome!" Mavis tried to say.
Yuri elbowed his good friend before also trying to do damage control. "Oh don't fret, Lara, Precht here is always a spoil sport. If anything, it's pretty cool how you can make a flying machine at all with what you can get your hands on."
Before anything else could be said, the train started to slow down and everyone else looked over to see that they were all arriving in Gogre Valley.
The place was bustling to say the least, even off the train station there were already make shift stands and people calling out to anyone leaving. As such, a man carrying a box of toys stepped up towards the Fairy Tail group.
"Hello, weary travelers! I am Likola and I welcome you to Gorge Valley! Home of the legendary Puppet Giant!"
"Home?" Warrod repeated. "The stories say he travels the world. What makes you think this is the place where the puppet came from?"
"That is a good question!" The man exclaimed before suddenly fishing for an item in side his pocket. "As is this: would you like to behold this fabulous bobble head of what the Wandering Myth looks like?!" He brought out a rather cute figure of a googly eyed wooden puppet with a run down toy hat.
"Aww it's adorable!" Despite obviously being the guildmaster, Mavis was still the youngest member of the group as she clasped her hands together and cooed at the object in the man's hands.
Likola pointed at the girl. "And it's all yours for a measly ten Jewels!"
"Ten Jewels!? I want one!"
The three older men of the group and Lara were quick to crowd their master. "Mavis, no! We don't need it!" Precht and Yuri both spoke out.
"Tell you all what? I'll give you all five of these things for the price of three!" In a motion that was far too expertly done, the man folded out his arms and four more bobble heads of the Wandering Myth were seen shaking their heads while standing on Likola's arms.
"Sold!" Mavis said as she swiped them all while holding out a few Jewel bills and handing them to Likola. The other founders were flabbergasted at Mavis' quick movements but even more so when Likola bolted out of there like a marathon runner as soon as he got the money.
"Huh? Why is he running?" Mavis held the five bobble head figures closer, only for three of them to suddenly snap and break into pieces under the slight pressure.
"Mavis, we warned you that the people here were all conmen. You just spent a meal's worth of money on trash!" Yuri spoke up.
"Th-that's not true! I still have these two!" As Mavis raised the last two, the one in her right hand broke into pieces. She started to sniff as she looked at the last one that actually seemed to be working fine.
Precht sighed. "Let that be a lesson, Mavis. Don't trust everyone you meet. Not everyone is as nice as the guild and Magnolia. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be heading towards the bazaar."
"Wait, Precht!" Yuri cried out to his one-eyed friend, only for the man to make his leave quickly. "Yeesh, hey, Warrod, could you manage things here, I'm gonna get our friend." The blonde man spoke out as he followed after Precht.
Warrod looked to a sad Mavis before looking to Lara. "Hey, watch over her, I'm gonna get that bastard back." The usually laid back Warren said with a serious face before rushing after the thief.
Lara was left alone with a teary eyed Mavis. Seeing her friend, Lara sighed and fished for something in her bag. Mavis turned and watched her bring out a metal gear that was twice as big as her palm. Lara waved her hand over the metal gear and soon the metal object started to shake—then shatter into pieces. The pieces themselves started to move towards the plastic and wooden pieces scattered on the floor and merged with them. Then, they started to re form back into the toys that Mavis first saw them as.
However this time, Lara snapped her fingers and all four bobble head puppets saluted and jumped up to Mavis' shoulders to do their best to hug something much larger than them.
Mavis was caught off guard before she started to laugh. She got the four—now five since the last pieces went into the one that was fixed—and laughed at how animated they were all moving now.
"Thank you, Lara." The first master spoke out.
"It's nothing, really. My magic is just basic telekinesis anyway. What's so special about moving things with one's mind?"
Mavis' smile faded a bit after hearing that. "Lara, you really shouldn't let what Precht said get to you. He means well, but he's just a guy who sees things half empty."
The raven haired girl sighed before the two of them started walking into the valley. "I know that. It's just… he's right. I'm aiming to big—I mean, I wanted to make a flipping flying fortress? Ha! Next thing you're going tell me is that there's an invention that could easily store a hundred years worth of thunderstorms and still work as well as the day it was made!"
No one from the present dared say anything about the Thunder Palace, but that didn't stop them from thinking about it.
"That… actually sounds really specific."
Lara flushed at the point brought up. "Okay, I might have been in the beta stages of designing something like that too..."
"She was one of the designers of the Thunder Palace?" As soon as Lucy spoke it out, everyone started to realize that something like the Thunder Palace would require a large amount of people to work on, even with the combined efforts of the outstanding people of the founding members.
"See! That's amazing Lara! I wouldn't have even thought of that!" Mavis reached out for her taller friend to show that she really meant what she said.
"Yeah, but that's just an idea! No one cares for ideas unless they're brought to life and well… I don't really have the power or more importantly the money to bring it out. So they're all just… scribbles of paper."
Mavis was silent for a moment. "Why us?"
"Huh?"
"Lara, despite what anyone says, you're one of the most brilliant people I've ever met. The things you make, I've never even seen anything like them from the countless books I've read. So it makes sense for someone like you, an inventor, to go and join in maybe an inventor's guild, or even join the research development branch of the Magic Council, anywhere I just mentioned would value and support you better than us… so why are you with us?"
The black haired girl looked at Mavis for a second, thoughts grinding in her head. "Didn't you offer me to join when I was first passing by Magnolia?"
"Yes, but why did you accept?"
"Weeeellll," The two walked down a busy street filled with people and vendors. "Remember that Metal Golem I was trying to make when I first came to Magnolia and exploded and covered three blocks of the city? You guys didn't shout… you laughed… you had fun and you guys were the first to actually like my stuff. The stuff I made before… and now just break a lot. Like a lot a lot. Like a lot a lot a lot a lot And for those types of people, they just saw my failures more than anything else." She then started to laugh. "Oh gods, I remember how black everything was."
Mavis laughed at the memory as well. "Oh right! I was washing off the soothe for months!"
The two girls laughed honestly at the memory. Lara gave a more earnest smile at the thought. "I stay in Fairy Tail, because I can be me there… does that make sense?"
"Completely. That was what Fairy Tail was for." Mavis stated proudly. And it wasn't hard to feel that even now. Fairy Tail still stood by the fact that one could proudly be themselves, flaws and all. She huffed and noticed the five bobble heads hanging around her shoulders. "Now then! With our spirits re-ignited, let's find the Wandering Myth!"
"Exxxccuuuusssseee mmmeee?" A taller man wearing a turban came in front of the two holding an old piece of paper. "I couldn't help but overhear about the Wandering Myth. You see, I have proof of it being real and where he rests every time of the full moon!"
Lara scoffed. "Yeah right. We're not interested in your fake stuff."
Mavis smiled proudly and even crossed her arms with a puffed up chest. "There's no way you're tricking us!"
The man's eyes widened with realization—then he suddenly dropped to his knees and started crying and sobbing like a child. Both Lara and Mavis were understandably upset, more so when people around them started to stare.
"Y-You both are right! I am a fake!" The man sobbed and cried out. "My wife left with my beloved son and daughter because I was fired from my job and couldn't afford to feed them anymore! What's worse is that my mother, who gave up everything to raise me just died recently, and I don't even have enough money for a proper funeral! Every night, her corpse sits in my rat-filled apartment, and all I can do is cry and pray to the gods for forgiveness for my utter incompetence at gaining money! WAAAHHHHAAAA!" The man somehow belched out his entire back story in the middle of his emotional break down.
"W-We're sorry we called you fake!" Mavis quickly blurt out, stressed at how distressed the man was.
"W-We'll buy something from you!" Lara also added along with Mavis.
As soon as he heard that, the cries of the man slowed down considerable. "Really? You'll buy something from me?" He spoke with watery eyes and a hopeful voice.
"…." Lara sighed while trying to bring out some bills. "Yeah, how much?"
"How much do you have?"
Lara picked up a hundred Jewels bill, "How much is your—" She didn't get to finish that sentence when the man snagged the bill out of her hands and ran like an olympic gold medalist.
…
…
"THAT SON OF A BI—" Lara's suddenly fury was just as speedily cut when she looked at Mavis, who was still not of legal drinking age.
"That vile scum!" Yeah see? Curses were practically not allowed in front of Mavis. "Okay that's it! You hear me, Gogre Valley?! That is the last time you swindle us out of our money! I have read over countless battle strategies, hundreds of psychology excerpts, and over a million facts that can put most libraries to shame! You have unleashed a beast that cannot be stopped, and you will regret ever crossing members of Fairy Tail! From this point on, we will no longer fall for your tricks!"
"Wow, I can't believe they fell for every swindle scam after that." Kain spoke out plainly after watching practically an hour or two of rather elaborate swindles that even made the people watching and a genius like Mavis look like utter idiots.
The two were almost like slugs, slogging through the roads as the sun was setting in Gogre Valley.
Mavis was practically crying, while carrying an assort of goods she really didn't need along with wearing a cap that had the caption of: Make Fiore Great Again. Lara on the other hand looked worse. She had make up that made her face feel itchy and her shoes were now gone and replaced with the most impractical of high heels anyone had ever seen.
"I swear," Lara panted of anger and exhaustion of both physical, mental, and also some emotional level. "If there is one more asshole trying to scam us, they won't live, even if it's another old lady or a real orphan child."
Mavis could only nod while some of the bobble-head toys were carrying miscellaneous stuff after her.
"Hello!"
Lara quickly pulled out a gun from her satchel and pointed it to the new person. "I am broke, tired, pissed off, hungry, and all other bad emotions right now, but I swear to the gods, if you even think about trying to sell me something, I will use this fake gun to shoot you—then remember I was forcefully sold this faulty thing and realize it can't shoot at all and then just use it to bludgeon you to death with!"
The man looked panicked. "Wait no, please! I have a wife and kids!"
"I'm not fu—bloody falling for that a seventh time!" By this point, everyone would have been rather surprised to see this type of personality coming form the usually demure girl who was now having her eyelids twitch violently. Mavis as well showed an eerie, almost demonic smile on her face at the suffering of the new man.
"Wow, Gogre Valley changes people." And everyone in the present silently agreed with Droy's true words.
"Gaaaaaah!" The man clutched an area of his chest as a red liquid started to spurt.
However, everyone, even the two girls remembered that Lara's gun had no bullets and was incapable of firing in the first place. Not only that, but she never even pulled the trigger, so how was the man bleeding?
"AAAHHH!" The man threw his hand upward before falling down in agony.
"What's going on here!?" Everyone looked towards the new voice to see a man in police uniform stare at the scene before them: two suspicious girls with a gun pointed to where a fallen man was previously standing.
"W-What!? N-No! No! This isn't what it looks like!?" Both Mavis and Lara tried to explain themselves to the officer.
"How could you!? I should arrest ya both for attempted manslaughter!" The two girls panicked as the police officer said this.
"However… considering where we are… I might be able to turn a blind eye if you… sweeten the deal..." The officer then brought up two fingers and brushed them together. Everyone instantly realize that he was probably another con man.
"Oh also make them give me some too for compensation." The man on the floor calmly added, not even trying to hide the fact that he was just acting being shot from a while ago.
At that point, everyone noticed and heard a nonexistent sound of something snapping coming from the two girls as they stared at the officer like psychopathic murderers.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Both Mavis and Lara tackled down the Officer and started beating him up. Unfortunately for them, the cop wasn't a con artist. They all figured this out when he called out for back up and a large amount of people tackled the two girls down and was able to put magic restraining cuffs on them.
"Oooh poor girls." Mirajane commented the rather… underwhelming understatement.
As they were being led into a cell, Mavis groaned. "I am so not going to hear the end of this from Yuri and Precht."
Lara sighed. "Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it either. Those guys are pretty level headed and are probably more used to this dirty, gritty business than we are."
It was then that the officers led them towards one of the holding cells. "Here's your cell, ladies, you'll have to share with other criminals that threaten the peace of this fine city!"
As Lara and Mavis walked in… they spotted Yuri and Percht, both sulking in the corner of the cell, wearing clothes that the two girls knew the two men weren't wearing originally when they came into the valley, and both having magic cuffs around their wrists like them.
"Well crap, they got you girls too huh?" Under closer inspection, Yuri was wearing a chocker with a Pink T-shirt that read, "Ask me if I'm gay." along with an obvious black eye on his left eye.
"So much for placing our hopes, but then again, those salesmen were far more cunning than I prepared for." Percht on the other hand, had his eye patch replaced with a pink, heart shaped eye patch and had a baby holder on. Inside the baby holder, was an adorable baby malamute with a horn sticking out of his head and looking happy to be there.
"Aww!~" Mavis cooed at the adorable dog being carried by the stoic man who was giving no fucks anymore. "Is that a baby Uni-malmutt? I heard these things were only found around the north!" She laughed as she got closer to the little puppy and touched his fluffy, smiling face.
"Mavis, trust me when I say this: don't get to close to him." Yuri strictly said.
"But why not—" Before Mavis could finish, the horned, floofy malamute then barfed in Mavis' face.
"… That's why." Yuri futilely finished. "Due to… certain circumstances..." Precht and Yuri shared a look before the continued speaking. "We got that little devil that just barfs on people if they get to close to him."
Lara tried to help clean the little girl, and got them both to sit on the opposite side. "So… why haven't you gotten rid of that?"
Then the horned malamute gave the most adorable whines and his eyes grew three sizes that moment, it sounded like the dog didn't want to leave them all.
Even though they saw the thing's unique trait, even some of the colder and tougher men from the present felt their hearts melt at that face.
"That is why we can't get rid of him. The damn mutt is magic!" Yuri cried out and fell into his corner. "I only hope Warrod is doing better than all of us."
"In here, criminal scum!" A Police Officer's voice came up before he opened the gate and…
In the case for everyone in the cell so far, they gained many things from the city that they in no way needed, or wanted.
In Warrod Sequen's case, he lost things… specifically, all his clothes.
As he walked into the cell with nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist, he looked at all his friends and they to him. Warrod then sat down in his corner off the cell with barely a sound.
Yuri opened his mouth, everyone looked at him, but then he closed it and remained silent. Warrod looked to him and nodded once in thanks before saying nothing else anymore.
"You're kidding me, that's one of the current gods of Ishgar?" Bickslow asked in surprise.
"What kind of madhouse is Gogre Valley?" Evergreen cried out in disbelief.
…
…
"I wanna go home." Mavis finally said after a few more seconds of awkward silence.
Precht, while petting the head of the puppy in the abby holder he was wearing, asked, "There's a problem then: does anyone have money for train tickets?"
The silence that returned into the cell was more telling than any word spoken before.
"W-Well look on the bright side!" Lara tried to cheer everyone up. "A-At least we have a free place to spend the night? … No? … I'll shut up again."
Yuri sighed and put his hands on his face before looking up to the crummy ceiling. "Alright, let's just all agree, when we get out of this hellhole, we will never speak of this again—..." The ancestor of Laxus abruptly paused as he looked towards Lara's direction. "Lara… how long does your Memory Lacrima record?"
Everyone, including the dogs and the toy puppets, looked towards the inventor who suddenly remembered that there was indeed a flying Lacrima Orb nearby her this entire time. "Uhhhhh… I wanted it to record a long time?"
"...So… it basically has recorded us in this state?" Yuri's voice lowered as his stance shifted into one that could almost be called a battle stance. Precht and Warrod were also slowly turning a dangerous glare towards the inventor.
Lara started to sweat in response to the question. She also found her hands and the floor very important to look at that very moment.
"I'm breaking that thing as soon as the cuffs are off." The words that came out of Precht didn't come out as a statement, it came out as if it was going to be a fact of reality that could not be broken.
"Ummm yeah… about that?" Lara meekly spoke up. "Remember how many—and I mean many—of my inventions keep breaking before they actually work? I recently found this cool magnetism spell that—well—umm...fixes… small objects after they break? And I umm may err have… castitonthisthing?"
"What?" Yuri looked at the stammering girl.
"I mean… you can break it… but… it won't stay broken?" The steampunk-themed girl offered unsurely. But for those in the present it did explain why a hundred years from now, these lacrima were still in good condition.
"Can you delete it then?" Yuri asked as fast. However, his eyes slowly were narrowing dangerously.
Lara just continued to squirm under the gazes of everyone in the room. "Delete? Y-Yeah s-sure, as soon as I-I figure out how to apply it on these things? Ahahahahaha…."
Her laughter was as fake as the hope of her getting out of this unscathed.
"Wow… just… wow. Natsu, I think you misheard when it came to the rumor: it seems like this holds the founding members' most embarrassing memories." Kain spoke out while watching the very people who created such a prominent guild… reduced to that.
"Yeah, I thought it would be fun, and it was, but this is just kinda sad." Even Natsu couldn't find himself laughing at this.
"I hate Gogre Valley." Warrod finally said.
"Amen." And this was the moment that the bond between the members had become truly and utterly unbreakable.
"This place is stupid! Why on earth would the Wandering Myth even be here!" Mavis cried out in frustration. "You know what!? No! I can't believe it, I fell for it again! There is absolutely no way that the Wandering Myth is here, or even real!"
The founding members, and even the present members of Fairy Tail should have been paying attention.
So far, whenever something is being claimed aloud, reality finds some way to disprove those claims with impunity. This phenomenon is sometimes referenced as Murphy's Law.
With this in mind, something had abruptly burst through the walls, knocking down officers and even knocked down the bars of the cell the founders were in, but stopping just before touching any of them.
As the dust settled, a large, figure was seen standing up from the dust, an eight foot figure with almost log-looking torso with hands and legs long and thin with noticeable circles at joint areas, and most unbelievable of all, a rather dusty and patched up old top hat that was picked up from the ground and placed on the actual wooden head of the figure.
The figure turned around, and all of Fairy Tail saw… googly eyes and a crooked and humble smile.
"Holy shit, it's real." Yuri and Laxus both breathed out at the same time.
{Author Notes}
So here we go folks! We look into the memories of old and stumble on to things that may never have been seen by mortal men!
I do hope you enjoy this arc, it's an original one and I'm having so much fun writing it. Since's it's completely my own, I don't really have to worry about following some of the standards of the cannon ones. Anywho, what will the founding members of Fairy Tail do now that they have met a real live Fairy Tale? (The word play! I've missed it so!)
Now lemme be a little technical here. The idea of the Wandering Myth actually came a long time ago, before I even thought of this story. This idea began as an OC I wanted to submit for one of the many Submit Your Original Character stories, or more commonly known as SYOC. I wanted to do something different instead of the usual, "Hey, this guy/girl is powerful and has a back story so complex so their personality must be complex! And we want them to have a lot of screen time.*****"
*****I have done the same exact thing before. So I'm not exempted from this.
The Wandering Myth (I) wanted to do something different. I created an actual Fairy Tale, for that story, trying to build up the lore and world building for the person writing an SYOC. He was created more for world building than anything else, and ironically, the writer planned a whole new arc of his story all around my own.
It was fun. But, the reason why you're all seeing it here is because, the original writer I was doing this for quit. And he quit fast. I was sad and disappointed, but I then made the foolish mistake of trying my own one. Boy did that end up in disaster.
While I find SYOCs to be really fun. They are insanely hard to write. For me when I tried one, there was always this stress of getting people the right way that their owners wanted them to be and that invaded each chapter I made it was stressing. Not to mention, because of my writing style and how excited I was, I forgot to completely factor in the amount of Gary Sues (Or those reaching that level) I did receive. I even got some trying to also get me to write their stories which conflicted with the plot I had in mind. One could argue that maybe I should have done certain things in a better way, like better and clearer rules to join, it would have been better, but the other things I just couldn't handle.
Over all, while making them was fun, writing them was and probably is not. I have a huge respect for those that still write SYOCs even though they're probably seen as less by others and are probably not that well written. It's still a fun idea having characters you made interact with other people's characters, and makes you feel like you're part of a group.
Well I'll state that this is the end of the chapter, but I've got some good news for you guys! I still have my Character Sheet of this Wandering Myth OC I created. Instead of filling out a form, I sorta did something else with it completely. It was one of my first ones, so I went really all out.
I hope you enjoy them and don't find them too cringey. (Oh and don't worry, there should be no spoilers in this. Especially in a character sheet of all things.)
Edit: September 14/2018
Okay, soooo... many people hated it. And I just decided to delete all extra stuff I had about it.