Set in Ying Yang-verse, where Tartaros ~never~ ~happened~

Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.


Title: Demons In The Snow

Pairing: Mard Geer x Mirajane

Requester: Chalcedony

Prompt: "I meant for that snowball to hit my friend but you came around the corner at the last second and now we're having a snowball fight."


Mard Geer stared at his fellow demons with the vaguest stirrings of unease in his heart. Four hundred years, he'd spent with them. Four centuries full of murder and mayhem, plots in the dark.

Why on Earthland did they all - at the same time - suddenly decide that snow was this mysterious substance that had to be inspected immediately? It wasn't as if they'd never seen it before.

Torafusa was swimming in the snow. Literally swimming. With his dorsal fin sticking out and doing a solid impression of that one lacrima movie Fairy Tail had forced them to endure. Franmalth was even singing out the main theme, all the while turning himself into… was that a Vulcan or something else? Mard couldn't tell. He would have thought a demon that relied on shape memory for his curse would have a better memory for shapes, but it appeared that was not in fact the case.

Tempesta had fluffed out, huddling behind a makeshift wall of snow and trying to block out the world entirely. Mard understood the desire. Entirely too well.

Kyouka, Seilah, Ezel, and the Lamys were having a snow sculpture competition, as far as he could see.

Then there was Jackal. Being… well… Jackal. He seemed to be trying to see how well his explosions handled in the snow, bursts of the fluffy, frozen water landing in clods all around the general vicinity. A disproportionate amount of which was being deposited on Tempesta's head. The only ones enjoying the snow slinging were Jackal himself, and Silver.

On a side note, Mard should probably stop Silver from burying Keyes completely. The necromancer wasn't good with the cold. It always blew straight through him. It was a wonder why he'd ever decided that an ice mage would be the perfect person to revive, but here they were.

"Mard!" he heard his name from somewhere behind him.

When he turned, he saw Fairy Tail's resident Demon Queen standing there in the snow. She was completely bundled up against the cold, her breath puffing in the air and redness saturating her cheeks. In her arms, she held a tray of steaming mugs.

"Ms Strauss," Mard greeted. "What brings you out here?" Granted, the demons currently weren't too far from Magnolia, but it was still quite a distance to walk to the snowfield. Especially while carrying drinks even if they were - in all likelihood - enchanted to retain their heat.

The woman let out a giggle. "Well, everyone saw you having fun. So while they're getting prepared to join you, I thought I should bring you all a treat."

"Very kind." Mard could never quite fully grasp the concept, but he had to acknowledge that it wasn't unwelcome to be on the receiving end.

Suddenly, it became dark around Mard. He glanced up just in time to see a humongous ball of snow falling directly on top of him. Neatly, he sidestepped away from the incoming projectile.

To Mard's surprise, it retained its form upon hitting the ground.

Not a snowball at all, then. There was ice at its heart.

Then it briefly glowed, and Mard immediately moved in front of Mirajane. He swiftly pulled Mirajane into his arms, forcing her to drop the tray of drinks into the snow.

The snowball exploded, pelting Mard with shards of ice, slicing his cheek.

Once the explosion died down, Mard released Mirajane. Then he abruptly turned on Jackal.

Though Mard never got the opportunity to do anything in retaliation to Jackal at all, for a snowball whizzed past his ear. It smacked the wannabe-furry straight in the face, with enough force to knock him off his feet.

Mard glanced over at Mirajane, in her full Satan Soul form. Lazily, she tossed another snowball up and down in her claws. "So you want to play this game then?" she rumbled, her sickly sweet smile even more terrifying in this form. "I must warn you - I am very good at this game."

The King of the Underworld decided then that he should probably just leave the matter of Jackal's rebuke in her more than capable claws.


Added a couple of lines to the the original. I had so much fun with this one! But then I always do when Mard is involved...

So for those of you who haven't heard, I am doing another drabble project starting on June 1st. One new drabble/ficlet a day for a full year. 365 drabbles, each one a different ship that I ship. It's gonna be an undertaking, hahahaha. I still have a ton of drabbles to reblog here though, don't worry. And duplicate pairings will still get posted here. There's a poll on my profile for the first pairing to get posted, so I suggest voting!