This is not canon; some facts are not true but they are in this story.
I do not own Fairy Tail.
Chapter One: Runaway Mage
She left him, left his strict house with silence. Her feet lightly made their way down the long driveway, late at night with a small beg seated on her back. She packed only the essentials; clothes, her spirit keys, some food she stole from the kitchen, and books that she couldn't live without. Mainly the most prized possession from her mother, a children's book that Lucy has had since she was five years old.
She groaned, shoving a piece of hair behind her ear when she almost tripped over a fallen tree branch. Tears falling down her face, her hands vigorously wiping them only to be replaced by more, and she groaned again by the thought that her own father didn't even care about her.
"Such a dick," Lucy murmured just when she shoved the gate to her former home shut behind her.
With her head down, Lucy made her way down the dirt road in the dead of night. Why did he have to control every aspect of her life? She didn't understand why he had such a problem with her, like did he even love her anymore?
Breaking a sob through the starry night sky, she rubbed her nose as it was becoming too wet for her own comfort.
However, where was she going to go? She didn't have any place to go as she was sheltered in her huge mansion prison her whole life, only allowed to go to other huge mansion prisons for parties and balls of all sorts. Lucy had only ever seen the inside of a proper, clean, and respected society. Even if they weren't too proper themselves.
Lucy hit the fringe of the town an hour later, seeing it deserted at what seemed to be 3 in the morning. Her head shifted around the town, cold and empty as she felt right now. Leaves floating around in the air, causing Lucy to cover her upper arms and shiver while she pulled her bag straps up further.
"Gods, this sucks," her voice croaked when she sat on a bench just outside of a small cake shop. Her brown eyes looked further for a place to sleep for the night. Then she had spotted a lone hotel at the end of the street.
Lucy hopped up from the bench and made her way to the hotel, hopefully, she had enough to stay there and figure out what she wanted to know. quickly throwing open the doors causing the receptionist to jump and yelp at her loud entrance.
Puckering up her face, Lucy cringed as she slowly made her way to the desk, "Um, hello. Sorry for scaring you. I, uh, was wondering if you had any rooms open."
The girl behind the desk frowned at her, her brown hair pinned high on her head with her make-up bright in the misty night. The stellar mage watched her long nails pull a black book from under the desk and open it up while staring straight at the blonde.
Flipping to one-third of the way through the book, seeing the date in the top right corner. "We have a few rooms open for the night, its 140 jewels a night."
"Oh great! I need a room for the night please," she felt awkward pleading, but she also felt very vulnerable at this moment.
Not even answering her, the receptionist wrote down something in the book before fishing out a key to hand to Lucy.
Once Lucy slumped on the bed after throwing her bag right at the front door, she glanced up at the ceiling. She was now a runaway; all alone and now has to live in this world by herself. It honestly surprising to her that her father didn't even stop her. He had to have known that she left right? He would have stopped her right?
Right?
A tear left her eye at the thought, he didn't stop her. He let her leave and didn't call out to her or even have someone come out to get her back. He didn't want her, and Lucy felt deep down that she knew that. She knew that he never wanted her as a daughter, he's said he wanted a son instead. He didn't say it to her, but she heard it, that's all that matters.
Swiftly wiping the tear, forgetting it all and reaching for her book and laying back for the rest of the night. There's no reason for her dwell on it, move forward, and move up in the world.
[***]
It has been a week since she left her prison and she felt lost. That night she stayed at the hotel, she went from hotel to hotel, trying to figure out where she wanted to go. Now, she ran out of money she took with her.
Making her way through the forest with her packed tightly backpack on her back, filled with food she took for her long journey to the next town. It was a sunny day, all too sunny for her. her forehead was sweating as well as her armpits, her poor shirt was drenched in sweat. Lucy had already called out Horologium once today, so that was out of the question.
Her knees made contact with the dry dirt below and the sticks that decided to stick in her skin, as she made a place to sit for at least an hour until she got her energy back.
She leaned back on the bark of the large tree behind her, taking a big and long breath to try and understand why she was even doing this to herself. Yet, she remembered the voice of her father, yelling at her and telling her how her life is going to go. The blonde shook her head, not back to that ever again.
Her eyes lifted to the sky beyond the branches and green leaves to see the bright blue sky turn to grey and cloudy. Sitting up slightly, Lucy's eyebrows furrowed at the rapid weather change. Was it going to rain?
Right when she asked that question in her head, it started to rain, only lightly. Lucy groaned quickly shoving in her things roughly in her bag before running off to even more trees. She wasn't thinking of where she was going, running further into the woods weren't going to help her whatsoever. So, now her only option was to stand under this large tree, soaking wet holding up a large leaf she found above her head, really trying not to cry.
"Fuck everything," she cursed under her breath. Hoping this ends soon but seeing as it was now raining harder, she doubted it.
To the right of her, she watched something leap past a group of trees, screaming and turning their head behind them. She couldn't hear what they said but she did hear this person laugh manically right afterward. Lucy raised a brow just as four other figures ran after them, one was fucking huge, as in bulk and muscle. One of them was riding on something because she saw that they were not touching the ground. One had long hair that flowed behind them while the last one seemed to be someone with wings?
Lucy shook her head, she had to help them, right? Even though she wasn't part of a guild she was still going to help.
Her fingers grazed against her keys laid on her hip, looking determined to aid them as she ran off towards them as well. Feet jumping over branches and arms swatting away tree limbs to spot all four figures in a clearing, still raining, while three were facing off against the one.
The lone one stood tall, hands on his hips with a smirk painted on his features. "You thought you got me, yet you fell into my trap! I have you surrounded!" he declared, yelling with a loud cackle.
Lucy looked around, spotting a puddle just behind her and just about decided against it before pulling out Aquarius' key and summoning the spirit.
"DID YOU JUST SUMMON-," she started to yell before Lucy shushed her harshly, already hearing the reprimand she was going to receive later but pointed to the group beyond the trees.
"Can you flood the area? I don't want them to know I'm here," the blonde whispered, watching her huff and move her urn to her other arm, giving the stellar mage a critical look before setting herself up.
Lucy moved to the left when Aquarius shot out her torrent stream, flooding the entire area. The blonde bulky guy growled with yellow static pulsing around him, his eyes trained to the lone man who had been washed out of the clearing causing the guy to groan before running into the woods again.
The three others Lucy saw as she spits out water, ran after the two of them. Lucy shook her head of hair and watched them run off. Shit, did she just make it worse? Lucy was just about to run off with them when Aquarius glared down at her.
[***]
Laxus caught the bastard in his fist, slamming him against the tree that had just been behind him. Finally catching this guy bubbled his chest with anger, all he did was run and lie. This guy was just a bag full of lies and cowardness.
Pulling his fist back to pound his fucker straight in the mouth, where his lies were spouting off. A hand-pulled his elbow, moving himself back. Looking behind him to see Freed pulling back and shaking his head just Laxus dropped him on the cold ground.
"What? Y-you not gonna-a kill-," being cut off from the kick to the mouth by the lightning slayer himself.
"Tie him up. I'm gonna find out who flooded the area," Laxus told Freed, motioning for Bickslow to follow him.
The Seith mage jogged up to him with his totems following just behind his head as he leisurely strolled next to his teammate. His head turned to Laxus with a sly smile before letting his long tongue slide out of his mouth, "What are we doing Boss?"
"Finding the person who flooded the clearing," he spoke clearly looking around. It was harder to find this person with the water washing away the scent until they spotted someone running out from in between two close trees, almost getting stuck.
Lucy ran out to see two of the guys standing there staring back at her with leaves crinkling under her feet, one had his hands behind his head and the other had his arms crossed glaring at her. She felt self-conscious, rubbing her left arm with her right. "You guys don't need help do you?"
Laxus grunted as he shifted his footing, "No, you actually made it worse."
Her head dropped and Bickslow elbowed Laxus in the side, "What the hell dude? You just made her upset," the Seith mage whispered.
She cleared her throat, "Oh, sorry. I didn't mean too. I'll, uh, just go now."
"Wait," Bickslow shouted, holding out his hand for her to stop. Almost feeling the glare pointed to his back by his teammate. "What guild you belong to? Did you take this mission too?"
Cocking her head to the side, "I don't belong to a guild," she didn't even think about that. Should she join a guild? Would they accept her? How was she ever going to be accepted just the way she was?
"Great, we don't have to split the reward," Laxus murmured as he walked back to the two others dragging the lone man by the armpits.
The only one left was Bickslow and Lucy. The stellar mage shifted awkwardly and jingled her keys in anxiousness, looking up she saw the man looking back at his group and then back at her, "My names Bickslow," he told her.
"I-I'm Lucy," shaking his outstretched hand.
"Welp bye!" he cheered waving and running back to his teammates and flashing his guild marked tongue to her before leaving her all alone in the forest. Her eyes trained up to the sky again, seeing the bright blue, cloudless sky again. Where did the storm do?
[***]
It had been just 10 days since Lucy had encountered the four mages that had taken down a dark guild that was near where she was almost about to stay at. Lucy was on her way to the next town when she spotted a magazine at a stand on the sidewalk.
Just after finding some food she bought the magazine and actually found the four mages she ran into. They were 'posed' on a whole page for themselves, with the title, "Best team in Fairy Tail?"
Lucy took a seat at an outside café, setting her cup on the table and getting comfortable to read this article.
Seeing separate pictures with names, she finally saw their names. Laxus was blonde with a lightning scar across his eye. He looked away from the camera with a scowl on his face and that was exactly what she expected from him. He was brash and rude and basically made her feel bad about helping out.
The green-haired man had long straight hair with one eye hidden behind his fringe. His description said he was the brains of the team and his magic consisted of Letter magic and eye magic? What on Earthland was eye magic? That actually was super interesting.
The third was a woman, Evergreen, with brown hair that was tied up in a bun in the back of her head with it sticking up slightly. Her glasses made a glint from the flash and a short green dress that instantly reminded her of a fairy. Her magic was…fairy magic? Geez, this girl loves fairies. She also had eye magic. Wow, Lucy really had to look up this magic herself.
The last man had a striped hooded shirt that held tight over his eyes and his tongue sticking out with the guild mark stamped right on the front. His name was Bickslow, so he wasn't lying about that. She couldn't see much of him on the picture as a small totem was floating halfway in the picture. His magic was Seith magic? Hmm, that was new. He also had eye magic!
Slamming the magazine shut she was now more determined than ever to find out more about them. She had to now find out more about their magic because her mind would not rest until she knew what the hell they were.
Hours later, Lucy found herself in the library in the same town with piles of books and newspapers, anything she could find one eye magic and all other types they had. There wasn't much on Seith magic because it was a type of black magic.
Her first step was looking into Laxus, he was the leader as it seems to this group. He was actually the master's grandson. There wasn't much here about his father, wonder why. His magic was lightning magic, Lucy witnessed it firsthand with the lightning static forming around him in that clearing. Also, it shows a lot of his moves and how he got his S-class status.
"Wow, he seems very powerful. No wonder he's rude, he probably thinks he's the fucking king," Lucy murmured to herself. There weren't many photos of him or his team, they seemed to be very reclusive, contract to the rest of the Fairy Tail guild.
Her hand set itself on the tome of Eye magic. That's the one she really wanted to know, the three she saw with Laxus all had eye magic.
"Was this too invasive?" she asked herself, she was looking heavily into their lives and their magic's and she knew nothing about them personally. She hummed, tapping her fingers on the hardcover of the tome in front of her.
Shrugging she continued on her research, it's not like she had anything else to do. That was until someone had slammed their hand on the table she was working on. "Hey, we closed about 10 minutes ago. You need to leave," the librarian informed Lucy in an aggravated tone.
Lucy huffed, glaring at the young girl and throwing all her books she gathered on the table. Pulling her bag over her shoulder and stomping right out the door. She would just come back in the morning to work more.
When morning came, after her morning shower at the hotel, Lucy walked in with a tenacious attitude. It didn't matter that she didn't really know these people, she thought they were kind of awesome. They were all strong and their magic was pretty interesting. It was like she was just a fan of them.
"Maybe one day, I'll join Fairy Tail and be friends with them," setting herself up on the table and going to grab the books she got yesterday.
Though, she couldn't find the tome on eye magic anywhere. The stellar mage walked up to the front desk with the young lady from last night, "Um, hello. I'm sorry about last night but can you help me out?"
The librarian clicked her nails against the desk, her lips forming into a straight line and she leaned back in her chair. "Hmm, I don't know. what did you need help with?" her voice was full of reluctances towards Lucy.
Lucy chose to swallow her bad choice words for the lady and kindly smiled, "I had a book here yesterday about Eye magic and I can't seem to find it anywhere. Do you happen to know where it might be?" the young librarian seemed to like her response as she got up and went to look for her.
Politely saying thank you, Lucy waited at the table for her to come back but once she did, she couldn't find it either. It looked like she wasn't going to research anymore of eye magic. Lucy had decided to move to the next town over so she could find rogue work to make at least some money.
Now, she had things to learn so maybe she could feel more comfortable in joining an awesome guild like Fairy Tail.