Chapter 2: The Lay of the Land…
Lucy was finally waking up, her vision was returning and she thought she was in some kind of cave… When she looked over, she was happy to see a familiar blue cat and cherry haired boy were lying next to her… At least those two were safe she thought…
"Oh so you're awake!" boomed a gigantic voice that came also from a gigantic man…
"Um…" was all Lucy could say due to her utter shock towards well the giant's gigantic size… He was as big as Master Makarov in his titan form, maybe even bigger…
"Hello the name's Dorry, I found the three of you in the forest after one of my battles the other day, mind if I learn yours?" asked the giant
"Oh, um… the name's Lucy, could you tell me where we are exactly?" the celestial wizard asked
"Welcome to Little Garden, this is the place where a friend of mine and I duel to settle a very old argument we have based on our homeland's traditions…" replied Dorry
"Little Garden, I've never heard of an island like that on any maps I've seen… Can you tell me how far away it is from Fiore?" asked Lucy
"Fiore? I may have been battling for 100 years, but I can tell you I've never heard of that place before…" replied Dorry
"That's impossible there's no wa…" was all Lucy could say before she was interrupted by Dorry
"Hey look, your pink haired friend and that strange blue cat is waking up, maybe they can shed some light on your situation…"
All Lucy could think was "Ah oh…"
Meanwhile on Skypiea, a familiar Iron Dragon Slayer was waking up from his fall.
"He's waking up…" said a voice above him
Gajeel opened his eyes to see two men and a woman in a room he was in…
"Who the hell are you and where the hell are we? Where are my friends and why the hell do you have wings?" Gajeel said now on the offensive…
"Well we found you with another Blue Sea woman and some strange animal and there just in another room." said the girl
"But before we answer any more of your questions, you're gonna tell us why you fell from the sky onto Skypiea…" said the man with the hat over his eyes
"The Hell is Skypiea, the last thing I remember is being on Tenrou Island…" replied Gajeel
"We do not know of this Tenrou Island being as we are not from the Blue Sea, but since you refuse to answer our questions, we'll have to assume you're here to attack God, so we'll have to retain you, so come peacefully so we can sort thi…" said the man with the long hair before he was interrupted
"The hell I will…" said Gajeel as he shouted "Iron Dragon's Club" and hit the two men with his extended arm…
"Damn this guy must have the powers from the fruit of the devil some Blue Sea people eat…" said the man with the hat over his eyes…
"Please stop you're still injured said the girl…
"Stay out of this lady!" was Gajeel's reply as he proceeded to attack the guards of God
"Conis go get the other two and bring them to God, we'll take care of this guy…" said the man with the hat over his eyes…
"Fine, since you want a fight, we'll fight…" said the man with long hair as he and the man with the hat over his eyes got ready to attack…
In Yuba, now the no longer naked man and woman in winter clothes were waking as well…
"Man my head hurts…" said Gray as looked at himself, and around the room until his eyes landed on an old man…
"Ah you're awake! This is great news! My I ask you for your name please?" asked the old man
"Oh, I'm Gray Fullbuster…" replied the Ice Mage
"Gray huh… what a great name… It sounds like the name that strange blue haired girl has been mumbling in her sleep…" the old man responded
Gray immediately realized who he was talking about, "That's my friend Juvia… She's an associate of mine…"
"Oh you don't have to lie kid…" said the old man, "I've heard what she has been saying in her sleep, I can easily see she's your girlfriend…" the old man said as he proceeded to laugh…
"It's not like that…" but Gray realized the argument was pointless, and since he didn't know this man anyway, he gave up and proceeded to ask him another question…
"Is she the only one you found with me?" Gray asked curiously
"No, we found a man in a metal mask with you as well…" replied the old man
"Bickslow" Gray thought to himself… He then asked, "Could you tell me where my friends and I are?"
"You're in Yuba, an oasis town in the Kingdom of Alabasta…" the old man said and immediately hitting his head, "That's right, I never introduced myself, and I'm Toto, the mayor of this town…"
"Pleasure to meet you Toto, but could you tell me how far away Alabasta is to Fiore?" Gray asked, "I've never really heard of a kingdom like that in any surrounding countries…"
"What are you talking about? Fiore? I've never heard of that island, and Alabasta is its only country on Sandy Island… I should be asking you a few questions myself… How did you get inland of the island, which you didn't even know about, through a desert while being naked…"
Gray looked down and saw he was wearing new clothes that didn't belong to him…
Toto then said, "If you're wondering about the clothes, they're my son's…"
Before Toto could ask any more questions, a call came from a tent next door, "Hey guys, the woman's waking up…"
The only thing Gray thought was, "Oh great…"
On Drum Island, Wendy woke up in a stone cold room surrounded by men in pink and freezing air…
"She's waking up, call Doctor Kureha, this is urgent!" one man said
"Right!" replied two others who ran out the room…
"Don't worry miss, we've healed your injuries, you should be fin… Don't fall back to sleep!" yelled the Doctor as Wendy went back to sleep…
Doctor Kureha came in a few moments later and said, "One was waking up huh? I guess the cold put her back to sleep… Which one was her…" the doctor pointed to the now sleeping Wendy.
Doctor Kureha then proceeded to slap Wendy, to the objections of the other men…
She then proceeded to hit them for being too stupid realize she was just waking Wendy up, since it would be bad for her injuries if she slept any more on them.
"Idiots, she suffered a minor head injury, so sleeping on it any more will just make it worse. Plus we have to get answers out of this girl anyway…" replied Kureha annoyed
The members of the Isshi-100 in the room at the time agreed, and tried to wake up Wendy less violently…
Wendy stirred awake again, and saw the same room and men, but this time with a strange old lady as well…
"Well little girly… Start talking…" said Kureha
Wendy replied, "Um…"
Meanwhile at Sabaody Park, the two S-class Mages had awoken surrounded by a bunch of men with guns… pointed at them…
"Put your arms in the air and state your name…" yelled Doberman ready to get this over with…
"The hell is this…. Whatever… I'm Gildarts Clive…" the Shanks look-alike replied with his arms raised…
"Erza Scarlet…" said the red head as well with her arms raised and was just as confused as him…
"Explain yourselves… why did you land in the middle of Sabaody Park and do you have any ties related to Red Haired Shanks…" asked Doberman
"What are you talking about, we're members of the Fairy Tail Guild…" said Erza
"Who's he… never heard of him…" replied Gildarts
"You're lying, everyone knows who Red Haired is, especially after the war… Besides what even is this guild you speak of… These three are being uncooperative, arrest them men!" yelled Doberman
"What… Whatever, Erza get ready, and would you protect Cana for me, I'll handle most of these idiots…" said Gildarts
"Right, I'll protect her for you…" replied Erza
"Thanks…"
"Alright men brace up, on my mark… Fire!" yelled Doberman…
In a blink of an eye, the ground under most of the marines disappeared and many fell in, and the ones left standing were either beaten up by one named Gildarts, or sliced by the redhead named Erza in a suits of armors that kept changing…
The last thing Doberman remembered was the man named Gildarts saying, "Wrong move…" before knocking him out … How could he let something like this happen to the Navy…
"There will be hell to pay for those two" he thought to himself before passing out…
On Jaya, Laxus had been given, mostly out of fear, a room to stay in for the time being. On the bed was Makarov, covered in heavy injuries…
After his little show of strength, some other pirates tried to stop him, but he beat the crap out of them too, and the rest decided to listen to his demands so he wouldn't level the rest of Mock Town…
He asked for lodging, so they gave him one of the best rooms at the Tropical Hotel. He had Freed bring Makarov their as the next of his demands were met, asking for a doctor…
A local doctor, who many people decided had gone insane, went to Laxus and entered the room…
"Who the hell are you?" asked Laxus
"I'm the doctor you asked for sir…" replied the doctor
"Oh right, Freed show him the geezer…" Laxus said as the green haired man led the doctor to a heavily injured old man on a bed…
"After him, could you look at us, we may not look like it, from how were acting, but we're in bad shape ourselves…" said Freed as both Laxus and him showed off their injuries…
"But not as bad as the old man…" said Laxus
When the doctor heard this, he thought to himself, "These guys must be freaking monsters, to be able to move after an impact they made and whatever other freaking battle they had been in…" but he kept it to himself and looked over the old man…
The old man looked to be barely breathing, and the wounds that had been treated seemed to have opened up again… "Just what had these men been through..." he thought.
"Well there's not much I can do, I've treated him so his wounds won't get infected and open up ever worse than they are... The only other way to heal him is with time…" said the doctor
The doctor then proceeded to work on Laxus and Freed's injuries…
"So what kind of devil fruit did you eat?" the doctor asked Laxus trying to make small talk, he did this to keep his psyche calm…
"I heard that before… What the hell is a devil fruit?" asked Laxus
"Are you kidding? Their powers you gain when you eat a certain cursed fruit and makes you lose the ability to swim… Come on your powers are certainly a Logia type…" said the Doctor confused
"No I preform magic, as well as Freed and the old geezer…" Laxus replied
"Magic? I've never heard of people using that before…" the doctor responded
"Anyways could you tell us where we are?" asked Freed, trying to change the topic that to something that could be more useful to them…
"You're in Mock Town, on the island of Jaya…" he replied
"How far is that from Fiore?" asked Freed
"Fiore? I was a former ship's doctor, I've never heard of an island called that…" the doctor responded
"But that's imposs…" was all Freed could say before Laxus interrupted him…
"Thanks for treating our injuries… You've been a great help, we'll call you if the old man wakes up or if our wounds do…"
"Oh alright then, I've finished bandaging you two anyway, so I'll leave then…" said the doctor, and he left the room…
"Laxus why did you do that?" Freed asked concerned
"I don't know where we are, but from what he was saying, we're not home, not even on the same continents… The best option is to consult the old man on what to do, because he will definitely know, and I hate saying that… So for now, we'll keep up the tough guy act, find out what we need to, wait for Gramps to wake up, and then we'll go search for the rest of the guild…" Laxus replied
"Alright… It seems like the best course of action for right now…" freed responded
Outside, the doctor was consulting with other pirates and townsfolk about the strange men…
"They said they're from a place called Fiore and use powers called magic…" the doctor told them…
"The hell is that place?" said a pirate
"Who knows" said another
"Hey, I got it, they fell from the sky right, and they must have come from Sky Island that Straw Hat kid talked about…" said a different pirate
"Yeah that makes sense, the people there could call the power of devil fruits magic and the sky island is actually called Fiore…" replied another
"Hell, even Bellamy went searching for it, so I don't even doubt its existence anymore…"
"Yeah!" the people screamed in unison as they had finally found a logical explanation they could fathom…
As the people of Jaya were trying figure out Laxus' strange group, the Galley-La Company scrambled to make heads or tails of what had landed in their front lobby…
"Alright, let's put these three in the Guest House for right now…" said Iceburg, "I can already see the reporters coming…ugh…"
So the three fairies were moved the Guest House for the time being while the Galley-La workers began repairs on the headquarters. Iceburg and Paulie then proceeded to the Guest House and on the way, Iceburg decided to ask Paulie a few questions…
"So Paulie, why were down in Dock 1?" asked Iceburg, "You're the Vice President now, you can't be down there all the time…"
Paulie replied, "Sorry Iceburg, the boys called me down to talk to some green haired pirate and his crew. He had some designs for a ship that looked like the Straw Hat kid, and they told him Straw Hat didn't invade Enies Lobby alone and I could tell him what really happened, and he said he would pay extra, so I told him what happened… I also told him this was the island where Cyborg Franky was from, and I think half of them passed out when I said that, and he kept calling me senpai and said thank you for telling the truth. I was leaving that strange meeting when I saw the strange light and came rushing here with the boys…"
"I know you need the money to pay off debts Paulie, but you must be careful who you tell that story, you never know who works for the World Government, and you and I know firsthand what I mean… It's dangerous to tell that story after what Straw Hat just did a few months ago, plus it could make you into a criminal if you're not careful…" Iceburg responded
"Yeah, sorry Iceburg, we better figure out the story behind those strange three people then, huh…" said Paulie
"Yes for the sake of the Galley-La Company and Water 7 itself, you never know who is and isn't a threat…" Iceburg responded
""Right, and I get that you're implying about CP9, man I didn't know you were great at being subtle…" Paulie replied sarcastically
"Never mind my implications, we better figure out their story then…" said Iceburg
The duo opened the doors and walked into the Guest House, only to be greeted by the yelling of the word "Man!" and a Dock 1 worker being thrown at their feet…
Author's Note: The plot thickens! It seems the mages are having some rough starts, but I think they will manage... or not who knows... But anyways leave a review and story suggestions and I might take them into consideration... And no the next chapter will not be out as quick, I actually haven't even started it yet, so sorry there is no preview But I'll try to get it out as early as possible...