Hmmmmm...to be honest I had a struggle with this chapter. Mostly about the character placement...hmmmmm. Oh well, as I mentioned before it is a bit AU-ish..?. There is a character here that I absolutely didn't want to change coz he's one of my favorites but I had to. Hopefully it would just go well with story. For the readers who doesn't like it, well...I'm sorry in advance. On with the story, hopefully you won't be too surprised as you read but I guess it would be a..good...thing? Ahahaha.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail :)
"The meeting"
"Wizard….hmmm, Wizard Saints" A blond girl searched the entire library for that certain book. She was assigned to catalog all the books but it seems that this certain book does not want to be found. She was about to give up when she saw an outline of a book atop the bookshelf.
"Why is it so high up?" she sighed and debated whether she should get a ladder or not.
"I'll just climbed then" she started climbing the shelf as she reached for the book. She caught the book when a sound disrupted her.
Craaaaack
Her face horrified when the shelf came tumbling down causing a domino effect unto the other shelves. The Library was a complete mess.
"Oops?" She hid her face behind the book entitled 'Daybreak'
"What happened to my library?!" A booming voice asked
"You! What have you done?!" An old woman with pink hair glared at the blond girl
"I-it was an accident" The girl bowed her head in apology
"Sons of the kings! Plagues! Curses! Bring me anything! Anything but you!" She pointed a finger
"Compared to all the things I mentioned, they were all the Joy" she fumed as her face became red
"Now, now Porlyusica, she said it was an accident" A small old man emerged from one of the tumbled shelves as he smiled lazily at the two.
The blonde girl's eyes widened as she made another bow to the old man "I-I deeply apologize!"
"When the fourth king, destroyed the empire that was an accident" Porlyusica glared at the old man
"Don't be so hard on the poor girl" Makarov just sighed
"I'd rather have the curse than HER! Compared to her!" Porlyusica gave a deep breath "Why do I put up with you?"
"T-that's because – I can read and write the ancient Fiorian language, have a deep and profound knowledge at the history of ancient Fiore" The girl was mad at being belittled
Porlyusica raised an eyebrow at her making the poor girl angrier
"Well, I'm the only one, within a thousand miles, who could properly organize and catalog this library that's why" she clenched her fist as her chest heaved.
"Lucy's righ –" Makarov was about to agree when Porlyusica cut him off
"I put up with you because your parents were our greatest patrons" Porlyusica gave another sigh and placed a hand on her forehead
"I don't care how you do it. I don't care how long it takes. Just clean up this place!" She fumed and left dragging Makarov behind her.
Lucy sighed when they left. She was about to start arranging the books when she heard a groaning sound from the museum.
"H-Hello?" she asked as she scanned the area bringing with her a torch light
"Anybody here?" she scanned the area when she heard a sound coming from a certain sarcophagus
With a brave front, she walked towards the suspicious thing. She was peeked through the sarcophagus but saw nothing, it was only a mummy on display. She was about to turn around when somebody pushed her, making her fall towards the mummy.
"Kyaaaah!" She screamed as tried to get up and scrambled her way out from the sarcophagus
"Pffffft! Hahahahahaha!" laughter echoed throughout the museum as a boy with blue hair clutched his stomach and continued to laugh
"Have you no respect for the dead?!" Lucy pulled the said boy up, making him stand.
"I do my beloved sister" His laughter died down as he wiped the tears that escaped from his eyes
"It's just that sometimes…" He gave Lucy a grin and whirled an arm around her "I would like for you to join them"
"Oh stop this act of yours Happy" Lucy slapped his arm and sat at nearest bench.
"I fear that you would ruin your career before it even starts" Lucy sighed as she saw her brother sitting beside her.
"Relax dear sister, I found something that will remove the wrinkles on your face" Happy gave a grin and tossed a stone towards her
"I do not have -" Lucy paused as she examined the stone
"It's a pretty stone right?" Happy nodded towards himself proudly as he made his sister silent for once
"Where did you find this?" Lucy whispered
"T-There was merchant on the outskirts of magnolia" Happy said with a half grin and averted his eyes
Lucy remained silent as she continued to examine the stone. That was when she realized that this stone was not actually a stone. It was a lacrima. She couldn't believe it. Lacrimas were an ancient artifact used for Magic.
'Magic, is this possible?' Lucy shook her head in thought. Lucy herself was interested and believed in the magic world. There were numerous times where she would try to use magic herself but it was unsuccessful. It was said that magic was uncommon 400 years ago but now it would be seemingly treated as a myth.
I have yet to encounter a magician and this brat found a lacrima?!
"Happy" She breathed out
"Y-Yes?" Happy stiffened at the call but as he turned he saw Lucy gripping the stone in silence
"Lucy?" Once he called out, the lacrima glowed and projected the map of the ancient city, Crocus.
"Did you have to be so hard on the poor girl" Makarov shook his head as he sat across Porlyusica. After the 'incident' at the library, they returned to her office.
"It is best if she should just leave this place" Porlyusica 'hmped' while she gathered her paperwork
"hmmm"
Looking up, Porlyusica saw Makarov rubbing his chin seemingly loss in thought
"Don't you have better things to do?" She sighed as the old man continued with his train of thought
"May-"
"Porlyusica-san!" Lucy screamed as she banged the doors open and marched inside the office
Porlyusica raised her and saw Lucy approaching the table while panting, dragging her younger brother by the collar behind her and tossed him towards a chair.
"What is the mea-"
"ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!" Happy screamed as he panted for air. Being dragged by collar forcefully, blocking the passage of air, and suddenly tossed like some ragged cloth was not the best way to tell someone 'accompany me for a while'.
Ignoring her brother, Lucy shoved the stone towards Porlyusica as it projected the map of the lost city.
"The map of the ancient city" Makarov said with a low voice as he widened his eyes
"Crocus" Porlyusica whispered
"It's the ancient city, Crocus" Lucy beamed as she pointed to a certain part of the map "I've already dated the map, judging by the lacrima and symbols shown, it seems to be 400 years old"
"Perhaps..." Porlyusica said with uncertainty
"As you see this kartush here" Lucy pointed and gave a deep breath "Well, it's the island of Tenroujima"
"Preposterous!" Porlyusica slammed the lacrima downed "We're scholars not treasure hunters!"
"Don't slam it down!" Lucy took the lacrima and examined it "It's really fragile"
"Treasure hunters? Tenroujima?" Happy scrunched his eyebrows completely confused with the situation. When it comes to history, he wasn't an avid fan but Lucy wanted to share her excitement with him forcing him to learn the ancient language and he was a bit interested of its history. And by history, he means the all the ancient treasures that came with it. Sacred artifacts, gold, treasures, sacred treasures, name a few and his head will turn 180 degrees.
"No way! Is it really?" Happy exclaimed with a stars in his eyes "The island where the late pharaohs buried their treausure?!" he shook Lucy in excitement
"Yes, yes" Lucy was a bit annoyed with the shaking but was delighted that he was also interested.
"Why don't we go? Yeah! Let's go! Right now!" Happy exclaimed while nodding his head vigorously. The excitement inside him couldn't be contained that he headed straight for the door.
"I wanna have a look too!~" Makarov whined and suddenly reached for the lacrima. With his sudden movement the lacrima fell towards the ground, Happy ran towards them but was too late as the lacrima broke in half.
"No no no no no!" Lucy kneeled down as she gathered the fragments. One was larger than the other, so she tried to see if the larger one still contains the map. Well, not all hope was lost. The map was still there but it was on the smaller fragment. It only showed the ancient city and that was it.
"You...you destroyed the map!" Happy shouted as his hands trembled from shock. He looked at his sister who was frozen in spot.
"Relax, it's still there" Porlyusica sighed and shook her head and stood up.
"What you mean it's still there?!" Happy looked at the old woman and exclaimed angrily "The map towards tenroujima is gone!"
"I-I'm sorry" Makarov meekly said bowing his head in an apologetic manner. He looked at Happy with tears in his eyes.
"U-um I.." Happy was taken aback with the attitude of the old man. The old man was acting like a Five year old kid who was caught doing something bad.
"It's for the best I'm sure" Porlyusica said and proceeded towards the door dragging Makarov ,who still had tears in his eyes, before she stopped to warn them.
"Many men wasted their lives looking for that Island." She looked backed and said with an eerie voice
"Most have never returned"
"Please come in!" A man with blue hair and black eyes greeted them with a smile "Welcome to Magnolia prison" He proceeded to walk them towards their destination. What was distinctive about this man was his tattoo on his forehead.
"You said you bought this from a merchant!" Lucy fumed as she was mercilessly dragged by Happy
"Well I lied" Happy shrugged and continued dragging her "Why are you so angry? I lie to everybody?"
"I am your sister!" Lucy slapped his arm in anger
"Well that just makes you more gullible" Happy sniggered but he stopped
"Let go of me freaking bastards!" Inside a certain cell, a man with cuffs struggled between the two guards screamed with fury as they proceeded out of the door
"I-is that the man that you stole it from?" Lucy stared at him with curiosity. He was wearing a hooded cloak that covered his face.
"Pick-pocketed actually, so I guess it's not best that we -" Happy began to walk towards the other way
"Oh nonsense" Lucy smacked him and dragged him towards them
"What is this man exactly imprisoned for?" She asked as she continued to drag Happy by the neck. The blue-haired man looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"When I heard you were coming, I asked him that myself" He snapped his fingers and the guards forced the said man to kneel
"He said he was just looking for a good time" He shrugged and left them with the prisoner.
"Oh, um h-hello..." Lucy's voice quivered
The said man kept his head down and did not reply earned a hard kick on the head from the guard, making him groan in response. With that action the hood of the man fell, revealing an untidy, long, and spiky pink hair.
"I'm gonna kill you someday" The man muttered and looked up and saw two people in front him "Who are you?" he eyed Happy and then looked at Lucy
"And who's the broad?"
"B-Broad...?"
Well how was it? Sorry it took so long to update, I had a hectic schedule this January and I didn't have the time (cries)
Instead of Happy being addicted to fish, I made him addicted to treasure. I hope it was okay with you guys, if not well that's just too bad.
Next Chapter would be about Natsu and how he ended up in prison.
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Ciao~