Credits: Nemia Leofric-Maebara18
Felix Downs-Potentialauthor18 (name changed to Shiro4th)
Chapter two: First Contact
"Hey, Flowerpot! I'm bored, let's go on a job!" Trevor yelled over to his best friend, Doyle, however was busy tending his small greenhouse that he kept behind the male dorm for Fairy Tail members.
"Can't, I'm busy, either wait four hours or go without me."
"Fine! I didn't need you anyways you glorified gardener!" A hand poked out of the flap covering the greenhouse entrance, demonstrating Doyle's silent, uncomplimentary, one fingered, opinion of Trevor's statement, the Dragon Slayer laughed and walked into the Guild hall, heading to the job board.
"Getting bored, Trev?" Asked Felix Downs, a friendly, if unconfident, support wizard.
"Yeah, I haven't been on a job in a week, I need to be doing something."
"I hear ya, say, I don't suppose I could tag along? I'm not that useful on my own, but with someone to support, even I can help out."
"Sure, Felix, since we're going to be splitting the reward, we should find something good."
"Hey, if you're taking the wimp, why not let me come along?" Nemia Leofric had joined them while they'd been talking, Nemia was a muscular woman, who practiced Atom Control magic, which allowed her to tighten or loosen the bonds of her atoms, rendering her body rock hard, or intangible, Nemia was a loud, outgoing, and cheerful wizard, who loved to fight hand to hand, she and Trevor had a running count of their fights, they were up to sixty three, with Trevor in the lead, having won thirty eight of those fights.
"Sure, we could always use another hand, what do you say Felix?"
"Yeah, good idea." Felix agreed, less than enthusiastically.
Nima grinned and punched both boys on the arm, knocking Felix over, and causing Trevor to stagger slightly.
"Great! And when we get back, you and I can have another fight Trev." Just about every member of the guild called Trevor Trev, he didn't like his name very much.
"You're on, be prepared for loss number thirty nine."
"Ha, you wish, you got lucky those last couple times, I'm gonna bring your winning streak to an end." While the two physical mages were bickering, Felix looked over the job board and pulled down a job with a nice reward, it was a monster hunt near Acalypha, apparently some kind of large lizard-like creature was popping up every couple of weeks and eating random people, the reward for killing it was six hundred thousand Jewel.
"Hey, guys, how about we do this job?" Trevor and Nemia stopped glaring at each other and looked over the job request, they both agreed with Felix, and they split up to prepare for the trip, Trevor went to find Huey.
As expected the tubby, yellow furred Exceed was fishing in the river, Huey loved to eat, and there wasn't anything he loved to eat more than fish.
"Hey Trev! Whatcha doin'?" The cheerful yellow talking cat asked his best friend in the universe.
"We've got a job little buddy, sorry, but you're gonna have to put away the fishing rod."
"AWWW, but I haven't caught a single fish yet, and I ate all my snacks while I was fishing." Huey complained.
Trevor sighed, then he reached into his pocket for the emergency snacks he kept for just such an occasion.
"Here, take these, they should keep you until we get to Acalypha, where we will buy you some more food." Huey reached into the bundle, pulled out a cookie, and ate it, getting crumbs all over his fur.
After getting approval from the Master, the foursome met at the Fairy Tail airstrip, home to Fairy Tail's only magic plane, which was actually Trevor's, he'd built it and he'd learned how to pilot it himself. Being a Dragon Slayer, Trevor experienced severe motion sickness on most forms of transportation, but for him flying vehicles were an exception, it may have had something to do with being a Cloud Dragon Slayer, but while he was flying he barely felt as if he was in a vehicle at all.
"You know..." Felix began. "I've never understood how you can barely look at a boat, or a magicmobile without getting sick, but flying in this metal deathtrap doesn't bother you in the slightest."
"I'm a Cloud Dragon Slayer, I'm most at home in the clouds, literally in my element, and Nebulon II isn't a deathtrap, she's a work of art."
"That's another thing, naming your plane after your Dragon parent? Isn't that kinda weird?"
"Hey! Nebulon was the closest thing to a mother I've ever had, I miss her, naming the plane after her makes it feel like she isn't so far away."
"Ok, fine, let's get going, I guess." The four wizards got into the magical plane, Trevor took the pilot's seat, Huey took the elevated co-pilot's seat, Trevor hooked the SC Plug to his left arm and they took off.
An hour later Trevor used the miniature communication Lacrima to request permission to land near Acalypha, when he was granted permission he brought Nebulon II down for a landing. Once on the ground the four Fairy Tail Wizards disembarked, and headed to the town hall, they were greeted by a secretary.
"Hello, how may I help you?"
"We're the Fairy Tail wizards sent to take care of your monster problem."
"Oh, but there must be some kind of mix up, we've already got a Fairy Tail wizard here to take the job." All four wizards stiffened, then Nemia spoke up.
"Not according to Master, we're the only wizards who were sent on this job."
The secretary looked startled. "Oh! B-but, he had your guildmark."
Trevor cut in. "Can you describe it, and him."
"Well the mark was rainbow colored and situated on the left side of his neck, he had shoulder length dark gray hair, and downturned ice blue eyes, with slit pupils like yours." She indicated Trevor. "he was about six feet tall, and his body temperature was very low, I noticed when he shook my hand as he left, I figured he must have been an Ice wizard."
"We don't have any Ice wizards matching that description in our guild, did he say what his name was?"
"Winter, Winter Fullbuster, that's part of the reason I believed him so easily, he was descended from a famous member of Fairy Tail."
Felix entered the conversation. "The Fullbuster family moved back to the Northern Continent forty years ago, there hasn't been a member of that family in the guild since then."
"Where might he have gone?" Trevor asked, he was getting angry, nobody ever impersonated a member of Fairy Tail if he had anything to say about it, Fairy Tail was his home, and his family, and people who dishonored that home and family made him furious.
The secretary gave the four Guild wizards the same directions she'd given the mysterious imposter. Then they took off running after the imposter, Felix paused just long enough to thank the woman before running after his teammates. They found the man fairly easily, the roars of pain from the monster they had come to kill led them straight to him.
The man was standing in front of the monster, a spike of ice extended from his hand, and buried in the monster's chest.
"Hey! Poser, what the hell are you trying to pull, pretending to be a Fairy Tail wizard?" Trevor yelled.
The man turned to face the four wizards, he wore an open long white coat, lined with silver, no shirt, and black pants. The ice spike vanished as he smiled at the four younger wizards, he was clearly at least thirty.
"What is my purpose, you ask? I needed money, and taking a wizarding job seemed the easiest way to do it, pretending to be a member of my great grandfather's guild just seemed fitting to me." The man's voice was calm, reasonable, and friendly.
Trevor, however was having none of it. "Even if you really are related to Gray, impersonating a member of his guild is just spitting on his memory, how is that a good thing?"
"Because that weak fool was never able to conquer his rival, Natsu Dragneel, he allowed an idiot to best him, he doesn't deserve my respect, merely my scorn, and I will eventually destroy his greatest pride, Fairy Tail, so why not impersonate a member of your doomed guild, it's not like it will be around much longer, anyway, once I destroy a few more of these pathetic guilds, like I did to Mermaid Heel, I'll move on to your precious home, tell me, how is little Silena doing? Did she like my gift of her life? I could easily have killed her along with her old guild, but I chose to let her leave before I attacked."
"Cloud Dragon's Veiled Fist!" Trevor launched himself at Winter, his right fist covered in trailing cloud that magically enhanced the force of his punches. The Ice wizard caught the strike with his bare hand, then he kicked Trevor away.
"Atom Control: Harden!"
"Ward Magic: Triple Ward, three targets!"
Nemia, and Felix entered the fight, Nemia tightened the atoms in her arm to render it as hard as steel, and Felix summoned three magical shields, one for each human member of Fairy Tail. Winter dodged Nemia's attempt to punch him, then he used his magic.
"Ice Make: Frozen Terror!" Ten spiralling serpents of ice surrounded Nemia, trapping her in place without triggering the Ward, however, Nemia wasn't out of the fight by a long shot.
"Atom Control: Phase!" Loosening her atoms, Nemia passed through the Ice spell, unfortunately, the backlash caused by passing through the magical ice wore her Ward down to next to nothing, when she returned to solidity she saw Winter place his right fist in his open left hand.
"Ice Make:..." He didn't get a chance to complete the spell, before Trevor, his foot surrounded by cloud, tried to kick Winter in the head.
"Cloud Dragon's Fog Talon!" The Ice wizard stopped his spell and ducked the strike, a look of pure rage crossed his face for a moment, before being replaced by his basic neutral expression.
"Ice Dragon's Frozen Claw!" A clawed dragon paw of ice formed around Winter's hand, and he slashed Trevor across the chest, knocking him away and tearing through his Ward like tissue paper.
"Looks like I need to take this seriously." Trevor growled.
"Cloud Drive!" A large, white magic circle appeared beneath the young wizard's feet, when it vanished, his form appeared slightly blurry, tendrils of mist spiralling off of his body, then the Cloud Dragon Slayer literally evaporated, a cloud flew at the Ice Dragon Slayer, which reformed into Trevor, who kicked Winter in the face, then evaporated again. Trevor reformed behind his opponent and used Cloud Dragon's Veiled fist to smash the older Slayer in the back of the head, Winter had started to laugh.
"Ohhh, yes! Finally! Someone who can give me some entertainment!"
"Ice Dragon's Shattered Nebula!" Five concentric rings of ice spikes exploded around Winter, forcing Trevor to evaporate out of the way.
"Ice Drive!" The pale blue magic circle that appeared under Winter's feet was at least three times larger than the one that had appeared under Trevor when he'd used his version of the Dragon Drive spell, then the Ice Dragon Slayer launched himself after his prey, leaving behind a patch of ice where he'd been standing, the two Dragon wizards traded blows almost faster than the other three wizards present could perceive, Nemia hardened her arm again and charged Winter, who just kicked her in the gut, ice formed over her midsection as she was sent flying. The two Dragon Slayers separated, Trevor looked like he'd been fighting an army of martial arts experts, he was bruised, battered, and exhausted, ice forming in small pockets all over his body, Winter however was barely breathing hard, he showed nearly no signs of being in a fight at all, both wizards began sucking in air.
"Cloud Dragon's..."
"Ice Dragon's..."
"Roar!" A tornado of rapidly swirling cloud blasted from Trevor's mouth, while a similar twister of snow and ice shot from his opponent, the two breath attacks collided, and exploded, knocking everyone, except Winter, off their feet, Cloud Drive ended, and Trevor could barely raise his head to see the other Dragon Slayer looking down at him, his coat ripped, and a single scratch on his bare chest, a cruel grin on his face.
"Well, kid, that wasn't too bad of a fight, so I'll let you and your friends live, you can tell your precious guild that their days are numbered, it should be fun, watching you scramble for survival."
"Ice Make: Wings!" Dragon wings of ice formed on Winter's back and he flew away.
(Author's Note: And here's the villain for the first arc, Winter Fullbuster, the Third Generation Ice Dragon Slayer, he's got a second element, but I'm not going to reveal it yet, as always, please read, enjoy, review, and submit OCs, thank you.)