Mawaru Nekodrum: Episode 1, part 1 - The Bell Of Fate Rings! Part 1!
I hate the word "fate". We're born, meet people, part ways, have failures and successes, experience fortune and adversity… If all that is predetermined by fate, then why are we even born? People are born into prosperous households, or from beautiful mothers, into starvation or in the middle of war … If all that is fate, then God is a cruel and wanton being. Ever since IT happened, we've had no future. The fact that we'll never amount to anything was made perfectly clear.
It's all especially true for me, Natsu Dragneel, and my family. Dead parents, poor with not a penny to our names, no special talents or ambitions at all, and a deathly sick younger sister.
Getting up early, it still being dawn, as I always do to prepare breakfast for my older brother Gajeel, and younger sister Wendy. Tinkering around the kitchen, and smiling at the drawings and knick knacks littering the walls and shelves of our "house" (it was more like a shack) our younger selves had put up. The place had a lot of color for only a family of two sixteen year olds and a thirteen year old.
"Oi, Gajeel! Wendy! Breakfast is ready!" Wendy was down first, as her room was closest in case of emergencies.
"Hey Natsu! Oh wow it's later than usual today. Are you and Gajeel not going to school today?" Wendy walked up and hugged me, still in her pink puppy pajamas.
"No, we're not. Everybody knows that school is for losers." I grinned at her, it was always nice to see Wendy somewhat healthy every so often. At least she wasn't as pale as she normally was.
"Ah, my delinquent big brothers!" She laughed.
"Well, it's not as if we wouldn't be told off by the Student Council anyways. Erza is annoying sometimes, I keep trying to tell her my hair is natural and not dyed. And it's not as if Gajeel is going to listen and take out his piercings." I sigh, running a tanned hand through the bright pink (it's salmon!) hair.
"Hell no I ain't taking off my piercings! That redhead bitch is crazy if she thinks she can control me!" Gajeel practically shouts his words as he take the stairs three steps at a time, and ruffles Wendy's hair as he reaches the bottom. He turns towards me and forces me into a headlock and noogies me. "What's for breakfast, bitch?"
"Hey, get off me metal ass! The eggs are burning!" He let's go so I can run to the eggs. I pull out a bowl and pile them in, setting it on the table. "Alright, let's eat!"
We all sit down. " Wow, you didn't screw up the bacon today, nice one!" Gajeel smirks.
"Shut it." I growl, and we both look over as Wendy takes a bite out of her pancakes.
"Do you like them, Wendy?"
"Yeah, It's been awhile since I've had nice, warm chocolate chip pancakes!"
"Hm, that's good. The hospital food always sucks, right?" Gajeel says.
"Yeah, but I'm sure they try their best. But more importantly, Natsu's pancakes always taste like mom's does. It's great!" Wendy smiles as she takes another bite.
"Oh, Wendy! You're the sweetest!" I think it's impossible to have a sister as sweet as Wendy always is.
"And he memorizes the specials at the supermarket, just for us, huh Wendy!" Gajeel says.
"He'd make A great wife, right Gajeel!" Wendy says.
"100 percent correct! I can see Natsu's wedding day right now! His husband is so happy, what a gorgeous engagement ring. Oh, Natsu, you're bouquet doesn't go quite well with your veil."
"Ah man, quit it you two!" I say as I shove Gajeel. At least I try to. I space out as Gajeel and Wendy continue to talk, thinking about what had happened only yesterday, the day we had been allowed to take Wendy back home from the hospital for the first time in a while.
The hospital room was dark, only lit up by the machine lighting up the pictures of Wendy's brain and other x-rays of her body that were pinned to it. The light was shining across the face of the doctor that was sitting across from me and Gajeel at his desk.
"I'm very sorry, but there's no more modern medicine can do for Wendy. Your sister has, at best, a few months to live. Perhaps even less."
What… Wendy is going to die… I can't believe it! I won't believe it! I don't want to lose her! "That can't be! There's no way it is!" I roared at the doctor.
"Screw that!" Gajeel shouts. "Screw that!" he repeats. "Is that something a doctor is supposed to say?!"
"Gajeel!" I shout as I tried to pull him off the doctor he had lunged at.
"If it's the money, we'll fucking figure something out! If England can't do jack shit, we'll go over to some other god damn country if we have to! If she need organs, fucking use mine! So… so…" Gajeel's voice and hands tremble as he let's go of the doctor's shirt collar. "Don't say that there's nothing you can do. Don't say it." Gajeel falls back into his chair and begins to smooth his hands over his face.
"Gajeel…"
"Please. PLEASE SAVE HER. PLEASE HELP HER. I'LL MAKE ANY SACRIFICE. I'LL GIVE ANYTHING IN RETURN. JUST SAVE WENDY."
"Son. I'm a doctor, not god."
"God? God's not real."
"That was delicious, Natsu!" Wendy chirps as she finishes. She stands up and drops herself on the couch. "I ate sooooo much!" She turns her head to face us. "Hey guys, It's Wendy Day!"
"Wendy Day?"
"That's right! Natsu said that today, I can do whatever I want for the whole day! So, therefore, it's Wendy Day!" She closes her eyes as two children walk past the open screen door, one talking about a book he just read. "Gaj? Nat? This is happiness, right? Being able to sit here with each other right now, it's the best, right?"
"Right you are, Wendy, right you are" Gajeel answers, "You're here, Natsu's here, we have this place, this is what you call happiness, huh?"
Wendy stands up. "Hey, Gajeel! Do you think there are still tigers at that zoo?"
Half an hour later, we're all piled in Gajeel's old junk pile of a van. "Monkeys! Monkeys! Last time we all went to the zoo, Natsu kept saying 'Monkeys! Monkeys!' and he started making monkey noises and scratching his butt!" Wendy said.
"Hey, that's when we all were kids, Wendy!"
"That was alot of fun!" Gajeel gihihied.
"Hey, Gajeel, you're frog impersonation was masterful as well." I said, remembering when he went around, croaking and hopping on all fours.
"Shut it, you pyro!" He says, throwing a can at my head.
At the zoo, we had stopped at the reptile and amphibian house. "Ah, look at the turtles! Aren't they cute, Natsu?" Wendy says.
"Yep. They're a bit slow though, don't you think?"
"Wow, hearing that from you will make the turtles mad."
"Shut up, metal for brains."
"What was that, ash for brains? I didn't hear you," He says, pulling out his phone. "I gotta take a call."
"Really, Gajeel? Another girl? There's a limit you know."
"Eh, I'm making it work."
"Jeez, Gajeel, you get around so much I feel like we'll catch something just standing next to you." But he wasn't listening as he walked away. "Hey, Wendy, let's go look at souvenirs. I'll buy you anything you want today." Natsu said, leading Wendy away from the habitats. Behind their backs, three cats, one black, one blue, one white, popped their heads out of three different trash cans, watching their backs as they left.
"Wow, this tiger is so cute!" Wendy held up the stuffed tiger as Natsu looked at the price tag. Natsu gasped as he looked at the overpriced lump of stuffing and fabric, and sighed in relief as Wendy decided that she didn't want it and put it back on the shelf. She walked along and pulled what looked to be a cat hat out of a random pile.
It was a head of a cat with shiny button eyes, some metal studs forming a shape of a heart on the outer side of the right eye. It was white, with the bottom of the hat lined with light pink lace. Connected to the hat were two pink silk ribbons at the sides, evenly gathered up into what appeared to be two fake sparkly crystal balls, connected by fake gold beads, ending in another fake teardrop shaped crystal.
"Wow, Wendy, that looks great! Weird, but cute!" Natsu said, giving a thumbs up.
"Isn't it?!"
"Here, I'll go get it for you." Natsu said as he took the hat to the cash register to get it wrapped as Wendy wandered off.
"Jeez, I was looking for you." Gajeel said as he walked up to Natsu.
"You were taking too long."
"Hm. Where's Wendy?" Gajeel said, looking around for the small girl. "Weren't you watching her?"
"What? She was just here a minute ago!"
"Hey! Somebody call an ambulance! A girl collapsed out front!" A male voice called from the entrance.
Both Natsu and Gajeel ran down the stairs, looking for their sister. Panting, they saw her, sweaty and pale and breathing hard. She was lying down right in front of the ticket booth, face flush, hair and blue skirt splayed over the asphalt.
"WENDY"
"WENDY"
"Gajeel … Natsu… Goodbye."
Author's Note
Well, not much of a cliffhanger when the whole thing is a parody with Mawaru Penguindrum. 80-70% of the dialogue is directly taken, word for word. Anyways, am I making a fanfiction where I replace the characters from Mawaru Penguindrum with Fairy Tail characters? Yes, yes I am. And I'm probably going to do the same with Yuri Kuma Arashi and Revolutionary Girl Utena. This is directly going to follow the same storyline, so spoilers if you haven't watched Mawaru Penguindrum yet. This is probably going to be around 48 or so chapters, with 2 chapters each episode. I'll try to update often, but I make no promises since this is my first time doing something like this. I'll have more time in a few months with Summer Break, which is why I'm making this now.