FAIRY TAIL: Wendy Marvell's Castle Island

by Emerald Sonata

[The Small Adventures of Wendy Marvell]. Wendy Marvell has suffered a curse to her body and she is forced to leave behind Fairy Tail in search of a cure. With her only companion, the Exceed Carla, she travels across oceans and lands to a city called Moonbay. There, she will find the hope to resolve her curse - but gets caught in a series of misadventures in a new reality of magic.

6. CASTLE ISLAND AVALON

Fairy Tail owned by Hiro Mashima

Fanfiction and Characters with * by: Emerald Sonata

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FAIRY TAIL:
The Small Adventures of Wendy Marvell

~05~
'Castle Island Avalon'

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"… What do I do? I lost my money. Carla's missing. And I'm lost… and hungry… This is terrible."

"….. Want me to adopt you?"

While curled up in a street next to a restaurant that sold things that smells of roasted duck, grilled pork, and teriyaki eel on rice, Wendy Marvell snapped out of her depressed state.

Someone had approached her and she had not noticed. She was a little girl in a foreign city, no money and no friend. She was in a vulnerable state where she could be taken advantage of.

And this boy in a poncho grinned as if he agreed in taking full advantage of this situation.

"Hey-yoooo. They name's Avalon Railburn*. Named after the Castle Island that forged the legendary Excalibur and where the Great King Arthur was laid to rest. What's your name, cutie?"

"…"

"… What? Don't girls like you normally slap me in the face for flirting with them?"

"You called me cutie?"

"… Did… I not?"

"Why?"

"… Good question."

The boy in the poncho, a complete stranger, just sat down next to Wendy Marvell on the street corner and struck a Rothion the Thinker Pose.

"Why did I call you cutie?"

"… Are you trying to cheer me up?"

"… Aha! I know! I'm trying to cheer you up! Yup."

Wendy Marvell stared at the boy in the poncho. No matter what anyone says, he looked and sounded like a complete idiot. There was somewhere in the back of the girl's mind who agreed.

"Hungry?"

"I lost all my money."

"Gambling addiction?"

"N-no!"

"Meh. Worth a shot."

"A-are you trying to guess my situation as if it was a game show?"

"… Heh-heh."

The boy in the poncho, calling himself Avalon Railburn, suddenly flattened his hand covered in fingerless gloves across Wendy Marvell's head.

"It's my treat."

"…"

The second he said those words, it triggered a monster in the shy girl's heart. She ended up towing him into the restaurant that sold things smelling of roast duck, grilled pork, and teriyaki eel on rice.

"... Hmm. I should be regretting this decision, shouldn't I?"

"*Cough* *Cough*. A fifth bowl of rice and more Oyster Steamed Buns please!"