Fairy Tail owned by Hiro Mashima
Fanfiction and Characters with * by: Emerald Sonata
FAIRY TAIL:
The Small Adventures of Wendy Marvell
~18~
'Our Party'
"… C… Carla…"
In a certain merchant ship that suddenly had its side blown wide open, Wendy Marvell had finally found her best friend since their childhood days. The white cat the size of a walking handbag, Carla.
However, their reunion was not kind.
The cat known as an Exceed was lying limply in the girl's arm, covered in bruises and trails of blood.
"Carla! Wake up! Say something! Carla!"
"… I'm sorry. You must be Darjeeling's friend, right?"
The girl with the copper headphones around her neck, Mint Bell, stood in front of Wendy Marvell. She too had bruised and some blood from the cuts done by shrapnel. However, she was able to stand.
It was because whatever attacked her was blocked by a giant band-iron Buddhist Bell that hovered in front of her. The bell gave a dull sound, a soothing sound despite its size being three times the mass of the 10 year old girl. But it was a sound that rejected evil and calmed the flames of destruction around her and Wendy and Carla behind her.
The enemy that struck out was one unit.
A giant mecha covered in thick iron plating, wielding a steam-gatling cannon in one large hand.
The Big Dog.
It fired its killer weapon at the girls within its vision.
"Bell Liberty!"
Mint Bell gave out a cry, one that caused the Buddhist bell to disappear like a phantom. It became a pack of blue fire, which shot out in multiple directions to become small square bells engraved with the wings of righteous liberty on their bodies.
They fan out and swarmed the Big Dog, mimicking a massacre of missiles.
*DON* *DON* *DON* *DON* *DON* *DON*
The steam powered mecha took the shower across the orb-helmet and bulbous chest. The attack punched in dents and started to rip small gashes into its tought carapace. Still, it kept standing to brace against the rest. When the last of the missile bells exploded across the mecha, it kicked on its steam-boosters and shot off towards its targets. It aim to defeat them by simply running them over.
"Bell Castle!"
Mint Bell crossed her arms together and then threw them out, as if she rejected any accusations against her existence. The floor of the broken merchant ship shook and out shot towers of Golden Oriental Pagodas that carried hundreds of small bells at the edges of its curved roofs. The Pagodas spun around like tops, throwing their bells about to make them ring all over the air.
A chorus of 1000 songbirds.
Those spinning Pagodas launched off themselves and moved in a criss-crossing formation. Their objective was to block the Big Dog Mecha.
The machine refused to lose.
It raised up its steam-gatling and shout out at the spinning towers. The golden skin of those magic bell towers held together, but Mint Bell could tell their plating were being eaten away to the core by the second. The steam-bullets were like termites to wood.
"Q-quick, we have to run or… Eh!? A Squid!?"
Mint Bell reached out, only to recoil instinctively. She never saw Wendy Marvell in her human form. Right now, she witnessed the poor girl in her cursed form. Her eyes couldn't pry away from the wings of living black oil.
"A-aaah. Aaaaaah…"
"Calm down, kiddo. It's not like she wanted to look like that."
The girl who could throw magic in the form of cultural Bells jumped when a certain fingerless glove touched her small shoulder.
She whirled around to meet a certain boy in a poncho, Avalon Railburn.
"But first of all. Why didn't you bother saving me from that pile of scrap wood?"
"I-I'm too confused to give a proper response! A-and how can you still smile with your face covered in blood like that."
Avalon Railburn blinked. It was as if she told him he grew a horn on his head without warning. To confirm, he actually touched the top of his head instead of inspecting the blood that bathed his entire face.
"… Meh."
With a uncaring shrug, he walked past Mint Bell (who continued to stare) and crouched down to Wendy Marvell.
"… Hey."
"…"
"… Simply put: do you want to kick this guy's butt."
"Yes."
Wendy Marvell raised her head. Before she received the curse, she had always been a timid girl. Though she was good a fighting and can wield powerful Sky Dragon Slayer Magic, she still shied away from complete strangers or run away whenever someone offered her a Sour Plum.
Tonight, the killer glow in her eye could not be hidden by the inhuman tentacles that acted as her hair. And this murderous aura was not entirely the curse's doing.
"That monster hurt Carla. I won't forgive him."
"Then wipe off those tears and take your stand. It's time to deliver the final judgment to all those who wrong you."
With a small nod, Wendy Marvell rose to her feet. Her skin was the color of rotten seaweed, fish like scales clung to her shoulders and thighs. The black oil like wings on her back twitched and shifted, as if mimicking the grace of an insect's antennae.
In her small arms covered in sickening scales, she cradled the white cat Carla close to her small chest.
"Heh-heh. First, let's restarted the introduction. The name's Avalon Railburn. Named after the legendary castle that forged the holy sword Excalibur and where the great King Arthur was laid to rest."
"Mint Bell. That's my name. Contrary to my first name, I hate mints. Never could stand them. But there is nothing I hate more than people who are unfair. So please be careful, your selfish whispers cannot escape my ears."
"… I… I am Wendy Marvell. The Sky Dragon Slayer. Carla and I… Carla and I are Mages of Fairy Tail!"
Avalon Railburn put on a grin. It was neither reckless or foolish. It was the type where it said 'we're taking the victory today, problem?'.
"Alright! Here we go! Let's Party!"
The moment the Big Dog smashed through the Golden Pagodas, the battle had started.