Ohio! I am back with the first chapter. Hope you enjoy it minna! And don't expect much sweet and cute stuff in the story. All you may get is hopefully spine-chilling and torturing stuff. Bear with me. And do tell if you spot any, even minor, mistakes.
Disclaimer: I no own. Also the cover picture. I googled it.
Chapter 1: Mission
"Be careful, Lucy!" said one of the two boatmen as Lucy went towards the guild, walking on the edge of the Magnolia canal.
"Arigato!" said Lucy.
It was a beautiful bright morning. Today Lucy decided to take another job with her friends. After all, she has to pay her monthly rent... and she recently spotted a pair of awesome shoes in the famous store... "Whoa! Lucy, focus! Rent is more important. Yeah."
She was still deep in her thoughts as she entered the guild. She was so oblivious that she totally missed table flying towards her, implanting itself on her face.
"Look what you have done flame-head! You hit Lucy!"
"Shut your mouth, ice-head! It wouldn't have happened if you wouldn't have dodged-"
"Uresai! Both of you!"
"Hai!", "Aye!" Natsu and Gray said in union, Natsu turning into Happy-mode.
Sigh... It was another normal day in Fairy Tail.
"Were you two fighting again, boys?" came a menacing voice from behind Lucy. Erza came forward with a deathly aura around her.
As if having years of experience, both of them instantly wrapped their arms around each other and forced a smile. "N-no Erza, we were just... practicing tap-dancing!", "Aye!" and they started to frantically frail around, desperately trying to do something, ending up tripping and falling and making a complete fool of themselves, again.
The dark aura disappeared as soon as it appeared. "Anyways, I want you guys to accompany me in an S-class mission. We have to retrieve missing treasure from the ruins of a mansion for some archaeologists. The reward is very high; enough to pay Lucy's half-year rent."
Gray said, "That seems like an easy one. What's with the high reward and S-class rating?"
"I was thinking about the same thing. It says that they need mages. More than two mages are required. And the only thing the flyer says is that the ruins are under mysterious magic. I found this weird so I selected this one."
"B-But isn't that dangerous? I mean... curses... S-class..."
"oh, c'mon Lucy! We will be fine. No silly curses can stop me 'cause I'm all fired up!"
"Okay! So you guys are in?"
"Yeah!" came three energetic and one shaky reply.
"Okay then. Let's meet today at 11 at the train station. And DONT BE LATE, NATSU."
"A-Aye!"
"So it is decided then. Mira! We are taking this mission."
Mirajane quickly assessed the flyer, her eyes widening just a bit at the image of the ruins, but she quickly hid it with a smile, while making an entry in the guild register. "Best of luck, Erza-san! And do contact us if any problem occurs."
"As you say Mira. Thanks again."
"You're welcome" said Mira and flashed Erza her signature dazzling smile.
-Team Natsu exits as Team Shadow Gear comes in-
"Ohio Mira! What's up? You look a bit down." Said Levy, sitting down near the bar counter.
"Good Morning Levy. It's nothing, really. You must be tired. Let me fix something for you."
"Tell me, Mira-san! Don't hide stuff from me!"
Mira paused for a while, took a deep breath, turned towards Levy and said. "Ano Levy-chan, can you do me a favour?"
"What is it Mira-san?"
"A-Actually, I wanted a bit of information about stuff. Can you get some information about the Mystique Mansion for me?"
"Those ruins? But why?"
"That's on a mission flyer. But I have heard not so good rumours about it. Can you help me out? I have a bad feeling about it."
"As you say Mira-san," said Levy and left for the library.
"Sigh... I hope they would be alright..."
-line break-
"I am alive!" screamed Natsu in joy as they approached the city. Team Natsu was standing in front of the entrance to the city: Emzorde. They wandered around the nearly empty streets of the city as they searched for their destination. Soon enough they arrived at the base *cough*hut*cough* of the archaeologists.
"who is there?" the guy who opened the door asked them.
"Good afternoon, sir. We are here from Fairy Tail. I am Erza. The pink haired guy is Natsu *it's salmon...*, raven haired is Gray, blonde is Lucy and the Flying cat is Happy *aye!*"
"Oh, welcome in. We have been waiting for you. Personally I didn't think you would come..." he muttered the last part, but it didn't go unnoticed by Erza.
"Excuse me?"
"Oh, it's nothing. Do sit down. I am Will Neville, leader of this expedition. We came here to extract the missing treasures of the Mystique mansion for the Archaeological Society, but the ruins ended up being cursed. We have tried to call many other guilds but... they didn't ever come. You are the first one to answer our call."
"It will be our pleasure to help you, sir."
"Thank you, young lady. This won't be required anymore, I guess." He took the flyer from Erza, crumpled it and threw it in the nearly full dustbin. He gave a nervous laugh. "The Mansion is at the other side of the city. You can all rest in the nearby inn. Wait for me till I bring my coat."
"As you say, sir."
As soon as he left, Gray spoke up in a low voice, "I don't trust this guy. He acted real strange. And by the way where are his other companions?"
"You are right, Gray. Lucy, do you have spare pages with you?" said Erza.
"Yeah... wait a sec..." Lucy searched through her hand bag and took out a few. Erza then took them from her and crumpled them. Gray immediately understood her motive walked to the bin and picked the upper papers, including theirs as Erza replace them with Lucy's papers. Natsu stayed on guard and soon enough, said, "Incoming"
And on cue, Gray started saying in normal tone, "... and then he tried to run away but- oh, you are back."
"Yes. Hope I didn't keep you waiting. Let's get going," he said. Giving a last look to the room, they exited.
And there. Hope you liked it. All thanks to MentallyDatingGrayFullbuster, RussD3x, rise of the wizards and some of my friends for helping me out. Love you all! :) Sorry for a minor cliffy though. Do review minna!