Chapter 1

Finally, after two hours of suffering, the train finally pulled to a halt. The wheels screeched as we pulled into the Magnolia train station. Tanzeru hopped out the train doors full of energy, while me on the other hand, was barely able to stand. I could see Tanzeru stretching from being in the cramped train for so long. I began to wobble towards the exit, my stomach still uneasy, but the doors closed before I could get out. The train's wheels started to move again, but Tanzeru's back was turned. I used the last bit of my strength to lean out the window and call out weakly, "Tanzeru." He looked over his shoulder and began to panic as the train began to pick up speed as it left the station, with me still on board leaning out an open window. "Save me…. Tanzeru!" I couldn't hold it in anymore. I barfed out the window and fell back in my seat. Out the corner of my eye, I could see Tanzeru on the side of the train, right next to my window, running to catch up. He jumped into the window sill and grabbed me by my shirt. He lost balance and fell backwards, pulling me out with him. As we hit the ground we rolled, however, I rolled a bit further and crashed into the wall.

It took me a few minutes to recover before we set out in Magnolia. First thing we had to do was find a temporary hide-out. Luckily we found an abandoned old shop-house in town. The only thing inside was an old couch, an old worn out blanket, and a few crates left lying around. I threw my bag on the ground and lounged on the old couch while Tanzeru searched the crates for anything we could use. The couch's springs were sticking out and the cloth was ripped up, but it still was one of the most comfortable things I've ever slept on. It felt like Tanzeru was searching those crates for hours, I nearly fell asleep waiting. He was just sitting there, searching through each crate one by one. He stopped at one particular crate, it seemed like he was confused about something. He kept scratching his head and tapping his feet.

"What's the matter, Tanzeru?"

"They're all full of books except for this one. As a matter of fact, I can't even tell what the heck this is?"

It sounded a bit interesting, so I went to check it out, but when I got there, it was something I definitely didn't expect. It was a wooden-board with four wheels attached. The ends were curved upwards. Whatever it was, it wasn't from around here. Tanzeru turned it over. "It has something written here, but its in a foreign language. I've never seen this before."

As an older sibling, I loved being able to feel superior so I grabbed the wooden board from him and said, "Aren't you glad your big sister is here! Now let me translate for you." I looked at the letters and immediately recognized the language. "I wouldn't expect you to recognize this. As a matter of fact, the only reason I know this is because a weird old man taught me as an addition to a reward for doing a job for him. This is an ancient language known as English, it is believed that it comes from a whole other world."

"Somehow it sounds like you're making things up. I've never even heard of 'English'."

"Listen and I'll translate. It reads 'Made in A-me-ri-ca' or something like that."

"Where the hell or what the is hell is an A-me-ri-ca?"

"Probably something from the other world where English comes from."

Quite honestly, I don't even know if I read that right, but he doesn't need to know that. "Anyway whatever it is I want it. I could put it to good use." Tanzeru knows he can't argue with me when I find something I'm interested in, so he didn't bother to waste his breath.

Suddenly, the shop-house caught on fire. The already destroyed roof began to drop as the fire choked it. Large pieces of wood began to fall and set the floor on fire. Smoke was rising quickly. The flames were more intense than any other I've felt before. Tanzeru grabbed three of the fourteen crates and ran out the back door calling out to me, "Karina hurry up, its dangerous in there!" I couldn't leave the board with wheels behind, it was much too interesting. I grabbed the board, slung my bag over my shoulder, and ran out to where Tanzeru was waiting. "That was dangerous. You could've suffocated in there, what were you thinking?" Tanzeru snarled. He often got angry when he felt I was 'endangering my life. Listening to us, you could never tell that I was the older one since he always acted like my older brother.

We ran to the front of the building to see what caused the fire. There were two boys, one girl, and a blue cat standing in front of the building. One of the boys had spikey, pink hair and an angry facial expression. Somehow he reminded me of a dragon with the ferocious glare in his eyes. The other boy had black hair and a cool face, but he was practically nude except for his underwear. Finally the girl was the only normal looking one. She had blonde hair that was pulled into a side ponytail, but she was yelling something. Tanzeru and I leaned in closer, but was careful to stay hidden.

"Natsu! You and Gray already destroyed half of the town we just left, and now you go and burn down a building!" The girl was yelling at the pink-haired boy, so I assumed his name was Natsu.

"Its all this stupid Gray's fault! He's the one who started mouthing off to me!" Natsu screamed in the black haired guy's face whom I'm going to assume is Gray. "Isn't that right, Happy!" Suddenly the blue cat sprout wings and flew into the air and yelled, "Aye, sir!"

"Karina! Did you see that? The cat just talked! It talked and flew!"

I couldn't stand back and listen to them spout nonsense anymore. The fact was that they just burned down our temporary hide-out and nearly killed us. A crime like that doesn't go without punishment and I'm going to be the one to deliver it. I ran out wearing an intimidating face, ready to crack some skulls if I had to.

"Hey! Who the hell do you think you are!" Tanzeru ran out from the shadows, grabbed my shoulder, and yelled "Hey Karina! Don't go out picking fights like that!" I was so angry and didn't even listen to him. I pulled away from him and continued, "So what, now you're quiet!"

Natsu yelled back, "I don't know who you are, but nobody talks to Salamander like that!" By this time his hands were covered with swirling flames and fire was in his breath. It was no doubt he knew flame magic, but I've never seen flame magic so powerful. Could it possibly be that he's using dragon slayer magic, but I hear that dragon slayer magic died out and now it's an ancient magic now. Nobody should know it. He balled his fists and came at me trying to punch me but I blew him away with my wind magic.

"Natsu stop it!" The blonde girl was trying to hold Natsu back while Tanzeru tried to hold me down. "If you don't stop, Master Makarov will get angry!"

Natsu suddenly stopped rampaging and looked flustered, "Oh crap, gramps is gonna be angry if we don't hurry up!"

They ran off and left us behind, now that really pissed me off. I broke away from Tanzeru and ran after them, making sure I stayed out of their site. I knew Tanzeru was following me, but I just wanted to keep track of those guys. They weren't going to get away from me.

I followed them to a large building with a sign out front that read 'Fairy Tail'. I heard that name before, but I couldn't quite place my finger on it. Right now it doesn't matter. I don't plan on fighting them now, but I'll be back first thing in the morning, especially now that I know where to find them. I'll be back to fight them, especially that Natsu 'Salamander' guy. He better watch his back.

Looks like Karina doesn't realize what kind of trouble she has on her hands now that she's picked a fight with Natsu. Will she be able to hold her own in their next battle or will she be overwhelmed by Natsu. By the way that board with wheels she found is a skateboard. Plus I remembered that the letters they use in Fairy Tail isn't English or Japanese so I wanted to make a joke ^^. Hopefully I'll have an early chapter release again.