All was well in the Fairy Tail guild. Cana drinking, Gray stripping, average shit, yknow? Well, that is until the doors burst open with a mighty crash. Two figures walked through the doorway.
"I'M BACK!" Yelled Aki, standing proudly in the main entrance. Lucy sheepishly walked in behind Aki.
The members of the guild just gave half-hearted waves and greetings, focusing instead on whatever they were previously doing.
A certain buck-toothed member of the guild decided that this would be an excellent time to speak up. Wrong already.
"Heyyy Aki! Heard you dealt some damage over in Hargeon!" He said, waving at her.
Suddenly there was a fist planted in his face, sending him flying back into the wall behind him. Lucy blinked in shock.
"FLAMARIA WASN'T EVEN THERE YOU LIAR! WHERE'D YOU GET YOUR INFO FROM!?" Demanded a furious Aki.
The unfortunate buck-tooth fellow raised his palms in surrender. "Hey, hey, chill out. It was just a rumor!"
Aki punched him again, sending him back towards the rest of the guild, inciting a huge brawl. "JUST A RUMOR!?" She screamed, leaping into the fray.
The guild was in utter chaos, as usual when Aki was there. Tables, chairs, and drinks flew everywhere, sometimes hitting people who were just trying to stay out of it all. The guild members raced around in all directions, swinging kicks and punches every which way, not even caring who they hit, as long as they hit something. Such is the nature of a Fairy Tail brawl.
But Lucy was oblivious to all this. She was a little dumbfounded that all her dreams were now coming to life, as she was now inside the fabled guild hall. She took a tentative step forward, pulling her one bag of luggage along behind her. Even as cool as it was being here, she couldn't help but think they were a little weird.
Why the hell are they fighting? Aren't they supposed to be guild members? friends? teammates? She wondered, but was snapped out of her thoughts by a honey-sweet voice behind her.
"Hello there! You must be new!" She heard the voice say.
Lucy turned around, and what she saw made her gasp. IT'S MIRAJANE! OH. MY. GOD. Ok Lucy, you can do this... just don't do anything dumb, and... SHE'S EVEN PRETTIER THAN IN THE MAGAZINES! Lucy's thoughts were in shambles. She was in total fangirl mode.
"MIRAJANE!" She screamed. "IN THE FLESH!"
Mirajane smiled and nodded. Soon enough, however, Lucy's rational side took over, forcing her out of the ridiculous state she was in. She put a hand to her mouth, as if trying to whisper amongst all the noise.
"Hey, uh... don't you think we should try and stop them?" She asked, deadpanning.
Mirajane giggled and shook her head. "Oh, don't worry about it," She began, waving her hand dismissively. "It's always like this! And don't you think it's kind of-"
She was going to finish her sentence, but the flying form of Elfman knocked her down, squishing her completely. Raising her head weakly, she put one finger up and continued. "Fun?..." She got out, before collapsing.
Lucy waved her hands around frantically. "NOOOOO! Don't die Mirajane! Waaaah!" She screamed, running circles around Mirajane's downed form.
Just then, the flying form of Loke came crashing into her, almost knocking her to the floor. She saw Loke get up and dust himself off, before looking directly at her.
"Hello there, miss, may I ask your name?" He asked in a sickly-sweet voice, taking her hand in his own dramatically.
Lucy blinked at the sudden appearance. "Umm... Lucy?"
Loke smiled dazzlingly. "Ahh... Lucy, what a beautifu- ARE THOSE SPIRIT KEYS?!"
Lucy looked confused. "Well... yeah?" She responded.
Loke made an over dramatic pose of tragedy. "I'm sorry, my love, but it seems that fate has pulled us apart!" He stated, running straight out of the guild hall.
"Errr... ok?"
She turned around from the weird occurrence, scanning the rest of the room to see what had happened to the rest of the guild. It was a complete mess. The tables and chairs were all either broken or flipped, drinks were spilled everywhere, making everything smell like alcohol. But it seemed like the brawl was over, much to her relief.
Her relief was short-lived though, as a giant, black monster decided to just hop into the middle of the room from seemingly nowhere.
The guild went quiet, all of them freezing in place as if they had been put into a block of ice. It stayed this way until she heard a yell, and looked over to see two people who had seemingly either not noticed the monster, or didn't care.
The two people in question were named Aki Dragneel and Gray Fullbuster. They stood atop a flipped table, both of them folding their arms proudly as they stood back to back, glaring down on the rest of the guild.
"HAH! It seems that we've won! Eh, Aki?" Gray said, laughing in delight.
Aki grinned. "Yeah! You guys are such babies!" She added on.
But their victory was fleeting, for a giant black foot just squished them both at their little outburst. Lucy gasped seeing Aki taken down that easily.
Then the monster turned and looked straight down at her, causing her to freeze. She looked up at it's white eyes and stared.
But then Mirajane decided to put in her two cents and spoke. "Oh, hey master! I didn't know you were here!" She exclaimed happily, waving at the massive monster.
Lucy started blinking rapidly between Mirajane and the monster, trying to comprehend what Mirajane had just said.
"Oh! You must a new member!" She heard the monster say. Just as it said that, it miraculously started shrinking and shrinking, until it was only the size of one of the bar stools.
As it turns out, said monster was not a monster, but instead the shortest little man Lucy had ever seen, and he was wearing some sort of orange clown outfit, complete with the silly hat. Not to mention he looked like he was at least eighty years old.
The little man looked up at Lucy and waved. "Nice to meet'cha! Name's Makarov Dreyar, and I'm the third master of Fairy Tail! Welcome to the guild!" He exclaimed.
As he finished speaking he tried to do a series of back flips up to the second floor railing. Key word here is tried. He may or may not have slammed straight into the banister. But never the less, he got up as if nothing had happened. He stood atop one of the wooden railing with papers in hand and began his speech.
(I'm not going to include this whole speech cause that's boring as fuck, and I feel like I've already made you read through enough of this default canon stuff. All you need to know is: Blah blah magic, blah blah, no rules, blah blah fuck the council. Done.)
Wow... was all Lucy could think. Who knew that Master Makarov could be so inspiring!
After Makarov's little speech, the guild returned to normal, quickly recovering from the brawl and settling down to the usual drinking and gambling. Mirajane walked up to Lucy with her trademark bright smile and held the stamp towards her.
"So Lucy, where do you want your stamp? And in what colour?" She asked Lucy.
"On my left hand please, and in pink!" Lucy responded enthusiastically.
Mirajane pressed the stamping machine onto the back of Lucy's left hand, and stamped a pink Fairy Tail logo right onto her skin.
Lucy could hardly contain her excitement, almost jumping up and down in delight at finally being an official member of Fairy Tail. She ran over to Aki, eager to share about her new mark.
"Look Aki! I got my guild mark!" She exclaimed, waving the back of her left hand towards her.
Aki was scanning the request board for new and exciting jobs to partake. When she heard Lucy calling her, she didn't even turn around.
"Oh. That's nice, Luna." She responded with a bored look on her face.
Lucy grew a sudden tick mark on her forehead. "IT'S LUCY!" She yelled. Aki just shrugged.
Suddenly, Lucy adopted a rather curious expression. "Say, Aki, how come you and Gray are friends? I thought I saw him using ice magic earlier, and since you use fire, well..."
Aki chuckled at Lucy's comment. "You see, Gray and I used to be rivals! And we fought daily!" She exclaimed, raising her fist in front of her to accentuate her point. "But then, one day when we were fighting, Erza beat us up so badly that we had to stay home for the rest of the day!" Aki visibly shuddered at the thought. "After that day, Gray and I decided that we would team up to defeat Erza, and since then, we've been friends I guess." She finished, shrugging.
Lucy's eyes widened. "Wait. The Erza?! WHOA! What's she like? I've never even seen a picture of her!"
Aki took on a frightful expression, as if she were explaining her worst nightmare. "SCARY!" She yelled.
Happy decided now was the time to show up and give his opinion. "Erza's a monster!"
Then she heard Gray shout from across the room. Which made her wonder how he even heard them. "She's a vile beast, Lucy!"
Lucy face faulted at their 'explanation'. "Right... Anyways, can I come with you for my first job? I'm kinda nervous." Lucy said.
Aki shrugged and nodded. "Sure I guess, I don't have a problem with it..." Suddenly she gained a devious expression, slightly spooking poor Lucy. "And I think I found the perfect one..."
She ripped a request off the board, stuffing it in her pocket before Lucy could even get a glimpse of what was on the paper.
Aki began walking to the exit, gesturing for Lucy to follow her, but she suddenly stopped, as if she had remembered something extremely important. She spun around and sprinted up to the bar.
Lucy saw her briefly say something to Gray, prompting him to nod, presumably agreeing to whatever Aki had said. She then said something to Mira, and wrote something down before walking back over to where Lucy was standing, this time with Gray beside her.
"Hey Lucy, Gray's gonna come with us, kay?" Aki said.
Lucy smiled. "Yeah, sure!" She exclaimed. But she was still curious about what Aki had written down at the bar. "Aki, what were you talking to Mira about? And what did you write down?" She asked.
Gray smirked, and Aki laughed. "I registered us as an official team!" She said.
Lucy became excited. "Really?! What's our team name?" She asked.
This time it was Gray who responded.
"Team Dragon!"
SEVERAL HOURS LATER
"Man, that job was so boring." Gray complained.
"Yeah... That fat guy's tunnel magic or whatever was pretty pathetic." Agreed Aki.
The three members of the newly formed Team Dragon were seated around a small cooking fire they had built on a small cliff side overlooking the ocean. Happy was fishing without a care in the world, and the rest of them ate a rabbit that Aki and Gray had caught while they were walking through the nearby forest.
They still had plenty of daylight left, so they were in no rush to return to the guild. The four of them just sat there peacefully, taking in the sun's rays.
But just as they were getting comfy, an explosion of sand followed by a dust cloud appeared over their camp site, obscuring each other from vision. When the dust cleared, Aki, Gray, and Lucy were buried waist deep in a pile of sand.
Gray and Aki sighed. "What now?!" They said at the same time. Lucy was still spitting sand out of her mouth.
Getting themselves out of the sand, they heard a faint cry from the distance.
"BUT IT'S GONNA MAKE ME TASTE WEIRD!"
Gray and Aki looked at each other and nodded, before running full speed towards where they heard Happy. Lucy just stood there bewildered, but after a few seconds she ran after them.
When they arrived on the scene, they saw a strange group of people trying to cook Happy on a rotisserie. And the poor little exceed was complaining about tasting weird!
Aki got into a roar stance, prompting Gray to do the same. They both put their fists on front of their mouths, prompting a red and blue magic circle to appear in front of each of them respectively. They both took a deep breath in, and leaned their heads back. FIRE AND ICE DRAGON'S UNISON ROAR! They both screamed at the same time, leaning forwards and exhaling.
From Gray shot several lines of ice that swirled around each other, from Aki shot a deep red swirl of flames. They both aimed so that their attacks would converge before reaching their targets, and when they did, the ice beams started swirling around Aki's fire.
Lucy gasped in surprise. No way! Gray's a dragon slayer too? That's so cool! Just how many dragon slayers are in this guild?
The combined attack hit the offending group dead center, making a huge explosion and a plume of dust.
Lucy gasped. "You idiots! Happy was still there!" She yelled.
Aki waved her off. "Don't worry about it, Gray and I can choose who our dragon slayer magic affects."
"Oh... alright then." Lucy responded.
When the dust cleared, the entire group of weirdos had been knocked out. Happy looked relieved.
"Now I won't taste weird!" He proclaimed.
Aki laughed and took him off the rotisserie. "I guess you won't buddy." She said.
The group decided to head back to the guild now, since they had nothing else to do. While they were walking though, Lucy had come up with a few more questions.
"Gray?" She said.
Gray raised an eyebrow and turned to her. "Yeah?"
"Are you looking for your dragon too?"
Gray shook his head. "No, I wasn't taught dragon slayer magic from a dragon like Aki was."
Lucy looked confused. "Then how?"
Gray was about to speak up, but Aki stopped him. "I'll explain it." Aki said. Gray nodded.
"You see Lucy, there are two kinds of dragon slayers. First generation, and second generation. The first generation dragon slayers have been taught their magic from real dragons. Second generation dragon slayers have had a dragon lacrima implanted in them." Aki explained.
Lucy nodded. "So Gray is a second generation dragon slayer, and you're first generation?" She asked.
Aki and Gray nodded at the same time.
"But Gray, you must have some kind of other magic if you had your dragon slayer magic implanted in you." Lucy said.
"I do. I can also use ice make magic." He said.
"Then why didn't you use that at all during our mission?" Lucy questioned.
Gray sighed. "All the combat qualities of ice make magic are heavily out classed by ice dragon slayer magic, so there's really no point." He explained.
"What do you mean by 'combat qualities'?" Lucy asked.
"I mean attacks. Spells that are meant to do damage to an opponent." He said.
"Then what do you even use your ice make for?"
"Other things, like making bridges, or shields and walls."
Lucy nodded, accepting his answer. "That sounds reasonable I guess. Does Aki have any other magic?"
Aki heard this and laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of her head. Gray smirked. "I think this is one that she should answer herself."
"Hehe... uh, yeah. Well, I do use another kind of magic, but I sorta made it up myself." Aki said, prompting a gasp from Lucy.
"You invented a kind of magic!? That's amazing Aki!" She said, smiling at her.
Aki shrugged. "I guess, but it's not very useful."
Lucy looked confused. "Well what is it?"
"I call it resistance magic. Basically it just lets me ignore annoying things like poison, possession, or slowing magic. But there's one main reason why I made it." She said.
Lucy raised an eyebrow. "And what reason is that?"
"TO STAY AWAKE WHEN THAT BASTARD MYSTOGAN COMES!" She yelled.
Gray laughed. "Yeah... but Aki, we haven't even seen Mystogan while you've had it."
Aki suddenly became depressed. "I know..." She said, exasperated.
Lucy tilted her head to the side. "Well I think it's useful, Aki. And who's Mystogan? Oh! And Gray! How did you get your dragon lacrima? I would assume those are hard to find." She asked.
Gray and Aki looked at each other, both gaining sad expressions. Aki decided to speak first.
"Mystogan is one of Fairy Tail's S-Class mages. He's probably either the strongest or second strongest person in the guild, not including master Makarov." She explained.
"Why do you need a special kind of magic to stay awake when you see him?"
"He uses a powerful sleeping spell whenever he comes into the guild. So far, the only people that have been able to actually see him are Makarov and Laxus. Nobody knows why he uses the spell, but it sure is annoying." Aki said.
Lucy looked like she was about to speak up, but Gray cut her off. "Before you ask, Laxus is the other guy contending for strongest with Mystogan."
"Oh."
Gray continued. "As to where I got my dragon lacrima... I got it from a friend..." He said in a sad tone. Lucy noticed Aki also looked sad, looking at the ground in silence.
Lucy decided it would be best not to ask further questions about the 'friend' Gray was talking about. The rest of the trip was completely silent.
IN MAGNOLIA TOWN
Team Dragon had finally made it to Magnolia town. The journey had taken a good while since they had decided not to take the train, for obvious reasons. The trio walked along the streets, with Happy perched atop Aki's shoulder, eating a fish.
They were almost at the guild hall, when all of a sudden they heard fast footsteps behind them, and a second later they saw a man in a green, furlined jacket sprint past them.
"Oi!" Gray yelled. "Why the hell are you running, Loke?"
Loke stopped abruptly, turning around to face them. "BAD N-NEWS GUYS! E-ERZA'S BACK!" He yelled, before turning back around and running into the guild hall.
Aki and Gray looked at each other, both of them with terrified expressions, before running right after Loke.
Lucy ran after the pair, curious as to why they started running. She opened the doors to the guild only to find it in complete chaos. People ran around everywhere trying to find hiding spots, bumping in to one another as they went. She saw Gray and Aki hiding behind the bar, only their eyes peeking over the counter top.
Erza can't be that bad, can she? Lucy thought. The only person who didn't seem to be scared was Mirajane, who was standing by the bar cleaning the glasses. Lucy decided to ask her about it.
"Hey Mirajane, why is everyone so scared of Erza?" Lucy asked.
Mirajane giggled. "Just call me Mira! And it's because Erza could be considered the strongest female wizard in Fairy Tail right now!"
Lucy gasped. She must be as scary as Aki said! "Wow! She must be really powerful to be able to get this reaction from the guild!"
Mirajane giggled again. "Yep!"
Suddenly, loud, clanking footsteps could be heard outside the guild hall. The entire guild stood there frozen. The doors burst open, revealing a silhouette holding a massive object. Then the silhouette came into the light, revealing a young woman with long, red hair, steel armour, a blue skirt, and knee high boots.
"I've returned. Where is master Makarov?" Erza said.
Mirajane smiled and waved. "Welcome back! Master is at the guild meeting right now."
Erza nodded. "Fine."
Lucy was shocked at the appearance of Erza. I can't believe one person is able to shut them all up!
But she was snapped out of her thoughts by one of the guild members who had mustered up the courage to ask Erza about the giant horn she had brought with her.
"This is the horn of a monster I killed. The locals decorated it and gave it to me as a souvenir. Do you have a problem with it?"
The guy who asked the question waved his hands frantically. "Nonono! No problem at all!"
Erza nodded. "Good." Then she turned back to the rest of the guild. "Listen up!" She yelled. "While I was on the road, I heard Fairy Tail has been causing some problems! Now, master may not care, but I do!"
Suddenly she pointed started pointing at various guild members.
"Cana, stop drinking so much! Vijeeter, take the dancing outside! Wakaba, get rid-"
"Oh, come now, Erza, they can't be that bad." They heard a voice say. Everyone gasped. Someone just cut off Erza? WHILE she was giving her speech? Did someone have a death wish?
All of a sudden, they saw spiky white hair phase right of the ground in front of Erza, followed by a masked face, overcoat, sweatpants, and bandaged shins and feet.
Erza's eyes went wide as dinner plates, as did everyone else's, minus Lucy. Kakashi gave them a peace sign and eye smiled.
"Yo!"