So excited after seeing the OVA 5 trailer for Fairy Tail! AHHH, can't wait!
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~I do not own Fairy Tail, sadly ;_; ~
A thousand thoughts flood my mind like a spreading disease, jumbling my brain with useless, never-ending questions. What could this mean?
"Lucy, I need to ask you something..."
"Why do you always wear really heavy clothes even though it's freakishly hot?" I interrupted him absentmindedly whilst he turned to face me with a serious face.
"W-what?" He blinked, taken aback from the out-of-context question.
"You're always wearing, like, five layers of clothes and I'm just wondering how you're not melting already?" I explained myself, although I must admit: it wasn't an appropriate question where I could've asked something much more helpful in the topic. He shook his head and stood up, then reached out his right hand so that his palm was exposed into the sun's light.
"I can't feel warmth, that's why," He spoke softly, "for seven years I haven't felt the heat from the sun."
"What do you mean? How?" Suddenly, I felt overwhelming sorrow for him. To be unable to feel the heat on a summer's day for seven years straight –yet witness everyone else enjoy it- must make him feel very isolated and abstract.
"When I was nine, I successfully used Deathmist, successfully meaning that I killed someone," he solemnly bunched his hand and snatched it back to his body, "and ever since then, I've been cursed with a disability to feel heat. But I must ask something of you..."
"GRAY, put your clothes back on!" I heard Levy shouted from afar, grabbing the attention of everyone in the massive field.
"Gosh, that is just unsightly..." Loke added.
"Gray-sama has such a good body, woww!" Juvia screamed zealously.
When I stood up to see the scene I saw that Natsu and Gray were facing each other with both fists shrouded in flames or icicles, looking as if they were ready to rip each other's head off, however Gray was stripped down to his birthday suit and did not even notice until Levy pointed it out which especially caught the attention of all the girls, who began shrieking excitingly. I rolled my eyes as most of them had hearts in their eyes and excited reactions towards Gray's nudity, all I really wanted to see was if they were actually going to fight.
"Are fights, like, a daily occurrence here?" I turned around and asked Zeref, who looked very impatient to do something but I don't know what.
"Yes, we at Fairy Tail Academy are well-known for destruction. We're officially labelled the 'Troublesome School' by others, but I think it's what makes us the best out of them all. You know, the Academy has won all the YGMG ever since it was created." Zeref was back to comfortably leaning against the tree, so I decided to join him and sit next to him again.
"Wow, I-I'm pretty shocked that I actually got in considering I don't even have any magic. But what's the YGMG?" I asked him.
"It's like the Grand Magic Games but Academies compete against each other instead of guilds, it's an abbreviation for the Young Grand Magic Games," his attention was taken by a buzzing bumblebee which began flying near his nose and he looked at it with crossed eyes, then it landed on his nose. He slowly placed his index finger next to it until it eventually crawled onto his finger and scuttled up and down his hand, but as soon as Zeref tried to extend his hand forward it flew off, he sighed.
"Animals seem to take a liking to Shadow Walkers... strange..." He wondered, preoccupied within his own thoughts. "Actually, the YGMG start in a few weeks time and you should begin considering which competitions you'll take part in but do not fret: you don't have to use magic in some of the games. Such as the advanced mathematics event which have become quite popular in the last few years, I'm sure you can partake in that." He remarked as if he was an official advertiser of the event.
"Oh cool, it'd be nice to support my school!" I noticed he began looking at me with a serious expression, "What is it? Is there something on my face?" However, before I could rub my face to brush off the hypothetical stain, he lunged his arms forwards and placed his hands flat down onto my temples and closed his eyes in deep concentration.
At first, I screamed at the sudden movement from Zeref but I soon realised that he was doing exactly what Gajeel tried to do, and I had no idea why. Suddenly, his eyes flickered open and he looked shocked then leapt back so forcefully that he fell onto his back and landed on his elbows.
"What-what happened? What did you do?" My voice shakily asked him as he began to recollect himself and straightened his back.
"Nothing, I've got to go." He seemed distracted within himself and hurriedly walked away.
"No! You're going to explain to me what just happened and you're going to do it now," I shouted at him and stood up, watching him walk to the door, "answer me!" I yelled hoarsely at him, with my arms flinging in frustration. He did not even turn back.
Once again, I was left by myself from Zeref and despite the inviting looks Levy and her group would give me, I pretend as if I hadn't seen them and waited against the old, lumbering tree in case Zeref would walk out of those doors within the last 20 minutes of lunch. He didn't.
Suddenly, Natsu was flying at lightning speed straight towards me and tackled me to the ground where we both faceplanted the grass. Already, I was constructing the angry rant I'd yell at him but he stood up unharmed, not even noticing me, and faced Gray, who thankfully had his school trousers back on but was still topless.
"Hah! Is that the best you can do, Gray, that was the weakest punch I've ever taken." He shouted confidently, then pounced forwards with enflamed fists and punched Gray back, who tried to quickly block it with an ice shield however Natsu's blow easily vanquished it, shattering it into a million shards of tiny ice. They began fighting and swapping powerful punches, each of them taking every hit as if it didn't affect them, with Gajeel looking entertained at the two wizards duelling. I noticed Levy was next to him, trying to demand something at him, but he seemed to be bluntly ignoring her.
Everyone on the field looked as uninterested as Gajeel in the fight. Erza was eating some strawberry cake in the shade of the maple tree and Juvia was trying to beg Gray not fight and clinging onto his legs, claiming that 'she doesn't want to see her Gray get covered in cuts,' but he brushed her off like an irritating mosquito and continued the fight.
That was until Loke appeared at my side, where I was still on the ground in an angry shock, looking very concerned at me.
"Are you okay, Lucy? I told them that they shouldn't be rough-playing around the presence of ladies, they can be such brutes sometimes," Loke smiled sweetly down at me and offered me his hand to stand up.
"Thanks." I accepted and he gently pulled me up to my feet.
"Now, excuse me for a moment as I'll stop this fight, I think we've had enough entertain for today." He walked up to the two squabbling boys, who were throwing insults at each other, then placed his hands together where a blinding light ignited in between his palms and it grew and grew until he finally released a beam of light, aiming it at Natsu and Gray.
It was so strong that even looking at it from a far away distance made my eyes burn so I turned away. When I looked back, Natsu and Gray both were shouting angrily and laid on the floor, covering their eyes, whilst Loke stood in the middle of them, looking smugly down at them.
As I looked around, Gajeel seemed to have disappeared and Juvia was mourning over the fallen Gray, whilst Erza and Levy were standing at Natsu's side with patronizing eyes. I walked up to them, overhearing their conversation.
"That was a total overkill, you know." Erza raised an eyebrow at the proud-faced Loke.
"I don't care, anything to show my Lucy my power, I want her to know what I'd do for her." He dramatically gestured where a rose appeared in his right hand from out of nowhere. I blushed when I heard that, it was one of the most romantic things anyone has ever said about me and despite the fact that he tried to kiss me before, I felt strangely delighted by this.
"Hi guys." I smiled and pretended as if I hadn't eavesdropped into that little snippet of information, and was friendly greeted by everyone, including Natsu and Gray who made a quick recovery and stood up as soon as I arrived. They seemed to be looking at my bruises on my neck but I brushed off their glances.
"Hiya Luce, did you see me? I was about to annihilate Gray, like I do all the time," Natsu crossed his arms and closed his eyes, readying for my 'praise'. In fact, all he received was a scoff from the cool and collected Gray and a final punch which landed him on the ground again.
"Why you little-" Natsu bunched his fists and faced Gray who began eagerly retaliating, waiting for another fight, but before anything could happen: Erza became angry.
"Will you stop fighting for one second? Did that beam of light not go through your thick heads? Cut it out!" Just her raising her voice made them hug each other in complete fear and they began nervously shaking like a leaf.
"I'm sorry!" They exaggeratedly apologised, near at tears.
I began uncontrollably laughing, much to the surprise of everyone. I held my belly and fell over from the pain of laughing so much. This group is just perfect, everyone contrasts with each other in a weird, ridiculous way but I can guess that every day gets more and more interesting in their lives.
"Hey, what's so funny?" Gray looked at me suspiciously.
"Y-you, everyone." I could only manage those words before I began chortling again. I think they somehow caught on and began smiling with me.
Then the bell rung, so everyone began crowding around the only back entrance so I reluctantly got up to join the crowd and I felt a petite hand on my shoulder.
"Lucy, hi, have you signed up for anything in the YGMG?" Levy smiled up at me, the rest of the group seemed to of disappeared within the crowd of students. I shook my head. "Do you want to join Freed Justine and me in the Elite Mathematics Tournament? I'm sure with you on the team we'll win." She smiled innocently at me and I couldn't help but desperately want to show off my maths skills in front of the whole school, to show off that I may seem like some helplessly dumb blonde but I'm, in fact, smart.
"Of course, it'll be fun! Who's Freed Justine?" I asked since his name seemed familiar but I couldn't exactly remember who he was.
"He's this mega-smart guy in the year above, completely addicted to solving equations but he's won Fiore's Best Young Mathematician three years in a row." Levy searched the crowd and eventually pointed towards a tall, slim handsome boy with very long, lime-green hair and a side-fringe with dark blue eyes which had a little black birthmark underneath his left one.
I now remembered who he was, the infamous Freed Justine: the youngest person ever to win the BYM award and the longest to keep it, he is my idol! But I never knew he went to this school.
"However, the other Academies now have teams of four so we have to find another teammate, so maybe you can help with that?" We were now the last people on the field and it seemed eerily quiet.
"I think I have an idea of who could enter it." I tried to say mysteriously, but Levy instantly caught on.
"Please don't say you mean Zeref." She rolled her eyes and sighed disapprovingly.
"I don't see what your problem is with him, Levy, he's a wonderful person." No matter how much I try persuading her it seemed she would always think otherwise.
"Lucy, you-you just don't know what he's done to some people, especially Gajeel and Natsu." Tears began swelling up in her red eyes.
"What'd he do?" Suddenly, flashbacks of Zeref looking possessed and the suffocating screams of the men he killed flooded through my mind, and I realised: maybe he isn't exactly the person I think he is.
"Seven years ago, there was a parents evening where Zeref's, Natsu's, Gajeel's, Laxus' and this girl in the year below parents were talking about whether it was safe or not for Zeref to be in this school, but then he lost control and..." She began sobbing so I put my arm around her and lead her to a bench so she could sit down. I have a bad feeling I already knew the conclusion to this story. "He killed their parents, Lucy, just like that! It was a tragedy but for some stupid reason Makarov accepted him in the Academy."
Deep in my mind, I kind of already knew that Zeref had killed others using that mist of his, but he killed a roomful of people, not just any people, parents of kids in this school... I just don't know what to think anymore.
I'll have a little voting thing in the reviews- which perspective would you like to see in the next chapter? Continue with Lucy and Levy conversation or go to a very rare point-of-view: Zeref?