Chapter 1: Welcome To The Guild
Lucy walked through the streets of Magnolia with Erza and Wendy at her side. They were welcomed back by a few of those they passed from the recent mission that Erza decided to drag them on. As Lucy looked at Erza who walked confidently through the city, while Wendy and herself slowly dragged themselves behind her.
"That mission was awful..." Lucy moaned as she did her best to keep up with the S-Class wizard. Erza stopped and turned around to face her two fatigued guild mates.
"What do you mean, my acting was fantastic, and the audience loved it!" Erza yelled out in pure joy, fantasizing about herself being the dashing hero in the play they had performed.
"Do you always like working for that director?" Wendy asked as she finally allowed herself to sit on the stone road. Erza still looked as if she was in another world and Lucy was just too tired to hear. The blond haired Celestial mage lazily turned her head towards Wendy.
"Huh, did you say something?" Lucy asked in return.
"I was just wondering if you guys always chose that mission ?" Wendy asked once again, giving a warm smile to Lucy in order to cheer her up.
"Oh, well I guess it was Erza's turn to pick it, and she usually drags Natsu and Gray with her. But I guess this time it went smoother than normal without those two." Lucy joked, making the young Dragon Slayer smile. Erza finally snapped out of her day dream, which immediately made Wendy and Lucy snap to attention.
"I know, let's stop and get something to eat, it's been a long journey, and you two look exhausted." Erza smiled at the two, making them feel more relaxed. Wendy and Lucy got up and walked with Erza to a small Cafe just down the street. They sat at a table located just outside of the store, with a large umbrella to offer shade. All three relaxed in their chairs and awaited for their orders to arrive.
"Man it's great to be back home." Lucy said aloud to nobody in particular. Lucy sat back up and began to strike up a conversation with Erza about Natsu and Gray, and if they could be trusted to be alone without them at the guild.
"Excuse me do you know where I could find the Fairy Tail guild building?" Wendy heard a girls voice from across the street ask one of the merchants. She saw a girl with shoulder brown hair that went down just a little below her shoulders, and green eyes. She wore a black t-shirt that had a grey crescent moon just over her heart with a trail of small grey stars going diagonally down the abdomen, a purple skirt, black boots that ended just underneath her knees, with a necklace that had a small silver sun as the charm.
Wendy got up from her seat and ran over to the girl who looked to be around the age of nineteen. She tapped her on her arm. As she turned, she greeted the older girl with a smile.
"Hi, I heard your looking for the Fairy Tail." Wendy announced proudly.
"Yeah I am, do you know where it is?" She asked kindly to the little mage. Wendy smiled back and grabbed her hand.
"Come with me." Wendy said as she dragged her over to wear Erza and Lucy where still discussing about random things having moved on from their conversation about Natsu and Gray. They stopped just in front of the table and Erza and Lucy turned their attention towards the new comer. "Lucy, Erza, this...um...what's your name?" Wendy began to introduce but stopped when it was time for the girls name.
"I'm Bella Eros, nice to meet you." Bella introduced her self with a small laugh.
"I'm Erza Scarlet, and this is Lucy Heartfilia." Erza introduced in a welcoming tone.
"It's a pleasure to meet you." Lucy added on as she waved towards the girl in a friendly manner.
"Bella wants to join the guild, you think the master would let her?" Wendy asked enthusiastically, Erza and Lucy looked towards each other and shrugged.
"I dunno, what magic do you use Bella?" Erza asked, interested in learning what the girl could do.
"Well I know a little bit of lightning magic from my father, but I was trained in Astral Magic by one of my friends mothers after my father..." Bella's smile quickly faded as she was reliving what the three fairy tail mages could assume was a painful memory. "when my father passed on." Bella finally finished.
"Well I think that you would make a great addition to the guild, but it's all up to the master." Erza spoke with seriousness. "You'll just have to come with us and ask to join." Erza finished. After the food was finished the four girls made there way to the guild hall that was situated in the heart of Magnolia. As they walked in all the girls were met with cheers and welcome regards, everyone except a blond haired mage with a lightning bolt over his eye, and a scary looked mage in the corner who had long black hair.
"hello everyone, we've completed the job!" Erza yelled out to everyone proudly, to which was greeted with more cheers. Lucy looked and saw Mirajane approaching the group with a smile on her face.
"Welcome back everyone, congratulations on your mission." Mira welcomed, and congratulated. Bella shuffled slightly behind Lucy, causing Mirajane to look at her. "Oh and who are you?" Mira asked warmly.
"I-I'm Bella Eros, and I wish to join the guild." Bella answered timidly, Mira smiled at her knowing she was slightly overwhelmed with so much going on at once.
"Do you now?" a small man with white hair asked as he approached Bella, Erza, Lucy, Mira, and Wendy all stepped aside for him.
"Yes, I've wanted to since I was a little girl and my father told me about the guilds, this one in particular." Bella answered honestly and quickly, knowing that this man before her was Master Makarov. He looked at her carefully for what felt like a long time to Bella.
"Very well, I sense that you have a lot of potential, I'll allow you to join, welcome to Fairy Tail." He announced with a smile. In an instant after the news Bella had the biggest smile she could possibly have.
"Ok come with me Bella, I'll give you the guild mark." Mira stated as she waved Bella over to her.
"Well I guess we have a new member now, so you going to show her around Lucy?" Erza asked the celestial wizard.
"Sure, she seems like a nice person, I'm sure she'll fit in great here." Lucy responded, Erza smiled at her and walked off to the bar at the very back of the guild, followed by Wendy. She turned around to the door to see Gray, Juvia, and Natsu walk in the door.
"Hey guys how were your missions?" Lucy asked the three.
"Well me and Juvia completed the one that she wanted me to go on with her, and we ran into Natsu who..." Gray began to explain as he looked over to Natsu. "Had gotten onto a carriage to try and catch his target."
"I thought I could do it..." Natsu replied in complete defeat. Lucy smiled and put her hand on his shoulder to try and comfort the pink haired dragon slayer.
"Natsu, you couldn't even handle that water train at ryuuzetsu land, I don't think you could handle a carriage." Lucy joked. Natsu sank his head even lower.
"Why does my stomach hate me..." Natsu complained to himself, getting a small laugh from Gray and Lucy. Juvia smiled and looked up to see a new face running towards the group. Her eyes immediately went wide with rage as a scenario played in her head about Gray being with her.
"Lucy, look I'm finally in the guild." Bella yelled as she ran towards the group. When she got there she held out her fore arm to reveal a crimson red fairy tail mark on the inside of her fore arm.
"That's great, Oh, Bella this is Gray, Juvia, and Natsu." Lucy introduced the new girl. She smiled politely and wave to the three.
"Hi, I'm Bella Eros, I'm an Astral mage, what do you guys use?" She asked curiously.
"Astral magic, very nice, I'm an Ice-make wizard." Gray answered politely he turned to Juvia who was still death glaring Bella. "Uh, Juvia?" Gray said in a confused tone, although she immediately snapped back into reality.
"Oh right, I'm a water mage." Juvia answered quickly, and somewhat coldly, they all looked to Natsu who was perked back up and had flames covering his fists.
"And I'm a Fire Dragon Slayer!" Natsu gleamed with joy. Bella's eyes went wide as she heard the term dragon slayer.
"A-a dragon slayer? So you were raised by a dragon?" Bella asked in somewhat disbelief.
"Yup, Fairy Tail has four dragon slayers, Natsu, the Fire dragon slayer, Gajeel, the Iron dragon slayer, Wendy, the Sky dragon slayer, and Laxus, our Lightning dragon slayer, although he isn't like the other three." Lucy explained to Bella who looked in complete disbelief.
"I see, well it sounds like Fairy Tail is quite the powerful guild then." Bella smiled to the group. Just then Erza walked up to them all with Wendy who hadn't left her side.
"Natsu, Gray, Lucy, I've signed up for a job but I'm going to need your help." Erza spoke with seriousness. Gray, Natsu, and Lucy all looked at her waiting to hear the jobs explanation as Wendy dragged Bella away to introduce her to everyone.
"What's the job?" Gray asked with interest.
"We're heading to a town known as Shelburne, they're reporting a mythical beast is causing them a lot of problems, and the local guild needs help from more experienced mages at this point." Erza explained, everyone looked at each other in confusion.
"What kind of mythical beast?" Lucy asked concerned, trying to hide the fear in her voice.
"Well the town is saying that the beast is...a vampire. So far a few people have been attacked and injured, with each victim seeming to have a lot of blood missing from there bodies. The mayor wants this wrapped up as quickly as it can be." Erza finished her explanation. Everyone looked to each other and once again nodded.
"Alright will help you, I've never fought a vampire before." Natsu smiled with excitement, Juvia stepped forward getting the groups attention.
"I'll go to, we can use my water lock to trap it." Juvia volunteered, Erza smiled the group left the guild as quickly as they had come.
A boy who looked to be the age of nineteen, in a long black coat with a red trim, and sleeves rolled up just a little below his elbows, dark blue pants and a grey t-shirt that had red trim around the edges of his sleeves, sat against a wall in a dark alley. He raised one of his hands that had black fingerless gloves and small, sharp hooks, that were attached just slightly above the palm, and one for each finger. Blood droplets dropped onto his hand from his dirty blond hair. He looked at them with red, predatory eyes and began to slowly lick each and everyone one of the blood droplets.
"Am I really a monster?" The boy thought as he continued indulging in the taste of the red liquid. "I didn't mean to didn't mean to do it, they attacked me first." He finally dropped his hand and looked up to the sky, his eyes still red.
"Hey it's the vampire!" A voice yelled from the opening of the alley way, a few more people walked in with swords, and various elemental magics. The boy stood up and looked at them lazily.
'Please...get away from me..." The boy pleaded with the mob of people. They didn't listen as they continued closer.
"You're going down, Vampire!" One of the mob members yelled out. As they grew closer and closer, lightning began to crackle to life in the palm of the boys hands.
"I said..." The boy began as he crouched. "GET AWAY!" He leaped forward while unleashing various lightning based attacks at the mob. In a matter of minutes they were all taken down and unconscious. He walked over to one, and dragged his hand over one of the attackers skin. The hooks opening up thin gashes that allowed the blood to escape the attackers body fairly quickly. He knelt down and lowered his head a few inches away from the red fluid.
"I warned them, but they didn't listen." He thought to himself, "I'm so hungry, I don't have a choice." The boy began to take drink a large amount of blood from each and everyone of the assailants that were beaten. After he finished he stood up and wiped away the small little bit of blood that crept out of the corner of his mouth. His eyes now back to hazel, he walked out of the alley and into the empty street.
"I hope one day they will understand, that it isn't my choice."
A/N: Ok so I know I said that I'd have this up in a day, and I meant to, but I'm a horrible procrastinator(But this time I was excepted into collage so I had a reason for my absence). Anyway I hope that you enjoyed the story and I'll probably(hopefully) have the next chapter up either today, tomorrow, or in a couple of days. Anyways until next time, see ya :)