Hi there!

I have decided to upload another chapter because I want the story to quickly progress because a lot of things are going to be happening and I'm super pumped!

In my opinion, I don't really love this chapter but it's ok...right? Hehe.

Anyway, I hope you like this chappie! And I should be updating again tomorrow since Saturday is the normal update day.

*WARNING: THIS CHAPTER IS NOT EDITED! I'M SORRY PLEASE DON'T HATE ME IF THERE A LOT OF MISTAKESAND STUFF THAT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE BUT IN THE FUTURE, I WIL EDIT IT!*

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL BUT I DO OWN WINTER AND THE STORY'S PLOT!

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TheIceBreathingDragon

Winter's POV

"I hope you enjoyed your stay with us. Come again!" He said with forced joy. I rolled my eyes and turned around and made my way out of there. The only thing I actually liked about the damn inn was the freaking bed. Not the service, or the fact that they don't even serve food! Ugh. I need food! I walked out of the building and was met with a warm breeze. The sun was still not completely out so it still looked pretty early. Probably 7:30 or 8 o' clock. I took a deep breath before starting to walk to a random direction, mentally praying that this is the right way to the station. There weren't many people out but I saw a few. The majority were just taking a morning stroll while the others were going to work. I softly walked through the streets of Hargeon in a peaceful silence. I saw a butterfly fly towards me before landing on my nose, I crossed my eyes to see it standing on my nose without a care in the world. I giggled softly before it fluttered it's wings and flew away. I watched it go before it vanished from my sight and I smiled softly. I feel so relaxed and...happy. The morning was beautiful although I didn't eat breakfast and I was hungry. There wasn't many people around and the warm breeze made me feel at ease. I heaved out a relaxed sigh and kept walking. Minutes later after me asking where the station was because I got lost, I finally found it and mentally cheered. I walked up to a booth that said Magnolia and bought a ticket. I quickly saw the train and slightly ran to it and showed my ticket to the conductor before he gave it back and granted me permision to board the train. I got in and looked around for an empty booth and quickly found one. I slided into it and sighed. Oh well...I had to go back to Magnolia eventually, even if I liked Hargeon, my guild is in Magnolia and I can't just abandon them. That's low even for me. I rested my head against the window and closed my eyes, waiting for the train to start moving. I remembered that I still haven't met all of the Fairy Tail members and how I keep ignoring them and leaving the guild. I should give them a chance. Besides, they've been really friendly and nice to me so I guess I could at least meet them all. But I'm starving so I should go hunt before going back to the guild. Or maybe that Mira girl could cook me something. I mean, I've never tasted normal food but I've always wanted to. I wonder what would she make me? I guess I'll just have to wait and find out for myself. I heard a loud whistle and the train started to move. I sighed and looked out the window. The station was now fading out of my sight and a thick forest quickly took over. Everywhere I looked was green. Trees, trees and more trees. How boring...I guess I'll just take another nap. I closed my eyes, waiting for sleep to take over. After what felt like minutes passed, sleep didn't take over and I found myself bored out of my mind. Could this get anymore boring? My thoughts were interrupted when I heard an infant crying in the distance. As the seconds passed I heard the crying get louder and closer and I looked to my right and almost instantly, a little girl came crying to the booth.

"Mama! Papa! " She cried and I took I guess...she was seperated from her parents. She had pitch black hair that was tangled up in a braid. She wore what seemed like a cow girl's type of clothing and had a cowboy hat on her head. I raised an eyebrow in confusion and she glanced at me. Her eyes were full with tears and her bottom lip was trembling. In a heartbeat, she cried louder and ran towards me before clinging to my leg and my eyes went wide.

"Please help me! Mama and Papa were left behind! Now I'm all alone!" She cried into my dress and I didn't move. What am I supposed to do now? She kept crying into my dress and I was thinking of what to do with her. I softly patted her head and she looked up at me with big eyes full of tears. I gave her a soft smile.

"Don't worry. I'll take you back to your Mama and Papa." I softly assured and she smiled but the tears in her eyes still flew down her rosy cheeks. "What's your name?" I asked curiously and she sat down beside me while wiping away the tears in her cheeks.

"Asuka." She whimpered and I smiled at the gloomy girl beside me. I hate being mean to little kids. I can be mean to adults and I won't care but I can't just be rude to little kids if they've never done anything bad to me before. I actually like kids, but adults are a whole different story.

"My name's Winter." I softly whispered and she met my gaze. She was no longer crying but her cheeks were rosy pink and she kept sniffling. She smiled at me. "Do you mind telling me where did you get seperated from your parents?" I asked and looked out the window. We were getting closer to Magnolia by the second and I still didn't know what to do with the girl. She dropped her gaze to the floor and I saw how tears started to fall from her eyes again.

"Me, Mama and Papa were in Hargeon but we were on our way back to Fairy Tail, our guild." She whimpered and my eyes grew wide. This little girl is a Fairy Tail member along with her parents?! "But I went ahead and boarded the train without them and the train started to move and I couldn't go back to them." She sobbed silently and I sighed.

"Don't worry. I happen to be a Fairy Tail member myself, I'm new so that means I can take you back to the guild and wait for your parents to arrive." I smiled at her and her eyes lit up.

"You're a new member?!" She shrieked and I nodded. She stood up in the seat next to me and gave me a toothy grin.

"Thank you for taking care of me Winter!" She laughed and threw herself at me while wrapping her tiny arms around my waist. I giggled and patted her head. She let go and gave me one more smile before sitting beside me again. She was happily talking about her parents and how much fun it is to go on missions with them until the train reached to a stop and I glanced out the window and saw that we were now in Magnolia's entrance. I looked back at the little girl beside me and I gave her a soft smile and offered her my hand wich she took with a grin. I started to walk out of the train and into the Magnolia station and I recognized a few scents nearby. While holding Asuka's hand, I looked around and found in the distance a group of Fairy Tail mages. Searching frantically for something, was Mira, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Erza, and a few other people wich names I didn't know. Wait a second...I bet they're looking for Asuka. I looked down at the little girl who was looking up at me with a smile. I returned the gesture before slowly starting to approach the Fairy Tail mages. Once I got closer with Asuka, Mira noticed me and when she saw me, relief hit her face like a train and she ran up to me with a giant smile on her face. Seconds later and one by one, the rest of the Fairy Tail mages followed her with relief all on their faces. Once Mira was in front of me she knelt down and hugged Asuka, who was still holding my hand. I was going to let go of her hand but she only squeezed harder and I raised an eyebrow in confusion. Is there something wrong with her? The rest of the group were now surrounding me and Asuka and one by one they all gave Asuka a hug and I was still fighting for her to let go of my hand but she kept refusing to let go of mine and I gave in. Mira approached me with a huge smile on her lips.

"Winter thank goodness you found Asuka! Bisca and Alzack contacted us via lacrima and told us that they were seperated from Asuka. We were really worried so we all came and searched for her but it seems like you already did!" She giggled. I only looked down at the ground, refusing to meet anybody's gaze. I heard a loud laugh and recognized it as Natsu's

"Winter you're the best!" I looked up and he was now standing next to me with a huge toothy grin while giving me a thumbs up. I shook my head in disapproval and knelt down beside Asuka who still refused to let go of my hand. She gave me a smile and I returned the gesture.

"Asuka, you can let go of my hand now." She frowned but nodded and slowly let go of my hand. I smiled at her before patting her head and standing straight. I turned around and everyone was smiling at me.

"What?" I spat and they all smirked, as if they were all synchronized. I sighed and dropped my gaze to the ground. From the corner of my eye I saw Asuka looking up at me with a worried expression. I shrugged it off and turned around to leave but a voice caught me off.

"You aren't going anywhere." Gray spoke and I felt an arm creep up my shoulder and I gasped. I looked over my shoulder and found Gray looking at me with a serious expression. At least he was clothed. That's a relief because if he touched me while being half naked so help me I would have- "I think is time we gave you a proper welcome to the guild, don't ya think?" He interrupted me from my thoughts. I fully turned around and he had a smirk on his lips and I mimicked him. I looked at the other mages and they were all nodding in agreement. Mira walked up to me with a small smile and hands behind her back.

"Since you joined the guild, you haven't been around a lot so we couldn't really introduce you to everyone. But now that you got here from your mission we can finally introduce you to everybody. Wait a second...now that I remebered, how did your mission go?" She asked nicely.

"Good." I spoke dryly.

"That's great! So your first mission has been a succes!" She softly clapped her hands and I saw Natsu from the corner of my eye pout.

"No fair! I wanted to go with you on your first mission!" He whined and Mira let out a soft giggle. I turned to look at him and I gave him a small apologetic smile, well I think it was a smile. I don't know but I hope it looked like one. He stopped pouting and grinned at me in response. "I guess I could go on your second one...I'll let it slide just this once! But don't go thinking that I'm gonna let you hog all the fun!" He smirked and I rolled my eyes at him. Everyone around us was now smiling and I couldn't help but smile a bit myself. They were being super duper nice to me so I could at least reward them with a smile...right?

"Let's head back to guild everybody! We shall give Winter a proper welcome party, Fairy Tail style!" Natsu yelled and everyone cheered and I only dropped my gaze to the ground and closed my eyes. I felt so shocked by them. They were being so caring and nice and I just wanted to bawl my eyes out but I know I can't do that right here and now. I softly shook my head, desperately fighting back the tears and sucessfully winning. I no longer wanted to cry but I still felt sad. Everyone started to run back to the guild and I was the only one to stay back. I glanced up and watched them run cheerfully and loudly. But I saw how Natsu abruptly stopped, turned around and looked at me in confusion. Everyone was still running their hearts out and I could barely see them, seconds later they vanished from my sight and only Natsu remained. He walked up to me and looked at me with worried filled eyes. I sighed and softly shook my head, mentally telling him that I'm fine. The tears still wanted to come out but I was in a one sided fight with them. But I was now losing, the tears were now winning against me and I felt them gather up in my eyes and I sighed once again. Thank goodness my hair covered my eyes or else Natsu would see me in this pathetic state. But even if he couldn't see my tears, he could smell them and I mentally cursed at him. I took a deep, shaky breath and snapped my eyes closed.

"Hey...what's wrong?" I heard him softly ask and I felt how he gently tapped my shoulder. I flinched at his contact and cowered away. I didn't want him to be here with me. I just want to be alone right now. No...right now I just want to meet the rest of the Fairy Tail members and have something to eat because I'm starving and my stomach is starting to growl. I bet Natsu could hear it if he focused enough on his hearing. I almost laughed at the thought but cursed myself when it came out more like a whimper.

"Natsu...please, j-just leave me alone for a while." I growled at him but he didn't seem affected. He positioned himself right in front of me and knelt down so he could see my eyes and I looked away. Why is he doing this?! Can't he just leave me alone for a minute?! "Go. Away." I snarled but he still didn't move. The tears haven't come out yet and I focused on keeping them from falling freely from my eyes.

"No. Not until you tell me what's wrong. We're friends Winter, you can tell me anything, especially the things that are bothering you." He asked with a slight hint of anger and I snapped my head to meet his eyes. I glared at him and turned around, I started to walk in the direction all of the Fairy Tail mages went to. I immediately heard footsteps behind me and I sighed. I don't want him to hate me or anything, I just...don't want to tell him what I'm feeling right now. My head was hanging low, my arms tightly wrapped around myself and a deep frown across my face. I'm not comfortable with this. Yes, I somehow feel happy that they want to throw me a welcome party, but I just can't seem to put my guard down and let some happiness crawl into my heart. I heaved a sad sigh and took a strand of my long, white hair and twirling it between my fingers. I don't know what to do. I feel so lost and...alone. But the ironic thing is that I'm not alone; I've joined a guild and they are all treating me like a long lost friend. But I still feel lonely and sad. How? How can I break through this freaking walls that are keeping me from being happy? I can't take it anymore! I'm done from keeping it all to myself! I want somebody to help me, to be my shoulder to cry on. I'm tired of keeping every little thing that makes me sad to myself. I just want a friend...but hey, I have one right behind me.

I stopped walking and I felt Natsu stand by my side. I closed my eyes.

"N-Natsu." I whispered weakly. "Please, h-help me."

And once again, I broke down.

My knees gave out and I almost made contact with the ground but I felt a pair of arms catch me.

This is too much for one girl. My nasty past not only consisted of rejection. It consisted of many death and loss of people I loved. My best and only human friend, Faela, lost her life just to protect me. My foster mother, Nora, lost her life because I couldn't protect her. I had an exceed myself named Foo, he abandoned me and I would never forgive myself for letting him go so easily. My first and probably last boyfriend, Kai, lost his life thanks to a dark guild named Raven Tail. Once, I was helping a girl 'my age' take care of a beast, and even though I didn't cared deeply for her, the beast got a hold of her and she was desperately calling for my help, but I didn't reach her in time and she lost her life. When I saw her lifeless body in the ground I felt such sadness and guilt. I'm a horrible person. For letting people I cared about die and for allowing others to leave me so easily. I may have once said that I was unexperienced in love, but the truth is, I lied and I'm scared. Scared of caring for somebody and losing them because of death or because they don't want to know anything about me. That's one of the many reasons why I didn't want to join Fairy Tail in the first place. I don't want to get so cuddly with them for them to abandon me later on or worst yet, I don't want to care for a person, for example; Natsu, and after developing such care for him, he'll lose his life because I will never forgive myself. It's bad enough that I've lost so many people in my life and I don't want to lose more people. That's why I didn't want to join this stupid guild. I may be a coward in your eyes, but go ahead and judge me! Judge me of my insecurities! Because that's how people up to this day are! They're heartless and cruel! And I may be heartless too, but I would never judge a person because of their past or weakness. I could never, not after everything that has happened to me. Not after everything I had suffered. Would you like to know more of my horrible past? Because I can keep going for the whole day. Besides, it's barely 10 am and I have nothing important to do. Ok then... wanna know the real reason people call me The Queen of the cold? People believe that I am truly evil. That I was the one that killed that girl and not the beast. People believe that I have no heart. People believe that I'm the main reason that nightmares exist. People believe that I'm the coldest person you could ever meet. People believe that by just looking at me, you freeze for eternity. And that hurts. It fucking hurts. People treat me like I'm a demon. Like I'm their worst nightmare. Like I'm the one to blame for every little bad thing that happens. People fear me so much that instead of using Zeref's name, they use mine instead. Once, I was visting a small village and they brought their special forces to defeat me. Of course I didn't hurt them, I simply left. You guys clearly don't know how glad I am that Magnolia hasn't done that to me...yet. Yes people tremble in fear when they see me, but I try to ignore it as much as possible. This is simply way too much for me and I just want it to stop. Somebody please make it stop! I don't want this pathetic life! What did I ever do to be treated like this? To lose so many people I loved while at the same time, suffer from rejection. I give up. I truly give up. Whoever was behind this stupid game has won because I give up. And the cruel thing is, that everything I just told you wasn't even half of my horrible past.

I felt tears streaming down my face, refusing to stop. I thought I was going to crash into the ground but when I felt a pair of arms grab me and embrace me in a hug, it only made everything worse. I wasn't sobbing uncontrollably but my breathing got way too quick for my liking and I found it extremely hard to breathe. I felt dizzy and I had an extreme headache. My breathing got quicker by the second and before I knew it, I gave out. My eyes slowly snapped shut and my legs went weak. The last thing I heard was Natsu calling my name.

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Natsu's POV

Fear rushed through my veins as I saw Winter pass out in my arms. Something is seriously wrong with her. I picked her up bridal style and started to run back to the guild. As I looked down at Winter, her hair was covering half of her face but I could still see the tears streaming down her cheeks. The salty scent filling my nostrils. I gritted my teeth. I know Winter has had a bad past, but I think it may be more horrible than I thought and now I want to find out more about it. I want to get to know her but I know she doesn't even trust me enough to ask me to go on a job with her. Yes, I'm still upset about her going without me on her first mission but that isn't my main concern right now. My main priority right now is to get her back safely to the guild and have Wendy check on her.

I started to run faster and after several minutes, I finally made it to the guild. I kicked the doors and they flew opened. The guild fell silent.

"Where's Wendy?!" I shouted frantically while looking around, searching for the girl. I heard gasps from around me but paid them no attention.

"Natsu-san!" I heard a soft voice shout and I looked at the direction it came from. Wendy was running towards me and I mentally begged her to check up on Winter who was now whimpering, I glanced down at her. She had a huge frown on her pale face and the tears won't stop from falling from her closed eyes. I frowned and looked at Wendy.

"Let's go to the infirmary! I can work better with my magic there!" She yelled while looking at Winter sadly. People were now surrounding me and Wendy and I could see Gramps frowning. But then again...everyone was frowning. I nodded and ran to the infirmary. I kicked the door open and jogged to the nearest bed, settling Winter carefully on it. She started to squirm but she didn't wake up. When she suddenly stopped moving and for a moment, I thought she stopped breathing as well. I focused on my hearing and after several seconds, I finally heard her soft breathings and I gave out a sigh of relief. Wendy quickly started to check up on her and started to use her magic. If she's using her magic then there's something seriously wrong with Winter.

I heard footsteps behind me and I glanced over my shoulder to see Gramps, Mira and Lucy. The others must be waiting outside. Carla was silently beside Wendy with furrowed brows. Wendy stopped using her magic and was now panting.

"Wendy, you over did it." Carla stated flatly but she shook her head.

"I'm fine, Carla." She looked up at us and frowned. "I still don't know what caused her to pass out, but she is currently in a state of coma. So it's going to take a while for her to wake up." She sadly spoke before her gaze dropped to the ground. I clenched my fists. Something is really, really wrong here and I'm going to get to the bottom of it.

"Is she going to be ok?" Lucy spoke softly while glancing at the still crying Winter. Wendy nodded softly.

"She should be alright." She assured before Carla rushed her to take a seat and rest. Since Wendy was too tired, she obeyed.

I glanced down at Winter and my eyes went wide when she released a piercing scream. It stopped several seconds later and everyone in the room was now staring in shock at the white haired girl.

"What is happening to her?" A teary eyed Mira spoke weakly and Gramps was silently gazing at Winter.

"What do we do?" Lucy spoke nervously and I noticed from the corner of my eye how she had closed eyes and crossed arms.

"We wait." Gramps finally spoke in a stern voice before turning around and leaving the room, silently following, was Mira. I heard Lucy sighed.

"Natsu, what're you going to do now?" She asked softly and I glanced at her. She had a sad look in her eyes and I sighed.

"Wait." I closed my eyes.

"Ok, I'm going to be back home if you need me." She sighed before walking out of the room, I nodded even though she couldn't see me.

What am I supposed to do now? I can't just sit here and wait for her to wake up and start asking her questions. I'll just leave her to rest and I guess I'll come to check up on her by the end of the day. I threw one last glance at her before slowly making my way out of the room. Another piercing scream interrupted me and I snapped my head towards Winter who was now balling the sheet of the bed in her hands. Oh-oh. The sheets were starting to freeze up and I found myself gripping my hair. What do I do now?! Should I call for help? What?! I'm the great son of Igneel I can take care of this myself! I made my way back to the bed and lighted up my right fist in fire before slowly gliding it above the frozen area. I started to panic when the ice didn't melt. What do I do? What do I do? The bed was slowly being covered by ice and I tried desperately to melt it. Why isn't this ice melting? What kind of ice is this?! I growled in frustration and lighted my other fist, gliding both of them above the bed but failing miserably. There's nothing my fire can't melt! How come ice is the exception?! I'm so gonna interrogate Winter when she wakes up because right now, I'm confused as hell. The ice started to creep down to the floor and I furiously swiped my fists and tried to melt it. Maybe if I ask help from Romeo and Macao, I could melt this stupid ice. This sucks! How come I can't melt this puny ice?! That question will haunt me for life.

The ice started to cover the wooden flooring and I let out a small yelp. I put out the fire and ran out of the infirmary. Once I made it out I started to shout frantically.

"Guys! Take a look at this! I can't melt this stupid ice!" I said while waving for them to check it out. Gramps raised an eyebrow before slowly making it's way towards the infirmary. Mira, Lisanna and Elfman stook together and walked in. Wendy came running despite being tired and I felt a wave of pride run through my body. Ice princess along with Erza walked pass me and I glared at the Stripper. I hate him so much. I walked in and I heard a familiar voice shout.

"Natsuuuu!" I heard Happy's voice called and I turned around. Happy flew to my side and looked at me with big sad eyes. "What's going on?" He asked with a small frown and I lightly patted his head.

"Don't worry lil buddy, Winter passed out and she's literally freezing the infirmary. But she should be ok." I said trying to make him feel better although he hasn't even met Winter yet. He slowly nodded before following me inside the infirmary. My eyes went wide when I saw the scene in front of me. The whole room was frozen and Winter was frantically screaming. Wendy was desperately trying to calm her down but didn't make any progress. I felt fear creep through my spine, this is the third time I'm saying this but, there is something terribly wrong with the girl in front of us.