She longed to learn who she was and only he had the answer. Problem? He was in Sabertooth and she was in Fairy Tail, two rival guilds. On the road to get answers, she finds herself falling for his partner. [StingxOC] [RoYu] [NaLu] Other pairings inside.
The Shadow's Light
Sting X Nina (OC)
A Tiger's Life
Nina yawned one day, tired from her mission from the day as she sat in her room in Sabertooth, staring at the mark that replaced her Fairy Tail one, a baby blue hued Sabertooth mark on the inside of her right arm above the joint. Her nose picked up on her brother's scent, having memorized all the scents here within a few months. "Door's open, Rogue."
"Your nose gave me away again. Sting wants us downstairs."
"Maaan. I just got back, too. Tell me there's something worth it in the end." She groaned as she made her way with him downstairs. Sting had taken over as guild master and fit perfectly in it, as if he was made to be in that position. The two had begun a blossoming friendship, one that she felt would survive the tests in the future. She and Lyon were best friends and he was actually fine with that, saying Sting was probably worth the wait, after she had told him about how she felt about the Light Dragon Slayer.
"All he told me was to 'get Nina'." He replied.
"Great. That could mean a billion things." She then saw him without the usual jacket, which made her worry a little. He meant business when he was like that. "Uhhh.. You wanted to see me?"
"Yeah. I wanted to see if you'd like to go to the local bazaar with me?"
"Huh? There's a bazaar here?"
"Yeah, comes here every year. You hadn't seen anything like this and I figured I'd take you to see it."
Nodding, she blinked when Rogue waved them off. "Eh? He's not coming?"
"Nah. He'll be joining later on, with Yukino." He replied, taking her hand and leading her into town, where she saw all kinds of stalls.
She was happy for her brother. A few months after the Grand Magic Games and after she had joined officially, Rogue had asked Yukino out on a date and, according to Froche, it went great. The two were going steady and he seemed pretty happy lately, as did Yukino. A part of her wanted that to happen to her, but she realized that would be bad, dating the guild master of her guild.
"Wow... There are so many things..." She mentally noticed how Sting had yet to let go of her hand, melting at how her hand fit in his. Catching something she found cute, she went to the stall, pulling Sting with her. "These are so cute..."
"You like?" The stall master, a plump woman, said, smiling. "Your complexion calls for rubies or even some diamonds... Like these." She let her try on a ruby and diamond necklace. "Oh, lovely..."
Smiling at her reflection, Nina went to pay but Sting beat her to it. "S-Sting?"
"It's on me." He said, smirking.
"Thanks..." She was seriously confused the entire day as he shifted from happy to tense near the end. "What's going on, Sting?"
"Huh? Nothin... Just thinking.." He replied as they stopped to take a break on a bridge overlooking a river. "Are you havin fun?"
"The best since I've joined. The only thing that could be better is a lazy swim." She said, her mind adding 'and for you to like me more than a friend' in her mind.
"That's great... Say, Nina..."
"Yeah...?" She said as he took both of her hands, since she had put down her bags that they had bought.
"You deserve the world, and I know I can't give that to you. So I'll give you the next best thing: my world." He said seriously. "Before I met you, I never knew what it was like to smile for no reason. I've grown to love you in the past few months since meeting you and getting to know you. Will you, Nina, be my girl?"
Her world spun as her heart sped up, tears entering her eyes as she replayed how he had been acting, realizing he had been trying to surprise her with this and did a great job keeping her mind busy. She nodded. "I've never met a guy who's more ambitious and determined than you. You're the manliest guy I've ever met, too. They say that love can happen in a single moment, I did not believe that till I came to the moment it took me to fall in love with you." She naturally nuzzled into the hand that cupped her cheek, staring into the blue depths that held so much love for her as he bent down to softly kiss her. Her eyes closed in unison with his as they enjoyed the moment. Her heart sang while her soul did flips with how happy she was now, being the girlfriend to a very tough guild master.
Nina sighed when they parted, hating how air was needed, when all she wanted was to keep kissing as she felt him rest his forehead on hers. "I love you so much I can't explain it even if I tried."
"I love you, too. From the moment we met." She said.
A few weeks later, after announcing their relationship to the guild, Nina made her way back to the hall, even meeting Rogue half-way. "Already heading down? You're getting into a system, sis." Rogue said.
"Well, knowing him, it's gotta be something big. Not as big as telling everyone the two of us are dating, but just as big." She stood with Yukino, Orga, Rufus and even her brother as her boyfriend looked at them seriously, being slightly ahead of the four, his gaze locked on hers after he spoke.
"Our guild name used to stun the heavens, rouse the lands beneath us, silence the raging seas. That is the Sabertooth way. Hear me? Take it off."
Nina played along, knowing that when he was in that chair, he made the rules and called the shots. Thankfully, she knew ahead of time that he wanted them to enjoy their new pool, so she wore a bikini Evergreen had sent to her a few weeks ago. "If that is what you wish, sir." She was glad she started wearing capes, they were fun to take off and secretly she felt like a superhero whenever she wore one. The smirk Sting wore made her stomach flutter as she did that, the others following suit.
"Everyone in the water cause we got a pool!" Sting announced to cheers.
Yukino giggled. "This is a great idea, Sting!"
Nina smiled as Sting hugged her softly. "Whaddya expect from him?"
"I don't think I've seen either of you two this happy before." Rogue commented, putting his hair up.
Pecking her boyfriend, she dove right in and floated around while her crazy boyfriend swam laps. "Ahh, worth it... I nearly forgot how a pool felt." She then flipped around, splashing Sting as he stood from his lap. "Gotcha, Champ."
"It's on, Superwoman." He splashed her right back. "Jump in, you two! The water's great!"
"I don't recall another guild having one." Rufus said.
Nina giggled a little bit as she went to dunk her brother. "Come on, bro, loosen up!"
"You're not helping his mood, either, Nina." Rogue said.
"Stiiing! Niiina!" Lector called with Shina right on his paws and getting him, Nina, Rogue and Yukino to go to the edge of the pool. "You gotta listen!"
"Lector and I were keeping an eye on Frosch... Buuuuut..." Shina trailed off.
"Frosch completely disappeared on us!" Lector said.
"Say what?" Sting asked.
"That's awful!" Yukino said.
Nina hopped out and patted the two worried Exceeds. "Calm down... What happened..?"
"Are you JOKING? Or are you two really so careless that you let something like this happen?" Rogue asked.
"We're sorry!" Lector said, hiding behind Nina's leg.
"Rogue!" She scolded.
"We just turned our back for a split second and he was gone." Shina said, following suit.
"Hey, man, back off those two. It was obviously an accident." Sting said, trying to calm his partner down.
"Don't you get it? Frosch doesn't know how to get back here!" Rogue said.
Nina went to sit on the edge of the pool, the two scared Exceeds behind her as she saw the two butt heads. "Stop it, both of you!" She got their attention and sighed. "I swear... We'll go look for Frosch. How hard can it be to find an Exceed?" She asked before they all got dressed and went out to the bazaar, following the two to where they last saw Frosch.
"So, this is where you were when you lost track of Frosch, huh?" Sting asked.
"Yeah, there were so many people around and we guess Frosch got lost in the crowd." Lector informed.
"Hey, FROSCH! WHERE ARE YOU?" Rogue called.
"COME ON BACK!" Sting added.
"WE ALL MISS YOU!" Yukino supplied.
"PLEASE, FROSCH!" Nina called. "If there weren't so many people, I could sniff him out..." She listened to how the two had asked a bunch of people about Frosch, but were down when no one saw anything due to that fact.
"Don't worry about it, you two." Sting said. "We'll find Frosch in no time."
Yukino blinked. "Look! We know them, don't we?" She asked, pointing out Gajeel and Lily.
Nina beamed and dashed over. "Gajeel! Lily!"
"Yo, Nina, is it? Been awhile." Gajeel said before he munched on a steel axe.
"Still the same, eh? Say-"
"IF YOU SEEN FROSCH AROUND HERE.." Rogue demanded, grabbing the Iron Dragon Slayer's vest. "YOU BETTER START TALKING!"
Nina paled and tried to get Rogue off Gajeel. "Rogue, calm down..."
"You better get your hands off me." Gajeel said as Sting restrained Rogue and Nina sighed in relief. "He got a death wish now, Nina?"
"Ummm.. Not really... He's just upset at the moment." She said while Sting held back Rogue.
"We've been lookin and we haven't seen Frosch anywhere. Have you?" Lector asked.
"Who's Frosch?"
Shina sighed. "The frog."
Lily pointed to the park, leading Rogue, Sting and even Nina to run in that direction, leaving Yukino to thank them. She sighed when it became a hot potato act, running into Wendy and Carla. "Wendy!" She said, the younger Dragon Slayer hugging her. "Nice to see you guys again."
"We need to ask you guys a question." Sting said right as Rogue got in Wendy's face, to his shock.
"We need you to tell us where Frosch is right now so things don't have to get ugly!" He was then sent into a pole by Sting.
"She's just a little girl, so cool it on the threats!" He said.
"Excuse him... He's a little uptight." Nina said, bowing before Carla said they saw someone wearing a frog costume down the street. She giggled softly at how her boyfriend now had her brother like luggage.
"Come on, buddy!" He said, dashing off in that direction.
"And he's off..." She sighed, rushing after them. "Come out Frosch! Please!" She called as they stopped where Carla had sent them before patting her brother when he began to worry. "Hey, easy there, Rogue... Frosch'll be fine... We'll find it soon.."
"Will ya pull yourself together already? She said Frosch is fine." Sting said as Ichiya showed up.
"Where's Frosch? Answer ME!" Rogue said before Ichiya tried to kiss him, making him hit him into the ground.
"Gah! Bro, that was...""Totally uncalled for!" The two said in shock.
"My bad!"
"It's fine. It was just the jolt of energy I needed." Ichiya's 'dream'self said.
Nina screamed at the image. "Gaaah. My eyes!" She covered them as Sting pulled her to his chest.
"I know just where to look." Ichiya said.
Recovering, Nina stayed in his arms, but smiled when Rogue seemed to brighten up. However, she turned beet red and Sting hid her face again when Ichiya instead showed him his privates. She shuddered as she imagined her poor brother's eyes would forever be scarred by that sight before she felt him send the man into the ground again, Sting moving the two so they weren't facing it and letting her see shadows eminating from her brother's form. "Oh, dear..."
"We're kinda in a hurry here, so see ya..." Sting said, taking her hand and moving to the next spot on their search. "There are still too many smells to even try to pick up a trail." He said before Yukino pointed to a board, where the Exceed was.
"Way to go, Yuki. You have good eyes!" Nina said, hugging the Spirit Mage.
"Finally." Yukino sighed.
"Hey~" Sting called.
"Hold on!" Rogue said before he noticed he had grabbed something soft, looking to see he had his girlfriend's breast. "Uhhh.." He felt his sister kick him in the face.
"Save it, jeesh! That was a perverted move, bro!" She said, pissed off.
"It's... okay..." Yukino was beyond beet red as she had both arms crossed over her chest.
"Check it out." Rogue managed to point out that Frosch was looking at a map.
"Reading a map, eh?" Lector pointed out.
"That's right. This entire time, he's been trying to get back to the guild hall." Rogue said.
"Hmm..." Nina hummed as she leaned against Sting before seeing Rogue trying to not help.
"I have to harden my heart and keep my protective instincts inside. This could be a real milestone." Rogue said.
Nina fought the urge to deadpan at that fact. He had actually protected her a little too much before Sting asked her to be his girlfriend, not letting the guys that weren't 'blessed' enough to be around her. He had taken over for Laxus easily and made Laxus seem tame with his protective side. She did, however, match Sting's expression when he spoke.
"I... really wouldn't bet on that..." Sting commented.
"Not gonna happen." Lector said.
Shina nodded while Nina lightly elbowed her boyfriend. "Try to be positive, Champ."
"You just gotta have faith!" Rogue stated as they began watching Frosch. "Eastward bound..."
"Right direction." Nina commented right before Frosch, being Frosch, got distracted by a frog.
"Here we go..." Lector said.
"That was quick." Sting sighed.
"LEAVE THE DAMNED FROG ALONE!"
"That thing's outta control!" A person called as a runaway carriage came right at Frosch.
"OH NO!"
Nina clung to Sting's arm. "No one's driving it!"
Sting put his free hand on hers. "This is bad!"
"I have to help without being noticable..." Rogue commented before going into the shadows and taking control, his motion sickness taking control of him not long after.
"Oh, yeah..." Yukino said.
Nina shuddered. "This might be an emergency..."
"But tell that to a Dragon Slayer's stomach..." Sting added before they saw him pass out and crash. "Shit!"
"ROGUE!" Nina called as they ran over.
"Knight, are you okay?" Yukino asked as she knelt next to her own boyfriend.
"Was that enough?"
"Totally..." Nina sighed before they followed the cat to Kagura and Milliana, who were visiting. Grabbing her boyfriend, she melted into the shadows to avoid detection when Kagura looked their way before the two seemingly started to get ready to fight. However, they got too into it and lost track of Frosch, again. "This is getting to be both great exercise, but a pain in the neck!" She whined before seeing Lucy and Natsu had found Frosch, as did some 'frog catchers'. "Greeeat... Natsu's here... Now it's unpredictable..."
"Mhm." Lector and Shina nodded in agreement.
She watched him destroy an entire block to the amusement of her boyfriend, making her roll her eyes and grab his jacket and drag him away. "I swear you're more enamored by Natsu than me sometimes..." She grumbled, knowing that was a lie before seeing Frosch had found Juvia and Gray.
"I don't know where I am." Frosch said, crying.
"I guess it's about time we lend a hand..." Sting said, leaning against a tree.
"It was bound to happen." Lector said.
"Doing so means we're giving up." Rogue stated.
Nina placed herself against the other side of the tree. "So, we're gonna keep watching? Sounds tiring and I was planning on getting some sleep, but, this is worth it."
"Tell us where your guild is and we'll take you there." Gray offered.
"I should do it myself." Frosch said. "I always end up lost, no matter where I go. I need to learn how to get back home all on my own." Gray knelt down, just in his boxers as Frosch turned around and showed his mark. "Because I'm a proud member of Sabertooth. See? And I know that, somewhere out there, my best friend Rogue and his sister Nina are cheering me on... Same with Shina... And Lector... And Sting... And Yukino..."
"Understood. You'll get there soon." Gray said, petting Frosch before he left.
"Guess our little Frosch is all grown up." Sting said, hugging Nina.
"It's adorable." Yukino said, holding her own boyfriend's hand as he sent a smug grin in Sting's direction.
"I'll wipe that smirk right off your face!" Sting said, getting Nina to try and shove him back.
"Cool it, Champ." She warned as they continued to follow Frosch until he wound up at Erza, finding out Frosch had bought a matching suit for Rogue.
"If you wear that, I'm so making fun of you." Sting sneered as Nina smiled, knowing that would happen before they went back to following him.
"Wow. I feel like I'm watching a little kid taking their very first steps towards being an adult." Lector said, smiling as Shina nodded.
Sting glanced at Nina, which she caught, and nodded. "Me too." He said cryptically before it soon became night. "Whoa... Sleepwalking back to the guild?"
"THIS ISN'T IT!" Rogue shouted, seeing they had wound up in Fairy Tail.
Nina sighed. "Clever Erza... She told him how to get to Fairy Tail..." She rolled her eyes before seeing Makarov walk out and pointed towards where Sabertooth's guild was directed. "Aww.. Thank you, Grampa..."
When Frosch finally made it to the guild hall, it was well into the next morning, but Nina knew he had done it all by himself, making it worth the time. She went to bed that night happier than before.
Well, hope you enjoyed this~ So Sting and Nina are now a couple, as are Rogue and Yukino! Whoooot!
~~Kiwi~~