12Hey guys it's dndkeg here, bringing you guys a new story that I've been trying to write for a while. Sorry I have not been active lately, I've had a lot of school work to do as well a few more story ideas that I had in mind. As of now updates for Fairies of the Multiverse has been slow lately as I do not have a lot of time, so right now when I do have time I have something that I can write that does not require canon and full out from my head. So without further ado I bring you a Fairy Tail fanfic: Nightmares and Dreams enjoy!
Chapter 1: A Horrible Nightmare and a Lovely Dream
"Hang on Romeo-kun!" Wendy said as she was running towards a cliff where a beaten up Romeo was grasping for dear life!
"Almost there..." Wendy panted as she reached for the cliff and was about to grab Romeo's hand, yet fatal timing ensured and his hand gave way, and all that Wendy saw was her friend scream and fall to his fatal death...
"ROMEO-KUN!"
"AHHHHHHH!" Wendy screamed as she woke up, her heart beating very fast, sweat all over her petite forehead and navy blue hair. When she finally composed herself Wendy realized that it was all a nightmare and she was in her dorm room at Fairy Hills, she then buried her face in her hands and started to cry.
"Child, is there something wrong?" a familiar voice asked. Wendy looked up and saw her Exceed friend Carla hovering over her, she was wearing pink pajamas and had a concerned look on her face, "I heard you scream, was it a nightmare?"
"Yes, it was, but I'm fine Carla," Wendy muttered out, but her Exceed friend was having nothing of it.
"Wendy, if something happened in there you can tell me," Carla said, feeling sympathetic even though it was around midnight.
"I'm fine, really, just go back to sleep Carla," Wendy said, Carla was about to protest, but thought against it, if Wendy wasn't ready to tell her then so be it.
"Alright, goodnight Wendy," Carla said reluctantly, before going into a small bed on top of the drawer aside Wendy's bed.
"Goodnight," Wendy muttered as she tried to go back to sleep, but was struggling due to the nightmare of Romeo, still fresh on her mind...
Later that Day at the Guild...
Wendy did not get a lot of sleep last night, everyone could tell, due to the bags under her eyes and her constant yawning.
"Wendy, are you alright?" Mirajane asked concerned for the bluenette.
"Oh yes! I'm fine just tired that's all," Wendy said half-heartedly.
"If you say so, here's your milkshake by the way," Mirajane replied with a comforting smile.
"Thank you," Wendy said as she took her chocolate milkshake.
"WE'RE BACK!" a loud voice said, busting through the guild doors, Wendy turned and saw Romeo riding Natsu's back while punching the latter playfully. Since their time skip, Romeo became stronger and dressed up similar to his idol "big brother". Now he was a year older than Wendy was.
"Hey, Mira-nee," Romeo greeted the pretty barmaid as he got off Natsu and took a seat next to Wendy.
"Hello Romeo, how was your mission?" she asked as she prepared his usual drink.
"It was great, although our pay was reduced since Natsu-nii destroyed a building," the Rainbow Fire Mage sighed.
"Typical Natsu," Mirajane said with a small giggle, "by the way where did he go off too?"
"He said he wanted to go visit Lucy-nee," Romeo said offhandedly, "since they are dating now."
Not too long after the Grand Magic Games, Lucy actually confessed her feelings to the naive Fire Dragon Slayer, only for him to say that he felt the exact same towards the Celestial Spirit Mage, after which they have been dating for the past two months.
"Well at least he isn't dense like Gray was to Juvia, and for Gajeel and Levy for that matter," Mira said with another laugh.
It was true despite Gray trying to be cool as it were to speak he may have had a tiny attraction to the obsessed Water Mage, and since Lyon kept on trying to woo her, Gray then decided to ask her out on a date on their 423rd Day Anniversary (yes Juvia still counted the days since she met her, "beloved Gray-sama") and the rest was history after that.
As for Gajeel he may have been dense but he wasn't stupid like Natsu was. Despite that, he still didn't think he deserved Levy, after all he was the one who crucified her and her team to a tree. It may have taken a while to forgive himself and move on, but after she saved him from the Eclipsed Celestial Spirit King, the gruff Iron Dragon Slayer finally asked her out, much to Jet and Droy's...childish sobs and protests.
"Yeah, I have to agree with you there," Romeo said with a laugh, as Mirajane gave him a chocolate milkshake of his own. "Although it is different with Erza-nee and Jellal-san."
For some "odd" reason when Erza took on S-Class missions by herself, somehow Jellal was also there as well. When that happened, they ended up doing the mission together and went on secret dates after. Jellal always wrote to Erza about how he was doing, but for purposes, since he was a vigilante and a wanted man, he never wrote the return address from where his current location was. However, recently Erza lifted the rule for boys not being allowed at Fairy Hills for "reasons unknown."
As Romeo started drinking his milkshake, Wendy couldn't help but stare at him. Here was the boy that she was having a nightmare of dying, in front of her. Wendy seemed to not have realized that she was staring at him for a few minutes, when Romeo noticed her staring out of the corner of his eye.
"Hey Wendy," Romeo said dropping the -nee since he was technically older than her, "is there something wrong?"
Wendy finally realized of what she was doing and flushed red with embarrassment, "No, I'm fine Romeo-kun," she ended her sentence with a yawn. Wendy cursed herself mentally when Romeo noticed and cast a worried look towards her.
"Are you sure, it looks like you haven't been sleeping very well lately," Romeo said worriedly.
"Yeah, I'm fine, don't worry about me," the Sky Dragon Slayer said shyly.
"If you say so," Romeo said before glancing at his father, Macao, "I have to go, it looks like my father is drunk again,". He sighed, "See you later Wendy," the Rainbow Fire Mage then got up from his bar seat and helped a fully drunk Macao out of the guild.
Mirajane saw the whole exchange and looked at Wendy worriedly. It had been yesterday after the whole Ichiya Apocalypse incident and now she seemed to have turned into a tired mess. Curious of to why she was staring at Romeo, Mira went up to the bluenette girl, making some small talk with the latter.
"Wendy is there something you're hiding from us?" Mirajane asked worriedly.
"I told you I'm fine Mira-san," Wendy said, trying not to be rude.
"Well you staring at Romeo seemed to tell me otherwise," the barmaid said with a slightly teasing smile.
Wah! She actually saw that? Wendy thought blushing red, much to Mira's amusement, although she didn't show it.
"Yeah, you seemed relieved that he was here," Mira said before turning to a pose and expression of deep thought, "It seems to be connected to why you are tired today," she deduced, not knowing how close she was to figuring out the whole situation.
Wendy then gave up with a sigh, she had to tell someone sometime, "Well when almost everyone was infected from the hot man potion Ichiya made, we stumbled upon Romeo-kun, he actually was able to avoid being turned into one himself, for most of it," Wendy said until her face fell, "but then we were surrounded by several Ichiya people, he told us to find Natsu-san, and we had to leave him there to being infected by the Ichiyas." Wendy then started to cry, "It's because I left him behind even though there may have been a way to save him," Mira then grabbed a nearby tissue box and gave it to Wendy, "Last night I had a nightmare about him about to die, I tried to save him but..." Wendy couldn't take it anymore as she started to cry even more, the nightmare still fresh on her mind.
"Child, I didn't think it was this bad," Carla said behind the bluenette, apparently listening to the whole ordeal.
"Carla! How long were you standing there?" Wendy asked.
"Long enough to know why you had that nightmare, Wendy," her Exceed friend replied with sympathy.
"Maybe the reason why is because you might actually 'like' him, " Mirajane suggested with a still teasing smile on her face, despite Wendy's current mood.
Wendy blushed a scarlet red when she heard that.
"Er...um...I don't l-like R-Romeo-kun l-like th-that," the bluenette replied, stuttering and still trying to dry off her tears.
"Then why are you stuttering and your face is red?" Mira asked still teasing the Sky Dragon Slayer; the latter would have wished she would just die of embarrassment.
"That's enough Mira," Carla said seriously.
"Alright, alright sorry Wendy."
"It's okay," Wendy replied.
Later that night at Fairy Hills...
Wendy was about to go to bed while her thoughts swirled around about a certain Rainbow Fire Mage. She blushed when she thought about him, his black, ruffled hair; the outfit he wears that is similar to Natsu's; and his well toned muscles; Wendy blushed harder at the last one. She still thought about her nightmare of her friend perishing, she knew it was just a dream, but it felt so real and it terrified her. She was staring at the wall with a slightly terrified expression written on her face for a few minutes without realizing.
"Wendy, time to go to bed," Carla said as she walked out of the bathroom, jarring Wendy out of her thoughts.
"Okay," the bluenette replied absentmindedly, "Good night, Carla." She then turned out the lamp next to her bed and started to drift off to sleep.
Wendy opened her eyes and looked around, it seemed she was in a meadow full of white flowers. She was in the shade of a lone oak tree on a hill. Wendy looked down and saw that she seemed to be sitting on a red and white, checkered patterned picnic blanket with a basket on her left, but someone else on her right. When she looked up to her right she was completely taken aback when she saw Romeo sitting next to her, with his hands behind his back and leaning back against the oak tree with a content smile on his face.
Romeo then looked at Wendy with a smile as he took his left hand behind his head and slowly intertwined it with Wendy's. The Sky Maiden in response slightly tightened her grip on his hand, a slight blush present on both of their faces. Without realizing it, their faces began to inch closer, and closer, their lips about to touch when...
Sunlight peered through the window inside Wendy's room as it rested directly on her face. She started to stir awake and lazily lifted her hand to block the blinding sunlight until her eyes fully adjusted. Then her eyes widened as big as dinner plates as the memory of her dream slammed into her like a freight train, followed up by her face turning many shades of red.
"EEEEEK!"
Wendy started to panic and threw the bed sheets over her as her dream was seemingly presented as a date with Romeo and somehow getting her first kiss with him.
"I can't believe I even dreamt of that!" Wendy thought, "Although it was kind of nice…-AHH! Knock it off Wendy!"
"Wendy, is something wrong?" Carla asked through the bathroom door as she was getting ready.
"Erm, no everything is fine," Wendy lied, somehow having spoken in a steady voice, although she was still panicking on the inside. She then shook her thoughts of her dream and decided to get ready for the day.
At the Guild...
Another normal day at the guild...or as normal as it could get. Some fight broke out between Natsu, Gray, and Gajeel on who is the best boyfriend while their girlfriends were just chatting on the sidelines.
"...and then Natsu went too far and accidentally burnt my favorite outfit along with the bandits," Lucy said slightly annoyed. She was talking about some past week experience when she went on a job with Natsu and Happy as one of of the Fire Dragon Slayer's attacks not only knocked out the bandits on the job request, but also burning most of Lucy's outfit as well.
"Lu-chan you should have thought of buying fire resistant clothes already, Natsu knows nothing of the words 'restraint' and 'self-control'," Levy said in a scolding matter to which her best friend and Juvia, sitting next to her, agreed.
"He may be an idiot, but he's still my idiot," Lucy said with a small smile.
"Well now that's out of the way, anything interesting happened to you, Levy, with a certain Iron Dragon Slayer in the past week?" Lucy asked teasingly in which Levy blushed a bright red.
"Juvia also wants to know what Gajeel-kun did for Levy-san," Juvia said in a happy tone.
"W-w-well, h-h-he..." the Solid Script mage stuttered trying to form words.
"What did he do Levy-chan?" Lucy asked.
"He, um, bought me some expensive encyclopedia series," Levy finally said.
"Oh, what kind?" Lucy asked.
"Remember that one series at the shop on those ancient languages that costs almost five million jewels?" Levy asked timidly.
"Well, yea-wait...Gajeel bought you that?!" the Celestial wizard asked surprised, in which the bookworm responded with a tiny nod.
"How did he buy you that?!"
"Well, I found them in an iron box outside my room, I was surprised that they were in there. I thought he stole them, but I talked to the shopkeeper, and he said a man came in and had a heated bargain to only get it for two million jewels," Levy explained.
"Wow, that's sweet of him, and to get it for only two million jewels too," Lucy said.
"Good morning, Lucy-san, Levy-san, Juvia-san," Wendy said, coming over to the girls' table, ignoring the fight between the three boyfriends in the corner.
"Good morning Wendy, I see you've slept well," Lucy said.
"Yup, um, what are you all talking about?" the Sky Maiden asked curiously, while taking a seat next to Lucy.
"Boyfriend talk," Levy said plainly before realizing, "oh that's right, Juvia, did anything interesting happen between you and Gray?"
"Well," the water mage started off, "Gray-sama took Juvia out on a date around Magnolia for the carnival that was here. We went on rides, played games, and he won a giant teddy bear for Juvia," she said dreamily. "At the end of the day, Gray-sama walked back to my room with me, and even gave me a kiss goodnight!"
"Wow, I didn't know Gray was such a romantic," Levy said.
"I guess he doesn't really show it unless if it's with Juvia," Lucy said, as well as giving Juvia a hug of congratulations.
Wendy couldn't help but smile at her guildmates' happiness, but also felt a little sad due to a feeling like she was the odd one out...
"So Wendy," Lucy started to say as all the girls at the table looked at her, much to the surprise of the Sky Dragon Slayer, "has anyone caught your eye yet?"
"Huh?!" Wendy flushed with embarrassment as that sort of question was asked on her. Unbeknownst to her and the other older girls, a certain group of three men stopped fighting as it ended in a draw (again), two of them were listening, and another man not to far away who looked nonchalant was also listening in.
Now despite Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus were not stupid enough to be butting into anyone's business, they couldn't help themselves but be a "little" overprotective of the youngest Dragon Slayer as they were like family after all.
"E-e-erm, u-u-uh n-n-no..." Wendy stuttered.
"Then, why are you stuttering all of a sudden?" Lucy half-asked, half-teased.
"I-I-I u-u-uh..."
"Mira-nee I'm going out on a job!" a voice suddenly exclaimed from the request board, bringing Wendy out of her flustered state.
She turned and saw Romeo with a job request in his hand, and gave it to the pretty barmaid to see if it was fit for approval. When Mira nodded, the Rainbow Fire mage proceeded towards the guild doors. Much to the confusion of the group of girls Wendy got up and followed Romeo towards the guild doors. Realizing someone was following him, Romeo turned around just in time to see Wendy come up and hug him.
"W-W-Wendy?" Romeo stuttered and blushed a deep red.
"Come back soon..." was all Wendy said as she slightly tightened her grip on her guildmate, and finally let go.
Romeo then furrowed his face in confusion before giving the bluenette a soft, reassuring smile.
"Don't worry I will," he said and patted her head reassuringly making Wendy blush. "See ya," he said before continuing on his way to go on his job request.
Romeo then walked out the guild doors and Wendy watched him until he was no longer in sight. Wendy slowly brought up her hands to her chest with a slight look of worry, the nightmare she had two nights ago still lingered in her mind.
"Romeo-kun..." she said softly, her voice full of worry.
That's a wrap for this chapter, hope you have enjoyed, leave a follow and fave this story if you like, and I will see you guys next time!