Hello everyone! Welcome to my first fan fiction, Winter's Edge! I hope you guys will enjoy this story. Creative criticism is greatly appreciated. Flames will be doused with water. Special thanks to my beta AdamantineSilver. Oh, and before I forget the disclaimer, I don't own Fairy Tail.

Now here is the key:

"Speech"

Thoughts

"Spell"

And now, on to the story!

It was a cold autumn morning in the town of Magnolia. The crisp, brown leaves fluttered with a undefeatable contentedness. The sun, barely peeked its eyes over the horizon. The wind blew with a brisk satisfaction as Orpobu Chiper strolled the streets with a smirk. He was a loaded business owner with more scandals than any living person to date. He had amassed wealth beyond most people's wildest dreams and nearly nothing could stop him. He was walking home from yet another deal, when it began to snow. He sighed and thought, Snow is beautiful. Snow often brought him emotions, such as jubilance, and determination. He released a genuine smile at the feeling. A faint pattern of footfalls resonated from behind him. His calm and placid grin faltered, then distorted into a look of concern. Seeing snow out of the blue along with hearing the sound of steady footfall, could only mean one thing: a mage was after him.

"I don't care whoever the fuck you are but you can't hurt me!" Orpobu said with determination. He was certain that whoever was following him would lose their nerve and flee.

BANG.

A gunshot rang out in the deserted street. Orpobu felt an icy pain emanating from his lower abdomen in spikes, radiating out from the point of entry in excruciating stabs that racked his body.

Orpobu cried out in pain, as the bullet had stopped its motion before exiting his large, plump body.

Wasting little time, he broke into a panicked sprint as the flurries became a full-on blizzard. His face showed only fear as a menacing shadow emerged from the white. The shadow had long, spiky, jet black hair. He had one gray eye with a scar running vertically across it while the other eye was an icy blue. He had a black bandana covering his mouth, and wore a red collar shirt with a jet black jacket. He sported black pants, combat boots and a large, ice blue katana on his back. Orpobu scampered away from the figure. He tripped about three meters onto his sprint.

"W-who are you?" He squeaked.

"I am your judge," was the response given. " You will atone for your sins."

"W-what do you want from me!?" Orpobu managed to stutter out.

"Stuttering already like the coward you are." The figure scoffed. "You know why I'm here."

"P-p-please spare me!" He spoke panickedly. "I'll give you anything! Money, women, whatever you desire!"

Orpobu was desperate.

"Anything you say?" The figure asked.

"Yes! Yes! Anything!"

"Then Tell me…," the figure grabbed hold of Orpobu's shirt and began to lift him in the air. His eyes narrowed . "How many people have received death as a result of your greed? How MANY!?"

Orpobu became frantic, " I-I-I don't know!" he gasped out. The ice bullet lodged in his lower abdomen began to cause a great amount of pain and discomfort. " One or two maybe?!"

The figure became enraged.

" One or two he says, JUST ONE OR TWO!" The mage began to tremble with rage. "YOU'VE KILLED HUNDREDS-NO, THOUSANDS, and for what, Orpobu Chiper? Your twisted mind only thought of the one thing you desired, not caring how many you killed as long as you got what you wanted."

Orpobu began to tear up as he backed into a wall. "I-I'm sorry, I didn't know!"

"Ignorance isn't an excuse." The masked man retorted. "Orpobu Chiper, you've been found guilty of charges of mass murder and illegal monetary transmissions. Your punishment will be death and the source of your sins will be available for all to see."

The masked man removed his katana from its scabbard. The blade gleamed in the morning sun. It emitted a dangerous icy blue glow that spoke of blue winter nights and cold that kills. Quickly as the blade had appeared, it shrank into what appeared to be ice knife. He slowly stepped towards the cornered business owner and began to cut his chest.

"NO PLEA-gggggggggggghhhhhhhhhh!" was all Orpobu managed to stutter out as the letters G-R-E-E-D were slashed into his chest.

His screams were silenced as he was then stabbed through the head with a large dagger.

"You will not be forgiven… not after what you did to countless families, including my own." The masked killer cleared his throat and continued to speak. "But… you weren't the cause… I would have remembered."

The two different colored eyes scanned his surroundings and fell onto the cold, dead face of Orpobu, eyes still full of fear.

The mage scoffed, "rest in hell… Bastard."

He bent down and placed a card on his victim. It had the head of a dragon with an icicle wrapped around it.

A magic circle appeared around the man's feet.

"Ice Dragon's Transmission Beam!"

A beam of ice appeared instantly and encompassed the masked mage. A few seconds later, the man and the beam were gone.

All that was left was the mutilated corpse of the once-rich scoundrel.

WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE WE

The beam reappeared just outside a fenced off cemetery. The same masked man stepped out of his magic circle as it disappeared. Removing the bandana wrapped around his mouth, he solemnly walked up to a lone headstone that rested on top of a rolling green hill. It was a plain white stone engraved for eternity with the words:

Here lies Chloe Denexia Agavia,

Mother of Kori Agavia,

January 6th, X743-July 12th, X770

A kind and caring mother,

R.I.P.

The man kneeled down and slowly rested his hand on the chiseled marble.

"Hello, Mother. It's me, Kori." The man known as Kori Agavia continued to ramble on to his dead mother, about the things he had seen, the people he'd met, the ones he had killed. "I will avenge you, Mother, I promise I will destroy those who killed you. One way or another." Kori looked at the sky before smirking grimly. Those who had slaughtered his family and friends. Enslaved his people. Ruined his life.

They would rue the day they decided to cross the frozen killer of Sun's Wrath.

"And after I'm finished with killing the others, I'm coming for you…" Kori paused dramatically before finally declaring one name of great importance:

"Natsu Dragneel."

And thus concludes the first chapter of Winter's Edge. So what did you guys think? Please comment and tell me how I can improve my writing or if you guys have any questions. I'm always open to suggestions. I have no real schedule for updating, as I have to balance school among other things. I'll try and update as fast as possible but I can't make any promises. Well, I guess that's all I have to say for now so I'll see you guys later!