Note: Does not follow the anime, but some parts are closely related. Also, the original story is by FairyFangirl7 and her story Stranded, I just loved the idea so much I couldn't resist putting my own twist on it.

I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does.

Romeo

I didn't understand what was going on, I was only six years old.

I felt the deck rocking beneath me, I wondered where Dad was.

I was up on the deck, I watched in terror as more men were washed over, out of the boat and into the sea. I shivered in the raging downpour as I clung to the mast, that's when I saw the new girl coming toward me, I vaguely remembered her name, Le, Lu, Lucy.

That was her name, she was the funny key wizard.

She snatched me up and hugged me tight as she ran back toward the main doorway. Then a more powerful wave flooded the deck, and washed me and Lucy overboard. I couldn't breath, I was underwater, I felt a hand on my wrist, it dragged me back above the water.

Then we were plunged under again, she kept holding me, she shoved me up to the surface again, I got another breath, then a bag, washed over by the storm, smacked me on the head. Then it was black.

Lucy

I woke up on a white sandy beach. I wiped the sand from my face and spat to clear the grit in my mouth. Then I looked around, where was I? Who was I? I couldn't remember.

I looked around and saw a boy, then I remembered the shipwreck. I ran to the boy and found he was awake.

I saw that he had the same mark on his shoulder that I had on my hand, except it was red and mine was light pink. I reached down and shook his shoulder.

"Luuuuuccccy?" He asked groggily.

I assumed I was Lucy, and said.

"Yes, I'm here, are you ok?" I asked.

He nodded. "Are we dead?" he asked.

I laughed a little.

"No, I don't think so, whats your name?"

He looked up and blinked, "Romeo." He said.

"All righty then, Romeo, now what do you want do?"

I was trying to sound as if nothing was wrong even though something was seriously wrong, we were wrecked, after all, and I had no idea how we were going to get home, where ever home was for us.

He moaned, "I'm thirsty."

"Ok, I think I can hear a waterfall, you wanna go find it?"

I asked, I heard no waterfall, but was sure if I got him going we would find something or another.

"Yeah, ok! Let's go!" He cried, then he got up, and was ready to run into the jungle.

"Wait!" I shouted.

"What is it, Lucy?" Romeo asked.

"Come here." I ordered, then I lead him down until we were shin deep in water, then I began to splash him with water.

"Hey!" Romeo cried as he splashed me back.

I had already washed all the sand from my ruined dress, it felt like silk. It was long enough to tickle my ankles, I had a dagger and some funny keys on a belt around my waist, weird. But right then I was just trying to get all the grit of of little Romeo.

"Hold still! I'm trying to wash the sand of of you." I said.

Romeo wore cargo shorts and a green tee shirt with a silver S on it. I then dipped my hands into the water and began to wipe his face, he batted at my hands,

"Yuck!" He groaned as I rubbed the sand off his face and then said.

"All right, that ought to be good enough."

"Ok, Ok! I'm all clean now! Let's go! Let's go!" Romeo cried as he grabbed my hand and pulled me into the jungle.

After a while, I saw a few birds heading in the same direction together in a group, chirping to each other.

"Romeo, let's follow the birds, maybe they'll lead us to the waterfall!" I said.

"Ok!" Romeo said.

Then we carefully followed, trying not to scare the birds of paradise we were following. Then Romeo stopped.

"What is it?" I asked.

He reached up and tugged on my hand.

"Listen, Lucy." He said.

So I did, and heard the soft crashing in the distance.

Romeo walked forward, pulling my hand. He pushed his way through the bushes, and he let out a shout of joy.

I ran after him and found a cliff, it must have been dozens of feet above the most beautiful waterfall, it was crashing into a huge pool of clear blue water.

"Wow..." I whispered.

"Cannonball!"

Romeo leapt from the cliff without any hesitation.

"Romeo! No!" I shrieked.

I ran to the edge and watched him hit the water with a mighty splash. I held my breath, then he came up.

"THAT WAS AWESOME!" He screamed as he started gulping down water. I started looking around for a way to climb down, then I saw the view. This was the highest point on the island other than the mountain I could see on the other side. It was deserted, I saw no smoke, no homes. No nothing.

I loved it.

Then I heard Romeo's screech up at me.

"C'mon Lucy! The only way down is to jump!"

Then he began chanting.

"Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!"

I sighed, what did I have to lose? My life, for one thing.

I took a running start, aiming to make sure I wouldn't land on Romeo, and jumped. I fell, limps flailing, with a huge splash I hit the water. The I pushed myself back up and gasped.

I gasped in air. Then I started laughing, laughing, and Romeo was too. We drank our fill, Romeo and I ran up and jumped again. Then we sat on a rock letting our clothes dry in the sun as I asked, "Ok, Romeo, now what do you want to do?"

He considered the question, "I wanna eat." He said finally.

I nodded, so did I, we were both starved.

"All right, I think there's some fruit up in the trees, want to go and pick some?" I asked.

His eyes lit up at the idea. "Yeah! Let's go!"

He leapt off the rock and swam across to the beach, tugging me along.

We climbed up and up until we found some fruit, mangos, I think. They were really good, then we had to find shelter. So I looked around and found a bunch of trees in a pretty circle, their branch's weaving together into a ruff nest. At least so that you couldn't fall through. I had an idea, and I turned to Romeo.

"Hey, Romeo." I said.

"Yessh?" He asked, his mouth full of juicy mango.

"How would you like to build a tree fort?" I asked as I bit into a delicious papaya.

He dropped the mango he was eating and allowed it to fall to the forest floor and land with a splat.

"All right! Let's do it! Can it have a crows nest?" He asked,

I grinned, "Sure it can! It can have whatever you want it too!"

We spent the rest of that day searching for materials.

No one else had washed up onto the island, but a lot of wood from the destroyed vessel had.

Along with several barrels and quite a few bags of supplies. We enjoyed looking through the bags, and found some great stuff. We then found the best thing ever, half of the ship was washed up on the beach, probably more like a quarter or an eighth of it.

But it was still the size of a small apartment, Romeo almost had a fit of glee as he ran toward it. Together, we strained to move it back to the tree, but had hardly made it a couple feet. I was about to break it to Romeo, that was wouldn't be able to use the ship, when I heard a voice, coming from the jungle.

"Hey, kids, need a hand?" Said a strong southern accent.

"Um, who are you?" I asked, then a two tigers emerged from the trees. I gasped and Romeo let out a shout of surprise.

"You cats can talk?" Romeo asked, amazed.

"All of us can talk, at least around here anyway."

Said the second tiger, with the sound of a female voice.

"My name's Snaps, and this is my wife, Blossom."

The male tiger said.

The female tiger nodded toward the ship.

"Just what are you two trying to do with that thing?" She asked.

"We wanna make it into a tree fort!" Romeo exclaimed.

"Well, we need a place to stay, we were washed ashore after our ship sank, and this is a part of that ship. At least I think it is."

I could see the name. The Sea Fairy, painted in blue along the top of the ship.

"Well, I can see how that would make a good tree fort, kid. I don't know about getting it up into the tree, but as far as getting it too the tree, I think we can help you with that." Snaps said.

With that he and Blossom padded over and crouched down,

"Push it up onto our backs." Blossom ordered. We did so, and soon we were helping to keep the wooden crate balanced on the two tigers backs as we made our way toward our tree. When we arrived with pondered how to get it up into the tree.

"Could we just lift it?" Romeo asked.

"No, it's to high." Blossom said.

"We could call some of the birds and get them to fly it up." Snaps suggested.

"No, I don't think the birds would be strong enough."

I pointed out

"Maybe we could use vines to hoist it into place?"

Blossom suggested. so we decided to give it a try.

"Heave!" Snaps was shouting around a vine in his mouth a few minutes later. We were struggling to pull the ship up off the ground, and now it was halfway up, but we were struggling to make any further progress.

"Hi ya, Snaps! What'cha doing?" A tan monkey had come along, about three feet tall. Snaps rolled his eyes and pulled harder.

"Hi ya, miss, can I help?" The monkey bounced over too me, and I nodded and said,

"Pull on the vine, monkey, that would really help!"

"Ok!" The monkey answered, and then said, "By the way, my name's Leaf!" With that he gripped the vine and threw all his little monkey strength into it. The ship began to inch upward, bit by bit. Then a beautiful bird, tall as I was a colored all different colors swept into the tree.

"A little to the left!" She cried in a sing song voice.

"Could you push it that way, Giddy!" Blossom asked as she strained against her own vine.

"Sure thing!" Giddy chirped before throwing her feathered back into it. Finally, we had it in place, and we all fell to the jungle floor gasping for breath.

"Th-thanks, you guys." Romeo puffed out.

The animals nodded. "No P-P-Problem." Leaf gasped.

The rest of that first day was spent decking out our new home, and even placing some of the barrels we had found higher up in the branches to give Romeo his crows nest.

That night Romeo and I snuggled into the crows nest, and I pointed out the constellations to him. He smiled as he identified the big dipper from the little dipper.

"Hey Lucy?" He asked as was sat in the barrel.

"Yeah?" I replied.

"Are we gonna get rescued?" He asked.

"I don't know." I replied.

Then he looked up at me, his wide brown eyes reflecting the stars above us.

"Do you want us to be?" He asked me.

I thought about it.

"No." I said finally, "I don't think I want to be." I said.

"Then." He said nervously, looking at his feet.

"Would it be ok if I stayed with you, Lucy-nee?" He asked.

I stared, Lucy-nee? That meant sister Lucy, it was what you called an older sibling you had great respect and love for.

I looked down at him, he looked up at me, having every expectation for me to say no. I hugged him tight.

"Do you even have to ask? Of course you can stay if you want to, I'd love you to, Romeo, we can live here together."

"Forever?" He asked as he wrapped his tiny arms around me.

I looked down at him. "For as long as you'd like." I said.

He smiled happily, and we climbed back down into our tree fort, we had tied several huge sections of boards to the open side of the fort to close it off, and we had used the hatch on the top of the ship as a door, all the rest of the boards and barrels had gone into the ship itself, it was one floor, with a nook for our bed, and another nook to help us get down from the hatch.

made out of leaves stuffed into huge sacks we had found on the beach, and blankets woven from soft plant fibers that Blossom had kindly given to us. We had met many other animals as Leaf took us on a tour of the island. A family of dolphins, some alligators, more monkeys, and birds like Giddy, and tropical parrots too.

I couldn't remember my life before that day, so to me, that day was when my life began. If we had tried, we probably could had gotten ourselves rescued, but we didn't want to try, we liked our new home, our island.

It would be a long time before anything disturbed our life, we had neighbors, and friends, and even a few enemies. Like the snakes that live on the far side of the island, but for then, and for now, I love my home, and I know nothing will ever change that.