Hey guys! Not dead! Just had band camp and had to get this new story together. I hope you all enjoy this one, it is an AU but I think it is pretty good. This story will be 14 chapters long, with a possibly 15th if you guys want it. There is also a possibility for a sequel if you all like it. Needless to say, there is a lot of potential in this story. Anyway, I am super excited for this story, so without further ado, here is The Love of an Anti-Angel
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail... which saddens me
Chapter 1: The Day Everything Changed
Levy McGarden had a pretty boring, normal life up until the age of 16. She lived at home with her single mother, the two weren't wealthy by any means, but they weren't extremely poor either. Levy wasn't really popular at school, she got bullied most of the time, but she did have friends. Nothing really stuck out when you looked at her, except maybe the fact she had bright blue hair. Her entire life was boring, yet she didn't crave for a fancy life or a life of adventure. Her two best friends, Lucy Heartfilla and Erza Scarlet, both lived those lives and it didn't really seem like one Levy would want. While their lives were never as boring as Levy's, their lives were also not as happy. Levy loved her boring life, until it all changed.
"Bye mom! I am off to school!" Levy called as she rushed out the door, determined not to be late again. School started in just under ten minutes and if she ran she could get their in about five, which would give her some time to catch up on the daily drama in Erza and Lucy's lives. The two girls really needed someone to vent to and that tended to fall onto Levy's shoulders. Therefore she always wanted to be at school a little early so she could let the two girls vent.
Levy got to school in just under 5 minutes, a new personal record. Grinning from ear to ear she made a mental note to tell her mom about her new record when she got home that night. Now where are the two drama queens, Levy thought to herself as she looked for her two best friends, careful not to make any eye contact with anyone. Other than the two girls she normally hung out with, no one really liked Levy. There was just something different about her which made others uncomfortable. If Levy knew what it was that made them uncomfortable she would stop, but no one could really say what it was. Levy was just somehow different.
"Levy! There you are!" came a voice from behind the small blue haired girl. Turning around Levy saw a blonde, pretty girl coming running up to her. The girl was none other than Lucy Heartfilla, the richest girl in the entire town. Not that you could tell that by what she wore to school.
"Hey Lucy, what's up?" Levy asked with a smile. Sometimes Levy wished her and her mom were rich, but then she listened to Lucy's life and quickly thought better of it.
"My father is insisting I do some stupid dress fitting for some ball he is having. Though, I am thinking of wearing it to the upcoming dance. Maybe you and Erza and come too and get your dresses!" Lucy told Levy excitedly. As much as Levy would love to go dress shopping with her friends, she knew that the dress Lucy was talking about would be WAY too expensive for what her and her mom could afford to buy her.
"Did I hear dress shopping?" came a strong voice from behind the two girls. When they both turned they saw a scarlet haired, strong woman. This girl was Erza Scarlet, the strongest girl in the entire town, possible the country. Erza was beautiful and strong, she lived an adventurous life doing personal missions for wealthy people. Normally she would spend her money on sweets or clothing, so she didn't seem wealthy though she could become wealthy rather easily.
"Yeah, I would like you and Levy to come to dress shopping with me this afternoon. Dad is making me be fitted for a dress for an upcoming ball and I figured it could double as a dress for the upcoming dance! The fitting wouldn't be any fun unless you two come though and it would give you both a chance to have some really cute one of a kind dresses!" Lucy told them happily.
"I would love to. I just got more money from a job I recently took on and I could probably afford one of the dresses. Plus, we can't have a friend being bored out of their minds shopping," Erza said with a grin. This made Levy sigh, she didn't want Lucy to be bored, but she knew that she couldn't afford any dress that was custom made.
"I'll go with you guys, but you know I can't afford any of the dresses. I can help you guys decide what to get at least," Levy told them both, trying her best to sound excited. Often times trips like this ended up making her jealous that she didn't have more money, which she hated. Jealousy was not an emotion that fit Levy's personality usually. Still, she knew that she needed to be supportive of her friends.
"You should get a dress too Levy! I'm sure I can pay for it," Lucy told her blue haired friend. At the mention of someone paying for her Levy's eyes widen and she shook her head.
"No, I don't want that. I'll just feel guilty and feel indebted to you," Levy told her blonde friend firmly. Before Lucy could protest Erza decided to step in, understanding where Levy was coming from.
"At least come along, it wouldn't be the same without you," Erza told her truthfully. Knowing that she couldn't win against Erza, Lucy dropped the argument and agreed with their friend.
"Thanks guys, my mom won't be home till later anyway so I am sure she won't mind," Levy told them. Her mom had told her that morning that her job was offering to pay her overtime if she stayed a bit later that day and her mother knew she couldn't turn down any extra money. Part of her wanted to take Lucy up on her offer and have Lucy buy her a dress, so they wouldn't have to spend any more money, but her guilty conscience wouldn't let her.
"Great! That settles it! We can walk their after school, it is kinda close to here anyway," Lucy told them. Levy knew that Lucy could call up a limo to bring them, but Lucy hated having someone drive her around. In all honesty, Lucy hated being rich and envied Levy's more boring lifestyle.
"I didn't realize there was a nice dress shop in town," Erza commented a little surprised. There wasn't normally many shops that Lucy's dad approved of that was in town. It was surprising that her dad even let them stay living in this town.
"Yeah, it isn't well known, but my dad is very happy that it is here. Makes things easier cause we don't have to argue about it nearly as bad. I still argue, but at least I can bring you two along to thing," Lucy told the two of them. After Lucy finished talking the bell rang. "Well I guess I will seem you guys after school, later!" Lucy called before leaving her two friends to get to class.
"I am sorry to ask you to do this, but it means a lot to Lucy to have people being with her and making her feel like a normal teenager. You know how she gets about this stuff," Erza said sadly. Levy nodded in agreement, it was just one of those things she had to do for her friend.
"It is no problem, really, but we should get to class," Levy told Erza. Erza nodded before bidding Levy a farewell and left. Another long boring day, Levy thought to herself dreading both the school day and her after school plans.
School had been both long and boring, just how Levy had predicted it. Then again, nothing fun really happened to her. Everything was simple and boring, unless it had to do with Erza or Lucy's life.
"You girls ready to go?" Lucy asked once Erza and Levy found her. Lucy was looking forward to the dress shopping, but only because the other two were going.
"Ready when you are, show us where this dress shop is," Erza told the bubbly blonde. She nodded and started off toward the shop, talking about all the different dresses they could possibly get.
"So Erza," Levy said stopping Lucy from going on some more about whatever it was she was rambling about this time, "what was the mission you went on anyway? Must have been pretty big if you have enough to buy one of these dresses."
"I stopped a gang from starting a war in front of one of my richer clients house last night. They were so pleased with my work, since I also broke up the gang entirely, that they gave me a bonus," Erza explained to her two friends. That's Erza for you, always going above and beyond to help people. She was always so strong that Levy couldn't help but feel slightly jealous. Why couldn't she be strong too?
"You didn't get hurt, did you?" Lucy asked concerned. Erza shook her head, much to the relief of her two friends.
"Nah, the job wasn't that hard," Erza told them simply. Maybe not for you, but for every normal human it would be, Levy thought slightly amused with her friend. How Erza got so strong was a mystery, but it was no mystery that she was indeed strong. No one could deny that.
"We're here!" Lucy told them, leading them inside a small dress shop. On the outside you wouldn't guess that any rich person went there, but on the inside you soon saw why. The entire place was decorated in diamonds and tons of fancy things that Levy didn't even know what they were.
Lucy walked up to the counter and told the lady, "Hello, I have an appointment for Lucy Heartfilla. I would like my friend Erza to also get a dress fitting as well." The lady nodded and lead both Erza and Lucy into some dressing rooms to be fitted, leaving Levy alone.
"Who are you?" the lady who had helped both Erza and Lucy asked her.
"Oh, I am just a friend of theirs. They wanted help with dresses," Levy tried to explain to the lady.
"Don't you want a dress?" the lady asked still confused.
"Oh no, I can't afford any of these dresses," Levy stated simply. This made the lady frown at Levy, which confused Levy. Had she said something that made the woman upset?
"If you cannot afford any of the dresses then I am afraid you will have to leave," the woman stated bluntly, all niceness having left her voice. The sudden change in attitude startled Levy.
"But my friends-" Levy started before she was rudely cut off by the woman.
"We will inform them that you had to leave, but right now you have to leave," the woman said pushing Levy out the door. Once they made it to the door she gave a very hard push, knocking Levy onto the sidewalk outside.
"Hey!" Levy said, but the lady paid her no mind and just left. "That was very rude, but I guess that is to be expected when a poor person tries to run with the rich," Levy grumbled as she got up and dusted herself off. Sighing she figured she might as well walk home, no point in waiting around for her friends. She may not know much about dress fitting, but she had a feeling it was not a quick process. Picking up her phone she sent Lucy a quick text that read: They made me leave since I couldn't afford to buy anything. Hope you two have fun, send me pictures of the dresses you guys pick out. After she sent Lucy the text she sighed and started to walk home. Finally she decided to call her mother so she wouldn't worry.
"Hello? This is Cecilia? How can I help you?" came the voice from the phone. Levy sighed, sometimes she wished her mom paid more attention to who was calling her.
"Mom, it's me," Levy told her simply. She could almost hear her mom perk up at the sound of her daughter's voice.
"Hey honey, what's up? You home yet?" her mom asked her. Must be a boring day for her too for her to be asking me so many questions, Levy noticed as she smiled hearing her mom's voice.
"No, I was going to help Lucy and Erza do some dress shopping but I got kicked out since I can't afford any of the dresses. So I am just now on my way home," Levy explained to her mom.
"I am sorry about that, I wish we had more money," her mother said sadly. I knew she would blame herself, Levy thought bitterly. No matter what her mother always blamed herself for their problems.
"It isn't your fault dad died soon after I was born, so don't blame yourself. It wasn't that big of a deal. The worst thing will probably be that Lucy will feel really bad, but she will be okay. I just wanted to let you know I was on my way home," Levy told her mom.
"No problem honey. I will be home a little late tonight, but don't stay up too late because I don't know when I will be home," Cecilia admitted to her daughter. Another late night? Her bosses her really working her hard, but why, Levy wondered a little worriedly to herself.
"Okay mom, I will make sure to get to bed at a reasonable time. See you tonight," Levy told her before hanging up. "Why they working her so hard? What isn't she telling me," Levy murmured to herself. The small blue haired girl was so lost in thought she didn't notice that kids that normally bullied her walking her way.
"Ey, shrimp, why you talking to yourself?" one called out, breaking her train of thought. Sighing Levy faced the three guys who she had long forgotten the names to the faces.
"What do you want? I'm kinda busy," Levy stated, too tired to deal with them. These three normally didn't do anything to her but tease, so they were more of an aggravation than anything else.
"Oh really? Where you goin with that skirt so short? Booty call? No one would really go out with a pipsqueak like you," the leader of the three stated. She rolled her eyes, she hated her skirt being so short but it was the only one that fit her. One of the other guys came up from behind her and tried lifting up her skirt.
"H-hey!" she said jumping back, blushing madly. The guys all laughed at her and started to back her into an alleyway.
"What's wrong scars? Got a problem?" they asked as they all wickedly grinned. Levy became mad at the nickname they chose to use- scars was from the two strange scars on her back that she didn't know where they came from. People loved to make fun of her for it, making it quickly become a sensitive subject.
"G-get away from m-me," Levy cursed herself for stuttering, but she couldn't help it. Being backed into a wall by three creepy guys would make anyone nervous.
"Ah, she's scared. Well you should be scars. I'm ready to see those scars up close and personal," the leader said. Levy closed her eyes and waited for what was to come, but nothing did. Instead she felt as if something inside of her switched on in a burst. The feeling soon disappeared, but she still felt somehow strange. Opening her eyes she soon found the three guys on the ground.
"W-what happened?" Levy asked confused at the sight in front of her. The guys quickly got to their feet and started to run away.
"Stay away from us you freak!" they yelled as they ran away. Are they talking to me? Did I somehow do that to them? Is there someone else here? Levy wondered to herself. Quickly she looked around to see if there was anyone else there, but found that no one else was in the alleyway. Freaked out by what had happened just then Levy ran out of the alleyway.
"What just happened?" she murmured to herself. Had that whole thing been caused by the strange feeling she had felt? She made a mental note to ask her mom about it when she saw her next, probably tonight since she doubted she would be able to sleep.
"I smell an angel," came a creepy voice. Turning around out of fear she saw a small black creature that looked like a mix between a monkey and a bird. The creature was covered with feathers and had huge black wings, but other than that it looked like a monkey. For a brief instant she thought of the Wizard of Oz, but that thought was soon swallowed up by fear.
"W-what a-are y-you?" she asked the creature as she stepped back, preparing to bolt. Before she could bolt away from the thing bit her ankle, causing her to scream. Down she fell, but she continued to try and fight the creature off.
"Not today angel girl!" the strange thing said as it bit and clawed at her arms. Levy tried her best to fight it off, begging for whatever that happened earlier to happen again.
"Get off!" Levy screamed as she tried to push it off again, unsuccessfully.
"Don't act like you don't know what I am you stupid Earth Angel! You WILL be my next meal!" the thing cried out as it bit hard onto her arm. Levy let out a scream of pain and tried to shake it off her arm. People passing by gave her strange looks. Did they seriously not see what was going on?! Were they not going to help her?! What did the thing mean by Earth Angel? So many questions swirled around in her head as she tried to fight for her life. Just when she was about to give up the creature exploded and her wounds started to fade away instantly.
"WHAT THE HECK?!" Levy yelled allowed looking at her fading wounds in shock. Slowly she looked up to see the reason why the strange thing that was trying to kill her exploded. It was then that Levy saw a man standing there with dark grey wings, unruly black hair, dressed in all black and chains. From that moment on Levy's boring life became anything but boring.
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