Get ready for a retelling of one of the most famous Shakespeare plays of all time, that will probably make the play writer turn over in his grave. I hope you can read Shakespearean (or at least my crappy version) because it's time for Romeo & Juliet, Fairy Tail style!
This is a mix of the classic play version and 2013 movie version, along with a few creative liberties I've taken.
Two years after Alveraz. Romeo and Wendy are both 16.
I do not own Fairy Tail or any versions of Romeo & Juliet. *Jumps in time machine. Yet.
Wendy's POV:
"A glooming peace this morning with it brings;
The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head:
Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things;
Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished:
For never was a story of more woe
Than this of Juliet and her-"
"Watcha readin' there, Wen?"
"Woah!" The sudden surprise of hearing his voice knocked me right off the guild library couch where I was reading. I fell to the floor with a hard thud, my book still in hand, and looked up to the smiling face of the raven-haired boy staring right at me from behind the couch. "Romeo!" I shouted, "You startled me!"
"Sorry," he said with some concern, even though he was still grinning a little. He hopped right over the couch and helped me up. "So... watcha readin?"
"Romeo and Juliet." I said as I brushed myself off.
Romeo rolled his eyes. "Ugh..."
"What?"
"Oh, nothing."
"You have a problem with that?"
"No," he said, sounding a little defensive, "I have no problem with the actual story. I've even read some of it, and... then went online to figure out what the heck I just read... and it was actually pretty good."
"Then what is it?"
"Well, when your names 'Romeo', you tend to get a lot of 'Oh, Romeo, have you found your Juliet yet?' or 'Oh Romeo,don't you think it's time to find your Juliet?' and other crap like that." He huffed and sat on the couch, arms crossed. "It gets annoying after a while."
"Oh."
"Yeah, just be happy your names not Juliet."
"Hahah...yeah..." I said, sittint back on the couch.
I honestly wouldn't mind a name like Juliet. It could be nice, though rather ironic considering my best friend's name. Maybe it was for the better that I wasn't named that, though. If he'd really been teased about it so much, I don't think he'd even come near me having that name, and I don't know what I'd do without him. And, that damn bartender would make it her life goal to get us together. Forget the confetti and streamers that flew through the air when she got NaLu and GaLe, if she got Romeo and Juliet together, I think she would literally explode. But, maybe it wouldn't be a bad middle name. Wendy Juliet Marvel. Wendy...Juliet... Marvel... Wendy Juliet Conbolt...
"Wendy?"
"Huh?" I snapped back out of my daydream to look at the young fire mage, looking a little corncerned.
"You zoned out there for a moment. What were you thinking about?"
"Oh," I said, turning away to cover a slight blush, "Nothing..."
"Oh. Okay." His normal mock-Natsu grin returned, and he laid back on the couch. "Sorry again for startling you and interrupting your reading. Hope you weren't at a really good part."
"Nah, I had just about finished it anyways."
"Isn't this your fifth time reading it, though?"
"Sixth. And what can I say," I gave him a shrug and held my hands up. "It's one of my favorites. Sometimes... I even like to picture that I'm Juliet."
This seemed to have peaked his curiosity. "Really...?" he said, "Do you... ever picture anyone as Romeo?"
The question caught me off guaurd. "No," I said nervously, once again trying to conceal a blush, "No one in particular.
"Oh..." His response seemed weird. It was almost like I heard... disappointment?
Romeo's POV:
'Well, what was I expecting?' I thought to myself, 'That she'd say me? Yeah, right. She's a friend. A kind, sweet, and caring friend with long, beautiful blue hair...Wait, no. Friend. Nothing more.'
Okay, so I maaaayyyy have a slight crush on her. And by slight... I mean huge. It started as one of those little kiddie crushes. You know, the ones you have when your, like, six and all the adults around you just notice this and go "Awwwww...". The type you have for someone older than you (which at the time she was since she was twelve and I was six) and will probably never happen. But then came the Tenrou incident. And after what I can honestly call the worst seven years of my life, she returned, not looking like she aged a day. I, on the other hand, had aged, and was even older than her now. If, only by a few months.
We'd started to hang out more. Me, her, and her (somewhat pesky) Exceed friend would go on missions together, or just hang around the guild hall or other places in Magnolia. It's not like I didn't want to tell her how I feel. It's just that, what if she doesn't feel the same. And then there's her overprotective cat and six dragon slayer brothers who would probably enjoy beating my ass if I started dating her. And, even if those weren't bad enough, what the hell am I supposed to say? "Hey, you be Juliet and I'll be your Romeo"? Puh-lease. That's the type of crap that only works in movies and fanfiction.
We got up and began to make our way out of the guild's library, when Wendy suddenly tensed up.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"Shhh!" she replied, sticking her index finger over her lips, "Someone else is here."
I took a quick look around, but saw no one. "It's probably another guild member." I said calmly.
"Then why do they sound like they're sneaking around?"
"Because basically everyone in our guild has no sense of privacy?"
"True... but it's still somewhat suspicious."
"Well... can you tell who it is?"
"No, it's too stuffy in this room. It's messing with my nose. But I can hear someone, no, wait, several someones sneaking all around us."
"Enemies?"
"Maybe. But who?"
"I don't know," I said, igniting my fist in purple flames, "but I'd like to find out."
Suddenly, right below our feet, a came a faint, purple glow. We both looked down to find ourselves standing on a magic circle. The faint glow became a blinding white light, making me unable to see the blue-haired girl that had been standing right in front of me.
"Wendy!" I called out.
"Romeo!"
I felt myself fall onto the library floor, and then watched it break apart as I kept falling. Falling, falling, falling. Falling down to an unknown fate. On the way down, I heard a voice.
"Two households,"
'What's going on here?'
"both alike in dignity,"
'Where am I?'
"In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,"
'What happened to Wendy?'
"From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,"
'Is she okay? Is she falling too?'
"Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean."
"Wendy!" I called out.
"From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life;"
After hearing no response from her, I called again. "Wendy!"
"Whose misadventured piteous overthrows"
'Is that the bottom of this... whatever this is?'
Do with their deaths bury their parent's strife."
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
This is the beginning of a new story I intend to do alongside Wendy's Plan. I know I said the same thing on that story for Dreams of a Fairy, but this time I mean it. Dreams of a Fairy is not canceled, it's just going on a temporary hiatus for a while. I do promise not to abandon it.
This was beta-ed by BarelyProdigies. He's an awesome guy and go check out his story Blue Balls.
Thanks for reading. Leave a review. Hope you enjoyed, and I hope you look forward to the next chapter.