The Dark Dragon - A Fairy Tail Reader Insert

Fateful Encounter

A/n: I don't even know what I'm doing anymore, I have no idea if anyone will even read this....

"Dragon! Where are you!" You had been yelling for hours and your dragon hadn't come back for days.

You were becoming to feel the pangs of loneliness and sadness. You patted your damp eyes and sniffed heavily.

"ACNOLOGIA!" Your bottom lip quivered and you felt your e/c eyes widen slightly, "where are you?"

You stepped out of the bushes and into a clearing. All of the grass was dead, along with a few trees and bushes.

A man wearing mostly black and a white scarfy drapey thing was standing in the middle. His head turned in your direction and stared at you emotionlessly.

Relief washed over you at the thought of not having to be alone anymore, you bounded forward and grabbed onto the strangers clothes tightly.

"Have you seen him? My dragons gone and I can't find him" you wailed, the sadness of losing the closest one to you breaking your nerves.

You turned your s/c face up and stared into the strangers shocked eyes with your glassy, tearful ones.

"How are you- uh no, I haven't " he said, the first sentence cut off by himself.

You looked back down and let your eyes water.

"I cant find him, can I stay with you?" You asked, head still facing down

He hesitated, you looked up again and reached out, your little child hand grabbing onto his bigger one. He seemed to slightly flinch at your touch but relaxed after.

"I guess, you don't seem to be effected by my curse, it's peculiar..." He trailed off and seemed to start thinking, he began walking away and sense you hand still clenched his you followed

For the next few days he seemed to be getting used to you, like he'd been alone for years, you were just happy that you weren't alone anymore.

A few weeks past and you were currently walking through a small town, you would look around at the few shops but kept pace with the stranger you learned was named Zeref.

(Zoinkers!)

You were watching the white drape of his clothes as it slightly waved from him walking when you felt something hit your arm. You turned your e/c gaze down and saw a pebble, you looked in the direction it came from. A group of boys around your age were standing there.

"Hey shortie! You should leave, we don't like strangers in our town!" One of them yelled and they walked up to you.

You felt anxiety rise in your chest, you'd never talked to other people before, especially so many at once.

"What's the matter, scared?" The same boy laughed before pushing you.

You stumbled and tripped, landing on the ground with a thud. Pain rippled up your spine as your tailbone hit the stone ground especially hard.

The boys laughed and you felt tears well up in your e/c eyes. You felt a presence behind you and someone hooked their hands under your arms and lifted you up.

"It's not nice to push people over," a voice chidded darkly, "someone could get hurt"

The group of boys looked terrified before they ran off screaming. You twisted your head back and saw Zeref. His normally dark eyes were turned a glowing red and you could feel a powerful aura coming from him.

No wonder those boys ran off screaming.

You watched the red fade from his eyes and his expression go blank. He placed you back on your feet but kept his hand attached to yours, leading you out of the town and into the forest, where you continued traveling.

A few years past by quickly and Zeref helped you practice your magic and, after lots of begging, taught you a spell he knew. Although he said only to use it in an emergency and no other time.

You both settled on an island, there was no people on the island but it wasn't lonely with all the animals that resided there.

Your favorite part of this island was the gigantic tree that was in the center of it. Now, the thing with Zeref's random bursts of death magic, you had always hid behind a rock or tree so that you never got hit, you didn't mind but you felt bad, and they were getting worse.

You were laying on your stomach, facing a tree, Zeref sat next to you, seemingly thinking. Your eyes were closed as you listened to the rustle of leaves and the singing of birds in the distance.

This island really was peaceful. You felt a tingling on your shoulder and opened your eyes. You looked at your shoulder and saw a f/c mark, it appeared to be a tattoo.

"What's this?" You asked sleepily

"A special mark, I hope that when the time comes it helps you out in some way." He answered

"Yea, but what is it?" You asked

"It's a mark of a Fairy, I know it from someone I met in the past." He said staring into the sky with a look of nostalgia

You sat up and took a closer look at it.

"The mark of a Fairy? I like it!"