Charmed is a Fairy Tail fan fiction by Bijuewled that explores the developing relationships of the characters but mostly the plot seems to be that Lucy is a target in some sort of conspiracy. Lucy is suffering from nightmares and visions that cause her pain. A mysterious brutal woman seems to be at the heart of it.
Summary: As the days grew older, they grew closer; closer than they could've ever imagined. And as an innate power forces itself upon Lucy, she becomes a piece of a destiny that would be beyond her control; for the one who bears the mark of gold is charmed with the power to destroy everything..and to begin everything anew.
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This fanfiction contains examples of:
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Yuki in Lucy’s visions starts to threaten Meredith she had just killed his sister only to stop when she makes it clear she is going to kill him as well. He only gets a single plea in before she offs him.
- Apologetic Attacker: Aries consistently apologizing for taking the berries from the plants was driving Lucy crazy.
- Badass Boast: Some of the girls give one at the start the competition showing how confident they are in their plan.
- Beauty Is Bad: Meredith is described with curly blond hair, blazing green eyes and rose scented perfume. None of which detracts from her has killed a little girl and her brother.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: When Lucy stops Natsu from eating one the uncleaned berries they had picked and demands that he hand it over, Natsu being Natsu tries to make her eat it instead resulting in a tickle attack. It only stops when Gajeel shows up annoyed at how loud they are being early in the morning.
- Belligerent Sexual Tension:
- A lot of this with Natsu and Lucy. It actually gets worse after their drunken one night stand.
- Days later they are able to smooth things out and things mostly return to normal.
- Levy and Gajeel have this going for them during the game with the foreplay going on between them.
- A lot of this with Natsu and Lucy. It actually gets worse after their drunken one night stand.
- Bonding over Missing Parents: Lucy was already bonding well with Stella but the knowledge that they both lost their mothers allows them to become closer.
- Big Brother Instinct: Yuki clearly cared about his sister begging her to run then goes into a rage when Yui is killed.
- Captured on Purpose: Jupitar had allowed herself to be momentary captured by the Fairy Tail girls and Stella to help locate her group's target. Who just happens to be Lucy and, perhaps by accident, Stella as both of them have celestial keys.
- Casual Kink: Gray comes close to tagging Juvia out after trapping her feet in ice but stops when she struggles and gets distracted by the sweat rolling down her legs. Gray has a thing for legs.
- Catapult Nightmare: Lucy shoots up in terror after her Nightmare Sequence with how real it felt.
- Children Are Innocent:
- Yui sounded like such a sweet little girl, then she gets killed.
- The guild is quite shaken that a child has been murdered. Lucy in particular seem to be hit hard by this because of her visions of Yui.
- Combat Tentacles: Stella uses her magic to create vines to capture a thief.
- Comfort Food: Mira’s pancakes are something everyone is looking forward to after the big party the night before.
- The Confidant:
- Lucy eventually tells Levy about her one night stand with Natsu.
- Natsu gently coaxes out of Lucy to tell him about her nightmares.
- Damsel in Distress: The prologue starts with Lucy so badly beaten she can’t even muster up the strength to summon one of her spirits. It ends with her in a Neck Lift and falling unconscious.
- Deadly Doctor: Plasma Infusion Magic is something used by doctors to help in healing people but given that Meredith uses this magic it is unlikely that she does it to help people.
- Deconstruction: Lucy and Natsu’s drunken one night stand doesn’t result in a Relationship Upgrade, instead leads to conflict. Natsu wants to talk about it, but Lucy wants time to think about it. It takes a week for them to finally make up and start to explore their new experience minus the sex.
- Deer in the Headlights: When Lucy sees the photo of Meredith, the woman in her dreams who brutally murdered Yui, she freezes up with an almost dead like stare and starts to grip Natu’s hand in an iron grip and her other hand grips her thigh so hard that her fingernails draw blood. It takes Natsu pull her attention away from the photo to get her to snap out of it.
- Dream Spying: At first Lucy appears to be doing with her Nightmare Sequence. When she eventally tells the others that she has been having the same dream over and over again they all deem that she is having visions. Wendy goes as far as to theorize that they are some kind of message being sent to her.
- Doppelgänger Attack: Juvia is able to create water clones and uses them against Gray during the game.
- Double Knockout: Gray and Juvia nearly decided to do this with each other but back out at the last second deciding that they will both continue to fight for their teams.
- The Dreaded: The boys are terrified of running into Erza during the competition. More so when some of them find out she is staying in a bakery.
- Dude, She's A Lesbian: It's not outright stated but when Loke starts to hit on Stella, Lucy, who has been informed that Stella has a girlfriend, tells him she is spoken for.
- Eating the Eye Candy: When Charlotte looks over the guild members her eye’s land on Gray for a second longer and she almost smiles. Given it is Gray one has to wonder if his state of dress had anything to do with it.
- Fetish:
- Plants that will bite you if you try to pick their berries? Virgo would very much like to help with that.
- Apparently Gajeel and Levy have one for being tied up. The question is which one of them gets tied?
- Filthy Fun: Natsu and Lucy’s match during the game is a mud fight after the former evaporates the water from the river.
- For the Evulz: Meredith seems to get a kick out of killing kids.
- Green Thumb: Stella’s magic, Spring Caster, allows her to cause flowers to grow from the ground.
- Girls vs. Boys Plot: The first part of the story is an annual battle of the sexes competition for the Fairy Tail guild when Magnolia is empty of non-magic people for a farming festival leaving the town to the guild. This competition hasn’t been held since the Tenrou incident. The winning team getting to go to a resort. This year’s competition being a game of capture the flag. With the girls holding the flag and the boys have to catch the girl holding it.
- The girls’ team is Lucy, Juvia, Wendy, Charle, Evergreen Cana, Levy, Mira, Lisanna, Bisca, Erza, Laki and Kinana.
- The boys’ team is Natsu, Gray, Gajeel, Laxus, Romeo, Elfman, Happy, Lily, Bixslow, Alzack, Freed, Jet, Droy and Loke.
- Government Agency of Fiction: The Ring is a special division of the Council. Each member is handpicked by members of the Magic Council. It has three divisions and are responsible for enforcing the law in serious matter dealing with alpha and beta level criminals. They have enough power that Makarov has no choice but to let them conduct the investigation of the child’s murder on the guild members. To their credit they don’t appear to suspect any of the guild members as criminals.
- Hallucinations: Lucy gets hit with one while taking a shower after the game where she sees Meredith and a frightened Yui while feeling pain. She keeps on having triggers that make her see the murder over the course of days.
- Hangover Sensitivity: Just about everyone gets hit by this the day after the ball.
- Hearing Voices: Lucy starts to hear Yui’s cries for her brother while awake.
- Hidden in Plain Sight: During the competition all the girls were wearing identical red flags on their waist. The boys were so focused on that detail that none of them noticed that the true flag was used as a bow for Lucy’s hair.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Natsu evaporated the river thinking it would take away Lucy’s advantage instead it gave her the perfect cover to switch places with Gemini allowing her to run the clock and win the game.
- How We Got Here: The opening chapter is a short prologue with a bloodied Lucy at the mercy of her opponent with the following chapters happening six months beforehand.
- I Know You Know I Know: After Lucy decides to ask Charlotte for more information on Meredith’s victim under the disguise that Makarov wants it the conversation that follows seems to indicate that Charlotte thinks Lucy knows more then she is telling, and that Lucy is aware that Charlotte has those suspicions. Which quickly comes to ahead at the end of the chapter.
- Interplay of Sex and Violence: Pretty much what the battle of the sexes game boils down to between the three ships. Only one of them ends in sex as the others haven't really admitted their feelings for one another yet.Levy to Gajeel:But my dear we haven't had dessert yet.
- Irrational Hatred: Meredith hates kids for some reason.
- I Shall Taunt You: The girls couldn’t resist taunting the boys with their strategy just to mess with them.
- Levy has one for Gajeel when he decides to check the library only to find a note saying, “Nice try.”
- Kick the Dog: Meredith killing Yui for no apparent reason other than that she hates kids.
- Let's Split Up, Gang!: Enforced. Whatever the boys plan was part of it was to stick together. The girl’s strategy however throws that plan out the window forcing them to split up to chase down each girl.
- Liquid Courage: In the appropriately name chapter, Natsu and Lucy become so drunk that any hesitation and clear thinking goes out the window and they sleep together.
- Living Lie Detector: Charlotte ability isn’t so much a lie detector but compels someone to speak the full truth when asked a question. She does this to Lucy, with her consent, to gain her testimony on the murder of the little girl Lucy found.
- Loophole Abuse:
- The girls plan for the battle of the sexes is one big loophole. The rules stated that one of the girls had to wear the red flag in plain sight. The rules never stated where the flag had to be or prohibited all the girls from wearing identical colored flags. They also wear a lot of red just to throw the boys off more.
- Lucy finds a way around Charlotte magic, which makes it so someone can't lie and are compelled to answer her questions. When Charlotte demands to know what the connection is between her and Yuki Lucy answers that she doesn't owe Charlotte anything. Which, as far as Lucy is concerned, is not a lie.
- Lost Food Grievance: Erza uses the threat of this by hiding in a bakery during the game. The boys are to terrified to even enter the building. Gajeel and Elfman, the only ones that went into the bakery, one unknowingly, didn't even dare to touch her. Erza is clearly enjoying every second of it.
- The Man Behind the Man: Meredith, Claude and Jupitar are working for someone else.
- Meaningful Echo: At the start of the competition the girls tell the boys they need to open their eyes. At the end of the match when they boys fail at their chance to guess which girl has the real flag, they repeat the line when they reveal that it was hidden as Lucy’s bow for her hair.
- Mobstacle Course: Natsu tried to the spot where the robbery happened in the previous chapter, but a crowd of people have formed from the commotion. It's so thick that he ends up shoulder to shoulder with people. Eventaully he is able to slip into a side ally where he meets Stella and she provides a vine for him to climb up and bypass the crowd by roof.
- Neck Lift: Lucy is put into one at the end of the prologue.
- Nightmare Sequence: Lucy goes through one before the competition where she is seeing through the prospective of Yuki, including his thoughts, Meredith kills his little sister and then kills him.
- The Nose Knows:
- During the girl’s meeting, the girls tease Lucy about her relationship with Natsu. Cana points out that Wendy can probably smell it. Unfortunately for Lucy, Wendy can pick up pheromones in the room. But she also points out some of the other girls on this as well.
- Makarov has to foresight to know with dragon slayer senses that a match were the girls had to hide from the boys would be unfair for the girls, so he prepares a scentless perfume for them.
- Natsu is able to pick up on this from Gajeel after the competition and later figures out that he and Levy must have had sex during the competition.
- During the party Natsu is able to pick up that something is off about Lucy based on her scent.
- Not a Morning Person: The guild members aren’t too happy about having to be awake so early for Makarov’s announcement. This changes however upon hearing that their annual battle of the sexes is back.
- Not So Above It All: During the girls meeting Charle says that it isn’t nice of the other girls to tease Lucy before turning around and telling Lucy it's not nice to lie either.
- Not So Stoic: Charlotte comes off as calm and professional in the chapter The Ring but the next chapter she shows her true colors in that she enjoys her work a little too much and is quick to anger when Lucy starts to back talk at her.
- Oh, Crap!:
- When Freed and Bixslow corner Lissana they think they got a win. Only to hear something behind them. When they turn around, they see to their horror a giant wave heading towards them.
- Some of the boys find Erza, problem is that she is hiding in a bakery.
- When given the boys are given a chance to guess which girl has the flag after the game is over Natsu realizes they made the wrong choice, Erza was just too easy of a guess, the boys find out that it was Lucy, who had hidden the flag in her hair as a bow.
- Both Natsu and Lucy have this reaction when they realize that they had sex.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For once Happy knows he needs to stay quiet with what happened between Natsu and Lucy. He knows how serious this is for them, so he is keeping his lips sealed.
- Out of Focus There are twenty-seven people involved in the competition, but most are either aren’t seen, or their roles are very limited. The story mostly focuses on Juvia, Gray, Levy, Gajeel, Lucy and Natsu. The only real exception to this is Erza and her scenes are just Played for Laughs.
- Ship Tease:
- A lot of it though out the story particularly during the battle of the sexes between Juvia and Gray, Levy and Gajeel, and Lucy and Natsu.
- It’s implied that there is a relationship or something between Meredith and the group’s leader as Claude teases her about being their leader’s favorite. To which she blushes as she tells him off.
- Sleepwalking: Lucy ended up sleepwalking from her home all the way to the hospital. It appears that somehow the deceased Yui summoned her there to try and get a message to Lucy. Which is to come into direct contact with Yuki's body.
- Start to Corpse: After chapter Angel Eyes, the next part of the story appears to be going to be connected to the dead body that Lucy found. Later revealed to be Yuki.
- Sticky Fingers: Jupitar stole from the jewelry store for the fun of it.
- Stress Vomit: Once Lucy gets over the vision at the hospital of Yuki, she runs outside and vomits, and then vomits again once she gets home.
- Teleportation: After Jupitar is captured by Lucy, Levy and Stella she just laughs and teleports out of the grip of Stella's vines.
- Troubled Fetal Position Lucy goes into one after her vivid nightmare of Yuki seeing his sister being killed before being killed himself.
- She is reduced to one again when she has a hallucination of the Meredith and a frightened Yui. It took her twenty minutes to recover.
- And again, after her visit to the hospital where she had another vision after having another vision from touching Yuki's body.
- What Did I Do Last Night?: Natsu and Lucy are aren’t able to remember what they did after the ball, but it doesn’t take them long to figure it out.
- Would Hurt a Child: Meredith hates kids and has no problem killing them
