Chapitre 3: We Got Isekai'd

Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdon of Fiore, Hargeon.

May 8, x771

"Fonzie?/Elicia?"

As the two children spoke in unison, a pair of grey eyes and a pair of dark brown eyes met. Once recognition dawned on the two, the girl, Elicia, jumped from her bed onto the next one over where Alfonzo lay in a daze. Then, she wrapped her arms around him and began to shed tears quietly.

Meanwhile, even with Elicia hugging him tightly, Alfonzo was laying there in complete silence. There were two reasons for that, though. However, he could not believe either of them.

'What's going on?' Alfonzo asked himself. 'Weren't we crushed in that accident? I mean, there's no way Elicia's little Z3 could have protected us from a semi, right?'

The first thing that Alfonzo could not believe was that he was still alive. Just as he thought, Elicia's small car provided absolutely no protection from the collision with the semi that ran the light. So, they both died near instantaneously, with Elicia surviving only a second longer than Alfonzo. Once Alfonzo realized that he was, in fact, alive again, he noticed something else.

"I can see... clearly and from both eyes." Alfonzo muttered while letting his eyes wander around the large room where the orphans slept.

Although he was not very loud, Elicia was able to hear Alfonzo's muttering thanks to the quiet that was present in the room. So, she quickly sat up, straddling Alfonzo, and looked into his eyes.

"Fonzie, did you just say you can see?" Elicia said with even more tears falling from her eyes.

Smiling at the girl who was sitting on his abdomen, Alfonzo raised his hand so that he could wipe the tears from her face. However, when he saw his hand, a much smaller hand than he was used to seeing, he froze. Then, he slowly turned his sight from his hand to the face of his fiancée. When he did, he finally realized that something was wrong.

"Elicia what's going on?" Alfonzo asked in a shaky tone. "My hand... why is it so small? And why do you... look so young?"

Although Elicia had been listening to Alfonzo's questions, when he made it sound as if she looked old, she completely forgot about the first question Alfonzo asked.

"What do you mean, Fonzie?" Elicia asked in a low, menacing tone. "Are you trying to say that I looked old before?"

Hearing Elicia's question and tone, Alfonzo was pulled out of his stupor. Then, he rolled his eyes at the "absolutely terrifying", totally not so cute that he wanted to pinch her cheeks, expression Elicia was wearing while waiting for his response. So, instead of trying to defend himself, he grabbed one of Elicia's hands and held it up in front of her own eyes.

At first, Elicia struggled, trying to move her hand so that she could glare at Alfonzo in the most menacing way she could. However, after a few seconds, she realized that there was something off about her hand. It was... smaller. And her fingers were... shorter.

"What's going on?" Elicia muttered as she finally realized something was wrong.

However, before they could discuss things, both Alfonzo and Elicia experienced a mind-shattering headache. One that was absolutely debilitating. Elicia then fell forward onto Alfonzo and they both passed out.

The next morning, Alfonzo was the first to wake up. When he did, he noticed that Elicia was now clinging to him instead of simply laying on top of him. In his surroundings, he could hear the other orphan children talking.

"Look, Elicia snuck into Alfonzo's bed again." One boy said while laughing.

"I bet they're gonna get married when they get older." Another boy said.

Then, when they noticed that Alfonzo was awake, all the boys began to sing.

"Alfonzo and Elicia sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes a baby in a baby carriage. Hahaha!"

"Why is it so noisy?" Elicia asked in a sleepy tone. Then, she buried her face in Alfonzo's arm and spoke again. "Give me five more minutes."

Meanwhile, Alfonzo glared at the kids. Though, he was not really even paying them any mind. Instead, he was reviewing the new memories that appeared in his head once he woke up again.

'So, right now were in an orphanage in Hargeon Town, a port town in the Kingdom of Fiore on the Ishgar continent.' Alfonzo thought to himself. '*Sigh* No matter how I spin this in my head, we're in the world of Fairy Tail, aren't we?'

Alfonzo then looked down at Elicia and smiled gently.

'I wonder how she'll react when she realizes this.' Alfonzo thought to himself as he stroked Elicia's hair. 'I should probably make sure she doesn't start screaming about being isekai'd. At least, not where other people can hear her, anyway.'

"Come on Lici, it's time to get up." Alfonzo said in a gentle tone.

"Mmm~, five more minutes." Elicia said, repeating herself in her sleepy state.

"If you don't get up, I'm not gonna make you breakfast." Alfonzo said.

Immediately after that, Elicia opened her eyes and sat up. Then, she grabbed Alfonzo by his shirt and began to shake him violently.

"Fonzie, you can't do that!" Elicia shouted. "That's inhumane. To deprive someone of your amazing cooking is just evil. Especially..."

When Elicia saw Alfonzo's teasing smile, her tirade came to a stop immediately. Instead, she began hammering on his chest with a pout on her face.

"You tricked me again, Fonzie." Elicia said in an aggrieved tone. "Why do you always do that?"

"Because it works." Alfonzo said with a chuckle. "And if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right?"

"Fonzie, you're such a meanie." Elicia said while continuing to hammer Alfonzo's chest.

"Okay, okay, I'm sorry." Alfonzo said, catching Elicia's hands. "But it really is time to get up. We have to eat then do our chores, remember?"

Surprisingly, in both this life and the previous one, Alfonzo used the same trick to wake up Elicia. On top of that, none of the orphans found it strange, since Alfonzo often helped the orphanage staff cook breakfast in the mornings. As a matter of fact, Alfonzo had been cooking for about a year. Well Before they even ended up in the orphanage.

"*Sigh* Fine." Elicia said in a huff. "But you gotta play with me later."

Although Elicia was speaking in a childish tone, Alfonzo could read the message she was sending with her eyes that was screaming: "We need to talk!"

'I guess I worried too much.' Alfonzo thought to himself while smiling. 'I know she's smart, like, really smart. But she doesn't always think before speaking.'

"Of course." Alfonzo replied with a nod and a smile.

Then, while the other children in the room played, Alfonzo and Elicia began to make their beds. Once their beds were made, they left the room to wash their faces and brush their teeth. Then, they went to the orphanage's dining room where they split up. Alfonzo went back into the kitchen so that he could help with breakfast, while Elicia made herself comfortable at one of the tables.

Shortly before breakfast was served, a member of the orphanage's staff led the other children, fifteen boys and girls, ages four to ten, who shared a room with Alfonzo and Elicia, into the dining room. Behind them were some older boys and girls, a total of twelve, whose ages range from eleven to fifteen.

A few minutes later, Alfonzo and the other cooks in the orphanage came out with breakfast. While the cook staff were holding large pans full of eggs, bacon, and pancakes, Alfonzo carried two plates that were already made.

"Fonzie, over here!" Elicia shouted as she waved at Alfonzo.

"*Sigh* Those two are so cute together." The matriarch of the orphanage said. "It's too bad that their village was abducted by a dark guild."

"Yeah, it's a miracle the two of them survived." One of the women on staff said in a sad tone.

"I heard that their parents sacrificed themselves to barricade a cellar to keep their kids safe." Another younger woman said.

"Yeah, so did I." A woman around the same age as the last said.

Unlike what the orphanage staff were saying, Alfonzo and Elicia's family in this life were not abducted along with all the other villagers. During the attack, Elicia's father and Alfonzo's mother, who were both retired wizards, sealed Alfonzo and Elicia in the cellar under Alfonzo's house using their magic. So, in anger, the abductors killed them after killing their spouses in front of them.

After that, as they were out of time, since a part of the kingdom's army was approaching, the abductors left the village with all the captured villagers. Eventually, the army arrived to find an empty village. However, when they were searching the village for any survivors, they heard banging from the inside of a sealed cellar. When they were able to break the seal, they found Alfonzo and Elicia. Then, after finding out all they could about the incident, they took the children to the nearest town, Hargeon, and entrusted them to an orphanage.

For the next few hours, Alfonzo and Elicia followed the routines they were used to before they regained their memories from their past lives. They ate, did their chores around the orphanage, and learned to read and write. Then, once all that was over, Elicia, as she usually does, dragged Alonzo somewhere so that they could play alone.

"*Sigh* I guess they haven't connected enough with any of the other kids yet." The matriarch said as she watched Elicia drag Alfonzo away.

"They've only been here for a little less than two months." The head cook said. "I wouldn't be surprised if they still feel like they are all they have left."

"You're probably right." The matriarch said before taking a toke from a pipe." I wonder if they will turn out to be wizards like their parents?"

"Well, if they show any signs of magic, we'll do like we always do." The head cook said with a smile. "We'll point them towards the guilds. We're not equipped to raise wizards in this little orphanage."

Meanwhile, Elicia was dragging Alfonzo towards the borders of the orphanage's property. Once she was sure there was no one close enough to over hear them, she let go of Alfonzo's arm, turned around, and hugged him with all the strength she had in her six-year-old body.

"Ahh~~~~~~~~~!" Elicia screamed, burying her face in Alfonzo's chest. "We got isekai'd! Fonzie, we got isekai'd! Fairy Tail! We got isekai'd into Fairy Tail! Does that mean we can do magic? Of course, we can do magic. I mean, why would we get isekai'd here if we couldn't? More importantly, are we gonna join Fairy Tail? Oh, what am I saying? Of course, we're gonna join Fairy Tail!"

While Elicia gushed in excitement, Alfonzo knew there was nothing he could do until she calmed down. So, he just smiled and rubbed her back until she got it all out of her system.

"*Sigh* Okay, I'm good now." Elicia said after three minutes of her ranting about how cool this is. "So, what are we gonna do, Fonzie?"

"Haha. Are you sure you're done?" Alfonzo said in a teasing tone. "I'm sure there's more you want to go on about."

"Stop teasing me." Elicia squeaked out with an awkward smile. "Be serious."

"Okay, haha, I got it." Alfonzo snickered. "But I haven't seen you that excited since Mass Effect 3 came out."

"I still say that was the best Mass Effect. It's just too bad the ending sucked." Elicia said with conviction.

"Anyway, like you said, we can use magic." Alfonzo said, taking on a serious tone. "We both used it on that... day."

With that statement, the atmosphere became rather subdued.

"[Thread Magic] for me and some kind of metal magic for you, huh?" Elicia said.

"No, just [Metal Magic]." Alfonzo corrected. "From what I can feel, I can create any metal that I have a good enough understanding of."

"Does that include metal from Earth?" Elicia asked.

"Yeah." Alfonzo replied with a nod.

"So, that makes you kinda OP, right?" Elicia asked.

"Not really." Alfonzo replied. "There are a ton of magic metals in this world. I won't be OP until I can create them all."

"Then, that leaves us with only one course of action." Elicia said with her feet spread shoulder width apart, her left hand resting on her hip, and her right hand raised in the air with her index finger pointing at the sky. "We have to join a guild. We'll need a backer after all. And what better guild to join than Fairy Tail?"

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Chapitre 4: Things Will Get Better

Earth Land, Ishgar, Kingdom of Fiore, Hargeon.

May 8, x771

"Joining Fairy Tail sounds good, but when will we be able to leave the orphanage?" Alfonzo asked.

Hearing that question, Elicia froze. She actually had no idea when they would be old enough to leave the orphanage.

"And even if we do reach the age to leave the orphanage, how are we gonna get to Magnolia?" Alfonzo followed up.

"I... I don't know..." Elicia said with tears forming in her eyes. Then, she rushed towards Alfonzo and grabbed the sleeve of his shirt. "Fonzie, what should we do?"

"Calm down, Lici." Alfonzo said with a gentle smile. "We're only six, we have time to think about it. Plus, we know that the canon begins sometime in x784. It's only x771, so we still have thirteen years to figure something out."

"That's right, we have time." Elicia said, wiping the tears from her eyes. Then, she looked at Alfonzo with a wide smile on her face. "That's twice now."

"What's twice?" Alfonzo asked with confusion all over his face.

"Twice you've called me Lici." Elicia said happily. "You haven't called me that since we were kids."

"We are kids." Alfonzo pointed out in a serious tone.

"You know what I mean." Elicia replied while rolling her eyes.

"*Sigh* It just kinda came out." Alfonzo said in a bashful tone.

"Well, I like it." Elicia said energetically. So, from now on you have to call me that, 'kay?"

"I don't..." Alfonzo began to refuse.

"'Kay~?" Elicia said with a bit more intensity.

"I'll..." Alfonzo tried to refuse once again.

"'Kay~~~?" Elicia repeated in a tone that sounded cheerful, yet at the same time would not accept no as an answer.

"*Sigh* Okay." Alfonzo relented.

"Good!" Elicia exclaimed with a satisfied nod. "But there are still other things that we need to do before we can leave for Magnolia, right?"

Alfonzo could only smile at Elicia wryly. He knew that he really did not have any way of refusing the use of Elicia's nickname after she pointed out that he had said it. The reason he did not want to use it was because it made him think of how he changed in their past life. Although he never outright neglected her, he did put distance between them for no other reason than he thought he would get less attention from girls if she was always hanging around him.

'*Sigh* I really was stupid in my last life.' Alfonzo thought to himself.

"Well, we should probably try to explore the limits of our magic." Alfonzo said in response to Elicia's question. "We should probably start training our bodies, too. I mean from what we've seen, the most powerful wizards in canon used a combination of their magic and physical combat."

"Yeah, I guess that's true." Elicia said with a contemplative expression on her face. "I mean, the dragon slayers just punch people with their element on their hands. Erza uses swordsmanship. Even Lucy kicked people and used a whip by the end."

"That's right." Alfonzo said with a nod.

"Well, I guess you won't have a problem with that." Elicia said. "You practiced Eskrima. And with your magic, you can create Eskrima sticks with no problem. But what about me? I've never practiced any kind of martial arts. I've never even been in a fight before."

"That's true. But I plan to try and incorporate as many weapons into my fighting style as I can." Alfonzo said. "I'll be using Eskrima as a base, though."

"But what about me?" Elicia asked with puppy dog eyes.

Alfonzo had to stop and think.

'She said her magic was [Thread Magic], right?' Alfonzo thought as he looked Elicia up and down. 'It really all depends on what her magic can do. If she can make her webs sticky, then she can use it like Spider-Man. Especially if she can make small amounts of it stick to her hands and feet. That would be kinda cool, actually.'

Even though she had known him for all of both of her lives, Elicia could not help but fidget when Alfonzo looked her over so intently. If it was not for the age of her current body, it would have probably ended with her getting excited. However, because she is so young, currently, it just makes her feel self-conscious.

'But if she can't make it sticky, maybe she could use it like Walter from Hellsing Ultimate.' Alfonzo continued with his thoughts. 'That would be kinda bad ass, too. Wait, even if she can make her threads sticky, she should still fight like Walter.'

"Um... Fonzie, you're still with me, right?" Elicia asked after not getting a response from Alfonzo for a while.

"Oh, sorry." Alfonzo said with a smile. "I was just thinking. And I think I have an answer to your question."

"Really?" Elicia asked excitedly.

"Yeah, back in high school, you did gymnastics, right?" Alfonzo asked more to confirm than to question.

"That's right." Elicia replied with a nod. "I could still do flips and stuff up until the day we died..."

Noticing Elicia's mood beginning to sour at the thought of their deaths in their past lives, Alfonzo hoped that it would not turn into a trauma. But even if it did, he would be there to help her through it.

"If that's the case, then if you can make your threads sticky, you could fight like spider man." Alfonzo said with a smile. "But whether your threads can turn sticky or not, you could fight like Walter Dornez, too."

"Walter Dornez?" Elicia asked in confusion.

"From Hellsing." Alfonzo replied.

"Oh, that's right." Elicia said with realization swirling in her eyes. "I could never remember his last name. Those are good ideas, though."

"Yeah, but until we get an idea of what we can do with our powers, we should just explore them." Alfonzo said. "We can come up with fighting styles and special moves later."

"Right." Elicia replied with a nod. Then, she smiled at Alfonzo and hugged him. "I'm so glad we get to be together in this life, too."

"Me, too." Alfonzo said, returning the hug while rubbing Elicia on the back of her head and back.

After that, the rest of the day was spent exploring their magic. Until they ran out of magic power, that is. Unfortunately, neither of them was used to using or gaging their magic power usage and reserves. So, after using up all of their magic power, they both passed out for a couple of hours.

Eventually, a member of the staff found them lying together under a tree. Instead of practicing with magic, however, the staff member thought they were just playing and decided to take a nap under the sun. So, she brought them back to the orphanage.

Alfonzo and Elicia woke up when it was time for dinner. They were surprised that they were back in their beds though.

"Fonzi, we were outside, right?" Elicia asked in a groggy tone.

"That's right." Alfonzo replied in a similarly groggy tone.

"Then why are we in our beds?" Elicia asked.

"Because Justine found the two of you sleeping under a tree." The matriarch, who was watching over them after they had not woken up for lunch, said from the chair she was sitting on next to Elicia's bed. "At first, we had thought that the two of you had fallen ill. But I would guess that the two of you were sleeping like that for another reason."

While the matriarch spoke, she narrowed her eyes. To Alfonzo and Elicia, it felt like she was daring them to lie to her.

'She knows.' Alfonzo and Elicia thought simultaneously.

Alfonzo and Elicia looked at each other for a brief moment, communicating many words with a single glance. Then, they both looked at the matriarch.

"While we were playing..." Elicia said.

"Something weird happened." Alfonzo finished the sentence.

"Oh, something weird?" The matriarch asked.

Then, Alfonzo and Elicia both held up their right hand. A moment later, a magic circle appeared in front of both of their palms. A moment after that, the magic circles disappeared.

In his righthand, Alfonzo was now holding an Eskrima stick made of an aluminum alloy. Elicia on the other hand, had a thread growing out of the tips of her fingers.

"Just as I thought, you're both wizards." The matriarch aid in a tired tone.

"Did we do something bad?" Elicia asked with tears starting to form in her eyes.

'Damn, she's good at this.' Alfonzo thought as he saw the tears in Elicia's eyes. 'I don't even know if I could pull off the puppy dog eyes, let alone turn on the water works.'

"*Sigh* No, child you've done nothing wrong." The matriarch said in a soothing tone. "But we're not equipped to raise wizards in our small orphanage."

"Does that mean we shouldn't use our magic?" Alphonzo asked in a feigned confused tone.

"No, Alfonzo. You don't have to worry about that." The matriarch said with a smile. "If you want to become wizards, then we'll try and contact a guild for you."

"Daddy was in a guild." Elicia said in a tearful tone.

This time, Alfonzo knew that Elicia was not joking. He too began to tear up at the thought of his deceased parents in this life.

'If I had to guess, our isekai experience was not a transmigration.' Alfonzo thought to himself while wiping his eyes. 'This was probably a reincarnation. And our old memories awakened today. Come to think about it, today is our sixth birthday.'

At the thought of celebrating a birthday without his parents, Alfonzo's tears began to flow even harder.

Just as Alfonzo suspected, they had reincarnated into this life. Meaning, they did not have to integrate with their memories. Instead, they had actually lived those memories. Meaning, they had created genuine bonds with their parents over the almost six years they were together in this life.

Meanwhile, the matriarch felt like her heart was breaking. No matter how many times she saw children cry at the thought of their lost parents, it never got any easier. So, she stood up, picked up Elicia, moved to sit down next to Alfonzo, and hugged the two children together.

"I know it probably doesn't feel like it." The matriarch said while hugging Alfonzo and Elicia. "But things will get better."

Like that, the three of them sat together in Alfonzo's bed. Eventually, Alfonzo and Elicia cried themselves to sleep. When the matriarch realized that they had both fallen asleep, she laid them both down in Alfonzo's bed. Then, Elicia immediately clung to Alfonzo, as if it had been programmed into her.

Looking at Alfonzo and Elicia, the matriarch could only shake her head. Then, she left the room.

"I hope the girls in the kitchen aren't too disappointed that their little helper won't be here much longer." The matriarch said with a smile. "But this is probably for the best. I'm sure they'll want to know who it was that killed their parents someday. And there is nothing we can do to help them here."

After dinner, the orphanage's matriarch called the staff together for a meeting. She then explained that Alfonzo and Elicia had awakened their magic and that she would be looking for guilds that might accept them.

"I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up in Fairy Tail." The head cook said.

"Well, they are the type that would do something crazy like finding a dark guild for revenge." Justine, who found Alfonzo and Elicia sleeping outside, said.

"On top of that, they're one of the strongest guilds in Fiore." Another member of the staff said.

"But Fairy Tail's guild master is a perverted old man." A younger member of the staff said in disgust.

"But at least he's not an immoral creep like Phantom Lord's guild master." The matriarch said. "Besides, Master Makarov really isn't that bad. He's just an old goof ball. Either way, I won't be sending those two kids to someone like Jose Porla."

Most orphanage heads in Fiore are at least acquainted with a guild master or two. The matriarch of this particular orphanage, however, knew quite a few of the more famous guild masters around the kingdom. Since for some reason or another, many talented wizards had come from her orphanage. Even if many of them have retired and are no longer in the public eye.

"Anyway, I'll send a letter to Master Makarov." The matriarch said, letting everyone know of her final decision. "We should hear back from him anywhere from a few days. To a couple of weeks later."