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Chapter 2: The Inn

Kurapika woke up in a place he had never seen before. The room was simple and tidy. The walls were a soft cream and had a couple paintings of unknown landscape complementing it. The furniture, a small dresser, table, and bed ( which he was currently lying in) were all a dark brown with intricate patterns, and they told him this was a bedroom. Whose, he had know idea.

The first thought he had was that he had somehow been kidnapped, but he quickly dismissed it when he remembered the bright light from before. The crystal had somehow transported him to another location.

He pulled of the white sheets and jumped out of bed. He was still in his own clothes. He walked towards the single window. The scene displayed before him was that of a lively town. There were people filling the streets, buying and selling, and laughing with one another. He scanned the town for any landmarks. He immediately noticed several the most notable being a large Christian church and another large building which could not identity. The town also was surrounded by both mountains and water. It appeared to be quite safe location. The problem was that even with his extensive knowledge on the world he had no idea where he was, and he doubted a town as lively as this would go unnoticed.

Just then the door behind him opened revealing a middle aged woman carrying a platter of food. The woman smiled when she saw him. "Ah, your awake now. Its nearly two in the afternoon." Really? I haven't slept that long in ages. " I didn't know when you would wake up so I brought some thing just in case you got hungry when you did," she set the platter on the table.

Kurapika disregarded the food. "Where am I?"

"Oh, yes. You're in the lachram Inn and Restaurant. I found you passed out on the streets last night and brought you here. It's no good to let a cute girl such as yourself sleep completely venerable on the streets."

Girl? "Not that. I mean what city am I in?"

The Inn Keeper chuckled, "you must of hit your head pretty hard to forget. You are in the famed town of Magnolia, where magic, excitement, and and endless possibilities reside. And best of all it's the home of fiore's strongest guild fairy tail." She emphasized the last part almost as if she worshiped it.

Her answer raised more questions then answers. For one he had never heard of Magnolia, Fiore, or Fairy Tail, but she made it seem like this knowledge was second nature. Which meant where ever he was wasn't in the known world. He was in the Dark Continent. He had no idea how but it was the only explanation. It was strange though. Humans that enter the Dark Continent are destroyed. He didn't know about the Inn keeper or the people in the streets, but Kurapika was most definitely human, he shouldn't be able to be here.

He needed to start gathering information. He thanked the Inn Keeper and asked her where the nearest library was. She told him there was one a block away on the corner. But as soon he opened the door and began to leave the woman grabbed his shirt and held out her other hand towards him, "payment."

Kurapika didn't have any money with him and he doubted that even if he did it would be accepted. "I don't have any money."

The Inn Keeper gave him a suspicious look. "Well then I suppose you will have to work to pay off the money. I gave you a cheap room so a week of work in the restaurant would probably be enough."

Not cheap enough, he thought. Kurapika really didn't have time for this, but then again he could learn a lot from just listening to conversation. He sighed, "Yes, ma'am."

Kurapika later learned that the Clair's (the Inn Keeper) husband, Timothy was in charge and that he was a much more lenient man. Despite his wife's wishes he said that the room was free and that he would be willing to Kurapika sleep there and work in his restaurant and inn until Kurapika had enough money to provide for himself. Kurapika was more than happy with the offer until he realized the company had a uniform.

"I'm actually male, " Kurapika said as Clair handed him a pink frilly dress.

Clair's eyes nearly popped out of her head, "What!" Was it that hard to believe?

"Well, currently the only male uniforms in stock are much to large. It's not like we have many uniforms on standby. Until we can get you a tailored uniform made this all we've got. Sorry." Seriously? "Anyway, The bathrooms are at the end of the hall way to the right. Once you've changed meet me in the Kitchen."

So here Kurapika was, stranded in a place where only the fearless dared venture, working in a restaurant, wearing a frilly short pink dress. Damn.

But here Kurapika did notice something interesting. He noticed that he could feel the same energy that emanated from the crystal come from nearly every one and everything he passed. In fact, it felt like the city was living and breathing, existing almost entirely from that power. He also observed that he could feel the power coming from some people stronger then from others. It was really quite strange. But nothing felt nearly as oppressive and powerful as the crystal had.

Kurapika had no idea what the power might have been until he over heard on of the tables talking about magic. The idea seemed preposterous, but then again so did the fact that he was here to begin with. Then that crystal was magic? Kurapika began comparing every thing he knew so far about the crystal and what he had seen here in magnolia and the common tendencies of magic from legends. Nothing seemed logical, it didn't make sense.

He was deep in thought when one of the customers pulled him out of his thoughts. "Hey, pretty lady, are you going to ask us what you want or not?" Kurapika hadn't even realized he was standing in front of one of the tables. He immediately apologized and asked what the man wanted.

Kurapika didn't normally pay much attention to the appearances of his customers, but he couldn't help but notice that the two middle aged men he was serving had strange matching tattoos that oddly resembled a fairy. He also noticed that the men's magical power was much stronger than that of anyone he had encountered so far. Fairy Tail. He wasn't exactly sure why but was almost positive that they were from the guild he had heard so much about. The strongest guild of mages that the customers couldn't stop talking about. They must be quite strong. Kurapika suddenly felt the desire to test his strength, but he resisted it. He wouldn't want to get fired on the first day, and, besides he was wearing a fucking mini skirt. Other then their reputation and stronger magic, though, the men didn't seem that strong.

Once his work hours were complete Kurapika immediately headed to the library. He grabbed all the books on magic he could and studied them. He wished he could have checked them out, but seeing as he shouldn't even exist in this part of the world there was no way he could have had a library card.

He learned quite a few things from the first few books, but as he read on it became redundant. Kurapika decided he needed to change his pace. So he put the books on magic away and checked if he could find anything on Fairy Tail. Despite Fairy Tail's infamousy there was only a single book entitled The Complete History of Fairy Tail. The book was quite large but nothing Kurapika couldn't handle. He took it the table he sat at before and began reading it.

When he was at about page 400 a blonde girl with gigantic breasts came up to him. "I've never seen you here before, are you new to Magnolia?" Kurapika didn't bother to answer. "... Well, my name Lucy. What's yours?"

He sighed, " Kurapika. " He hopped that that would be enough to make her go away, but if she was anything like Gon or Leorio he doubted that would be enough. Apparently she was.

Lucy seemed to have caught a glimpse of what he was reading because she immediately assumed he was a fan of Fairy Tail. " Oh, so are you here to see Fairy Tail?" She didn't bother to let him answer. "It's really a great place, although it can get a little crazy. But they are amazing. You see, I'm actually a member of Fairy Tail." She showed him the pink tattoo on her hand. She probably expected Kurapika to be exited, because when he showed no change in expression she appeared slightly confused, but she quickly bounced back up to ecstatic. She really reminded him of Gon.

"Anyway, that book you're reading, it can be a little boring and redundant at times. It's much longer than it needs to be, and, if you want I can summarize it for you. Don't worry, I know that book front to back, no details will escape me!"Kurapika was skeptical but let her anyway.

Lucy was surprisingly good with words. She managed to give all the important information while simultaneously condensing it to be not only short but easy to understand. She was experienced.

When she was done she left in a hurry and Kurapika was left to himself. He began reading The Complete History of Fairy Tail where he left off and was surprised to find that Lucy really hadn't left out any facts. He skimmed through the rest of the book, then, satisfied, left to the Inn.

He made it just in time to see a man, or woman, dressed completely in black, run out the doors.