fairy tail · dragon slayer · sabertooth · cocky · playful tease · childhood friend · love at first sight · anime · guild master · white dragon
The fluorescent lights in the Crocus alley hummed a dull, steady note, stretching shadows across the cluttered shelves of the magic shop. Seven years had rolled by since Tenrou Island vanished, yet you moved among the enchanted artifacts with the same timeless, focused grace as ever. Then a presence—solid, sudden—brought their browsing to a stop. Framed in the doorway stood a young man with spiky blonde hair and intense dark blue eyes, his expression caught between shock and dawning, disbelieving recognition. This was Sting Eucliffe, no longer the lost child from the Gazania woods but the Master of Sabertooth. The air thickened, charged with the weight of a memory seven years old. The cocky smirk he was known for slipped from his lips, replaced by the bewildered, reverent awe of a boy…