Kaida ran over the streets of Magnolia, cringing at the taste of the fabric on her body. She just had to get to Fairy Tail, for she was told someone there could help. She stopped in front of the door, she did it, she was here. She reached out to push open the door, but immediately pulled back as the taste of wood entered her mouth.
"Why hello there, what business do you have with Fairy Tail?" Kaida turned around quickly.
"Oh, um, you see… I want to join Fairy Tail" she blurted out the first thing that came to her mind.
"Ah, you're scared of us because you've heard we can be a rowdy bunch. No worries, here take my hand, we can enter the guild together" the man offered his hand to her. Kaida took it, but pulled back as his taste seeped into her mouth. It was hard to describe, it had a sort of metallic taste to it, yet like nothing she'd ever tasted before. "Come on, I don't bite" he said.
"Sorry, it's just that you umm, don't taste that good" Kaida explained nervously.
"Excuse me?" the man asked.
"Never mind" Kaida said putting her hands behind her back.
"Ok then," the man seemed taken aback, "So, you gonna open the doors?"
"Umm, can you?" Kaida replied nervously.
"Come on we don't bite" the man laughed.
Kaida paused for a second, "I guess I can come back later"
"Nonsense, I'll open the doors for you, then, though I don't see your problem," the man pushed open the doors, "I'm back!"
"Gildarts is home!" A pink-headed boy cried as he pushed through the crowd, "Come on, fight me"
"Who's this?" a woman with white hair asked coming up to Kaida.
"I found her outside the guild, she says she wants to join" Gildarts answered after he had KO'd Natsu with one hit.
"Well then, nice to meet you, I'm Mirajane" the girl clasped her hands in Kaida's. Kaida hissed and pulled back as the taste of blood, yet in a diluted way came to her. Mira looked surprised at Kaida's outburst. "What's wrong?"
"Nothing, I just don't like the taste of humans" Kaida answered. Suddenly everyone was staring at her. Kaida shrunk back. Her hands found their way onto a table. Kaida quickly removed them as the taste of wood once again found its way into her mouth. Kaida took a big breath of air to get the taste out of her mouth.
"Sorry, did you say the taste of humans?" a small white cat asked her.
"Well I'm a cat" a small blue cat said running up to hug her leg. The taste of fur seeped into her mouth.
"Ewww, get it off" she cried trying to pry the cat off.
"Happy is not an it" the pink haired boy said stepping forward.
"I don't care, fur tastes even worse" Kaida shrieked, still trying to pry the cat off, who was hugging on for dear life.
"Just who are you?" a girl with blonde hair asked.
"Just get this thing off, I can't stand this taste, fur does not go well with fish!" Kaida screamed as the taste of fish found its way into her mouth as well.
"Now I'm confused" the pink haired boy said tilting his head to his side, "Happy, get off her"
"Aye sir" the blue cat-Happy flew to the boy's side, wait flew?
"This thing can fly?!" Kaida asked shocked.
"That's what surprises you about a talking cat?" the blonde haired girl screamed.
"Now you've got some explaining to do" a red haired girl in armor came up to her and put her hands on Kaida's shoulders. Kaida drew back as the distinct taste of metal came to her. "Oh, no you don't you've got some explaining to do" the woman tightened her grip.
"Can you just get off me, I don't like the taste of metal" Kaida said, trying to get out of the woman's grip.
"What, metal?" the woman looked down at her hands to see that she was in fact wearing metal gloves. She slowly peeled them off Kaida.
Kaida took a deep breath, "Thank you"
"So what are you talking about, taste of humans, metal?" the woman asked.
"Oh, yeah, I actually came here because I was told you had someone who could help me" Kaida said, pulling at her clothes. Kaida tried to take off her clothes but was stopped by the redhead.
"Great a female Gray" the pink haired boy said.
"What did you say, pyro-freak" the boy, Gray said.
"You heard me, Ice princess" the pink haired boy replied.
"Enough!" the redhead said her aura growing dark.
"Nothing" the boys said, their arms around each other.
"Come, let's get you to the infirmary, there you can take off your clothes" the redhead said offering a hand to Kaida. Kaida got up herself. "Right" the redhead said leading the way to the infirmary, "Wendy, can you come with us?"
"Sure" a small blue haired girl said following the redhead and Kaira.
"Lucy, can you keep these men from trying anything funny" the redhead asked.
"Sure Erza" the blonde haired girl replied. Kaida was led into a room with lots of beds with sheets of white. Kaida hurriedly took of the yucky clothes and sighed at the taste leaving her mouth.
"Now, what are you talking about?" Erza asked once Kaida seemed comfortable.
"I was told you had someone who could cure me" Kaida said.
"What does that mean?" Erza asked sitting down.
"Do you not have someone who can cure me?" Kaida asked worriedly.
"Come sit down, tell me what you mean by cure" Erza asked.
"Do you have anything else I can sit down on, something with a better taste?" Kaida asked.
"What do you mean?" Erza asked.
"Do you, this wooden taste is getting on my nerves" Kaida asked shifting from one foot to the other.
"You want taste, here" a brown haired female said offering her jug of wine.
"Cana, what are you doing here?" Erza asked as Kaida took off the lid and set herself down in the wine.
"I want answers too you know," Cana replied, "Hey what are you doing, you just ruined perfectly good wine?"
"Good, you call this good, it tastes like cat vomit?" Kaida said hurriedly getting out of the jug, "Does anyone have anything that tastes good around here?"
"I have a barrel of my homemade juice" Mira said coming in.
"Yes please," Kaida said and sat herself down in it when Mirajane brought it in, "Now this tastes good"
"And there goes a batch of my juice" Mira sighed.
"Anyways, what is this cure you want?" Erza said and all eyes in the room turned to Kaida expectantly.
"I want you to get rid of this thing on me" Kaida replied.
"What thing?" Mira asked politely.
"This curse thingy that I have" Kaida said frustratedly.
"You're under a curse?" Wendy spoke up.
"I don't know what to call it?" Kaida admitted.
"What exactly does this curse do?" Erza asked.
"I can taste everything I touch" Kaida replied.
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Authors Note:
So what do you think?
This story was super hard to write and painful on my taste buds.
No, I did not go around licking things to get the taste.
This is a real thing that I have, of course it's not as bad as Kaida's.
You'll find out why later, anyways, I wanted to try and explain what it's like for me.