Ten thousand years of hiatus will give you such a crick in the neck! Surprise surprise, Puppy is alive. I'm in high school so that surprises me too. I'm actually in the middle of rewriting/editing my other stories, namely Carpe Diem. I'm planning a total rewrite of the Fiore Mages... and pretty much everything. I'm not very happy with a lot of my older works, few writers are I think. This will just be a happy little series of, probably unrelated, one-shots. Fun fact time! Floccinaucinihilipilification is the second longest word in the Webster English dictionary and has nine i's. It also shouldn't be used in first person.

And without further ado, I present to you:

Safe houses, not even they are impenetrable.

The impact of an open-handed blow on your guild master's cheek was the only thing that broke the silence. Before you could leap to his aid you found yourself being restrained and felt rather indignant about it all. Your cerulean-haired superior stood silently and stupidly, with a look that reeked of guilt and self loathing, which earned him a furious shove from the mysterious cloaked figure. It was not until her hood slipped that your feelings of rage subsided a bit, you weren't the sort to hit a girl. Although, by the looks of it, you knew it'd be more likely that she rough you up. Having been in the middle of a training session with your master and a few comrades, including the great Cobra, when this character stormed in and wound up for her first blow, you had not the faintest clue what was transpiring.

"You jackass!" she roared and you noticed Cobra flinch beside you. It was not until then that you noticed her red, scarlet possibly, hair in the dismal light of the underground base. Something about her was familiar. Master Jellal just stood and took her flurry of insults, which confused and infuriated you.

"You idiotic, imbecilic, foolish masochist!" She howled, angrier with each word. You attempted to brush Meredy's arms off of you but failed. Then, something about this woman made you pause. Jellal is certainly not one to bring women around like some of your guildmates. In fact, you'd never seen him with a single one. If you were him, this redhead certainly wouldn't have been racking up popularity points. It suddenly occurred to you that this woman was Erza Scarlet. You didn't know much about her but remembered hearing something about her during the last Dai Matō Enbu. Her guild had prevailed… and she'd faced the 100 monster challenge single-handedly. You didn't care much for current events or politics but now remembered your best friend going on about how hot she was or something. Even with a look of utter fury on her face it was obvious he wasn't wrong. You'd just been a common thief at the time and Crime Sorcière had since saved you, and recruited you to its ranks.

"It doesn't matter," Jellal's voice cut in. Finally he'd put her in her place, you were sure that- "I'm fine."

"Fine?" she growled incredulously. "Really?!" she swatted at his arm that was slung across his chest and bandaged, causing him to hiss in pain. Before you were able to break free of Meredy, you stopped in awe to gawk at your supposedly all-powerful-fearless-ex-council-memeber-holy-fricken-wizzard-saint-badass leader as he apologized ashamedly to this mere female.

"You need to stop being so-" she had began scolding before being cut off by your mentor's lips on hers, maybe he was fearless. When you had thought you couldn't have been more surprised, the universe had to prove you wrong, for all you could do was stand and stare stupidly as she fervently kissed him back. Before your brain could resume proper function, she was dragging him, by good arm, away from you and the door had slammed thunderously behind her. Training had resumed as if nothing had ever happened. You weren't dumbfounded when she was flipping eggs the next morning while he was putting on the coffee, but you did scoff in disbelief at the loving glance the pair shared.

It was short, and barely proofread, but I hope it brought you some amusement. I was experimenting with POV here. Have a lovely day/evening.

~Puppy