A/N: So the sketches are taking longer than expected - so as an apology - please enjoy the next two chapters without further waiting.
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It's been three years since Fairy Tail's core members were lost on Tenrou Island, and within those three years Fairy Tail was no longer the strongest guild, the Grand Magic Games were created, and several new guilds have popped up. Near Dawn City lays a guild where Fairy Tail had inspired their bonds, family values, and perhaps their rowdy behavior, there lays hope for a better tomorrow and perhaps a fight or two, this guild is known as Raven's Oath.
It was nearing late evening when the large, wooden doors that led into the large tudor style building that towered the landscape were opened. The building was three stories tall with the entrance hidden through three separate embellished archways that lead to the front steps to the guild. The building had two towers built into the second and third floors that sat above the spaces between the archways. The first floor was covered with grey mansory while the upper floors had decorative green half-timbering - which is exposed wood framework with the spaces between the timbers filled with white stucco. The grey steeply pitched gable roofs, and playfully elaborate masonry chimneys showed off the unique grouping of windows. The open wooden doors exposed the grand first floor - a dark wood bar against the back wall on the left side of the guild, behind it stood similarly colored shelves that contained the guild supply of alcohol and to the left of the shelves was the door that leads to the kitchen. To the right of the shelves was one of the two first floor request boards with the door to the achieves and on the right of the door sat the second request board. Across from the request boards, against the same wall as the front door, lays the dark wood stairs that lead up into the S-class floor on the second story as well as the guild master's office on the third floor. Neatly spread across the wooden floors were light wooden tables equipped with benches contrasting with the dark wood of the walls.
In the doorway stood one of the few S-class wizards in Raven's Oath, Calen Vane. His black spiky hair swept to the left, his blue eyes shining against his slightly tanned skin as his smile lit up the room. His blue jacket covering the short sleeved black shirt underneath as the two buttons closed it up, the baggy blue pants he wore partially covered the top of his plain black shoes, and a normal black over the shoulder bag hugging his side.
"Look who's back!" The exclamation came from the female working the bar. Her beautiful blonde half-up in two ponytail against the back of her head, while the rest remain down and lay against her shoulders, framing her peachy face and highlighting her light grey eyes showcasing the small, black beauty mark under her left eye. She had on a light blue floor length, off the shoulder dress - that purposely showed off plenty of cleavage - and has a slit on the right side that goes to her thigh that has two pieces of fabric crossed over each other to form an 'x' shape.
This simple sentence caused many of the conversations occurring in the guild to pause, so that they could greet the cheerful wizard walking through the doors. As he travelled towards the bar to greet the flirty bartender. Along the way, he greet several other members, in particular another S-class wizard - Raiden Zoldyck - who's spiked up black hair and crimson eyes screamed tsundere, causing the blue-eyes wizard to crack another smile, ignoring the challenge of a fight. As Calen finally made it to the dark wood bar counter, he asked a simple question that would cause the entire guild to become quiet and sweatdrop.
"Do you know where Shiro is? I wanna show if she improved while I was gone." It was silent as they thought about the strange girl Shiro Knight. She had short blonde hair with shoulder length side bangs that are usually braided and pulled to the back of her head and secured by a blue bow, while her deep blue eyes almost always seemed either bored or tired. She typically wore a black jacket that has two blue buttons used to close it and one blue stripe on each of the cuffs with a white long-sleeved collar shirt that had blue ribbon around the collar white collar shirt has overlapping edges that consist of two intersecting blue stripes that create a right edge on the for bottoms, a black pleated skirt that reaches her thighs, along with black thighs length stockings that have one blue stripe on each one with dark brown boots that reach her calves adormed her body. She has a strange sleeping habit that had entertained the guild members at first.
The silence was broken when a tanned girl with light pink hair that is cut at jaw-length, with the side strands of her hair being purposefully cut longer reaching down to her shoulders, and bangs falling in light waves over the top half of her face allowing her green eyes and the four leaf clover shaped birthmark under her left eye to be shown, pointed towards the staircase leading upstairs with a polite smile. She had on a red, knee length suspender skirt that has a red bow on the back which has golden design at the ends with a white blouse with lacy, long sleeves that showed her red guild mark on her left shoulder, on her feet were black ankle boots and a black hat with a red bow on it sat on top her head. She had a nose piercing as well.
With that, Calen looked toward the dark wood staircase only to see the blonde mage asleep on the stairs, and sweatdropped at the sight, his smile never leaving his face.
"Thanks Hanako." Calen spoke with a grin as he turned back to Hanako, only to have his attention turn to a young girl - around fourteen - with waist length dark purple hair, light violet eyes, pastel pale skin, and a pair of bow earrings.
"Look at me!" The girl pointed to herself with a pout. She had on a beautiful black lolita dress that reached her knees, it had several ruffles and bows as well as a petticoat that make her dress fuller, black platform mirajane's that had ribbon tied around her legs and pulled into a bow just below her knees, and an umbrella.
"Ah hello Chika." Milo, the flirty bartender, spoke out surprising both of the mages. And just as Chika was going to respond, an exclamation from a man with short spiky hair, bangs and pieces of hair that frame his face, alongside light grey eyes that remind everyone of a certain flirty bartender, wearing a black sleeveless vest with a silver zipper, along with tight black pants with a dark brown belt and elbow pads. Black fingerless gloves cover his hands, and on his feet were black combat boot. On his belt sat his katana with a unique snake chain adoring the hand grip. The man seemed to be walking down from the upper floors, under to overdramatically drop down and firmly grip Shiro's body as if she was dead.
"NO MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER SHIRO!" Wailed the blonde man causing the guild to once again sweatdrop as they watched the man rant to Shiro's sleeping body, only to laugh as Shiro's eyes open and her fist meets with the man's face.
"Master Hiro! Are you okay?!" Questioned a girl with long light brown hair in two big braids on her shoulders that had black ribbons at the ends of the braids, her brown eyes showing her concern despite it being a normal occurrence. The girl had several piercings on her ears, and a bandaid on her right cheek. She had on a black, short sleeved shirt with a dark green jacket with elbow length sleeves over it. The black shirt is tucked under a pair dark green shorts with a yellow belt and two small chains attached, on her legs were black thigh highs with a pair of black combat boot that stop just above her ankles.
The Guild Master Hiro Ruta simple stood up from his fallen position with a grin, rubbing his sore cheek.
"I'm fine Mish-chan, and I told you to call my father!" With this, Hiro began his over dramatic speech about the guild members being his children and with him being their father, they must call him as such, that is until Shiro spoke up from her new spot at the bar.
"Whatever you say Mother." No one had to listen closely to understand that she was teasing the poor guild master causing him to pout, however it didn't last long since he was grinning again within seconds.
"I forget, but we're going to participate in this year's Grand Magic Games!" His excitement wasn't the reason that the guild was filled with murmurs, instead it was the fact that Raven's Oath hadn't taken part in the previous games, so it was shocking to find out they were finally going to join the games. However, the murmuring was cut short when Master Hiro spoke again.
"I have already chosen who is going to be on the team to represent Raven's Oath!"