Hello everyone just a quick note hehe... But first *I do not own Fairy Tail* This is my first fan fiction or better said first actual story EVER So just bear with me I'm new to this. Hope you enjoy the story ! ^_^
It was a typical morning, the sun shone brightly overhead while in the guild hall, everyone was gathered together in their teams and such, happily talking with one another about this and that, or discussing the details of a job. Occasionally a fight broke out only to be immediately ended by Erza's death stare while she asked if surely there was no fighting going on.
Yes, it was a very normal morning in Fairy Tail, but there was one thing that was odd. Or rather a certain someone to be exact.
Someone who was supposed to be dead but who a couple of years later came back to life. This certain someone was sitting in a corner of the large guild hall at a lone table so as not to be in the way, from there she watched as the rest of the guild blissfully, and noisily, went about their day.
Before her 'death' Lisanna would have been with her best friend Natsu, but in her absence it seemed he found himself a new one. She could hear Lucy loudly complaining about his table manners as he and Happy stuffed food into their mouths.
In another part of the guild hall, Cana was busy drinking, and even though Lisanna had been good friends with Juvia in Edolas, this one was too busy fawning over Grey to have a decent conversation with.
She could go through a whole list of people who were busy with their own friends, who did not require her presence because they'd moved on or because they didn't even know who she was.
Lisanna didn't even have her siblings to talk to.
Elfman was arguing with Evergreen, Lisanna couldn't help thinking how much he had changed and so had Mira who was busy tending the bar.
Was.
Her sister seemed to have disappeared.
Lisanna sighed laying her head back on the table. She didn't mind her situation, she had been gone for a long time after all, and she felt terrible for all the pain and suffering she had caused her siblings and comrades.
She completely understood why Natsu would have tried to forget her because of the pain, or why he would have a hard time realizing that she was there, that she had come back from the 'dead'.
It wasn't like the other guild members didn't talk to her, or that the ones who knew her before didn't care for her anymore, it was just that she felt misplaced like she did back in Edolas.
Mira gracefully got up on the stage and picked up the microphone, standing expectantly in front of the Fairy Tail members. Soon the loud hall became quiet.
"Good morning everyone," she smiled.
Lisanna looked up, so that's where her sister had gone off to.
"As you all should know" she continued, "Christmas is just right around the corner..."
"It's March." Gajeel pointed out.
"Exactly, we're halfway there!" Mira cheered.
"Tch. Stupid woman doesn't even know simple math." He muttered. Levy frowned at him.
"Anyway, since Christmas is so near we are going to be doing a secret Santa!" She beamed at the audience.
Excited chattering erupted amongst the crowd, though Lisanna could have sworn she heard a couple of complaining groans. But Mira continued on cheerfully.
"This year however, will be a bit different, instead of randomly picking a paper with the name of the person you will find a gift for, you will all be assigned someone."
A murmur ran through the mass.
"So how are we being assigned?" Lucy inquired.
"Well in order to build up the comradeship within the guild, you will each be assigned to someone you don't normally interact with or at least..." She added, glaring at the two dragon slayers and ice Mage who sure as hell interacted with one another but not...
" In a friendly and considerate manner."
" But if we don't really interact with the person how would we know what to get them?" Someone else in the crowd asked.
" This is where the fun part comes in," Mira winked. " You and the person that has been assigned to you must spend quality time together to get to know one another."
Okay, Lisanna thought to herself, maybe this wouldn't be so bad. She had been absent for so long that many of her former comrades were still not used to her being around and others didn't even know her, like Lucy who looked to have replaced Lisanna as Natsus best friend.
Maybe this was her chance to get reacquainted or meet someone new and become good friends. Though Lisanna really wished Mirajane hadn't made it sound like a dating service.
She clenched her fist in determination. Yes! She would take this great opportunity!
Or not...
Lisanna stared blankly at who she was assigned to, one of the last people she would have ever thought of. (go figure)
A man who she knew virtually nothing about, never had a single conversation with, who honestly was a bit weird...and creepy... And who wasn't exactly the most popular amongst the other members considering he played a part in the attempt of overthrowing Fairy Tail and all. The person she had been assigned to was none other than...
"Hey Bickslow" Evergreen called to him.
"What?" He grunted not taking his eyes off of the slip of paper in his hand with his assigned person.
"Who'd you get? I got Lucy but I don't even talk to her" she complained.
"That's the point Ever" Bickslow answered.
"Yeah but if I start hanging around with her she's going to know I'm her secret Santa and I really don't want to waste my time anyways" she whined.
"Well then don't hang around her"
"Don't hang, don't hang" his babies chanted.
"But then I won't know what to get her."
"Just get that cosplay girl whatever, a gift card or somethin." Bickslow continued staring at the name.
Lisanna
"Hmmm that could work, see Bicklsow this is why we are in the Thunder Legion, I am such a genius Fairy Queen to come up with such a simple yet effective solution!" She declared smugly.
"Hey don't go taking credit for my ideas." It was his turn to complain.
Just then Mira went back up onto the stage.
"Alright everyone, I know some of you are thinking of just giving a gift card or something, but then you won't form new comradeships soooo you are all going to go on at least two jobs together with the person you were assigned to."
"You know Bickslow you really come up with crappy ideas what were you thinking?" Everrgreen scoffed. " Like a simple gift card would work, I knew there was a catch." With that she stomped off.
The said guild member would have responded but he was concentrated on the slip of paper.
"Lisanna..." He said thoughtfully.
Who was that again?
"But then it's not a secret anymore." Gajeel once more pointed out the flaw in Miras speech
" Well Secret Santa is just a name for it and..." Mira started to respond but another voice interrupted her.
This time it was Natsu who decided to play with fire, not that he didn't already.
"But Mira I don't get it, why call a non secret Santa secret when we would know who our Santa is?"
Lisanna sighed from her place, and inwardly smiled at her childhood friend, he hadn't changed much, he was still her dense, childish Natsu.
"Fine!" Mira threw her hands up in the air.
"Its a get-to-know-your-assigned-person-better-so-you-can-get-them-a-gift-they'll-like-while-simultaneously-bonding-secret-Santa-which-is-not-a-secret-because-everyone-knows-who-their-secret-Santa-is-because-they-have-to-spend-time-to-bond-with-them!"
*Silence*
...and blank stares...
Until a certain dense dragon slayer open his mouth
"But Mira, that's a really long name why don't you just call it something short like non secret Santa?"
"Natsu..." Lucy warned cautiously staring at the She-Demon while contemplating whether to make a run for it and deny any relation the the flaming idiot or, stand her ground and try to keep him from saying anything else stupid.
"What?" Natsu turned to Lucy confused. "The name doesn't have to be perfect just something so that we know what it is. I don't see why Mira has to complicate things." He crossed his arms in a as-a-matter-of-factly manner.
And that is how you turn a sweet Mira into a Demon.
Hello again, if you're reading this then you either skipped to the end, OR , my story wasn't that terribly boring *cheers* maybe leave a review if this story is worth continuing...or not... ^_^