Chapter one: 'I'm so excited!'

"Why are you walking so slowly?!" Feliciano yelled to his friends as he ran far ahead of them in town.

"We're not! You're just going way too fast!" Kiku yelled. Kiku was one of Feliciano's many friends. It was strange; he had never been anyone in particular for making friends, especially not with someone as lout as Feli. Kiku was a smallish man, only 5'1, considering, he was directly from Japan, this was expected. He brushed his silky dark black hair, back, and looked to his other companion, Ludwig. Ludwig touched his forehead with the palm of his hand in annoyance from Feliciano.

"Is this the building?" Feli asked, as he held a small card with an address written on it up in the air.

"Well, the address the card reads matches the buildings address, so yes." Ludwig said sarcastically, walking to the doorway of the building.

"I hate when he answers my rhetorical questions." Feliciano said, stuffing the card into his pocket and following Ludwig.

"I knew the guild was good, but I didn't expect it to be this big." Kiku said, looking the large building up and down.

Feliciano hadn't much noticed the size of the building, but once Kiku brought it to his awareness; he had to admit it was a bit astonishing. He didn't, or rather, doesn't, know how many people to expect in the guild. He looked up, craning his neck to get a better view of the entire side of the building, his auburn eyes filling with wonder of what this guild was to bring him. He brushed a lock of his red hair behind one of his ears, and walked up beside Ludwig. Kiku rushed to follow them.

"So, this is Fairy Tail, right?" Feliciano asked.

"Haven't we been over this? Yes." Ludwig said, and pounded on the door. A clicking of heels could be heard from their side of the door, and then the door flung open, revealing a pretty young woman with ocean blue eyes and blonde hair. "Yes?"

"Oh—oh! Yes—we're here t-to join? This is Ludwig—Beilschmdt. Ludwig Beilschmidt, I mean. And Kiku Honda, and I am Feliciano Vargas." Feli said, nervously.

"Oh yes, you guys! Come in!" She said, as she opened the doors letting them all in. A certain one of them caught her eye; the tall one. He had blonde hair, very blonde—in which he pressed back against his head with an obvious large amount of hair gel. His eyes were piercingly blue, and firm. Steady. Incredibly tense, she thought. What had his name been? Ludwig, right?

"Lucy!" An overly loud voice called from the other side of the guild. "Aren't you gonna show em' howta get their marks?" The voice called, again.

Natsu. That was enough to describe the overly annoying, peppy, pink-haired dragon slayer in the guild. He waved his arm in the air, looking at the new members. It's trying to communicate. Lucy thought, as she looked over at Natsu.

"Yes! I'm about to!" Lucy yelled back, as she walked over to Kiku, Feliciano, and Ludwig. "Too much, isn't he?" She asked, looking to the awkwardly positioned trio.

"He seems that way." Feliciano said, giving a nervous laughter.

"Well, he's a sweetie s heart." Lucy said, as she walked the three over to Mira-Jane, who was working at the bar. "These three need their marks, can you do that?" Lucy asked, smiling.

"Of course!" Mira-Jane said, as she motioned for the three to come closer to her (even though Ludwig wasn't exactly comfortable with human contact).

"Now" Mira-Jane said, as she positioned herself in a comfortable position around Feli. "Where are you going to want yours?"

"huh?" Feli asked. Did someone forget to tell me this? Feli thought. He wasn't told he was going to go through a painful, permanent, tattoo process to join a guild. Was this in the terms and conditions? "I-I didn't know we had to get a . . ."

"Oh no! Don't worry, it won't hurt! At all, it's—well, not a tattoo, exactly. It's not permanent; it'll come off whenever you leave the guild." Mira-Jane said, reassuringly. "Now—where do you want it?"

"Uhm . . ." Feli thought. Somewhere not too noticeable. But—not to un-noticable that they think I'm ashamed of their guild! "Ankle." Feliciano said "I'll have it on my ankle"

"Well, okay." Mira-Jane said, as she placed the mark on Feliciano's tiny ankle. She then proceeded to perform the same process on both Kiku and Ludwig, but placing Ludwig's mark on his bicep, and Kiku's on his shoulder.

"There you go!" Mira-Jane said, as she looked at the three of them, hoping to see satisfaction with their marks.

Feliciano was about to thank Mira-Jane for the marks, when someone busted through the door, managing to get the entire guild's attention.

"Now the party doesn't start till I walk in!" A loud voice called; the voice was obnoxious and ignorant sounding. It was followed by the sound of the footsteps of maybe four people. The expressions of the four people looked as if they were as annoyed with the loud voice as the rest of the guild. The voice could only be one person.

Alfred.