It had been a few days after the war with Zaref, Acnologia, and Zaref's kingdom. Many of the guild's mages had stayed to help fix the town and their guild while some went to help other towns and guilds that had been destroyed and confused when the lands had moved. Today the some that had left were returning home, to the guild. Much of the guild was, once again, nearly to its former glory. With that much had gone back to normal. The mages were being rowdy. Mirajane and Kinana were serving. Grey and Natsu were fighting while Juvia cheered for Grey and Lucy yelled for them to stop fighting. Wendy sits a good distance away from the agument chating with Romeo and Carla as Happy attempts to give the latter a fish. Erza sits at the bar eating her cake and to the side of her is Cana with her comically large barell of alcohol. Gajeel sat watching Levy read across the table from him, while Pantherlily spoke to him about a possible mission to go on. Jet and Droy were not far away sharing their disappointed with eachother that Levy was spending time with Gajeel and not them. Even the Thunder legion were sitting in their normal space on the second level balcony that hung over the bar, joined by Elfman and Lisana.
Suddenly the dragon slayers smell something, stop, and look toward the door. The moment Nastu is distracted Grey lands a hard hit to Natsu's head, causing him to hit the floor seeing tiny dragons (like seeing stars).
"You alright man?" Grey says checking on Natsu as Juvia begins to celebrate her 'Grey-sama's ' victory and Lucy rushes to his side. Everyone in the guild, except the dragon slayers, turn silent and look to what had happened. Though the focus on Natsu do not last long, as the the large doors swing open drawing everyones attention.
In walks a woman not much taller than Levy and similarly built but slightly thicker. She is wearing an old worn black leather jacket, bandages around her small breast as cover, simple black pants, worn black boots, and worn leather messanger bag. She had black hair that is shaved all around the sides and the hair that is left at the top of her head is in a ponytail that is very long down to her bottom and across the bridge of her nose following along her check bones were metal studs. As she walks in she looks down at Natsu and gives a small laugh and shakes her head. Then she looks around the room pausing and for a moment when she looks in Gajeel's then Wendy's direction.
Suddenly Mira seems to recognize the woman. "Torine!" She yells in excitement walking quickly to the now named, Torine.
"Mira-dee!" says Torine as she grins and picks up Mira by the waist and spins her around before pulling her into a hug.
"What are you doing here?" Mira says happily but before Torine can answer adds in "Oh how rude of me," and turns to the guild "This is my friend Torine we met when the guild was separated. She used to do some modeling with me."
With that introduction, much of the guild went back to what they were doing minus a few such as Gajeel and Wendy who continued to look at Torine with curiosity and Natsu who began to come to from the hit to his head.
Mira leads Torine to the bar restating her question with just as much happiness. "So what are you here for?"
"Wel,l I was actually headed this way to see if maybe I could take you up on that offer you gave me. I was pretty far away when that strange magic happened causing the lands to move but once the lands went back I ended up not too far away. I assumed maybe your guild would know what that strong magic was." Torine explains.
"It was Irene, Iren Belserion." Erza said simply from her spot slightly further down the bar.
Torine looks to her as she sees her turns very white. "Y-you look just like.."
"Irene, I know. She's my mother." Erza says solemnly. Torine turns a shade whiter. "Oh I'm Erza by the way." She says as she changes her tone, smiling, and reaches her hand out to shake hands. Torine visibly relaxes slightly and shakes Erza's hand. "Oh, right. I'm Torine nice to meet you." She pauses for moment and releases the hand shake. "Irene's not any where near by, is she?" She says cautiously.
"No, I defeated her myself. She threatened my family." Erza replies gesturing towards the rest of the guild. "She may have been my mother, but Fairy Tail is my real family." She smiles and returns her focus back on Torine. Who has begun to return back to her normal color. "Sounds like something Irene would do." Torine says, with a hint of distain to her voice, as she looks deep into the glass of alcohol Mira had placed in front of her. "You knew her?" Erza asks. Torine gives a slight laugh looking to Erza, "I knew her quite well actually. We had a very dark history together. One that I don't really want to get into right now. I hope you understand." She gives an apologetic smile. Erza looking a bit disappointed, hoping to hear more about her mother's past, "Of course, I understand." There is a moment of uncomfortable silence, though unintelligible arguing can be heard between Gajeel and, the now fully aware, Natsu.
The first to break the silence is Torine who looks to Mira and smiles, "So, about that offer you gave me. Is it still on the table? If not I completely understand."
"About if you ever wanted to join the guild, when it was back together? Yes, Ofcourse that would be amaising!" Mira says excitedly. Torine gives a large grin "Great! So what do I have to do to become an official member of Fairy Tail?" Mira sits the glass down that she was cleaning excitedly and begins to walk towards the master's office, "Let me go get the master. He will be delighted to have a new member."
Torine shakes her head at her friends excitement then takes drink of the beer in front of her. As she finishes taking a drink of her beer a cough from behind her draws her attention. She turns to see Wendy, Natsu, and Gajeel lined up side by side behind her. "Why do you smell like Torine!" Natsu yells before Gajeel elbows him in the gut. Torine smiles and laughs, "because I am Torine." "No you're not Torine is a dragon!" Natsu recieves another elbow to the gut. "Quit being rude, flaim brain!" Gajeel yells grumpily. Before Natsu can yell back at him Torine interrupts, "Actually I'm and iron dragon slayer, though I can you other magic as well. I became a dragon from using my magic too much. I learned, not long after you all went through the gate, how to revert to my human form. But I must say it's nice to see you hatchlings again. You've all grown so much."
