Colors
He always wondered what being in a guild would be like.
In their days of confinement Grandpa Robb told them that when they did get out, they should join a guild. A group of mages who worked together on jobs. A place to make friends, make rivals, and find loves. A place that could fill the emptiness they had from having no family.
He didn't need a guild, was what he thought. His family was Erza. And that was all he would ever need.
So he thought.
But being in Fairy tail was a total different concept. It was a warmth that, he'd hate to admit, Erza could never provide. A certain familiarity, certain happiness. Having friends was really something magical.
It took heaps of responsibility off of him. Jellal wouldn't dare rely on Erza. Not after the devastation he had caused her. He thought that all he needed to do was let Erza rely on him. But when it came down to it, someone who was skilled enough to harm Erza, could he himself protect her?
In a guild there are people one can rely on. People who are trustworthy enough to take care of your life.
Natsu, Grey, Lucy...well maybe not Lucy, but all of them could help Erza in times of need. He could trust them with her life. They were friends, weren't they?
"Ano...Jello-chan?"
He could fight alongside them. No, not against them, but with them this time. They could do jobs together, and share priceless memories. He had some people he could call...a family.
"I SAID, JELLO-CHAN!"
Jellal lifted his head and stared at the girl in front of him, clearly in a pissed mood.
"Eh? Me?"
He pointed at himself, questioning who she was talking to. The white haired female was dressed nicely in a pink sundress that seemed to float effortlessly off her legs. She twitched and smiled evilly.
"Of course you! You're part of the guild now right, Jello-chan?"
"J-Jello-chan?"
"Mhm!"
She nodded cheerfully and brought a tattoo stamp over to the bar.
"Color?"
"Um...what?"
"Color! The color of your Fairy Tail tattoo, what else?"
He smiled nervously.
"Scarlet...I guess."
She smiled sadistically as and idea came over her.
"Natsu!"
Natsu? What? What could the fire mage possibly do for him?
The flame mage took the stamp in his hand and tossed it to a man with piercings made of what seemed to be...iron?
"Iron head, can you replicate this stamp into one made of metal?...Oh! Make it a metal the doesn't burn easily! But it heats up really quickly!"
Iron head snatched the stamp out of Natsu's hand and ripped a piece of metal off a nearby vent. "Don't tell me what to do, Flame brain!" He took the piece and instantaneously molded it into a duplicate. He then violently threw it to Natsu. The red haired mage grinned his usual toothy grin and began to heat the metal up.
Wait. Heat the metal up? WHAT?
Natsu began to walk towards Jellal and Jellal attempted to back away but only trapped himself between the crazy smiley man and the wall.
"N-Natsu what are you gonna do with that?"
He held the now red-glowing stamp and smiled.
"Where?"
"P-Pardon?"
"Where would you like your scarlet tattoo?"
Realization dawned upon him.
"Whoops. Did I say scarlet, I meant red! You know, the red that's NOT the color of burnt flesh mixed with blood!"
Natsu continued to corner him in spite of his protests.
"No refunds~"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
...
Erza Scarlet had just come back from a simple mission involving a couple of idiotic bandits. After some easy cash, she welcomed herself into the looms of Fairy Tail, only to see...to see...Jellal crouched on the floor, leaning against the wall clutching his arm. She raised a questioning eyebrow before hearing him cry out a stiff breath of pain.
Her eyes widened and the redhead rushed to his side.
"Jellal? What's wrong?"
Scarlet looked to her side and saw a happy Natsu, cheerfully smirking.
Oh damn what did he do?
"S-Scarlet..."
Erza turned her head to him and blinked.
"Yes?"
"..is painful..."
She blinked twice and twitched.
"Excuse me?"
Jellal motioned towards his arm and slowly removed his hands from his shoulder.
"Oh, you got the stamp!"
He stared at her strangely.
"Yeah...but the method to apply it was cruel and...unusual."
This time, it was her turn to stare. She raised a single finger and moved it to where his tattoo was.
And she poked it.
"!#$%#!&!"
She burst out into laughter for a good minute and after a few moments she smiled at him. "Yeah, what about it?" He looked at his arm for the first time since the 'disaster'. And oddly enough, it looked...nothing like burned flesh.
It was bright red, much like Natsu's.
The insignia was rather normal looking.
"Wait...what?"
Salamander couldn't hold his laughs anymore and fell to the floor, chuckling hysterically.
"You fell for it! BWAHAHAHA DUMMY. All the real pain of getting a 3rd degree burn, without actually getting burnt! Brilliant right? I have become a really skillful and controlled mage, haven't I?"
"N-NATSU?"
Erza giggled and took his hands in hers. She clapped them together and brushed her lips on them.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail, Jellal!"
Crap. This chapter was crap. UGH. Sorry, I sorta had writers block. I dunno. I needed a way to break the ice between Jellal and the FT members. I mean...it'd be weird if they all just started getting along perfectly even after what happened. So maybe the next couple of chapters will be small little events like these. I try to build in a humor. But I'd rather not say, because it obviously isn't making anyone laugh. Otlll. The 'Jello' thing was really put there just for soul entertainment. It was an inside joke between my friend and I...and yeah it's lame lol. The next series of events will have more romance between the 2. About how the plotline goes...well like I said, the infinite time span between Pre-Edolas and Post-Oracion Seiss. So yeah...I should have spent time correctly writing this, so sorry about the sloppy horribleness of this chapter. Thanks for reading, leave a review please! ~Hikari