Kiele slowly walked through Magnolia to the Fairy Tail guild. She knew that her trip was dangerous but it was especially requested by her guild master to go, though she didn't particularly want to. Her journey had lasted around two days; she had travelled late into the night and early in the morning.
She arrived at the guild door, and knocked. There was no reply, but knowing it was Fairy Tail, she assumed that they just didn't hear, and proceeded to enter anyway.
Just as she had thought, the guild was full of noise, glasses flying across the room along with trays, tables and chairs.
Kiele carefully manoeuvred through the boisterous crowd to the bar counter, to meet with a woman with purple hair.
"Can you tell me where the guild master is?" Kiele asked.
"He's over there" the young girl pointed.
Sure enough, there was a small, older man standing on top of one of the tables chanting away.
Kiele walked over and stood around the table waiting for him to notice that someone from another guild was there. However, no such action was taken, and she was ignored, until a young man with blond hair pulled her out of the way of a flying chair.
"You're not from this guild." He stated.
"No, I'm here on business only." She said.
The young man stared at her some time before reacting any further.
"Hang on," he said.
He walked over to where she had previously been stood and picked up the older man from the table and carried him over to the bar counter. He then motioned Kiele over. She slowly made her way over to the counter and sat down.
"Thank you." She said to the blonde gentleman.
"No problem," he replied.
He turned and left. She swivelled on her chair and smiled.
"Oh, Laxus," she whispered.
She turned back to face the older gentleman, who she knew to be the guild master, Makarov. But before she could get a word out, she was interrupted by the master.
"What is this business I hear of?" He asks.
"The master of my guild sent me to tell you an important message."
"How important?"
"I-I don't know."
"Then stay for a drink," he said smiling.
She smiled back which was misinterpreted as a yes.
She was dragged from her seat into the centre of the guild and sat down at a table with a blonde young girl and a boy with only half his clothes on his body.
"Wait here" said Makarov, "I will be back."
She again smiled and he left. She sat next to the girl and across from the boy.
The girl next to her was the first one to introduce them.
"Hi, my name's Lucy" she said.
"I'm Kiele"
"That's Gray" said Lucy, pointing at the young man across from them.
He turned to look and nodded his head, acknowledging that he was being acknowledged.
Kiele smiled at him and he smiled back. But before much conversation was struck up, the master arrived with drinks for her, Lucy, Gray and himself.
"Thank you" Kiele, Lucy and Gray said in unison.
"No problem," he said, and then sat next to Gray. But it wasn't long before the situation went down a slightly broken track.
The master crawled up onto the table and stood with his drink still in his hand.
"Attention," he said. With this, the guild was silenced. "We have a visitor. Be nice."
He said this, crawled down from the table, walked across the room and up the stairs at the back.
A boy with pink hair called out:
"Hey, I'm Natsu. Fight me!"
Kiele just laughed, though it seemed he was being deadly serious.
"What is your name?" came a voice from the back of the room, the owner of the voice unknown.
"Kiele," she shouted back.
"Tell us about your life," came another voice from the opposite direction, still unknown to which the voice belonged.
Kiele knew that this person was most likely intoxicated at a high level. However, since she could find no real reason to decline his request, she began to speak.
"Well, to put to short: when I was young me and my brother were raised by our father alone, since we had no mother. We were all very close, until one day our father just left. Me and my brother travelled for about a week before we got separated. After some time of travelling on my own, I met a young boy and we became great friends, always together; inseparable. But there was a situation that caused us to be separated. I travelled for years, passing guild after guild, mage after mage, until I became caught up in crossfire. Another guild took me in and treated me like family. And I've been there since."
Kiele rose from her seat, intending to go and find the master, but that was set to be an impossible task.
"Explain more," came the pink haired boy from before.
Kiele was becoming frustrated with all the questions. She came here to transfer a message; she was just the middle man. But question after question, interruption after interruption made this impossible.
"You want to know? Fine." She snapped back and began again.
"I was young and raised by a dragon that taught me and my brother dragon slayer magic. However, years and years ago our dragon left me and my brother to fend for ourselves. We were devastated when Metallicana left, weren't we Gajeel?"
She turned her head to the left and directed her gaze on a mage with long black hair. He looked over, confused but then it all clicked in his head. But Kiele didn't wait for him to ask questions.
"We got separated and I travelled on my own, until I came across a young boy. Like I said before, we became best friends; we would spend hours a day in the garden playing. I would use my magic and do tricks for my friend. He had no magic at the time as his body was too weak, but his father had plans, didn't he Laxus?"
This time, she turned to her right and faced the blonde haired boy that helped her out earlier. Again, he looked shocked but it all, eventually, clicked in his head. But again, Kiele didn't wait for questions.
"I was used as a Guinea pig; tested on to see if it would be safe. A lightning dragon slayer lacrima was implanted into my body, and at first it was fine. I carried on my life like normal, until I had an overload. I had too much magic energy for my young body to handle, and I collapsed. I am in a coma for two months. When I awoke, I found that not once had I been visited, by anyone. So as soon as I could, I left the hospital and began to travel on my own again. Until I came across a dangerous situation; two guilds were fighting and I was caught in the crossfire. However, another guild took me in and treated me like I was family. At first, I wasn't planning to stay, but they treated me like I belonged with them, and I already knew the guild master from previous years. My guild, by the way, is Raven Tail."
At this the room dropped silent. And slight murmuring they had occurred, stopped. Not a sound.
Kiele looked to the bottom of the stairs and found the master waiting for her. She walked over and they both proceeded upstairs.
After about fifteen minutes, Kiele returned to the lower level of the guild, still in silence. As reached the end of the stairs, many people looked at her as though she had committed a crime.
She looked over to where Gajeel had been before, empty. She looked over to where Laxus had been before, empty. She sighed but knew that she expected nothing more of the two of them.
She made her way towards the door to leave. On her way, she passed the table where she had sat with Lucy and Gray. Kiele smiled at them both and, to her surprise, they smiled back.
She reached the door, turned around, gave on final smile, then pushed the door out the way and left the guild.
She had only walked a short distance before she could hear someone, or some people, running after her. She turned to find Laxus and Gajeel trailing behind. She stopped and waited for them to catch up, and eventually they did.
"Hey," she said, looking at the ground, refusing to make eye contact.
"Hi," said Gajeel. "It's been a while."
"Yeah" said Kiele, still looking at the ground.
"So when I was younger, you were the friend who I would spend hours a day with in the forest just outside my house?" Laxus asked.
Kiele just continued to stare at the ground, but gave a slight nod.
"Why didn't you come find us sooner?" asked Gajeel.
"Because," said Kiele, "I didn't want to hurt you. I knew you had moved on and you were happy. I didn't want to bring up unpleasant memories or cause you any trouble. You deserve so much better that me."
"No!" shouted Laxus. "You meant the world to me. I cared so much for you. I never visited because I was told you were dead. I couldn't cope for months. We were best friends, for god's sake. Why wouldn't I care?"
"And we're brother and sister," shouted Gajeel. "We trained and learnt magic together. You were the only person that understood me and how I felt. We would fight and argue but that never meant that I didn't care, you idiot!"
Kiele, at this point, had looked up from the ground and up towards their eye level. Her eyes began to water and she found it difficult to breathe.
"I'm sorry!"
Laxus and Gajeel looked down at her then both gave her a hug together. They held on to her tight, afraid that if they loosened their grip, she could slip out and they may never see her again.
But eventually, they let go and stepped back to where they were before.
Kiele's face was red and puffy around the eyes from crying, but she had a smile on her face; a smile worth more than a million stars; worth more than the one true magic.
"Thank you," she said.
"For what?" asked Gajeel.
"For forgiving me after so long of us begin apart." Kiele smiled again.
Laxus put his hand on the back of his head and gave an awkward smile and laugh to go with it.
"Should we go back to the guild?" asked Laxus.
"I-I don't mind," stuttered Kiele.
"Come on then," said Laxus as he and Gajeel began running back to the guild, leaving Kiele to try and catch up.
They entered the guild, Laxus and Gajeel first, and were met with stares from across the room; Kiele slowly walking in behind them and stood there quietly, not even looking up.
"She's cool," said Gajeel, smiling.
With this guild erupted back in the noise and laughter that it was when Kiele first entered. Gajeel and Laxus motioned her in further and she did so, though still quite timidly.
Once they reached further inside, they were approached by the pink haired boy who had introduced himself as Natsu.
"I'm sorry for being a bit loud before," he said, giving a smile.
"It's okay. I think it would be fun to have a fight with you some time," she said, giggling slightly.
"Okay," said Natsu with great enthusiasm, and he happily walked away to pick a fight with some unsuspecting victim.