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Eve's POV

I sigh in irritation as the three of us walk into the town of Magnolia.

I'm with my sort of recent new partners, Luke and Zee. They're my age, I'm twenty-five, yet Luke still acts as my superior even though I'm the elder and stronger than he is. Luke also insisted once we all got together as partners, and considered joining a guild, that he wanted to travel halfway across the friggin' continent to join a supposedly famous guild called Fairy Tail.

It has been his dream to join Fairy Tail, apparently, ever since he was a young child in that bad household of his. But I won't go into that story; it's not any of my business to speak of or know too much of.

"What're you sighing about, Eve? We're going to join one of the best most powerful guilds there is!" Luke exclaims enthusiastically and fist pumps the air as we walk side by side by side through the town with me in the middle of the two of them.

I have a glass of wine in my hand that I kinda sorta stole from a guy down the road when he wasn't looking. We were probably ten minutes away before he noticed. I am very stealthy when it comes to wine. Zee stole a turkey leg from another guy a few streets back and is just finishing it.

I exchange a glance with him and we roll our eyes in sync to Luke's constant rants about Fairy Tail.

"How do you know if they'll even let us in? You could blow it with all your mishaps." I point out and take a swig from my glass.

Luke practically destroys everything he comes in contact with, yet, somehow Zee and I are still all in one piece. Well, for the most part on that anyway. We all train our bodies as well as our minds to further strengthen ourselves, so that must've helped when we were caught up in Luke's many accidents, which usually sends us to be chased out of town by either angry villagers, or the military. Yeah, so I've have gotten kicked out of many towns and villages since I've teamed up with these two morons.

Luke frowns at me as we get closer to the guild. I can see Fairy Tail from here and it does look a bit impressive in professionalism and size. 'Well, even if we don't get in, I could still maybe steal another drink.' I smile in spite of myself. I really need several glasses of good wine everyday from all the stress this kid has been putting me under. And Zee eats a ton, so was all have our owns things about dealing with our and each others' problems.

Luke walks a bit ahead of us and turns backwards to face Zee and I as we continue to the guild, "I'll beat ya there!" He smirks in a challenge with his hands placed leisurely on the back of his neck with his arms bent sticking out in the air. He's got me there. I never back down from a challenge anyone puts in front of me.

I raise a dark eyebrow and toss the empty glass over my shoulder, "You're challenging me?" The glass shatters behind me and I grin wickedly with my eyes shining.

"Yeah, and I'll win this time!" Luke declares loudly and haughtily with a very wide and joyful grin. Some of the townspeople glance our way with slightly irritated expressions, and some look like they're used to this stuff already. I wonder if the guild here has some crazy people like Luke, if they do, then we'll fit right in.

"Don't make a fool of yourself before we even get to the guild!" I shout mockingly at him and cross my arms under my chest with a smirk gracing itself upon my face.

Luke grins and I match it just as well, "Then let's go!"

"Here we go," Zee groans in amusement and shakes his head with a smile.

"Alright!" My clothes fly off my body, leaving me in my undergarments, and I take off towards the guild that is now plainly in sight.

"Could you not strip for one day?!" Luke shouts angrily as he catches up. Zee laughs and runs after us, and passes Luke quickly, sticking his tongue out at him as he does.

I shake my head and speed up, "That would go against my training!" I call back with a cheerful voice. The guild is in sight and I use my last burst of energy to make it to the doors and inside before Luke. Zee quickly races in behind me and keeps running into the inside of the guild.

I grin devilishly as I shut the large doors on Luke. Next I hear a loud bam of him colliding with the heavy doors. "Some wind mage you are!" I call through the doors while laughing at his expense. "You can't even run faster than a girl!"

Suddenly, the doors burst open and I'm sent flying across the room into a tall, muscular guy with spiked white hair. I knock both of us over the table he was sitting at, but I jump up quickly to my feet, unfazed.

"LUKE! WHAT DID I SAY ABOUT MAKING A FOOL OF ME!" I yell at him in fury as cold fog surrounds me starting at my feet and making its way up the height of my shoulders as my anger builds up inside of me.

"You don't need me for that!" He laughs and flies over to me using his wind under his feet. Zee laughs with him while leaning on a table nearby next to a small girl with a red ribbon tied into her blue hair. I glare at both of them.

My hands ball into fists and ice encases around them. "Bastards!" I yell as I put my hands together to form ice magic. "Ice Make, Bow and Arrows!" A bow made of ice appears in my hand and a sheathe of arrows, all of ice as well, also appear on my back. This is my ice creation magic. I form weapons and other objects that I can control even far away from me. Mainly I use bow and arrows to shoot down Luke when he's pissing me off.

I load an arrow and aim it in the air at Luke.

Luke sweat-drops nervously and quickly flies away from me, "Crap, not the ice arrows! Eve come on, those hurt like hell!" He cries in protest, but I just laugh evilly and move my bow to follow him around the room.

"Good to know!" I laugh heartily and let one fly towards him. It just barely misses him and he shrieks in surprise and drops to the ground. I missed on purpose, he was just seriously injured a week ago and I don't plan on letting him be again for a while now. If we get into any trouble, I'm not dragging his sorry ass out of it if he can't move his body himself. Then I aim at Zee and he backs away slowly while almost everyone in the room's eyes are on the three of us. It's an itchy feeling for me to be the center of attention.

"Calm down, we can work this out." Zee tries to reason nervously. Luke blows him back over to me, and then lands next to him and holds his hands up in front of him in surrender.

"Alright, alright. You can stop shooting at us now, we're even." He sighs in agitation and defeat.

I roll my eyes and when I drop my arms the bow and arrows break into crystals and disappear. "Actually, I beat you here and also won that one. So what's my score, fifty to ten to five in the last two weeks maybe?" I laugh lightly at their annoyed expressions.

"Oh shut up, Ice Queen." Zee growls and I kick him in the chest. He's sent flying backwards into the girl he was standing near before. He quickly gets off her and helps her up with an apologetic smile, "Oh, I'm so sorry. My friend over there is just an idiot." I frown and huff with my eyes narrowed at him.

The girl laughs, "It's okay, we have a lot of those here." Zee laughs with her and a few others from the guild join in.

Luke rolls his eyes then yells at me, "Oh, but one more thing, PUT SOME CLOTHES ON!" He points to me in my bra and underwear. I'm unaffected by this, as always.

I put a hand on the back of my head and stretch so my stomach is showing very much and my breasts are pointing in the air with an attractive pose, "Why, does this make you uncomfortable?" I smirk with my eyes on him and add a flirtatious wink. A couple of guys get closer to me with blushes on their faces and excited looks as if I would strip all the way down to the buff. I roll my eyes at them but mostly ignore.

"Yes. Now put your clothes back on." He says bluntly and crosses his arms.

I sigh and pout a little, "You know, it's not my fault, I got as a bad habit." Zee snorts loudly in a failed attempt to cover his laughter.

I hear an older guy behind me speak to another man his age that is sitting next him at the bar, both with drinks placed in front of them, "And who does she remind you of?" The two men laugh, and I raise my eyebrows in curiosity. One of them has dark hair and the other has lighter hair with a cigar in his mouth. I wrangle my nose slightly in disgust. I hate cigars; I think they're disgusting. But whatever, I'm not his mother or anything.

"Are you here to join?" A woman, maybe a little younger than me, walks over to Luke and I with a tray of drinks on one hand that is raised up in the air. I think her name is Mirajane, I think she used to be a bikini model or something before her and a few other of the guild members disappeared for seven years.

"Yes, my name is Luke, that's Zee, and she's Eve." Luke smiles warmly to her and bows politely while pointing and introducing us. I sit down on his back before he straightens out and when he does, he flings me off casually to crash into another table. He turns his neck to glare at me, "Don't sit on me when I'm being respectful, unlike you!"

"Well, I'm tired because we had to run all the way from that last damn dark guild that you had to try and destroy!" I huff angrily and get up. I put on my sweatshirt and slip on a pair of jeans that have seen better days. I notice Zee breathe a sigh of relief next to Luke that I put my clothes back on.

"I'm not tired!" Luke argues and I walk over to face him off again. Zee turns around to face him as well and we give him incredulous looks.

"That's because you can fly, moron!" We growl then I shake my head and turn back to Mirajane with a smile. She watching us in amusement also with a small smile.

"What's so amusing?" I ask her innocently.

"You three, you're just like all of us in this guild." She laughs lightly. "So, what type of wizards are you?"

"I'm an ability-type shocker." Zee examines his nails as if he was a girl, and he has told people this way too many times to keep saying it.

I snort at Zee's antics, "I'm an ability-type ice mage." I reply and I'm in my bra and underwear again.

"And I'm an ability-type wind mage." Luke grins then frowns when he sees my clothes are gone again. "AND WILL YOU PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON?!"

I stick my tongue out at him and cross my arms smugly, "Oh you've seen me plenty of times like this, and it still bothers you?" I grin suggestively and his face darkens in a blush. There are some catcalls and wolf howls from a bunch of guys behind me and that makes my grin widen.

Suddenly, I'm blown back into a bar and beer dumps all over me. I quickly freeze it and it breaks off my body. I smirk at Luke once I stand up. "Is that all you got? I would've thought you'd have a little more fire in that nonexistent six-pack of your's." I laugh loudly when Luke's face now reddens in anger, and Zee bursts out laughing with me.

"Wind Blade!" He shouts with a hand extended and curved blades of wind fly towards me.

"Freeze!" I shout and dodge the ones that were too far away to be able to freeze them. I can also control my magic from far away when it's on defensive. "Ice Make, Ravens!" I shout and raven shaped ice figures fly speedily towards Luke. He swiftly dodges them and lands on a table with a younger brunette drinking straight from a barrel of alcohol. I sweat-drop when I notice her not even flinch when the table is thrown away by the impact of Luke hitting it at full force.

"Bitch!" Luke growls and lunges for me with good speed by using his wind magic. But he is cut off by Zee's arm placing a small barrier between us.

"Okay, can we stop fighting for just a few minutes please? I would like to get the arrangement of joining this guild done before you two destroy it." He says sternly and we grumble and cross our arms while facing away from each other like children. Zee speaks to Mirajane, "So, can we join?" He smiles politely with hope prominent in his eyes.

Mirajane laughs lightly and smiles with him, "Of course, let me just get the stamp for the Fairy Tail symbol." She walks off and comes back after a few seconds with a large stamp. "Where would you like it and what color?" She asks me first with a happy smile.

I smile back and pull down my sweatshirt so the spot where the spot above my heart is visible, "Purple and right over the heart please." She puts the stamp down on it and keeps it in that spot for a few seconds then pulls it off. The Fairy Tail symbol is now over my heart. Luke gets a orange one on his left shoulder and Zee gets a yellow one on the right side of his neck.

"So, are you dating one of those guys?" The girl from before that was drinking straight from the barrel, Cana, asks me and I spit out my wine in surprise and glance wildly at her. We've been getting to know the Fairy Tail members for a few hours now, but that sudden question from Cana completely took me off guard.

"No!" I exclaim in an even voice. "Luke's too annoying and arrogant, and Zee is like a brother to me."

Cana rests her hand on her palm, "So you don't have a boyfriend?"

I sigh and set down my glass and stare into the distance, "I have a guy that I haven't seen in years, and I know he cared about me a lot when we were kids."

"So a childhood sweetheart?" Mirajane smiles sweetly.

"Uh, sort of. More like an advanced fellow pupil relationship." I shrug and look around the guild to see Luke fighting with that huge white haired guy I crashed into before, whom I now know as Elfman, Mirajane's younger brother. And Zee is talking with the Master.

"Did you 'care deeply' about him too?" Cana interrupts my thoughts.

I shrug and sip from my glass, "I guess, because I was upset when I had to go off on my own after-" I cut off and a large lump forms in my throat after just thinking about that part of my past. "After, something happened, and I couldn't be around him or my younger brother for a while."

"You have a younger brother?" Mirajana asks with a soft, understanding voice.

I sigh and rest my head on my palm, "Yeah, I left when he was seven. I had to leave because something bad happened to the three of us."

"What happened? If you don't mind me asking." Mirajane asks softly then apologizes quickly with a reproachful look quickly etched on her face and I smile weakly.

"No, it's fine. My brother left to go after a demon that destroyed our home and killed our parents. By the time the three of us had caught up with him, he was exhausted from attacking the demon and had collapsed by the time we got there. UI, Leon, and I quickly took over and tried our best to stop the demon from completely destroying the town. But we couldn't do it and UI lost her right leg." I suck in a deep breath at the sharpness of that memory.

"The boy who cared about me, Leon, was knocked unconscious while I was hit across the head badly and paralyzed to watch the rest of it unfold. UI fought it off as best as she could, but she couldn't kill it." My eyes turn sad, the color of clear blue water. "UI made the ultimate sacrifice to save all of us; she sealed Deloria in the 'Iced Shell.' That was the last I ever saw of her and when I woke up in the morning, Leon was gone and my brother was nowhere to be seen. I didn't bother searching for either of them for too long because I knew I probably would never see either of them again. So, I returned to the place where we had been training with UI and kept training there by myself for a few years until I met Luke and Zee." I finish and Mirajane and Cana have shocked and sad expressions written across their faces.

Cana opens her mouth to speak, but I cut her off, "Sorry, but if you're going to ask, I don't want to talk about it anymore. That's the most I've said about it in a while and speaking about my past brings up too many bad memories." I apologize softly.

"No, it's all right. We understand." Cana offers me a small smile and I nod gratefully.

I bring up the question that has been stuck in my head since I first recognized Mirajane, "Hey, Mira, I have a question. Is it true that you and a couple others in this guild were sealed away on your guild's holy island for seven years?"

Mira smiles sheepishly, "Yeah, myself, Elfman, Lisanna, Cana, Natsu, Lucy, Levy, the Master, Gajeel, Gray, Erza, Wendy, Gildarts, Laxus, Lily, Happy, Carla, Freed, Evergreen, and Bickslow." She lists off all of them. I know only a few by name so far and maybe by how they look a little.

I nod then I blink in shock once I realize something, "Wait, do you mean-"

Suddenly, a man runs into the guild. "Master! Master! There's trouble with Lamia Scale!"

The Master sits up from his position on the bar, "What happened?!"

"They've been attacked and all have either serious injuries or have been knocked unconscious for a while! One was captured as well!" He shouts and everyone's attention is on him at this moment.

"Who is the captive?" Master asks in shock and leans foreword.

"Leon Vastia." My glass shatters on the floor when I drop it in surprise.

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I just came up with this after watching Fairy Tail anime and I wanted something new to work on, so yeah. Hope you all like it! :)