Chapter One: Reunion
She walked up to the guild doors with a smirk. "Hope you're ready to see me baby brother." She laughs lightly to herself and pushes the doors open. When she opens the doors, no one notices but as she walks in she starts attracting attention. Of course who wouldn't? Standing at 5'9", glistening raven black hair that reaches her shoulders, a curvy body that could kill a man if he stared to long, high cheekbones and angled red eyes, and her tattoos and piercings were delicately placed along her body. She was truly a sight to see.
About halfway into the guild all eyes were on her except one pair, her brother's. She gives a wide smile. "You haven't seen your older sister in 19 years and you aren't even going to look at her? I'm hurt Gajeel." Everyone instantly turns to look at Gajeel instead of the woman. He audibly sighed and turned around looking irritated.
"I thought you were dead along with our parents." He stands up and starts walking toward her. Everyone remains silent and watches the two.
"Come on Gajeel, you should have known I wouldn't die easily. Sure it took me a good month to regenerate but even back then my magic was strong enough to get your ass out of there and to stay alive." At this point, they were both standing in front of each other about a foot apart analyzing one another.
"You didn't grow much." He smirked.
"You grew too much." She smirked right back and hugged him.
"I missed you Galiana." He said quietly that only she could hear.
"I missed you too Gajeel." She sniffled slightly.
"So what the fuck just happened?" Natsu spoke up while the two siblings hugged it out.
"It would appear Gajeel has an older sister." Lily said looking thoughtful.
"There is no way those two are related, she is sexy as hell and Gajeel is…Gajeel." Laxus barked out. Mira smacked his arm and gave one of her looks that could make anyone terrified of her. Laxus shut his mouth as fast as he opened it and looked down.
The siblings had stopped hugging by then and then the guild members started approaching but not before Master Makarov introduced himself and the guild known as Fairy Tail.
"Are you planning on joining the guild Ms. Redfox?"
"Yeah, of course. After trying to find my brother for 19 years it would be nice to be in the same guild as him." She shifted slightly in her seat, clearly uncomfortable with the stares and how close the master was sitting next to her. "And you can call me Ana, I've always hated Galiana or Ms. Redfox, It's too formal." She smiles slightly.
"Wouldn't you like to see what the guild is about first before joining?" Someone in the crowd asked.
"After what I saw at the GMG, there is no doubt that I wouldn't want to join." She smiles brightly.
Mira walks over, pushing through people with the guild stamp in her hand. "What color and where would you like it?"
Ana ponders for a second and then stands up and pulls off her red long sleeve shirt to reveal a sports bra and more tattoos that run up her sides. "Well I don't have much room but what about here." She points to her inner left bicep. "And let's go with black." Ana holds out her arm to Mira and stands up, Mira smiles politely and stamps her arm. And right as she pulls the stamp away, she feels a slap to the ass and sees the master smiling. But before she could do anything, Gajeel punches the small man into a wall. Everyone looks shocked at first but then starts laughing collectively as the old man groans and slides down the wall.
"Time to celebrate a new member of the family!" Natsu yells and Lucy tries but fails to calm him down. Everyone roars in celebration and raises their hands into the air. As Ana begins to try and put her shirt back on, she is dragged to the side by Lucy and a few other female guild members.
"Hi, my name is Lucy. It's nice to meet you!" She gives a cheerful smile and Ana tries to return one.
"It's nice to meet you." Ana says somewhat quietly.
She looks to the next girl who has blue hair and is extremely petite. "Hi, I'm Levy." She smiles warmly. "It's so good to meet a family member of Gajeel's."
"Are you good friends with my brother?" She asks happily.
"Well…we are kind of more than friends…" Levy says while her cheeks turn pink and she rubs the back of her neck.
"Oh wow, never thought he would end up with a woman. He used to play dress up with me when we were little. He would always insist on me doing his makeup and braiding his hair." Ana says with an evil smirk.
The girls especially Cana looked like they were about to die from laughter. When the laughing stopped, the rest of the girls introduced themselves and then after a few hours of chatting and drinking Ana decided to leave.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay longer?" Lucy whined.
"Sorry, but I need my beauty sleep and I still have to unpack all of my shit." Ana says looking tired.
"Let me walk you home." A gruff voice says.
"Okay Princess Gajeel, I would be honored." Ana and the girls laugh once more as Gajeel slings his sister over his shoulder and starts walking toward the door. "Let me go! You overly sized piece of scrap metal! This is no way to treat your older sister!" Ana starts punching his back and kicking but he just rolls his eyes and walks out the door.
"I can't believe you told them about dress up." Gajeel put his head in his hands as they walked to his sister's new apartment.
"I have plenty of other stories lined up and ready to go." She proudly smiles.
He groans unhappily. "And what's up with the whole baby brother thing? We are only three minutes apart." She shrugs.
"I don't know, maybe because I was always your protector when we were children."
They walk silently until they get to her building which is roughly a mile from the guild.
"Well this is me." She gestures to a huge beautiful apartment on the top floor of the apartment building.
"How did you get the money to get this?" He stares up at the building.
"It helps that I'm S-class. While I was looking for you I took some high paying jobs along the way. Mainly clearing out some dark guilds or finding rare artifacts for rich people." She shrugged and went to the door. "See you tomorrow Gajeel."
"See ya, short stuff." He waved goodbye as she stuck her tongue out at him.
Ana enters into a small yet comfortable entrance and then walks up the stairs slowly thinking about her day. When she reached the 5th floor she pulled out her key from her shorts and unlocked her door.
The apartment was large and spread out. Two of her walls were windows which was nice because she enjoyed natural light. To the left was a large open kitchen that had a dining room connected and the living room was toward the front, everything was laid out to face the view of Magnolia. To her right was a hallway that led to a restroom and two bedrooms.
She walked in and locked her door behind her. She then took a stack of mail from her kitchen counter and started going through it.
"Junk, junk, junk, magazine, junk, junk, bills…" She sighed and flopped onto her couch and tossed her mail with the exception of the magazine onto the coffee table and started flipping through the pages.
She heard a flushing noise and looked toward the hallway to see her partner come into view.
"So how did it go?" He asked and she smiled. "It went fantastic. You're going to have to come with my tomorrow. I'm sure my brother would love to meet my husband." He looked down at her and grinned.
"You didn't tell him you were married, did you?" He asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Nope, it'll be a surprise for sure. He is dating this tiny little blue haired girl. She is very nice, I'm happy for him." She giggled. "It's almost comical to see them together. She is maybe 5 foot tall and he is at least 6'3"."
He grins and lays down on the couch with her, his head in her lap as she reads.
"The master slapped my ass the second I got my guild stamp." She continued to read and he just shrugged.
"Figured, I know Makarov's reputation. But he is harmless, he views his followers as his children."
"Mhmm." She continues to read. "You need to not use your magic on everyone. Once they know, they won't trust you as easily."
He crosses his arms and pouts. "I know but sometimes I can't help it, you know that."
"Benno, please. You have to try. Do it for your wife who loves you unconditionally." She makes big puppy eyes at him.
"There are some things you don't love about me."
"Like that you're a pig?"
"I'm not that bad, I've gotten better."
"Or that you never brush your hair."
"It hurts to brush my hair."
"Or the fact that you don't put the toilet seat down." Ana raises an eyebrow and stares down at him.
"Okay, that's just your problem."
"Sorry that I don't like trying to go to the bathroom at night and nearly falling into the toilet." She frowns. "But anyway, despite being annoying, I still love you."
"I love you too." He sits up and kisses her cheek. "I'm going to go grab dinner, want anything?" He grabs his jacket and keys on his way to the door.
"Some noodles and chicken would be yummy, all I had at the guild was some peanuts at the bar. Please and thank you."
"You're welcome, see you in a bit." He walks out the door and leaves Ana to herself.
She finishes her magazine and get up to make her way to the bedroom. As she walks, she takes off her shirt and takes bobby pins out of her hair. Once she gets to her room she places the pins on her side table and tosses her shirt in the hamper, she then moves over to a box of her clothing she has yet to unpack and digs through until she finds a baggy tank top and sleep shorts.
She removes her shoes and shorts and put on her night clothing. She then goes into her bathroom and removes her makeup, revealing a nasty scar on her jaw. She looks up into the mirror and sees the guild mark on the inside of her arm. She smiles and unconsciously plays with her piercings in her ear. She walks out and goes back to the bedroom to continue unpacking.
She starts hanging up all of her clothes and putting her shoes away, along with her husband's when she hears a tapping sound on her window. She turns around to see Gajeel outside her bedroom window. She goes to the window and opens it.
"Why did you climb up the wall like a weird spider person instead of just, oh I don't know, using a door like a normal person?" Ana asked annoyed.
"Who is the man that lives here with you?" He looks serious and but she can't help but to have an amused smile.
"Were you spying on my husband and me?" I smirk.
He looks like he was punched in the face. "Since when are you married?"
I show him my wedding band along with other various rings. "Well we have been married for five years, you've been gone for 19 years Gajeel. A lot of stuff happens in 19 years, even though you weren't around for seven of those years." She sighs. "He is a good man, it's actually a funny story how we met, but that's for a different time."
"Is he a mage?"
"Yeah."
"What kind of magic?"
"You won't like it."
"Oh god don't tell me he is a telepath mage."
"He is, he uses it to get further information on missions and he uses it to predict moves in a fight. He also uses booster magic. We make a good team together."
"You're really okay with him knowing your thoughts at all times?" He frowns.
"Yeah, I have nothing to hide from him. At first I didn't trust him and I thought he was a piece of shit but after helping me enough times I learned to trust him." She bends down and starts putting some clothing into drawers.
"I will give him a chance. I guess. But it's only because you're married to him." He frowns further.
"Fantastic, he should be back any minute now with dinner. And just for future reference, you might want to use the stairs and not the window because I don't want my innocent little brother to see what we do behind closed doors." Ana laughs as Gajeel looks disgusted.
Gajeel hears the key in the lock and the door opens to reveal Benno with a bag of to go food. Benno looks up to see Gajeel coming from the hallway and it nearly scares him half to death.
"So your Ana's brother?" He asks while setting the food down.
"So your Ana's husband?" Gajeel asks while staring him down and trying to be intimidating.
"That look isn't going to work, your sister is scarier when she is angry." He starts taking the food out of the bag and taking plates from a box on the floor. "Are you going to have dinner with us?"
"Gajeel stop trying to intimidate Benno, He has had to deal with me for the past five years of marriage plus two years of dating." Ana says while carrying some dish towels in from the other room.
Gajeel sighs, "I could eat some food. Do you have enough to share?" He sits down at the dining room table and watches intently.
"Yeah we always buy plenty, we like left overs." Benno says and starts setting the containers of food on the table and gives Gajeel a plate and a fork.
"So Gajeel, how did you become a dragon slayer?" Ana asks while taking a plate and fork while sitting down.
"Long story short, Metalicana found me after the incident, he saw me as a son, he taught me dragon slayer magic and then he just disappeared one day." Gajeel shrugged. "What did you ever end up deciding upon?"
"Well I kind of made my own." Ana said while opening a container and scooping some food onto her plate. Benno sat down next to her with his own plate and did the same, and then passed it to Gajeel. "I learned that I was highly regenerative to I developed a magic to combine that with light and shadow magic. It would most likely kill a normal mage if they were to try to use it together at the same time since they are natural opposites but I make it work. It's a lot like Gildarts' magic."
"So it's really destructive?" Gajeel questioned. "Wait how do you know Gildarts?"
Ana and Benno laugh and look at each other. "Gildarts is the man who kind of got us together in his own way." Benno said and focused on his food once more. "We were on a collaborative mission, no one knew who was going to be on the team, and all I knew was that it was going to be two other powerful male mages." She chuckles. "I had no clue I would be teaming with Benno whom I hated at the time, and Gildarts whom is the most powerful mage I have ever met. Anyway, we all met up at the designated meeting place and I was not happy to say the least. Gildarts asked why and I explained to him what Benno's magic was." She sighed. "Gildarts told me I was being foolish and that I shouldn't fear his magic and just except that he was trying to help and not hinder us. Of course I was stubborn and didn't except it at first, we were at each other's throats for the first half of the mission until Gildarts told us to fight it out and he would referee to make sure we didn't seriously hurt each other." She laughed lightly in memory. "Benno beat me within a few minutes, all I managed to land was a punch to his face. I was so mad but at the same time amused and I apologized. Benno smiled when I apologized and said he understood, his type of magic was abused all the time by others, he insisted that he only used it to fight and to get access information for jobs, he never willingly used it to hurt or blackmail someone. After that I learned to trust him more and more and one thing led to another and here we are today."
Gajeel looked very amused. "It's good to know I'm not the only one in the family to hold a grudge."
The rest of their night went smoothly, they were drinking, eating, and sharing a few stories and then Gajeel eventually left and Ana and Benno retired to bed. Little did they know, tomorrow would be one hell of a day.