This is just something random that popped into my mind, after creating this oc. I like to make up ocs, but I struggle with writing good continuing stories. That's why, that this will most likely be just random one-shots of a very young guild member from fairy tail and all the mischief she will get into.
Also some clarifications might be in order as this isn't a continous story. Cadwailade was taken in by fairy tail, shortly after the great magic tournament. She met Levy in Crocus and the letter mage is one of the closest persons to Cad, next to Natsu, Erza and Wendy.
So that should be it. I hope you will enjoy it.
"I will not take Levy's Gale Forcing Reading Glasses without asking ever again. I will not take Levys Gale Forcing Reading Blasses withouth asking ever again. I will not…" Cadwailade Cadell was sitting at a table in the middle of the guild hall repeating the lines over and over again. She was miserable. How was she supposed to know that those glasses were so precious to Levy? The ten-year-old girl pouted and put down the pen to rest her hand a bit. Around her everyone was having fun and she was forced to sit at the table writing lines. As if that wasn't hard enough, her dyslexia really made her struggle with it. Asuka Conell, her partner in crime, was long done, even though she was a lot younger than her. She massaged her fingers, then picked up the pen again. "I will not take Levys Gale Forcing Reading Glasses without…"
"Stop!" Levy's voice interrupted Cadwailade struggles and the young girl gave a sigh of relief, which quickly turned into a pout once she realised why Levy had interrupted her work. "Cad, You made spelling mistakes here, here and here. And its "Gale Force Reading Glasses" not "Forcing"."
"Aw, Levy let me off the hook. I've been sitting here for almost two hours." She begged giving Levy her biggest puppy dog eyes. "I won't take them again. Cross my heart!"
Levy glanced over at her guildmembers who were still celebrating the end of the day. "Alright! But you have to correct your spelling mistakes!" The blue haired mage finally conceded.
"Thank you!" Cadwailade cheered. "I'll make sure that you won't regret it!"
"I sure hope so." The letter magician muttered under breath. She watched the ten-year-old hastily correct her mistakes. Every once in a while, the pen would wander to her mouth and she tap her lips thoughtfully before adding or crossing out another letter. The brown-haired girl always managed to tug at the heartstrings off her guildmembers, when she had managed to get herself in a world of trouble again. Her big blue eyes were just irresistible. Levy knew she shouldn't let her off so easy, but the kid had made an effort to sit still and write her lines despite it going against her nature.
"Done!" Cad announced and handed the paper proudly to Levy.
"Runt! You off the hook?" Gajeel's rough voice interrupted Levy's thoughts.
"Don't call me runt!" Cad yelled angrily, before adding, "Yes, I am." With a big smile. "Natsu! You promised me to help me practise my blocking spell."
"True!" The pink-haired wizard laughed and jumped to his feet. He cracked his knuckles and flames surrounded his hand. "Here it comes!" Cadwailade quickly raised her cane sword ready to unsheathe it and cast the rune, but a certain ice mage intercepted them before they could begin.
"Not inside the guild, you flame brained lizard!"
"You want a piece of me, you perverted popsicle?" Natsu shouted immediately turning his focus towards Gray.
"Knock it off!" One single glare from Erza was enough to settle them down. "My strawberry cake is to be delivered this afternoon. If anything happens to it, because of you two, it will be the last that you've ever done." She was sitting at the bar, but to reinforce her point a sword appeared in her hand.
"Yes, ma'am!"
Natsu grabbed Cadwailade by the scruff of her green tunic and walked towards the door. "Let's go short stuff. Erza's in a bad mod!" The kid wasn't particularly concerned about being treated this way. She knew Natsu didn't think any bad of it. The heels of her black boots thumped down the stairs and left two parallel skid marks on the ground until they've reached an open ground, where Natsu simply let go off her. She caught herself by taking a quick sidestep. "I've always thought it weird, that you picked Rune Magic, even though you're dyslexic." Natsu commented while walking a bit away from her.
"It's my strength!" Cad replied defensively. "At least that's what Master Makarov is saying."
Natsu just raised his fist and the flames flared up again. "Let's get started! I throw everything I got at you and you block. That's how you get stronger right?" He grinned.
Cad paled a bit at that. She knew Natsu was strong. She even envied him off his strength, though that was a fact she would never ever dream of telling him. He was already full of himself. "Maybe not full power?" She suggested with a nervous smile. "Remember? I'm still little." She readjusted her black sash and baggy pants, before pulling out her cane sword. It wasn't the heirloom she had gotten from her father, but a training sword she had received from Erza.
"Alright." Natsu conceded with a huff. "Tiny Fire Dragon's Roar!"
"Rune Magic Shield!" Cad unsheathed her weapon in one smooth motion and aimed the tip at the incoming attack. With quick motions, she wrote the rune into the air. For a second it shone in a brilliant light, before it blocked the incoming fire attack, by dividing it into two streams. "IT WORKED!" She cheered, but then froze in shock as she saw Natsu prepare for the next attack, with broad grin on his face.
"Great. You can master small stuff, but how about this! Fire Dragon Brilliant Flame!"
"Rune Magic: SHIELB!" She shrieked. The rune flared up in front of her, only the shrivelled to dust by the heat. In heartbeat, she flipped the blade around and aimed the flat side of it against the fire. A line of letters appeared. The attack hit the blade with full force. The letters flared up and Cad poured all her magic power in the rescue spell. Her training blade cracked with a metallic sound, but still held together. As sudden as the onslaught had started, it stopped again.
"Great job!" Natsu cheered. "You blocked it!"
"It wasn't me you idiot! It was Freed's extra spells, that saved me. You'd have grilled me! I wrote Shielb instead of Shield!" Cad shouted angrily. Her face was flushed and some brown strands of hair had gotten loose from her usual ponytail.
"Oh… why did you do that for?"
"I'm dyslexic, you crazy flame-spewer! I don't do it on purpose!" Tears welled up in her eyes. "And you broke my training weapon."
"Well… try bringing it to Gajeel. He might now how to fix it. He's an iron dragon slayer after all. He should know a lot about steel." He suggested feeling a bit bad for making her tear up.
She looked up at him, a bit of hope returning into her blue eyes. "I'll go and ask him straight away." Cad found Gajeel sitting together with some other mages at a table. Panther Lilly was also there. She skidded to a halt next to the table and stared at Gajeel until he sat down his mug on the table with an annoyed grunt.
"What's up half-pint?"
"Natsu broke my sword." She declared.
"So what?" He turned away from her and picked his drink back up again.
"Can you look at it. You're an iron dragon slayer. You surely know a lot about steel." Cad asked and pulled out her blade.
"Ugh… alright. Hand that rusty thing over." He grabbed it from her hands and inspected it closely. There were several distinct cracks running down the blade. Some lengthwise some diagonal. He sniffed at it. Then shrugged his shoulders. "This is scrap metal. Completely useless. One more strike and it'll shatter to pieces." He opened his mouth and took a bite shattering the whole sword.
Cadwailade who had just raised her hand to take her training weapon, froze in shock. She just stood at the table white as chalk. Her eyes and mouth were frozen wide open in an expression of stunned surprise. He was eating her sword. He was actually eating her sword. Right in front of her. "I'm sure Erza will give you a new one, runt." He bit off the last remaining piece, which stuck out from the handle and gave the wooden piece back to her. "There you go, short-stuff. I'm sure it'll fit nicely on your new training weapon."
That did it. A violent rage soared up in her and a low growl escaped her throat.
"I think you made a mistake, Gajeel." Nab whispered as he felt how Cad was getting surrounded by a very dark aura.
Gajeel huffed and grabbed a hold of his drink. "What she going to do? She's too little to hurt me!"
Cad whipped out her sheath and pointed it directly at the dragon slayer. "Rune Magic: Baldness!"
Gajeel spat out his drink and quickly ducked under the table. Even though it wouldn't hurt him, he still liked his black mane. The rune missed him, and headed straight towards the bar instead. It hit Erza square in the back, who was just about to dig into the freshly delivered strawberry cake. At first nothing seemed to happen. Cad was standing frozen on the spot, staring at Erza. As quick as her anger had surged up it had disappeared again.
A single strand of hair fell towards the floor. It was the opening of a floodgate. More and more hair started to fall. The whole of the Fairy Tale guild simply stared in shock. Natsu who had walked in right after Cadwailade went white, as did the rest of the guild once the rune had taken its full effect. Even worse, a lot of the hair had fallen onto the strawberry cake. Erza herself seemed to be frozen herself, but her hand was slowly closing hard around the fork she was holding. The metal creaked and Cad could see how the metal slowly bent under the crushing strength of Erza's grip.
Mirajane took a cautious step towards her guildmate. "Erza?"
The once redhaired mage spun around on her chair. In an instant, she was clad in a thick pitch black armour. Her eyes glowing red with rage. With the armour came a large black mace that had the same spike-like design as the Purgatory Armor. The mace was larger than Erza herself with six large spikes running down the edge, getting progressively larger as they reached the hook end of the weapon. Her gaze fixed the brown-haired girl, who uttered a tiny frightened squeak. Cad had no doubt that she would be snuffed out like a candle, once Erza reached her. Still she couldn't quite overcome the sight Erza was presenting. Even her eyebrows and eyelashes were gone. However, one single step from Erza towards her was all it took to snap her out of the comical aspect of the whole situation.
In her panicked state, she did the only reasonable thing she could think off. "Slip'n Slide!" She pointed the end of her sheath at Erza's feet. For once she didn't miscast her spell. Erza slipped, fell backward and slammed back first onto the bar, breaking a part of it and squashing the rest of her strawberry cake beneath her as well. Cad wanted to run, but she stood still. She felt like a rabbit frozen in fear right before a raging bear devours it with a single bite. Erza's head hung low when she got back up. Slowly her gaze once again fixed Cadwailade.
If the girl had thought Erza had been angry before, but she quickly corrected herself. She had never seen something like that. She couldn't even think of words which might be able to describe the expression on Erza's face. Her anger from before seemed like a tiny candle compared to the roaring volcano that was glowing in her eyes now. Cadwailade teeth were chattering and she raised her sheath to cast one last spell. Erza seemed to vanish then appeared right in front of Cad again. A single swing from the club shattered the sheath into tiny splinters. Cad stumbled backwards over her feet and found herself sitting on the floor. "I'm sorry!" She squeaked as Erza towered over her.
The redhaired mage bent down and grabbed a hold of the girl's ankles. "Prepare to face your punishment with dignity!" She growled, turning around she started to head for a side-door dragging the child with her.
"No! I don't want to face it with dignity! I want to live!" Cad howled and clawed frantically at the floor trying to escape her incoming doom. The door didn't provide any good grips, but Natsu's ankles did. "Save me!" She pleaded with tears in her eyes. "She's going to kill me!"
"Hell no! Let go of me! I'm not going to get involved in this!" Natsu shouted as he was dragged with Cadwailade towards the door. Erza didn't even seem to notice the extra weight.
The girl refused to let go. "You broke my sword. It's your fault! If you won't help me, you're going down with me!" She hollered. Natsu desperately tried to pry her fingers off his ankle. "How can you betray me this way? I thought you were my friend." Cad snivelled. "If she kills me I'm going to haunt you till the end of your live!"
"I'll take that risk, but I'm not going to get dragged into this." He retorted and doubled his efforts when he spotted that the door was getting dangerously close. One after one he pried Cadwailade's finger away from his ankle and finally he was free. Just in time as well, because Erza was just reaching for the doorknob.
"Don't abandon me like this, Natsu! You coward! Anyone! Help me!" Cad latched on to the doorframe, but it only delayed the unavoidable. No one in the guild came to her rescue. They only watched in horror as Erza bent down and almost gently removed Cadwailade's grip on the doorframe. Then the door was slammed shut right in front of Natsu's face.
All off the guild could hear a sword being unsheathed and the frantic, panicked babbling from Cadwailade. "Please, Erza! I'm sorry! I meant to hit Gajeel! Not you! I swear it! Cross my heart! I didn't do it on purpose! It was an accident! Nonono! I'll never do it again! NOOOOOOOOO!" The last scream was abruptly cut off, then there was only silence. The guildmembers of Fairy Tale stared at each other in shock. No sound could be heard from the other side of the door.
"Did she kill her?"
That's it. Will Cad live for another day? What do you think Erza will do to Cadwailade? I'd love to hear your ideas.