Hai there, my name is Gamer In Training. This is my first Fairy Tail fanfiction. I always wanted to write one, but don't have the time. Firstly, I want to thank you for clicking on this fanfiction and please guide me along the way through your comments (which I'm craving for). Without delay, please enjoy the first chapter.
Chapter 1: Caleb
He put his right foot in front of his left foot. Then, he put his left foot in front of his right foot. That very cycle repeated itself over and over again as a young male teen with black hair walked home in the middle of the night. He wore a white t-shirt and a brown hoodie leather jacket with four pockets on its chest. His hands stuffed in his black pants. He silently walked past a row of shops and restaurants, hoping that no one would notice him.
"Caleb! Over here! I need to talk to you!" came a voice a few feet behind him.
Damn it! The teen named Caleb turned around to face the person who called him.
"Caleb. How are you?"
"Hai. Mr. Billston. I'm good. How's your family?" Caleb asked the person known as . The man is the owner of a restaurant that Caleb just passed by. He was a big and well-built man with a kind smile plastered on his face.
"Their good. Thanks for asking. Now. Caleb, my boy. I know you don't like to hear these kind of news. But, I have no choice but to tell you…"
"What did Natsu and his team minus Lucy and Wendy did this time?" Caleb cut the man mid-sentence.
"Natsu ate almost all of the restaurant's food stock. Erza and Gray tried to stop him. A fight broke out and the entire kitchen was trashed. That's why there's not many customers at my restaurant tonight. There's a lot of food I cannot served due to lack of ingredients." let out his heart content.
"I..I..I..have no idea. I'm sorry to hear that." Caleb was seem totally out of words.
just shooked his head from side to side, "It's none of your fault. You're not even on their team. I just want to tell someone that would not shrugged at the problem. You're a good kid. Come on. I'll buy you dinner."
This time its Caleb turn to shake his head. "No. It's okay. I already ate at the guild." That was a half-lie anyway. He did ate a nice meal served by Mira at the guild, but he's not that full to say no to a free meal. But, eating a free meal while the owner suffered a huge lost just a few hours ago, would leave a very bad taste in his mouth.
"Really? Maybe next time then."
"Dad! We got a new order!" came girl voice from inside the restaurant.
The owner waved at Caleb and went inside. Caleb continue his journey until he reached his house. His house was just across the river from Lucy's house. He entered his beloved home and took a nice and relaxing a shower. While dressing himself for bed, he could hear a certain girl's voice yelling, "Get out of my bed!" and a loud thump from across the river.
Caleb just chuckled to himself and went to sleep. The next morning, he was woken up by a loud knocking sound on his window by his bed. Groaned, he got up and opened the window. Only to came face-to-face with Natsu hovering in the air while Happy hold him.
"ARGGGHHHH!" Caleb shrieked and fell onto his back. Luckily, the soft mattress of his bed broke his fall.
"Caleb. You got to help us! Lucy kicked me and Happy out of the house and now we're starving!" Natsu cried out.
"I want my fish!" Happy seem to be on the same page with Natsu.
"Hm, fine. Come in." Caleb invited the two in.
The next thing he knew. He was sitting in front of guy roughly his age and a blue Exceed, stuffing their faces in food and fishes respectively. Caleb took a sipped of his hot chocolate.
"This is deliciously, Caleb!" Natsu commented while Happy just nodded at his friend's comment.
"Natsu. You said that Lucy kicked you out of the house. You meant to say Lucy kicked you out of her house. You two aren't living together are you?"
Natsu stopped eating and stared and his friend/guild mate. "Is there any difference?"
Caleb virtually facepalmed himself and just let the question slide.
"Man. I stuffed." Natsu sighed of relief while rubbing his huge belly. "Aye"
"Caleb. Are you coming to the guild today?" Happy asked him. Caleb nodded his head. "Yeah. Of course. I need to discuss with my team about our next mission."
"How's Zero and Julia doing?" Natsu suddenly asked the dark haired team. "Their good. Can't asked for better and nicer friends. Don't get me wrong. All people at Fairy Tail are my friends. Including you Natsu."
Natsu grinned widely at this and the two shared a fist bumb. "Thanks. That's was a great breakfast. See you at the guild later." Natsu jumped out of the window and happy caught him. They flew into the sky, out of Caleb's sight. Caleb's head turned to the massive amount of dirty plates on the dining table. "You called that breakfast?"
Caleb walked into the kitchen and opened his fridge. Empty. "Now what I'm going to eat?" This crisis brought Caleb to a nearby supermarket and he's currently trying to decide which can of soup that he preferred more. Mushroom or Corn? With his right hand in midair, a few inches away from both cans, ignoring the whispers and giggles of a few housewives due to his odd behavior and position, Caleb couldn't make up his mind.
"I would recommend the corn soup. It's a lot tastier than the mushroom."
Caleb snapped his head to the right, the direction of the female voice. "Hai Caleb. I've never expected to see you up this early. Yet alone, in the supermarket" Lucy continue to chuckle to herself.
A light blush appeared on Caleb's cheeks and the boy quickly turned away. "Yeah. Natsu woke me up and he ate all of my food supply. I'm just restocking. I usually bought my food at night."
"That Natsu. Always causing problems for others. Just yesterday, he, Erza and Gray fought inside 's restaurant and more than half of the reward went into repairs. I'm going to be homeless by the end of the month."
Caleb just stand there, speechless, after hearing Lucy's story. "I sometimes wish that we could be more like your team Caleb. Your team is among the few teams in the guild that managed to get a job done without destroying anything."
"That's because my team's magic are not that destructive. We're just ordinary mages"
Lucy not seem to be pleased by the statement. "What are talking about? Team Hunter is considered to be a pride of Fairy Tail. According to Weekly Sorcerer that is." Lucy finished her sentence with a smile.
'Damn you Weekly Sorcerer' Caleb taught silently to himself.
"You want to go on a mission with my team sometimes?" Caleb asked while putting two cans of corn soup into his basket.
Lucy looked at Caleb and slowly smiled. "Really Caleb? You mean it?"
"Yeah. I might be fun having extra members once in a while."
"Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much" Lucy thanked him and Caleb sworn that he could see tears of happiness in Lucy's eyes. "Let me finished a mission first. Then, we will go on one together". Lucy nodded at this and they separated ways, before disappearing from Caleb's sight, Lucy said, "I'll be looking forward to it".
Caleb left the supermarket with two bags filled with varieties of ingredients. He left the stuff at his house and quickly walked to the guild.
Even though Caleb was just only 20 feet away from the guild's main door. He could still hear the ruckus inside created by the mages of Fairy Tail. Caleb enter the guild hall and he was greeted by his guildmates. He make his way to the bar and sat on one of the empty stool. "Good morning Caleb. Do you want to order breakfast?" Mira asked as she was cleaning the counter.
"Sure. I would the usual please,"
"I shouldn't be surprise. You always order the same thing for breakfast." Mira laughed at her own realization.
Caleb joined in the laughed and wipe a tear from his eyes. "What can I say? I love the way you make it Mira-chan."
Make left to make his breakfast and the stool beside him was taken by none other than Freed Justine. Caleb smiled at the older man, and Freed smiled back. "I heard Team Hunter is going on a mission soon." Freed asked the younger mage.
"Yeah. We're just planning today. We'll set off tomorrow morning" Caleb answer Freed's statement earlier as a big plate filled with hashbrowns, a stack of pancakes with maple syrup with fried eggs on the side and a big glass of orange juice. "Enjoy"
"Thanks Mira-chan" Caleb thanked her before gobbling his breakfast at face pace. While he was eating, he managed to catch the sight of Freed's eyes following Mira as she walked around the guild, taking people's order.
"Freed? Do you like Mira or something?"
This managed to catch the rune mage off guard and freed literally fell off his stool. He picked himself up with a dark red blush on his face. "How did you know that?"
"It's true?" Caleb eyes and mouth widen.
Freed would just want to trap the boy in one of his runes and make a rule saying that anyone or anything in that rune would lost his' or her's memories. But, that would attracted a lot of attention. He need to do this quietly as possible.
"I won't laugh or tell anyone." Caleb reassured the green haired man and quickly finished his meal and drank all of his orange juice. Freed just smile at this and a solid hand landed on Caleb's back.
"Caleb. You're ready to discuss?"
"Sure Zero. Where's Jules?"
The teen named Zero just lifted both of his shoulders and went to sit at an empty table. Caleb waved to Freed and sat opposite of Zero. "That girl always late."
"Relax. It's just half past seven. She'll be here soon."
Zero, who was wearing a red shirt and olive pants run his hand over his blond hair and snapped a finger. "Mira. A glass of booze please!" "Alright!" Caleb just sighed at his friend's request, "Really? Booze in the morning? You really want to end up like Cana?"
Caleb point his thumb behind him to show Cana, who currently sleeping while hugging an empty barrel.
"I'll try to manage somehow."
"You better"
Loud and hurried footsteps could be heard in the distance and getting closer and closer to them. The person who had been making that noise stopped at the two male's table and seriously having a hard time catching her breath.
"I'm…s..so…sorry. I woke up quite late." A girl, also in her teen years. Wearing a light colored sweater with a black skirt and knee-high heel boots. "Here I thought you got lost or something"
"Zero! Keep your mouth shut! Or I'll…"
"What!? Ask you pets to beat me up?" "MY SUMMONED ARE NOT MY PETS! THEIR MY FRIENDS! YOU BARBARIC WOLF!"
The entire guild stays silent and took an interest in the drama that started to reveal in front of them.
"Guys! That's enough!"
Caleb nice intention cut short when Natsu jumped onto their table and spewed fire everywhere.
"A FIGHT? I WANT TO JOIN IN!" "NATSU! GET OFF THE TABLE!"
"MAKE ME!" Natsu then lifted a chair and continue to start the guild's second inter war of the day.
The three members of Team Hunter just stare dumfounded at the scene. "Want to take this somewhere else?"
"Nice idea Zero." Julia agreed before the three of them exited the guild.
The three walked in silence for a few minutes before sitting at a bench in the park. Caleb was stuck in between of his two always bickering teammate. Caleb had been trying for years since the birth of Team Hunter to get these two along, but, sadly. To no avail. How did two people who always fighting were so good during their mission? Caleb took the flier that contained the mission's description.
"Okay guys. Our job's objective for tomorrow is to escort the daughter of the mayor of a town named Jade Town to Onibus. Sound easy enough."
Zero took the flier from Caleb's hand and examine it. "Total reward of 750,000 Jewel? Just for a normal escort mission? I hope we would run in with some dark guild. I want some action."
Julia snatched the fliers while Zero was too busy daydreaming about the fights that he might be getting tomorrow. She scanned the flier and passed it back and smiled sweetly to Caleb. "I don't mind it. Nice choice"
"Okay. Let's go back to the guild." Zero and Julia smiled at each other, obviously impressed with their friend's choice. The three stood up and follow their 'leader'.
"One more thing guys. I kind of invited Lucy to joined our team to do a mission for once."
"Lucy? Man, I never taught you were that kind of guy." Zero snorted.
This made Caleb stopped walking and turned around in order to face his best friend. "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing. Just. I taught you were more into the nice and sincere type." "Are you trying to say Lucy is a whore or something?" A little venom can be detected in Caleb's voice.
"I don't know. Maybe. The way she dress herself, and all the stunt she's willing to pull in order to get on the cover of Weekly Sorcerer. Remember that time came to visit? The time when she put one that bunny costume and hopped on stage? No puns intended. Sound like a whore to me. Caleb?"
This was the last straw for him. Caleb conjured two fireballs on the palm of his hands and threaten to burn Zero if he do not stop talking.
"Chill man. I was just joking. I don't know you like her that much."
"I not that I like her. I don't like the way you said all those bad things about our friends." Caleb calmed down and the fireballs disappeared instantly. "I'm sorry for snapping at you. That's immature of me."
"I'm sorry too bro. Group hug! Where's Jules?"
Zero was right indeed. Julia had seem to vanish and the two friends began to frantically search all over the area for their third member.
Done. That's the first chapter folks. I hope you would like the story. There will some action soon. Please wait. Write your review about the chapter and the story overall and I'll see all of you very soon. BTW, can you guys guess what Zero's and Julia magic is? Anyway, bye for now.