~Seeing the Light for the First Time~

Chapter 2

Makarov raised a hand in getting. "Yo." The kid looked like someone just shot his dog right in front of him. 'Or just shot him in the back' the Fairy Tail master thought bitter. The old man sat down Indian style in front of the prison bars and took out his pipe to smoke. Hopefully this meeting would run smoothly. Thank God, Yajima still has some strong influence within the Council. If it wasn't for his old friend, he would have never convinced the Council to let him do this. At least, not without so serious damage to everyone livers from having to drink away their frustrations with each other.

"Come on, sit down. I just want to talk to you about a proposition I have for you."

The kid slowly went down to sit on the ground, his back pressed against the wall, away from him. Suspicious eyes watched him carefully as if this kid was- true to his nickname- a snake waiting for the chance to pounce at the first sign of attack. "What do you want, old man?"

"I come to offer you a place in Fairy Tail."

"Hell no."

'That was fast,' Makarov thought as he removed his pipe from his lips to blow a large smoke ring off to the side. 'I thought he would have at least waited until I got the terms out on the table.'

"Why not?"

The poison dragon slayer glared at him, distrust shining in his eyes. Not that he could be blamed. "I don't want to be there. I don't know why you would even want me there."

Well, wasn't this déjà vu. The Council asked him that after Yajima got them to agree to this. And he was going to answer this young man just like he answered those old stuck up fools. "Because you have some much potential. So much life and fight left in you, that it would be a damn awful shame to let you waste away in this cell. I believe Fairy Tail has someone that will help you become tap into that potential."

"Someone?"

Makarov pulled out a folded up picture from his coat pocket and handed it to Cobra, while explaining, "She's the one who came to me and asked if there was any way to get you out. Said you mean to much to her for her to don't try and do something to save you." Curious eyes took in the woman that was the subject of the picture for a moment before the inmate asked, "Who is she?"

"Kinana. Or as you know her as, Cubellios."

Eyes widen in disbelief at him, and Makarov went on explaining. "An evil mage turned her into a snake when she was a little girl. Eventually she found her way to the Tower of Heaven where she met you. After your arrest, Erza found her unconscious in her human body. When she woke up, she couldn't remember anything that happened after she got turned.

But about five months after joining Fairy Tail as a waitress, she says she started to remember. More specify, she said she started to remember you after constant dreams of hearing your voice. That is when she came begging to me to try and get you out of here. With the help of Yajima, the Council has allowed me to let you join- by your own free will- Fairy Tail, if only you report back to them every six months about what you have done and places you have gone."

"I'll join."

Startled, the Third Fairy Tail master asked, "Excuse me?" Determined eyes lifted up from the picture, which Cobra clutched as if it was a lifeline. "I'll join Fairy Tail. But only because Kinana is there."

The old man nodded, mentally shaking his head. Seven dragon slayers in a guild- HIS guild-… the future was starting to look much more interesting. And expensive.