Chapter two; The job meeting
Wendy is seen taking a small nap because there was honestly not much else to do while riding the train. She was squirming a little, sort of whimpering.
The train came to a slow stop, the momentum of it woke Wendy from her dream. It wasn't per say a nightmare but it wasn't pleasant either. In it the first thing that had happen was Mira had been at the bar carrying a few drinks to the other guild mates when she accidently ran into Wendy and spill the drinks on them. Her dreamscape showing her several other different scenarios in where Wendy had been the cause of an accident for the next two hours ont the train.
This did not help Wendy's confidence before the mission even started.
Wendy got off the train and walk off into town to find some breakfast before her mission. On the other side of the train another girl got off and went to where the job was in hope she was the first to get it.
Wendy had found a local restaurant called The Dicey Café and walked in. The restaurant inside had a wooden finish about it with pictures on the walls and also had a bar over to the back where a man was taking orders for the people there. She walked over and took a seat at one of the booths. She was searching through the menu and had made her decision. The waitress had come around and asked her for her order.
"May I please get a short stack with some blueberries and an orange juice?" She said politely only as Wendy could.
"Coming right up." The waitress acknowledged and took her menu and went to the kitchen to place the girl's order. The wait had taken maybe a good five minutes when the waitress came back with the three small pancakes and blueberries on a plate in her right hand and an orange juice in her left.
She placed it in front of Wendy. "Enjoy your meal."
"Thank you Maim." Wendy said to the older lady before she walked off. She then grabbed her silver ware and cut a sliver of pancake and stabbed a blueberry through it. She stuck it in her mouth, a moment later she quietly squealed. "So good."
She finished her breakfast in ten minutes after the first bite. She left behind the appropriate amount of jewel for the food and the tip. Passing by the waitress on the way out she bowed her head slightly. "Thank you again for the food."
The lady smiled. "Come by any time, we will have a short stack with your name on it Ms... "
"Marvell. Wendy Marvell. Have a good day Mrs..."
"Mills. Kathy Mills. And you have a good day too young lady." After Wendy walked out Kathy walked over to the man at the working who just so happened to be her husband.
"Hey Agil did you see the girls guild mark."
The now named Agil nodded. "Yea, a Fairy Tail guild mark. Impressive, she is so young yet in a top ten guild. Even more so since it's the first."
"She was the same as Wendy and in yours. So don't doubt the age of someone." she reminded him.
"Speaking of her, I heard she came back into town for that job over at the ruins. Who knows maybe they'll come back after their done." He hoped so, ever since the fall she had tried spending time out of town.
Kathy smiled a little more. "What do you think would happen if those two met?"
Now Agil smiled. "That would be interesting to say the least."
Wendy took out the job request, she read it real quickly to find where in town the customer was. She asked a passerby coming through and got the spot on the west side of town and stated walking over there.
She expected the walk to take twenty minutes. On the way she looked around at the town, she saw a lot of light lamps and signs around promoting business. This place must be pretty bright at night.
She kept looking around but stopped when something caught her attention in the distance. It was in the direction of the job description. She thought she'd look at it really quick and then stop getting distracted and get the job done.
When she finally got to it she was shocked to say the least. It was destroyed building made of white marble with tattered red flags all over the place. The flags had a heart kreauz cross on them. Wendy thought train went back to the paper she read earlier, the last guild attacked had the same symbol. She looked back at the wreckage knowing what it really was.
It was the destroyed guildhall of The Knights of the Blood Oath.
Wendy took in how far the marble had lined up to see that this building was nearly the same size of the Fairy Tail's new guildhall. She started to get closer but then stopped as a not so friendly metallic smell had threaten to take over her nose. She backed up more when she remembered the paper said this place was attacked so she had a good guess at what that smell was, it was blood.
She felt saddened when she thought about the survivors. She knew what it was like losing your guild.
She left so she could finally get the job done and go home before the others got worried. Roughly a few minutes later she came up to a dig site with a few people here and there. They were all either working to excavate buildings and other artifacts or work on deciphering what words and pictograms they had found on them. She looked past them to see a man with his hair tied in a pony tail pointing around and telling orders before looking at few documents on the table in front of him. Wendy figured he was in charge of the dig site and started walking over to him.
"Excuse me sir. Are you the one who made the request." She asked.
The man looked up from the letters and other papers on his desk to look at Wendy. "Hello there little one. Can I help with something?"
"I'm Wendy Marvell from Fairy Tail. I came to do this job." She grabbed the job sheet from her shirt pocket and handed it to him. He opened it up and read it real quickly before nodding and looking back at her.
"Alright. My name is Johan and I'm the one in charge of this site. Follow me."
They walked more towards the edge of the site so they could get a better view of the forest surrounding them. Johan then pointed to this one area two miles from the site. "Two weeks ago the area surrounding the town had a small earthquake. Nothing catastrophic but when it was over some of the ruins you see here popped up and we were called to look at them. Judging on what we have translated so far there is a larger set over in that area. Only problem is there are a few different man-eating plants there so that's why we called out to guilds so that they can clear the way." He explained.
Wendy was a little unnerved by the man eating plants part but hey, she was trained by a dragon to kill other dragons. As ironic as that really is. She thought if this was actually a B-class job, it sounded more like a C-class due the number of creatures and the reward.
"So you want me to basically walk over there and destroy everything that tries to eat me." She asked a little too happily for the man's comfort.
"In laments terms, yes." He replied.
"Okay, the sooner I get this done the better. I will be back eventually." She started walking when something popped up from the back of Johan's head.
"Oh hey." She stopped and turn around to hear what the man had to say. "Should probably have mentioned it at first. But another person stopped by an hour ago for the same job. They had light brown hair and also wearing a red outfit." He relieved.
"So there is already someone on the job."
He nodded. "Yes, said they were a local and knew the area. I sent out the request so people could provide backup. If you hurry up you might be able to catch up with your friend. Oh yeah almost forgot!" He reached into his jacket and pulled a scrolled up piece of paper and handed it to her. "That kid gave us a few copies of a map in case someone else came by. Said they would take this trail here." He said that as he opened it up and pointed to a trail heading one of the more clearer areas of the forest.
Wendy nodded as she started herself off at a steady jog down the path that was laid down for her. She ventured more and more in to the forest, she heard natural sounds such as leaves blowing and birds chirping. She admired the lush greenery surrounding her. She kept jogging for while still admiring her surroundings.
The peaceful train of thought stopped when she started hearing slashing noises in the distance. Thinking it was the other person for the job she quickened her pace. She felt a pool of magical energy as she kept going, getting closer.
She then stopped when she saw what she had thought the man-eaters Johan had described. Some of them were smaller and had a flytrap like man sized mouth while their stem was probably as thick as thick as one of her legs. Another kind looked like a purple tube plant and had several tongue like appendages coming out of the top, she shuddered at what those things would feel like if they got a hold of her. Then the last kind was one with monstrous teeth and resembling the coloring of a Rafflesia flower. It's stem was maybe a story tall and as thick as she was tall. And to finish it had two vine appendages coming out halfway up the stem. There were five tongue ones, seventeen flytraps and two Rafflesias.
She would have attacked already if it weren't for one small thing. They were already defeated and killed. true to what she said each and every single one of the plants had either large slashes across their heads or a clean cut through their bodies and stems. Even of the big rafflesia had been slashed straight through the stem. Which was impressive considering like she said earlier it was as thick as she was tall and it was a clean cut so it didn't take several swings. Someone like Erza could do that no problem so it made her think about what this person looked like. Maybe a tall muscular man with a longsword over his back maybe.
She looked around for said person but saw no one in the general vicinity. They probably kept going. She picked up the sound of more slashing, this time a lot closer than it was the first time she heard it. She forgot about walking or jogging and just went into a full sprint run. The more she ran, the more bodies she found. All with the same cause of death, very large slashes across their bodies. She kept running until she reached a clearing. Hearing the noise right there at the other side of the clearing she started walking.
She felt something move around her legs and then whatever it was hoisted her up in the air upside down. Even though no one was around to care she still fought gravity to keep her skirt up. She looked up at her ankles seeing two vines wrapped around them. She then looked down fearing what she saw. It was one of the large Rafflesia like big plants. It opened up it's mouth to show it's giant sharp stone like teeth. She let out a quick screech before she remembered how the person who she was chasing dealed with the big ones. She looked down further to look at the stem and root.
Taking a deep breath she sucked the surrounding air into her mouth before arching her back and then thrust head forward. All the while shouting out.
"SKY DRAGON"S ROAR"
A torrent of winds escaped her mouth and slammed itself against the stem of the monster. It oh so casually ripped right through it. The monster's body spasmed at it's sudden death as it's vine arms that were holding Wendy let go and she started to fall. Only one problem the plant died with it's mouth open and she was right above it. She wouldn't die of being eaten but she would have the worst day of laundry when she got home. She kept falling, bracing herself for the disgusting feeling to come.
Suddenly a red blur came out of the area where she last heard the sound of her chase. Said blur grabbed Wendy before she fell into the maws of gluck and goo. Her and her rescuer landed on the other side and they tumbeled and rolled over each other a little but then they stopped. During the whole exchange Wendy had her eyes closed because at first it was bracing for impact but then having another object impact with her. She finally opened her eyes to see who or what in the world had saved her from wasteing her job money on laundry detergent. Her eyes widened at the figure in front of her. They were holding onto eachother, laying on their sides, and their faces a few inches apart. J-j-johan said that there was another person here and after seeing the bodies I thought it was a big swordsman but I never in a lifetime thought it would be this.
The person that had been hacking and slashing at maneating plants through the forest leaving a trail of corpses, was in fact a girl Wendy's age and height. The girl's hair is light brown and tied into two tails with two red ring baubles. She also had fair skin like her. She wore a red robe that exposed part of her shoulders, a short black skirt, fingerless red gloves, and black, asymmetrical shoes with long black socks. She has a pouch strapped to her waist at the back, a silver breastplate and pauldrons, brown leather gloves with metal bands, black shorts, and yellow boots. Her most striking feature was the color of her eyes, a vibrant red.
The two stayed for a few moments before both of them remembered the misleading position they were in. Both faces turning to pink they jumped off each other and were sputtering all sorts of apologies while looking around to make sure no one saw their embarrassing mishap. Relief coming to both their minds when they remembered they were in man-eater plant territory with no one around but the person in front of them. They dusted themselves off as they resumed looking at each other.
"S-sorry about that. My name is Wendy Marvell. Who might you be?" She greeted, putting her hand out as a friendly gesture.
The girl in question patted her previously pink cheeks before accepting Wendy's hand.
"Nice to meet you Wendy. I am Silica Ayano"
"Likewise Silica. Thank you for catching me like that. If you hadn't done that I would have the worst story to tell my friends about."
"Your welcome. So I guess you are here for the job Johan sent out."
"Yes I did but looking at the trail behind us." She pointed a thumb behind her, gesturing to all the plants Silica killed already starting to whither. "I would say backup is not a real concern."
Silica just shrugged her shoulders. "It never hurts to be safe am I right, we should probably get back to the job. Johan and his team don't have much time out here so they probably want as much time on the new ruins as they can get."
Wendy nodded and smiled slightly. "Yes we shall."
They were about to head off when out of the brush came more and more of those plants walking torwards them, on their roots? What type of plant does that.
Silica began drawing the dagger strapped on her belt. "Job said kill anything that wanted to eat us, am I right?"
Wendy nodded while taking on a battle stance with a breeze went through both their hair.
"Yea let's..."
Both smiling and charging as they yelled "... weed this garden."
Sorry had to reupload this because of few mistakes. Thank you for not calling me out on them.
And there it is folks. Chap 2 of A Familiar Dragon. I know most people don't update this fast and don't expect me to either. I just had the second chapter there from earlier and I thought I should get it out there. As always leave reviews and point ideas that you have.
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Next time: "Dragon Slayer meet Dragon Familiar."
