Chapter Two: Nakama
Main's POV
I followed the beautiful girl called Mira lead me to the bar and my stomach continued to rumble. Ugh how unsightly. Not the first impression I would have gone with. I sat down at the bar and Miki perched himself on my lap. The boy that was with us before at the front doors followed us back. He seemed to be very curious in Miki. I smiled, "He's a fire fox, I found him when he was little all on his own. He was just too darn cute to leave behind so I took him in." I said petting the fox and brushing my hand through his firey ears. The boy seemed to notice that I wasn't getting burnt but didn't say anything about it, yet.
"So does Lucy's saviour have a name?" Mira asked.
"Oh forgive me, my name is Annabel, Annabel Embers." I smiled at the two.
Suddenly a blue cat came flying in. "Hi Natsu, I'm back. I didn't catch any fish though. Awe how cute! A blue cat! "Natsu who is she?" The blue cat said while pointing at me.
The boy, who I am assuming is Natsu at this point said, "This is Annabel, she helped Lucy who knocked herself out in the he woods." Natsu who laughed and looked at me with curiousity evident in his eyes.
"And who might you be love?" I asked the little cat.
The cat seemed to blush and twirled his paw on the bar top and said, "My name is Happy," he then saw Miki on my lap. "Annabel, how come your not on burnt with that fox on your lap?" Happy gapped seeing that Miki had fire on him.
"Well, I like fire, and it doesn't have any effect on me. I also use it in combat." I said.
It suddenly went silent. Happy looked from me to Natsu. And Natsu looked from Mira to me. All of them had a bit of a shocked look at them.
"That's weird, Macao can use fire too but other fire effects him if he touches it. You're kinda like Natsu." Happy said. That was my cue to look shocked.
"Natsu here is a dragon slayer and uses fire magic." A dragon slayer, I heard about them from Ember.
"I'm not sure if this is a silly question, but do you eat fire?" I looked away shyly not knowing if that was a weird question or not.
Natsu smiled at me, "Fire is the best, I get a real boost when I eat it!" He summoned some up. "But I can't eat my own fire."
"Well I can help you with that." I said and formed at fire that took the form of a steak. I held my hand out and Natsu look at it with awe."I have great control over my fire and tend to use it by making it into shapes. In combat I usually make a fire sword or hammer, stuff like that." Natsu sniffed it, shrugged his shoulders and sucked it up.
"That was fantastic fire!"
"That's so cool, Annabel eats fire too!" Miki said with excitement.
Natsu then ignited his hand and my stomach growled and my eyes turned into hearts. "May I?" I asked really wanting to eat the fire. He gave me a toothy grin and nodded. I sucked it up the same way he did. I patted my stomach contentedly.
"That's interesting, usually you only hear about dragon slayers being able to eat the elements that they coincide with. Are you by any chance a dragon slayer?" Mira asked. Natsu look at me with what almost looked like hope in his eyes.
"No, I'm not, but I have heard of dragon slayers from my mother Ember."
"Annabel says that Ember was a giant Phoenix and taught her about fire." Miki said.
"You make it sound like I'm making it up. Ember is real and she took me in when I was little and taught me everything that I know." I said.
"Where is Ember now?" Natsu asked. I frowned, I didn't want to think about that.
"When I was 8, Ember was killed by a bunch of mages from a dark guild." I looked down, tears threatening to drop.
"Why would they do that?" Mira said, not really asking me because she noticed that it didn't seem like a topic that I normally discuss. But I thought that there was no point in not talking about it. They seem like nice people.
"Have you ever heard about the power that a Phoenix possesses?" I asked them.
Mira, Happy and Natsu looked at each other. "Well," Mira started, " There was a time where we helped someone that was immortal from having consumed Phoenix blood." They looked kind of depressed thinking about it.
I nodded understanding what they could have gone through. "Where I'm from it is said that Phoenix feathers have the power to give the owner any wish. Ember was ultimately killed for her feathers."
I felt a hand on my shoulder and I looked at Natsu who was giving a sympathetic smile. I smiled back and Miki was rubbing his head against my stomach with compassion.
After another hour of chatting, laughter, and filling our tummies with food it was time to head out.
"Well it was very nice meeting you all, thanks again for the food, and for your fire Natsu." I smiled at them, although they looked as though that they were trying to say something but didn't know how too.
As I was turning to leave a tiny little old man stepped in front of me. "What I think my children are would like to say is that they want you to stay. I, for one, wouldn't mind seeing another beautiful face around here." The old man said.
As I was about to rubutle, the old man continued, "Plus, I think Lucy would like to see the face of her rescuer." I sighed. I guess he did have a point.
"Hey Annabel, does that man we can stay?" Miki said wagging his fiery tail with excitement.
"Is that what you would like Miki?" I asked him while kneeling to his level.
He looked at me with his adorable eyes. He nodded and said, "It would be nice if we could stay in one spot for a while and make lots of friends!"
"Awe how can I argue with you. Alright," I stood up and turned towards the guild," We are in." I said. Natsu came running up smiling, and swung his arm around my neck.
"You're going to love it at Fairy Tail!" Natsu exclaimed.
Just as people were welcoming us, I noticed Lucy appear from the hallway that lead from the infirmary. I smiled, glad to know that she was alright. Gray followed behind her. I wonder if they have a thing going on? I excused myself from the crowd and walked over.
"Hi Lucy, I'm Annabel, nice to see your doing well and on your feet."
She looked confused for a moment. "Gray, do you know who this is?" Lucy questioned.
"Oh, she was the one that saw you on the ground and brought you here." He replied.
"Ohh!" She exclaimed and grabbed my hands. "Thank you so much for helping me, I can be such a clutz sometimes. Hey, do people ever tell you that you have really warm hands?" She asked.
"Haha yes. I am a fire Mage after all." I said. Lucy looked excited. And I could here Gray mutter something along the lines of 'oh great, another one'.
"Have you meet Natsu already? He's a fire Mage too, not to mention a dragon slayer." I nodded yes, you could really hear the fondness for her friend on her voice as she talked about him. I looked back at Natsu as he was energetically talking with someone. He noticed I was looking at him and shot his hand up and waved at me. I have him a little wave back.
Yeah, I think I'm going to like it here.
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