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"Yo, wavy-haired girl! My name is Natsu from Fairy Tail!" the Fire Dragon Slayer waves to the stranger when they were back in the village with Erza.
"Aye! I'm Happy!"
"I'm Lucy from Fairy Tail too." The blonde girl smiles to the stranger who is wolfing down the fourth Chocolate Parfait.
"Gray Fullbuster, I'm from Fairy Tail too." The shirtless Ice Mage introduces himself to this person who almost tore Lyon's ass apart. Well, at least he is doing it to her formally.
"Erza, I'm another Mage from the same Guild too. Please stop eating when we are introducing ourselves, it's rude."
The stranger looks up to the redhead for a while before attacking her fifth Parfait.
Natsu and Gray broke into cold sweat when they saw that response. This person is going to get it from the strongest woman from Fairy Tail. Real bad. Happy, Natsu and Lucy grabs Gray to one side and spoke in hushed tones while Erza is getting progressively annoyed by the stranger's lack of manners.
"Are you sure that she was the person who had managed to cut down Lyon's Ice Make with only a wooden sword?" Lucy asks Gray.
"I saw it with my own eyes. That can't be wrong. She did not use magic at all."
"What? Is she that strong?!" Natsu exclaims, getting slightly excited about the prospect of fighting this person. However, up till now, all Natsu know of this person are: she is constantly sleepy; she is constantly complaining about the lack of sugar; she is constantly telling everybody that she is lost.
"Aye, it is either the sword which cuts through the Ice Make is magical or that she…"
A crash was heard from behind where Erza and the stranger were. Finally, Erza had lost all of the little patience she ever possessed and attacked the stranger who was too caught up in demolishing her Parfaits promised to her by Gray. Even if she did manage to pummel Lyon to half-dead with her bare hands, they doubt if she is able to survive a hit from Erza. This is one of the strongest people from Fairy Tail she is dealing with…
The group turns to see Erza's fist in the ground but the stranger is finishing up her fifth Parfait beside Gray.
'How the hell did she manage to get here?!' the group gapes as she licks her spoon clean.
"You know, it's rude to interrupt someone when she's eating." She drawls, cleaning her spoon on Gray's bandages.
"THEN INTRODUCE YOURSELF!" the Fairy Tail gang exclaims.
"I'm afraid I got lost on the path of life." She tells them, wiping her lips clean with white hanky with light blue and green swirls.
"We have no interest in how lost you are. We are very aware that you're lost!" Lucy snaps. She had been complaining about being lost from the moment she joins Natsu and her during their adventure.
"I like desserts and sweets."
"What we are asking for is your name." Gray sighs.
"I like wearing boxers and I like to sleep. I'm 17." She tells them, running a hand through her wavy silver hair.
"I have no interest in your underwear preference." Erza snarls at her. "We are asking you, what your name is!"
"Jiya." She manages after a long pause. "Ban Jiya."
"Ban?! Who the heck names their daughter Ban?" Lucy frowns.
"You can try asking my mum and old man about that…" then, she turns to have her back facing the group. "But you'll have to do that when you become one with the earth…" she states with a gloomy aura shrouding the room.
Everyone except for Natsu gapes at Ban when they heard this.
'Her parents are dead.' they realized. 'And she had yet to get over that!'
"What? They were Earth Mages?" Natsu asks Ban whose aura of gloom and doom had yet to dissipate.
"They were not mages…" the aura intensifies at Natsu's question but he could not get it.
"Was that some form of Magic?" Natsu asks Ban but he was being pulled off by Lucy. Erza and Gray went over to Ban to try her best to comfort the girl.
"Natsu! Stop being so insensitive!" Lucy tells him off.
"What? I was wondering if there's Earth Mages who are capable of merging with the Earth and that's going to be so cool."
"What she meant was: her parents are dead!" Lucy tells the naïve Dragon Slayer who went 'ohhhh.'
Meanwhile, Gray had to cheer Ban up by promising her with 5 cartons of Strawberry Milk. For Erza…
"If you've lost your family, we'll be glad to have you joining us." She tells Ban.
"Yeah! Fairy Tail would be your family!" Natsu smiles to Ban.
"Aye!" Happy agrees.
"Fairy Tail? What's that?" she frowns.
"We're a Mage's Guild!" Gray tells her and the group shows her their marks. "There are a lot of different Guilds out there but we are one of the best!"
"No, we ARE the best!" Natsu declares proudly.
"I'm not a Mage. I'm a samurai." She pats the three swords strapped by her side. "With a healthy knowledge of ninjutsu." She shrugs.
They were confused by her statement. Does that make Ban a samurai or a ninja? Regardless of that, what does she meant by ninjutsu?
"What is ninjutsu?" Natsu was the first person to break the question out to her.
Ban sighs and did a weird hand sign. Another Ban appears with a poof. The band of mages pauses to inspect the 'new Ban' before coming into the conclusion.
"That's magic!" they concluded.
"That's not magic. That was a Kage Bunshin No Jutsu, that's a ninjutsu!" Ban wonders why in the world is wrong with people here.
"No, that's definitely Magic and it makes you a Mage!" Erza tells the confused Ban.
"No, that was ninjutsu." She sighs in exasperation, watching her new friends getting excited.
Even with the defeat of Deliora, the villagers could not return to normal and the Fairy Tail gang was discussing about how to solve the problem. Meanwhile, Ban is just freeloading off the villagers. Her appetite was on par with Natsu's and it is making Lucy wonder how in the world she is capable to staying in shape with such appetite.
It was not until Erza's declaration that she would destroy the moon that made Ban snaps out of her nap.
Another thing: Ban really loves to sleep.
"Are you serious about this?!" she asks Erza who had ex-quipped her amour.
"Perhaps you would like to help Natsu about this?" she asks. "I've heard from Gray that you've managed to cut through Ice Make without magic." Ban's eyebrows knitted at the request while digging her nose.
"No. I might give off an impression that I'm a moron but I'm not that much of a moron." She stood beside Lucy and Gray.
To their amazement, the sky cracked when Erza's spear came into contact with the moon. Erza then explained to them about the mysterious 'curse' of the island which confused Ban even further. How in the world…
"That's Fairy Tail for you." Happy told her.
"Eh?" Ban looks down at the talking cat which had sprouted wings earlier.
"We're the best!" Natsu cheers, slinging his arm around Ban's neck, watching the village leader's tearful reunion with his supposedly dead son. "They're more like angels than demons aren't they?" he asks Ban while watching the demons.
"You've never seen a real demon to make such comments." Ban told him.
"We saw Deliora didn't we?" he asks Ban while enjoying the feast. Ban closes her eyes when being asked by Natsu about this.
"A real demon…" everyone pauses in their meal to look at Ban. "Has blonde hair and violet eyes...scar on her body…"
"Wait, where's the horns?" Gray asks her.
"She has them…" then her face turns purple before collapsing on the table.
'That encounter with the demon must've been traumatizing…'