Hey guys! I hope the chapter today isn't too short… it is 6 pages on google docs, but that doesn't mean it looks long. But anyways… thanks soooo much to everyone who reviewed or favorite/followed! And enjoy the chapter.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN FAIRY TAIL! Be thankful that I don't... Everyone would probably end up dying.

(Kat's POV)

It was the day after I joined Fairy Tail that I decided to go on my first job. When I arrived at the guild in the morning, I saw nobody at the request board, which meant that I didn't have to awkwardly stand there as somebody else surveyed their choices.

"We're going on a quest?" Ruby inquired. I nodded, looking for something that would be on the easier side. I had arrived at 3:12 in the morning, so there were only one or two people left in the guild hall. Even though I knew some guild members now… I still wasn't very familiar with them. I needed to get more comfortable before going out on quests with anyone else, or it would be really awkward. So there I was, avoiding people and looking at the request board. I finally decided on a quest that required me to defeat some forest vulcans. It shouldn't have been that big of a deal as I had encountered more powerful monsters than vulcans during my travels. Plus, I didn't mind fighting. So, I took the quest paper from the request board... but I wasn't quite sure what to do with it.

"You're not going on your first quest on your own are you?" Erza asked from behind me. I jumped, startled, and slowly turned around.

I held up the request, "Well, actually… I'm not quite sure what to do with this."

Erza stared at me for a second before replying. "Well, if you want to go on a quest, you need to tell somebody. Either the master, me, or whoever is in charge of approving the job you want to go on." I nodded as she continued, "But don't go out on a job without telling anybody. Okay?"

"Yes, Erza," I understood. Then I realized something. "Hey… Erza, how did you know that this is my first job?"

"I am aware of your circumstances. The master told me," she explained. I hesitated at this.

"He told you everything?" I didn't want her to know what I had been doing before this. That was personal.

She shook her head. "He only told me that you used to belong to a dark guild which didn't let you go on any quests. That is all." I sighed with relief. Good. I was about to try and get her approval when she suddenly stated, "You may go on that quest. But only if I come with you. Gorians can be dangerous."

I sighed. I had kind of wanted to get away from all of the new people for a while. It was… overwhelming, frankly. But from what I had seen, I already knew that Erza was not going to let me set off by myself, even if I was perfectly capable of defeating some forest vulcans. So I agreed. Along with Ruby, we headed out to East Forest to meet with the person who requested us to defeat the forest vulcans.

Finally we reached a small tent set up in the middle of the forest. Waiting for us there was a man with puffy, black hair and small green eyes. He was roasting a lizard looking thing over a small fire as we walked up to him.

When he finally noticed us, he exclaimed, "Oh! You must be the Fairy Tail wizards that accepted my job request!" Erza nodded silently for the both of us. "You see, those pesky forest vulcans come and take all my food and stamp out my fire everytime I try to go camping around here. They even tried to attack me once. The nerve! Anyways, if you could defeat them then I could camp here in peace again. Of course, I'll pay the promised 30,000 jewels." 30,000 jewels?! I knew that it said that on the request, but seriously. That much money just to exterminate some vulcans? I sighed. Why didn't he just find another camping spot? Of course, I wasn't going to say that out loud…

"We will gladly do it. Leave it to us," Erza said, earning a thumbs up from the man.

"They should be just a little north of here," he instructed. We proceeded to walk in the direction the man had pointed us to.

"Well he sure is something, isn't he?" Ruby remarked. I chuckled slightly. The way he talked about the vulcans certainly said something about his confidence…

"Never insult the person who requested the job done. No matter how… annoying they are." Erza lectured.

"Ok," I muttered. She was so scary…

"I will leave you in charge of this quest, it's your job to find the gorians," she stated. I nodded. She was scary, but at least she wasn't controlling.

I zoned out a little bit as we continued walking as I tried to process what had happened yesterday. I had met so many new people… how was I even supposed to remember all of their names? Let's see, there was Natsu, Happy, Gray, Cana, Lisanna… hmm, what was her sister's name again? Oh yeah, Mirajane. She was scary too… I was jolted out of my thoughts as I almost tripped over a tree root.

"Concentrate!" Erza barked at me. I flinched, instinctively covering my head with my hands and arms and getting down on my knees. It took me a second to realize what I had done as I stood up shakily.

"Are you ok?" Erza asked, eyes softening slightly.

I brushed her off, "Yeah. It's nothing." I saw Ruby give me a concerned look as I took a deep breath. I had yet to get over the habit of preparing to be beaten whenever I was yelled at. So I still tried to defend myself. But I wouldn't tell that to Erza. Erza continued walking forward like nothing had happened. Instead, she actually tried to start some small talk.

She stated, "I will only fight if you are either unconscious or knocked out." I nodded. It was my quest after all. I didn't respond other than that, so we soon fell under an awkward silence. Neither of us could find anything to talk about, so eventually I gave up and just focused on the quest.

"Gah!" I suddenly shouted as I came face to face with a bee. Erza immediately tensed at my scream, glancing around. But it looked like she didn't see anything.

"What's wrong?" Ruby questioned. I stood very still, not speaking, hoping not to aggravate the bee. It flew over and landed on my back, worsening my state of mind. I had never gotten stung by a bee, and I certainly didn't intend to be any time in the future. But, for some reason, whenever I was around one I got chills up my back and froze. I just… couldn't handle them. I looked back, seeing that the bee was still there.

Erza seemed to notice my problem and instructed, "Walk away very slowly." I did so and the bee flew away, off my back. I let out a deep sigh. That was embarrassing. But again, Erza ignored it and we kept walking.

It was only a short while after that when we stumbled upon the gorians. There were around five or six of the hairy, green gorilla like animals waiting for us.

"Ruby!" I called. She nodded, activating her aera and getting ready to attack. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Erza move back a little, watching us.

"A woman!" one of the gorians shouted in delight, its large green hand coming to pick me up. I wrinkled my face up in disgust, these guys had a very strange fetish for women that I found absolutely sickening. Not even bothering to draw my hammer, I attacked.

"Rock fist of the earth dragon!" I shouted, my fist turning into solid rock. I punched it hard in the stomach and then the face. It staggered backwards, but it wasn't unconscious yet. Seeing me attack, the rest of the gorians surrounded me, bearing their fists. Ruby flew in to back me up, lifting me out of the air. I smirked, this would be easy.

"You will be my wife!" the one from before exclaimed. I shivered. Definitely not.

"Roar of the earth dragon!" I yelled instead of responding, Ruby turning me in a circle so that the tornado of debris hit all of the gorians. When the dust cleared, instead of forest vulcans there were people laying on the ground. My guess was that they were camping just like our employer when they were taken over by the forest vulcans. None of them looked too badly injured, but we decided to bring them to the nearest hospital anyways, just to make sure. Erza picked up four of them in her arms, piling the people on top of each other to carry. I stared at her for a moment, wondering just how strong she was before picking one up myself. Ruby took care of the last person, flying alongside us with a woman in her paws.

"You fight well," Erza remarked as we walked, "but if you use dragon slayer magic, then why do you carry that hammer around?" she pointed to the hammer on my back.

I adjusted the girl I was carrying over my shoulder slightly as I responded, "For backing up my magic, or for any situation where I don't have any magic power. I also use it if for some reason I don't have access to magic… I don't want to be left helpless."

"I see… I too have a similar hammer that comes with one of my armor," she said. So she could requip armor as well as weapons? Hmm… come to think of it, the woman who had attacked my guild could also do that. I was almost positive that she was the one. Suddenly, we were at the hospital. Wow, it really wasn't far off of the forest. After we dropped off the people, we headed back into the forest to receive our reward.

"Hey, Erza…" I stopped walking, "did you happen to attack a dark guild called the Black Dragon, around two years ago?"

"Yes, why?" she responded, also stopping, slightly suspicious as to how I came about that information.

I shook my head, "No reason. Forget I ever said anything." Now that she had confirmed, I liked her a little bit more. But I wasn't ready to tell her my reasoning just yet. Though the fact that she had wiped out my entire guild was just a show of how strong she was. She cast me another questioning glance before we continued to walk. When we got to the camping area where the man was, he thanked us and gave us the 30,000 jewel. Erza gave it all to me, as I had done all the fighting. On the walk back I thought about how I should spend the jewel… I'd probably save most of it and use some of it for food. But I still needed to find somewhere to live… I was brought out of my thoughts as we walked back into the guild, which was now full. I realized how hungry I was as it was now the afternoon, yeah I probably should have gotten some lunch. But before I could, Natsu came up to me.

"How'd your first quest go?" he asked me, Happy flying by his side.

"Good!" I exclaimed happily. It really did go well. He smiled, giving me a thumbs up, before heading over to get some food. I followed suit, finally getting some lunch for Ruby and I. I heard Erza approach me from behind, her metal boots clanking as she walked.

"I'm going out on another quest," she told me, "if you need anything, just ask around." I nodded as I watched her head off before getting back to my food.

Once I had finished, Ruby and I headed outside. I found a nice secluded spot under a tree that was right outside the guild, but also near the river. The tree's large arching branches provided some shelter from the breeze, its leaves dappling the sunlight and creating a nice shady area.

"You don't want to get to know more people?" Ruby asked.

I sighed. "It's too loud in there. Not to mention crowded." Ruby knew that I hated being stuck indoors for too long. She also knew that I hated loud noise. This might have been a bit of a problem with Fairy Tail, they were the definition of loud. But I decided I would just have to get used to it. I saw Ruby give up on trying to get me to talk to people and sit down next to me. I don't know how long I spent there, watching the river flow, the leaves sway, and the clouds slowly inch across the sky.

I sat there deep in thought, so much had happened… yet it all seemed natural. Maybe because I had wanted to join for such a long time, that I was already used to the idea. But I had never met people that were so… nice. And I could already tell that they were all loyal to the guild. Were all official guilds like this? At my old guild, there would be information leaks all the time. People hoping to get a bit of money by selling information of wherever we were selling drugs next… but nobody here seemed like they would even think of doing that. I didn't know if that was the case, but I was glad that I joined Fairy Tail. I smiled, about to stand up, when Natsu and Happy walked out. He was carrying one fishing rod while Happy carried another.

"Hm?" he let out a small noise as he noticed me. "Why are you out here, Kat?"

"No reason," I lied, shrugging.

"Ok then. Let's go Happy!" Natsu exclaimed.

"Aye!" Happy raised a paw and started flying off.

"Natsu, wait," I said, a thought forming in my head. Natsu turned around, a puzzled look on his face. "Could you tell me… what the power rankings are in this guild?"

"The power rankings?" he repeated, clueless.

"Like… who are the most powerful people and how you tell." I explained.

"Oh! That would be the S class wizards! The most powerful woman in the guild would be Erza, she's a monster. But Mira's really close, they're both S class wizards too. Then there's Laxus, Mystogan, and Gildarts. They're all super powerful," he told me. "I'm gonna become S class too one day!" S class huh? Well if they're all as strong as Erza…

"I see," I responded, getting up. "I better get going then." I waved and he waved back, walking off.

"What are we doing now?" Ruby inquired. I walked back into the guild and out the other side.

"We find a house. And then, we train," I declared as we wandered through the streets of Magnolia.

"Train?" she questioned.

I nodded, "Well, we need to train if we wanna become S class!"

She sighed, "Of course." thankfully, she didn't ask me anything else. If I became S class… then I would have the power to take down an entire dark guild like Erza did, right? Then I wouldn't ever be put in the same position again… and if I became S class, then maybe I could finally find Daichi? I wasn't sure of what I really wanted at that point, but those reasons sounded good enough to me. I just wanted a goal. Something to do really.

Soon enough, we found a rental agency. And by the end of the day I had a house to live in for only 100,000 jewels a month. That should have been fine as long as I did enough jobs. When I went in, I saw that it was already furnished. In the main living room there was a small couch with plain green pillows. To the side of the couch was a wood desk painted white. The upper layer of the desk was rectangular, with a lower layer that could be extended if you needed more room. I let out a silent victory cheer as I saw a swivel chair underneath the desk. Swivel chairs were my favorite. After taking in the area, I set down my bag, which was all the luggage I had, and walked back outside.

I wouldn't really be staying in my house much except to sleep. After all, sitting under a tree was much more comfortable than sitting on a couch. Not really feeling like doing much else today, I headed back to the guild. I decided that maybe it would be good to get to know everyone a bit more. However, when Ruby and I finally got back to the guild… there was chaos.

There was a full out brawl going on. Not just Natsu and Gray either. Elfman, Erza, Mirajane, and some other people that I didn't really recognize were also fighting. I had to duck as a sword flew right over my head and was wedged into the wall behind me. Crouching down, I crawled to a table a little farther away from the conflict where Levy sat, reading.

"Hey Levy," I waved, "umm, what's going on."

She looked up from her book, "Oh, just the usual. Somebody insulted somebody and started fighting. Then more people got involved and well…" she sighed, "it turned out like this."

"The usual?!" I exclaimed, "Wow… they do seem really riled up."

"Yep," she giggled a little, smiling like it was no big deal, before going back to her book.

I sat there watching the fight continue. I took this as an opportunity to witness some of Fairy Tail's magic, since I hadn't actually seen anyone fight. I saw Natsu rush in with a flaming fist, only to be knocked unconscious by Erza. Then Erza was distracted by Mirajane, who had transformed into… something. As the two brawled, Gray was casting ice make magic against Elfman, who had turned his arm into a Gorilla's arm. So Mirajane and Elfman used transformation magic huh? Though I couldn't identify what Mirajane had become, I suspected it was her famous Satan Soul.

Finally, the fight stopped, leaving tables turned over, pillars half broken, walls chipped, and everyone panting. But at least no major damage had been done. The master had been out, so he didn't see the fight, but I was sure that he would be pretty mad when he got back.

"I apologize for that," Erza startled me, sipping a cup of tea, "some people are not so… mature." I chuckled to myself. Erza had been pretty involved in that fight. But she seemed disapproving of the others who had fought, particularly Natsu and Gray.

Erza was able to clean up before the master came back, so he didn't say anything. However, the master did bring some news back from his meeting with the other guild masters. He gestured to Erza to follow him as they walked into the back room. I couldn't quite pick up what they were saying, but I knew that it was important. When Erza came back out, she seemed quite annoyed. But she walked out without a word, and I was left curious to what was going on.

Wow. I actually finished this on schedule! Sorry if this chapter was a bit rocky, but I hope you all liked it. I promise there will be more action/plot soon, so please be patient with me. And just in case anyone was confused, I used forest vulcans and gorians interchangeably. See you next time!