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Chapter 2: New friends

3rd person POV

7 July, year X777

Fae heard the calling. It was urgent and it sent fear into her body. She looked at her daughter's sleeping form, but she had no choice. Flair was wearing the violet bracelet that resembled dragon scales that she had gotten for her sixteen birthday. What they had made her birthday together, the day she had found her. She was in deep sleep and she would not notice her leaving. Fae got up with tears welling up in her eyes. Dragons are not supposed to cry! she told herself. Quiet as a mouse and elastic as a snake – or something like that – of course she was neither – she made her way out of the cave gracefully and quiet. She looked back at her sleeping wonder. So many years together. She had taken Flair to the human villages two times, but that was all. It was time she let her daughter stand completely alone on her own feet even though it pained her to do so. She was not like a dragon, sure, she was very much like an animal, but she was human. They were different.

Ahumai called out to her again and the portal opened in front of her. She could not look back again, then she would stay for sure, but for their own safety, she did as she had to. She disappeared.

Flair woke up to her mother's distant smell and the lack of body heat. Where was she? Flair was beyond confused. "Mother?" she called out. "Mama!" She used her mother's favorite nickname. She got up and ran out of the cave following her mother's scent. Suddenly the fresh scent disappeared, as if her mother had taken off, only the old scent was left, mixing with the fresh air warning her that it would start to rain quite soon.

She sat down in defeat and cried.

Crying, letting the rain fall around her, she did not notice the shadow between the trees. She should have, her mother taught her to always pay attention to her surroundings, and this time she really should have done just that. Eventually she stopped. I will not cry for her again. But why did she leave? At least she could have said goodbye! Determination clouded her eyes and she ran into the woods. She had to hunt to get food, like her mother taught her.

"Fairy Dragon's Claw!" she shouted as she attacked a deer. It was out in an instant and she started to make a fire the "old fashioned way" as humans would call it.

"I will make you proud, mama," she mumbled for herself. Maybe she would come back then, if she got stronger and proved she could take care of herself. "I will make you proud!" she yelled at the clearing sky.

In the shadows of the trees, there was one watching from the shadows. Yes, she would be his. In time, they would be together. He smiled a sick smile for himself – the kind of smile that would creep you out – then he took off into the woods. They would cross paths again, of that he was certain.

Year X778

Flair broke out of the woods she had been living in for under a year alone. Training, hunting, sleeping, and then repeating the same cycle the next day again – though she had moved away from the safety of the cave and the familiar woods – and she had started to wander from place to place, getting to know the woods closest to the nearest town. She had made a bottle with her magic and filled it with fairy dust, it was a bigger bottle than the time her mother had taken her, and she really needed to interact with humans again.

She would show them how it could make crops grow at earth that would seem nearly impossible, and it would make it stay healthy like that for about three years. If you worked with the earth and took good care of it, it would respond in the way that it would give you many years with good crops, but if you did not, you would need more fairy dust or you would not be able to continue.

She visited a farmer and asked him if he had earth that was impossible to grow vegetables on, and he did. He showed her the way and it was quite big. She planted lettuce seeds she had brought with her. Then she demonstrated the fairy dust on the bottle, not too much, but just enough. Slowly green sprouts started to come up. They grew more and suddenly the field was filled with lettuce plants. Enough for the whole town.

"When you have harvested this, it will start to grow again, but at a normal pace. As long as you water the plants, you will have crops like this for three years. Do nothing, and it will last for this year. Tend to it and love it and it will hold for many years to come, with whatever seeds you choose to plant," Flair said to the shocked farmer. He nodded with understanding and offered her 30,000 jewels. She accepted with a smile and wished him luck before returning to town. She would sleep at an inn tonight, in a bed. She would eat food there too. Tomorrow she would buy another outfit and ask how to get to another town. The closest of course.

Tomorrow would be another day. Hopefully it would be bright. Standing tall and proud she stood outside the inn. Slowly she opened the door and entered.

A month later

Flair had been surrounded by humans for a month now, and her fairy dust was sold fast. However, she could not make a living out of this, it was wrong. Therefore, in the last three villages, she had been helping some around using her powers, and she had been paid! They called her a mage. Not that she knew what that meant, but she was embarrassed to ask what it meant. Once a child called her a wizard, she asked him what it meant, and he explained that it meant the same as a mage, she used magic. She had magic. Well she had it! She was the daughter of a dragon! Duuh. Of course she would have magic.

It was now evening and Flair was close to the exit of the town, closer to the woods. With her awesome ears, she started to hear dull voices. It was a heated conversation with two females and four males. Flair did not like what she heard and started to run towards the trees.

"Let go of me!" One of the female voices yelled.

"Not a chance sweetie. We're gonna have some fun." Flair made her way, quietly. She hid behind some bushes and saw the scene unfold in front of her. The females were held down and they did certainly not want to be in that position. At the same time, the males laughed and enjoyed their struggling. Flair saw red and jumped out.

"You better let them go, or I will tear you apart," she seethed with venom thick in her voice.

"Ooooh, such a scary little girl," the fattest male said and laughed.

"You wanna join in on the fun, babe?" one of the ones who were holding down the closest girl said.

"Fairy Dragon's Wing Attack!" Flair shouted and three of four were out in an instant. The youngest of the males stood standing looking shocked and scared. She could smell his fear especially since he had peed himself. The smell was disgusting. "You better run away male and never do this to females ever again, you hear me? Because if you do, I will come after you, and the same fate will happen to you as it did your friends. Now get their bodies out of here and disappear!" Flair raged and the male started to hurry on with his business.

When he and his friends were gone, Flair took to checking if the females were ok. They were fine, and they were looking quite alike, the only tiny difference was their voices. They continued to thank her and Flair thought she would go crazy.

"I'm Annie, and this is my sister Fannie," the female with a summer dress said and held out her hand. Flair stared at it with big round eyes. "Eh, you're supposed to shake it, in greeting," Annie explained.

"It is nice meeting two females like you, Annie and Fannie," Flair answered and hesitantly shook both their hands.

"You have a funny way with words," Fannie giggled. "Sure, we're female, but you call us, girls, woman/women or lady, at least that's what I thought most did." Fannie seemed to think.

"It is, Fannie," Annie said. "And I heard you refer to males, well, that would be boys or men I guess." Fannie nodded. "You might find other words of course, however, these are the most used."

"Thank you so much," Flair said with gratitude. She had no clue, though she vaguely remembered her mother calling females women. "I am not used to your human ways." She smiled.

"We're sisters, twins…uhm…your name again?" Fannie asked.

"Oh! I am Flair! The Fairy dragon slayer!" Flair said happily and proud.

"Dragon?" the two sisters said in unison.

"Yes, my mother is a dragon," Flair answered and grinned.

"Well Flair, it was very nice to meet you, but we should return to the inn we're staying at," Annie said. Flair started to think. It was sad to be separated by these two already.

"Wait!" she said and turned, but they had already left.

Two weeks had passed while Flair stayed in town trying to learn more about being a human, and one with magic at that. It was fascinating, she was not the only one, and you could even learn it in different forms! As she took a bite out of her piece of bread she had bought, she heard the door to the bookshop open. What surprised her was seeing the twins, and they stopped when they saw her, then they smiled and hurried over towards her. Their blue eyes twinkled in the light.

"Flair! It is great to see you!" Annie exclaimed.

"Guess what!" Fannie said excitedly.

"Huh…" was all that came out of Flair.

"We're going to learn magic!" they said at the same time and laughed.

"That is great!" Flair said and gave a toothy grin.

"And we were wondering if you wanted to train with us," Fannie said and started to look everywhere but at her.

"Of course!" Flair answered. "Why would I not?" Flair asked confused.

"It's just that we can feel a lot of magic power from you, and since you're most likely super strong, we thought that you might not have wanted to," Annie answered shyly.

"Well I do want to," Flair said and hugged both of them, not thinking of something called personal space.

"Aww, Annie, she's so loving," Fannie said and giggled.

"Let's get started then," Annie said and off they were.

"You have thought of what you want to learn and where we are going?" Flair asked curiously.

"No, not yet," the twins answered in unison. "We were thinking that our first stop would be Hargeon,"

"I have no clue where that is, but sure, I am in!" Flair said.

"Yay! We're going to be such good friends!" Annie said and pulled Flair in for a bone-crushing hug, though that was quite impossible (to crush Flair).

Year X785

Several months ago the main members of the Fairy Tail guild Flair wanted to join, had disappeared. Flair, Annie and Fannie was still quite far away from Magnolia, and at this time, they did not have much money to get there by. Flair wanted to help the guild especially now, and she was slightly sad that the three dragon slayers there had disappeared. She wanted to know what had happened to their dragons. First of all, they had to gain some jewels by working.

"So they want us to go into the woods and find the "monster" that is killing all the other monsters?" Annie asked confused.

"Yeah, that's pretty much it," Fannie answered with a frown.

"I do not understand, should they not be happy that someone is keeping danger out of their way?" Flair asked.

"Usually, yeah," a voice said from behind the trio. They froze in their tracks and turned around slowly.

There stood a guy around Flair's own age (since Annie and Fannie was two years younger – he would be 23). He had brown hair reaching his neck and it was slightly messy, dull green eyes, but a handsome face, sure, but it was not appealing to Flair. He was slightly taller than she was and he looked muscular. Not her type. He tried to smile, most likely supposed to be a flirty one, and she tried to not roll her eyes. Her friends though, they fell for it and you could practically see them scream inside their heads, then realize it was silly and that it was a stupid crush in about 3…2…1…

"Nice to meet you, but we need to continue on our mission," Annie said, losing interest with each second that passed.

"Yeah, nice to meet ya, bye!" Fannie said and we all hurried our previous way.

"It's too bad, you know," he said coming up beside them, closest to Flair and she picked up on his scent.

"You are a dragon slayer!" she said in surprise and covered her mouth as fast as it had come out. He smirked.

"Noticed, didn't ya?" He laughed and it seriously sent the chills down the girls' spines. "Well it can only mean you're one too." He looked like he had just won the lottery and Flair felt uneasy beside him and she desperately wanted to get away from him.

"Yes," she confirmed.

"Awesome! I'm the earth dragon slayer, Adymn," he said with a smile.

"I'm Fannie, this is my sister Annie and this is Flair," Fannie said as she stepped up beside Adymn while showing him who was who. Flair felt relieved that Fannie had saved her from the creepy guy and would forever be grateful.

"So this mission you guys are doing…?" Adymn started.

"Someone is killing the monsters here in the woods, and the townspeople don't like it," Annie said.

"Well, it will stop now," Adymn said and grinned at them.

"What?" the twins exclaimed in unison.

"Yes, you see, that was my doing. I've been doing some training while staying here in town, but I didn't know it was a problem." He frowned.

"Oh," was all Flair could say. That is quite suspicious.

Back in town the next day Flair felt like she was being watched. Slightly scared she seeked out her friends and mentioned Adymn and how he gave her the creeps. They laughed it off and said she had nothing to worry about. She shook off the uneasy feeling and went over to a café. After sitting there for about ten minutes – someone with a familiar and rather disgusting scent in Flair's opinion – came into the café. It was Adymn. He looked over to her at once and smiled.

"Flair! Great to see you here!" he said enthusiastically.

"I guess," Flair said. He came over and sat in front of her on the opposite chair.

"So have you ever thought about joining a guild?" he asked, grinning.

"Yes, in fact I have. I want to join Fairy Tail," she answered happily. His grin fell and his eyes squinted.

"Why that guild?" he asked.

"They are great! Have you not heard of them?" Flair asked back, shocked. "Plus, they got three other dragon slayers!" she said excitedly.

"And? It doesn't mean they're great. I was going to ask if you wanted to join my guild," he said with a small smile, fists clenching.

"I am sorry Adymn, but my mind has been made up long ago. Me, Annie and Fannie are slowly working our way towards Magnolia where we will join," Flair said and got up, leaving some jewels for the coffee she had left half-empty. She felt like she should run, but she pretended she was perfectly fine walking out.

Year X791

The wood around them exploded and on the ground on their knees were Flair, Annie and Fannie. Flair had summoned power for such a long time and in the end it was enough to break the tree that was filled with magic limiters.

"We're safe," Annie said exhausted. Her wounds were still there as well as Fannie's, but she was still unconscious. Annie fell over to the ground too and was out in an instant. Oh, no! Barely thinking clearly, Flair managed to get both girls over each shoulders and she started walking. Last time she had been here was before they were trapped, where were the small town?

It felt like she was walking for ages before she came close enough to a town. Finally around people, she managed to ask where the hospital was, it was urgent, and a kind man with a horse and wagon helped her get there with her friends. The hospital staff started working at once when they came in, even Flair was treated for her wounds.

"Excuse me, miss. But what month and year is it?" Flair asked the surprised nurse.

"Why it is year X791 and it's the start of May," the nurse answered before she went out to talk with the main doctor. Such a long time to be gone. I wonder what has changed in the meantime?

Flair was finally well enough to be able to come and go freely to the hospital and she found an issue of sorcerer weekly, the lost Fairy Tail members had returned? Excited by the news Flair went to visit her friends again. They were slowly getting better. They had all survived. That was the most important.

Some few weeks later Flair was in full swing training again, she had heard rumors about the Grand Magic Games, and this year Fairy Tail would participate, though for the moment, they were the weakest guild in all of Fiore. That did not bother Flair and she could not wait to see them in action on the watching lacrimas. Feeling happy and in a very good mood Flair went to the inn she and the twins were staying at. This would turn out interesting for sure.

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