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-Let there be midnight

ME NO OWNS THE FAIRY TAIL

Blind Days

Mission Troubles

It had been a week since Natsu first joined Fairy Tail and he was still having problems navigating himself through the guild because of the noise and smells confusing him and clouding his senses. And today made it even worse for him since the rain pattered noisily against the guild, thunder rumbling and hurting his enhance hearing.

He was sitting at one of the table in the guild with Gray, Lisanna, Cana, Elfman, Mira, and Erza, the two older girls getting into a heated argument while Cana was showing something to Lisanna, something about cards was what he heard, but he wasn't quite sure. He didn't really pay much attention to the two or to the bickering duo and Elfman and Gray just remained silent, so… he was bored.

A few days ago he had managed to stumble upon an old cottage and with the help of Erza and Elfman; he had made it so the little house was livable and easy to navigate to. They even made it so the floor was clear and his bed was easy to find, though it wasn't really a bed since he wanted a hammock, but if he could sleep in it, it was a bed to him!

And in the week of being in the guild, Natsu had already made friends with most of the kids here, but finding it quite annoying when they babied him thinking he was useless even though he was blind, which he was so very not useless! He managed months without any help and he didn't die! So, ha! In their face!

Natsu was so bored with nothing to do that he suddenly had the urge to go on his first mission to get away from the noise so he turned his head to where he thought Gray was sitting in front of him.

"Oy, Gray! Where's the mission board?" he asked with a tilt of his head.

"Stand up, turn around, and walk straight. If you run into something it's most likely going to be the mission board." he replied absentmindedly. Natsu frowned not liking the idea of running into things but did as Gray instructed and not even twenty steps later, he felt his face bumping into the mission board. Natsu took a step back, hand in front of him as he felt for the mission board, feeling the papers underneath his palm and tearing one off. Now it was time for the next step, and he hoped no one was standing in his way… He turned around once again and walked the same amount of steps he did to get there and tried to feel for the table, but only air was there.

"Over here, idiot," Gray's voice said somewhere in front of him. Natsu looked up and frowned.

"Who are you calling an idiot?!" he shouted as he started to follow Gray's voice and found the table, sitting down at it.

"You're the only one around." he replied casually. The paper in Natsu's hand crumbled.

"Whatever!" he shouted, thrusting the paper on the table and hoping it was in front of Gray. "Just tell me what it says!" he demanded.

"You don't plan on going on a mission by yourself… do you?" Gray asked him, taking the paper from the scowling pinkette. Natsu crossed his arms over his chest.

"Of course I am! I'm not weak, ya' know!" he grumbled.

"But you're blind. Someone can easily come up behind you while you're not looking and hurt you." he pointed out making Natsu wince as he felt a sting to his pride.

"Just because I can't see doesn't mean some measly bandit can beat me up! Igneel left me for a few months and I managed to survive on my own! So don't think I'm crippled just cause I'm blind!" he snarled, barring his teeth. Natsu heard Gray sigh.

"Fine, be it your own death." he said. "It's about slave traders in the town near us for 5,000 jewels." Gray said, passing the paper back to him. Natsu nodded, grumbling to himself as he walked out of the guild, well not without bumping into things and people and being knocked onto the ground first.

He was suddenly not as happy as he thought he would be when he was out of the guild because he was immediately drenched, brushing some wet strands of pink hair away from his face as he clenched his feet and trudged onwards… only to slip on a puddle and fall straight on his back, yelping in shock and becoming even more wet. Great, just great. This is exactly what he needed. Puddles.

"Ow!" Natsu shouted as he tripped over a rock, scraping up his knees for what seemed to be the tenth time. It had been three hours since he had gotten off the train and had some people direct him to the forest he was supposed to go to. And in those three hours Natsu had managed to scrap his legs up because the damn forest just had to have rocks and random holes lying around everywhere, not to mention a log that caused the pinkette to fall into a small stream, making him wet for the second time that day. He was just glad it wasn't raining here because if it was, he would kill someone and that would make him accidently kill himself somehow because has managed to be the clumsiest blind person alive and he has no doubt in his mind that could happen.

Natsu sighed feeling exhausted, turning around and falling on his back in the long grass, wincing as a sharp pebble jabbed him in the back, pulling it out from underneath him with a scowl and tossing it as far as he could. Even though he hadn't started his mission he already hated it because he didn't even know where he was in the forest and he didn't know how he would get back. But all these thoughts were drained away from him as he was lulled into a doze by the sun's warmth was shining on his skin, feeling his eyelids close over his blank eyes as he fell asleep as the wind blew past softly, making the grass around him sway.

Sometime later Natsu found himself awakened by a sound of men walking in herds near him, his eyes opening out of habit as he sat up and turned his head to where he heard the many feet at. He abandoned all other senses to focus on his ears and nose, trying his best to see if these were the slave traders he was sent to fight against.

But Natsu was far too slow to notice the slim man come up silently behind him with a bat and a sly smile on his face. He only turned around in alarm as he heard the harsh 'swish' the air made when the bat came gliding through it, connecting with his head. This time he didn't fall asleep with the sun's rays on him and the swish of the grass, though he would like that way more than getting hit unconscious with a bat.

Gray grumbled to himself, crossing his arms and staring out of the window of the train in annoyance. In front of him Erza, Lisanna, and Mira sat all harping on him while Cana and Elfman sat next to him, the only ones staying silent and staying out of the argument that had been happening for a while now.

"How could you be so stupid?!" Mira shouted, rage clear on her face. "If someone is blind and just happens to be as clumsy as he is, doesn't mean you could just let him go on their first mission by themselves because they say they have magic!" Her face was red from yelling, blue eyes holding much more anger than what she was letting on.

"I tried to convince him that he should go with someone else." Gray muttered even though he knew it wasn't going to work. Well, he wasn't lying. He did tell him going on a solo mission was bad. But did that damn kid listen? No.

"Then you should've gone with him!" Erza joined in, letting Mira take a breathing break from her yelling. "This mission deals with slave traders! For all we know they could be auctioning him off right this second because you decided to be idiotic and not go with him or have one of us come!" Gray was bemused by her hair bristling like a cat from anger in her braid that fell down her shoulders and down the front.

"Mira-nee and Erza's right." Lisanna cut in with a nicer tone than the other two. She didn't show anger like her older sister did and she was upset about Gray letting Natsu go off alone, but she didn't blame it all on the raven haired kid. Everyone makes mistakes, right? "Natsu-kun could be hurt for all we know, you could've at least told us sooner." she told him sternly. Gray felt his annoyance rise at being scolded by a girl who was a year younger than him, but he didn't speak his views since Mira scared the hell out of him.

Gray kept his mouth closed as the train whistled and slowed to a stop, happy that the yelling was reduced to heated glares as they got off the train and started their way to the Red-Tree Forest where apparently all the leaves on the trees were blood red when came autumn, hence the name.

They finally reached the forest and walked along the edge until large cages filled with men and woman in shackles came to view with men that carried whips, guns, and other things stood alongside the moving cages. And not so far off they saw a man carry something small slung over his shoulders that looked to have vibrant pink hair and a… scaly scarf. That means one thing and one thing only to the six who stood shadowed by the trees above them:

They better make sure a certain pinkette doesn't end up where he isn't supposed to be.