The second chapter out of five chapters… a five chapter story shouldn't take that long to make so… eh? Not exactly much to say here.
I will comment I've gotten to volume 51 of the manga, so… there's that, I guess? Let's just go on and start.
Fairy Tail belongs to Shonen Jump, Hiro Mashima, etc. Any OC belongs to their respective owners.
"Who are these kids again?" Makarov asked Erza.
"We found them in the forest and they didn't have anywhere to go, so…"
Makarov wordlessly watched as Lucy was chasing after Sakura and Yuza to get them to settle down, but was failing rather spectacularly. Luka, Azure and Joy, meanwhile, were all sitting down and watching this unfold.
"...Master, they're just four kids. What harm could keeping an eye on them until we find their parents be?" Erza responded.
"...you honestly thought I would say no?" he smiled a little, "Just make sure they don't cause any damage,"
Erza smiled and gave a slight bow before she saw Lucy was frozen in a block of ice, "...what happened?"
Sakura and Yuza both accusingly pointed fingers at each-other while Natsu walked over and broke Lucy out of the block of ice she was stuck in.
"Daijoubu?" Luka asked.
"I'm as fine as I can be…" she sighed in response.
Lucy sat by the bar and sighed heavily which Mirajane noticed and walked on over to her.
"Something up?" Mirajane asked.
"Those kids…" Lucy groaned a little bit.
"What about them?"
"They're so hard to keep still and watch…"
Mirajane simply gave a nod as she watched Erza and Azure both standing by some chalk lines that resembled an arena of sorts.
"You sure you wanna spar, kid?" Erza asked.
"Yea, I'm sure," Azure nodded as he took out a naginata of sorts, splitting them into twin swords, and getting battle ready, "Come at me with all you got!"
Erza simply nodded and readied her own blade. The two both stood ready as Azure tapped one of his blades against the ground and simply smiled a bit.
"You have first move," Erza told Azure.
Azure nodded and dashed forward with quick speed. He slashed towards the front where Erza stood, but she easily evaded before Azure quickly used his other blade to smack her.
"Heh… not bad," she admitted as she rolled out of the way, not seeing Azure tap the ground with his blade again.
Erza charged forward and slashed at Azure, the boy managing to parry it as best he could, before he was over-powered and sent tumbling towards a few of the other Guild members, "Oh… sorry about that…"
"Yea… sorry…" Azure responded as he got up and grabbed his blades. He tapped them against the ground again, ready for his next attack, but was knocked back by a few Guild members starting to pointlessly brawl, "Hey uh… could you stop?"
The group of Guild members fighting didn't hear him and made Azure sigh a little as he got sneak-attacked by Erza. After she did that, she went to the others to get them to knock it off.
"...wow…" Luka sighed, "Is this normal?"
"You have no idea…"
Luka simply nodded and began to talk to Sakura about something, the former rapidly talking to her friend, while Lucy and Mirajane simply sighed a little at their fellow Guildmates.
"...let's please not talk about that…" Lucy requested.
"Good idea…" Mirajane nodded as she looked towards Sakura as she happened to bump into Natsu and Lisanna, "...you wanna know something I just noticed?"
"...sure?"
"Sakura kinda looks a little like my sister and Natsu,"
Lucy blinked and then turned around and saw that Mirajane was right, "Huh… you're right. She does look a little like them."
Mirajane simply nodded as she then saw Yuza watching Juvia and Gray talking, "...and Yuza kinda looks like Gray and Juvia."
Lucy looked and noticed that, "...huh. He kinda does…"
"And Azure there looks a little like Erza when she was younger," Mirajane commented as Erza helped Azure up.
"Yea… he does look like that…" Lucy nodded, recalling the picture she had found the day Mira had told her about how Natsu and Happy had met, which had a younger Erza in it, "And he also looks almost like Erza and… Jellal…"
"And, apart from Joy looking like Happy and Carla, there's Luka looking like you and Loke a bit,"
Lucy had wide-eyes for a moment as she looked and saw that Luka did look a lot like her with Loke's hair color.
"Odd, huh?"
"Yea…"
Mirajane giggled a bit as she watched her sister talk with Natsu and Sakura a little. The trio was walking out to speak a bit.
"You know… for a girl with mainly flat air, it looks like you can do some neat things to style it," Natsu commented as they were about to get out the door.
"Oh… really?" Sakura blinked.
Natsu nodded and then proceeded to mess with her hair a little, making it appear as if she had cat ears, not unlike Lisanna's Cat Animal Soul. Both girls giggled a bit as they exited, Sakura putting her hair back down to look normal
"So you can use fire magic?" Lisanna asked as they now stood outside the guild.
"Yep," Sakura nodded.
"Show it off," Natsu smirked as he stood ready.
Sakura then nervously tensed up and twirled a strand of her short pink hair for a moment, "I'm… not really good…"
"Doesn't matter, go on, hit me!"
"Uh… Natsu can absorb fire, basically," Lisanna responded.
Sakura simply sighed a bit as she thought out a fire spell, casting it on her hand, and then weakly tossing the fire forward. Natsu simply stared a bit before he ate it with a small smile… before spitting it back out.
"Blech! That was spicy for some reason!"
"Like I said… I'm not very good…" Sakura responded as Natsu ran back into the guild base.
Natsu charged through everybody and right to the bar, grabbing a glass of water and downing it as fast he could, calming down a little.
"Oi! What was that for?!" Gray yelled, having been tackled by Natsu when he ran over.
"Had to get some water fast!" Natsu responded.
Gray growled a little as he froze part of Natsu's legs and Natsu responded in kind by setting part of Gray's jacket on fire.
"Is this normal…?" Luka asked.
"Yep," Lucy nodded.
"So… I have a question," Mirajane spoke up, getting the rest of the guild to stop their bickering for a moment, "Where are the kids going to stay overnight?"
Most everybody began to think about that as Natsu, Erza, Juvia, Gray and Wendy all turned towards Lucy.
"Oh no! No no no no no!" Lucy yelled in response, "I'm not doing that!"
"Why me…?" Lucy groaned as she was guiding Sakura and her friends towards where she lived.
"I can't wait to see where you live," Luka giggled a bit as she adjusted her glasses and turned to her friends, "What do you think it'll look like?"
"I don't know," both Sakura and Yuza responded.
"I can't see, so I can't really give a guess," Azure shrugged.
Luka simply stared at Joy as he shrugged, leaving her the only one to speculate, "I think it might be a really big house with lots of rooms, lots of servants, lots of food to eat, lots of fun things to do, lots of…"
Lucy watched as Luka began to talk a mile a minute and was clearly lost in her imagination. Lucy couldn't help but giggle at this a little as she gave Luka a small nudge, "I'm gonna guess this is normal for you…?"
"I've been trying to keep it under control…" Luka responded.
"You're all seven, right?"
"I'm five," Joy responded quickly.
"It's fine for you to imagine stuff," Lucy smiled softly as she continued to guide them to her home, "Well… I live in a nice little apartment,"
"I thought you were rich…" Sakura commented.
"Wait… how do you know that? I never said that…"
"Uh…" Sakura blinked.
"Wendy told us!" Luka quickly said.
"Oh, ok," Lucy responded as she opened up the door to her apartment and let them in.
"Nice safe," Sakura whispered to Luka.
Lucy motioned for them to sit down, which Sakura, Yuza, Joy and Luka all did, but Azure simply stood and gave a light tap of the side of the door with his wrist, "Uh…?"
"He has a special metal in that bracelet that emanates vibrations to give him a field of vision," Luka explained, Lucy tilting her head in response, "Think sort of like a tuning fork. If he taps that metal against something, it sort of gives him a field of vision."
"Only downside is that if there's to much going on, I can't keep a focus," Azure informed as he sat down as well, "But this is simply enough for me to work with."
"Alright," Lucy nodded, "Before you five go all crazy and whatnot, I'm laying down some rules. Rule 1, you can't go and damage the apartment. Rule 2, you can't go into my room unless I say you can. Rule 3, you can't leave without me. Got it?"
As she turned she saw that Luka was the only one still there.
"Where'd they go?" Lucy sighed.
"Off to go break Rules 1-3," Luka responded.
Lucy saw Joy was clawing at a wall, Sakura was in her room, and that Yuza and Azure were both walking around outside. She attempted to get them to stop, but they resumed what they were doing when she turned her back. This had continued for at least five minutes before Lucy was practically out of breath.
"You ok?" Luka asked, still sitting on the couch.
"...I'm gonna need some help…" Lucy sighed as she took out a Celestial Key, "Gate of the Maiden, I open thee! Virgo!"
A flash of light emitted as Virgo appeared before Lucy, "You called, Princess?"
Lucy stood up and dusted herself off a little, "Yea. I got tasked with keeping an eye on these four kids we found out in the forest and, apart from one of them, they won't stay still. Help me wrangle them,"
"At once, Princess," Virgo bowed slightly as Sakura, Yuza, Azure and Joy dashed into the room and skidded to a stop, "That them?"
"Yes,"
"A Celestial Spirit…" Sakura whispered nervously, clenching a fist.
"What do you think one's doing here?" Azure asked.
"Wasn't Heartfilia a Celestial Mage?" Yuza responded, standing battle ready, "Be ready guys…"
"Aye," Joy nodded.
Luka quickly gave her friends a slight motion to keep calm as Virgo picked the four up and put them next to Luka.
"Thanks Virgo," Lucy smiled.
Virgo simply bowed and then vanished in a flash of light. Lucy then turned to face the five with a stern look, but then noticed a worried expression on the faces of all of them but Luka.
"Something wrong?"
"We heard you were a Celestial Mage and… well… we had a bad experience with one, putting it as simply as possible…" Luka responded, taking off her glasses and proceeding to brush a bit of her hair out of her face, "The person who took care of us before she vanished helped us get away and stuff…"
Lucy simply nodded as a thought entered her mind, making her give a slight wicked smirk, "So… you guys don't exactly like the Celestial Spirits, do you?"
"Not really," everybody but Luka responded.
"Then behave or else…" Lucy told them, holding up her Celestial Keys, "I'll make them appear."
"We'll behave, we promise!"
Lucy gave a simple smile in response to that.
Evening had soon rolled around and, after making sure the kids were all asleep, Lucy headed into her room and slept for about an hour before a knock at her bedroom door had woken her up. Lucy groaned a bit as she walked over and opened it up and saw that Luka was there.
"What is it…?" Lucy sighed.
"I just woke up and couldn't fall back asleep," Luka informed.
Lucy simply rubbed her eyes a bit as she let Luka into her room, "Was it a bad dream?"
"I… don't know…" Luka sighed as she sat down on the floor, "I just… woke up,"
Lucy gave a nod and sat down next to Luka, "So… uh… do you want to talk a little bit?"
"I suppose."
The two simply got into more comfortable positions before Lucy spoke, "You mentioned a guardian or caretaker earlier today… what was she like?"
"She was really nice and really caring… she took care of us for as long as any of us can remember, so she's kinda like our mother…" Luka commented.
"You don't know your actual parents?"
"None of us do."
Lucy proceeded to give a small pat on Luka's head to keep her calm.
"We've heard stories about our parents, but we don't know where they are."
"I know the feeling of having some… parental issues…" Lucy responded as she recalled some recent events with her father, "But I got to know mine a bit…"
"I see…" Luka nodded as she looked at Lucy, "Heh… you know… my caretaker knew my mother and she had blonde hair and brown eyes like you,"
"Huh, that's neat," Lucy smiled a bit before she saw Luka yawn, "If you want to stay in here for the night… I won't stop you."
"Arigatou…" Luka smiled as she put a pillow down and began to sleep.
Lucy couldn't help but smile at Luka as she put a blanket on the young girl and then went back to sleep herself.
It had been a few days since the arrival of the five and the guild had slowly adjusted to having them around. At the present, the four were in the midst of relaxing a bit as Wendy walked on over to them.
"Hi guys," Wendy smiled.
"Oh, heya Wendy," Sakura smiled as her friends instantly turned around to face the bluenette, "...something you need?"
"No. I'm just saying hi is all,"
"Alright,"
Wendy nervously walked over to Happy, Carla and Lucy after that short conversation had ended.
"...they respect me so much… seriously, I say hi to one of them and they all turn around to listen to me like I'm somebody about to tell them orders…" Wendy commented.
"I wish they acted like that around me at first… they did seem to tense up after I had summoned Virgo to help me keep them in line and one of them said that they had a bad experience with a Celestial Mage…" Lucy added, "...certainly a group, huh?"
"Yea…" Lucy nodded.
Back over with said group, Luka was in the middle of drawing a picture, Sakura was cuddling up with Joy, Yuza was stirring a straw in a cup of water he had, and Azure was polishing part of his naginata.
"...Wendy's really nice, huh?" Luka whispered.
"Yep," Sakura nodded.
"Why comment on that?" Yuza couldn't help but ask in response.
"...just saying…"
Azure simply looked in the general direction of where Luka was to respond, "Like she's changed?"
"...I'm just making a comment…"
"Hey," Natsu announced as he walked on over to the group, "How are ya doin'?"
"Good," Sakura smiled happily, "Why ask?"
"I spent all day talking to the people in this town, to see if anybody recognized ya, but no luck…" Natsu informed, "But I know about something that can keep you guys busy. Why not go on a job or something?"
The five exchanged looks before heading over to the request board to look over it, leaving Natsu with a small smirk.
"That was… actually kinda smart," Lisanna commented as she walked over to Natsu, "Keep them occupied with something while we keep looking for anybody who may know them."
"Thanks…" Natsu responded, a faint blushing appearing on his face. He was about to walk off, but Happy gave him a look to stop him, "Oh right. Hey, Lisanna,"
"Yea?"
"There's gonna be a small fair in town tomorrow… I was uh… wondering if you… wanted to go with me?" Natsu nervously offered.
"Sure," Lisanna nodded.
Natsu gave a large grin in response and cheered loudly and wildly.
"Dekiteirrru," Lucy purred.
"Hey! That's my joke!" Happy responded in annoyance.
Lucy snickered a bit as Sakura and her group walked back from the request wall with no papers, "So… that didn't work…"
"Well… what should we do now?" Sakura asked Luka.
"Uh…" Luka began to think a bit.
"I say you should all bathe," Lucy commented, "Cause uh… when was the last time you all did?"
Sakura, Luka, Yuza, Azure and Joy all stopped to think about that for a minute, but none of them could come up with an answer.
"She has a point there…" Wendy added, "There is a communal bath here in the guild."
"But we need to send somebody in there to make sure they don't make a mess of the place," Lucy quickly added.
"Good point…" Wendy commented, "Uh… I guess I'll go with the girls?"
"And I'll take care of the boys," Happy offered.
"Alright, just keep them out of trouble,"
"Aye ma'am!"
The girls all happily floated in the bath water, talking about anything that came to mind.
"You're a Dragon Slayer?" Sakura gawked, "Our caretaker knew one."
"Really now?" Wendy smiled.
"Yep. She never said a name, but she knew one…" Luka added quickly.
"Alright," Wendy nodded.
"So… Wendy…" Sakura began, "Do you have a boyfriend or no?"
Wendy began to heavily blush in response to that question.
"Taking that as a no…"
"Why did you ask her that?" Luka whispered nervously, seeing a slightly angered expression on Wendy's face.
"Why not…?"
Wendy then took a breath and dived her head below the water, drinking it up a little, making the two girls with her gulp in nervousness, "Suiryu no…"
"Uh oh…" they whispered.
"Hoko!" Wendy said as she spat out the water at the two girls, getting them further wet, "Did I scare you two?"
"That was awesome!" Sakura giggled.
Wendy then turned to Luka, but saw she still looked nervous. A thought then entered Wendy's mind and a mischievous little smirk formed on her face, "Say Luka… are you ticklish?"
"Yea… wh-" Luka began as it dawned on her, "Don't you dare!"
Wendy simply took a deep breath and kept her smirk.
"Don't you dare!"
Wendy then dove below the water.
"Don't you da-HAHAHAHAHA!" Luka began before she was caught in a laughing fit as Wendy began to tickle her feet, "Sakura, HAHAHAHALP!"
"You're on your own here," Sakura responded.
Luka continued to laugh, splashing water around as she flailed, before a slight magic glow began to emit from one of her hands. Sakura tensed up a bit as a slight glow emitted off of her as well. Wendy noticed the glow and backed off, getting out of the water, before loudly gasping.
"GUYS!" Wendy yelled as loud as she could, making Lucy and Erza run in.
"What's wrong?" Lucy asked.
"Lemme go! Lemme go!" Luka yelled, having been pinned by Wendy.
"Uh…?" Erza stared.
"Look at her right hand!"
The two did so before they gasped upon seeing what was there… a pink colored Fairy Tail symbol.
"The… Fairy Tail symbol?" Lucy gawked.
"And look at Sakura," Wendy added, making them see she had a silver colored Fairy Tail symbol on Sakura's left shoulder.
"No way…" Erza gasped.
"GU~YS!" Happy yelled, with Natsu and Gray running to the other bathroom.
"Something happen Hap-" Natsu began before he gasped, seeing that Yuza had a teal Fairy Tail symbol in the same spot that Gray had his, and that Azure had a blue one along his right eye…
Ok… so… this chapter took a bit to finish writing… the reason is simply because I had other things to worry about at the time and there's also school and stuff…
I'll admit, that first scene just felt a little… clumsy for some reason. I can't explain why I think that, but I just feel that way. I did discuss it with my collaber and she liked the scene, noting that ending as Yuza freezing Lucy due to inexperience, so… I guess I'll roll with it?
The bit with Wendy saying 'Suiryu no Hoko' is a referenced to a scrapped concept for the character. She was originally going to be the Water Dragon Slayer not the Wind Dragon Slayer. Best guess as to why that was changed was because there was already a water elemental introduced before Wendy.
The bit with that 'dekiteiru' is taken from Volume 14 of the manga, because it was so funny… so, I wanted to use it again. For those who didn't read it, what does the word mean? To quote and paraphrase the book "dekiteiru- a word that means the two people have become confirmed a couple, but it usually carries connotations that the couple has become 'intimate'. Trilling the final 'r' sound, makes the notions sound even more scandalous'. Happy originally said it after Lucy and Loke teamed-up to battle Bickslow, and then said it again to tease Lucy after the battle. When Wendy and Carla were first introduced and Lucy saw that Happy was crushing on Carla… she got her revenge. Then, later, Virgo said the word to Lucy in regards to her and Natsu... Before you ask why I used the Japanese word instead of a translation, well… subtitles translate to 'you like him/her", the dub translates it as "you love him/her", and the manga translates it to 'you two are doing it'. None of those really sounded right to me.
So… the kids are all Fairy Tail members? What could this mean? Find out next time!
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