Please make sure you have read the prologue for further understanding of the story! This chapter is going to be mostly dialogue. Enjoy!:)
"Why didn't I come here sooner?!" I asked myself allowed.
"Um... Are you okay?" Someone asked. I looked over to see a boy with blue hair and piercing red eyes.
"Yeah!" I exclaimed cheerfully. "Did you see that though? That was awesome! The chair shattered!" I moved so the boy could see that the chair, had in fact, shattered when it hit the wall.
"That could've been you the chair hit you know..." A girl with red hair pointed out.
"But it didn't!" I replied happily.
"Who are you?" A woman with short hair and bright blue eyes asked me.
"I'm Nashi." I said, in my usually cheerful tone, grinning bigger than I was before. Just happy to be meeting people I'm not relate to I guess.
"Why?" The boy from earlier asked.
"'Cause that's the name I was given?"
"I mean why are you here." He stated annoyed.
"Jay!"
"Nash!"
"I thought you'd be happy seeing one of your friends you haven't seen in awhile but I guess not." I told him pretending to pout.
"Well, are you here to join or put a request for a mission on the board." The redhead asked.
"You pick, Rose." I told her.
"Come on. Master's this way." She ordered in her leader voice as the others in the guild continued to talk, but was guaranteed to turn into another brawl soon enough.
"Well, what do we have here? Quite a cutie this one, and she looks like she's got potential, eh, Makarov?" A voice asked.
"Yup, she's gonna be a beauty when she's an adult. I mean, look at those-" Another voice began, but was cut off by me once I turned towards the voices.
"Gah! Dead people!" I exclaimed loud enough for everyone to hear, and once again, the room was silenced. This has got to be some kind of record.
"You can see them?" Jay asked me.
"No, I normally yell about seeing ghosts." I answered sarcastically.
The whispers in the room started again, asking how I was able to see them.
"Strange." A woman said from behind me. I turned to see someone who has got to be Rose's mother. "Only members should be able to see the first and eighth guild masters. Are you sure you weren't in the guild and disappeared?"
I sweat dropped. "Last I checked..." I looked back over to where the two former guild masters were but they had disappeared.
"Mom, Nashi wanted to join the guild." Rose explained.
"Go over to Mira, she'll help you out. I'm the ninth guild master by the way, but you can just call me Erza."
I nodded then Rose took me over to Mira and we introduced each other. I then got the emblem in red on the inside of my right wrist and Erza announced that I had officially joined the guild.
I went to the table Jay was at. "What's up?" I asked him in a nonchalant tone.
He didn't even look up when he said, "Why are you here? I thought you and your family were in hiding."
"Could you keep your voice down?" I asked, sounding exasperated. "There are more than a comfortable amount of those with above average hearing." Then quieter I said, "And he took them, but left me."
"Really?" Jay asked. "Did you did you try to fight with him?"
"No. I was too scared. I went to but I froze. He threw an attack, I flew into a wall, then he left and I tried to follow, but I passed out 'cause my ribs hurt." I explained, then hid my face in my hands. "If I tried then maybe they would still be here. I mean, I believe that they're okay, I mean, they aren't called Salamander and the Star Princess for nothing, but then there's Igneel and... I just feel guilty that they could be in pain right now and I'm not there with them... What if they get killed?!"
"Nah. If anyone tried to kill Salamander and Bunny Girl it'd take a hella amount of time." Someone answered, but it wasn't Jay.