Natsu charged through the doors yelling, "I'm back!" before Happy could finish what he was about to say and Mina just shook her head but smiled as she did so. After knowing him for a short while, she began to like hanging around Natsu and Happy.

"Natsu! Happy! Welcome back!"

"Ha ha ha!"

"You really went overboard again! We read in the paper that you destroyed half Hargeon's har…..bor..." Then Natsu kicked him the face. Mina tried her hardest not to laugh, but this was funny.

"You creep! That info you told us on Salamander was all lies!"

"Gak!" Natsu even broke the table with his mighty force.

"There it is. The minute Natsu gets back, the place is in danger of going to pieces. Ah ha ha!"

"It's falling apart already!"

"Somebody stop Natsu!"

"Gyaak!"

"You…Natsu…"

Mina just looked around as people started fighting. "This is my kinda guild right here, this is just what I like!"

"You say that Natsu is back?"

"AH!" Mina looks to see a half naked guy in front of her. She may not be other types of girls that go crazy over a naked hot guy, but she is kinda shy when it comes to this type of situation. Hmmmm…I wonder who he is? She's still a little freaked out, but not so much that she would be dumb enough to scream.

"You lousy…This time we're going to finish it! You hear?"

"Gray…what kind of getup are you walking in?"

"…" Both Gray and Mina blush as they both look down. She still blushes even when she looks at men like that.

"Huh? Oh, dammit!" he cursed.

"That's why they say the men here have no class!" Cana blushes after taking a swish of some sake.

So his name is Gray and he likes to strip down. Natsu likes to destroy things and just destroy more things that gets in his path. And of course, Cana Alberona likes to drink liquor like me! We could be drinking buddies! Mina grinned at the thought in her head.

"It makes me sick!" Cana grabs a giant barrel and starts to chug it down. Mina sweat drops at her drinking style.

"Hey Natsu! I'm taking you on!" Gray shouted.

"Put on some clothes, and then we'll fight!" was all Mina could hear in the background.

"This is disgusting."

"Huh?" Mina looked back behind her and saw Elfman.

"They aren't babies. They shouldn't be screaming and making noise continuously. If you're a man, let your fist do the talking!"

"Just another fight, huh?" Mina replied.

"You're just in the way!" Both Natsu and Gray uppercut Elfman and he goes flying in the air. Mina lifts her head to see that he's gone up pretty high.

"Wow. This is way better than I thought it would be!" And Elfman didn't even last five seconds in the fight.

"Hmm…What a disturbing racket."

"Hmmm…Oh, it's Loke. He's said to be one of the top-ranking men for 'The Wizard I'd Like to Be My Boyfriend. Well, the magazine sure didn't lie."Mina shrugged.

"Then you're entering the fray?" Two girls giggled in his arms.

"Teach them a lesson!"

"Kyaa! Kyaa!" "Kyaa! Kyaa!"

"Damn, it's fan girls." Mina mutters and then trips on her own two feet, landing flat on her face. "Oww! Dammit! Why do I do this to myself all the time! I always get myself hurt, one way or the other!"

"Oh! Are you okay? And are you new here?" Mina opens her eyes and looks up.

Mina then gets up to her feet and stares. "M-Mirajane?"

"Mmmhmm."

"This is so cool and am I able to join in the fight as well?"

"Slow down, you can if you want, this happens all the time anyways. You could join, but I don't want to see the new person get hurt." Mirajane smiles. "Besides…" She gets hit with a bottle to the head.

"Uh…Are you okay?" Mina panics when she saw blood trickle down Mirajane's face as she gets up.

"Besides…It's more fun this way, don't you think?" Mirajane finished, smiling even more.

"Yeah, it is."

"Uff!"

"Ah!" Mina turns to see Gray bust a table to pieces as he was thrown. Mina then turns to see Natsu holding up underwear and grinning.

"Heh heh!"

Wait…..Underwear?' Mina slowly turns her head to see Gray standing up, but with no clothes on at all.

"Aaaahh! Where's my underwear?"

"Turn the other way dumbass!" Mina screamed at him, waving for him to turn away.

"Hey, pretty girl, if it isn't too inconvenient, could you lend me your underwear?" He holds his hand out.

"Blush No way in hell!" She punches him right in the face, sending him flying to who knows where. Then someone comes up behind Mina and picks her up bridal style. "Huh? !" She blushes and looks up to see Loke smirking at her.

"How unsightly! I cannot understand the indelicacy of these men! By the way, you're a model, right? I can tell." Loke smirked at her.

Well, he can tell wrong! There is no way in hell that I would ever become a model! I may have the body, looks, and charm, but life would be boring as hell if I became one of those girls! That's why I stuck to wizardry!

"I will decide with my fists!" Elfman cried out.

"I said you're in my way!" Natsu punches Elfman, again.

"Aww, shut-up all of ya! A girl can't drink in peace in here!" Cana lifts her head up, but her eyes are still closed. She flips out a card. "If you can't control yourselves…." She opens her eyes and starts to let her magic show.

"I'm mad now!" Gray starts to make his ice magic kick in.

"Hyaaaaaaa!" Elfman starts to use his transformation magic.

"Your crass ways must be dealt with…" Loke starts to touch the ring on his finger, and it starts to glow.

"Come and get me!" Natsu already had his fire fists turned on.

"Hellz yeah!" Mina kicks into her magic and earth shows up from under her, forming a fist that's ready to kick some ass.

"Now, this could tricky and we don't even know if you'll live or not through their forces." Mirajane looks at Mina, slightly worried.

"I can live and be the victor." Mina turns and gives Mirajane her famous smirk.

"Don't say that around Natsu."

"I think he heard." Mina turned to see that Natsu had fire in his eyes and he was looking at her.

"Is that a challenge Mina?" He charges at her with a determined grin set up on his face.

"Heck yeah! I could kick your ass anytime Natsu!" Mina charges forward with the earth fist following after. She brings her fist back, with the earth arm following the same example, and Natsu pulls his fire fist back and it looks like they both aren't going to give up on the fight.

Everyone stopped their fight and saw that the new girl, Mina, was going to go up against Natsu. "So, what's your name?" Mina turns to see who asked it and saw that it was Mirajane.

"It's Mina!"

"Okay! Go Mina!" Mina nods her head but faces the now getting closer Natsu.

They were getting closer and closer. Building up speed and strength on the way towards each other as both Natsu and Mina grinned. They were now three seconds away before one or the other could hit someone. "This ends here! Cut it out, you dolts!" Everyone froze and turned to the new voice.

Both Natsu and Mina turned, both fist were already thrown before they could stop it. Natsu, if he would have paid attention, had his fist blocked and Mina already sent hers at him, but as soon as he turned, he was socked in the face by her earth fist, and was thrown up to the ceiling and then back down, landing on his face.

"Huh? A new face?" The giant turned and saw that Natsu was face first on the floor and Mina still had her fist and earth fist up, frozen in the air. Everyone in the guild was shocked at her strength. He shrinks back down and holds out his hand, transforming into short little old man. "Nice to meet you, and…Hahaha! You did a number on Natsu over there! Good job!" He then back flips in the air and lands on a railing.

"So you dolts have done it again! Just look at these letters from the Council!" Wait, the Council? Haven't I seen someone that I knew from the fast that is in it? Mina puts a finger to her lips she tries to figure out the answer that she so desperately wanted.

"First…Gray!"

"Huh?"

"It's good that you rounded up that ring of smugglers…but afterward, you stumbled down around town in the nude…and in the end, you wound up stealing somebody's underwear right off the line and running away with it."

Gray blushes at the thought, and scratches the back of his head sheepishly. "But…I couldn't keep running around naked!"

Elfman glances at him. "Maybe if you hadn't gotten naked in the first place?"

"Sigh Elfman! While performing bodyguard service for a VIP, you attacked that selfsame VIP!"

Elfman looked to the side and scratched his chin. "He made a crack about how 'a man is only worth as much as his education,' and before I knew it…"

Makarov shakes his head. "Cana Alberona, you drank fifteen full kegs of liquor at a certain tavern, falsely claimed it as 'expenses,' and worse, sent the bill directly to the council!"

"So they found out?" Cana says as she looks down.

"Loke…..You seduced the granddaughter of the senior Council member, Rage. Also, we've been sent an invoice for damages at a certain talent agency." Loke looks slightly annoyed while Makarov puts his head and lets out a big sigh.

"And Natsu…" Natsu lifts his head up and looks annoyed. "In bringing down the Devon Bandit Clan, you destroyed seven private homes! You brought down the Tuly Village's historic clock tower! The town of Freesia's church is completely destroyed! You damaged a section of the Lupinus Castle! The observation station at Nazuna Ravine is closed due to wanton destruction. And you leveled half the harbor at Hargeon!"

Damn! So that's who caused that destruction from what it said in the magazine! I should have known that it was Natsu!

"Alzack…Levy…Krov…Reedus…Warren...Bisca…etc…"

"Me, too?"

"All of you…have done nothing but make the Council angry at me!"

"!" Mina looked up at Makarov, shocked. Everyone else in the guild looked down or around nervously.

Mina watches as Makarov trembles. "But…" He burns the letters in his hands. "The Council can eat crap for all I care!"

Mina stares at him in awe. "So cool." She whispered to herself. He threw the fire burning letters and Natsu jumped up and bit down onto it.

"Listen! Ours is a power that goes beyond the bounds of reason. But it is born out of reason itself. Magic isn't some miracle. What we do is match the chi that flows between us…with the wavelength of the world's natural chi. And take what is embodied in that union…using our force of will and concentration. More than that, we pour our entire soul into it to make what we call magic. If you spend time worrying about what those in authority think of you, your magic will never advance!" He smiles. "So don't let those idiots on the council intimidate you!" He spreads his hands out. "Follow the path you truly believe in!" Everyone starts to cheer. "This is what it means to be a Fairy Tail wizard!"

Everyone in the guild grins at each other and Mina's eyes shine in admiration. "Wow. That was so cool!" She shouts out in excitement and pumps her fist in the air.


"So people are calling you Salamander? In the other towns?"

"Well, with the type of magic you use, the name fits." Natsu starts to consume down all the food that is on his own special menu.

"If Natsu is a salamander, then I must be a Kittymander, huh? Right? Right?" Happy looks back and forth at everyone.

"Sweat drops What's a 'mander'?"

"Are you sure that you want it there?" Mirajane asked, wanting to know if Mina really wanted her Fairy Tail mark in the area that she wanted it at. "I mean, there are a lot of perverted people out there that will stare."

"Eh? Well, let them stare. I mean, I need people to know that I'm in Fairy Tail and that they should back off!" Mina grins and puts her fist in the air, making Mirajane smile as well.

"Okay, if you say so Mina." Mirajane stamps onto Mina's right breast. "There! Now you're an official member of Fairy Tail."

"Does is look great?"

"Of course! It's on you, Mina!" Mina looks down and grins at Mirajane.

"Sweet!" She pulls thumbs up at her newly found best friend, Mirajane.

"Natsu! What do you think of my mark? They just gave me the Fairy Tail mark!" Natsu looks down at Mina's mark, not in a perverted way, unless Natsu is thinking something dirty, and then he looks back up to her smiling brightly, eyes shining face.

He blushes slightly, but you can barely see it. "That's great Mika!"

"Ugh! It's Mina! No damn Mika! M-I-N-A!" She waves her hands around like an idiot, complaining/moaning for Natsu to know that her name is Mina, not Mika.

"Where did you find a hot girl like that?"

"She's so fine! I wish she'd join my team!"

"Natsu, where're you going?"

"To look for work. I'm out of cash." Natsu gets up from his seat, walks past the still complaining Mina, and over towards the mission board.

"Let's do one with a big reward, huh?" Happy says as he looks up in search for a paper with the big prize.

"Yeah. How about this one? Thief Subdue. 160 Grand Jewels!" Natsu went and grabbed it.

"Then it's decided." But then a little raven-haired boy came running in.

"Isn't my daddy back yet?"

"No."

Natsu stopped and turned. "!"

"Don't complain so much, Romeo. The son of a wizard should stay at home patiently waiting for his father's safe return."

"But...he said he'd be back in three days…" Romeo trembles and starts to form tears in his already shinning eyes. "…and now it's been a whole week."

"If I remember, Macao found some work at Hakobe Mountain…"

"It isn't that far away!" Romeo shouts out in protest.

"Don't even joke about that! Your father is a wizard, isn't he? Any wizard who can't hack the easy stuff doesn't belong in the guild! Go home and some milk or something!" Romeo clenched and unclenched his fist.

"…" He looked up, jumped, and socked Makarov in the face. "You big meanie!"

"Uff!"

By then, Mina had stopped her complaining and looked at the kid with sympathy as he ran off crying.

"Hmmmm…You know, Mirajane, that kid, Romeo, reminded me of me, when I was little."

"Really? How so?" Mirajane puts down the dry plates and leans over towards Mina from the counter as she looked down.

"Yeah, when my Dad never came back, I went to complain to the guild that he worked in. He was an ice wizard, which Gray reminded me of how powerful and how he was so great when I looked up to him. They told me to go home. I did, waiting for the return of my father." Mina felt her tears trying to come out, after so long of holding those tears that were for her father, and only him.

She gripped her skirt, tightening her fist. "What happened? Did your father ever return?"

"Yes and no."

"Huh?"

"Sigh When he came back to me and my mother, he wasn't who I expected to come. I thought it was my uncle, coming to visit us, but when he went up and kissed my mother on the lips and kissed my forehead the way my father does, I was scared. Scared at the man who I thought was my uncle. I trusted him. And yet, when I thought to myself, when father was here, uncle was gone, and when uncle was here, father was gone."

Mirajane bit her lip, thinking whether or not she should pressure her new founded best friend for more questions. Mina looked up, knowing that she had already cried and had a tear streaked face, and smiled at Mirajane, who looked shocked to see that Mina was crying right under her nose and she didn't even know it.

"It's okay, you can ask."

"Okay, so your uncle, is actually your father?" Mirajane looks questioningly at Mina, and Mina looks up, staring at the ceiling.

"Yeah, I only found out after my mother died, and she told me that he was my father. I cried tears of sadness, hurt, and denial. But it couldn't stop the truth that was already told, and when I left to live with my father, I found out that he had another little girl, and her mother was still alive and well." Mina had the look of hurt on her face, but then she was shinning with happiness coming off her aura.

"I was actually happy to have a little sister. I say that she was little because I was a few months older than her. I loved my new family and new mother, but I still missed my real mother. Everything was great, until I found out that my sister wasn't getting attention from our father at all. He gave me everything I wanted, but ignored her. That's why I called him my uncle again and that I hated him. He lost his magic after a while or he didn't have any at all. I really don't know how much he lied to me, but he did. And after that I learned how to use earth magic, and my little sister wanted to learn celestial magic, but father wouldn't let her, so I told her that I was going to learn both of the magic for us. They told me I couldn't do it, but look at who I became after not listening to them. I became Mina the wizard who uses earth and celestial magic."

"That was a touching, yet sad story." Mirajane was about to cry, but Mina noticed and grabbed Mirajane's hand.

"No, no, no! Don't cry for me! Please, I hate it when people feel sympathy towards me and my past!" Mina looked at Mirajane pleadingly.

"Okay, but promise me that you'll never keep secrets or from us, your fellow Fairy Tail wizards." Mina smiled and said nothing more. Mirajane took that smile as a yes and turned away to go back to her work. As soon as Mina knew that she wasn't paying attention, Mina frowned and her eyebrows furrowed. I wish I didn't lie to Mirajane, but I have to keep most of the truth a secret, or I'll put them in danger. They trust me too well, and I, to them. But it's still not right for them to pick up a stray like me.

Mina looked down sadly at her lap. "Hey, Natsu! You broke the board!" Mina looked up and glanced to see that Natsu was storming out of Fairy Tail.

"Huh? Natsu?"

He turned around and glanced at Mina, who in return, looked at the seriousness that had appeared in his eyes and face, but then Natsu shook off the message that went through the contact of their eyes and turned back to the direction he was going to and left without saying a word.

"Why is Natsu storming off like that, without even saying a word back to me?" Mina questioned Mirajane, all the sadness and thoughts of her uncle had now flushed away into concern for Natsu. Mirajane paused from her work and looked down sadly, not even turning around to face Mina.

"Because Natsu was like Romeo and kinda like you, in your own way of saying you lost your father, even though he was your uncle the whole time, but with Natsu, it was different."

"Really? So tell me, was Natsu's father, by of a chance, a dragon that adopted him?" Mina sat up from her seat and stared at Mirajane's back, as if challenging her to turn around and look at Mina straight in the eye.

"Why, yes, but how did you guess it right?" Mirajane now turned fully to face Mina's stare. Mina opened her mouth, but then shut it. Now, where did she figure this out from before, to guess that his father was a dragon?

"Natsu's a dragon slayer!"

Wait, that's it! Happy was the one to say something about Natsu being a dragon slayer! And if my book smarts were correct, then the only way that you could be a dragon slayer is by being taught by a dragon yourself. Or there could be more ways, but that's the main one I know.

"Mina?" Mirajane looked at Mina worriedly because Mina hadn't said anything for the last 2 minutes.

"Huh? Wha-?"

"Oh! I was worried that I had made you go brain dead or something." Mirajane put a hand to her chest and sighed happily.

"Oh, well, I'm sorry, but hell if I know why I guessed that answer, it just came to mind when I remembered that Natsu was looking for a dragon in a human town."

Mina shrugged off the goose bumps that chilled down her arm as she lied through her teeth, partially. She told her half the truth of how she knew why Natsu's father was a dragon, but she didn't want to be pestered on how much knowledge she had gained through the years of her life.

"Oh, I forgot that that's how you came with Natsu in the first place. But yeah, you're right."

"So, do I get to know some info about Natsu's past?" Mina looked a Mirajane hopefully, which she, in return, smiled genuinely.

"Of course. You see, when Natsu was little, the dragon took him in. Taught him speech. Culture…Magic…The dragon taught him everything." Mina was about to say something, but Mirajane stopped her with her hand in the air.

"Let me finish this sentence."

"Okay."

"But one day, the dragon just disappeared." Mina's mouth formed into an O.

"So, Igneel was the dragon that Natsu was looking for…"

"Natsu is really looking forward to the day when he meets Igneel again. I think that part of him is really cute!" Mirajane closes her eyes and smiles at the thought.

"That would actually be very interesting to meet Igneel in person." Mina said to herself, as she thought of what it would be like to meet an actual dragon, face to face.

"Yeah, it would be, but we…" Mirajane touches her drink. "We Fairy Tail wizards…are all living under a cloud. Some wound…pain…suffering…Like me."

Mina watched silently as Mirajane trembled, but then Mirajane shook it off and smiled at Mina. "Forget it. It's nothing."

"…." Mina stares and looks down, thinking about what Mirajane had just told her.


Ka-klop, ka-klop. "When we have free time, I'm going to spend my time with Mirajane at her place." Mina says as she, Natsu, and Happy, were all riding in a wagon.

"You know it's wrong to steal her panties, right?" Happy questioned, as Mina looked at him dumbfounded.

"What the hell are you talking about?" she snapped.

"Anyways, what we're wondering is, why are you here, Mina?"

"Do you have a problem with that?" Mina raised an eyebrow, challenging Happy to say something else.

"Actually, quite a few. Aye."

"You damn cat bastard!" Mina raises a fist at him, as he runs up and hides behind Natsu's sickly form. "Well, I'm here to help you guys out, since you saved my life and also, I don't know anyone else besides Mirajane and you guys, so, I decided to tag along."

"You could have hung out with Gray or Loke."

"I'm not going to hand out with perverted bastards!"

"Oh."

"But still, I never figured you to be so bad at traveling! Poor you, Natsu! And once we finish our search for Macao, I'm going to have to find a place to live."

"You can live with us at Natsu's place." Happy raised his paw in suggestion to Mina coming to live with him and Natsu.

"If I was really desperate, then yes, but I'm not so, no thanks."

"It stopped!" Natsu jumped up from his seat. Mina peered at the door in question.

"Are we here?"

"F-Forgive me…" They looked and saw a man peer in at them. "…but a horse-drawn carriage can't go any further in this!"

"!" "What the hell is this? I thought that the season was still summer! A blizzard being here isn't right for the season!" Mina looked around and got out, but as soon as she got out, the wintry cold hit her real good.

"Oh Kami! This is so fuckin cold!" she complained, shivering.

"It's cold because you're wearing thin clothing." Natsu looked at her with a 'duh' look.

"Well, it's not my fault that wearing a skirt in the summer wasn't this place's intention and you're not wearing anything thicker!"

"Why did I have to learn earth magic? I should've learned ice magic so that I won't be freezing at all!" Mina shivers while Natsu looks around. "Can I use your scarf?"

"No." he answered bluntly.

"Why not?" Mina stomps her foot on the ground, but then thinks of another thing to help solve her problems.

"It's a good thing that I brought all my bows with me!" She grinned and pulled out her pouch. "No, no…" She said while looking through them. "Aha! Here it is!" She holds the bow in the air and prays to herself, saying that if she lives through this day, that she will personally kick someone's ass for letting her come with Natsu and Happy in the first place.

"I command the Gate of the Time Keeper to open! Horologium!" And in a flash, the giant clock came. Both Natsu's and Happy's jaws dropped.

"Whoa!"

"It's a clock!"

Mina hops in quickly and closes the door behind her. "My Mistress says, 'I'll be in here if you need some help, or that we're somewhere warm and earthy.'"

"What'd Mina come for?"

"You said, 'What did Mina come for?' and 'What kind of work did Macao needed to do in a place like this.'…is her reply."

Natsu looked at her funny from the inside of her clock celestial. "You came without knowing that? He came to defeat the huge monsters they call Vulcans!"

"My Mistress says, 'Well, how the hell was I supposed to know, when nobody told me a damn thing!'"

Natsu turned and started to walk away. "Tell her that my reply is, 'You didn't ask, you just came.'"

Natsu then holds his hands towards his mouth and shouts, "Macao! Are you here? Or did you get yourself killed by a Vulcan?" Natsu saw movement, glanced up, and saw a shadow come jumping down towards him. Whoosh.

He dodged before the creature could hit him. "It's a Vulcan!" Happy shouts out. Natsu grits his teeth and the beast shows his ugly face towards them. He saw something behind them, and ran straight past Natsu, but also ran into him, slightly. Natsu staggers a bit, but then looks behind him to see Mina and her celestial with the beast looking inside.

"It's a pretty human girl!" The beast shouts with joy and grabs the clock with Mina inside and carries them off to who knows where.

"Whoa!"

"Uho ho!"

"So he can talk?" Natsu hits the palm of his hand and smirks.

"Natsu! You're going to save my ass because this big ape thing won't let me out of this door of my celestial! I can't even escape to kick its ass!'…is what my Mistress says." And then the ape grabs the clock celestial with Mina in it, before jumping off to the top of the mountain.

"Dear Kami, what have I gotten myself into! And where the hell is Natsu? He needs to knock this monkey away before I can escape! And the monkey getting way too excited for my tastes!'…is what my Mistress says."


Cliff hanger….

Yachiru: I hate cliff hangers, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do in order to have time to write another chapter.

Mina: Yep!

Gray: When can I show up?

Natsu: Never.

Gray:*glares at Natsu* I wasn't talking to you! I was talking to the author!

Yachiru:*sighs and turns away from Gray with a blush* When you get your clothes back on, then I can tell you when you will be on cue.

Gray:*looks down* Dammit! *runs off to find clothes*

Happy: Can we end the chapter?

Mina: Yep! Read and Review!

Yachiru and Happy: Aye.