Welcome back! Thank you for continuing to read my story! This is the third chapter,three chapter's in three days not a bad start(help that I've been writing this story for at least a year), have I been making the chapters to short? I didn't want to make them to long but I also don't want them to be too short if you don't like something then please make sure to tell me and I'll see if I can fix it. If not then tell me that too so I know I'm not totally skrewing this up, Thanks! Now I'll leave you to your reading on to chapter 3!

Mission 1 Chapter 3

It was strange how comforting it was to know someone cared about how I felt...there had never been anyone who really cared what she was thinking about (except Kiko and mother anyway, mother was the one who raised me when I didn't have anyone to take care of me but...it's been years sence mother died). "I'm fine just..." I looked aprehensive and sad as my hair turned pale blue (looking at the village always made me feel sad,it was a reminder that I didn't fit in with normal people), "what's it like out there...past the mountains?" I asked him finally diciding what I should say. "...I depends on where you go but... you'll find that there are lot of people who... who will accept what these sucluded villagers won't" Rogue slowly answered with a small smile twards me, the sunset made his black hair, blood red eyes, and pale skin glow the same red hue as I blushed my hair turning a hot pink color. "I...I've been alone for a long time, I don't have any parent's that I can remember, it wasn't until mother took me in that I felt like I had a place to belong..." I don't know why I started to tell him this but! I just felt that it needed to be said.

"Won't she worry about you if you leave?" he asked me. "She...she died years ago..." I told him smiling sadly. "I...I'm sorry!" he quickly apologized for not thinking before he asked. "It's fine...your the first person I've talked about it to..."I had never told anyone about my "mother" befor not even Kiko knew though dispite how she seemed she was more perseptive than you would think,knowing her she had figured that there was something amiss with me when this season comes around. "By the way..." Rogue finally spoke up after the sun had fully sunk down into the horizon.

"Yes?" I replied urging him to continue. "What you said back there does that mean you'll be joining us?" he asked me, I laughed slightly, I would have thought that my intentions would have been clear to them but perhaps not it would seem. "Yes it does...I've never been past the mountains before I can't help but feel nervice at what's beyond them" I replied to him smiling softly my hair once again pale green, I twirled a lock of my long rather tangled hair( I will never underestimate the miricales of scissors or hairbrushes ever again in my life thanks to that) my hair was so long that it almost dragged on the ground from years of going uncut, my clothes were worn and in taters from years of wear and of course I had no shoes of any sort not that I needed them that much(there wasn't anything I could stepon that I couldn't take).

"Nothing you can't handle I imagine" Rogue said with a smale laugh and smile, "now we'd better go or Sting will have a fit" he said standing up then held his hand out to help me up. "Right!" I replied taking his hand with a smile. As I did I felt my heart beat a little faster, or was it my imagination? At the time I couldn't be sure as I heard The blond haired idiot start yelling for us to hurry up. Rogue and I laughed at his insistance, "about time lets get the hell out of this damned place!" he said with a frown it would seem that Sting was not pleased with the elders actions, the slight sting as a cold breeze from the night air brushed my left cheek as a reminder.

We headed to a town far past the mountains where we were going to take a train to the town where the guild hall resided. The prospect of riding a carrige did not sit well with the two dragon slayer wizard as I felt the unease they emmited but the guild was much to far from the village to walk the whole way. I didn't really know what a train was but the tought of a new experiance was slightly thrilling to me. "Right the train we need to get on won't be here till tomorrow I'll get us some rooms at an inn" Sting said before he left(making sure that we had a designated meeting spot, a fountain in the center of town), leaving me in the care of Rogue(along with Kiko and Frosch) so that I could explore a little.

I walked back and forth asking Rogue about everything I came across that I'd never seen before when, "DING,DING,DING" a loud noise caused me to jump and hide behind Rogue who laughed softly at my reaction. "It's just that clocktower over there" he told me pointing to a large towering structuer I had never seen a clock let alone a clocktower Rogue made sure to explain how it worked to me as detailed as he could. Time passed by and it was time to go meet with Sting but... we got there before he did so we had to wait as we did "kitty!!!" I turned to see several young girls looking at Kiko who was plainly visible at my side. I smiled my hair turning from Orange from suprize to pale green as I laughed.

"You can come closer she doesn't bite promise" I told them with a smile as they stared at me in suprize of their own, then they came over and started to pet Kiko's head she purred with delight. "Your hairs super pretty!" one of the girls suddenly called out to me. "Huh?!"I exclamed my hair turning pink as I blushed not used to compliments about any part of me least of all my hair. "WOW! SO COOL!" the girl exclaimed together as they watched my hair change. Just then, "Hey! Over here!" Sting called out to us. as he ran to us I said goodbye to the young girls,then we went to our inn for some rest Kiko and I had a seperate room from the others(obviously!) so after showing me where mine was Sting and Lector showed Rogue and Frosch where the four of them were staying a little ways down the hall. Me and Kiko were a little confused on what to do when we went into the room( honestly I've never slept in a bed before this) but we figured it out when we realized thet the "bed" in question was soft and rather fluffy. Finally we drifted into sleep ending a long and exhausting day.

Author's note:

This end's Chapter 3! So how am I doing so far? I hope at least decently but this IS my first fan fiction so...what do I know! Well I hope your at least having fun reading about Shika and her friends(new and old). We're finally at a part in the story where Shika is starting to show how ignoreint of the world she is but lucky for her she loves learning and books are her favorite. So she will be less jumpy and excitable in the future, and don't let any of this fool you cause she's a powerful wizard behind that ragid look(I suck at these author's note things yikes! Oh well!). See you in the next chapter!

Shika Kizuka