I continued telling the story of my celestial spirit friend. Occasionally shedding a tear of happiness, mostly I laughed at my stupidity in the story. I looked over occasionally at Nala and the entire time she had her arms wrapped around her legs looking up at me in ah as I told of our adventures.
"Well It's dark now so I should probably be heading home now. Did I pass this test?" I said getting up and dusting myself off a bit.
"Ya I think you did with flying colors!" Nala turned and looked off towards the river.
"Nala, do you have a place to stay tonight?" I asked looking down at her, the concern hadn't crossed my mind until now.
"I… I don't." She said not taking a glance at me. "Don't worry though I'll find a place…"
"Come with me. I know somewhere that you can stay." I cut her off in mid sentence grabbed her wrist as she stood up and we ran towards the guild. I could see four figures standing at the entrance to the guild., Mirajane, Lisanna, Erza and Elfman. Thank god Erza had returned from her quest sooner then expected, I though to myself. I ran up to the group of them locking the doors for night, I stopped a few feet away catching my breath for a moment.
"Ah, Natsu good to see you so energetic." Erza said with a bit of concern, she glanced over at Nala. "Uh, and who is this pink haired girl?" I waved at Erza and put my hands on my knees still trying to catch my breath.
"This is Nala Drageenes, she's Natsu's cousin, she got worried about him and came to keep and eye on him. She is also an official member of fairy tail as well." Mira said smiling to Erza.
"Ah! Welcome Nala it's good to have you as the family! I'm sorry to say that Natsu has regrettably forgot to inform us that he has a cousin." Erza said giving me a terrible wide eyed evil glance. I cowered a bit from her stare of evilness but then regained my courage.
"Erza, Nala doesn't have a place to sleep while she stays here for the next few days, I was wondering if you wouldn't mind taking her in for me? Please I'm begging you." I said getting on my knees and bowing to her. I was desperate I couldn't just let her sleep anywhere and I trusted Erza enough to take care of her for me.
"Natsu…"Mira said shocked I would ever bow to Erza.
"That is fine with me, if she wants to. If it's only for a few days though." Erza said putting her hands to her hips. I looked up at her from the ground, then to Nala and then back to Erza.
"Seriously? You don't mind?!" I said again.
"Ya it will be like a sleepover. We could gossip and do girl stuff. It could be fun." she said looking over at Nala with a stern serious look on her face.
"Thank you Erza! Thank you!" I said giving her a hug and then quickly running off the other direction. "See you all tomorrow!" I said as I ran and watched them all walk off to Fairy Hills.
I hadn't got much sleep at all the night before thinking if Nala was okay staying with Erza. They hadn't come to the guild yet and it was already almost noon. I was a bit worried, maybe Nala got sick or something?
"Aye!" A voice rang through my ear.
"BLAH!" I said yelling and falling of the bar stool. "Happy what the heck was that for?" I asked as I patted his head as he sat on the bar counter.
"Your different Natsu. Is that weird pink haired girl getting to your head?" The blue cat said to me.
"Nah, I don't know. she's helping me in a way to move on you know. Don't worry about it she's my family remember?" I said, I couldn't think of even trying to make happy understand what was going on. Some random girl from the future showed up yesterday telling me she could bring Lucy back if I passed 5 tests. Ya that sounds so believable….
Finally Erza and Nala walked into the guild laughing away like they were having a good time. It seems like all went well last night. Nala came over and sat right next to me and Erza went over to the request board. "So did you sleep well last night?" I asked
"Ya! Erza's really nice she hasn't changed a bit." she said spinning back and forth on her chair.
"Wait what do you mean she hasn't changed?" I asked
"I told you Natsu…" she said rolling her eyes as she came a little closer to me and hushed down a bit so happy couldn't hear. "I'm from the future, duh." I still don't know if I believed her or not about the whole future thing but she seems like she knew what she was talking about.
"So shall we tackle one of the will and determination tests today then? Depending on if we get it done early or not we might be able to get both test's done today and your wish will be granted by tomorrow!" she said as she put her elbow on the table and her head resting in her hand to face me.
"Uh ya sure. Lets do it." I said facing Nala.
"Natsu what is she talking about? What are these tests?" Happy asked tugging on my sleeve. I had completely forgotten that happy was sitting right next to me. How was I going to explain this one to him?
"Happy, the reason I'm giving these tests to Natsu is to see if he can take care of himself and if he's doing well or not. I was so worried about him and so I came from far away to see him. I didn't believe him when he said he was doing fine so now I'm giving him these tests so he can prove to me that he's well." Nala said smiling to happy.
"I like her Natsu she's really nice and she cares for you too." happy said looking up at me. I just smiled at him back.
"So what's your next test cous.?" I said taking a quick drink of water and slamming it down on the table. "I'm all fired up."
"I want you… to go on a mission with me." She said sitting on the edge of her stool and looking at me just waiting for my answer. I stared at her for a few minutes, a mission? Was that what she wanted or just another test? Well if it got me one step closer to getting Lucy back then I guess…
"Ya sure? Why not? Is there a certain one you want to do or do I get to pick? " I closed my eyes and started nodding while flaunting my knowledge about picking requests "You have to be careful with deciding. You can't go out of your magic range because you could get hurt…" I started saying.
"Natsu…" Happy said to me as I stopped in mid sentence.
"Yes happy?" I said opening my eyes.
"She's already gone." He said
"WHHHAAAAT!" I yelled as I hit my head on the table. Uhhh... I was blabbing on for nothing….
"Hey what about this one?" Nala said from the board. I quickly recovered and walked over to the board where she stood with a request in her hand. I looked at the paper that she had:
WANTED: Escape convict EXTREMELY dangerous! Reward 400,000 Jewels, Advisory: Convict uses illegal magic, wanted for murder.
I looked at the paper and my jaw dropped, no way was I going to get a kid involved in a dangerous mission like that.
"Hellll no." I said taking the paper from her and putting it back on request board.
"What?! WHY NOT!" Nala cried out to me.
"For one thing it says EXTREMELY DANGEROUS on the front of it. Second of all he's wanted for murder I do not want my cousin getting involved in something super dangerous like that." I said looking at the board for something a little more safer.
"Gesh, when did you get all stingy and protective im not 5 years old you know…psh" Nala said crossing her arms over her chest.
"How about something like this?" Natsu said handing Nala another request
Help Requested: For magic show for school class. REWARD: 100,00 Jewels. Different tricks requested not required.
"Lame." Nala said as she stuck it back on the board. I hit my hand to my face, this girl was more picker when it came to request then I had thought.
"Well what do you want to do for your first quest?" I asked maybe, just hopefully that will narrow some of these down.
"I want to catch a bad guy!" Nala said Looking up at me with excitement.
I fell over, there was nothing safe about catching a bad guy! "Natsu?!" Nala said looking at me confused.
"Alright…" I said getting up "well if you want to catch a bad guy… we should try to find a safe one at least." I said looking through the requests. "wanted for murder, wanted for theft, wanted for theft and murder, extremely dangerous, highly dangerous, not recommended for starters…" It was hopeless nothing seemed safe enough to me to let Nala come along. I was just about to give up when thankfully Mira came by and heard all the commotion.
"Ah! Nala looking for your first job huh?" Mira said as she looked at me and then Nala. "Going with your cousin huh?"
"Ya! I want to catch a bad guy but Natsu thinks there all to dangerous for me." She said crossing her arms and rolling her eyes.
"You know, I might just have the perfect request for you then!" Mira said as she went over to the book of requests. I hadn't had a chance to put it out yet so you're the first to see it!
WANTED: Thief, Reward: 160,00 jewels, it had a picture of the thief and he looked like a normal kid to me… there wasn't any danger markings so it seemed safe enough….
"Well take it!" I said Nala looked up at me with complete excitement.
"Alright I'll write it up! Here are the directions good luck you two!" Mira said sending us off with good luck.
We needed all the luck we could get….
** Another chapter finally finished! :D Whoa! Nala wanting to go on a dangerous quest with Natsu?! What has gotten into her? But about Natsu?! What has gotten into him to being so protective? O.o Thank you everyone for reading and reviewing my story I truly appreciate it! Who can't wait to hear how there request went? I know I can't! :D Thanks again for reading! 3 **