A/N: Hello guys, i'm back with another update. So enjoy...
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail.
Chapter two: A new adventure begins
It had been a year since Lily started living with Natsu and Erica. She got to know of the history of both her family members and was amazed at how they lived with a dragon and all. She was really happy that she finally had a family that cared for her and she could care for. She was very helpful to Erica and was a caring sister for Natsu. Her character changed over time. She was competitive like Natsu and also calm like Erica, but with the exception of profanity in her speech, which Natsu had picked up quite a lot, adding to Erica's annoyance and worry. Natsu also acquired the calmness of Erica but his competitive nature was more predominant. Erica, however, didn't change much.
"Goddamn it, stupid log won't budge an inch!" complianed Natsu trying to move a log twice as thick and three times as long as he was.
"I'll help you move the log, Natsu" said Lily with a smile, who came to assist Natsu in moving the log to their house.
"Thanks, sis" replied Natsu with a smile of his own.
The two kids were helping their mom in getting fire wood for the stove they had. The stove was a traditional one, which used fire wood. The trio had a new house now, because the old town where they lived was destroyed and they had no means to get supplies. So they travelled and found a town that was bigger than the old one, but was still old fashioned. They felt not too separated from their old town as the culture was pretty much the same. The only thing that felt odd was they were completely alien to the town, not knowing anyone or anything there. That didn't faze them though. So they built a house for themselves near to the town.
The house was bigger now, as it had to accomodate another room. It was made of neatly aligned stone blocks held together by wooden beams. The house looked pretty neat because of the fact that the stone blocks were cut very fine and were arranged in a perfect manner. This gave the house a sense of elegance. On the other hand the inside was pretty simple. It had three rooms, two of which had a bed and the other had a hammock. The kitchen was attached to the dining room. The dining room had a small round table which could seat a maximum of five people. Overall the house was cozy and pretty comfortable for the three that lived in it.
"Natsu, lets go shopping" said Lily as she was pulling out a bag from a shelf in the kitchen.
"What are we going to shop for? If it's food then lets get meat" replied Natsu.
"Okay, but too much meat is bad for you, Natsu" stated Lily, now ready to leave.
"Wait for me too" said Erica from the kitchen. She then hurriedly came out, with her hair a mess and her dress and face coated with flour and other cooking ingredients.
"Mom, how?" asked Natsu, looking at the condition of his mother.
"Hehe, I'll get ready soon, so wait just a tiny bit" said Erica sheepishly.
"Oh, not this again" said Natsu and Lily in unison, fully expecting what would be happening next.
With that Erica went into her room to get herself ready.
After what seemed like an eternity she came out ready for shopping. "How do you take this long to get ready?" asked the siblings in disbelief.
"That's a woman thing" retorted Erica "Oh, don't worry Lily you'll understand me soon enough"
"Haaaa? I am not as slow as you, mom" replied Lily with a scorn, while sticking her tongue out of her mouth.
'Seriously?' Natsu thought to himself with a placid 'I really don't understand girls'.
"Lets go already!" said Natsu stopping the 'needless' argument between the two.
Then, they locked the door and left for the town. "What should we get today? I want new clothes, my old ones are kinda... old" said Erica.
"Okay, but lets not go to THAT shop" said the sibling pair to their mom. Both had their own reasons for doing so.
The said shop had a salesman who was a young man about the age of Erica. Natsu disliked the fact that the guy always flirted with his mom, in the few moments, when they came to visit the shop. 'Slick bastard' were his thoughts.
Lily on the other hand, 'Haa, its so nice to get a boyfriend' thought Lily 'except only mom gets to have one' internally pouting at the fact that she was still a kid for such a 'luxury'.
Both kids were well educated in the concepts of love and affection, courtesy Erica and her 'amazing' husband. She felt that even though she is young she would not think about marrying another guy as it would bring sorrow of the memories of her late husband. Both the siblings were aware of that fact and were happy about it but there always lingered a doubt about that, just a little bit.
"Okay, okay we'll go somewhere else this time. There are lots of shops yet to be visited." said Erica.
After visiting a few shops and getting the required stuff they roamed around the town for quite a while. This became a habit of theirs'. The trio always admired the fact that there was no day in the town that was not busy. They liked the town not only because of that but because of how friendly the people were there. Just like the old town they were quickly recognized as mages. The respect they got just because of that was pretty amazing and surprising, though they honestly didn't like being respected for nothing.
"You should honestly join a guild you know" proposed the shop vendor of a juice stall at which the trio came often to get juice.
"What is a guild?" asked the trio curiously.
"You didn't know. Well... it's like a group up of mages gathered under a common name who help other people who aren't mages." replied the vendor. "They take requests from us normal people and do their work in exchange for money."
"MONEY!" said Erica imagining herself with money.
The trio's current financial situation was very grim. They were flat broke. And the fact that only Erica had the knowledge to manage it only made it worse. Their current source of money was selling rare meat and rare herbs that they obtained from the forest. Other than that they had no other source of income. They would sell the mentioned stuff only when the current stock of money was depleted. But they didn't really need money to live their simple lives. But then, there is also the concept of 'want', right?
"Oh, so how much do much they get for these requests?" inquired Erica.
"A few thousand jewels to a million depending upon the request" replied the vendor.
"Oh that's quite a lot of money" said Erica, 'A thousand is the minimum' she thought to herself.
"So where can we find a guild?" asked the three, Natsu and Lily joining in the conversation.
"Oh, you didn't know, we have one right here" said the vendor with disbelief "And its the best one in all of Fiore... The name is Fairy Tail" continued the vendor with a proud tone.
"Oh wow, we didn't really know" said Lily.
"We'll see if we wanna join, but thanks for the suggestion" said Erica.
"Glad to help... Ah your change" reminded the vendor.
After collecting the change the trio got back home and pondered on the topic of joining a guild. The trio had mixed feelings about the whole guild joining thing. The concept of money was the most alluring for Erica, not being broke was the best. But honestly working among a group of professional mages made the trio nervous. They had not encountered many mages in their lives until the village incident. And the incident actually left a bad impression about mages in their minds.
"Well, I really don't know about the joining the whole guild thing is any good" said Lily.
"Yeah, I think so too" agreed Natsu.
"But it won't hurt to join them right?" said Erica.
"Yeah... but I really don't know" was Natsu's and Lily's reply.
"That aside for now, what should we have for dinner?" said Erica, tired of pondering on the topic too much.
The siblings, noticing the need to change the subject, replied with their smiling faces. The day had finally concluded with the three still unsure of whether to join or not. They kept their thoughts to themselves and refrained from talking as they thought it would be pointless. The nest day morning was different however.
After getting ready the trio sat down at the dining table for breakfast. The first few moments were either complete silence or munching sounds. So each of them thought of bringing up the topic and placing their thoughts about the matter.
"Let's go join Fairy Tail" said Natsu.
"I think we should join Fairy Tail" said Lily.
"We should check out Fairy Tail" said Erica. All of them saying it at the exact same moment.
The three of them looked at each other with surprise because they had the same thought. Then they just smiled which instantly turned into full blown laughter. After recovering the laughing fit they felt relieved that all three had the same thought.
"I guess our joining Fairy Tail was a given" said Erica. The siblings gave a nod in agreement.
"Okay, so let's get ready to go." said Natsu as he rushed into his room.
After five or so minutes, Natsu came out along with Lily and stood in the front of the house. 'Not again' were their thoughts. After another eternity the older woman stepped out of the house locked it and signaled the other two to go.
As they didn't know the location they consulted the town people to which they pointed to building that was significantly larger than the other around town. So with confident faces they marched off toward the location of the building. As they were approaching closer they noticed the building was growing in size exponentially, which caused their confident faces to become more and more nervous.
When they were halfway through town they noticed three kids, who all had silver hair and looked about the age of Lily, talking to a man. The man stood in posture that showed that he was pleading the kids for a favor. Then he led them to nearby run-down building and pointed to a random area in the building. Then, they saw another kid, much older than any of them, jump out of the roof and start running.
"That guy, who just jumped, is a thief... I heard them talking!" stated Natsu, recollecting the information he gathered just by listening. He then informed Erica and Lily that the kids were from from Fairy Tail and had come there to do a request from the man.
"Wow, the mages there are so strong that they sent their to children to do petty requests" said Lily amazed that the guild was so strong.
"I think this is a good chance, if we help them do their request, the guild members will consider our request to join their guild" proposed Erica.
"Okay, let's catch that thief" replied Natsu with enthusiasm.
The three then took off in the direction in which the thief ran off. They had quite the difficulty in tracking the thief but they did. It was a long time since the three had any sort of thrilling experience and they loved it.
"Mom, I think he went that way" said Lily.
"Let's follow him" Erica quickly replied and sped up her pace.
When they had finished tracking and following the thief they had exited the narrow pathways in between the houses and were in a barren field with just grass and trees here and there.
"We caught you, now" said Natsu as he ran toward the thief and caught him.
"Let me go, I need to get this to my old man" came the reply of the person caught. The voice seemed odd for a guy, so when Natsu turned the guy to his back he found out that he was infact a girl.
"A girl?" said Natsu surprisingly.
While Natsu was in the surprised state, the girl took opportunity to escape the hold by pushing the pink haired boy down. As soon as she fled the three, who were after her originally, arrived at the scene.
"She got away" murmured Lily standing beside Natsu while Erica had not arrived at the scene.
"We came to help!" shouted Natsu looking at the three, who arrived, with a nervous expression. Bad idea.
Misunderstanding the situation, the tallest of the three kids, who was a girl, shouted "i see, so you two are the thief's accomplice" as she transformed into a demon like creature with horns, wings and a tail and signaled the other two to attack Natsu and Lily.
"Nooo! You got it all wron- Woah!" dodged Natsu nearly missing the attack thrown by the girl.
"Elfman, Lisanna get the green girl, I'll get the boy" said the girl now identifying the other boy and girl with her.
"Okay Mira, be careful!" replied the two as they themselves transformed into other beings, one being a cat and other with an iron arm.
"Shall we do this the easy way or the hard way?" said Mira with a sadistic smile, expecting the latter to happen. It did.
"No! We aren't the thief's helpers" retorted Natsu in loud voice, dodging another ball of dark energy.
"The hard way it is" said Mira with a devious smirk, totally ignoring Natsu's reply, charging towards Natsu ready to engage in close combat.
Natsu now understaning that words won't matter got into a fighting stance ready to counter any blow he was going to recieve. But that didn't happen, atleast from the front instead Mira attacked Natsu on his back with a fist. Natsu felt it, the punch was strong. He let out a small cry of pain as he skid to a stop, still standing. Then he turned around to face Mira.
"Oh... so you can take a hit or two. That's great and all but that's your last" saying so she went for another attack at Natsu.
As his fighting instincts had finally kicked in to overdrive mode, in an effort to dodge the punch he back-flipped delivering a sharp skyward kick to the girl's chin sending her sky high.
"Ahh...! That hurt, you thief bastard" growled Mira with annoyance. The kick also surprised her, which added to her annoyance.
"I keep telling you, I'm no thief" shouted back Natsu pissed at the remark.
"No thief accepts that they are one. Get ready to be annihilated" shot back Mira with anger in her voice.
Just as she was about to attack Natsu again, "NATSU DUCK!" called out Lily. Two beaten up figures flew past Natsu as he ducked and crashed into Mira pinning her to the ground.
Moments earlier with Lily...
"We'll help Mira catch the thief" said Lisanna, getting into a pouncing pose.
"Catching thieves is manly!" exclaimed Elfman, cocking his iron arm backwards.
"Oh I see, two idiots for me and a treat for Natsu, I'm not a thief though" said Lily in a displeasured tone "Oh well, might as well have some fun".
"Calling others idiot is not manly" replied back Elfman. "You go first Lis"
"Haaaaah!" Lisanna pounced on Lily trying to claw her, who just dodged it.
"Too slow" said Lily.
"Get this then!" charged Elfman.
Lily predicted that and quickly dodged in such a way that Elfman headed straight for Lisanna. Seeing that he couldn't stop his momentum, he crashed into her even though he tried to stop.
"Sorry!" said Elfman as he stood up and helped Lisanna as well.
"Hey, you should stay with your sister, she knows to fight better" "God Hand" saying so she summoned a huge hand made of ice from the ground and made it attack the two siblings.
"Ice magi-" said the both as the fist made contact with them, knocking them out, sending them flying toward Natsu and Mira.
"NATSU DUCK" Lily signaled...
All the while a certain thief was watching from a tree, concealed from plain sight with her comrades ready to ambush. "Three down, two more to go. Fight, foolish brats" said the thief. She then signaled her companions to get ready to ambush as soon as one of them falls.
"I'll get you for this, you hurt my family" growled Mira furiously, slowly trying to get out of the pile she was in.
"Oh, then what about us, you hurt my family too" countered Lily.
"Oh... so even thieves have feelings of love, huh?" commented Mira now angering Lily to no end.
"We're no thieves, I've been telling you for so long" Natsu spoke this time.
And the three exchanged verbal abuses for quite some time annoying the thief. 'This is going nowhere, I'll have to do something about this. I can't escape even if one of them is conscious' thought the thief about the unfavorable situation. "Attack!" shouted the thief as she and her comrades pounced on the unsuspecting trio.
"Shit!... I totally forgot about this!" said Natsu remembering the actual task they were supposed to do. As the three were about to be ambushed, "Storm Wind" a strong wind pushed away the group of thieves, who were blown away quite far.
"Phew, made it in the nick of time" said Erica.
"Mom! Where were you?" said the Natsu and Lily together.
"Oh. I was here alright. Just enjoying the show" said Erica, grinning sheepishly.
"Wha...?" sweatdropped the three.
"Don't you forget about us" said one from the group of thieves.
"Right! Let's get them Natsu, Lily" said Erica as she got into a fighting stance.
"I'm all fired up, now" replied Natsu, who was cracking his knuckles
"Yeah, what he said" said Lily, who got her ice magic ready.
And that was the last seen of the thieves, as they fled after a thorough beat down.
"This isn't the last you've seen of us" screamed one of them crying anime tears, running like dogs with their tails between their legs.
Looking at the scene the conscious ones could only laugh. After a hearty laugh Natsu and Lily helped Mira get up while Erica brought Elfman and Lisanna back to the conscious world. She tended to their wounds. Both parties then apologized for their actions.
"We're sorry" said Lisanna and Elfman realizing the misunderstanding.
"It's okay no problem" said Natsu.
"I won't apologize, I didn't do anything wrong" said Mira disagreeing with her siblings.
"Yeah don't. Who wants your apology anyways, rude bitch" shot back Lily.
"What did you say, ogre hair?" retorted Mira with her own insult.
"Why you little!" charged Lily but was held back by Natsu and the same happened with other side.
"Please apologize to them Mira, we are in the wrong here" said Lisanna with puppy dog eyes exploiting Mira's weakness.
"Ugh..." unable to resist the power of the cuteness, she complied with the request.
"I'll forgive you. But if you hurt Natsu again I'll pulverize you!" replied Lily sternly.
Natsu could only giggle at the ongoing scene catching the attention of Lisanna, who joined him soon.
'Again with the profanity' Erica thought with a placid expression.
"Reminding of which, I demand an explanation, mom" scoffed Lily.
"About what sweet Lily?" replied Erica in very buttery sweet tone with a chuckle which further ticked off Lily.
After calming down "What were you doing mom?" asked Lily once again.
"I was actually trying to figure out how many thieves were there, because I noticed that the thief lead us into an open field with plenty of trees surrounding it, it looked more like an planned ambush" said Erica in a serious tone "So I waited as back up just in case all the thieves ambushed us!"
"Oh, sorry mom" was Lily's reply.
"Ah, I forgot to ask! You kids are from Fairy Tail right?" Erica tried to confirm.
"Yeah" replied three showing off their guild marks, all of them white.
"We... w-we would like to join your guild" said the pink trio with nervousness evident in their speech.
"Oh, follow us and help you join!" said Mira signaling them to follow.
The three followed them to the guild, nervousness creeping up their spine with each step. When they arrived at the doors of the guild, that stood tall and mighty, three were consumed fully by nervousness with their eyes spiraling infinitely. The younger white haired siblings could only giggle at the three's behavior but didn't utter a word.
"We're back" exclaimed the three siblings as they pushed the door and walked into the guild. The following three only walked in with stiff bodies thinking about how to behave professionally.
When they arrived inside their nervousness was replaced by astonishment. They were amazed at the thing called a guild and when their gaze turned to where the members were supposed to be seated they saw kids, lots of them, sitting at the guild tables.
"So many kids! Are they also members of the guild?" asked the Natsu to no one specifically stressing on the also.
"They are the members!" replied Lisanna standing next to Natsu.
"Oh! Wow!" replied Natsu enthusiastically.
"Master, these three here want to join our guild" called out Mira.
"Master?" three froze up in nervousness which magically reappeared out of nowhere.
As they waited patiently they saw a small figure come out a room on the second floor of the building. He wore a white cowl which as the size of his body and had a large half bald head with a thick white mostache, honestly an old man.
"So they you to join out guild eh?" said the man.
"Y-yes, we would love to!" replied the three nervously.
"So what are your names and your magics?" asked the old man.
"I'm Natsu Dragneel, this is my sis and my mom and I use dragon slayer magic!" said Natsu proudly pointing to the other two.
"I'm Liliana Dragneel, Natsu's sister and I use ice magic" said as jumped onto Natsu.
"I'm Erica Dragneel and I use healing and wind magic" said Erica giggling at her kids.
'Interesting bunch' thought the old man with smirk visible on his face.
"Mira give them their guild marks!" said the old man with a smiling face "Welcome to Fairy Tail, I'm Makarov Dreyar, the guild master of Fairy Tail".
"Where do you want it and which color?" asked Mira.
"Right shoulder and red color" said Natsu pointing at the required area. Mira then pressed the stamp and lifted it to reveal a bright red Fairy Tail mark.
"Same area as Natsu with sky blue color" said Erica and got her mark as well. She showed it off to Natsu who admired it.
"For me, on the same area as well with green color and pink outline" said Lily with a smile.
"Damn, I'm stuck with you" mumbled Mira which didn't go unnoticed by Lily.
"What did you say, bitch?"spat Lily, pissing Mira who replied with her own insult.
This soon escalated into a verbal cat fight. Noticing this a black haired kid walked up to Natsu and let out his own thoughts on the current situation.
"Hey pinky stop your sister!" said the boy.
"Why? I don't wanna get in between them, you can stop Mira, pervert" replied Natsu.
"I'm not a pervert" said the kid.
"Gray, clothes!" reminded another girl. At which Lisanna was blushing madly.
"Ah... shit!" Gray complained before running off to find his clothes.
"By the way, I'm Cana Alberona" said the girl, from before.
"And I'm Lisanna Strauss" said Lisanna standing in front of Natsu.
"He's Elfman, my brother" she said pointing to the white haired boy, who came up the group standing there.
"I'm Elfman Strauss and I'm manly. It's nice to meet you" said Elfman.
"It's nice to you too" replied Natsu and Erica.
"And the one fighting you sister is our elder sister, Mirajane" said Lisanna introducing the last of the Strauss siblings. She then offered to give them a tour of the guild. Natsu agreed.
"Hey sis, come over here" said Natsu.
Lily quickly arrived, completely ignoring Mira, to where Natsu was. "Let's take a tour of the guild".
After introducing the rest of the members and a tour of the guild three had settled down on a random table.
"Wow this place is so cool" said Natsu excitedly.
"Yeah, this place is like home to us, everyone here is like family" said Lisanna with smile.
"So how did you get to know about Fairy Tail" asked Lisanna curiously to Natsu.
Natsu then described how they lived near the town for quite some time. How people suggested them to join a guild to earn money. This then raised another question of how they came near the town. And then this linked to that and that to that and so on until the whole story of how Natsu was found by Igneel, a dragon. Listeneing to the story Lisanna was fascinated by the life Natsu had lived. Natsu, on the other hand, was ecstatic that someone other than his family belived his story.
"So you believe my story of being with a dragon?" asked Natsu just to confirm.
"Yeah, it's all so amazing" said Lisanna.
"Yo pinky, how should I believe that you lived with a dragon?" asked Gray.
"If you don't believe me ask my mom, she too lived with Igneel" replied Natsu.
"Why should I ask your mom? You have to prove it too me" demanded Gray.
Listening to his Lily came running towards Natsu with the words "Stop picking on my brother".
"Hiding behind your sister's back, you coward!" commented Gray, angering Natsu.
"Stop ignoring me, you green bitch" shouted Mira while approaching Lily.
"What did you say?" was the simultaneous reply of Natsu and Lily, with tick marks on both their heads.
With that provocation both Natsu and Lily pounced on their respective targets which quickly escalated into a fist fight. The fight got mixed up with each other punching the other randomly. This fight now got other members, seated nearby, involved as well. This small quarrel now became into a full blown guild war.
Lisanna and Erica could only sweatdrop at the current situation. On another table was seated an old man, Makarov, who could only cry at the destruction being caused by the ongoing fight.
"It's like this, when she's here too" said Lisanna.
"Who?" asked Erica.
"Erza Scarlet" replied Lisanna, looking at Mira.
'Why does this happen to me?' whined makarov internally, "More paper work!" exclaimed Makarov burying his face into his arm.
An familiar idea came to his mind, "Lets party today in the name of new family members!" shouted Makarov, grabbing the attention of all the guild members. The guild members quickly dispersed and got their drinks expecting what was going to happen next.
"Cheers to our new members" shouted everyone in the guild, tapping the drink glasses with each other.
Natsu and Lily now seated near mother were extremely happy at the new family they had joined. Erica also shared their opinion and was extremely happy about the decision of joining fairy tail. Natsu and Lily both had already mingled well with the guild and she too felt a sense of belonging as soon as she saw Natsu and Lily opening up to the guild. She had finally found a place where the three truly belonged.
'I think I'm fulfilling your promise right, Igneel?' thought Erica to herself looking at the son and daughter she now had. A tear fell from her eye unknowingly. She quickly wiped it off and joined in on the fun.
A/N: The chap's done. It might seem like a filler, but I thought that the pink trio joining fairy tail just like that would be kinda boring, and so the extra part. Erza, Laxus are yet to be featured. That's all, bye for now...