It's been rough, I'll tell you that much. Without my foster father here, I've had to fight on my own. Well I guess I wasn't exactlly alone, I had Midnight, my cat and only friend. The only catch is Midnight isn't an ordinary cat; he's a talking, flying, and amazing cat!
"When are we going to get some food," Midnight groans.
"Sorry, bud' looks like I don't have enough money." I say as I look in my dark brown satchel. I only see 5 jewel. I sigh.
I am wearing black and blue shorts that go down to my knees with a black and blue short-sleeved shirt to match. I also wore a black cloak that concealed my blue eyes and pale skin, my long, black hair not being a problem since it was also black.
Midnight looks down disappointed.
"But don't worry," I crouch down and pat his black silky coat, "I'll get another one of those small jobs. How's that sound?"
"That sounds good," his green eyes looking up at me hopefully.
I had found Midnight in an alleyway being beaten by some boys about 3 years after Acnologia left. It made me hate humanity more, than I already had.
The two of us kept walking, as we walked I spotted a bread stand. Perfect I thought I can take that easily.
I slow down and that causes Midnight to stop.
"What wrong, Audrey?" he asks.
"Sit tight 'til I say so okay?" I whisper to him.
"You're not going to steal again are you?" he asks frowning nervously.
"We need food, Midnight. Don't worry the man has plenty," I say reassuringly
I walk casually towards the stand, and snatch two long loaves of bread.
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" the chubby man yells catching unwanted attention.
"Midnight, now!" I yell.
Midnight activates his wings and soars towards me. I throw the bread in my satchel. Then I jump and grab his small hips with both hands. Since I was backwards, I stick my tounge out at the man.
We land, but our small victory is short lived. I hear the guards talking with the fat man. Dang it, this selfish man, it was two loaves of bread nothing to get his panties in a twist about. The guards start running towards us.
"Audrey, what are we going to do," Midnight whimpers, "We flew to much earlier today; now I don't have enough magic power."
"It's fine," I say as I scoop him up in my arms and start running, "I'll get us outof here."
I run as fast as I can. The guards of this town are crazy to go after someone for such a little crime. Don't they have another criminal to stop or something?
I run up to a big building with huge letters saying Fairy Tail, sounds like a tavern name to me. Perfect.
I run through the doors, and I was embaressed to see all eyes. I look around and it does look very much like a tavern.
"Um...e-excuse m-me?" I stutter which Acnologia taught me was a sign of weakness. They keep staring. I was about to tell them staring is rude when the three guards that were after me burst through the door.
"There she is!" the one in the middle with a big mustache says. He grabs my wrist and yanks me forward causing my hood to fall and me dropping Midnight.
I try to yank away and reach for Midnight, but the man's grip was too tight. I start to yell, "No! Wait!" as I reach for him.
I expected the people in this place to ignore us, but a short man with a white mustache showing his age steps in saying, "What is this outrage?!"
The guard looks frightened, but tries to conceal it. He then says, "This woman has stolen from a bread stand."
The short man replies with, "This is no woman; this is a child. She was merely trying to fend for herself and her small friend." The guard let's go of my hand causing me to scoot towards Midnight and start conforting him in an embrace. The man then continues, "I see no reason for you to go after this child when you should be trying to stop a dark guild. Maybe then you'll be of some use." The guard looked like he was going to say something back, but then the man yells, "Now get out of my sight and my guild!"
I stare in shock at what had happened. Did this man just save me?
I am broken from my daze as the man looks at me and asks, "Are you okay child?"
"Why did you do that?", I ask, "I mean I am grateful don't get me wrong b-"
"Because you looked like you needed some help," he replies.
I look around. Then say, "For a tavern most of you guys are not drunk."
Laughter booms through the entire building.
The small man then looks at me after he was done laughing, "We are no tavern; we are a guild."
"A guild?" I repeat confused.
"Do you not know what a guild is?" a strange boy with spiky pink hair asks.
"I've heard of them, but nobody asked you strawberry shortcake," I say back rudely. I then notice Midnight fell asleep. "Poor thing," I think to myself.
Everyone laughs again. A guy with only his underwear on included.
"I don't wanna hear nothing from you stripper!" I say over the laughter. This caused the two boys to get in a fight; the reason? I have no idea.
The short man laughs, "You'll fit right in, so what do you say do you wanna join?"
"But I don't know what it is," I say looking down.
"Well a guild is a place where wizards from around the land gather together and recieve jobs, but most importanly the people inside that guild are a family."
"A guild," I whisper to myself.