AN: So hey guys, I got like one review and was so happy. I was sort of at a block and didn't really know what to use for Kei and Natsu's first mission (oh and Happy) So, like always, I hope you enjoy and review.
Disclaimer: I do NOT own Fairy Tail.
Chapter 3
"So I take it you all are from Fairy Tail." The client said lacing his fingers together and leaning forward. "Yeah, we're here about the request you sent." Kei said sitting quietly with her hands in her lap. Happy and Natsu didn't seem to be paying attention while they sat sprawled out on the couch and complaining about how hungry they were. "Do you have any food in this big fancy house?" Natsu asked sitting up. Kei slapped Natsu's arm and the dragon slayer recoiled rubbing his arm. "What?" he whispered. "Be polite, we can get some food after." She whispered back to him. Lucky for them, the client didn't seem to hear. "As you were saying?" Kei said leaning forward. "Oh yes, my name is Kabby Melon." The slightly elderly man said calmly. "Whoa, your last name is Melon; that sounds delicious." Natsu said drooling at the sound of the food. "Natsu." Kei hissed embarrassed by her team mate's appetite. "Don't worry it's alright, I get that a lot." The man said. "So what exactly did you want us to do?" Kei asked curiously. "Well there is this man, duke Everlue; he has a book that I would like you to burn." At the mention of the word "burn" both dragon slayers became excited. "We could burn anything, even the whole building." Natsu said with an excited grin. Kei paused "We can't burn someone's house." She said shooting Natsu a glare.
"Man I was so hungry." Natsu said placing his face on the table. "Well now that you've eaten, will you stop complaining?" Kei said folding her arms over her chest and leaning back in her chair. "Okay so how are we going to get into the duke's mansion?" Kei asked. Just then Natsu and Happy looked at each other with evil grins.
"There's no way in hell I'm going to wear that!" Kei exclaimed pointing at the maid's uniform Happy was holding. "Aw why not." Natsu said "You'd look cute." He added. "Do you want a smack to the face?" Kei hissed. Natsu stepped back holding his palms up in defense. "Come on Kei, you have to wear it." Happy said. "Why!" she snapped. Natsu held out a piece of paper in her face. Kei backed up and snatched the paper out of his hands. "Looking for a pretty, unique looking maid, with a nice figure. By the way, he's a perverted man who judges specifically on a girl's looks." Kei read out loud. She then snapped her head up with a glare that could burn into a person's soul. Happy swallowed nervously but Natsu didn't seem to be effected. "No way!" she yelled holding the paper up and burning it in her hand. Natsu opened his mouth to object but Kei moved toward him. She grabbed Natsu's scarf and pulled him down to meet her furious glare. "There is no way in HELL I'm doing it!" she snarled. But Natsu just smirked, his black eyes shimmering.
"I really hate you." Kei whispered. "Cry me a river, besides, you look cute." Natsu said hiding in the bushes with Happy while Kei stood out in front of a large gate in front of a huge mansion. "I'm not taking that as a compliment. And I'm totally going to smack you for that comment." She hissed. "Just go ring the doorbell." Happy said waving his paw. "Fine!" she snapped. Kei rang the bell and heard a quiet voice though the speaker right next to it. "Hello." The female voice said. "Hi, I'm here for the maid opening." Kei said in the sweetest voice she could act (It still wasn't much). There was no comment and Kei thought the girl hung up on her. Suddenly there was a loud rumbling sound and Kei spun around. A girl just a little bit older than Kei appeared out a tunnel in the ground. 'Was that tunnel always there?' Kei thought. The girl was in a maid's uniform, similar to Kei's, she had short pink hair and deep blue eyes. Around her wrists though were shackles and chains. "Hello, my name is Virgo." She said giving a little bow. 'She's a celestial spirit, or at least she smells like one.' Kei thought. Virgo stared at her with studying eyes. "I'll call for the master." Just then a short stout man appeared out of the ground through another tunnel. He wasn't very easy to look at; he had long nose hair that acted as a moustache and a stupid haircut. Kei felt uncomfortable when the man studied her. 'Natsu's going to pay.' She thought trying not to punch the duke in the face for walking around her studying every feature of her. "Well you must feel lucky, you got the job." He said shooting her a creepy smile. Kei looked over at Happy and Natsu's hiding place and saw the dragon slayer and the cat motion for her to smile. 'It's not as easy as it looks!' she thought. Kei managed a halfhearted painful smile but the duke didn't seem to tell the difference between a real one and an obvious fake. "Virgo, will you see the young lady in." He said disappearing into the tunnel. "Yes master." She said giving a bow. Virgo and Kei walked in silence as they made their way toward the mansion. "You're doing this as a guild request I take it." Virgo said breaking the silence. "What, why would you think that?" Kei lied. "It's pretty obvious, and I'm a celestial spirit, I can tell you're a dragon slayer." She said. Kei looked down at the little high heels that Happy recommended to her. "So are you going to tell?" she asked feeling a little stupid after she said that. "No." Virgo said calmly. "You're looking for a book called Day Break. It was a book that the duke forced a man to write about him." She said. Kei looked down "That poor man." She said quietly. Virgo nodded.
Alright can you grab a tea cup and a saucer?" Virgo said. Kei nodded and rummaged around in the cabinet carefully moving around the expensive tableware. "Ok, now take this up to the library; the master should be in there." Virgo said handing Kei a tray with a tea cup filled with a steaming orange liquid. 'The library, that's where I'll find the book.' Kei thought walking out of the kitchen and up the marble stairs to the library. "Oh, there you are; maid." The duke said when Kei stepped into the room. At first she wanted to beat the short man up for calling her a maid but she then remembered that she was supposed to be acting as a maid. "I brought your tea… master." She said quietly trying her best not to snap. "Just set it down, and you may leave." He said. Kei swallowed back a remark and spun around. "…Yes… Master." She said quietly before leaving.
"What are you going to do about the book?" Virgo asked sitting on her bed and fixing her hair. "I'm going to go to the library after dusk; duke Everlue should be asleep by that time." Kei said looking out the window at the setting sun. Kei opened the window and stuck her head out into the cold dusk. "What are you doing?" Virgo asked. Kei closed her violet eyes and opened her mouth slightly and inhaled, taking in the scent of the air. She opened her eyes and smiled. "Natsu I know you're out there." She said with a calm voice. There was no response. "Kei, who are you talking to?" Virgo asked walking up next to her and peering out the large window. Kei narrowed her eyes and stepped away from the window making Virgo more curious. Kei picked up a loaf of bread and stepped back next to Virgo. "What are you going to do with that?" she asked in a quiet voice. Kei parted her lips inhaling then she smiled and threw the warm loaf out the open window. "Wait! That was a perfectly good loaf of bread!" Virgo said grabbing Kei's arm. Suddenly there was a rustling noise coming from the bushes outside. The two girls paused and looked out the window. Virgo started to shiver "W-what's that noise?" she asked tightening her grip on Kei's arm. Then a familiar pink-haired dragon slayer jumped out of the shadows and grabbed the loaf of bread. "Man I'm starving!" he said taking a big bite out of the bread. "Who is that?" Virgo screamed. Kei quickly grabbed Virgo's hands trying to quiet her. "Virgo, be quiet the duke will hear you." She hissed. "But this man is an intruder, we must warn the master!" she said. "Wait no, I didn't do anything!" Natsu exclaimed. "Shh, Natsu!" Kei hissed under her breath. "Wait, do you know this man?" Virgo asked pointing at the very confused dragon slayer. Kei sighed "Yes, he is my partner." Kei turned to Natsu, letting go of Virgo and motioning for Natsu to come over to them. Natsu wearily stood up with the bread in his hand. Kei suddenly smacked the dragon slayer across the face when Natsu walked up to the window. "Ow, what the heck was that for?" Natsu asked placing his hand over the red mark on his cheek. "For saying I looked 'cute' in the maid uniform." She hissed folding her arms over her chest and pouting. "Sorry, did you want me to lie?" Natsu said. "Besides, I'm glad you're alright Natsu." Kei said smiling to the boy. "What, you think I would get in trouble?" He asked "That's why I'm here; I was worried you'd get in trouble and I would have to come and get you." He added, laughing. "How did you know he was out there?" Virgo asked. "Oh, I could smell him." Kei said quietly. Virgo had a puzzled look on her face and leaned forward out the window and gave Natsu a sniff. Natsu jumped back looking a little surprised "D-did you just sniff me?" he asked. "He doesn't smell, well not that much." She said. "What is that supposed to mean?" Natsu asked. "Virgo's right, you need to take a bath or something." Kei said placing her hand over her nose. "You weren't complaining earlier." Natsu said.
The full moon rose high in the dark starry sky. Kei snuck out of her room and made her way to the library. She slowly opened the large white-painted doors and scanned the room with her advanced dragon eyes. After giving the air a smell, she crept inside and closed the door behind her.
"Dammit, it's going to take forever to find this book." Kei muttered to herself climbing a tall ladder to the top of the huge bookshelves. With one hand skimming though the books and the other enveloped in flames, using it as light, Kei tried to find the book as quickly and quietly as possible. Suddenly Kei slipped off the ladder as she leaned to the side to reach a specific gold-covered book. She shrieked and reached out as she was falling. Luckily, she grabbed onto a shelf and hung on for dear life, hoping the shelf wouldn't fall. Kei panted and wildly tried to regain her grip on the book shelf.
"I found it, Day Break." Kei said holding up the gold-covered book. Suddenly she heard a rumbling sound and spun around when the duke shot out from a tunnel on the floor. "You little thief, how dare you try to steal from me!" he snapped landing on the ground 10 feet away from her. "I am a little surprised though, trying to steal a piece of crap like Day Break." He muttered. "Wait what did you say?" Kei asked. "The book is trash, worst book I've ever read." He said locking a glare with the wizard. "If you hate it so much why can't I just have it?" she asked. "No way it's mine!" he snapped. "Okay, now you're starting to annoy me." The duke said snapping his fingers. Then two men walked in, they both were slightly skinny, one was tall and the other very short. The taller one had curly blue hair and was wearing a long-sleeved lighter blue jacket. The shorter one had his hair tied back into a long braid and he was carrying a large pan. Both of the men were wearing bands around their arms that had the symbol on the Southern Wolf guild. "So you two are wizards?" Kei hissed stuffing Day Break into her backpack that Natsu gave her earlier. "You two; don't let her get away with that book. And if you can, kill her." Duke Everlue said turning and walking out of the room. "Hey wait, I'm not finished with you!" Kei yelled running towards the short fat man. Suddenly she slammed into the large pan that the shorter man was carrying and was thrown to the other side of the room, crashing into the bookshelf. She got up from under the mountain of books and rubbed her hurt leg.
Kei ran toward the two wizards with a tight fist covered in blue flames. Before she hit the taller man, the large pan was held out in front of her, stopping her dead in her attack. Kei's violet eyes widened in shock when her fire was absorbed by the pan. "What the hell." She said stepping back. "It absorbed my fire magic." She said dumbfounded. "Oh, we forgot to mention." The taller man said. "We are best suited fighting fire mages." The shorter one finished. 'No, I've never been beaten.' Kei thought before she was suddenly hit and was sent flying back into another bookshelf. 'Dammit, this can't be happening.' She thought. The wizards were quick, attack after painful attack. "Guess it's time we finish this pathetic girl like the master said." The taller one said looking down at the injured helpless girl. "No! One more, one more attack." She said standing up with shaky knees. "How are you still standing?" the shorter man said with shock. "Well fine then, I guess I'll make you fall so you'll never get up." He hissed jumping back and aiming the pan in her direction. "I take your fire in, making your attacks worthless, then I fire them back at you!" he exclaimed as a large amount of fire came barreling in Kei's direction. Without the strength to move, Kei stumbled and collapsed to the ground. All she saw was someone run out in front of her and inhale the blue fire.
"Thanks for the meal, that blue fire tastes cold." A familiar voice said and Kei looked up in surprise. "Natsu!" she said happily. "What the hell he just ate the fire!" both of the wizards yelled. "Okay who's first?" Natsu said slamming his fists together and building up fire magic. "Hah, another fire mage didn't you just see what happened to that girl there." The shorter one said holding his pan out. "You can deflect my magic all you want, it won't make a difference, you're still gonna get your butts kicked. That's what happens when you hurt my partner!" Natsu snarled with energy beaming in his black eyes. Kei blushed 'He would do that for me?' she thought.
"Eat fist!" Natsu yelled punching the taller wizard in the face, sending the grown man flying across the room. 'Wow, at this point, I don't even size up to a Fairy Tail wizard.' Kei thought as she watched the battle with her mouth hanging open. "Well that was fun." Natsu said dusting himself off. "You totally got carried away." Kei said looking up at the boy. He smiled and scratched the back of his neck "Well I don't really try to." He said helping Kei up and pulling her arm over his shoulder. "Thanks Natsu." She said quietly locking her eyes with his. Natsu's face turned a little red and he looked down at the floor. "Are you okay?" he asked, his tone concerned. Kei smiled "Yeah, now that you're here."