Chapter 4

It was a tough day for Silva Fullbuster. After almost getting used to living alone in Magnolia for two years, she were recruited into a new guild early in the morning, had first official job in the afternoon, reveal everything about her past in the evening, even found out she have a younger brother that she never meet. That day, she decided to go home early as soon as the sun set.

Silva took a short walk from the guild to her house. Her house was pretty near to the guild, where she only needs to pass through two alleys, one of them is where she met Makarov. The rent for her room is 50,000 jewels. Inside the house, there is no bedroom, so the living room is also Silva's bedroom where she only placed a small table, a long couch and a bed. There were only two other rooms, which are the kitchen and the bathroom.

"I am back…" Silva closed the door and locked it, switched on the light, and had a bath. After that, she made herself and Panda something to eat and read a few pages of Magnolia newspaper that she picked up on the way home, and then go to bed. Panda shared a bed with Silva; the bed is large enough for two people to sleep in.

Shifting in her usual sleep, Silva opened her eyes slightly to check. She was moving her arms to a more comfortable position but her elbow hit on something hard, and she do not remember having any hard object on her bed. Lifting up her blanket, Silva shrieked and fell down onto the ground. "Na-Natsu! What are you doing here?!" the fire-dragon slayer gives no response as he continues to snore on. After waiting for a while for him to wake up, all Silva get was some sleep talk from him, "fight… me…. Silva…"

Silva sweat dropped at this, "seriously… it's still the middle of the night, how am I going to wake him… and I am not really that strong, why do he keeps wanting to fight me…" She looked at her half-asleep Panda and went over to get her from the other side of the bed, "let's sleep on the couch for tonight… we need to rest enough to get more jobs tomorrow." Silva closed her eyes as the last words she hears for the day is a soft "I know right." from Panda.

In the morning as Silva woke up, she smells cooking in her room. Quickly she got on her feet and dashed over to her kitchen, "What the-" Natsu was there, wearing her apron with Happy wearing Panda's, "Good morning Silva!" Natsu greeted, "Breakfast ready in 5 minutes!"

"Stop greeting me like you live here!" Silva head were literally spinning from all the confusion she got from Natsu's behavior, "first you slept in my house uninvited and now you are making breakfast? Get out of my house, Natsu!"

"Are you sure?" Silva turned to Happy, in his hand was a big cup of sorbet he get from her fridge, "I am hungry, I guess it okay for me to eat this then since we can't cook from your kitchen."

"Ah, my sorbet!" Silva manages to snatch the dessert under Happy's nose before he can take a bite. "Okay… just… one breakfast. After that, get out of my house. "

On the small dining table she had in her room, Silva's eyes narrowed as she watched Natsu gulped down almost all of the meat her have in her fridge, "just what are you doing in my house Natsu?"

"I…want-t to.. Fi-fight you…." Natsu explained between munches, "a-aft-after this okay…"

"Why do you want to fight me so badly? I am not really that strong…" Silva took a bite at the food Natsu cook, and surprised at the fact he can actually cook really well.

"Laxus, Gajeel, Wendy, you." Natsu said after finished his meal, "I wanted to challenge all dragon slayers and be the best! I already fight all of them; you are the only one left." Natsu snatched a piece of meat of Silva's plate.

"I see… so, of all the battle how many did you won?" Silva asked and Natsu collapsed on the ground, ashamed. "1 win against Wendy, she forfeit… Fights with Gajeel and Laxus were always get interrupted by Erza…"

Silva choked, "I don't think I am going to fight you after all…" She shivered at the idea having Erza punching the light out of her in the middle of fighting Natsu in the guild. From what she witnessed when Erza fought the beast from her first job, that knight does deserve her 'strongest female in Fairy Tail' title.

Natsu pouted at this but then he stood up and run towards the door, "I am going to go first, see you in the guild. Come, Happy, we must reach the guild before Gray!"

"Aye!" the two went out and Silva hear the door slam closed, while the piles of used dishes, meat bones, dripping sauce bottles cramped on her small table. "I swear I am going to kill you, Natsu Dragneel. Clean up your plates!"

With the large amount of popped veins her forehead can handle, Silva arrive the guild. "Good morning…"

"Good morning, Silva." Mirajane greeted as the newcomer sat on the chair at the bar, "how was your day?"

"I don't want to talk about it…" was all Silva can use to cover up the 'Natsu-barged-into-my-house-and-created-a-big-mess -and-left-me-behind-to-clean-up-the-trouble-he-mad e' expression.

"Seems like you have it rough…" Lucy giggled, "However, for me, I managed to sleep like a log!" she was sitting beside Silva at the bar, "For once, Natsu didn't barge into my house yesterday!"

"Hm?" Silva turned to her, "you mean, Natsu ever barge into your house too?"

"Yeah… why? Don't tell me, he went to your house yesterday?" Lucy asked, Silva quickly trying to change the topic, "ahahaha… um well…"

Lucy laughed sheepishly, "Looks like he did… He always does it normally to his teammates, except for Gray since Natsu don't feel like it and also not at Erza since he can't enter girl's dorm…" Lucy sighed, "In the end, he always works out all his sweat in my place…."

'A team… we?' Silva thought with a sweat drop, 'are we?' After chatting for a few more minutes, Silva decided it is time to take a job for the day. "Let's see what job we have here today…" Silva made it to the request board. "Curses… theater… bandits… hmm…"

Without realizing it, Gray makes his way towards the request board. The two siblings turned to took a glance at each other, then quickly turn away and face the other side.

"Why are you two being so shy around each other? Cutie~" Kana commented between gulps of her sake from a barrel.

"I am not s-shy!"After standing at their position for quite a while, Silva took a deep breath and muttered, "…g-good morning… Gray…"

From Gray, also a soft murmur, "go-good morning…"

Silva was standing a few steps away from the board but she suddenly felt her body pressed against it, with Natsu behind her crushing her towards the board, "I am fired up! Let's do this job today, Happy! Ah, Erza said she have a job readied-"

Before Natsu finish his sentence and before Happy can respond, Natsu was punch into the air, "Ice dragon fist!"

After feeling down from the ceiling of the guild and regain back onto his feet, Natsu faced Silva face to face, with their noses touching.

"What was that for?!"

"For pushing me against the request board!"

"You are blocking my way!"

"You could have asked me to move!"

"And that's my way of asking!" both of them shot electric out from their eyes until they sensed an evil aura behind her, "ah, Erza…"

"What are you two doing?" Erza asked, ex-quipping into her black wing armor. Natsu and Silva both sweat dropped, laughed, and moved away from each other. "…we are getting along just fine."

Ezra return the armor to the usual ones she is wearing, "good, because don't forget that we are a team."

"Oh yeah… Lucy did mention about that, what was that all about?" Silva asked.

"Did you forget…?" Erza thought for a while. "Oh wait, you went home early yesterday…" Erza handed Silva a letter from master, "Master is not around now, but he had formed a team for us, and we are to meet up with 2 more other guilds for this job. We have to get rid of a dark guild. They have been out of control lately."

"Dark guild?" Silva gulped. "Sounds tough…"

"Yes… that's why we need you this time around… you know they abilities pretty well." Erza pointed at the bottom of the poster. "We are against One Circle."

To be continued…