A/N: Whatever…

The door opened, and Shadow stepped in. Silence for a few seconds, as they took their first look at each other. They all seemed to be humans, however… with strange hair colours, but who were he to judge?

"He's so cute!" A girl with short white hair and big eyes blue as the sky then exclaimed. And that broke the silence…

"This is Shadow, your new guildmate!" Mavis exclaimed in his head, though the others seemed to hear it too. Wait – guildmate?! Mavis! Shadow cried mentally, but she ignored him. He certainly hadn't agreed to it… yet…

"He's even shorter than you, Levy." A man with long black hair and piercings said from the bar across the big hall, and then a little blue haired girl beside slapped him in the face.

"Don't mind them. By the way, I'm Lucy, nice to meet you!" A girl with blond hair then said, and kneeled beside him to shake his hand. He awkwardly did so, while taking a look at her face. Soft, brown eyes and a smile…

"Hi there!" A childish voice then greeted from behind him. Shadow turned around, and was met with the sight of a… blue cat?

"And you are…?" He began.

"Happy!" The cat exclaimed. He was even shorter that Shadow himself, and didn't seem to be mobian… so why the hell was he talking?

"And what are you?" He asked.

The cat just answered cheerfully. "An exceed!"

"Exceed?" Shadow repeated, still confused.

"From Edolas!" The cat exclaimed. Shadow decided to simply stop questioning, as he apparently knew too little about this world to really be able to grasp what he meant.

"Okay…" He muttered, and glanced up again. Another short girl with blue hair had appeared, but this one had her hair tied into two long ponytails. She also had a cat with her, her's being white, and seemingly female too.

"Hello, my name's Wendy, and this is Carla!" She said, at first gesturing to herself, and then at the cat, who crossed her arms over her chest.

"Hi…" Shadow replied, fighting off the urge to cross his arms too. Being the centre of the attention – no, no, no, that was so not anything for him. But Sonic wasn't even here, so he might as well-

"Oi, stripes! Nice meeting ya!" Shadow practically froze at that. No, it wasn't Sonic's voice, but it sure as hell sounded like him. The Ultimate lifeform turned around slowly, and saw a grinning, pink-haired boy, who seemed to have put the girl's – Lucy's – food on fire. Shadow wasn't even surprised at that, but replied with an irritated voice,

"Don't call me that!" At first the boy looked surprised, and so did the others. And then another black-haired boy entered the scene.

"Do you know him?" The pink-haired boy turned to the black-haired boy, who for some reason didn't have a shirt on. He looked confused and glared at the pink-haired boy, and then he turned to Shadow who had given in to the temptation to cross his arms.

Shadow looked at him silently, waiting for him to introduce himself.

After a minute or so, he turned to the ceiling and exclaimed, "First? What are you doing here?"

"I just brought a new guildmate!" She exclaimed, but Shadow was fairly certain the others heard it too, as some of them turned to look at the ceiling too.

You're sitting up there? He asked mentally.

"Yup!" She said, but the others didn't seem to hear, as they looked down again and resumed whatever they were doing at the moment. The pink-haired boy continued to look at him suspiciously, though…

"Well, I'm Gray." Shadow turned back to look up at the dark-haired boy, who finally introduced himself.

"Hello, I'm Shadow." There. Was there someone else for him to greet?

"So…" Shadow looked back up at Gray. "What kind of magic do you practice?"

"Ma…gic?" Shadow slowly said. Don't tell me I have to learn something like that too…

Wait… I can use chaos control… I can use chaos energy. Does that count?

"Yeah, magic." Gray specified.

Shadow nodded. "Wait just a moment…" He took a step backwards to get some more room, and put his hands in front of him. He tapped into the chaos energy inside him, and sent it to his hands, aiming to create a fire of chaos in his cupped hands.

Gray looked at him with slight interest, and Shadow silently focused. Neon-green sparks started to form and bounce between his fingertips, and soon green flames shoot up from his palms. Satisfied with the result Shadow then turned back to Gray, who looked at the flames with an expression torn between disgust and interest.

…Hmm… maybe I should try something else? Shadow thought, but then he saw from the corner of his eye how the pink-haired boy was looking at him again. And how the blond girl… Lucy (?) also looked at him.

Shadow didn't really appreciate their sudden interest in him, so he turned around and sent a glare the pink-haired boy's way. He looked at him strangely, and then he started talking with Lucy again.

…What's with that boy...? Shadow thought. He… reminded him uncomfortably much of Sonic…

"Oh, that's just Natsu!" Mavis chirped inside his head.

Natsu?

"Yeah! He's a dragon-slayer."

Dragon… slayer?

"Yeah! He learnt fire-magic from a dragon when he was little, and then he joined the guild… He's also rather well known for being very destructive…" Mavis explained, and Shadow sighed. He then looked up again as Gray looked at him strangely for sighing.

As Shadow learnt that - Nasty? Natsu? – used fire-magic, he became curious of what Gray might 'practice' as he said himself. "Well, what magic do you use?"

"Ice-make magic." He said, and held his hand up he too. A glistening bird made of ice materialised in his hand, and he grinned at Shadow's slightly widened eyes.

"…That's…" Shadow searched for some kind of compliment, but his vocabulary regarding that was rather empty… "…That's cool." He finished his sentence, but then he cringed on the inside as he realised what a horrible pun he had made.

"Heh, thanks…" Gray said. "And what do you call that… fire?"

"Chaos energy."

A/N: I'm back! And I'm really, really sorry if anyone's OOC, but I've never wrote for any Fairy Tail character before… (Except Zeref, but that's another story)