Meet the Guild
Ok before we start I would like to thank 'Nardragon' who allowed me to reference their story "A Medieval Fairy Tail". I also want to thank 'That guy with the pipe' who allowed me to reference their story "The Phoenix's Talon". Both of these can be found here on fanfiction and they are both awesome and deserve bunnies! But unfortunately it won't let me do bunnies so here are some cute bunny feet. (")_(")
I will include links to their stories at the end of this chapter. (: Thanks again Nardragon and That guy with the pipe!
Ok on with the story!
Ed was feeling a little overwhelmed when he first walked into the guild hall. There seemed to be a massive fight going on. He kind of wondered if he should help but he wasn't sure who the good guys were; and besides the atmosphere felt more or less like when he an Al sparred. This just seemed a little more intense.
He was glued to the floor as a giant bull-like thing came charging at him, but luckily it disappeared before it could hit him. Weird, was that an illusion, or am I just hallucinating? Ed thought.
Soon after a girl in a burgundy dress with pink trim and silver hair came to greet him; and somehow he couldn't help but think, my Winry is cuter.
"Well hello there, I'm Mirajane. Welcome to Fairy Tail."
"Hi, I'm Edward Elric."
"Are you new here?"
"Well yeah, I'm not really from anywhere near here."
"Oh really? Where are you from?"
"I don't think you would have ever heard of it, I'm from a country called-." Ed was cut off by a man flying in between them and out them doors. "Don't you think we should do something?"
"Oh it's always like this around here, I just leave them alone. Besides, its kinda fun don't you think?"
Suddenly the room behind her started to light up and the strangest transmutation circles Ed had ever seen were appeared in midair. Then the ground beneath his feet began to tremble as a giant being came into view. "Um, what is that?"
"Oh, that's just Master Makarov."
"That's pretty cool." As the two of them chatted all the fighting stopped and a guy with pink hair got stepped on when he challenged the Master; which made Ed chuckle a little.
"It would seem we have a guest. And look at the greeting you lot gave him!" The master began to shrink; he walked over to Ed. "Nice to meet ya."
"Wow, um, hello." Is this really the master? Ed thought. "He's shorter than I ever was- aw man, I just called myself a tiny little pipsqueak." Ed cried. He heard a few giggles around him after he said that.
The master walked off to address the guild as a whole from the balcony. At first it seemed as though the master was really pissed off at them. But then Ed realized that it was more or less a scolding, one that was almost immediately rebuked by the Master himself. Wait did that pink haired guy really just eat fire? Oh wow, General Mustang would never believe him.
As the Master of the guild continued with his speech Ed kind of wanted to pull out a pen and paper so he could take notes on how they believed magic worked. How "It is a talent that only works when the flow of energy inside of us and the flow of energy in the natural world are in perfect synchronization. To perform magic one must have a strong mind and the ability to focus." He almost let himself think, I wonder if I could learn some type of magic.
But of course he immediately corrected himself; there is no such thing as magic. It must come to these people from the time they are born. It must flow in their veins or something... I wonder-
Ed's thoughts were cut short by Mira asking if he was hungry or thirsty. She led him over to the bar and sat him down near a strange couple, a blonde and that pink haired guy. The girl seemed worried about the guy but he looked like he was putting on a brave face until the blonde gave him a look that made even Ed cringe a little. The poor guy caved and started telling her where he was sore.
It was actually pretty cute, when he admitted he hit his head she kissed it and then the guy caught on and got a mischievous glint in his eyes. He pointed to his cheek and she kissed it, he pointed to his nose and she kissed it, then he looked at her and pointed to his lips and she laughed but kissed him. It was actually quite touching, Ed grinned. He'd have to remember that, maybe Winry would fall for it too.
"Oh don't mind Natsu and Lucy, they just started dating a few months ago. They still act like that whenever they are in the same room, it's pretty sweet." Mira told him as she put his plate in front of him and gave him a mug of water.
"Yeah, they look like they suit each other. It just makes me miss Winry though; she's back home, probably working even though she needs a break."
"What kind of work does she do?" Mira asked.
"She's an auto mail engineer; she makes prosthetic limbs. She actually designed my leg back when we were kids."
"Oh I'm sorry to hear that you lost your leg."
"Don't be, it's actually a pretty good reminder."
"A reminder for what? If you don't mind me asking."
"That man cannot and should not try to play God. It's actually a really long story." He kind of hoped she wouldn't ask, he didn't need an hour of story telling.
"Maybe, you could tell it sometime. My sister, Lisanna, is actually dating a guy with a prosthetic left arm. His name is Heckler, he's actually a gun mage but he works in a bounty hunter guild." Mira seemed to realize he didn't really want to get into it at the moment and Ed was grateful that she changed the topic.
"Do you know if they will be visiting anytime soon? I told Winry I'd take pictures of all the auto mail I came across, she's a bit of a gear head."
"I'm afraid not, they left yesterday to visit his guild. Apparently someone had found his guild and attacked, they are bringing reinforcements to his guild's aid. They could be gone for months, it doesn't help matters that the journey itself is pretty long but they also have to cover their tracks and make sure no one follows them."
"Ah I understand. I hope they are successful."
"Oh don't worry, they have a group of Fairy Tail wizards with them that are more than capable of taking out whole platoons of soldiers."
All of the sudden something blue flashed in Ed's peripheral vision. He snapped his head to the side to keep it in view. It was...a cat?
"Oh Lucy, I hurt my forehead too!" What! A talking cat? The cat was - hovering? It had wings too?
Ed blinked his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things. Nope, there was definitely a talking blue cat hovering between that couple from earlier, what was their names again?
"Oh, ok Happy." The girl (Lucy?) kissed his forehead with a laugh. Then the cat skipped his cheek and nose and pointed right to his mouth.
"Oh no you don't Happy." The guy lightly pushed the cat out of the way and hugged Lucy to his side. "I'm afraid she's all mine, and I don't like to share."
"But Natsu! You said everything was fifty fifty with us!" The cat cried.
"We'll that's too bad, you can't split a person so Lucy doesn't count. Everything else is fifty fifty."
"Excuse me? What about me not counting?"
"I didn't mean it like that and you would know that if you were paying attention to the whole conversation! Happy is trying to cut you into two and share."
"Oh, well I guess I'm glad I don't count in that sense." Lucy hugged Natsu closer and rested her head in the crook of his shoulder, burying her nose into his white scarf.
"He liiiiikeesss you!" The cat overemphasized.
Lucy looked up at Natsu and their eyes met. "I know." She said with a grin, Natsu easily returned her grin with a smile that reminded Ed of his own.
After a moment Ed realized he was staring and went back to eating his food. It was actually pretty good but he couldn't taste it any more. His mind was on Winry, there wasn't enough room left for his brain to process the taste.
"So where are you from again?" Mira asked.
"Well, I doubt you've ever heard if it but I'm from a country to the east if here called Amestris."
"You're right I've never heard of it. How far away is it?"
"Maybe a three week journey by train, but nonstop I bet you could make it in a little over two weeks."
"Did you say train?" Ed looked over to Natsu who had asked. The guy looked positively green.
"Well yeah, how else would I get there? It's a pretty long trip." Natsu was turning an even more violent shade of green. Ed wondered what he'd said.
"Sorry about him," Lucy said. "Natsu here is pretty prone to motion sickness. Even the thought makes him sick. I'm Lucy in case you hadn't heard, the blue cat is Happy, and my boyfriend the barf bag here is Natsu."
"It's nice to meet you all, I'm Edward Elric."
"So are you a wizard?"
"Actually no, I was an alchemist but now I'm just a traveler."
"An alchemist? Does that mean you were like a potion master or something?" Happy asked.
"Actually no. I'm actually from pretty far away I didn't even start hearing of wizards outside of fantasy books until just a few weeks ago. Alchemy is the metaphysical science of manipulating and altering matter by using natural energy. When you perform alchemy it is known as transmutation. For every transmutation you must have a circle and you then must provide the materials that what you want to make is made of. Alchemy is never something to take lightly, there are rules. The most important being the law if equivalent exchange, to get something you must give something of equal value." Ed took a out a pen and paper from his pocket and sketched a perfect transmutation circle, the first one he had learned.
"Can you show us?"
"I would if I could; I lost the ability to perform alchemy almost three years ago."
"I'm sorry."
"Don't be, I gave it up for a good reason."
"So, you said that you are from Amestris," Mira said. "I imagine you traveled pretty far, did you pass any notable places?" Wow Ed thought she is really good at sensing when to change the topic.
"There's always Creta which is an interesting place but that was the first country I traveled through outside of Amestris. I also passed through a pretty violent country called Galvin; I didn't stay long, I would strongly recommend not going there if you can help it."
"Oh you passed through Galvin? Are they still at war with Wengale?"
"Um I'm not sure, I passed through as quickly as I could."
"We had a job there once protecting a princess of Wengale from the forces Galvin, I don't really remember what happened though, it was quite some time ago."
"I passed through Wengale as well, it was full of extremely helpful and kind people."
"I would expect nothing less from the citizens if Wengale." Mira said with a fond look on her face.
"But you haven't told us why you've come all this way, what was the reason behind this journey that you decided to go on?" Asked Lucy.
"Actually my brother Alphonse and I decided to travel the world and meet back in our home town of Resembool in a year. Al went east and I went west. We wanted to learn all we can and bring that knowledge back home with us."
"If you are traveling west you can't go much further than the coast of Fiore, unless you are willing to go off into the ocean." Lucy said, Natsu's head fell into her lap as his cheeks puffed out.
"No, I think I've traveled far enough. I miss Winry, I haven't spoken with her in a little over nine months now. I will probably stay here in Magnolia for a while before heading home. I want to try to learn about this magic of yours."
"Well there is no better place in all of Magnolia to learn about magic than where you are standing."
"Really? You mean you guys wouldn't mind?" Ed asked.
"Not at all, if you asked you could probably go on a mission or two and observe." Mira said
"Yeah, Natsu and I have been going on missions together as just the two of us ever since Erza left on an S-class mission last month. We wouldn't mind getting some extra jobs to show you what we can do. I'm sure when Erza returns we will be back to being Fairy Tail's strongest team and tackle some of the harder jobs and Erza will probably let you come if you want. But for now we will probably stick to the simpler ones where we can use our magic. I should forewarn you, Natsu is pretty much a wrecking ball so don't be surprised when he demolishes half a town."
"Hey!" Natsu protested, his head was still resting on Lucy's lap.
"Ok maybe only a quarter of the town." Lucy conceded; running her fingers through his spiky pink hair.
Ed laughed, "that would be great. I would really appreciate it."
"Then that settles it, we'll pick a job and head out tomorrow." Lucy said.
Natsu jumped up to his feet. "I'm all fired up!" He ran over to a large bulletin board full of papers closely followed by Happy.
"Come on we better make sure he doesn't pick one that's too crazy." Lucy said getting up off her stool.
"Alright, lead the way."
Chapter End
Until Next Time,
~Miketsukami-kun
This is the link for "The Phoenix's Talon":
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This is the link for "A Medieval Fairy Tail":
s/10437505/1/A-Medieval-Fairy-Tail
Or since thats not wanting to let me have the Fanfiction .net part in it just check out my favorites and they'll be there. You can also just add fanfiction.(removethis)net/ to the beginning but it doesn't like me today, messing up my bunnies and now my links ): oh well.
They are both really good and I strongly recommend checking them out, they are both extremely unique and well written.
Yay this is the longest chapter I've written so far! Yay hope you liked it enough to review (: I will try my best to update as soon as i can but Im not sure where its going to nest just yet, I have an overall plot idea but Im not sure what should come next right at the moment so bear with me for a bit.