The next day.
Natsu wasn't sure what time it was, he just knew it was very early and the sun hadn't risen above the horizon yet, he didn't sleep that night as he didn't feel like he needed to. He was content with not sleeping, he didn't feel any different after anyway. He got up from his dangerous position sitting on a small-ish branch that he couldn't sit down on properly, he had one dangling a leg down the side of the branch from the lack of space, and with the other resting peacefully on the branch, he stood up silently, taking a moment to as he looked at the scenery, he was sat on a lone tree at the top of a small hill in the middle of a poppy field with grains of wheat co-existing with them, the area smelled great and had a beautiful view as he jumped down from the tree setting off towards the guild. The walk was a lot shorter than he thought it would be making him even more early then he needed to. Surprisingly Gildarts and a tall blonde haired man with a scar above an eye stood in front of the broken guild. They were the only ones there. It was still very early as Gildarts brought out the plan for the building, Natsu popped up curiously making both of them jump and Laxus throw a surprised punch, it was slapped away like nothing, as Gildarts welcomed the mage back. "Finally, it's 05:00 am I thought you weren't coming." He said grinning at the death mage. Natsu rolled his eyes at the brunette. Remembering at how dramatic the crash mage could be. Laxus stood there a little taken back at the mage who didn't care for Laxus's punch at all. But shook his mind free, composed himself and looked at the blue-print to not look stupid and keep his cool personality.
To Erza!
((((ERZAS POV))))
She woke slowly, rubbing her eyes and prompting herself up on both elbows before sitting up against the queen sized bed frame. She took the glass of water sat next to her on her bedside table as she took a sip of the cold water waking her up room was not exactly plain, it had loads of purple and pink fluffy toys that didn't fit her personality that well also had a memorable picture of all the guild members (Without Natsu) on the wall hanging up everyday. She looked at the clock high up on the side wall of her bedroom. "11:00?!" She yelled looking at the clock, she was tired from all the questions and explanations she gave, along with the journey. She jumped out of bed, hopped in the shower quickly washing herself, doing her daily wash routine. Re-quipping into her normal attire.
She arrived at the guild only moments later to see that all the Fairytail males were working tirelessly as the sun was bearing down on them, almost all of them had taken their shirts off, except the master and Natsu. (Who wasn't an official member yet.) Only a few stronger people worked on the actual building as most were outside fitting the new swimming pool, or decorating how the girls were ordering them too whilst some were still injured from yesterdays fight.
She spotted Natsu standing flying in mid air holding a support beam as Laxus and Gildarts welded the red iron beam to the rest of the first floor flooring. They had finished the first floor support beams and were starting on the flooring of the first floor, with only 4 people doing this was very time consuming and soon most were de-hydrated and needed to take a break, Natsu was hot, he'd still had his full kit on but didn't dare take it off. He thought it might be too risky being apart from his equipment in an unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people.
"Master!" Mirajane shouted up to the man fitting the wooden floorboards with a larger body than normal. "Come down for a break now! Food has been prepared."
She yelled up, making all the men drop down through the floor they hadn't boarded up.
The four men looked towards Mira who was standing next to the table full of food. They all sat down and began eating, thanking Mira for the meal individually as she placed more food in front of them. Natsu felt the Master sometimes check to see what Natsu doing, he knew he didn't trust Natsu after all. What, with his sudden and such appearance. It didn't bother Natsu much at all though, he was used to it, just ignored it as they felt the cool breeze passed through their hair ruffling each strand blowing freely, they were forced to eat in a small clearing, because of the guilds development, it was dirty and had sawdust everywhere from they cut the floor boards, (Mostly Natsu with his sword or other members with Larcima saws).
Natsu finished first eating the last of the stew that he had been given, waiting patiently for the others to finish too, constantly watching people behind him not to let his guard down or allow the chance to be surprise attacked, all the other men were still eating as Mira walked towards their table seeing Natsus plate was empty, "Was it nice?" Mira asked with her warm smile, Natsu nodded and gave a small grateful smile towards the white haired mage, she picked up his plate, "I'll get you some more for saving Elfman and I, for free of course" She said walking towards the bar. "When'd ya save her" Laxus asked as he looked towards the death mage with a raised eyebrow. "Dark guild invasion" He said plainly as Mora walked back with another plate and a small loaf of bread next to it. "Thank you very much Mirajane-san" He said politely digging into more food as the other men watched jealous that they didn't get an extra plate full for free. Laxus's stomach rumbled causing Natsu to look up, Natsu broke the bread in half as he gave the other to Laxus hesitating as Laxus reached out to grab it and pulling back a little but gave it to him. He didn't like unnecessary contact with others.
Laxus grinned, "Thanks Natsu" He said eating the bread like a wild animal. Natsu finished eating everything quickly only moments later then Laxus as the group of men got ready to get back to out of the blue started pestering Natsu asking why he always wore his armour, "You're just like Erza, cool down, nothing's gonna happen here." Laxus said whining his voice like a child. The two men telling him to remove his armour complaining that he always made them feel bad for taking the easy option, he gave into their demands and removed his gear, shocking everyone watching as he unpacked 6 hidden throwing knives, a collapsible bow hidden underneath the two swords and 5 arrows and a few smoke bombs. He finally took off his combat vest and shirt revealing a strong physique and a toned body He could see most of the guild members staring at him and the weapons. After un-arming himself Natsu noticed two male guild members complaining to the master about how much they wanted to work in the main building construction too. There was a small girl behind them with blue hair and a book in her hands that was trying to tell them to stop being childish...
Natsu placed his gear down on 'his' seat, quite separated from the main guild members, (which was what he wanted) however the two men had decided to follow him placing their seats next to his. Natsu didn't like the fact that the small boy. 'Romeo, was it?' Was hanging around his equipment and kept an eye on the boy and anyone close to it.
"It's not fair! I can help you so much more with my plant magic" A chubby looking man shouted to the master standing right in front of him, "No," A thin man interrupted, "I could help you far more than this oaf." The smaller man said jolting his finger in the mans direction. An obvious rivalry going on between them.
"Thats enough" The guild master said stopping all whining dead in it's tracks, "Jet, Erza has need of you to go buy decorations in the next town from here, unless you want to disobey a direct order from the Mighty Titania" Makarov said emphasising the 'Mighty' getting him to shiver running to what ever job he needed to do "and Droy..." Makarov said trying to think of an excuse apart from. 'You're too weak', He thought for a minute looking at the sad-looking Droy start blubing and sniffing uncontrollably... "Fine" the old man gave motioning everyone to jump up to the the first floor.
They had to put more support beams down to start the second floor and they had put just enough wooden planks to make it around without falling down a hole, occasionally having to jump from one side to the other where the gap hadn't been filled. The work was tiring and stressful, Droy was not coping well at all. He started using his plant spell to pick up another heavy Iron support beam, even though he was suppose to bring up wooden planks, and lost concentration dropping it accident, right from on top of the master, Laxus immediately jumped in the way using his own body as a shield as Guildarts was on the other side of the giant castle like building, Natsu didn't have any equipment, nor could he use magic it would destroy the beams they were standing on harming everyone around him,( not that he cared all to much) First impressions you know?
Natsu jumped forward quickly making a decision as Laxus waited for the pain to arrive, the entire guild turned to look at that precise moment from Droy scream in shock of dropping the giant beam, there was a strange sound that rang through everyone's ears minds as they waited for the crash to come, it hadn't crashed to the floor, but it hit something, and that something prevented it from falling completely. Natsu had put arm up as he stood above Laxus, protecting him from being hit and killed, he struggled to hold his arm up in the air, bearing the wait, he couldn't drop it either, the ground was still unstable and he just had to hold it, his second-hand came up immediately to try and stop it from falling, on any other cases he'd be able to lift it, but he was off-balance and his arm was hurt badly, he kept holding onto the beam not letting it harm the others, he gritted his teeth at the effort and pain he was in, was breath-taking, falling to one knee he finally had a last push moving it away from Laxus and the Master as Gildarts rushed over and picked up the Iron beam and placed it down softly and safely checking to see if everyone was okay.
As Natsu finally let go of the beam as he let his arms flop to the sides, his arm had already turned blue from the massive height and momentum the beam hit him with adding to it's weight. Laxus helped Natsu up as he looked towards the mage concerned for his health. Natsu didn't like Droy before for being loud and annoying, but now he despised him completely, as he flexed his bruised arm glaring daggers at the chubby man, Droy cried like a baby screeching about how he almost killed the Master,(Which pissed Natsu off even more) while Cana, (who had just arrived) told him that's what he gets for taking a job too hard for him. And verbally beating him to a pulp. She walked closer seeing Natsu's arm bright blue and looking painful, Natsu face hadn't changed from before, he still had an angry look on his face as he wanted to annihilate Droy.
Everyone watched as he sat on 'his' seat, in silence as Natsu inspected his arms condition, deciding it was pretty bad as he tested out each fingers movement, the master had no idea what had happened at all, when all of a sudden someone jumped on him covering his body, so he asked Laxus, who quickly filled him in completely, after just seconds later he had seen a tall women with bright pink hair and a red cloak walked up to the Master, not bothering with comforting the man, at all. "I see you almost killed yourself letting weak people join in on jobs they can't handle again" She said bluntly. The master looked down, ashamed, he should have never let him do something out of his limits. And looked like a child being scolded as streaks of anime tears burst out hid eyes.
"However." She paused "you may have a very loyal new member too I see," she said watching Natsu flex his arm. Makarov looked at the soon-to-be member and smiled, he trusted him fully now. "I suppose I do." he said looking at Natsu who grabbed his knife, causing most guild members to freak out and instantly jump on him. Causing Makarov to nervously laugh as they saw Natsu burst through the pile of body's shaking them off assuring he wasn't going to harm Droy... Even though he really wanted to. Too many people were looking at him and he didn't like it at turned the knife to his own bruise as he cut into it, blood leaking out, the guild were all shock at what they were seeing as blood dropped quickly from his arm, the bruise however was disappearing. If it weren't for the cut, it looked better.
"WHAT THE HELL YOU DOING? IDIOT!" Gildarts shouted to a Natsu only inches away,
"Bruises are caused by burst blood vessels, therefore getting rid of the blood means that it'll heal quickly."He finished cutting the bruise up as he said as he took bandages from his pouch with his spare arm, starting to wrap them around his injured arm, Natsu felt a shiver down his spine as he heard a wave of people scattering away from the area in front of him. "Out of my way lazy humans." An elderly women said to the crowd watching Natsu. She shoved Jet into the dirt and walked to Natsu grabbing his arm roughly taking the bandages off. "Smart, but foolish" She said reaching into her own pouch and taking a green pot out swabbing her fingers with the cream like substance. Natsu wasn't used to someone doing this, his father the only person bothering to help him recover from an injury. Though nothing dared to try to hurt him (because of his father)it was always accidental.
The dragon lady finished just moments later as the cut healed instantly from the gel and the bruise was gone, he flexed it again watching his hand move about, it felt fine, but it still hurt every once in a while. There was a silence as he looked at his arm, steam was created from the cream as it healed, before moments later it felt as good as new. " you." He said noticing the freight she caused amongst the others. "Damn humans!" She shouted. Turning around him whacking him in the face with her cloak, "I came here to help the wounded from yesterdays events, are you going to show me where they are or do you plan on just standing there Makarov?" She hissed looking back at Natsu for a slight moment then away towards the old man again. "O-oh...Of course, thank you for coming." Makarov said rubbing the back of his head from her comment earlier.
There was utter silence among the others as the two walked off to the medical camp, "I think you should leave this to us Droy." Guildarts said as he watched Natsu stretch. "How's the arm?" Laxus asked looking at it, "I'm ready to get back to work if that's what you're asking" Natsu said, watching the (how did you know?) grin appear on the lightning mages face. He was a lot more comfortable around the two men now and talked freely,(Ish) there was another crash and rustle behind the group of watching people as Erza came through kicking Jet (Poor guy) flying into a sky, she stepped forward, being told what happened from Mira towards Droy as he burst into tears awaiting the pounding he was going to receive.
"YOU, ALMOST, KILLED, THE MASTER." she yelled beating him up then started kicking his crying figure on the floor after every word. She turned to a Laxus who froze in an instant. "Jump out the way! Fool, don't just stand there!" She said giving him a hard knock to the head, giving a large bump on his head, "Gildarts!" She turned to the man. Guildarts tried not to act scared but really he was scared to death of an angry Erza. "When someone weaker than you is carrying the heavier equipment don't you think you should change that?!" She stepped on his foot later head butting the man in the nose. He couldn't reply saying Droy wasn't meant to be taking the Iron beams because of the overwhelming pain. "Natsu!" She looked at him her eyes bright red from anger. "AYE" Natsu screeched then pouting. 'Aye?' He thought in his head.
She raised her hand and curled it into a fist ready to punch him. "You can't hold up an Iron beam?! Don't be so dramatic!" She said, she looked at him for a moment, connecting with his eyes as a faint red blush came into existence. "But well done." after noticing herself she lowered her fist walking away in a massive sulk. There was an awkward silence as Erza left, Natsu's life had paused as he felt the sun beating down on him, it had only been an hour since lunch so they had lots of work to do. The silence lasting for a while.
A few minutes as no one moved. Until a realisation past Natsus mind. "Right, so... I bet that hurt." Natsu's most (evil genius) grin appeared on his face, "It must really suck getting hit all the time" Natsu continued trying so hard to keep a straight face. He was rubbing it in the men's faces with comment after comment about how much that would have hurt. "Why didn't she hurt you?!" Gildarts screamed, "I'm not a member yet..." He said, continuing with, "Even though I'm building a damn guild for you" Natsu said stepping up against Gildarts again as their heads bumped. A spark of lightning battling against each others.
Natsu had good hearing, not dragon slayer hearing but very good hearing. He could hear whispers as the group around them dispersed, "Did he do something to Erza?" a man whispered in the background peaking his ears. "Has he hurt her before" Another asked, "Damn monster" He turned to the man who said that, it was the blue haired man, the one with the child Romeo, on any normal occasion he'd kill someone for such an insult. He started walking forwards then stopped feeling the 2nd generation dragon slayer lay a hand on his shoulder, shaking his head from side to side slowly.
"It's time to work guys" Laxus said walking back to the building, Natsu turned back to the blue haired man, catching his attention, his eyes widened as he realised that Natsu had heard and ran to go start another job in safety. "Oh and Droy," Gildarts added, looking at the bruised mans face, "We'll handle it, don't worry about it," He said basically firing him from the job he had before.
Hours past and the day slowly turned to the night, the members had mostly left already as it was getting dark, Laxus and Gildarts waved their goodby's to Natsu who was still working as everyone left. He didn't know why but he felt like he kinda wanted to do this and do it well,'Even if it is for the ignorant fools' He told himself whilst still working on the second floor walls, he took a five-minute break as he climbed to the top looking around at the city area that surrounded them, the placement of the guild was a little north from Magnolia as the buildings/homes, didn't extend to the guild yet. He inspected the building looking around to see a swimming pool, a flower garden, some benches and outside café to eat and drink at, with a gate starting to form, the first floor was completed after the first day after plastering and finishing touches. He felt the cool breeze pass through his hair again as he took a deep breath and started working again.