Kane's POV
It was half an hour before Kadyn came back from hanging out with Nuri. She quickly ran to the bath house and freshened up, then met Lekha, Uta and I at the bar and we left.
As we were pretty far away from the guild, Fia yelled something like, 'Good luck at the tournament!' or something. I didn't really pay attention because my mind was on food.
"What restaurant are we going to?" I asked.
"We're going to a sandwich place just a few blocks away." Uta replied.
"Yeah, we thought we'd take you some place nicer, but we couldn't gather that much money from our parents, but the place we're going to has the best sandwiches in town!" Lekha smiled.
"The best sandwiches in town, huh? Sounds great!" I answered.
"And then we'll go to the bakery later, isn't that right Uta?" Lekha winked.
"Ummm… what?" Uta questioned. Lekha quickly elbowed her side and whispered into her ear. "I mean… Yeah! We're going the bakery right after." she said while rubbing her side and giving Lekha a glare. We reached the restaurant and walked in.
"Welcome!" a lady from behind the counter greeted.
"I'll order our sandwiches. Just find a table to sit at." Uta ordered. We followed Lekha to a table and sat down.
"Wait, don't we need to tell her what we want?" I reminded Lekha.
"Uta orders the custom sandwiches. I don't know what she orders, but it sure is good!" Lekha answered.
"Alright. I am trusting you on this. If the sandwich disappoints me, you will be the one to blame." Kadyn said menacingly.
"A-Alright." Lekha answered timidly.
"Here's the food." Uta said as she set a sandwich in front of each of us.
"Alright! Chow time!" I exclaimed. I started to devour the sandwich, not bothering to notice how tasty it was.
"K! Slow down! You're gonna cho…" Kadyn started before my choking interrupted her. "Kane!" Kadyn yelled.
"I got this." Uta mentioned while taking a bite of her sandwich. "Iron Dragon, club!" she yelled, hitting me in the back. I expected the hit to hurt a lot more, but it didn't. I immediately was able to swallow the piece of sandwich I was choking on and let out a sigh.
"Are you okay? Did Uta hurt you?" Kadyn asked.
"No, no. I'm fine. She didn't hit me that hard. Thanks Uta!" I smiled while shoving a mouthful of sandwich into my mouth. "This sandwich is great!" I managed to say with all the food in my mouth.
"Either talk or eat!" Kadyn yelled while punching me in the face. I fell back in my chair and land on the ground, twitching and grabbing my nose. "Kane is right though. These sandwiches are quite enjoyable. You may now be at ease, Lekha." I heard Kadyn say simply. A sigh came from Lekha's direction.
"Uta, don't you have anything to say?" Lekha asked while motioning to us. Uta avoided eye contact and started scratching the back of her head.
"Ummm…. You guys gotta know I don't do this sort of thing often, so don't get offended…. but ummmm…." Uta stammered. "I'm….. sorry." she finally managed to say. I quickly stood up.
"It's alright." I shrugged.
"No….. I was being pretty harsh out there and it…. wasn't necessary. I really do mean this apology, I... just... don't apologize often." she continued while rubbing the back of her head.
"It's alright! You did get us good sandwiches." I mentioned. I looked to Kadyn and waited for her reaction of Uta's apology. It seemed to be a long time before Kadyn finally answered.
"I accept your apology. Now, let's get the cheesecakes." Kadyn stated while getting out of her seat. She started walking towards the door and stopped. "Are you all coming?" she asked.
"Ummm…. Alright." Uta answered. We started walking towards the bakery and I noticed this was the same bakery Kadyn and I went to when we arrived in town.
"Looks like we have some familiar faces! Welcome!" The baker called.
"Hey mister baker!" I exclaimed.
"What did you two want from here?" Uta asked.
"Strawberry cheesecake." Kadyn answered.
"Alright. May we get two strawberry cheesecakes?" Uta asked.
"Coming right up!" The baker replied.
"Aren't you two getting anything?" I asked.
"Ummm…." Lekha started.
"What is it?" Kadyn asked.
"We…. don't have enough money to pay for our desserts. We used our whole allowance to buy dinner and your desserts." Lekha explained.
"I see. Well, as a thank you for you two apologizing, Kane and I would like you to have this." Kadyn began, equipping two bags of coins. "They each have 5,000 jewel." she explained.
"Woah! We can't take this!" Uta retorted.
"I insist. It warmed my heart to hear you both used your allowance to buy us dinner and dessert." Kadyn replied. "Kane and I must be getting on our way now. Thank you for the wonderful meal and dessert." she bowed. We ran outside of the bakery with the two cheesecakes Uta and Lekha got us. A smile peeked out from underneath my cloak.
"What are you smiling about?" Kadyn asked.
"Nothing. It's just that the thing you did back there, it was nice." I answered.
"I did what any normal grateful person would do." Kadyn replied simply.
"Hahaha. Alright." I said while putting my hands behind my head as we slowed to a walk..
Uta's POV
I held the bag of money in my hand. How did they just give us this money like it was nothing? I looked inside of the bag to see if it was just a prank. I counted the coins and found out they hadn't lied!
"They sure are nice for giving us this much money." Lekha giggled.
"...Yeah." I said. Tears started to fill my eyes. "I gotta go." I told Lekha.
"Wait! Aren't you going to get some dessert?" she asked.
"Not now! Maybe some other time." I snapped back, I didn't want her to see me cry. I ran outside of the shop with my bag of money in one hand, the other wiping the tears away. I ran into a nearby forest and sat at the trunk of a tree, letting the tears fall. What Lekha and I did was something small. It wasn't that great of an apology meal and Lekha and I used our allowance money we had for a few months. Which wasn't much, but it was all we had, and they thanked us by giving us way more than we used for the meal. I really don't deserve the money and I don't deserve them accepting my terrible apology. How can they be so nice to me after I hurt them like that? The tears streamed down my face, and I couldn't stop crying. I knew for a fact my dad would be disappointed in me for crying. That's why I hid underneath this tree. I couldn't let anyone see me cry, especially him
Uta's Flashback POV
"Uta." someone said while shaking me awake. "Uta, it's time to get up hun." the voice said again. I opened my eyes to see my mother, Levy, sitting by my bed.
"Good morning! Breakfast is ready. Let's go." my mother continued. I hurried to the bathroom and brushed my teeth, then ran to the kitchen and sat at the table. My mother then placed a plate of pancakes in front of me, and poured me a glass of milk. I grabbed the bottle of syrup and started pouring it all over my pancakes until the whole thing was covered. I cut a piece of the pancake and brought it to my mouth, seeing the piece was dripping with syrup, just the way I like it!
"Did you want some pancake with that syrup?" my mother asked jokingly. We both laughed in unison.
"What's the big idea here?" a voice groaned from behind me. I turned to see it was my father, Gajeel.
"We're just having some breakfast." Mom replied, still snickering about her joke.
"But do you two need to be so loud?" he asked.
"C'mon Mr. Grumpy and just eat your food and drink your coffee." my mother said while setting a cup and plate right next to me. My father started grumbling and sat in the seat next to me.
"Good morning Daddy!" I announced to him. He just looked at me, then looked at my plate.
"Why did you let her pour that much syrup on her pancakes?" he asked angrily.
"Gajeel! Did you even say good morning to Uta? She can have as much syrup as she wants." my mother replied. I finished my pancakes and started walking towards the sink. Suddenly, I slipped on some water that was on the floor, causing my plate and cup to slip out of my hands and shatter on the ground.
"Damn it! Look at what you did? Watch where you're stepping next time!" my father yelled at me. I looked down while my eyes started filling up with tears. I tried getting up, but slipped again and fell on the glass, causing cuts to appear on my arms and hands..
"Damn it kid! Did you not just hear me? Watch where you step!" he continued to yell at me. Tears started to fall down in streams from my eyes as I sat in the place I fell. Blood started to pour out from my cuts.
"Gajeel! Are you kidding me?" my mother yelled. "Our daughter is hurt. Did you bother to see if she's fine or try to help her up?" she asked.
"She's fine! She's an Iron Dragon Slayer!" he retorted. My mother lifted me off of the floor.
"Are you alright?" she asked me. I nodded my head, wiping the tears from my eyes. "Apologize Gajeel!" she yelled.
"Why should I apologize? She broke one of my plates and a glass!" he yelled.
"Ugh! You're hopeless!" she yelled. "Let's get you cleaned up." she told me. "Go to the bathroom and I'll be there in a bit." I nodded and started walking towards the bathroom.
"Why do you have to be such a jackass? That was your daughter! Our daughter! Why couldn't you just apologize?" she argued.
"Apologizing just ain't my thing." he said whiling eating a piece of his pancake. I looked back and saw my mother grabbing my father's cup, than pouring it on his head.
"Ow! That's hot!" he yelled.
"I'm going to clean up MY daughter's cuts. Enjoy your breakfast." she stated. She started to turn around, so I ran inside to the bathroom and waited for her. She let out a sigh, grabbed the first-aid kit, before kneeling down to look at my cuts. "Let's get those cuts cleaned up." she told me with a smile.
Uta's POV
I snapped out of my thoughts and stood up. I walked backed to the bakery and bought a dessert, and walked back to the guild. I walked inside and found an empty seat near Rai, Calder, Astin, Lekha, Ambu and Derwin, who were having a conversation at the moment. I walked over and sat down in the empty seat. The group immediately became quiet.
"So, ummm, yeah, let's go do that one thing." Ambu said.
"Oh yeah. Let's go." Calder answered.
"C'mon you guys." Rai said. Everyone at the table got up and followed Rai outside. I stayed in my spot, knowing Rai was not including me in the "thing" they were up to. I sat there not bothering to open up my box with the desert dessert. I don't know why I try to fit in and be friends with them. They always come up with these excuses or make fun of me. I'm not sure why they hate me or if they hate me, but I couldn't care less at the moment. I was hoping I could share this dessert with them so they could warm up to me.
A cloaked figure came up and sat by me.
"Hello." The figure that sounded like Kadyn greeted.
"Hey." I replied in shock.
"Can I sit here?" Kadyn asked.
"I guess." I said plainly. I'm glad Kadyn sat by me. I don't know why I'm trying to act cool. Ugh. I'm so stupid. I covered my face in frustration. She pulled out the cheesecake I bought her and summoned a fork out of thin air.
"I thought you could only do that with your armors and weapons." I said.
"I guess you can say this is somewhat of a weapon." Kadyn stated jokingly. "Why are you sitting alone?"
"I just found this empty table and sat down." I lied.
"It's alright Uta, I won't judge or ridicule you. I did see what happened. What I meant to ask was why would they leave without you?" Kadyn questioned. I looked at her in awe, then looked down sadly, staying silent the whole time.
"It's alright that you don't answer. You don't need to if it pains you to answer." Kadyn continued.
"Hey Kadyn!" Nuri exclaimed, sitting by the cloaked figure. "What do you have there?"
"Strawberry cheesecake. Uta bought it for me." Kadyn replied.
"Oh really? Can I have some?" he asked.
"Sure." Kadyn replied. Kadyn carefully cut a slice of cheesecake, put it on a plate, and gave it to Nuri. "Would you like a piece?" Kadyn turned to me.
"...Yes…. please." I said. Nuri quickly ate the cheesecake, then looked at the box that was sitting in front of me.
"What do you have Uta?" he asked. I opened the box to show him what was inside.
"Ooooo! Can I have some?" He pleaded.
"...Sure." I stated. I gave him some of my dessert and looked to Kadyn. "... Would you like some Kadyn?" I asked.
"I would gladly have some. Thank you." Kadyn responded. I gave Kadyn a pancake and a bottle of syrup.
"What is this?" she asked. I looked to Nuri to see if she was serious.
"Kadyn and Kane lived in a forest. Some foods are new to them." He answered with his mouth full.
"Okay. Well this is called maple syrup. You put this on pancakes." I explained.
"Okay, so how much do you put on?" Kadyn questioned.
"As much as you want, I guess." I answered. Kadyn opened the bottle of syrup and examined it, then put a swirl of it on the pancake.
"Like that?" Kadyn asked.
"Yup." I replied. Kadyn handed me the bottle of syrup and I opened the bottle and poured it until the whole thing was smothered with syrup. "Just the way I like it." I commented to myself quietly.
Soon, another cloaked figure sat down and enjoyed the dessert Lekha and I bought them and later, Fia sat down. It was a small group, but our laughing could be heard throughout the whole guild. Kane, Fia, and Nuri did most of the joke telling and Kadyn and I laughed and listened to their crazy stories. I had a great time hanging out with them. They were fun people and I enjoyed their company.
It was getting late now, and close to curfew.
"Looks like you all are having fun." A voice from behind chuckled. I turned to see my mom smiling.
"Hello. I'm Levy, Uta's mom." she introduced. "We better start heading home, hun." she told me.
"Alright." I answered.
"Bye! Hope you all have a good night." my mother said.
"Good night!" they all replied. Kadyn quickly stood up out of her seat and walked towards me. "Let's all hang out tomorrow." Kadyn stated.
"...Okay." I replied. Tears threatened to fill my eyes, but I held my emotions in. "Let's go, mom." I stated.
Kadyn's POV
We all watched as Uta left.
"We should start getting ready for bed ourselves." I told Kane.
"Yeah. We have a big day tomorrow." he said while looking at Fia.
"Hahaha! Oh yeah! I completely forgot we we're competing in the finals!" she replied while rubbing the back of her neck. "We should get some sleep too."
"We? What do you mean ,'We?' I'm not competing." Nuri mentioned.
"What I mean is we gotta go home." Fia corrected.
"Aww. Alright." Nuri groaned sadly.
"Good luck tomorrow." I told Fia.
"Thanks. Good luck to you too." She replied.
I took a bath right after Kane was done with his. I let the hot water soak my skin. The soap I used smelled raspberries. It put a light tinge of pink to the bath water. The water soothed the soreness I had on my side. Soon enough, I had no sign of injury. I heard some voices coming from outside of the bath house.
"Hey Rai, aren't you in the finals? Maybe you should get some sleep." A voice sounding like Astin said.
"I don't need sleep. Fia and I already won the fight. It's not like the cloaked freaks are going to be a challenge anyways." A voice sounding like Rai replied.
"Ummm… Rai? I wouldn't underestimate them. Uta and I thought we were gonna win for sure, but they beat us up pretty bad." A voice sounding like Lekha warned.
"You and Uta are pathetic. You didn't even use any of your magic!" Rai yelled.
"Well yeah but.." Lekha started.
"You're a nobody now. Leave this group, or else." Rai warned. I quickly got out of the bath, drained the water, dried myself and got into my cloak to look out of the window. The whole group stood behind Rai and were all aiming their magic at Lekha. One ice wizard, one snow wizard, one celestial wizard, one take over wizard, and one lightning dragon slayer, all combining their magic….. on one single wizard. Their friend. Their fellow guild member.
"Rai.. please don't." Lekha said shakily.
"If you don't leave, we will attack with no hesitation." Rai warned. Lekha didn't move from her spot. C'mon Lekha. Move!
"Tch. I warned you." Rai said simply while the lightning surrounding his whole body intensified. "Attack!"
Lekha's POV
"Attack!" Rai yelled. I couldn't move. This would be the end of me.
"Open, the gate of the paired fish, Pisces!" Astin yelled. The fish slithered out of the magic circle and circled him, awaiting his order. The rest of them all got in their stances, magic emitting from every single one of them.
"Take over, Belcusas!" Derwin said. Uncle Elfman taught him that. I would have to use Mom's take over, Satan's Soul, but I can't manage to transform!
"Last chance." Rai said sheepishly.
"Please! Stop this!" I yelled.
"Ugh! I've given you so many warnings. I really didn't want to do this, but you leave us no choice. Unison Raid!" Rai yelled. The armored Derwin quickly jumped on Pisces and raised his black sword. Lightning and snow started to encircle the sword and ice covered my feet and was also used to make armor for Pisces. Pisces came rushing towards me as I struggled to break free of the ice.
"STOP! PLEASE!" I pleaded. Derwin and Pisces were only feet away. This would truly be the end of me. I closed my now watering eyes, accepting the horrible fate that awaited me The sound of glass shattering filled the air. I looked up only to see a hooded figure holding a huge shield that connected to their hands and feet.
"I think one against five is a bit unfair. Wouldn't you agree?" The cloaked figure, sounding like Kadyn, asked while looking back to me. "Even though I am still new to Fairy Tail, I do understand that we are one big family. Is this how you should treat family?" Kadyn questioned.
"This doesn't concern you." Ambu said simply.
"When a fellow guild member is in danger, it should be everyone's concern. Go home now, or suffer the consequences." Kadyn warned.
"What are you going to do? You're weak!" Ambu yelled.
"That's very humorous coming from someone I defeated in the tournament." Kadyn snickered. Ambu immediately became quiet and hid behind the group.
"...Let's go." Rai ordered.
"What!?" the group called in unison.
"I said let's go! We don't need to waste our time on a couple of weaklings like them." Rai stated while walking away. The group stared at Kadyn in shock, then back to Rai and followed him into town. The ice soon disappeared, but I stood in the same place.
"Are you alright?" Kadyn asked turning towards me.
"...Yeah. I'm fine….. Thank you" I answered.
"Good. Well, I better get some sleep. Good night." Kadyn replied while walking towards the dorms.
"Good night." I said quietly.
Kane's POV
I laid in my bed awake, waiting for Kadyn to come back.
"What's taking her so long?" I asked myself. As if on cue, Kadyn walked through the doors and laid down on her bed.
"Where were you?" I questioned her.
"In the bath house." She said simply.
"Took you long enough." I joked. "Good night."
"Good night." She replied.
"Good morning everyone! Today is the day of the S-Class Finals between Kadyn and Kane, and Rai and Fia. Are both teams ready?" Mirajane announced. We all nodded our agreement. "The match can now begin!"
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