Zeref meets the Trix
The next morning, Zeref thought he was the first one up from his bed. The night before was very trying, he had magically extended the inside of his house to fit the Winx Club with rooms for themselves. Each had its own bathroom, however that didn't help him with Stella who kept bugging him about going out today so that she could help design a better outfit for his date. Zeref headed down stairs for breakfast. Since he didn't know what to expect from the girls, he decided to fix them breakfast in order to persuade them to behave today. When he got down stairs and into the kitchen, however he didn't expect to find all of the Winx fixing breakfast for the entire house. "What is all of this," he asked with a small smile.
"We thought that we should make you breakfast as thanks for letting us stay here while we are on this planet." Bloom was the one to speak for the everyone, who nodded in agreement. Breakfast was two, sunny side up eggs with a choice of three bacon strips or two sausage patties. The drink was a glass of orange juice or milk. This was the spread for everyone, and looked like it was good enough to be served in a restaurant.
"Also Stella has something she would like to ask you." Flora added with a warning look to Stella. Flora had on a pink skirt that had leaves on it in a darker shade of pink, and a light green top that showed off her belly. While the skirt only came down mid-thigh and pink high heel shoes to show off her legs. As everyone else set down at the table to wait for everyone else, Stella stood in front of Zeref with a pleading look on her face.
After a brief moment of hesitation, and a deep breath, Stella finally spoke with a bow. "I would very much like to assist you in preparing for your date with Darcy. So if you would do me the great honor of helping you, I would very much appreciate it. So please allow me to go with you into town so that I can get a good idea of what the culture is here. It would help me know what kind of outfit to make, if you let me help." All this was said while she was still bowing her head with her hand folded over her skirt. Stella wore a orange skirt with a green top on.
For a moment Zeref had to think about his response before he could decide. "I will allow you all to go with me into town. I will also take you to the guild hall so that you can meet my fellow guild mate. As for letting you help me prepare for my date I will say yes, your help will be much appreciated." There were quite a few cheers after that wonderful sounding statement. "I would also like to thank you for breakfast," Zeref said with a bow of his own. After that he sat down at the table to eat a wonderful looking meal.
Just before they were about to eat, Natsu walked in as well. Bloom panicked saying, "oh crap, I forgot to fix some for your brother."
"Oh, don't worry about it. I will just get me something from the fireplace," was Natsu's casual reply. The look on the Winx Clubs faces was priceless, a mixture of confusion and dumbstruck. "What?"
"I don't think they have ever seen someone who eats from a fireplace, Natsu. If you girls wish to see what he is talking about, I suggest you follow him and see." With that the girls followed Natsu into the living room where he knelt down by the fireplace and lit it with stone. What the girls saw this day would haunt them years to come. They say Natsu sticking his hand into the fire and start chewing on the fire. He swallowed every single last spark that engulfed the fireplace.
When the girls ran back into the kitchen they almost knocked over Acnologia who had just came down for breakfast. "He eats fire!" Was Stella's huge exclamation when she suddenly appeared beside of Zeref.
"Yes he does, he is what is known here as a dragon slayer. They can eat whatever their element is. In Natsu's case he is a fire dragon slayer, and Acnologia is an apocalypse dragon slayer." Zeref simply stated as if it were no big deal. He had hoped that would be the end of that, not wanting to explain all of his past. For more emphasis on his hope he put an, "leave it alone for now," at the end of it. The girls nodded.
After breakfast was over and everyone was cleaning up from the table, Zeref left and went upstairs to get ready for the day. Everyone noticed how he stared out of a nearby window as though he was lost in thought. They knew what that meant, but said nothing until said person was out of earshot. Acnologia said, "Listen, I know that you girls noticed what he was doing. You shouldn't let your imaginations wonder, he was think of past mistakes with his brother. Not because he is love-struck, or whatever else you girls thought of. What happened with his brother and him was very dysfunctional, and none of your business. So don't press him on the matter because you will just make him angry, and when he is angry, he is able to make what I did in that illusion seem like a good thing." That was all he said when he walked upstairs to get ready himself.
"Maybe we should leave it alone. His best friend just said to leave it alone, and to be honest they both scare me to death. So let's not get on their bad side, by any means, ok." Bloom said with a full nod of agreement from everyone else.
Soon after that, the two boys came back downstairs with his standard black attire on. He walked over to everyone to explain the rules. "Alright listen closely to what I am about to tell you. When we are out you have to follow along with me and do exactly as I tell you without question. If the Trix decide to try and spy on us, then they would get suspicious if you walked as if you were like everyone else. I will send Acnologia ahead of us to the Guildhall to let us know if the Trix are there using telepathy. Flora you will be behind me at all time, two feet to the left and one foot behind. Bloom will be four feet directly behind me. Stella, Musa, Layla, and Tecna will be the order behind bloom. Single file line with two foot gap between each of you. Any questions," was the last thing said before he got a nod from everyone. "Good, we will head to the guild first, then we will walk around town so that Stella can familiarize herself with the fashion of this world."
With that they left his house and headed straight for the guild. On the way there they noticed how everyone was staring at them. It made them feel weird but didn't voice it so that they could keep their cover. The walk was slow and long, but eventually they got to the huge Guildhall. It was almost as big as Alfea with a great medieval castle feel to it. They weren't able to stare at it however, because they had to follow Zeref inside of it. Everyone was greeted with the sight of a huge fight about to break out between a guy in his boxers, a woman that somehow was able to turn her eyes into heart, and a woman with unbelievable white hair and huge bust. They were about to get into a fight with the all too familiar sight of the Trix.
"I don't care who you are or what your deal is, but you shouldn't ever say that to anyone." Was what they heard the white haired woman say. "If you want a drink, ask nicely for it. Not just yell out 'hey tramp, get me a glass of water." At that everyone in the guild, except for the strong, jumped to the back of the guild.
"Well if you don't want to be called a tramp, then don't dress like one. It isn't my fault that you don't know how to dress in a decent manner." Was what the witch Icy told her with a smirk on her face.
"To be honest you Ice slut, on this planet, that is decent attire." The guy in his boxers snapped back.
"Gray, Juvia, Mirajane." They herd Zeref say three names and looked at him in confusion. "Those are the names of the people that are about to finish the fight with the Trix. Gray is the one in his boxers. Juvia is the one directly behind him, she is also in love with him. Mirajane is the one with white hair, and is also the one that will easily beat the Trix with the least amount of effort."
"You stay out of this you nudist freak," Stormy snapped.
"Yeah, and what are going to do about it afro head," Juvia snapped back.
"We will freeze you and then electrocute you. So why don't the wet stripper combo here back off." That was the last thing that Stormy saw before she knocked back into a few benches.
"DON'T YOU EVER TALK TO MY GRAY LIKE THAT YOU AFRO BITCH." Yelled a furious Juvia which only escalated things when Icy tried to freeze her for that. Only she was cut off of the attack when an Icy wall got between her and Juvia.
"If you want a battle, then why not a fellow ice magic user." Gray responded, intrigued that he might get to test out his newly developed ice devil slayer magic.
"Fine by me stripper. Unless you want to frozen yourself, then I suggest you dodge this." Icy rose her hands above her head and created a massive sphere of ice magic before releasing it saying "Ice storm" causing a huge storm of ice to head straight for Gray.
Gray was not amused with this level of magic power. He simply got in his basic stance and said, "Ice make: hammer." With that a huge ice hammer formed in Gray's hands. He simply ran past the ice storm and was about to slam it into the ice witch's side. Until it was crushed into thousands of molecules. In the midst of all the commotion, no one noticed that Acnologia came in and protected Icy from the ice hammer.
The next words that Acnologia said shocked most people. "I am sorry for what Icy said to you. Her and I have a date tomorrow night and I would like it if she is left out of the hospital. At least until after we go out, so temporary truce." He stuck out his hand in a simple gesture of mutual understanding. Gray hesitated for a moment but accepted the hand and went with Mira and Juvia to go sit down somewhere else.
"Now that that has been settled, why don't we go find a place to sit," Zeref suggested. With that they all followed him and sat with him, Acnologia, and the Trix at a table. There was silence for a moment until Zeref spoke again. "I do realize that people here dress differently than you are use too. I would, however, appreciate it if you didn't start causing trouble." Icy was about to defend herself but Zeref started again. "I do realize she overreacted at the statement, but I also realize that it was still a pointless argument to get into." He got up from his seat and turned to where he was looking at them over his shoulder. "Now I have to go and talk to a few people about some things. I will need two of the slaves with me for reasons I don't want to get into. Do not get into trouble while I am gone, come along Flora and Stella." The three all left without another word.
"I was going to use Stella to dry this water off of me," Stormy complained.
"Just use Bloom to do it," Darcy said with an aggravated tone.
"What is wrong with you, and why didn't you stick up for us back there." Icy asked with an equally aggravated tone.
"Because Zeref was right on both account, and do you really want to piss off that dude. He beat the pixies without breaking a sweat." Icy was aggravated by what Darcy just said, but knew that she had a point.
Bloom and the other just thought at how really similar they all were. Bloom had said that not to long ago. They were all stunned by what they had just thought and said. None more so than Bloom.