Cooro was now a butler of Lady Khara's mansion. And to everyone's surprise, he was really good at his job. His jobs were perpetual—having to clean the tapestries, having to clean the silverware, cleaning the furniture, and help with the cooking—each and every one he excelled at like he excelled with his
school grades.

Cooro met all the maids as he was searching through the mansion. But no matter how many he looked at he couldn't find one with a singular appearance to the one the ex-Fairy Tail member mentioned. A wife was a woman who you swear an oath to; they were in no way related to their suitors.

" How am I going to find that woman before tomorrow morning?" Cooro thought while he continued roaming the halls looking for the wife. " And what's the deal with this house? It will take me days to find everything here, and I only have until tomorrow to get to school. I will not be tardy. Never have and I never will. AND NO ONE'S GOING TO STOP M—"

" Excuse me," a maid said behind Cooro. Cooro shuddered at the sound of her voice and stood perfectly still like he was a statue. " Are you the new butler of Miss Khara? I'm Myra Triwind."

" Triwind? Wait, that old mans' last name was Triwind. Maybe she's the Triwind I've been looking for."

Cooro turned around and looked at the woman standing before him. And he was both surprised and scared seeing her. She was a cherry-red haired maid wearing the maid uniform. Her eyes were the color scarlet and reminded Cooro of the feathers of a phoenix.

" She used to be a member of Fairy Tail? She's just as scary as me."

" We get many people trying to become butlers around here," Myra said in a voice that made Cooro's throat become dry. Tell me, what would someone like you be doing here? Are you perhaps a spy trying to assassinate Lady Khara?"

" No! I-I…." Cooro looked behind his back and behind Myra's back to make sure there wasn't anyone but them in the halls. Cooro then grabbed the frills of Myra's hair and pulled her head down. " I'm looking for someone. She's the wife of Hyde Triwind."

" Hyde Triwind? Hydey actually sent someone out looking for me?"

" Wait, you mean to tell me you're his wife?"

" Yes. And not only is he endangering me but he's also endangering you sending you after me." Myra's eyes shined with stars as she stared flamboyantly at the ceiling. " But I guess it's that part of him that I love. Oh Hyde, where are you my Romeo? Love looks not with my eyes, but with my mind, And therefore I am winged Cupid painted blind."

" I was wrong. She's crazy not scary. She's basically the perfect member of Fairy Tail."

Myra's eyes finally stopped twinkling with stars and she stared at Cooro with her serious eyes. This time she grabbed Cooro's head and pulled his head down.

" Look, it's not safe here. You have to get out of here while you still can. I've been watching you and Lady Khara. I think Lady Khara's starting to like you. And whatever Lady Khara wants Lady Khara always gets."

Cooro and Myra heard a noise heading towards them. It sounded like it was frolicking towards them. Myra was filled with anxiety. She grabbed Cooro's shoulders, squeezed them, turning his body around and she pushed him away.

" Get out of here while you still can. Lady Khara's not a little girl. She's not even human. As far as she's concerned…we're nothing but dolls to her."

" Wait, what?"

" Run!"

Cooro and Myra reached the end of the hall. Myra opened the door for Cooro and pushed him through the door. She then slammed the door on Cooro directly on his face. Cooro pondered the events that just happened, turned around, and he "Gasp!" seeing Lady Khara standing behind him.

" Ah!"

Cooro was scared of Lady Khara. The very sight of her made him antsy and fearful. Cooro was about to turn around and open the door to get away from Lady Khara, but she stopped him as she touched his right cheek—her hands were so warm, moist they relieved all his anxiety.

" Is there something wrong with you, Cooro?" Khara asked in her sweet voice. "
You seem very skittish."

" What?" Cooro gawked at Khara. " Don't be ridiculous. There's nothing wrong with me. You just surprised me that's all."

" Good. By the way, it's lunchtime. Usually I order my maids to have a twenty minute lunch break together, but you can join me and the rest of my servants in my lunch quarters."

" Er, yeah, I can join you. But where is the lunch quarters?"

" Oh, silly me. I forgot you're new around here. I forgot I still have much to teach you. Just follow me. I'll lead the way."

XXX

Cooro sat with all seven of Khara's servants: Babo, EO, Hex, Samba, Sano, Ox, and Junichi. Cooro had to sit beside Babo which was bad because they both despised each other. Cooro smacked Babo's left elbow and Babo smacked Cooro's right elbow.

The food being served was soup. What they were having was a delicious Mediterranean-style fish soup known as bouillabaisse. Cooro looked at his more as a bisque, rich , thick, creamy soup which was puréed until smooth; chowder is similar by the chunks of fish in it.

Khara wasn't with them at the type. She was busy getting ready for lunch. Since she wasn't there, Babo had an opportune moment to harrier Cooro. He stretched his hand out and pushed Cooro's soup down. It oozed everywhere on the table.

" Aw, whoops," Babo laughed. " I'm sorry. I didn't mean to knock your soup. My hand just slipped."

" That's too bad," Cooro said as she stared down at his spilled soup. " I really wanted to have some. But I guess I can't help it if your hand slipped."

The doors to the room soon opened and Lady Khara walked inside. At the sight of her presence everyone stood up, bowed to her, and stayed that way while she walked to her chair. She still looked like a porcelain doll, but she wore a white gown and her gray hair cascaded down her head.

" Welcome, Lady Khara," all seven of her servants said in unison.

" Thank you," Khara smiled. " It's nice to be around all of you—"

Khara staggered. She was staring at Cooro and Babo. Cooro raised Babo's soup bowl over Babo's head and dripped the soup on his afro hair. The soup dripped down his hair and dripped all over his face. All six other servants staggered at the site of Babo with soup all over his face.

" Whoops. It seemed like my hand slipped as well," Cooro said while he poured the soup over Babo's head. " But hey, stuff happens, right?"

Babo didn't say anything to Cooro. He just stood up while he was boiling with anger, wiped the soup off his face, and turned around and grabbed Cooro's scarf still wrapped around his neck. Babo raised his other hand and made a fist out of it.

" I'm going to kill you—"

" Babo!" Khara shouted. Babo stopped at the sound of Khara's voice. He staggered and turned his head to Khara. " I was going to leave this until after lunch but since you two are done anyways, I'll need you to do a little something for me."

" Yes. What do you want from me, Lady Khara?"

" I'm looking for a key. There's a store not too far from here that sells Celestial Keys. Why don't you and Cooro go out and get that key for me."

" Yes. It will be done, Lady Khara." Babo tugged on Cooro's scarf and pulled him with him out of the door. " Come on, worthless, let's get a move on."

Babo and Cooro were both gone. Everyone else of Khara's servants just ignored them and continued eating their soups. But Khara, the mastermind behind the mansion, she smirked.

" Finally, I get to see just what my new servant is made of."

XXX

On the way to the store, Babo and Cooro were being attacked. It was another man trying to assassinate Lady Khara. He carried a rapier, was dark-skinned, shirtless and wore just red jeans on his legs. The assassin battled Babo while Cooro watched on the sidelines.

It was a very short battle between Babo and the unnamed assassin. The assassin tried stabbing his rapier straight into Babo's head, but Babo swatted it away with his right hand and punched the assassin's jaw with his left hand. The moment his fist hit the assassin did he epically fall on the floor.

" Is he done?" Cooro asked Babo.

" He is, no thanks to you," Babo replied. " What were you doing. You should have been there for me. What were you doing just standing there watching? Wait until I tell Lady Khara about this."

" Ha. That's funny. Kneeling down to a little girl? What are you one of her dolls?"

" Why you! If you're to serve Lady Khara you will treat her with the utmost respect!"

" Sorry, but I don't work for anyone. Why would I kneel to a girl like her?"

" Why you! How dare you bark to Lady Khara in that tone, naïve! If you're not here to serve Lady Khara then why are you here?"

Cooro flicked his scarf. He placed both his hands in his pockets, looked his head down, and he laughed under his breath. His laughing notably irritated Babo as the dark-skinned man clenched both his teeth and mashed his teeth together.

" Isn't it obvious. I'm a member of Fairy Tail. I'm here to get one of your maids. And now that I know which one I'm looking for, I plan on sneaking her out of there. Sorry, but I plan to do that before the end of the day."

Cooro flicked his scarf a second time and walked towards Babo. He walked past Babo without a moment to stop. Babo continued to mash his teeth together and growled under his breath, only all the anger in him quickly went away and he laughed.

" I knew there was a reason why I hated you so much. So you're really a member of Fairy Tail? Then I guess I'm going to have too—" Babo's afro's shape changed. It changed into a conically-shaped drill and spinned around. " Kill you. And that my friend is legit. Diver Magic!"

Babo had very strong legs. He jumped high into the air nearly three feet off the ground and fell towards the ground with his head facing the dirt. When his head touched the ground, it drilled straight through and he went under the ground.

Cooro didn't notice Babo as he ignored him and walked back towards the mansion. Only while he was walking, Babo with his cone-shaped hair emerged from the ground and struck Cooro with his drill. His drill went straight into Cooro's chest, making a small hole in his skin, and he fell back from the drill.

" Ack!" Cooro spat blood from his mouth after being striked by the drill. "Where did he come from?"

Babo grabbed Cooro by his scarf and yanked him to his conically shaped hair. Under his hair, Babo was smiling wickedly into Cooro's eyes. " Like me doo? I'm a master at Diver Magic. My magic is I can change my hair into a drill. And now…" Babo's drill spinned around as he prepared to strike it into Cooro's head. Cooro was paralysed and dizzy from the last strike Babo used on him. He could only watch as Babo was about to kill him. " I'm going to put my drill straight through your head. "

Cooro held on to the drill for dear life. It was hard though. Blood was gushing out of his arm as the sharp drill went right through his flesh. Cooro however stood strong, used his foot as leverage to keep his balance, and pushed himself forward as he pushed Babo off of him.

" Ack!" Cooro spat as he looked at his bleeding hands. " That hurt. My hands…their all numb. I-I can't move them."

" Oh, so you can't move your fingers, eh?" Babo laughed while he looked at Cooro bleeding from his hands. " Ain't that a darn shame. It's really too bad. But that's what you get when you defy Lady Khara. But you can repay here with your lif—"

Something swooped down behind Babo and striked him from behind. His pain sounded like a blue whale that travailed the baby of a howling monkey. After screaming he fell on the ground. Above him was the cat Gia. Although it was too Cooro's utmost shock that Gia had wings on her back and was flying above Cooro.

" What's going on? Cooro asked.

" Hi there, Cooro," Gia waved to Cooro. It was too his shock that she could talk.

" Y-you can talk?"

" Of course I can talk. All cats can talk. I'm surprised you haven't figured it out yet. Hehe."

" Wait, if you can talk, then why didn't you say anything to me before?"

" Well, you would be scared of me. You seemed a little paranoid when I first met you. Remember, you were punching a giant mirror. Why did you punch that mirror by the way?"

" I find my own reflection to be horrid. The very sight of my face makes me abhorrent. If I could, I would break every mirror in the world so nobody can see what they really look like."

" Oh, the calamity. Anyways, maybe I should tell you a little bit about myself. I was raised in an egg by a kind man who nursed me since I was an egg. But that farmer threw me away because he got married to a woman who hated cats. When I left I became a stray. After being a stray for a year, I finally returned to the house that shut me out. That's when I found out that they had a child together.
I felt so unloved and wandered the streets believing there was nothing for me, but that's when I met you, Cooro. You helped me."

" Right. And what exactly did I do again?"

" You rescued me, you goof. You kept bringing me milk and fish when I was hungry and thirsty." Gia made the cutest face known to mankind. Her eyes popped out, shaked, and she bit her lower lip. " You took care of me. I want to be your friend."

" Friend. I don't know about that. I don't really want to be friends with anyone."

" That's too bad," Babo laughed. Cooro turned around and saw how Babo was back on his feet. " Your arrival was full of nascent. In a few years we could've actually been friends. But now that you disobeyed Lady Khara's trust, I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you."

Babo grabbed his afro hair with his left hand and pulled on it. He made giant crying noises while pulling on his hair. He then ripped a ball of his hair out, crying, and held it for Cooro to see.

" Are you mad?" Cooro asked. " Why did you pull on your own hair, idiot?"

" I do things diligently for Lady Khara. She's everything to me. And I'll get rid of anyone who stands in her way."

A giant brown circle illuminated out of Babo's hand. The hair in his hand then turned into a drill like the hair on his head.

" H-how are you able to do that?" Cooro gasped.

" What, did you really think it was only the hair on my head that could transform into a drill? So long as it's my own hair, I can create a drill out of it. Like this."

Babo's drill turned back into a pile of hair. With one blow from his mouth, the hair blew too Cooro and looked like it was just going to blow away from him. However, a giant brown circle illuminated from the hair and it transformed into a small drill.

" Ah!" Cooro screamed. He ducked down and the drill zoomed past him. He looked back and saw the drill drilling through the dirt. " That ground could've been my head. I got to be more careful around this guy."

" You're probably thinking you can dodge my attack," Babo said too Cooro. " But how can you dodge something that you can't even see?"

Just like before the hairdo on Babo's afro head started spinning around as it became a giant drill. Babo jumped into the air and fell towards the ground. His head ripped through the ground and Babo travelled underground. Unseen by either Cooro or Gia's eyes, they both stood by each other's backs.

" It will be nearly impossible to see him with your eyes, Cooro," Gia said to Cooro. " You'll have to rely on your other senses."

" My other senses? What kind of other senses?"

"Your ears of course. You could also work by using your nose. But it wouldn't be as good as your ears—Cooro!"

Gia flew too Cooro and her paws to lift him up by his armpits. They were both flying above the ground just when Babo emerged under them. Gia then flew down and let go of Cooro as he turned back to Babo. There were many things peculiar about Babo now. Around his torso was a ring of drills, in both his palms were one drill each, and his head was completely bald.

" You idiot!" Cooro exclaimed. " You cut off your own hair!"

" Not too worry," Babo said back to Cooro. " This is why I always carry a spare." Babo used his mouth to bite something in his tribal shirt and pulled it out. The thing he took out was an afro wig. Babo lifted the wig above his head placed it on his head. " Not too shabby, wouldn't you agree?"

" That thing was a wig? What a waste of Jewels. "

"Say what you want. I used a knife in my pants that helped me cut off my beautiful afro hair so I could use it to make my beautiful drills. But that's not all. I also used to have much longer hair, but cut it in half and kept it with me for safe keeping. Pretty smart thinking, wouldn't you agree?"

" That's it. I'm going taking you dow—"

" Let me handle this, Cooro," Gia said. " I'll show you just how powerful I am."

" Come at me if you want. I'll make you experience exquisite agony."

Gia dashed at Babo with her wings spread out. As she was flying her wings turned into metal. Babo and Gia clashed. Babo attacked with the drills in his hands, but Gia countered by thrashing her wings at him. Sparks came out as both metal clashed together.

" They're both so fast," Cooro thought while watching Gia and Cooro fight. " They're on a completely different level than me. I hate to admit it, but I'm outmatched by both of them. If only I had some kind of magic."

Babo and Gia continued clashing their weapons together. Gia got rid of her wings, fell on the ground when he nearly slashed her, and flew back up as a green circle of light illuminated from her back and wings sprouted out. Gia circled around Babo and slashed at him with her metal wings. Wounds were made around Babo and were bleeding where he was slashed, but the callus part of his tissue healed restored him.

" How are you able to recover that quickly?" Gia asked while she slashed at Babo.

" It's simple. There are Four Types of Magic: Caster, Holder, Lost, and Uncategorized. Yours kitty is a Caster Magic called Aera. Lady Khara gives all us servants a special kind of Lost Magic. Mine is I can recover quickly. And now…"

Babo's drills grew larger around Babo's waist. The drills hit Gia. Luckily she was able to fold her wings around her chest and his drills bounced off her wings. Babo swat the cat away using his drills.

" Gia!" Cooro shouted watching Gia fall down.

" Ha," Babo laughed. " I'm glad she's down. That cat was absolutely disgusting."

" Hey, don't talk to animals like that when I'm around!"

" Ha. What, are you some kind of animal lover? But I have something I'd like to tell you. Why bother caring for animals? They are nothing but sticky, disgusting, revolting little being—"

" Shut up!"

Cooro charged at Babo without thinking. The only thing he thought about was how much he wanted to protect Gia. Even though he knew he had no magic, no power, and was nothing but a weakling, he had the valor to protect the only person he cared about.

" Ha, moron."

Babo smacked Cooro away with the back of his wrist. The wrist wasn't as powerful as his drills, but it pushed Cooro away. Cooro fell once; he hit his head. Cooro rolled on the dirt and hit his head twice; snapped his right leg. And he rolled twice, felt his right arm being broken. Cooro finally stopped rolling.

Cooro was a wreck. He only had one moving arm and leg as his others were temporarily dislodged. And Cooro was suffering agony—no, torture—torture that abolished the very essence of his soul. Cooro could only pant while Babo walked towards him. Babo stepped on Cooro's chest and stared wickedly into his eyes.

" I'll give you one last chance. Swear your loyalty too Lady Khara or I'll be forced to kill you where you stand. What will it be?"

" No, I'll never become a loyal dog to her like him," Cooro thought while he cringed from his broken bones. " I'll just tell him I'll join him. Even if it's a lie it will buy me some time so I may become strong enough to beat them."

As Cooro lifted his head he saw Gia lying before him. She was hurt, bleeding, and weakly breathing. Her wings faded from her back as Cooro could slowly feel she was losing strength. He knew what he had to do."

" Okay, okay, I swear. I swear…" Cooro's blood pressure began to boil. While looking at Babo, he became enraged. "I will never join Khara! I will die a member of Fairy Tail!"

With that said, Babo's drills started turning around at an incredible speed, and they fell down towards Cooro about to rip through his flesh. " You're a fool!"

Cooro only had a few short seconds to live. With the drills falling down on him, a great power surged inside of him. That power was the power of magic. And with it, something strange happened too Cooro's left arm.

Cooro's hand started too morph. It became a weapon. Small, cylindrical, silver cannon appeared over his hand. The cannon began to be engulfed with bright green light. Babo could only stare as a bright green ball was fired from his cannon and hit Babo directly.

" Guah!"

Babo was pushed back and fell into the ground. In just one shot from Cooro's cannon he was defeated. Remembering how Babo basked about how powerful he was and how he hated cats, it felt good when the cannon hit him. However, Cooro was surprised by his magic. What was it? And how could it be used?

" W-what is this? This power…what does it mean?"