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Chapter Fourteen: Living Arrangements
A few minutes have passed since the battle between Natsu and Romeo, with the boy being the victor of the battle, and have been a few minutes since the "Child of Death" as everyone else calls him left to head back to his home. Currently, everyone went back inside the guild hall, with most members going back to their own thing. Sayla went back to the upper floors of the building, not wishing to be bothered at the moment as she worked.
For those of the Tenrou Group, Asce, Zin, Kinana, Laki, and Asuka who was happily sitting in Asce's lap coloring some books she had with her out of boredom, were sitting around a few tables that were nearby to one another for everyone to hear each other.
Needless to say, those of the Tenrou Group had questions regarding the once happy and innocent Romeo.
"Kinana, Laki," Makarov started to ask, as the two women turned to look at the small old man, "What… exactly happened to Romeo during these past years?" The former Guild Master of Fairy Tail asked the two women, who merely frowned when asked that questioned.
"We don't know." Laki admitted to them, getting the recently returned Mages of the guild to widen their eyes from shock.
"What do you mean you don't know?" Freed asked the two once more.
Both Asce and Zin didn't say anything, as they merely waited for the purple haired and violet haired women to answer the others.
"We just don't know," Kinana told them, "Ever since we saw him again, he's been like that ever since. We don't know how he got like that, or why he would become like that in the first place. We only know that he serves some King that we know nothing about." The barmaid explained to them all with a sorrowful expression.
"How do you not know more about him than that?!" Gajeel shouted, getting the woman to flinch from the angered tone from the Iron Dragon Slayer. He wanted answers to their questions!
"Hey!" Asce called out to the black haired male, getting him to turned to look at the Knight from Kalavar, "They don't know okay? It's not like we didn't tried to get answers from the boy, but the kid refuses to tell us anything. For crying out loud, both Kinana and Laki thought Romeo was dead along with everyone else they lost for years until we rebuilt and re-found Fairy Tail." The Crusader finished telling the others with a glare, though no one could tell due to his helmet. Remembering that memory, he could recall how happy the two women were when they saw the boy still alive, only to be shocked by what he became.
While the others looked at the Knight when he said those words, Natsu, who was sitting close to Kinana, couldn't help but lean closer to her to speak so she could hear him.
"Are you alright?" The Fire Dragon Slayer asked her, seeing her flinch due to the angered tone Gajeel used against her. The purple haired woman couldn't help but smile a little at seeing his concern.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thank you." She told him, her small smile still on her face.
For some reason, this got the pink haired male to blush a little from that. Thankfully though, no one seemed to notice it.
Before anyone else could say anything else, the one arm white haired Warrior decided to speak up, getting everyone's attention toward the former leader of the Inama.
"Okay, enough about the kid, let's talk more about what we are going to do with you people." Zin spoke to the Tenrou Group.
"What do you mean by that?" Elfman asked the rather intimidating person.
"What do you mean what I mean? I'm just asking the obvious. Your old homes are gone, destroyed and burned to the ground. You will need new homes to stay at. We can't allow you all to stay in the guild every night." Zin explained to them all.
This got everyone to look at one another, before realizing that the one arm man had a point. They don't have any place to return too after a day at the guild anymore.
"Might I make a suggestion?" Asce started to say, getting the Tenrou Group, as well as Zin, Kinana, and Laki to look at the Knight. Asuka, who was still on the Crusader's lap, just kept on doing her own thing with her coloring books, "From what Kinana and Laki have told us about you all, some of you are teammates with one another. Since it's wise to stay together, especially in the dark times we are now with the Fel Demon out there, you guys might want to find places with each other." The Knight from Kalavar finished suggesting to the Tenrou Group.
This got the large group of Mages to look at one another, before they figured that might be for the best. Who knows, it could be fun living with one another with their respective team members. Seeing no objections, Makarov then jumped on the table he was at as everyone looked at him.
"Then it's settled. Everyone with your respective teams, stick together and find your own places!" Makarov exclaimed out to the others.
And with that, the Tenrou Group split up going with their team mates of their teams before exiting the building.
'LATER'
A rather large and massive man proceeded to sit down on his side of the desk, letting out a low grumble before putting on his rather small reading glasses before he looked down at the group in front of him and the counter.
"So you wish to move into one of our apartments?" The giant man asked the group in front of them.
The group in front of the desk in the lobby of the hotel building was none other than Team Natsu. With Erza, Gray, Natsu, Lucy, Wendy, Happy, and Carla present, however the blue haired girl and the two Exceeds were looking around the nice lobby of the building while the other four talked to the desk manager.
With a call to stick together, the team decided to move and live with one another like Asce and Makarov suggested and told them too. Thankfully it didn't take long for them to find an apartment building in the home district of Hisuilia, now they hoped to find an apartment here else they would go looking for a different one.
"That's correct," Gray answered the large man across from him, "What room do you have available that can house four adults, one child, and two Exceeds?" The Ice Maker Mage asked the large manager across from him.
"We don't allow pets here." The man replied back to him, thinking Exceeds were a kind of pet.
Erza looked at him, before looking back at where the two Exceeds and Wendy were at, before turning her attention back at the massive man.
"What room do you have available for four adults, one child, and two babies?" Erza asked him.
"Well…" The man started to think.
'Wait that worked?' Gray, Lucy, and even Wendy, thanks to her enhance hearing to hear the conversation, thought to themselves when the man didn't seem to question it. Natsu merely grinned at this.
The man thought for another minute before speaking once more, getting the group's attention.
"Ah, we do have a good sized place on floor three for a very inexpensive price." The desk manager told them, remembering that room.
"Really?" Lucy asked with stars in her eyes from hearing that. An apartment with good amount of room for all of them, and so low priced? That was like a dream come true! With how they all take jobs and all of that, needing to worry about rent will be no problem anymore!
Erza however couldn't help but narrow her eyes from what she heard.
"That's rather suspicious. Why is it so cheap?" The red head asked the man, finding it way to good to be true for a place to fit them all to be that inexpensive.
"There's this kid who lives on floor three that everyone's absolutely terrified of. Thus, no one can handle living next to him." The large man explained to them the reason for the cheap price of the place he suggested to them.
This merely got Team Natsu to look at another from hearing that. Someone lives on that floor that no one can handle being next too? That sounds pretty scary honestly.
The red head woman turned back to look at the large man before slamming her hands on the desk.
"We'll take it anyway!" Erza announced to the desk manager.
"Excellent!" The man replied back happily.
With that done, the red head then went on to sigh in the paperwork to make it official. While she did that, Natsu, Lucy, and Gray headed over to where Wendy, Happy, and Carla were at in the large lobby of the building.
"It's going to be weird living together like this." Gray admitted, as he was so used to living on his own.
"Yeah, but hey, it could be fun living in the same place with one another." Lucy told them, even though memories of them barging into her own apartment filled her mind, at least now they would have their own rooms at least.
"Yeah, I'm excited about this." Wendy told them with a happy smile.
"Aye!" Happy exclaimed his usual trade mark.
Carla mere sighed, knowing it was going to take some time getting used to living with the fish loving Exceed.
"Yeah, as long as Ice Stripper doesn't take a room I want we're all good." Natsu told the others, which got Gray to glare at his rival.
"What do you by that? If I see the room I want then I'm having it!" The Ice Maker Mage exclaimed back at the Fire Dragon Slayer, who merely glared back at his rival.
"Are you both fighting?" Erza's voice was suddenly heard by the two knuckleheads, getting them to jump from the voice, before turning around to see the red head now present, finished filing in the paperwork for their new place to live in.
Lucy, Wendy, Happy, and Carla couldn't help but sweat drop when they saw the two rivals now acting like they are best buddies in order to avoid the red haired woman's wrath.
After that was done with, the group then headed up the stairs until they got to floor three of the building. Walking down the hallway for a moment, they arrived at the right door that belonged to their new home.
"Well, here we are." Lucy spoke up; looking at the number above the door that confirmed it was their new apartment.
Before any of them could say anything else or enter through the door, a loud ding got their attention when they looked down the other end of the hall to see the doors to the elevator opened up.
And then, a familiar dark purple haired boy was seen emerging from the elevator before he walked to his own door, not noticing Team Natsu at all before he got right in front of the door to his apartment.
Feeling a presence, the boy turned his head to look down the hall… only to see Team Natsu standing there with surprised expressions on their faces.
Romeo Conbolt, the "Child of Death" everyone else back at the guild referred him as, just stared at the group whose apartment was right next to his own.
It was a rather awkward silence.
'Ooooooooooh.' Most of Team Natsu thought to themselves, now understanding why other people were too afraid to live on this floor, seeing that it was Romeo that was the reason.
Natsu merely grinned before he spoke up to the boy not that far across from them all.
"Hey Romeo! It looks like we're neighbors now!" The pink haired Fire Dragon Slayer told him with a large smile on his face, happy about this turn of events.
The same couldn't be said for Romeo.
'His face just screams "What a pain in the butt."' Carla couldn't help but notice the look on the boy's face as she thought that.
Romeo merely let out a groan of annoyance before he entered his apartment, closing the door behind him with a rather loud shut.
The group stood there for a moment, before Erza figured they could go enter their own room right now. And with that, Erza, Natsu, Lucy, Gray, Happy, and Carla entered through the door into their new place they would call home.
Wendy stayed at her spot for a moment, looking at the door where Romeo entered though, before she too entered her and the other's own apartment, intending on getting settled in.
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