Sorry I haven't updated in a long time. :/ I've had a lot on my plate, and I have been writing, I just haven't had the time to type it up and post it. Please enjoy this chapter!
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Skylar returned to Fairy Tail and saw the huge amount of progress. Everyone, pretty much, were helping with rebuilding. Even Master Makarov was helping out.
"Welcome back, Skylar!" Mira smiled and said at the young teen's entrance.
"Hey, Mira. I see everyone's been working hard around here." Skylar said with a smile.
"No damage?" Master popped up.
Skylar laughed at bit. "No, I didn't wreck anything."
"What would I do without you?" Makarov cried a bit out of the joy in knowing this child didn't cause him to have to pay ridiculous fees.
"Well, if you really want to know, I could make a list." Skylar teased.
"No thank you. By the way, do you mind going into town and have these shops send down our orders?" Master asked her,
"Sure, I don't mind. Would you like me to bring you a lunch as well?" Skylar offered.
"Thank would be amazing!" Master cheered.
"Ok, i'm off then." Skylar waved as she took the list and traveled back into the heart of Magnolia. She send down nails, pain, and some banners with the Fairy Tail emblem down to guild while she went shopping for lunch.
Eventually, Skylar made it to her and Lucy's apartment. She began to promptly make the lunches. 'One for Master, Erza (cake included), Cana, myself, and and extra for Loke.' Skylar listed mentally.
It took a while to get to the guild hall, since she had to walk carefully, but it was around noon so the timing was perfect.
As everyone sat down for break, Skylar handed her appointed lunches out. Erza brightened when she saw the cake, as did Cana wen she saw the beer Skylar... acquired... for her.
"Thank you, Skylar." The group said in unison.
"Welcome." She smiled as she grabbed her own lunch and left. She walked down to the park and sat underneath the tree.
"Nice weather we're having." Loke's voice suddenly rang out, but Skylar didn't even flinch.
"Yeah, it's really nice out." Skylar agreed as he joined her under the tree.
"Thank you for lunch. You're not falling for me are you?" He shamelessly flirted with the young teen.
"No, Leo." Skylar said as she bit down into her sandwich.
"Wha, what did you just call me?" He began to freak out.
"I said 'Leo', you look like one." Skylar loved stirring the pot a bit.
"How do you know? I've been so careful?!" Loke full out spazzed.
"What do you mean? I only said that you look like a Leo." Skylar looked up at him with deceptively innocent eyes.
"Oh! Ah, haha. Please ignore my outburst." He tried to recover.
"Whatever it is that you think you're hiding, I will find out. If you hurt my sister, I will end you personally. Lucy is the most caring person with a heart of gold accompanied by a spirit of fiery passion." Skylar warned him, eyes glowing red for emphasis.
"Aye sir!" Loke said before shutting up and eating his lunch. He'd ask Macao about her later, too scared to ask the girl himself. It didn't surprise Skylar that soon after Loke went on a mission, and that team Natsu came back long enough to get Erza and head out on another mission.
"Let me guess, Killua left with Erza, Gon's with Shadow Gear, and Alluka is with one of the two." Skylar said to Mira.
"Yep. Any missions you want go on?" Mira smiled a charismatic smile at her.
"Yeah, this one please." She handed the flyer to Mira.
"Oh? Taking out a band of thieves for 300,000 J. huh? Sounds like fun. Be safe!" The cheerful woman replied.
"Thanks, I will." Skylar waved and left.
It took three days by train, the longest ride she's ever been on. Skylar finally got there, but it was in late evening. "Hello, I'm here for the job request." She said as she entered a town hall.
"Look at that emblem!"
"She's Fairy Tail!"
"I hope she doesn't destroy the town."
"Wait! Is that?"
"It's Skylar Reed!" The people around her yelled/tried to whisper.
"Right this way, Ms. Reed." A tall old man directed her into an office.
"Hello, I am Mayor Silva. You see, we are, or rather were, a major trading town until these thieving bandits showed up. In order to help fix our economy, we need you to get rid of them. This town will pay you 300,000 J. for this feat." Quick and to the point the lady mayor instructed.
"Sure thing, Ms. Mayor." Skylar reassured her.
"And one more thing." The woman's tone became hard as steel. "Do NOT destroy anything." The woman spit out like poison.
Skylar got pissed at the insinuation. "If you knew who I was, then you'd know i'm NOT one of the destructive ones. So watch your tone with me." Skylar replied harshly.
The mayor was taken aback buy Skylar's own warning, not used to be talked back to. "We will see."
"Yes, we will."
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Skylar returned the next morning, not a hair out of place as she dragged the tied up horde of bandits. "Happy now?" Skylar gave her a snarky report. She was still an hormonal teenager, so she had a nasty temper when invoked. It reminded a lot of people of a certain red head in her youth.
"Yes, here is you reward." The woman promptly handed over the reward money in slight terror.
"A fairy that doesn't destroy things? How strange." Many of the rune knights 'whispered' and the arrested the thieves.
Skylar ignored them and left as soon as the last thief was arrested. She wanted to go home. 'Home... I haven't really had one of those in a long time.' Skylar mused to herself.
On the way, Skylar chose to stop in one the tourist towns and take a break. She bought a new outfit, got her hair styled, and went to a spa.
Her pale, gold hair was pulled up into high, wavy pig tails as her skin seemed to glow from the relaxing packages to went through at the spa.
She out on the pale purple tunic she bought, tan leggings, and brown leather 'pirate boots' as she nicknamed them. After that, she put on her earrings with the poison compartment, her charm bracelet, and her brown leather belt/case for her weapon of choice. Skylar promptly put her old stuff into her pocket dimension thing and carried snacks and stuff in a brown leather satchel she bought to carry with her.
She finally arrived back in Magnolia, and noticed the amount of progress that had been made since she was last in town.
"I'm back!" Skylar yelled in the still being built guild hall.
"Skylar! You look so cute!" Alluka yelled as she tackled the girl into a bone crushing hug.
"Thanks. So I take it you missed me?" Skylar joked with her, silently hoping to breathe soon.
"Yes, we did." Killua said as he walked by and detached his sister from his friend.
"Is Gon here too?" Skylar asked after a much needed breath of air. Breathing was good, very good.
"He should be back today or tomorrow." Killua shrugged.
"Ok, you two want to spar in the forest or something?" Skylar asked.
Master perked up a bit. "You're NOT going to fight near breakable things?" A hopeful look made its way on his face.
"Correct." Skylar answered.
"There is hope for the next generation after all!" He cheered and jumped around happily.
"I think he's finally lost it." Killua sweat-dropped.
"Mhmmm." Alluka and Skylar hummed in agreement. They left the Master and his weirdness in favor of going to the forest.
Once there, Killua equipped a brand new armor. It closely resembled a knight, but more outlandish, like a more masculine form of Erza's Titania armor.
"Cool!" Alluka complimented her brother.
"Thanks! Erza commissioned it for me as a sign that I was growing stronger." He bragged a bit.
"Awwww! How cute!" Skylar cooed.
Killua blushed, and then ran his hand through his longer, messier hair. "My hair is getting so annoying." He complained.
"Why don't you cut it?" Alluka suggested.
"'Cuz I like it long. Mom and Dad never let me have too long, so I wanted to try it out." Killua explained.
Skylar shook her head, and got her hair brush out of her dimensional pocket. "Come here." Skylar ordered him.
Killua quickly complied, fearing her anger, and did as he was told. Skylar brushed the hair until all the knots were out, and then gathered it into a low, but tight pony tail. "Thanks!" Killua told her.
Skylar returned his gesture, by attacking him with fire... a lot of it. "Defend yourself!" She yelled as she pulled out her metal rod.
The two were locked in an epic battle. Fire and lightning flashed all around, until a clear, victorious winner was named. "Damn you, Skylar." Killua groaned from his Killua-shaped crater.
"My turn!" Alluka yelled out before switching over with her take over magic. The battle for the top continued.
Alluka was a true Zoldyck that day. She was still rough at fighting, but she made up for it in agility and instinct. The nearby trees that survived the first battle were utterly destroyed, as was the poor Vulcan who was hiding near them. Poor gorilla thing got all its fur burnt/shaved off before running away finally.
"I surrender." Alluka eventually gave in as exhaustion overtook her.
"Good." Skylar panted from her new spot on the ground.
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"Oh my god!" Master yelled from the guild hall. He spent a spy lacrima so everyone could watch the new kids fight, but he wasn't expecting this! "They're worse than my older brats! How haven't they destroyed a whole city by now!?" His soul floated out of his body a bit.
"Gon's kinda like Natsu, Alluka is similar to Mira, Killua is a nicer Laxus, and Skylar is not-as-violent Erza." One member pointed out.
"You're right!" Everyone yelled in realization and horror... Even Mira, Erza, and Natsu agreed. Luckily Laxus wasn't there to defend himself.
'What is the world coming to?' Gramps thought in pure horror of the possible bills and lawsuits.
"What do you mean 'not-as-violent'?" Erza growled.
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"We should make an official team when Gon gets back." Skylar said from her relaxing spot on the ground.
"Sounds like fun." Alluka yawned.
"I'm in." Killua added in.
"Sky? Will you braid my hair?" Alluka asked after a while.
"Normal, French, or Fishtail?" Skylar asked her.
"French please."
"Ok, come over here. I'm not getting up." Skylar said before groaning while sitting up. She got her hair brush out again, with yet another hair tie, and awaited Alluka's arrival.
Alluka did as she was told, but it took her a while to get over there from the exhaustion.
Skylar hummed a soft song as the light summer breeze flowed past them on the back of the comforting warm sun. They all relaxed, even those watching in the guild hall, and enjoyed to beautiful summer afternoon.
"All done." Skylar laid back down lazily.
"Thank you." Alluka said with a smile. The trio remained in a comfortable silence all afternoon until the need for dinner set in.
The trio, seemingly unaware of the lacrima watching them, walked to town and ate at a cute, little restaurant. They laughed and talked about their adventures, who they admired in the guild (Erza and Mira were happy to know all three like them while others were surprised Laxus was on that list), and what their goals are.
"I will become stronger than Gramps!" Skylar shone with determination. "He's so awesome ans cool! It will be hard, but if I work hard and keep at it, I know I can do it!" She told her companions.
Meanwhile, Master Makarov was shining with pride.
"I'll help you." Alluka stood up.
"And so will I." Killua smirked. "Because we all know you need as much help as you can get." Alluka 'playfully' smacked her brother for that one.
"I wanna help too!" A voice from the doorway yelled. It was a boy clad in green with spiky, black hair.
"Gon!" The three friends yelled in delight.
"I'll help you too." Gon hugged Skylar.
"Thank you, all three of you. You guys are the best friends a person could ever ask for, and then some." Skylar's eyed watered a bit from her amount of love.
Then the moment passed.
"Why is there a lacrima-thing following you guys?" Gon asked innocently.
"The Old Man sent it to spy on us." Killua shrugged.
"THEY KNEW!?" Everyone in the guild yelled.
Skylar turned and faced the lacrima dead on. "Yes we knew."
"HOW DOES SHE KNOW WHAT WE'RE SAYING!?"
"Because," She sweat-dropped," this place is right next to the guild and everyone can hear you yelling." She then gave them a flat look and paid for their meal before leaving to return to their still being built guild. "Yo." She waved as the group of four walked in.
"Skylar! Fight me!" Natsu demanded as he charged her with his 'Fire Dragon Iron Fist'.
"M'kay." Skylar said before 'disappearing' (with lightning... not like anyone but Erza, Mira, and Gramps knew that) and then reappearing behind Natsu to chop him in the neck and render him unconscious. "Anyone else?" Skylar asked the crowd. Everyone shook their heads no.
"So how do we form an official team?" Alluka piped up.
"Just fill out this paperwork." Mira handed over the papers to the younger Zoldyck.
"Thank you." Skylar and Alluka said in unison.
"Levy, would you mind helping us?" Gon asked the bluenette.
"Sure!" She smiled at them.
They eventually knocked out all of the paperwork. It was now official. Skylar Reed, Gon Freeces, along with Killua and Alluka Zoldyck were an official team of Fairy Tail: Team Hunter!