It Started With a Job Chapter 25, a fairy tail fanfic

This has a main character POV change in the middle, so Be prepared~

Lion King Reference FTW

School has started up, so updating will be even more sporadic! Sorry...

Chapter 25

Ash

Ash didn't know how.

Didn't know why.

And didn't really like it either.

How could the ice sculpture breath fire? Her golden fire?

"You are breaking the rules of physics right now!" She told her ice self, ducking under a talon, before squaring herself and kicking it's gut. "Newton's Laws! Theory of relativity! Gravitation! Something!"

The ice sculpture didn't stop, but the others did giving her a strange look. She huffed. "Earth stuff!"

She had finally come to complete terms with it. She had lived in an orphanage before that one night, where she went to sleep, then woke up in a jail cell with other kids. She had been confused then, but something had told her to trust Lucy and Natsu back then. She hid her confusion behind a mask of happiness. That's what they were taught at the orphanage to do. 'If you're not cheerful.' They said. "Then no one will want you.'

She started figuring it out before the others even got close, though. She hid what she knew, but she knew that when she said Maine and they said Magnolia, that she wasn't anywhere close to home.

And when she casually said the word USA to Natsu, before they even met Aquarius, and he had no clue what it meant, she knew she wasn't even in the right dimension. Not to mention the magic.

When she found out she was Lucy's and Natsu's child, she wasn't even to surprised then. She could briefly, if she tried hard enough, remember her mother. Blonde hair, warm brown eyes. A sliver of a scent. It was the reason why she had trusted Lucy.

She had smelled like her mom.

She was her mom.

Ice Ash formed a star, and an ice lion appeared from it. It shot it's ball of power, which Ash dodged easily, before running to attack.

Ash ran towards it. If it had the same density as her's does…

She jumped over the lion, placing a foot on it's back before jumping off, increasing her propel. She formed a blazing talon on her foot, kicking at the ice thing of her as she came down to the ground.

She didn't stop to see if it had worked, though. Keeping her stride, she ran towards Storm, who was completely unprepared. In a jerky move, he covered his face.

If he knew better, or if he had better time to learn her, he would have known that she doesn't aim for the face when she's fighting friends.

She punched him where she had all those times before. He grunted, but managed to grab her next punch, tackling her down. Even with being down, Lucy and Yukino had taught her some moves.

"Hey Storm!" She said suddenly. He looked down at her, stopping for a moment. Ice her stood off to the side. "Is it okay to do choking?"

"No fatal moves Ash!" Lucy called from the sidelines, halfway up the hill.

She whined. "It's not fatal if he taps!"

Storm was starting to realize that maybe he didn't have the upper hand at the moment. As he moved it get up, she wrapped her leg around his neck, the other leg interlocking. In a flash, she had him in a triangle choke.

She didn't even have to start the choke for him to tap. "I never agreed to choking!" He whined.

"Oh." Ash tilted her head in mock surprise. "I thought you did."

Lucy

The train ride was quiet for the most part. Ash had gone to sleep before the train even started, which prompted for Storm to do the same. Wendy went to sleep as well, curled up with Carla and Alana. Kagura and I talked for a bit, until about thirty minutes to arrival, where she went to find food.

Ten minutes away, I started to process of waking everyone up, going for Ash last. By the time she was fully awake the train had stopped.

They were waiting outside.

And, can I say, the best face I've ever seen Natsu make came right after the doors opened and Ash pulled Storm out by the hand to meet her father.

"Natsu!" Ash called, dragging Storm by the hand. Natsu sat on a bench with Sting and Yukino, as Rogue and Gajeel stood besides it. It looked like Levy hadn't arrived yet. "Natsu! Meet my new friend! His name is Storm and he makes ice and he smells good!"

Natsu looked like he was about to throw up. Gajeel was doing big, hearty laughs as if something was extremely funny. Rouge was smirking, as was Sting, who said. "This is the world giving you payback for that remark earlier."

What did he say earlier?

Wendy moved out to see what was happening. When I voiced my thoughts, she said. "Natsu said he wouldn't mind if she had no mate."

And then I was laughing too.

Levy arrived shortly after, and on the next train ride, we discussed a few new books she had picked out for a few hours.

This train was different from the usual, since it was a night train. The docking town was a few days away by walking, but only around a day away by train. This train had normal cabins, but in the back, they had cabins filled with bunk beds. Immediately, Sting, Rogue, and Gajeel moved back there. After a few minutes of torture, Natsu joined them. Wendy, who never seemed as affected by it, talked to Storm, bored and annoyed that Romeo couldn't come. Ash had fallen asleep next to me, head on my lap.

All the exceeds besides Carla had knocked out a few hours in, a few going back to their dragon slayer, some staying by us, napping on the windowsill.

Soon, it was just Kagura, Yukino, Levy, myself, Wendy, and Storm awake. Levy took his moment to speak after a few moments of silence. "You're Storm, right? I'm Levy."