Fairy Tail Next Generation
Chapter 49
"You are honestly the biggest whore I have ever met." It was around noon in Magnolia, and Cali and Stace were already at it. Cali has been calling Stace a whore for the past hour and Stace seemed to be ignoring her. Stace had been quiet all day. Yesterday, Jase did say her dad was coming home. And boy did the guild get a complete makeover while we were gone. Everything sparkled with cleanliness. The guild doors creaked open the slightest bit, and a person took a peek in. They took a step into the guild, seemingly weary the whole time.
"JELLAL!" Erza tackled the person who had just come in. She ripped off the mask and hat he had on. It a dude with blue hair and a tattoo over the right eye. She equipped a sword and held it to their throat. "Jellal, it has been four months. FOUR MONTHS."
"I'm sorry."
"I want another baby." The person's face, Jellal's face, turned bright red and filled with a mixture of fear and embarrassment. I looked over at Stace, feeling bad that those were her parents up there. She had the same exact face Jellal has right now. I think I know who she takes after now.
"A – A – a baby? Erza? We still have our beautiful Stace though?"
"She can be a big sister, I'm sure she would love it. I want another baby."
"I brought a strawberry cake made with some of the rarest strawberries in Fiore."
"WHERE?" I'm not sure if it's just that Jellal is here, or what, but this Erza seems completely different from the Erza I've seen and heard about.
After a few minutes, everything seemed to go back to normal. Erza, Jellal, and Stace sat and ate cake happily – enjoying the family reunion. Jase watched them happily and Cali just sat there grumpy as always.
"Jase, remember the last time Jellal came home?" Jase paused at Cali's words. Then the two broke out into laughter. They high fived and kept laughing.
"What happened last time?" Whether it was out of curiosity or feeling left out, I just had to ask.
"Every time Jellal comes home," Cali began "Erza always demands to have another baby. Well last time, Erza was prepared for Jellal to distract her from the topic with cake. So, Erza had her favorite bakery bake 200 hundred strawberry cakes and she filled the guild with them. So when Jellal came and said he brought her cake, she said she already had enough. Jellal panicked as she came after him, and accidently ahahahahahahahahaha!" Cali couldn't seem to finish the story. So Jase continued for her.
"So Jellal accidently blew all the cake up. It took days to clean the guild of all the cake. Erza flipped out when he did, and broke his leg. It was hilarious."
I couldn't help but laugh as I imagined this go down. I looked over to the two of them – and laughed even harder when Stace slammed cake onto her father's face. The laughter didn't stop even after Erza went after her own daughter for destroying a perfectly good slice of cake. Juvia came up to our table after we finally started to calm down. "Jase, Juvia needs to talk to you." Jase looked a little scared, but went with her – leaving Cali and I alone at the table. I looked at her careful not to let her notice me looking. After the whole thing with her getting ear studs, she started leaving her hair down and using the orange ribbon to hold her bangs back. When it started snowing, she started to keep her sleep sweater on all the time instead of the blue jacket and black tank top. The white shorts were still there, and that didn't make sense. But nothing about her makes since. She was about to catch me, so I looked away. Maximus and Nashi were at it again. Nashi was chasing him completely enraged while he skipped away happily. Nashi threw some fire at him and he landed on his back – on our table.
"Well hello pretty lady. How's it going?" Maximus was a real smooth talker, it was semi-annoying. Nashi ran up to us, red faced and angry.
"What is wrong with you?"
"If you count good looks as being something wrong, then that my dear." Nashi started screaming and threw the table next to ours at Gray. Natsu cheered and joined in the fight. Maximus really drives her insane doesn't he?
Maximus pulled himself off the table and sat next to Cali, putting an arm around her. She turned her arm into a chainsaw and he took his arm off her. "It is way too much fun messing with her."
"Bitch deserves it." Cali nodded in agreement with herself.
"She isn't a bitch, she's observant. She just also happens to like using what she observes against people." Maximus laughed and then shuddered.
"What do you mean?" Cali and Maximus sighed.
"Which time should we tell him about," asked Cali.
"How about the reason why Stace has short hair?" Maximus and Cali both had devious smiles on their faces. I stayed quiet as Maximus began the story. "A few years ago, when we were fifteen and you guys were eleven – Stace had beautiful, long hair."
"Even longer than my hair." Cali added in.
"Nashi always noticed how Stace sat on her hair and would get it suck in stuff. She loved having long hair but had no clue how to handle it. Jase, also loved her long hair. Whenever she got food suck in it, she would race over to him and have him get it out."
"Jase is such a man slave sometimes."
"Anyway, Nashi always thought it was funny. So Nashi would put stuff in her hair all the time, and tie her hair in knots if she fell asleep in the guild. When Jase found out, he got mad at her. Nashi is probably the only person Jase can stay mad at. So he decided to confront her while she was making fun of Tatsu and Emma. Tatsu shoved Nashi, who fell into Jase, in which the two of them fell over the balcony edge. Natsu tried to save them, but lit them on fire in the process. Their family has a rule about not eating each other's fire unless it's one hundred percent necessary. In the moments before they hit the floor, the oblivious Stace walked right under them. The three were lit on fire until Juvia came over and shot water at them. When they stood up, Stace's hair had burned up to right above her ears." I had to laugh. I just had too.
"The idiot cried over her hair for a week. Lucy called out Cancer to help out, but he said he might not be able to get the right color back. The hair was too burnt. So she had to grow it out herself after having it cut even shorter to get rid of all the damage. That's why it's not even shoulder length after four years." Cali started laughing along with me, and Maximus joined in too.
"So basically," I began to say "if Nashi hadn't picked on Stace for being bad with hair, none of that would have ever happened?" Cali and Maximus nodded.
Cali smirked before saying something really funny. "But Maximus, remember that time that you were pretending to try and kiss Nashi – and you actually did."
Maximus stopped laughing for a second before laughing really loudly, almost like he was trying to cover up his embarrassment. "It was an accident Cali. Accidents happen, so forget about it already."
"Oh I will never forget it, she nearly destroyed the guild when it happened. Tatsu had to eat his own sister's fire. Didn't Natsu try to hang you from the rafters afterwards too? That was a fun day." Cali was laughing even though Maximus got up and left before she finished talking.
I looked to Cali. "Did that really happen?"
Cali looked back at me. "Oh yeah, total accident like he said though. Natsu tried to kill him and Lucy and Freed just fan-girled for a week afterwards. Wanna know how it happened?"
"Obviously."
"Maximus was play fighting with her while she was trying to actually fight about two years ago. She wouldn't stop trying to lite him on fire, so he said 'If you don't calm down, I'm gonna kiss you'. She flipped out after that and started shaking her head frantically and kept trying to lite him on fire. Oh, by the way – he had her pinned to the floor. Anyway, she was pretending to try and kiss her when their heads lined up at the same moment. They froze. He pulled away and tried saying sorry but she engulfed them in flames and nearly destroyed the guild. If it hadn't been for Tatsu, we would have had to rebuild the guild again. It was funny though." While she was telling me the story, Tatsu, Emma, Jase, and Stace had joined us at the table. In the corner of my eye, I saw Maximus tackle Nashi while she was fighting Gray.
"As sick as I felt, it was pretty hilarious." Tatsu laughed a little.
"BUT MAXIMUS WASN'T MANLY ABOUT IT AT ALL." Emma slammed her fist on the table.
"What do you mean?" Asked Stace.
Emma began to explain herself. "Well, Maximus obviously has a crush on Nashi – always had. I bet he planned that kiss. It was a totally unmanly way of going about his feelings." The five of us stared at Emma completely surprised at her opinion.
"You think he has a thing for her?" Whispered Jase.
"She might be right. For as long as I can remember, Maximus flirts with all girls. But the only girl he ever pretends to kiss is Nashi." I thought about what Tatsu said, I haven't been here long but that seems possible.
Cali shook her head. "Nah, he does it because it embarrasses her. Maximus doesn't like girls like her."
"Cali, you are the densest person in the world. Even Natsu isn't as dense as you. How would you know?" Stace and Cali began to fight when Jase stopped them.
"No, I agree with Cali. Maximus likes teasing Nashi just as Nashi likes teasing people. That's all it is."
"But he sneaks into her room at night!" Tatsu whisper/yelled.
"AND YOU SNEAK INTO EMMA'S ROOM AT NIGHT!" Cali, Jase, and Stace all whisper/yelled back at Tatsu. Tatsu and Emma stayed quiet and scooted away from each other.
"Well who knows, we can make fun of them for it either way." Cali stated. Everyone nodded their heads in agreement. Stace got up and left the guild with her family. Gray dragged Jase into the fight against Natsu and Nashi. Natsu dragged Tatsu into the fight as well. Elfman was telling someone what it was like to be a man, and Emma went and joined in. Gajeel threw Cali over his shoulder and told her that 'Salamander and the Stripper need to be taught some lessons'. As everyone left with their families, Mira walked over to me and placed some food in front of me.
"Thanks Mira."
"Felix, do you wanna see the guild's photo album."
"Yes!" Oh this has got to be good. Mira came back a few minutes later with a giant book. She sat next to me and flipped through it. Cali is super adorable as a little kid, but omg is Jase even cuter as a little kid. There's this one photo of him and Juvia, he's about three in the photo, and he's wearing a sailor outfit with the hat and everything. Stace was a super chubby little kid. I almost thought Tatsu was a girl when I saw his little kid pictures. The Mira flipped back a few pages, and I saw something amazing. It was all of their parent's wedding photos. They all looked so young. Lucy was wearing Natsu's scarf at their wedding, Gray had the biggest blush in most of these. Not to mention that Gajeel was maid of honor. Erza and Jellal just looked hilarious. Instead of Jellal pulling Erza into one of those back bend kiss moves, Erza was the one pulling Jellal into it. Then, there was Cali's parents. Gajeel and the small blue haired woman. I had never seen Gajeel smiling so much. He was caring the blue haired woman bridal style, with his hair pulled into a low pony tail. The woman's smile, it looked just like Cali's. Or, Cali's smile looks just like hers. I couldn't help but smile at these photos.
"Do you know who that is?"
"That's Cali's mom right?"
"Yes, her name was Levy Redfox. McGarden before these photos were taken though."
"She seems really nice."
"She was, she had such a big heart for such a small body. She was extremely smart too. All the books at their house, that's barely a fraction of what Levy owned. The majority is here at the guild. Actually, almost every single one of the books in the guild's archives are hers."
"Wow."
"Can you keep a secret?"
I looked at Mira curiously. "Yeah."
"I loved all of their weddings, but theirs was my favorite. It had been raining for a month. They were thinking it was going to rain on the wedding as well. But the rain stopped just that day. The wedding was outside, I had never seen either of them so happy. Lily was the best man, and Juvia along with Natsu was one of the groomsmen. Lucy, Erza, and I were the bridesmaids. Lucy was maid of honor. Makarov walked her down the aisle, trying not to cry – and failing – like at every wedding. Levy and Gajeel couldn't wait to be married. Both of them cut the priest off early and just said 'I do'. Levy jumped into Gajeel's arms so they could kiss. I've never really know why, but theirs is just my favorite. Even if it was simple, it was full of so much love." Mira flipped a few pages over to the page full of baby pictures and pointed to the one of Gajeel, Levy, and baby Cali. "Those three days were so stressful. But I forgot all the stress when I handed her to Gajeel. He started to cry. None of us had seen him cry before, except Lucy anyways. He was so happy. Levy just laughed at how hysterical he was getting. He won't admit it, but it was him who named her Cali. He told everyone he wanted to name her something badass, but Levy told us that he demanded she be named Cali. And to this day, Cali is such a huge daddy's girl." Mira looked like she might tear up. She smiled and took the album back to wherever she got it from.
I looked to the huge family war going on in the middle of the guild, and I saw just how perfectly Gajeel and Cali fought together. That's what a family is, isn't it?
