Chapter 2: Beth

"She's a what?" Erza asked. "How is she a Forest Dragon Slayer?"

"Don't know. But if we catch her, I bet we'll find out." Gajeel said.

The group ran down the alley and around to the back of the guild hall. There they found the girl by the edge of the water, surrounded by a group of small mushrooms, around two feet tall. They had faces on them.

"Hi my name's Gray. What's your's?" he asked. The girl said nothing, so he tried again. "We won't hurt you. We just want to know what you're doing around our guild." No one expected an answer at this point, but they surprisingly got one.

"Don't get any closer. Otherwise my mushrooms will start screaming. Very loudly," she warned.

"Come on, how loud can they scream?" Natsu said stepping forwards. " I mean they're big but-" He didn't get to finish due to the mushrooms screaming staring. The team was hearing screams ten times worse than nails on a chalkboard. But the girl was seemingly unaffected.

"Ah! What is that!?" Happy asked as all of them covered their ears.

"It's the mushrooms. It's why they have faces," Erza replied.

"Natsu, get back here!" Gray yelled.

"He can't! The sound waves knocked him and Gajeel out! Remember they have heightened hearing due to being Dragon Slayers!" Erza replied. Indeed, Natsu and Gajeel were both unconscious and laying on the ground. Gray then took a fighting stance.

"If we destroy the mushrooms we stop the sound. Ice Make: Hammer!" he yelled. But before the attack could make contact, the girl yelled something.

"Forest Dragon's Solar Cannon!" The spell released a huge amount of energy at Gray and the others. Gray quickly put up a wall of ice to block the attack. It got a few major cracks, but held. The wall then disappeared as Gray released to spell. It was just in time to see the mushrooms disappear and the girl collapse.

"What was that?" Lucy asked, walking over to check on the girl.

"A move that must greatly drain the user's energy. She must not have a lot of stamina," Gray replied as he went to check on Natsu.

"I wonder where she learned that kind of magic," Erza replied, trying to wake up Gajeel.

After a minute, Natsu and Gajeel regained consciousness.

"What happened? Why is the girl unconscious?" Natsu asked as he sat up.

"The mushrooms let out screams. The girl wasn't kidding, my ears are still ringing," Gray replied. "I tried to destroy the mushrooms, but she let loose an energy beam before I could. It wiped out her energy."

"Alright then. Let's get back inside and wait for her to wake up," Gajeel replied, both him and Natsu back up on their feet. Lucy walked up to them with the girl in her arms, and the team of wizards walked back inside.

"Guys what-" Mirajane started to ask but stopped when she spotted the girl in Lucy's arms. "Did that girl cause all that trouble?"

"Yep. She used a pretty strong attack and it wiped her," Natsu answered. "We're just waiting for to wake up, but I don't think that it'll be any time soon."

"Okay then, get her into bed and I'll tell the master," Mira replied.

The team went through a door on their right and found six beds.

"Let's put her here by the window," Lucy suggested. "And let's leave the curtains open." Lucy put the girl in the bed on her left side, she found a comfortable position on her own.

"I hope she wakes up soon," Erza said as Lucy pulled the covers over the girl.

"Do you think she'll be hungry when she wakes up?" Gray asked. "What does a Forest Dragon Slayer eat to replenish their energy?"

"I'm not sure, but I'd have to take a guess on on plants, like apples or carrots," Gajeel replied.

"I believe that it was will help her when she regains conscious as well," said Makarov as he walked into the room with Mira. "Mira, can you go get a salad and an apple?"

"Sure thing. I'll be right back," she replied, leaving the room.

"Where did you bunch find her?" Makarov asked.

"We found her-" Natsu started, but was interrupted by a soft moan from the corner. The group looked at the girl and saw her starting to wake. "Or she can tell you herself."

"Naymmi, what's-" she started to ask, but stopped when she realized where she was. "Who are you? What am I doing here? Where's Naymmi? Are you enemies?" She paused before placing a hand to her head and groaning.

"Take it easy there. Now I'm Master Makarov, the master of the Fairy Tail Guild. These here are Natsu, Lucy, Erza, Gray, and Gajeel," he answered.

"You don't have to worry. We're not going hurt you," Lucy said.

"Where'd you learn Dragon Slayer magic?" Natsu asked.

"Where's Naymmi?" the girl asked again.

"Who's Naymmi? Happy asked.

Can i trust them? the girl thought. Probably. They did help me after I attacked them. And they don't seem mean.

"Naymmi's a Forest Dragon. My parents were kidnapped by men in long black coats and hats when I was five. Being as young as I was, they left me. So I ran before they decided to keep me for later. From what I overheard when they came for my parents, they needed younger workers for something. I didn't last long in the wild. That's when Naymmi found me. She took me in and taught me magic for the last nine years. But this morning I woke up here. And you all know the rest," the girl said.

"You're fourteen?" Natsu asked surprisingly, to which the girl nodded.

"So that's how you learned magic" Gajeel said.

"Wait, you woke up here?" Gray asked.

"Yes, I went to sleep with Naymmi, and I woke up here. I don't know how," the girl answered.

"Is she up?" Mira asked as she came back with the food. "Oh, so she is!" Mira walked up to the bed and placed the salad and fruit next to the girl. "I'm Mira. What's you name?"

"Beth," was her answer.

Well, we learned Beth's name and a little about her. Review replies!

REiNozomi: There's no pairing in this fanfic.

FeathersOfFancy: I'm glad you like the story even though you're not an expert on Fairy Tail. And be prepared for lots of bickering. The guild considers every member family and they act like one too. And I'm not putting any pairs in this fic unless they're canon.

Hope you all have a great week. Go get 'em tigers!

-ThinMintE