Shall we get to know a couple more people?
Fairy Tail is not mine. Der. The Pradesh family is also not mine. Also der. Alanza is mine. Any problems she has are my fault.
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Wendy was at a table with Levy and Juvia when Alanza finished making her way painfully down the stairs. Juvia was only halfway paying attention to what they were talking bout because she was busy gawking at a shirtless Gray. Alanza had hoped that avoiding their battle would keep her from going Gray crazy, but maybe a few carefully placed words were also in order. Not that she objected to Gruvia entirely, but Juvia had taken it Way to far originally.
"Hey girls. Can I join you or is this a blunette only table?"
"Sister!" Alanza found herself yanked down onto the bench next to Juvia. "Juvia is so happy! Master Makarov says that all of Fairy Tail is Juvia's family. Juvia has never had a family before!" Levy reached across the table and patted her hand.
"Most of us had no family before Fairy Tail."
"Umm..." Wendy looked back and forth between Alanza and Juvia, her nose twitching slightly. "You two are sisters? I don't understand."
"N-no. Alanza said... She wanted..." Juvia was obviously just now feeling the nerves of having called her that.
"I told Juvia I wanted to be her sister. Around here we get to choose new brothers and sisters if we want to, and I chose Juvia to be one of mine."
"Oh! I understand. It's like kin."
"Pretty much. Oh. Sorry for not introducing myself. I'm Alanza. You must be Wendy." Really who else would she be, but that was the polite way to say hello, right? "Mystogan told me to let you know that he will be down in a little bit."
"You are Je- Mystogan's friend that sent him to bring me to Fairy Tail! I'm so happy to meet you!"
"Oh, so he told you about me did he? What did he say?"
"Umm..." The girl blushed a bit. "He said you were funny and determined and really friendly."
"He said I was frustrating and pushy and I teased him didn't he?" Wendy wilted a bit.
"I'm really sorry."
"Well It's true. I am bossy and stubborn and I love to tease him. He makes it to easy really."
"He totally does." Levy snickered a bit.
"Well, I'm glad him saying that didn't upset you or make you mad at him. He seems to like you a lot! He also told be you had a really strong heart and you were a good friend."
"I'm glad he thinks so." Juvia was watching Gray again and Alanza linked her arm with the water wizards to distract her. "Hey, Juvs, the Thunder Legion is taking me shopping this afternoon. Wanna come? I haven't actually had the chance to see Magnolia yet since I joined the guild. They can show us both around."
"Juvia would love that! Juvia has never been shopping with other people before!"
"Well, I have it on good authority that Evergreen is an aggressive shopper. I only hope we can keep up." Levy laughed at them nervously.
"Good luck with that."
"Oh shush you. So, Wendy. I hear you are quite the healer."
"I wouldn't say that! I mean, I do have healing magic, but I'm still learning."
"Do you think you can look at my feet for me?"
"Are they injured?" The sky slayer jumped down and started examining Alanza's feet. At least that is what she assumed the girl was doing. She left Mystogan's wrappings in place, but her hands were glowing and there was an odd tingle moving around her feet.
"Not really. I was just a bit rough on them." Wendy gave her this look that had her fighting the urge to apologize.
"You should take better care of your feet." She laughed nervously.
"So I've been told. I'm not used to walking as much as I have recently. The Thunder Legion is going to help me find proper boots or whatever today." Wendy's magic changed. It felt fresh and cool now and was just... pulling the ache from her feet.
"What have you been wearing?"
"Knockoff converse tennies." All three blunettes 'huh'ed at her. Guess that wasn't a thing here either. "Cheap shoes that weren't designed for walking so much or for so long."
"Well, your feet should be all better now!" Alanza flexed her feet inside their bandages and grinned.
"Thanks Wendy!"
"Here you are ladies!" Mira quickly tossed plates full of food in front of them along with drinks. "Compliments of Erza today. She said to treat the whole table." Mira bustled off before they could say thank you. Alanza glanced around the room in search of the red-head. She found her sitting with her team and waved happily. When Erza blushed the three blunettes giggled and waved as well. Alanza, Wendy, and Levy turned their attention back to their meal, but Juvia got... stuck. Her eyes were still on the shirtless ice wizard sitting across from Erza.
"Juvs. Listen sis. Gray over there just got back from a mission that was real rough on him. You can't tell, because he's a really chill dude, but his nerves are shot and he's... raw. Emotionally."
"Gray?"
"Tall, dark, and broody over there? I know you think he looks tasty, but he's hurting right now. Give him time to heal and give yourself time to figure out who you are as a Fairy Tail wizard. K?"
"J-juvia doesn't know what you mean." Levy shoved at the water wizards shoulder with a lecherous smirk.
"Don't go fibbing at us girl. You keep looking at Gray like he's a popsicle and you've been out in the sun for three days." Juvia and Wendy both blushed red. Then Juvia sobered.
"Juvia has never seen the sun. Juvia is the Rain Woman." Alanza wrapped her in a hug. Normally she wasn't the hugging type, but Juvia seemed to be really physical in her affections.
"You will. I promise." Juvia snuggled into her hug and Alanza saw a bright ray of sunshine pass over one of the windows.
"Thank you."
"No problem."
"Hey pretty ladies!" *hey ladies, sexy things, rawr, hiya chickies. "What brought the cuddle fest on? Somebody feeling down?" *don't be sad, happy, somebody needs cuddles. Alanza tipped her head back to see Bickslow standing over them.
"Hey, Bix. Juvia is feeling a bit sad at the moment." He plopped down on Alanza's other side and leaned back against the table. Stretched out like that he was so freaking long.
"What's wrong, Dewdrop?" *pretty little dewdrop, smile for daddy, let us help.
"Juvia's rain makes everyone gloomy. Juvia wants to let the sun shine so she can have friends who won't always be sad when she is near, but her magic only makes gloomy rain."
"Well shoot. Don't be like that. My sister makes it rain sometimes too when she is sad." *Aunt Xally's rain, happens sometimes, still love her.
"You have a sister?" Levy sounded surprised.
"Two actually." *sisters, Aunt Xally, Aunt Emzadi, sunshine and rain.
"Y-your sister can stop the rain?"
"Well yeah." Bickslow tipped his head to the side. "You ok, Dewdrop? Having trouble with your magic?" *trouble, to much rain, Dewdrop sad. Juvia hid her face against Alanza.
"Juvia has never seen the sun, Bix."
"For reals? That's such a bummer." *such a bummer, to much sadness, help you smile.
"Juvia is sorry!" The words were muffled, but everyone at the table heard.
"Nah! Don't be sorry. Life has been rough on you, yeah?" *tough, rough, life makes you sad. "You stick around. We'll put a smile on your face and help you get a handle on that rain, OK?" *sunshine, smiles, beach party, stick with daddy. Juvia peeked out at Bickslow.
"Y-you don't mind Juvia's rain?"
"Nope!" Bix twisted around so he was straddling the bench and leaned an elbow on Alanza's shoulder. He held his other hand out towards Juvia. "I'm Bickslow by the way. We haven't really met yet." Juvia shyly shook his hand.
"Juvia is Juvia." He grinned at her.
"Juvia is adorable is what she is." *adorable, so cute, pretty little Dewdrop. He bopped her on the nose with a black nailed finger and the water wizard blushed. Alanza grinned when she heard the rain let up just a bit. She hadn't thought to use the fun loving Bickslow to help lift Juvia's spirits.
"I invited Juvia to come shopping with us if that's alright."
"Totes! You can never have to many hot babes around." *never, please come with us, have fun, so much fun. Juvia beamed.
"Carla! Carla!" Happy came swooping in to land on their table. Alanza couldn't get over how odd it was that he looked like a real cat. He was totally... catlike. Excwpt he was mostly blue, and he had wings, and he stood on two feet. It was the two feet thing that got to her."Wendy, I got a fishy for Carla, but I can't find her." Alanza blinked. Come to think of it she had yet to see Wendy's Exceed partner.
"Umm... Carla went back to our new apartment for a nap."
"Oh." The blue cat wilted.
"Also, I think... Carla doean't like fish very much." Happy suddenly perked back up.
"Maybe by the time she is done with her nap I can get her an even bigger fishy!" Everyone at the table sweatdropped. It totally weirded Alanza out. An idea suddenly occured to her and she glanced around the guildhall.
"Are there any Fairy Tail members with blue hair who Aren't at this table? Should I be sitting somewhere else? Juvia, can I borrow your hat?" Juvia gave her a worried look, but handed the hat to her. Alanza stuffed all her bright orange hair into the hat and tugged it down as far as it would go.
"Wendy w-" Mystogan stood over them and cut off his own words with a longsuffering sigh. "Alanza. Why are you hiding?"
"Because I don't have blue hair. I'm pretending Juvia's hat is my hair." He pressed his thumb between his eyes.
"Why?"
"Because every other being at the table has blue hair."
"Woah, Really!" Happy spun around and looked at the people seated at the table. "Wow! It's the blue table!" Juvia leaned forward.
"Does Bickslow have blue hair?"
"Yep! It grows in black, but light washes it out into a blue color." *so blue, like the sky, only when it's long.
"One, two, three..." Happy pointed to the blunettes as he counted. "There are five of us with blue hair!"
"Six!" Alanza pointed at Mystogan.
"Mystogan too! Can we see?" Mystogan glared, first at Happy, then at Alanza.
"No." He reached out, plucked the har from Alanza's head and handed it back to Juvia. He then pulled the staff with the eye off his back and bonked her on the head with it.
"Ow! The fuck, Myst?"
"Now there are seven." He spun and started walking away. "Coming, Wendy?"
"Coming!" Wendy chased after him with a big smile. Alanza rubbed at the top of her head and glared after It was only once they were gone that she noticed all four of her table companions staring at her.
"What?" Happy snickered.
"You look funny with blue hair."
"What!" She pulled a chunk of her hair around to stare at it with wide eyes. That crazy, overdressed loner had somehow turned her hair a highly uninspiring blue-grey color. Bickslow started cackling madly, and his babies flew around giggling. "Why that no good, sneaky... Lucy! Help! The prince of fools made me look like a pigeon!" Levy choked, trying not to laugh outloud at her. When Bix fell backwards off the bench both blue haired females started laughing aloud.
"What's... Woah." Lucy stood there and blinked at her hair. "That is not a good color for you."
"I know! Can Cancer fix it? Please!"
"Alanza? What happened to your hair?" Erza had apparently followed Lucy over to the table. Half the guild was either staring at her or laughing outright.
"Fucking Mystogan!"
"Strange. I wasn't aware he was capable of something like this."
"Open, gate of the Giant Crab, Cancer!"
"What can I do for you, baby?" Mavis, this spirit looked weird.
"Can you return Alanza's hair to it's natural color?" Alanza held perfectly still while Cancer's sheers snipped around her head.
"All done, baby. Hmm... Odd. Shall I try again?"
"Uhh... No. That's fine. You can go back."
"You got it, baby." Alanza stared at her still pigeon colored hair as the spirit poofed out of existence.
"I'm sorry, Alanza. Whatever he did to your hair isn't something Cancer can fix."
"Hey, Carrots! It's an illusion. Once he's far enough away it will just fade." She felt extremely releived at that, but...
"How far is far enough?"
"Out of town I guess."
"But... He's gunna be in town with Wendy all day!"
"You poor thing!" Evergreen came over and ran her fingers through Alanza's hair. "That settles it. We are going to Hargeon to shop. Your hair should turn back long before we get there. They have a bigger selection there since it's a port town anyway. Freed! Let's go! We have a long day ahead of us! Chop chop!" Alanza found herself being dragged out of the guildhall by Evergreen. Juvia, Bix, and his babies right behind them. She saw Freed shake his head before following in a more composed manner.
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To be continued.