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Chaos P.O.V.
The rest of the train ride was done in relative silence. Chaos had a lot to think about and had been very well aware of Gray and Erza listening to his and Lucy's conversation. He didn't mind; he had nothing to hide. He could sense that they were curious and everything, they knew he did not mean any harm. Of course, there had been a lot of questions that he had wanted to ask, but refrained for apparent reasons. Some were personal. It had been a bit of a shock to hear that Lucy had dreamed about him coming to this place and in great detail.
When the train pulled into the station, jerking to a halt, Chaos felt a bit sorry for Natsu, who turned green and rolled out of Lucy's lap to the floor. It was somewhat worrisome that he had motion sickness that badly. Maybe one day, if Natsu could trust him, Chaos figured he could try to use his healing Anima to help him, if not cure him.
Seeing the hustle and bustle of the citizens of the city from the window, Chaos smiled as he remembered Earth in its prime. The way humans went about their daily lives. It was almost the same, but he could tell that these people here were a lot happier and at peace than those on Earth had been. When he felt Erza's gauntleted hand on his shoulder, he looked away and up at her. Seeing the silent question in her brown eyes, he shook his head and smiled.
The slight worry that flashed there was her honest concern as she backed up and let him stand. Which he did, silently following them out of the cabin and off the train into the station. A few people called their names and waved while other people looked at the group in awe before spotting him and becoming curious. They were leaving Chaos to wonder if they were famous mages, and they just didn't want to advertise it.
The trip to the guild was short as it was on a hill just outside of the city, just up from the train station. He listened in on the idle chat amongst the four people. He was not trying to be intrusive while observing his surroundings. Taking in the feel of nature, something he had been without for a very long time, pleasantly pleased. And he enjoyed it for the trek.
As they got closer to the guild, he felt several powerful magical signatures coming from it, along with the very rowdy sounding fight that Lucy mentioned happened several times a day. It made a smile appear on his face unbidden. The group inside was rowdy and full of life. A thing he was sure would be interesting to watch as the group slowed down as they reached the swinging doors that led into the guild.
"Well, Chaos, here it is, Fairy Tail, our Guild!" Lucy said brightly. The way she beamed up at the slightly run-down building told of her love of the place.
Giving a small nod of his head, he looked at the others, seeing similar looks of affection on their faces. This was home to them, he realized. And something in his gut told him they'd protect it no matter what. With their very lives if they needed too.
When Erza pushed on the doors, she turned and looked at him, smiling warmly and invitingly, "Welcome to Fairy Tail. The Master is waiting for us."
With that, they entered as a group, and the silence that fell was instant. Everyone looked at the four before him, before breaking out in shouts of welcome at returning. A tall white-haired woman came over to them and whispered that the Master was in the back, as he went for the most part unnoticed by the rest of the guild members present. He was giving him a chance to look at the rather colorful and diversified bunch.
When the group began to move forward once more, he followed as close as possible. At least until they came to a stop at the door down a very short hallway, looking at it, Chaos could feel not just one but four powerful signatures behind it, and it was a bit daunting. So, when the feel of a cold hand rested on his shoulder, he looked up at Gray, who was smiling at him. Until Chaos raised an eyebrow at the blue-black haired man. Who noted quickly he didn't have his shirt on at all.
As he ran off to find it, a voice from the other side of the door called for them to enter. He could feel himself getting nervous as the door opened, and Lucy, Erza, and Natsu entered before him. He could see a desk from between their bodies as well as a tall, extremely muscular man with blond hair and a lightning-shaped scar standing behind it and leaning against the wall. The man himself was very intimidating.
Clearing the door, Chaos saw another muscular man with long shaggy black hair and a mass of piercings narrow red eyes at him and a short, long blue-haired girl who stared wide-eyed at him with him. Her nose flared as she breathed in.
"Is this him?" came a wizened voice, drawing Chaos' attention to a small squat and balding man sitting at the desk. The look in those dark eyes had Chaos feel as if he was being scrutinized for something or another. It was strange, that feeling. It had been thousands of years since he felt it, and it made him smile as he nodded his head.
"His name is Chaos Master Makarov," Erza spoke up as she motioned for him to come forward.
Stepping forward slowly and with caution, he kept his eyes on the man before him but took note of how the other three reacted to him. He could feel Natsu behind him, practically breathing down his neck. The tall blond man was now standing up straight, no longer leaning on the wall, his stormy eyes watching him keenly. The dark-haired man and little girl were doing the same, though the girl seemed eager to come closer, but was being restrained by the dark-haired man. Who had his red eyes trying to dissect him.
"You are not intimidated, child?" Makarov asked him.
With a small shake of his head, Chaos told him no he wasn't, which had the other three, mostly the two males doing a double-take. He felt their power rolling off them in waves, coupled with Natsu's. The way it felt told him that they were the other three dragon slayers in the guild. What had Chaos intrigued was that they all played before this small man before him. As Lucy said, he was indeed powerful though he knew it was not being paraded like the others.
"If I had to be scared of anyone in this room, Sir, it would be you. Your magic is more potent than theirs, and you are restraining it, no?" Chaos said.
The way the older man blinked before laughing loudly at him. It helped ease the tension as the other three relaxed visibly, withdrawing their presence. Apparently, he had just passed a test or something. Not quite sure about that, but Chaos decided to do what he did best. Be patient, and wait.
"Perceptive boy, aren't you. Your eyes tell me you have seen a lot and that there is more to you then what is being seen," Makarov said, to which Chaos nodded his head, "Good. Erza mentioned you have very powerful and old magic at your command. Anima."
At this, the atmosphere changed once more. The tension from before was nothing to what it was now. Chaos bore it in silence as he nodded his head to the aged and wizened man. He was letting his eyes communicate what he didn't say to him. Seeing the understanding dawn in those dark eyes.
"You do not have to be scared, boy. A while back, we all had an unfortunate run-in with Anima. It literally warped us into some type of crystal, well most of us, and transported us to another world," was the simple reply.
To this, Chaos recalled the conversation from the night before. He lifted his eyes from the man to the window and sky then back. He was again keeping silent. The reaction from the man as he understood had the older man laughing.
"You are indeed a rather interesting person. Do not worry, Erza explained to me about what was said in great detail. You know you are dangerous, and if word got out about your... magic... you would be hunted down...right?" was the simply asked question as soon as Makarov stopped laughing.
"Yes," Chaos replied, pausing before continuing, "I am willing to accept that I have no place here and need to go about on my own to keep people safe. I am used to being apart from others. It was my fate before, and if it has to be again to keep others safe, then I accept it."
The way the dragon slayers by their guild leader looked away for a second as if recalling something, Chaos saw the guild master looking more speculative to him. A look that was deciding his future.
"Brats, what do you say? You all have the same keen senses as Natsu, Who better stop what he is doing this instant, " Makarov said, before narrowing those dark eyes just behind Chaos, "This is something I want all your opinions on. Speak you three."
It was silent for sometime before the girl spoke up, "Master, you gave us a home, forgive us our sins. Knowing our magic was old, powerful, and extremely destructive. I do not see why you cannot do the same for him. Besides, he smells nice. Like something clean and fresh."
Shock must have shown on his face as laughter came from the blond and black haired males while the girl flushed darkly and looked down at the ground.
"Laxus, Gajeel?" was the reply that broke the silence.
"I think it would be a good idea to keep the kid here Gramps. I mean that kind of magic if it gets into the wrong hands would cause all kinds of problems. And let's not get onto the topic of the Magic Council," was the blond's response as he curled on the side of his lip up and showed a sharp canine that was similar to Natsu's.
"Thank you, Laxus," Makarov said.
All eyes seemed to turn to Gajeel, who was still watching him with a calculating look that made Chaos wonder just what was going through his head.
"Laxus and Wendy are right; he needs to stay here. Besides, I am curious to see how he can manipulate a force like Anima to his own will," was Gajeel's answer.
It gave Chaos his answer to what was going through the man's head. A soft grunt from the blond, Laxus was most definitely agreement to what was said. While Chaos looked back at the Guild Master. Who was smiling warmly up at him, while he rummaged around in his desk for something with one hand?
"Welcome to the guild, where do you want your stamp?" Makarov asked, leaving Chaos wondering if he missed something.
"I am... being allowed to stay and join? And stamp?" he asked, not bothering to hide his confusion.
"Master, don't let him join. He will be a threat and danger to us," Came Natsu's outraged cry from behind him.
What happened next Chaos was not sure he could ever truly believe. It defied all he knew to be logical and rational. Makarov reached out an arm, which stretched beyond the human limit and grew in size as it smacked Natsu behind him. The loud thump on the floor behind him told him that Natsu was once more unconscious. While Makarov just sat back, the body like it had been before.
"Excuse him, he gets a little overprotective," Was the only answer he was given.
Again Chaos just nodded his head as he tried to figure out what he had just seen happen.
"As to your questions, Yes. It is that simple. I will have to have you fill out paperwork, of course, but other than that, I think you'd make a nice addition. And you probably could hold your own in a guild fight," Makarov said, lifting his other hand from the desk to reveal a stamp that looked oddly familiar to what he had seen on Lucy's right hand. "And this stamp will leave the guild mark, so others know you are a part of our guild and family. Where would you like it, and what color?"
Chaos thought about it for a few seconds before lifting his hands and removing his left glove, revealing the back of his hand. "I would like it here and in white outlined in a pale blue if you could, please." He said.
When a small hand pushed him forward, Chaos looked down to see Wendy by his side. She smiled warmly at him as his hand crossed over the desk. In the next moment, the stamp connected with his flesh, he felt a tingling sensation similar to when he accessed his ether drive to cast his Anima spread across the back of his hand. When the stamp was removed, there was a white symbol outlined in a pale blue.
"Welcome to the guild, brat. That doesn't mean you can go on a rampage and wrack up a huge expense bill," Makarov said, though he was smiling. "Everyone is dismissed, but Laxus, Lucy, and Chaos."
Lucy's POV.
Lifting her hands above her head as she stretched, feeling and hearing the popping of her joints as she did so. Looking to the side, she saw Chaos filling out the paperwork, some of which had to be fudged just a little due to the nature of his arrival in Fiore. It made her smile as he talked things over with Makarov and Laxus. Whom he had been informed was Makarov's Grandson and next in line to be guild master. A thing Chaos said he would excel at it.
Having gotten to see Laxus swell with pride at the compliment was a great feeling. She was glad that Chaos had been allowed to join the guild, though she doubted that Makarov would have denied him. And the fact that Laxus, Gajeel, and Wendy were okay with him made her feel better. But it didn't help her understand why Natsu didn't like him and want him around. Natsu was always overly friendly and accepting. Never was he like this.
Outside she could hear as Natsu challenged Gajeel to a fight, only to be called a flametard by Gray. And Natsu was instigating another full-out brawl in the guildhall. Right now, though, she turned her attention back to what was going on in the Office. Only to see that the three guys were staring at her. Makarov, a perverted look on her face as she had paused in mid-stretch, so her chest was still thrust out, while Laxus was looking openly in appreciation, Chaos was flushing and looking just past her.
Flushing and muttering a bit, Lucy lowered her arms to her side. She was puffing her cheeks out as she glared back at them all, before bursting out laughing. Which the others soon followed with.
"Well, this is all in order now, give or take. I will get it filed immediately with the Magic Council. We labeled him as an elemental magic user, multiple types," Makarov stated bluntly.
Nodding her head in agreement with that, Lucy wondered just how far that could go. Especially if he ends up using the healing aspect of his particular magic. At that thought, Lucy decided to speak up.
"Master, that is a great idea. But what if he uses... it to heal? He mentioned he is capable of healing magic," she said softly.
The way the other two looked at Chaos told her that he hadn't mentioned that.
"That is a bit problematic child. You see, Healing magic is very, very rare. Right now, the only two that we know of that can do it is Wendy, our wind dragon slayer, and Chelia, the Wind God Slayer." Makarov stated slowly. "So, try not to use it unless it is life or death, okay."
The single nod from Chaos was all that they got. His clear, tranquil eyes told them he understood and would obey. Earning a thankful smile from Makarov, and if Lucy wasn't wrong a bit of respect from Laxus.
"Next thing is where to house you. Lucy, you think you can room him for a few nights while accommodations are found?" Laxus asked.
She was feeling heat rush to her face before she shook her head no. The look of confusion on everyone else's face had her groaning.
"Remember who my teammates are? They are constantly breaking into my apartment. And with Natsu acting the way he is, that go over as well as happy in a sack," she stated, her voice dropping a few octaves.
The way Laxus and Makarov flinched and Chaos look mortified at what she just said told her that most of them understood.
"Is there not a spare room where he can stay in?" she asked.
"No. The main guildhall in town is still under renovations does," Makarov said.
"He can stay with me. I mean, I live outside of town, and only my teammates come over on occasion, respecting my privacy. As long as he is clean and respects my space, I have no problem," Laxus spoke up.
His words eased something in Lucy she wasn't aware of. She wanted him to be in a safe place. And anywhere Natsu couldn't get to him was a good place. She'd have to ask Natsu why he didn't like Chaos; it couldn't just be his magic.
"Then it is agreed. Now for the entertainment. Think you can show a sample of your 'elemental' magic to the guild. Because I am sure that Erza has kept Natsu from telling everyone what your magic is," Makarov said, making Lucy sit up straight.
A chance to see and study more on his magic would be best. Already her mind was cataloging what it had seen, how it had given her the impression that she could feel the emotions attached to it. It was beautiful, as well.
"I can," Was Chaos' reply, causing Lucy to squirm slightly in her spot on the couch.
"Okay then brats, let's introduce our newest family member to the guild and get the show going. Also, you will need to do a physical application to the magic. Hope you don't mind sparring with a guild member or two or three," Makarov said, as Lucy saw his dark eyes spark with a light that was rarely there.
Shaking her head, she knew this was going to be rather interesting to see.
TBC!