Lucky POV
I looked down at the wood covered Gray as he tried to wiggle furiously in his wooden cocoon. I tilted my head at him and asked "If I let you go, can you not freeze me?" I dont much like being frozen, it makes the random leaves that I grow for some reason to turn red and fall off and I get super tired. It is also why I dont much enjoy the winter, im always slow and tired then.
In responce to my question, Gray glares up at me with no small ammount of hatred in his eyes. It may be due to the fact that I do this quite often. Only when he is entirely nude, I know the girls dont like being flashed. Im not too bothered because im always naked, people tend to forget that Happy is too, he just has his fish sack around his neck most of the time.
When I see the glare directed at me I shrug and wander off to the back of the guild so I can go out to the woods and get Lucy her welcome stick. She will probably come back after they get Macao to let Master know they succeded.
I follow my usual route to the Eastern Forest, which is just the backwards version of how I get there. Once I get to the forest I sniff around to see if there are any vulcans in the area, which there arent. A while back I found a tree that was red all year round, that would have the perfect branch for Lucy. I showed it to Natsu and Happy once and they named it the Forever Fall tree.
Sometimes I wonder what an entire forest of Forever Fall trees would look like, I assume it would be very pretty. Anyways the tree also makes the most delicious and sweet sap I have ever tried. Occasionally I would take jars of it to Mira to use in her cooking. It is a big hit in the guild. Seriously, they always start a fight when I come back with some. Then again, they are always looking for a reason to fight.
I finally find the tree and take a look at the 'veins' in the side. I see that it almost time to tap it again. I nod to myself and make note to tap it sometime next week. I look up at the branches and locate one which I think would be a good present to Lucy and gently climb up the tree to get to it. Once in a good spot, I gently ask the tree if I could have this branch. The leaves rustle and the branch gives a creak as it saggs a little.
Knowing that this is the trees way of saying yes, I push my magic to where the branch connects with the tree and sever it as gently as possible, using my magic to seal the wound and speed up the process of growing a new branch where this one was. I give the tree my thanks and gently climb back down with my new present. When I get back onto the ground, I take a look at the saplings growing around.
Seeing that they are all healthy, I start to make my way back to the guild hall happy that I have the perfect present for Lucy. When I get back I see that my timing couldnt have been more perfect, it seems like they had just gotten back from Mt. Hakobe. I dont see Macao with them, so I assume he went home to Romeo who is also the kid who was watching me a while back.
I walk up to them and transfer the stick from my mouth to one of my hands as I get off of all fours. I sit down using my tail as a balancing point so I dont fall back down. I look at Natsu and say "So im guessing Macao is safe now?" he looks at me with a big grin and says "Yup, turns out he got taken over by a vulcan after defeating 19 others." I tilt my head at him.
"But vulcans are so easy to take out, why was he only able to get 19?" I could see Lucy flip out from the corner of my eye. "Those things are easy to you?" I look at her and nod "Yeah, I fight against them in my free time, they are pretty easy to beat really." She just stares at me dumbfounded for a bit and I hold out the stick I've been holding for a bit now.
"Welcome to Fairy Tail!" I say as I drop it into her hands. She looks at it in confusion as the rest of the guild looks on. Then they all start talking excitedly. If you listen you could hear them say things like "Looks like one of the Forever Fall sticks." and "I havent seen that kind of branch since she gave one to Laxus." Lucy however isnt listening to them.
She looks at me and the stick in confusion and says "Thanks?" I nod and respond with "Your welcome." before looking at the time. It is almost time to close the guild. I look at Mira and say "Time to start the clean up." she nods and looks to Lucy to explain. "When it gets to a cirtain time, everyone is sent out and me and a few others stay back to clean up and close the guild. When everyone is gone, Lucky goes around to check that everything is locked up and turned off before going to bed."
At this point I turn to Natsu and Happy as they tell me with what had happened with their rescue mission. As im doing this, I miss how Mira explains that I spend most of my time here as I cant be allowed to be seen by anyone outside of the guild. I also miss the look of sadness Lucy looks at me with.
it takes a while until Natsu and Happy have finished their story. When they do I notice that Lucy and most people have left by now. Before Natsu leaves, he goes to the request board to grab a quest he had seen earlier and takes it before finally leaving. I let Mira know he had taken a request before getting to work on my nightly routine.
Around halfway done fixing the tables and chairs that were broken today, along with a few mugs, I notice that someone had let Gray out. Thankfully he was gone when I got back and according to Mira, he had gone on a job. Once everything was fixed and done, I went to sleep in my usual spot.
In the morning
I yawn and stretch as I hear the talking and chatting of the guild below. Im the only one up here as all of the S-Class people are out doing various missions. Sadly none of them are S-Class so I couldnt go with them. I jumped down and slowed my fall with my wings. I looked around to see that Levy is here with her ususal enterage of Jet and Droy.
She saw me coming so she used her solid script magic to create some wood for me to snack on. I happily ate it as I looked at the request board. "Aw man, the quest I was looking for was taken." I looked at the board to notice that several of the quests are missing, although that is never new here. "What quest were you looking for?"
"There was one where you had to steal a book from someone. I wanted to read the book." I nodded, that sounds like a quest she would like to do. "Dont bother looking for it, Natsu, Happy and Lucy took it. Besides, the price went up, it is no longer 200,000 Jewels, it is now 2,000,000 jewels." we all gaped at what we heard. I dont have any need for money, and that sounds great.
After we were looking at the jobs for a bit, Levy finally found a job that she was interested in and left with Team Shadowgear. Not without giving me a farewell thing of wood, spruce specifically. After they left I just mingled with the others of the guild, We talked about their most recent missions and things they have seen.
At one point I saw master leave to go to the guild master meeting. Eventually Lucy, Natsu and Happy all got back from their quest. I walk up to them excitedly and ask "How was your first quest Lucy?" she just sighed and said "We were able to get the book, but we didnt destroy it like we were supposed to." I looked at her and said "Why do I feel like there is more to the story than that?"
She just shook her head and said "I'll tell you about it tomorrow, right now I need a bath and a long nap." I tilted my head and said "Well you are right, you smell strongly of a sewer, a bath would probably do you all a lot of good." I looked directly at Happy and said "Especially you, you smell as if you took a bath in sewer water." He looked away from me and started to whistle.
I narrowed my eyes in and looked closer at his fur, which looks as if he had gotten wet and then dried off. "You did didnt you. You are one disgusting cat, you probably enjoyed it too." before he could answer Lucy piped in and said "He was swimming around in it, having a great time and was even reluctant to get out."
I looked at Happy in disgust and said "That sounds exactly like something you would do, you disgusting feline." Happy seemed to get flustered at the comments and retorted with "Yeah, well at least I dont roll around in the mud after it rains." I looked at him and said "I do that because it actually is good for me, the water and earth are not only helpful to my magic, but it is good for my skin as well."
Lucy cut in and said "Wait I thought you were a wood dragon, I get how water and earth can help, but I dont see it really having too much of an effect." I look over to her and explain "No im a forest dragon, I like to use wood since it is stronger than most other plants, but I can use anything from ferns to vines, even some mosses. As long as it grows in a forest I can use it."
To make my point I have some moss grow on my legs and have the small horns on my head grow some blue flowers. this seems to put Lucy in a state of awe. "I will sometimes go to our healer Porlyusica and help her gather herbs and mosses to help her with our potions. I think she likes me the most out of everyone here since im not human, she isnt very fond of you guys, despite being one herself."
This made Lucy think for a minute before saying "Then wouldnt that mean she is ok with Happy, after all he isnt human either." I shake my head and say "Its Happy we are speaking about." that made her rethink what she just said. Happy would have cut in, but he was too busy cheering on Natsu as he was fighting Gray, who must have recently gotten back.
Before anything else could have gotten said Loke burst in and yelled "Erza is in town!" this caused the entire guild to go quiet. Nothing could be heard until I cheered "Yay Erza is back!"