Bet you guys never thought you'd see the day that I'd return to this fic, huh?
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail.
Vigorous scrubbing proved useless, no matter how hard Dobengal and the other guild members worked on it. The scorch marks left over from the fire lesson would just not go away.
Maybe Dobengal could reason with Rogue, and blame Sting for wanting him to teach the rainbow fire magic to all of the other fire mages. There was a little voice in the back of his head telling him that that excuse wouldn't work, since it had been his decision to hold the training indoors.
But the ninja chose to ignore that for now. Maybe Rogue would let it slide, in the aftermath of honeymoon bliss.
Again, unlikely, but Dobengal could dream.
Also, a new problem had arisen.
When he'd gone to the Guild Master's office, he'd opened the door only to freeze in horror at the sight that awaited him.
The paperwork. It was piled to the ceiling, in over a dozen stacks. Sting been putting it off, apparently.
How had it gotten to this point? Sure, Sting had been hard at work fostering the bonds between the Sabertooth members ever since the end of the Grand Magic Games, and taking jobs with Rogue, and helping to renovate the guild hall, and dealing with the aftermath of Tartaros and Minerva returning to the guild…
Actually, on second thought, it really wasn't such a great surprise that none of the paperwork had gotten done. Sting had spent his time literally anything other than the paperwork.
What the real mystery here was, was why Rogue had allowed it to happen. Normally he was the voice of reason between him and Sting.
Then again, maybe the Dragon Slayer just hated paperwork as much as his partner seemed to.
Well… either way, it wasn't going to complete itself.
Dobengal moved the stack on the chair aside, found some pens in the desk's drawers, and sat down.
The first form he picked up involved Sting's initial instatement as Guild Master of Sabertooth.
As in – Sting had never filed that form.
Dobengal contemplated putting his name down as the Guild Master, but then reconsidered.
Otherwise he'd have to do this paperwork all of the time.