Year X784
I woke up early that morning. I got changed into a long sleeved black T-shirt with a red skirt with a gold rim along with a matching red jacket with short sleeves also rimmed with gold. I also wore a black headband made of ribbon. Bluebell was wearing a white shirt with a dark purple ribbon as well as a pale lavender skirt and small black sandals. She handed me a purple necklace with a dark violet heart of amethyst at the end. It had been a present from her on my 16th birthday. I never went anywhere without it on. I smiled down at my closest friend. "Thanks." I could have never got anywhere without her. We walked slowly towards the guildhall. It was July. A lot had happened since I'd been on my last job 2 years ago. Only last year, Miriza had became an S-class wizard with the help of Melody. Now the two of them were usually busy on S-class quests or out against dark guilds with The Trimens of Blue Pegasus - which they both seemed to enjoy a lot more now.
Xavier would often go on jobs alone with Viper or with Elfman. He had never been the same since Lisanna's death. None of the Strauss siblings had. Lokni and Altair went on many quests alone. I hardly ever talked to them let alone saw them around the guild hall. Lilias wasn't usually around the guild hall either since she tagged along on jobs with the Thunder Legion. Therefore, Xavier was the most common face to see from our old team. Wasn't I lucky? Despite us all drifting apart, our cat friends were all extremely close. Out of the zero generation dragon slayers, Lokni and Xavier got on fairly well, Miriza and Lilias got on rather well as well. Leaving me... But I was still extremely close to Levy who was now a part of team Shadow Gear. We had remained close as we both enjoyed reading and often did so together. We were also some of the shorter 17 year old girls (though I was slightly taller) so we could easily relate in that sense!
When I walked into the guild hall I did not expect to see what I saw. I had been working in a few restaurants non-stop recently, as rent at Fairy Hills was due soon, so didn't have as much time to visit the guild hall this week. When I opened the door I was surprised to see both Miriza and Melody waiting for me. Melody was wearing an aqua dress with a dark violet skirt and flounce. The was also a violet ribbon died around the collar of her dress and a dark red ribbon tied upon her tail. I looked towards Miriza and saw she was wearing a knee length pale blue dress with long sleeves. She was wearing black tights and ankle brown leather boots. Her scarlet hair that often fell down just above her elbows was tied up in a ponytail with a black ribbon. "Faya!" She smiled, "Come and meet our newest member!" Miriza led me over to where I saw the back of a blonde haired girl speaking to Natsu and Happy. I recognized her scent instantly. It was Lucy! "Lucy!" Bluebell and I called in excitement running towards her. She turned towards us and beamed. We embraced for a few seconds. "I'm so glad you joined!" I said. I could tell that she was glad that she joined as well.
"I'm so happy that Lucy joined too!" A voice spoke. I turned to see Lilias and Candy. Candy... Looked exactly the same as she always did - wearing a rainbow dress and eating sweets... Lilias however looked completely different. She was wearing a white pleated dress that fell to her knees. Over the top she wore a short slaved pale pink hoodie. She also wore a pair of pale pink trainers along with knee high white socks. But her clothes weren't the biggest change. Her usually shoulder length hair was now cut short to just below her chin. In her now short hair was a sunset-coloured flower. This new style change suited her. "Guess what!" She smiled in excitement, "We're all going to go on a job again!" Now that I thought about it, enough years had passed to allow us to all go on jobs together again. "The others are waiting over there!" She said pointing to a table occupied by Xavier, Lokni, Altair and Viper.
Xavier's shoulder length hair was now tied up. He was also wearing a white jacket over a black t-shirt along with grey jeans. We had also wearing a pair of black and white trainers. The smile on his face - was anything but friendly. Beside him was viper who was wearing a black jacket with the letter 'V' on the back in white. That cat seriously scared me... I looked over to Lokni who I hadn't seen for such a long time. He was wearing a black jacket over a dark crimson turtle neck shirt. He was also wearing a pair of blue jeans along with black boots. His hair was a shade darker than it had been when he was younger and was much more messier. His eyes though were the same bright green colour. I looked towards Altair who was wearing a simple pale grey jacket. We walked over and sat down. Our old team was back together again. "I've picket the job!" Lilias exclaimed placing a flyer down on the table. "Near Mount Hakobe, a small village is being terrorized by a pack of giant demon wolves. Our job is to take these wolves out and restore the village to it's original state! If we do so, the reward is 800,000 jewel!" 800,000 jewel! How desperate were these poor villagers, "We'll be getting 80,000 jewel each!" Lilias smiled.
If Bluebell and I combined our rewards so we could pay for rent we would have 160,000 jewel. Minus rent money would be 60,000 jewel. Split between the two of us would be 30,000 jewel! Since I usually had to spend all my money on rent and food I had never had spare money like that to spend! "Do we get to kill the wolves?" Viper asked. The rest of us gave the cat a horrified look. That cat was... just scarily terrifying at times... "I'm in." Lokni agreed. Altair nodded his head.
"There's ice and snow - my element." Xavier spoke, a small smile forming over his lips. As soon as I looked at him it faded. It made me feel almost sad knowing there was some of his old self left behind...
"Snow?" Miriza said, "Sounds great!" Melody gave out a small laugh.
"I'm in too!" She said. I wish I knew why she was laughing.
"Candy and I will come to!" Lilias smiled. Everyone looked at Bluebell and I.
"I'm going," Bluebell spoke, "I haven't been on many jobs before." By that she meant one job with Lilias, Candy and me. Now everyone was looking at me. "Well?" Xavier spoke.
"I'll go," I said. I could feel a smile forcing it's way onto my face. "I've missed having our team."
