It had been a while since the Phantom Lord incident. In that time Loke, Fairy Tail's resident playboy, revealed his true origins. According to Lucy, Loke's real name is Leo. He's a celestial spirit: leader of the zodiac. It turns out he's now contracted to Lucy. Therefore, we won't be seeing him around the guild as often as we used to. He was also able to give every member of Fairy Tail's strongest team (Natsu, Gray, Erza, Lucy and Happy) a ticket for the Akane resort. The team had already headed off.

One day outside the 'currently in construction' guild hall, I was busy reading a book on The abyss of sorcery. I always read the most cheerful things didn't I? I was hoping to find more information on my father Zeref. There were a few things here and there, but to me it mostly sounded like dark wizard nonsense. This was to sort of thing a dark guild would be into. I was interrupted from my reading when a voice spoke to me from my side. "What are you reading?" I turned to see Miriza staring at me. Her scarlet hair that was usually tied up by a black ribbon was now tied back with a white one. her light blue dress was now a beautiful royal blue. She still remained in her usual black tights and brown ankle boots. She was also wearing the snow white necklace from our job in the village. "Do you know what day it is tomorrow?" Miriza asked me. I shook my head, what could be happening tomorrow? "It's Lilias's birthday!" she said.

"Lilias's birthday!?" I exclaimed. Miriza nodded.

"Didn't you wonder where the rest of our team was?" I looked around the guild hall. That's when I noticed that not a single member of our team was in sight. "They've all gone out to buy presents" Miriza stated.

"Have you bought anything yet?" I asked. Miriza nodded. I got up from my chair and ran out from the guild hall. I needed to get Lilias a birthday present fast. I wondered where Bluebell was. I guess she was out buying presents with the others.

I looked around the market to see if I could find anything suitable. Since all the others were probably going to get their presents from Magnolia, I thought I'd go over to Onibas. Sadly, this meant catching a train. Before I went, I headed back to the guild hall so that Miriza was able to cast her Troia spell on me. I wasn't going on that train unprepared. Usually I would have Bluebell fly me there, but she was also busy out buying presents... While I was on the train I checked the savings I had in my pocket. I had 18,000 jewel spare in my pocket at that moment. Seemed like enough to me to buy a decent present for Lilias. As soon as I arrived in Onibas, I headed straight for the magic shop. That would be the best place to buy a present for a wizard right? As I looked across the magic items, nothing seemed to say Lilias to me. I began thinking over what she liked. She liked animals, nature... OK, maybe this present buying thing is harder than I thought. Suddenly, I stopped looking. I had spotted a certain magical item. It would be perfect for Lilias.

I walked over to the item and picked up the open case from the shelves. It was a silver celestial key. I walked over to the counter where the shop owner was waiting. "Excuse me," I asked, "Do you know which celestial key this is?"

"That's canis minor, the little dog." Wait, wasn't that Plue's key. I immediately remembered a time when Lucy had brought her celestial spirit Plue to the guild. Lilias had been talking about him for days, saying how cute and adorable he was. She would love this! "How much?" I asked the shop keeper.

"20,000 jewel," he replied. Great. Lucy had mentioned that was the price of Plue's key in Hargeon. He had managed to lower the price due to... unconventional methods... There was no way I was going to resort to... that... No way... "You seem glum," The shop keeper said, "Can you not afford the key?"

"I was going to get it for my friend's birthday," I sighed, "She's always wanted to be a celestial wizard ever since she was little." That was a true fact. When we had first met Lilias, she had been upset because she couldn't become a celestial wizard due to her dragon slayer magic. Who said she couldn't be both now? "Well if it's for your friend..." The shop keeper began, "I guess I can drop it down to 15,000 jewel for now on one condition: You have to pay me the extra 5,000 jewel by the end of next month." I nodded and gave him the money. "Don't think you can avoid paying," He continued, "I do know where the Fairy Tail guild is after all." He said pointing to my emblem. There was noway I was getting out of this one... Luckily our team was back together so I was able to go on jobs again. Therefore I could earn much more money without having to work in those restaurants for weeks on end...

The next day, it was Lilias's birthday. We were all up and early at the guild hall waiting for her. As soon she arrived we were all there hugging her to death. She then looked down at Candy who had arrived before her. "Is this why left early in the morning with only a note. Candy giggled. "Happy Birthday!" She answered in return. We all went to sit down at one of the picnic tables set outside the 'guild hall'. The one filled with all of our presents. Lilias ended up opening Xavier's turned out to be a ColorS. Unexpectedly, Lilias didn't already have one and was gad that she had one now. Next was Viper's present. It was a skull necklace with rubies for eyes. I was surprised when she was happy to have it. It didn't seem like the sort of thing that she would like. Melody had ended up getting her a pair of gale force reading glasses in pink. Bluebell had bought her a new swim suit which was a coral pink with gold rims. It looked expensive. I only hoped Bluebell hadn't spent all of our money when buying it...

Next was Lokni's present. He'd bought her a fairy tail snow globe lacrima. Next was Altair's present. Altair had bought 10 tickets for Akane resort. One for each of us. "We can't let the others steal all the fun can we?" he said. Next was Miriza's present. She had bought Lilias a dress that fell just below knee length. It was a pale green colour. The rims of the dress were all as white as starlight. The dress was decorated in vine patterns of crimson, sunshine yellow, emerald and lilac. Lilias held it up. "This is beautiful! Thank you Miriza!" Miriza smiled. Next was Candy's gift. So she was saving mine till last? Or was it in no particular order... It turns out Candy had bought a cake from the cake shop in Magnolia. After she had bought it she had decorated it with all sorts of candy including a variety of sweets and lolly pops. She had used a few sweets from the village near mount Hakobe to spell out the letters 'Happy Birthday Lilias!' Lilias seemed really pleased with Candy's present. Finally it was time for my present... Lilias picked up the box wrapped in black rapping paper with a white ribbon. It was the least colourful present Lilias had received... It wasn't my fault I liked dark colours... Slowly, Lilias began to unwrap the present. As she did so I began to feel nervous. What if she didn't like it? What if she thought bad of me for getting something that reminded her of her childhood...

Lilias held the brown box in her hands. She looked the box over and then opened it. When she realized what was inside her face showed pure shock. "What sort of dark gloomy thing did you get her?" Xavier asked me.

"It's not dark at all!" Lilias said. I looked towards her. I could see her holding the key in her hand, a bright smile across her face. "Thank you Faya!" Lilias tackled me with a giant bear hug. "Your welcome..." I gasped. I heard the others laugh. This was already turning out to be a great birthday - for all of us! For the rest of the day we ended up partying. I'd never really been a fan of parties myself, but this one was much more fun than I could have ever imagined! Lilias was able to make a contract with her new spirit. The spirit was the colour of cherry blossom, so Lilias called her Sakura. The plans for the day after were to go to Akane for a birthday holiday. Secretly, we were all exited to surprise the others who were there at the moment!