-Is really focused while staring at phone-
Kane: Strawberry-San… Are you okay?
Must… POKE… I WILL WIN! -Crazed look- HAHAHAHAHAHA -cough-
Kane: AH SHIT! O-O Announcer-San, what the fudge is wrong with Strawberry-San?!
Announcer-San: She's doing an intense Poke Battle… She nearly killed me- AHHH!
SHUT UP. e-e Must… focus… e-o Hehehehehe… I'm winning~!
Kane: She's scaring me now…
Sachiko: Ne, Strawberry-Chan, I stole your scissors…
O-O ;-; Pwease give me them back… -Cutest face-
Kane and Announcer-San: O-O
Sachiko: -Throws them somewhere- Go get 'em girl!
:D -Runs off-
Sachiko: Say thank you before I kill you…
Kane and Announcer-San: ARIGATO! ;o; ARIGATO!
Sachiko: Now… That's better… YUKI OPEN THE PORTAL. -o-
Yuki: -Opens the portal up-
Sachiko has left the area.
Kane: Damn… AH SHIT! THE STORY! Ahem- Anyways, like mentioned before in the last chapter, Strawberry-San will be doing the Main Story and fillers later (AKA At the end of the first part of the main story)
Announcer-San: It is confirmed that The Silver Dragon and The Emerald Dragon will be Trilogies. So yes, both Maemi and Kane will have three stories about them. ^^ Naturally, they're most likely going to be in many other stories as well.
Kane: I have a question for all of you… WHAT DO YOU THINK ANNOUNCER-SAN LOOKS LIKE? AND WHAT DO YOU THINK HIS REAL NAME IS?!
Disclaimers: Strawberry does not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima, or Miksu.
Claimers: She does own Maemi, Red, Ignus, Nadia, Cora, Ryuu, Grandma Tulip, and Rox.
Maemi breathed heavily. She and her grandmother left Magnolia only about a week ago. They had packed things up quickly, and were on their way in only 30 minutes. Determined as she was to save her friends, she still wasn't all that sure about necessarily getting help from another Guild. Not to mention, Sabertooth. She adjusted the scarf that Natsu gave her long ago to hide her silver-colored guild mark on her left shoulder blade.
"You holding up okay dear?" Her grandmother asked her. Maemi nodded shortly in response, panting. Sadly, while she gathers up the rest of the 1%, her energy decreases as well. Luckily, it can be reimbursed if she sleeps, after that, it slowly goes down. Maemi shifted her gaze up to the rocky area, where Sabertooth's guild stood proudly up high on the mountain.
Maemi stared at the large saber-tooth cat on the top of the guild. "Looks… It looks astonishing…" Maemi breathed out. She stared at the guild in somewhat awe.
"Well, get a move on, slow-poke…" Maemi shot her eyes towards her grandmother, who was almost half-way there.
"W-what the?!" Maemi squeaked out, quickly chasing after her grandma. "HOW?!" Maemi exclaimed as she reached the elderly lady. "Tell me your secrets."
"Be old."
"What? That doesn't even-!"
"It will when you're old."
"But Grams-!"
"NO BUTTS."
"Wrong but…" Maemi face palmed. The two of them continued to argue until they finally reached the front doors of the guild. Maemi looked at it, slightly cross eyed. "My eyes are still crossed…"
"Hun, your eyes are going to stay like that…" Maemi quickly undid her eyes. For some reason, her grandmother's sentence sounded incomplete. "UNLESS YOUR ME!"
"DAMMIT!" The door creaked open. A small redish-pink colored exceed had opened the door, a green one in a pink frog suit behind the other one.
"Eh… Hello?" The redish-pink one greeted. Maemi glanced down. With pure interest, Maemi crouched down to she could speak better with small cat.
"Hi there," Maemi responded. "Can I- OW!" Her grandmother hit her in the back with a walking stick.
"May we come in? We have a very special request…" The exceed glanced back at the other one behind it. It pushed the door open a little more.
"Okay. I'll go get Sting-Kun! I-I mean, the Master!" The exceed quickly corrected himself, and ran off. Maemi looked at the green one that was in the pink frog outfit. She giggled.
"That's cute on you…" Maemi sang out softly. The green exceed smiled, and blushed a bit.
"Fro likes it too!" It said, smiling brightly. Maemi smiled back. She stood back up straight as she heard some people approaching them. Even though she couldn't use magic, her senses were keen and sharp as ever. Surprisingly, the people that were approaching smelt like Dragon Slayers. She quickly hardened her stand, and crossed her arms. She watched the green exceed prance over to one of the people: A boy with black hair and red eyes.
"Are these the visitors Lector talked about, Frosch?" He asked the exceed. Frosch nodded.
Lector must be the reddish-pink one… Is the other Dragon Slayer the Master? Maemi thought, mumbling uncertainly to herself. She moved her eyes over towards the blonde Dragon Slayer, where Lector was on his shoulder.
"Hello. Lector tells me you two have a special request-?" He was cut off by Grandma Tulip.
"Yes, we are. I am Tulip… uhm…" Maemi's grandmother was trying to think of a last name, since Dyslin would attract far too much attention, and people would be begging Maemi to do more missions.
"Tulip and Maemi Sarris! I'm her granddaughter…" Maemi interrupted, ultimately saving her. "Grams just usually forgets her last name…" Maemi laughed nervously, and patted her grandmother on the back. "Right Grams?"
"Ah… That's right! Sarris! Yes, dear, that's correct…" Tulip laughed. She turned towards the two boys. "So, what're your names since we told you ours?"
"I'm Rogue Cheney, and this is my exceed and friend Frosch…" Rogue motioned towards Frosch, who was cuddling with him in his arms.
"And I'm the Master, Sting Eucliffe. This is Lector, my exceed and friend," The blonde-haired boy responded. Lector had jumped off of Sting's shoulder, and walked over towards Maemi.
"I like her, Sting-Kun!" Lector giggled. Maemi smiled shyly at the exceed, a pang of pain in her heart as the exceed reminded her of Red. Luckily, it was difficult to tell if Maemi was pained.
"Well, I like you too, Lector…" She told Lector, patting him on the head gently.
"Fro agrees with Lector!" Frosch threw his hands into the air happily. Maemi smiled ear-to-ear. Rogue looked down at his exceed. No one could tell, but he was smiling.
"Anyways…" Sting cleared his throat. "What's the special request?"
"Ah, that's right… The special request!" Grandma Tulip exclaimed. "Our special request is for some people to escort us to the region of…"
"Of Zokana! Where the great Carney family resides!" Maemi quickly finished. She didn't mean to say great.
"Why would you want to go all the way there?!" Rogue asked them, surprised at the distance.
"Uh…" At this point, Maemi hesitated.
"Well, Maemi has been chosen to… learn magic with the lord of the Carney residence! We both have no magic, and we need escorts!" Tulip easily answered.
"Lucky you then…" Sting said to Maemi. She smiled softly. "What kind of magic?"
"It's a surprise," Maemi answered. Now, Rogue looked confused.
"Wait, why didn't you go to Fairy Tail? They're far stronger than us…" Rogue muttered, loud enough for the group to hear.
"Well, haven't you heard the news, boy?" Tulip gently hit Rogue with her walking stick. "Fairy Tail has gone missing! And Maemi won't trust any other guilds besides Fairy Tail and Sabertooth!" Rogue rubbed his head where the stick struck him. "Not to mention, you guys are the next best thing, so give us some escorts so we can be on our merry way!"
"Grams, you sounded a bit rude right there…" Maemi whispered. She watched as Rogue and Sting huddled around with their exceeds.
"Well, I personally think Rufus or Orga might be good escorts…" Sting muttered.
"Well, we exceeds think you two should be the escorts!" Lector announced to them within the huddle.
"What do you mean by us?!" Rogue asked Lector.
"You guys can talk to them easier than other requesters. Not to mention, Frosch and I really like Maemi! She seems so nice! We also haven't had a good adventure in a while, so this might be fun!" Lector said with a confident smile.
"Fro agrees with Lector again!" Frosch cheered. Rogue and Sting looked at each other.
"We really can't argue with them…" Rogue muttered.
"I have to agree with both you and Lector here… We need to get out of the guild anyways…" Sting said. All four of them got out of their huddle, and faced Tulip and Maemi.
"Well?" Grandma Tulip asked, her hands behind her back. "Who're our escorts?"
"You two get four escorts!" Lector cheered.
"And that's us…" Sting sighed, smiling discreetly. "I hope that's alright with you two…" Sting personally wanted to add ladies, but that might make things awkward, since there is an elderly lady right there…
"So, what's the reward?" Rogue inquired. "If we complete it, it will need a reward…"
"Well…" Tulip stumbled around a bit.
"5 Billion Jewel!" Maemi spat out. "That's the reward…" Tulip looked as if she was about to have a heart attack, but for some reason, Sting and Rogue looked calm about it.
"That's… a really big reward for just escorts…" Rogue breathed out. Maemi could hear him muttering: "Just keep calm, just keep calm…" Maemi giggled.
"Consider at least the second half a tip, since you're going to help us!" Maemi said with a smile. "Wait, what's the usual pay for escorts?"
"Uh… only about 1 million…" Sting answered, acting as if it was okay to get 5 billion Jewel.
"I can lower it if you want!"
"…No, no, it's fine… I mean, since you guys want to travel far, it's worth it."
"You sure?"
"I'm sure, now we leave at dawn, tomorrow…" Sting crossed his arms. "I need to find someone who'll take good care of the guild while I'm gone…" He walked off.
"Uh… We'll go with him!" Rogue quickly said, picked up the two exceeds, and darted after Sting. Both Maemi and Tulip sweat dropped.
Maemi lounged back in the couch in the room they were staying in. It was comfortable. They had rented a room for the night so they wouldn't have to travel back… It took them an entire week to get there. Right as she closed her eyes, she heard her grandmother come through the room's door. "I told them where we were staying for the night so if you oversleep-"
"Or if you oversleep…" Maemi interrupted.
"Yes, that… They could come and wake us up. But otherwise…" Grandma Tulip sat down at the edge of the couch. "5 BILLION JEWEL?! WE DON'T HAVE THAT MUCH!"
"I do… I got it from the damn mission…" Maemi replied tiredly. When she was tired, her tendency to cuss was much greater.
"…Sometimes, I really wished I joined a guild…" Grandma Tulip sighed. "Good night, dear…" Her grandmother kissed her on the forehead.
"Eh… Whatever-…" She snored loudly, already fast asleep. Her grandmother chuckled.
"So much like your father…" She laughed softly.
Sting stared up at the ceiling. Something about Maemi was different… He could tell she had some magic in her. Maybe she doesn't know how to unlock it? He wondered. For many reasons, he couldn't get Maemi out of his head. He worried for her, and just couldn't stop thinking. Little did he know, neither could Rogue. Or Laxus to the least of his knowledge.
You out there, Tiny Legs? You better, 'cause this place is literally a hellhole… Probably what it's called. Laxus thought. He watched as a small team of the guild began to think about on how they were going to get out of there. They had already agreed that Juvia would turn into water and go up there, but they needed an extra add-on plan so they could all escape.
"How about… Juvia tries to find a button of some sort to open this hole and then find a way to get us out of here?" Lucy suggested. A few people nodded.
"Or, we could have Juvia get out of here, help Ryuu out, then she opens the door up, and Ryuu could make a staircase down here…" Gray quickly added. Juvia's eyes turned into hearts.
"Ah! Gray-Sama is so smart!" She squealed, hugging Gray from the side.
"Juvia-Chan! Gray needs space!" Levy said, trying to get Juvia off of Gray. Gajeel and Pantherlily quickly joined in to help Levy, but she managed to get the other blue-haired girl off of the dark blue haired boy. Gajeel quickly caught Levy so she wouldn't hit the ground, but sadly, his butt did. It didn't affect him though…
"Don't tell me there's iron on your ass, Gajeel…" Laxus muttered.
"Gihe," Gajeel responded, smirking.
"…What the hell!?" Natsu screamed out. A devilish grin rose onto Natsu's face. "This just means I'll have to kick your butt twice as hard!"
"Natsu!" Lucy yelled at him. "We're in the middle of a dangerous and serious situation right now!"
"Doesn't mean we can't have fun-!" Natsu's voice drowned down as a giant Master Makarov stepped on him.
"It's my first day at Fairy Tail all over again…" Lucy sighed, looking at the ground.
"Lushee, I want fiiiisshhh…"
"I CAN'T EVEN GET FISH YOU STUPID CAT!" Lucy said angrily.
"Oi…" Laxus sighed. Yeah, please hurry Tiny Legs. If ya do, I'll change the name…
Kane: So it's done? Is the chapter done? o-o
Announcer-San: It is. I personally enjoy this chapter very much! So Sting and Rogue have been introduced!
Kane: Oi, didn't Strawberry-San have a different plan for this…?
Announcer-San: Aye, she did. But she changed it. Okay, Kane-Kun, please do the honor of the questions!
Kane:
QUESTIONS.
1. What do you think Announcer-San looks like?
2. What do you think Announcer-San's real name is?
3. Was the time skip okay?
4. Would you help Maemi out if she asked you for it? And why?
5. Do you find it clever that Maemi and Tulip switched their last names so it people wouldn't know there's one more person from Fairy Tail?
6. Would you find that suspicious?
7. So, Sting, Rogue, and Laxus can't stop thinking about Maemi? Do you think it's a sign?
8. Do you think there might be an intense Love Square?
9. Will the plan succeed?
END OF QUESTIONS.
Announcer-San: Ah, Strawberry-Dono has returned!
I'm back… Got scissors… Okay, so I have a very special request. I need to find a good Fairy Tail roleplay site/forum so I can roleplay! It needs to be active since I usually get bored easy… Of course I own one, but still… So please help me out… And you will get a SUPER special shout-out! :D
R&R
~Strawberrycheezecake~