Yeah, and that's why I smile

It's been a while

Since every day and everything has

Felt this right

For some odd reason, I feel myself being pulled to Magnolia once again. I haven't been there since I asked to join Twilight Ogre a month or so ago. The town that I've tried so hard to avoid seems to be working like a magnet against me.

First it was the talking about the town, that some guild was revived or something like that. The winners of the Grand Magic Games are said to be staying there. Although The Games ended a week ago, I never continued my guild hunt.

The second thing was the my job. I've been working as a housekeeper for a blind, old lady. I have been helping her around her house for sometime. She pays well and allows me to stay in her home. Since she was blind, she never seen me, which I'm thankful for. I bet she would have never hired me if she saw what I looked like. She was unable to live with her son for some time, so I helped in his place. She said that she was going to move in with him. I helped her move into her new home, which was the town of Magnolia.

Once I finished and she gave me my final jewels, we parted ways. I'm planning on leaving the town in a day or two after I get more things. I have a bag with a change of clothes, my wallet, snacks, and a few other necessities. My outfit which consisted of a slightly small black and white, checkered shirt, gray cardigan, with my black jeans and black and white shoe.

I walk in the park and sit on a nearby bench as I watch family and children play. I take out my music player and listen to a soft piano and violin duet as I peel an orange. The day is sunny and very peaceful.

That is until I hear a loud scream of joy behind me. I turn around sharply to see a small figure running towards me. The child dives under the bench I'm sitting on giggles. I stare dumbfoundedly behind me as I see two people soon follow, running around frantically. One of them is a guy with pink hair and a white muffler, the other a blond who was wearing a top a little too small. I don't believe my eyes when I see a flying blue cat behind them.

I shake my head a look away, pausing my song. I get off the bench and onto my hands and knees to look under the bench. A cheeky little girl smiles at me with sparkling purple eyes. She looks vaguely familiar, and I swear I've seen the orange hat before.

"Onee-chan," she says with smile. She crawls out of her hiding spot and jumps onto me. I was shocked by the girl's energy and contact. "Remember me? I'm Asuka."

It takes me a moment to remember the girl from the train station. The moment I do, I smile equally cheerful at her. "Hello again, Asuka."

Her smile widen when I speak her name. "What are you doing here, Onee-chan?" she asked curiously.

"Nothing, really," I reply with a shrug.

"You want to go to my guild?" she questions. Although I was planning on buying some stuff in town, I know I can't refuse. If I say no, I would brake the girl's heart. I smile and nod my head.

She jumps up and down with glee, clapping her hands. She takes my hand and leads me in the direction of the guild after I collected my belongs. We walk the streets, a very odd sight for the pedestrians. I block them out as I wonder what the Asuka's guild is like. The only guild here is Twilight Ogre, so I'm guessing her and her friends have some kinds of club house they call a guild. Imagine my surprise when she led me to the gates of the Twilight Ogre guild hall.

"Asuka, why are we here?" I ask nervously.

"We're at my guild of course," she replies with a smile.

"You're a member of Twilight Ogre?" The question sound ridiculous, but the situation is extremely unbelievable.

She makes a pouting face at me. "Twilight Order is a guild filled with meanies. This is Fairy Tail, the best guild in all of Fiore!" I look back up at the building. Sure enough, it is drastically different from the last time I was here. The main thing in the emblem, a new mark on a flag flying proudly.

"Asukaaaaaaaa!" I hear a voice call behind me. Asuka and I both turn around to see the flying cat from before. The cat come flying towards us at a dangerous speed. Not thinking twice about it, I pull the girl out of the creature's path and hug her against me. The cat flies straight into the door of the guild.

I look behind to see the pink haired guy from earlier running towards us. I tense up as he get closer towards me. The guy runs straight past me and to the cat.

"Happy. Oi, Happy, you okay?" the young man question the cat that is no doubt seeing stars.

One of the doors open and a girl with blue hair comes out alongside a white cat. The girl gasp and hurries to the blue cat's side. The white car say, "For Heaven's sake Happy, what happened this time?"

I'm distracted with the scene in front of me I don't notice I'm still holding Asuka against me. Only once she tries to wiggle free do I let her go.

"Hey...Natsu," I hear a panting breath call out. I look behind me to see the blonde running tiredly towards us. She makes it to the entrance and collapses onto her knees. "Natsu," she says, regaining her breath. The pink hair guy focuses his attention on the girl, I'm guessing he's Natsu. "Who...is she?" She points up at me as she breathes out the question.

Suddenly, all eyes are on me. I'm lost for words as I feel their eyes burn holes into me. Natsu puts down the blue cat and walks over towards me. He cooks he head to the side and examines me. "I don't know, Luce," he says to the girl without breaking eye contact with me. "Who are ya then?"

Before I could speak, Asuka jumps in and says, "She's my friend."

He crosses his arms and says, "Really, never seen her before. What's your name?"

"Rin," I answer.

He smiles widely and outstretches his hand, "Hey, Rin. I'm Natsu." I take his hand and shake it. "What'cha doing at Fairy Tail?"

"Asuka wanted me to see her guild," I answer.

"Come inside then," the blonde says with a grin, already off the ground. "I'm Lucy by the way," she says bubbly.

I'm surprised they haven't commented on my appearance at all. They don't even look the slightest bit uneasy by me either. They must be a very strange group.

Asuka takes me hand and pulls me down the trail and into the guild hall. I enter the building and look around.

There dozen of people in here, chatting lively with each other. There's a plump man and one with orange hair fighting as a small bluenette watches on with a annoyed look. A bulky man with white hair arm wrestle with another man that has long dark hair and too many piercings to count. Although it's just pass one in the afternoon, a brunette drinks wine straight out of a barrel as a white haired woman ask her about her dad.

"Lively bunch," is all I mutter as Asuka pulls me into the building. She takes me to the bar and looks at the white haired bartender.

"Mira, may I have a juice for me and my friend?" Asuka ask her.

"Why of course," the lady, Mira, says with a smile. A moment later she hands both of us a cup of juice. "Who's your friend, Asuka?"

"She's Rin," she answers.

Mira faces me with an angelic smile. "Hello, Rin. I'm Mirajane, welcome to Fairy Tail."

I nod and smile back. "Thank you." I sip on my juice and look around. A raven hair man comes up to the bar be side me. He had a silver cross necklace hanging from his neck. I practically fly out if my seat when I notice he's completely naked.

My sudden retreat catches his attention and he looks at me. "Who's she?" he ask Mira cursorily.

"Gray, you're stripping habit is scaring out guest," Mira says with a shake of her head. Gray looks down and notices his lack of clothes.

"What the hell?" he exclaims, almost as if he didn't notice he was naked.

"Gray-sama," someone calls out. A lady with blue hair comes over with clothes in her hand. "Gray-sama, Juvia has found your clothes."

Gray thanks the woman and begins to clothe himself. I look away and try not to blush as he dresses. The bluenette looks at me with a curious look. "Juvia hasn't seen you around, are you a new member?" Her face suddenly turns very menacing as she says, "Or are you after Gray-sama's heart?"

"Uh.." I say, not know exactly what to say.

"She's just a guest," Mira says, backing me up. Juvia nods and walks after Gray like a puppy. I notice that Gray isn't too crazy for stripping, it is quite warm in here. I shed my grey cardigan and place it on my lap.

"Thank you," I say to Mira. I noticed that Asuka has left my side to play with the now recovered blue cat.

"No problem," she replies as she dries a cup with a cloth. "So, you and Asuka are friends?"

I hate being questioned about stuff, but I know I can't just ignore the lady who's been nothing but nice. "Not really. I met her at the train station about two months ago."

"Mhmm," she hums. "Oh, now I remember. Asuka told Master and me the story of how a girl with pretty hair helped her find her parents. She's right, you do have nice hair and it's quite long."

I touch my hair unconsciously. She actually just complimented me. It seems that no one in this whole guild seems to bat an eye at my odd appearance. I'm shocked by how easy going they are. None of them are accusing me of being a witch or cursing them. The fact makes me smile at my cup of juice. I let my bangs cover my eyes completely as a small smile appears on my face. "Thank you," I reply. Until I looked back at her with curiosity. "Didn't this place belong to Twilight Ogre?"

"Well, it's a long story, but it was ours and then they...borrowed it for some time."

I nod my head. "Was the guild location always here?"

"Yup, since the first master built it."

The information sparks a memory from long ago that I can't help but ask. "Is it true that the whole town used to move to allow a single wizard to walk across town to get here?"

Mira laughs softly at my question. I feel stupid for asking such an idiotic question. I'm about to say it was a joke, but the white haired woman says, "Yeah, that's true."

"No way!" I exclaim.

"It's true. There's a wizard named Gildarts with who's extremely powerful. No one wants their house destroyed, so they worked that mechanism in."

"Wow," I say completely shocked. I guess Iris wasn't lying that day.

An arm is thrown around me and I look up to see Natsu hanging on me. "Hey, Rin. Chatting up a storm with Mira," he states with a grin.

"Yeah," I say. I look at his shoulder to see a red guild mark on it.

"Eyin' my emblem," he says with a smirk.

"Oh," I say, not noticing I was staring. "Sorry."

"It's fine," he says. "I show it so all of Fiore sees that I'm a proud Fairy Tail wizard. Hey, what guild are you in?"

"Me? I'm not in one, but I'm a wizard." It slips from my mouth before I can stop it. I hate telling people I'm a wizard, because the inevitable question of 'what's your magic?' always follows.

I'm waiting for him to ask, but instead he says, "What do you mean, your emblem is right there."

I follow his pointed finger to my exposed side. I didn't notice my moon mark was visible. "Oh...that…" I trails off, not knowing what to say.

"Hey, Natsu," a voice interrupts. I look up to see the blue cat flying towards us.

"Yo, Happy," Natsu says back, dismissing the earlier conversation.

"Who's that?" He lands on the center between Natsu and me.

"This is Rin."

"Cool, nice to meet you, Rin." The cat stares at me for a moment. "Hey, can you see me?"

"Huh?" I ask.

"Can you see, you look blind."

I'm taken back by the sudden question, but it was going to happen eventually. With a sigh I nod my head. "Yes, I can see you, I'm not blind."

"Oh, okay then. What about your hair, it sure is weird."

I feel the sensation of rejection all over again. This is just the beginning. Little by little, everyone in the hall is going to lose their smile and stare at me in either disgust or fear. I should just leave now before anything really agonizing happens.

"Happy!" Natsu snaps at the cat and I feel myself flinch. "Don't say stuff like that, that rude and insensitive."

"Oh, sorry about that, Rin," Happy apologizes sincerely.

"Don't listen to him, Rin. He can be very blunt sometime and teases a lot."

"I-It's fine," I say, strongly gripping my empty, glass cup. "I'm used to it," I mumble under my breath.

"You shouldn't take cramp like that from anyone. If anyone ever says anything about you, let me know and I'll make them eat their words." He punches his fist, emphasizing his readiness to brawl.

"If you're not in a guild, you can join Fairy Tail," Happy says. "We accept odd balls all the time." The cat's attempt to conferred me makes me chuckle.

I look around at the members of the guild. They all have their own past and their reasons for being here, I wonder if theirs are any like my own. Everyone looks happy to be here and enjoying themselves. No matter how tragic their lives could have been, they were accepted. And if a person as strange as me gets the invitation, why not give it a shot. Besides, they look like the kind of people Iris would have loved to be around.

I look over at Natsu and say with a smile, "I'll give Fairy Tail a try."

omake

'What the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuck, I don't give any shits anymore, I can't even…..What the hell were you thinking when you did this huh?!huh?! I can't take it'

I got up out of my spot and ran toward to closest bridge….and jumped off…..naw I'm just kidding. I threw the book in my hand into the river and watched it as it sink. The sad excuse of literature the blonde have. I kept muttering to myself evil curses at the so-called mystery/murder book.

It was just a sappy love story...blegh disgusting. I mean why would you poison yourself only to find that your love was sleeping and then she kills herself.I mean i don't mind the suicidal people but for something so simple as a prank just die, again!