Chapter 8: Party of Three

"Thank you everyone for saving our humble village nabura..." the chieftain of the village and guild leader thanked the Alliance.

Yuki looked at everyone and wondered what was going to happen now that the guild and village was safe. Surely they could just back to the way they were before all this crap with Nirvana happened.

Ichiya mentioned something about a party and his lackeys plus four from Fairy Tail started chanting, "Oh yes!" Akira and Wendy giggled and got excited enough to chant as well but the chieftain got a serious look on his face, abruptly stopping the chant.

"I'm sorry but I've failed my duty to tell you the truth about the Nirvits." he said solemnly.

"That's ok master if you don't want to tell us you don't have to."

"Listen all of you very carefully to the story I'm about to tell you." he started, then explaining the history behind Nirvana and that he himself created it 400 years ago. And how the tribe's foolish but good intentioned goal brought them to extinction.

"Why didn't you ever tell us?!" Akira questioned.

Then one by one the village and guild people started to disappear as the ghosts they were. "One day a boy and two girls arrived in my village overnight. Weary and tired from their long journey I took them in and came up with these apparitions so they wouldn't be alone." he explained his reasoning for the made up people and guild.

"I'm sorry for deceiving you three but you don't need these imaginary friends anymore." he pointed at the other wizards who helped them with the mission. "You have real friends now." he smiled as he was the last to fade away.

Yuki looked at everyone else then at Aki and Wendy. "Well then, it's up to you two. I'll follow you both no matter what you choose to do or wherever you go." he says, directing that statement towards Aki since she'd been with him longer.

Though they heard him his words didn't register as Wendy and Aki started to cry, though the redhead held back as much as she could to be strong for the younger slayer. She hugged her tightly, petting her head and though Aki wasn't sobbing aloud like Wendy, tears were streaming down her face just as much. And as with the master, their guild marks disappeared off their bodies.

Erza walked over to them, saying that with time and help of others they would heal. She suggested that the three, plus Carla and Kuro, should join Fairy Tail.

Yuki looked at both Wendy and Akira as they cried and sighed. "I guess we're joining Fairy Tail then whenever these two stop bawling." he says then Kuro walks up to Happy and shakes paws, even making Carla do the same although he was unaware of the crush Happy was forming on the female cat.

Lucy turned to the blunette, "You're taking all of this surprising well Yuki..." She commented.

"It's not like it's that big a deal. Yeah I'm upset that everyone from our not guild is gone but one of us has to be the emotionally strong one, for their sake." Yuki replied with a smile.

After they given time to calm down and gather belongings, the members from Blue Pegasus and Lamia Scale parted ways and Fairy Tail went to a port to ride a ship back to Magnolia with that being the quickest way.

Natsu was having a ball, running around gleefully on the ship with Troia still in effect. Akira giggled at his antics, then wondered if Yuki would be just as excited about the lack of motion sickness. She turned her head to see that Yuki was asleep instead, the recent events having tired him out. He silently wondered where they were going to stay once they officially become part of the Fairy crew.

They got back to Magnolia and Fairy Tail, the whole guild was excited to have the new members, and they were especially excited to hear that they all had a dragon slayer title. But Akira had a look of discomfort because of that. And she seemed to be contemplating something.

Yuki gave Akira a concerned look. He wondered what was on her mind but he too thought that so many dragon slayers were gathering in one place was quite the premonition.

Yuki was off in the corner drinking and discreetly watching Aki along with other Fairy Tail girls, labeling them on how strong they looked and how big their chests were compared to Akira's. It was just some harmless comparisons as long as he didn't get caught that is.

After a while of partying Akira noticed a certain characteristic among 98% of the female members of the guild. She looked down, then around. The redhead went up to Lucy with a slightly serious look on her face, "So is it like, a requirement that all mature female members of the guild have big boobs?" she asked bluntly.

"...What kind of question is that?!" she yelled, surprised that she would blatantly ask something like that.

"The observationary kind." The redhead retorted.

"Is that even a word?" Lucy asked, but then looked around and for the first time since she joined, she noticed that Wendy, Levi, and Akira were the only three not so big breasted female wizards. Carla excluded due to her being feline, and granted Wendy probably had just started into puberty, but the point Akira had was clear.

"Well if it can be pronounced, then it is." She smiled, seeing the realization of her previous statement on the blonde's face, "See? It's like an unspoken requirement isn't it?"

"Thaas cause master's an old perv…*hic* ehe~," The ever drunk brunette, Cana commented, huddling her 'boyfriend' the ale barrel.

The redhead smirked, "I don't really blame him, you lot are some of the finest looking female wizards I've ever seen."

Cana simply smirked in return and went on to drink away the beer supply.

"Well when you put it that way, it can't really be helped huh?" Lucy grinned, striking a pose, to which Akira giggled and gave her a thumbs up.

Suddenly the hall went dark, the stage lighting up, "Sho-be do-ba~!" chanted a raspy voice, while snapping and strumming away on a magic guitar. The man in white, none other than Gajeel, continued on with his heartfelt yet…terrible song.

"Aki!" the redhead felt a hand grasp her shoulder, jerking her back before she knew it to be Yuki, "Please put an end to this noise!" he asked very politely for once, begging her to shut the metal head up. It didn't take much else to convince her what with the whole hall booing at the Iron DS.

"Hm~ since you asked so nicely~," she walked off, disappearing into the crowd of their new guild mates. Gajeel's mic dropped to the stage with a thud as his guitar lost all amplified sound as well. A neon red light flashed from the stage, the darker, shorter redhead in possession of what seemed to be her own personal magic mic.

"What the hell red?!" the metal head yelled at Aki.

She ignored him as she started to spit out an intro beat, snapping she began to sing, "Right right turn off the lights we're gonna lose our minds tonight, what's the dealio? I love when it's all too much, 5am turn the radio up, where's the rock n roll?" She grinned, strutting over and jacking Gajeel's guitar, adding her own bit of ether to it as she started to strum, changing its appearance. The guitar was rounder and the color scheme now crimson and black.

"Party crasher, Panty snatcher, call me up if you were gangster~, don't be fancy just get dancey. Why so serious?!" She held her hand high, a crystalline pick between her thumb and finger, before slamming down across the strings as she played into the chorus. "So raise your glass if you are wrong, in all the right ways! All my underdogs! We will never be- never be anything but loud and nitty gritty, dirty little freaks!" As she kept singing, her new guild mates quickly fell into the beat, clapping, dancing, and singing along when they demanded encores.

The celebration lasted long into the night, with many members passing out and sleeping right there in the guild hall, their newest three included.


A/N: "Raise Your Glass" © Alicea Moore/P!NK and Sony Music.