A/N: And today I bring you yet another chapter! Chapter 5!
This chapter has been swimming around in my head for a while now, so I'm glad that I'm finally able to write it down. So hopefully I'll have an easier time gathering ideas for future chapters, cause it seemed like I could only think of ideas for this one and stuff that'll happen a looooooong time from now (as in after X791 GMG's), as well as stuff for a new story. And for those of you who haven't seen it's title on my profile, as of right now, it's title is going to be, "You Pierced My Heart Like a Blade". But I think I'm going to wait until after I finish the next chapter before I begin the actual work on it.
Oh, I should probably mention this, but the original idea for Reginald's introduction last chapter came from potentialauthor18, I just added a little bit to it. So all credit for that scene pretty much goes to him.
Well, anyways, I'd like to thank PrinceOfTheMatrix88, QueenKazza, Stormhawk99, MyDearWatson, WaterDragonMaverick, Falling Lanterns, Asher Grey, LightandDarkHeart, Joshua1277, lexlovesya, potentialauthor18, Hikari, and UnderTheDeepBlue for their reviews.
PrinceOfTheMatrix88- Yeah it's a pretty messed up tradition the guys have got going in Undine's Cove, but when you get a bunch of guys together they tend to do stuff like that a lot. Well I hope you enjoy the chapter and how I introduced Arashi!
QueenKazza- I'm glad that you enjoyed how I portrayed Jayne in the last chapter, she definitely seemed the type to quickly jump to conclusions when it comes to stuff like that. Well I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Stormhawk99- I'm glad that you liked what I did with Fareth there in the last scene, he's a character that I feel that I have to find ways for him to get dragged into trouble, since he doesn't seem to be the kind of guy to cause it. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
MyDearWatson- I'm glad that you like 'Beanie Guy's' introduction, as well as Jayne's, and she is a pretty excitable girl. Well, I'm glad that you think Wilhelm is interesting so far and we'll get a little more insight on his character this chapter as well. I'm glad that you liked Team Camille's section as well! Like most of the parts that make up my chapters, that was originally going to be much different. But I'm glad that you liked Alistar also, to be honest, the banter between him and Camille remind of Camille and 'Beanie Guy's' relationship, which is probably why she's too stubborn to accept Alistar's help willingly. Great, now I want to write a scene with both Camille and Beanie Guy in it, but that won't happen for a while unfortunately. Oh? I managed to get a Fairy Tail feel for that last part? Well that's what I was aiming for, so I'm happy to hear that it turned out that way! I hope you enjoy the chapter!
WaterDragonMaverick- I'm glad to hear that you liked that last scene so much and I can't seem to think of any canon characters with their guild mark on their hand either. Well, anyways, I hope that you enjoy the chapter!
Falling Lanterns- Well I'm happy that you liked the last chapter and that you think Ladon is cool. And no, Camille cannot handle alcohol in the slightest amount, unfortunate for her, fairly entertaining for the rest of us. Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Asher Grey- Yup, when it comes down to it, Jayne will often come to some pretty strange conclusions (usually something that has to do with romance). And 'Beanie Guy' is actually one of my favorite OC's that I've ever made, so we'll definitely be seeing him again later on in the story, but we'll also be hearing from him some in his letters to Camille. He's in another story, but it'll be interesting to see how I write him myself when the time comes for it. And yeah, I was pretty happy when I got both light and darkness mages for the guild. I'm glad to hear that you liked the scene between Team Camille and Alistar, I was a bit worried about how it turned out actually, and no, Miriam doesn't really like Alistar that much, but she's a pretty difficult person to get along with. And lastly, I'm glad that you liked the last scene as well, and like I said at the top, that scene was potentialauthor18's idea, I just added the meat to it. Well I hope you enjoy this chapter as well!
LightandDarkHeart- I'm glad that you liked that scene so much! And yeah, poor Fareth, but he managed to get back at the guys in the end. Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Joshua1277- Well I'm happy that you enjoyed the last chapter and the guys bonding with their strange tradition. Hope you enjoy the Chapter!
lexlovesya- Yeah, the tradition sounds like a really bad idea, but then they're a bunch of guys, so of course they're gonna do it. Anyways, I'm glad that you enjoyed the chapter and I hope that you enjoy this one as well!
potentialauthor18- Well I'm happy that you liked the last chapter, and yeah, Alistar is a pretty interesting character and I could still go and elaborate on the contents of Camille's stomach if you want. Just kidding of course. Anyways, Jayne is pretty bright, bubbly and rainbows, but as usual, there is more to her character than her first appearance says. And I'm glad that I seem to have Ladon down so far personality wise, but then again, sleepy, angry, then sleepy again is a pretty hard cycle to mess up, so we'll see how I do after this chapter. Anyways, I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Hikari- Well I'm glad that you liked the last chapter so much. And I'm currently watching D. Gray-Man, Noragami, Magi, K, and Darker than Black, but Fate/Zero is one of my favorites and I also enjoyed The Devil is a Part-Timer! when I watched it a few weeks ago, I also enjoyed Fate/Stay Night as well (and I'm in the process of reading the Fate/Stay Night visual novel), and then there's Soul Eater if you haven't watched it yet. So yeah, I've watched quite a few animes, including Guilty Crown (but I just kinda stopped watching it half-way for some reason, I don't know why). But if I had to suggest one more anime, since the Persona geek in me demands it, I have to recommend Persona 4 The Animation, and I did really enjoy it. Anyways, I hope that you enjoy the chapter!
UnderTheDeepBlue- It's alright if it takes a while for you send in a review, I'm just happy to get one. Anyways, the thought has crossed my mind before, but there's an event that I want to do before I do anything like that. Well, I'll keep those two little things in mind, and I'm glad that you enjoyed how I portrayed Jean and Sean! Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Credits:
Horace Quinn- writtenmindset
Arashi Cage- PrinceOfTheMatrix88
Malon Qoun and Willow- Reitzel-chan
I Don't Own Fairy Tail!
Hope you enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 5
It was bright out that night. The full moon hung eerily in the sky, hardly obstructed by clouds despite the day's earlier storm, as most of the member's of Undine's Cove had retired to their dorm rooms. But Salina Velvet sat on the bar, waiting for her guild member to wake up for the night while humming a tune and twirling her oil-paper umbrella over her head. Salina looked up and stopped humming when she heard footsteps on the beach, seeing Sean and Jean walking towards the main building with a sack.
Sean had changed into his usual attire, a long black, hooded coat over a white polo with black pants and brown boots. While Jean was now wearing his blue robe and pointy, yellow wizard's hat, but his head seemed to be strangely crispy and black.
Sean walked up to the bar and set down the sack, which by the smell of it, Salina determined that it had food from 8-Island in it.
"Here," Sean said as he set down the sack, "This is what you usually get those two right?"
Salina picked up the sack and looked into it, seeing that the orders were right, "Yup," she answered, "Now can you go deliver these to Reginald and Horace?" Saline asked with a polite smile as he she saw the two of the cringe when she said 'Reginald', "Or you could deliver it to Horace, Sean, while I make Jean deliver this one to Reginald? Judging by his fur, he deserves a little bit of punishment," she said with a strange air of innocence."
"True, he wouldn't stop pestering Aspen today at the restaurant, Not to mention Ziv as well," Sean mumbled in agreement.
"WHAT!?" Jean screamed, "You can't make me do that Sean! I'm your grandfather!"
"But I can," Salina said sweetly as she handed him Reginald's food, "And you wouldn't disobey me would you?" Jean groaned as he looked down at the ground in defeat as he took the food and began trudging off towards the male dorm. "And Jean!" Salina called out, "After you give Reginald his food, can you tell him to come see me?"
Jean simply looked back with a horrified look and slowly nodded before resuming his walk towards the dorm.
"Well, I best go and deliver this," Sean said as he picked up the sack with Horace's food in it and began walking towards the male dorm as well.
Salina nodded as she heard Yune yawn and stretch, "Oh, good evening, Yune," Salina said as she turned towards the young girl."
"Good evening master," Yune said sleepily as she rubbed her eyes.
"Yune," Salina said in slight disappointment after hearing Yune call her master.
"Oh! How did I get here?" Yune asked as she realized that she wasn't exactly where she last remembered her being.
"I found you lying on the ground asleep on my way back to the guild, Yune, so I carried you back here," Salina answered, while still hoping that Yune would catch her mistake.
"Well thank you very much, Master," Yune said as she bowed her head slightly.
"Yune," Salina said once more in disappointment at hearing Yune call her master, causing the girl to look at her in slight confusion, "Nevermind, your welcome Yune," Salina said with a sigh, "Just try not to fall asleep when you're out on walks anymore."
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Sean had split ways with Jean shortly after entering the dorm, he assumed that his cat-like partner had reached Ladon's room by now, but he had yet to hear any explosions, so he also assumed that Jean was chickening out. Sean thought about the man he was delivering food to, although he had rarely seen the man, since he tended to stay locked up in his room despite being one of the guild's five S-Class Mages, but he knew that he was definitely an odd man obsessed with his scientific research, which was definitely an odd thing for a mage to be obsessed with in the first place.
Sean exhaled deeply as he knocked on the man's door a few times before hearing a muffled, "Come in," from the rooms inhabitant.
"Food delivery," Sean called out as he opened the door, seeing the various beakers filled with gas spread out across the room before his eyes fell on the man standing at a workbench while working on some project that Sean couldn't even begin to understand.
Horace Quinn was a tall 34 year-old man, who stood at 6'4" with a thin build, but he often seemed taller as Sean realized that the man was floating a bit off the ground rather than standing. The man had blue eyes and messy gray hair with a large gray mustache, which he says turned gray early due to stress. Horace was wearing a long, open green trench coat over a long-sleeved, blue button-up shirt which was worn over a gray t-shirt with a pair of dark brown pants and black loafers. Horace used Gas Manipulation and Gas Creation magic, which allowed him to create and manipulate various gases as he saw fit, and it was also the center of his scientific research into gases.
Horace turned and looked at Sean with a deranged smile, "Your just in time to witness a momentous discovery, boy. Come, stay and watch!" he said as Sean set the sack down on the bed, since every other surface was covered in beakers. As Sean walked over to Horace, he turned his attention back to the experiment, just in time to see it go horribly wrong as it started smoking and fizzing, before exploding in Horace's face with a large plume of smoke. Horace held his arm up and removed the oxygen from around the flame, killing the fire, as he coughed from the smoke, "Curses, there must be something wrong in the formula still," he started muttering as he seemed to have forgot that Sean had even entered the room and delivered his food.
"I guess I'll just leave you to it then," Sean mumbled as he turned around and left the room, not caring if Horace had forgotten about his food and him as well.
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Jean stood and stared at Ladon's door. He was already considering just leaving the food in front of the door, but after seeing the scorch mark that resembled Fareth on the wall, his legs wouldn't move as he remembered the time he had first met Ladon, and had become a scorch mark on that very spot.
"Maybe I should politely knock and run," Jean pondered to himself as he continued to sweat nervously, "Yes... I'll just... knock," he said as he slowly approached the door and began to bring his paw up to the door to knock as it was opened by Ladon himself, "AAAAAAAGGGGHH!" Jean screamed as he jumped back away from the door in fear, "Don't eat me! I taste horrible!" he whimpered as he held up the sack that had Ladon's food in it.
Ladon simply looked down at the Exceed before grabbing the sack that had his food in it, "Anything else?" he asked as he looked down at the crispy cat with a disapproving frown.
"S-Salina wanted to see you," Jean whimpered as he shook in fear.
"Hmm..." Ladon hummed as he turned to walk down the hall towards the dormitory entrance as Jean passed out from fear.
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Arashi Cage walked through the thick jungle, listening to the different types of life as he walked through the moonlit paths.
Arashi stood at 5'10", slightly above average height for a 19 year-old, with a lean and semi-muscular build. He had smooth and silky, straight black hair that covered the right side of his face and was cut just above his shoulders and dark brown, droopy eyes that had black flecks in them. Arashi wore a gray tank top that was fitted with a white trim under a black, hooded cloak that had gold embellishments on it with white pants and black steel-toed boots that had spikes on the soles. Arashi was also hardly ever seen without a gold pendant that had a red gemstone set into it. His guild mark was on his left pectoral in black and he also had a scar shaped like an "X" over his left eye. Arashi was also one of the guild's S-Class Mages, and he used a magic called Aether Magic, which allowed him to utilize magic in the form of a red, moldable energy that could take many forms.
Arashi continued walking through the jungle as he cleared his head from his last mission, which was to originally seal off a monster infested cave, but Arashi had gone above and beyond the requirements and had simply defeated all of the monsters instead. He kept walking along his usual path until he heard someone cheerfully laughing, a bit too cheerfully to be sane in his opinion. Arashi looked up into the trees to find the source of the laughter, his eyes falling on one of his guild mates, a strange girl named Malon Qoun.
Malon stood at 5'7" with deathly pale skin and a slim build with long black hair that fell down to her lower back. She had purple colored eyes that had red, tear track tattoos underneath them with her guild mark on her shoulder in black. She wore a silver kimono that was adorned with purple spiral patterns and she had a red obi around her waist with a pair of white socks and wooden sandals on her feet. She also had a chain wrapped around her left shoulder and upper torso that had a hook on one end of it. Malon used Phantom magic, which allowed her to utilize the abilities of ghosts and phantoms.
Floating next to Malon was a small, purple Will-o'-the-wisp that she called Willow. It would often make a high-pitched cooing noise that only she could understand due to her magic.
"Ufufufu," Malon laughed from her position in the tree, "Don't you know that it's dangerous to take walks in the jungle at night?" she asked, "The deceased spirits may want your company as they slumber," she said as Willow cooed happily next to her, as if affirming her statement.
Arashi simply huffed and kept walking, not having anything to say, or wanting to say anything to the girl in the tree.
"Although," the girl started, "With an attitude like yours I don't think that they'd really want your company, you'd probably turn into a wraith," she added with a snicker as Willow cooed along.
Arashi stopped in his tracks before turning to face Malon, "Quiet, your annoying," he said simply before turning back around and continuing to walk along his normal path through the woods as Malon simply laughed in response to his comment, causing Arashi to glare back at where Malon was sitting, only to find out that she had vanished. "Creep," he muttered as he resumed his walk.
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Reginald walked out of the dormitory and towards the main building, seeing Salina, Yuuna, and Wilhelm sitting around a table, "You called?" he asked with a yawn as he sat down his sack and sat at the table.
"Yes," Salina answered, "Reginald, I want you to go to Shirotsume Town," she said as she watched the expression on the man's face fall as he was eating.
"A mission?" he asked.
Salina nodded before continuing, "You'll be working closely with a small group from Lamia Scale and I want you to take Yune and Wilhelm with you," she said as she gestured towards the girl sitting next to her and the man on the other side of the table next to Reginald, "You'll be hunting a small dark guild that has been causing trouble, too much trouble for one of it's size."
Reginald sighed as he looked at his new teammates, "And you two are okay with this?" he asked them.
"Yeah," Wilhelm answered, "It'll be good to work with you again, Reginald."
"Of course!" Yune answered, "The Master asked me to go, so I'll go."
"Yune," Salina said, with the faintest hope that she would catch her mistake this time.
"Oh! I mean Salina asked me to! Sorry," Yune apologized.
"When do we leave?" Reginald asked, having made up his mind.
"Tomorrow evening at 5 P.M.," Salina answered, "Or should I say this evening," she added with a small laugh at the fact that it was well past midnight.
"Then I should probably go back to sleep then," Reginald said with a sigh, dreading the fact that he would have to wake up so early.
A/N: And there's Chapter 5! Hope you enjoyed it!
I was originally going to introduce another character this chapter, but I couldn't make it work out well, so he's been pushed back into next chapter.
Also, since he's asked me to advertise this chapter, check out Hawk725's story called Dragon Ball Z Galaxy if you're into DBZ.
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