April landed in the woods of Fiore where the second Fairy Tail building stood. Komatsu, her faithful dog, leaped on her shoulders and started wagging her tail. Cooro was still bandaged, stiff in his bones, but could stand up and freely walk around; though it hurt every time he moved.
April had to drag Cooro to the second Fairy Tail building as Cooro stared at its exterior design. The building took the form of a small tavern—Cooro finally realized what his sister meant from "drunken mages". The walls were mainly composed of bricks. A two-story tall building with the symbol of a bird turning in the wind.
" This is really the infamous Fairy Tail building, April."
" Yep," April tittered staring at the building.
" It looks pretty quaint. Whoever made it must have been out of his mind." Cooro sighed outward and headed off towards the building. " But I guess it'll have to do. Just get me inside, please."
" Okay."
April skipped to the entrance door, her dog Komatsu skipping with her close behind, they finally reached the door and pushed it open. Inside Cooro could see multiple people sitting by tables inside with joyous looks on their face.
Excluding all those people, the inside of the building resembled a pub. The room possesses a stone floor, and several small, round tables that were scattered across it, paired with some chairs. In the right side of the room was a bar counter, complete with a sink and several bottles. Leaning against the walls were some bookshelves packed full with books—Cooro couldn't wait to read them all. Some lamps were attached to pillars adjacent to the walls; each one covered in a variety of frames of different sizes and shapes. And at the very end of the room was a board with multiple flyers of pinned to the wall Cooro believed was newspaper articles.
" I'm back!" April called while she raised her hands up opening the door and everyone turned their heads to her.
" Welcome back, April," everyone in the room said in unison.
One of the people sitting down then stood up and walked up to April. He has a lean, muscular build to him. He wears a white headband forehead and has a purple iris. His eyes are crimson (blood red), with an angular and slightly slanted shape, giving him a very sinister look.
" Hey there, Sty, how was the exploration—"
Sty punched April in her chest. April gasped being punched in her chest, but Sty just growled. " Dammit, April, you've been gone for a whole week! Where the devil were you?"
April countered by punching Sty in his face. " Take that! It's time we have an old fashion brawl!"
April and Sty both started rapidly started punching each other with their fists. While they were having their fight, all the other members in Fairy Tail started brawling each other—kicking, punching, biting, even farting—but Cooro just stood by the entrance with a trickle of sweat dripping from his head.
" Everyone in this room is nothing but crazy. No wonder Nana didn't want me to join."
" Agh!" One member of Fairy Tail shouted as he fell down and yanked on Cooro's scarf to keep himself from falling on the ground.
Cooro's face became purple while he glared down at the member below. The member was also lean, thin, and had a broche in his long brown hair. His eyes were hazel, with ocular and beady shaped eyes. He had brown-red colored hair with silver outlining and grey streaks.
" Oh, thank you, kind sir. You don't know how grateful I am for you saving me from falling down—"
" Don't touch my scarf, punk!" Cooro roundhouse kicked the Fairy Tail member on the right side of his face and sent him flying sideways. The member was pushed into a wall and broke through into the concrete. Cooro then brushed his scarf with his clean, moist hands. " Nobody touches my scarf except for me."
" Excuse me, but are you new to Fairy Tail?" A gentle voice said behind.
" Who wants to know—" Cooro couldn't believe his eyes. The person standing behind him was a legend. The man had a gentle face and gentle eyes. The man was lean-built of average height with short, almost shaved brown hair with mildly long sideburns. He has large, bright emerald green eyes, and thin eyebrows. He wore small glasses. Hanging from his left ear was a simple earring with an elongated pendant attached to it. His attire consisted of a jacket with an upright collar and the sleeves with cuffs, and long white pants with clean brown loafers. " Y-y-y-y-y-y-y-yy-yy-y-y…your… Giga Lotif!"
" Wow, it's nice to know someone knows who I am. It makes me so happy."
" You're thee greatest author ever!" Cooro took out a book and handed it over to Windy. " Would you please sign my copy of your latest book. "
" Certainly." Giga took out a blue pen and wrote his name on the cover. When he was done, Cooro grabbed the book back from Giga and hugged it closely to his chest. " It's always nice seeing new members of Fairy Tail."
" Fairy Tail…huh?" Cooro looked behind to see more members of Fairy Tail bawling each other. Cooro couldn't help but get curious as he was around a crowd of strangers he never meet before. " Giga, why would you ever want to be around such barbarians."
" Hmmmmm. I don't know."
" That's not really much of an answer."
" I guess It's because their all fun to be around. Certainly their more fun to be around than those saps of publishers I have to work with."
" Since you've probably been here long, you probably know most of the people here."
" Indeed I do." Giga reached his hand up and pointed at one of the Fairy Tail members who had a member in a headlock. She was a muscular, well-built woman of average height, and blonde-haired cladded in red armor. " That there is Luna. She is a very smart girl, but has this complex with her brother that makes her aggressive to all men."
" I'm going to squash you like a bug!" Luna shouted while she had the members head in a headlock.
Giga reached his hand up and pointed at what Cooro believed to be a ninja dashing around as he tried avoiding coming into contact with other members of the guild. He was just a little bit taller than most of the members, wore a black ninja attire, and had a katana on his back.
" Wow, is that a real ninja?"
" Nope. That there is Don. He likes to cosplay as characters he reads in books. He also has this strange case of claustrophobia where he needs to be closed in some way or he'll start to panic.
" That's right. Chase me. Chase me to your heart's content."
Giga reached his hand up and pointed at a girl with panda ears. The girl dressed more like a boy than a girl. Her attire consisted of a jacket with a high and wide upright collar, distinctive, loose brown arm warmers covering the sleeves from the cuffs to below the shoulders, each bearing a simple, undulated motif right below the upper edge, simple black pants and white shoes. Her hair was pink, her skin was cream white, and she had large oval shaped blue eyes.
" Giga, why does that girl have panda ears? Her parents weren't…you know…"
" No, they were not. I assure you both her parents were human. Her name is Lolo. She just wears those as a momentum of her powers."
" Really? What type of magic does she use?"
" I don't know. She's won all her fights with trickery and cunningness."
" April, get over her so I can knock your teeth out!"
" Oh, and she's also has this rivalry with April."
" Huh? Why would she want to rival against April? That girl's too much of a screwball to keep a lot on her mind."
" I know. But April made fun of Lolo's nose and didn't apologize, and, well, they've been fighting non-stop ever sense. I'm beginning to think they don't even know why their fighting anymore."
" Hey, what about that girl?" Cooro tugged on Giga's clothes as he pointed his fingers at another girl. She was a girl of great beauty. She has stunning silvery blue hair which was short and tied in a ponytail. She has a very thin body with long legs like arms and prominent large breasts." I'm picking up a strange vibe on her. Who is she?"
" Her? Why, that's Beauty. But some call her Siren Queen Beauty. She's known as the biggest man-eater in all of Fairy Tail. First she makes contact with you with her beautiful, cold eyes, seduces you, then she swipes your money when your not looking and walks out on you before you notice."
" Gee, that sounds pretty harsh. Kinda sounds like my sister Nana."
" I know. But too her it's a dog eating dog world; only the most deceitful can survive. And that's why she doesn't have a conscious."
" You boys better be ready for a good time," Beauty snickered as she jumped out of two members way and laughed watching them bash their heads together by accident. " I'm ready for a good time."
" Man, all members of Fairy Tail sound pretty crazy. I'm glad you and I are the only sane ones here, Giga."
" Yes, I'm glad of that too. Now, if you'll excuse me…"
All the gentleness in Giga's face faded away and a deviant smile that would make Roxie's look weak spread across his face. Giga then rubbed his neatly groomed hair, greasing his strand of hair, and looking like a psychotic man in Cooro's eyes.
" Alright, you ninny's, it's time I joined in the party!"
" Yeah!" Everyone in Fairy Tail hesitated from fighting to shout, then went back to punching, kicking, biting. Windy jumped in a pile, sticked onto the back of a dark skinned, brawny back member and punched him in the back of his head.
" I can't believe I just saw my idol punch someone in the face. " A trickle of sweat dripped from Cooro's head. One member wearing nothing but black cotton underwear rammed for Cooro, but the emotionally challenged hero dropped his feet down and leg sweeped the man. The man fell down and Cooro stood back up. " Since I'm here, might as well see if there's a job posting."
Cooro—naive and fearless—he walked through the crowd of angry, ruthless, brawling Fairy Tail members to the job posting. Along the way, Cooro saw April on top of Lolo rubbing her panda ears, Giga his idol and Luna the tyrant woman punching each other in the face where Windy punched her in the face then she would punch him in the face, and Don the member wearing ninja clothes circling Beauty the seductress.
" I need to get out of here quick or I'll also go loony like—"
" FRIEND!"
Cooro felt two beefy arms squeezing him from behind. Cooro remembered the soft fingers from somewhere—he could almost feel vanilla frosting and spit on them. Cooro turned around and gawked at the warm, chubby face of the fat kid who ate his bento during lunch period.
" What are YOU doing HERE?" Cooro exclaimed while his mouth still gawked open.
" I work here, friend," the chubby kid said with a smile on his face. " I knew you'd come around and join Fairy Tail. Now we can be friends—"
A blur of a Fairy Tail member rushed in out of nowhere and pushed the chubby kid away. Without him, Cooro fell down and landed on his behind. Cooro made use of his opportunity, bent his arms and legs and crawled under the rampaging Fairy Tail members to the job posting.
" Down here, I kind of look like some kind of peeping tom," Cooro thought. He continued crawling amidst the scuffle and tried keeping his embarrassed cheeks down by staring at the floor. " Whatever. If anyone asks, I'll tell them I don't want any part of this. When I get some job, I'm getting the heck out of here—"
" Are you trying to stare up my skirt?"
A girl grabbed Cooro's legs and pulled him up the same a fisherman would yank a fish out of the sea. Cooro could see the girl perfectly while he dangled upside down; she was everything he feared to be. Wearing a yellow female kunoichi outfit, a white sash around her waist, tan, and had long purple hair down her mid-back.
" No, I wasn't trying to—"
" Sssssshhhhhh." The girl covered Cooro's mouth with her tan fingers. Cooro felt her hot, alcoholic breath breathing on him while she held a finger over his mouth. " I should be mad at you for peeping, but you're just so cute, and are exactly my type: shy, small, and skinny. I think I'll make you my pet—Oooof!"
Another Fairy Tail member ran up alongside the girl who reeked of alcohol and kicked her besides her head. Cooro nearly fell and landed on his head, but he paddled his arms like a frogs to shortly fly above ground.
" I'm not small. I'm the same size as everybody in my classes. Geez. Crazies? Man-eaters? Drunkards? Cosplayers. All they need are the clowns and this place would be a circus. "
After crawling, running, and the occasionally ducking, Cooro finally reached the job posting. With all the scuffling going on, people fighting each other, Cooro just snatched the nearest piece of paper on the board.
" Okay, now all I just have to do is get past the rest of them and I'll be home free—"
" Hi Cooro!" April laughed out loud after she popped her head up and started waving. " How are you liking your first time in Fairy Tail?"
" A new recruit?" Everyone said together. The air around Cooro became cold when every member turned their eyes on him.
" Hey, everyone!" Giga Cooro's idol shouted while he used a barstool to raised himself above all the members of Fairy Tail. " We have new blood in our pack. And what do we do to new blood, my brothers and sisters?"
" Ruff him up!" Everyone cheered together.
" Exactly. We're going to ruff-this-recruit-UP!"
Cooro flinched and tried waving his arms to protest. " Hey, wait a minute! I just want to come here to-"
" Get him!"
" Yaaaaaahhhhh!"
Every member of Fairy Tail charged at Cooro—the men, the women, the children, and even the pets—and they were all ready to attack. Cooro had no choice but to meet them head on. But before the members reached him, the stray cat Gia poked her head out behind Cooro's shirt.
" NYA!" The cat hissed before she leaped off Cooro's back and jumped on the biggest, largest Fairy Tail members face.
" AHHHHHH!" The member screamed in agony while Gia was latched onto his face. " Holy smokes! Get it off me! Get this cat off of me!"
" Hold still!" A Fairy Tail member carrying a shovel shouted. The member pulled his shovel back preparing to strike. " I'll get it off!" Gia jumped off the members face, continuing to claw down his body, then stopped between his legs, hissed. " I'll get that filthy thing off!"
The member whacked his shovel at where Gia was attached to; the surface between his friends legs. But before the shovel made contact, Gia jumped off the Fairy Tail members' legs and the blow went between-his-legs.
" OI!" The member dropped down and grabbed the piece between his legs where his friend hit.
" Did I miss?"
" No. You got them."
" Mrow. Rwrrrrrr!" Gia jumped on the grieving man's back and pounced on the secondary man's face. Latched on his face, Gia scratched him in the cornea of his eyes—the man screamed from his agony.
" Yeow! Get this frickin' cat off of ME!"
" I'm trying. But the cats' claws are stuck between your cornea."
" AHHHHHHHH! Get it off of me!" A Fairy Tail member with a golf club appeared. He too tried hitting the cat with his weapon, but Gia juped off the Fairy Tail members face and the young mage felt the blow instead. " Yieeeeeeee!"
Gia scampered around the rest of the mages. But as she scampered around them, she soon scampered back to Cooro and jumped into his arms. Cooro was not mad with Gia—he was a little scared what the rest of the Fairy Tail members would do to him—but he could never be mad at an animal defending him.
" Nya. "
" Hehehe. Fancy meeting you here, Gia. Have you been following me? I'm surprised you were behind my back without me knowing." Gia ignored everything Cooro was saying as she just rubbed her head at his chest. Gia purred while Cooro's chest, the sweetest sound anyone heard, it made everyone in Fairy Tail smile. " I guess this is because I always give you milk. Hehehehe. I wonder, since I no longer have to deal with Nana's hatred of animals, maybe I can keep you as a pet. Would you like that, Gia?"
" Nya." Gia replied as if she was saying "yes". Gia then continued rubbing her head against Cooro's chest.
" Okay, now that that's settled, why don't you get off me so I can beat up all these guild members and finally find some solitude here." Gia listened to Cooro, stopped rubbing her head against his chest and pounced on top of the job posting.
" Ha, are any of you hearing this?" One of Fairy Tail's members laughed heinously. " The rookie thinks he can take down all of us. Isn't that a riot?"
" Yeah. Hahahaha." Giga laughed along with every other member of Fairy Tail including April. " Let's go easy on him and not use our magic. Who's with me?"
" Yeahhhhhhh!" The dozens of members cheered.
" Alrighty! Let's tear him apart!"
All members of Fairy Tail—32 members in total—charged towards Cooro. Too him they were like a wild stampede of wilder beasts, their feet acting like hooves, and they were ready to throttle Cooro where he stood. Instead of fleeing like a wild predator away from his pack, Cooro closed his eyes and clamped his eyes together.
" Okay, voice inside of me, wherever you are, please show yourself so I can wipe the smirk off all these fools mouths."
" Your wish is my command, master."
The members were just about to jump on Cooro and push him to the ground—a brilliant flash of radiant yellow, white light glowed out of him. The radiance of the light blinded all 32 members of Fairy Tail as they backed up away from Cooro. When the light cleared, everyone still dazed, the noble, handsome man Kanellos stood before them.
" Who the heck is he?" One of the members of Fairy Tail shouted.
" Look at those dog ears! He's some kind of dog-man!"
" I don't know about any of you but he's gorgeous," one of the girl Fairy Tail members said.
" He's dreamy," another one of the female Fairy Tail members said in a wooed voice.
" He's unlike that creepy, grumpy kid that was just here a second ago," the man-eater Luna retorted.
" Who cares who he is?" Another one off the males retorted. " Let's just get him!"
" I'd be careful if I were you, ladies and gentlemen," Kanellos said with his broad, dreamy smile. " Touch my ears, and it might be the last thing you'll ever do."
The Fairy Tail members ignored Kanellos's warning and just charged towards him. Two members of Fairy Tail jumped out and tried hitting Kanellos with their fists, but Kanellos lifted both of them up and banged their heads together. One member with a horn sticking out his head tried clawing at Kanellos, only to be roundhouse kicked in the side of his face. When a girl tried to fight him, the same one who called him "Dreamy", Kanellos touched the back of her neck and she collapsed.
" Is this really all the infamous Fairy Tail can muster?" Kanellos smirked, he just used one hand to push a member only wearing underwear away. " I must say, I'm not in the least bit amused. From what I heard, there were four strong members: Natsu the Fire-Breathing, Grey the Ice Maker, Eraz the Mountain Cutter, and Gajeel the Metal Eater. But all I see here is a bunch of novices."
" Don't you call us novices!" April shouted jumping out from the shadows and carrying her dog Komatsu as a four-bladed scythe. " We're proud members of Fairy Tail! I, April the Metal Bender, shall take you down myself!"
April slammed her four-bladed scythe at Kanellos. But Kanellos caught the scythe using only two of his fingers on the blade. April dangled over Kanellos while he smirked.
" Light as a feather." April heaved as hard as she could trying to pull her scythe away from Kanellos's clutches, only his fingers weighed her scythe down like a dozen tons. April just couldn't pull her scythe out. " This is amazing. I heard how most mages are weak with their physical power, but you seem much stronger than those ordinary mages. You should be quiet proud of yourself, little gir—"
April ignored what Kanellos was saying and just punched him in his left ear. Just as Kanellos felt April's softy, moist hands punch into his ears, he flinched for a second, then he just smirked.
" I thought I said you'd regret hitting me in my ears. Now, your dead."
With a flick of his fingers, Kanellos pushed April and Komatsu across the other room. Komatsu transformed back into his dog body, pounced like a cat in the air and cushioned April's fall. April was safe, none of the guild members were dead, and Kanellos banged both his fists together as a giant green circle of light illuminated between them.
" Roots of the Morbid! Trees of Ba'laveloh!"
The entire pub known as Fairy Tail rumbled at the sound of Kanellos's voice. The sound of leaves rustling against the bark of a tree was then heard. No second later did the leaves from the top of a tree sprout out of Kanellos's bright green. The branches entwined, shot out and throttled into every 32 members of Fairy Tail.
" What is this—ack!" One male member shouted before he was pushed into the wall by the tree.
" It's so huge—ack!" A female member shouted before being pushed in by the giant tree branch.
" No! No! No! No!" Another male member shouted just as he was smothered by the bushes of the trees.
" Wait, I think I know who he is!" Windy shouted trying to avoid being hit by the giant tree branches. " Ears of a dog, body that melts the hearts of women, a persona that that's more ripe than a bloomed flower…" Windy was scared and felt his body go stiff. He couldn't avoid the sight of three tree branches about to crash on top of him. " Y-yo-your…Kanellos the Trickster Demon of Forest. You're one of the twelve Mahalo demons."
CRASH!
All members of Fairy Tail—32 members in total; not including the ones that were away on missions—they were all defeated by Kanellos the Mahalo Demon of the Forest. There were no casualties, no one severely injured, they were all just groaning in pain; none were unconscious.
" This guy-ack-is seriously tough," one member of Fairy Tail groaned while a tree branch pinned him against the wall.
" He's even stronger than Erza. Even she wasn't able to take down all of us," another member of Fairy Tail groaned while he too was pinned against the wall.
" And The worst part is…he didn't even break a single thing in Fairy Tail."
" That was a good workout," Kanellos said as his tree branches disappeared and every member of Fairy Tail was on the ground moaning. " I'd love to stay around and chat, but I'm afraid Cooro has other plans."
Kanellos's body radiated bright white in color. The light soon faded and Cooro appeared before every member of Fairy Tail. Cooro walked to the door, stepping over and on top of other members of Fairy Tail, and eventually made his way to the door. Gia then leaped on Cooro's right shoulder and rubbed his head.
" Don't wait up on me," Cooro said making his way out of Fairy Tail. " I'll be back."
Cooro opened the door to Fairy Tail, brilliant light shining through the entrance, then he strolled out the door with Gia on his shoulder. While he was gone, Windy the author smiled and chuckled to himself.
" Well I'll be had. There's actually someone pure of heart enough to tame one of the strongest beasts who ever roamed Fiore." Windy raised his hand up from the pile of injured members as his smile shinned brilliantly through the light from the framed windows. " Kid, I feel you'll be the savior of Fairy Tail one day. And when you're there to help us, I'll be there."