Zailia Connors

"Okay?! No it is not okay!" I had taken Lexia over to where the Fairy Tail mages couldn't hear us. Well at least couldn't hear Lexia. And now I was trying to talk her out of joining Fairy Tail and dragging me along with her. "Just a moment ago these people attack us without even having a reason, and now you want to join their guild? What's going through your head? Really I need to know."

"I just thought it might be fun to join a guild and aren't you tired of having to live on the run all the time? If we were to join Fairy Tail that would all change, Windows Web wouldn't be able to come after us anymore." A part of me had to agree that not having to live on the run would be really nice but I couldn't let what just happen slide, they attacked us and push Lexia to the point where she could of gotten severely hurt. No, I wouldn't join a guild that hurt Lexia not even if a gun was pointed to my head.

"Lexia may I remind you that you could have died just now. If I hadn't stopped you when I did, if you had continued for just a moment longer I could have lost you, don't you realize that?"

"Zalia, I'm just tired..."

"Of course you are you lost a lot of blood but with some rest you'll be fine.", I interrupted.

"No. I'm tired, tired of this, tired of always having to hide, of not having a place to call home. This is our chance, if we join Fairy Tail we won't have to hide from Widdows Web anymore. If we go with them we'll finally have a place to call home." she stared at me with her golden brown eyes. I could see the pain and loneliness in them, my thoughts went back to the days of us running for our lives in these woods, going to towns and villages filled the paranoia of someone coming and grabbing us, all those days of hiding in the trees being so afraid to even close our eyes.

This way of living wasn't even living it was just not dying, I had had enough of this and so had Lexia. I closed my eyes then took a deep breath and let it out. "Alright we can...", Lexia wrapped her arms around me in a huge hug. It always makes me happy to see that smiling face, that childish face, that forgiving face.

We walked over to the trio of Mages we had fought before. I gripped Lexia's hand tightly and stared at the pink haired kid who I had pinned up against a tree moments before. By the looks of it he wasn't going to forget it, this made me smile in a satisfied manner which pissed him off even more. I ignored his death glares and turned to the Celestial Mage. "We accept your offer.", I said giving our answer. "But on one condition," I felt Lexia squeeze my hand. "Will I have your word that you are our allies."

The blond, Lucy her name was, stared at me as if to say 'Are you serious?' but I kept looking straight at her to show that I was dead serious. Her expression changed to understanding and she moved her head in a respectful nod. "Yes you have my word that we are your allies." ,Lucy answered.

I turned to the black haired mage who was half naked from the waist up. "And you?", I asked.

The Ice Mage looked at me straight in the eye. His eyes were the color of night without stars but unlike the empty sky his were full of life. "You have my word." he said with a voice as cool as ice.

Last I looked to the boy who I had fought earlier. He still had the same death glare that I had last see him with before turning to Lucy. "Your name is Natsu right?", I asked returning his gaze. Like a little kid he turned his head in the opposite direction while making a sound with his lips that sounded like "Pfft". I still question myself on the decision of joining a guild with such childish members.

I took a deep breath to calm myself. "Do I have your word that..."

"Yeah yeah, I heard you before.", He interrupted in an irritating way that made me want to thrust my sword into him.

I turned away from the three mages and picked up my satchel and Lexia's belongings then her hand and walked towards an opening between two trees and turning my head to look at the Fairy Tale members I said. "Well then what are we waiting for?"

Lucy along with Gray and Natsu who still wouldn't look at me followed us into the forest and our journey began.

It's been a week since Lexia and I met the three strange Fairy Tail mages and we are almost reached Magnolia. Things have been going rather well between the five of us. For instance Gray and I have been exchanging fighting techniques that we both put to good use when sparring with one another. Having Lucy around has been very good for Lexia, she finally has the chance to mingle with another girl who probably likes girly things and who can teach her them. Natsu I think has warmed up to me some what. We occasionally talk at dinner and walk together in silence but not much more than that. I asked Lucy to tell me why she had called us murderesses before and she told me that on the job poster it had said that we had destroyed a town and killed more than 20 people including children. We did indeed destroy the village but we were protecting the villagers form a mountain giant that would have killed everyone of those people if we hadn't stepped in a taken it down. Which we did, and afterwards we helped rebuild the town. So why would we be wanted by the Magic Council. We aren't murderers no one had been killed so why?

Widows Web it must have been them who put the bounty on our heads and signed it as the Magic Council. I don't understand why they go so far as to find one girl. Yes, Lexia's powers are incredible but she can barely control it and she would need a lot of training just to be able fight for 15 minutes without losing control. So why would they want her if they can't use her in a fight? I've never understood them and their unquenchable thirst to find Lexia.

Well it doesn't matter now that we have members of Fairy Tail as our allies. with their power and numbers Widows Web will never be able to Lexia again and maybe one of them knows of where I could find the Water Mage that killed my parents.

We arrived in the city that is home to the most famously known guild in the world and man, is it amazing everything you'd think a big city should have they had it. Restaurants, theaters the size of palaces, apartments and hotels the size of mansions. And the armories, on almost every street were armories full to the brim with the newest of weapons and armor. There were magic shops full of all kinds of magic items, staffs, cards, spell books, anything you could think of you would find it in there. They even had seeds and magical plants for Flora type wizards which Lexia was really excited about. and in the heart of this beautiful city was the guild where the strongest of mages, the biggest names, and the rarest of magics all came together, Fairy Tail.

Lexia and I stood at the entrance staring with our mouths open at the huge insignia while Lucy, Natsu, and Gray continued walking towards the huge door where the worlds most powerful mages were on the other side. The three mages were in front of the door now staring back at us. I could feel my heart pounding so loudly in my chest i feared it would fly right out, but then i felt a small hand make its way into mine and slowly my heart started to slow down. i turned my head to the hands owner and saw Lexia staring frighteningly at the large door. her brown golden eyes were opened wide with fear and she reminded me of the day that i had first met her. she had shown the same kind of fear that she had right now. i gripped her hand and gave a short squeeze to let her know that i was here for her. leaning over i whispered in her ear. "It's going to be ok. We're going to going to open those doors and make a new life for ourselves." she turned her head to me and looked at me with those big eye that are full of wonder but now were clouded by fear of the unknown. i smiled at her then still holding her hand turned to the doors and started to walk to towards them and suddenly we were between a crossfire of magic spells. Mages in all different shapes and sizes were battling amounts themselves. i looked to the three fairy tail mages that had brought us here but only Lucy remand, Natsu and Gray were now fighting each other with their magic, fists, and insults. i looked at lucy questioningly as she just stood there calmly as though this kind of behavior was normal. with Lexia's hand still in mine we ran over to lucy. "What's going on here?" i yelled over the sounds of explosions and battle cries.

"Shouldn't we stop them? Someone could get hurt.", Lexia asked Lucy.

Lucy looked at us sheepishly as though nothing was unusual. "It would be best to just stay out of it.", She answered back in a yell.

Then suddenly out of nowhere a beautiful women with white hair in a magenta dress started walking towards us. As she grew closer with every step she took the crowd fell silent and parted like the red sea until the only two mages left fighting were Gray and Natsu. With lightening fast speed she grabbed them by their ears and dragged them off to a corner of the room. As the women scolded the ice and fire mages the crowd still silent quickly disbanded and went back to their daily routines.

After a while the beautiful women turned around and walked over to where we stood still holding Natsu and Gray. "I would like to apologize on behalf of Fairy Tail for these two's unruly behavior." the women said. Then looking to either side of her where the boys stood she quickly pushed their heads down in a form their apologizes. "Aren't you two sorry?" she asked still smiling but in a less friendly manly.

"But we didn't do anything!" Natsu protested, his head still facing downwards to the floor.

"Apologize! Or will I have to inform Erza that you two have been fighting again?" she warned. A pause fell over him as well as Gray. Who ever this Erza was she was definitely a force to be reckoned with. I would have to ask Lucy about her later on.

The short silence was broken by Gray. "I apologize." he turned his pushed down head over to Natsu. "Come on man just apologize and get it over with." Another moment of silence past then with the same attitude that he had given me when I asked for his word that he was Lexia and my ally, he apologized. For me personally I really didn't understand what the apologizes were for either. But they were given and it was nice to see Natsu be knocked off his pedestal.

After an hour (ok ten minutes but it felt like an hour from the way she was ranting) of her explain that their guild didn't usually act like that which I honestly couldn't believe and that her name was Mirajane. She brought Lexia and me along with Lucy, Natsu, and Gray to the bar where fairy tail insignia stamps of all colors were presented to Lexia and me. Lexia obviously chose dark forest green and I went for silver. Next we were asked where we would want the insignia placed on our bodies I went with my right shoulder blade on my back as for Lexia she had her's tattooed on her ankle, that suited her quite nicely. Once this this was an accomplished we were introduced to the fairy tail members who were present. There were some how I would have preferred not to meet but over all Fairy Tail was a wonderful guild to have trustworthy allies. Oops, did it again. Lexia's telling me to try calling them friends but the only person I can think of as a companion in Lexia.

After the grand tour and introductions it was time for us to meet the master of the guild, Master Makarov. We were lead into a large office where an older man sat behind a desk. He looked about eighty with white gray hair and a mustache, on his head he wore a jester like hat with blue and orange stripes. He seemed to be trustworthy enough. On his right hand side stood a woman with red hair that reached down to her waist, she wore a short navy blue skirt and a medieval battle armor with a red Fairy Tail insignia to the left of her chest plate over it was a golden cross, it's y-axis line was on her left side and the x-axis went across her chest plate. She held her head high not in a way of being superior but to show that she had much experience and knowledge. When Natsu and Gray saw her they started backing away trying to evacuate the premises. I knew right away that she must be Erza. She walked over to me and stared me down but not in a territorial way like Natsu but more in a way that she was reading my personality, my strength, my loyalty, my honor, but it also felt like she was looking deep inside me where no one but I could go. She could see everything my parents' deaths, everyday spent training to defeat their murderer, meeting Lexia, and running from Widdows Web, she could see it all my hole past she could see just by looking into my eyes. Erza turned her attention to Lexia and the others breaking the trance. I was left with the feeling of embarrassment, anger, and relief. I was realized because of her maybe knowing the pain of my past, I felt anger for her knowing and embarrassment because if she knew that meant that I couldn't control my feelings and that everyone could see right through me. I clenched my fist to hold my feelings in.

Then I suddenly felt something warm and fragile form its way around my gripped fist, Lexia. She held my hand without even looking at me as if she knew I needed comfort.

The guild master stood... down from from his chair where he disappeared behind the desk for a minute then stepped over to the right so that he was in our view. He was around 3 feet tall which surprised me as well as Lexia because when he was seated behind his desk he look about 5' 8" but the others thought nothing of it. Well of course they wouldn't he's their Master. He walked over to me and Lexia a warming greeting smile plastered on his face. taking both of our hands he said, "Welcome, to Fairy Tail it is wonderful to finally meet the both of you."

I pulled my hand away. "What do you mean 'finally'? We've only just met."

He replaced his smile with a bashful looked as if he had said something he wasn't suppose to, (which I believe he did) but then returned to his cheerful smile. "Oh well... uh rumors of two new images have been floating around so I have been excited to meet the both of you."

Nice save but I wasn't buying it he knew who we were, maybe more than we knew ourselves. the conversations varied between Lexia and I meeting Lucy, Gray, and Natsu to how it is being murderers was a misunderstanding and finally making our way to Fairy Tail. the Master listened very carefully though out the conversations, and after we were finished he asked Lexia and me if we had a place to stay.

"Well we've heard that there are really nice hotels in Magnolia so we were playing on staying in one until we find a place of our own." Lexia explained to the Makarov.

"Oh no, that will never do you are apart our family now and a family slays together stays together." Master Makrov declared.

"Thats very catchy and all but who would we stay with?" I asked.

"You could crash at my house." Lucy blurted out.

"Really? Are you sure we wouldn't be a bother?" I asked.

"No, no, it wouldn't be any trouble. You guys can stay with me until you find your own place. It will be lots of fun."