Greywing44 here! A Merry Christmas to all and a happy new year! If you like to sue people, too bad! There's already a disclaimer in chapter 1!
The ride to Magnolia, the city in which the Fairy Tail guild was based, was rather uneventful. If you call Will's nausea along the whole train ride back as uneventful. The Sky Dragon Slayer had offered to use Troia, a spell that could ease motion sickness but was denied by Alastor before Will could get a word in. The stoic Wizard had some knowledge of the spell and of its drawback: the more times its used, the less effective it became to the point it had no effect at all. Therefore, to Will's dismay, she had to deal with her nausea the whole train ride because he wanted to save the spell for emergencies only.
"You're a sadist Al, what could be the harm in using that spell one time!?" Will complained as they walked through the busy street towards the guild hall that was clearly visible to the excited Wendy by the symbol hung proudly on a bright orange banner on the front of the building.
"Because I'm not wasting it whenever we ride on a vehicle." Alastor replied back cooly not fazed at all by her pout as he had been subjected to it numerous times before. "Besides, only she can use that spell due to her elemental attribute."
"Sadist. At least call her by her name." Will hummed again, losing her pout as she rolled her eyes at him and his frugality. If this guy had been holding that spell out on her she was going to be pissed. Speaking of the young Dragon Slayer in question-
"Woah! Hold on, Wendy! You definitely don't wanna be there!" She placed a hand over the excited blue haired girl's and tugged her away before she could open the ornate guild door.
"Eh? Why?" Wendy pouted as she was tugged away from the vicinity of the door. She was so looking forward to seeing where and the Fairy Tail wizards spent their downtime. Why was Will preventing her from doing so?
"Situational awareness, my little hatching!" Will grinned at the little girl and patted her head only making Wendy pout further and cover her head. "But seriously, you've got dragon heightened senses for a reason, try listening for a sec." She pointed to her ears as Alastor stood back patiently with his hands in his coat pockets knowing to trust those so called dragon heightened senses since they've saved them many times in the past.
"Listening? To what?" Wendy blinked, not seeing the point.
"Just do it child, I'm not standing out here all day." Carla waved her paw in circles standing by Wendy's feet rather than resting on her shoulder as her mangy tabbycat counterpart had with Will.
"A-Alright." Wendy closed her eyes. Cocking her head slightly as she focused her admittedly less developed dragon hearing to listen beyond the door only to begin sweating and paling as she heard what was going on behind said doors.
"Um...What am I listening to?" The Sky Dragon Slayer opened her eyes and looked up at her fellow Slayer Wizard in apprehension. She was almost dreading the answer..
"Five, four, three, two, one-."
Wendy yelped and hid behind Alastor when the doors suddenly burst outwards as two women tumbled onto the cobblestones in a blur of white, red, and black kicking and punching at each other all the while spitting curses in the other's faces. As if that wasn't enough Wendy could now see what looked to be a full out bar brawl inside as well.
"There's your answer." Will shrugged slightly in a 'what can you do?' motion.
"Does this happen often!?" Carla shouted over the tumult the fight was making. There were two people rolling around on the floor trying to rip each other to pieces and, by the sounds of things now that the doors were open, the inside was just one big brawl. Why were they not doing something?
"Not as often than you'd think." Alastor snorted as he simply walked past the fighting women without a backwards glance. "Happens only twice a week now."
"Which is definitely an improvement. Come on, I'll introduce you to them later. For now, stick close to me and Al, ok?" Will grinned down at the obviously frightened child grasping her hand in hers and gently tugging her past the two as the redhead summoned what looked to be a club to bash the white haired woman in the face.
"Aren't you going to stop them!?" Carla called as she summoned her wings and hovered next to the Wizard's head. That seemed too vicious to be called a mere scuffle in her mind.
"You wanna try, be my guest. Be warned that no one has ever succeeded. Even Alastor just let's them go at it if they're already like this." Will stated seriously. She was not ever going to get between them again. She had learned from her bruises! "Also-"
Carla squawked when she was grabbed by the tail and yanked down as Will made Wendy squat down. Their eyes widened as a black haired man in only his underwear was sent flying overhead and crashed into the table.
"Ghh! That felt like the wind you slant eyed bastard!" The man growled and got up with nary a scratch when a normal man would sport a few broken bones. His silver sword necklace swinging with his motions.
"This man is known as Gray Fullbuster, a very talented wizard but has a habit of stripping for no reason. Doesn't even need any singles to do it."
"I heard that Will! And I do not!" The man known as Gray glared at the snickering Will who had her hand in front of her mouth to make her voice sound deeper like a narrator of some play going on at the local theatre.
"Oh yeah? Then why am I looking at your underwear?" Will raised an eyebrow as she looked Gray up and down from his blue and white striped boxers back to his dark eyes. It was saddening that she could get use to looking at such a nice body, sick of it really.
"Wha-Damn it not again!" Gray groaned as he looked down at himself and seeing that he indeed had no clothes on- he had them on no more than five minutes ago. "Gimme your clothes Will!"
Wendy squeaked, covering her eyes as the mostly naked man was suddenly a metre away from them.
"Fat chance! I keep telling you they won't fit." Will replied easily with a laugh making Gray groan in disappointment even as he easily dodged a beer mug spearing for his head. "I'm introducing Wendy here to everyone. Natsu in that general direction?" She thumbed back towards the chaos in the general direction of where he was thrown from her other hand on Wendy's head as the young girl tried desperately not to look at Gray's exposed body.
"Ugh! You're not doing that stupid narrator voice again are you?" The ice wizard rolled his eyes at his guild mate. All he got was a grin in response, making him shrug a bit. "Ah whatever. Yeah I'll get him. Hey! Pinky! You call that a kick!? I almost thought someone had left a window open!" He shouted out into the crowd, snorting in amusement when a man with pink spiky hair jumped out of the crowd immediately knocking away anyone in his path. His sharp canines and slightly feral look made him indistinguishable. He was wearing a black vest with gold trim, his trademark white scaled scarf and white and black pants with black sandals.
"Then lemme clock you one that'll really blow you away, ice cube!" The pink haired man growled in a feral way making Wendy squeak at how scary his shadowed face was.
"This is Natsu Dragneel, also known as the Salamander. He's caused so much property damage that he's known as a natural disaster."
"You bet your sweet ass I am!" Natsu grinned as he slammed his fists together noticing his fellow Dragon Slayer. "Hey Will. Tell Alastor that he's next after snowball over here."
"Sure. Make it quick though, would-ja guys? I gotta borrow Natsu in a bit." Will snorted as she lowered her hand from her mouth after doing her narrator voice.
"Can do!" The two replied before tackling each other throwing punches, kicks and insults at each other as they tumbled across the floor trying to cause the other harm but Will knew that it wasn't serious- it was friendly even.
"That barbarian is the Fire Dragon Slayer?" Carla questioned in a tone full of disbelief. Sticking close by Will as she expertly navigated past people fighting and projectiles. "He's going to help teach Wendy?!" Alastor actually expected that delinquent to teach!?
"Yep. He looks mean but he's nice...Most of the time. He's just a big ole battle crazed softie." Will shrugged.
"I-I'm not so sure those two traits go together." Wendy stuttered so far terrified by the bar fight and the rowdy atmosphere. This was what it was like all the time!?
After what felt like a hair raising eternity for Wendy, they finally reached the bar where Alastor was sitting waiting patiently for Will to stop playing around with introducing everyone. Sitting next to him was a grumbling woman with long brown hair dressed in a dark blue bikini top, steel bracelets around her biceps, and tan pants with blue high heels. She was swirling around a glass of red wine with her cheek resting against her fist.
"Can't even drink in peace around here." She muttered sourly as she watched the spectacle in almost a bored fashion.
"It's three o'clock." Alastor stated bluntly. Well before the time when any drinking, if at all was deemed appropriate.
"Like the song says, it's five o'clock somewhere." The woman shot back just as easily sipping her wine with easy grace as she ignored the man's hard stare.
"This woman is Cana Alberona. She firmly holds the title of the Guild's heaviest drinker. Rumor has it that thirty percent of the guild's alcohol budget goes right down her throat."
Carla and Wendy gaped at that bit of information from Will's narrator voice. A full thirty percent?! That just can't be humanly possible.
"H...How are you not dead yet?" Carla asked in a shaky voice. That much alcohol alone would kill over ten men. If that! "That's just an exaggeration right?!"
"I think Levy said around 29 point 9 percent so we just rounded it up." Cana replied easily before lifting up a huge barrel of booze. Shocking the two newcomers as she started chugging the alcohol down like it was nothing.
"...Is she human?" Wendy asked that question with wide eyes as she pointed at the heavy drinker. She was guzzling down a barrel of alcohol- literally guzzling down a barrel of alcohol!
"It's one of the great mysteries of Fairy Tail." A new voice piped up, making Wendy wince as she dreaded the next person to join the list of rowdy members she's just seen. She was pleasantly surprised when a wary looking blond with a blue hair tie, blue and white top, and blue skirt slowly stood up from behind the bar only to slightly dive back down each time there was a crashing sound particularly when it was near there vicinity. "Hi. Really overwhelming huh? I'm-"
"This lovely lady here is Lucy, the star rookie of Fairy Tail with the power to summon Celestial spirits of the zodiac. Her...Assets are known throughout the land"
The woman known as Lucy blushed a bit at Will's narration of her as the Water Dragon Slayer wiggled her eyebrows.
"S-Stop that! Don't give her weird ideas about me Will!" She whined as she slapped at the now laughing Slayer.
"I didn't say which assets!" Will giggled as she raised her arms as a shield.
"Anyways, I was really surprised too but you just get used to it after a while." Lucy sighed as she pushed her bangs back away from her face. "So long as you don't stand in the storm, you should be alright." She learned that just the other week after getting an eyeful of Gray's...assets on her first day in. "Or just stand next to Alastor." Either or should work.
"At least there's someone relatively sane around here besides the hooligan." Carla sighed slightly. Finally a sense of normalcy.
"Hm? Hey you look just like..." Lucy blinked as she looked from Carla to Rui. What were the chances of three of them?
"Hi, I'm Happy." Carla blinked as she looked to her right to see a blue cat around the same size as her and the tabbycat but had a green little bag on his back and little else to discern. "Want a fish?" He asked shyly as he presented a fish to the white cat. It was pretty obvious by his posture what his intentions were behind the fish.
Carla merely raised an eyebrow at the display before her, the gift seeming to offend her very eyes. With a 'Hmph!' she merely turned away not even looking back to see the cat turn white with despair.
'Ouch. Rejected.' Rui wrote noting the new color her fellow feline was sporting.
"Ooh...This must somehow be Lucy's fault." The cat known as Happy sniffled as he collapsed on his paws and knees contemplating his rejection in his despair.
"Excuse you?" Lucy gazed at the cat with a twitching eye. She didn't even lift a finger the little-!
"This cat is fairy tail's blue cat of happiness, Happy. He's never far away from his best friend Natsu."
Happy brightened up on hearing Will's narrator voice. He then gained his wings with a whooshing sound before flying into her free shoulder.
"It's the Narrator voice! Oh! Oh! Do Elfman!" He seemed to completely forget his earlier rejection as he pointed at a large man with white spiky hair, black coat with white kanji on the back, black pants, and wooden sandals. He seemed to be smacking someone with a chair at this very moment.
Will giggled at the request before complying and placing her hand over her mouth. "This manly man is Elfman Strauss, part of the Takeover Siblings. He tries his best buuuut...Sometimes falls short."
"Wha-No I do not!" Elfman shouted loudly as he took a pose ready to regale them in the rules of being a man. "I'm a real man! Real men always-"
"Shut it!" Natsu came out of nowhere and kicked Elfman in the chest sending him flying into tables with his soul starting to come out of his mouth. No one wanted to hear that lame speech!
"Um...H-How many times are you going to do the voice?" Wendy sweated slightly as she stood a bit behind Will. Even if the bar counter seemed like a relatively safe space, she was still very afraid of the bar fight going on not a few feet away. She also seemed to be having way too much fun with that voice.
"Till she gets bored or so angry she forgets that she's doing it." Another person with white hair was seen as she walked over easily side stepping some guild members who were stretching each others faces before reaching the bar. "Who's this cutie? You're not related to Alastor are you?" Wendy shifted in place, becoming self conscious of the pretty white haired girl kneeling down in front of her.
"We're not siblings just because our hair color is the same, Lisanna." Alastor snorted as he tilted his head to the side to dodge a chair sailing at his head unlike Lucy who ducked as it hit the bottles on the bar and made them shatter.
"Al, are you really saying that to me?" Lisanna giggled as she pointed at her white hair causing Wendy to remember the pretty white haired demon lady from the front of the guild.
"Yes." Was the answer she got back only making her giggle a bit more before shrugging in defeat.
"This is-"
"Will, stop. Or I'm using that silencing spell on you." Alastor grunted as he stood up completely fed up with the loud chaos of the room now along with Will's antics.
Requipping a simple looking wooden staff, he slammed it down onto the floor making a noise like thunder. The booming sound made everyone fighting freeze and glance towards the blue haired Wizard's back with fear.
"If I turn around and see anything broken I'm going to be very unhappy."
All of a sudden, there was a blur of movement to get rid of the broken furniture and throw it out the door then quickly getting new furniture out from the basement and setting them down in their previous places.
"Wow..." Wendy marveled over the command that Alastor had over the entire guild. What was once a bar fight was now a race to get everything broken fixed. Evidently everyone in Fairy Tail feared Alastor's strength as a Wizard, at least when he was angry. However, there was always one who did not pick up on that notion.
"Ha! You cowards! I said you were next Al, so fight me!" Natsu was the only one that wasn't fixing the guild instead picking another fight- this time with the very Wizard who had just made the previous fight end. Taking a running start he leapt at Alastor's unguarded back with his fist set ablaze.
"Silent sound." Alastor muttered merely pointing one hand behind him and blasting the screaming Fire Dragon slayer right through the ceiling not even bothering to turn around to see the results of his spell.
"Oh Natsu..." Lucy sighed as she placed her hand over her eyes at her teammate's stupidity. While the Pink haired man 's determination was one of his good points, he didn't seem to know when he was fighting a losing battle.
"We still need him you know." Though Will tried to sound miffed, she couldn't help but snicker at the hole in the ceiling. "How is he supposed to teach Wendy when he's flying through the sky for forever?"
"One, I hope you still remember gravity is a thing." Was what Alastor shot back in response as he sat back down next to Cana. "Two-"
A loud crash could be heard followed closely by a voice crying "My cabbages!".
"With your dragon nose, you should be able to find him easyily." He continued as Wendy blinked at the sudden shout from before. "I have something to talk to Cana about, so you go find the fire starter and drag him back here.
"Mm?" Cana raised an eyebrow as she set down her barrel. What could he have to talk to her about?
"Alright Wendy come on, let's leave this sourpuss and go find Natsu." Will grinned before she grabbed Wendy's shoulders and steered her towards the door just as the two women from before seemed to be done with their brawl and were walking back into the guild themselves.
"Hello Will, when did you get here?" The white haired woman smiled as she tilted her head all dressed up in a pretty red dress and black heels, a pony tail raised upwards from her bangs.
"Probably when we smashed through the door." The redhead stated as she crossed her arms talking of their fight as if it were the weather. She herself was wearing a set of shiny silver armor from head to toe that looked fairly light but also really clean.
You would never have thought either of them had just been in a tussle outside trying to claw one another's eyes out. They were both beautiful young ladies, that was to be sure, but all the terrified Wendy could see right now were the two angry demon ladies from before.
"AhhhHHH! Don't hurt me!" Wendy screamed as she suddenly ran past them and into the streets.
"Wait! Wendy! They're only monsters...sixty percent of the time!" Will shouted before wincing when she felt a dark aura behind her from the two said monsters."Wait for me!" She then ran after the little girl with Rui and an already exhausted Carla flying in behind her.
"Erza. Mira. Let them go."
Fortunately for the two terrified Slayers and their familiars, the two monsters heeded Alastor's order and walked back inside where the rest of the Guild members had just finished refurbishing the Guild so that it was once again looking spotless...until the next squabble kicked off.
"Erza Scarlet and Mirajane Strauss. Undoubtedly two of Fairy Tail's strongest Wizards, each a master of their respective magic combat style and beautiful too but always at each other's throats if the chance presents itself."
"Lisanna…" Alastor warned looking at the youngest Strauss sibling who had transformed into a perfect doppleganger of Will right down to the deep voice.
Upon seeing the look in the blue haired Wizard's eyes, Lisanna quickly reverted back.
"Awwww. I just wanted to finish off what Will started." She pouted giving Alastor an innocent look that would win the hearts of most males.
"Stupid grumpy ass..."
Over in the streets, a certain Fire Dragon Slayer grumbled as he brushed bits of cabbage and wood chippings off his shoulders ignoring the multiple lumps on his head he had earned from his encounter with the irate salesmen of said cabbage. It wasn't his fault that every time Alastor sends him flying he landed in his cabbage cart! It was like bad luck or a...a...some other word for bad luck.
"Next time, I'm gonna get him! With a right hook, then a feint, then a flaming kick! Yeah! Yeah! It's gonna be awesome!" He laughed to himself with a sinister look on his face making people avoid crossing the man in the street.
"Natsuuuuu! Come on flame boy I still need you!" His ears perked up when he heard Will shouting all the way down the other side of the street. He noticed that blue haired girl from before clinging to her.
"Hey Wiiill!" Natsu grinned at his fellow Slayer waving his arm in greetings. "Hold on! I'll be right over!"
He knelt down, flames appearing on his feet before jumping, his flames giving him the propulsion he needed to clear the street up over pedestrians' heads before landing in front of Will and Wendy causing the blue haired girl squeak before she noticed the cheery grin on his face. "Never fear, for Natsu is here! Whatcha need? Ooh is it sparring? I really hope it is." Natsu asked excitedly. Will was one of the funner people to fight against, she always made it more fun with the jokes and funny attack names. They even liked to try out Unison Raids whenever they had the time.
"Close. Natsu, meet Wendy the Sky Dragon Slayer." Will grinned as she pushed Wendy in front of her making her squeak as she looked up at Natsu shyly. "Also before you start, I already talked to her about the dragon situation, she doesn't know any more then we do." She waved off as Natsu opened his mouth.
'I think you mean interrogated' Rui scribbled between the three Slayers recalling that moment much more differently than what Will just said.
"Aw seriously?" Natsu groaned his hopes dashed before they even begun. "Ah whatever! Just means a bit more time right?"
To Wendy and Carla, Natsu seemed to go from one emotion to the next quicker than it took someone to blink. One minute he was all raring for a fight, the next minute he was all cheerful childlike.
"Hey there, I'm Natsu the Fire Dragon Slayer. I've got one question for you…" He began as he crouched down in front of her. "What do you eat?"
"Eat?" Both Wendy and Carla echoed at the same time.
"Yeah! like, I eat fire and Will here eats water." He was really curious what Wind attribute Slayers eat. "Is it something metaphorical like sunshine or clouds?"
'That's one word I never thought I would hear him say.' Carla thought when she heard the barbarian say the word 'metaphorical'. Perhaps there was more to this man than she first assumed unlike that blue tomcat who had somehow mysteriously appeared beside her holding a half eaten fish.
"N-No I eat air." Wendy relaxed slightly as she rubbed her elbow. This Natsu seemed a bit...different from the bar fight. Less feral and more calm like a low flame.
"Air huh?...Does air taste good?" Natsu stood up again and tilted his head. Crossing his arms as question marks popped up over his head. He couldn't see air tasting like anything. It was air! Invisible cotton candy pretty much!
"Natsu come on and focus." Will clapped her hands making them both jump and forget what they were talking about. "Or should I say...Master Natsu?" She grinned when the Slayer predictably perked up.
"Never have I known I needed something so badly till I received it." Natsu sighed happily before waved his hand around. "Go on."
"Okay. You and I are Wendy's teachers. She needs to learn some offensive magic pronto before the week is out and she goes back to her Guild." Will explained placing her arm around his shoulders. "But first, we gotta work on those senses of hers. She couldn't even hear Erza and Mira fighting through the front door!" Wendy flushed immediately when her weakness was pointed out as she looked at her feet in shame.
"Ooh then I know exactly what to do!" Natsu grinned as he lit his finger on fire. The flames casting a eerie shadow on his face as his smile turned feral again. "Let's go hunting."
Boom! Another chapter up for Free's story! While we're on the subject of this story, for those confused about the timeline, it's pretty much about a week or so after Lucy first joins Fairy Tail. See, Free noticed there was nothing written- or drawn- about how the guild alliance that combats the balam alliance came to be so he created Alastor- or inserted since he's in a few more of his stories- and have him go around gathering guilds for said alliance. More will be explained in the next chapter. Oh, and the reason why Lisanna's alive is cause...hmmm… guess he just felt like it.
Anyways, I'm out! Peace and whatnot on Earth!