"Rin! Rin!" a small, plum purple paw nudged her repeatedly as the jet black haired girl slowly peaked her dark green eyes open.
"Felix? Are you alright?" Rin breathed heavy as she sat up, blinking at her flying cat friend who was hovering above her with a worried face.
"You're asking me if I'm alright?" Felix wrapped his paws around Rin's arm in a hug. Mostly because he was too small to give her a real one.
"Oh… I'm really sorry I scared you." Rin then realized what he was talking about and picked him up, cuddling her friend close to her.
For years now, she had been having terrible nightmares about her past. They weren't very common and usually occurred a few times every two or three months, but lately they happened a lot more often. Causing Rin to panic in the night and cause Felix to become extremely worried about her. The nightmare always represented the memories of her childhood with her only known family member and friend at the time, the Shadow Dragon Skiadrum. She simply refused to tell anyone about it though, besides Felix, who was now the only one she really seemed to care for. Not like she wanted everyone in her personal business anyways. Rin had always been the quiet, loner type of mage.
Letting Felix go, she gave him a small smile that didn't fit her very well, "Don't worry, alright?"
"Right," he nodded, two white wings appeared from his back, and he continued to float in the air next to his partner, "I'm here for you though, you know." The purple feline pulled up the black leather belt and fixed the gold handkerchief he was wearing around his neck, grinning.
Truth to be told, Rin couldn't feel more than happy to have Felix to stand by her side. Sure, he wasn't exactly Skiadrum and had a tendency to be a loud mouth, but Felix seemed to care for her just as much as the dragon had.
With a muttered groan Rin stood up and brushed the grass off her short, maroon dress with a large black belt with four mini ones sprouting out from it, and with two long sleeves that connected from where the dress cut off just above her chest. Tight, black shorts that made sure she wouldn't show off any lower parts clinged to her skin a little bellow where her dress ended. Black leather boots that stopped a few inches bellow her knee with a zipper running down the front of them.
Examining herself in the river that flowed nearby she asked Felix, "Do I look alright?"
"This is a first you've ever asked me that."
"Is it a crime to want to look decent?"
"No, but I'm sure everyone in Fairy Tail will be astonished as always." Felix purred.
Speaking of Fairy Tail, she'd best head over there to check the new jobs that have been listed. Fairy Tail was the guild she joined about 7 years ago, after Skiadrum had passed and Rin met Felix. She wasn't exactly known amongst the other members considering she hardly interacted with anyone. The only thing anyone knew about her was the fact she was one of the most mysterious of them all and never showed off. At all. If anything, she was the most calm and less energetic of the members, considering Fairy Tail was a guild full of life and excitement and she was laid back and hardly spoke a word. The guild didn't suit her very well, but there was something that had always kept her from leaving and joining another, maybe it was the fact they were the top guild, or maybe it was because Master Makarov hadn't kicked her out yet even though she didn't fit in. Honestly she couldn't really understand the reasoning, but it didn't matter too much.
Pushing open the doors to the colorfully built guild slowly, you could already hear and even feel the excitement and energy coming from within. And, with luck, no one noticed her shuffle in. They were all too busy watching Natsu, Gray, and Valkyrie go hand to hand and power to power at each other. Of course they weren't fighting for real though, it was a more… friendly fight. Those were very common in Fairy Tail and happened regularly.
Making her way to the back, Rin sat down in the table farthest away from the ruckus and chaos the members were creating, taking some time to relax before going to pick out a mission to go on. Then again, how could one possibly relax in this place, everyone was always making messes and being wild.
"You should go kick their butts, especially that shadow-make chick! Your magic is so much better than that fake crap!" Felix crossed his arms beside her.
"Calm down, Felix… Her magic is different from mine." Rin sighed. Valkyrie had shadow-make magic, which was practically the same as hers, only she knew Shadow Dragon Slayer magic.
"She's a copy-cat and a wanna-be of you, Rin-chan." He stated, scrunching his face together.
"Says the one who's been getting piercing's like Gajeel." She joked about the multiple studs he had on both his ears and above his eyebrow on his left side, poking him in the belly as she said so.
"Hey! At least he's actually pretty darn cool!"
They both laughed together, ignoring anyone who turned their heads to look at them. Truth be told, it had been a while since Rin had laughed like this. She wished that this would last for a bit, but she kept it to herself.
All of a sudden things got quieter and she stopped laughing along with Felix, the fight between the three crazy mages continued to rage out though. From what Rin could tell, it seemed Juvia had tackled one of the other non-known members, Mizu Clawlust. Rin hadn't really made much contact with her so she couldn't say too much, last time they even acknowledged each other was when they fought over a quest for 500,000 jewels by having a glaring contest for about an hour until Felix came into the picture.
Rin continued to watch in silence with beaming eyes along with Felix until the Master's voice raised above all the others in his old, gruff voice, "Valkyrie, I need you to get over here, now. Mizu, Athena, Rin, and Tabitha, you come over here to." Hearing her name, Rin sighed deeply and stood up reluctantly, wondering if she had gotten in trouble again. Usually it was Felix's fault, since he stole a lot of jewels from the other member's pockets. But, she had a gut feeling it was something more important.