Tara;
The sunlight streamed through the window, lighting up the entire room with ease, and turning her seemingly black hair slightly brown. She moaned quietly at the blinding sun that had woken her up and slowly turned over, looking at the clock on the bed stand through barely open eyelids. Her eyes shot open and she grabbed the paw of a nearby cat in her left hand and yelled, "Crap! TARA! We're late for work!"
Ok, in all honestly, in her 'work' there wasn't a certain time she had to be there. But she had promised herself she would get there before eight today. And she had failed. Again.
The cat she was dragging along as she bolted to a mirror and quickly tried to comb her hair so she wouldn't look like she had a nest on her head at the guild today simply opened one eye, saw her, and closed it again. "But I want to sleep," she protested quietly.
"You slept all night! Now come on," the girl rapidly changed into a red skirt with an orange and yellow band around the top, and a red shirt that was cut slanted at the bottom, so some skin showed. Then she ran over to the window, threw it open, and jumped before checking to make sure her winged friend was ready.
"Tara!" she gasped, "A little help!"
Tara opened her eyes and looked around in alarm. Realizing what was happening, she grabbed the girl and wings appeared on either side of the orange cat, and they headed for the large guild that was easily visible flying over Magnolia.
"Honestly Athena, would you stop to think before you jump out of the window next time?"
"Yes. I'm sorry!"
"That's what you say every time!" Tara complained, but she was smiling, although Athena couldn't see that. She was busy anticipating another day at her wonderful guild.
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Tara quickly got them over to the door of the large guild. She dropped Athena a few feet above the ground and landed next to her as she pushed open the door.
Athena immediately noticed the fight. Who wouldn't? And of course Natsu and Gray were involved. They were hardly ever not fighting. Oh, but this was different. Valkyrie was in there! Athena quickly darted out of the way of some flying furniture and sat down in a currently safe area. She watched the fight in amusement. They were definitely not fighting for real. The moves were too sloppy and predictable. If they did that in a real battle, they'd get killed. Of course, that was typical for fights in Fairy Tail. They weren't real fights, and that was the point.
Even so, Natsu was generating a lot of fire, and that made Athena hungry. She would go up and eat his fire, but he was in the middle of fighting. How rude would it be to go eat someone's fire in the middle of a fight without permission! Not to mention kind of awkward.
So she just sat and watched, with Tara stood next to her, glued to the fight, getting way too into it. Athena passed a little fireball from hand to hand, dangerously close to the wooden table. Then a thud came from the other side of the room, where Juvia had apparently attacked Mizu. Athena considered either chucking the fireball then blaming it on Natsu (not hard to do) or joining the fight just for fun. But just as she started to stand up, she heard the Master's voice she knew so well call out, "Valkyrie, I need you to get over here, now. Mizu, Athena, Rin, and Tabitha, you come over here to."
Sighing, Athena extinguished the fireball. Then she looked at Tara and said, "Well, let's go. This better be interesting."