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Chapter 4
Nothing happened. Nothing! "Holy shit!" I covered my mouth, that was the first time I cursed! Damn, my hard work stealing those damned swords – gone! Ugh, this was incredibly annoying. I face-palmed like a thousand times, then decided that was not enough punishment, so I hit my head on the wall of the shed – 'Stupid, stupid, stupid, you stupid shit, stupid' I told myself, again and again. I slumped against the wall and passed out; the magic drained all of my energy.
I woke up, my eyes rested on my armour. Surely, it was a dream; I didn't go to the weapon shop yet. I was afraid to confirm, but I said 'Oh just get it over with'. So, I glanced down at my belt – a pair of Sais of each side of my waist hooked on the belt. This meant that I had gone to the weapon shop, I got all excited and not to mention, stupidly excited and made a stupid decision to experiment and the stupid damned swords are gone. Brilliant – Lightning struck me again. I went back to hitting my head on the wall.
This was not helping. I drank some more milk and ate a banana for breakfast. I needed to do something before I start punishing myself again for my stupidity and curiosity. I ventured out into the sunshine and came across a humongous tree. Oh, I was fascinated by it and without giving much thought; I reached for a branch and started to climb. Up and up I went, carefully feeling each branch with my feet, whether it would hold my weight. I was almost there, my eagerness to reach the top made me forget the branches were thinner; the branch snapped under my feet and I kicked wildly trying to find another branch to hold my feet. I hung there, relying on my thin arms, trusting them to hold a bit longer; I looked down and gulped, oh that's high all right. I can't give up now; if I fall I would surely break every bone in my body. My arms were getting tired, I looked frantically left to right, looking for another branch – one lonely branch to the right, it looked thick enough to support my weight and so I tried to swing sideways. Come on, just a little bit more, my right foot almost touching the branch. I swung again and finally my foot rested on the branch and quickly I grabbed the thin branch at the top and clung to it for dear life, my body falling backwards while my foot still on the branch helped my feet from slipping.
Looking at someone else's perspective, it would have looked like I was stretching to test my flexibility. The thin branch stretched from the body of the tree and I continued to fall backwards; I was afraid the branch would slip from my hands or worse, snap! "Please, please, don't snap on me!" I muttered. It felt like slow-motion and yet it happened so fast. Finally, I strained my muscles and pulled myself up using the branch, slowly but surely I managed without tearing the branch apart. I bent my knees, until I felt that I was able to let go and fell onto the thick branch. There, I hugged the tree tightly with my arms and legs and gasped for air, my muscles burning. I waited until my heart went from crazy drumming to a slower paced, only then I sat up and carefully crawled to the body of the tree so that I could rest my back against it.
The view was amazing! I could see the whole marketplace and the library and the forest stretching miles away. That was so cool! It felt like I was on top of the world. I inhaled sharply, totally mesmerised by the view. I scanned the rest of the view and my eyes rested on a particular building: Fairy Tail. My jaw dropped, I swear it dropped all the way to the ground. Fairy Tail was right here in this town!
Oh my friggin god. I can't believe it! I scrambled down the tree as fast as I could, and felt my foot slipped. I grabbed a thin tree branch as I fell off the tree and thought of nothing as the moment I was about to die dawned on me. My back hit the ground, knocking the breath out of my body. "Ouch!" My back stung from the fall, oh god, my bones are broken and it's painful and there's no one here to help me. Then, the pain was gone. 'Strange, maybe I bled to death?' I lay there, puzzled at why am I able to think and I was still able to see the great big tree in front of me. Without thinking, I sat up. I looked around me, there was no blood at all and so I looked up at the tree and saw the branch hanging there, half-broken, supported only by a few pieces of wood left still connected to the rest of the branch. Oh, thank god that was only a few steps that I fell off. I started laughing to myself, feeling silly. Remembering why I was rushing, I scrambled up and turn into a cat and dashed off towards the town.
I ran to where I thought the building was, and stumbled upon the same pink-haired guy called Natsu, the strange cat Happy and the blondie whose name still unknown to me. I didn't know why but I scurried off to a hiding place and watched the three walked past me. I noticed something that I haven't before – Happy bears the same insignia as Fairy Tail on his back, and as the blonde raised her arm waving at a blue-haired girl and a red-haired woman, I saw a pink Fairy Tail insignia on the back of her right hand. Natsu also bores a red-coloured insignia on his right shoulder.
"Hey guys, sorry we're late!" the blondie called to the two newcomers.
"Hello Lucy-san, Natsu-san, Happy" greeted the blue-haired girl.
"Hi Wendy, Erza!" called the three of them.
"We were looking all over for you Lucy, Natsu, Happy!" The red-haired woman scolded them. Oh so the blonde is called Lucy. Natsu and Happy hid behind Lucy. Apparently, these two guys looked like they were scared of the red-hair. 'Holy Lord! That's Lucy Heartfilia! From the book! From Fairy Tail!'
"Oh Erza, it was Natsu's and Happy's fault. They keep being distracted by food." Lucy complained. Erza gave a death glare at Natsu and Happy. I shuddered. She was a scary lady called Erza. 'She's Erza Scarlet! The mage that can do awesome Requip!' Oh my, I was feeling light-headed.
"Don't go about on your own when we have important meeting to go to!" Erza scolded them again.
"Aye!" Lucy, Natsu and Happy said simultaneously. They were an odd bunch. Erza had a blue Fairy Tail guild mark on her left arm while Wendy has a light-blue mark on her right shoulder. 'All of these mages belongs to Fairy Tail!' I resolved to get stronger and join the guild.
"Come on now, we have to get back to the guild." Erza said and the rest followed her.
I padded along behind them until we arrived at a great big building with a banner of Fairy Tail symbol. They went in and I silently followed them. The interior of the guild looks like a bar to me, with rows of tables and yes, a bar with a long white-haired woman tending to it and boards at the back with posters stuck to them. I jumped on a table and climbed onto a wooden bridge that supports the roof and watched the people assembling together.
An extremely short old man, bald in the middle with white hair on the sides cleared his throat. "Grandpa!" said Natsu.
I jumped down from the wooden bridge and landed on all four feet, unscathed. I padded to the bar, jumped on the stool and climbed onto the counter.
"Oh, what a cute cat! Where did you come from?" The long white-haired lady tending the bar patted me. I purred. "Do you want some food? I'll bring you some food." She went away through a door and brought back a bowl of rice with pieces of chicken. 'Yay, free food! I'm so lucky!' I started eating the rice.
"Hey Mira! I didn't know you have a cat." Lucy said. I watched her approach the counter while I ate.
"No, it's not my cat. It just came out of nowhere. I think it was hungry so I gave her some food." Mira replied.
"Mirajane, make sure you clean up its mess!" The old man said.
Everyone started crowding around the counter, asking Mira questions and patting me. I purred and meowed. A black haired guy with droopy eyes, wearing no clothes scratched my chin, ahhh that felt so good. I purred and meowed again, more, more!
"Yes master! Although it's not my cat!" she answered. Then she turned to the black haired guy with droopy eyes and smiled, "Gray, your clothes." He looked down and seemed to be surprised that he was not wearing any clothes. That was strange how a person was not aware whether he or she was wearing clothes or not.
Master cleared his throat again, and said "Everyone, leave the poor cat alone. She would be traumatised by you guys otherwise. Anyway…" Everyone turned their attention to him. I finished my food and Happy came and sat next to me, munching on a fish he took out of his backpack. I stared at him, then at the fish, then at him again. Ok, fine he's too busy eating to notice me. I turned back my attention at the crowd. 'Don't be greedy Lia, you already got some free food. Be grateful to that.' Yes, yes, I nodded to myself.
It was getting late, so I went back to the shed and decided to do some self-training. I transformed and started by doing 30 sit-ups, shaping my abs and rested. Then, I tried to do some push-ups but to no avail, my arms were too weak. I kept falling on my face. After that failed attempt, I went up to the tree and aimed a kick and then a punch at it. The punches hurt my hands, making them red and scraped by the wood. I resolved to only kicking until I find a solution to prevent from hurting my hands again. By nightfall, I was exhausted and went to sleep.
I woke up and did another 30 sit-ups, again tried to do push-ups but failed. I turned into a cat and made my way to the guild and climbed on the counter.
"Oh the cat's back!" Mira said. "Hello, here's some food for you." I ate and drank the milk she gave me, ah that was delicious. Again, the guild members crowded around me and patted me. Lucy came over with a weird looking creature with a sharp cone-liked nose in her arms. I meowed at it and it made some noise that sounded like "Pun Pun!" and strangely, I understood it. It said its name was Plue and he is a dog. I meowed at it again, saying 'you don't look like a dog' and he said 'he is a celestial spirit the Canis Minor.' Oh, a celestial spirit in the flesh right in front of me!
"Hi Mira! Oh the same cat. Hello!" She patted me on the head. I purred. Then, I went out to the market and browsed around. I went to the accessories shop and found gloves! I got excited and stole them, also some wristbands. I ran away with them clutched in my mouth and went back to the shed. I admired my stolen goods: the gloves were thick but fingerless in black colour, and the wristbands were red in colour. I slid the wristbands up to my elbow. They were wide enough to cover my whole elbow and put on my gloves. I went back to punching and kicking the tree branch, and the air and after that, I climbed the tree again to look at the view.
More than a year went by with me doing the same routine: sit-ups in the morning, occasionally getting some food at the guild, practised combat with the tree, trained transforming back and forth into a cat. I gave up on trying to do push-ups. By now, I could transform back and forth quickly without much effort and improved my aim with the tree. I returned the book back to the library, the library stamp had been stinging me the whole time. The old lady almost got a heart attack because I returned the book a year late. Then I went to wash my face at the fountain. Someone cleared his throat and I looked up. Oh oh, I smell trouble. There were 5 boys around my age surrounded me and the boy that cleared his throat seemed to be the leader of the group. "Look, a homeless kitty-cat." He gestured at me and the rest of the boys laughed. I frowned. He has jet black hair with slight tan and big blue eyes. I narrowed my eyes at him; I could see that he's the type to appear innocent, but causes trouble.
That's it for now :) More exciting event coming up soon!
