Heyy peeps, it has only been the second week of college and I am already dying~ from revising and the thought of having to revise more since I have like 10 exams to do in May and June :( :(
Anyway, here is the next chapter. Enjoy :)
Dislaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or anything about it, except my characters and my plots.
Chapter 15
I bite my lips and shrug. Another limelight coming my way, I don't know if I will get used to this. Everyone spread out again in a circle, leaving me in the middle of the field. "Umm, what do you want me to show you?"
"Let's start with your transformation magic."
"Ok." I say and transform into a normal cat. "Uhh, you've seen this countless times." Then I say, "I just learned this half an hour ago." I transform into an Exceed, with a light turquoise body and white paws. People looked stunned. 'What, it's just another transformation.' I shrug. 'Shit, stop shrugging!'
"Ah, every detail is perfect. Good job Lia!" Mirajane congratulates me. I beam at her and spread my wings and fly around in circles. "Ah, you managed to get the wings!" See, at least someone appreciates it. 'Thank you Mira-san!' I think I'm slightly enjoying this attention.
"You don't sound surprise, Mira." Erza says.
"Not really, it's strange, but not impossible." Mirajane replies.
After that, I transform into a tiger, a white tiger, a Sabre and then a leopard. People cheer and clap at my transformations. "Mostly, I can transform into cat-like creatures." Finally, they're appreciating my transformations.
"Ok, let's see your Requip." Erza suggests. Umm, I hope I don't mess up.
I take my two Sais from the pocket dimension, including my breastplate. The Sais appear in each my hands while my breastplate settles on my chest, like I've put it on long time ago and have been wearing it since. She looked impressed. I smile sheepishly. "I am very surprised that the magic you do are all self-taught." Erza says. I shrug. 'Not really. Technically I learned from the magic school.' I think. "Do you think you can do the shield again?"
I look at her, surprised. "Umm, I can try." I close my eyes and concentrate. I have the image of the bubble again in my mind, willing it to connect to my magic - I open my eyes and nothing happen. They all looked disappointed, I am disappointed too - I can feel my cat ears droop down. "Hmm..." Natsu was scratching his hair, then chin and suddenly snaps his fingers and give me a menacing look.'Umm, he's planning something isn't he?'
"What the hell?" I say as he takes a charge at me. At first, I back away slowly; one step after another and it looks like he's not going to stop so I turn around and made a run for it. "Arghhhh why is he chasing me?" I scream. 'Help, anyone?'
People seem to enjoy the event even though they are a little confused. 'Stupid people!' I scream in my head. I run towards Lucy and hide behind her but Natsu still comes charging. Lucy and I both scream; she jumps sideways while I duck. 'Nope, she ain't helping.' Natsu's running too fast that he didn't have time to jump over me so he trips over my body and fall rolling forwards. He regains his footing by using his feet to cause friction. "STOP RUNNING YOU IDIOT!" He yells at me and comes charging at me again. 'Well, sorry for having the instinct to run away when you charge at me out of the blue, for no reason!' I scream in my head. This time, I stay rooted on the spot, my eyes wide as I see his fist coming close to my face. I have a split second to dodge his fist and I hear everyone give out huge sighs. Well, it is not over. He continues to aim punches at me while I dodge every single one of them. Finally he says, "Aww this is not working. I will have to try something more hardcore." I look at Lucy, who looks at Erza and Erza is nodding like she agrees to what Natsu says, I look at Gray for help when he yells at me, "Watch out!" I am flung backwards and hit the ground. It happened so fast, I don't even know what happened. For a moment there, I lost the sense of which way is up or down. Then comes the pain in my stomach and back. The field is quiet. I struggle to sit up and see everyone staring at me. What have I got myself into? This guild is crazy man.
"Oops, did I overdo it?" Natsu says in such an innocent voice, that I feel anger bubbling up from my stomach to my throat. I get up and the anger flows out of my mouth.
"Oops? Oops? That's what you said? You should be saying sorry you idiot! You overdid everything. Why the hell were you chasing me, you moron?" I scream at him, and with each insult, I stomp towards him. "And then you just decided to punch a newcomer with your crazy fire power, what is it? Did you want to show off? I'm sorry you were not the center of attention. Lucy was! You bloody ass, what were you thinking? You could have hurt me real bad!" By now, I am face to face with him and for a second there he looks scared but I don't care. I punch him in the face. I hear everyone gasp, out of surprised or fear or both I don't care anymore. This guy is crazy, with idiots as guild members that just stands and watch instead of helping.
"Is it a fight that you want? I'll give you a fight." I challenge him.
I try to punch him again but he blocks me with his arm. Then he kicks me and I am flung backwards once again, but this time I am prepared. I push off the ground, roll and lands on all fours lightly. 'Damn, he's fast, but I am half-cat!' He runs at me with flaming hands and I dodge, duck and swing my legs at him. He jump and I transform into a leopard and run to the other side. I transform back to human and see flames flying directly at me. Shit, that was a mistake. I see that I have no time to dodge or duck, 'I will just have to take the blow... No way! I can feel the hotness even though it's only 7 feet away, oh crap, it's coming!' I close my eyes and imagine the bubble around me, praying that it will protect me from this crazy bastard.
Everything went silent, and I think, 'Oh my god, am I dead already? I can't be dead yet. I didn't join a guild and I'm still single and I want beautiful babies when I get married. I cannot die now!' So I open my eyes to see everyone staring at me.
"See I knew that would work! And no, you're not dead." Natsu exclaims and the guild members start clapping. 'Eh? What happened?' Then I notice the shimmer in front of me and my eyes goes wide. "Nooooo!" I exclaims in disbelief. "I did it? I did it!" Everyone cheers. "Wait, Natsu! Try hitting me to make sure it's for real." I say to Natsu. The anger, forgotten.
He shrugs and punches me with his fist on fire. However, as his fist come closer to at least 30cm, his fire burns out and his fist automatically move sideways, away from my face. "Woah!" We both exclaims. "It's genuine alright." Natsu says. I feel tears at the corners of my eyes, happy at the thought of conjuring the bubble again. I just need to practice making it appear again and again.
Ah, I feel it again, my energy being drained from my body. Slowly, the shimmer in front of me disappears and I fall on my knees to the ground. "Oh boy, that takes a lot of magic..." To my surprise, Natsu extends his hand towards me and say, "You fought well and I think your magic is awesome." I smile at him. He's not so crazy after all.
I quickly tackle him down and strangle him. "This is for suddenly attacking me like that!" I yell at him while everyone else burst out laughing.
"Come on, let's get back to the guild so you can rest." Erza adds.
"Yes, you're like one of us now" says Lucy while Gray nods.
I get off of Natsu and again, tears come at the corners of my eyes. This time it doesn't stop. Salty tears cover my face while Natsu stares at me, dumbfounded. Everyone else stand at the back, shocked.
"Argh, I'm sorry. Did I make you cry? No no no please don't cry!" Natsu tries to comfort me and then turns to the rest and yells, "Help me you bastards!" Everyone come rushing forward. Wendy hands me a tissue while Lucy and Erza pat me on the head and shoulders.
"Oh dear, Lia darling, don't cry now. We'd rather see you smiling." Mira says as she hugs me.
"I am happy. This is why I'm crying. You guys are very nice. I've never heard anyone say that to me before." I hear a thousand sighs and looks up to see relief on everyone's face. "I'm sorry crying like this, not a very good first impression." I wipe my face on my t-shirt and stands up.
"Juvia's second rival..." I hear Juvia whispers. I look around to find Juvia. She's standing at the very back behind Lisanna, emitting a dark aura, which again I look around no one seems to notice what she said. 'Is it just me that can hear this? Am I going crazy? Seriously woman, what the hell did I do?' I look at Natsu, Wendy and Gajeel and notice them sweat-dropped. Wendy has an apologetic expression on. Gajeel has an annoyed expression on while Natsu has blunt expression.
They lead me back to the guild where I sit down at the bar with Lucy and Wendy.
"Well, what now?" Lucy asks.
"Uhh, what?" I ask in confusion.
"Are you going to join our guild Lia-chan?" Wendy asks.
Charle comes over with Lily and Happy and says, "There are also other guilds you can join."
Happy pipes in, "Yeah, like Lyon, Gray's rival is in Lamia Scale. Milliana, Erza's friend is in Mermaid's Heel and Hibiki, Lucy's ex-boyfriend is in Blue Pegasus."
"He's not my ex-boyfriend." Lucy rolls her eyes and pinches Happy's cheek. "He was never my boyfriend."
"Ohh, I've heard of those guilds. However, the guild that I really, really want to join is Fairy Tail." I explain. Lucy and Wendy squeal and call Mirajane over.
Mirajane asks what color I would like for my guild mark to be and I say white color. She also asks me where I would like it to be stamped on. "Where will it appear if I am in Exceed's or cat form?" I ask. She says it will always appear on the back. I nod and say I would like it stamped on my left shoulder blade. I use requip so that my t-shirt changes into a bikini top. Mirajane stamp it on my left shoulder. It feels like cool air brushes my skin. 'Oh my, I have a Fairy Tail insignia!' I'm jumping up and down with Lucy. The guild is getting noisy for some reason.
"I know how you're feeling right now! I was really excited too when I got mine!" We both squeal and suddenly, Lucy is knocked down by Gray. She's lying on the floor face down with Gray sprawled on top of her looking up. I look at them shocked, what just happened?
"You bastard! I'll get you back!" Gray stands up and yells, like nothing happened.
Mirajane smiles at him and says, "Gray, your clothes." He looks down at himself and shrieks. I stand there with my mouth hanging open. I watch Gray lift his foot to run but fall flat on his face. 'Doesn't he realize he's walking around in boxers?'
"How dare you knock me down like that!" Lucy screams at him and kicks him. He flew away to the middle of the guild, and I watch him fall into a massive crowd of loud havoc in the middle of the guild. I stand there, dumbstruck. The whole guild is fighting one another - I can't tell who's fighting who because they just end up punching anyone that gets in the way. The only people that was not participating in the fight was Mirajane, who is still tending the bar and a girl who's drinking a barrel of beer, and the Exceeds, again my mouth hangs open. Wendy and Lucy are sitting with me at the bar. I'm busy staring at the girl drinking the whole barrel that I didn't see the flying figure of Romeo. I was thrown 5 feet away with Romeo another 3 feet away from me. I think it would be better if I lie down, would be safer than getting knocked down again.
Something heavy falls on me. Ouch. My theory's wrong. It's not safe either way. I roll sideways, letting the thing that is on top of me fall down. The thing turned out to be Jet. "What's happening?" I ask him.
"Oh it's just another regular guild fight." He gets up and jumps into the fighting crowd. I think I will sit this one out; I'm still new so I should start building my reputation. I transform into a cat and climb the wooden bridge and lay there. I stare at the girl again, 'seriously man! The whole barrel!' It didn't take long for the fight to end because Master Makarov came. I bolt upright and rub my eyes. This one is a giant and his arms could stretch as far as he wants. Wasn't he meant to be small? I watch the giant stretch his right arm to just above where the fighting takes place and the humungous fist drop. I feel my jaw drops. The commotion stops as everyone is struck by the huge fist.
"Stop this fight. You brats are so noisy." He says. Wow, the master looks really strong. He's a giant. His arm returns to his side and he looks at Mirajane, "I heard we have a new member?" I gulp. The giant is about to talk to me. It's kinda scary.
She confirms and points at me. Makarov looks at me and blinks. I gulp again.
I try to be brave and say I am a new member of the guild in which he replies, "A cat?" Yes, yes I am a cat.
I nod and jump down onto the bar, then to the floor to meet him and watch him shrink in size. He shrank to a normal size man, but he didn't stop there. He didn't stop shrinking till he's at least 5cm taller than the Exceeds. My jaw drops again. "Hey, you're that cat the Mira always feed." Damn, he's small. Tiny!
I nod and think, 'Hmm, I actually like playing with people's mind and trick them.' Oh that sounds bad though. I shrug. Well I shouldn't be playing around with master so I transform into my normal self. "Hello, my name is Lia Katmist."
He doesn't seem to be surprised and instead say, "Ahh, welcome to the guild. I hope everyone treated you well?"
I nod and thank him for letting me join. Umm, on the second thought, Natsu… Nevermind, I will play nice this time. Master says he always welcome new members as having new members make the guild livelier. Too lively, I think. Then he asks me if I have a place to stay. I become quiet and stare at him. "She can stay with me." A female voice says. I turn to see who it was. Lucy smiles at me. Tears come to the corner of my eyes. She's so kind.
"You might get annoyed with her. You can also stay at Fairy Hills if you like." Master offers. 'She's annoying?'
"I'm not annoying!" Lucy screams and everyone laugh.
"Umm, I- I don't have any money." I stammer.
"Well that's why you go on jobs to earn jewels to pay the rent." Erza explains. I know that woman, but how am I supposed to pay the first month. It's easy for you to say because you already have savings, probably.
"Like Lucy, she is always broke." Happy comments, making Natsu and Gray smirk. Happy receives another pinch on the cheeks. We all laugh. So, it's been decided.
Next chapter next week. Hopefully if I have the time. I wrote some chapters in advance though but will post every week :)
Ugh, no when is the Walking Dead season 5 gonna come out?
Okay, back to revision~ :( byee...
