Hi guys, half-term is gone :( but had an awesome birthday!

Sorry didn't update the story as I was away for the week and did not have access to my beloved laptop...

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Chapter 20

"I'm all fired up!" Natsu says. Oh, here we go. He charges at the dragon with flaming hands. Natsu is fast, but the dragon dodges and flies into the air. "Heyy, not fair, get back to the ground!" Natsu yells.

"Sorry, my bad." The dragon apologizes and lands on the grass. 'Roar of the fire dragon!' Natsu yells and blows out hot flames directly at the dragon. The dragon dodges again and blows its own flames at Natsu. 'Ah damn, fire with Natsu won't work.' Of course, the flames disappear slowly as Natsu eats all the fire and wipe his mouth saying that 'it was delicious.' 'Aw man.'

"Ahh, a fire dragon slayer. Very nice." The dragon compliments and Natsu gives him a thumbs up. The dragon turns to me and say, "I should go back and tell everyone the good news and you're getting tired. Goodbye all." That is true; it takes a lot of effort to open the bloody gate. Ridus goes back to the Celestial Spirit World.

"Whaaattt! We're just getting started!" Natsu complains. "Come back you bastard!" 'Hey, hey, don't call my new gold key a bastard. He's awesome!'

I feel like when Juvia and I defeated Vidaldus - extreme fatigue, but proud, and I collapse to the ground. The guild members run towards me and I just lay there staring up at the sky. 'I have the legendary 14th key in my possession. I have a contract with Ridus. I have a total of 11 gold keys. This is just amazing!' A thousand thoughts running through my mind, of how excited I am, and also afraid and I feel my self-confidence going up and down. 'What if bad guys finds out I have this key, will they come after me? Oh what do I have to fear? I have powerful spirits to fight alongside me, and the guild and my friends. What if my magic doesn't improve and I can't use this key at all? I would be a laughing stock amongst other celestial spirit mages. No, out with it negative thoughts! I can and I will improve my magic! Proof is that I can successfully perform Urano Metria now, with a lot of training.' "Oh boy, I need to improve my magic if I ever want to use that key to fight." I say out loud. They laugh and Gray and Natsu helps me up.

Erza then says "Lia, will you show us your magic?" 'Ah, about time Erza. I think we all are curious about her magic abilities.'

Lia shrugs and we spread out again in a circle, leaving her in the middle this time. "Umm, what do you want me to show you?"

"Let's start with your transformation magic."

"Ok." She says and transforms into a normal cat. "Uhh, you've seen this countless times." Then she says, "I just learned this half an hour ago." She transforms into an Exceed, with a light turquoise body with white paws. 'Wow! That's possible?! And she said she learned it half an hour ago? That means just before I used Ridus.' I look at Mira, watching her reaction.

"Ah, every detail is perfect. Good job Lia!" Mirajane congratulates her. She beams and spread wings like Happy's, and fly around in circles. "Ah, you managed to get the wings!"

"You don't sound surprise, Mira." Erza observes.

"Not really, it's strange, but not impossible." Mirajane replies. 'That is strange. I cannot believe this. Lia's magic is amazing and she learns fast.'

After that, she transforms into a tiger, white tiger, a Sabre, and then a leopard. We cheer and clap at her transformations. "Mostly, I can transform into cat-like creatures." 'Wait. There are more cat-like creatures like a lynx and cheetah. Does that mean she can transform into those too?'

"Ok, let's see your requip." Erza suggests. I wonder if her requip is like Erza's.

Two long fork-like weapons appears in each of her hands while a breastplate covers her chest. I watch Erza's reaction and she looked impressed. Well, she should be. I certainly find Lia's magic impressive. "I am very surprised that the magic you do are all self-taught." Erza compliments Lia. She shrugs. "Do you think you can do the shield again?" 'Ahh, the beautiful bubble!'

"Umm, I can try." She closes her eyes and concentrates. A light yellow magic circle beginning to appear on top of her head but then disappears. Lia opens her eyes and look disappointed - her cat ears droop down. "Hmm…" Natsu rakes his hair, then scratch his chin and suddenly snaps his fingers.

"Oh-oh. Natsu is planning something…" I whisper to myself.

"What the hell?" She cries out as he charges at her. At first, she backs away slowly, one step at a time and frankly, I think she should run because I don't think he's going to stop. Ahh good, she turns around and made a run for it. "Arghhhh why is he chasing me?" She screams.

Ahh I see what's he's trying to do. Hey, that's really smart! Getting her scared might trigger her magic to do the bubble shield again! 'Natsu, I salute you for this one.' For the first time, his idea is brilliant. Ok, not the first but you know what I mean.

Lia run towards me and hid behind me but Natsu still came charging. 'Oh-oh'. Lia and I both scream; I jump out of the way. I see Natsu trips over Lia and fall rolling forwards. He regains his footing by using his feet to cause friction. "STOP RUNNING YOU IDIOT!" He yells at her and charges again. 'Um, I don't think by screaming for her to stop running away is going to help. Damn, Lia looks really pissed.' This time, she stays rooted on the spot, my eyes wide as I see he is going punch her straight in the face. She dodges his fist and I give out a huge sigh. I think everyone was holding their breath at that moment. Natsu continues to punch while she dodges all of them. 'God, she's fast.' Finally he says, "Aww this is not working. I will have to try something more hardcore." Lia looks at me, and I looked at Erza and she nods, agreeing to what Natsu said, then Gray yells "Watch out!" I cover my face with my hands but I see between my fingers, Lia is flung backwards and hit the ground. It happened so fast. Everyone was quiet. 'Oh my god, Natsu, what have you done?'

"Oops, did I overdo it?" Natsu asks. Oh no Natsu, shouldn't have said. Oh my god, Lia looked like she's going to kill him. 'Hah! Look at his face! He scared!'

I look back at Lia and gulp. 'Ok, I am scared too…' "Th-That glare almost matches Erza's death glare." I whispered, goosebumps appear on my arms. Gajeel and Gray, who are standing next to me shiver.

Gajeel noticed me smirking at him and he whisper-stammers at me, "I-I'm not scared!" I scoff at him and turn my attention on Lia.

"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?" She screams at him, and stomps 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!" 'I- I wouldn't say he was showing off, she just completely missed the point, but if she knew it wouldn't work, would it?' "You bloody ass, what were you thinking? You could have hurt me real bad!" By now, she is face to face with him. Oh yeah, there she goes. Natsu looks scared and then she punches him in the face. I gasp, everyone gasp so loud that it blends together.

"Is it a fight that you want? I'll give you a fight." Wow, she can be scary.

She is going to punch him again but he blocks it with his arm. Then he kicks her and she's flung backwards again, but this time she didn't lose her footing. I sigh in relief. She pushes off the ground, rolls and lands on all fours like a cat. Well she is a cat. A half-cat. He throws a punch with flaming hands and she dodges, ducks and swing her legs at him. He jumps and Lia transforms into a leopard and runs to the other side. Damn, they're both so fast, almost evenly matched. She transforms back to human form. Oh no, shouldn't have done that, leaving her open for him to attack. Oh no Natsu's going in for the last punch; there was no way she can avoid that. We hold our breath again.

A magic circle appears on the top of her head and something that shimmers appears and forms around Lia. Now that I look at it properly, Natsu was right. It looks like a bubble with rainbow colors when light reflects off it. Natsu's fist closed in to the bubble but then the fire that covers his arm burns out and his fist goes slightly off way to the left like someone pushed him from behind.

"See I knew that would work!" Natsu cheers and we clap. 'This is amazing! It worked!'

"Nooooo!" She exclaims in disbelief. "I did it? I did it!" We cheer. "Wait, Natsu! Try hitting me to make sure it's for real." She says to Natsu. Clearly she doesn't believe it.

He shrugs and punches her with his fist on fire. Again, his fire burns out and his fist automatically moves sideways, away from her face. "Woah!" They both exclaim. "It's genuine alright." Natsu confirms.

Slowly, the bubble disappears and she falls on her knees to the ground. "Oh boy, that takes a lot of magic..." Natsu extends his hand to Lia and seems to say something but I couldn't hear it because everyone is clapping and cheering.

"Come on, let's get back to the guild so you can rest." Erza adds.

"Yes, you're like one of us now" I say while Gray nods.

At that point, Lia starts to cry, I stand there with everyone else, shocked.

"Argh, I'm sorry. Did I make you cry? No no please don't cry!" Natsu tries to comfort her and then turns to us and yells, "Help me you bastards!" We run towards them, Wendy hands her a tissue while Erza and I attempt to comfort by patting her.

"Oh dear, Lia darling, don't cry now. We'd rather see you smiling and happy." Mira says while she hugs Lia. Ahh, Mira to the rescue, always there when we need her most.

"I am happy. This is why I'm crying. You guys are very nice. I've never heard anyone said that to me before." I hear a thousand of sighs and look up to see relief on everyone's face. "I'm sorry crying like this, not a very good first impression." She wipes her face on her t-shirt and stands up. We walk back to the guild where I sit down at the bar with Lia and Wendy.

"Well, what now?" I ask Lia. I want to know if she wants to join a guild.

"What?" She looks at me.

"Are you going to join our guild Lia-chan?" Wendy asks.

Charle comes over with Lily and Happy tagging along behind, and informs her, "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 boyfriend." I roll my eyes and pinch Happy's cheek. This cat, I don't know what to say anymore. "He was never my boyfriend." I add.

"Ohh, I've heard of those guilds. However, the guild that I really really want to join is Fairy Tail." Lia says timidly. Wendy and I squeal and call Mirajane over. Ahh now I'm getting excited.

Lia chose white color for her insignia on her left shoulder blade. "Where will it appear if I am in Exceed's or cat form?" She asks Mirajane in which she replies it will always appear on the back. She nods and said she would like it stamped on left shoulder blade. I'm jumping up and down with Lia from excitement, as I remember how it was when I first got my stamp.

"I know how you're feeling right now! I was really excited too when I got mine!" We both squeal. It looks similar to Levy's guild mark except hers has a black outline to it. Suddenly, I am knocked down by Gray. I am on the floor face down with him sprawls on top of me. 'Ugh, what the hell happened? Oh no, don't tell me there's another guild fight.'

"You bastard! I'll get you back!" Gray stands up and yells. 'Uh, excuse me, how about apologizing to me first?'

I hear Mirajane tell him, "Gray, your clothes." I hear him shriek, probably because he realizes he's walking about in boxers. Hmm, about time... I don't care, my apology comes first so I grab his foot before he's able to run away and he falls flat on his face.

"How dare you knock me down like that!" I scream at him and give him a Lucy-kick. He flew away to the middle of the guild. The whole guild are fighting one another - to the point that I can't tell who's fighting who because they just ends up punching anyone that gets in the way. I sigh; Fairy Tail's way to welcome a newcomer.

Lia is busy staring at Cana, who is drinking a barrel of beer that she didn't see Romeo is going to crash into her. "Watch out-!" Ahh too late, she's thrown 5 feet away with Romeo falling somewhere a bit further. 'Oh no, Jet!' I sigh as he falls on top of Lia, and then she rolls sideways, letting him fall down.

Lia transforms into a cat and climbs the wooden bridge and lay there. 'Yes Lia, stay out of it. Argh! Something hit my face. Or someone. Oh Happy...' "Happy! How dare you!" I pinch both of his cheeks. Oh now I wish I can transform into a cat and stay out of this troublesome fight. It didn't take long for the fight to end because Master Makarov appears. He is in a form of a giant and his right arm stretches to just above where the fighting takes place and the large fist drops. The commotion stops as everyone are struck by the huge fist. My jaw drops. This guild never fails to surprise me.

"Stop this fight. You brats are so noisy." He bellows. 'Ahh for once he didn't encourage them to fight.' His arm returns to his side and he looks at Mirajane, "I heard we have a new member?" She confirms and points at Lia.

Lia says she's the new member and he replies, "A cat?" I face-palm. That's a stupid question, like he forgot we have Happy, Charle and Lily as well. Like I said before, this guild never fails to surprise me.

She jumps down onto the bar, then to the floor to meet him and Master shrink to his normal size. "Hey, you're that cat the Mira always feed." I watch Lia's jaw drop. I smirk, my exact reaction when I first saw him.

She shrugs and then transforms into her normal self. "Hello, my name is Lia Katmist."

Master says, "Ahh, welcome to the guild. I hope everyone treated you well?" 'Uhh I would say more than well. She was attacked by Natsu, and knocked down twice on her first day joining the guild' I think to myself.

She nods, probably out of politeness and thanks him for letting her join. He says he always welcome new members, having new members make the guild livelier. 'That is true, and noisy, and not to mention more guild fights, which is annoying because I will end up getting knocked down too.' Then he asks if she has a place to stay. 'Ahh, that reminds me. Why didn't I think of this before? She did mention she was homeless.' "She can stay with me." I volunteer and smile at Lia.

"You might get annoyed with her. You can also stay at Fairy Hills if you like." Master offers. My jaw drops at his comment.

"I'm not annoying!" I yell at him and everyone laugh. Master is the same as everyone else. I roll my eyes.

"Umm, I- I don't have any money." She stammers.

"Well that's why you go on jobs to earn jewels to pay the rent." Erza explains.

"Like Lucy, she is always broke." Happy comments making Natsu and Gray smirk. Happy receives another pinch on the cheeks from me. They all laugh.


So that's it for this chapter. I will take my time updating the stories from now on.

I don't want to rush the story okay :D