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Well now, time for the insanity that is Fairy Tail to ensue!
As always, I do not own Fairy Tail, however I do own the new generation that this story is about ~! =3
Akane walked awkwardly next to Lucy as she approached a group of the older members of Fairy Tail. A few members would cheer, "Hey, its the birthday girl!" as she walked passed and some would simply pat her on the back and wish her a happy birthday. Lucy walked over to a specific group. They were the loudest group there was, all where cheering and joking around with each other. A woman with blue hair was the first to see the young 'birthday girl'. She grabbed a man's arm and pulled him over to Lucy and Akane. "So, you must be Akane! Hi, I'm Levy and this is Gajeel. We're friends of your mom back from when she was part of Fairy Tail," she said smiling.
The aforementioned man looked from Levy to Akane, confused as to what was going on. "Um, what?"
Natsu popped up behind Gajeel and patted him on the back. "Good job Gajeel! Even I knew who her mom was!" he laughed.
"Yeah, because I told you!" Gray yelled at Natsu from across the room.
"What was that ice boy?" Natsu yelled as he walked away from the group to go fight with Gray.
Levy looked to Gajeel and said in a hushed tone, "She's Erza's daughter." Gajeel stared at Akane for a moment silently.
"I'm Akane," she said awkwardly waving. "Hi."
Lucy and Levy laughed at the awkwardness that formed between the two. "Lets go introduce you to everyone else," Lucy said walking Akane away from Levy and Gajeel. "Well, as you know over there is Natsu. The one with no shirt on is Gray, Alexander's dad. Oh, and over there is Alexander's mom. Juvia! Come over here! I want to introduce you to someone!" Lucy called waving a woman with short light blue hair over.
"Yes, what did you want Lucy?" Juvia asked when she walked over.
Lucy placed a free hand on Akane's shoulder. "This is Akane Scarlet," Lucy took care of the introductions.
Juvia bent down so that she was closer to eye level with Akane. "So this is Akane. Juvia heard you gave her son quite a scare by taking a job by yourself," she said.
Akane couldn't help but laugh. "Zander? Worried about me? Are we talking about the same Alexander?" she asked, not believing what Juvia told her. The blue haired mother nodded smiling. Akane looked back to the table of her friends only to find Zander covering his face in embarrassment.
"Oh no," Zander whined.
"Whats the matter Zander?" Render asked. His back was to the confrontation going on between Akane and Juvia.
"My mom is talking to Akane. She's going to tell her something private and then Akane is going to have something else over my head. I'm gonna be a dork forever, aren't I?" he asked Pix.
Pix laughed. "Why do you care what Akane thinks? You like her don't you?" Ian grilled Zander.
"Why the hell weren't you like this when Akane was here?" Zander asked annoyed.
Ian shrugged. "I'm only ten, she's thirteen, and from the stories my dad told me, I don't wanna take the chance that she's like her mom. However, I guess you're out of luck seeing as how you're already on her bad side," Ian stuck out his tongue.
"Do you have a problem with me?" Zander yelled getting up from his seat.
"What do you think, ice for brains?" Ian yelled back standing up too.
After Akane turned back to her conversation with Juvia she heard yelling coming from her table of friends. She turned around to find Zander and Ian yelling and arguing. Her eyes automatically went back to Gray and Natsu arguing and she couldn't help but laugh. "Whats so funny, Akane?" Lucy asked.
Akane pointed to Zander and Ian, then Natsu and Gray. "Does this happen often?" she asked, trying to keep her composure.
"Ian! Leave him alone! Ian!" Lyla Heart yelled from her spot next to her mother.
Lucy sighed. "Akane, would you mind taking care of the fight in your generation and I'll take care of mine?"
Akane smiled. "My pleasure."
"Don't hurt Juvia's little Alexander!" Juvia called after Akane. She was very tempted to turn around and tell her that she couldn't promise anything, but she restrained herself. Akane walked up behind Zander and pulled on his shoulder. She spun him around and sat him down on the bench then walked over to Ian and did the same. Pix suddenly felt as though she didn't belong and got up and moved to the side with the rest of her team. "What the hell are you two thinking? Is it so hard to get along?" Both boys looked down at their feet. "Just because your fathers don't get along doesn't mean that you have to be yelling at each other. Your moms get along-"
"Yeah, but they're women," Zander cut her off without thinking.
Akane shifted her weight and placed a hand on her hip. "Excuse me?" she asked.
"I-I said that they're women," Zander said timidly shrinking back into his shirt.
Akane leaned over and looked him in the eye. She put her pointer finger in his face as she said, "You listen here Alexander Fullbuster and you listen good. Gender has absolutely nothing to do with anything because incase you forgot, I was the one that saved your ass six months ago. And further more when someone says, 'excuse me' to you after you just said something in a volume where there is almost no doubt that they heard you, it means that they are giving you a chance to shut your trap and not repeat yourself. I knew you were stupid, but I didn't think you were that stupid. Now, do you have anything to respond to that with?"
Zander swallowed hard and shook his head. Akane nodded satisfied and back away from him. She turned her attention to a snickering Ian. "And you. You only get one first impression. I already know he's an idiot. We cleared that up six months ago, but a few minutes ago, I thought that maybe you were one of the only normal boys here in Fairy Tail." Then she backed up to speak to both boys at once. "I swear, if I ever catch the two of you fighting like that again you better run."
After a moment of silence Zander looked at her. "Akane," he said suddenly finding his voice. Ian, Pix, Tameron, and Render watched him wide eyed.
Akane glared at him. "What?" she asked with venom dripping from her voice.
"How come all of a sudden you're all... You're like this?" he asked. Tameron, Render, and Pix looked at each other. The three understood what he was asking. She seemed so much more mellow and relaxed before she left on her job.
"I'm like this," she said mocking his tone, "Because I just got back from a six month job to have a dork escort me to my surprise party, when I hate attention and all I wanted to do was sleep after my six month job, and then I get escorted around and introduced to all of my mom's old friends and even that can't be peaceful because you two idiots interrupted that by your stupid fighting! Did I mention I just got back from a six month job? A six. Month. Job, Zander. It was supposed to be two months! It took four more months than it should have!"
The last part came as a surprise to everyone at the table. Akane never said that her job ran four months longer than planed. Akane sighed and held her hand to her forehead. "I'm going back. I haven't finished meeting people yet," she said slightly irritated. She then walked back to Lucy, Lyla Heart, and Juvia. After she was out of earshot, the five turned to face each other. "Four extra months?" Zander said. "That can't be right. There's no way that could have happened, right?"
The other four were silent for a moment. "Well, there could have been some major problems I guess," Pix offered up.
"If there were such bad problems, wouldn't the guild have been contacted and asked to send a more powerful and experienced mage to help her out?" Render asked.
"There could have always just been complications, not problems. They could have had discrepancies on the plan of action, there could have been things that kept them from executing the plan. There are a lot of variables that go into something like that you know," Tameron added. While the group discussed what could have happened the cause a two month job to turn into a six month job Gray walked over. "Hey, Alex, I've been thinking about taking a job. Do you wanna come with me?" he asked.
The older team snickered at Gray calling him Alex. It almost seemed like Gray's pet name for him. Juvia called him Alexander which wasn't too bad because that was his real name, but everyone else called him Zander. He hated being called Alex, but didn't have the heart to tell his dad that. "Maybe, but since Akane just took a job by herself, I think I might take a solo one too. You know, I can't let a girl go around being better than me," Zander said in his usual cocky tone. Ian snorted a laugh.
"What the hell is that for?" Zander asked turning towards the blond haired boy.
"Guys," Pix interrupted, "you don't want Akane to come back, do you?" The argument was completely extinguished before it even started. Gray tried to hold in a laugh, but was unsuccessful. When his son looked at him, he explained, "Natsu and I used to fight like the two of you do but we pretended to be friends when Erza was around. Much like how you two are not fighting when Akane is around. I guess history does repeat itself."
This sparked a thought in Zander's head. "Hey Dad, did Erza ever take a job that lasted longer than it should have but she did it all by herself?"
Gray put a hand to his chin and thought for a moment. "Yeah, actually a few days after Ian's mom joined the guild, Erza came back from a job. It wasn't supposed to be that long of a job but no one was really worried. It was to take care of some sort of beast but the horn she brought back to show everyone was taller than Elfman over there," Gray said pointing to a large man with white hair.
Zander stared in amazement at the large man. "I guess history does repeat itself."
I'm so happy that I finished before the wedding! I was writing down to the wire for this one! Whew, now I gotta work on Beneath It All but I promise it will be done for Sunday! Thanks for all your support and for the INSANE amount of hits and visitors! Not only on this but on the random oneshots I post. Okay, now I have to go and do some last minute things to get ready!
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