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Chapter 8: Change for the Better

Erza was waking up in her bed. Her hair was messy and she was in her pink pajamas. She walked though the hallway into the bathroom to see Kana and Evergreen. They were putting on make up. They saw Erza walk in and giggled, "What's so funny?" Erza asked.

"Oh nothing, (giggle)" Kana laughed.

"Roku! Roku! Hahaha" Evergreen said it in a playful voice. "Roku isn't the only one that talks in his sleep. Hahaha!"

Erza got mad and pulled out her sword. "I'll KILL YOU!" Erza chased them and they ran for their lives, laughing the entire time. The girls ran into their rooms and shut the doors. Erza put her sword away and walked into the bathroom. 'I look terrible.' Her hair was even crazier than before. 'I look like the devil, Roku wouldn't like that.' Erza froze and shook her head. She started to blush. 'Why do I think of him! It's frustrating!' She straitened her hair and brushed her teeth in the shower. The hot water going over her body was soothing. She leaned against the shower wall and cleared her head to think. 'Makarov told me he wanted to talk to me today. I need to get dressed and head over to see master. Okay that's all.' She exited and pulled a pink towel around herself. She headed to her room before drying off. She wiped her body clean and requipped her armor on.

In The Guild

It was a normal day within the guild. People were drinking and talking about their daily lives. Makarov was sitting on the counter with his legs crossed and his head resting on his hand. Erza walked in through the main doors and walked immediately to him. "You wanted to see me master?"

"Hm," Master replied. "Yes that's right."

Erza paused for a second. "So, what is it?"

Makarov paused even longer. "It's about the S-class wizard exam."

"What about the exam?"

"We haven't had one in seven years, so instead of having it on the normal date were having one as soon as possible."

"So what would you like me to do?"

"Spread the word, tell people, that'll make them work. Tell Roku about it too. I bet he doesn't have a clue what S-class means. Also there's going to be a twist this time."

"And that would be?"

Makarov chuckled "you'll see, I'm planning to have one in two months."

"Okay I got it, spread the word and explain the exam to Roku," Erza repeated back to herself.

Right on cue, Roku walked in with a green backpack on. He was wearing his usual jacket, jeans, and shirt. He walked over to a nearby table and dropped his back on top of it. He walked over the quest board and scanned the contents. 'Maid needed for service? No. Wizard needed to unclog toilet?' "What kind of quest is that!" He yelled aloud. He looked around and people were staring. He went back to looking. He read various quests but one caught his eye. 'Monster's outside of Magnolia? Need powerful wizard to chase them out. Sounds like a good quest to me.' Roku took the flyer and turned around.

'Maybe Erza would like to come,' He was reading the rest of the flyer when he walked right into Erza. "Oh, hi Erza."

"Roku I need to talk to you," Erza said.

"Me too. I was wondering if you wanted to come on this quest with me?" Roku asked scratching the back of his head.

Erza blinked and then grabbed the flyer out of his hand, "Monsters outside of Magnolia… Hmmm." Roku waited patiently.

"Yah I thought you and I could go."

"Me and you?"

"Uh… yah."

Erza pondered to herself. 'I can tell him later.' "All right I'll go with you."

"ALL RIGHT!" Roku said a little to excitedly. "Oh sorry…" he scratched the back of his head.

"Let me just get my things." Erza walked out and Roku found a table to sit down on.

"You look happy." Gildarts walked in and sat across the table of Roku.

"Who are you?" Roku asked?

"Never heard of me?" Gildarts responded and then whispered, "I thought I was pretty popular around here. Being the most powerful S-class wizard and all."

"You must also be the most conceded wizard too." Roku said with a bland face.

"Do you know who your talking to?" Gildarts yelled and stood up.

"Of coarse not that's why I asked you,"

"You asked for it!" Gildarts started rolling up his sleeves.

"I already told you that I asked you for it. But what is a S-Class Wizard?" Roku looked up, and Gildarts calmed down.

"Are you new?" Gildarts expression changed, he looked at Roku. Seeing if he could remember him.

"I joined about two weeks ago. Where have you been?"

"On an S-Class quest." Gildarts said with a surprised look. "So you really never heard of S-Class huh?"

"No sir. Can I go on those quests?" Roku said with pleading eyes.

"You would have to become S-Class for that."

"How can I be one!" Roku asked.

"There's an S-Class exam. Only the master can choose those who can be candidates. It's a major test to see if you're ready to be S-Class," Roku nodded and seemed to be taking mental notes. "If you're good enough, you can go on a double S-Class mission. Or even a year quest. I've been on plenty of those but they don't take that long if your good."

"Hmm. I wanna be one! I beat Laxus and he was strong. I must be pretty good too…" Roku nodded to himself.

"Don't get too cocky last time it went horribly wrong. You see—" Roku raised his hand to stop him.

"Already heard it." Roku had a blank face on. Erza walked in and had a whole carriage full of her stuff. Roku's eye twitched a little. "That's ridiculous…"

"Let's go Roku!" Erza pointed out the door.

"…but it's just outside of town…" Roku said and then sighed.

They walk didn't take long. It look them about half-an-hour. They saw an entrance to a dark shadowy part of the forest. There were signs saying 'KEEP OUT' and 'TURN BACK'

"Well they seem to be a friendly bunch," Roku said sarcastically.

"The people must of put up these signs because of the monsters," Erza looked around and saw something. "Over there."

They headed deeper into the forest with no fear of the scary noises and signs. There was a rustle in the bushes and both wizards went battle-ready. A bunny emerged from the bushes and Roku just let out a sigh. "This isn't going very well."

Not a few seconds later something crept up behind both of them. "BBBRRRAAAHHH!" Erza slashed behind her and cut the thing in half. Roku and Erza blinked. It was a painted piece of wood. Sure it looked a little scary but nothing terrifying with the flowers and hearts in the center. Something shivered behind the lumber. Roku looked over and a little girl with blond short hair had her arms over her head. She looked up and then ran off into the nearby tree line.

"Hey wait!" Erza yelled. They started running after her. Erza could give her credit because she was eluding them pretty well.

"We just want to talk!" The girl wasn't visible anymore. They were in the forest with bushes surrounding them. All of the bushes started shaking. "Uh oh…" A bunch of more planks of wood popped out of the bushes and yelled. Some a little scarier than the little girls, and one wasn't even painted. "What is that one supposed to be?" Roku pointed to the unpainted wood.

"Sky," a winey voice said. "Why didn't you paint yours? We were supposed to do it before we jump these guys."

"Sorry..." Another voice said.

"What exactly is this?" Ezra asked.

"WE ARE THE MONSTERS OF MAGNOLIA!" Their high-pitched voices said in unison.

Erza pulled out her sword, but Roku grabbed her arm. He moved in close to her ear to whisper, "Chill out a little. Let's play along for a while."

Erza nodded and put away her sword. She raised her hands in surrender and Roku copied her. "Were are you taking us?" Erza asked.

"You'll see," a puny voice said.

They made there way to a clearing in the trees. Roku and Erza were still surrounded by little planks of wood. The two wizards seemed to see a clubhouse, but it was in horrible condition. Someone prodded Erza in the back to keep her moving into the house. Someone tried to do the same to Roku but held out a small metal pole, "Wait don't do that!" Roku felt the pressure on his back and felt guilt. The electricity from his body went through the pole and into the hand holding it. The guy shot back and landed on his but. He proceeded to cry, the plank boards all went down at once, reveling a dozen little kids. They huddled around the crying boy.

"I'm sorry I didn't mean too," Roku pleaded.

"You big meanie," it was the girl with the short blond hair.

"Why would you do that?" A boy with short brown hair said, crying a little bit.

Erza walked over to the crowd of kids and kneeled next to the boy. She lifted the boy's semi-charred hand and raised it to her mouth. She pecked it with her lips and proceeded to wrap up his hand with bandages from her pack. "There. All better." The kids looked at the hand.

"Does it feel better?" one of the little girls asked. The boy just nodded his head.

"YYAAAYYY!" The kids yelled in unison. They huddled next to Erza and hugged her legs. Roku just stood there with a shocked face.

'She really knows how to win over a crowd. I wonder if she's always this good with kids.' Roku thought.

"So I'm guessing that you guys are the monsters scaring everyone?" Erza asked and the kids nodded their heads from under her. "And what's that?" She pointed to the half burned down house. It had no roof and the front half of the house was covered in moss. The back looked as if it wasn't even finished.

"THAT'S OUR CLUB HOUSE," A boy with green spiked hair yelled happily.

"Ya we do everything in there!" A girl with brown pigtails said excitingly.

"And what are your names?" Erza asked sweetly.

"Honey Club! Sound off," A blonde boy yelled. "Spike, Casey, Lumi, Rize, Jenny, Evan, Koa, Caleb, Shy, Sky, Bailey." They made a cute synchronized salute and then all laughed together. Roku stepped forward a little and the kids hid behind Erza and glared at him sending a chill down Roku's spine.

Spike had spiked green hair and wasn't very tall. He had green eyes to match his hair. Casey had blue hair and looked a lot like Wendy. She was the shortest and her eyes were purple. Lumi was the tallest, if only by a couple inches. She had brown hair that was tied up in a ponytail; her eyes were a sparkling blue. Rize was one of the shorter ones. He had short black hair and jet-black eyes. Jenny and Shy were twins. They both had black hair but one had her hair in a bun. The other had her hair in a ponytail down her back. They both had orange eyes. Koa was one of the taller ones. He had black hair but had a splotch of yellow on his bangs, and his eyes were gold like Roku's. Caleb had dark-red hair, and his skin was a little darker than the rest. Sky had blonde hair and his lips curled a little so it always looked like he was smiling. He had a bandage around his arm from Erza. The last was Bailey. She was the smallest. She had the features of any regular beautiful person, blonde hair and sparkling blue eyes. She had short hair and a clip held up her bangs. She was hugging Erza's leg.

"Honey club?" Erza looked carefully at the kids.

"Its our guild!" Rize yelled.

"What's your name?" The little girl on her leg asked.

"Erza Scarlet, and that's Roku Battlecreed," She pointed to Roku, and the kids just stuck their tongues out towards Roku.

"Aw man," Roku said putting his hand on his face. 'I hurt a kid, that's pretty much unforgivable in a kids book.'

Erza saw his distraught and whispered something in their ears. Their faces brightened and they ran over to Roku laughing and smiling. They tackled him and started pinning him down. While there was one on each limb the other kids started to put their hands on his sides, neck, and underarms. They were tickling him. Roku burst out into laughter and couldn't help but start crying "Th-That's, haha, a di-dirty, HAHAHA, tr-tri-trick!"

Erza laughed and the kids let Roku sit up. "How long have you guys been here?"

"Two months!" twins said in unison.

"It's dangerous out here, didn't you here there were monsters," Roku said sincerely.

"We're the monsters silly." Casey said cutely.

"Why are you kids dressed up as monsters? And why are you guys out here all alone? Where are your parents?" Erza asked while holding Bailey's hand.

The kids responded by having their faces point to the ground. "We don't have parents," Caleb said aloud. The kid's personalities all changed for the worst. "They went away."

"That's just what the orphanage told us!" Koa yelled. "They're gone, for good." They started crying and the wizards found it as a painful sight. Erza kneeled down to Bailey and hugged her tight.

"I'm sorry," Erza whispered. Roku had a determined face on. He turned around to face the clubhouse.

"This isn't where kids should be living," the kids looked up and some whipped their tears away. "I'm gonna need to fix this." The kids looked up and started smiling.

"We're going to fix it." Erza corrected. Roku just smiled and put his hand on one of the kid's shoulders.

"Honey Club!" Roku said excitedly. "Consider this one act of kindness from one guild to another." He said formally.

"We hear by, as Fairy Tail representatives, pledge to help Honey Club in the reconstruction of their guild." Erza said while summoning a sword and sending it into the ground. "I will be back for this sword with help from our friends." Roku sat down.

"I'll stay here for now, see what the damage is." Erza nodded to him and walked away.

Roku let out a sigh and looked at the kids. "We're gonna get our own guild building!" Spike said smiling.

"Yay! You guys are the best!" Sky yelled.

"I miss my family." Bailey said, eyes downcast and legs curled up. Roku looked at her and the kids did the same. The storm wizard got up and walked over to her.

He stood before her and asked, "What's wrong, huh?"

"I…(sniff) miss… (sniff) them…" She started to cry again. Roku knelt down and rubbed her head. She looked up and he had a sympathetic look.

"You have a family." She looked surprised and looked at the other kids. "They miss you too." She managed a smile and got up holding Roku's hand.

The girls changed their expressions and Casey whined, "We want Erza though."

"No way, Roku's the best!" Rize said nodding his head.

"Erza's better, Erza's better." The twins said.

"No Roku!" The boys said in unison.

"No Erza!" The girls yelled back.

Bailey just stood with Roku outside the staring battle. "Hey Erza's pretty great too." Roku said. The boy's looked at his questionably. They huddled together and then turned around a minute later.

"We've come to a conclusion!" Koa yelled. The girls waited in anticipation. "Roku's better." The girls started getting angry. "But Roku lllllliiiiikkkkeeeessss Erza." He said just like Happy.

"YOU DONʻT EVEN KNOW HAPPY!" Roku yelled. Roku realized what hey said and started to blush. "No I don't," He looked away. The kids gathered around Roku.

"So how did you meet her?" Lumi asked, the rest of the kids with thoughtful eyes.

"Uh…" The story of him and Erza was a little graphic for little kids. "There were two kids. One boy and one girl. They were best friends, and they did everything together. They were happy together. But one day, one of the kids had to move away, far, far away. So far that they couldn't see each other for a very long time, 15 years to be exact. When the boy was old enough to see the girl he went searching. He suffered many trials and obstacles to find her. He found her with great friends and she was happy. The boy was so happy that her found her, but the girl had forgotten all about the boy." The kids gasped and some yelled out of turn.

"What a meanie!" Caleb yelled.

"You can't forget your best friend!" Evan yelled.

"Wait hold on," Roku said with his hands raised. "The girl couldn't recognize the boy, because… she had memory sickness." He thought about how graphic it would be to tell that story to the kids. The kids gave out a big OOOOOO. "The boy still wanted to be best friends with the girl. She wanted to be a good friend to him. They grew together and became best friends again. They lived just like that, friends forever." Roku finished with a smile on his face. The kids, however, were unsatisfied, "What?"

"Where's the part when they kiss?" Bailey said behind Roku. Roku looked back and blushed.

"Yah and the part where the boy saves the princess?" Spike asked.

"Who said anything about a princess." The twins said.

"Well what about the part when they ride the horse into the sunset?" Lumi asked.

Roku was burning red now. "What a minute…" The kids kept asking questions of happy endings and such. They closed in on Roku and toppled him over. They started to tickle him again. "Haha, w-wait! H-how bout I t-tell, mo-, HAHAHA, mo-re, stories! HAHA"

The kids stopped and Roku sat up. He took a deep breath and started on a new story.

This went on for a couple hours and the sun was at it's mid-point. "…The End" Roku finished. The kids started clapping and Roku bowed playfully. Erza walked in at the perfect moment.

"Erza!" The kids yelled and ran to her. "Where are all the people?" Bailey asked.

Erza pointed back and looked through the trees. Natsu was leading the whole guild though the forest. Natsu had a big toothy grin and walked triumphantly.

Fairy Tail worked on the club for about two weeks. In the meantime the children stayed at the guild. They all had sleeping bags provided for them and Fairy Tail gave them all the food and water they needed.

"Where's Erza?" Bailey tugged at Mirajane's dress. Mirajane and patted her head.

"They'll be here in a minute. They want to help with the building too, ya know." The kids kept asking for Erza and Roku. They never really had time to help with construction but they helped with babysitting everyday instead.

"Did somebody call my name?" Roku yelled as he kicked the doors open with a big box in his hands. The kids yelled and surrounded Roku. "Hey! Line up everybody gets one." They lined up immediately. They started picking through the box, grabbing various props such as swords, shields, masks, and clothes.

Bailey walked behind Roku and tugged his pants. Roku looked down to needy eyes. "Where's Erza?" She asked.

Erza walked down from the second floor of the building. "I'm right here," When she reached the bottom Bailey ran over to her and they hugged each other tightly. "You ready for story time?" She nodded excitedly and put on her bunny ears prop.

"But first…" Bailey went to the rest of the kids.

They started chanting together, "Kiss! Kiss! Kiss!..." They surrounded them in a tight circle. Spike pushed Erza into Roku and he caught her.

'He's warm…' Erza thought as her arms were pressed against his chest. Roku cautiously put her arms around her and kissed the top of her head. They both blushed. Roku let her go and smiled.

"You happy now?" Roku asked the kids and they all smiled greatly. "Okay whose ready for story time?" The kids started moving tables and setting down mats to sit on. They made an audience and sat.

Erza requipped her costume she used from the theater a while ago. Roku put on a Dragon mask and ran after her. "RAAAAHHHH," Roku yelled as he chased after Erza. She ran away playfully and around tables. They didn't even notice Gajeel and Natsu sitting in the back watching.

"I'll defeat you and save the princess you fiend!" Erza yelled as they changed directions and Roku was being chased now.

"Isn't it a dragon-slayers job to defeat dragons?" Gajeel asked Natsu sitting next to him. Natsu nodded in agreement.

"I think we should go beat that dragon right now!" Natsu got up and charged at Roku at full speed. "I'm gonna slay that dragon!" Erza stopped from the sudden interruption. Roku got wide-eyed and started to run.

Natsu and Gajeel were chasing Roku around the room. Erza chased after the two troublemakers while yelling "NATSU!" They ran around the room with sparks, ashes, and steel, causing great special effects. They ran around for a long time, not realizing the show they were putting on. Mirajane just giggled and continued to watch.

They kids started clapping from the scene and all four of them stopped. They turned to the crowd and bowed from the applause. "You two sure know how to put on a show," Roku commented. Natsu and Gajeel looked at each other and gave him a goofy grin.

"Natsu," Erza said behind him. He turned around and saw killing intent in her eyes. "Your gonna get it later." Gajeel and Natsu ran out the door yelling in fear.

The afternoon went by fast with the story telling. The kids had naptime next, so Erza helped each child to bed while Roku put away the props. Afterward Roku watched the kids and started getting sleepy himself. He plopped down on the wall next to the bar. He slowly shut his eyes, "Roku?" He opened them again and say Erza.

"Oh. Hey Erza," Roku closed his eyes again but listened to her voice.

"I just wanted to tell you about the S-Class wizard exam coming up." Roku opened his eyes.

'S-Class?' "Like Gildarts? I would love to be half the wizard he is" Roku smiled at the thought of him being that powerful.

"Well it's a month in a half from now. I wanted to let you know in advanced. You beat Laxus so I think you should be a candidate." She yawned and unconsciously put her head on Roku's right shoulder. "Just train and you'll be fine." Erza and Roku drifted off to a sleep. Mirajane smiled at the site of the two sleeping friends.

About an hour later Roku opened his eyes and wiped them with his left hand. He started to get up but stopped at the familiar weight on his shoulder. Erza's eyes were closed, 'She looks so peaceful' Roku looked away from a second and blushed. He looked back and whispered, 'Erza…I could stay like this forever.' He found a pillow and slowly lowered her head onto it. He looked at her one last time before he went looking for a certain conceded S-Class wizard.

Erza woke up surrounded by children and her head on a pillow. "Where's Roku?" Koa asked. Erza rubbed her eyes and sat up.

"He left?" the kids shook their heads. "What time is it?"

"6:74" Rize said.

"There is no 6:74 you idiot." The twins said together.

Erza looked at the clock. "6:14? 6:14! Your dinner! I forgot to—"

Roku burst into the building holding two giant brown paper bags. "I got the food!" Roku yelled as he put the bags on a table. The kids rushed around the bags and picked out microwave macaroni and cheese. Roku also got slices of meat to put into the macaroni. They went to the stove and put all the small packages into one big pan. The macaroni was premade so they only had to heat it up. Erza sliced up the meat and threw them into the pan. They cooked it for 20 minutes. When the food popped out, they cut it up into 12 squares for each of the kids. Roku shoved each of the slices on paper plates. He handed them out to the kids. "Eat up!" There was one more and he handed it to Erza.

Erza looked at the plate and took it. "Where's yours?" Roku just waved his hand and headed outside.

"Eat up!" Roku waved goodbye as he headed back to his apartment. The kids all said bye and dove into the food.

Erza looked at the food and took a bite. Her face lit up, 'It's delicious! I wonder if her cooks this good all the time.' She looked at the doors that Roku left open.

Three Weeks Later

"It's so awesome!" Spike yelled out from inside the clubhouse. Running could be heard from inside, and Fairy Tail stood outside to get a verdict.

Bailey ran through the other side of a screen door. She ran back and skidded to a stop. "THANK YOU!" She yelled.

The building was two stories now. Spike peeked his head out the second story window and also yelled, "THANK YOU!"

Honey Club was two stories. It was colored blue and had a sign right above the front door saying "HONEY CLUB." Inside was kids paradise with slides, bunk beds, and toys. From outside it looked a lot like Fairy Tail's first building. The thing that they didn't tell the kids is that the clubhouse was a lot closer to Fairy Tail now. It was just a little walk down from Fairy Tail's building. The kids all found places to stick out their head to yell "THANK YOU!" Fairy Tail laughed and the kids ran out of the house and started hugging random people.

They were all happy and when they found Roku and Erza that hugged them tight and hard. Roku picked Bailey up in one arm and had twins on his legs. He walked over to Erza who had the rest of Honey Club. He smiled at her and she did the same. Some people said "AAAHHH" and Roku blushed. Roku put Bailey down and patted her on the head.

"We'll be right down the street if you need anything." Roku looked at all the kids and they started tearing up. "Hey it isn't goodbye forever."

"In fact it isn't goodbye at all." Erza hugged Lumi. "You guys get to come to the guild for training. You can't be a wizard guild without wizards." They yelled in excitement. It started getting dark and it was time for Fairy Tail to leave.

"BYE!" The kids yelled.

"BYE!" Fairy Tail yelled back

"Well see you guys soon." Roku waved at them as they walked away. Honey Club started crying and waved back.