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-Kai-chan
Chapter five.
Lucy and Onix stared at the flimsy piece of paper.
"I have no clue" Onix replied, satisfied with her answer.
Memory could be read like an open book. Half of her wanted to turn them both in whilst the other half didn't, "By any chance did you piss off a guild balled Sabertooth?"
Lucy remembered Natsu complaining about two Dragon Slayers that belonged there previously, before she was kicked out of course.
The girl's faces all darkened when the guild name was spoken.
"Who's Sabertooth?"
"Do you know anything?" Anya asked, it wasn't meant as an insult but to the onlookers it transmitted as one. She'd never talked to other girls before so her social skills needed a bit of polishing.
Onix, knowing fully well it wasn't meant cruelly merely smiled her toothy grin, "Of course not!"
Lucy sighed/laughed. "They're a seriously messed up guild Onix"
"Oh~"
Memory, still sitting next to Princess, decided to cut into the conversation, "Now what?"
"'Now, what?' What?" Onix questioned, confusing herself which made her draw imaginary words and boxes in the air to understand her own question.
"What are you two going to do?" The maroon haired girl cleared up amused by Onix's childlike nature.
"Ignore them. We haven't done anything wrong to them so it makes no difference to us"
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Princess had taken it upon herself to take up the 'Older sister' responsibility since she was older than Anya by five months. Memory had asked to tag along since she had nothing better to do that day anyway, now that her prey had just proved themselves to be a good, kind-hearted blonde and an idiotic bluette.
The streets were being sprayed repeatedly with salty water from the ocean a few feet away from the town, to keep the heat down. Lucy was still in her socks but didn't mind the damp feeling that sprung up.
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First, Princess had dragged them into a clothing shop.
Second, Anya had dragged them to a shoe parlour.
Third, Onix marched them into a jewellery shop.
And Fourth, Lucy decided on visiting a Magic Shop.
"No...more..." Memory gasped, sitting on a park bench as the others ran off to get ice-creams whilst dumped their full shopping bags next to the maroon haired girl.
What made them think she wouldn't steal them? How could they think she wouldn't take off? Question after question rolled into the 14 year olds mind, resulting in a migraine.
She was brought out of daze when the four figures of well-shaped girls came into view.
"See! I told you she wouldn't ditch us!" Onix said grinning like the Cheshire cat.
Lucy smiled before handing a chocolate ice-cream cone out to Memory.
"Uh, thanks"
The girls all took a seat either on the grass next to the bench, or on it.
"So, Memory. You've heard about our lives, what about you?" Princess asked, turning in to get a better view of the girl beside her. She stiffened, why did she have to tell? She didn't want to remember something like that, and yet Memory opened her mouth to start. Something about these girls made her feel safe and warm.
"What do you want to know?"
"Your name. Why Memory?" Lucy offered licking the top off of her mint ice-cream.
Taking a deep breath, she began to recall the memories that forever plagued her mind, "My parents were both Memory-Make mages (A/N Try saying that really fast!) and when they had me, it was only natural I'd inherit the same power. They called me Memory after it" With a grim smile she returned to eating the treat in front of her.
"Next question. Why are you alone right now?" Anya supplied eyeing her chocolate ice-cream with suspicion. What? She'd never had ice-cream before!
The images of flames crossed the girls blue eyes, "My parents retired when I was born so I'd have a normal childhood. Everyday they stayed at home when I went off to school. It was always the same. Breakfast, school, lunch, practice, bed.
Until Sabertooth Mages came and killed everyone. I was lucky because I had wanted to play hide and seek in the fields just out of town, along with my classmates.
When we came back, everything was a sea of fire. Blood was the first thing I saw"
Princess' arm had snuck around her back, pulling her in for a hug.
"Shh...it's okay to cry" She repeated the same line Lucy had said to her when they'd opened her heart. And as expected, trails of water had began running down Memory's face.
Hiccups disturbed her speech as she continued, "I-I t-trav-velled across Fiore t-trying t-to train my-myself. I-I took jo-jobs when I was l-low on mon-ney"
"Why? Why didn't you just go to a foster home?" Lucy asked her eyes wide. She stood up off of the grass and kneeling down in front of the crying child, she cupped her face in an older sister fashion.
"I-I want t-to bec-c-come strong enough to k-kill them"
Onix's eyes were blank as she stared down at the girl. For once her expression was unreadable as her pale hand reached out and froze in front of her face.
"Memory. You seek revenge and to avenge, with your blessing, I would like to help you under one condition" The Bluette's voice was steady and strangely powerful.
The maroon haired girl only redirected her eyes, positioning them on the completely different girl she'd seen at lunch.
Memory nodded.
"Will you join our guild and become our sister?" And with a smile, everyone else joined in.
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"Are you sure this is the right way Anya?" Lucy asked as she walked beside her with the others in a group behind them.
"Of course! I mean, I can't be any worse than Onix" Was the reply she received from the black-haired girl with the coffee stained map. No matter who lead the group of now five, they always traveled through the forest!
The clearing they passed twice before was coming up and Lucy sped ahead to look up at the morning sun. Last night they'd all slept in a single hotel room with a double bed. It had been an interesting night to say the least.
Five girls sleeping in the same bed was something most people didn't do just on principal but they'd all found the experience quite enjoyable, gossiping till god-knows when and just talking about past boys.
Lucy took a deep breath and stared up at the pink and purple sky when she heard the sound of tinkling bells.
XxXxX
Karuki couldn't remember the last time she had been seperated from Rosario and now that they were, she felt slightly hallow. Without people beside her to keep her from falling, she was nothing more than a speck of dust on the chessboard, that was life.
The lake the had emerged herself in was cold but seemed to comfort her the same way it would have if it were warm.
Humming, she splashed the water onto her porcelain skin and drenched her brown hair that she'd decorated with black highlights.
Being near water set her at peace, after all, she was a Water Fairy Slayer. Rustling from the bushes behind from the north was heard, as a familiar form charge over to her and dived into the lake. The feelings of not being needed were still there, but had dissolved like the black sky above, without realizing it, time had flown and it was already dawn.
"Rosie!" The brunette shouted to the (now swimming) blonde, Lightning Fairy Slayer.
"What Ruki?" She replied popping her head above the frigid water. The two girls had been together since the tender age of six after their masters had both trained them at the same location.
And as it should be, the girls grew to be very compassionate about the other, resulting in them sticking to each other like glue once their Fairies disappeared.
Rosario (Rosie) pulled herself out of the ice bath and dumped the, now soaked, side bag that held their necessities for the next week. She strolled over to the tree that held their clothes and picked up her own and began dressing as Karuki (Ruki) copied. One week ago, Rosie had been accused of trying to murder her Guild's Master at Blue Pegasus and was thrown out whilst Ruki followed, choosing her best friend over the others.
The sound of feet where approaching them.
"I think it came from this...way" Another blonde entered the scene with four other girls behind her. Her voice had trailed off since it wasn't everyday you saw two people with wings.
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