Hey everyone! I'm really tired right now, so I don't really have anything to say.
I don't own Fairy tail. If I did, I'd make Cana have more screen time.
Cana POV
Cana glanced to the door where Damien and the others had disappeared to, while taking a sip of her beer. Esther, Mr. Johnson, and Mr. Trench had come back, all looking extremely shaken, but Damien had taken Jack out back to talk to him.
"Hey Esther!" Esther looked over to her, shoving her notepad into her apron pocket after taking a few orders.
"Yeah Cana?" she asked, walking over to her.
"What was it you guys were talking about in there?" she asked.
Esther, bit her lip, suddenly nervous. Cana winced a bit. "Err, nothing important." Cana didn't buy it. Esther had been her best friend for years; she could always tell when something was up.
Cana tilted her head, examining her for a moment. At the same time, she knew when no amount of pestering would get her to confess. "Alright." Cana stood up. "Hey, to celebrate my return, how about a girls night out?"
Esther blinked. "Huh?" she asked.
Cana grinned. "I'll just head back to my place, then I'll meet you at Joe's bar, around 8 ok?" Cana started walking
"W-wait!" Esther said, her voice stuttering. "m-my shift doesn't end till 8:30!"
Cana smirked. "Don't worry, I'll be fine on my own for half an hour." And with that Cana walked out the door. It took Cana about 10 minutes to get to her house. It looked just the same as she had left it. It was a simple one story house, with red paint, and magical flower pots out front. The furniture in the house was a variety of shades, between red, orange yellow, and a few purple here and there, while her walls were the colour of dark brown. There were only 5 rooms, the kitchen, which was opened into the sitting room, the small bathroom, and two bedrooms. One was Cana's old bedroom from when she was little, but she usually left it closed, other than when she had guests over.
Cana walked to her bedroom, and threw her bag onto her bed. She then went to take a shower. After she was finished, she threw on a blue tank top and blue jeans. As she was walking into the other room, she noticed her orange jacket. Involuntarily, Cana picked up the sweater, and hugged it. She took a breath in, and smelt what was unmistakably the scent of thunder before a thunder storm. She smiled slightly. She didn't know why, but the jacket made her feel calm, and loved. Just then, Cana heard a knock at the door. "Coming!" she called. She threw on her sweater and she ran to get the door. She opened the door, and didn't even have the time to say anything, before she felt someone crush their lips into hers. Her eyes shot wide open, as she shoved back her attacker. "Damien! What was that for?"
Damien just smiled innocently. "I need a reason to kiss my girlfriend?" Cana scowled at him. "May I come in?" Damien asked sweetly.
Cana sighed. "Fine, come on in before I lock you outside in the cold."
Damien gasped. "You wouldn't do that!" but even still, he stepped inside quickly.
"So what did you want?" Cana asked, walking into the kitchen.
Damien walked steadily behind her. "Oh jeeze, first I need a reason to kiss my girlfriend, now a need a reason to visit her? Man what has this world come to?"
Cana just rolled her eyes, as she poured him a glass of beer. The two sat at her dinner table. "Yes you do Damien, just cause I'm your girlfriend doesn't mean you own me."
"It doesn't?" Damien asked looking surprised. "But Cana's mine! I'm the only one who gets to kiss you!"
Cana shuddered. "Why is it that when other boyfriends act possessive around their girlfriends, it's cute, but when you do it I feel like I'm being stalked?"
"You hurt me Cana!" Damien said, faking hurt. "How can you be so mean to me?"
Cana laughed. "Ok, ok, seriously, is there something you wanted?"
Damien smiled. "I was just wondering if you wanted to go out tonight. For dinner or something?"
Cana frowned. "Oh sorry, but Esther and me were going to head out to the bar tonight."
Damien didn't look troubled. "Ok, so it'll be the three of us!"
Cana laughed. "No Damien, Girls night. A.K.A no boys allowed?"
"Not even boyfriends?"
"Especially not boyfriends."
Damien pouted. "When we were little, you guys let me come to your girls' nights."
Cana smirked. "Ok, if you're still willing to dress up as a girl, wig and breasts in all, and talk about boys you're welcome to come."
Damien's face turned red. "Err, alright. But I better be the only boy you talk about."
Cana laughed, and walked over and gave him a hug. "It's not like there are any better boys to talk about in this small town. Now scoot. I need to rest so I have enough energy tonight."
Damien laughed but consented, getting out of his seat and heading to the door. "Love you doll." Cana opened her mouth to respond, but no words came out. Finally, she just smiled, and nodded. Damien closed the door behind him.
As soon as he left Cana went to her room, and plopped on her bed. She looked on her bed stand, and noticed to picture on it. It was her mother, with her father; they were both around 20 at the time, on their first date at a carnival. Her mother's hair was brown like her own, and tied in a long braid behind her head. She wore a plain blue button down shirt, with blue jeans. Her father wore a red t-shirt and jeans. He was smiling like an idiot, pulling Cana's mother towards him, closer than she had expected. Cana's mother's face was bright red, her eye looking down. Cana smiled at the photo. She had never met her father; they had broken up before she met him. But Cana knew for certain that her mother never stopped loving him. Cana took the picture, and kissed it lightly.
"Love you guys." She whispered, before placing the photo back, and resting her head on the pillow, her eyelids falling lightly.
Cana sat at the table, sipping out of her juice box. She looked around 11 right now. She had her cards set out in front of her. The blond boy from before sitting beside her, his elbow on the table, propping up his head, as she explain what attacks each could do.
"Have you tried combining cards?" he asked.
Cana frowned. "Combining cards? I've heard of that, but never tried it myself."
"You should, then you'd have more attack options. Here, tomorrow we'll head to the library, and look for a book that could tell us a bit more about it."
Cana's eyes sparkled. "That'd be great!" the boy smiled down at her.
"I'd be careful there boy." Cana looked up, to see an older man standing behind them, with dark blue spiky hair, and a slight goatee. "Keep doing stuff for the girl and you'll spoil her. If you keep spending your time with her you'll never get better yourself, carrying a burden around all the time." The boy turned, and laughed. He started talking with him, his hand still on the table, but Cana didn't hear them.
She starred down at her cards. Cana was a burden? She had never meant for that. She had been so grateful to have her friend; she hadn't even stopped to think that it might be a bother for him. Of course he didn't really want to be there, he had his own training to do didn't he? But he was far too nice to tell Cana off. Cana didn't want him to think of her as a burden.
The boy laughed again, and looked down at Cana. "Hey kid, I'm going to head out, I'll be back in a few hours ok?" Cana just nodded. He studied her. "Hey you ok?"
Cana turned so he couldn't see her face. "I'm fine."
The boy was silent for a moment, then he shrugged. "Ok, I'll see you later." The boy reached over, and pat her on the head, before walking off. Cana watched him walk off, as her own resolve set.
Cana walked through the forest, her right hand gripped on her purse strap, the other gripping a piece of paper. She had grabbed a request sheet, and slipped out of the guild before anyone noticed. She wasn't too sure what the mission was; only that she was killing some monster in this town. I wasn't supposed to be too hard, and if she could do this, He wouldn't think of her as a burden.
Suddenly Cana felt a tremor. Before she even had time to look up, she went flying into a large tree. Cana winced, putting a hand to her hurt face. She crouched on the ground, looking up. There was the monster a large scaly thing. It looked like something between a gorilla and a dinosaur. Its body and legs were that of a T-Rex, but its arms and head where shaped like a gorilla's despite being covered in scales. The creature yelled, and pounded his chest. Cana swiftly reached into her bag, and took out a card, which she threw at the creature. It exploded near his head, and he stumbled back. The thing roared, and charged towards Cana. She took out another card, and placed it on the ground. A huge hole appeared in the ground, about as big as the monster. The thing ran right into it, falling onto his head. It went silent.
Cana breathed heavily, from her adrenaline and fear. For a moment she smiled, thinking she had won. Then, just as she closed her eyes, she felt herself being crushed. Her eyes flew open, to see that the creature had reached up and grabbed her. He squeezed her in his hand, and Cana cried out in pain. Then the creature threw her roughly into another tree. Cana felt the wind being knocked out of her. She barely had time to look up before the creature was out of the hole, and barreling towards her. Shaking, she grabbed another card, and a small dome encircled her, about a meter away from her. The creature smashed on it, and Cana winced back in fear, willing the shield to grow stronger. Then the creature stood up, and smashed his foot into the dome. Cana screamed, as the shield cracked, falling on her almost like glass, cutting her in a few places. Cana looked up, to see the creature raising his arm high above his head. Cana closed her eyes, bracing herself against the attack. After a few seconds she felt nothing. Slowly, she peaked one of her eyes open. Above her the young boy was standing there, holding back the creature's fist with one hand, his body facing Cana. She couldn't see his face, as shadows were hiding it form view, but Cana didn't need to see to know he was mad.
He turned back to the monster, and used his other hand to punch the creature, sending it flying. His hands were yellow, and sparking. He ran towards the creature again, and kicked it in the gut. The creature grunted in pain. Then the boy started a volley of punches and kicks, his whole body sparking with electricity. "DON'T YOU DARE TOUCH MY FRIENDS EVER AGAIN!" he yelled a word with every hit, finally sending it flying with one hard hit. The creature blew through a bunch of trees, laying dazed a little ways off.
There was a moment of silence; Cana was able to hear the boy breathing heavily, alongside her own breath. Then the boy turned towards her, she could see his eyes blazing, and suddenly Cana wished she had stayed with the monster. "What, the heck, where you thinking?!" the boy started, his fists clenched as he walked over to Cana. "A Trivocular? Really Cana, why the heck would you even try fighting that, all by yourself? Were you just trying to get yourself killed? You're lucky Ever noticed you leaving and told me. I mean, by, the." He put his hands on his head, struggling to find the words to vent his frustration. "Do you know how worried the guild was Cana, how worried I WAS? Do you even know how scarred I was? You could have been killed! I, I don't know what I'd do with myself if you..." he took a shaky breath. "Why, Why Why would you do that?"
Cana was silent for a moment. Then the tears started falling down her cheeks, her physical pain and shaking fear catching up with her. "I'm sorry," she said, through her tears. "I, I didn't mean to make anyone worry. I just, I heard you guys talking about how I was a burden to you, and I didn't want that. I don't want you to hate me." She sniffed. "So, I took a mission. I didn't realize how dangerous it was; I just wanted to show you that I don't have to be a burden." Cana cried for a few minutes, the boy making no move to help her.
Then he walked over to Cana, and pulled her into a hug. "Ssh, shh it's ok Cana. I'm sorry I didn't mean to get mad at you like that. You just scared me for a moment ok." Cana didn't say anything, as she hid her face into his shoulder. "You're not a burden to me ok? They guys and I were just joking around, we didn't actually mean it. I enjoy having you around; everything is more fun when you're around. You look at everything with such wonder, it making it a lot more fun to do missions." He paused for a moment to let that sink in. "so you don't have to go trying to prove yourself to me, or anyone in the guild. We all know you're a great mage, and we all care about you a lot. And if you ever want to try to do missions on your own that fine, just be careful, and don't try anything to hard ok?" Cana nodded into his shoulder, sniffling again. He pulled away from her for a moment to look at her. "Jeeze, you got yourself beat up didn't ya?" he put a hand on her cheek. "Man that's going to bruise. Come on, I'll bring you back and get you bandaged up. Can you walk?"
Cana shook her head, not trusting her shaking legs to hold her weight. The boy sighed, and lifted her easily in his arms bridal style. Cana curled up against his chest as he walked. Cana smiled slightly, he smelled like the smell that came just before a thunder storm.
Erza/Mira POV
Erza and Mira talked lightly, as they walked through the halls of Fairy tail girls' dorm.
"So who's off on missions now?" Mira asked.
Erza frowned thoughtfully. "I know Laxus and his guys all left early this morning for some S-class mission. Natsu and Lucy also left for a mission, and so did Gray and Juvia.
"Uh oh, Gray and Juvia?" Mira said frowning. "I'm not saying her, err, little crush, on Gray is a bad thing, but I hope it doesn't get in the way of their work."
Erza laughed. "Don't worry; I'm sure Juvia will be able to focus enough." Mira smiled. They were silent for a moment. "Did you feel the same today as you did yesterday?" Erza asked.
Mira nodded, frowning. "More prominent today. It almost makes me sad, I feel like something I care about is missing. The guild just doesn't feel right without it."
Erza nodded. "I wonder why the master decided not to do anything about it. Even Natsu is noticing it now, surely that's enough cause for alarm."
"But no one is really getting harmed right now." Mira pointed out. "I guess he doesn't think that it's anything serious, and it's just something that will pass."
"But it just doesn't seem like the master, to let something like that go so easily." Erza persisted.
Mira nodded thoughtfully. "This may be irrelevant, but I had this really strange dream last night."
"Absolutely irrelevant, but please continue." Erza noted.
"It was weird. There was a brunette girl, not someone I've seen around the guild hall before. Last night, I dreamed that she was new to the guild, and she was hanging out with Laxus a lot. I think she was about 9, the same age as me, and Laxus was 11."
"A young girl hanging out with Laxus?" Erza commented. "That is a strange dream."
Mira nodded. "I walked over to the girl, and challenged her to a fight, but she looked so scarred. Eventually I apologized, and she told me she's not very good at magic, and Laxus is trying to teach her. She told me she was a card mage. I said that beast takeover magic and card magic are pretty similar, so I would help her out to. She smiled, and gave me a hug."
"Did she tell you her name?" Erza questioned.
Mira shook her head, and frowned. "And what even weirder, is earlier today when I dozed off a bit during my break, I had another dream with her. This time it was not long after Lisanna's death, and I was crying by the water. The girl was holding me, telling me not to feel bad. She said that she knew that it wasn't my fault, and Lisanna would have never blamed me. She said that Lisanna wouldn't have wanted to see me cry; she would have wanted to see me happy, and keep living for her sake. Then the girl smiled at me, and said, that the entire guild missed Lisanna, but they'd all be even sadder if they couldn't see my smile." Mira was silent for a moment.
"That is strange." Erza commented. "The same girl, in two different dreams?"
Mira nodded. "And it was so vivid to. Dreams aren't usually like that." Erza nodded in agreement. "Well, I better head to my room now. It's down this hall here, see you later Erza." Erza nodded, but then stopped in her tracks. "Erza?" Mira questioned.
Erza was silent for a moment, starring at a room door, next to the two for her own. "Mira, who stays in here?"
Mira frowned confused. "No one's ever stayed there, as long as I can remember. Why?"
Erza was silent for a moment, before shaking her head. "It's nothing. Just a feeling. Good night Mira." Mira nodded before waving good night. Erza walked into her room, and brushed her teeth, reequipping into her PJ's at the same time. She fell on her bed, and starred at the ceiling, thinking about Mira's dream. Did it have anything to do with the magic spell over the guild? Was the girl the one who cast the spell? Erza turned, onto her side, and closed her eyes.
"Come on it'll be fun." The voice drawled.
"No thanks, maybe another time." A girl's voice replied.
"Aww, why not?" the first voice responded. Erza looked up from the book she was reading. She was in the guild hall, at a few tables away from her, sat a young girl, around the same age as her, (14 maybe) sitting next to another boy Cana didn't recognize. The boy looked a bit drunk, while the girl, who probably drank about as much as him, looked perfectly fine, and perfectly annoyed at his attempts to flirt.
Erza turned to Mira (young evil version-ish Mira). "Hey Mira, who's the new guy?"
Mira turned to her, and grinned her evil grin. "Oh no one, just some guy coming through town with his cousin, and wanted to see the guild, and just happened to take a shine on our favorite card mage."
"He's annoying." Someone muttered. Erza turned, to see Laxus sitting on a bar stool behind her, starring at the boy and girl with annoyance.
Mira smirked. "Aww, is poor Laxus jealous?"
Laxus snorted. "Me jealous, of that guy? Don't be ridiculous."
"Well you sure seem annoyed with how close he is to our card mage." Mira said grinning.
Laxus rolled his eyes. "Look, even if I did think about her the way you say I do, I would not be jealous of that guy. Look at him, he's annoying the heck out of her, and the guy can't even hold his alcohol."
"But he is cute, and is getting all of her attention." Mira added. Laxus ignored that.
"It's just one date!" the boy said again. He put an arm around the girl, but she shrugged it off.
"No Will, go away." The girl replied.
"You'll have a great time, I'll even let you kiss me after!" he said.
The girl scoffed. "You, allow me to kiss you?" the girl asked in disbelief.
Will nodded. "Here, I'll even give you a beforehand trial." Before the girl could even say anything, the boy reached out and grabbed her chin, and started to pull it towards his. Before Erza could even say anything, she saw a flash of light, and the next second, she saw Will flying towards the wall, Laxus standing behind the girl. The girl blinked in surprise, looking up at Laxus.
Will looked up, his hand on the side of his face. "Dude what the heck?" he exclaimed, annoyed.
"I suggest you leave." Laxus said. Erza could hear the threat in his voice.
Will straightened, trying to look tough. "Why should I..."
"I SUGGEST YOU LEAVE." Laxus said, louder now, his voice a dangerous calm. Erza could see sparks flying from him. Will was silent for a moment, before huffing, and walking out of the guild, trying to uphold his dignity, Laxus' eyes not leaving him for a second.
Erza watched, in amazement at Laxus' actions. Beside her, Mira snickered. "Nice knight in shining armor routine." Mira commented. "Yup, not jealous at all."
Erza's eyes shot open. Without a doubt the girl in her dream was the same one from the dream Mira had been telling her about.
"What the heck is going on here?"
Hello everyone! Gosh that one took awhile. Thanks everyone for the reviews, and for continuing to read this story! I know the first part of this chapter went really slow, but I think it got better the farther it went. Hope you enjoyed it, please review!