Author's Note: Now we start at where chapter 4 left off. Just in case you don't remember and don't feel like checking back, chapter 4 left off with Karina and Tanzeru sleeping over at Lucy's house after Karina finally realizes that not everyone in Fairy Tail is an idiot. To her, that only applies to Natsu. She went to sleep looking forward to going on a mission with Fairy Tail's strongest team, Erza, Natsu, Gray, Happy, and Lucy, and her brother Tanzeru, too.

Chapter 7:
Back to Clover!

I finally woke up, but now the problem was that I didn't want to open my eyes and actually get up, so I just laid on the floor, trying my hardest to go back to sleep. However, a small little bug decided to tick me off by humming past my ear repeatedly. When it finally landed on my ear-lobe, I prepared my hand to annihilate the stupid mosquito. I swatted at it with all my might and that mosquito would have been crushed, that is, if it hadn't flown away and caused me to smack myself right in the face.

"SH-…SHALA!" I don't swear around Tanzeru since I don't want him to pick up any of my bad habits, but damn did that hurt!

When I looked around the room, no one was there, Tanzeru nor Lucy. At the moment, I didn't really think anything of it, so I just searched her fridge for anything to eat. I found a bowl with something soup-like in it, so I decided to eat it. It was the worst mistake I ever made. It was the worst piece of crap I ever tasted, even worse than the stuff they fed us as slaves! I sealed the bowl back shut and put it back in the fridge, though it better belonged in the garbage. I spat up and wiped off any trace of that… whatever that was. Suddenly it hit me, the reason Tanzeru and Lucy were gone.

-Fairy Tail- (From narrator's point of view)

Meanwhile, Lucy and Tanzeru were on their way to Fairy Tail, completely packed and ready for their job.

Lucy, with a finger on her chin, asked, "Oh yeah, did you remember to wake up Karina before we left?"

Tanzeru stopped. He forgot to wake her, it was written all over his face. He laughed nervously, scratching the back of his head. Lucy turned around with a 'I can't believe you forgot' expression on her face. Tanzeru sighed in self disappointment.

"Don't beat yourself up, I'm sure she'll be fine. She can't stay asleep that long."

"Actually, I've seen my sister spend two days, asleep in a tree. No food or water, never once opening her eyes. She probably would've slept even longer if I hadn't woken her up."

Lucy snapped, "She can't be human!"

-Fairy Tail- (Back to Karina's point of view)

I rushed around to finish. I had to change, eat, and pack. I looked in the fridge and noticed the bowl I put back earlier. On second thought, I think I'll skip breakfast. I grabbed my wind board, put on my gloves and ran out the door. I decided not to pack after all, since I prefer to let life surprise me.

The only way to catch up was the wind board. I bolted down the streets of Magnolia, I loved the rush I got when I rode it. In the distance, I could see the team standing in front of the guild, including Tanzeru and Lucy. That's when I remembered that I never learned how to stop my board, so I stopped it the only way I knew how. I pulled up the board. The board flipped into the air and so did I before plummeting face first into the ground, again. I got back up, pretty much ticked off with the way my day started.

"Geez, what the hell is that scent?" Natsu scorned.

I sniffed myself and immediately sighed. "I knew I forgot something. At the time, bathing wasn't on my mind."

"If you keep that up, you'll smell worse than Natsu." Gray commented.

"Her stink can only compare to yours, frostbite." Natsu grunted.

"Shut up! I'm getting tired of you two making references to my stink. So what if I forgot, at least it was an accident. You can't get the stink you guys have by accident!"

Within a second, we were butting heads. Natsu was grunting, Gray was growling, and I was snarling. That's when I felt like I was hit by a train in the back of my head. Erza knocked the three of us in our heads.

Happy flew above us and landed on Natsu's shoulder. He stood tall as he wisely proclaimed, "So is the fate of anyone who acts improperly in front of The Great Erza."

Erza, like a mighty team leader ordered, "Now's not the time for friends to argue, so cut it out."

Surprisingly enough, Gray and Natsu were shaking hands with their arms slung around each other's shoulders. "That's right. Natsu and I were just kidding, right best friend Natsu."

Natsu yelled, "Aye!"

I don't whether I was more confused or disgusted by the display. I got up and dust myself off and asked, "What's the job we're doing anyway?"

Lucy pulled the sheet of paper out of her bag and read, "It requests that we take out some demons that have been harassing a village just north of Clover Town."

I flinched a bit before asking, "Does that mean we're taking a train? To the Clover Station?"

"How else would we get there?" Gray asked arrogantly.

"I hear that they tightened the security around the station ever since some delinquents broke the emergency brakes and caught a free train ride." Erza added.

Natsu smirked as he said, "At least this time it isn't me who broke something and got in trouble. So we should get by no problem."

"Maybe so, but mistaken identity is quite common. Hopefully none of us will be mistaken as the idiots who did that." Tanzeru pointed out. Then he looked at me with a scowl, while I whistled to play it off and act like I didn't notice him glaring.

We made our way to the Magnolia train station, fighting, arguing, and ultimately being punished by Erza and laughed at by Tanzeru, Lucy, and Happy.

Natsu and I got into an argument which led to him challenging me. So I said, "I beat you once, I'll beat you again. No problem!"

"You and I both fainted and that's only 'cuz I was caught by surprise!"

"Keep telling yourself that you have even the slightest chance of beating me! It's called lying."

I didn't even realize when we walked on the train. We were still arguing up to when the train actually pulled off. That's when we both fell back in the seats, sick to our stomachs.

"Wah, Karina get's motion sick, just like Natsu." Happy snickered.

I don't think I've ever felt like killing an animal as much as I did now. I would have hit him if I could move. Tanzeru came up to me and whispered, careful to make sure none of the others heard him. "What exactly are we going to do when we get there? Suppose they recognize us?"

"Not… ri-right… now." I couldn't focus long enough to remember my full name, I definitely wasn't in the right frame of mind to come up with a plan. I was just hoping that we got off the train soon, but the train ride was two long, horrible hours to endure. Still, it was worth it to see Natsu look so horribly vulnerable.

The train's wheels screeched as we pulled into Clover Station. I was able to endure the two hour train ride without puking. When the train came to a complete halt, I jumped up and stretched and so did Natsu. Honestly, I felt better around Natsu now that I knew that we shared the same motion illness. Of course, that changed after Natsu made a stupid comment like, "Man, I can't believe that you got so sick!"

I punched him in the gut and walked off the train with my hands in my pockets, the rest of the team was already out the train, except of course for Tanzeru, who pulled me back in the train. He was so anxious, he literally started sweating like crazy. "Don't worry Tanzeru, leave it to me. Follow my lead if anything happens, and if things go bad, pretend you don't know me and tell the team to walk. I'd just catch up to you after I deal with things." Tanzeru nodded and walked off of the train.

When I got off the train, I looked around and scoped out how many officials there were. There were nine council officers and one knight and they were stationed all around the train station.

Gray called out, "Hey, you coming or not."

All the officials turned their attentions to me and I was immediately recognized by the ticket holder, who just happened to be the same guy Tanzeru and I screwed over. "That's the one who stole the emergency brake!", he declared.

Since I already got caught, I could at least joke around. "Glad to see you still remember me!"

I signaled to Tanzeru to take the team and run. Gray with an annoyed look on his face, questioned, "What the hell is going on here?"

Tanzeru nudged them forward, claiming, "I'll explain on the way the way there. Don't worry, Karina said she'd catch up."

Hesitantly, they walked off, which was my cue to go crazy. Personally, I love a good challenge, so I was hoping that I would get a good work-out from these guys. The knight held up his lance and the council officers unsheathed their swords. They formed a circle around me, attempting to force me into surrendering. They probably didn't know I was a mage, otherwise they would have sent someone else, someone who could actually beat me.

"Give up now and we won't have to hurt you." the knight announced.

"Eh, to think I told them to go ahead just so we could spend as much time as we want here." I got into my fighting stance, "Come on, let's play."

I decided not to use my magic because if I did, the match would be way too one sided. At least this way, I'm leveling the bar just a little. The knight lifted his arm to signal for the officers to attack. They lunged at me almost simultaneously while the knight stood back, but they all seemed amateur at best when it came to fighting. It was easy to knock them all out, one punch each and they were all down for the count. I didn't even remove my left hand from my pocket. It was really disappointing and the knight seemed to scared to even fight.

I looked at the cowardly, whimpering knight and asked, " Tell me, is this what the council thinks of me? Sending a bunch of monkeys holding twigs to arrest me. Do I really seem like just another petty thief to them?"

I stepped closer. He clenched his lance tighter and fell to the ground begging , "I… I don't know. Just please… don't hurt me. We were told that… this would be an easy job."

I looked over and could still see the Fairy Tail gang and Tanzeru walking in the distance. So I told the knight, "Tell the council that I don't want to fight them, but if they are going to try to arrest me, at least don't underestimate me." The knight got to his feet and saluted, then scurried away whimpering, leaving the officers out cold on the ground.

I grabbed my wind board, but decided not to use it this time, to avoid having to fall flat on my face again. I caught up to the others and we continued up north towards the village mentioned in the job request.

While we were walking through town, we heard a commotion at one of the stores and thought that maybe one of the demons entered the town. We went in to check it out, but what we saw was something a bit more surprising.

"What the hell is wrong with you guys, I told ya we ain't gat no money! We'll pay ya for 'em later!" Gajeel sneered gripping the store clerk.

"Gajeel stop it, you're gonna hurt him." Wendy shrieked. She, along with Charle, was struggling to pull Gajeel's arm so he could drop his grip on the store clerk.

Gajeel, the iron hard destructive delinquent, along with Wendy, the innocent little kid. It was an interesting team, I have to admit, but before I could say anything, Natsu was already in Gajeel's face.

"What are you doing here metal breath!"

Gajeel grunted and dropped the store clerk, "Who do you think you're talking to, you idiot bastard?"

Lucy interrupted the two, "What exactly are you and Wendy doing here, Gajeel?"

Gajeel pull out a sheet of paper from his pocket. He unfolded it revealing a job request. "It asks for at least two dragon slayers, and this raging idiot over here was nowhere to be found, so I took the kid instead."

Lucy turned towards Wendy and asked, "You actually agreed to do a job with Gajeel. What did he do, threaten you?"

"Hmm, actually at first I didn't want to go, but then he said if I came, he'd buy me all the candy I want!"

"Sometime's I wonder if Wendy even thinks before she does anything." Charle muttered. "I'm not even sure if I should call it innocence."

That's when Tanzeru said, "I'm curious, but why would they ask specifically for dragon slayers and even request for two of them."

Gajeel responded, "They say that there are about five young dragons flying around a village somewhere north of here, so the girl and I came to check things out."

Lucy asked, "Who sent the request?"

"Some guy, calls himself The Doc."

"Hey, our request says that too.", Erza pointed out.

I grabbed the requests from Erza and Gajeel and compared them. "The handwriting's the same." Then I began to wonder, so I asked Tanzeru, "Hey you don't think that it's gramps do ya?"

Author's Note: I was thinking about changing the point of view from Karina's to narrator's point of view. Tell me what you think, I wanna know before I make any changes. Trust me, this story is coming to a climax soon and I've planned something awesome!