Chapter 5

A/N: Oh my gosh! I feel so bad. I haven't updated in so long. What has it been 2-3 weeks? Gah, I have felt horrible. One of you (You know who you are) came up to me in Lunch at school and asked me why I haven't updated, and I told you why. The reason (for the rest of you) why I haven't updated it because I kind of did some role play on the computer and my parents walked in on me… very awkward, because it wasn't appropriate… Yeah, so that's my reason for not updating. I'm so sorry that I haven't updated any of my stories. (Rising Star especially) I'll try to update more, because I'm out for summer! 3 months of pure computer time. Ahh, summer. ON TO THE STORY!

Date: July 7, X780

Gray walked past the fairy Tail guild hall heading to the back where he knew a certain someone would be relaxing there. A certain Light mage lay on the sand facing the sky, her eyes closed.

"Hey," he started, a smile started to spread across Hikari's lips. "Happy-"

She cut him off. "I've got something to show you!" She jumped up and placed her hands on her hips in a bossy tone.

Gray scoffed. When she said this it usually meant trouble on his part. Before he could give an excuse, she grabbed his wrist, and started running to the forest. "Are you showing me anything that can get me in trouble?"

She kept running without looking back. "No, but I can't tell you what it is. It's a surprise. "

"Ugh, I hate surprises." Hikari didn't comment , but never released her grip on his wrist. "Where are we going anyways?"

She stopped turned him around and pushed him into a clearing. "Here." She said smugly.

Gray got up and rubbed his bottom. He turned to see what Light was pointing to. "What is it?'

A white egg with black designs that looked like a cross between a raging fire and a graceful snowfall, lay protected underneath a giant magnolia tree. Light stepped between The egg and Gray. "It's a dragon egg, snowflake!" Her eyes were wild and sparkling with excitement.

"Really? Are you sure." He craned his head around Light to get a better look at the egg.

Light moved to the left and grasped her hands together, eyes still sparkling. "Yes, I'm sure!" She started jumping up and down.

"It's kind of a weird color for a dragon egg, isn't it?" both 10 year olds coked their heads to one side. Which ended up knocking their heads together.

"Come on! Help me carry it back to the guild." Light rushed to one side of the egg and started to lift.

Gray gave an exasperated sigh while running to help his friend. "Fine, but I'm NOT helping taking care of whatever hatches out of it."

"Deal!"

20 minutes later the egg sat proudly under the tree at the back of the guild hall.

"How am I going to get this back to my dorm?" light stared at the egg with a tired expression.

"How should I know?" Gray glanced at her with a confused look.

His ears perked up when he heard many gasps from inside the guild. "Wanna go see what all the fuss is about?" he jerked a thumb to the back doors of the guild. A slow smile stared to reach itself across his face.

Since Gray had smiled, Light started to smile. 'Yeah, sure…" she thought for a moment. "Race ya'." She took off running.

"Hey! No fair! You got a head start!" Gray shouted at her while he started to jog after her.

"Then catch up, Snowflake!"

"You're just as bad as Natsu!"

"I know!"

Meanwhile, behind the pair, a small crack appeared in the shell of the egg.

.:+:.

Light sat, laughing at the bank of the sea with Erza Scarlet, Mirajane Stratuss, Lissanna Stratuss, Cana Alberone (sorry if I spelled it wrong), Natsu Dragoneel, and Gray.

She leaned against her egg and admired the tiny sleeping cat the Natsu had on his head. There was a beautiful full moon barely peeking over the surface of the horizon.

Natsu clutched his stomach, "Really?! Wow ice princess, you're more of a sissy than I thought you were." Natsu started to laugh harder.

"I am not! Flame brain is more of a sissy than I am." Gray crossed his arms over his bare chest and his pants were somewhere in the waters of the sea. "He was scared by a tiny salamander."

"I was not! It looked like a snake." Natsu puffed out his chest defensively. "You were scared by a stupid ghost story!"

Gray's eyes widened. "Teddy is real. I've seen her!"

The group of friends laughed really hard, except Natsu and Gray who were starting to say embarrassing stuff about the other.

Light was laughing the hardest. This day couldn't get better. Her sister had forgiven her, she found an egg, and she was with her family. What could be better? She fingered the gold necklace she'd found after dinner. It was laid perfectly on the egg, like someone wanted her to find it.

A small movement came from the egg. At first Light didn't notice it, but then it became bigger and bigger. The movements becoming less smooth.

"Wha-" Light moved away from her perch.

"What's going on?" Lissanna quivered.

"I blame Erza!" Mirajane yelled.

"Natsu what did you do?" Gray shouted and pointed a finger at Natsu's chest. Mass chaos erupted after that. Friend turning on friend, brawls were heating up.

"EVERYBODY SHUT UP!" Light yelled as the egg started to glow in a faint gold light…

Light placed her hand on the egg, ignoring the protests of her friends. The gold light became brighter and brighter until in engulfed her entire right arm. When the blinding light faded, a small black kitten laid curled up in a small bundle of fur. The kitten opened its bright blue eyes and started to stretch her front paws; her hind paws; she yawned a few times. Her snout, tip of her tail, the bottoms of all four feet, and ears were white. While her wings and every other part of her body was black.

The seven friends stared in wonder at the tiny winged cat. She looked around, saw that Light was the closest person sitting down, and started to stride to her new companion. Within moments the cat had curled up in Light's lap and fallen asleep again.

"What cha' gonna name her?" Cana asked quietly, not daring to wake the tiny cat up.

"How about something cool?" Natsu was always one for imagination.

"How about something peaceful?" Erza stated.

"How about something that she would be lucky to have." Gray had overcome the awestruck thing that had happened.

"Lucky… Rakki!" Light pointed her index finger in the air. "Rakki Manka."

Her friends looked at her as if she'd grown two heads. "What? It's unique."

"What does it mean?" Mirajane asked, clearly as puzzled as the rest of them.

"'Rakki' is the Japanese word for 'Lucky'. Gray said 'something she would be lucky to have'. And she's the color of midnight. The Japanese word for 'midnight' is 'Manka'. Do you get my reasoning now?"

The friends all let out 'ooh's and 'I get it now's.

Gray looked at the tiny ball of fuzz. "Rakki… Manka… interesting."