One of my favorite head canons, as I love Laki/Kinana friendship and I love Kinabra. Obviously, I HAD to write it sometime.
Because of the past I invented for her, Laki's thoughts will sound relatively normal, but her pattern of speech will be like it usually is. She also tends to drop it around Kinana, since they're such good friends(and I'm lazy and my mom's yelling for me to go to bed. Sue me.)
Laki had always found her best friend a bit mysterious.
How could she not? The girl had shown up in the infirmary out of nowhere one day, with no memory and eyes full of daydreams and stars. She had never ended up remembering anything, except for often, in the beginning, looking around like she heard someone calling her name. She couldn't use magic, but always stayed at the guild, never even attempting to get permission to leave or look for her parents or old friends. An twelve-year-old(or at least that's how old she seemed to be), with no background and no family.
This mystery only intensified after it had been about five years since the Tenrou group had disappeared. Fairy Tail was in disarray and disgrace, with only about thirteen remaining members. Most had left, and the rest of their more loyal members had been killed on jobs, jobs they knew were too difficult for them and took anyway to try and help the guild. Twilight Ogre ran the town, and Laki was the only female wizard left in Fairy Tail. Kinana, being the only other girl, and she became natural friends. And it was then when Kinana confided in her best friend that not only had she been a snake minutes before Makarov brought her to the guild, but she had this constant voice, calling to her. One that she swore up and down she knew, and the purple-haired girl was convinced she'd find the source one day.
Laki, privately, had sworn to herself she'd do anything to help her friend find the voice's owner, no matter who it was.
It was then she thought it couldn't get any stranger, but of course, it did. After the Infinity Clock incident, Laki found Kinana walking around on her own a lot. She had developed a strange obsession with snakes a while ago(understandable, considering she had been one), but now it was like she could talk to them. Magic. But as far as Laki knew, Kinana didn't have a drop of magic in her body. The other thing, was Kinana had stopped mentioning the voice.
Even after the Grand Magic Games, Laki was still determined to help Kinana find her apparent friend. But the girl had no interest anymore. It made Laki suspicious. Had she found it and not told her? But why would she do that?
A very, very, mysterious girl, indeed. When she confessed to Max how strange she found her friend one day, Max laughed and told her, "Well, everyone says you're mighty strange too, so I guess you go together, eh?" Laki had laughed at that too. She did speak awfully strange sometimes. Her parents had both been writers, and they said that "Speaking creatively helps the creativity flow into you." She had developed that way of talking out of habit, and she probably could have broken it by now.
But after her parents were cut down by those child-hunters she escaped by a hair, Laki had felt a sort of duty to continue speaking like that, in their memory, and had learned Wood-Make Magic mostly for its allowance for creativity. And she was pretty good at it, too. Of course, if you were looking to become famous in the Maker Magic business, it probably would help not to be in the same guild as Grey Fullbuster.
It's not like we're still in the same guild now anyway, anymore...
After Tartaros and the subsequent unexplained disbandment, Mirajane, who was excellent friends with Kinana though the fact that they were both barmaids, invited her to come along with her, her siblings, and Kinana on their little adventure. This adventure had ended about three months after Fairy Tail vanished, when they had come across Blue Pegasus and Jenny had told them they should hang out here for a while. And everyone agreed, mostly because they wanted to see Elfman stuck with a bunch of pretty boys. The other may or may not have been seeing Mirajane when the Trimens started to get on her nerves.
Halphas was truly terrifying, indeed.
Kinana had gotten a job at their guild hall at the bar, and after two or three weeks the five had just rented a house together. Laki had never hung out with Mirajane, Lisanna, or Elfman before, but she was really starting to enjoy their company.
Master Bob and the rest of Blue Pegasus, having known Fairy Tail for so long, recognized that they couldn't bring themselves to join another guild, and were fine if they took a jb from the request board as long as they told the client Blue Pegasus sent them, and paid their own repair expenses. They probably heard the Demon Mirajane Going Overboard horror stories... Laki had thought wistfully. Makarov and his complaining about the damage expenses his brats had incurred...Laki missed those lectures, and she knew the others, here and wherever they are, did too.
At least she had Mirajane and Lisanna and Elfman and Kinana and all the rest of Blue Pegasus. She and Eve had actually become good friends, as Laki was always interested in torture practices from various places, and Eve was all too happy to provide examples from the Council. As he put it, in the middle of a conversation about dropping lemon juice in people's eyes, "It's nice to be able to drop the flirty little-brother persona for a little while." Laki had congratulated him on not adding "Of course, around someone as amazing as you, how could I not show you the real me?" or the like. This had made a nearby Lisanna laugh so hard she nearly died of asphyxiation at the Wood-Make mage's sparkly impression.
But it felt like she had less of Kinana nowadays. The girl would disappear, much like she used to before Fairy Tail was gone. But before, she would always tell at least Laki where she going. Now she wouldn't, and avoided any and all questions on the subject. Needless to say, Laki was very suspicious, and so was Mira when she told her about these vanishing acts.
So naturally, Mira decided that Laki should stalk her.
Kinana was being very evasive, slipping around corners and intentionally going through crowds, taking the longer routes and the ones that Blue Pegasus mages would be unlikely to travel on. It's obvious she doesn't want to be followed, but where is she... I lost her! Mira's going to be furious!
Laki did not want to be on the receiving end of the white-haired matchmaker's fury. Now, if I were a Kinana, where would I hide? Hmmm...knowing Kinana...there's that place in the woods where a bunch of snakes live...would that be too obvious? Eh, might as well check it out...
She turned into an alley she knew led to the outside, stopping when she reached the outskirts of the city Blue Pegasus was located in. She just had to go up the hill, by that broken-down church, and the woods were right beyond it. Kinana had dragged her to the snake's homes she knew the path through the forest like almost nothing. Kinana was the best at finding places, though...honestly, it was like the girl had super-hearing.
A right here, a left here, and it should be right up ahe- was that voices?
"What. Are. You. Doing. Here."
"Isn't it obvious? I'm making sure my latest pairing becomes canon."
"...The headphone-wearing menace put you up to this, didn't she?"
"No, the angels told me to do it."
"NO. Do NOT start talking about the damn angels! I hear enough about them from your mind to last a lifetime!"
And then a voice that was undoubtably her best friends, quietly whispering "...Angels."
There was a crash and a hysterical laugh, and Laki had to see what was going on.
She did not expect this.
Her friend was sitting on a tree branch with a white-haired woman Laki instantly recognized as Angel of the Oracion Seis. Evidently she had just yanked Kinana up into the tree to avoid a blast of what Laki assumed to be sound from the, well, sound of it. The blast had come from a one-eyed man who she also instantly recognized as Cobra, also of the Oracion Seis.
All the purple-haired mage could muster was, "What."
Kinana turned to look at her, wide-eyed and looking like she wanted to disappear on the spot. Angel also turned, but to look at Cobra, who was whistling.
"You have Listening Magic. You are always pointing out that you can hear everything. So why, Cobra, did you not hear her coming?"
"...Well..."
"IF IT WAS TO GET A REACTION OUT OF ME IT WORKED VERY VERY WELL GET THE HELL OVER HERE!"
Kinana jumped down from the tree, avoiding Angel, who had completely ignored Laki herself in favor of spring-tackling Cobra and trying to dismember him with her high-heel, from what Laki could make of the very confusing scene.
"Laki..."
The Wood-Make mage shook her head. "Mirajane's following me. Explain later."
Her friend suddenly looked very scared, and immediately let Laki take her hand and run off as fast as she could. If Mirajane found this...well, it would be interesting. Or at least that's what Laki was pretty sure Kinana was thinking.
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Laki wasn't one to jump to conclusions, but she had a hunch that Kinana's apparent association with Cobra might just have something to do with the fact that he was a Poison Dragonslayer who used listening magic, and had a snake, and that Kinana had gone crazy and disappeared during the Infinity Clock incident, and that Kinana had been a snake. It fit perfectly, which was why Laki was too busy congratulating herself on her brilliant logic to notice she was headed for a wall, and it took Kinana to drag her out of the way.
"You know, knowing Mirajane, I would think she'd have caught up to us by now."
Laki paused and let go of her purple-haired friend's hand, leaning against the wall. "The woman simply tasked me with stalking you to see what depths to which you disappeared, but as far as I am aware, she was not following me. I only said that to avoid questions before I heard you out."
Kinana took a deep breath...
And proceeded to accurately confirm everything Laki had thought, with the addition of that now the Oracion Seis were apparently on the light side and with Crime Sorciere.
"I find it hard to trust my own recollection that I put all the pieces together and correctly guessed your story."
"Well...you know me...I doubt it was that hard..."
"Kina. What sort of indignation is truly brewing in your soul?"
The girl shifted uneasily. "Crime Sorciere has to stay on the move so the Council doesn't catch them, and that'll mean Cobra will leave...I only just found my friend, and I'd...rather not lost them again."
Laki smirked a little, inwardly. She's blushing...Mirajane mentions pairings all the time...has our shy little Kinana found love? I wouldn't take her for one to go for the rebellious type, but you never know...Dang, too bad I can't tell Mirajane about this.."Your current desire is to take an adventure with them, right?"
Kinana flushed more, and sighed a little. "Yeah...but I don't want to leave you, either."
Laki smiled and put both hands on the other girl's shoulders, making a conscious effort to speak normally. Kinana started, surprised. "Listen. I know how long you've been looking for this voice, and I can see how happy you are, getting to spend time with the person it belongs too. Fairy Tail will revive. And then, we'll all be back together again. Go! Maybe you'll even figure out how to use some magic!"
"But...Mirajane?"
"I'll just inform her that you found your soulmate. She and her siblings should still be at the guild, if we find your stuff fast, you can avoid awkward questions, okay? Come on!"
Half an hour later, Laki used the trees and her Wood-Make magic to follow her friend up through the woods to a place that seemed like it had been a campsite very shortly before. Cobra was obviously expecting her to be there.
I really hope Mirajane believes the soulmate thing...then again, it's Mirajane, when it comes to love, no one dares question her.
Laki watched as a pink-haired squealing blur flew out of nowhere to knock Kinana over and subsequently Cobra, who couldn't even get an admonishment in as the caped girl excitedly babbled on about how happy she was that Kinana was actually coming with them and now she would actually have things to ship and etc. etc.
Kinana's head flickered back, for a second, and Laki was almost positive she saw the tree branch, bent into the shape of a thumb and ring finger forming an L shape.
Oh, Kinana. No matter how far apart Fairy Tail is, we'll always be best friends. Tenrou and now this are proving it, and if you really think that being the only two girls in a guild full of perverts isn't a life-bonding experience, then I don't know what's wrong with you. But you never really made great friends with anyone except me. Go make some more life bonds, okay?
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