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Since Makarov only told them to show up "tomorrow morning", Lucy and Myles didn't know when exactly to show up and the arbitrary time they chose, 10am, was an hour late. Can you really blame them? The guild paid for a hotel room until the two friends moved into the school dorms. After going without a hot shower for God knows how long and a bed that wasn't a sleeping bag, they weren't about it pass up on an opportunity like that. Despite this, none of the staff seemed off-put, which the duo was thankful for. They underwent a series of tests to "judge their magical abilities" after filling out some menial paper work (name, age, etc.). All of the staff seemed to be impressed by their abilities and gave them compliments after each exam. This could have just been common courtesy, but when the exam was over and they were placed with the graduating class, the two decided that the compliments were sincere. After the exam was finished, the two ladies were given their academy schedules and other information pertaining to school functions: dorm room numbers, lunch options, school rules, etc.
"Miss Levi? Would you be so kind as to show our new students around the campus?"
One of the student secretaries that had been busy doing paperwork, jumped up and rushed over to the two women. "My name is Levi McGarden and it would seem that I'll be your guide today. Please keep all hands, feet, and other appendages inside the car at all times."
Despite how corny it was, Lucy and Myles couldn't help but laugh at Levi's joke. She was a bit on the small side, though she appeared to be about the same age as Lucy and Myles. She had blue hair and glasses and was, altogether, very cute. Lucy and Myles introduced themselves and the trio departed.
While Levi was showing Lucy and Myles around the rather large campus, she engaged the two in polite chit-chat. As it turned out, the trio had much in common. They all loved reading, even though Lucy and Myles weren't able to find many books since leaving the Heartfilia mansion, not that either would let that little secret out in the first place. Who knew what they would do when they found out that Lucy was technically one of the richest young women in the country?
After departing the location of their first class, which they both shared, Lucy decided to ask the question recurring in her thoughts. "So what's up with this school? I never knew that schools for mages existed."
"I was wondering about that too. Why do we need to attend an academy if we already belong to the guild?" Myles asked in compliment.
"Well, the academy is basically a stepping stone into full-membership of the guild. Many of the bigger guilds have academies like this one where they teach upcoming mages how to use and appreciate magic. This helps to ensure a steady flow of members and general stability of the guild. Although ours is new: the current senior class will be the first one to ever graduate."
"What do you mean 'full-membership'? I thought the Master already made us members?"
"Well, he did. Basically, this academy teaches young mages like us how to live as a mage: like how to complete jobs, use magic, and other important things like that. A lot of members didn't like it when the academy was built and implemented, but it serves a good purpose. The world is a dangerous place, especially right now, and mages who weren't ready lost their lives. So, in order to better prepare upcoming mages, the academy was built. After you graduate from the academy and become a full-member, you can go on more difficult jobs with higher rewards."
"Ooh," said the two new mages.
"So, do you get to take jobs while you're still in the academy? This form says that rent for the dorms is 70,000 jewel a month." Lucy asked with trepidation.
"Since you're part of the senior class, you will be assigned to a team and will conduct small-time jobs with your team in order to pay rent. You'll also be graded on how well you complete the job."
"Interesting. I never would have thought that such a school existed," Myles commented.
"Even though it's a school, I still think it's a lot of fun, but that may just because I'm weird like that. A lot of the students go to hang out at the guild hall next door after class and on weekends, feel free to tag along. You can come with me and my friends if you want to," Levi said with a kind smile. "Well, I believe this is the end of the tour. It was very nice meeting you both. Now, if you don't mind, that paperwork is not going to do itself!" She said as she went back to the office.
At that moment, a loud, shrill bell sounded, signaling the end of the lunch hour, and students began to crowd the hallway. On the way through the halls, they overheard many conversations amongst the other students.
"Look! There's Gray. God, he's so sexy," said one girl pointing to the naked man from last night, who, thankfully, had his clothes on that morning.
"Yeah, his magic is really cool too!" said the girl next to her.
"I heard that his teammate was kicked off of the team because he was too busy flirting with girls."
"That's got to be Loke. He's always doing stuff like that."
"Oh! That's Natsu and Drake from Triple Dragons! They're my all-time favorite mages! They're so hoot!" A girl from another group said.
"That's only because Natsu walks around with no shirt and Drake has no interest in you, which only makes you want him more," scolded her friend.
Ignoring her, the random girl went on. "I wonder if they go through a mating cycle that makes them crazy with lust and one of them will be overcome with the desire to make me his! Or maybe they'll both want me and fight over who will have me and then the winner will carry me away and we'll spend the next week in bed together and we'll fall in love and have children and…" The girl continued to ramble on with large hearts for eyes and a heavy blush on her cheeks.
"Dragon Slayers are supposed to fight dragons, not mate like them. Jeez," said her friend.
"You know you can't stop her when she gets like this," said a third friend. "Speaking of dragons, why is the team called 'Triple Dragons' if there are only two of them?"
"Well, I heard that the third one defected for some reason…"
At that point, Myles and Lucy stopped listening. The two looked at each other as they continued to stroll through the campus.
"You really think there are Dragon Slayers here?" Lucy asked.
"I don't think that's even possible. Dragon Slaying Magic is one of the Lost Magics, how would they even learn it?"
"From dragons, of course," answered a smooth voice from directly behind the duo.
Startled, the two females turned only to come face to face to face with a boy with orange hair and blue glasses standing between them. Stunned by his statement and its implication, neither girl noticed that his arms were resting on each of their shoulders and he was subtly escorting them down the hallway.
"Seriously? Dragons? You can't expect us to believe that. Dragons don't even exist," Lucy said.
"That's what they both claim, anyway. Believe what you want; some people believe it and some don't. But who wants to talk about them? I'd rather talk about you two lovely ladies. You're beauty is so dazzling I can hardly see. I'm almost afraid to take off my glasses for fear of going blind, but how much more beautiful would you both be if I saw you without restrictions. Oh, the labors of love!" The boy narrated dramatically.
He was grabbed by the hood of his thick coat and shoved into the crowd of students filling the hallway. "Cut it out with that romantic shit and mind your own business, Loke," said Drake, suddenly appearing from the crowd of students with Natsu beside him.
Loke reappeared from the crowd, looking pissed and started to encroach upon Drake when he noticed the gate keys hanging from Lucy's belt. He began to freak out and run away, saying something about the 'cruelty of fate for not allowing their love to flourish'.
Drake didn't seem to mind Loke's disappearance while Natsu laughed at his antics.
"You two are the newbies from yesterday, right?" Natsu said as leaned in close to Lucy and began to sniff her.
Lucy didn't know how to deal with him being so close and how strange he was acting. This guild is so weird! She shouted in her mind as a blush appeared on her cheeks. "Um… what are you doing?" she said awkwardly after a few seconds.
"You smell nice," Natsu said with a big grin on his face, as if nothing was out of the ordinary.
"Idiot, you're making them uncomfortable" Drake scolded as he punched Natsu in the arm. It looked like a hard punch, but Natsu didn't seem the least bit affected, though he did back off. "Anyway, I'm Drake Rosarian and this is my friend Natsu Dragneel. Since we didn't get a chance to last night, we just wanted to say hello and welcome you to the guild."
"That's very kind of you," Myles said, recovering from the Natsu's strange actions before Lucy. "My name is Myles Andrelli and this is my friend Lucy He-"
"Is it true you were trained by dragons?!" Lucy shouted loud enough to cut off Myles and for half the hall to hear. Lucy realized it wasn't intentional but if people knew her family's name, everything would surely be ruined. In order to prevent that, she shouted out the first thing that came to mind.
"Uh…" Drake stuttered, confused by her random outburst. "Don't you think that's kind of personal?" He said awkwardly.
Lucy blushed again and began to ramble about nonsense from embarrassment, while Myles seemed to take amusement form her friend's behavior.
Natsu didn't seem to mind either, as he just cracked up. "You're so weird!" he said between laughs. "I like you guys," he said with another dazzling smile.
With his hands in his pockets, Drake shared in his friend's mirth with a smile of his own, displaying his own set of fangs. "I think I agree with you there, Natsu."
This time Myles shared Lucy's blush, which hadn't faded. That random chick from a few minutes ago was right: these two were hot.
We all know where this is heading!
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