Well, well, well. I'm picking up speed again... Or so I thought until the universe decided to slap me with a heavy dose of reality's bullshit. Also, my stupid brother keeps snagging my laptop from me; I'm putting restraints on his account as we speak. I ended up not writing for over a week *pulls hair out in frustration*. Excluding new years. The countdown party was awesome =D. but I digress, back to the main point.

Okay. So I'm starting my next sem of college tmr. And college means more assignments and that means even less time to write. FML. Also, I hope you guys notice, each AN here is based on when I'm typing it (however, one chap may have been written over a span of many days/weeks), although I reuploaded all the chaps at once. Yeah, I've ranted enough. Onto the next chapter.

WARNING! FT AIN'T MINE, SLOW UPDATES, POSSIBLE OOC-NESS AND LIGHT CUSSING. But expect good grammar, cause I can't stand bad grammar (no offense to anyone out there), reminder that is is a record story and will change at whim.

Rewritten 4/1/15-16/1/15, Uploaded 21/10/15

Recap!

"Come on, this is your party. Go make friends with them"

Looks like I could get used to this new Fairy Tail.

"PARTY TIME!" Everyone yelled out simultaneously.

'The new member looks strong! I wanna fight her!' Was what Natsu Dragneel was thinking as he stood atop a table and began spewing his flames all around the guild, causing many people to yell at him to 'knock it off', including one Lucy Heartfilia.

"NATSU!" Lucy ducked under a table and yelled at him. "STOP SETTING THE PLACE ON FIRE!"

"LUCYYYY! I WAS RIGHT! SEE? SEE? SEE?" He stopped the stream of fire and went to help Lucy out from under the table.

She took the dragon slayer's hand and sighed. "Yes, yes Natsu you were right. Now please try not to set the guild on fire."

"OK!" he got caught up in the madness that he just said yes without even thinking, before going and flaunting his victory to Gray.

Meanwhile on the other end of the guild…

"Kyah!" Runa yelped unintentionally as she barely managed to dodge a chair that flew past her head. "Since when did the parties become this extreme?!"

She ran around looking for the person she had put tabs on to freeze. After some dodging, greeting and random small talk later, she spotted who she was looking for. He had brown hair and was smoking a pipe (we know him as Wakaba), talking and drinking with a purplish-blue haired guy (Macao) and a brunette girl wearing a blue bikini top, hugging a barrel of beer (Obviously, Cana). She hid behind a pillar to listen into their conversation before a disturbingly unreal fact about the scenario before her registered into her head.

'Wait, what? A barrel?! Did I hit my head too hard 20 years back?' she thought to herself, blinking a few times to verify what she seeing wasn't due to hallucination. Her jaw dropped slightly when she decided what she was seeing was, in fact, very real.

"That's one new hottie we've got in the guild, huh Macao?" Wakaba took a puff from his pipe and commented to Macao.

"Hey now don't forget. Master said she's an old member." Macao replied, ducking from a flying mug courtesy of their resident champion drinker.

"Old member, new member, *hic* doesn't matter! As long as they can *hic* drink!" Cana said, obviously already drunk even though it was barely 10 minutes into the party. Runa's eye twitched slightly, thinking: 'what's with that forced reasoning?!' and resisting the urge to facepalm. "And anyway, *hic* Wakaba, don't tell me you're gonna risk your wife's *hic* wrath by hitting on that new girl?"

"OH HO. That bastard is married huh?" Runa said to herself with a sinister smile creeping up her face.

"CANA! Please do not mention my wife here!" She saw him shiver, and decided it was now or never.

"ATTAAAAAACKKKK!" She charged from her hiding spot with a fist held in the air towards the unsuspecting Wakaba. Cause, who in the guild takes notice of the commotion around them anymore?

Runa slammed her hands to the floor and a mountain of ice crystals appeared from the floor, now replacing what used to be Wakaba. His face was frozen in shock in the ice. Needless to say, it was priceless. Best part was, it all happened so fast, no one knew what had just happened.

"GAH! What just happened?!" Macao fell to the floor in shock since his friend had just been turned into a block of ice.

Cana, being as drunk as ever, was only half aware of her surroundings and apparently just yelled whatever came to her mind. "WOI! GRUUUURAY! WHY'D YOU FWEEZE MY DWINKING BUADDY?!"

Gray snapped his head towards the other end of the guild where the commotion happened, was completely pissed off with an incredulous look on his face.

"WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU TALKIN' ABOUT?! I HAVEN'T MOVED AN INCH FROM THIS SPOT!" Gray yelled back, now obviously annoyed for being blamed. "GO HOME, CANA! YOU'RE DRUNK! As usual…"

"OH YUAH? THEN HOW'D YOU EXPWAIN THIS?!" Cana screamed accusingly, pointing at the chunk of ice where a frozen Wakaba was sitting.

"Cana, COOL IT!" Macao yelled from the floor, not noticing the irony of his statement.

The place turned into an even bigger madhouse. Runa, who had been standing by looking at the mayhem unfold, began rolling on the floor, laughing, unable to control it anymore. Probably not the best idea with her one piece tattered white dress, but she could care less at this point.

"Ok, ok, I'm good. Sorry for freezing your, um, 'drinking buddy', but he pissed me off with his comment and I just felt like using my magic on someone." She got up from the floor, wiping the tears that came out before apologising sheepishly. It looked kinda cute (although unbeknownst to Runa herself), and a few guys had nosebleeds. Thank goodness Runa didn't notice.

This got the attention of Gray and Natsu, who began racing over to interrogate her.

"Wait, that was you?! You use Ice make magic too?!" Gray had halted in front of her, causing the person in question to blink blankly at him in shock and Juvia to break another table in fury.

"Yeah? But it's not exactly ice make. Just normal ice magic I guess?"

"Well, I use Ice make, and it's good to have another ice mage in the guild." He looked pointedly at Natsu who was internally despairing. "So, nice to meet you I guess."

"NO! NOT ANOTHER ICE PRICK!" Natsu yelled out dramatically from behind Gray, looking like the world was coming to an end.

"WHAT THE HELL? Call me that again, PINKY, and I swear you won't live to see tomorrow." Runa glared at Natsu.

He just grinned. "Bring it." Then he lunged at Runa, his fist erupting into dazzling flames.

"A fire mage huh?" He did seem strong to Runa, but from what she could see, he wasn't very bright. After all, he just charge at her without thinking like a typical Natsu. She dodged him, and then sent him flying with a swift KICK.

"Natsu!" Lucy yelped and ran off to help her partner.

Natsu was sent crashing through the walls, before he landed in the pool with a loud plash. 'Wow, we have a pool?' Runa thought.

"WOAH. Did Flame Brain just get pummelled by the new girl?" Gray spoke with shock in his voice and amusement on his face.

"I have a name mind you! And for god's sake Gray, go put on some clothes!" I burst out.

"What? You know my name?" Gray now had a blank look on his face; completely ignoring the fact that he was stripped down to his boxers. Thank goodness Runa had her fair share of half naked guys, thanks to those 'idiots' (as dubbed by Runa herself) they had travelled with; otherwise she'd have knocked Gray to next week.

"Tch, I hear and I remember. Unlike you." Runa clicked her tongue and huffed.

"Soooooomeone's got character." Cana slurred.

"Heh I remember more than that." And she began naming the people she knew, pointing at each one as she said it. "The guy I froze is Wakaba, that guy is Macao, The drunk brunette is Cana, that's Mira and Erza, and the pinky I sent flying is Natsu."

"Sent flying huh? How bout we see whose ice is stronger then?" Gray mused, then proceeded to make his bold declaration of challenge.

"You're on." Runa snickered after a brief moment of thought.

"Ice Make: Floor!" Gray had made the first move almost immediately, freezing half the guild floor, making most people slip and fall. Not to mention Runa's cloak flew off.

Runa jumped out of the line of direct fire, landing on a table, and then sneezed.

"I really hate you right now…" she muttered under her breath.

"Ice make: Spear!" Gray proceeded to launch another attack.

"Crap!" Runa cursed as she was going to dodge, only to realise her back ran straight into a pillar. Thinking quickly, she rolled to the side and off the table, making a small trap of sharp spiky ice under Gray's feet. Blame him for stripping down to his shoes.

"OUCH! DAMNIT! Where are my shoes when I need them?!" Gray cursed, jumping out of the patch of rough ice, halting his attacks temporarily.

"Seal!" Runa saw this as a perfect time to retaliate and launched her attack. A magic circle appeared at Gray's feet, sealing his movements with swirls of ice on and around him, while sending cold shockwaves throughout the whole guild.

She then ran at high speed towards him, punching him and sending him flying in the same direction as Natsu. The spell disappeared as Gray did, while Runa calmly adjusted her slightly tattered white one-piece and sneezed, shivering a little.

"HA! I win!" she gave a victory sign, before starting to sneeze again. "ACHOO! Gah, I really hate the cold. ACHOO!"

"But you're an ice mage. Why do you hate your element?" Lucy asked, seemingly done with helping pull Natsu out of the pool.

"I don't hate the ice. What I hate, is the cold. I just cannot take drastic temperature changes. ACHOO!"

"YOU'RE AWESOME!" Natsu's voice rung from behind Lucy, unsurprisingly enthusiastic. "Here's your cloak. Let's fight again sometime!" and he handed Runa her cloak.

"Thanks…" She gratefully took it and wrapped herself with it.

It was then Erza decided to approach Runa, pushing Natsu and Gray out of her way. The two responded with a 'hey!'; They instantly regretted it when they saw who it was. Glaring, Erza had a telepathic conversation with them and they scattered, along with more than half the onlookers from just now's fight. Making Erza mad was a sure-fire way to get killed, and none of them wanted to die just yet.

"… Uh, Erza?" Runa quietly asked the redhead, since an awkward aura had fallen upon their area of the guild.

"Ah, right. Runa, welcome to the guild. I must say, it was impressive how you oneshotted Natsu and Gray just like that." Erza remembered why she was here and turned to Runa, giving her a hard slap on the back as she said that. Runa stumbled forward at the sudden action, wincing.

"Oww… Err… thanks? But it's nothing, really." Runa sheepishly waved it off, rubbing her slightly sore back.

"It was something. Not many people can just one-shot those two." Erza jabbed her thumb toward the two in question on the other side of the guild, looking like they were about to start another fight.

"There's a reason those two are part of the strongest team in Fairy Tail you know?" Macao stated from his seat.

"Ooohh! The strongest team? Who's in it? Who, who?" Runa's eyes sparkled in anticipation. She was eager to know more about the guild she had lost so much time with.

"Well, Team Natsu consists of Natsu (duh), Gray, me, Lucy and Happy." Erza told her while counting off her fingers. "At first it was just Natsu, Lucy and Happy. Then after a few jobs, we just ended up gathering together, so we decided to officially make a team."

Runa blinked blankly a few times as her brain registered what Erza just said. Then she jabbed her thumb at Natsu and Gray who were trying their best to not fight in front of the requipping redhead, but still glaring at each other nonetheless.

"Those two destructive dimwits," She started, raising a sceptical eyebrow. "Are part of the strongest team?"

"Unfortunately… yes." Lucy sighed, glancing in the general direction of her two destructive team members. "Seeing that they break things on a daily basis…"

Suddenly, a loud crash was heard from behind them.

"BRING IT STRIPPER!"

"THAT'S MY LINE ASH-FOR-BRAINS!"

With that, the two idiots began fighting again, causing Runa and Lucy to whip their heads towards them. Not to mention Erza, who looked positively livid at this point.

"ARE YOU TWO FIGHTING AGAIN?!" she yelled at the two, causing them to freeze in their tracks and immediately put on the façade that they automatically employ in such… situations.

"W-we're not fighting Erza!" Gray stuttered. "We're the best of friends!"

"A-AYE!" Natsu followed suit and the two put their arms around each other's shoulders, trembling slightly under Erza's glare.

Runa thought for sure that the two were completely screwed. Unfortunately, Fairy Tail's logic is never in line with the rest of the world (neither is Erza's), and thus the shock that Runa got was equal to a bus running 130 on the freeway and slamming into her mind.

"Hmph. Good to see that." Erza gave an approving smile and walked off to the bar.

"…..HOW DOES SHE NOT SEE THE FAKENESS OF IT ALL?" Runa screeched in her mind. Outside, her face remained stoic and in shock.

Beside her, Lucy deadpanned. "Until now I still don't know how she doesn't see it."

"…Tell me about it." Runa replied and facepalmed.

"Right!" Lucy then turned around and smiled at Runa. "Hi, I'm Lucy."

She smiled back at her. "Runa. Nice to meet you."

"Same here. Welcome to the guild."

"Thank you. Anyhow, are the parties here always this insane?" Runa said while calmly dodging another flying table.

"Afraid so." She replied with a sigh.

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This was gonna be one heck of a party.