Lana stared at the board of requests.
'Hmmmm...? Which one?'
She continued to search for a job request, but there were so many -theatre help, missing person, robbery, magic spells, missing objects- that she could not decide. Besides her had stood the two fellow men; or hostages, that looked at her blankly.
She had felt the awkward stares and turned her head.
'W-what is it?' she asked them.
'Uh. Well, I wouldn't say it's anything but...' Natsu said with hesitation. 'We have been here for about two hours,' Happy finished the sentence for Natsu.
'But I can't help it!' Lana protested. 'It's hard to choose!'
They looked at her plainly, then they huddled together.
'Doesn't she just remind you of Nab?'
'Aye.'
The two whispered to each other.
Irritated, Lana ignored them and continued to search. Her eyes went up and down, looking at all pieces of paper. She gave up. There was no way she could choose from all these, so it came to her final decision to solve this problem. Lana slowly closed her eyes. Natsu and Happy noticing, looked at her closely, seeing what she was about to do. Lana then took a deep breath and raised her hand. Suddenly, she pointed at one of the requests with her index finger and opened her eyes to see which job she had pointed to.
'Okay I decided,' she told them.
She then smacked the paper into Natsu's face, knocking him backwards. Startled, Natsu held onto the paper as it descended into his hands. Natsu and Happy gathered around the paper, looking at the information.
'We're doing this request!'
Natsu flung himself onto a roof with the help of Happy.
'Oi! Lana! Where are you?!' Natsu had shouted out.
Apparently, the three were split up and Lana was nowhere to be seen by the flying cat and pink mage. They were chasing the culprit, a criminal that had been stealing in this town after he had escaped from prison. After finally managing to find the wanted man, it seemed that he was also a wizard with invisibility magic, and had suddenly disappeared from their sight. Then when they were searching and tracking down the very annoying invisible dude, they had somewhat lost each other.
There was a loud crash by the buildings on the other side of the town, attracting the focus of the two lost guild members.
'W-what?' a confused Happy asked in surprise.
Natsu looked, and suddenly, he had felt something, familiar, almost nostalgic.
This smell.
'Happy, let's go!' Natsu had commanded.
'Aye sir!'
Happy grabbed hook of Natsu and then they were flying through the sky. Soon they hovered above the scene of where the crash had happened.
'That's Lana!' Happy reported.
Happy was right, it was Lana. She was running, and abruptly, she had stopped in her spot. It was Einswein Holnot, their wanted man. Without a second thought, Natsu let loose of Happy and was soon falling down in the air.
'Natsu!' Happy shouted in fear.
But the mage had swiftly landed onto a roof near the two, there were no injuries.
Noticing the other wizard, Einswein activated his magic and turned invisible. Although this, Lana reached to the right side of her waist and pulled out, a celestial key. Upon seeing the scene, Natsu was shocked.
It's the keys that Lucy had.
'Hirake! Shojokyu no tobira! Virgo!'
The ground rumbled and shook. Out of the ground, the celestial spirit, Virgo, appeared. Natsu was now speechless, he could only stand on the roof he was located.
Virgo. It's Virgo.
It had been years since he has seen the maiden. Of course, every since that day, without Lucy, there was no one to summon her to Earthland.
'You summoned, Hime-sama?' Virgo asked.
Hime-sama?
'Virgo. Bind.'
'Understood.'
Virgo unleashed her chain as they grew longer. She flung them and wrapped and chained something that seemed to look like air. Natsu knew it was Einswein. It was as if Lana was controlling Virgo like a doll.
How is she able to detect where he was? I could because I recognized his smell.
Einswein's magic wore off and he was once again visible. Natsu jumped off the roof and landed on the ground near Lana and the others. Happy with his wings flew to the scene.
'Well that was easier than I thought,' Lana said cheerfully.
'I-it did, didn't it?' Natsu asked.
'Aye!'
'Are there any other problems, Hime-sama?' Virgo asked, coming out of the blue.
'Not much,' she told Virgo then directed her attention to Natsu. 'Could you hold on to our criminal, Natsu?'
'O! Leave it to me!' Natsu responded.
'You may go back now,' Laba told the celestial spirit.
'Yes, Hime-sama.'
Virgo glistered and disappeared back into the spirit world. Lana now moved her attention to the man that she captured.
'What do we do to him?' she asked.
'We put him in prison!' replied Happy.
Einswein chuckled.
'It's not over yet.'
Without having time to ask what he had meant, Lana, Natsu and Happy had soon heard the sound of many men running towards them. They turned to find themselves surrounded by criminals, probably Einswein's comrades. The mens smirked and chuckled.
'You bastard!' Natsu said when he looked back at Einswein. Einswein grinned just like his friends did.
'Charge!' one of the men shouted.
All the other men shouted in respond and charged at the four mages. Einswein broke loose and ran to the crowd of his men. He then activated his magic once again and disappeared.
'Kuso!' Natsu cursed at his own stupidity.
'Karyuu no tekken!' Natsu shouted as his hands lit on fire and he punched through a crowd of the men. But there was so many they just kept coming.
As Natsu continued to attack at the followers of Einswein, Happy flew to Lana and grabbed her as he slowly lifted her off the ground.
'W-what are you doing?' she demanded and answer from Happy.
'It's too dangerous Lana. Just leave it to Natsu,' Happy told her.
Lana didn't like this. She knew that she could fight and that it wouldn't be that dangerous. It wasn't like they were fighting dragons. As if that would ever happen.
'I can fight too! Now put me down!' Lana commanded.
She struggled and fidgeted until Happy was willing to let her go. As this was going on, Natsu continued to fight the mob.
Slowly landing onto the ground, Lana took out two gold keys from her right of her belt.
'Hirake! Kinyuukyuu to Tenkatsukyuu no tobira! Taurus to Scorpion!'
Both keys shone and appeared both Taurus and Scorpion. Natsu and Happy, and all of the men were shocked.
H-how can she summon two spirits at the same time? And their both gold keys! Natsu looked in awe at Lana. She did not seem tired from summoning all those celestial spirits, even though she has already summoned a total of three.
'Attack!' was all Lana had told them to do.
'Leave these people to me Natsu.' she told him. 'Go after our culprit.'
Natsu nodded and started to chase after the invisible man. Happy followed.
Taurus used his giant axe-thingy and attacked at the men, making all of them scream and scramble from being chopped. Scorpion used his sand magic and blinded most men and then created a sandstorm, sending most flying in the air. Lana also fought alongside with them, and soon all the men were either half-dead, landed somewhere or retreated. Lana told the spirits that they could leave now and they bowed while glittering and vanished back into their world.
Meanwhile, Natsu tracked down Einswein with his smelling ability. He was still wary of the smell of the man because he had yet been with him for that long, but he could tell where he was. Natsu ran with Happy following him. This was until Natsu stopped in his tracks when he knew the he was near.
Without a second thought, Natsu attacked.
'Karyuu no Houkou!' he shouted as he roared fire at the air, burning their mister invisible guy.
Einswein's magic once again worn off and with left with a burnt half-dead man. Lana caught up and they brought their wanted man to prison.
'Yes! We finally got paid properly this time!' Natsu cheered.
'Now all we have to do is go back,' Lana said.
This was not a good sign for Natsu, as he knew the only way they can go back to Magnolia is by...
Transportation.
Natsu turned green and puked most of the way when they were going home. Lana nervously laughed at the situation, but was grossed out most of the time.
When they had finally reached home, Natsu was feeling better and had felt as is he was in heaven. They entered their guild and was greeted by Mirajane.
'Mirajane-san!' Lana said.
'Welcome back.' greeted Mirajane. 'How was your first job with Natsu as a Fairy Tail guild member?' she asked.
'It was really fun!' she breathed out.
'Well that's good,' Mirajane said, smiling. 'Oh! And also, just call me Mira.'
Lana's face lit up. 'Hai!'
They seated themselves onto a table. A shadow overlapped their table, making Natsu, Happy and Lana look up. It was Gildarts.
'Lana, Natsu, Happy, come with us,' he told them, pointing at the direction of where Juvia, Gray, Erza, Wendy, Carla, Gajeel and Pantherlily had stood. 'You too, Mira-chan.'
They were led into one of the private rooms for discussion in the building. They were seated, all eight of the mages and the three exceeds hovered in the air.
'I have called all you youngsters for something very serious,' Gildarts declared.
Natsu and Gray gulped.
'We have found out about who had murdered our former Master, Makarov Dreyar.'
Everyone gasped at this, except for Lana, who did not understand who this Makarov, was.
'And as for this,' Gildarts paused for a moment before continuing. 'You are all assigned to a task, as you guys are by far the strongest members of this guild.'
'A task to destroy the dark guild, Black Blood.'