Kisune ran back through the city, trying to feel for more of the statues through the city. She was looking for the seventeenth one, even though she could swear the last one had been seventeen.
Suddenly she felt the statue somewhat close by. She ran in it's direction and found it stuck in the crack of a wall. She looked around and found herself in the market place, near a stall selling bread. She looked up to the sky and saw the sun was a little past midday.

"I haven't even had a chance to stop and eat." She realized as she looked back to the bread stall. She browsed through the different loaves until she found a palm sized bun. She was about to take a bite when she got an idea. She looked around but couldn't find what she was looking for. So she walked through the market and eventually sighted the stall she wanted to find. She walked over to the meat vendor and bought a small slow roasted cut mildly seasoned with salt and rosemary to place inside her bread. She also bought some peppered cheese from the stall next door, then found a vegetable vendor two stalls down. She bought some fresh greens to place in it as well, and finally added a sweet sauce to garnish it.
It had taken a good few minutes to gather everything she needed, and the sandwich was looking better with each addition. Kisune was almost drooling over it as she finished putting the sauce on. And she was just about to take a bite out of it as she turned around to head to the Guild Hall... when she ran into someone with an 'oof'. She gazed on in dismay and almost horror as her sandwich flew from her hand and headed towards the ground. She was about to dive for it, when suddenly a hand caught it as best as it could, considering it was coming apart in mid air. Kisune looked up to see the savior of her lunch, and recognized the face of Not-Kazu's daughter.

"Fairy?" Kisune thought to herself. "Was that her name?"

"Oh my goodness, I'm so sorry!" Fairy said as she offered the sandwich to Kisune. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

Kisune reached out and took the sandwich from her. "No, it's my fault. I was too engrossed in my lunch to look where I was going. I haven't had the chance to eat today." She explained as she straightened her food.

"No, I was distracted. I had something on my mind." Fairy said, trying to assure her.

Kisune looked at Fairy and realized it wasn't going to go anywhere just arguing. "Alright, I see we're not going to go anywhere by trying to take the blame, so how about it's both of our faults." Kisune said with a smile. "But anyway, I saw you at the Guild Hall when we first arrived, but we were never introduced. My name's Kisune." She said, holding out her hand.

Fairy smiled as she reached out to take her hand, but stopped. She looked down at her hand, and when Kisune looked down herself she could see that the sauce had gotten all over Fairy's hand.

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" Kisune apologized.

Fairy just looked up and smiled at her. "No, it's fine. It'll clean off easily enough." She said as she reached into her pocket and pulled out a handkerchief.

Kisune stopped her short though. "Oh, let me. It'd be a waste to use such a nice handkerchief on something like this." She said, taking Fairy's hand.

"No, that's alright, it's fine." Fairy insisted.

"Nonsense, it's the least I can do for you saving my lunch." Kisune said with a wink. "Now hold out your hand." Fairy did so, and Kisune twisted the ring around her right middle finger and activated a magic circle over Fairy's hand, which water poured from. Fairy took her own handkerchief out and scrubbed Fairy's hand until there was no trace of the garnish on it.
As soon as she was done, Kisune magically dried her handkerchief and put it away. She looked up to Fairy, and noticed a look of held back excitement on her face.

"What?" She asked, somewhat puzzled.

"You're a ring mage too?" Fairy asked, clearly excited now.

Then suddenly Kisune remembered what Mira had said. "Oh yeah, Mira said you're a ring magician!" She said, her own excitement growing.

Fairy nodded. "Yeah, me and my father are. And up until now, we've been the only ones. I'm Fairy, by the way." She said, remembering she hadn't introduced herself yet, holding out her hand.

Kisune took it gladly. "Glad to meet you." She said with a smile. "But you can't say 'up until now'. I'm not a member yet."

"Oh?" Fairy looked puzzled. "Have you not gone to get your symbol from Mira?"

"No, she told me I had to train a little under Kazu first." Kisue replied.

"Kazu? Is that what your friends name is? I thought it was Breeg." Fairy said with a contemplative look on her face.

"Oh, it is his name." Kisune explained. "Breeg, anyway. I just call him Kazu because I just thought that fit him when we first met."

"Oh, I see." Fairy replied. "How did you two meet, anyway?"

"Oh, it's a fairly long story." Kisune told her.

"I don't mind. I don't have anything to do." Fairy said with a smile.

Kisune gave her a sideways smile. "Alright then. Well, it was only a few miles west of here when I was attacked by some bandits..."
Kisune began to retell the events of chapters four and five to Fairy as they walked and talked around the market place. She told her how fast he moved, his dust cloud tactic, how strong he was, and even his magic armor. And even how he had broken Kayman's scimitar with his own sword.
Fairy listened in awe, trying to interrupt as little as possible, but couldn't help it when she heard something fantastic and she just had to comment on it. But as Kisune wrapped up her story, Fairy just listened. She couldn't believe how skilled he was, especially since he could do all that without the aid of magic.

"That's just amazing." Fairy finally said. "He's definitely Erza's student."

"Mm. I've heard a lot about Erza since I've been here, but I've never seen her fight." Kisune replied. "I'd like to see how they'd do in a match."

"Yeah, me too!" Fairy said. "That'd probably be really exciting!"

"Yeah, maybe we ought to see if they w-" Kisune stopped as she looked to the ground ahead.

"What is it?" Fairy asked, concern in her voice. Kisune didn't respond right away. Instead she looked up to the sky behind her and saw the sun was getting ready to set.

"Oh my gosh, it's really late!" She exclaimed, turning back to Fairy. "We'd better head back to the Guild-" She stopped as she looked ahead. "-Hall. Oh, we're here." She said, surprised they had just walked back. She looked out, and there was Breeg, leaning against the wall, waiting for her.

They continued their approach to the Guild Hall. And when they finally approached Breeg, she set the statue down with the others.

"Took you long enough." Breeg said, leaning down to place the newest statue in line with the others. "I was about to go look for you." He turned to Fairy. "But I see it wasn't needed. Hi, Fairy." He addressed her as he stood up from where he was leaning and gathered up the other statues.

"Oh, hello." She replied to him, trying to imagine the man before her doing all the things Kisune said he had done. Also looking for any sign of the armor he was supposedly wearing.

Kisune watched him as he continued to gather the statues. "So... is that all of them? Did I pass?"

Breeg just waved his hand as he gathered them up. "Yeah, yeah. Flying colors."

Kisune was excited. She had passed her training, and was soon gonna be a Guild Member. "But I wonder what this had to do with joining the Guild, anyway?" She thought to herself. But she was pulled away from her thoughts as she heard Fairy call to her. "Kisune, come one! I want to ask you about your ring magic!" She said from the door. "Bye Kaz... I mean Breeg!" She said as she quickly ducked back inside, red in the face.

Breeg stood up and turned to Kisune. "Was she about to call me Kazu?" He asked her, placing a fist on his hip.

"Ummm... maybe?" Kisune replied, inching toward the door. She was just about to duck through it when Breeg called her back.

"Hold on, Kisune. I wanted to talk to you about something." Breeg said, beckoning her back over.

"...Like what?" Kisune asked, trying to read his face.

He sat down at the table, and gestured for her to do that same. After she had he began. "Kisune, I've decided to stay here in Magnolia, at least for a while. And since you're joining the Guild, I assume you are too. So I found an apartment building that we can stay at." Here Breeg noticed an alarmed look on her face. "In separate rooms." He continued, rolling his eyes. "They're a good price at 70,000 Jewel a month, and they're by the canal. Very close to the Guild, so we won't have to go far to find work." He said, pulling out the paper he had shown to Lisanna earlier in the day.

Kisune took it and looked it over. "But wait, why are you concerned with being close to the Guild? I can see for visiting purposes, but you're not a wizard, so why would you take their jobs?" She asked.

"I'm basically an honorary Guild member, and a mercenary. So I can go on teams if I'm invited or I ask, and I can take jobs myself." He explained simply. "Now, we're going to the apartment buildings tomorrow, so make sure you're up at sunrise. After that, you can do what you want for the day."

"Okay, sounds like a plan. I needed to go shopping anyway." She said as she was getting up. "Alright, I'll see you at sunrise, Kazu." She said, waving as she walked to the door. But she stopped just before she went to enter the doors and turned to Breeg. "Wait... What about the drill I have to do?"

Breeg looked over to her. "Don't worry, Mira will tell you when. But don't ask her about it, she'll just tell you."

"Oh, alright." Kisune responded. Suddenly she heard Fairy from inside. "Come on, Kisune!"

"Coming!" She returned. She was about to walk through thr door when she heard Breeg mumble something. She leaned back out the door. "What was that, Kazu?"

"I said don't stay up too late talking. Remember, sunrise. Otherwise, you had better have memorized the address on that flier." He said as he took a sip of the drink he was holding.

"Got it." She replied seriously. "Sunrise."

Breeg watched her disappear through the door, and then turned back to watching the sun on it's downward decent. He watched it not saying a word for a good few minutes as it sank lower and lower. Soon it was disappearing under the horizon. And with the last rays of the sun, he raised his tankard to his lips and mumbled something into his drink. A single word:

"... Someday."

Hey guys!

Like I said, I started school so uploads are gonna be a bit farther apart. I'm hoping twice a week, but we'll see.

Also, this chapter may get added on to/changed slightly, depending on the next chapter. I was originally gonna make this chapter a lot longer, but this seemed like a decent place to stop for now. So we'll see if I'm able to write enough of a decent next chapter to justify it getting it's own chapter. If not, I'll just update this one and add what I need to.

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