It was day three of Sheele living in Fiore. She became roommates with Lucy and she was busy in the kitchen cooking breakfast as a way of thanks. If you can call it breakfast. It was originally meant to be a slice of bread, a fried egg, and two slices of bacon, but it became a slice of a burnt foreign object, another burnt foreign object, and two slices of a burnt foreign object. Not exactly appetising.
Lucy woke up in her bed and the first thing she smelled was something burning.
"No way. Don't tell me Sheele set the house on fire!" Lucy ran downstairs to the kitchen to see smoke coming out. When she entered, she saw Sheele on the floor, raw egg splattered on the walls, and smoke coming out of a frying pan. "I'm not going to even ask."
"Good morning Lucy! I made breakfast but it seems as though we can't eat it."
"No no, it's fine Sheele. It's really fine."
"Okay." She stood up and grabbed a mop. "I'll begin cleaning now-"
"No need for that." Lucy quickly confiscated the mop from Sheele. "You don't need to worry, I'll clean it up later."
"Oh, okay…" Sheele looked down in disappointment, but before Lucy could say anything Natsu and Happy barged into their house.
"Hey Lucy! Hey Sheele!"
Lucy screamed and kicked both of them in the face. "Get out!"
Both Natsu and Happy sat on the floor putting their hands on their swollen faces. "Why'd you do that? We only came to visit your new home."
"Well, what you consider visiting, is what I consider barging in!"
"Well sorry, we only wanted to visit…"
Lucy sighed. "Look, why don't you two enjoy some of Sheele's breakfast for us." She grabbed the frying pan and showed its contents to Natsu and Happy. The two of them stepped back from the horror and looked at Lucy with shocked expressions.
"By the way Lucy, I heard you have a new key." Sheele said with her hands clasped together in excitement. "If it's no trouble could you show me how it works?"
Lucy smiled and took out a silver key. "No problem. I've got a new key so I can show you how Celestial Spirit Wizard makes their contract with a spirit." Lucy then cast the silver key in the air. "Open, gate of the canis minor! Nikola!"
A small flash of light formed in front of Lucy and Sheele, and in its place was a small white snowman like creature. Sheele squealed in delight but Natsu and Happy looked disappointed.
"It's so cute!"
"Nice try Lucy."
"I'm not even gonna reply…"
Sheele grabbed the spirit and began cuddling it. "You're so cute and huggable."
"These spirits don't take a lot of energy to pass through their gates, so celestial mages keep them as pets. Now, I'll show you how we make a contract." Sheele knelt near Lucy and the spirit in awe, and Lucy took out a small notepad.
"Are you free on mondays?" The spirit shook their head.
"Tuesdays?" The spirit nodded their head.
"Wednesdays?"
"Well this is boring." Natsu commented, and Happy replied with the usual 'Aye'. Sheele on the other hand had sparkles in her eyes.
"And that's it. Now for a name...I got it! Plue!"
"Plue?"
"Plue! I love it!"
Natsu and Happy looked at Sheele with dumbstruck looks. "She's really an airhead…"
"Alright, now that's settled, we want you to join our team."
"Huh?"
"Although everyone in Fairy Tail are allies, we form groups so we can work together in missions."
"Okay, then I'll do it!" Lucy and Natsu then did a strange handshake that Sheele couldn't keep up with, being too making her way out of the house.
"I have to go to work today. But Mira said I could have sundays off."
When Sheele left the house, she could hear Lucy's screams from inside. She smiled at the sound. "I really do like it here."
She spent ten minutes making her to the guild, and stood at the entrance. As she walked in, she was greeted by the entire guild was circled around the person.
"I wonder what's going on…"
"Sheele welcome back!" Mira greeted her. "Meet our new member-"
"Sheele?" The guild separated so Sheele could see what the commotion was all about. When they did, she was greeted by an all too familiar face.
Hundred man slayer Bulat.
Sheele ran out of the guild hall.
Sheele sat under the big tree at the park, watching the leaves fly in the morning air. Kids were with their mothers enjoying the lovely day, playing tag and pretending to be mages. Sheele could only watch with a sad smile.
"Bulat's here."
"Mommy, can we get ice cream?"
"I should be happy, to see one of my friends but…"
"Of course son. Do you want chocolate or strawberry?"
"That means he died. I sacrificed myself so Mine could live. So she could grow with Night Raid. I wanted nothing more than all of my friends to live. If Bulat is here, then it means I didn't do enough to help them. I didn't-"
"Sheele."
Sheele looked up to see Bulat smiling at her.
"I'm glad to see you again." Sheele only teared up in response.
"Why did you have to be here? Why couldn't you live? I died and I didn't want anyone else to die as well. I did everything with no regrets, if it meant that Night Raid could save the world. I-"
"Sheele!" Bulat shouted at her. "Don't you get it?! We were all ready to die anytime! We may have died, but it wasn't your fault!" Bulat then lowered his voice. "Why won't you realize that? We all wanted to see you again…"
Sheele looked at the ground with sorrow. Bulat sighed and took a seat next to Sheele. "So, we're in a world with magic. If you don't mind me asking, do you know what your magic is?"
"I don't have magic. I was hired to be a waitress under Mira's recommendation. I wanted a peaceful life. I know it's selfish after all we've done but I've always wanted a fresh start in life."
"Is that so. Well, the master told me I have requip magic."
"Requip?"
"The ability to store items in a small pocket dimension."
"Wow! Can you demonstrate?"
Bulat let out a small laugh. "Sheele I just arrived at this place. I don't have anything I could store."
"That's true...hey Bulat?"
"Yeah?"
"How's Night Raid doing?"
"...They're doing great."
"Welcome back Sheele, Bulat." Mira greeted them from the bar counter. "I hope you don't mind but could you give this to table four?"
"Of course." Sheele ran to grab the dish and made her way to table four, occupied by Loke and his usual group of girls. Once again, Sheele tripped on air and caused the food to fly in the air, and onto Loke's head. The girls who were sitting next to him screamed in horror and glared at Sheele.
"That bitch!"
"How dare she do that to Loke!"
"I'll kill her!"
"Let's take turns! Dibs on her head!"
"Ladies, ladies." Loke said to them with his seductive tone. "It's alright. Why not get some water for me to wash this off?"
"Of course Loke!" The four girls chanted and ran off to get water. When they were gone, Loke put Sheele's glasses back on her.
"There you go, however I must say you look divine without your glasses."
"Huh?" Sheele asked with a blush.
"And I must say." Bulat said as he put his fingers on Loke's chin. "It's a sin to be this attractive." The entire guild remained silent at his statement.
"Eh?"
"Sheele." Laki whispered to Sheele. The two of them got along pretty well on Sheele's first day at the guild. "What's Bulat doing to Loke?"
"Oh?" Sheele turned to Bulat, and back to Laki. "He's gay."
"Eh?!" The whole guild cried out, Loke being the loudest.
"Sheele, he'd misunderstand right?"
"Speaking of um...I gotta go!" With that, Loke ran out of the guild.
"This feels familiar." Sheele put a finger to her chin and thought to herself. "Like deja vu."
"I'll take this job Mira." Bulat showed her a request form that made Mira gasp in shock.
"I don't know if you can do this Bulat. You're new to the guild and that's a very dangerous mission. You haven't even learned how to use magic yet."
"I think it'll be fine. As long as I have something to use as a weapon, then I can defend myself."
Mira sighed. "If you're certain, then I'll let you go. Be careful, this criminal has escaped many prisons with his magic. Take this with you at least." Mira grabbed a sword from the bar and placed it on the counter.
"Mira where did you get that?" Makarov asked her with an eyebrow raised.
"A gift from a client. He said that the blade is one of his best works."
"And you're giving it away?"
"Mhm." Mira replied happily, earning a sigh from the guild.
"Thanks Mira. Let's go Sheele." Both Bulat and Sheele ran out of the guild to begin their mission.
Sitting in their usual spots, Macao and Wakaba looked at each other with confusion.
"That Sheele girl doesn't have magic right?" Wakaba asked.
Macao nodded. "He doesn't. So why did she go with Bulat?"
In far off location from Magnolia was a lone tavern that seemed to have better days. It was located near a forest and the walls looked as though they were going to break anytime soon.
"So what's the details Bulat." Sheele asked while wrapping a knife she grabbed from Lucy's house before their mission.
"It says here that we are after an A rank criminal, Giacomo. He is responsible for scamming several merchants. His specialty is illusion magic and has one comrades whose identity is unknown. Wanted captured."
Sheele nodded and the two of them entered the tavern they were greeted by a sleeping innkeeper. Sheele walked up to him to wake him up, but when she got closer she saw that he was asleep, with the counter looted.
"Then they were here." Bulat said to nobody in particular.
Behind them, the door closed causing them to both turn around and see two people blocking the exit. A man with one woman on his sides.
"Correction." The man stated. "We're still here."
"That's the one on the poster Sheele." Bulat said to her, and unsheathed the sword Mira gave him. The two people laughed.
"You're going to fight two wizards with a regular blade? Just how much of a death wish are you asking for?"
"Come with us quietly, and we won't have to resort in violence."
"Who'd actually turn themselves in quietly?" The woman said with a mocking tone. "They're probably new wizards from Fairy Tail who don't even know what they're doing." The woman gestured to the Fairy Tail marks on Sheele's left shoulder and Bulat's right hand.
"Get them." The woman charged at Bulat and Sheele. Bulat swung his sword to his attacker, causing them to stop and take out a card.
"Prayer's Fountain!" A single jet stream of water gushed out of the card and into Bulat's direction. In response, he blocked it with his sword with ease.
"This is nothing compared to General Liver." He said, and moved out of the water's path. Bulat then charged to his attacker and hit them with the blunt part of the blade, knocking them out.
"I won't face retribution! Not now or ever!" Giacomo flicked his hand in the air and it began glowing a red light. "Orcs!" Three red colored orcs that had a size similar to Bulat formed out of nowhere.
"This is my strongest illusion! Now die!" One orc attacked Sheele and the other two went to Bulat. The one that attacked Sheele ran to her with it's spiked club raised, leaving the body fairly exposed despite the armour protecting it. Sheele spun to dodge the attack and cleanly sliced the orc's neck with her knife, causing the orc to fade. Bulat had also finished another one off, slicing the orc in half. The last one attempted to kill Bulat but he blocked the attack, and the two of them were at a stalemate.
"Sheele! Take care of Giacomo before he can use another illusion!"
Sheele nodded and ran to Giacomo. However he screamed before Sheele even got near him. "I surrender! Don't kill me!"
Sheele stopped and put away her knife as she watched Giacomo faint.
Shortly after the fight, a representative from the magic council arrived with a sack of jewels. The council located them using the lacrima that was included with the request. The lacrima signalled their location to the council which made things much easier for them.
"It seems as though this is really him." The representative gave them the reward. "And the accomplice is in the inn correct?"
"That is correct."
The representative nodded and took a look at the old inn. He then turned around. "May we also have your identities to confirm you are in Fairy-Huh? Where did they go?"
When he turned around, both Sheele and Bulat were already out of sight.
The two of them had returned to Magnolia. It was late afternoon and the two wanted to look around the city for an early dinner.
"Nowhere yet. Do you have a place in mind?"
"Mira told me that the guild owns a lodging place. However the rent is a hundred thousand jewels per month."
"A hundred thousand?!"
"Yep. It's why I want you to keep the reward. Pay your rent. I'll be fine since I still have fifty thousand from a request I did yesterday."
"Thanks Sheele. You know, i'm glad we were able to meet again."
"Me too Bulat." Sheele smiled. "Hey, let's go have dinner at Fairy Tail! Mira promised she would let me try a new dish for free."
(A/N) In case you're wondering, I am not shipping Sheele and Bulat. Bulat will always swing that way. So what are your thought on this chapter? Bulat has appeared in the story and we have an original event. Perhaps you guys have some feedback towards the portrayed emotion, action scenes, and a one-sided Bulat x Loke relationship.
Once again, thank you all for the reviews, favourites, and follows. They mean a lot, and I hope to see you guys next chapter!