Jayden looked at the huge building with pure awe, it was like a castle. Bailey grinned at Erza, "Why don't we do a full Fairy Tail homecoming?"
"A wha-" Jayden began to ask when Erza already kicked in the door, strength getting the better of her, the door got knocked off the hinges.
"Where home!"
The commotion in the guild from a brawl turned into a commotion of a welcome, that was until they noticed the little girl that stood rigid and uncomfortable. "Who's the brat?" The guild master, Laxus, asked. One blonde eyebrow perfectly raised.
That made Jayden grind her teeth. That wasn't her name. She wanted to stomp her feet and throw a tantrum. But she stayed composed, shoving away her nerves and making a small 'tch.' She crossed her arms and looked away from Laxus.
That made the guild laugh. Loudly. Jayden was proud of herself for getting a rouse out of them. "I'm Jayden. Jayden Scarlet." Jayden spoke confidently for a four year old in the middle of a bunch of powerful mages. The guild however, went into a down spiral. Loud yelling, confusion, and even a little out of control magic.
Mira fainted, almost on Jayden, as she was out from behind the bar serving some drinks. The girl jumped out of the way. Poking the fainted women, Bailey laughed. What an appropriate reaction. Erza finally shouted, "Enough!" her glare was level and dark. She knew the guild would be shocked, but this was a little ridiculous.
Wendy was the first to break the silence, "Uh Erza… is she serious? Did- did you really adopt her?" Jayden was obviously not Erza's by blood so adoption was the only way Jayden would have Erza's last name.
With a smile Erza nodded, "Yes Wendy, I did. It's a bit of a story so we'll skip it for now. All you all need to know is that Jayden is my daughter now. You will treat her nicely." The last part was stressed with that particular Erza glare.
Bailey rounded Jayden and threw a casual arm over her shoulders to all the other kids he shouted, "I'm already her best friend, so yall better not try to be her best friend either!"
"Excuse!" A pink haired girl shouted, a fire in her onyx eyes that showed she wasn't going to give up until she beat Bailey. "Just you wait you apple juice junky!" The pinkette raced forward and shook Jayden's hand excitedly. "Hi I'm Layla and I'm three years old! Let's be friends alright?"
Jayden was more than a little flustered by Layla, "Umm hi? I guess we can be?" Layla cheered, hugging Jayden. Already rambling about what the two could do together. Most of it seemed to include fighting though.
It was all a blur for Jayden. Kids and adults alike whisked her around, introducing and inquisitive. The first was another loud toddler, this boy was four and basically a carbon copy of his mother, Juvia Fullbuster. "HEY!" He shouted from behind her, "So what's it like living with Erza? It must be crazy!" He was energetic but not nearly as much so as Layla.
"I dunno, I've only been with her for a two days but it's pretty fun!" Jayden was pleased as could be to be talking about Erza. People here really seemed to respect the red head. "What's your name by the way? I'm Jayden." The girl grinned with a touch of mischief.
That made the dark blue haired boy blush, he had completely forgotten about introducing himself, Layla snorted, "Smooth snow for brains."
A glare came from the dubbed 'snow for brains', "Shut up flame breath!" He crossed his arms over his suddenly bare chest, "I'm Yukio Fullbuster. Hi Jayden!"
"Uh what happened to your shirt?"
"Huh? Oh damnit!" He began the search. Jayden just giggled at the oddity that was the Fullbuster boy. An almost identical looking girl came up behind Yukio, his dark colored shirt in hand. "Heh, thanks Ur." The boy said awkwardly.
"Of course dear brother, now was Layla picking on you again?" The latter half of the little girl's sentence became surprisingly venomous. The pinkette in question glared over at them from where she had gone to sit by her mother, Lucy.
"Uuh no?"
"What did I say about lying?"
The boy sighed in defeat at his sharp, stubborn sister. "Not to… look Ur, it's not a big deal." Yukio didn't like looking weak as many in the guild hated. Jayden just watched on, giggling, as Ur went to fight Layla. "Sorry about Ur… she's really…"
"Protective. Hey its okay! Just means she cares." Jayden thought it was kind of cute to be honest, but she knew that saying that would just embarrass the poor boy further. "Anyway, it was nice to meet you! I guess I should go make my introductions with the… many… many others." Jayden looked over the guild hall with a bit of horror. There were just so many of them.
Yukio seemed to realize her hesitance, "It's alright. They may not be tame but they're all pretty nice." he smiled at her. Getting a nod in response.
Setting off, Jayden bid him adu coming face to face with a blonde boy who ran into her because he couldn't see through his stack of books. With a oof they both fell on their backsides, books coming down on both of them, leaving more than a few bruises. "Ow ow ow, oh! Sorry!" The boy was in a titter trying to pick up his books while he made sure Jayden was okay, "Oh gosh I'm really sorry! Are you okay?"
"Uh yeah!" The breath was knocked out of her truthfully but she wasn't going to make the boy feel worse. "I'm fine, sorry I wasn't looking where I was going." Jayden apologized awkwardly.
"Ah it's alright! I shouldn't have been carrying so many books. Sorry, I'm Igneel anyway." Jayden had to raise an eyebrow at that, "Haha I know, don't look much like it huh?"
Jayden smiled at the bashful five year old, "Ah I think it's actually pretty cute!"
That only made the embarrassed boy blush worse as he stuttered, "Th-Thank you! Bye!" Igneel ran, well more like waddled awkwardly with his books, away. Jayden giggled as he made his exit.
"They are an interesting bunch aren't they?" Bailey asked from behind her, truthfully she had forgotten he was still there.
"Yeah no kidding. I like 'em so far though. But how many of you are there?"
"Us, Jayden. Us. You're one of us now." Bailey smiled, hands deep in his pockets. "Now let's see, the Redfoxes are out on a mission I think. Umm who else can you meet right now. Oh! Elliot should be here by now." Without thinking Bailey grabbed Jayden's hand and began dragging her. "Ell!" A tall white haired boy turned at the mention of his name. "Meet Jayden. She's Erza's new kid."
The twelve year old got unnecessarily hyped and moved into Jayden's personal space, "Hi there! You're adorable, just call me big brother from now on 'kay?"
Jayden blushed under Elliott's excited gaze, this boy was little weird, but what was she going to do? Be mean and say no? "Uh o-okay." Elliot definitely took after Elfman with his loudness as he lead Jayden over to a table the contained both his parents, Bixlow, and a very pregnant Lisanna.
"Dad! Ma! Look this is Jayden and she's my sister now!" Elfman choked on his beer, so did Bixlow but he did because he was laughing too hard. Jayden squirmed uncomfortably.
Lisanna smiled kindly at the uncomfortable girl as she pat her nephew's hair, "That's nice Elliot, now why don't you go let Jayden say hi to the others and help me think up more names for the triplets?" Elliot nodded, hugged Jayden one more time and moved to sit next to Lisanna.
Bailey waved goodbye to the family and brought Jayden to a more secluded part of the guild. "You alright kid?"
Letting out a big breath, Jayden nodded, "Yeah just… very interesting people. It's a lot to take in and all." Bailey nodded and pat her back. "Okay I think I'm good now."
"You sure?" Bailey asked.
"Yeah, yeah I'm sure. So who's next?"
"I think Storm, the Dreyar boys, and then the Redfoxes when they get back is it. Kid wise at least."
Jayden nodded and motioned in front of them, "Alright lead the way!" The pair walked together to the second floor of the guild where with the guild master Laxus sat two boys eight and five respectively the two were wearing almost matching resting glares as their father. The youngest however, grinned at them when they approached. "Hello!' Jayden grinned at them politely. It got a smirk out of the older Dreyar child.
Bailey motioned to Jayden, "Master, Zeus, Raiden. Meet Jayden, Erza's daughter."
The younger Dreyar, Zeus, offered out a hand, "Hi there nice to meet you." When Jayden shook his hand she felt a shock. Pulling away her hand she felt tears of pain well in her eyes, "Ah c'mon! It wasn't even that much electricity!"
Jayden's tears almost instantly fell away as she glared darkly at Zeus, she looked out onto the main part of the guild hall, "Erza!" She called, willing tears to come back to her brown eyes, "he's being mean to me!" Zeus looked like he had been caught with his hand in the cake icing. And when you're caught by Erza that's not something you want to be doing. Erza was there in an instant, her glare matching Jayden's previous one. Swords came at the ready as Zeus shook in his boots.
"Erza…" Laxus said warningly, the s-class mage didn't back down, her glare just transferred to Laxus instead.
"Well this is going to end well." The older Dreyar boy murmured, staring intently between the two powerful mages, and parents.
Since most people were staring at the powerful mages they didn't see the two children ready to lunge at each other. That was their mistake. Instantly with lightning in hand Zeus was trying to catch Jayden who in seconds lifted her oxen tattoo from her arm, letting the black in become colored into a muddy brown. The fur of beast hid powerful muscles, only large horns peaked out of the towering ball of fur and legs. Eight legs to be exact. Each stomping and pawing at the ground.
That put a halt in all proceedings as it was unexpected to say the least. Erza turned to try and calm Jayden, maybe get the beast back into tattoo form if she could so that it didn't charge the other child. Jayden though, her eyes were wild with anger and fear, they didn't recognize Erza. Slowly, Jayden brushed off Erza and approached Zeus who was scared just about shitless. The beast stood behind her at the ready.
Zeus stupidly charged at the beast getting only a light hit on the it before he was flung sideways by Borj's (the soul's) horns. The wood of the second floor began to creak under the weight of the large beast. In seconds, with one of it's legs still pawing at the ground the section of the ground containing Jayden, the beast, and Zeus collapsed, Borj reached the ground first, Jayden and Zeus falling on top of him.
The two started laughing.
Absolutely losing their minds laughing.
Laxus glowered at them from the broken second floor. "What the hell is so funny?!" He boomed.
The children stared at him. Borj disappeared from out under them and back to Jayden's arm. They landed in the pile of slightly splintered wood. "Uuh. Nothing?" Zeus said, more like asked. Jayden sniggered behind him.
The two turned and looked at each other judgingly for a moment, before Jayden offered up her hand. Zeus shook it without complaint and they both smiled, "This has been an adventure." He said decidedly, Jayden laughed.
"No kiddin'," Jayden replied, both were exhausted and because they are so young, drained on magic.
Layla started pulling them from the wooden wreckage, Bailey not far behind. "You two dorks okay?"
Zeus wiped sweat off his forehead, "Yeah, we're fine."
"Hey Jayden!" Layla called, "That was really call, what kind of magic was that?"
"Yeah I've never seen it before," Igneel added, a book of magics in hand that he was thumbing through.
"'S called tattoo magic. I basically absorb souls after they are killed or pass away and they become tattoos on my body. I only got two righ' now. Borj the one you just saw, and Paprah the cat righ' here." She motioned to it on her arm. "I summon them in battle to fight. I just need to get stronger so I can hold them out longer."
"Oh so.. Its kind like a mix of Mom's celestial magic and Elfman's takeover magic." Igneel concluded.
"I… guess?" Jayden wasn't sure what either of these magics where. She only knew about her own because she had it, she didn't really know anything about the world of magic.
"Here," Igneel handed her the book of magic, opened to a particular page, "Keep it." Jayden was going to protest until she saw the pretty picture in the book, it was of a woman's figure silhouettes in star light. Others stood to the left and right of her in various human and inhuman figures.
"T-Thank you…" Jayden murmured, slightly awed to be getting a gift.
Layla threw an arm over her taller friend's shoulder. "Aw c'mon Jayden dosen't want some book, what she should want is to team up with me!"
Jayden let the book comment go, "Team up?"
"Yeah! Like our parents! We could be team Layla!" Layla grinned widely, showing off sharp canines.
The whole group seemed to cringe at that. Horrible idea, they all save Layla decided.
"How many people can be on a team?" Jayden asked curiously, she wanted to know more about this team stuff before she agreed to anything.
"As many as we want! But we can't have too many or we won't make any money." Bailey informed, knocking of Layla's arm from Jayden's shoulder to lean on the girl.
"What do ya' mean we?! I ain't having you on our team!" Layla argued, taking a wide stance and waving her arm at Bailey.
"Who said you were on the team?" Bailey asked coyly an eyebrow raised.
"We can all three be on a team." Jayden said, trying to be a peacemaker between the two. Layla seemed to just want to fight just about anyone. "Actually I want to meet the others the uh Redfoxes right?
With some Fairy tail flair, the damn Redfoxes busted in the just repaired doors. Three kids and Gajeel and Levy all looked out onto the guild. Fallen second floor and all.
"Welcome back!" cheered the currently conscious members of the guild.
Lucy who was sitting with Erza called over Levy and her children. "Guys come meet Jayden. Erza just adopted her!" Jayden trailed over to where Lucy and Erza where.
"Wow really? It's so nice to meet you!" Levy shook Jayden's hand with both of her own. "This is my daughter Esmerelda, and sons Nico and Gale." Levy motioned to a nine, four, and eight year old respectively. Jayden was awkwardly awed at how pretty Esmerelda was.
"H-Hello!" Jayden squeaked out, offering her hand awkwardly.
"Aw aren't you cute." Esmeralda remarked, seeming to have her Mom's general attitude. It only made Jayden blush harder in embarrassment.
Gale, a dark, long haired boy looked over the guild, "It looks like somethin' happened."
"Yeah. That was Jayden here, and Zeus." Replied Bailey, grin secure on his face.
"Damn kid, not bad, not bad at all." Jayden glared darkly as she could.
"Fight me scrub, only he can call me kid!" Bailey busted out laughing, Erza gasped not believing Jayden just said that.
"Gihihi. Okay then. How about sweetheart?" This time it was Gajeel's turn to choke on his drink. Gale didn't so much understand what he was saying, mostly he was just emulating what he had heard his dad say to his mom.
Levy and Lucy on the other hand where almost down for the count because of the cuteness of it all. Jayden blushed darkly but nodded, "Fine. Then I'll call you something too. Uuum," She looked at his piercings, "Metal face." Lucy couldn't breath she was laughing so hard. Neither could Levy for that matter.
Not so happy with this chapter. Reviews would be loved.