Meeting the family

Chapter 3

As we came inside the massive guildhall, the first thing I noticed was that noise. There was screaming, laughing, and other unnamable noises. I took myself to my ears from the noise.

"Come on Jack it's not that loud" Sapphire said. So I tried to act cool but that was really hard.

We walked up to the bar past two young men throwing insults at each other. Weird. Aren't they supposed to all be friends since they are in the same guild? As we reached the bar, a whitehaired barmaid walked up to us.

"Welcome back Sapphire. Did you complete you mission?" she asked with a very happy voice spite all of the freaking sound. She noticed me standing besides her looking around.

"And did you get a boyfriend along the way. He looks cute," she whispered in Sapphire's ear. I heard her and turned around with a surprised look. That was a bold statement to make.

"Mira!" Sapphire yelled, "That's not funny, I saved him from another guild who didn't want to let him leave and offered him to join ours."

"Oh I see. Well then." She clapped her hands in excitement, "Kinana, do you mind taking care of the bar for a few minutes!" a girl with purple hair came over.

"Would you please come with me…Uhm?"

"Oh, Jack. I'm Jack Greyhound nice to meet you."

She walked into a small room with two chairs, took a notebook out, opened on a blank page and sat down. I instinctively sat on the opposite chair.

"This is the 'fairy tail member's initiations test' to see if you classify. Please answer all questions honestly. Do you understand?"

"Yes and before we begin I have a friend named Zeke who will most likely join later, is that okay?"

"Sure. I will tell the master afterwards. First question. Have you been in any other guild before this one?"

"No."

"Do you have any fighting experience?"

"No not really but I have trained for it against magic dummies."

"Good. Have you ever taken any freelance jobs?"

"No. I have never been on any jobs."

"Do you know anyone in the guild?"

"I know Sapphire a little bit and I have heard of some of you before. Like you for example. I 'know' you from sorcerer weekly."

"Ok last question. Do you have a crush on Sapphire?"

"Wha... I don't… what kind of a question is that?"

"Please answer. You said you'd be honest."

"I … Um… I guess…"

"I'm kidding. Don't answer. The color of your face says it all. I'm Mirajane Strauss, but please call me Mira. Welcome to Fairy Tail." I sighed out load.

"There is no initiation test is there?"

"No not really."

We walked out of the room and into the main hall, and Mira asked a woman in armor to make everyone be quiet. The woman stood up.

"Everybody shut up Mira has something to say."

The guild must really be scared of this woman because everyone immediately went silent. I let out a relieved sigh. Finally a moment of silence.

"Everyone this is Jack he's a new member of the guild. He's never been in a guild before so be nice to him."

"H-hi." was all I could manage with everyone staring at me. A boy about three or four years older than me came up to me grabbed me in a headlock and started rubbing my head.

"Welcome new guy. I'm Natsu Dragneel. The best dragon slayer around."

"THE Natsu Dragneel. As in, beat Rogue and Sting singlehandedly in the grand magic games. You're like… my idol," it already felt like I was loosening up a little being around these people.

"Well I've been bored for a while and gray is not fun to fight anymore, do you wanna go train."

"Uhm… well I just joined a new guild and I only know three people here, plus I don't want the first I do in this guild to be getting beat up by Natsu. So maybe later. I'm sorry."

"No need to apologize I'll see you around."

"Don't mind him. He always wants to fight when someone new joins. I'm Lucy."

"Hi, your Natsu's girlfriend right?" I said not knowing the divine punishment that was coming my way. She bonked me hard on the head.

"He's not my boyfriend! Why would you even think that?"

"Well when I walked in the guild I walked past him and that guy over there who's… uhh taking his shirt off. And even though they were arguing, he was looking at you. I could see that caring look in his eye. And he is still looking now so I just assumed…" I realized that I was talking to myself as Lucy was focused on Natsu who was fighting again. Then Lucy realized she had been staring.

"Oh sorry I must have zoned out. Anyway come on I'll introduce you to everyone." She offered with a big smile.

"Sure that would be nice."

After I had been introduced to countless members like: Gajeel, Sting, Rogue, Laxus, Cobra, Cana, Elfman, the Thunder God Tribe, Team Shadowgear, the rest of Team Natsu, Jellal, Meredy, Romeo, Makao, Wakaba, Lisana, Kinana, Team Sabretooth and of course master Makarov. Most of them seemed nice at least but Gajeel, Laxus and Cobra didn't really care, oh well not everyone has to like me at first none of them even know me.

At the end of the day, I was tired but since I had lived on the street before joining, I didn't have anywhere to sleep.

"I've slept on the street before and I can do it again," I said to myself as I walked out of the guild.

"So how was your first day then?"

I almost jumped out of my skin, but when I saw Sapphire, I calmed down.

"You scared me."

"So where do you live?" she asked.

"On the street." I said looking down as I realized how freaking uninteresting I was.

"Oh well… you can come to my place if you want," as she said that I caught a faint blush on her cheeks and I could feel the same on my own.

"S-sure if it's not too much trouble," I said forcing a smile. I must have stood there looking like an idiot staring into her beautiful hazel-green eyes because she broke eye contact.

"Well… let's go," she said turning her back as she started walking. I followed her and looked back at the guildhall of my new home. Fairy Tail!