~Yato~
Even though we knew the guild hall was demolished, the three of us decided to go there anyway. We found that after the other members saw the horrible damage, they decided to go take refuge in the basement of the guild; which I didn't even know existed until now.
Currently, we sat awkwardly in a corner listening to the master rant about his "glory days". I guess he decided to drink away his problems, which didn't seem like a bad idea.
I sighed, I really hated this.
I knew joining a guild was a risky move, but I didn't think it put us in this type of danger.
"Fine. But one last thing Yato. I heard that someone is out for your guild."
"Are you threatening me?"
"I'm not, but it seems like someone else is gonna do more than just threaten you and your friends."
"It wasn't our fault! Like you said, we were completely ambushed! And you were the one who told us to retreat!"
"We just can't...I'm sorry but I won't allow it."
"Who do you think you are, we don't have to take orders from you-"
"Just please, please just listen to me on this one."
The memories of yesterday wouldn't let me escape. I kept replaying what Nora said to me and the attack. Damnit! I should have known. Out of anger, I punched the wall next to me which kind of hurt but I tried to not look like I was in pain. Hiyori cringed a little, but didn't try to comfort me. We were all in the same situation. Defeated, devastated.
Everyone heard the sound of some people coming down the stairs to join us.
"Hey look, our strongest team is back." Hiyori tried to say enthusiastically as we watched Mirajane guide them (I guess the strongest team) down to the basement with the rest of us.
The four of them, or five including the blue cat, went up to the master right away.
"Why is that cat blue?" I wondered.
"Nobody really knows," Hiyori began. "he can talk and fly too though."
"Are you serious?!" I exclaimed. I probably would have been more astonished if I didn't feel so down right now. And this atmosphere didn't help either, you could feel the sadness dwelling in the room.
"Why the hell is everyone just sittin around down here?!" the pink haired one shouted, grabbing my attention.
"He's energetic." Yukine commented.
"Yeah, that's Natsu. He's a dragonslayer." Hiyori explained. Dragonslayer? I didn't even know those were still around today.
"How'd it go Lucy?" the master slurred. "Did you finish the job like a good girl?"
"Yeah I guess…" she replied, all of them being shocked by the master's current state.
"So I assume that's Lucy?" I asked Hiyori.
She nodded. "Yep. She's actually a celestial wizard like me. For a while there I was the only one in our guild."
"Guess you're not that special anymore." Yukine stated.
Hiyori looked a bit too sad to bother defending herself.
I sighed, hating this whole situation even more.
"Master," the scarlet-haired one started. "do you understand the gravity of this situation?" she asked.
"I'm getting the vibe that she's super strong." I whispered, observing her stance and tone of voice.
"She's amazing." Hiyori commented. I guess I was right then.
"The guild hall has been completely destroyed." Natsu stated the obvious.
"Yeah, we were there." Yukine mumbled. I gave him a look of 'shut up' as I still didn't want anyone knowing we experienced the attack.
"You kids need to relax a little. It's not like it's the end of the world or anything." the master replied, then took another swing of alcohol.
"What?" the black haired one questioned.
"If you're wondering, that one is Gray. His ice magic is really cool. Actually, it kind of reminds me of your snow magic, Yukine." Hiyori said, trying to give Yukine a smile. He just nodded a little, not bothering to say anything. At that point, I knew this conversation with the master that the four of them were engaged in was going nowhere, so I stopped listening.
"So that's your quote 'strongest team'? Where have they been anyway?" I asked.
"That's them alright, and I'm not sure actually." Hiyori answered.
We saw the master get up and leave for the bathrooms, but he stopped midway and turned to us.
"Ah, right. Natsu and gang." he said.
"Gang?" Gray asked quietly.
"Have you met our newest members? They're," he hiccupped. "kind of weird. They've got this weird obsession with jenga and tracksuits." I felt offended, again.
"Why does everyone comment negatively on my clothing style?!" I complained, Hiyori laughed a little as did Yukine.
"Their names are, um…"
"Yato and Yukine." Hiyori piped in.
"That's right. Now I gotta go take a leak." the master replied, running off.
"Well that introduction made me feel special." Yukine mumbled, rolling his eyes. For once I agreed with him.
"Yeah, wonder what he's been drinking. Seems to be some powerful stuff." I commented. 'Natsu and his gang' (or whatever they were called) started to approach us.
Erza gave us a small wave. "Nice to meet you. My name's Erza. And this is Natsu, Lucy, and Gray. Glad you could join us here in Fairy Tail."
"Thanks, I'm Yato for the record. This here is Yukine." I patted his head a little.
"Hey don't forget about me!" the blue cat spoke. So he can talk! I was actually very impressed, never thought I'd see that in my life.
"Oh yeah," Natsu said. "this here's Happy."
"Aye!" Happy cheered. Even Yukine seemed impressed, although he was hiding it well.
"Sucks that we got attacked right after you two joined." Gray commented.
"Yeah, I-"
"Wait." Natsu began. "It's a little strange how you guys joined and next thing we know the guild hall is destroyed… Did you two have something to do this?!" he shouted, ready to pounce but luckily Lucy held him back.
"Of course not! They wouldn't dare! Hiyori seems to trust them and so will I." she replied. Oh right, this was the girl who lives near us.
"Yes." Hiyori nodded. "Trust me, they're totally safe." she turned towards Lucy. "And so is your house." she then took out the keys to Lucy's apartment and handed them over. "You can have these back now."
Lucy pushed them back. "No, that's okay. You're welcome anytime. Unlike you guys." she growled towards Natsu and Happy. I wondered what the story behind that was. "Anyways, I better head out to go shopping for a little bit. It was great to meet you two and to see you again, Hiyori!" she cheered. So I guess Hiyori and Lucy did know each other.
After a few silent moments, Mirajane came up to us.
"Could you do me a favor, Natsu and Gray?" she asked.
"Sure." Gray shrugged.
"Can you two stay with Lucy for a little bit, at her place? It wouldn't surprise me if Phantom Lord already knew where everyone in the guild lived, and it would be safest to stay together."
"No way am I letting those two teenage boys staying alone with Lucy," Erza intervened. "I shall accompany them as well."
Mirajane smiled. "I have no objections to that. And Hiyori, can Yato and Yukine stay with you for the time being?"
I laughed, wrapping my arm around Hiyori. "We already got that covered. You see, us three share an apartment now. What were we thinking." I shook my head. "We should of moved in the minute we met! What a dangerous world this is for poor Hiyori!" I cried.
"R-right." Hiyori replied, probably wanting to say a million more things that could've not been as nice. She instead sighed, and and looked a little red as she pushed my arm off her. "It's true. They didn't really have a home so they came to me…"
Mirajane clapped her hands together as a few tears begin to form. "That's so sweet of you Hiyori!" she cried. Yukine looked away awkwardly while I blushed a little.
"Well we kind of begged her to…" I defended, waving my hands in embarrassment.
She wiped a tear from her eye. "Well nevermind about my request then, but make sure you three stay safe together!" she commented and then left to go talk to some other guild members. I was too distracted to notice that Natsu, Gray and Erza seemed to leave during that conversation with Mirajane.
"Guess we have no reason to stay here." I pointed out.
"Yeah let's leave, I'm bored." Yukine replied. Hiyori nodded in agreement and the three of us departed what was left of the guild.
The three of us were lounging around when we heard a pounding on the door.
"Do you think it's them?" I whispered, drawing out my sword.
"I'm not...entirely sure." Hiyori said while glaring at the door.
Yukine hopped off the couch and took a look through the people hole. "Well, he doesn't look very threatening. He's got some weird ruffle-y clothing that's almost as stupid as yours, Yato."
Before I could defend myself like usual, Hiyori relaxed a little and got out of her battle stance. "I know who that is." she sighed as she walked up to the door to open it. "Cyclone." she stated. Then he suddenly collapsed and Hiyori instantly caught him. "Cyclone! Are you okay? What were you doing?!"
"And this is…?" I asked for the both of us seeing that Yukine looked just as lost as I did.
"It's Cyclone, one of my spirits." she explained. Ah, so another one of her crazy spirits. I gave a more in-depth look at him. He looked to be almost in his twenties (if celestial spirits were mortal) and he wore a ruffled, torn shirt with some tight jeans and no shoes. He also had some wild silver hair. Damn, each of her spirits had such a unique look, it was kind of cool.
"Do spirits go wandering around all the time?" I wondered.
"No, they shouldn't even stay in the human world for too long." she said.
"Well, I might do some wandering more often than I should." Cyclone tried to laugh but it turned of more into a cough.
"Cyclone!" Hiyori screamed, still holding onto him.
"Sorry girl, I just heard about the attack and had to see for myself. I ended up going to headquarters to try and find out what was happening." he replied.
"You were at our guild?" Hiyori asked.
He shook his head. "Nope, I was at Phantom Lord. It's quite a dark place, not nearly as cheerful as yours."
We all gasped. "Cyclone! You could have gotten yourself killed!" Hiyori worried.
"It's cool Hiyori, they never saw me. But I did get some good info." he stated.
"Okay. I still can't believe you would do something that dangerous but do go on."
He nodded, beginning to sit up. "I'm fadin out so I'll just give a brief run down." he began. "There was the weird metal guy eating iron."
"Iron?" I wondered.
"Iron. And anyways, he said something about not being hard enough on us and deciding to leave us somethin extra." Not being hard enough on us… he obviously must of been the one behind the attack then! It all added up, especially with the metal rods being made of iron.
"So it was him…" I grumbled, clenching my fists.
"And that's not all." Cyclone replied. "This scary lookin dude reminded him that 'no harm come to that one'."
"That one?" Yukine asked.
"That one. He didn't give any names."
I sighed. "Of course not. But what about this 'somethin extra'?"
"Oh yeah, we've gotta consider that too." Hiyori said.
"I don't know." Cyclone started. "I just tried to help out in any way possible since there seemed to be no fighting going on between your guilds."
"Not yet anyways." Hiyori muttered. I gave her a slightly confused look. "Well it seems bound to happen. Fairy Tail doesn't take threats lightly and if that iron guy is gonna attack again then there's a guarantee that we'll be at war with each other." At war…?
"Why would guilds-"
"We have to go tell someone!" Hiyori interrupted.
"Why bother, it's already nightfall. And Cyclone, did the iron guy say exactly those words? 'deciding to leave us somethin extra'?" I asked, beginning to head to my room.
"I think so, like you mean he already left his little surprise?" he wondered and I nodded.
"Yep I believe so. We'll just see tomorrow, I'm going to bed." I stated, about to close the door when I decided to say one last thing. "Whatever happened, it'll become a tomorrow problem."
And a tomorrow problem it was.
We three tried to go to the guild when we found the master rushing out.
"Are you-" Hiyori tried to start.
"There's been an incident concerning my children. I'm going to the park and you can choose to follow if you desire." he stated, not even bothering to stop for us. We looked at each other and decided to follow anyway.
~Hiyori~
By the time we got to the park, many people were already there and staring in shock at the big tree in the center.
Once I saw the 'incident' for myself, I grew devastated too. Hanging on the tree by big blocks of iron, Levy, Jet, and Droy were passed out. Levy had the Phantom Lord guild mark painted across her stomach.
"Guess we know who did this." muttered Yukine. Us three knew this was coming, and once again we couldn't do anything about it. At least Natsu, Lucy, Erza and Gray were here with us.
"Master-" Erza started as she sensed our presence.
"I can take our headquarters being reduced to rubble." he stated. "But I will not let harm come to my children without taking revenge!" he finished, breaking his cane with just his bare fists. "We have no choice but to go to war!" the master screamed, and everybody cheered (even those not in our guild), eager to take revenge on those who hurt us. Everybody except for Yato though. He began to storm off furiously.
"Yato!" I called after him, yet he still continued to walk away.
"What's his deal?" Yukine asked.
"You're not getting away that easily." I grumbled, almost running to catch up to him. I reached and grabbed his wrist tightly, forcing him to stop in his tracks. He tried to pull me off, but I was not about to let him go. I looked down at my wrist and realized how much stronger I'd already gotten after just a few sessions training with Tono.
Finally Yato relaxed a little, but still wouldn't turn to face me. "Is this all you guilds do? Fight each other all the damn time?"
I sighed. "Honestly, no. Guild wars was a thing of the past that doesn't happen often anymore. We have to go to war with Phantom Lord though. Look at what they did to our guild hall, look at what they did to our members! There's no way we could let that slide!"
"This isn't what I signed up for. I thought being in a guild meant helping people. Isn't that what guilds are suppose to do? Fight the bad guys and save the day?"
"Yes." I answered. "But Phantom Lord is the bad guy right now."
Yato turned to face me and looked directly into my eyes. "But if the bad guys are in a guild just like us, then who the hell are the good guys?!" he demanded, looking like tears were forming in his eyes. I stared at him, unable to come up with an answer. My grip ended up relaxing and he quickly pulled away and continued to storm off.
"Guess that baby wants to be alone for a bit." Yukine commented.
I sighed, still watching Yato walking away. "I suppose so."
Me and Yukine ended up heading back to the guild a bit after to find the Master giving a pep talk.
"Now, who's ready to go right up to Phantom's door and take revenge?!" he screamed, and everyone else in the guild cheered.
"Yato. We have to go get him. He's probably sitting at home, and we need him for this fight." I said, starting to exit the guild hall.
"I don't think that he wants to get involved." Yukine stated.
"We have to try, we need everyone we can get to help." I replied and he still followed me anyways despite not believing that Yato would come to our aid.
We ran to our house, and charged up the stairs. I fumbled with my keys for a little bit until finding the right one. Of course I didn't matter anyway cause Yato left the door unlocked. I sighed, frustrated that I wasted that much time trying to get inside.
"Yato, we're about to go attack Phantom Lord. You have to come with us!" I demanded, finding him to be lying on the couch as he ate a bag of chips.
"Who's 'we'?" he asked, not bothering to even look up at me.
"Fairy Tail! And they're going right now so if we don't hurry-"
"No, I'm staying here. You two can go risk your lives for some stupid cause but I'm good." he stated harshly as he took another bite.
"Stupid cause?! They destroyed our guild hall and they hurt our members! Like the master said, we have no choice but to attack them!" I yelled, incredibly frustrated by his attitude and how Yukine was right.
"Then I don't know why you bothered to come get me. They probably already left the guild, and you have no idea where Phantom Lord is, do you?" he asked, finally turning to face me.
I realized that he was right and I hated it. "Fine then, I really thought that you cared about Fairy Tail but I guess I was wrong." I snapped, immediately stomping away and slamming my bedroom door closed. I wiped away some tears that tried to fall down my face and pulled out Tono.
"Open, gate of the martial artist, Tono!" he appeared before me and saw my state of distress.
"Are you alright Miss Hiyori? I'm not sure if you look like you're in a good position to be training." he asked.
"I'm fine. Let's just do the usual, I've got plenty of time to spare today." I replied. He nodded.
"If you say so."
I lied down on my bed, breathing heavily as Tono finally gave me a break. He didn't seem to be breaking a sweat. He picked up my yoga mat and sighed. "This won't do any longer. I think you should exchange it for a better one."
Better one?! "What's wrong with this one?" I demanded while sitting up.
"It's not the ideal material. Here, I'll write down the correct yoga mat you should get." Why didn't he tell me that in the first place? This has been just fine all this time! I decided to keep my mouth shut, knowing that there was no use in arguing with him.
"Fine." I grumbled and took the paper from him, and then I sent Tono back to the celestial world. I finally left my bedroom and called out to my roommates.
"Yato! Yuki-" I stopped midway when I found a note left for me on the center table.
Dear Hiyori,
I didn't want to interrupt your intense training so Yukine suggested that I write you a note.
We're going out on a quick job right now because I forgot we still had ads up XD
Me and Yukine should be back pretty soon. Later!
-Yato
P.S.
You should live in this century and get a phone so that I don't have to leave you notes like this :p
I rolled my eyes. Why would I bother doing that? My budget has already fluctuated so much lately with those two coming into my life and Tono demanding for all kinds of 'perfect' training equipment.
I sighed as I grabbed my wallet and put it in with my bag containing the 'not qualified' yoga mat.
I shut off the lights, closed the door, and just as I walked past Lucy's apartment, I heard a loud 'GET OUT!'.
At first, I panicked thinking that she was in danger. And then I remembered how Natsu and the others were staying at her place and I laughed, hearing them messing with Lucy.
At some point, me and her needed to have a conversation about our intruders. Yet again, mine actually moved in with me.
I left the building and felt the cool night air chill me down.
"Should've brought a jacket." I mumbled as I crossed my arms. I sped up my pace to the store. After about just a few blocks however, two wizards stopped me in my tracks. I was so focused on getting to the store fast that I actually didn't even see them and ran right into the two.
"Sorry." I quickly apologized as I tried to go around them. They didn't let me pass. "Sorry, I was just walking too fast and I wasn't being aware." I said as I tried to make my way around them. They still wouldn't budge.
"Okay please let me pass." I stated. The two exchanged glances and shook their heads.
"You see that, Johnny?" one of them said.
"I sure do. Looks like we found her, Jonathon." Johnny replied. "But didn't the master say she was a blonde?"
He shrugged. "I don't know, wasn't really payin attention. All I heard was that she's a teenager with the Fairy trash."
"Fairy trash?!" I snapped, beginning to really want to get out of here.
"Well how do ya know she's with them?"
"Look at her little ankle." Jonathan pointed out and his friend smirked.
"You're right." Johnny started, turning back to me. "Now then, let's get you back to our guild."
"Your guild…" I muttered, my mind going directly to the guild we were currently at war with. "Don't you dare think-" I tried to defend myself when one of them pulled out a knife and threw it at me. I leaped to the right and barely dodged it.
"So it's a fight you want then…" I grumbled, not taking my eyes off either of them as I pulled out Iniki. "Open, gate of the crashing Hurricane, Iniki!" I yelled as the goddess-like spirit appeared before me.
"Hello Miss Hiyori, you got some frauds that need taking care of?" she welcomed, ready to attack.
"Oops." Johnny said as he made Iniki disappear with one swipe of his finger.
"Hey! What the hell did you do to her?!" I demanded, worrying about one of my strongest spirits.
"My magic allows me to send any celestial being back to it's world. That's why when our master told us about the Fairy hunt, I got anxious and decided to come find you myself. I'm sure two of the element four would have done a fine job, but I just couldn't resist. Glad I found ya before they did!" he laughed. Element four…?
"Now let me do the knocking-out part. It's my favorite." Jonathan stepped in, putting on some weird looking shades. "Ah, she has a weak spot. Seems like you got seriously injured not too long ago sweetie, you should still be taking care of yourself."
"How do you know that-" I tried to ask, but then he sent an attack with just his bare hands right to my stomach, exactly where I got hit saving Yato. I tried to stay conscious, but the punch was too strong. I fell to the ground, remembering how the last thing I looked at was my 'unqualified' yoga mat, still yet to be exchanged.
A/N: This chapter is a little bit shorter than the previous one but I hope you guys still enjoyed it!
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