Aura stretched her arms and rounded her neck, cracking them. The sun was already rise, so it was time to get up. Her bed was of course not as worth than in Nazarick, but her night was decent enough to not complaining. It was a thing she still struggle to understand. As a 100 level NPC and a Guardian, she absolutely didn't need to sleep, since her abilities and immunity made her immunte to the debuff [sleep] or [slumber]. But the Suprem One told her, and the others (who physically can sleep) and suggested them to see what is to lying down to a bed and fell into Morphe's arms. And for Aura's experience, it was... enjoyable. Even if it was useless in the physical plan, she must admit that it could be refreshing mentally, or at least, better than think about plans all night, but maybe it would not be the case for Demiurge or Albedo, after all, she was not a genius.
But she though about what to do today. Before anything, she and CZ must be more credible as member of Fairy Tail. They saw how some of them didn't trust them, especially for that red haired knight and that blonde muscular guy, their look said everything. Fortunately, most of them immediately trust them. So they must acted as guild members to clean any suspicions on them
Since she brough nothing, the only thing she could do was to step out of her rooms. Barely she opened her room, she meet Shizu, who was waiting for her, making Aura jump
"Ah! Damnit, Shizu, warn when you appear like that!"
Shizu stared blankly at her, tilting her head "But I didn't do anything"
"It's just- whatever" Aura said, giving up explaining. "Let's just go
When they were about to leave Juvia stepped in the hallway, smililg at them "Aura, Shizu-san. You come take breakfeast with us?"
The girls turned their head, seeing the blue haired girl. Aura was thinking if she must accept or not, until she remembered her saying to herself to act like normal human in that guild, if the word 'normal' exist to them.
"Sure, we're following you" Aura respond with an optimist smile
Aura personally didn't like their behaviour, how strange they are. Between that guy who undressed all the time, with that girl in front of them who peeked at corners with hearths in her eyes. That brunette who drank full barils of alcohol. They found them annoying and unnerving, but she must do as her lady ask her to do. If she chose her, then it was certainly because she believed she could do it. Maybe doing missions with others memebers could appeased their suspicions.
Shizu,in her side, appreciate a bit these humans. Unlike her sisters, and the majority of Nazarick, she could live with them, she wouldn't mind it. At the contrary of Aura, their strange behaviour add a certain charm for her odds. Judging by the reaction of the members when they arrived, it seems like she was already in good relation with the guild, it would really help for the infiltration. Plus, she wanted sooo bad to hug these kitties she saw earlier, and these little girls too, Wendy and Cynthia if she remembered correctly. She always liked cute things, and she will do it, and nothing could stop her for doing that, nothing.
Aura and Shizu followed the water mage until they stood in front a large table,where the majority of the girls were sit. Some of them waiting for everyone to come, while others just ate already, discussing each other
"Oh! Juvia, Aura, and Shizu!" Kinana saluated them, some of the attention of the residents were now on them
"Did you sleep well?" Laki asked, smiling
"Yes. Thank you" Aura respond while Shizu remained silent. Unlike Aura, she could not sleep, so she just stared at the roof, for all the night.
"Come here, damnit. What are you waiting for?" Cana asked, already drinking. Her cheeks were already red and tangled happily on the sides, threating to fall at any time.
Aura, embarrasing, flailed her arms "I-I can't. I'm underage" She installed herself,far from her as possible., ending next to Cynthia. Carla, standing on Wendy's laps, glared her suspiciously.
"Now I'm thinking about it, how old are you?" Levy asked, trying to find out by herself
"Sevent- I mean twelve!" Silence. Everyone stop talking while staring at the tanned skinned girl
Levy paused, so do the others. Sure, Aura actually made her age, but that's what surprised them. With her maturity, they expected her to be older, at least 16 years.
"Hum... you looked quite..., well, lets's just say that with your mentality, I though you were older" Levy said, still surprised by her revelation
"Everyone say that. I'm too mature for my age" Aura smiled sheepishly
"And you, Shizu?" Erza, who strangely didn't say a word, asked the salmon haired woman
"20" She respond instantly. Much to their relief, her seems to be accurate.
As they ate, Erza noticed some things. She acted strangely since this morning, and it will not be long before the others noticed it. She had all the night to think about it, and something's happening. First, Cynthia. Even if she saved Wendy and proved to be confident, they know basically nothing about her. Where di she come from? Why was she so beated. What did she mean by 'come back' when she fough Natsu? . Speaking of Cynthia, her too was not at her best today. Carla noticed too, but they didn't know why. Unfortunately, she could not ask such questions since barely she arrived , there was these two strangers, Aura and Shizu. Unlike Cynthia, who came by following the flow, they claimed joining the guild because they wanted. But just by looking at them, she could felt there is a snake in the grass. But that, why not, after all, Fairy Tail was know for having a lot of freaks. But what itched her the most, was the timing. There could not be a coincidence if these tree arived almost at the same time. Maybe they came from the same place? Did they come to hurt her? She would not be able to containing herself much longer. She needed answers.
Fortunately, Aura and Shizu must be on missions today. She would ask Laxus to looked over , it was not very glamour. But if they are dangerous, then they must be taking off as soon as possible. She sincerely hoped it was not the case.
"Shizu, your not eating?" Levy asked, worried
Shizu shook her head "No thanks, I'm not hungry"
Aura, her, gladly accapted and ate. Like her bed, the food here was at her taste, good. Again, it was not worth Nazarick, but it will do it. If they had burger,then she will be more than happy.
As they exited Fairy Hills, they talked about what to do for the day. Cynthia noticed Carla whispering something to Wendy, who began to have wided eyes, but finally nodded. They slowed down, allowing Cynthia to be at their paces .
"Cynthia, you're okay?" Wendy asked with geniunely worried. Not late than yesterday's afternoon, she was an excited an joyful girl, seeing her like that concerned her.
"Hum?" Cynthia tilted weakly her head "Yeah. I'm fine"
Wendy was of course not convinced, but she would not go further. But with what Carla said to her earlier, she would kill two birds with one stone.
Upon arriving at Fairy Tail, chaos could already been heard, making some of the girls to groaned
"Ugh. My head hurts"Canna said, gripping her head
"Maybe if ypu stop drinking since the morning. Maybe it won't happen" Evergreen scolded her, going as far as possible of her alcoholic breath.
Erza took the lead, open the door to made the men shut up. But at the same moment, a chair flew toward her at full speed. Barely she had time to react the furniture smashed on her. She flew meters away until her back ate the earth. The girls, except the spies from Nazarick had their jaw falling on the ground, while their faces paled and her eyes became big and white. Even the building became silent after realising what happened, even few heads came out to verify. And at their dismay, it was indeed what they though. And someone will pay with their blood.
But two peoples act differently. Firstly, Natsu. He poked his head out of the door, not aware about what happened
"Hey guys! Why are you stop-Ah!" When he looked at Erza, still standing on the ground, her eyes shadowed by her hair. He felt sweat over his body and fear taking over his other emotions. His fear intensified when he saw Erza slowly sitting up. An other reaction only added fuel on the fire.
"Pffffft- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" Aura fell off, losing her balance. She rolled while clutching her stomach with both of her hands, tears at the corners of her eyes. It was the only sound which broke the silence. But strangely, she had the impression that everyone stepped back. Even Shizu, who prefered following the group as she subtily indicated Aura that Erza approached her, with a strange neutral expression. Withou saying a word, she grope the still laughing hard Aura by the tip of her head
"Whose fault?" She scanned the zone, before seeing Natsu who was already far, very far. He ran as far as his legs could. He didn't care if that wasn't his fault. All that matter now was survival.
Erza changed into her giant armor. She took stance, aiming , and threw Aura with a gauntlet arm. The child was propulsed at full speed as wind blew up the grass around. It took only few seconds until she bumped on Natsu, a crack was heard. Both of them fell hard on the ground. The guild ran at them to verified they were okay, but something ticked them. As Natsu was indeed on the cooled out, a huge bump on his head Aura continued to snickered. She had not even a scratch despite the speed and the force of the launch. She mananed to get up, and felt the looks of the others. They had big eyes, wondering how did she was fine after that. She noticed it, but was too busy to know why they all madethis head
"What?"
"What?! You flied like a arrow, landed hard on Natsu, and it's like nothing" Gray said amazed, and shirtless
"Well, we can siad i have the head hard" Aura bumped her own head to clarify it's toughness. Hard like rock!
"So, it's not like I don't want to not stay with you, but I have things to do" Aura toddled until the door entrance. She saw the carnage that was the hall. Tables and chairs were reversed and some of them were even sinked in the walls. Mira was at the bar as usual, waving happily at Aura with her usual big smile.
Aura didn't mind her environment around her and walked toward the mission board. She was followed by Wendy, Cynthia, Carla and finally, Shizu. The dragon slayers were acually surprised by he state of the hall. Even if the guild was... agitated, it was rarely in such intensity
Aura scrutinized tha board, looking for a job. Particulary, she wanted one implying a beast, since it was her speciality. The others took less longer to pick one,as if it was choosed randomly.
Aura didn't mind it until she found what she wanted. In a forest nearby, a wyvern caused troubles. Animals flied, some of them ending in villages, eating the fields.
Perfect! It even have a great reward Aura smiled widely, took the paper and go to see Mira. Just when Aura arrived, Wendy and Cynthia finished to had the confirmation.
"Here, I want that"
Mira looked at the job, raising a brow 'Are you sure? It's a high risk mission. It almost ended in a S rank. I don't doubt about your strengh, but..."
"Don't worry. After what happened earlier, I think I have the level. Trust me" Aura said, trying to be convincing
Mira stared at her, searching for flaws in her voice or gesture. Finding nothing,she sighted, defeated "Just be aware. Wyvern are knowed for being extremely aggressives-." Aura was already keft
Ah... children She looked upstairs with a more serious face, a rare thing. Laxux was located on the first floor, as usual. He nodded, before his body flashed in lightning, before disappear.
Wendy walked in the campaign, followed by Carla and Cynthia. The latter was looking away, her pace a little slower than them. Wendy and Carla looked at them, nodding to each other. All that was according to their plan. She slowed down innocently until reaching Cynthia
"Soooo... Now we are alone, can you explain me what happen to you? You're acting strange since this morning. Did I did something wrong?"
Cynthia flailed her arms "N-No. Not at all. It's just... I don't know how to tell you. I know I must tell you where I come from, but..."
Wendy kindly tapped her shoulder "It's okay, you don't need to tell us now. Profit about this time we're alone to think about it"
Cynthia suddenly uhad a realisation "That's why you wanted to bring me outside? So we are all alone?"
Wendy just continued to smile
Cynthia scratched her head, hesitating "I...I can try" She sighted, looking from all sides, finding a spot to sat down until she founded a tree nearby. She pointed at it "Can we sit there. It's going to be quite long"
Wendy looked Carla who nodded. Until there, everything was going according to the plan. That's thanks to Carla. Despite the promising new recruits, she didn't forget about Cynthia. Not at all.
The girls sat on the trunk,Carla positioned herself on Wendy's laps
Cynthia took a deep breath and clear her thoart "My name is Cynthia Viscard, and I'm a Second Generation Dargon Slayer" She put her hand at the level of her hearth "That's where my lacrima is... I'm the Omaga Fire Dragon Slayer"
"Dragon Omega? I don't know this dragon" Wendy said, tilting her chin
"That's because it doesn't exist. My... father modified a lacrima of Dragon Fire to transform it into the Omega Fire Dragon. But that's all I know about it. What did he done to it? Where it come from? I don't know"
"What's make the Omega Fire Dragon so special?"
"He said it's power is based on my feelings. If I'm afraid, or sad, my power grew proportionally. That's what helped me to fight against Natsu. Without it,I don't know if I could survive..." Her voice began to crack, tears at the corner of her eyes.
Wendy hugged Cynthia tighly, caressing her back "It's okay, don't think about it"
"But if my feelings are too intense, I can lose controle. And I don't want to hurt anyone of you. Especially you, Wendy."She closed her eyes, trying to don't think about the worse. "I-I don't know what my father want to do with that, but I don't want a life like that. That's why I left"She let Wendy hugged her, sniffing
Carla looked at her, her feeling mixed. For one side, she was glad that Cynthia was not a danger herself. But that person, her father, could searching her, and put everyone in danger. But she was confident about her. Now that she told her story at Wendy, maybe she will be more open, the others would understand.
Aura gamboled happily toward the dark forest, humming happily. A wyvern! I always wanted to have one. From a stranger world noneless Ahhh! I'm so happy She was just at the entrance, when her ears tickled. Quickly, she gets on all fours, her ear on contact with the grassed
There is movement. It's big, and far. She stood up, cracking her arms
No problem! She ran at full speed deeper in the forest.
A moment later, Laxusobserved her, thanks to his enhance eyes, he didn't risk to be discovered
She's fast, almost as much as me. No wonder. With her size, it didn't really surprised me. At the corner of his lips, a small smile was drawned. This girl promised to be very interesting. A yellow aura surrounded him. He raced into the forest, pursuiting Aura.
Speaking of the elf, she now jumped from branches to branch with an exeptional agility. She was dangerousely closer to the sound. Normally it would scare anyone, or anything. But instead, her excitation took over any others feeling.
She finally jumped down to the ground, stopping her course. Not from exhaustion, but to keep the suspense, and see the creature slowly, devouring it with her eyes.
The best stood in the center of a clearing,or an made it since there was numbers of chopped trees around. The draconic beast was really large, about 4 meters high. Its scales were dark brown to black all over it's body, except from the underside of its neck until the end of the tail, where it was milky beige. The said tail was long, sharp and covered in pointed light brown spikes. Its head was quite geometrical with a square jaw, horns sprouting back from the back of its head. It had yellow eyes which transpired danger. Its prominent arms were long enough to permit it to stand on the floor while it could still stand straight.
Aura stared at the wyvern, her excitation still here, but a bit of disappointment too.
I(ts big, for sure, but not really a challenge. Well, at least that's somrthing new. I've never saw wyvern like that before. The wyvern didn't lose time as it launched one of its big claw for trampled the child. The claw made contact, creating a dust cloud. When it lifted it to see the result, it was surprise to see nothing but a crater
"Over here!" The wyvern turned its head, seeing Aura who waved at it with a childlish smile. Without warn,it slammed its spiked tail at her, only for her to bended down, evaded it without difficulty.
It turned back, slamming its other arm while she was evading. Her eyes wided before the fist landed again, but this time, the wyvern felt something. Like its muscular claw was stopping by something, and it was not dirt.
And it was right, at the end of the winged arm, Aura simply grabbed the claw with one arm, her smile didn't leave her lips.
"It's good to have muscle. But it serve nothing if you don't know how to use them" Her grip released, jumping toward the torso of the beast. She hit it with her fist, causing the wyvern to widede its eyes, mouth wide open. It traveled severals meters away, taking down few trees on its track.
It got up with difficulty, blood spiting out of its mouth. Some of its bone was broken, bu (un)fortunately, no vital organ was aimed. But before it can fully recovered, Aura was stepping of its body, from bellow until the stomach, permitting it to see her, bradishing her whip, the sound of tight rope scaring it
"You're not as strong as I wanted, but I like you. So Here's the deal. Be my pet, and you will have the life saved"
The wyvern stared at her, before allowing its tail to slammed her from her side. It was a success, as she flied of the side bedore rolling several meters, before disappearing on the shadows of the forest. But one of the tail's spikes was brken from the impace, as if it was hitting a metal wall.
It finally recovered fully, before panting. That it clearly hurt, despite its rough scales.
It prepared to move back, before a splash was heard, and a mmense pain on its back. The creature fall on its stomach, in pain. Another splash was heard, then an other, and an other.
It flinched in pain at each sound, until finally it stopped. The wyvern wsa lying down,too wounded to move. It could feel blood spouting out of its body.
Footsteps was heard, but this time, the creature was afraid, few minutes ago,it was it who was scary. The hunter being the hunted. The child approached slowly, whip in hands, covered in blood. She stoped inch of it, looking right into its eyes
"Last chance! What will be your choice?" She said with autority
The wyvern looked at her for seconds which seems to bean eternity, before lowing its look, signifying its defeat. Aura patted its head, smiling
"Good choice"
Mira finally cleaned the hall. It wasn't that long with the help of the boys who 'kindly' accepted to give a hand without complaining. She was standing at the bar when tremors was felt from outside. She lifted a brow, curious about the strange sound
What is this?
Suddenly the door open abruptly, a no-name scraming at everyone present
"A-a wyvern approach!"
"What?" Mira was geniuely surprise. How a such creature would come until there.
As the people came at the back of theg uild, their assumption came true. A draconic beast stood here, looking at them. But the most surprising was the person standing at the top of its head. Aura wsa posed, motionless with a proud smile. The wyvern lowed its head to the ground, permitting the child to get down to the ground
"Yo"
"H-How did you manage to do that?" Macao said, baffled
Aura tapped the wyvern's muzzle "Thanks to my magic. Beast Tammer. I can tamed and control all kind of beasts" She said, proudly.
"That's... impressive" Mira said honestly. Not only it required a high level magic to beat a beast that high, but not only she managed to control it, but she did it in only a matter of hours
Despite her size and nature, she is very competent
Aura called back her new pet, which disappeared in a flash of light and went to arrange what she owed thanks to the quest reward.
A minute latter, as everyone went back to the interior, Laxus appeared next to Mira, arm crossed
"So? What can you tell me about her?" Mira said with a serious tone
"She didn't seems to lie about her magic. But she completly annihilate the wyvern. Like all this was just a game for her. I won't lie if I said she may be stronger than me" Laxus respond with a frown, like usual
"That's good to hear. At least we know more about them"
