Nashi stood outside with everyone else. She was just waiting for this to be over with. She had a bad feeling their pay was getting deducted for their over the top actions, so sitting here and waiting for Drake to kick that guys ass made it even worse. She just wanted to go home. Not only that, but on the way out, she felt more than one hand connect with her ass, and it took all she had not to turn around and castrate someone. She stood next to Ultear as The kid with the numb face stood opposite from Drake. He snickered.
"Now that I'm able to fight back, this'll be an easy victory." He laughed. Drake didn't respond. Nashi decided she'd call the other guy Numb, just because of what Drake had done to him only a few minutes. Numb snickered.
"Just so you know, I use speed magic." He told Drake confidently. "So, the odds of your dragon slaying magic keeping up are unlikely." Before Drake could say anything, Numb disappeared from view. He reappeared behind Drake, and threw a punch. Drake cocked his head to the left, and elbowed Numb in the face. Numb looked shocked.
"How did you know..." He hissed angrily. Drake remained stoic.
"I can hear you" He said quietly, so low that Nashi strained to hear him herself. Numb launched another attack, swinging multiple times, but Drake dodged all of them, and elbowed him in the stomach.
"God Damn" Numb growled. "Why can't I hit you?" Nashi saw Drake's ears twitch slightly.
"I already told you," Drake replied. "I can hear everything" Nashi knew Numb probably wasn't smart enough to know what that meant, but Nashi could tell Drake had his sound magic flaring on all four cylinders.
"What the hell does that even mean?" Drake rolled his eyes.
"It means I can tell everything your going to do. I can be ready to block a punch from the right before your brain tells your arm to throw it." Nashi didn't need sound magic to know that shocked him. Nashi had never gone toe to toe with Drake but she felt like her friend was out of her league mainly because Nashi over thought everything in combat. It made her slightly upset to think she was the weakest of the five of them. It was obvious, but it still upset her. She watched as Numb began to attack again, this time Drake grabbed his fist, and dark red poison oozed from his hand. Numb jerked back angrily.
"Did you forget I was a dragon slayer too?" Drake asked with a small smirk.
"I'm the most powerful wizard here" He growled. "Does that make you the most powerful in Fairy Tail?" Nashi, including the others, burst into laughter.
"Drake?" Ultear managed. "You've got to be kidding me!" Simon was clutching his gut from laughing so hard.
"Compared to some wizards we got, Drake's a pushover!" Elise shouted. Drake looked a little miffed.
"Thanks guys" He growled. "Your hilarious." Nashi couldn't help but chuckle. It was laughable to see Drake trying to upset her father,let alone Erza or even Laxus. Nashi could notice the change in the crowds demeanor. As if seeing how powerful one of them truly was, which was enough to best the best with ease, must've stirred them up.
"Just hurry up and end this, so we can go home!" Nashi shouted at Drake. His response was blocking an oncoming attack, and punching him in the face.
"You know" Drake murmured. "You aren't half bad, I'm just to good. Why are you stuck in here?" Numb snorted.
"Why? Because the system looks down on people like me. I had to steal here and there to make ends meet so I could pay to feed my little sisters, so that we wouldn't lose the house our scumbags parents left us." Nashi frowned. That sounded like a decent reason. "After a while, they got sick of arresting me and threw me in here, and moved my sisters to an orphanage."
"And do you think being stuck in here is really helping you or your sisters?" Drake's question seemed to have stumped him. "I heard that. Your wondering if I know what I'm talking about. Coming from a guild that has a foundation built on broken families helping one another, I know what I'm talking about" Drake let the poison in his hand dissipate.
"What the hell do you mean?" Numb demanded. Drake sighed.
"I mean, do you really think being locked up in here will help you get that money you need...Jackson?" Jackson flinched at the sound of his name. "I know for a fact that Lamia Scale is really close to here. Why not join up? You can bank on jobs, and make a new family." Nashi was impressed with the mature manner Drake was handling this with. He was more known for punching, not talking. " I mean, I'm not telling you too do anything, but if you did, it would be easier to do and get your sisters back than being an asshat." The crowd seemed to be mumbling similar things. Drake had really connected with them.
After Jackson conceded defeat and the team collected their pay ( Which, surprisingly enough, wasn't docked. Nashi thought it was because Drake had inspired them), they headed back to the train station, much to the 60% of the teams distaste.
"I gotta say" Ultear said as the three dragon slayers dragged their feet. "You really touched those kids on an emotional level back there"
"Wah?" Drake asked, lifting his head.
"I mean you really inspired them. It was touching" Ultear smiled warmly at Drake, who shrugged.
"I was just trying to confuse him so I could win, honestly" Ultear face palmed. Simon snickered.
"In any case, I believe your little inspirational battle talk got us our full pay for that, seeing as we all went a little overboard." He said, checking through his pay, counting it.
"Agreed," Elise muttered. "But's that's probably because Ultear wouldn't let us back out" Ultear laughed.
"You can't seriously think that was that bad, we even got a huge chunk of cash" Ultear giggled. Nashi couldn't help but agree with that. The money was nice to have. Nashi didn't however, like the fact that they had to ride the train back now. She'd eaten recently, too.
"Do we really have to get on that thing?" Nashi pleaded, Ultear dragging her by the arm.
"Unless you want to spend days walking back" Ultear replied, continuing to drag her. Nashi hated her life.
Nashi had never been happier to get off that damn train. She swore she'd never step foot on one again.
She knew she was lying to herself, but still.
As her and the others wandered back to the guild, Nashi wondered what she was going to do with her money. She'd never had so much spending money. She could probably just keep it for rent. Or rub in her mothers face, she could do that too.
"So what kind of job do you guys want to do now?" Drake asked. Nashi gaped.
"Can we take a break?" Nashi demanded, glaring at her best friend, who shrugged. Elise snickered.
"Is working so hard tiring you out Nashi?" She asked, too of which Nashi nodded. Nashi was not going on another job for at least a week. When they returned, her friends dispersed to see their families, so Nashi figured she'd do the same. She saw her parents sitting near the side, Their backs to her. As she approached, she heard them talking.
"Are you really sure that's the best idea, Natsu?" Her Mother asked, looking at him. He shrugged.
"I don't see why you think it's such a big deal, she'll think it's awesome."
"Somehow, I doubt that, Natsu. Nashi wasn't exactly keen on the idea before?"
"What the hell do you mean 'Before?'"
"Natsu, you know I didn't mean it like that..."
"Whatever..."
"What are you guys talking about?" Nashi asked happily, thrusting herself between mother smiled at her.
"Back already Nashi?" She asked. Nashi nodded. "You wouldn't be having trouble with money would you?" Nashi didn't like the tone her Mother used. She pulled the wad of 200,000 jewel out of her pocket and started playing with it.
'I wouldn't say that" She said, blowing a raspberry at her mother as her father burst into laughter. "I would say I'm already doing a hell of a lot better than you did"
"Quiet Nashi" Her Mother warned. "Or I'll ground you"
"You can't ground me!" Nashi complained. "I've already moved out! What are you going to do, tell Levy not to let me leave or something?"
"Maybe" Nashi fumed quietly, before growing curious.
"What were you guys talking about a second ago?" She asked, looking at the two of them. Her father turned to her.
"We were talking about..." He was cut off as a hand flew over his mouth, which belonged to his wife. She glared at him for a moment, before he sighed. "Nothing, sweetheart. Nothing at all" Nashi knew very well that wasn't the truth at all, but she would have to deal with that for now. When she turned around, she saw Simon and Elise looking at the request board, and she figured it was time to go.
"I'd love to stay and chat with you guys" She said, standing up quickly. "But I've got jobaholics to avoid for a little bit"
"What do you mean?" Her Mother asked before she saw two of her daughters teammates at the request board, which made her laugh. Nashi snuck out of the guild hall, running frantically towards her dorm.
I am completely aware this chapter was terrible, but, I'll have to deal with that, I couldn't think of a better way to update. I'll take this time to also address the holidays. Due to them, I can only update once and a while, so don't expect much come next week onward. I'll do my best, but people will always be in my house, so I doubt I'll be able to get anything done. I hope you all enjoy your holidays! Leave a review telling me how bad the chapter was!(Not really, I'll cry myself to sleep)