Nashi was about to scream. not really because she was in pain or anything, just pissed. Why, you may ask? She couldn't find her scarf. She'd looked everywhere in her room, but she couldn't find it anywhere.
"I swear on Mavis' grave I'm going to kill whoever took that damn thing..." Nashi hissed to herself as she tore her sheets off her bed again in search of the scarf. She felt to naked without it, it just wasn't right. Sighing and giving up, she threw her vest on and walked out into the hallway, fiinding Elise standing there waiting.
"Morning" The raven haired girl greeted.
"Morning." Nashi replied, "Is Ul up yet?" Elise snickered.
"Nah, the princess is still getting ready...I think"
"You think?"
"Well, I woke her up and everything, but she'd awful quiet." Nashi nodded silently as she pressed passed a few girls on their way to the guild towards Ul's room.
"Ul!" Nashi called, knocking on the older girl's door. "Are you up?"
"Yes, for Mavis' sake!" She snapped back. "Man, leave me me alone!" Elise snickered.
"Someone's touchy." She commented, and Nashi giggled with her.
"Just go on without me!" She shouted. "I'll meet you there."
"You sure?" Nashi asked.
"Yes, it's not like you're going on vacation without me or something! Just go!"
"Mavis, what's with her today?" Nashi hissed as she and Elise began to leave. The other girl shrugged.
"Don't know." She replied. "Is it her time of the month or something?" Nashi smirked.
"Nah, maybe it was Simon's fangirls last night." Both snickered at the thought. When they had been out lat e the night before, some of Simon's fangirls had cornered him, and Ul had gotten rather touchy then as well. "Who knows with her, she's so weird.
"Where's your scarf?" Elise asked, and Nashi fumed.
"One of those bastards must've swiped it last night when I wasn't looking" She replied. "I don't know who it was, but whoever is going to get my flaming foot up their ass."
"I'm betting money on Drake, the other two aren't that idiotic."
"You're right there." The two of them walked down the hill and into the guild, giving greeting smiles to all who did so to them as they approached the table where the three guys were seated.
"Morning ladies" Damien said, making a face. "Where's Ul?"
"On her period" Elise replied as Nashi laughed. "What's up with you guys?"
"Not much." Simon replied. "We were just discussing what we were going to do."
"A job?" Nashi asked hopefully. She was itching to work as of late as they hadn't really taken any work lately, and she wanted to do some. It had nothing to do with rent, she was covered for a few months thanks to the payout she got for knocking Prince Simon out of the Dorma Anim. Drake shrugged.
"Nothing interesting on the job board." he replied. "Although I could use some cash." Nashi sighed, as the more pressing matter entered her brain.
"Alright, anyways." Nashi said, silencing everyone. "Which one of you idiots took my scarf? I know one of you did, who was it?" All three of them stared at her innocently, and Nashi slammed a fire coated fist on the table. "Who?!" Damien and Simon panicked and pointed at Drake who paled as he stared at them incredulously.
"Seriously, guys?!" he asked. "Ratting me out already?"
"She's scary, dude" Simon muttered as Nashi stared Drake down. "Just give her her damn scarf back." Drake muttered insults directed at Simon as he pulled the fabric out of his coat, throwing it to Nashi, who caught it and wrapped it around her neck, instantly feeling more covered.
"Thank you." Nashi said, still feeling rather irritated. She was about to tear Drake a new one when she saw Ultear approaching out of the corner of her eye. This was going to be good.
"Morning guys" She said, and al; three of them stiffened.
"Hey Ul" Drake said in a disgustingly sweet tone. "How's your day going?" Ultear made a face at him.
"Fine...?" She said slowly, unsure of what was happening, and Elise was holding in a laugh.
"That's good" Damien said sweetly. "Always good to start your day happy." Ultear stared at the three of them, still looking somewhat confused.
"What's going no?" She asked. Nashi smiled.
"Well." She said. "Elise kind of told them you were on your... you know."
"My what?"
"Your period" Elise replied, dodging the chair that gone thrown at her as the older girl chased the Dragon Slayer around the guild. "What? I just assumed!"
"Why would you say that?!" Ultear shouted back, reaching and trying to grab Elise's hair. "I'm going to kill you!" Nashi sat and laughed with the guys as Ul tackled Elise and the two rolled around the guild shouting insults at each other. That was, however, until the bells in town began to ring, and Nashi paled.
"Holy shit..." She said, turning to the door as the bells rang even louder. Drake's eyes widened.
"It's exactly what you all think it is" He said weakly. "He's back."
"Seriously?" Damien asked, "When was he here last?"
"Years ago" Simon replied. "It may have even been before Steph died, and that was eleven years ago..."
"Shit..." Ul whispered as she and Elise rejoined them. "Is it...the shift?"
"Yep" Elise said quietly. "He's home." Nashi ran to the door as Magnolia began to split apart, signaling the beginning of the shift. The many blocks of the city moved out of the way, and Nashi smiled.
"Gildarts shift." She said brightly.
Gildarts walked along the road silently, counting the years it had been since he'd been home at the guild. Easily over ten, he knew that. He wondered how everyone had been doing since he'd left, especially Cana. He wouldn't admit it too anyone, especially her, but he knew she hated the smothering she got. He trekked up the mountain and sighed, he was getting to old for this. Maybe it was time he retired. A quiet life at home? It seemed an almost foreign concept. He reached the doorway, plastering a smile on his face as he entered, almost frowning at the looks he was receiving. Had he gotten the wrong address again? This happened way to much. he stepped up to a smiling pink haired girl standing near him.
"Did I get the wrong place again?" he asked her, and she chuckled.
"Uncle Gildarts, it me. Nashi." Gildarts' eyes widened as he stared at the woman in front of him, vaguely reminded of the shy introverted girl he'd met all those years ago. He laughed.
"Wow, look at you!" he said, ruffling her hair. "You look more like your dad that you did before!"
"Heh, yeah." She said, smiling, and Gildarts was having difficulty seeing her as the same girl Lucy had introduced to him before.
"Speaking of which, are you over him leaving yet, or what?" Nashi rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.
"Well, uh..." She began but was cut off by loud footsteps behind her, and Gildarts watched as a very familiar salmon haired men wrapped an arm around her.
"I'd say she is" Natsu said with a smirk.
Nashi wanted nothing more than to be released, but her fathers grip was too strong. Not that she minded, she had missed a lot of hugging time as a kid. Gildarts chuckled.
"So you decided to show up, did you?" He asked with a grin. "You're looking old, Natsu."
"Coming from you, I see that gray hair." Both men laughed, and Nashi managed to free herself from her fathers vice grip.
"As much as I'd love to catch up, I have to go be somewhere else where my dad can't embarrass me." her father smirked.
"What was that, you want story time?" he asked, and Nashi went red and shook her head viciously. Gildarts chuckled.
"I'll have to catch up with you all later, as well" Gildarts said. "I'm beat, I'm to old for this. Before I go, however, where's Cana?" Nashi smiled inwardly as Erza stepped forward.
"Probably at Quatro Cerberus" The requip mage told Gildarts, who looked confused.
"Why?" He asked, and Gray chuckled.
"With Bacchus" he told Gildarts, who turned such a pale color he looked like a ghost. "Since, y'know, they're married." Gildarts began to walk towards the wall as if on autopilot.
"I have to sit down." He destroyed the wall with his crash magic, and disappeared.
"I'm not sure telling him that was a good idea" She said warily, and Ultear grinned.
"Poor guy probably feels bad over missing it or the fact she's married at all." Elise nodded.
"Yeah, that or he's about to go and die." She said, and got a few looks. "What?" Drake sighed.
"Could you be any weirder?"
Natsu trailed along the pathway to Gildarts' place, smiling at the thought of catching up with the crash mage. They did have a lot to talk about, and Happy was bouncing along in the air next to him.
"Do you think he got us any gifts this time?" The exceed asked, and Natsu shrugged.
"I doubt it, he had no idea we were back." he told his partner. "Maybe we can swipe Nashi's if there's one."
"But she'll come after you, Natsu!"
"I know, that's part of the fun." Natsu and Happy made it to Gildarts' place and Natsu knocked, earning an approving sound from the man inside. "Hey, old man" Natsu greeted as he walked in. Gildarts had a fire going, and he smiled.
"Natsu." he said. "When did you get back?"
"A few months ago, I guess" Natsu said, doing a mental count of how long he'd been home.
"Were you, ah... expecting to have a daughter when you returned?" Natsu laughed awkwardly as he recalled his first day home when he'd met Nashi. Not a good day.
"Nope." he said. "Although I don't regret it."
"You and her get along alright?"
"Yeah. It was a rocky start, but we've forged some kind of relationship."
"That's good." Gildarts said, staring at the fire. "When I first met her about eleven or so years ago, she was the opposite of who I saw today."
"So I've been told" Natsu muttered, recalling all the stories he'd been told, and he'd blamed himself for every one of them. "I've done my best with the time I've had, but she isn't exactly a little girl anymore." Gildarts nodded and stared at the fire, leaving Natsu to lean against the counter, and Happy landed next to him.
"Have you told her?" Gildarts suddenly asked, and Natsu sighed, he knew that question was coming.
"No," He replied. "She's too innocent, she isn't ready"
"When will she be ready to learn such a horrible fact?" Gildarts demanded, and Natsu shrugged.
"I'll be honest, when I first got back I was horrified because of that" he said quietly. "I was worried that...that she was going to turn any minute, but it's stayed dormant as far as I know."
"That's good." Gildarts leaned back and sighed. "It pains me to think a young girl with such a bright future has such a dark secret she herself isn't even aware of."
"I'm also worried what'll happen if she's subjected to too much emotional trauma." Natsu murmured. "It may...well, you know." Gildarts chuckled.
"Yeah, it'll help her cope." Silence befell the two. "One other thing about her, Natsu."
"Yeah?"
"Make sure you're there for her if she needs you. I know you weren't aware she existed, but...be there when she needs her father, especially when that happens. Don't do what I did with Cana."
"I technically already did." Natsu replied, sighing. "But I know what you mean, I'll be there when it awakens." Gildarts nodded before smirking.
"Want a drink?"
"I thought you'd never ask."
Nashi groaned and threw her head down on the able as her friends yawned.
"Can we just do something?" She demanded. "Even a shitty job would be preferable!" Damien sighed.
"No good jobs flowing right now." He replied. "I don;'t just want to work to work, I want to enjoy myself." Simon smirked.
"Well." He said. "I know where we can find some interesting work."
"Where?"Drake asked, ad Simon turned to pint upstairs. Nashi could just barely see the S-class job board up there, and she grinned.
"You're a genius, Simon!" She shouted, and her friends tore after her upstairs and towards the board to look for something. Nashi was already getting excited from skimming.
Demon army attacking...
Dark guild needs destroying...
Dealing with my daughter's wedding day...
Nashi grinned as the S-class members of the team skimmed the board.
"Here's a cool one." Damien said, pulling a flyer down. "Some rich guys wants mob ties to disappear. He'll pay handsomely."
"That sounds cool." Simon said, looking over Damien's shoulder.
"And dangerous" Ultear smirked darkly at the three dragon slayers. "Can the none S-class members pull there weight?" Elise coughed.
"Uh, I'm sorry Ul, but who returned without completing their S-class job?" The Iron Dragon Slayer taunted. "Oh, and who fought the Dorma Anim and won? Oh right, us." Both Simon and Damien snorted as Ultear fumed.
"She has a point" Simon said, putting a hand on Ul's shoulder to calm her. "They can hold their own."
"Let's stop and just go." Drake said, grabbing the flyer and marching it down to Mira, who smiled at them.
"S-class job, huh?" She asked sweetly as she wrote it down. "That'll be fun. Keep an eye on everyone, alright Damien?" Before the takeover mage could reply, Nashi grinned.
"We'll keep an eye on him Mira. Don't worry."
"Worry more abut yourself, Kiddo" Damien grumbled. "I'm S-class, you ain't."
"Who fought the Dorma Anim?" Nashi asked as Damien rolled his eyes and made for the door. "Who, Damien, who?"
"...You"
"Exactly."
"Nashi." Nashi turned at the sound of her mother's voice to find her beckoning. Ordering her friends to wait for her outside, Nashi approached her mother.
"Yeah, Mom?" Nashi asked, and Nashi sighed.
"Can you not baby me, Mom?" Nashi asked. "I can handle myself."
"I know, I worry though. Any good mother would."
"I know, but I got it, alright?" Nashi watched as her mother pressed her mouth into a thin line.
"Alright, get going." Nashi smiled, waving to her mother as she ran.
"Later!"
Lucy watched as Nashi disappeared, her heart heavy. She kept getting flashes of Galuna Island, and she only wanted Nashi to be okay. She laughed to herself weakly.
"Who am I kidding? She's Fairy Tail wizard. She doesn't need to look for trouble, it looks for them."
Okay, a few things to address. Yes, this is the new arc, an S-class job. Deal with it.
And what were Natsu and Gildarts talking about? Interesting. Hope you enjoyed, leave a review! Let's try and get five!