A/N: Hello, readers! Welcome to another chapter!

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DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fairy Tail, I only own my OC's.

CHAPTER FORTY-SIX: WENDY'S FIRST BIG JOB

Wendy and Carla are looking for a job at the job request board. Natsu and Aira arrived at the request board. "But shouldn't you try doin' a big job pretty soon?" Natsu questioned.

"Yeah. Like a request from a distant town." Aira added.

"I want to be able to do big jobs soon, and be able to help everyone!" Wendy exclaimed as Carla sighs at her.

"Be of help to everyone, eh?" Max looks over at Wendy smiling.

"Good luck!" Warren said.

"Seeing her so honest and brave hearted... Can't help but cheer her on." Cana grinned at Wendy.

"I will do my best!" Wendy blushed.

"You should learn from her example, Lucy." Happy said.

"I'm honest and brave hearted too, you know!" Lucy looked at him with a straight face.

"Huh? Like, how?" Happy asked.

"I'm totally honest and brave!" Lucy yelled in anger. "My entire body is concentrated with honesty and bravery!"

"Honest?" Happy repeated. "Brave?"

Lucy sweat drops at him while Happy giggled at her. Cain just sighed in annoyance as Lucy angrily flapped her arms and begins chasing Happy who flies away. "Why, you..."

"But I bet the ones out away will be surprised there's such a little girl here when they get back." Reedus stated. Wendy nervously chuckles at Reedus.

"No kidding... Like Gildarts." Warren agreed.

Happy flies through the stage, laughing to himself as Lucy continues to chase him down.

"Gildarts, huh?" Max said.

"Haven't heard anything about him, as usual." Aira pointed out. "How many years has it been since he went on that job?"

"Three years... I think?" Natsu answered.

"There's no need to worry. This isn't someone like us we're talking about... It's Gildarts, you know?" Max informed.

"Yeah, definitely. He's in a league of his own." Warren said. Cana silently sighs to herself as she turned away from the conversation.

"Now that you mention it, I have a perfect job for you." Mira approached them with a flier in her hands. "It says they're searching for a wizard that can heal the spirit... The reward is only so-so, but don't you think it's perfect?" Carla folds her arms across her chest.

Mira shows them the flier. "Let's see here... The town of Onibus?" Aira looks at the flier.

"What kind of request is it?" Natsu asked.

"Um... 'Thank you very much'?" Wendy reads the flier as she mumbled the words to herself. Natsu and Aira both turn pale white while Lucy stops chasing Happy in midair.

Lucy turns to them, her eyes widened. "So that's where this is going?"

Natsu screamed in irritation. "I remember! It's all coming back to me now!" He clenched his fist trembling in anger and annoyance.

"The play's actors have all fun away, and the performances have been a series of failures... My spirit and body are completely worn out. Please make me feel better! Thank you very much. Rabian." Wendy reads from the flier. Aira easily gets irritated from just hearing his name.

"Rabian? Who's that again?" Happy questioned.

"He's the head of that Scheherazade drama troupe!" Aira responded.

"Remember the play we put on before?" Lucy reminded him.

"Fredrick and Yanderica!" Happy exclaimed.

"Wendy... I don't mean this in a bad way, well maybe I do, but don't do it." Aira told her, crossing his arms in an 'x' motion.

"He works you to the bone!" Natsu added.

"It was low pay, and serious labor! Plus, we couldn't even go home!" Lucy remembered the horrible play they had performed a while back.

"I'm also against it. You don't have to do that kind of job... Plus, I have a bad feeling about this." Carla spoke up.

"Your intuition is usually right, Carla, but if I can be of help..." Wendy trailed off.

"You're good-natured to a fault! Anyway, you can't handle going to a town you've never been to and and taking on a big job like this." Carla informed.

"That's not true! I'm going to answer this request, you'll see!" Wendy argued.

"Fine then, suit yourself. I'm not coming with you." Carla looks away from Wendy in disappointment.

"Hey, hold it. Why are you two fighting?" Lucy asked, getting between them. "Do you really need to be so prickly all the time, Carla?" Carla just turns away in disbelief.

"I will take on this job!" Wendy declared.

"Wait a minute. You're not planning on going alone, are you?" Mira asked.

"Yes! It'll be more good experience." Wendy nodded, grinning at everyone.

"Hold up there!" Master Makarov spoke up. Wendy turns to look at the Master sitting on the bar drinking his booze. "Wendy, you've only just gotten used to how we do things here. I can't let you go on some far-off request alone!" He chugs some of his booze. "Who's been there before?" He scans the entire room. "Let me see... Happy!"

"Me?!" Happy pointed at himself.

Master Makarov nodded his head. He looks to his right, searching for more people. "And... Freed! You look like you're free. Go with her."

"If that is your order, Master..." Freed sits up from his seat.

Happy jumps in surprise. "Why Freed?!" Natsu, Lucy, and Aira asked in confusion.

"Okay, I'm heading out!" Wendy, Happy, and Freed are prepared to go. Some of the guild members are outside of the guild saying their goodbyes.

"Be careful, seriously." Aira warned.

"Freed, make sure to protect Wendy, got it?" Cana said.

"You needn't worry. Leave everything to me." Freed nodded his head in agreement.

"Don't do anything unless needed. This is for Wendy's education, after all." Master Makarov said.

"Aye, sir..." Happy said in disappointment.

Carla turns away in disbelief, not saying goodbye to her partner. Wendy and her team walk away to go on their mission.

"Will she really be okay?" Lucy questioned.

"Since Freed's with her, there shouldn't be anything to worry about, but..." Reedus responded.

"But he's oddly inflexible about things... He does things his own way, you know?" Cana concluded.

Carla turns back around to look at Wendy who's walking away.

At Magnolia Station, the train that would head to Onibus is not running due to a breakdown. Wendy decides that she would walk to Onibus despite Happy's protests and Freed agrees with her.

Back at Fairy Tail, Lucy informs Erza about Wendy's job. Erza begins her vocal exercises and tells Lucy that she is worried about Wendy and has decided that she is going to follow her. Suddenly, Mirajane arrives and tells everyone that the train to Onibus isn't running. Worried, Erza, Lucy and Carla leave to follow Wendy.

Elsewhere, Wendy, Happy and Freed experience problems with the weather and stay in a cave. Erza, Lucy and Carla get caught up in the rain and take shelter in Horologium.

Back at the guild...

When Natsu learns that the three left to follow Wendy, he decides to leave too. He arrives at the station, hesitates a little, and rides the train. However, due to an accident, the train is returning to the station and is not going to stop at Onibus.

Wendy's team and Erza's team camp out for the night as it begins to get dark.

However, Natsu experiences troubles with his motion sickness and could not leave the train that he boarded.

The next day, the two teams walk through the desert. While Happy feels sick from the heat, a cursed sandstorm quickly approaches Wendy's team which causes them to run away. Meanwhile, Erza falls into quicksand and so Lucy summons Virgo to help out. While Virgo is trying to help Erza out, Wendy's team meets up with theirs while attempting to escape. When Erza is rescued, it seemed they could not run from the sandstorm anymore. Wendy uses her Sky Dragon's Roar to disperse it, earning her compliments from her guild mates.

They finally reach Onibus. However, Rabian explains that he made up with his actors and that everything is okay, much to everyone's dismay. Everyone, including the newly-arrived and motion sick Natsu faints from exhaustion. Rabian chatises the Fairy Tail Mages who passed out in front of his theater and orders Wendy to get rid of them. Wendy is disappointed about her first big job, but Carla tells her that she should be proud because she did a good job.

"Thank you very much!"

A/N: Another chapter is completed! We only got two more chapters to go until the Edolas arc!

Thanks for reading!

~ Kaleb.