The Fairies Tail - Chapter 9

A week passed, and things were hectic. You didn't even really have the time to go out on jobs, with the council sending Rune knight's out to interview you, and then dealing with the fallout of Twilight Ogre's guild demolition, the most you could really do was train while helping master Macao 'negotiate'.

And by negotiate, you meant threaten as much as you could. That was the good thing about being a former Rune Knight, and one popular with the men. They tended to side with you in legal matters even if you look a bit wrong.

After all, the boy who risked his life to save yours on multiple occasions should get a little leeway when dealing with a thieving, extortionist fool hiding behind guild laws right?

And so things were swung in Fairy Tail's favour, and despite the damage you had done to Twilight Ogre's guildhall, they were fined with paying your guild back no less than ten million jewels, which would rise another million per year they failed to pay it back.

At least Drax was a good sparring partner, and with his help during the time he copied your magic when you sparred, he really helped you figure out how to finish off your temperature control spell, and even make a whole new spell that while taxing would make you all the more powerful.

And so a week later, early in the morning as the sun began to rise, you found yourself standing outside the gate of the closed down guild hall that used to house Fairy Tail seven years ago, a key in your hand that you were delivered last night by the Magnolia mayor.

"Now this is a guild hall!" you whistled. It was huge, possibly as big as the castle your regiment in the rune Knight's used to be stationed in. You had no idea why Macao wanted you to open things up first this morning, you were the newest guy besides Drax.

It probably had something to do with his son Romeo returning early today along with the rest of the guild members out on the mission that he was on with him.

Inserting the key into the gate, you opened it up and stepped in, before making your to the large front door and unlocking it as well.

A cloud of dust sprinkled over your form, but you ignored it and instead took in the main hall of the guild.

It was quite the sight. Dozens upon dozens of large booths, tables and chairs. An incredibly large bar setting, even a massive stage! And the winding staircases leading up stairs were quite the sight as well.

"I wonder where the library is?" you hummed, eyes tracing over the massive hall. You'd heard from Macao they had quite the collection of magic texts stored in the library here still, which they used to use to teach new young members who just joined magic if they didn't have any of their own yet.

Wakaba had fondly recalled then, helping two old members, Elfman and Lisanna Strauss work through a Take Over book, and then helped them go track down a few targets to work them on. He'd had Lisanna take over a pig he bought and a stray cat, and then beat up a Fist Bear with his magic for Elfman.

"Oh, that's probably why Macao wanted me to be the first one here," you sighed, eyes finally noting the mass of cobwebs in every corner of the hall and dust everywhere. "...I don't even have any spells with a power setting low enough for cleaning."

..This is water mage discrimination!

It might have been due to your initial lavish upbringing, but you didn't really like staying in dirty homes or buildings.

The first thing you did, was slam open all the windows in the main hall, letting the air in to get rid of some of the accumulated smell.

You let the room air out for a few minutes while you thought on how to proceed. You couldn't use your main magic, you'd never really went for something as low powered as a cleaning spell with it. You should probably look into that at some point.

In the end, you settled for just walking around the massive room, targeting the dust and cobwebs with your Reqiuip magic and dumping it all into your storage space for you to get rid of later.

Thankfully, the storage dimension was dependent on your magical power, and you had quite a ton so your storage dimension was quite vast.

It was honestly a bit surreal for you to be here. You'd dreamed of coming here as a child, and while you'd saw the outside a few times of the grand castle like building, you'd never been inside.

..Your dreams never included it being empty save for you though. What a lack luster way for a dream to come true.

In the end, it took you a mere hour. The experience you had cleaning up your living areas with the Rune Knight's and your handy dandy little storage trick with Requip cutting down the time immensely.

You honestly couldn't be bothered going upstairs and having to clean more when you found it caked in dust and more cobwebs.

So you decided to just explore the bottom area for now. And really, there wasn't that much to see down here. There were a few sitting rooms for privacy and where members could get some quiet time and relax from the main room, a kitchen behind the bar, and a stairway into a cellar that was full of empty fridges, mostly empty crates, though some were filled with some empty lacrima orbs, which you grabbed a handful of, ten in total and tossed into your Requip space just in case you ever had to store some magic in the future.

After that, there was really only one main final room on the bottom floor, the library. The room was quite narrow, not wide at all, but it had high ceilings and it was long. And from door to end, the walls were lined with massive bookshelves easily thirty feet high, each shelf packed to the limit with books.

Thick tomes of magic, textbooks, fantasy book of every genre. Thousands of them. It would take days, weeks even to sort through them all. So you just took a cursory glance through the bottom shelves for now, cleaning off dust as you went by and depositing it into your Requip space.

There were quite a few texts of magic. Sticky magic, Wood-Make, heck even Requip and Telekinesis were on a bottom row. Three stood out for you though, one on Darkenss Magic, an element that while lacking the sheer raw power of your Sea God Slayer magic, was quite versatile and could even mimic the other elements to a degree. Take Over Magic, it popped out to you because of your recent discussion about it with Wakaba and finally Eye Magic, quite the rare text of magic, probably worth a few million jewels.

Yoink! you grabbed all three, depositing two of them into your Requip space for now and kicking up on one of the comfy, albeit slightly dirty chair's and cracking the book open.

"May as well get the basics of another magic down while I wait." you mused with a hum. You still had a good two hours until anyone was due to come in for the day.

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Sometimes the human body could be quite limiting. So you decided to go ahead and learn Take Over magic while you had the time. It honestly wasn't very hard. But then, every Rune Knight was generally briefed how it worked because vulcan's were a real problem that the whole orginzation was ordered to put down on sight.

Not to mention, this book was quite high quality, and the instructions in it were clear, concise and easy to follow. An hour and a half into it and you were pretty sure you had it down pat.

You weren't going to use it right now of course, the first life form you took over set you into that type of path. Like if you first took over a magical beast, you gained a Beast Soul and could only take over living beings of that ilk.

At the same time, it was a versatile magic too. Magic abilities sometimes transferred over from the take over form to the base form, and you gained part of the life form's own magic power added to your own when you took them over.

Honestly, sometimes you didn't understand why Beast Soul users didn't just go hunt down vulcans. There were thousands of them all across Fiore, and even though their magic power volumes were pathetic, it would add up over time.

You were tempted to go after Wyvern's yourself. They had magic resistant scales, and even just a partial take over with their wings would be amazing. The odd one even had the ability to breath out an element like a slayer mage, mostly fire for normal wyvern's, but ice and such was the norm for blizzarden's.

"Cobalt!" you heard a shout resounding from the main hall, snapping you from your thoughts. You recognized the voice as master Macao's. Putting the Take Over text in your Requip space, you got up and made your way through to the main hall.

Making a note to check out any missions that could possible have some wyvern species nearby, you went made your way out to meet your master.

You found him sitting at the bar when you entered and beside him a young teenage boy a few years younger than yourself. You had to stop yourself and force yourself not to mistake him for Natsu Dragneel though when you saw his style of clothing.

That must be Romeo. You had to admit, his magic power was actually amazing for a child his age. Not as strong as yours was at his age, but close. From what Macao told you, he was the star pupil of Totomaru, the former fire mage specialist of Phantom Lord who used Rainbow Fire magic.

"Yo master!" you greeted waving a hand, then turned the wave to the younger boy, "Hey, you're Romeo right?"

"That's me," the black haired, eyeing you seriously, "You're Cobalt right? the guy who trashed Twilight Ogre and basically challenged every guild in the country."

"Guilty," you shrugged, not ashamed at all. Actually, you felt the warm burn of pride in your heart when you remembered the way that ugly guild master squealed like a pig when you kicked him around, "Got something to say?" you asked, noting the scowl forming on the boys lips.

"..We should have taken them down ourselves long before now," the boy growled, clenching his fists hard, dark flames spring into existence around them, "It makes Fairy Tail look weak that we had to rely on a new member to do it for us."

Macao sighed, waving his hand through the air, and you noticed now that he had a bunch of mission requests in his grasp, "Cobalt's much stronger than anyone in the guild currently Romeo, we would have suffered quite a few casualties assaulting a massive guild like that," the blue haired master rebuked gently, "Honestly, he's stronger than Natsu. I'm already putting through the paperwork to get him promoted to an S-rank mage."

"You are?" you blinked. That was news to you. And everyone seemed to use Natsu Dragneel as a measuring stick. And you honestly weren't sure you were stronger than him. He wasn't ranked as an S-rank mage, but it was known that he'd taken down the likes of Laxus Dreyar, the second strongest S-rank mage of Fairy Tail seven years ago before he got booted out and Jellal Fernandez an ex Wizard Saint, who gained that rank with a mere half of his power through a thought projection.

You couldn't beat Jura, not yet. And estimates put Jellal above him. so why the hell did these people talk about Natsu Dragneel as if he wasn't an absolute monster? Older Rune Knights used to tell horror stories of running into that guy and trying to arrest him for property damage.

"You're definitely around the S-rank level Cobalt, and it should hopefully get you out of my hair for a a few days when you take missions like that on," the older guild master chuckled, "Here, take a look at these, it's the first set of missions you 'convinced' Twilight Ogre's master to pass over to us from now on."

Oh yeah, you did demand that as well at some point didn't you. And your old subordinates looked the other way during that discussion. Corruption could be fun sometimes. There was a total of eleven job requests, most of them B-ranked and two A-ranks.

Nice. You were so glad you'd demanded high paying jobs from that idiot. It sure would come in handy for raising the rank of Fairy Tail.

"Ooh a Blizzardvern!" you gushed looking over one of the A-rank missions. That would be amazing to use your new magic on, and with its wings you could just fly off to any of your other jobs. sure it would be taxing on the stamina, but fuck conventional means, you're the Sea God Slayer and are well stocked up on water.

Honestly, all of these are interesting looking. "I'll take em all." you decided.

"Eh?" Romeo blinked.

"No way!" Macao shouted, bouncing up and karate chopping you on the head, "Two and no more ya damn monster!"

"Tch, stingy," you pouted, before rolling your eyes and waving him off, "Fine fine, just gimme the Blizzardvern job and the....and the haunted mountain, whatever's up there is probably tough if it's scaring all the other monsters away." you continued, taking the two job notices and handing them over.

"That's fine," Macao nodded, taking them from you, "What about Drax, are you taking him with you?"

"Drax?" Romeo's face scrunched up in confusion.

"Nah," you replied, "I want him to generally be around humans more and learn how society generally works better so he won't run into trouble if he takes a job himself later."

"Fair enough I suppose," Macao shrugged, "Just don't go and disappear somewhere and train when you get back. You still need to meet the rest who just back."

"Yeah yeah," you waved him off, "Later Macao, you to Romeo, it was nice to meet you, but I wanna go check something out!" you bid them goodbye eagerly and walked towards the guild exit.

"Err...you to?" Romeo replied awkwardly, "...He's a lot like Natsu-nii."

"I know right?" Macao bemoaned behind you, "Trying to reason with him is a pain in the ass sometimes."