The Fairies Tail - Chapter 6

Once you stored the WereTiger's in your Requip space, it was off back to Magnolia on the Drax express. You really had to love the fact that unlike Exceed's, his magic power was much vaster and thus could fly for longer periods of time.

Not to mention, if it came down to it he could just copy your magic and drink water to restore his stamina like you. Being a water variant of a slayer was absolutely broken sometimes, you could regain your magic power and stamina so easily.

Granted, it didn't do anything for mental fatigue, but still broken as hell really.

Less than ten minutes later, with Drax following your directions, you touched down in front of the bounty station and made your way inside. The bounty cashier tried to cheat you out of the bounty for the lizardman quest when you showed Drax to them, but your background as a Rune Knight and with your family studying up anything to do with money, let you threaten your way to your reward pretty easily.

The threat to let Drax eat him if he didn't cough up the dough might have been a bit much, but you got a good chuckle out of his terrified face, even if Drax was a tad uncomfortable at the thought of eating humans, apparently preferred fruit.

...Weird.

Either way, you were seven hundred thousand jewels richer, though sixty percent of that would be going to the guild.

"..I don't believe you've thought this through Cobalt," Drax fretted a bit, hiding his face in his hoodie, and having tucked his tail into his pants as you walked through the paths of Magnolia, "For instance, where am I going to stay?"

"With me?" you asked with a shrug, "Or we could just get you your own place. It's not really a big deal is it?"

"...fine," he backed down on that front, "But what about your guild itself? I bear them no ill will for their part in the death of my bretheren, but do remember I attacked them on orders from my creator, do you think they will welcome me with open arms?"

"Lighten up!" you clapped him on the back, "They'll be fine with it, they're pretty chill."

"Do you not understand the concept of personal boundaries?" Drax sighed, stepping out of your arm range. What a serious guy! "..But very well, I'll follow your instructions for now." he conceded, just as you stepped into the pathway towards the run down version of Fairy Tail.

Man, you really wanna check out the big one. It was in the ownership of the city really, but they wouldn't sell it for some reason. And all Fairy Tail's many belongings were still being stored there. You bet there were a ton of rare texts on magic buried in there somewhere!

Moments later, you stepped into the guild, your hooded lizard friend a few steps behind you. The first thing you saw, was a familiar green haired woman, holding a child alongside a pair of men, one in a poncho the other with his hair styled into a fine point at the crown.

Most of the people in the guild turned towards you, including the newcomers, the three adults of whom all perked up at seeing you, and raised their hands in greeting.

"Hi," the scantily clad, beautiful older green haired woman greeted you, "Cobalt right?"

You actually remembered her. You have her on one of your recordings of the Fantasia Parade, the last one in fact before the Tenrou Team went missing. Bisca was her name.

"I thought they were lying when they said we got a new member." Pointy head shook his head.

"That's my name," you replied with a smile, returning their waves, "Bisca right? I remember you from a few years ago since I still have the recording of the last Fantasia Parade."

"That's right," she nodded, and her eyes gained a far off quality, "The Fantasia Parade huh? Been a long time since I thought about that."

"You looked good in it honey!" the poncho wearing man said with a laugh, before turning to you and smiling, holding his hand out for a handshake, "I'm Alzack, Bisca's husband, and this guy here is Warren, it's great to meet you." he introduced himself as you took his hand, and even pointed out the name of the other man.

..It took a concentrated effort not to burst out laughing at his ridiculous hair style.

"Nice to meet you guys too." you replied.

Before the conversation could continue though, Macao sitting at the bar piped up, "So how'd the missions go Cobalt? Have any trouble?" the older man asked, then nodded behind you, "And who's your friend?"

You let go of Alzack's hand and made your way over to the master of the guild, and swiped your hand through the air, withdrawing a stack of notes from your Requip space, "Complete easy street, though I did get one good fight out of the first mission, here you go, 410,000 Jewels," you replied, handing the money over to him, "As for my friend, he's Drax, I just named a little while ago, he's the lizardman from the mission."

"Another 60% huh? You really are too generous." Macao nodded, before what you said registered in his ears and his eyes went wide.

"Lizardman!?" he shouted, shooting up, even as his voice echoed with the voice of everyone else in the guild hall.

"Yeah, he was pretty tough, so I figured he'd be a good asset to the guild, plus he was really fun to fight and there isn't any laws forbidding those classified as monsters from joining a guild," you shrugged. Monster and Beast Tamer mages were a thing after all, "Hey Drax, you can take the hood down now." you said, turning to him, and completely ignoring the tense atmosphere.

"...Moronic does not even begin to describe you," the lizardman sighed, but did as told and pulled his hood down, exposing his scaled face to everyone, "Hello, nice to meet you. I hope you...accept my apologies for once attacking you all at the behest of my mad creator Daphne."

There was silence in the guild hall for a few moments, before it was broken by the sound of Kinana giggling, "It's almost like something Natsu would have done."

"..At least he's polite." Macao groaned.

That did it, and everyone around you erupted into laughter.

"..I've joined a whole guild of madmen and woman haven't I?" Drax lamented.

Before you left the guild to train, Bisca caught your eyes lingering on her cleavage and gave you a little wink. "I did look good in that outfit huh?" she said to you with a little laugh as you passed her by.

She totally knew what you got up to with that recording.

In the end, there honestly wasn't much else you could do today. There were a few missions, but the only really appealing ones were the B-ranks, and you needed to leave some for the others to make money from anyway.

Macao asked, that outside of A-ranks, you limited yourself to one mission a day. And that was fair enough. The missions you'd already completed and the time it took to do so would already be on record. It wouldn't change much in the grand scheme of things, but it would bring your name to attention since there was always people scoping out the mission completion rates and how well mages did on jobs.

So, you decided to just go get some training done. There was a spell you'd been working on recently, the ability to change the temperature of your sea water, and you wanted to get a head on that.

Although, you made sure to empty your magic container out quickly while you done so. Gotta get them gains when it came to your overall magic power as well. And with your ability to regain your magic energy with just drinking water, you could do it again and again in the one session.

Drax begged off of training, simply watching as you worked. Which was fine, he didn't quite understand fully what you were aiming for right now, but he would.

At the very least, you figured out a minor base for your new spell, and you were quite happy about that.

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The next morning, after dragging Drax to your apartment to sleep in, you and your new companion headed off to the guild.

"Hello Cobalt, Drax!" Kinana greeted you both as you entered, the only one in the main guild hall right now. It was quite early after all.

"Hey, what's up?" you returned her greeting with a wave, walking over to sit down at the bar, Drax following you and giving her his own overly polite greeting.

"Just getting set up for the day," Kinana shrugged, "Can I get you guys anything? Breakfast maybe? We've got some fruit if you want Drax."

"..Ah I do not want to impose." Drax awkwardly replied.

"Just give him some fruit," you told her, ignoring the huff of annoyance Drax gave you for talking for him again, "If it costs anything I'll pay it. He didn't eat as much last night since I've just moved in and not really went grocery shopping yet."

"I thought as much, you've been really focused on jobs since you joined after all," Kinana giggled, before ducking under the bar, you heard the sound of a fridge opening, before she popped back up a few moments later, a plate full of apples, banana's and such filling it up, "And since he's with you he doesn't really need to pay. Master said not to bother you with considering you're putting three times as much earnings you're really needed to into the guild."

Huh, neat. "Cool," you nodded, grinning. You turned to Drax as he looked at the plate placed in front of him, "Well eat up buddy, you need that strength if you're gonna help me out on jobs."

Once you showed him how things worked, Drax could even take his own jobs. Well, once it was well known he was a member that is. Then you could cover even more jobs and raise the reputation of the guild even faster!

"..Very well." Drax grumbled, and dug into his food, lifting pieces of fruit and chomping down hard with teeth that could pierce through steel. And this time he didn't even bother admonishing you for calling him buddy!

Progress!

"So, any good jobs today Kinana?" you asked the older, beautiful girl.

"Eh I think you'll only really be interested in the B-ranks since no new A-ranks came in," The blue haired woman mused, "And we don't get S-ranks since we don't have any registered S-rank mages anymore."

Ah, that sucked. Top tier guilds got tons of A-ranks in per day. And you'd already taken care of the four Fairy Tail had, and no more had come in in the past few days. Yeesh!

"I don't take missions that often to be honest," Kinana shrugged, "So I'm not sure what's up there right now."

"Fair enough," you shrugged, standing up, "I'll just check them out myself." Making your way over to the request board, you looked over the jobs on the B-rank section.

Jiggly Butt Gang? What the fuck? Some group of weirdo's with fart based magic were going around stealing shit. A group of Vulcan up on Mount Hakobe had increased quite a bit in size lately.

Jaw Shark's were making a nuisance of themselves at Hargeon Port lately, biting through the bottom of ships coming in. They weren't that tough, not even as big as the standard great white, but they had magic enhancing their jaw strength.

Ooh, Swamp Crocodiles had moved into the lake at Clover Town and dirtied up the water. That could be fun. Swamp Crocodiles were massive, easily double the size of the normal crocodiles you generally saw. They were magic beasts after all.

The last two were just a pair of bodyguard jobs. One was simple enough, just guard a trading caravan. The other, was a request from a rich fat cat to protect his daughter on her journey back from her university, it was pretty vague in explanation, but it did mention that Guild Hunter Velveno, the recently escaped dark mage might be targeting her.

No idea why that was a B-rank mission. Velveno was an A-rank dark mage with the Magical Drain magic style, which let him copy the magic of anyone he came into contact with for a short period of time. Still, the reward was pretty high for a B-rank, a full two hundred thousand jewels. And if Velveno did turn up, the bounty on his head for turning him in was a full four million jewels.

You decided to go with the one that had the chance of you running into Velvano. The odds were low, but it would be another great achievement to start bringing glory back to the guild.

But ew, reading it over more, you noticed who the job was sent out by. Count Balsamico. He was a frequent buisness partner of your parents before you ran away. Just remembering his ugly little puckered up face made you want to gag.

You'd never seen a grown man so short, or one so ugly.

Turning around you looked over to the bar, "Kinana I'm taking the daughter escort mission, let master know will you?" you called over to her, taking the mission page from the board.

Dealing with nobles might not be the best first mission to take Drax on though.

"That's fine," Kinana replied, "Are you taking Drax with you? It might not go over well, from what I know that mission has to do with nobles."

"I know," you nodded, before looking to Drax, "You fine to wait it out here? I probably won't be too long."

Drax paused in his devouring of the fruit he was given, "That's fine," he shrugged, "I will use the free time to learn more about becoming a guild mage."

"Good thinking buddy!" you praised him with a thumbs up before turning on your feet and leaving, "Later!"

"I told you not to be so familiar with me!" Drax called after you.