🌹 The New Exceeds
Only when Panther Lily showed his 'prisoner' off, the young girl told her story, and was reunited with her older siblings, did the group finally went to the guild hall.
The guild hall, for the most part, subsumed into silence as Lisanna Strauss carefully made her way inside.
Gabbriel glanced around the guild hall, making sure everything looked the same as the last time she saw it. Which, it was, as her red eyes gleamed back onto the scene in front of her.
"S-Seriously?" Macao stammered.
"You're alive?!" Wakaba exclaimed. When Lisanna smiled and gave a smile nod, the older men Fairy Tail members rushed towards her to give their hugs.
"Lisanna!"
"Don't you dare touch her with your filthy mitts!" Elfman demanded, punching the group of men away with his arm transformed.
"That's the same reaction I had. . ." Natsu mumbled, referring to when he fist saw Lisanna.
"Yeah!" Happy agreed.
"Crying and all?" Gabbey teased, walking over to the railing for the stairs and hopping up to sit on it. Gajeel leaned by her side with Lily and Daella close by.
"What about it, hag?!"
"You did not just call me a hag! I'm only three years older than you!"
"Oh, my. . ." Mira laughed, sensing a fight come on.
"Thank goodness. The guild's just like it was before," Lucy let out a sigh of relief.
"I see. Looks like no one knows anything about the Anima." Gray stated.
"Anyway, what's important is that everyone is safe." Erza said.
"This is messed up." Gajeel commented.
"So, this is a wizard's guild. . ." Lily mused.
"It looks like fun!" Daella grinned, looking over everything with a keen eye.
"Lisanna!" Makarov exclaimed, walking towards the group.
"Master!"
"I believed. . . " The old man trailed off. "Everyone raised in this guild is a child of this guild. And what parent is there that doesn't worry about their child? And what parent is there that doesn't believe in their child? You can tell me all about what happened later. You too, Natsu. . ."
"Sure, Gramps!" Natsu agreed.
"Anyway, you did great in coming home!" Makarov grinned.
"Master. . ." Lisanna choked, close to tears. "I am back home, aren't I? I'm back home, right?"
"That's right. This will always be your home. Welcome home, Lisanna."
"Welcome home, Lisanna!" The rest of Fairy tail is quick to shout, welcoming back their long lost member. Lisanna let out a wail before launching herself at the Master, giving him a tight hug.
"I'm home!"
"Ack! The Master!" Lucy yelled.
"Lisanna-san, please calm down!" Wendy cried out. Gabbey snorted, covering her mouth with her hand and she laughed.
"Lets hope she didn't break his back with that tackle."
The guild hall was soon decorated with ballons and a sigh that read 'Welcome Back Lisanna'. The bartenders passed around mugs of mead and people chatted excitedly with each other in happiness. Natsu, being Natsu, was of course trying to fight everyone and everything.
Gabbey seem to ignore the whole chaos, casually getting the bowl of cherries Mira had sat down at her table. Of course, before any party could start, Gajeel and Gabbriel had the two new members get their stamps. They were in the same spot - on their back - but different colors. White on his and Black on hers.
As of right now, Panther Lily and Daella were watching the guild interact; one in awe and the other in an overwhelming way.
"Q-Quite a lively guild. . ." Lily stammered.
"It's like a breath of fresh air," Daella sighed.
"Everyone seems to get the same first impression." Carla sweat dropped.
"That's what makes it fun!" Happy cheered.
"And everyone here has magic power inside their body?" Lily asked.
"Yup," Gabbey answered simply, giving a cherry over to Daella without even looking into her longing pink eyes. The sandy colored Exceed had been eyeing them for a while.
"Incredible. . ."
"Yummy!"
"That's right. These are Earthland wizards." Erza said with a proud smile.
"Erza!"
"Oh yeah. . .In Edolas, you worked with Erza, yes?" Carla asked.
"And you're still together now." Happy said through a mouthful of fish. Gabbey wrinkled her nose is disgust.
"But what's important isn't magic itself. It's the heart of the person who uses it." Erza continued and looked down at the two new Exceeds. "Isn't that right, Lily, Daella?"
"Thus, how I use my own powers." Daella chirped, helping herself to another cherry. Happy suddenly choke on his fish and Carla stared at her in shock.
"You have a power, too?!" Happy exclaimed. Gabbey blinked.
"Oh, yeah, I almost forgot," The Dragon Slayer admitted.
"What is it?" Carla asked.
"Oh! Uh," Daella coughed with her cheeks growing hot. "Y-Yeah. It really doesn't have a name! I just block the signals your nerves send to your brain. Like, it Gabbey had a cut on her arm, I can block the pain messengers and block the pain for her. Make it numb."
"That's so cool!" Happy grinned. "Do it on me!"
"U-Uh-"
"You aren't injured, Happy," Gabbriel reminded him, glancing at him out of the corner of her eyes.
"Oh, yeah. . .Never mind!"
"Okay, Salamander, little girl!" Gajeel suddenly shouted from the crowd. "Let's have a fight between my Lily, Gabbey's Ella, the blue cat, and the white cat!"
Gildarts laughed from his spot at the bar. "Sounds good to me."
"I've been waitin' for you to ask!" Natsu and Gajeel bumped their heads together at the challenge.
"Well, I sure haven't!" Happy laughed nervously.
"Just so you know, my Lily is the strongest of the strong!" Gajeel gloated.
"And Happy's the cattiest of the cats, so there!"
"Leave Daella out of it," Gabbey called to the two dragon slayers, picking up her bowl of cherries and Daella herself.
"I told you to call me Ella!"
"Shush, there's someone I want you to meet." Gabbriel lead them over to another table, being careful not to let her bowl or new partner drop as people were thrown everywhere. "You'll get use to all the fighting, I have."
"It's just a lot different than the castle," Daella admitted. "Lily made sure I was with him at all times to keep an eye on me, or I was in our room. Everyone was so. . .serious. Everyone but Coco. . ."
"Well, it's rarely serious in this guild." Gabbey promised. She glanced over her shoulder at the table they recently left, and saw Lily keeping an eye on the two of them. "But, most things don't change."
"What-?" Daella turned as well, made eye contact with Lily, and laughed. "That's one thing that probably not going to change anytime soon."
Gabbriel let herself relax and gave a crooked smile, before placing both Exceed and bowl down onto a different table. There sat Levy, Lucy, and Wendy. The youngest girl instantly smiled at Daella.
"Hello!"
"Hello!" Daella smiled back.
"Daella," Gabbey started. "This is Wendy, my apprentice, Levy. . .My best friend, and Lucy, my other friend."
Lucy blinked in shock, and Levy smiled brightly.
"Guys, this is my new partner, Daella,"
"Hi, Daella! It's great news that you're going to be Gabbey's partner here. She doesn't get along with a lot of people," Levy stage-whispered the last part, making Gabbey roll her eyes.
"Funny," She said dryly.
"Well, if that's true," Daella said. "I'll make sure to get along with everyone to make up for it!"
"You guys are like. . .polar opposites," Lucy sweatdropped.
"And you and Natsu aren't?"
"Not the point!"
The table bursts into laughter, Gabbey even chuckling along with them.
As the party progressed well throughout the day and into the night, Gabbey made herself relaxed. She tried her best to include herself into conversations, to keep them going, and to just have fun. It was hard, at first, but the longer the party went, the easier it was to do.
Soon, Gabbey was openly laughing with the guild members of Fairy Tail, smiling a real smile, and just enjoying the company of other people. She even started a conversation with Lisanna, with Mira watching the two of them with a gleam in her eye. Gabbey was actually trying to connect. If not for herself, than for Mystogen's last request.
Gajeel kept a close eye on his twin, happy she was actually trying with these people. The happiness could easily be detected in their bond, and it was great.
The night, of course, winded down at some point. It was a point that Gabbey didn't really know though. Because with the rest of Fairy Tail, she had fallen asleep on the ground in their giant sleepover.
When she woke the next morning, Levy and herself hugging each other with Daella in between the two of them, and Gajeel having an arm wrapped around both girls protectively, Gabbriel couldn't help but feel like she finally belonged somewhere. That nothing could go wrong.
But Trouble whispered in her ear so tenderly, that she ignored it; "I'll always come for you. I'll always find you."
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