Chapter 5

Fairy Tail

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For a split second everyone in the hall froze, and Alumina took the small pause to sweep her one visible eye over everyone. There were several Mages here, and she could feel plenty of power coming off of all of them. But there were a few she could feel immense power coming off of, and she quickly made a mental note to try and not piss those few off.

The pinkette suddenly had a very haunted look in his eyes at the mention of Lucy's murder, and Alumina flinched at the sheer horror she could feel coming off of him so suddenly. He blinked a few times and returned to his suspicious feelings toward Alumina, and she stiffened when she saw his nose twitch and his eyes narrowed.

"You weren't anywhere near Lucy when she died." He growled. "I would have-"

Alumina raised a hand and gave him a sad smile.

"You would have what? Seen me? Scented me? Followed my scent because your first thought would have been, that I was Lucy's killer?" Alumina asked him and the pinkette faltered for a minute, as if he wouldn't have thought she would figure out his suspicions so quickly. She was aware of Loke glancing at her in surprise from the corner of her eye.

"I-I didn't.." The pinkette stammered and again Alumina cut him off with a shake of her head, still smiling sadly at him.

"You didn't have to. It's alright anyway, Loke thought the same thing too, so I don't blame you. It's only natural for you all to be suspicious of someone who shows up with all of Lucy's keys, not knowing who I am, or why I have them." Alumina told him. "It's ok for you to be wary of me, all I ask is that you listen to what I have to say."

Everything in the hall went deadly silent at her words, everyone's eyes were narrowed as they thought about what she said. Alumina noticed Loke cast a surprised look at the pinkette, who she could see was looking a little disturbed by the sudden turn of events.

But she looked away from the Lion Spirit toward the balcony hanging over the bar. She couldn't see anyone, but she had the feeling that there was somebody there. She looked ahead when footsteps echoed around the silent hall, and the crowd parted to reveal a small very old man walking toward her.

He halted just a few paces in front of her, and looked her over slowly with a neutral expression and arms crossed behind his back. Alumina looked down at him calmly, while everyone around them watched in utter silence, thy wanted to know what the old man was going to say.

"I don't hear any lie in your voice." The old man said at length. "I hear only honesty in it, and I trust that Loke has good reason to accept you as his new Master. He is a member of my guild, and I owe it to him to listen to your story." The old man told her and Alumina nodded stiffly, as he waved a hand to the side. "So tell us your story." He said and Alumina took a deep breath.

She began to retell everything that she had already explained to everyone of her newly contracted Spirits. The reactions around the hall were mixed, and she could see the genuine shock when she told everyone Mavis had been speaking with her. The reaction to Mavis' name was so extreme, Alumina had to pause in her story.

"Why does everyone look so shocked when I said Mavis?" Alumina asked.

"Only people who bear the Guild's Insignia should be able to see and hear her." A red-head told her quietly, where the armored Mage stood at the front of the assembled crowd. Alumina blinked in surprise, and cast a quick questioning glance at Loke.

The Lion Spirit hadn't mentioned that piece of information about Mavis when she had talked to him earlier. Loke only glanced back calmly, and Alumina looked away. "I only saw her in my dreams, maybe there's an exception for that..." Alumina suggested quietly.

She started up her story again, and finished it with the last part, when Mavis had asked her to join Fairy Tail. The old man had stayed silent through the entire explanation, and she noticed his eyes were narrowed and he wasn't looking at her anymore. He was looking at the ground, seeming to be in deep thought.

Alumina took his momentary silence to look over everyone in the hall, and let out a silent sigh to see most of those suspicious glares she had been receiving, had softened and turned into slightly unsure frowns. Maybe she had managed to convince a few of them she only had good intentions, and her gaze rested in the Pinkette who had challenged her before.

He was staring right at her, arms crossed over his chest, face neutral. A blue Exceed had flown up to him during her explanation to sit on his shoulder, looking her over curiously.

"What are you thinking, gramps?" Gray asked the old man after a long pause. When the old man stayed silent the red-head stepped forward.

"Master, this is your decision, are you planning on letting her join the Guild?" The red-head asked and Alumina stiffened.

This old man was the Guild Master?

"Yes." He replied and looked up at Alumina. Alumina felt happiness spread trough her at the answer, she was glad he had let her. "I don't have any grudge against her, and we are always welcome to new members." He continued and waved his hand at Alumina, gesturing her to follow him as he turned away.

Alumina followed him slowly and ignored the wary look the pinkette gave her as she passed. The old man jumped on top of the bar and sat down, while a white-haired young woman walked over and gave her a small strained smile.

"My name is Master Makarov." The old man explained and gestured a hand toward the white-haired woman who had begun to dig for something behind the bar counter. "This is Mirajane. I hope that you'll enjoy being part of this guild." Alumina nodded at him and gave him a small smile.

"Thank you so much. I'm sure being here will be great." Alumina told him and he gave her a small smile in return. Mirajane pulled a heavy book from behind the counter and a stamp. The book opened as Mirajane grabbed a pen and looked at her.

"Can I have your full name please?" Mirajane asked sweetly.

"Alumina Filiac." She answered and Mira nodded as she wrote the name down in the book and closed it, setting the pen aside.

"Where would you like your Guild Mark, and in what color?" Mira asked as she picked up the stamp and Alumina narrowed her eyes in thought.

"Light blue please," She held out her left hand. "And on the back of my hand, please." Alumina asked. She didn't miss the slight surprise that lit up in Mira's eyes, before the barmaid pressed the stamp down on her hand, and pulled away to reveal a clean, crisp light blue Fairy Tail Insignia. Alumina gave Mira a wide smile,

"Thank you." She thanked the bar-maid. She glanced up at the balcony once more and smiled to see Mavis sitting there, feet hanging from where she was positioned on the railing. "Hey Mavis!" She called cheerfully up to the ghost and Mavis smiled down at her.

Everyone's eyes widened upon finally noticing the ghost sitting up there, and a few who had seen Alumina glance up that way about ten minutes ago blinked in utter shock.

Had Alumina somehow noticed Mavis was there before she received her Guild Mark?

"Hello Alumina." Mavis greeted her. "I'm glad to see you already made contracts with all your spirits. Thank you for letting her join, 6th." Mavis said as she turned her attention on Master Makarov. Master nodded a little, and Mavis smiled more as she raised her hands. "Let us celebrate the return of one of our returning Members!" Mavis announced as her gaze rested on Loke, who looked a little flustered.

Alumina leapt at the chance of celebrating, she had to start cheering them up sometime.

"You guys missed Loke, didn't you?" She asked in a teasing tone and a few of them smirked. Gray hooked an arm around Loke's shoulders, small smile spreading across his face.

"Of course we missed him." Gray replied and the entire hall erupted in a chorus of agreement. Alumina smiled at the sudden light attitude, and smiled more when Loke looked to be very happy to be back with his guild again. Her smile faded a little when she noticed the pinkette from before wasn't joining in in the fun.

The red-head from before approached her with a small blue haired girl.

"Welcome to the Guild." The redhead told her and held out a hand. Alumina reached out and took it, smirking at the right grip of the other woman. "My name is Erza Scarlet." Erza explained and their hands separated. "And this is Wendy Marvel." Erza told her as she gestured to the small blue haired girl beside her.

"H-Hi." Wendy stammered as she smiled nervously. Alumina smiled at the small girl.

"Hey guys. I hope we can get to know each other more." Alumina told the two. She looked up as three cats flew toward them, one white, another blue, and the last one black.

"My name is PantherLily." The black one told her.

"I'm Carla." The white one said politely.

"My name is Happy." The last of the three said as he flew circles around her head. "The grumpy guy over there is my partner Natsu." He explained as Happy pointed a paw toward the pinkette who was sitting in a corner with his arms crossed over his chest, glaring at the table in front of him.

"Please Excuse Natsu's behavior, Alumina." Erza told her. "Lucy's death... It hit him pretty hard.." Erza murmured.

"It hit all of you hard." Alumina told her quietly. "I understand what you guys must be feeling, I just hope we get along in time." Alumina told them and Happy sat on top of her head, tail flicking back and forth behind him.

"Come on, we'll introduce you to everyone else." Erza told her an Alumina followed silently as Erza lead her around the hall to get acquainted with everyone, Happy still comfortably resting on her head.

Everyone seemed nice enough, but she could tell they still had pretty down moods despite the party going on for seeing Loke again after so long. Most were friendly, some were wary, and others like Natsu and a group of people named the Thunder God Tribe didn't really seem like talking, so she left them alone.

"Did you have any other spirits before getting Lucy's?" Levy asked tentatively. She was sitting down at a table with Erza, Wendy, the three Exceeds and a very silent Iron Dragon Slayer.

Alumina nodded, "I did, but only one." She replied and her gaze lit up with excitement. "Do you guys want to meet her?" Alumina asked excitedly and they all nodded at once, smiling a little at her enthusiasm. "Great, I hope you guys will like her, she's been my best friend for years." Alumina explained as she stood up and took a step away from the table as she easily took the silver key hanging around her neck off its chain. Holding it out in front of her she smiled, more of her magic power had been returned since she had drained herself summoning everyone of her new spirits earlier that day.

"Open: Gate of the Great Bear!" She swung the key to the side, "Ursa Major!" She called out as Ursa appeared before her, jumping up and down in excitement at being called out again so soon.

"Hey Lumie!" Ursa exclaimed as she bounced forward and gave Alumina a hug. Ursa jumped away and cast her gaze over the entire hall, before giving the group sitting at the table in front of her a toothy grin. "Hello! You guys are Fairy Tail right?" Her gaze switched to Alumina. "You got in?" Her gaze switched back to the others. "My name is Ursa, its nice to meet you!"

"Hi." Wendy the three Exceeds and Levy smiled at Ursa, while Gajeel just looked away with a small grunt. Erza smiled a little at the enthusiastic spirit, and her gaze rested on Alumina, as Ursa stared talking rapidly to Wendy, Levy and the cat trio, talking about all a manner of things with a toothy grin spread across her face.

"She certainly seems full of energy." Erza told her and Alumina nodded.

"She's always like this." Alumina replied. She opened her mouth to speak more, but stopped herself when an arm wrapped around her shoulder, and she glanced over to see Loke standing beside her with his other hand on his chest and eyes closed as he smirked a little.

"Did you need to call another Spirit?" He asked her. "Surely your Lion is more than-" He opened his eyes to look in the direction of Ursa, and he immediately fell silent, sweatdropping a little and looking utterly shocked. Alumina blinked a few times at his sudden reaction, before she noticed Ursa had fallen silent too, even though her back was facing both Alumina and Loke.

"Is there-" Alumina started and she sweatdropped when Ursa slowly turned toward the two, frown spread across her face and evil aura spreading around her body, intensifying when she saw Loke with an arm around Alumina.

"Leo..." Ursa growled. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Ursa snapped at him, and Loke immediately jumped away from Alumina and backed away from the very scary looking Bear Spirit.

"Oh.. uh, n-nothing U-Ursa..." Loke stammered and Alumina blinked in shock to see how scared he looked, even if Ursa was a little scary at the moment.

The evil aura around Ursa faded as she let out a little, 'Mmhm'.

"I'll be t-talking with the g-guys..." Loke stammered as he scurried away. Everyone cast shocked gazes between Ursa and the running Loke, Alumina was lost. In an instant Ursa was next to Alumina as she leaned down and whispered in her ear.

"Watch out for Leo, he's a really big play-boy." Ursa whispered. "If he does anything with you, I'll kill him." Ursa growled with a murderous glint in her eye and Alumina sweatdropped, smiling nervously at Ursa.

What in the hell...?

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