Fairy Tail: The Dark Swordsman

4 - It's a Promise

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— Dannis Martell —

"Hey Danny! Let's go on our first mission together!"

Dannis had just completed his morning training and sat down at the bar when he heard Laxus's voice across the guild hall.

It had been over 5 weeks now that he arrived at Fairy Tail, 5 weeks of training and fine tuning his magic and swordsmanship. And for the first time, he feels confident of his own strength.

There came bits and moments here and there where his magic would act up, but those moments came few now that he finally had a grip of his own magic. None of those moments were as big as the one that he had on the first day of Fairy Tail.

So when Laxus came in and offered to go on their first missions together, he immediately said yes.

The two of them met in front of the mission board and immediately started to scan the entire thing for jobs. What truly surprised Dannis was the fact that most of them were menial jobs with very miniscule pays.

[Clean up the attic of a house in downtown Magnolia. D-rank. 5,000 Jewels]

[Paint the outer fence of a farm. D-rank. 5,800 Jewels]

[Look after a two-month old baby while the parent goes out to buy milk . D-rank. 10,000 Jewels]

What the heck was with that last one?

"Most jobs are like this since the good ones are usually snatched up the moment they get on the board. That's why the more experienced mages usually just grab a bunch of jobs at the same time and take them one by one instead of waiting like this. At least that's what Gramps told me." Laxus conferred as they both kept looking for at least a decent job.

After all, there was no way that their first ever mission would take someone's dog to the park.

That was when one job caught his eye. It was pretty interesting and involved combat, which made it infinitely better than the rest of the jobs.

"Hey Laxus, what about this one?"

"Hmm? Let's see..." The yellow haired boy said as they both read the details read on the paper.

[Subdue a group of bandits that have been harassing the main road that leads to Bangor City. C-rank. 50,000 Jewels]

"Bandits, huh? Sure! Let's do it!"

Dannis nodded as he re-read the description of the mission. Apparently, a group of bandits had made camp nearby the main route that was used for commercial purposes. So the mayor of Bangor City had issued a request for Fairy Tail to subdue them.

When they took the request to Master Makarov to get it signed, the man himself just did it without hesitation.

"I've seen your spars and your training with Gildarts, brat. I'm sure you can handle yourself. Just make sure to be careful, okay?"

"Of course Master. We'll be back soon."

Makarov just mumbled a goodbye as he took a good swing of his drink. Dannis just smiled at that before he and Laxus went out to do their very first mission together.