Fairy Tail: This Little Chickie

And So It Begins

Disclaimer: Fairy Tail® by Mashima Hiro

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After a full six days of quarantining herself away in her apartment due to a severe case of the flu, Lucy was well and eager to return to her friends at Fairy Tail. So eager in fact, that she took a quarter of the time she normally used to get ready in the morning. She had a lightning-quick shower, only half-dried her hair before tying it back, and only spent thirty seconds choosing her outfit for the day. Not bothering to put on make-up since she didn't really need it anyway (she was beautiful either way), she slipped into the comfy light-blue shorts and a plain white T-shirt that she had selected. Compared to her normal choice of attire, that day she looked casual and comfortable. Looking in her mirror half-heartedly, Lucy decided that it wasn't a bad look either. Lucy pulled a pair of flat sandals onto her feet before attaching her keys onto her belt and heading out the door, a piece of toast shoved between her teeth.

Her friends and she had been deciding to go on a job since they were all starting to run low on cash when Lucy caught a violent case of the flu. For three days they had taken turns visiting her, checking to see how she was doing. On the fourth day, Natsu and Happy where completely broke, Gray was forced to survive off of Juvia's offerings of boxed lunches (Juvia had come over to brag to Lucy), and Erza had only a hundred Jewels left to her name. Lucy urged them not to wait for her to get better and to just go do a job. Though she was running extremely low on funds too, she had been raised to be able to manage money well. She could survive until she was healthy again.

After a short debate between Lucy, Erza, and Gray, Gray teamed up with an ecstatic Juvia and went off while Erza dragged Natsu and Happy to do a job with her (Natsu had refused to leave a sick comrade behind, but Lucy had begged Erza to just take him. He needed more cash than any of them). Now, two days later, Lucy was as fit as a fiddle once more and in desperate need of a job. She doubted any of her friends were back yet, so she would have to do one on her own. Something simple and not dangerous.

Lucy arrived at the newly built Fairy Tail's large doors and stopped to catch her breath. Running felt nice after laying in bed for six days, but she was out of shape and still rather weak from the severity of her illness. Lucy straightened up and walked through the door and into the place she saw as her true home.

As usual, the place was loud and lively. The sight of her fellow guild members laughing, arguing, drinking, and eating brought a smile to her lips. Calls of greetings and congratulations on her recovery filled her ears when everyone noticed her. She waved and responded to the questions of how she was feeling.

"I feel a whole lot better than I did before, thank you." Lucy said. She waved and gladly accepted pats on her back and head. Pride and joy about being with her family once more swelled in her chest.

Just as she had guessed, Lucy could tell that Natsu, happy, Gray, Erza, and Juvia had yet to return just by the lack of things being smashed up, so she decided to talk to Mirajane about what she might be able to do.

""Hey Mira." Lucy said sliding onto a stool at the bar. "Can I just have water? My throat is kind of soar from all of..."

"Your puking? Sure thing Lucy; I'm just glad you're feeling better. When happy said you couldn't go ten minutes without throwing up, I have to say you had everyone worried." The older girl said filling a glass with water and placing it before Lucy. Lucy chuckled awkwardly. Happy kind of exaggerated about the throwing up part, but it wasn't important. "And the day you got sick Laxus came back in a bad mood from the mission he had been on for the past month and he's been stirring things up...so for the past few days everyone has been even more on edge. Before Natsu and the others left on their missions, they kept falling for that jerks bait. I can't count how many times Natsu was zapped. When Erza lost her temper, we lost ten tables! If Master hadn't been here to stop them, I think a real nasty would have broken out. With you back in good health though, now we can all worry about one less thing." Mirajane said leaning on the bar, a slight smile pulling at her lips.