Citizen V

Meredy

August 14, 2015
Fiore Hunter College
11:01 a.m.

"You want me to what?!" Zeref shouts, slamming a stack onto papers on the desk.

"Zeref-san... She is being very persistent." Capricorn adjusts his sunglasses.

"I don't care if parents are being persistent! I'm not going to see anyone today!" Zeref shouts.

The symptoms are getting worse. The outbursts are worse than yesterday. Shit. He knows that he needs those pills again and soon. He can't possibly see anyone that are human right now.

"Zeref-san, she said that it was urgent. Her name is Ultear Milkovich." Capricorn says a certain name and that was what caught the headmaster's attention.

"Ultear... So, she's finally back..." Zeref grabs his forehead, "Great. More paperwork..."

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Full Bust Coffee Shop
10:44 p.m.

"Why were we working here again?" Natsu asks, once again adjusting the wedgie in the khakis he had been wearing all day.

"Your brother said that you guys will never adjust to human civilization being cooped up in the guild all day so, he said that working here would've be a good start." Lucy says, grabbing a cup to pump in the chocolate for a customer's order.

"Why not something more fun than just... coffee?" Gajeel was still complaining.

"Well, it was kinda hard to find a job when you lot have ridiculous vampire strength, fangs and what am I missing- The fact that according to everyone in town, you're still dead?" Levy makes a point as she finishes her tea.

"Besides, up until now, Gray and Lucy were the only ones working here. Along with Silver-san, they needed the extra help." Erza says, writing things down in a spiral notebook.

"That's right! I never did get to ask but, since you know what our lovely lives have been like, how have yours been?" Lyon sat by the counter when he asked his question.

The four exorcists were silent. They decided not to utter a word of their experiences over the past few years. Although, they couldn't have had it worse than them, right?

"Well... It was rough. After all, we saw all of you get killed before our very eyes." Lucy starts off.

"Slaughtered like animals by things that looked like a mixture between a human and a demon. What else were we supposed to believe? Vampires just came and attacked us? If we told the docs at the hospital that, they would've kept us longer than they already did." Gray cleans up a blender.

"When we got out of the hospital for the first time, two months had gone by." Erza puts her book down.

"And by then, we didn't exactly have anyone to turn to so... We relied on each other." Levy grips at the handle of the tea cup.

The rumors never stopped.

"Aren't they the ones that survived that bus crash?"

"I heard that they were attacked by terrorists from Alvarez."

"No way! I heard that some of those kids were spies and the government decided to get rid of them!"

"I heard that they're just cursed."

"You shouldn't go near them. You'll probably get killed too."

The rumors would never stop. It had been two months since the accident but, the four were finally discharged from the hospital, given strict orders to go home and relax. Relax? How could they? How could they possibly even think to relax after seeing what they had just seen?