Intertwined #Wattys2016

Fiore?

"Am I in Fiore?", y/n had asked the shopkeeper and waited for an answer. "In a certain way. Yes. You are in Fiore. But, I am currently in Bosco.", the shopkeeper answered with a smile. Y/n looked at him, a questioning look in her eyes and the man started explaining what he meant. "We are now in Clover town. The town that's built right on the boundary of Fiore and Bosco."

"Clover. I heard of that...", y/n wondered. She had heard that in the anime before. Wasn't that the Place where the guild masters were almost killed by Lullaby? "Anyway", she continued "Is there any way to get to Magnolia from here out. Preferably as fast as possible.", she asked the man.

"There was a train station here. You could take a train to Magnolia from there. But it was destroyed years ago. I'm afraid the only way to get to Magnolia is to hire a car or go with a carriage. That could take up to three days.", the old man explained. Y/n nodded and thanked him. She couldn't drive a car and doubted that she had any money to hire a carriage so she searched for a map instead and started walking.

 Natsu was in the guild eating his breakfast. Well, eating wasn't really the right word. He was more poking his food with his fork before shoving it away from him and resting his head on the table. "Natsu...", Happy whined, worried about his best friend not eating while he Always ate so much. "You need to eat flamebrain. You're worrying everyone. Even I can see you're not doing well. Is it that fake girl you're mourning about?", Gray asked him. Natsu normally didn't mind the comments Gray made on whatever it might be, but this time Gray went too far. he called y/n fake, just like the rest of the guild had been doing the last week. The only one that wanted to believe Natsu was Happy, but even the exceed had a hard time believing his best friend without actual proof.

"Y/n is not fake!", Natsu yelled at the ice make mage and punched him right in his face before running out of the guild. Everyone looked at the doors where the Fire dragon slayer had just disappeared from the guild and then at Happy 'Shouldn't you go after him?', was what all of their eyes asked the little blue exceed who shrugged and explained to the whole guild "It's better for me to leave him alone if he's like this."

y/n was walking in a forest. It was a large forest between the town of Clover and the town of Oshibana. It was way past noon now and y/n doubted she would get out of the forest and into Oshibana before the night would fall. She hoped she did of course 'cause she didn't know if she had any magic and she didn't want to risk getting attacked by something and being unable to defend herself. She decided to walk a little bit faster so she wouldn't have to walk too long in the dark in the forest.

By evening Natsu returned to his house for dinner. He had been walking in the forest close to his house when he had ran out of the guild. That place always seemed to calm him down. He was smiling when he walked into the cottage and found Happy cooking. "I'm sorry for earlier." he told the exceed. "I was out of it for a bit. I'm feeling a lot better again." he said with a smile. 

Happy smiled too and went back to cooking. "You're just  in time. Dinner's almost ready.", the blue cat yelled from the kitchen as Natsu sat down on a chair "I know. I could smell it."

The sun had slowly started to set behind the hill she saw up north-west when she noticed the lights of the city of Oshibana shining through the trees. So she could make it! but she suddenly stumbled upon a problem she hadn't thought about yet; money. She could reach Oshibana by the night but she didn't have money for food or a place to sleep and she definitely needed different clothes than these. She would stand out too much in jeans shorts and a shirt with Natsu Dragneel on it...

She walked a bit around town until she foud an inn she could maybe stay in. She knocked on the door of the inn and an old man with a beard opened up. He spoke with a heavy voice "What can I do for you today, my child?"

"I really need a place to sleep and something to eat but I'm flat broke. But I know the Fairy Tail guild really well. You can place it on their tab.", y/n told the innkeeper in her defense. "And if possible. I'd like to work here for tonight and if possible tomorrow too so I can earn some money for clothes.", she added. 

The innkeeper looked as if he was thinking deeply about her offer and after a while he told her "All right; I'll put your sleeping and eating expenses on a tab for the Fairy Tail guild and you can work in the kitchen tonight and tomorrow for some money."

"Thank you sir. You won't regret letting me work here.", y/n said as she bowed. The innkeeper stepped aside to let her in and led her to the kitchen where she would be working for the next two days. He handed her a working outfit and told her what she needed to do here. Her work consisted mainly out of doing dishes and taking orders but she was fine with that.

After a long night of working, she finally got what she was promised. A nice plate of steaming stew and a comfy bed for the night.

The next day Natsu walked dinside the guild and was immediately yelled at by Master Makarov "I heard you ran out of the guild last night, but going all the way to Oshibana and eating and sleeping in an inn on our expenses goes a bit far, don't you think Natsu?", Makarov scolded him and Natsu could just look questioning. "What do you mean old man. I went home when I ran out of the guild. Ask Happy. I had dinner with him and we slept together too.", Natsu yelled in his defense and Happy immediately said "Aye! Natsu has been with me the whole evening!"

"Then who did this? No one has taken a quest in Oshibana... Ah, who cares. Anyway Natsu, talking about quests in Oshibana. A client has asked for a strong fire mage to defeat some ice mages in the surrounding area. You will depart this afternoon. The inn and food will be included. Maybe it wasn't included and they just put it on our tab. Well, that solved that problem too.", Makarov muttered to himself. 

"Come on Happy. If we got a quest, we'll need to go pack. We're gonna get some money!", Natsu yelled as they ran out of the doors of the guild again to pack their stuff for their trip to Oshibana. 

Happy carried Natsu out of the train to their reserved inn when they arrived in the city of Oshibana. The innkeeper opened up the door and showed them to their room so Natsu could rest a bit and let his motion sickness fade.