Fairy Tail: Next Generation - Volume I

Chapter 18: Layla Dear

Marigold lays in bed, she awakens only to remember she's been required to spend at max a week in the Fairy Tail infirmary to heal. Disappointed by her surroundings, she pulls herself up and steps out of bed to head to the main room.

First time I've been here when it's mainly empty. She thought. As she walks down a row of tables and sees only Mirajane with a tall blonde man, and a younger looking girl sitting at the table.

Marigold looks at the young blonde girl who wraps some kind of staff with a gauze. Her hair was pull back, aside from her bangs, in a tight braid that reached her hip. She wore mainly black with accents of purple. She walks over to her and taps on her shoulder. The girl turns only her head, looking to Marigold with a raised eyebrow.

"Excuse me? Are you Layla?" Marigold asked with a smile.

"Yes, who might be asking?" She replied sharply.

Marigold gave a pleasant smile, replying, "I'm Marigold, while you were away I joined to guild. I'm friends with your family. Actually, for awhile I lived with your sister."

"Please don't let my moronic siblings represent me, it's bothersome." 

Marigold laughed just a bit at the comment. "I take it you're much different than your siblings." She smiles. "None the less, I hope we can be friends."  

Layla stands. ignoring the previous comment. "You're new to the guild?"

Marigold nods, she moves the collar of her shirt to show her mark pressed into her chest above her heart.

Layla pulls her hair back and stands up, twirling her staff in her left hand. "So, what's with the wounds?"

"Oh!" Marigold looks at the heavy amount of bandages all over. "Oh, yeah. There was an...incident. Thank your brother it's only this bad, he's the one who saved me."

"I believe that Fairy Tail should have a rule. And even if our guild does not possess it yet, that I must still enforce it. Every member of our guild should be capable of defending themselves."

"Layla, wait." The boy said. "She's injured, and its really bad too. I mean, look at her, she stayed overnight in the infirmary."

She turned to the boy with a firm expression. "If you were injured in a battle, do you think that your enemy would pity you?"

"If you were pregnant, then maybe." He replied with a serious expression.

Layla looks over at Marigold, with incredibly widened eyes. "You're pregnant?" She steps into Marigold, with a serious expression. "Liddan knocked you up didn't he..."

"No!"Marigold replied. "And if I was, Liddan definietly wouldn't be the father." 

"Of course not, like Liddan could bang a girl as hot as you." Layla said with a smirk.

"Um...how old are you again?" Marigold sighed. Her eyes snap open, as she recalled the incident that had just occurred with the dark guild previously. She blacked out at some point, and she awoke naked.

"Oh dear..." she muttered slightly, becoming nervous.

"What?" 

"Crap...could I be pregnant?!" She touches her stomach, her face slightly red.