~Training~
"HIT THE TARGET!!!!!"
"I'm trying please don't get mad at me!~"
"I'll stop if YOU HIT THE TARGET!"
Nash whimpered and turned to face the straw scarecrow with a memorable stitched on smile, with pieces of straw sticking out of the potato sack head. He raised his arm towards the scarecrow and closed his eyes, "Fire dragon wing attack...?" He quietly whispered, and a tiny spew of flame sputtered out of his hand, directly diving to the ground. The rest of team Nash looked away cringing. Rosemary who had her arms crossed, groaned and walked away with Reiki. Sylvia made a puppy face, and Gale rubbed his temples, as Storm scrunched his face up, and Nova sat down on the ground in frustration. And Nao kicked rocks looking elsewhere.
Luna looked at her disappointed teammates and marched over to her brother, facing him, she raised her arm towards the scarecrow, and a strong fireball shot from her palm, smoking as it hit the target, burning a hole. All the while her stern eyes stared at Nash, he laughed awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck. The others watched as the straw flamed and smoked, crackling and throwing embers everywhere. Storm and Sylvia walked over and put our the fire, by touching the flames, their hands turning into water.
"Lunch." Luna clapped her hands together and walked away, Nash avoided eye contact from the rest of his friends as they past him, giving him a few glares. "It's alright Nash, this was the worst you can do, you can't do any worse later right?" Reiki grinned putting his arm over Nash's shoulders. Nash huffed, looking away in embarrassment, he quickly escaped the red head's arms and stomped away. Reiki stared at Storm, while Storm gave him an unbelievable look. "Nice." Storm mumbled as he left Reiki dumbfounded.
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They all sat down slumped at their table, it'd only been a day since they were called to be the representing team. Happy, Charle, and PantherLily were just passing by, then the sad team caught the corner of their eyes. "Shouldn't you all be training?" Charles crossed her arms staring at the team disapprovingly. "I don't even know why we're chosen. Nash can't even hit a target." Sylvia whined laying her cheek against the table's surface. The exceeds exchanged looks, "Well something that cheers us up is shopping."
"Oh yeah, and how is shopping gonna help us getting stronger?"
"Magical shopping." Happy while putting one of his furry fingers to his mouth, indicating silence, as he motioned them to follow the old cat out. The 10 looked at each other before shrugging and sneaking out of their booth to an old broom cupboard, cramming into the small space. "Happy what's going on?!" Luna growled to him. Happy paced on the shelf above them, white Charle and PantherLily standing with their arms crossed looking down at them. "This." Happy said as he pushed a brick into the wall, and the floor beneath them gave out, and their exclamations could be heard, yelling on their way down.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
Their screaming voices was like a choir from hell, they started to hit rocky edges on the way down, and the narrow tube they were falling through started to form a slide, making an angle, as they slid down, still yelling.
"Oof!" Nao groaned at the bottom of the slide when everyone else started piling up on top of him. They all looked around, they ended up in a wooden room, that looked a lot like the inside of the shops in Magnolia, except there were no doors or windows, just the chute they came out of. The little room was full of shelves with different bottles and vases sitting on them, even based hanging from the ceiling by rope. The first to get up was Sylvia, and she wandered around with her curiosity tugging at her. Nova and Rosemary followed, mulitple different themed bottles luring them away.
"Hoi Hoi Hoi! Welcome welcome! Welcome to Zion's Magic Shop! Yes yes! Take a look around!" A German accented voice drove their eyes to a lime green exceed, wearing a wizard hat and small brown tunic sitting at a counter. "Look around children." They jumped, looking behind to see Charle with the two holding a basket in hand, with some tonics inside. "Great. A way to stop that armpit hair from ever growning, Zion's Hair Halt." Storm read the bottle sarcastically, handing it to Reiki and Nao who were impatiently waiting to take a look.
"Your easy way of getting rid of pores on your face, wash away with this tonic that guarantees ever-lasting smooth skin." Nova saw the corner of the labeled bottle peeling off, she peeled off the rest of the label to see the actual name behind it. She turned to the exceed, "Did you steal this?" The exceed ignored the comment and walked over to PantherLily. "Are these customers not satisfied?" PantherLily faced the young adults and tsked. "These kids are going to be in the Grand Magic Games." The exceed made an "o" shape with his mouth and walked over to a bookshelf, and pulled on the spine of an orange book.
The bookshelf pushed out of the way, revealing a whole other room, with mannequins equipped with armor and magic supporting outfits. Not to mention the other entire wall of weapons. Their jaws dropped, quickly running in like they saw a new candy store. The exceed stopped them before going in. "Let me deliberate all of you first." He pointed to Nash first, he measured his torso and everything, before stepping into the room and Stopping in front of a male mannequin. The rest peered over the corner peeking at what they were doing.
"This will increase your fire strength whenever you use your powers, your sister will use a similar one, in which when you two are in near radius of each other, power will then double." The exceed said taking out a ring of keys and unlocking the glass case the mannequin was being held in.
The exceed then walked over to the weapon wall, lifting a long Katana with a black helm and red accessories, he handed it to Nash. "You'll see what it'll do when you try it." Nash nodded and took the outfit and sword.
Nash
Next was Luna, she went through the same thing her brother did and received an outfit with a similar color choice to her brother's.
Luna
(I'm just gonna show pictures for the rest cause I'm pretty Lazy :p Sowwy)
Storm
Sylvia
Reiki
Rosemary
Valeria
Gale
Nova
Nao
(These are NOT my designs! Thank you Epicsoldier.devianart for all of these amazing designs! I got really addicted to drawing them!)
All of them had their spirits lifted with amazement at the finding of their new outfits and weapons.
"You always know your way with children." PantherLily chuckled while telling the green exceed, whose name was Zion. "These kids at least. Mine at home are asking for a lacrima phone! Well well, it was nice seeing you guys, but I have to move again." Zion said while mushing everyone out of the armory room. "How will we pay for all this?" Rosemary harshly whispered to the rest of them, they all froze. "No worries! My wife can design them again, on the house for my first customers in years!" Zion smiled, snapping his fingers and the chute was now a trapdoor, a ladder inside, leading up.
"Thank you sir!"
"Thanks..."
"You have my gratitude."
They all waved to Zion, climbing back up the ladder, Zion walked back to his chair behind the desk tired, twiddling his thumbs, before snapping his fingers again.
They all were crammed once again in the cupboard. "Wait! I kinda want that Hair Halt stuff!" Nao exclaimed, the rest of them laughed as he searched for the trapdoor at their feet, he found nothing, he looked up to the shelf Happy was standing on, but no lever. "Happy, how do you go back to Zion?" Happy shrugged, "No idea what you're talking about." He blue cat walked out, with Charle and PantherLily at his side giving them weird looks. Team Nash exchanged odd facial expressions, before ignoring it and went back out.
The guild stared at them and their rocking new outfits and weapons. The parents soon glanced at them, shocked at the magnificent new armor and weapons. Erza had an urge to steal her daughter's sword and outfit.
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"Hit the target!" Luna said, Nash nodded and wielded his new katana, and it lit aflame, and a fireball shot straight through the scarecrow, straight into the forest, starting a fire. "Whoops!" He yelled running towards the fire, Storm and Sylvia perked up, and took their weapons and huge rivers of water poured through every swing and shot they made towards the fire.
"I'm pretty sure we're ready!" Nova grinned, gripping her new sword. "Mhmm." Valeria smiled at her staff, and Rosemary swung her sword at light speed. Rosemary swung, and she was a stance, the tip of her sword at Storm's threat. He gulped, but her disarmed her by ducking and bringing his feet around tripping her, and his sword split into multiple ice darts facing her on the ground.
"Definitely ready."
"What is this?! Where did they get those garbs and weapons?!" A woman snarled, her eyes seeing into a crystal orb in front of her, watching them try out their new powers.
"We can take care of this." The man next to her assured, nervous of what might happen to him if he didn't. "You better Robin. Or I'm going to deal with you!" She hissed, standing up, and pushing the orb to ground, and storming out of her chair.
"I'll take care of them."
TBC