LITTLE FURY ( fairy tail. )

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR ➵ THE PLAN

"Wait...How crazy dangerous is this guy?" Lucy wondered before a familiar girl with dark blue hair ran into the manor and tripped on air. Before she could face plant on the ground, however, Dealana's hand shot out, on instinct, and conjured a low cloud that caught Wendy just in time.

Everyone followed the direction of Dealana's outstretched arm to see Wendy getting off the cloud, looking at it in confusion and recognition before her brown eyes met everyone else's. "Um...I'm sorry I'm late. I'm Wendy from Caitshelter. It's nice to meet everyone!"

Lucy was shook, "A kid?"

"A girl?" Lyon and Gray questioned.

Dealana shot them both a look before turning to Wendy with a lazy grin, " Hey, Wendy! I was hoping it was you." 

The Storm Dragon Slayer approached Wendy, ignoring the confused comments thrown about by the other alliance members. Dealana was just happy to see her friend again.

"Dealana? I didn't realize you were going to be here too," Wendy told her with a relieved smile. 

Jura, unfazed by Wendy's young appearance, continued on as if this were normal, "Now then, since all guilds are present, we can begin."

"He's not even fazed by this?" Gray exclaimed. Dealana shook her head, she was no older than Wendy, in fact, Dealana was actually younger than Wendy by two months. It was strange to think that growing up in the Fairy Tail Guild changed how they viewed the twelve-year-old Dealana. They knew she was tough and capable, but she supposed that didn't translate to Wendy's arrival, though Wendy was an unknown to them.

"Obviously not," Lyon replied. Sherry raised her concerns, "What in the world is Cait Shelter thinking? Sending a little girl on this kind of mission. They must really be hurting for members if they sent her here on her own."

Dealana was about to turn around and snap at Sherry, but a new voice interrupted. A voice belonging to someone Dealana had been eager to meet ever since Wendy talked about her. "She isn't alone. You shouldn't jump to conclusions, gotty trollope." 

From behind Wendy emerged a petite, but formal white cat, much like Happy. Wendy had spoken of her friend, Carla when she spent the day with Dealana and the sky-blunette could only grin, she and Carla could be good friends if they both agreed on protecting Wendy.

"What is this?" Gray asked rhetorically, he was trying to process all the strange happenings in the past few minutes. "And how does Dealana know them?"

"A cat?" Lyon questioned.

"Woah, she's just like Happy," Natsu remarked with wide eyes. He had never seen anything else like Happy, maybe there were more than just the two out there somewhere.

"She can talk too?" Lucy wondered, slightly in awe of the other cat. 

"What a stupid cat."Sherry grumbled, "I'm not gotty."