A Birthday Party for Molly

[Gildarts]

It was time. It all came down to this.

Gildarts angled the scope of his gun at Molly, she was in his crosshairs, inches from his line of fire. He was hidden behind a tree and a large green bristled bush.. His steel finger loitered over the trigger. Slowly… Slowly… Annnndddd…..

SQUIIIIIRRRRRRRRR!

A line of midnight blue liquid departed from the squirtgun and landed right on Molly’s pristinely white shirt. He had gotten the first hit and raised his hands in the air in victory, giving away his own location. The ten year old saw this as the time to strike, he was a big target, hard to miss. It all came down to this.

WOOOSH!

Molly’s stream of purple dyed water plastered across his shirtless torso and stained his white bandages with violet lavender hues. His freshly changed white shorts were colored with it too. He looked down and it looked like he’d wet his pants with purple goo, the duo burst out laughing.

“Wow it looks like you peed out an alien!” Molly giggled.

“Oh yeah? Looks like you uh…” Gildarts struggled, he didn’t tend to tease kids, “Your nose ran and…”

“Gildarts give up,” she giggled and rolled her eyes, finding him to be dopey and cute at the same time.

“What? Me?! NEVER!” he burst and picked his gun back up. But it was too late.

A white poodle came up from behind and soaked both Gildarts and Molly with a water balloon that smulched them with bright yellow. Molly’s mixed with Gil’s to make green and Gil’s didn’t really mix on his biceps. The color just caked on his gleaming tan skin.

Squirting, squeezing, splashing, skittering. This was the mother of all wars, and most likely, the most brutal and ruthless Gildarts had ever experienced. Now it was time for revenge. They turned their squirt-rifles on the enemy and overpowered her. She was howling with laughter and agony as when they were done she was a spattered swirl of beautiful violet and deep blue. They both grinned and high fived, then Gildarts offered the pooch up, since she’d keeled over laughing.

“Let’s unite and get the others together,” Gildarts rallied his troops. They stood together in a line, a poodle and a girl, united by a dad-like guy who was telling them how they were to become victors. “Today is the day that we fight, we fight for honor, we fight to defeat our enemies. And most of all, we fight to win and splatter our colors all over the enemy so that they can know that we are the ones who are getting extra cake. WHO IS WITH ME!?”

“I AM!” Molly shouted.

“ME TOO!” Pupperoo howled.

Gildarts nodded and saluted them, “Now men, go out there and make me proud.”

And they dared to cross into no-man’s-land, with just a rifle, and each other by their side.

…

Cana and Cassandra rushed the scene, but the moment had passed, and Gildarts and Molly had both gone to get cleaned up, staining the towels drying them and freeing their hair of the rainbow of colors. Cana looked around, she was sure she’d sensed him in this corner of the town.

“I think he’s been here,” Cana’s eyes narrowed.

“What do your magic cards say?” Cassandra said sarcastically under the thick veil of her black widow-like hat.

“Tch, hey, why don’t we ask her?” Cana said as she spotted a possibly valuable witness.

“The rainbow dog? It’s not like can talk or anything, you’d be better off asking that post-” Cassandra stopped and her jaw fell to the ground as her mage friend actually had considered asking the pet.

“Well, dog-whispering worked,” Cana said proudly, her hands on her hips as her shoulders looked high in victory, “Apparently there’s this young girl’s birthday, her name is Molly, Gildarts and she were just here about five seconds ago but they went to get cleaned up. I wonder what party activity they’ll do next… The poodle said she wasn’t sure, but she was going to the new burger place.”

“Haha, well I’ll tell you I know what I’m doing next,” Cassandra picked up the squirt-gun Gil had used and splashed Cana with the dyed color. “Hey, would you look at that, the color brings out your eyes!”

“Cassandra this is serious!” Cana protested and got a squirt to her chest. A challenge had been posed and the mage reciprocated with a daring smile crossing her cheeks.

“Fine, but you’ll see who the real winner is in all of this. I’ll make your black outfit YELLOW AND PURPLE COMBINED! WAHAHA!” Cana faked an evil laugh and chased after the vampire with two freshly loaded squirt-guns.

All was fair in love and war.

[Guu]

The bounce mansion was full that day. Kids and adults alike converged to play on the giant sized play house.

A group of kids bounced in the living room, a group of adults had a very bouncy tea party in the kitchen

However, Guu didn’t seem very amused. She moved through the house, wondering what the fuss was about.

“Excuse me Princess,” said one of the attendants. “Maybe you’d have more fun if you actually walked around instead of floating over everything.?”

Guu just glared at him, the man wondered if he made a faux pas of some sort. But then she spoke up.

“I am having fun.”

“Oh, you don’t look like it...” He said, nervously.

“Trolling is fun.”

She then proceeded to fly to the second floor and continue to look bored.

[Gildarts]

Gildarts smiled in the mirror as he wiped a damp towel over his cheek, where a giant red smudge had sat idle as it cracked and dried with his moving expressions. In the mirror and forming behind his eyes, the memory of what had just occurred -the best squirt gun fight ever- flowed together at first in slow motion, then it sped up.

Molly at first was using him as a giant shield, then, she dove between his legs, aiming as she slid like a runner at third base stealing home. Grass stained into her white clothing like a new dye stain and Molly hit her perpetrators -colors green and gleaming silver- square in the chest, marking them a victorious purple as Gildarts was splattered with various royal colors. He was starting to look like a jumbled up herald when two more flanked them from the side. They were outnumbered and this was war.

Instinct set in and exploded within Gildarts. He knelt down and trained his finger non-stop on the trigger as he aimed at all four of them in a line, their torsos lined up nicely as Gildarts’ stream of dyed water smeared across, marking them as Molly had, as though they were his territory.

Uck! You’re getting all messy, he’d remembered Mal say.

”That’s kind of the point and part of the fun,” Gildarts reasoned back.

FOOL! This is war, you can’t bet hit, not even by rainbow colored water, you must prevail, or you’ll disappoint me with your lack of power. she sneered.

”I’m not here to impress you, and you’re in my head, stuck observing whether we both like it or not, lady. Gildarts grumbled with thoughts as he and Molly went into hiding behind a few trees. The park lead into a small fraction of the Tangled Greens’ forest. Another perfect place for a fight. Or was it?

I’m serious, mage, if you don’t stop getting your flesh disgustingly dirty I am going to… I’m going to…. I’m going to SCREAM!

That was truly good incentive. Gildarts didn’t really like loud noises and it was something she’d never done before. Whether the Prime liked it or not, a water balloon landed perfectly on his head, splashing him over with white paint and leaving him with a sort of ghost-slash-blank canvas look.

That is IT! she shouted sounding more like a naggy wife than a parasite living in his brain, though to be honest, he couldn’t see much of a difference when he thought about his ex-wife.

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

The Malefactor let loose a roar like no other, shattering Gildarts’ constraints on his own mind. His hands immediately reached for the side of his head, aiming around his ears and squeezing them tight. Then, Gildarts couldn’t help it, but a shock-wave of energy was released, as though his brain were in some way trying to release the pain.

Down fell the nearest tree that he and Molly had been hiding behind, it had broke itself into little cubes and rained them from above, startling the other team of squirt-gunners. But that wasn’t all.

A fragment of Gildarts’ magic had it an innocent bystander. Webbing of light cast along the hobbit’s skin and an expression of fear seized him. Suddenly, the humanoid creature was no more and Molly’s jaw had fallen to the ground, letting flies in.

“Gildarts! Did you…” her voice whimpered, “Kill him?”

The Prime’s ears were still ringing, and well, things had gotten blurry, his vision smeared blonde pigtails in front of his face, he saw her lips move but didn’t hear her voice. He didn’t hear anything over the high-pitched pain he felt. Her expression was one of concern, and even fear. She hadn’t stepped back though. Gildarts still blinked, not knowing or realizing he’d even released any magic.

“Gildarts? Gil! Y-you can’t have.. It was just a game…” Molly said slowly, before she heard a higher pitched squee falling from above. Then she was surrounded by a chorus of them. Molly looked up and the hobbit had been separated into a miniature army of the already little folk. He wore the same clothes, though it was a collective “they” of about three-hundred. They were still floating gently from the sky.

“Huh?” Gildarts looked around and then to Molly, rewinding her lips and attempting to read them, “No, he’s fine, it wasn’t that kind of magic.”

The prime had explained nearly nothing, especially why it had happened, “Gildarts are you okay?”

“AHHH!” the little hobbit’s voice shouted as he looked down to his hands and realized the opposite of his only wish had been granted. “CURSES ME, this is worse than Mordor.”

“Mordor? What do you even know about it!?” another one of the little hobbits, mind you, still identical, spoke back.

“HEY! We can use this to our advantage, let’s get some water balloons and win this bloody thing!” a new hobbit shouted and pointed at the giant Prime, wishing to take its revenge.

“Yeah, I should be alright, just had a severe migraine hit me,” Gildarts explained. Not entirely a lie.

“You don’t need to sit down, old man?” she said with a smirk.

“HA! It should be easy to cover these little guys with our colors, let’s hit them with all we’ve got!” Gildarts said as he used his stream of blue as a hose and sprayed down the fresh sprouts of hobbits peeking up fresh from the soil. They were small, numerous, and pesky.

They began to climb Gildarts, one slapped a water-bomb on his cheek and caused a big-blood red explosion as more of the little hobbits got behind their squirt-guns like they were giant cannons or tanks and it took two alone to push the trigger back, and a few more to aim it.

“FIRE I SAY, FELLOW HOBBITS!” one was in command as he stood above the rest.

“LITTLE HOBBIT, GET MORE BALLOONS, YOU, MOUNT THAT BIRD AND DROP AN AERIAL. WE CAN WIN THIS! WE’VE SPENT OUR WHOLE LIVES BEIN’ SMALL THIS AIN’ NO CHANGE FELLAS!” He shouted with intensity.

“Gildarts above you!” Molly warned as her index pointed above, these crafty little buggers were going to make quick work of them, if they didn’t do anything.

Gildarts smirked, he saw a whole line of the hobbits already somehow lined up on the branches above him, they were perched there like little birds and their knees were wobbling as they were about to drop their eggs, however this time the target was Gildarts.

They all landed with a layered rainstorm of SPLAT!

Molly looked at Gildarts’ hair, it had lost its zest and vigor and wavered in multi-colored, volume dampening spray.

Suddenly, there was an eruption of laughter. Molly hugged her sides and began a hearty laugh that originated deep in her stomach, next the white poodle, the hobbits and any other participating witnesses. The best part was Gildarts’ expression, though it was somewhat ambivalent, the dye dripping from his blank expression made it appear as though Gildarts himself had been annoyed with the goop. Well, the voice inside his head was annoyed, and nagging him, but the outside could only see his expression, which had fallen since the rain of their rainbow squirt-gun fight, the last attack.

Gildarts snapped out of his oblivious aloofness and looked at them all, all three hundred and seven of them. The hobbits were chiming in a high-pitched buzzing noise, their laughter was true though, and some of them were laying on the ground with their legs kicking in the air.

The mage snapped his fingers and a great light flared in front of them. The hobbit was resumed to his natural form and frowned as though he were disappointed, “Oi! Whatcha do that for? I finally had me some friends!”

This time, Gildarts started to laugh. He’d never heard that one before when he’d used that magic, he walked over to the halfling and smacked a big splotch of rainbow dye on his back, “You’ve got one now.”

The Prime smiled at the memory and recalled how the shorty’s face had beamed after that. Gildarts was happy and not even a towel made of lava would wipe the smile off of his face.

“Gildarts, you coming? Next is pin the tail on the dragon! But like, it’s a real dragon!” Molly smiled and grabbed his steel hand, “Come on!” Her bright smile lit Gildarts’ deep and hidden darkness as he let her lead him to their next party celebration game.

[Guu]

To many, it looked like Pinkie was just enjoying the festivities, but in reality, she was just checking on everything. She knew better than anyone that keeping up appearances was more important to a party than anything. She rode the rides, enjoyed the food, bounced the houses, but inside her head was the inner working of a party scientist.

By noon, she had tried everything, which according to her calculations, was exactly the time the inner workings of the party mechanism would need her expertise.

She dashed her way to the town square where the presents were being piled, and one more addition was being added. Because slowly, and carefully, something huge, something towering, was heading that direction.

To the visitors that happened to be in the square, she appeared as if she had been teleporting. The baby dragon nearly toppled over in surprise.

‘Oh, it’s you Pinkie.’ He said, climbing to his stubby little feet as he wiped the dust off hImself. “Heh, you’d think I’d be used to that with Twilight and all.”

“Sorry, Spike! But I’m just super excited for the big #1 masterpiece!” Exclaimed Pinkie as she bounce up and down and then floated in circles in the air on the word ’masterpiece.’

“You don’t consider the bounce mansion #1?” Questioned Spike, cocking a flab of scales that would have been his eyebrow if he were any other species.

Suddenly, Pinkie landed on the ground and jabbed a hoof forward in the air.

“Ooh! Ooh! Here it comes!”

The usagi sisters approached, and riding besides them on a large food cart was a cake that stood precariously on 11-layers, every inch covered in rainbow-colored icing.

“Ahhhh yeah!” Sang out Pinkie gleefully as she slapped on a pair of shades. “This party just got kicked up a notch!”

[Gildarts]

Pin the tail on the dragon. It was about as simple as it sounded. First Gildarts watched Molly have a go at it.

To summarize the game, there was a literal tailless dragon robot which flew around breathing fire, had a metal shell, and had some sharp looking teeth. Gildarts thought that it looked like a dangerous kid's game, the risk was high and it turned out other than its abrasive roaring everything else was just for show.

When the dragon swooped, that was when the ten year old tackled it and clipped the magnetized tail on. It whimpered in defeat, then it let Molly pet its head, very realistic for something that required batteries.

Next was the beyond amazing bouncy mansion! Molly slipped her shoes off of her feet and dove right in. There was a bouncy slide, a bouncy bed, a bouncy jacuzzi with boiling bath that smelt and tasted like cotton candy.

Molly stuck her head out of the balloon entrance and asked, "Are you sure you don't want to come in?"

"Yes, you go ahead and have fun, knowing my tendencies I'd likely pop it with my arm or leg or accidentally turn it into some very unusable bouncy cubes," Gildarts reasoned and Molly nodded and dove back in. She was surrounded by kids and creatures who accepted her. Gildarts came to the conclusion that while he was accepted he did not belong.

The hobbit was in there -and intact- bouncing up and down and shaking the shiny, gleaming multi colored float with various sways like a trampoline. Laughs and giggles erupted and Gildarts went to sit at the bench.

What's the matter? You lonely now? You only ever have to give me a ring -not even that!- and I'll be right here. You know if I had your body we could both enjoy the bouncy experience. she nagged like his ex wife.

Gildarts sighed and scoffed as he ignored her. Sometimes there wasn't a thing to say. He felt more free living the wayward life. Seeing everyone else except him laugh at parties made life difficult. This wasn't Fairytail, who could mostly deal with his magic antics (then again, he thought upon reflection, maybe not).

After some time, and some more of the Malafactor's serpentine temptations, Molly hopped out of the extravagant bouncy house and into Gil's arms. He was caught off guard but it was human instinct to catch what is thrown at you, usually.

"Haha! Great catch Gildarts! It's almost time for me to open my presents. I wonder what you got me...." Molly giggled and smiled.

A bell chimed and Pinkie Pie (the ultimate party coordinator) let her voice boom over the loud speaker. "Attention all guests! It is time for the all important blowing out of the candles... And that means CAKE FOR EVERYONE! We are requesting miss Molly, the birthday girl's presence at the center of town. Hurry up guests before the cake is gone!"

Squeaaak! the loudspeaker clicked off and a stampede was sure to ensue. Gildarts lifted Molly to the safety of his shoulders and deployed his tactics to swim through the crowd. It was getting cramped. People were passing him and nudging him, breaking his concentration with a small shove, but he was top heavy and Molly nearly toppled over.

"Whoa!" She said, "Take it easy, there's cake for everyone, there are multiple Primes here which means that we can't possibly run out. Except of patience! Come on Gil!" As though he were on the Iditarod Gildarts was "hiyah'd!" forth, using his shoulders as the reigns.

What's the matter Prime? A little claustrophobic? Perhaps you're dreading you'll sneeze, or perhaps something much worse... she snickered. Luckily these are all very innocent bystanders, making the struggle all the more hard for you.

Guu's voice protruded in his head. Two women. Plus the young girl literally sitting above his head. What a day, even for him, a man whose youth was known for this sort of thing. "Hey! You! Back off. Quit being a bully just because you don't have a tongue to enjoy the cake. And you can't use Gildarts' because that is his tongue. Let him enjoy the festivities or I'll see to your demise personally!"

There was silence, seemed the temptress had backed down, Fine, Guu of Ambrosia, but I will return.

"Ha! Glad that's over. Oh Gil ! I see you! Keep going straight... straight... straight... OW! That's me you just stepped on. So clumsy... Guu hopped on one foot to brace the pain.

"THERE YOU ARE GUU!" Molly exploded and hopped down. "Are you... skipping in place? Should I be doing that too?"

"Uhhh, Gildarts stepped on me." Both shot him an accusatory look, "But it's time for cake! Let's go!"

Almost entire town gathered around in their so central of a location, Guu, Gil, Molly, and Pinkie Pie were on the main stage.  The candles had been lit and her chin warmed a melted yellow like a buttercup below her chin. There were eyes on her, it was a little nerve-frazzling but they were mostly familiar faces- family even- looking back at her from the crowd.

Guu and Pinkie Pie began the so cliché song, "Happy birthday to you...." and the chorus of Ambrosia continued the words. Gildarts hummed and smiled along with Molly, just as excited as she was to blow out the candles.

[Guu]

Just as the song (copyright © ambrosia do no steal,) was wrapping up, Pinkie shoved the birthday girl’s seat to be right in front of the cake. Taking a huge breath, Molly let loose a volley of air that put out the candles on the bottom layer. A bunch of pegasi helped her with the candles on the other ten layers. The crowd cheered as she gave them all a sweet little smile.

Afterwards, the Usagi sisters start cutting into the rainbow colored cake, placing slices onto paper plates. The first one went to Molly, the next few went to Guu, Gildarts, Pinkie before they started getting passed around to everyone in town.

Soon everyone was gathered around, eating a delicious delicacy that was smothered in mouth watering Zap Apple buttercream frosting. Guu finished her’s in seconds, or more like she stuck it in her stomach. Gildarts finished his quickly, not that he was in any hurry, he just didn’t want the be the last one caught eating, but before he knew it his plate was empty.

Molly was the center of the party, everyone swarmed to shower her with attention. She was half way telling a story about a talking shovel she met in Ambrosia when Gild felt an arm stretch around the back of his neck.

Not shockingly it was Guu.

“We still have that oHarmony date.” She said, pulling him along as she lead him out of the town square.

“Does it have to be right now?” He asked, peering back to Molly.

“Yes.” She said bluntly. “It’ll be fine.”

Molly saw the pair leave, and she smiled. For once, she didn’t mind being deprived of their company, and she even giggled softly to herself, because her birthday wish may actually be coming true!

[Gildarts]

OHarmony?

The prime searched his forgetful memory and vaguely remembered the newfound "internet" and its many, many variables. Molly had been the one to introduce him. He didn't quite remember typing up his profile but he had been notified of his results. He'd been paired with Guu!

Huh, Gil was left pondering whether Guu had a crush on him, but shrugged the question away. The date had been initiated. It was time for him to man up and find them a place to go for the date. Molly followed them sneakily as she peered through some of the bushes before they both had run out of sight. As they were walking Gildarts plucked a flower and handed it to his date.

Guu sniffed the flower she held in her hand as they walked in step to wherever Gildarts was leading them, before opening her mouth and placing it delicately inside her storage stomach. The first memento of the evening!

It could only get better from there. Gildarts guided their relaxing sunset walk to the only restaurant he was aware of. Mina's diner was still open, though she had taken a break to enjoy the festivities and cake. Now she was back at her station as she figured people would come along during or after they'd worked up an appetite. Now the humanoid pig had both Gildarts and Guu approaching the door.

The gentlemage got the door for his shortie date and they both entered. "Oh hello there both of you two. I take it you'd both like a booth tonight?" Mina procured menus and lead the duo of primes to their table.

Gildarts waited for his date to be seated before he sat himself and lifted the menu just over his nose and looked at Guu as though he were imitating a ninja himself.

Guu laughed. The ice was broken.

[Guu]

"Excuse me, while I go powder my nose." Said guu, missing the fact that she didn't have a nose.

Gildarts missed that fact as well.

She went into the ladies restroom, and as soon as the door shut behind her, she erupted into a blinding explosion of light, horrifying the one gal using one of the stalls. Let's just say, it was lucky she was already on the toilet.

Gildarts waited patiently in his booth, twittling his thumbs as his date was in the restroom. Suddenly, the door flew open, and out came Guu, her body now that of her adult form, dressed in a sparkly red dress and her hair down to her knees. She walked gracefully in her high heels and took a seat across from the red-head.

"Amazing what a little bit of powder does, huh?" She said, not a hint of sarcasm on her voice.

[Gildarts]

Gildarts had been sipping the water Mina their waitress had delivered to them and nearly choked on it when he saw this beautiful, elegant woman walking out of the bathroom. He was even more surprised to find it was Guu, the ambrosian leader.

He had always assumed Guu was around Molly's age and now... well, she was well endowed and completely filling out the red dress with her curves. He double takes and his jaw dropped. When she returned to the table he stood up politely.

"Wow, you look like a whole other woman," he said and his smile was one of handsome charm, "But your best feature is still your smile."

She stuck her tongue out at him for being a sappy oaf and sat down. Mina's had a good selection, Guu already knew most of the items but she wasn't sure what the best food was to follow cake. Gildarts couldn't take his eyes off of her. And then she intruded like the succubus she was.

Hmph! was all the malefactor initiated with and Gildarts rolled his eyes at the creature living inside of his head.

"Does anything look good on the menu to you Princess Guu?" He said persisting, hoping to keep the malefactor out of his head though he knew it was a losing battle.

[Guu]

"The salmon omelette is pretty good," she stated plainly, eyeing down the menu, completely ignoring the fact she just suggested a breakfast item. "I think i still have the last three in my stomach somewhere. Can't comment on the flavor, never stays in my mouth that long."

"Wait, if you don't eat it, why do you order it?"

Guu shrugged.

"Anyways, see anything you like Gild?" She said as she pointed her eyes towards the Mage, her breasts wiggling with every movement.

[Gildarts]

"Hmm well I ate breakfast here today, so I might get the grilled fish with asparagus." It cake with a side of brown rice which Gildarts enjoyed. "The breakfast was good," he added politely.

"Hm, you don't summon your own food?" Guu asked a hint of shyness in her tone

"That would require... Concentration." As he looked away, Gildarts felt his cheeks blush, though with his olive skin and scruffy beard it was hard to tell. "Plus it always has a charm trying new things on the menu."

"Thinking about any drinks?" Mina swooped in and asked, "Do y'all need any more time or do you know what you're getting?" There was a pause and she winked at the pair, acknowledging that their first-date awkwardness was both silly and cute.

"None for me, it spills in there," Guu said gesturing to her stomach.

Gildarts nodded, "I'll have a water," and Mina went off. "Have I missed much in Ambrosia? We didn't get much of the chance to talk about it when we were off tangoing in the middle of the forest, finding and destroying casinos."

Their adventure had been long and arduous. Gildarts wasn't sure what their accomplishment had been in the end, his memory was patchy like that, but he had been there for his guild leader and that was what mattered most to the noble mage of Fairy Tail.

[Guu]

"Well, from the looks of it, a bunch of magical horses showed up, formed a volunteer army." She said, pressing her finger against her chin as the tried to dig up answers. "And it looks like we are going to be allying with some team called The Avengers. Despite the name, seem like a good well meaning bunch."

She awkwardly stole some of the silverware. When she realized this might be a first date faux pas, she replaced the silverware. It was clearly a completely different set from what she had before.

"Ummm... that's all I've picked up on so far. I haven't had the time to pick up on all the news."

"Ah, I see."

"So," she began, pointing a fork at him, "What's your story? I feel like i've never heard what your world was like before the Omniverse."

[Gildarts]

His world. Magnolia, Fioré. Earthland. Home. Guu's question was a valid one, he hadn't talked about home, not even when he'd met up with Erza. How to explain a world of chaos and madness? Start with the basics.

"Well, all worlds have a battle of good and evil. About ten percent or less of the population have magic abilities, the wizards. Those who don't, are the ones who hire the ones who do to deal with... Well, you name it and there's a job out there. There's magical creatures as well as regular ones so instead of some bugs eating your garden you can imagine the scale that sort of thing can escalate to, this world has those traits too." Gildarts explained.

"So, my guild's symbol which I wear on my chest," the flamelike dark tattoo is hidden by the bandages from his wounds and his overlapping cape that drapes his shoulders, "Are my family, we unite for the cause to help people with our magic and go on jobs together. There's a lot more to it than that but when Omni snatched me, I'm not really sure if they are alive."

"Wow, there's a world full of ten percent of wizards just like you?" Guu said astounded.

"Oh, uh, most of the wizards have different powers, Natsu is basically part dragon, though he doesn't look it, and he breathes fire after inheriting their magic. There's all sorts of elements... I just happen to wield a very destructive one." He blinked at his misfortune. "Wizards can make bad choices and still be good people, but some of them cost innocent people their lives. Some people deliberately spread evil no matter the cost. They are the ones that have to be stopped." Gildarts' tone took a dark turn, low as though it was his duty as the strong to protect the weak.

"But Fairy Tail, my guild are all the best mages possible, their hearts are kind, much like Ambrosia, it is why I admire what you are doing here. How about you and your home world?" He said with a curious dazzle in his dark amber eyes.

[Guu]

Hearing about his world, it sounded closer to the Omniverse than anything she encountered back home. She wondered if that made the Omniverse easier for him in his first days here.

When the question of her past came up, it kind of took her by surprise. It was uncertain how she didn't consider the possiblity that he would ask about her.

In retrospect, this is probably why she never asked about Gildarts' past before now.

Noticing the look on her face, he dialed back.

"You don't have to tell if you don't feel comfortable."

"Oh no, I'll tell you, I trust you. I'm just not used to sharing those details." She took a deep breath. "Okay, it's a bit long so, buckle in.

"In my world, I was a goddess."

"Oh, fantastic! Congrats on getting promoted that far!"

"Uh, yeah, well. My father was some deadbeat named Nyarlathotep. He was kind of a spokesman for a group of gods that controlled the universe. He hated his job as he wanted the freedom to do whatever he wanted, so he created me in hopes to have a puppet to do his bidding. He was kind of a creepy dork, he had an egyptian obsession, no one likes him. Anyways, I wasn't down for that so I ran.

"I travelled around the universe for a few millenia, eventually found Earth, created some new animals, hung out with the other gods that were there, I pretty much chilled. Eventually, I got curious of the human race, and when I found a 10-year-old boy in my favorite jungle area, I decided to delve deeper. I took the form of a 10-year-old child and got adopted by the same boy's mom.

"I lived with the humans for a few years, none of them were wizards by the way, and just as I was leaving them to have a reunion with my dad, Omni took me. Honestly didn't want to see that creep again so Omni kind of did me a favor."

Mina came in with Gildart's water, as well as a bowl of cut up bread to snack on.

[Gildarts]

“Wow, well, that’s quite… Intense.” Gildarts said, she’d been around a lot longer than both her appearances had lead on, but that’s what being an assumably immortal goddess was all about.

Guu saw the bread and snatched it first, then she opened her mouth to chew it a tad before dropping it in. She smiled back at Gildarts who was looking at her a little differently. She was no longer the little ten year old child, but now, she was someone who did have the years and experience behind her. “What did you find when you were a human? Any conclusions about us?” He said with a playful smile.

Gildarts wasn’t prejudice, nor would he judge her on the truths that had been set free tonight. That wasn’t who he was, and would never be. The token of truth was one that also solidified the trust between them. In this new world, Gildarts had had very little of this before.

A goddess? My, Gildarts who knew you had better taste in women than I could’ve guessed, alright, I’ve found your replacement, you can leave now, or rather, I can leave. Come on now! The Malefactor said in a godly matter-of-fact tone.

Tch. As if I would ever let you free to run around and kill people. Gildarts growled to her.

Hmph, you do too good of a job at taming me, it is no fun for the both of us, but if I were free, or could run amok in a god-given body like hers, well, the possibilities are endlesssss.... she said in a snakelike tone.

”Eh-hem, excuuuuse me. I’m still here. If you wanted a date with Gildarts you could’ve just asked, but now you’re like hitting on me during our date? Guess you don’t have any manners after all. Shouldn’t surprise me I guess, you should give Gildarts a break though, you know? So he can enjoy the date with me? OR ELSE.” Guu interrupted, her tone came off a little feisty to Gildarts and in her adult form he found that to be very powerfully deployed. He smiled, proud.

And if I don’t ? What will you do? PUNCH ME? Ha! I’m formless, being of the Gods. Not even your power could stop me.

“Okay, okay, it was hard enough with just myself in my thoughts, careful I’m worried I’ll break something,” Gildarts warned, embarrassed. Two women, fighting in one mind, all in one man.

[Guu]

Guu took a deep breath to calm down, bitch of a slime was too much of a pain of an ass. She refocused her thoughts on the topic at hand.

"Okay, what I learned from Humanity." She said, straigtening herself out. "Honestly, it was harder for me to learn about humanity back home. Being a goddess, it was hard to separate myself from the power, no matter how much I played the role of a human. Like for instance-"

She thought through her words more carefully this time.

"Well, I understood how to manipulate humans, part of my dad's plan for me was to conquer Earth so he hardwired me with emotional manipulation tactics, but I didn't understand why humans did the things they did. I was surprised the human ability to complicate something so simple.

"Like, my adoptive mother for instance, Weda. She came from a rich family, but when she was 14, she got pregnant to the 30-year-old family doctor. The family was willing to support her under the condition that she name the father, but she refused, and she was disowned. It's how she came to live in my jungle in the first place.

"I could never grasp why she chose to protect the privacy and freedom of the doctor over her own security. Saying a name was so simple, and she jeapardized the future of son and herself. In all my time back at home, it was something I could never piece together.

"But when Omni took my powers away, and I had to interact with people to survive. It was only when I was at their level that I finally understood their complexity, to some extent."

[Gildarts]

“That was very well put, princess Guu,” Gildarts said with a smile, while he reflected on old memories and feelings with new light.

Annnd she can manipulate people Gildarts, the best you can do is stare at them and look good. The Malefactor spoke in a snide voice.

Gildarts let loose a hearty laugh, his eyes closed and he leaned back against the cushioned wall of the booth, Guu had obviously heard too, and was blinking as she watched Gildarts’ laugh with a strange pensive blink. The human response to an insult was not always this.

“We do the things we do and we don’t always have reasons for them,” Gildarts smiled as he bonded with his Prime Princess. “But we know the reasons in our heart more than we can put them to words.”

Guu nodded, she’d discovered that there was more to the human-heart than a simple explanation after her time spent with them.

“Omni took your powers?” Gildarts gave his kidnapping some thought, the same had indeed happened to him, though he found the more he worked on his missions and jobs, the more he could use them again, perhaps their worth was to be earned. “I guess he took mine too. But uh, not enough to make my magic manageable. I still break the things I touch.”

There was a wave of solemn silence now. As though Gildarts was remembering and feeling remorse for the lives he had taken. They were innocent. And it was for them that he held such a good grip on his magic before it had become out of control. Still, a muscle gets tired after a while, and burdens become too heavy to bear…

“Ready to order?” Mina swooped in again, noticing the mage’s expression, the horror and shadows in his eyes told her all she needed, “Aww, mister Prime, you’re in front of a beautiful woman, you shouldn’t let your past get you down.”
“I guess you’re right…” Gildarts nodded and looked back at Guu, letting his eyes take in her adult form again, it was a treat. He had never imagined she was anything more than how her age made her appear. Though her heart delved much deeper, that much he had known.

“I was talking about me,” Mina said with a playful giggle and the three of them began to laugh together. “Your orders?” She said as the she silenced down.

“You first,” Guu gestured.

“Hmm.. This one right here,” he pointed to the menu, the freshly grilled fish with vegetable and rice was a meal that he would enjoy.

“And you?” Mina said, her eyes twinkling as they unknowingly fell on Guu the Goddess.

[Guu]

"I''ll have the blue plate special." She said passively.

"Uh excuse me princess, but shouldn't you order something special for a date like this?"

Guu sighed and rolled her eyes at the sassy pig's remarks.

"Okay, I'll have the shrimp scampi."

"Excellent choice ma'am!" She cried out as she collected the menus. "And thank you for replacing the silverware again! This set is clearly much nicer!"

She waddled off towards the kitchen, almost dropping the menus as she nearly stumbled on her way. Gildarts returned his focus to her.

"You don't have to worry about my wallet, Princess. You don't have to get a cheaper meal on my behalf." He said, assuming he'd be taking up the bill. Of course, he's forgetten they are both primes and could literally make money, but who's counting.

"Oh no, the name is literal. It's just a plate that's been dyed blue."

"Oh, that's kind of interesting! So what food do they usually put on a blue plate?"

"Nothing, it's just the blue plate." Guu replied

"Oh."

Silence befell the table, before Guu broke the ice with another question.

"So, tell me about your family back home. You briefly mentioned Natsu."

[Gildarts]

Gildarts’ felt a dagger hit his heart. His shoulders were leadened. “Well, the thing is, Natsu is just another member of the guild, but I love him like a son. And also, when I last saw him he was in danger. Omni kind of stole me away before I could do much about it. Same with the others. I don’t talk about my… Previous family, the one I am related to by blood.”

He didn’t specify his reasons, and Guu nodded, “I’m sure Natsu is fine, if you say he’s a wizard like you, he must be strong enough to defeat his enemies.”

Gildarts found himself tinkering with his silver arm. His mind dismally thought that it wasn’t the kind of enemy to be so simply defeated, however he still held hope strongly in his voice, “You’re right, if anyone could beat it, he could.”

“It?” she echoed curiously.

“Acnologia. The dragon that took my arm and leg.” Gildarts explained as he procured his arm to be examined. The silver steel always looked as though it were polished, though it never was, it was simply the magic radiating through it.

“Steel is much cooler anyway,” Guu said in the way that she did. It made Gildarts smile.

“Thanks, well, for a father figure, the leader of Fairy Tail is a mage named Macarov. He can make himself the size of a dragon, or bigger. He’s a cool guy and understands a lot. I think he’s also got some big important title, but I can’t really remember what. Go figure,” he smiled and his hand met the back of his head with some embarrassment.

“Hmm, so you have a son and a father, that’s a great family!” Guu nodded, taking him rather literally.

“Oh, and there’s also Mira-jane, she’s grown so much since I last saw her! Oh yikes, but don’t get on her bad side, she’s also an S-class wizard like me,” in his mind he procured a picture of the sweet little girl, to the sweet woman she’d become. Then, the image was dark and horns came out of her head, as though she were a demon from the depths of Hell. Strangely, she was still beautiful in her demon transformation, and she even looked a little like Guu based on her pale hair color.

[Guu]

"Which one?"

"Pardon?"

"I see two different women in your head."

"Oh, she can transform."

"Ah, got it." She stated. Considering Guu could change age at will, it's not that shocking. "Have you encountered any of them in the Omniverse? Maybe some of them are wandering around somewhere."