Fairy Tail Rising 5

The next morning, after dragging Drax to your apartment to sleep in, you and your new companion headed off to the guild.

"Hello Cobalt, Drax!" Kinana greeted you both as you entered, the only one in the main guild hall right now. It was quite early after all.

"Hey, what's up?" you returned her greeting with a wave, walking over to sit down at the bar, Drax following you and giving her his own overly polite greeting.

"Just getting set up for the day," Kinana shrugged, "Can I get you guys anything? Breakfast maybe? We've got some fruit if you want Drax."

"..Ah I do not want to impose." Drax awkwardly replied.

"Just give him some fruit," you told her, ignoring the huff of annoyance Drax gave you for talking for him again, "If it costs anything I'll pay it. He didn't eat as much last night since I've just moved in and not really went grocery shopping yet."

"I thought as much, you've been really focused on jobs since you joined after all," Kinana giggled, before ducking under the bar, you heard the sound of a fridge opening, before she popped back up a few moments later, a plate full of apples, banana's and such filling it up, "And since he's with you he doesn't really need to pay. Master said not to bother you with considering you're putting three times as much earnings you're really needed to into the guild."

Huh, neat. "Cool," you nodded, grinning. You turned to Drax as he looked at the plate placed in front of him, "Well eat up buddy, you need that strength if you're gonna help me out on jobs."

Once you showed him how things worked, Drax could even take his own jobs. Well, once it was well known he was a member that is. Then you could cover even more jobs and raise the reputation of the guild even faster!

"..Very well." Drax grumbled, and dug into his food, lifting pieces of fruit and chomping down hard with teeth that could pierce through steel. And this time he didn't even bother admonishing you for calling him buddy!

Progress!

"So, any good jobs today Kinana?" you asked the older, beautiful girl.

"Eh I think you'll only really be interested in the B-ranks since no new A-ranks came in," The blue haired woman mused, "And we don't get S-ranks since we don't have any registered S-rank mages anymore."

Ah, that sucked. Top tier guilds got tons of A-ranks in per day. And you'd already taken care of the four Fairy Tail had, and no more had come in in the past few days. Yeesh!

"I don't take missions that often to be honest," Kinana shrugged, "So I'm not sure what's up there right now."

"Fair enough," you shrugged, standing up, "I'll just check them out myself." Making your way over to the request board, you looked over the jobs on the B-rank section.

Jiggly Butt Gang? What the fuck? Some group of weirdo's with fart based magic were going around stealing shit. A group of Vulcan up on Mount Hakobe had increased quite a bit in size lately.

Jaw Shark's were making a nuisance of themselves at Hargeon Port lately, biting through the bottom of ships coming in. They weren't that tough, not even as big as the standard great white, but they had magic enhancing their jaw strength.

Ooh, Swamp Crocodiles had moved into the lake at Clover Town and dirtied up the water. That could be fun. Swamp Crocodiles were massive, easily double the size of the normal crocodiles you generally saw. They were magic beasts after all.

The last two were just a pair of bodyguard jobs. One was simple enough, just guard a trading caravan. The other, was a request from a rich fat cat to protect his daughter on her journey back from her university, it was pretty vague in explanation, but it did mention that Guild Hunter Velveno, the recently escaped dark mage might be targeting her.

No idea why that was a B-rank mission. Velveno was an A-rank dark mage with the Magical Drain magic style, which let him copy the magic of anyone he came into contact with for a short period of time. Still, the reward was pretty high for a B-rank, a full two hundred thousand jewels. And if Velveno did turn up, the bounty on his head for turning him in was a full four million jewels.

You decided to go with the one that had the chance of you running into Velvano. The odds were low, but it would be another great achievement to start bringing glory back to the guild.

But ew, reading it over more, you noticed who the job was sent out by. Count Balsamico. He was a frequent buisness partner of your parents before you ran away. Just remembering his ugly little puckered up face made you want to gag.

You'd never seen a grown man so short, or one so ugly.

Turning around you looked over to the bar, "Kinana I'm taking the daughter escort mission, let master know will you?" you called over to her, taking the mission page from the board.

Dealing with nobles might not be the best first mission to take Drax on though.

"That's fine," Kinana replied, "Are you taking Drax with you? It might not go over well, from what I know that mission has to do with nobles."

"I know," you nodded, before looking to Drax, "You fine to wait it out here? I probably won't be too long."

Drax paused in his devouring of the fruit he was given, "That's fine," he shrugged, "I will use the free time to learn more about becoming a guild mage."

"Good thinking buddy!" you praised him with a thumbs up before turning on your feet and leaving, "Later!"

"I told you not to be so familiar with me!" Drax called after you.