Strong, Stronger, Armstrong (C)

[Lissandra Chikaru]

The usual commotion inside the Fairy Tail guild hall didn’t bother Lissandra too much as she was in deep thought about the available jobs at the Request Board. This whole being a guild mage situation was still completely new to her and if someone wouldn’t have asked her why she hadn’t taken on a job yet she would have probably forgotten that they wouldn’t come flying towards or that they would magically appear right in front of her. It was the first time that Lissandra had to act on her own and choose what she wanted to do with all the time in the day. She wasn’t lazy, that wasn’t the problem, but she just expected people to come looking for her or even tell her what to do like she was used to. Lissandra also had no idea on which criteria she should choose a job or if she might even be fit for what would eventually become her first job. She never realized that there were you many things that a guild mage could do to earn money. Lissandra’s facial expression was almost empty when she continued to read through the pieces of paper on the request board. How was she supposed to choose one of these if they were so many of them? Maybe if she closed her eyes and just grabbed one at random?

Lissandra sighed and closed her eyes as her hand hovered along the wooden board for a time before she grabbed a piece of paper and pulled it off. //Whatever it is I will do it or I will be here for the rest of my life.// Lissandra slowly opened one eye and began to read through the short description. She let out a sigh of relieve and was glad that she seemed to have picked something decent and not one of the more crazy requests or at least so she thought. Lissandra began to tremble a bit when she saw that the request would take place in Crocus. She remembered the city where she was born, even if her memories were a bit cloudy. Was it fate that she would go back on her first job? On the other hand there was probably nothing left of her past since it had almost been 13 years and some of her more distant relatives had taken over the bakery or their house. It was probably sold and became the home of a different family that maybe would life a happier life…

Lissandra yawned as she took the piece of paper and moved a few steps away from the board only to suddenly stop. She had no idea what she was supposed to do next. Was she supposed to write the person that sent out the request or was it expected to talk to the Mr. Armstrong first? Wait a second was she even supposed to take the piece of paper with her? Lissandra looked completely lost shifting her feet around as she was unable to decide if she wanted to put the piece of paper back on the board or go and talk to someone else. What a great start… she wouldn’t make Fairy Tail proud if she would just stand there and do nothing again. //Why is all of this so hard!?//

[Tye Gildart]

Its been a while since he last took a job.Maybe a month or two since his last. Bills were beginning to pile up, not to mention that he still had a mouth other than his own to feed.The landlord began leaving red notes on his door and chasing after him each time he saw Tye. He felt wrong about ducking and dodging the man, but there was nothing he could do until he got some money together.If he was going to get by he'd need to do a mission or two.His green dog was counting on him to bring home the bacon!

Not much was on his mind at the moment.Sitting at the bar in the guild hall, a blank emotionless stare was on his.An odd day dream of swim began in his head.He could feel the cold water on his skin, the dream felt real to him and he thought it was real. Tye slipped out of his chair and began to swim (or try to) on the floor. He was using the butterfly stroke carelessly making his way to the request board.People laughed and step over and around him like he wasn't even there.

Suddenly he was awoken when he hit something, wait he hit someone. Tye blinked his eyes several times"How did i get here? Wasn't i at the bar?"He got up to his feet the took a glace back at the bar.He began to scratch the back of his head when he turned to Lissandra."Sorry about that...i'm a bit clumsy."Was that a request paper in her hand.Was she heading on a job? "Hey, are you going out on a job? Do you mind i go with you? I mean if you don't already have a team or plan on going with someone else."He then leaned in to get a better look at the paper.

[Lissandra Chikaru]

Lissandra noticed Tye quite early, when she saw him slowly making his way through the guild hall. //What the…actual…like what…?// She had seen a few strange things in Fairy Tail since she arrived, like people empting whole kegs of wine in a few minutes or people getting launched through the ceiling into the clear blue sky, but that was something that even the experience she missed wouldn’t prepare her for, especially when the day-dreamer came right for her and bumped into her feet, almost throwing the small girl of her balance. Lissandra was far too confused to even answer his first question and even if she could she had no real answer. Yes he had been at the bar before he started practicing swimming on the floor, with no water…
She didn’t know too many words for this kind of behavior, but clumsy wasn’t really what she would describe it as. Clumsy was, when she feel over her own feet and landed with a loud PYON! on the ground, his behavior was actually more on the scary side than on the cute side, at least for Lissandra who wasn’t even used to the normal forms of human interaction to a certain point. She actually expected that he would just move on, but when he suddenly asked her if she was going on a job she began to blush. “I was…going to, but I don’t know what you do, when you take a job or…if you are even supposed the paper of the board.” Lissandra mumbled and tried to hide the fact that she was blushing behind the brown poster, while her eyes shifted to the side, avoiding any kind of direct contact. “But since it’s my first job I would rather go with someone else just to get a feeling for this whole thing.” Lissandra continued to mumble and shoved the paper into Tye’s hands. Lissandra was finished reading so he could have it, although she still wanted to do this job even if he suddenly lost interest. Lissandra usually wasn’t so shy, but his swimming had confused her greatly and well she was still lost on what to do next with her positive intention to get working and help the guild and other people. Maybe she had better chances sticking with Tye since he looked a lot stronger than her, well on a purely physical first impression. What if the person that put up this request was expecting some bulky man to be his bodyguard or rather escort. //I should have asked all these things when I was initially shown around…// “If you want to go. I have everything ready to leave.” Lissandra just added and hoped that Tye had his things together, although it was a simple trip to Crocus so there wasn’t that they needed to prepare anyway.

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