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Post by Manah on Feb 12, 2020 23:17:20 GMT -5
Erza
"She 'told on you'? That's all you have to say for yourself?" the redhead let out, glaring at him. "Not 'oh sh*t, I should never have hit her', but 'oh sh*t I got caught'? How the hell could you, Natsu?! She's been basically your best friend for years now! She's not as tough as Gray or Gajeel, you absolute doofus. You can't just go around hitting people whenever you disagree with them, especially with strength like yours!" she let out angrily. "And NO. The whole situation with Makarov and Travis is NOT an excuse for your behavior."
She stepped away, gritting her teeth as she gathered the willpower necessary to say what she had to say.
"...Dammit, Natsu. I knew you were going to mess up eventually, but couldn't you have proven me wrong for a single damn time in your life? Just this once? You just had to go and punch her, of all people. Not only your best friend, but also the very new guildmaster's sister. Well... you've gone and done it. The guildmaster has decided that you were no longer... welcome... nor allowed... in the guild, ever, again", she said with difficulty. "Effective immediately."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 13, 2020 21:00:21 GMT -5
Natsu's face pales. "What?... No no no… Please... This can't... I know I screwed up, but please... You can't let him do this to me!" He begged,
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Post by Manah on Feb 13, 2020 21:49:51 GMT -5
Erza
The redhead sighed, glaring at him.
"You think I'm happy at all about this situation? ...You PUNCHED his sister, your best friend! He already didn't like Dragon Slayers, and you did literally nothing so far since his arrival but complain, yell at people - myself included, bitch about the new rules... what the heck did you think was going to happen?! Heck, he wanted to kill you when he learned what you had done, I had to convince him to calm down and come up with a more rational solution!" she let out, visibly upset, be it by what he had done, his punishment for it and his reaction to the latter.
"Given the situation and everything you did, how, exactly, 'can't I let him do this to you'? You know I've been trying to keep everything together as best as I could since Makarov and Mest got arrested, and all you've done is make it harder for me and everyone else. Couldn't you THINK before you acted, for once? We are lucky there is still a Fairy Tail guild at all for you to get kicked out of after this mess and the others before it! Dammit."
Massaging her forehead with her hand, she asked:
"...What the heck do you want me to tell him? 'I spoke to Natsu and he's really sorry he punched Lucy for no good reason. Mind letting him get away with it like all the other crap?'" she ironized. "Look, I'm willing to talk to him, but you gotta give me SOMETHING."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 13, 2020 22:00:03 GMT -5
Natsu said nothing just falling back on the couch, and beginning to sob.
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Post by Manah on Feb 16, 2020 15:54:50 GMT -5
Erza
The redhead sighed, sitting down by his side. "Natsu, listen to me. Crying will not solve anything", she pointed out. "To be honest, I think you deserve what you're getting here. You were one of the main guilty parties of the ridiculous collateral damage Fairy Tail has been accused of over and over again. You caused a lot of trouble, you picked a lot of stupid and useless fights with people which could for the most part have been avoided. You were almost as much troublesome to the authorities as you've been helpful fighting their enemies, and that's saying a lot given how much you helped. So I'm not going to say, 'you shouldn't be ashamed of yourself', or 'don't worry, he's wrong, I support you'. That's not true. However..."
She patted his shoulder. "I still value our years of friendship and I still hope you can learn from this and become a better person. Whether I'm right or wrong matters not, nor whether I think he's right or wrong in punishing you like this. It's not up to me. But what I am willing to do is to tell him a message on your part. If you have arguments to try and convince him to forgive you, to try and get him to undo this decision of his... then go ahead. Tell me. Just think carefully about what you want to say. If you want to apologize, and try to make amends, now would be a VERY good time. It would have been a lot better earlier, and it may be too late... or it may not be. So make it good."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 17, 2020 21:33:42 GMT -5
He sighed. "I'm sorry. I screwed up... I just couldn't adjust to things." He said getting up. "That said. I'm not leaving town. I'll start my own Guild if I have to, and it'll be even better than Fairy Tail." He declared.
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Post by Manah on Feb 17, 2020 23:00:27 GMT -5
Erza
The redhead blinked, having expected about any sort of response BUT that one.
"...Nobody said anything about you leaving town, just the guild. And... what are you talking about? You thoroughly despise any form, type and degree of management and paperwork. How in the world would you possibly start a guild given how much you hate any and all of what is involved in creating one?" she asked, puzzled. "Surely it'd be easier to apologize to Travis and Lucy in the hope of being taken back in than it would be to go that far."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 19, 2020 23:39:13 GMT -5
"Maybe... But still it's not the same guild. I can't live like this under him... I need some time away from the Guild. Besides you made it clear he's not going to listen to me anyway."
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Post by Manah on Feb 20, 2020 21:44:45 GMT -5
Erza
"I... suppose it isn't", she admitted. "But... I think it is truly better. The only place we were headed before was jail. Now we can look forward to a bit more legitimacy."
She shook her head. "Only thing I made clear was that you pissed him off enough to kick you out. He's proven multiple times that he was willing to listen as long as we cooperated. If anything, you were the one making it clear you were not going to listen to him since the start", she pointed out, sighing. "...You sure you don't want to at least try and tell me a message I can bring back to him?"
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 22, 2020 21:15:45 GMT -5
"Why bother? We both know there is nothing I can say that would make him change his mind." He said.
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Post by Manah on Feb 22, 2020 21:35:43 GMT -5
Erza
"I... I just..." the redhead stammered, before biting her lower lip a little. "...I know. You're probably right, I just... I wish you hadn't let it go this far. The both of you", she said, sighing as she shook her head.
"Just... go, okay? ...Never hit Lucy again, don't come into her home without her permission, and please, please don't do anything else to piss Travis off more than he already is", she requested. "And... please take care of yourself."
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 26, 2020 0:21:57 GMT -5
He nodded and left
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Post by Manah on Feb 27, 2020 17:40:13 GMT -5
(OOC: I imagine Happy's gone with him.)
Erza
The redhead watched him and Happy leave a bit sadly. She was well aware that Natsu was probably right, that after this whole mess, there were very little chance that Travis - or rather Celeste - would ever want to see the pinkette's face at the guild ever again even were he to apologize and beg to be allowed back, the latter which they all knew he would never do. She did not either offer Happy to stay, because he already knew he was welcome, she already knew he would not accept, and she wanted Natsu to have at least one friend with him no matter what.
Despite how shi**y this ending was for him, and in a lesser way, for her, Lucy and Wendy (Gray would probably get over it), Erza was able to recognize that given the circumstances, it was probably for the best. Natsu would always be a loose cannon who hated being ordered around; that was why he loved the old Fairy Tail guildmaster so much. Makarov would merely tell him to be reasonable and control himself a bit, but he would never get seriously punished for messing up. In a truly honorable, respectful and organized Fairy Tail, however, Natsu would always clash with Celeste and anyone else who tried to enforce a bit of order around, S-Class mages included; Erza herself included. He would keep messing up, likely willingly. And eventually, he would drag the guild down with him.
Still, it never felt good to see a friend leave, even when that friend had messed up badly. Bitterly, the redhead headed back to the guild in silence.
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Post by Hoots Rowlet on Feb 28, 2020 21:51:12 GMT -5
You arrive back at the guild to find things in chaos.
Celeste is on a podium being screamed at and called all sorts of nasty names by everyone in the guild.
"I understand all of you are upset by this, however he put his hands on my sister." Celeste said, I cannot simply forgive him, and let him back in this building like there are no consequences for doing so." She said shaking barely trying to hold in her emotions.
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Post by Manah on Feb 28, 2020 23:10:09 GMT -5
Erza
The redhead paused, sighing. "Oh, hey. All hell's broken loose in the Guild. I'd act surprised, but the only surprise is that it didn't happen sooner", she grumbled, before stepping forward and letting out a loud:
"EVERYONE! QUIET, PLEASE!"
She then joined the greenette at the podium. "Have you all already forgotten the situation we are in? ...Makarov and Mest's arrest for basically treason, the fact that it's a damn miracle that we were not taken along for the ride, the fact that the guild's continued existence depends solely on the authority of the very woman you're insulting and yelling at, only for actually doing the job a guildmaster should be doing, namely making sure that there is order, via rules, and that those rules are respected?" she said sternly.
"...Have you all forgotten how, as it turned out, Travis, or rather Celeste's requests actually turned out to be quite reasonable and far from excessive? ...How we were beginning to function more effectively by following them? Have you forgotten that Celeste is here under the Queen's orders, and that we are all threading on very thin ice right about now?" she insisted.
"So what's the problem? Sending Natsu away for punching his own best friend in the face, a girl dozens of times less strong than him, a girl who admired him, looked up to him, and sacrificed a lot for him? ...You're right, maybe that's not enough. What about the countless houses he destroyed in the past? How about the Gods-knows-how expensive collateral damage he caused? The life savings he burned? ...We're all guilty of some collateral damage, let's not kid ourselves, but each and every last one of you knows who was the one, by far, who caused the most, widest scaled, destruction around him. Perhaps you'd prefer if we talked about that?" she let out dryly. "ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES. You do NOT go about beating up your best friend just because you're having a bad day. You do NOT insult and yell at your Queen-appointed guildmaster for FINALLY doing what is right as opposed to what we did before. She is TRYING to teach us how to be a true legal guild. She is doing this, for us all, to save us from our own bullsh*t we've been doing for years. To give us a chance to continue by becoming better, by correcting our flaws. And yet here you are, hissing and growling like alley cats whose mice were stolen from them even though someone is offering you to eat at the table for a change. Do you really want the guild's license to be revoked, to be undone for good? Do you really want to throw what we worked so hard to build to the hounds?!" she asked with exasperation. 7 in Social Skills to try and make everyone realize how stupid they're acting, that Natsu only got what he had coming to him for years, and that the guild is still on thin ice and acting like this is only gonna break it.
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