A Chance Encounter (iMuse and Timmir)

Roma walked the streets of the city. It seemed to be the perfect day, so perfect in fact that Roma even cracked a smile. He was in his favorite tunic, he had finally joined a legitimate magical guild, and he could train at last. Reaching a park, Roma stretched and found an open area.

Holding out his hand, a five foot wooden staff materialized. The knotted wood forked into a trident at the top. Though it was merely wood, it surged with magical energy. He could feel the eternano flowing freely throughout his body and the staff. Sitting down for a rest, he let the staff lie in his lap. Roma then looked up at the sky and wondered what exactly his parents were up to at that moment.

Another day in Magnolia Town. Malm had found himself enjoying his stay in the town. It was nice change of pace. He could definitely see himself one day living here.

Yet that was something for him to figure out another day. For now, he decided to take a short walk in Magnolia's park. It was such a beautiful day and Malm saw no reason to waste it. The park itself seemed to be one of the most peaceful place in town. Few people were there, and those that were seemed to mostly ignore the young plant, leaving Malm to his own thoughts as he walked.

Roma stood up and decided not to waste any more time, he had to go train. As he walked, still carrying his staff, he noticed a family having a birthday party underneath a grove of trees. It made him think back to his own childhood. Roma's parents were eccentric to say the least. For his fifth birthday, instead of buying him a puppy, like he wanted, they bought him a lake and a boat built for a five year old. Granted, Roma was grateful to have had such a blessed life, but he always wanted something more simple. Now Roma was ecstatic to have such a change of pace.

In his daydream, Roma bumped into a young man with green hair. In the midst of this first encounter, he also seemed to have let go of his staff, which also fell on the young man. Attempting to grab it in a hurry, it slipped from his gloved hands and once more fell on Malm. Finally, Roma picked up the staff and it disappeared. He then began walking off out of sheer embarrassment.

"Should I really join?" Malm asked himself as he was deep in thought about something. During his most recent job, Sakura had suggested he join Fairy Tail. He never gave it much thought before, but now, he was seriously debating if he should.

To deep in thought, he wasn't paying much attention where he was going and ended up bumping into someone. This managed to knock Malm onto his bum as he felt something wooden fall on his stomach. Disoriented, he rubbed the back of his head with his eyes shut before taking notice of someone attempting to pick up the staff, with it only falling back on Malm. It seemed the second attempt was more successful then the first though as Malm didn't feel the staff fall on him again.

"Sorry about that sir..." Malm began saying as he regained his senses, but only to find that the man had already left, "Ohh..."

Malm then stood up before taking notice of something missing. "Flare?" Malm asked as he began searching himself and the ground around him for where the fire ferret that was resting in his coat had gone, "Where did he go?"

Unbeknownst to Malm, the curious Fire Ferret had decided to hitch a ride on Roma. It had sneakily climbed onto Roma while he was picking up his staff and was now riding the strange man's shoulder. It was unknown whether the man had noticed Flare or not, but the fire ferret didn't really. He wanted to know more about this strange man who had just so rudely ran into his friend like that.

As he walked, Roma began to feel warm. He brushed it off as nothing but the silk, but the burning intensified. Not a minute later, Roma wanted to swim to the deepest depths of the ocean to find water cold enough to chill this sensation! Tossing off his tunic, leaving himself in only tights, Roma found it. It was a long furry rodent that seemed to be flaming, yet unharmed. In his rage, the wizard threw the furry slinky behind him as he continued to walk. His tunic disappeared from the ground and went back to storage. Roma then slowly continued on his way.