Indoor Sledding! [open]

The shy young slayer hadn't been apart of Fairy Tail long, and still had yet to meet a few of her guildmates in more than passing. In the short  few weeks, Arcadia's self-confidence had grown leaps and bounds. Today she was sitting at the bar, drinking a watermelon-strawberry slushy.  For the moment, Arcadia was pretty much the only one around. The bar staff was probably in ear shot if she wanted more juice, but even they were out of sight.

Just a month ago, Arcadia might have balked at the next idea to enter her head. The bar staff would be back any moment, and if she really wanted to go sledding the was always Mt. Hakobe. Mt. Hakobe was also a pretty long walk.

Finishing off the last of her slushy, Arcadia rose to her feet. She took a chair with her on up the stairs to the second floor. Looking down the stairway, she breathed in extra deep, exhaling a torrent of freezing mist in a long cone.  When the mist cleared away, the stairs back down were covered in a thin sheen of ice.

Arcadia tipped the chair she brought up onto its back, seating herself on the edge of the seat. Holding firmly onto either side, she braced her feet against the chair's backrest.  With a tiny scoot or two, the chair and young slayer both teeter over the edge of the icy stairs, speeding back down to the bottom. Acradia laughed wildly the whole way down, and didn't waste any time dragging the chair back up the icy steps for another run.

Even going carefully up the slippery stairs, it was not easy dragging the chair up even a couple steps. Arcadia finally tried to crawl on around the stairs, freezing her bare feet and hands to the wall to climb on up. Sadly it was awkward to crawl along the wall and drag the chair to her side, so she climbed back down. Arcadia hurried back behind the bar, borrowing one of the older bar towels. She tied it through the chair's backrest, and climbed back up along the wall. The towel made an easier handle to drag the chair up the stairs.

At the top, she leaped from the wall, and positioned the chair on its backrest once more. Almost immediately, she pushed off and launched herself and the chair down for a second run down the stairs. She hunkered down lower this time, aiming for greater speed down the rickety slope. She crashed and rolled at the bottom. Recovering from her little spill, the young slayer sat up laughing wildly, arms thrown cheerfully up in the air. ”Woooo!”

A couple of the bar staff had returned just in time to catch the end of Arcadia's second run. One cried out, "Hey, that looks several kinds of dangerous!"

Arcadia kept laughing as she got back to her feet, and collected chair sled.  "I know! It's hella boss! Yadadamean?"

The two bar staff looked to each other mildly confused, and went right on along with it, "Be that as it may, we wouldn't want anything to get broken."

The young slayer's deep green eyes grew big as saucers, the girl looking as if she'd just been scolded. Even her lower lip quivered a little, Arcadia's mind racing to find some way to make up for it. "It was pretty boss, but I dun wanna hurt anybody. I'm sorry."

Barely a beat later, Arcadia gasped with happy inspiration. She happened to spot a small build up of empty glasses left over from earlier in the day. The young girl smiled, deep green eyes sparkling again, "I know! I can helpya guys collect the dirty glasses!"

At least one of the bar staff had sudden second thoughts. They remembered the last time Arcadia helped collect plates and glasses with Nessa.  There was no real disaster that time, but it did the poor staff's nerves no favors.  "Ooooh, we didn't say you should stop... sledding."

The one staff gently elbowed the other, hoping to cue them in, "Huh? UH oh yeah! We just wanted you to be careful. That's all. Don't worry about the glasses, we'll take care of those."

Arcadia bowed and smiled to them, "Thanks! Promise. I'll he careful." She picked up her chair sled up in two hands, carrying it to the base of the still icy stairway.  Grabbing the towel tied to the backrest, Arcadia climbed back up the wall to the top.  Once there, she wasted no time riding her chair straight back down the slippery stairs. She shouted cheers the whole way down!

Arcadia sprung back to her feet, climbing back up on the wall and around the stairs, dragging her chair by the ar towel tied to its back. Just these couple sledding runs were starting to upset her stomach. She pouted, this sledding was way to much fun to give upon it. Maybe she could find someone to case a spell on her sometime. Hopping off the wall, she laid the chair down on its backrest, and readied herself for one last run. This one was for the guild championship.

She gripped the sledding chair tight, and counted down, ”4... 3... 2... 1!” The young slayer pushed off, tipping her chair over the edge one more time. It was a rough ride, Arcadia really feeling every step on the way down this time. The thrill was still there, but as she crashed from the stairway, her stomach really began to make it's upset known from all her trips down the stairs on a chair.  She stood up woozily, still cheering, ”Okay that's good enough. My stomach isn't going take another run..”

Arcadia looked around and still only saw the bar staff. Managing a grin, despite her churning stomach, ”Either of you wanna go for a run and challenge my best time sledding down?”

Both staff members shook their heads, one speaking up to voice their shared declination of Arcadia's invitation. “No, that's all you.”

The young slayer pumped a fist in victory, ”Yes! No one else is around to challenge me, so that makes me Fairy Tail Guild Champion of Indoor Sledding!  Undisputed Guild Champion. I like the sound of that. ..ugh for now, I'm gonna go lay down. Seeya guys later.” Arcadia waved to the bar staff, and shuffled on out toward Fairy Hills lay down until her stomach settled down.

The bart staff glanced to each other trying tohide smirks, each shaking their head. “Seea around sledding champion.”

“Yeah get some rest.”