An unexpected betrothal [Aven]

Nessa arrived at the Chocolate Factory in the late morning, she had gotten the call for the last minute need for a delivery to be made and hadn't been able to locate anyone to assign it too at the guild. Everyone was busy out on jobs or just hadn't gotten to the guild yet. So she had ordered the wisp to hand the job to the first available person to arrive and send them down to Rose Garden to join her. It wasn't long before she arrived, turning up at the chocolate warehouse. She looked around, the place was fairly busy, she could see why they applied for help. The few people they were running around, were running around like headless chickens. It seemed they were pretty behind. She approached a girl with blonde hair, tapping her on the shoulder before she could rush away.

"Sorry excuse me, My names Nessa Lux, I'm a mage from Fairy Tail. I understand you need help with a delivery." She said, the girl turned, eyes wide, she looked exhausted. "Oh thank goodness, yes, okay. Um, do you have your partner with you?" She asked, her voice filled with relief. Nessa smiled, glad to be able to relieve some of their stress. "Not yet, my guild should be sending someone over shortly." She explained, the girl nod. Speaking into a headset, she requested some paperwork be brought over. After a few moments, a man rushed over with a clipboard full of documents.

"Hello there, thank you for coming today. If you don't mind taking a look at this agreement we can prepare you." Nessa frowned, wondering what exactly he meant. She took the clipboard, her eye skimming over the paperwork. Slowly her eyes widened.

"What?!" She said looking up, "There has to be a mistake, this contract states that you expect me to get married?" She said, her voice filled with disbelief.


WC: 319 / 100

Nessa looked over at Aven as he approached, she offered him a smile. As if this wasn't awkward enough already, there was still the lingering secret. the secret that seemed to be growing even more harder to confess. It had been so long since she'd found out about his feelings for her, and she'd had so many opportunities to tell him but she hadn't. For one reason or another, she just couldn't bring herself to say it. The guilt was getting to her, she knew what she did was wrong but at this point she just felt lost. How could she fix it, when it could been so long. She sighed, she would tell him, just not until she had the right time. When that time come, she knew she just had to accept the consequences. Hopefully Aven would forgive her for keeping her knowledge of his secret hidden from him for so long. If he didn't well, she didn't want to bare thinking about that.

"Hey Aven, it's seems there's a contractual mistake in the paperwork,"

"It's not a mistake Miss, the job doesn't just require delivery and distribution of the chocolates, but we were also in need of individuals to test our new marital binding system. It allows for couples to use elements of each others magic, however it's sort of still in the works. So we sent a request out for mages to try it out for us, it's just a temporary binding and won't last longer than a few hours." Nessa blinked, so they were actually expected them to get married, for the sake of testing a prototype. Nessa glanced at Aven, her face momentarily blank. Inside her mind, her thoughts were practically whirling around in chaos. Her dreams of walking down the aisle in a pretty white dress, saying I do to her future husband, shattered in a moment. As she awkwardly stood here across from Aven, not that Aven wouldn't be a good husband prospect but that didn't mean Nessa was ready to marry him. She wasn't even sure how she felt about his feelings for her, her head was in such a jumble. Not to mention her father was going to be furious. How could she possibly get married for such a simple reason? But then, if she said no, that would look bad on her guild. She wouldn't be letting Sorano down, Sorano who obviously approved this job knowing that her members would require to get married. Nessa laughed nervously,

"Guess I missed the fine print, ha ha..." She said looking at Aven, trying to gage his reaction to the matter.


WC: 440
Total: 759 / 1000

Nessa staed at Aven intently, trying to work out some semblance of what he was thinking. It may have not been as awkward a situation had it not been for the fact that she knew about his feelings for her. But how was she supposed to handle it? Refuse profusely and risk hurting his feelings, or agree and risk leading him on and making things worse. She didn't know, how was suppose to know, then again, maybe it would help clarify her own thoughts. Pretending to be in a ...romantic companionship with Aven. I guess it might help... She didn't know, her thoughts were in such a disarray. Then Aven spoke, he seemed so nonchalant about it, much calmer than she was. Maybe she had misinterpreted the note. She smiled, In that case...

"Sure, for the guild." She agreed, hoping this wasn't a mistake. She looked at the guy, "Can we keep it as un-authentic as possible though, like I don't want any dresses or ceremonies or anything, I'd rather the first time I wear a wedding dress be for the real thing." She said with a casual laugh, she was sure Aven wouldn't mind such a request, the less 'real' this felt, the easier it would be for them to do the job.

"Uh... I guess that's fine Miss, lemme just call the Minister and we'll get this over quickly." The man with the form scurried off, returning after a few moments with a man who well...looked pretty much like a Minister would.

"I am Father Thomas, and I'll be marrying you today. I presume I have both..."He looked at his forms, "Miss Lux and a Mr Alveron present." Nessa nodded, "Normally we would ask that we create a more official setting for this, however due to your request, I shall keep this official as possible. We've already receive... a fair few complaints about the procedure already." Nessa arched a brow, well that didn't surprise her. "Please hold hands." Nessa looked at Aven for a moment, Umm..., she was considering protesting but as she glanced at Father Thomas, who was staring her down with a look that told her he had just about enough of complaints. She quickly took Aven's hands, laughing awkwardly. It was fine, wasn't the first time they'd held hands after all. Father Thomas nodded, before clearing his thread, and beginning he speech.


"We are gathered here to day to cement the union..." Nessa couldn't really pay attention to what he was saying. She was staring quite pointedly at Aven, her mind working speedily right now to try and work out what he was thinking, was he really okay with this? Should she have protested more? Did this feel right? It was all so confusing. "Miss Lux!" Nessa's attention snapped back to the Minister, just how long had she been lost in thought?

"I'm sorry what?"

"Do you Nessa  take Aven to be your husband? To unite in the covenant of marriage, and share with your whole self, to honor and keep him in sickness and in health for as long as this union binds you."

"Oh ...Yes, um, I suppose I do." She answered, trying to sound confident as she said it.

"And do you Aven take Nessa to be your wife? To unite in the covenant of marriage, and share with your whole self, to honor and keep her in sickness and in health for as long as this union binds you."




WC: 578
Total: 1337 / 1000

Nessa sighed in relief, at least that was over. It was weird, now she was technically married to Aven. She didn't really feel any different, she wondered if they really could use each others magic. Maybe if they had time later they could test it, but first they needed to handle the job at hand. She turned to the Minister, "Okay so where are the goods we need to load up?" She asked in a perky manner, as though she hadn't just been pressured by these people into marrying one of her best friends. The minister pointed them in the direction of the goods, Nessa nodded before making her way along toward it, as he walked her eyes would begin to glow. The air around her would shift, and the white norse symbol on the back of her neck would glow with light. "Tiphanae, Arcturus." As she spoke she sounded as though, multiple woman were talking at once. To her right side the wind would picked up creating a small whirlwind that expanding to the size of a woman, from which Tiphanae emerged. To her left, the air grew cold, the ground would began to cover itself with frost and ice began to emerge from the ground. Growing until it reached it appeared like a human sized wall of ice. Then it crumbled away, revealing Arcturus.

"Hey girls, we're doing a delivery job today, mind lending us a hand?" She asked, she had picked these two because they were probably the easiest to work with. Their personalities were always kind and welcoming, the most ideal to have around humans. She couldn't exactly have Scythen or Agatha working in a sweet store.

"I would be honoured, Nessa Lux." Tiphanae responded,

"Sounds delightful, any excuse to spend time with you Nessa Lux~" Arcturus replied sweetly, Nessa smiled, she hadn't gotten the chance to work with the Snow Valkyrie as much as she'd have liked. So this was a nice change of pace. Along the side of the warehouse were carraiges lined up, the few workers they had were already trying to load them up. But it was taking time, no wonder they needed a hand. "Okay, let's head inside and load the carraiges, then we can go help out at the shop." She said to the others, before making her way into the warehouse where the stacks of chocolate boxes and confectionaries were waiting.