From Mouse to Fairy (Open)

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Pictures surely did not do justice when it came to showing just how large a building could really be. From magazines to even a few iLac pictures of people taking tourist photos in front of the guild hall, she never thought it would have been so much larger in person than she was now that she stood before its towering height. Perhaps this was simply her paranoias sneaking up on her and she was simply falling into the fear she was being led into an illusion of the cat girls castle. Honestly, that was the biggest hesitation that kept her from jumping into the whole guild with her usual peppy self.

After a moment to take to pump herself up she took in a big breath of air then exhaled. ”You got this, Cer. You gotta.” She muttered aloud to herself, wanting to psyche herself just enough to go that first step. After that, it would only be a few more before she would get to the door. Finally, she closed her eyes and tried to shut the thought out of her mind and refocus while she walked.

BANG

In the moment of her trying to steady her mind and get herself back to being, well herself, she had smacked face first into the doorway of the guild hall. Holding the bridge of her nose with one hand, she stumbled back, groaning in pain. ”Great going, you klutz! Now you’re gonna be the laughing stock of the place before you even walk in! Omg, I’m so embarrassed... ” Her cheeks were glowing near the shade of her own hair, flustered now more about entering than she was nervous. Maybe that was the better approach and something was helping her out with that?

That smack gave her a strange bout of confidence. Now she took a moment, shaking her head of the pain from her incident and then ruffling her hair around and back into place. Next came a small brush of her blazer jacket and then her skirt. Opening the doors now, she would step inside and shut the doors behind her before walking further into the hall, curious now as not really many people had paid much attention to her. Never a bad thing... especially today. But now she was growing nervous again, not knowing where to go or who to talk to. And not wanting to really try to be a Karen about things... she refused to be the one to make her first impression known to be “that girl who asks everyone for their manager”. Yuck.

An icy blast of breath covered one set of stairs. With a gleeful shout came from the top, a barefoot pale blonde girl with sparkling faerie green eyes rode a small toboggan sled down the iced over stairway. "Wooohoo HOO!"

At the bottom, her toboggan crashed and tipped over. Standing up, she cleared her toboggan out of the way to lean against one wall. She dusted off the soft pink dress she wore, the skirt empaneled with blue here and there, and straightened the wings hairband holding back her blonde hair from her eyes. Laughing, she cheered and glanced backup the stairway she just sled down, "Still Guild Indoor Sledding Champion!"

That would be when she noticed a new face across the lobby. Mildly embarrassed, she fixed her dress and hair again, approaching Cersei with a calmer and professional demeanor. "Hey there! Welcome. I'm Arcadia Fairchilde. Not just the Fairy Tail Indoor Sledding Champion, but also Executive Manager. Do you need anything? We have the best juice in Fiore, if you're thirsty."

This felt a little more then the simple cut and dry kind of way she assumed this was going to be. A little “walk in, say hi, tell ya what your worth, then BAM! Stamped for approval!” But alas... that was not the case. Maybe others had a good bit to put forward, but this was more like a cry for help than it was some special job interview. Frankly, the idea of being asked to use her magic was why frightened her the most. Could she really think she could pull forth a summon that not only could she not control of her own volition, but also that she feared would just ever out of control and start harming others? Well, that was why she was here. She wanted help to control these beings and better herself. She could pay too, she wasn’t worried about funds like that.

The quandary in her mind was shattered at the rather large crashing sound. Her body jolted and crunched up like an accordion from the sound and slowly she turned her head to where she thought the sound resonated from. There she followed an icy trail of steps down to what she assumed was some overly designed sled made entirely of ice. From there, she had seen a girl with long blonde hair brushing herself off of the icy dust. There was an air of confidence and for some reason, that didn’t seem to carry over well with her. How could be proud of potentially hurting yourself doing something like that? Like really? No matter, she seemed to have had some fun, so that’s probably something she loved to do casually with her magic and it seemed fine to her.

Again, Cersei’s eyes led back up to the steps and followed it back down once again. She wasn’t sure how she managed to make ice without water, but a voice had gotten her to turn to the attention of the sledding blonde. She had introduced herself, starting off with the title of indoor sledding champion. Her eye began to twitch a little. Th-That just made no sense to her. If ANYTHING, you save the best for last! Whatever!~ ”Oh, it’s nice to meet you, Ms. Fairclide. I’m Cersei. Cersei LaRoux. But you can just call me Cherry if that’s easier~ I know some people have issues with pronunciations!” She tried to play back a smile, but she was still playing 20 questions on the seriousness of this guild. ”Well, there is actually. I was looking to join, if possible. I’m not entirely used to magic, like, at all. And I couldn’t think of a closer place to come to in hopes I could at least contribute to in the future!”

It suddenly hit her when she finished pitching her reason to join... Did she just mentally summon a manager? Oh no, was she destined to become one of THOSE old ladies!? Those 30 something soccer moms who think they can do no wrong!? And cue mental panic attack!

Already the ice covering the stairs was beginning to sublimate away as its magic dissipated. The stairway left safely dry and non-slippery. Arcadia smiled again as it was always exciting to meet new prospects. The barefoot slayer drew her iLac from its pocket in her dress, and took a seat at the nearest table. She gestured to a couple of the empty chairs at the same table ”Sweet. Sit anywhere if you wish. And the bar staff can bring anything you want to drink. We just have a couple questions. And afterward, feel free to ask any questions you have for us. First... One moment. This is just for our records. Say cheese!"

Arcadia held up and aimed her iLac to get a photo of Cersei. After snapping the photo, she started a new file in an office app ti import the photo into. She entered Cersei's name and a few notes. ”So Cersei, I hope I'm saying that right. If not, just lemme know, and I use Cherry instead. Anyway... I think you partly answered the first question already. The question being, why you want to join Fairy Tail. You can add to your answer if you want or just move on to answering the second question. Would you ever harm a fellow guild member or destroy guild property without permission?”

For the moment, it seemed to be a little more of a standstill kind of situation. A little intimidated now that things were seeming to be moving in one direction, Cersei had stopped to watch the woman pull out her iLac, looking over the actions for the moment while Arcadia had begun to start things off once the red head took a seat. For the most part, she had remained quiet, not really unlike her, but she loved to be a peoples person so it wasn’t mentally taxing to her to be out in situations for this. ”H-Huh!?” She looked up, startled almost and with a last moment, she flashed a smile before the camera went off. Her face flushed with embarrassment and she wanted to bury it in her hands. ”I-I wasn’t even ready! I-I didn’t have the right make up on, my hair was probably out of place and-” She paused.

One deep breath in, one breath out. She had to compose herself, and despite her self shameful moment, she brought it back around to just sitting back to herself again and allowing the blonde to continue. ”No no, you got it!” She quickly interjected, letting her know she’d gotten it where few had not. When the first question was asked, it felt as though something was wrong. She mentally prepared herself for this one, but when it came out of Arcadia’s mouth, it.. it made her lock up. ”I-I... I...” Trying to keep herself a little better under wraps, she focused on past that question toward the others, pretending not to have even been asked about why. She didn’t want to face it. ”I would never want to destroy anything! Or like, more anything that could hurt someone who didn’t deserve it, at least.”

Arcadia listened carefully, taking notes and a few  extra observations. She didn't want to make Cersei too nervous, so she offered a soft, friendly smile. She also offered what she hoped would be some reassurance, "Don't worry about that picture. It's only for the purposes of guild files. Only the guild master and other aces would ever see it. We can replace it with a picture of your liking later if you want. It can be placeholder until then."

She continued to listen and tap in further notes, the barefoot slayer smiling and glad to get Cersei's name right. Arcadia felt it was important to make good impressions on new recruits. Not that she shied away from letting her own eccentricities or the guild's show. It was more wanting to show potential recruits like Cersei care and respect, and Arcadia believed part of that was showing what they were signing up for.

Remembering intimidated she was to even knock on Fairy Tail's front doors when she first arrived. She could easily understand the case of nerves Cersei had with answering the first question. She was about to say something, but it seemed Cersei would prefer to skip or come back to anything additional to say. She kept queue and listened to Cersei's second answer instead. Arcadia smiled as she finished up her notes, nodding to Cersei. "That's good to hear. Ad's that should do it really. Do you have any Austin's for new or the guild? If not, my next question is where and what color you would like your guild mark?"

The little blobs of light hanging around the reception desk floated over with a block of unidentifiable material. Arcadia had only said a couple words ina strange language and they began to Friday over with it. Arcadia traded her iLac to the blobs for the old block. The light blobs carried her iLac to the reception desk, docking it in a lacrima on the desk to upload Cersei's new file to the guild's database. Arcadia held up the old block as she asked her last question about guild marks.

Well, at least there was an upside to that whole schpeal. Getting a picture with some better looking pose and what not would have to be discussed when that would have come back around. Until then, she simply smiled and nodded to show she was content with waiting. It didn't pass her mind that she was taking some notations the entire time they were chatting so far, which wasn't so much of a bad thing when it was all said and done. She was becoming less and less worried over the whole picture debacle while she silently sat and watched as Arcadia had been working on the tablet in her hands, tapping on it and inputting some information that she couldn't very well see. Her mind had tried to wander away from the reason she was coming to a guild in the first place, but it just seemed to in one way or another. And now that she was, the feeling of it was changing in a way. It was being mixed with nervousness of a different nature.

Cersei's eyes finally retrained themselves onto the blonde girl interviewing her. Lost in her own thoughts, she wasn't very keen on keeping her attention trained onto anything but her thoughts, but then as she spoke up once more, it helped snap her back and try and grasp onto what she was being asked. ”W-Well... k-kind of.” She shifted her eyes about, looking more to her shoulder as far as the dragon slayer was concerned, but Cersei was relating her look toward her back in the moment she paused and then looked back to her. ”Does the guild have.. any summoners? Some that I um.. I could ask about advice and what not?” Being this wasn't a question that she thought could really hold up the other mention of a question, she would hold out her left hand, palm to the table. ”On the back of my hand here and in pink, please.” She remained calm, but her hand, it kept shaking even in a slight amount. Something terrified her, but she wasn't being very obvious about it at all. The pieces were there now, at least to an extent.

Arcadia smiled softly, hoping to be as reassuring as possible. She didn't want to scare off such a promising new member of the Fairy Tail family on her first day. The barefoot slayer could remember the butterflies she felt in her stomach the day she first approached those double doors at the guild hall's entrance. She had not grown up hearing about Fairy Tail or any guild that called Fiore home. Ancient Dragnof was before their time.

Even still, after the tales she had heard in various inns along her travels, Arcadia ended up every bit as nervous about even entering the home of what she had only heard in stories. She smiled again, ”Yepyep! Depending on the kind of summoning, we've got a couple different peoples you might wanna talk to. “

She lifted the old block and gently laced it over Cersei's left hand. Arcadia traced a few runes along one side of the dusty old block. Beneath the block a magic circle flashed and slowly spun. While the block did its work, Arcadia continued calmly, ”There's Zarchary, probably the purest summoner we have. He's a celestial wizard, and even has one of those golden Zodiac keys. He's great with his spirits! I'd be happy to introduce you to him, if you don't run into him around the hall on your own. Let'ssee.. there's also our Secretary and Treasurer, Nessa. She doesn't use keys like Zachary, but she earned and made a deal with some Valkyries that she can summon to her aid. Then their's our guild master, Mura! He works with spirits too, but I don't know if he's so much a summoner of them because they're usually just around all the time, but I'm sure they'd be happy to help you too!”

The old block and it's magic circle finished up its work, the block gong inert once more, leaving behind the a pink outline of the familiar Fairy Tail mark. Cersei was no an official Fairy Tail intern! Arcadia smiled brightly and proclaimed, ”And congrats! Officially welcome to Fairy Tail!”

Those blobs of light back around the receptions floated back over to return Arcadia's iLac to her and to recover the old block back to the desk. Once the guild mark was in place on the back of her hand, Cersei would note the blobs of light clearing up into actual fairies. They flit about everywhere through the guild hall, doing all the little things Fairy Tail needed to keep things running smoothly.