The day started like any other, Kira was the first to wake thanks to Lexi wanting food. Kira was the cook of the two dragon slayers. If Roxie was cooking, they'd be eating rocks. Kira got up out of bed and got to work on cooking some French toast. It was the part of the morning where Kira and Lexi got to spend time together. Roxie was still dozing in her room, and Kira knew better than to wake Roxie when she was asleep. She would only do it if it was a dire emergency.

Kira had found out the hard way never to wake up Roxie. When they first started living together before Fairy Tail, Kira had tried to wake up Roxie and ended up losing three teeth (which grew back, since luckily they were baby teeth) and had a dislocated shoulder. Roxie had spun her around and dislocated her shoulder before her face connected with the wall. Later on Kira found out the better way to wake up Roxie was with food. She would still be a grump for almost an hour, grumbling into her food.

"Can I help?" Lexi asked happily.

Kira watched as Lexi dipped the bread into the egg, soaking it up before placing it on the pan. "Lexi can you get the whipped cream and the syrup out?" Kira was making some hot chocolate while she was at it.

Meanwhile, Roxie's eyes slowly slid open at the smells entering her room. Her stomach growled loudly as she got out of bed with Pebbles in her arms for the food. Her eyes were droopy with sleep, and she looked irritated, but sat down at the table with Pebbles beside her anyway. Pebbles giggled as Roxie put her forehead on the table, half-falling back to sleep right there.

Kira sighed, slightly amused. "When did she get to bed last night, Pebbles?"

"Not until you'd been asleep for a while. She was thinking," Pebbles answered while patting Roxie on the head. Roxie swatted the tiny paws away gently, and Pebbles pouted.

"Thinking about what?" Lexi asked.

"Stuff," Roxie groaned. She always had a little bit of insomnia. Her brain tended to keep running, even when she was tired enough that she could barely keep her eyes open. Kira had suggested a doctor or something, but Roxie had every single time it was mentioned.

"Liiike?" Kira prompted, flipping a piece of French toast onto a plate.

"That annoying new girl. Something sits weird with me about her. Not like she's a bad person, but that she's hiding a few things."

Kira smiled gently at her friend, who still had her face smushed on the table. "A lot of people in Fairy Tail hide things. It's not anything new."

Roxie sighed. "Yeah whatever. Give me some food."

Lexi facepalmed and Pebbles giggled as Kira rolled her eyes and brought some French toast to her friends. "Lets give her a chance? She might be an idiot, but I think she does care."

Roxie scoffed, shoving her food in her mouth. "She's still annoying."

Lexi took a sip from the glass of juice she had gotten before speaking. "What's on the agenda for today?"

Kira stepped over to the To-Do List notepad on the counter. "Cleaning the house, grocery shopping, checking for jobs, mailing the rent to the landlord at the post office...and a few other things."

"You mean, going back to sleep, napping, eating lunch later, going outside to sleep, and coming back in for dinner before taking a shower and going back to sleep? That's probably Roxie's list," Pebbles giggled.

Roxie shot her cat a playful glare. "Haha, you're so funny. No."

Kira and Lexi giggled, knowing fully well that whenever the two of them had a day off and Kira had a list of chores to do Roxie would find a spot to nap anywhere and everywhere to avoid said chores.

The girls quickly ate breakfast and got started on the list of the day. Roxie plopped on the couch with a book as Kira started doing the dishes from dinner last night and breakfast this morning. Lexi would dry everything and Pebbles would help put them away.

Next, the faithful companions rested next to Roxie as she napped on the couch. Kira continued on with the chores, vacuuming the living room, the bedrooms, and the kitchen. The sound woke Roxie up and earned her annoyed glares, but Kira didn't care.

"Roxie get your half of the rent money!" Kira yelled while picking up everyone's laundry. She would do a load before going out for the day.

Roxie made some sort of grumbling noise, from being woken up before getting up. She went to her room, lifting her mattress from her bed, where she kept her cash. She then grabbed a handful of Jewels, bringing them to Kira. "Here," she grumbled. She had a difficult time handing over the money, since she was bad at saving it like Kira did.

"Thanks Roxie!" Kira said with a smile as she pocketed the money as she started the washer. Kira liked things clean, unlike Roxie who didn't care about the mess.

"I wonder what Natsu and Happy are up to today," Kira thought out loud, smiling to herself as she thought of the pink-haired Slayer. Though the two would get in fights every now and then, that didn't stop her from liking the guy. He was fire and she was water. Polar opposites but heck, she was crazy over the guy.

"She liiiiiiiikes him," Pebbles giggled at Roxie. She was pretending to whisper, but obviously Kira and Lexi could hear, even if they were across the room.

Roxie smirked. "Stop talking to Happy, you dork."

Kira was blushing as she stuffed the Jewels in an envelope, and Lexi was smiling. Kira was her best friend, and even if Natsu was crazy, if he made her happy, then that made Lexi happy.

"Okay, to the post office everyone!" Kira announced.

"Do I have to?" Roxie groaned.

"Yes," Kira and the cats chorused.

Roxie started whining as she followed them out, and down the dirt road to town. They lived out on the edge of the forest, about halfway between the edge of town and Natsu and Happy's house. It took a few minutes for them to get to town, and when they got there, they went straight for the post office. Kira ran inside quickly to mail the money, and then ran right back out, since Roxie had pretty much just kept going straight for the guild hall.

"Roxie, wait up!" Kira called.

Roxie smirked and shook her head, but she stopped anyway. Kira pouted as they continued on to the guild hall. When they walked in, it was still loud, but it always was. Natsu was missing from the usual rambunctiousness. The girls and their cats headed over to the bar where Mira was cleaning some glasses.

"Where are Natsu and Happy?" Roxie asked, since she figured a fight would've broken out by now.

"They went on a mission with Lucy," the oldest Strauss answered. Kira frowned to herself. She could tell that Lucy liked Natsu, she could see it in her brown eyes. She might hide it well enough for the others but Kira knew it.

Across the area Kira could see Gray talking with one of the girls. She blushed when he caught her eye. He smiled brightly waving at his friend before going back to his chat.

"Gray seems happy to see you."

Kira laughed nervously. "Yeah right, he probably just wants to train or something like that."

Roxie shrugged to herself. "I wouldn't be so sure," she mumbled so that Kira wouldn't hear. Lexi and Pebbles heard and giggled a little though.

The four of them glanced over at the job board and saw a huge crowd around it. It was way too crowded for them so they stayed in their seats and thanked Mira as she plopped some drinks in front of them before hurrying off to serve a table.

Out of nowhere, an arm wrapped around Kira's shoulder.

Gray sat in between the two girls already clad in his black boxers. "Hey guys."

"Clothes," the girls and their cats all said at the same time.

Gray let out a manly shriek before rushing over to get his clothes. He returned in less than two minutes. "Sorry about that," he muttered awkwardly. He cleared his throat, straightening up in his seat between Roxie and Kira. "So what are you guys here for?"

"A job. But it's crowded so we're gonna wait," Roxie answered.

"That's true. What else is on the agenda for today?"

"We have to go grocery shopping. Maybe we can drop by a little later on our way home to look for jobs," Kira mumbled, falling into thought.

Roxie glanced at the cats. "OR Lexi, Pebbles, and I can go grocery shopping, and you can hang out here with Gray and wait for the job board to get less crowded. And if you're still here when we're done, we'll stop back by."

Kira's face turned slightly pink. "You don't have to do that."

"I'm sure she just wants to get back to sleep instead of waiting here, isn't that right, Roxie?" Mira's voice piped up as she went back behind the bar.

Roxie shot Mira a thankful look before letting out an exaggerated sigh. "You caught me. Anyway, Lexi and Pebbles and I will take care of groceries. We'll see you later," Roxie said before she headed for the door quickly, the cats flying quickly after her.

Kira didn't even have time to protest, and Mira was giggling, since she knew of both girls' crushes. She'd have to help Roxie out next...

Gray was making a face as he watched Roxie flee. "That was weird."

"Yeah, tell me about it." Kira mumbled.

The two sat in a awkward silence of sorts. Kira didn't know what to talk about. She always had someone with her when she would talk to Gray.

"So how long have you been here?" she asked cracking her neck as she turned to face Gray again.

"Maybe a few hours, I just got back from a mission dealing with some bastard kidnapping children." Her eyes widened in shock, and Gray gave her a reassuring smile. "Don't worry I got them back home safely."

Kira smiled, wanting to hug him or kiss him or show some sort of affection. In the end, she just reached over and punched his shoulder lightly.

He wasn't expecting that. He jumped staring rather confused at the gray haired girl beside him. "Way to go dude, you rock."

He laughed shrugging off the weirdness of what just happened. "If you say so."

Kira laughed, though on the inside she was screaming at how much of an idiot she was being.

Aaaaand it became awkward again. "So would you want to um...?" She started, not sure how to ask to see him later.

"Want to train?"

Her heart fell in her chest. She knew he only wanted to train with her outside of the guild.

"Sure, sounds like fun..." The job board was slowly getting less crowded, she noticed. "How about after me and Roxie get back?"

He nodded. "That's fine."

Kira walked away muttering to herself, "Stupid, stupid, stupid." Scanning over the board she saw that many of the jobs had been taken. There wasn't much to choose from. Reaching out she grabbed a random job. Scanning over the details, Kira read that what the girls had to do was go get the money stolen from a bank and return it to said bank and they would get 70,000 jewel. Simple and easy. Maybe Kira could bust some idiots' heads open and get her anger out for being such an idiot...but she probably wouldn't. Nobody at Fairy Tail would be so cruel, even Laxus and his cronies.

Turning around she noticed Gray was close behind her, staring at the job over her shoulder. Kira let out a squeak of fear, clutching her heart. "Gray! Don't sneak up on me like that!"

He laughed showing off that near-perfect smile of his. He was back to being in his boxers just showing off his muscular chest. She had to shake her head to avoid staring at it. He was very attractive to her, although Roxie saw him only as her stripper friend.

"Sorry about that Kira. You guys going to go now then?"

She nodded smiling softly. "Yeah I guess. Would you mind watching the place for us? You can have any of the food Roxie might have gotten."

He shrugged. "Sure no problem, how long do you think you'll be gone?"

"Not long I hope maybe a day?"

He nodded. "I'll be by later then."

Kira smiled, her heart fluttering in her chest.

Meanwhile, Roxie, Lexi, and Pebbles were heading down the street. Lexi kept glancing back over her shoulder, a slightly guilty look on her face.

"Do you think she'll be okay? You know how she gets around the boys she likes," she mumbled.

Roxie snorted. "She'll be fine. I'm sure if she does anything too uncomfortably awkward, Mira will fix it."

"You're probably next."

Roxie flinched at the purple cat's words. "Don't mention that...I already saw that look in her eye before I left. I don't want to be reminded of it."

"But maybe she can help you with Laxus, since Bickslow and Freed are out of town," Pebbles mentioned a little bit too loudly.

Immediately, Roxie's face turned red, and she shot a glare at her best-cat-friend. "Shh! Don't say stuff like that!" she scolded in a voice that was high due to her nervousness about people overhearing. The only people who knew about her crushes were Kira, the cats, and Mira, since Mira seemed to know about everyone's romantic troubles.

Pebbles giggled but put her paws over her mouth as she and Lexi continued to follow Roxie to the small market. Once inside, Roxie grabbed a basket, heading off for some of the shelves. Then she paused, patting her pockets. "I don't have the grocery list," she sighed.

Lexi cleared her throat with a small smile. "I've got it."

Roxie sighed in relief as Lexi handed her the piece of paper. She scanned over the list, and the cats helped her gather everything up. They'd been out of quite a bit of stuff, so she wasn't going to have much money left over. So much for what she had hoped would be spending money...

Roxie reluctantly paid for all of the stuff, and the cats helped her carry the bags back to the guild. On the way, she saw a familiar blonde, and nearly stumbled over her own feet. It was rare that she saw Laxus on his own, but there he was, headed in the same direction as the guild. The headphones he wore looked like new, although they were the same color and style as the ones he'd had since they were kids.

Roxie straightened up once she realized he hadn't noticed her at all yet, managing to compose herself and fight her nervous blush as she took the bags from the cats. It was a lot of stuff to carry, and it was heavy, but she knew she could carry it. Pebbles giggled, poking Roxie in the head as Lexi sighed and rolled her eyes. As Roxie was passing, Laxus glanced at her, raising an eyebrow since she had her armloads of bags, and the cats had nothing.

"Why do you have so many bags?" he asked after pulling down his headphones.

Roxie turned to glance back at him, expertly hiding the fact that her heart was pounding. "I just went grocery shopping. Kira and I were out of pretty much everything since we hadn't been shopping in a while." Her tone implied that it should be obvious, and she immediately regretted the attitude her words had been accompanied by. She knew that Laxus hated to be sassed, and he was one of the few people she wouldn't sass.

He raised an eyebrow at her, and the conversation pretty much ended there. Partly because neither of them said anything else, and partly because Roxie had been so nervous she speedwalked (more like ran) away too fast for them to say anything else.

She arrived back at the guild as Kira was walking away from the job board with Gray. Kira and Gray looked surprised that she was carrying everything on her own and walking so fast at the same time, but didn't have a chance to comment.

"This shit is heavy, come on, Kira. I want to get home so we can put it all away," Roxie said quickly.

Kira was confused but shrugged. "Um, okay, I guess. I grabbed us a job. Gray said he'll watch the house."

"That's wonderful, come on."

Roxie immediately turned and walked away, Pebbles giggling like a dork and Lexi looked exasperated at the rock dragon slayer's behavior. Kira turned to Gray quickly. "I don't know what's going on, but I've gotta go. I'll, um, I'll see you later?"

Gray chuckled, nodding. "Yeah, now go figure out what's wrong with her. She's acting weird."

Kira smiled, turning and rushing after Roxie. When she got outside, she saw Roxie practically running towards their home, and Laxus calmly walking up the sidewalk towards the guild, focused on the music playing in his ears. Kira shook her head, debating between feeling amused and annoyed at Roxie's behavior. She dashed off after Roxie, managing to catch up fairly quickly.

"So what's the job?" Roxie asks when Kira finally catches up.

"Stop some robbers and return the money they stole." Roxie nodded looking over the paper.

The two males had a few facial scars, abnormal noses, stupid hair that went in every direction possible. They looked like the stereotypical robbers you would think of. Roxie smirked. This would be easy in her opinion, since they had definitely dealt with worse.

"Lets get this stuff put up," Roxie said, walking inside and tossing some things where they didn't belong and being rather lazy.

Kira rolled her eyes, letting out a huff before fixing everything in ten minutes while Roxie and Pebbles lounged on the couch. Lexi was nice enough to help Kira with some things she couldn't reach.

"Can we go yet?" Roxie yelled from the other room.

"Give me one minute! I need to clean up!" she yelled, an annoyed look on her face as she folded the bags the groceries were in and place them into the cupboard where they could be used later if need be.

Lexi sat on the counter watching Kira work like she had before time and time again. Lexi wouldn't yell at Roxie about not helping out only because she knew what happened earlier and why she freaked out.

Finally finished, Kira walked out into the living room where a backpack was already waiting by the door. "Ready?"

Roxie hopped up, tossing some things they might need in the bag before the four went on their mission.

It didn't take long before Kira, Roxie, Lexi, and Pebbles found their culprits. They sat at a bar drinking merrily and chatting up the local women. The local women did not look impressed. It was clear they weren't attracted to these men, if the looks on their faces were proof enough.

"Dare you to flirt with one of them," Pebbles said to Roxie.

"Screw that."

"It might be easier if you did?" Kira suggested, a smirk on her lips.

"Real funny Kira, why don't you go up and do it?"

Lexi giggled. "Because it would be more fun if you did it!"

"I hate you all," Roxie grumbled, pissed but walking forward toward the culprits and sitting next to one. As she walked, she pasted a fake smile onto her face, swishing her hips the tiniest bit.

"Holy crap, she's actually doing it!" Pebbles gasped, shocked.

Kira and Lexi were impressed as Roxie picked up a conversation with the one male. The green haired male laughed at something she said before looking back at the three chatting next to a pillar.

"I wonder what they're talking about?" Lexi muttered sitting on Kira's shoulder while Pebbles sat on ledge.

"Beats me but it seems to be working."

"She could be contracting a way to kill us."

Thinking it over they all agreed thinking that's whats probably happening.

Then, the green haired crook bumped his blue haired friend, and the friend glanced back at where Kira and the cats were standing. He grinned, waving a tiny bit. Kira fought an uncomfortable frown, instead smiling a little awkwardly and waving back.

Roxie leaned back, shooting Kira a little wink before waving her over. It was Kira's turn to glare at Roxie as the cats started giggling. "We'll wait over here so we can watch this train wreck," Lexi smiled, floating off of Kira's shoulder and nudging her towards the bar.

Kira forced herself to move forward as she sat next to the blue haired man. "Kira this is Jiro, and the one next to you is Katsu," Roxie explained.

Kira nodded at the two males, the blue haired male was Katsu and the green haired one was Jiro. The exact two guys the girls were looking for. "Can I offer the pretty lady an ale perhaps?"

Looking up from wherever she was staring, Kira gave a small smile at Katsu. "That would be great actually."

Katsu smiled, scooting his stool closer to Kira's as he ordered a large ale. "So Roxie tells us that you like magic?" Katsu asked, sounding nervous.

"Oh, yes! I've always been a fan of magic," she said with a smile. "I can actually do a bit you know."

"Oh really? So can we. We're considered some of the best."

Kira forced a giggle to escape her lips. Roxie rolled her eyes, annoyed at this stupid conversation, even though it was sort of her fault. "Maybe you could show me how your magic is sometime."

Grabbing her ale Kira took a sip, or two, or three. Basically she drank it all at one go. Shaking her head, Kira felt her senses grow stronger. She didn't particularly like ale but any liquid helped.

"Whoa! How'd you do that?"

She giggled freely now "Just a trick I've always been able to do."

Katsu ordered another ale for the both of them and the two were talking about magic. Roxie couldn't pretend to be interested in these two anymore. She'd tried though. Looking over at her best friend, Roxie spoke up. "Kira you ready?"

Standing up Kira flashed a smile "Born ready."

The boys knew nothing of what was about to happen. Roxie pulled a rock out of her pack flipping it around in the air. A smirk on her red lips.

"What are you two ladies talking about?" Katsu asked confused.

Kira stopped the bartender lady. "Can I get a water real quick?" She nodded going off to give her other customers their beverages.

"Boys, as much fun as this has been...we need to turn you in," Kira said, smiling happily.

"For what? being too sexy?"

Roxie rolled her eyes at Jiro aggravated that he wouldn't take this seriously. But then again, they never did at first.

"For robbing that bank you bastard."

His expression went sour. 'Shit, why didn't I notice earlier? Roxie has the Fairy Tail guild mark. I wasn't paying attention before but I can see it now.' Jiro thought nervously. "So two chicks from Fairy Tail decide they can take us on? Please, why don't you two go home. You clearly aren't at our level."

Roxie's rage raised as she growled in anger. No one talks down to her. Chucking her rock as hard as she could she smiled gleefully seeing her rock hit it's target like usual. It was almost funny how accurate and strong she was, with or without magic.

Jiro's cry of pain shocked the entire bar. The small clatter of his teeth fell on the ground, blood spilled freely from his face.

"Serves you right for treating us like weaklings," Kira said letting out a 'hmph' sound and crossing her arms in the process.

Katsu let out a cry of shock after Jiro fell. "You bitch! I'll..." He didn't finish. Shooting her hand forward, he began gasping for air, clutching at his throat as a ball of water formed around his head.

"Don't you call my best friend a bitch, you pathetic bastard!" Kira snapped at him.

Roxie started to pelt the two with rocks as the waitress came back. She looked shocked and slightly frightened.

"Oh is that my water?" Kira asked excitedly.

The young woman nodded her head hesitantly.

"T-they were a-annoying y-yes but I-is this n-necessary?"

Kira smiled and nodded letting the water wrapped around Katsu's head drop. He gasped for air, his lungs burned as he coughed up as much water as he could.

Gulping down the delicious liquid Kira felt more powerful than before. "Aw Jiro! You didn't get to have any fun! CARE FOR A DIP?!"

"Kira, you've done plenty. I've got this," Roxie promised, cracking her knuckles before pulling her arm back.

"ROCK DRAGON'S FIST!" she cried as she punched the already-terrified Jiro.

He went flying through the bar, crashing through the opposite wall after barely missing some startled bystanders. Katsu was cowering in fear, glancing between the girls worriedly, and Jiro could just barely be heard groaning on the ground outside.

Kira facepalmed. "That was a bit too much, Roxie."

Roxie just shrugged. "Oh well. We win." She practically skipped off to grab Jiro, who was now totally unconscious.

Kira shook her head as she grabbed Katsu.

"Ugh, no fair! They cut our reward almost in half!" Roxie complained loudly on the way home.

"You broke their bar!" Lexi shrieked. She had been one of the previously mentioned 'startled bystanders,' and had narrowly avoided getting hit.

"I didn't break the bar! The bar itself was intact. I broke their wall."

"Does that make much of a difference?" Pebbles asked.

Kira sighed. "Whatever, at least they still paid us after what you did."

"You know you wanted to do it too. They were irritating."Kira shrugged knowing well enough that Roxie was right. They were annoying.

"Just wait 'til we tell Laxus what you did," Pebbles giggled.

Roxie froze. "You wouldn't dare..."

Pebbles shrugged. "Maybe I would, you don't know."

The rock dragon slayer's eyes flashed with anger. "You better not!"

The little flying cat just laughed harder, floating off ahead.

"Pebbles!"

Soon, Roxie was chasing Pebbles up the road, leaving Kira and Lexi in the dust. The water dragon slayer and her cat shared a look of exasperation.

"If it wasn't so widely known that we were all friends, I would pretend I didn't know them at all," Lexi sighed, though she was fighting a smile.

Kira snorted, a fond smile on her own face. "You have to admit, it wouldn't be nearly as much fun without them though."

"True."

After another look, Kira and Lexi took off after Roxie and Pebbles.