September Catch All + Fairy Tail Guild Invasion by DW cast & OTA

[bigbadrose]

[September will find Rose increasingly more and more scarce, until she almost all but disappears until the second week of October. She went from attending as many of the 12th Doctor's lectures, and even hanging around the campus of Attleton University testing products ostensibly; but after the first week of September, she pretty much disappears for a bit. No sign of her on the network, and even around the TARDIS, or her usual haunts, she's hard to nab. Even for someone like Captain Jack Harkness who spent a good portion of a century tracking her and has a good bond link to make sure she's safe will find Rose a bit scarcer than usual. 3 years of acting like a ghost has made it a lot easier for her to be invisible in a crowd if she wants.]

[Whatever appearances in public appear to be marketing and testing related, survey, and throwing things literally into fountains or against walls or collecting data.]

[But finally she makes a small appearance on the network!]

First round of drinks is on Mirajane. All of the Doctors are required to make a presence or I'll make life hell for ya, more'n usual, yeah? [Tongue out to the side.] River, Martha, Jack, Gwen, Demyx, Koishi, Satori, Belle, Rory, Amy, and apologies to anyone I forgot. [Laughs.] You can make excuses, but I'm draggin' ya all out for at least one drink. Be there! Everything after the first drink you're on your own.

But since I'm officially quittin' after this crazy last month, I might be able to spot ya. Some.

[Grins.]

[And locked to Demyx:] First mission, find us a suitable tower. Nova city. Price is negotiable. Capacity for modifications is not.


[And indeed anyone hitting up the Fairy Tail Guild during the first round of drinks on Rose / Mirajane can probably sneak in a free drink by saying they're friends with Rose Tyler. Just might want to make sure you actually know who that is if pressed.]

[OTA Action: MINGLE]

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Action [Closed to Zeref]

[fairysoul]

Mavis opened her eyes, reluctantly. Why did it suddenly feel like a large group of wide animals had invaded the first floor of Fairy Haven? She could hear screams and glasses clinking... It didn't take long for Mavis to put two and two together: Mirajane's friends had just crashed the guild hall and were having a party. She smiled. It felt just like home.

Something was different from home, though. It was the sleepy head on her shoulder. Zeref looked so peaceful right then, his eyes closed, one of his hand still clutching the book they'd been reading together before they fell asleep. His other hand was loosely wrapped around Mavis' waist. Mavis' smile turned softer. Yes, this was different from home: it was better.

Action [Closed to Zeref]

[deathsought]

{ Zeref had always been a light sleeper. When you spend as much time as he did alone in the wilderness, sleeping against trees in a world full of monsters, dark guilds, and thieves, it was inevitable that your body would learn to survive (for a given value of the term, to an immortal) on as little sleep as possible. But with Mavis, he could sleep as long as he did on the weekends at the Mildian Magical Academy, after pulling an all-nighter. In the back of his mind, he was hearing the cacophonous noise downstairs, but he was tuning it out. He could have stayed like this on Mavis until the morning.

When Mavis began shifting though, he began hearing the noise more clearly. Screaming? Laughter? High pitched voices shouting at each other? }

Mavis, tell Invel to shut them up.

{ Zeref murmured, face buried in Mavis' ridiculously long hair, that wing on the side of her head covering his eyes. Brandish and Dimaria fighting at this time of night? So not in the mood. Especially not when he's trying to spend some time alone with Mavis. }

[fairysoul]

When Zeref started mumbling sleepily, his voice muffled by her hair, she couldn't help but chuckle softly, her hand caressing his hair gently.

At first, she couldn't quite make out what he was saying and then, she heard a name: Invel. Mavis blinked. Invel? ...As in Invel Yura, the member of the Spriggan twelve?

What could have Zeref been dreaming about?

Mavis, tell Invel to shut them up.

Was he dreaming that Invel was in Genessia? Or was it the opposite? Could he be dreaming that... they were in Alvarez, together? Mavis' lips curled into a smile, her big green eyes gleaming with emotion.

She kissed his temple softly.

"I could, but it would mean I need to get up. And I don't really want to right now."

[deathsought]

{ Indeed he was. It was something he'd often wondered, back in his world; what would have happened had Mavis not 'died' that night? She had seemed interested in seeing Alvarez. Would she have stayed? Would she have become the Empress the citizens of the Empire would sometimes clamor for? What about the rest of Fairy Tail? Would they have come with her, or would Mavis have left them behind? Those thoughts, what could have been, kept him up at night... but provided him with no shortage of pleasant dreams when he finally did manage to fall asleep.

That kiss caused his eyelids to flutter open, rapidly blinking as he realized he'd fallen asleep. The book they were reading finally dropped from his hand, as his eyes locked onto Mavis' face, a smile spreading across his own features. He didn't get up. He didn't want to; and not just because he really had no desire to join the pandemonium going on downstairs. }

Your guild is misbehaving.

{ Ironic, given what he was just dreaming about. He closes his eyes again, leaning more into her shoulder, almost to her neck. He doesn't say anything else. Unless someone starts a fire, he's not getting up without a fight. }

[fairysoul]

She let the book fall, not wanting to move too much or to let go of the young man cuddling in her arms. Cuddly Zeref. That sounded like an oxymoron. And yet, here he was. And, to Mavis, it felt like the most natural thing in the world. Same thing for the genuinely happy smiles that formed on their faces whenever they looked at each other.

"Is it still called misbehaving if it's their normal behavior?" The blonde guild master asked mischievously.

[deathsought]

"'Normal?'" Zeref asked, making a noise that was somewhere between a sigh and a yawn. He didn't want to get up, but he knew that with a party like that going on downstairs, it was only a matter of time before Mavis was going to want to get up and make sure nobody was about to burn the place down or something, and he'd pretty much have to go with her. Until that point, he wanted to stay like this with her for as long as he possible could.

"This is why I've never joined a guild." At least as Emperor, he doesn't have to allow anyone to bother him if he doesn't want to. August dealt with the Spriggan Twelve, Yajeel with the politics, and Invel with the military. That's why he's able to get away with leaving the Empire for years at a time, often without warning. "I don't know how you and Makarov stand it."

[fairysoul]

"Why, yes." She chuckles softly. On one hand, it's true: she's curious to go downstair and see what's going. On the other hand, it's comfortable, cuddling with Zeref like that and she didn't want to break the moment just then.

"Oh? So that's the reason?" She teased him. She lays a soft kiss on top of his head this time. "I guess we're both crazy enough to deal with it without seeing it as an annoyance." And, at least in Makarov's case, drinking alcohol along with your guildmates helps with that too.

[deathsought]

"Oh, believe me, I hate politics." It was true, and that wasn't just the Curse talking. The only times he ever became directly involved in Alvarez' politics were during times or war, or some major crisis that needed nothing less than the Emperor himself to sort it out, like when certain members of the Spriggan Twelve decided they were done waiting for him to give his blessing to invade Ishgal. It wasn't love for the people in his organization that caused him to tolerate as much as he did. It was necessity.

"Being Emperor came with a whole host of annoyances, but it needed to be done. I needed a way to counterbalance Acnologia. Though all too often, it's like herding cats."

[fairysoul]

Mavis believed him, though she found it surprising nonetheless. He was so good at what he did. Despite the war between Alvarez and Ishgar, they was no denying he had done a lot of good for his country. 'Spriggan' was not just a leader in title. Mavis admired him for that.

"If I had known that, maybe I would have tried to become Empress too. Still... that doesn't tell me why you would never join a mage guild. Or is just because you don't like parties and drinks?"

[deathsought]

Zeref sighed. He knew where this was going. He had been living here for all of this time, after all, and while Erza and Mirajane may or may not like having him here, they'd clearly accepted it as being their First Master's decision, and that it made her happy to have him here. "Even if I wanted to, Mavis, no guild would have me. It would ruin their reputation at best, and at worse would have the Magic Council declare them a Dark Guild for harboring the Black Wizard." And he'd never join a Dark Guild. Grimoire Heart were scum, and Tartaros may have been acting as his pawns, but he would never actually want to join them directly.

"Besides. What Fairy Tail has... the camaraderie, the family-like atmosphere. That was never meant for me." He leaned in to kiss her cheek again, his hand closing around hers. "This is the most I could have ever asked for."