Two days passed, as both worlds seemed to recover from what had happened to them. The magic council was in a shambles in Earthland, but was recovering with whatever Masahiko was doing.
Jamie refused to give Angelica another chance. He made sure she was sent to Masahiko, and that her cuffs would never be removed. Master Jamie did her best to convince Zero to stay, and hoped that the boy would stay. As the new members seemed to settle into the guild, Jamie had to face the truth.
They needed a bigger guild hall. With all the members staying there, they needed more bedrooms, as well as a bigger faculty to hold them all in. She had a lot of memories in this building, and didn't want to see it completely gone. So Jamie spent a fair amount of time planning an expansion of the hall, while maintaining the current building. Adding another story to make three stories, as well as expanding outwould should be enough, but it would mean landscaping more, to maintain their training grounds, and it would be costly. Still, Phoenix Wing could well afford it, and Jamie knew it was needed.
He tried not to worry so much on where Jarvis and the other members, those thaat hadn't returned from the magic council but where in Edolas still, and what they were doing. If they were okay. It would do no good, and Yet, Jamie couldn't help but think on them.
She tried to make the new members feel welcome, but soon recognised that she would have to let them take jobs shorthly, no matter the fact that several members were missing. It would mean updating the board again, to allow a continious supply of jobs to be available.
Despite all this, life continued.
In Edolas, there was a lot of talk on the possibility of moving to Earthland. Liana claimed the throne with the aid of Phoenix Wing, and was already beginning to make changes in Edolas. those effected by the battle, as well as those effected by the over throw and murder of her parents many years before, were compensated, and Liana would continue to ensure that all their needs were met as time went on. She openly opposed the movement of t hose willing to go to Earthland, and many listened to her, as her popularity rose with her kind nature.
She allowed the castle to become an open, friendly and inviting place, as it slowly began its transformation from dark and dreary to bright and friendly. It would time time, many months, but Liana knew it would be worth it. She invited nobles, commoners and all those in between to come to the castle, and hand picked a team of advisers, and council members based on votes. And she gave the people a rebate, opening the castles holds and returning a large amount of money from heavy taxes that the false king and queen had imposed on the people.
Edolas already began to prosper under her control.
And yet, still people were willing to go to Earthland, a small amount to be sure, but still it was disheartening for Liana. She didn't know what she could do to stop it, or even if she should, but she knew no good could come of it.
For the Earthlander Phoenix Wing members, they were welcome with open arms in Edolas Phoenix Wing for as long as they needed, for as long as they had to stay in Edolas.
Sasha had remembered their true task in coming here, and with Jarvis, had started to search for any word on Wes, but so far, they came to nothing.
Sasha
Sasha could currently be found sitting outside the Edolas guild hall, holding the book that had started all of this. She traced the Fairy Tail guild mark on the cover, frowning slightly. Her blood had gotten on the book, but no trace of that blood could be found as she now examined its cover, and its pages. It didn't make sense to her, and she looked up suddenly at the sound of footsteps, quickly glancing away when she saw it was Edo Ben. The quick flash of pain in her heart was now familiar, but she still couldn't look at Edo-Ben without remembering the day she ahd lost him.
The boy crouched, looking at the book too.
"Fairy Tail. Mother use to tell me stories about Fairy Tail, about its members. I don't know how she knew about them, but she said that 100 years ago, something bad happened, which destroyed the guild system and left Fairy Tail in shambles, broken and split. She said her Grandfather was there, and that's how she knew these things. When I was a young, younger then I am now, like a little kid, I use to dream that that meant we were related to Fairy Tail members, just to be able to say how awesome it was." The boy smiled at the old dream, and Sasha frowned again.
After a time, Edo-Ben hurried off to finish his chores, leaving Sasha staring at the book,, puzzled.
She knew Penny, and the others were around, and wondered if they were thinking like she was, that maybe they would never return home. She sighed, and rose.
