#i know that like... the guilds for women in the animation field across the country let men in
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I decided to put up the first chapter. If you haven’t started reading my story yet, but you like this follow the link. I have ten chapters finished and uploaded and the eleventh will be out soon.
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Anime/Manga/ Fairy Tail
Some Things Shouldn't Open
Author: Purplephilosophervoid
Rated: M - English - Adventure/RomanceÂ
 Published: 11-19-17 - Updated: 12-01-17
If any of you have seen the show RWBY you will recognize that one of my characters magic and personality is slightly based off of Nora. I used her as a base then changed and added to complete the kinda OC character. So while this story takes place in Earthland and all characters from Fairy Tail are owned by Hiro Mashima who gets a huge shout out for creating such a wonderful world. I would also like to give a shout out to Monty Oum who created RWBY and owns Nora, and with out that little ball of sunshine Ivy would never have been thought born or this story made.
Chapter 1
At 6pm the guild hall was already filling up with people. Fortunately a path always formed for the iron dragon slayer when it came to crowds. Physical contact with most people just made his skin crawl. If people didn't see him quick enough a deep growl alongside a glare usually cleared that up. This allowed him to get to his table in the back corner of the hall as quickly as possible. Although the peace he found being in his seat and locating a certain blue haired dream was soon interrupted.
"Hey Gajeel, I'm glad you came in today!" Mira's chipper voice cut through the noise, as she made a beeline to the dragon slayers table. "I just received a job that requests you by name." A thick envelope was placed on the table along with a beer he had yet to order. "Let me know if you want to take it as soon as you can." Then just as quickly as she had appeared she was gone, either to get someone a new drink or to clean up a mess.
Gajeel made no move to pick up the envelope or the beer. Only tapping his fingers and glaring at the objects, as if they could blow up at any second.
"Are you going to read it, or try to keep intimidating the paper?" Lily asked.
"I feel like I'm already being bribed," he muttered with another glare at the cold beer, "but I'd rather face an envelope then a pissed off Mira." Quickly tearing open the envelope to study the contents, and almost immediately laughing. "Gihihi, it's from that egg-head Jura. Looks like they need a hand trying to solve a case involving Zeref worshipers, and because of my amazing arrest record they would like my assistance."
"I swear I can see your head expanding."
"Shut up." A pout forming on the dragon slayers face.
Lily reached over and snatched the papers away. "Your pride is not that easily wounded." He said with a sigh. "It looks like they don't have much information. They caught one of the worshipers when a group of them tried to attack a woman in Shirotsume. The man only talked about the rise of… Mors, Mars? I hate smudged ink. The women stated that they kept asking her about her hammer."
"Her hammer, are you sure you're reading that right?"
"Yes, they didn't believe it was just a rock hammer she uses when she goes hiking. I guess she studies rocks. The arresting officers found a piece of paper on the man written in some sort of code. They have provided an enclosed copy." Lily read while pulling out the indicated page. "We are probably going to need to ask Levy's help with this. It also says that if we decide to accept, and are successful all those who help will be compensated." Lily looked over to Gajeel with a smug grin. "I think this would be a great job to take, and it could help you get closer to Levy again."
"Watch it! You don't know who could hear you." His head immediately whipped around to see if anyone had heard. "Levy's back with her team, I doubt she would want to help us with this." His eyes locked on to the small bluenette, as if he already knew where she was and had been watching her, which he had.
Lily could only look at the dragon slayer with pity for a moment. "You're an idiot."
As the slayers head turned to rebuff the cat he realized too late that Lily had already taken to the air. "Lily, what are..?"
"Levy, we need to talk to you about a job!" Lily shouted as he flew over to the girl and landed into her open arms.
"Well hello to you to Lily." Levy giggled as she cuddled the Exceed. "I would love to go on a job with you guys!"
"I haven't even told you the details." Lily couldn't help but smirk.
Levy's face immediately colored "Well..well I trust you enough to know you wouldn't invite me unless you think it's something I would have interest in." Yes, Levy thought to herself, it's just the job I'm interested in. I haven't been almost brought to tears with how much I miss them. I mean that would be stupid, if they don't miss me why should I miss them. Levy being completely lost in her own head as she walked across the guild hall didn't hear a thing Lily was saying. It wasn't till her forehead got slapped with a paw that she realized she was almost to their table.
"I'm going to assume you missed everything I just said about the job, so I'm going to start over. Please pay attention this time."
"I'm so sorry Lily, I'm paying attention now." She quickly took a seat at the table with a shy smile to Gajeel, than focused on the Exceed.
As soon as Lily explained the job again she snatched up the coded page, mentioned the Library, and was gone.
"I'm going to tell Mira we're taking this job and that Levy is helping us, and you are going to help Levy in the Library. Who knows how many books she's going to need to grab. Don't you dare refuse; you need to talk to her and fix whatever happened between you two," the glare given with those words demanded no objections, "and you better be gone by the time I'm done talking to Mira."
"Fine, fine damn cat I'm going."
Lily let out a long sigh, "That idiot is going to be alone and heartbroken if I don't help him out." With one last withering glance in the direction the slayer had went the Exceed flew over to where he could see Mira behind the bar.
Water exploded in all directions as Ivy's large combat boots hit the puddle she had jumped into. She wasn't worried about getting dirty the thunder storm had completely soaked her already, and mud was never a big deal.
In Ivy's mind, rain was the best weather. Everyone else hated it, which meant that they stayed inside and she could be as weird as she wanted. Which happened to included jumping in puddles, dancing all over the place, and sing obnoxiously loud and out of tune with songs on her new water proof sound pods.
If she really thought about it if there had been other people on this country road she could have asked where she was headed. Getting lost wasn't new she had been wondering Fiore for the past five years. It was just annoying when she would leave a town take a few different turns and end up right back where she had left a week later. Not really a problem, she had nowhere to be, just frustrating.
Ivy suddenly froze; she had seen movement to her right just past the line of the trees. To her left was a vast open field full of wild flowers. Slowly turning in a circle putting her back to the field she had just checked to be empty, and clicking the pause button on her pods she moved into a fighting stance. Four men stepped from the trees each holding a knife. Ivy's hand went to her right hip unhooking her hammer from its holster, while her other hand slipped her pack off her shoulder letting it drop to the ground. Good thing that's water proof.
The second man to the right stepped forward. "Now if you had just kept dancing around and not noticed anything we could've taken you down quick, maybe even knocked you out before the fun really started." The sweeping eyes and licking of lips that followed the man's words sent the urge to gag to Ivy's throat.
It had been awhile since she had been threatened in such a way. At 6'1 with a muscular build most men didn't even take a second look, but she guessed the baggy clothes also helped with that. Right now the rain had revealed her figure.
"Okay, just so we're clear if you proceed to attack me I will kill or maim you."
The men immediately broke into laughter, to only have it die as quickly as it started as they saw the look of dead calm pass over the young women's face and her eyes seem to lose all life.
Noticing the men's sudden hesitation the one who spoke first decided to goad them on. "Oi, you bastards aren't afraid of a single girl are ya!?" With renewed confidence the men surged forward hoping to overwhelm her.
They never stood a chance. As soon as they began to step forward her hammer began to glow bright neon blue. By the time any of the men had taken three steps she was no longer holding a small hammer in one hand, it was now slightly taller than she was with a head two feet long, and about a foot wide at the flat end. The other end was slightly curved to a sharp point.
Grasping the long handle she easily dodged the first knife blade, and as if she had never stopped dancing she spun bringing the hammer around with her. The loud cracks of bones shattering could be heard over the thunder. In less than five minutes the four men were laying in the mud either dead or bleeding to death from internal damage.
Shrinking the hammer down she watched as mud, blood, and rain rolled off the metal, nothing could stick to it.
"Please…" A pained gasp called to her from the ground as she retrieved her pack. "Please don't leave me like this." One of the men was still alive.
"I did warn you, and if you had won this fight I know you would have left me naked in the mud. At least I'm leaving your clothes on." Without a backwards glance she hit the play button, and continued down road.
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#i know that like... the guilds for women in the animation field across the country let men in#for mentorship and allyship related thinds#things**#but letting male students and entry level people into events is seriously fucked up in my opinion#like overall the industry is 75% male#and the parts of the animation field that im really trained in (even tho i work teaching 2D now) are technical and procedural CG animation#which if you look into is upwards from 80% male at most studios with places like p*xar and other more tech heavy studios having their#enviornment and shading and lighting artists and their simulation artists both for effects and character grooming and fabric around 90% malr#male****#like watch closely next time u see movie credits... a majority of women are working as animators (so posing and acting with the characters)#or as story artists in the field#but when you get down to the look dev and technical related stuff you're even surprised to see one woman in a WHOLE TEAM#very few women work in simulation/modelling/rigging or anything technical..............................and ive been looked down on#and had ppl try and take advantage of me already and i've only been out of college for a year now#like... i know that i've gotten advice from men in the industry for my shading work and my procedural materials (and tons of compliments!!#one dude who was at ilm and apple was impressed by my shaders nd i wanted to cry bc star wars omg!!!!)#and those men who want to help even out the HELL in the animation industry totally belong at the womens events#but some entry level asshole is just taking our resources#that they don't even fucking need when almost 90% of my field in animation is MALE ALREADY ALMOST NINETY PERCENT!!!!!#like one of my friends works on renderman in systems development and ik she hates this too so LOL#men don't need help getting into an industry that already overwhelmingly caters to them#personal#(like im going back to school to focus in even more onto the technical shit..................so rip in peace me#cause im more of an enviornment generalist rn.......(how'd i get a job teaching 2d to smol children it's a mystery)#cause my portfolio consists of like... set modelling/rigging for minor animations in bgs/textures/shaders/and uv wraps for set work#but for grad school i looked into like the only 3 programs in the US that will train me on more procedural set building and procedural#shaders and more of the physics and programing based simulation stuff#....................but im gonna continue being the only girl in classes of 15 students which is hell on earth)
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