Happy (Fairy Tail)

Happy is a male anime and manga character who features in Fairy Tail.

Biography

The Exceed Happy.

Happy (Japanese: ハッピー, Hepburn: Happī) was a male member of the Exceed from the other world of Edolas. He was born the child of Lucky (ラッキー Rakkī) and Marl (マール Māru) where as an egg he was taken from his parents under orders from Queen Shagotte (シャゴット Shagotto). Officially, he was taken to taken part in the Dragon Slayer assassination plan where he was to be sent to the Earthlands. In reality, Happy and the other Exceed eggs were sent to the Earthlands to escape a prophesised disaster that would affect Edolas.

In X778, Natsu found Happy's egg in the East Forest of Magnolia Town. Natsu then took it back to the guild where he and Lisanna raised it together every day. One night, Elfman took it to keep it warm and the next day when he brought it back, it began to hatch and out popped a kitten with a pair of wings. Happy's first word was 'Aye'. Natsu gave him the name 'Happy' after Lisanna pointed out the change of the atmosphere from anger to happiness after Happy hatched from the egg. Despite everyone else seeing him as a cat, Natsu thought he was a Dragon.

Happy arrives in Hargeon Town with Natsu Dragneel, who is suffering from immense motion sickness. After dealing with Natsu's motion sickness, the two find the man named Salamander, who is actually Bora of Prominence. Whilst there, they came to meet Lucy Heartfilia who was a traveling Mage who pays for their meal as thanks for freeing her from an illegal Charm Magic Bora was using. After finding out that Bora claims to be the Salamander from Fairy Tail, Natsu and Happy leave for the harbor to rescue Lucy and to stop Bora from ruining Fairy Tail's reputation. As Natsu deals with Bora, Happy escapes with Lucy, but he soon runs out of Magic and both plummet into the ocean. Lucy summons her Celestial Spirit, Aquarius, to blast Bora's slave ship back to the shore, after finding her lost Gate Keys. Natsu defeats Bora, and the group escapes after being discovered by the Rune Knights. Once they arrive at Fairy Tail, Lucy joins the guild. Then, Happy accompanies Natsu to rescue Macao Conbolt, as he has failed to come back from his mission on Mt. Hakobe. Lucy joins them much to Happy's confusion. At the mountain, Natsu and Lucy begin to argue but are interrupted when a Vulcan kidnaps Lucy. Natsu arrives to rescue Lucy but he is thrown down a cliff. However, Happy saves him and watches as Natsu battles and defeats the Vulcan, who turns back into Macao. Later, Macao and the team nearly fall from a cliff again but are saved by Taurus, one of Lucy's Celestial Spirits. After taking care of Macao's injuries, the team heads home, where Macao is finally reunited with his son, Romeo.

When Lucy finally finds herself a place to stay, Natsu and Happy pay their very first unannounced visit. After Lucy explains all about Celestial Spirits and shows them how she makes a contract with a spirit, Plue, Natsu and Happy trick Lucy into forming a team with them to destroy the book, Daybreak, in Shirotsume Town. When they get to Shirotsume Town and meet the client, Kaby Melon, they find out that the reward is no longer 200,000 but 2,000,000 Jewels. After Lucy's failed attempt to infiltrate the mansion as a maid, they break into the mansion, quickly defeating the maids, and find their way into the library, where Natsu finds the Daybreak book. Everlue soon arrives and summons the Vanish Brothers to eliminate the Mages. Lucy realizes that there is some secret inside the book and tells them to stall the enemies while she reads it. Everlue goes after her leaving the Vanish Brothers to deal with Natsu and Happy but Natsu tells Happy to go after Lucy as he will take care of them himself. Happy arrives to see Everlue binding Lucy and slams Everlue's face with his feet to free her. He then watches as Lucy battles with Everlue and listens as she explains some parts of the secret of the book. Lucy summons her Celestial Spirit, Cancer, Happy is overjoyed and thinks that Cancer is going to say kani (crab) at the end of his sentences but ends up disappointed as he says ebi (shrimp) instead, to the point of asking Lucy to de-summon him. Then, Everlue reveals himself to be a Celestial Spirit Mage as well and summons Virgo, who comes along with Natsu. With their combined forces, the team is able to defeat Everlue and Virgo. The team then heads back to their client's house where Lucy reveals the secrets of the book. They refuse to take any reward and Natsu figures out that their client is not rich and so the team returns home to Fairy Tail. As the team heads home, Happy and Natsu realize that Lucy is writing her own novel and begin teasing her about it.

As Happy, Natsu and Lucy talk about Dark Guilds with Mirajane Strauss, Erza Scarlet returns from her mission, bringing the horn of a Demon she subdued as a souvenir and indirectly causing Natsu to act like Happy. Erza has been looking for Gray and Natsu and asks them for help when she finds them, much to everyone's surprise since Erza is considered the strongest female Mage in Fairy Tail. The next day at the train station, Gray and Natsu are bickering as usual, and Happy tags along. Lucy introduces herself to Erza and explains that Mirajane wanted her to tag along. Natsu then tells Erza that he will only accompany her if she promises to battle him when they return, to which she agrees. Whilst on the train to their destination, Erza explains that she had overheard something about a sealed Magic called Lullaby and the involvement of a powerful Mage named Erigor. Erigor is part of a Dark Guild called Eisenwald and considering the illegal nature of such a guild, Erza says she plans to march right into the guild and find out what it is up to. Unfortunately, in the process of her elucidation she and the others accidentally leave a motion sick Natsu on the train upon exiting. Happy helps stop the train by pulling down an emergency stop signal lever at the directive of Erza and goes to follow the train. After they are reunited with Natsu, they learn that Natsu had a confrontation in the train with a member of Eisenwald, Kageyama, who also had a strange kind of flute. Lucy then pipes in at this moment, saying that she had only heard about it in books, but that it might be the 'Death Lullaby' flute.

Eisenwald came to take over the Oshibana train station and the group forces their way in quickly, encountering Eisenwald and fighting them. Erigor, however, has other plans and flees the scene with Gray and Natsu in his pursuit. Erza and Lucy are left behind to fight the rest of the members with Happy accompanying them. Erza, however, defeats all of them by herself but one of them escapes and Lucy and Happy are tasked to go after him. When Lucy and Happy lose track of the Eisenwald member, Lucy says they should just return to Erza but such a scary prospect is feared by Happy, since Erza had told them to 'go after him' forcing the two to continue. The two reconvene with the others just as Kageyama is stabbed by Karacka, a member of his own guild. Unable to figure out how to escape from the air barrier surrounding the train station which Erigor had cast to trap them in, Happy abruptly reveals that Everlue's Celestial Spirit Virgo had given him her key to give to Lucy. Using Virgo's diver Magic, they escape the train station. Happy helps Natsu catch up to Erigor on a rail bridge by using his maximum speed, but this wears him out. During the fight, Natsu gets enraged by his inability to hit through Erigor's Storm Mail, and Happy notices that Natsu's increased fury affects the temperature of his fire which in turn causes Erigor's wind to flow towards him. So to further nullify Erigor's wind, Happy makes Natsu angrier by saying that he should just leave it to Gray. This infuriates Natsu enough to enable him to destroy Erigor's wind and defeat him. Erza and company, alongside an injured Kageyama, arrive but Kageyama suddenly made a break for it with the flute to Clover Town where the Guild Masters are having a meeting, planning to kill them. Chasing after him, they arrive and see Kageyama with Makarov and are about to go to him when they are stopped by guild masters Bob and Goldmine. They see that Makarov has persuaded Kageyama not to use Lullaby's Magic. However, the flute itself starts to talk and transforms into a Demon. Everyone panics but Gray, Erza and Natsu fight the Demon and manage to defeat it, destroying the Guild Masters' Meeting Building in the process, causing the team and Makarov to make a hasty exit. During Erza and Natsu's promised battle, Happy rescinds his bet on Natsu's victory to Erza's after she pulls out her Flame Empress Armor. However, the conclusion of their fight is not seen as Erza is arrested by the Magic Council for property damage, among other crimes. However, they were both set free the next day.

After Natsu and Erza's return to the guild, Happy steals an S-Class request poster so that he, Natsu and Lucy can complete it. Lucy refuses at first, telling them to leave, until she notices that the reward includes an Ecliptic Zodiac Key and runs after them. However, Gray chases after them at the Master's orders and catches up to them in Hargeon town. Mentioning Erza's wrath at disobeying the rules, Happy tries to make it sound like Natsu and Lucy forced him to steal the request poster. One of the sailors that had refused to sail them to the cursed Galuna Island reverses his rejection when he notices Gray and Natsu fighting with their Magic. Natsu knocks out Gray while he is distracted and drags him onto the boat. After setting sail, the sailor vanishes and although Happy checks to see if he fell into the water, he is nowhere to be found. All that is rendered irrelevant when a large wave hits their boat and washes them ashore onto Galuna Island. Gray then agrees to help and so they go towards the island's village and meet its mayor, Moka, who asks them to destroy the moon. After deciding that such a task is impossible, the Fairy Tail Mages instead investigate the island's forest and get attacked by a gigantic mouse which they defeat, and in the process they locate an abandoned old temple. Natsu, commenting on the decayed floor, begins to slam it with his foot causing it to crumble and hurtle them downwards into a cavern, also making Happy almost swallow a bone he found. Lucy saves him from choking by pulling it out of his throat. In this cavern they discover the frozen Demon Deliora along with three Mages: Sherry Blendy, Yuka Suzuki and Toby. Gray explains to the others what Deliora is: an immortal Demon that destroyed the Land of Isvan 10 years ago, and that it was sealed by his teacher, Ur, at the risk of her life. The group decides to wait for the moon to come out for them to see its involvement with the frozen Demon. Lucy brings out her Celestial Spirit Lyra to pass the time. Happy wants her to sing a fish song but Lucy tells Lyra to sing anything that she likes. When night arrives, they discover that the moonlight is hitting the Demon via the ritual Moon Drip which would melt the ice. As the team was hiding, Reitei Lyon, Sherry, Yuka and Toby arrive. Reitei Lyon inquires about the Moon Drip ritual and orders the other three to obliterate the village. Enraged by the order given by Reitei Lyon, Natsu jumps out from hiding and attacks alongside Gray. Natsu is frozen, and Gray tells Happy to escape with Lucy which he reluctantly does.

The two arrive back at the village and inform the villagers about the oncoming danger and that it would be a good opportunity to catch them. Happy points out that the three are probably Mages, and although they outnumber them, Mages are difficult to deal with. Lucy, however, thinks of a plan. Lucy summoned Virgo to make the preparations for her plan: set a hidden hole in front of the village gate for them to fall in. Happy declares her stupid, saying that it won't work on anyone, although it works on Natsu. To their surprise, the Mages come by air and try to smother the village in a cascade of poison. Happy flied Natsu up into the air to prevent this, with Natsu using his Fire Dragon's Brilliant Flame to scatter the poison away from the villagers. After their plan failed, the three Mages decide to confront their enemies from the ground. As the Mages prepare to fight, the villagers leave the village, carrying the unconscious Gray. Sherry and Angelica go after them, but Lucy accidentally catches onto Angelica's claw and after tickling the mouse to stop, they end up crashing into the forest. Happy goes to make sure she is okay while Natsu deals with Yuka and Toby. He finds her safe after defeating Sherry but also comes across a not too pleased Erza. His attempt to escape is ruined by Erza who easily captures him, saying that they have betrayed the Master and the rules, and that they are not going to get away with it.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Happy was a small blue Exceed with a white stomach who had a rectangular head, with pink ears, big black eyes with small, thin eyebrows, and light blue cheek marks near to his tiny pair of whiskers. He had a triangular nose that leads to semi-round upper lips on the sides with his body being rectangular as well. As an Exceed, he was able to walk upright unlike normal cats and despite having no thumbs allowing him to be able to hold things.

Given that he has been around Natsu Dragneel since his own birth, Happy often emulates Natsu in his actions and responses

He was very loyal to his teammates and fellow guild members and had a fairly significant amount of knowledge of the Magic world.

Happy was known for his loves fish more than anything else.

He holds a respect and admiration to Exceed like himself and drools on Loke's shoulder when he finds out that Loke is the celestial spirit of Leo the Lion.

Happy has also developed a strong affection towards Carla, another Exceed who at first blows him off, but then begins to like and respect him.

Powers and abilities

He possessed an Aera (翼エーラ Ēra) allowing him to sprout angelic wings that gave him the power of flight. He was also able to carry objects or one person at a time for a specific amount of time.

One technique he had developed was Max Speed (スピード Makkusu Supīdo) whereby he utilized a considerable amount of Magic Power to fly as fast as he can. This speed can be used to dodge incoming attacks or to attack the enemy. A disadvantage of this technique would be a rapid loss of Magic Power, in relation to how long Happy uses this technique. While using Max Speed, Happy flies as fast as he can, and then strikes the opponent with his own Headbutt. This attack is powerful enough to destroy a Thunder Palace Lacrima, which was about twice the size of Happy.

Notes

• Happy was created by Hiro Mashima where he featured in the setting of the Fairy Tail universe.

Appearances

• Fairy Tail:

External Links

• Fairy Tail Wiki Entry

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