Chapter 1


Lucy's POV

I walked along the wall of the river that ran from my house to the guild hall being careful not to fall as the men in the boat had warned me of many times, including a few minutes ago.

I breathed in the air around me, it smelled sweet like flowers. The heat beat down, but a nice breeze blew along keeping me cool, making the weather perfect.

"It's such a nice day!" I beamed with my arms out to keep my balance.

After a few more minutes of walking the guild came into sight and I jumped off the edge of the river side and started to sprint to the guild doors. As soon as I got there I collected myself and calmly opened the doors to the guild.

"Hey Minna!" I called, as I walked in.

"Hey Lucy! Guess what! Bickslow and Lisanna are dating!" Mira yelled to me from across the guild hall.

At first I had shock writen on my face, then it turned to a warm smile.

"That's great!" I yelled back. It was then that I noticed the new couple sitting at the bar together talking.

Hey Luce!" Natsu called with his signature grin as he walked up to me.

"Hey Natsu!" I returned with a light smile.

"You wanna take a job?" Natsu asked with a raised brow.

"Sorry flame brain, Lucy's going on a job with me today." Gray butt in.

"Yeah sorry Natsu, Gray said he needed to talk to me and I promised we could take a job and talk about whatever it is during that mission, I can go on a job with you when I get back though. Would that be okay?" I said with puppy dog eyes.

"Yeah sure, just be careful! And don't forget to show ice princess up over there." Natsu said with a smirk.

"Shut it pyro!" Gray yelled getting in Natsu's face while glaring at him.

"What'd you say Ice Freak!?" Natsu yelled back getting in Gray's face and glaring at him.

'oh brother!' I thought as I sweat dropped.

"Come on Gray if we want to get to this job before one of the other guilds we need to hurry." I said as I pulled the Ice Make Wizard away from the Fire Dragon Slayer.

"Lucy, not now I was about to beat the crap out of Ash Breath over there!" Gray whined with an annoying voice.

A tick mark became visible on my forehead and a dark aura surrounded me as I gave a chilling glare at Gray.

"Or I could just do it later and I can go get ready now!" Gray said standing up on his own and running out of the guild.

"That's much better!" I sighed in relief, "okay by minna I should be back in two days!" I said before leaving the guild, oblivious to the fact that I would not be returning in two days.


No One's POV

Lucy closed the guild doors behind her and headed for home to pack a few things.

This time she didn't walk along the edge of the stream on her way back because she needed to get home quickly and was usually very cumbersome when trying to get home fast and keep her balance.

As she walked quickly it turned into a sprint which turned into full on running. She had never told anyone, but she loved to run (Well at least when she's NOT getting chased by something dangerous)!

After five minutes of running she found herself at her apartment doors only panting a little bit with two drops of sweat dripping down her forehead.

"Whoo, that felt really good!" Lucy said as she opened the door to her empty apartment.

"Let's see what should I bring?" Lucy went through her closet and picked out a couple of outfits. Her first outfit was a black skirt with black flats and a black and white tank top, and her second outfit consisted of a blue skirt with a pair of blue flats and a white crop top.

"Alright, this should be all I need," Lucy looked at the time and then ran out of her apartment realizing that if she didn't hurry Gray would be at the station before her.

As she ran she enjoyed the feeling of soft air hitting her face and throwing her hair around, making it so that the soft blonde locks would only touch her shoulders for only a few seconds before lifting off into the air only to fall back down again.

But Lucy started enjoying herself too much and closed her eyes causing her to crash into someone causing both of them to fall down.

"Oh I'm really sorry I wasn't watching where I was going and… I'm really sorry!" Lucy said sitting up and holding her head where it hit the ground.

"No, I'm sorry I wasn't watching what I was doing either!" The other person voiced.

Lucy looked up and saw that the owner of the voice was a man with light blue hair and a mask over his his face.

"Mystogan or Jellal?" Lucy questioned standing up and holding out a hand to help the blue haired mage stand up.

"It's me, Jellal." Jellal replied bending over and picking up five boxes that had fallen on the ground.

"Hey, is that strawberry cake? Are you and Erza planning on doing something today?" Lucy questioned.

"Well, we are kinda sorta having dinner tonight." Jellal said with a blush, but Lucy couldn't see because of his mask.

"I knew it! Well you two have fun I have to get going!" Lucy yelled running past Jellal and waving back.

"Thanks Lucy!" Jellal called back before walking off with the boxes of cake.

'Awww! Finally! It was wayyyy too obvious that those two like each other!' Lucy thought as she continued to run.

Once Lucy finally made it to the train station Gray was already waiting for her on a bench with the tickets in hand.

'Damn.' Lucy mentally shouted. 'I could have made it!'

"Hey Lucy!" Gray called over to Lucy with a wave.

"Hey Gray, when is the train lea…"

Lucy was interrupted by an announcement, "Now boarding train 205 to Dollston"

"Never mind." Lucy said as she joined Gray and they walked together to board the train.

As they were walking they got stuck behind an old couple and had to start walking really slow which began to irritate Gray.

Lucy could tell by the tick mark on Gray's pale forehead that he was annoyed and she let out a giggle before shaking her head and grabbing Gray's arm to pull him around the old couple so they could get in front of them.

"Thanks." Gray said continuing to walk.

"Sure! To be honest I was getting kind of annoyed by it too." Lucy admitted, and Gray chuckled at that while Lucy giggled.

When they finally got on the train most of the seats were taken except for two that were across from a blonde haired guy and a black haired guy.

Lucy quickly ran to the seats before anyone else could take them and sat down putting her hands next to her to save the seat for Gray as he slowly made his way over to her.

When Gray got there Lucy sat straight up and put her hands folded in her lap and looked across from her to see Sting and Rogue staring at her and Gray.

"Oh, hey Rogue and Sting what are you guys doing here?" Lucy asked with a smile.

"Hey blondie, well we got a job that's taking us to Dollston so we boarded the train in our town and it stopped at your town before taking us there." Sting replied for the both of them.

"Oh what a coincidence, our job is in Dollston too!" Lucy said with a happy and upbeat tone.

"Really? What are you guys supposed to do there?" Rogue asked.

"We don't really know the request just says that we need to go to the mansion at the top of the North mountain and everything would be explained when we get there." Gray replied.

"That's the exact same request we got!" Sting said raising a brow.

"I wonder why two different guilds got the same request?" Lucy said with a finger on her chin.

"Yes, it seems very strange too." Rogue threw out.

"I guess we'll just have to find out." Gray said sitting back and closing his eyes still waiting for the train to depart.

"Mmm." The three other people responded with a hum and a nod.

"So, how is Yukino?" Lucy questioned the dragon slayer duo.

"She's doing g…" Rogue started to respond but was stopped by the feeling of sickness in his stomach as the train started to move.

Rogue and Sting fell over clutching their stomachs.

Lucy let out a soft giggle.

"Something funny blondie?" Sting questioned.

"No, it's just you two look so much like Natsu! Anyway, I think I might have something in my bag for you two." Lucy said searching through her bag for a small bottle that she soon found and pulled out.

"Here, drink a little of this and you should feel better!" Lucy said handing the bottle to Rogue who drank it then handed the bottle to Sting who did the same thing.

Within seconds they were both feeling better than ever and sat straight up handing Lucy her bottle back.

"What was that stuff?" Rogue asked.

"It's something Porlyusica made for Natsu for his motion sickness because Natsu wouldn't stop begging." Lucy replied with a smile remembering that trip to the forest with Natsu.

"Oh I see," Rogue said, "now as I was saying, Yukino is doing good, but she has been sleeping a lot lately probably exhausted from the chaos that happened in the Spirit World. By the way how are you feeling Ms. Lucy?"

Lucy smiled, "I'm doing great thanks for asking, and you can just call me Lucy." Lucy replied.

Rogue nodded in understanding and sat back closing his eyes.

For the rest of the train ride they all sat in silence and eventually dozed off to sleep.


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