Life Beyond Fairy Tail; A New Friend
Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail. It's Hiro Mashima who does :)
"Sting-Kun! Let's go on a mission!" I called from the request board, a piece of crumpled paper in my hand. Sting looked at me from where he was sitting at Sabertooth's bar and he gave me a warm smile. I ran up to him and slammed the job request on the counter in front of him. Sting looked at it thoughtfully, tapping his chin and humming as he read over the paper. I sat next to him and propped my head on my hand.
"So? What do you think?" I asked impatiently. Sting looked at me and gave me a smile.
"Looks fun! Should we get Rogue to come with us too?" he asked me. I smiled and nodded.
"Sure! Why not? It'll be fun to have Team Dragon Slayer together for this mission!" I agreed.
"Hey Rogue! Lector! Frosch! C'mere a sec!" Sting yelled, waving an arm towards the little group that was sitting in a corner of the guild hall. The two Exceeds came over in a flash, but Rogue took his time. Lector sat on my right shoulder while Frosch sat on my left. I held up the job flyer to Rogue's face when he finally stopped at the bar. He took the paper from my hands and looked at it. I waited anxiously for his answer, becoming slightly impatient.
"This is all we have to do? Chase off a Vulcan from the East Forest?" he asked in a bored tone. I nodded vigorously.
"Will you come or not?!" I almost screamed, trying my best to keep my cool.
Besides, the East Forest is close to Magnolia! I thought happily. It's been at least a year since I left Fairy Tail, and at least six months since we last saw Team Natsu at our double guild job request. Ever since then, I've been keeping in touch with Fairy Tail; telling them how I'm doing and asking how life is over there. I always get happy letters in return, saying that they miss me but how they said they're happy that I've found a life. Each time I read their letters, I get a smile on my face.
I wonder if I'll get a letter from them again today? I asked myself.
"Lucy-San! Lucy-San! Rogue-Kun said he'll go on the mission you picked!" Lector exclaimed happily.
"Fro is happy!" Frosch said. clapping her (A/N: Is Frosch a girl or a boy? I don't know... -.-) hands happily. I laughed and smiled.
"That's great to hear!" I said while elbowing Rogue, trying to at least get him to give me a small smile. I... sorta succeeded and sorta failed. He gave me a half smile. Not exactly what I was expecting, but an improvement to the frowns that I've been getting from him.
"We should catch the next train if we leave in about 20 minutes, according to Roku." Sting said, pointing back to the friendly barman. I nodded.
"We'll all meet at the train station in 20 minutes then. See you then!" I said, waving as I left the guild to go to my apartment.
"Are we all here?" I asked as I stepped onto the train platform. Sting and Rogue, along with Lector and Frosch, all nodded. I smiled and took my train ticket from Sting. I was about to get on the train before I remembered something.
"Oh yeah! We might want to do this before you start puking on the train!" I exclaimed while winking. Sting and Rogue looked at me with a confused expression. I rolled my eyes. "Troia!"
A glowing green-blue light glazed across Sting and Rogue and then dissapeared. Sting and Rogue's mouths both exclaimed as they remembered what I had been talking about. I nodded.
"Yeah. C'mon, let's find some good seats!" I said excitedly, dragging the Twin Dragon Slayers onto the train.
"Remind me again why your girlfriend doesn't get motion sick..." I heard Rogue mumble to Sting.
"Some permanent Troia spell." Sting answered. I smiled lightly as I found an empty train car. I threw the boys in, their little partners following them in, and I sat down on the opposing bench. Lector and Frosch sat on their partner's lap and I was left with no little companion of my own.
Hey wait... Yes I do! I thought.
"Open, Gate of the Canis Minor! Nicholas!" I called. A bright yellow light glowed in front of me and the two Dragon Slayers before a little white creature that resembled a snow man.
"Hey Plue! Wanna come sit with me?" I asked the Celestial Spirit.
"Punn!" he exclaimed before pulling himself up onto the bench beside me.
"What did he just say?" Sting and Rogue muttered in sync as they sweatdropped. I looked at them.
"He said he'd love to come sit next to me. What else would he have said?" I informed them in a matter-of-fact tone. That caused them to sweatdrop. I smiled and laughed.
"Magnolia Train Station! Everyone out for Magnolia Train Station!" the conductor hollard, making sure that everyone heard.
"That's us." I said as I reached up to grab my little bag of stuff. The rest of Team Dragon Slayer followed me as I hopped off the train and into Magnolia Station. There was a slight bit of wind, which blew my black and yellow hair into my face. When it died down, I sputtered out the hair that found it's way into my mouth and tried my best to make it look 'presentable' again.
"You sure do care about your hair and stuff don't you Lucy?" Sting asked with a laugh. I glared at him, before sighing in defeat. I rolled my eyes and started walking in the direction of the East Forest. Sting and Rogue followed me and we made in there in about 15 minutes.
"That was fast." Rogue said, stating the obvious.
"Just cause I know a short cut." I muttered.
"Ah, you're here!" a voice came from behind us. We all turned around quickly to see an older woman with fading blue hair and a wrinkled complexion. She gave us a warm smile. "My name is Misaki. I hope you're the mages who accepted my job request?"
We all nodded.
"I'm Lucy. This is Rogue and Sting. And these two little cuties are Lector and Frosch. We're from the Sabertooth guild." I introduced the team. Misaki smiled.
"It's a pleasure to meet you all. Shall we travel back to my house and I can fill you in on the job?" she suggested.
"Sure." Sting said. Misaki gestured to us to follow her. We walked for a good five minutes before arriving at a quaint little cottage surrounded by bushes and flowers. A vegetable garden stood just a little while away from the little white and blue house. Misaki opened the door and invited us inside.
"You can take a seat in the living room. I'll make some tea." Misaki said in a friendly manner. The rest of us walked into the little sitting room that was filled with different paintings and artworks, chairs and rugs and quilts. All in all, it was very beautiful. I took a seat on the dark green, velvet couch that was on the left of a fireplace. On the rail above the fire place were pictures of children. I reached up and took a frame and looked at the picture. There was a woman of about the age of 36 in the middle and on each side, there was a child. One was a boy with blonde, curly hair and deep green eyes and on the right was a little girl with short black hair and bright blue-gray eyes. They were all smiling.
I wonder who they all are... I asked in my head.
"Ah, I see you've come across the picture of my daughter and her children." Misaki said, as she came into the room holding a tray of tea cups. I looked at her for a moment before reverting my eyes to the picture I was holding.
"They're lovely. The kids are so cute!" I complemented. Misaki set the tray of tea down on a little coffee table in the middle of the room before taking a seat in the rocking chair in the right corner of the room.
"They're actually why I asked you to come here." Misaki said sadly. I looked up from the picture and back at the elderly lady in the old wooden chair. "You see, my precious daughter and my wonderful grandchildren were slaughtered by a forest Vulcan."
I gasped. Sting and Rogue both froze and the two Exceeds stopped what they were doing.
"What?" I breathed. Misaki lowered her head slightly.
"Ayame, Seiji and Aika were all here for a visit. Seiji and Aika went outside to go and play while Ayame and I talked. I was trying to talk her out of getting back together with her former husband, since he was a horrible man. I didn't exactly know him personally, but I just got that feeling that he was that kind of person. As I was talking, there were screams from outside the house. I thought that it was just Aika and Seiji screaming for fun. Ayame ran outside to go check on them and then I heard her scream. I went outside to see what was happening, and in front of my very eyes, Seiji, Aika, and Ayame were being ripped to shreds by a blue forest Vulcan. I tried to stop it, but since I'm no Mage, I ended up getting hurt myself." she told us her sad tale as tears dripped down her paling cheeks. I looked back down towards the picture of the smiling family of three and just stared at it. Tears of my own started to stain the glass frame. I stood up and walked out of the sitting room and out the front door. I clenched my hands into fists as I walked into the forest to find the vicious Vulcan that had killed Misaki's family.
"Lucy! Lucy, where are you going?" Sting called after me. Rogue pushed past Sting and ran up to me. Sting ran over after him.
"I'm going to find that vicious monster and kill it!" I said in a murderous tone. "No one deserves that kind of pain! No one!"
Just as I finished saying my last couple of words, a huge roar escaped the trees. The ground started to shake under my feet and a tree tumbled from it's peek in the sky. I smirked as I saw what was walking towards our team of Dragon Slayers. The blue creature stopped just a couple of feet away from us and it gave another huge roar.
"Perfect timing..." I muttered.
"Lucy..." Sting said,reaching a hand out to me. I slapped it away.
"If you're not going to fight, then get out of here. Other wise, you might just end up dead!" I yelled. " Secret Dragon Slayer Art: Freezing Starts of the Winter Dragon!"
"Shadow Dragons Roar!" Rogue launched his own attack after I launched my own.
"Holy Ray!" Sting finally launched his attack. Soon after, all three of our attacks combined and hit the large forest Vulcan with a bang. There was a big explosion afterwards and, after the smoke and flames started to clear, the head of the Vulcan came rolling up to my feet. I kicked it away from me and I turned around to face my team mates.
"That was quick." I stated. My team mates stared at me for a moment before agreeing with me. We all walked back to Misaki's house and entered.
"Misaki-San, we've destroyed the Vulcan." I announced. She looked up from her spot in the rocking chair with surprised eyes.
"Really? That was rather quick! But you have completed the job, so you deserve a reward." she congratulated us. I held out a hand.
"No need to. Keep your money. We don't really need it anyways." I said. Misaki looked sort of shocked before she nodded with a smile.
"Thank you for your help!" she called as we walked out the door. I waved at her and smiled.
"So Lucy. Which way leads to home?" Sting asked with a joking tone. I pointed to the West.
"That way." I said. Sting took off in that direction as fast as he possibly could. Rogue and I shared a glance before we took off after him, the two Exceeds right on our tails. We had reached the train station in literally a matter of seconds. I looked around at the people who were running around trying to catch a train before the station closed up for the day. Rogue went to go and buy our tickets while the rest of us waited for him.
"What a day!" I exclaimed as I walked away from the Minouettcha Train Station and towards my apartment.
"Puuun!" Plue exclaimed. I looked at the little white creature with a smile.
"I wonder if Fairy Tail wrote a letter to me today. What do you think Plue?" I asked my Celestial Spirit.
"Pupun." he said.
"I think so too! It'll be nice to know how everyone is doing." I said. I reached my apartment and I opened the little gate that guarded my doorstep. When I got to my door, I noticed a letter placed on the 'Welcome!' mat in front of it. I picked up the envelope and read the address. It was from Fairy Tail. I smiled.
"We were right Plue! They did write to us!" I exclaimed happily. I unlocked the door and walked in to my home. I closed the mahogany door and walked up the creaky stairs to my bedroom. I set the letter down on my desk and grabbed my pjs and a towel, then made my way to the bathroom for a quick shower.
I walked out of my bathroom with a contended sigh.
"That was nice. Especially after a long day like this one!" I said in relief. I threw today's clothes into my laundry hamper next to my desk and I started to crawl into bed, until I remembered the letter.
"The letter! I'd better read it!" I said with a smile on my face. I sat down in my desk chair and took out my letter opener. I ripped the top of the envelope open and took out the piece of paper from inside it.
Dear Lucy,
How are you? Everyone here in Fairy Tail is doing just fine. We sent you this letter just to warn you of something. A traitor is coming your way. Don't be friendly towards him, don't go near him. He has caused damage upon Fairy Tail and he is no longer permitted to return.
Until the next time...
Fairy Tail
P.S. Team Natsu says 'Hello!'
I stopped reading the letter. I set it back down on my desk with a sigh.
Who could possibly betray Fairy Tail? And just who is the traitor?
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