Hello everyone. Good day! I have made a change with this story. At first, it was supposed to be a one-shot but as requested, I'll be making a continuation of this story. I have divided the recent story to 3 chapters since the second chapter was too long. Please bear with me guys. :) I would like to thank those people who took their time in reading this story. I like this story, I had fun making it so that's why I also decided to continue it. Lucy and Jellal are my favorite crack pairing but we might never know how this story would end since I'm still making it. Haha. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Yuuki Trinity
P.S: I made the story according to how I see it and that includes the characters. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fairy Tail, Hiro Mashima does.
Six months after the Grand Magic Tournament, Fairy Tail was back to their usual building in the city of Magnolia. They have regained their honor back as the strongest guild after the games and have gained a lot of new members and job request as well, so the guild itself was back to its usual disposition but now, it is much noisier than ever.
Inside the guild, Lucy was sitting by the bar counter while Mirajane was busy cleaning the glasses that was recently washed with dry cloth.
Lucy had her head in her arms that was rested in the table and she was staring straight into the guild doors, into nothing in particular, clearly spacing out. "Lucy, are you alright?" Mirajane asked Lucy with a concern voice.
"Mmm..." Lucy said as she continued to stare at the doors.
"Lucy?" Mirajane once again questioned, stopping herself from her the cleaning.
"Hey Mira, where are Natsu, Gray and Erza? I don't see them anywhere." Lucy finally raised her head and Mira saw a weary look on her face.
"They went out on a mission Lucy, did they not tell you? I thought you knew." Mirajane answered. Still, concern was evident on her face for the young celestial mage. "Lucy, are you still sick? You should head home to rest more Lucy; you don't seem to have fully recovered."
"I guess so." Lucy said, showing a force smile as she scratched the back of her head. "I think I should take your advice Mira. I should go home and take some more rest. I'm sorry if I worried you and thank you for your concern." Lucy said as she stood up and waved Mirajane goodbye.
As Lucy walked through the guild doors, "Oh, Lucy-san!" Wendy greeted Lucy as she entered the guild but was not noticed by the celestial mage who was now deep in thought, marching to the city streets.
Wendy approached Mirajane in the bar counter.
"Mira-san, is something wrong with Lucy-san?" the young dragon slayer asked the barmaid who resumed to clean the glasses.
"I don't know Wendy. She's been spacing out ever since she entered the guild. Something might be bothering her." Mira said as she and Wendy were staring at the guild entrance where Lucy's back view can no longer be seen.
While walking in the streets of Magnolia, she did not bother to look where she was heading, her feet led the way and the path that her feet took her was towards her apartment, her home. She was walking through her usual path, balancing her walk at the edge of the riverside. She stopped from her track just a few feet away from her apartment.
'Wake up Lucy! This is no time to be thinking, I have to look for a mission for the rent.' slapping both her cheeks with each hand. Now she sat herself at the river edge and was about to start thinking again when she heard a familiar voice.
"Lu-chan!" Lucy turned around and found her best friend Levy approaching her.
"Lu-chan, I have been looking for you. I was supposed to return your novel today, remember? But Mira said you left the guild and went home a few minutes before I arrived. You okay Lu-chan?" Asked Levy as she faced Lucy.
"I'm okay Levy-chan. What makes you say that?" Letting out a forced laugh, which her friend can see through that something was indeed bothering her.
"Something is bothering you. I can clearly see it Lu-chan. What is it? Maybe I can help you." questioned Levy, troubled that her friend might be in danger again.
"It's nothing really." Lucy said while scratching her temple and showing her friend a forced smile.
"Lu-chan! Tell me." Levy was now serious and had a stern face.
Lucy's face was now showing the weary look that she had on earlier and shifted her gaze along the street of magnolia, her eyes were distant.
"I don't really know what's been bothering me lately Levy-chan. I've been thinking of a lot of things recently and don't know where to begin. A lot of things have happened and I can't really pinpoint what is causing me to be so tired." Lucy gave out a heavy sigh after telling Levy, though there were some parts she purposely did not tell her bestfriend.
"Lu-chan... I'm sorry I did not notice you were this troubled." Levy said in an apologetic tone.
"No, no Levy-chan! Don't say you're sorry. You don't have to be and you've got no reason to be saying you're sorry. Look, I'm fine, see! And I'm not physically hurt and I can say I fully recovered from that troublesome cold." Lucy was now restless, trying to divert Levy's attention who was now sulking.
"Really Lu-chan?" Levy said, her face was now starting to lighten up. "If you say your okay, why don't we go back to the guild and look for a mission to earn money for your rent?" Levy said and then grabbed Lucy's wrist and almost dragging her back towards the guild.
"Eehhhh? Aye, aye! How did it end up like this?" Lucy yelled as she was taken back to the guild by levy who was hauling her.
Back at the guild, Mirajane was serving drinks to the guild members when the guild doors opened and in came Levy along with Lucy who was being pulled in the wrist.
"Ara, Ara! Lucy came back." Mirajane said as she smiled at the sight of Lucy.
"Wait Levy-chan! Wait!" Lucy tried to stop her friend from pulling her. "We're already here Levy-chan, you can let go of my wrist now." Lucy was trying to free herself from Levy's grip.
"Ah! I'm sorry Lu-chan!" Levy let go of Lucy's wrist and apologizes to Lucy.
"It's okay Levy-chan." Lucy laughed and sweat dropped at how her friends' grip can be strong when she's excited and she took note of it.
Lucy and Levy were now approaching the request board that had a lot of pinned papers. The job requests for the guild were piling up after the games with different types of demand and all sorts of reward.
Levy with her index finger to her chin tried to choose a request among the papers in the board.
"Ah! How about this one Lu-chan?" Levy took out a paper from the board and showed it to Lucy who tried to read what the request was.
"Levy-chan, that won't work." Lucy pushed back the paper that was in front of her back to levy.
"Why won't it work?" Levy pouted and said.
"Are you willing to wear a bunny outfit and work as a waitress in a pub where a lot of old perverted mages would appear and cause trouble Levy-chan?" Lucy said as if predicting the possibility of it occurring if they take the request. With this said, Levy's sweat drop.
"Hahaha. I don't think that would work Lu-chan." Letting out a forced laugh. "Let's take another look at the board. Mmm.. There sure are a lot more of request lately huh? It's so hard to choose which one to take." Levy now returned her attention back to the board.
"Lucy-san, Levy-san?" Wendy who was sitting in a table with Romeo now approached them. "Are you fine now, Lucy-san?" Wendy asked Lucy as she moves toward her.
"I'm fine Wendy. Why do you ask?" Lucy was shock at Wendy's sudden question.
"Well, earlier when you left the guild, it seemed that you were deep in thought or should I say you look tired that you did not even notice I greeted you at the guilds' entrance door." Wendy said with a concerned look on her face.
"Ah! I'm sorry Wendy for not noticing. It's true that I was not myself earlier but look, I'm fine now." Lucy answered and she clearly knows she's not that fine; something is causing her to be tired but tried avoiding thinking about it.
"Neh! Wendy, I thought you were with Natsu and the rest on the mission. What happened?" Lucy asked Wendy as to change the topic from acting unusual earlier.
"I was supposed to be with them but Master did not allow me to join the mission. He said that since I am still adjusting and learning how to control my magic, I shouldn't join yet on going on missions with Natsu and the rest so that there would be less cost to the damage they might cause." Wendy explained and had a gloomy look.
Lucy laughed at the thought of 'less damage'. "Since you were not able to join their mission, why don't you join us instead Wendy? Levy is pretty enthusiastic in going on a mission." Lucy replied and pointed at Levy who still hasn't chosen any request from the hundreds of papers on the board.
"Really Lucy-san? Would it be alright if I joined you?" Wendy said and a smile crossed the young dragon slayer's face.
"It's fine, it's fine Wendy-chan! Come here, help me look for a request that we could do." Levy said, pulling Wendy by the hand to the board. Both of them started searching for a request in the huge board.
Lucy thought, 'Now I wonder how this would turn out.' And she smiled while watching the two girls going through the request on the board.
"Aha! This one Lu-chan!" Levy said and shoved it to Lucy as she tried to read the request, almost cross eyed. She pushes back the paper to Levy and shook her head for disapproval. Levy was dejected.
"How about this one?" Wendy said, showing both the girls the request that she saw and found it very interesting. She thought it fits the two girls' interest. Levy and Lucy took a look at the request that Wendy chose and both said in unison, "It's perfect Wendy!"
Wendy blushed at Levy and Lucy's words.
"Okay. Let's show this to Mirajane and have it approve." Levy said as she took the paper and brought it to Mirajane who was back at the bar counter. Mirajane took the paper and wrote it on the guilds' log book and stamped it, indicating it was approved. Levy came back wearing a big smile and said, "So, when do we leave?"
The next day, the girls met at the train station at around 9 o'clock in the morning to leave for Ariel Town. The request was to take place in a mansion that was owned by a well known family in the area.
In the train, "Lu-chan, what do you think this book is about that we'll be looking for?" Levy asked, curious on the request they took. "It must be some special book huh?"
"Maybe..." Lucy said in a whisper as she shifted her gaze through the trains' window. Wendy who was sitting across her fell asleep and Levy was also about to doze off. Lucy however, did not sleep throughout the travel and she still had that distant gaze in her eyes.
"We're here Levy-san. Wake up!" Wendy shook Levy who was still asleep.
"Huh?" Levy slowly opened her eyes and immediately stood up.
"Alright, let's go!" Levy shouted with her fist in the air, she attracted a lot of attention from the passengers from her action.
"Geez Levy-chan. You're all hype up." Lucy face palmed herself at her friends' embarrassment. Wendy was laughing at Levy's optimism.
Lucy, Wendy and Levy made their way to the city and looked for the mansion. They kept on asking for directions at the passerby's, making sure they were on the right path to the mansion. They arrive at the mansion's gate as directed by the town's people and Levy stepped forward to press the buzzer and spoke on the speaker, "Good day! We are from Fairy Tail and we've come for the job requested by Ernst Frau." there was no reply from the speaker. Levy was about to buzz again when,
"You may enter." A voice was heard from the speaker and after that, they heard a click and the gate opened itself for them to enter.
The three girls entered and followed the path that led to the entrance of the mansion where they saw a man standing in front of the door. As they approach the entrance, the man greeted them with a bow and said, "Good afternoon. I am Vincent. I am this family's head butler; I will be guiding you to meet the master, the person who requested the job. Please do follow me."