Here is the start to my next story, I just couldn't wait anymore to publish this. I suddenly had this idea and just needed to write it, well lets look what will come from this story.
I hope that I can update steadily but with my other story which I'm updating and two more ideas in my head this probably will sometimes be hard.
And now have fun reading this!
Lucy was fuming.
She really don't know, if she ever was this mad at her Team. They promised her, they fucking promised her! They promised not to destroy anything on this mission so that she can pay her rent and not be homeless from now on. But no, Natsu and Gray constantly fighting, Erza trying to break them apart and Happy just standing at the side asking for fish. Wendy not being there since she is with Porlyusica to learn more about healing and Carla of course at her side.
Lucy knew that this would happen, so she wanted to do this mission on her own. The mission being to just catch a small group of thieves without any magic, a mission Lucy could have done without any help. But her Team tagged along anyways, saying they will behave and that she might need backup. So Lucy, loving her Team, agreed to take them with her on the mission.
But the constant fighting and demanding for food, hindered her greatly. Every time they came close to catching the bandits Natsu and Gray started again with a ridiculous fight, Gray came in Natsu's way or the other way around, and the bandits could escape yet again. This happened approximately five times. The sixth time, Erza had just bought a Strawberry Shortcake as a snack when the bandits showed up again. Erza being Erza, needed to first finish her Cake before helping, ended up beating Gray and Natsu for landing in her cake while they fought the bandits.
Having enough of this, Lucy leaves the unconscious bodies of Natsu and Gray behind along with a Cake eating Erza, really not caring where Happy is at the moment. Asking herself why they even insisted on tagging along when they do nothing. Do they think that she is to weak to finish this job on her own or what? That thought makes her just a little bit more angry than she already is. This anger only fuels her determination to catch the bandits since she hopes that the reward is still enough to pay her rent when her Team doesn't cause anymore damage than until now.
So with the help of the newest addition to her celestial family, the hunting dogs Argos and Theron, Lucy quickly tracks down the group. After finding the small group, Lucy takes them down in a matter of a few minutes without the help of her Spirits. Finally having a chance to try out the new tricks her Spirits taught her, in a real battle. Calling Virgo to tie them up they hand them over to the police.
Finished with the mission, Lucy begins to search for her Team so that they can go to the mayor and get the reward. While searching Lucy realizes that she could have been already back in Magnolia, rent payed, if it wasn't for her Team tagging along. Seeing that her search had brought her near the mayors house, Lucy decides to get the reward now and find her Team afterwards.
Just as she wants to knock on the door she hears an explosion and screaming. Thinking that there are some dark mages, who are attacking, Lucy runs in the direction to help. Arriving at the place where the explosion went off, Lucy stops dead in her tracks at the sight in front of her. There are no dark mages wracking havoc, as much as Lucy wished that it would be dark mages. Even though from the looks of it the group could be dark mages none the less.
Lucy is left completely speechless. There is the rest of Team Natsu, shouting her name and attacking random people to get answers about her whereabouts. If Lucy thought she was mad before than this right now is nothing in comparison to before. She is shaking with anger and the dark aura around her is constantly increasing. She shouts for them to stop, but it seems they don't hear her.
Loke feeling the complete mood swing from his Key holder opens his own Gate. He too looks completely horrified and for once drops his normal flirting with Lucy.
As Lucy sees that Natsu's fire nearly reached a little girl Lucy snaps. Calling out Virgo and Capricorn the four of them attack her Team mates to stop them before they truly hurt an innocent bystander. The whole fight is over before one could blink. Lucy's anger fuels all of them with strength like never before. Loke attacks Natsu and takes him out with Regulus Impact. Capricorn goes for Gray and he goes down after a good placed hit to the neck. Virgo attacks Erza with her chains and traps her in them.
Lucy gaps at the sight before her, never would she have thought that she can take down her entire Team in a few seconds. No, that's wrong, never would Lucy have thought that she can take down one from her Team on her own. And even though, Lucy knows that in a real fight the whole situation would be different she is still proud of herself. Seeing that her secret training really payed off.
Erza being the only one awake right now tries to fight the chains to free herself and fight who ever attacked her.
"Does she need further punishment, Princess?", Virgo asked. Erza finally realizing who attacked her stops before shouting, "Lucy! Stop this attack right now and let me free! Where were you? We searched every where for you! We thought that maybe the people here have seen you so we questioned them bu..." "You call this questioning?! Erza look around you! You attack innocent people to ask them where I am, instead you maybe should have searched better for me. Or you could just ask them like normal people without attacking them. Natsu nearly hit a little girl with his fire! What the fuck is wrong with you guys?! First you insist to come with me on this mission and then you constantly fight and let the thieves escape. So in the end I did the whole mission on my own like I originally planed. But your fighting and now this will leave nothing from the reward at all! You all promised me that I will be able to pay my rent after this job but look around you! Do you really think the damage you just did to this place will leave anything from the reward for us? Not to mention the people you just attacked will all probably complain about this to the mayor.", Lucy interrupts her, letting all her anger out.
While Lucy shouts at Erza Gray and Natsu wakes up. Looking amazed at Lucy, she just stood up against Erza and screamed at her.
Natsu, being not sure if Erza will just let that slide, tries to distract them. "Come on, Luce. We can just take a new mission when we get back to the Guild and you still will be able to pay your rent in time.", he grins at her. But this grin quickly vanishes from his face as he sees the look in her face as she slowly turns to him and Gray. Gray, who just wanted to agree with Natsu, stops before a single word can leave his mouth as he sees her face.
Happy taking this moment to come flying back takes one look at Lucy, screams "Scary Lucy!" and flies off again.
But Lucy, fortunately for Happy, doesn't notice this as she slowly approaches Natsu. "Just take a new mission?! Pay in time?! I need to pay today! And all of you know this!", at first Lucy speaks lowly but rises her voice constantly and ends with a Lucy-Kick to his face.
After that Lucy turns around and goes away, leaving her dumbfounded Team behind, again. Turning her head over her shoulder she informs them, "I will go speak with the mayor. Do what ever you want! I guess I will see you later at the Guild or so..."
Lucy, wanting to be alone right now, sends her Spirits back and makes her way to the mayor. There she apologizes profusely for her Teams behavior to him while seething with anger inwardly.
Speed walking to the train station, Lucy gets on the train last minute, seeing the rest of her Team running to the same train but not reaching it on time. This lightens her mood slightly, happy that there is no whining Natsu because of his motion sickness.
On the train ride Lucy decides to ask her landlady for a few more days to pay her rent and then going straight to the Guild to take a solo mission before the rest of Team Natsu is back.
Around afternoon Lucy arrives in Magnolia and immediately makes her way to her landlady. There she begs for more time and in the end gets three more days to pay. But as some sort of security the landlady demands half of the rent for the next month ahead.
So Lucy makes her way to the Guild to find a good mission, happy that she has at least some money already from the other missions. So instead of 105.000J, she just needs 65.000J to pay her rent and then a bit more to have something left for food.
At the Guild Lucy sees that the rest of the Team is still no where in sight. She made her way directly to the mission board without greeting anyone. Now that she is not with her landlady her anger comes back again and she emits a dark aura with a grim face. Seeing this the other Guild member hurries away from her, watching her closely to know when to run, if needed. Standing in front of the board Lucy looks over the missions, completely oblivious to the reactions of her Guild mates.
Seeing a mission with a Silver Key as a reward she immediately rips it of after noticing the reward is 90.000J. Since her anger still fuels her, she just skims over the mission and decides that she is capable of doing it, before stomping over to Mira and slamming the mission in front of her on the bar. Mira seeing the mood Lucy is in reads through the mission and approves before giving the flyer back to Lucy. And without a word Lucy left the Guild again to catch the next train to her destination.
At the train station Lucy looks more closely at the mission to find out where the mission takes place. Buying her ticket Lucy searches for an empty compartment on the train, still way to angry to have company.
On the train ride she thinks about these last month after the GMG. The first two month were pretty lonely for her since her other Team members constantly had special requests. But a good thing about this was her time for training and her solo missions, for two month there was no reason to fear her not being able to pay her rent. In fact she got so much money that the last month was covert too, fortunately. Last month Team Natsu was finally back together and instantly the money she had saved was gone for repairs and her rent this month. But this month now all her saving were gone and she desperately needed money for her rent. But yet again the destructiveness of her Team didn't help, and every mission they took left little to no money.
Lucy, of course, is happy that she and her Team finally have some time again with each other, she missed them all dearly. But how mission are going right now is nothing she missed.
As she worked solo, and even got some special mission for her own, Lucy could choose which missions she wanted to take. Having the chance to choose the mission and not having Natsu choose them gave her the chance to see how much missions offers Silver Keys. She isn't sure if they got these rewards since the people now know that the Guild has a Celestial Mage or if Natsu always ignored them, since most times they are not the most dangerous missions.
Lucy is more than happy that she could add three more Silver Keys to her Celestial family in these first two months. But since she started to go on missions with Team Natsu again they didn't took a single mission which offers a Silver Key, all because Natsu wants the fighting missions and says all the other ones are boring. But what is boring about adding new family members? Lucy always thought that her Team understands her feelings towards her Spirits, but now that she thinks about it, her Team never helped her to get more new Keys. Sometimes they didn't even gave her the chance to look in magic shops for new Keys since they had better things to do and didn't want to wait and at some point Lucy stopped asking if they could stop in shops so that she could look.
She really does love her Team, but how come that they never really helped her to get stronger? Every Spirit she adds to her family will make her stronger, the more Keys a Celestial Spirit mage has, the stronger they are, of course proper training is equally important but every Spirit increases the magic capability a bit. In her two month alone Lucy meditated daily, if the missions allowed it, and trained with Loke to strengthen her body. The last two months she still continued but with her Team there she had less time to do so.
This new mission isn't the only one with Silver Keys as a reward as far as she had seen, so why won't Natsu choose one of these missions for once?
At this Lucy shakes her head, trying to get rid of these depressing thoughts. She is sure that Natsu didn't mean anything with this, as much as the rest of the Team. They just never thought about it...
A few minutes later Lucy is thinking about the mission from earlier and her anger comes back full force.
To calm down she calls Plue as some company and looks more in detail about her mission. The mission is to catch two dark mages who assault young women in the city at evening or night. All in all, a perfect mission for her.
With Team Natsu after Lucy left:
Natsu, Gray and Erza sat there speechless. Happy still no where to be found. Remembering Lucy's words Erza looked around, really looked around like Lucy asked her to do. And what she sees left her truly ashamed. How could she not realize what she was doing? Gray too looked around, shame written all over his face. Natsu still recovering from the Kick to his face doesn't really realize what is going on. He is kind of mad that Lucy screamed at them even though they just wanted to find her and rescue her, in case she is in danger. Like always he doesn't realize, or maybe he really doesn't care, that his actions results in problems for other peoples.
The three of them sat there for a few more minutes, all of them lost in their own thoughts, this is until Happy comes back and begins to speak, "Is scary Lucy gone? Can we go now and get some yummy fish?" "Uhh... I think we should maybe speak with the mayor first and apologize for our actions her. Maybe he is kind enough to still give us some reward money since Lucy apparently finished the mission on her own and it was us that did the damage and not her...", Erza begins speaking. "Yeah maybe Lucy will forgive us faster when we get back to her with the needed money, we really over did it here...", Gray speaks next. "I don't know, I think we didn't do anything wrong. All we did was searching for Lucy!", Natsu mutters more to himself than the others but Gray still hears him. "Are you really that stupid flame-brain? Yeah we did search for her but we attacked innocent people and once again did damages while fighting!", Gray shouts in his face. "Who are you calling stupid, ice-princess?!", Natsu is instantly in his face nearly starting a new fight. "Enough! We don't want to cause more damage than we already did!", Erza goes between them. Gray, for once knowing that he really has to stop, steps away from Natsu and ignores him for now.
So they made their way to the mayor to apologize in person and explain to him that Lucy didn't have anything to do with the damage and that she deserves some reward since she was the one who finished the mission. But the mayor angry with the damage and the way they 'questioned' his people declined any reward and send them away, not wanting to risk any more damage while they are in town.
So they left to catch the next train, hoping to see Lucy and to apologize to her too. But Natsu's and Happy's constant whining for food stopped them so that they missed the train.
With the next train they arrived in the evening back in Magnolia and go straight to the Guild, hoping to see Lucy before she leaves for a mission. On the train ride they all, Gray and Erza more so than Natsu, agreed to apologize to her and ask her if they or at least on of them can go with her to the next mission so that she is not alone. But at the Guild is no sight of Lucy so Natsu, Happy and Gray goes to the Bar to ask Mira if she had seen Lucy and Erza goes to report the mission to Master, in case Lucy didn't do it already.
After they have accomplished what they wanted to do they meet up at their normal table.
"Mira says that Lucy was here, but just really short. She only took a new mission before she left again, not speaking a single word to anyone. She must have been still pretty pissed with us. Good thing, when she is on a new mission that means that her landlady gave her more time to pay her rent. So maybe when Lucy is back her anger has fade away and she will forgive us.", Gray reports to Erza.
"Alright, did Mira say where her mission is? Maybe we can follow her? Oh and Master said that Lucy didn't reported to him so I told him what I knew. And he told me that he has an announcement for all of us, so we should stay in the Guild for now.", Erza tells them. "No, Mira didn't want to say us anything about the mission. She said that Lucy looked so angry that she scared the whole Guild and we should leave her alone so she can calm down.", complains Natsu, "Happy! lets get something to eat!" "Aye, sir!"
The Team split up to speak with some of the other members while waiting for Masters announcement, soon already forgetting about the events from earlier.