Lucy stomped along the edge of the waterway through Hargeon, arms clamped tight across her chest looking very, very cross. The short, white, cone nosed celestial spirit plodded along after her occasionally mewing. "I don't know why he meows. He's a dog…" Lucy thought irately. She stopped and sighed. Her anger wasn't because of Plue, so she shouldn't direct it at him. No, she was angry with someone very different.
"That stupid fire breathing, insensitive, careless…" she growled and continued to along the street towards her house. "I mean seriously! How hard is it to control that fire of his? You'd think that he'd know how by now… But no, every time, EVERY TIME, we go on a job what happens? My pay gets cut in half because of his carelessness!" Plue simply mewed again and continued to follow after her.
"Don't fall in!"
"I won't," she called back with a little more force than she intended. The man on the boat seemed realize something was wrong as he floated by, but didn't say anything. As she approached her house, she was about to throw open the door and flop on her bed to sulk when she paused. How often had she come home and found that pink haired freak messing up her house? "If he's in there, he had better believe in some sort of deity because he'll be meeting them shortly." Plue mewed and she opened the door slowly. The small celestial spirit toddled in and up the stairs to Lucy's main room. She followed cautiously.
"Your house is clear of miscreants, princess," Lucy jolted and found Virgo saluting her from the middle of the room.
"Virgo, I didn't summon you!" Lucy quickly stated. Virgo nodded.
"I know, but it was made abundantly clear to me that you did not wish to find anyone one in your house so I checked before you arrived," she replied. Lucy sighed.
"Not anyone Virgo," she explained. "One specific pink haired idiot."
"Will you punish me now princess?" Lucy flopped on her bed and looked at her celestial spirit friend dejectedly.
"You do realize that I'm not actually ever going to punish you, right Virgo?" she asked. Virgo just watched her with that blank stare of hers. "You can go back, thanks for checking my house." The girl disappeared followed by a short burst of golden glowing sparkly light. Plue jumped up and tried to get onto the bed too, but he was too short and couldn't jump high enough. Lucy smiled and picked him up. She pulled out the baby voice she used only for him. "You're so cute, Plue!"
"Mew," Plue replied smiling. Lucy put him on the bed and lay back down. Before she knew what had happened, she'd fallen asleep.