Nobody POV
It was only two hours from being the middle of the day when the blond-haired girl known as Lucy Heartfillia was woken up. Slowly and reluctantly, she uncovered her face. She blinked, closed her eyes, and blinked again. Streaks of sunlight penetrated the window and blinded her.
"Ugh..." She groaned as she woke up.
She sat up in her bed and rubbed her right eye with her hand. Looking around her bed, Lucy found that her pink-haired teammate and his blue cat were nowhere to be seen.
"It's good to wake up without them in my bed for once," she spoke to herself, smiling.
Lucy looked out the window, her eyes following the few people walking around outside. Her mind drifted back to the dream that she had.
"That was one strange dream, though..." She thought aloud. "I couldn't see anything or anyone, but I could hear someone talking nearby."
Her mouth opened, releasing a yawn.
"I'm actually still pretty tired though. It feels like I didn't sleep at all," she let out another yawn. "Maybe I just didn't sleep well?"
She yawned, once again, and laid back down, letting the soft caress of her sheets cradle her.
Yeah, that sounds most likely. But even if that isn't the case I should go back to sleep. She mused. Hopefully I'll sleep better this time.
Lucy closed her warm brown eyes and laid there for a few seconds, trying to fall back into a state of repose.
Wait a second...wasn't I supposed to hang out with Lisanna today?
She opened her eyes and tried to remember if she was supposed to hang out with the white haired girl today or not, before coming to the conclusion that she was.
"Oh geez, I completely forgot about that!" She groaned as she swung her legs over the side of the bed before standing up.
Lucy quickly brushed her teeth, combed her golden hair, and got dressed before leaving her apartment.
I hope that I'm not late... She thought as she walked down the street. And hopefully I can remember where we're supposed to meet up.
Lucy continued her walk as she struggled to recall where she was supposed to meet Lisanna. Unfortunately, she was so concentrated on her thoughts that she wasn't looking where she was going and ended up bumping into someone.
"Huh?" She was snapped out of her thoughts by the physical contact. "Oh, sorry about that."
Lucy looked at the person that she had bumped into and saw that it was none other than Juvia Lockser.
"It is okay Love Rival," the water mage responded coolly. "Juvia was actually looking for you because Juvia wanted to talk to you."
"About what?" Lucy inquired her guildmate.
"Juvia finally gets to go on a date with Gray-sama," she replied with pale pink dusting her cheeks. "We'll be going on it tomorrow."
"Really? Good for you, Juvia!" Lucy congratulated, smiling at her friend.
"But can Juvia ask Love Rival something?" The blue haired girl said, staring at Lucy with an unreadable expression.
"Of course," Lucy's happy face didn't falter. "What do you want to ask me?"
"Love Rival wouldn't be mad if Juvia prevented Love Rival from interfering with Juvia and Gray-sama's date, would she?" Juvia asked, an unnerving gleam in her eyes.
"Uhhh...Juvia...what's with that look?" The celestial mage slowly began to back up, feeling unsettled by Juvia's gaze.
"Juvia is sorry, Love Rival."
Before Lucy could escape, Juvia rose up her hand and imprisoned Lucy inside of a water lock.
"But Juvia just cannot risk Love Rival doing anything to interfere in Juvia and Gray-sama's date," she finished. "Accident or not."
Lucy tried to get out of it but was unable to, and fell unconscious after a while. Once she saw that her 'love rival' was unconscious, Juvia dispelled the water lock and began to drag the blonde off.
!~[Time Skip]~!
Lisanna sat on a bench in a park with her head resting on her hands, a bored look on her face as she waited for the blonde haired girl to arrive. It was a beautiful place, Magnolia park. The grass was a trimmed green, brightly colored flowers dotting them here and there. Paths of worn dirt weaved around the park, converging at a water fountain in the middle of the area. People were here and there, children laughing and playing with each other, adults casually talking together, the usual idyll park scenery.
"Where is she?" Lisanna mumbled, her eyes lazily glancing around in search of the celestial wizard. "I've been waiting an hour."
The takeover mage let out a bored sigh, leaning back.
"Did she sleep in?" Lisanna wondered aloud. "Or...did she forget?"
She sat there for another minute before her eyes narrowed.
"You know what? Forget this," boredom turned into annoyance as she stood up from the bench. "If she isn't coming here, then I'll go there."
Lisanna began to head in the direction of Lucy's apartment. But after some time of walking, she suddenly stopped when she heard the splash of water under her feet.
"What the-?" She looked down to see her foot submerged in a shallow pool of water. "A puddle? On a day like this?"
She quickly noticed the blue ribbon resting in it and raised her eyebrow as she picked the soaked item up off the ground.
"Isn't this the ribbon that Lucy wears in her hair?" She mused to herself. "What's this doing here?"
She stared at the ribbon for a few seconds before realization hit her like a sack of bricks.
"Hold on...a puddle on a clear day, Lucy's ribbon being here, and the fact that Juvia has a date with Gray tomorrow...Juvia kidnapped her, didn't she?" She asked no one.
Lisanna sighed as she pocketed the moist ribbon.
"I better go get her," she frowned, not being too surprised by Juvia kidnapping Lucy.
Lisanna went to Juvia's house and knocked on the water mage's door, and after a few seconds Juvia answered.
"Oh, hello Lisanna," Juvia greeted her. "Is there something that you need?"
"Hey, Juvia," she said with a smile back. "Can I come in?"
The water wizard moved aside to allow Lisanna inside. Juvia then closed the door and turned to her.
"Juvia, I know that you kidnapped Lucy and you need to let her go," Lisanna decided to be straightforward with her friend. "You can't just kidnap people after all."
"What are you talking about? Juvia didn't kidnap Love Rival," the girl claimed, maintaining her innocent front.
"Then why did I find this," she slipped out Lucy's hair ribbon. "In a puddle on a clear day?"
"Uhhhh..." Juvia knew that she had been found out. Her eyes matched that of a deer which had been caught in headlights. "Someone else kidnapped Love Rival?"
"Just let her go, Juvia," Lisanna frowned, placing the ribbon back into her pocket.
Juvia tried to think of what to do as she looked anywhere for a way out, but the white haired takeover mage had her cornered.
"Come on...let her go, Juvia," Lisanna repeated, more firmly this time.
"Juvia is sorry!" The water mage apologized, making her decision.
Juvia quickly lifted up her hand and imprisoned Lisanna in a water lock, which she only dispelled when Lisanna was unconscious...and now soaked.
"This might be getting out of hand..." Juvia mumbled as she dragged Lisanna to the same place where she was keeping Lucy.
After a while, Lisanna began to regain consciousness, feeling like she was lying on a floor with a voice speaking to her.
"Li...sa...lisa...nna...sann...Lisanna!"
Lisanna tiredly opened her eyes to see Lucy on her knees right next to her. She wore a worried look on her face that turned to relief when she saw Lisanna's eyes open up.
"Oh thank goodness...you're okay," Lucy was relieved. "I was beginning to get worried."
"Lucy? What happened?" Lisanna questioned as she sat up.
"I was just about to ask you the same thing," Lucy answered with a frown. "Juvia dragged you in here and left you here looking a bit worried."
"And you didn't try to escape?"
"Of course I did, but Juvia put me in another water lock before I could get anywhere near the door," Lucy answered.
"Oh...well, do you have any idea why she kidnapped you?" The Strauss girl asked her friend.
"Juvia has a date with Gray and she doesn't want to risk me interfering with her date," Lucy told her, before looking at her with curiosity. "What about you? Why did she kidnap you?"
"Because I figured out that she kidnapped you," she answered.
"How'd you figure that out?" Lucy asked her.
"I found your hair ribbon in a puddle, but I don't know what happened to it after Juvia knocked me out," she assumed that Juvia took the hair ribbon from her. "So sorry, but I can't give it back to you."
"It's alright," Lucy assured her. "It's not your fault, after all."
"Thanks. Anyways, come on," Lisanna got up off of the floor. "We have to find a way out of this place."
Lucy got up off of the floor as well, and the two of them began to search for a way out of their prison. But after a minute or two of searching, Lisanna heard Lucy yawning so she glanced over at her only to see that she had tired eyes.
"You alright, Lucy?" Lisanna stopped searching, wondering how she didn't notice that earlier.
"Huh?" Lucy stopped what she was doing and looked at her. "Oh yeah, I'm fine...I just didn't get a lot of sleep."
"You didn't sleep? Why?"
"No, I did go to sleep but when I woke up...It felt like I hadn't slept at all," Lucy confessed before yawning once again.
"Really?" She asked, receiving a nod in response. "Well that's weird..."
"It is, but hopefully I'll sleep better tonight," Lucy said, before going back to her search.
Lisanna went over to Lucy and put a hand on her shoulder, stopping the blonde.
"Actually, I think that you should rest," she spoke the her friend.
"But what about-" Lucy tried to ask, only to be cut off by another yawn. "What about finding a way out of here?"
"I'll keep looking, you lay down and take a nap," she commanded. "I'll wake you up when I find us a way out."
"Are you sure that you can handle that on your own?" Lucy said with concern, not wanting to put all the work on her.
"Of course I'm sure," Lisanna waved off her concern with a semi-confident smile. "Now lay down and get some rest."
"Alright..." Lucy reluctantly obeyed. "If you say so."
Lisanna took her hand off of Lucy's shoulder and went back to searching for a way out, while Lucy laid down on the floor of the room and quickly fell into a deep sleep.
PawPrint-Writer: Bad place to end it, I know but I couldn't think of a better way to end it because if I went on any further, it would feel strange so yeah... Anyways...
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RevlisCharm: Heellooo! This is the beta, RevlisCharm. Just wanted to let everyone know I'll be editing my friend Paw's story, so yeah. She's an amazing writer, and all credit for this fic goes to her! I'm just the beta. Please review if you have the time!