An Edolas Gift
Summary: Lucy lands herself into being the caretaker of BOTH Cobra and Midnight for few years. Also, somewhere along the lines she became a Crime Sorcière member… and how did the six end up in Edolas?
NOTICE: I think Mages who can use teleportation magic would be at most use in the Mail-Delivery type jobs… Thank about it, you'd get paid to use your magic to send a few items to a local Post Office near the person receiving the item and form there you're done… Easy job, yes? Also, I already have a couple of light pairings in this story!
NOTICE 2: This chapter has a bucket-load of talking in it!
NOTICE 3: I'm not a huge fan of this story, but it's one that's been replaying itself in my head. So, I wrote it down and figured that maybe someone out there might enjoy this story more than me… Damn, not I have too many unfinished stories up at once! I need to fix that!
NOTICE 4: I've gone back a fixed a few errors in this! Yay! Thanks to the person who PM'd me about my mistakes and encouraged me to find them out!
Jellal: You mean this type of talking?
Me: No you moron! You don't come in till later chapters! Leave!
Jellal: … the rest of Crime Sorciere is here already…
Ultear: You mean to tell us we arrived too early?!
Me: No, you're just in time to watch Midnight and Lucy and Cobra and… and… I can't… remember now…
Lahar: … Idiot, I'm not arresting anyone for messing with your memory.
Me: Alright! Lahar and Doranbolt, sitting in a tree~
Lahar: ACK! I'm not with that idiot!
Me: *pouts* Onward with the story! … If I can even remember what the heck I was writing about…
Jellal: Writing? What do you mean?
Me: *stuffs everyone into the back room and lets Meredy and Ultear head back to where ever they were before Jellal brought them to the story* Bye!
Chapter 1
Sighing, Lucy glanced back at the letter given to her from the Magic Counsel and grumbled under her breath while reciting what the letter had said in her head and sank deeper into her bathtub while the water was still warm.
Miss Heartfilia,
I understand the strangeness and the suddenness of this request, but we would like for you to be the caretaker of two of the prisoners here in the Counsel for two or three years. I cannot disclose who it will be at this time, but if you accept then you will be doing everyone in Fiore a huge favor. Please consider accepting this request. If you accept, please send this letter back to the return address at your earliest convenience and we'll deliver the two to you. Also, it may be wise to leave your guild for the duration of time that the two prisoners will be under your care.
Signed, Lahar
Grumbling to herself, Lucy shook her head and thought carefully of her options. She wasn't one of the strongest mages in her guild, yes she knew that, but that didn't mean she never put in her full effort on something. Lucy could easily pull three times her weight when everything boiled down to it, but that was with a celestials help. What could she do that someone else couldn't that made the Magic Counsel feel like dumping two of the many 'dangerous' prisoners onto her?
She felt with Natsu all the time and helped keep his destruction to a minimal, sure. Lucy also put up with Gray, his stripping habits, and his fights with Natsu, yeah. Lucy also put up with Erza's anger and her 'training' and what not, sure. She could stand Laxus and forgave him and the Thunder God Tribe after their dangerous stunt, sure. But just what it that Lucy of all people had that another person didn't?
Sighing yet again, Lucy got out of the tub and drained the water and quickly wrapped a towel around herself in case her friends decided to barge into her home and make themselves comfy. It was mostly because of her friends, all of which were apart of Team Natsu, that Lucy couldn't walk from her bathroom to her bedroom while naked anymore, even thought the distance wasn't that great.
Making sure the towel wouldn't slip, Lucy dried off her hands and grabbed the letter that sat on the edge of her sink and made her way back to her room where she grabbed a simple light blue night dress and put it on and summoned forth one of her many celestial friends; Virgo.
"Punishment, Princess?" Virgo asked with a slight tilt of her head and bowed slightly when Lucy shook her head no.
"Nope, can you run an errand for me?" Lucy asked, raising her brow slightly, "I fear I'm never going to get around to doing this particular one if I don't have someone else do it." Lucy held up the letter she had gotten, which she had placed back in the envelop and taped it shut, "Can you deliver this to the post office? I know your contract says you're relived of duty at eleven, but could you do this for me?"
"Of course, Princess!" Vrigo smiled softly, "I don't mind if I'm doing something for you and it's past eleven; We spirits are to loyally serve our master."
"Ugh!" Lucy pointed, "Virgo! All of you are my friends! I don't like seeing our relationship as master-servant! You celestial spirits have thoughts and feelings of your own!" Lucy huffed and turned away, "even the two perverted ones… Loke and Taurus."
Virgo let out a soft laugh at this and nodded, "And that is why we all love you, Princess." Virgo bowed, "I shall deliver the letter to the post office; Return address?"
"Yes, thank you." Lucy smiled softly as Virgo took the letter and 'poofed' out of the room, leaving behind only a few small particles of lightly glowing dust behind. Star dust. Sighing, Lucy glanced over at her bed and smirked, what ever was going to happen, was going to make things interesting from now on.
Tucking herself into bed after turning off the lights, Lucy had only one thought as she drifted off into sleep. Master will understand; How the heck do I tell my team that I'm leaving the guild to take care of two people the Magic Counsel want me to look out for?!
When Lucy awoke, it wasn't to the warmth of Natsu's death-bringing sleep embrace, nor was it to Erza's commands of not fighting (which always had an 'Aye!' from Gray and Natsu following afterwards) and it wasn't to a drunk Freed (which happened only once, and Freed very quickly apologized for somehow ending up in Lucy's house and on her couch with out a shirt on). But instead, Lucy woke up to a sound she was much more unfamiliar with ever since she moved to Magnolia. Knocking.
What the heck…? Who on earth would be here at this hour of the morning? Lucy mentally screamed to herself as she glanced at the clock that only read 3:25 AM. Ah, what the heck. At least the person knocking has manners… unlike a certain Fire Dragon-Slayer… Lucy snorted slightly at the thought and made sure her night dress was properly in place and walked straight to the door and opened it, only to be greeted with the sight of four people. Lahar, Doranbolt, Midnight and Cobra.
"Good morning miss Heartfilia, will you allow us inside?" Lahar asked politely with a slight nod in the beginning, "I think we'll want to talk inside and not out here."
"Oh…" Lucy blinked, wondering what the heck was going on, and nodded, moving so that the four people could come inside her house and sit on the sofa. Once Lucy shut the door, and used one of the chain locks instead of the key lock, Lucy joined the four, who were all staring at her, Cobra was the only one who had a smirk on his face. Midnight had already fallen asleep and Lahar and Doranbolt looked like they were in deep thought.
Okay… two Rune knights and two people who have tried to kill me before… did something… Lucy's eyes widen as she realized what she asked Virgo to do last night, Oh yeah… the letter…
At this, Cobra couldn't help but laugh. "You forgot during the night, huh Blondie?"
"Just because I'm a Blondie doesn't mean it's my name!" Lucy huffed and mumbled something incoherent to everyone but the Poison Dragon-Slayer, to which he made scowl and looked away.
"Sheesh, one would think you'd be a little more chipper in the morning."
"It's too early in the morning to deal with this…" Lucy sighed, "But I did agree to this, so at least spare me a migraine later, please." Lucy shook her head and glanced at Lahar, who was watching Lucy and Cobra interact.
"Just don't wake me up." Midnight grumbled and went back to sleeping.
"Miss Heartfilia, the Magic Counsel thanks you for accepting to the rather strange request for the next few years. If any problems ever arise, please do contact the Magic Counsel and we'll aid you in the best way we can." Lahar bowed his head again as one of Lucy's celestial spirits decided to visit.
"Princess," The celestial spirits purred into Lucy's ear and in that same second the spirit was on the floor with a light-pink hand print on his face.
"Loke, I just said it's too early for any of the normal annoying." Lucy turned her head to glanced behind the couch where her Lion Spirit sat rubbing his cheek.
"I know, Princess." Loke sighed, "I just thought I'd warn you that if you want to tell master you're leaving the guild you might want to do it now. He's leaving for a meeting with the other Guild Masters in about three house." Loke stood up and walked to kitchen and grabbed a small pack of ice cubes and placed them in a plastic bag that he help to his face. "Princess, that slap hurt!"
"Then don't do that again this early!" Lucy huffed and glanced at Cobra, then Midnight and then at Lahar and Doranbolt and frowned. "You'll have to excuse me for about an hour. I'm going to go catch master before he leaves." Doranbolt nodded at this and told Lucy that they'd stay until she came back to make sure her two 'guests' would behave until she came back.
Thanking the two, Lucy quickly ran to her room and changed into clothing that would much more fit going outside in and then bolted out of her house, leaving a confused Cobra and a blinking Midnight behind.
"… I think she's just not wanting to be around us…" Midnight mumbled loud enough for Lahar and Dornabolt to hear, "She's clearly scared to be near us and it's all reasonable… Oi, either of you two, mind making breakfast?"
"This isn't our place, so we won't." Lahar quickly responded, folding this arms over his chest and closed his eyes. "I can already see that Fairy Tail is going to react negatively to the news…"
"Yeah, well," Dornabolt sighed and looked between his partner, Midnight and Cobra, "Fairy Tail isn't know for reacting well to negative news. In fact, It'll be miracle in my books if they don't destroy some part of the building." Dornabolt laughed to himself and then shook his head, "experience."
In fact, once Lucy managed to tell her master that she wanted to quite the guild and told him why, everything went down hill.
"Just remember child, Fairy Tail is always a home for you." Makarov gave a sad smile to Lucy and nodded and he removed the pink Fairy Tail off of her hand, "Just how do you plan to tell your Team?"
"For Natsu's sake? Bluntly… maybe even with Gray's Ice-Make Hammer… or something…" Lucy gave a small laugh before shaking her head, "In all seriousness; bluntly is the only way to go…" Makarov nodded along to this and frowned.
"Just be careful child."
"I will, Don't worry!" Lucy gave the man she looked up to like a fatherly figure a smile that could match one of Natsu's toothy grins (which is a very scary thought according to Gray when asked once upon a time by a Matchmaking Mirajane). "Besides, I'm never truly alone."
Nodding to this, Makarov shooed Lucy out of his office and at that very moment Natsu came up to her and dragged her down to the first floor and to the mission board.
"You're turn to pick the mission Luce!" Natsu smiled, "Me, you, Erza and Stripper are here, so it's a full group!"
"Um about that…" Lucy sadly smiled ant turned to her friend; the very reason she was in Fairy Tail at all. "I'm… sorry, can we get the team here?" Lucy sighed and sat down on a stool and put her head against the table. Here goes nothing…
"Oi! Erza! Stripper! Luce wants to say something!" Natsu didn't bother being discrete about anything, which is what Lucy was expecting. What she wasn't expecting was for the WHOLE GUILD to get quiet.
"Yea?" Gray asked, ignoring Natsu as he sat down next to Lucy which got a weak comment on clothing. Confused, Gray looked down and freaked. "Again?!"
"What is it Lucy?" Erza walked over with a sword swung loosely over her shoulder, making Lucy visibly gulp and shiver.
"Um.. Well, I'm Sorry!" Lucy sat upright and bowed her head, "But I'm leaving Fairy Tail."
"… WHAT?! LUCE'S LEAVING THE GUILD?!" Natsu had the worse reaction from everyone else, and the loud shout echoed throughout the guild and maybe the entirety of Magnolia.
"Why?!" Gray piped up, shook written on his face, "Is it because me and Flame-Brain are always getting into a fight?"
"Is it due to my slight anger problem?" Erza raised a brow, making everyone in the guild sweat drop. 'Slight' was a huge understatement, even bigger when someone got between Erza and her cake.
"No guys, that's not it." Lucy sighed, "It's… something's come up and I want some time from the guild. I'll come back, okay?" Lucy tried to give the group a big smile, but it came out forced.
"Luce…" Natsu frowned, "… We won't forget ya, ya know…" Natsu looked away, "good luck with what ever it is you're going to do…"
"Yeah, we'll always be there for you, so don't let Sulfur-Breath make you think it's only him who cares." Gray laughed and Natsu instantly got into a fight with the Ice mage.
"What was that, Ice Princess?"
"I said what I meant, Flame-Brain!"
"We're all Nakama, so don't go trying to sound high-and-mighty here!" Natsu was about to unleash a Fire Dragon's Roar when Gajeel and Laxus both came both and knocked both Gray and Natsu out cold.
"Tch… too damned loud…" Laxus yawned and glanced at Lucy before nodding, "You might want to leave now if you don't want to get caught by these two again."
"Thanks guys!" Lucy tried her hardest not to laugh at her friends pain but it came out as half-snorts and giggles.
Thanking a few other people for always being there for her, and making sure a to write a note to the absent (and shockingly sick) Mirajane, Lucy waved a final goodbye to the guild and headed back to her apartment with a giddy smile on her face.
Since I'm not tied to a guild now… I wonder if I can convince Cobra and Midnight to travel around with me… I mean, it might even be safer than staying one place…
Once Lucy arrived at her place, she didn't even get to open the door as Midnight beat her to it with a scowl on his face. "Mind making breakfast? I'm starving. Prison food, in general, sucks."
Blinking at the sudden outburst by Midnight, Lucy laughed and nodded, "Sure, but get out of the doorway so I can, or else we're all not having breakfast."
"Fine, fine! Just don't take too long. Lahar's stomach growled and so has mine." Midnight huffed and closed the door after Lucy entered the house and went back to the living room with a slight pout.
"What's wrong? Lucy got your tongue already?" Doranbolt joked as Midnight glared at the man.
"No, she threatened to not make breakfast for us if I didn't move out of the way so she could enter the house." Midnight grumbled and laid down on the couch,effectively kicking Cobra from his seat and onto the floor.
Lucy came out the Kitchen just long enough to ask Lahar and Doranbolt to stay for breakfast and then vanished back into the kitchen, where Cobra commented that she was making pancakes, eggs, and sausage.
How… Oh yeah, Dragon Slayer. Enhanced smelling… Lucy shook her head with a slight grin on her face that was replaced a scowl when Cobra commented from the living room.
"I can hear you Lu!"
Shut up or I'll… crap, Your the Poison Dragon Slayer, I don't think poisons would work on you…
Lucy heard laughter coming from the Living room and she quickly left the room with a skillet and pouted, "It's not funny!"
"You thinking about using poisons on me is! I'd just thank ya for the second meal!" Cobra couldn't help laugh again at the thought of her sticking something pointed and red-hot up a certain hole that Lucy threatened him with.
"Uh…" Dornabolt blinked, "What the heck is going on?" Instead of getting an answer from Lucy or Cobra, he got his answer from a half-awake Midnight.
"Lucy thought of something amusing to the snake. I'm guessing sticking something sharp and hot up his end was the thought. Previously is was something along the lines of 'shut up or I'm poisoning your food so you get food poisoning' … or something like that." Midnight yawned and closed his eyes, completely fine with every set of eyes that were in the room staring at him.
That was the longest thing I think Midnight ever said freely… Lucy blinked and Cobra was about to agree to that thought when the smell of burning eggs caught the noses of all awake people.
"The eggs!" Lucy screeched, making Midnight jump and Cobra flinch, and ran back into the kitchen to salvage what was edible of the eggs and then brought out a small moving cart and gave a sheepish chuckle. "Natsu broke my table a few days ago so the dining room is bare of anything to eat on… unless you want to sit on the floor." Lucy handed a plate of food to Lahar, Dornabolt and Cobra before forcing Midnight to sit upright and handing a plate to him. Lucy didn't even get to tell anyone to enjoy the food before Cobra began chowing down on his food much like Natsu does when hungry beyond reason.
The other three however, were eating much more gracefully than Cobra and that made Lucy sigh. "At least some people here know how to eat without causing a mess." Lucy mumbled under her breath and Cobra ignored her. Grabbing her own plate of food and sitting down next to Midnight, Lucy contemplated on asking or just doing and dragging the two she would have to care for along with her.
"Mnnf?" Cobra asked with his mouth full and before anyone could ask what the the man had meant, Midnight cut in.
"Translation: What?"
"No one said anything…" Lahar glanced at everyone in the room and then at Lucy when Cobra's gaze landed on her.
"Ugh… How did I already forget that you could hear my thoughts…" Lucy sighed, "Oh well, better sooner than never." Lucy placed the fork and knife on her plate and glanced at Midnight, then Cobra, then at the two Rune Knights who were still at her place. "Since I'm not tied to a guild at the moment, I was thinking about traveling around and seeing other placed in Earthland."
Midnight blinked and knew where this conversation was going, "I know where this is going, You want us to travel around with you?"
"Well, that I think it's somewhat safer than keeping you two in the same town, with Dark Guilds still wanting the both of you. Besides, you think they'd try to find you if they found that one moment your in Minstrel and then in Sin?"
"How will you even be getting there?" Lahar asked, a look of skepticism on his face.
"I don't know about these two," Lucy pointed to Cobra and Midnight, "But I'm fine with traveling. I'll just have to cross lots of mountains. Fiore into Seven for a short side-trip and then into Bosco, then into Stella and Into Joya… And that's taking motion sickness dude into consideration." Lucy sighed, "I'd like to see Cealum, but it's an Island surrounded by sea."
"Thanks for that, Blondie."
"THE NAME'S LUCY!" Lucy huffed, "either don't call me by a name, or call me Lucy. So help me, I'll Lucy-Kick you out of the country."
"Then I'd be free of having a guardian." Cobra's voice was one of indifference, and Lahar made a cough-like noise to get the attention of everyone.
"I think Lucy's right. Going out and seeing the world might even be a good experience for you three. When do you plan to leave, miss Heartfilia?"
"I'd like to leave later today!" Lucy grinned, "But I'm also a kind person. Maybe tomorrow?"
"How does that chance anything?" Midnight asked, a bored look on his face.
"It means Cobra doesn't have to get on a train in a hour." Lucy smiled and Cobra's face dropped it's expression.
"Can we take the ride on Cubellios?" Cobra's voice held slight worry, "I hate being on trains."
"If you can find that mutated thing, I'd be amazed." Doranbolt mumbled out loud, which earned him four glares.
"She's not a mutated thing! She's one of my only friends!" Cobra hissed out at Doranbolt, who very quickly covered his mouth.
"If you can find her, then sure. I'm confident that Midnight doesn't sleepwalk long distances." Lucy laughed and then laughed harder when Lahar smacked the back of Doranbolt's head calling him a moron.
"She'll come… just watch, I'll call her!" Cobra huffed as he sat back down and closed his eyes. Almost instantly, an eerie purple glow began to emanate from the man, and suffocated the air in the house, making it hard for everyone but Midnight to breath. Sighing, Midnight dug around in his pocket and pulled out a small light red pill and handed to Lucy telling her that it'll help her breathe in the non-lethal poisonous air. After taking the pill from careful consideration, Lucy felt her body get lighter and her breathing evened out. Midnight on the other hand, vanished into one of Lucy's guest rooms that was special ordered for when Natsu or Erza decided to hand over for the night.
"She's outside." Cobra's voice held confidence as the glow settled down and vanished from his body. "Window, your room Lu."
Blinking, Lucy nodded and walked over to her room to indeed see a small purple snake with wings on it's back. Smiling softly, Lucy opened the window and let Cubellios crawl her way up Lucy's arm and curl lightly around the girls neck before she shut the door and locked it. Making her way back to the group of people in her house, Lucy pointed at her neck where she now had a live snake happily sleeping.
"… She's never really done that before… Sure she can shrink and increase her size, but she's never taken a liking to people before." Cobra frowned and wondered lightly if his snake was betraying trust and loyalty by picking someone else to take a nap on, but shook it off and figured that as long as Cubellios didn't attack him for leaving her and trying not to find her that they were on good terms.
"Um… As much as I don't mind you having Cubellios as a pet, c-can you please get her off o-of me…?" Lucy's voice wavered and she finished the rest in as her thoughts. I really get claustrophobic when reptiles decide that I make a great bed… even more so when they touch my bare skin.
Cobra couldn't help but laugh at this, and then noticed that Lahar and Doranbolt had vanished leaving behind only a small note and a communications Lacrima.
Picking up the note, Cobra read it out loud.
Please understand that we did not wish to seem rude, but we've received a call saying an urgent job has come forth for us to deal with. If you do travel, use the Communication Lacrima to keep in contact with the Magic Counsel. We're getting travel papers ready for Cobra and Midnight, but for obvious reasons we'll have to use their real names, Erik and Macbeth.
Cobra's nose twitched at the mention of his name and frowned. "Just so long as I keep getting called Cobra…"
"Will do!" Lucy smiled and then stared off into space, not even thinking a thing until,
Oh yeah! "Passports for the two of you! Why didn't I think of that!"
Cobra groaned, knowing full well that being under protective custody of Lucy was going to be a much harder task than he could ever imagine for himself. Especially if it meant having to deal with always moving around, but he was used to that. At least he'd have Midnight to keep himself company if Lucy ever decided to become a complaining machine.
Worse part of this all? It was only 5: 23 AM of the first day and the man could feel a migraine coming forth. At least Midnight was asleep and his beloved pet/friend came back to him.
- Chapter 1; End! -
Me: See, was that so bad?
Cobra: … Being stuck in a locked room with five other guys, two of which are gay, or being forced to take part in this story?
Jellal: Five? *Counts out* Me, you, Midnight, Natsu… Four. *retracts thought projection*
Cobra: … Huh? *looks around* You and that thought projection… I forgot about that…
Me: AHH! I FORGOT SOMETHING! I DON'T OWN FAIRY TAIL! FAIRY TAIL BELONGS TO HIRO MASHIMA …
Cobra: *Strangles me* No yelling in my ear!
Me: Su-sure! D-dragon… Sla-yer… *passes out*
Midnight: .. I'm not writing the next chapter…
Cobra: … well, shit...