"Lulu?" Dan purred, "I missed you this summer, where were you my love?" he asked sitting on her desk, and trying to catch her eyes. Lucy on the other hand was desperately trying to avoid his…

"I went home." Lucy said, and a dark cold feeling took a hold of her heart, "Could you get off and sit down please? The teacher is coming soon…" and just as she predicted, a small man, with crazy stiff hair, who smelled like coffee and carried a large stable of books.

"Mr. Straight, please take a seat on a chair and leave miss Heartfilia alone", the teacher instructed in a groggy tone, "I do hope you're ready to learn history, for I do not plan on cutting you any slack".

"I am Mr. Crux and welcome to my classroom" he said with a large grin, and then he started. It was a soft beginning but still, he went through all that they were going to learn the two semesters they had him, in half an hour and with that done, he sat down. "This year you will have an extra subject or two, after how many credits you are taking, and you will be writing your bachelor assignment." With that, he smiled and put four papiers forth on the desk.

"You may leave as soon as you have joined one of these four courses." And seconds after he had said that, almost the entire class was out the door, just Lucy who was still sitting, the teacher and Dan who was trying to pick something were left.

Lucy was picking up some papiers from her bag, walked over to the teacher, and handed them over to the professor, "Here, I have already done it," she said with a small smile, and looked at the different options she had.

"I'd recommend you take two courses miss Heartfilia" Mr. Crux said to her without looking up from the assignment that she had delivered to him. "Because it looks like you will have a peaceful time studying here if not.", Lucy couldn't help but blush at the praise she got. 'It looks as if I can choose between Martial arts with Miss Scarlet, politics with Mr. Fernandes, magic with Mr. Makarov or art with Mr. Jonah.

Lucy looked at them for a while, 'what should I choose?' she asked herself, while her eyes were locked on the magic class… "It is for real, there are rumours that there was a witch among us and we wished to offer you some assistance, if we could…" Mr. Crux's voice broke Lucy out of her thoughts.

"They know?" she said, her voice was shaking, 'they know?', the idea was terrifying to her, "Not so many but a few of us, but it doesn't help fearing getting close to people. That makes you stand out even more, and the fact that you wrote your assignment about the history of witches and wizards is quite telling young lady. The most revelling is that you saw through the spell put on the papier." he gave her an approving look.

Lucy took the pen and wrote her name on Makarov and Jonah's classes, and left the classroom. She had not noticed Dan leaving the classroom at all, which made for a nice change, even if she knew he would be standing by her locker… However, this time, she had come prepared and changed lockers with someone else, so she could escape, for a while at least.

She got out of the building and on her bike when she heard him screaming, "Lulu! I waited by your locker, but you never came!" he was running straight towards her, and she knew that if she wished to escape, she had to do it quick.

She could admit that he was fast, but luckily, he was wearing his full body armour, shield and lance, as usual just in case a dragon would appear out of nowhere…

The only problem was that dragons were quite calm and fit into society, so there was never any need to take them down, if you were so lucky to meet one. Lucy was going fast, downhill and straight into town, it did not take long before she had managed to shake him off her tail and headed for the tattoo shop, to apologise for this morning.