I woke up the next morning and took a shower. When I was done I stepped out and looked at myself in the mirror, scars covered my stomach and I had a big one that went diagonal across my back. Just painful reminders of what I must do. I changed into skinny jeans and a black t-shirt. I threw my hair up in a ponytail and headed out to the guild.
I got there and headed to the job request board. I was looking them over when someone tapped my shoulder. "Hey I was wondering if you wanted to go on a job with me. I usually go with Natsu and them, but they always end up destroying stuff and the reward gets cut down, and I really need the money for rent so..." I turned around to find Lucy behind me. "Well I was thinking of going on one so sure. Is there one that you wanted to do?" I figured I'd be nice and let her pick the job. "Well this one looks good" she was holding a job sheet that said 'Help needed: There has been a group of bandits terrorizing the citizens. We would like someone to come and take care of them. Reward: 140,000 jewel' "That's 70,000 for you and 70,000 for me right?" I calculated the money. "Yeah and that's just enough for my rent!" said a very excited Lucy. "Alright let's go" I turned and walked over to Mirajane with Lucy close behind.
"Hey Mira, Aria and I wanted to go on this job OK?" Lucy handed the sheet to Mirajane. "Yeah sounds good just give me a minute" she approved the job and we headed out.
I took Lucy back to my place to get my stuff. "Wow nice place" Lucy was looking around while I packed my things. I didn't grab much because I figured we would only be gone for maybe two days. After I was done Lucy lead the way to her apartment. "You can sit over there if you want I wont be long" Lucy walked away and started packing while I sat over at the table she was talking about.
She quickly packed her stuff and we headed to the train station. We bought tickets and boarded our train. "So what did you do before you joined fairy tail?" Lucy asked. "I just traveled around looking for a good guild to join then I head about fairy tail so here I am." I turned to look out the window "what about your parents?" I hesitated "They...died when I was younger" She looked surprised "I'm sorry I shouldn't have brought it up." "It's fine"
She didn't talk much the rest of the trip and that was fine with me. I like the silence it helps me think. When we got to our stop we headed to the place the job sheet directed us to go.
We were greeted by a woman with short brown hair "Oh you must be here for the job my husband put up" Lucy smiled at her and said "Yeah we're from fairy tail" "Alright follow me" she led us into the house and to her living room. "My husband should be in his office probably doing more paper work, a mayor's job is never done, I'll go get him; just wait here" she turned and headed upstairs.
She came back down a little later with a tall man. He looked like he hadn't slept in a while. "Hello I'm Lance the mayor of this village. Thank you for coming." He shook both our hands and then sat down. "It's not a problem, could you please tell us more about the bandits?" I asked "Of course. They have been coming into town and robbing stores, or beating up villagers. We believe they have a camp just a short distance from town, in a small cave. We would have sent someone from here to deal with them, but they are too strong for us. That's why we set up the request." He replied. "Don't worry we can take care of them. Just show us where the camp is and we'll take care of the rest." Lucy got up and pulled out a map so he could point out where the camp was.
They thanked us again and we headed out. It was late so we rented a hotel room for the night. Lucy decided to take a shower and I grabbed my notebook and started writing.
Lucy came out and walked over to me. "What are you doing?" she leaned over my shoulder and was reading what I wrote. "Just writing about the day." I closed the book so she couldn't read any more. "You're really good. You should write books. I'm actually writing a novel myself." She sat down on the bed and took the towel out of hair. "I think I'll stick to just writing about my day. Besides what would I make a story about anyway?" I put the notebook back in my bag and crawled into bed. "Oh you could write about anything, but I wont push it." she turned off the light and crawled into bed as well. "Night Aria" "Night Lucy"
We got up the next morning and headed straight for the bandits camp. We crept up to the entrance and listened. "Who are we gonna rob today boss?" we heard a man say from inside. "Anyone we want. Ah hahaha." Lucy looked at me a I nodded. We ran in. I punched one of the men in the face and he went flying into a wall. Lucy called out Loke to help fight and she was using her whip as well. I turned and kicked a guy in the face then teleported behind another guy and kicked him to the ground. I turned to see Lucy on the ground and a man about to stab her. I teleported in front of her and knocked the knife out of the guy's hand. He pulled out another one and got a hit on my face. Lucy came and knocked him out. Then we turned to see Loke finishing off the last guy.
"You OK Aria?" Lucy Helped me up. "Yeah just a scratch. You?" "I'm fine thanks to you. You really saved me there. Thanks." She smiled "Don't mention it, that's what friends are for right?" she nodded. Loke left to the spirit world and Lucy and I headed back to the mayor's house with all the stolen goods.
The mayor was so happy and paid us right away. We thanked him and headed back to Magnolia. We talked more on the train and I actually had a good time. I smiled a real genuine smile and I don't even remember the last time I did that. 'Maybe I can be happy here' I thought and for once I actually believed it.
Alright there you go the next chapter of Damaged! I had a lot of time today so I wrote the next chapter. It's a little longer than the first, but not by much. I'll try to make them longer, but that means that it will take longer for me to update. Anyway I don't have a set schedule of when I will update, but ill try for once a week. No promises though. Thanks for your support.
