LaLu Week 2017
Day 2 War
Laxus felt a war his entire life, a war to know what he should do. Should he follow his father, or stay in the Fairy Tail guild; accept the guild as it is, or make it great again himself. Sometimes, he made the right choice, but, sometimes, he made what he thought was the right choice at the time, and later proved to be the wrong one.
Laxus never wanted to make that mistake again. So, when he began to feel the stirrings of another war in him, he ignored it. He ignored it, but it forced its way to the front of his mind, to the pit of his stomach. Then, he fought against it, he fought hard, but it fought back and came back stronger every time. After a time, Laxus simply accepted it, but refused to act upon it.
Why Laxus felt he had to fight the guild for the affections of one Lucy Heartphelia, well, that was anyone's guess. Why he couldn't simply have and unrequited crush on the peppy blonde, now that he thought about it, was likely the fault of the dragon in him. There was one thing he knew for certain, and that was he wouldn't fight anyone for Lucy's feelings.
However, that didn't stop Laxus from getting closer to the girl.
Over the next few months, Laxus had learned a lot about the Spirit Summoner. He found that, though everyone in the guild had lived hard lives, Lucy was one of the only ones aside from himself that had experienced the hardships from a loved one, someone who was supposed to be there for, and support them. He quickly discovered that her blatant refusal to be upset about her past was one of the more prominent reasons that people, both in and out of the guild, thought of her as the Light of the Guild. The things he already knew about her were set into stone the longer they talked. Such things as her bravery, her wit, her compassion, her strength.
He also found that the more he learned about her, the more he wanted to fight for her.
One day, Lucy invited Laxus on a mission with her.
"Mira says that you've been in the area before, and I'm not overly great at navigating through mountains on my own." Lucy's voice quieted when Laxus looked behind her to Mirajane, only to see her wink at him, seemingly in encouragement.
The excitement that lit up Lucy's dark eyes when he accepted forced his need to fight for her to resurface.
It was getting harder and harder for him to refuse it.
The mission was a simple one, he knew she could handle it on her own. As he watched the girl turn the wrong way again, he also knew that she hadn't been lying when she said she couldn't navigate through the mountains. If he hadn't have come along, she likely would have gotten herself hoplessly lost by now.
"I'd find my way back once the stars were out. I can read those as easily as I can read a book." The blush across her puffed up cheeks was almost too much for Laxus to handle. He began to think that her pout was within his top three faces of Lucy.
Which was when the trolls swarmed them. The town at the base of the mountain thought that the trolls were getting too close and wanted mages to force them away from the town. The town mayor mentioned that this has been done many times in the past, usually once every five to ten years.
Trolls weren't overly strong, and were kind of stupid, but they fought in large packs, which was why people usually dealt with them in small teams. But Lucy was an entire army on her own. Laxus stood back to watch Lucy at work. She was smooth and graceful, which Laxus thinks is likely because of her noble background; careful and calculated, which he believed was because of her experience as a mage; strong and beautiful, Laxus knew that this was purely who Lucy was.
Quickly enough, Lucy forced back the trolls, and they scurried further up into the mountains. Though, Laxus felt he could have watched her fight for an eternity longer.
When Lucy returned to Laxus' side and gave him a look, he merely offered a small smile.
"I knew you could handle it." Lucy beamed at his words.
Her clothes were a little worse for wear, especially her jacket, where one of the sleeves was torn almost clean off, but she didn't seem to be wounded from whatever grabbed her there. They began to walk back down the mountain, more careful than before since it was getting dark, when Laxus noticed her shiver. He didn't wait two second before he dropped his coat on her shoulders. She looked confused, but thankful. Lucy walked slower down the mountain because of it, but their pace picked back up once they were on stable ground.
When they were given the reward, Lucy tried to saparate out Laxus' share, but he closed the bag of jewels saying she dealt with all the trolls, so she deserved all the money.
"But you came here, you navigated us, like you said, I would have been hoplessly lost without you here."
"Making sure you come back to me isn't something to be paid for." Laxus said easily, calmly even, like he was simply saying 'hey, how are you?' He wasn't sure why that was what escaped his mouth, but he was annoyed that it did. He sped off ahead, refusing to talk about it.
Once on the train back to Magnolia he fell asleep to deal with his motion sickness, Lucy didn't talk about what he had aciddentally let slip.
The next day, in front of the guild, Laxus was just crossing the gateway when someone shouted at him.
"Hey, Laxus!" He turned to see Lucy standing directly behind him. "Go on a date with me."
At that moment, the war inside him fizzled into nothing. He didn't have to fight in a war to make his choice.
Not my greatest story, I will admit, but I hope you all liked it anyways.
