Lucy grew up to be very self-dependent since her dad was a cold, heartless
man who practically forgot he had a daughter. She is constantly
sneaking out and doing rebellious things, like learning magic
and hanging out with friends who don't know
about her background. But what happens when she brings home
a new companion?
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{Chapter 2: Stretching Wings}
Normal P.O.V:
After about an hour, Lucy had filled the paperwork and stepped outside. The whole time she was still in shock that she had a dragon...that there even still were dragons alive! She stood there, blinked a few times, then turned to her left to see the wild thing. It was staring back at her, like if she was the weird creature. She couldn't look away, it was too intriguing too both the dragon and Lucy herself.
Then it blinked twice and moved its head away, staring at some other object in the distance. Lucy looked away too, but to the ground instead. She walked with her head down as she past it and Mr. Tenshu's shop. She went over what Mr. Petto had told her about the delivering, what environment to keep him in, how to deal with him, and the basics, like any other pet...right?
The shocked mage decided to just go on a long walk and think about other things to keep her mind off of the current situation.
'It's not crazy right? I mean, we do live in a magical world. I've seen stranger stuff than a dragon! Like, um…hmm…oh! Those flying cats! Yea! I've saw them following these two guys. They were most likely mages too. They did seem like polar opposites though. One had blonde hair like mine and some weird furry vest. The other wore all black and his hair covered half his face. They're…uh…cats, both had wings and the one following the guy in black was wearing a frog costume. So, I guess a dragon isn't that bad.'
Lucy drifted into her thoughts about all sorts of different weird stuff that she's seen or read. She realized it had been a few hours that she was gone. Maybe she should check in with Mr. Tenshu.
She stepped into the shop to see Mr. Tenshu still at the counter with a concerned look on his face. "Where have you been? I didn't expect you to take this long. I was about to come out and look for you myself. Lucy told him about her walk and apologized for taking too much time off. After a while, he brought up the thing that made him send her out in the first place. "So, what was it?" Lucy looked at him for a second then replied, "Uh…um…it was a…uh…"
"Well, spit it out!"Said Mr. Tenshu with a smile.
"B-But you'll probably think I'm crazy."
"It's a magic pet shop, anything that's about to come out of your mouth is probably enough to make you seem crazy." He debated.
"…it was a, uh…dragon."
Mr. Tenshu held his smile for a few moments without any words. He widened his eyes and his smile fell from his face, and hung wide open. "A WHAT?!"
Lucy spoke up again, "Yea, I was pretty shocked too."
"Who bought it and for how much? What did it look like? Was it big? Did it have wings?" he rambled on and on, flooding the blonde with questions. Lucy interrupted him, "He was pretty big, not the biggest, but maybe the same size as a …elephant maybe? He had these really beautiful red scales, and a long tail, and I couldn't see its wings, since there didn't seem to be enough room in the cage to extend them. And…uh, I…bought…him."
Once again, Mr. Tenshu was surprised about what came out of Lucy's mouth and she explained the whole auction, the man who kept bidding and the wide stares she got from the townsfolk. He listened to her story and by the time she finished, they both were calmed down and took in the fact that a dragon now belonged to Lucy.
"Well, in that case, you should get it delivered by night so not everyone knows about it. It might get around by those other people so do it tonight. Plus, you won't get all the stares during day."
"Yea, that's probably the smartest way to do it, but how am I supposed to get him all the way back to the mansion?"
Mr. Tenshu thought for a moment, "…My friend, Torakku Utenshu, has a big towing truck that can carry it. Maybe I could ask him if we could borrow it. He'll probably say yes, but I have a feeling that he won't let anyone else drive it. I'll call him right now. And by the time he gets here it should be dark since it's already getting late."
Lucy nodded her head at him as he headed towards the back of his shop. She stepped outside and looked down the street to see the place where the cage had once been. She look confused and then started towards the shop. She got there, went inside and found Mr. Petto.
"Mr. Petto! Where did he go?"
A tall man wearing a long, violet coat, black tights, with pulled back orange hair, Mr. Petto, was carrying some boxes to the other side of the shop. He didn't look too old, but definitely middle aged. He stopped moving and looked at her confused at first, then smiled and waved her off when he realized what she was talking about, "I just moved him in the back, and so no one would bug him. He seemed to be sleeping earlier so I thought he might want to stay somewhere quieter."
Lucy sighed in relief. She asked him if she could go see and he put down the boxes and led her to the back on the shop to see a huge room with tanks full of fishes of all different shapes and colors along the walls. In the middle were a few stacks of foods for different animals. On the opposite side of the stack the cage with the dragon. He was sleeping like Mr. Petto said he would be.
'Well, wouldn't blame him, he did get taken from his home, wherever that was, and shipped all the way here.'
Bells form the shop door and Mr. Petto excused himself to get back to the front. You could hear voices in the front from the back where Lucy was.
Lucy, deciding to ignore them, stepped closer and placed a hand on the bars, as she scanned his body and admired his scales. She watched his stomach pump in and out smoothly as the air from his nose made small huffs.
Mr. Petto came back into the room, but with Mr. Tenshu. The blonde girl looked confused, and then remembered that she left without telling Mr. Tenshu where she was going. "Oh Mr. Tenshu, sorry about that. I just wanted to check on him." She scratched the back of her head and gave a sweet smile.
"Oh! No need to apologize! You were just concerned about the dragon! Anyways, Torakuu said he'd come over right away. I didn't tell him what we were moving because I didn't know if you wanted him to know or not. He should be over in less than ten minutes."
Lucy nodded and the three started to put the sheet back over the cage and tie it down securely. "So, Lucy." Stated Mr. Tenshu, "Why do you keep saying 'he' and 'him'?" Lucy and looked at him and then realized neither one of them told him. Mr. Petto spoke up, "That's because the dragon is a male!" Mr. Tenshu looked at Lucy, and then back at Mr. Petto, "You can tell?" "Yup!" He replied. Scared of his answer, neither Lucy nor Mr. Tenshu asked him how. When they finished up, Torakuu showed up and they used his towing crane to lift the cage onto the back of the truck. Mr. Petto and Mr. Tenshu waved their goodbyes to Lucy as she hopped in the passenger seat of the car.
When she got in, she looked around at the dashboard. The dashboard only consisted of a steering wheel and a wire attached to a band wrapped around Torakuu's wrist. He caught her looking at it and reassured her, "It's a magical truck, it runs on the driver's magic." Toarkuu was another middle-aged man, looked a little older than Mr. Petto. He had black hair that seemed to fade in some parts and had on light jeans and an old navy blue plaid shirt that sleeves rolled up to his elbows. His shoes were rusty brown cowboy boots that matched his small wristband.
It took almost 2 hours to take the back road to make sure no one could see or follow them. They arrived at the mansion from the back, to make sure she wouldn't get caught by her dad, whose study was located right in the front center of the house. The garage was disconnected from the house itself and was in the back of the backyard, where no one could see them, but just in case. Lucy got out and opened a large garage door while Torakuu turned the truck around. Torakuu couldn't leave the truck since he had to stay attached to the wire which powered the crane that they were using. So, Lucy decided to get help from one of her Zodiac Spirits.
The Celestial Mage pulled out a key from her pouch and called out Taurus.
"Gate of the Golden Bull, I open thee! Taurus!"
There was a light from the key, and then another light which was taller and bigger than Lucy that stood beside her. When the light ceased, a large, muscular man-structured cow stood. His body covered in a black and white pattern similar to regular cows, his head is bovine in shape, with small ears pointing outwards from the sides of his head, and a pair of horns sitting on top. He had dark eyes, and his flat nose bears a large golden ring in it. His tail sprouting from his back is quite small, if compared to the large mass of his body. Taurus body is mostly bare, with the exception of a dark indument, similar to a pair of swim briefs, held up by a red studded belt. He also wears simple dark boots, a red belt circling his neck, to which a golden cowbell is attached, and crossing his chest diagonally and passing over his right shoulder is a large, plain dark belt closed by a simple buckle, to which Taurus attaches his signature axe when he's not using it.
"MOO! Hello Miss Lucy!"
"Hi Taurus! Would you mind giving me a hand with this cage?"
"Why certainly Miss Lucy!"
Taurus walked over and placed his hands on the cage, along with Lucy, as Torakuu started to lift the cage and move it over to the side. When he started to lower it, Taurus and Lucy helped balance it and hold it so it wouldn't slam to the ground. After it had reached the ground safely, the pushed it into the garage as quietly as possible. Lucy sent Taurus home and said her goodbye's to Torakuu and made sure to thank him for his work. She offered to pay him, but he just waved her down and left. Lucy waved to the man as he drove off.
Lucy P.O.V:
After Torakuu left, I closed the garage door and turned on the lights. I walked over to the cage and took of the sheet which took awhile because I didn't have any help. I started to admire the dragon again.
'It's just…his freaking scales are so… I've just never seen anything like them before. Maybe he's hungry? Wait…what do dragons eat? Maybe I'll ask Mr. Petto tomorrow. But can I leave a dragon at home alone? Mavis! Why does everything have to be so complicated!'
Shaking my head to calm myself down, I got startled by the movement of the dragon. He seemed to open his eyes slowly and then looked around curiously. He didn't seem stressed or upset about anything though. Then he looked over at me again, and I started to freak out inside my head, but felt my body stiffening up, like I couldn't move. I wasn't scared or anything, I just felt weird under his huge onyx eyes.
He looked away again, like on the street and looked back around the large room.
'Think he knows who I am? Nah, probably not…but dragons are pretty smart animals. Maybe he's not as dumb as any other animal'
He started to move again, but instead he was moving his whole body. His wings started to move up and back towards his back. They didn't extend all the way, but they were moving around a lot. His tail was hitting the bars of the cage which made a lot of noise and I panicked a little.
"Hey! Shh! Shh! Stop moving around! You'll wake someone up!" I screamed my whispers.
Suddenly he stopped moving and adjusted his head towards me again.
'What? Could he understand me? And did he want to come out? I could understand but, I can't let a dragon out in my garage!'
I felt my voice slip from my thoughts while I was once again, under the dragon's stare, "Wh-What? I-I can't let you out or anything! I mean, you'll probably just escape and I can't have a lose dragon around Magnolia or anywhere else." I felt my own hands go over my mouth as a reaction to what I just said.
'I sound like a cruel animal collector! Like one of that evil guy who collects rare animals and probably stuffs them or something!'
"Look-I, uh…I didn't mean to say that… it's just, you know…we haven't really earned each other's respect yet…right?"
I could have sworn I saw his head move up and down a little, but I decided to shake it off because I was tired and probably imagining things.
"So, uh…goodnight."
I started towards the door when I heard him make more noise so I turned back and yelled at him again.
"Oi! You have to stay quiet!" I shut my mouth when I saw him give me a sort of…pleading look. Like he was begging to come out.
'Heh, sorta like a puppy begging for food.'
I took a minute or two to debate with myself about it, then I decided to let him out, but I would put him back in after I let him stretch his wings.
'That's probably all he wanted. He seemed to sleep just fine in the cage so his wings are probably bothering him.'
"…Alright I guess I can let you out. But only for a few minutes, I'll let you stretch your wings or whatever." I walked over to the door of the cage and unlock it with a key from Mr. Petto. After messing with the damn lock for a minute or so, it finally unlocked. I looked back up at the dragon to see his face right above me, eagerly waiting to get out. I looked back down at the lock and pulled it off. Imminently, I stepped back and just in time too. He opened the door the second I took the lock and not slowly either. He stepped out and not a second after it opened and opened his wings. I barley had any time to prepare myself, so I fell on my back from the wind of the wings. It hurt a little, but I was too focused on the size of its wings.
'They are HUGE! No wonder he wanted to get out so badly!'
I guess I had a weird look on my face because he looked over at my and tilted his head, almost as if he were saying, "What? Did you not expect this?" I closed my mouth and stood up. He blinked a few times and walked even further out of the cage and went to the opposite side of the room.
"Hey! You gotta go back in. I let you stretch, now…you know. Go to bed."
Like he was totally ignoring me, he blinked too and then he laid down. I had literally just told him to go back into the cage. Did he not understand me? Or maybe he was just being rude. I squinted my eyes at him and went over to him as he closed his eyes and rested his head on his arms.
"What is this?! I said go back in the cage! I don't want to get into trouble because a dragon got out!"
Without realizing what I was doing, I went right up to him and playfully knocked him on the head. I noticed what I had none only after I felt his hard scales on my fist. My own eyes widened as he opened his and looked at me. I stood still, but this time because of fear. I had never touched a dragon! And plus, now that I did, what was he gonna do?! To my surprise, he just closed his eyes and huffed out some air through his nose that gave off a sorta annoyed feeling. He slowly sat up and walked towards the cage. Sorta feeling bad for the guy, I let my voice have a life of its own, and call out the first thing on my mind.
"Wait. It's okay, you can sleep out here if you want."
I froze at my own words, but now it was too late. I couldn't just keep going back and forth, and especially with a dragon. If things got hostile, I wouldn't be able to take him down.
He looked both, relieved and a little annoyed as he made his way back over to the spot where he was just laying. I just yelled at myself in my head for saying what I had said.
"But don't think about escaping or anything! I'm sleeping in here too so don't think I won't keep an eye on you!"
The dragon just popped open one eye and closed it again, acknowledging me. I pulled out a chair and sat in it. I was uncomfortable, but I to keep an eye on the thing. I mean, could you imagine all the trouble you' get in for letting a dragon get loose! I watched him for a long time before I was sure he was probably asleep.
I remember waking up and being warm, but why did my body ache. I could also feel a cool breeze at my feet and my face. I slowly cracked an eye open, vision still a little blurry before realizing what was happening.
'Oh, yea! The dragon!' I looked towards his direction and saw that he was in a slightly different position than when he went to sleep last night. 'Did he sleep crawl or something?' I looked down at my body to see a blanket on top of me. I sat there confused,
'Did I put this on? When did I ever grab a blanket?' I took me a while, but then my eyes widened and I swiftly moved my head to the dragon, then to the blanket, then back at the dragon. 'He…he didn't. Right? What? Why am I even asking? Of course he didn't! Ha! Lucy you're going crazy! How could a dragon even lift a blanket? Its claws would just rip right through the cloth!'
'At least he stayed and didn't actually try to escape.' I yawned. 'Maybe I should sleep for a little bit longer…watching a dragon is tiring.'
Okay! Chapter 2 done!
It was a little longer than the first chapter.
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Thanks for reading! I really appreciate it~! 3
~Lily~
