Just so ya know this takes place between the edolas arc and tenrou arc. I'll probably include the tenroujima ark at some point as well anyways here's today's chapter please enjoy reading . I do not own Fairy Tail.
It's been a few weeks since ive arrived in Elysian. I have to say the town is beautiful. It's full of books and culture on celestial spirits and the magic shops are stocked with so many keys and awesome books. I have been training out in the forest alot. Strangely enough even in this town full of celestial culture I'm the only wizard who actually lives here most wizards just visit. It's a shame really, this town is amazing. I wake up around six in the morning and get changed into black shorts that come mid-thigh, a green tank top and tie my hair into a ponytail as always leaving a few rebellious strands hanging down. Once I'm dressed I grab my keys, whip and sword, then head out into the forest that borders the town. The quiet that surrounds me once I enter the forest is almost deafening. I remember the first time I entered this area, it scared me just how quiet it was I ended up talking to myself to make sure I hadn't in fact gone deaf. Now that I've been here a while though I'm getting used to it especially during the day when I'm training, I make plenty of noise calling Loke a slave driver. Soon I'm at my training spot. It's a small clearing in the forest. It's pretty big and has a small sort of lake at the outer edge of the space. Walking to the middle I decide to start with my magic training and call out Capricorn. "Open, Gate of the goat, Capricorn!" With a bright flash he appeared beside me. "Goodmorning Lucy, assume your position for meditiation." Following his instructions I sat in a cross legged position and closed my eyes. "Now clear your mind, imagine your magic, picture it as a container." The image of a small glass bottle filled with what I assume is my magic appears before me. "Now image it being filled even more with magic, make it expand." Soon I see magic flowing into the bottle, I concentrate on making it grow larger to contain the magic its difficult work but soon the magic stops flowing and the container has grown. I open my eyes and see that it's already noon. "Wow I've been meditating longer than I thought." I feel exhausted even though it's just sitting the amount of concentration can drain you of your energy. As soon as I'm feeling energetic, thanks to a sandwich and some cold water from Virgo, I send Capricorn back to the celestial world and call out Loke. Open, Gate of the Lion, Leo!" He appears at my side on one knee and takes my hand. "Ah princess, I'm so glad you called me out. Would you like me to massage you? Or maybe go on a date? Or perhaps you would like to take a bath tog..." I cut off his sentence with a quick smack upside the head. "No Loke. It's time to train my hand to hand combat."
"Ah of course princess. Well then lets begin." Loke and I both spring into our fighting stances and stare each other down. "No Magic?" He asks. I confirm with a nod and quickly lunge forward. For a while I throw hits and Loke blocks them slowly he starts to throw hits of his own until its an all out battle. I dodge his punch and bring my leg up trying to land a kick to his side. Loke grabs my foot and swings me around throwing me away from him. I flip myself mid air and land on my feet immediately springing forward for another attack. I land a punch to his jaw and dodge the one he sends at my stomach. As Loke goes to kick my side I drop down dodging his kick and spin around sweeping his legs from under him. He falls back and is about to jump up when I quickly get on top of him grabbing his shirt collar with one hand and bringing my other hand back in a fist we both stop. We're both out of breath, our clothes are ripped and dirty and we each have multiple bruises all over us. "I surrender." Loke laughs, "That face you've got right now is scary enough to kill a three headed lion, let alone me a poor lion with one head." He does a dramatic pose while saying the last bit. I stand up and extend my hand to Loke who gladly takes it and let's me help pull him up. Soon after a bit of unwanted flirting Loke returns to the celestial world and I'm left alone. The sun has already begun to set so I start walking back through the forest towards the town. Although it isnt a very long walk it is still already dark by the time I step into the towns boundaries. I enter my lovely little apartment and take off my clothes ruined by the days activities, then hop into the shower. The hot water running over my body seems to wash away all the worries and pain. Just as I think maybe I'm over everything that had happened an image of team Natsu flashes through my mind, not the new team but the old one, the one that included me, and the one that made me feel like everything would be alright. All of us smiling together, laughing at something Gray said. Or all running from something Natsu disturbed. Or even cowering from Erza's wrath after accidentally knocking over her favourite strawberry cake. Without noticing I began crying. Tears slipped down my face and joined the water below. Sometimes remembering the good times broke my heart so much more than remembering the bad. I preferred though to remember us all as happy and good friends. That way maybe I would feel like I still had a home I could return to. No I couldn't think this way. I was always allowed to see master whenever I wanted, I can't be sad, I have to show him I'm strong. I finish washing myself then turn off the water and wrap a fluffy towel around my body. By the time I get my hair all dry its already eleven at night. Changing into my pajamas I climb into my warm bed and slip under the covers. Thinking about my training and what I should do for work I fall asleep almost instantly.
By the time I wake up its already five thirty. Although everything in my body is screaming for me to go back to sleep for anther half hour my mind will have none of that and soon I'm up dressed, with my keys whip and sword, and out the door.
I enter the silent forest, its still fairly dark out but the sun is rising. First I train my magic with Capricorn, then my hand to hand combat with Loke. Today I decide I'll stay out longer and start running to work on my speed and stamina. I keep running late into the night until finally I get tired enough to stop. I sit down on the grass and drink some of the cool water Virgo brought me. As I'm relaxing I hear cracks coming from deeper in the forest. They keep getting louder and soon the entire area is filled with the sounds of a battle. "I think I preferred quiet." I say to myself then spring forward trying to find the source of all the noise. I dart between trees and over rocks and roots. Eventually I come across another clearing. This one however was recently made having all the trees destroyed and scattered about. In the center I see two people standing across from each other they are obviously the culprits. The one man is tall with a slim build. He wears a long black cloak and large black boots. His hair is a deep red and he has a cruel grin on his face. The other man is the last person I expected to see. There in front of me, unruly blonde hair and all stands Laxus. I didn't know what to do, both seemed to have been battling for sometime and although they both had cuts and bruises littering their bodies the unknown man seemed to be in better shape which could only mean Laxus was losing. The unknown man throws an attack which Laxus dodges with some slight difficulty the attack goes through to where I am so I jump up into a tree and climb, high enough that their attacks shouldn't harm me but low enough that I can still watch. The battle continues with neither side gaining any ground but soon the unknown man hits Laxus with a flurry of attacks. He's knocked back and against the tree that I'm in. I hope he'll get up but instead he sits there unmoving. "Can't get up huh? Guess you didn't notice when I injected some of my poison into you. Oh don't worry it only paralyzes you." A sick smile fills his face as he pulls a long sword out from under his black cloak. "No my poison won't kill you, but I sure as hell will!" He raises his sword ready to swing down. In am instant I react, jumping down from my place I land in front of Laxus, draw my sword and block the attack all in one fluid motion. The mans eyes widen as his smile disappears. I look up into his red eyes and push my sword up throwing him back. I take my stance sword at the ready. "You bitch." He snarls at me. "Now that is no language to use in front of a lady." I say sarcastically. "Just get outta her before I hurt you." With that he throws an attack one obviously meant for Laxus. I deflect the attack easily and throw him a glare. "Your opponent is me!" I yell and spring into action. He was clearly taken by surprise by my sudden attack but soon regained focus. He's strong I thought, but I can do this. We seemed to have equal skills in our swords however I was better in one key area, my speed. I could easily block anything he threw at me and attack back quicker than he could block. I had already landed a few shallow hits on him but nothing serious or powerful enough to fully take him down. Right now I was distracting long enough hopefully for Laxus to be able to move. Neither of us were getting anywhere and it seemed Laxus wasn't going to be able to move for a while I knew it was up to me. Swinging my sword forward the man blocked and I took the chance to raise a leg and kick him away from me. He shot a black substance towards me and I dodged just in time. It hit a tree behind me. Right where it hit the tree began to resolve until the entire tree fell. I looked around at all the trees that littered the area. That's when I noticed they all had the same marks on them. A disgusting laugh filled my ears and I looked to the man. "Impressed? This is my magic. Poison be it for trees or people I can attack with any and every poison there is. You lost the moment we began battling." He laughed more at me as I stood and glared. Finally I pulled out leos gate key. "Merge gate of the lion, Loke!" (This ability I've seen in alot of other fanfiction and although in the manga I know she can do this once the spirit she summoned is out I just like this way alot and wanted her to have this neat ability) With a bright flash I merge with Loke's key now I can use his power. The only thing changed is my hair has a streak of orange and ears very similar to Loke's are on the top of my head. I point my sword at the man who only smirks. "You really don't know who you're messing with girly. I'm Zain one of the best wizards in my guild."
"No doubt its a dark guild." We both circle around each other. "Not just any dark guild only the best dark guild around. The name is Reapers Rage." The name echoes in my head. I think back to that bandit quest however long ago. The leader of the group was from this guild he even said he was one of the best. If I'm right his name was Damien. "I've heard of your guild, I seem to remember a name, Damien I believe it was."
"Ha, so you know about Damien. Yea he's probably the best in the guild besides master of course. Although now that he's been captured that leaves me as masters favourite." I smirk and look into his eyes. "I'll take that thank you now." His brow furrows. "And why would I thank you."
"Simple, because your looking at the person who beat Damien and put you in his place as top dog, of course soon you'll be joining him." His eyes widen and I lunge forward swiftly attacking now I clearly have the upper hand. I deliver blow after blow in quick succession and push him back to the outer most edge of the clearing. By now he hasn't had a chance to use any magic and as I push him far away from me he attempts to use his magic against me but it quickly dissipates in the light of requlas and I yell. "Oh regular grant me strength!" I dash forward towards him. Zain's eyes widen and he keeps trying to hit me with his poisons. Finally right in front of him I bring back my fist and yell. "Regulas Impact!" The light from my hand fills the clearing and when it finally clears I see the man is knocked out. Quickly I dismiss the merge with Loke and summon Virgo. When she arrives I ask her to bring me some rope and soon her and I tie up the man. Once I'm done I remember Laxus and rush to his side. It strikes me as odd that I found it so easy to defeat the poison wizard but the might Laxus had been defeated. I look him over and see there are multiple serious injuries that suggest he was fighting for a long time. He seems to have lost consciousness so I treat his wounds and stay there with him until he wakes up.
Laxus p.o.v
"Can't get up huh? Guess you didn't notice when I injected some of my poison into you. Oh don't worry it only paralyzes you." A sick smile fills his face. Shit! I can't believe I didn't notice. Damn it doesn't help I had to fight the rest of the damn guild first. He pulls a black sword out from under his cloak. "No my poison won't kill you, but I sure as hell will!" He raises his sword ready to swing down. I sit waiting for the impact instead I see a flash of blonde and hear a loud clang. I look up to see a woman in front of me blocking the bastards attack. His eyes widen and his smile disappears as the woman pushes him back with her sword and takes her stance still in front of me."You bitch." He snarls. "Now that is no language to use in front of a lady." Wait that voice, Lucy!? Aw damn I need to tell her to get out of here. Unfortunately my voice won't work and I can only watch. "Just get outta here before I hurt you." I see him throw an attack my way but she blocks it."Your opponent is me!" She yells and springs forward. Just then the exhaustion of the battle and lack of magic catch up with me and I pass out.
And done chapter two. For a while I'll try to update as often as I I can and slowly I'll move into once a week. Review please and have a lovely day :3
~ShirakaneChan~