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Chapter Two

Her music drowned out most of her nightmare, Lucy loved hearing her music and not just empty and lonely silence. She did, however, wake up with a gasp when Bickslow shook her shoulder to announce that they had arrived at Seven, his babies were now twirling in a circle repeating, 'Mission, mission,' over and over.

She smiled at him and said thanks while getting her bag ready. "I didn't think you would listen to that kind of music," He told her as he took a step off the train.

"Huh?" Lucy asked watching his back while they walk towards the town they were supposed to work. Seeing a lot of townspeople eyeing the two of them, it was weird as they hadn't done anything, that she knows of.

"The whole screamo music and loud instrumental stuff, that's something Boss man would listen to." Bickslow stuck his tongue out at her as she giggled.

"Well, I really only recently got into it," Shrugging from why she got into it, "It just kind of speaks to me. I hear the words and the beats just hit my heart. I like it," She smiled thinking of the last song she heard.

When your mind gets tired, and your heart grows gold. When you find yourself at the crossroads, just don't lose hope.

Lucy tries to remind herself of that every day. Bickslow hummed and nodded he found that in his music so, he knew what she was talking about, but he also had another question, "So, why didn't you go on a job with your team?"

She skipped along the sidewalk of a flying piece of trash, "Well, I was sick for a few days and they asked me if they could just go without me. I'm pretty sure they took Lisanna though," Holding her finger to her chin.

"Are you okay with that?"

"Yeah, they can go on missions without me, I'm going without them," holding her hand out to him, emphasis on her mission with the Seith mage, then Pappa landed on her hand and she laughed, "You keep sitting on me. You like me or something?" Lucy asked the little smiling totem.

"Your soul is warm." Pappa squeaked, making the stellar mage giggle.

"What does that mean?" Looking up at Bickslow who was just watching them as he walked backwards. He was amazed that Pappa was talking to her, and her soul being warm was a very good thing.

His babies rarely ever talk to people on their own. They talk to people ask Bickslow to talk to them. Like they aren't people, or souls. The Thunder Legion talk to them but they have known him for years.

"It means that you are welcoming." He explained in the simplest way he could.

"Am I?" He didn't know if that was a question for him or for her.

As they continued walking, they joked and laughed all along the way. His babies even had a conversation with the blonde celestial mage and his was sort of happy and content being here with her; it made him feel awkward.

They had stopped by a river before his babies helped then both across. Lucy had asked about his magic and how he got it since just about everyone in Fairy Tail knows about Lucy's past. "Uh, it was given to me at birth. There's not a lot of people who have this kind of magic."

She had to think, it was a form a dark magic, but she knew that he wasn't that kind of mage, "Is that why people stared at us on the street in town?" She had noticed many people looking over to them with wry eyes.

His shoulders hitch up, "Yeah, people tend to get freaked out with floating totems with their on voices," He was making sure that his babies never got to rowdy around the town but right now they could float out in the woods as along as he knew where they were.

Lucy nodded, she understood townspeople sometimes get freaked out just by Natsu and Gray because they can get a bit rough around any buildings, "I think they are cute," Lifting her shoulder with Pappa sitting there.

He cackled at that, "Sometimes. Sometimes they get on my nerves," Lolling his to tongue to his cheek as his babies float over to him to argue against that.

The two mages saw the opening to the town of Jontronus, the beautiful looking bushes outside the gated city. There was even a vined arch arbor over the entrance with gorgeous looking tiger lilies. "Wow," Lucy commented on how beautiful everything looked.

"Yeah, this shit looks sick," Bickslow whistled lowly having his babies trail after him and the stellar mage. Lucy smacked him in the chest for his language; the blue-haired mage only stuck out his tongue at her.

They wondered the beautiful town, seeing the many nicely built shops and new pavement. This city was recently finished, Lucy would guess. Finding the mayors building, they looked up to a giant painting of a small bold man with a bushy mustache and eyebrows. The blonde just had to laugh.

Lucy knocked on the door and stepped back, almost bumping into Bickslow; his hand had stopped her from hitting him on her lower back. She squeaked and moved a little to the left with a pink blush on her cheeks.

The door opened to a tall woman with her brown hair pulled up into a tight bun. Her makeup was also very on point, to Lucy, and very too much of. Bickslow was eyeing her now though, looking her up and down before she spoke, "What can I do for you two?"

Since the Seith mage was busy eyeing her long legs, Lucy cleared her throat, "We came for the job post from the mayor," Pulling out the flyer with both of their names on it.

She looked it over and then looked between the two Fairy Tail mages, "Where are your guild marks?" Lucy held up her hand while her partner for the day rolled out his tongue making the maid pull her lip up in disgust.

"Right," Looking them both up and down and moved out of the way, "Right this way. I'll show you to his study,"

The mages followed the tall housekeeper through the large building, Lucy's eyes found interest in all the paintings that hung on the walls. Lots of nature paints with bright flowers and green bushes. There was one of a woman sitting in a chair in front of a window, the blonde didn't even realize that she had stopped to look at the painting until Puppu showed up in front of her to tell her to hurry up.

"Oh, sorry," smiling softly at the totem and following her partner.

Arriving at the study to find the man they saw outside in the painting on the building, sitting in a large desk chair that lifted high above his head. Looking up from his desk and papers that he seemed to be signing, he smiled and stood, "Hello, are you the Fairy Tail mages I requested?"

"Yes sir," Lucy responded sitting on the couch that was facing the wide oak desk colored burgundy and Lucy wished she had that desk for herself, "I'm Lucy and this is Bickslow," holding her hand out to the blue haired Seith mage.

"I'm aware," Pulling out a folder from under a pile of papers on the corner of his desk, some papers falling off the top and flew around desk to the carpeted floor. Bickslow stood slightly to pick them up and hand them to the Mayor.

Offering him a small thank you he continued on, "Now, there's an abandoned house at the end of Odigaren Street. Many teenagers and bored young adults 'play' there. I've been getting reports of screaming and people going missing. Last week, we had a dead body lying on the front lawn."

He handed them papers and newspaper clippings of the incidents, then the crime photo of last weeks' happening. Lucy handed the photo and folder to Bickslow when she took a steep breath at the photo.

"This has been the last straw, I thought it was only a prank, but now it's serious. I need your help," the Mayor had folded his hands together and gave them a pleading look.

Bickslow scooted forward on the couch, "Do you know who is doing this? Like who this ghost actually is?" he asked seriously.

"Well, I have no idea actually. I believe the last person to actually live there was a woman by the name of Annabeth Witman and her husband."

The two nodded, they were going to have to do some research before going into the house. After their meeting with the Mayor, the two mages went to the local historical records building. His babies helped them carry books back and forth from the shelf and the table they were sitting at.

Bickslow wanted to save this spirit, he didn't know if they would be able to move on or not; he wanted to try anyway.

Lucy also wanted to help, she hoped that this wasn't too much of an angry entity. Lucy was sitting at the table reading the records for the town while Bickslow was reading the newspapers of that time to see if anything had happened worth noting.

"Hey, I think I found something," pushing the paper in front of her, Bickslow pointed to a small clipping of a story, Local couple divorce in brutal custody war. Her eyes widened, snapping the paper up for a better look.

"Yeah, it says here that she had cheated on him with the local town's bank manager." He told her as the stellar mage read on.

The bank manager was Herbert Tuff, Annabeth's husband caught them in the house, in the living room. It seemed that all three of them had died that night and a couple of theories were floating around about what had happened.

"So, who do you think it is then?" Lucy looked up at him with a raised eyebrow.

"We don't know if we don't check it out," for a moment he stood then slammed back into his seat across from her, "I say we get some sleep and then go out at night, unless you're too scared," He joked with his tongue rolled out.

Lucy laughed, slamming her book shut, "I think I can take on some scary man who hates cheaters," Sticking her tongue out at him and watched him laugh, "We should find somewhere to sleep, did you see any hotels in town?"

The Fairy Tail mages started putting away their books and papers to find somewhere to stay. The hotel they found was only 3 streets away from where they were and had gotten their rooms. Well, one room but Lucy was thankful it had two beds in the room.

[***]

"How have you never seen that movie?" Bickslow laughed then took a bite of his burger, they had just gotten room service, "It's a total chick flick, that's like your thing," holding his hands up in distress.

The stellar mage laughed, and popped a piece of chicken in her mouth, "I don't do chick flicks! They all lie! I mean who just gets with someone like the day of meeting them?" All of his babies were sitting on her bed instead of Bickslow's.

They all started chanting, 'Horror, horror!'

"Exactly!" Lucy yelled, throwing her hands at the totems, "Horror is where it's at!"

The blue haired Seith mage laughed loudly, throwing his head back, "Horror thriller is the best kind movie there is," He was on the opposite bed clad in just a pair of pajama pants. His visor was laid on the night stand, showing off his face tattoo and beautiful, in Lucy's opinion, eyes.

Lucy on the other hand was wearing her favorite big shirt and a small pair of booty shorts, "My favorite has to be the Saw movies," Eating more of her fries before one of his babies steals one to give to Bickslow again; mostly Peppe. Pappa was perched on her shoulder per usual, while the rest were sitting in front of her quietly.

"When did my babies become yours?" He asked, glaring at the little totems.

The blonde laughed, "I'm not really sure," Looking around at the room they were in, their bags were set on the table on the far side, "So, what time are we waking up?" getting her keys off the night table between them.

"I would say, maybe, midnight?" He guessed; it would be prime time to catch this ghost in action.

He watched her close her eyes for a few moments until she turned back to him, "Okay, I talked to Horologium and made an alarm for 12:15, is that okay?"

His eyes widened, he didn't know that clock spirit would wake us up; something so not worth summoning him for and they she could speak to her spirits through her mind, "You just spoke with him? Without summoning him?" He inadvertently asked her.

Lucy smiled, very proud of herself at this moment, "Yeah! I strengthened my bond with them, they can't watch me, but they can hear me if I talk to them directly,"

"That's pretty awesome," Now, they were both just smiling at each other.

The totems flew in between them, 'Bedtime, Bedtime!" they chanted.

The two mages started blinking and then laughed awkwardly before Poppo shut the lights off for them and they both laid in their separate beds.

Bickslow turned off his babies connected but not before saying, 'You guys are just cock blockers.' Then letting them stack on the table and waited for the Fairy Tail mages to wake up.

[***]

A loud dinging was heard in the quiet hotel room, Lucy looked up to see her grandfather clock spirit standing right between the two beds. She groaned while shifting in her bed and then he dinged again when she didn't respond.

"Okay, Horologium. I'm awake," making him stop and the blonde smiled to her spirit before thanking him. She looked across the room to see that Bickslow was still fast asleep and she had to wake him up now.

It seemed that the Seith mage was a heavy sleeper, the stellar mage stood over him on his stomach, snoring up a storm. Her hand stuck out to tickle his feet that was sticking out of his blanket, yet he only moved his feet away from her groaning, "Stop," He mumbled in his sleep.

Lucy just had to giggle, "Bicks, you gotta wake up." Poking his side now, he still wasn't getting up. She huffed when, again, he didn't move one inch. Crossing her arms, she thought of another method of waking him.

Climbing on the bed, she stood on her knees beside him; Lucy covered his mouth and plugged his nose with both hands. She waited; his eyes then opened, and he started to push her back. Suddenly, his strengthen overpowered hers as he pinned the blonde to his bed.

Lucy yelped when he held down her arms beside her head, "What's happening?" Bickslow asked, thinking that someone was attacking him but then he saw it was only Lucy, "Cosplayer, what the hell?"

"You wouldn't wake up?" her voice was small as he looked around the room, he let her go while she started breathing again, "You always wake up in attack mode?" Asking him before standing up to get her clothes from her bag.

"Only when someone cuts off my oxygen," He joked waking up his babies and having them fly around the room in excitement. Their souls were always in his mind, but he just quieted them when he slept, its not like they could sleep because they have no human bodies.

"YOU WOULDN'T WAKE UP!" She yelled from the bathroom to get dressed. Bickslow only laughed and getting dressed himself.

[***]

Standing in front of the house, it was certainly creepy at night. The house was normal, but the weather and nature had gotten to it with torn siding and broken windows with vines and moss growing all over.

"Well, this is super creepy," Bickslow nodded to her statement just staring at the broken home with wry eyes. His babies were floating beside the two chanting, 'Creepy, creepy,'

Bickslow stepped forward, "Well, lets get going then,"

Lucy stepped along with him as he got to the door, turning the knob and looking from behind his arm to see the dark abyss of the house.

There wasn't too much in the house; the living room had a long L-shape couch and an oval shape coffee table in front of it. Once they walked in the T.V. turned on to static, their heads snapped to it and Bickslow activated his Figure eyes to see if he could see the spirit.

"Did you see anything?" Lucy asked, looking around if she could see anything, nothing so far.

"Yeah but it's not the husband," Bickslow stated, staring at the woman that was standing near the T.V., Lucy looked confused until she was face to face with the said spirit, letting out a scream and jumping back.

"Get. Out." The woman told them, but she didn't look like she was in control of herself as she arm swung out to hit Bickslow, only to hit air as he leaned back to avoid her.

"We're here to help," Lucy said, holding out her hands for the spirit to calm down but she apparently decided to throw a flower vase at the stellar mage.

"Cosplayer, you okay?" Bickslow panicked, he had to get control of this spirit, but it seemed like someone else had gotten to her first, "I think someone is controlling her," He commented.

The stellar mage looked down at the long cut across her forearm, but nothing else was damaged, "Yeah, I'm fine. Who would be doing that?" her mocha eyes turned towards Annabeth, "Annabeth, who is it?"

The spirit stared for a moment before disappearing, Lucy groaned before calling out Virgo, "We are on a mission, I need your help to find a spirit," She told the maid before she could ask for punishment again.

The two then went back to Bickslow and made a plan to search for the person who is controlling the wife, "Could it be another Seith mage?" She asked him as he was deep in thought.

It could have been another Seith mage, he didn't really know of any, "It's possible,"

Suddenly, they heard a loud crash form behind the blue haired mage, turning around they saw his babies had blocked a lamp that was thrown at him. They decided then to search around the house, Lucy went upstairs with Virgo while Bickslow stayed with his babies on the ground floor.

With Bickslow:

His eyes darted across the living room trying to find anything he could, like evidence that a human being was here. His babies were flying all over the place and telling him that they hasn't find anything either, hopefully Lucy can find something.

With Lucy & Virgo

They searched through all the rooms, and now they were standing in one that looked very lived in. The bed had the blankets through everywhere, it was still warm too. "Someone's here," Lucy whispered to her friend.

The stellar mage transformed into her Virgo star dress, her long blonde hair in pigtails at the base of her skull and the frilly maid outfit that ended past her butt, "Go that way," Virgo nodded while going down the hall towards the bathroom.

Lucy looked into the nearby bedroom to see covered furniture and dusty cobwebs everywhere, "Gross,"

"I don't come to your house and tell you your stuff is disgusting," A voice was heard from behind her. She turned and was hit in the chest, falling to her back. Trying to catch her breath, Lucy saw Virgo come up from the ground between them.

The pink-haired spirit blocked the guys view of her master, "Cosplayer, I heard something, are you-,"

Seeing an old man with green eyes staring at his partner and her maid spirit, in some old dusty clothing, "Who are you?"

"I am Herbert Tuff,"

"The bank manager?" Lucy was now standing up with her hands clenched. She threw her hand forward throwing her chains that were on her wrists to try to detain him, but he moved out of the way.

"Lucy, close your eyes," Bickslow quickly said when he saw they guy turn towards her. He knew what he was going to try to do. The blonde immediately listened and shut her eyes and heard a grunt and Virgo pulled her out of the way.

"Virgo I need chains, or a rope or something," Bickslow franticly yelled while Lucy had her eyes still closed, he hadn't told her she could open her eyes yet, "You can open your eyes now Cosplayer,"

Once her eyes were open, she saw Bickslow with his Figure eyes activated on Herbert, his babies were surrounding the man who was sitting on the floor tied up with chains. Lucy had told Virgo to go back with a thank you.

The blonde stepped next to her partner with her arms crossed, "So, what? You wanted to get back at Annabeth or her husband?" Wanting to get to the bottom of it.

"I don't have to tell you anything bitch!" He yelled, almost spitting at the two mages.

"Hey!" Bickslow shouted back, "You can't talk to her like that!" possessing his body again after letting him go to talk to Lucy.

Putting a hand on his chest, "No, it's okay. Why are you controlling her spirit?"

After letting him back he glared at the blonde, didn't really tell them why he's going any of this. Herbert looked like he wasn't going to tell them anything, so they called the Rune Knights to come get the man. The two were standing on the porch of the house watching the old man being taken into the van with about 10 Knight surrounding him.

"Now what?" Lucy asked leaning up against the pillar above the stairs.

"What you mean? We go home, plus, your still bleeding Lucy," She had almost forgot out the cut on her arm, Lucy brushed it off.

Shrugging, "I'm okay, I meant about Annabeth,"

His head snapped to the door, when he felt her soul calling out to him.

"It wasn't me," She told him. Lucy looked at him when he didn't answer her to see him looking at the open door.

"What wasn't?"

Annabeth looked down, feeling very uncomfortable, her eyes shifted around until it hit back to Bickslow, "I didn't cheat on him,"

"What's happening?" Lucy whispered to the Seith mage, who was just standing there watching the open door. Bickslow then waved her off until he got the whole story.

"My husband cheated on me with Herbert," Bickslow's eyes widened, that was really a big twist, letting out a low whistle he let her continue her side of the story, "Herbert didn't want that to get in the papers so he killed me before I could tell anyone. I heard that he killed my husband because he was afraid that he would also tell,"

"That is a shitty situation," crossing his arms while looking down to Lucy he then went on to explain everything to the blonde, making her gasp in shock.

Once they had the whole story it seemed like that her soul was ready to move on, her whole existence started to glow bright and her features calmed. Then disappearing without a sound, Lucy was very happy that everyone got what they deserve, and her soul felt light at the moment.

As they told the story to the Mayor, he was shocked, never would he think Herbert would do something like this; he had known the man for a while and he had never shown signs of being evil. He had alerted the newspapers to change the story, per Lucy's request.

[***]

"So, what key did you get?" Bickslow asked on the train ride back to Magnolia and having his babies sleep for the ride.

Pulling out the bronze key from her key ring, "It's the constellation, Vulpecula, the little fox. I've never had a bronze key before. I'm really excited to meet them," admiring the copper coloring and the several fox tails that make up the top of the key. Her arm was now bandaged from Bickslow insisted on it.

Pulling up his leg to the take up the entire bench he laid on his back with his knees up, "So when are you gonna make a contract Cosplayer?"

"When are you gonna stop calling me that? Possibly when we get back home," getting the key back on the ring while also pulling up her knees to her chest and setting her back against the window.

"Never, that name suits you. Unless you want me to call you sweet thing," Winking at the blonde, Lucy just shook her head at him.

[***]

Arriving at the Fairy Tail again being almost noon, Lucy looked over the guild see not see her team anywhere. She did see Lisanna at the bar with her sister, making her way to the take-over mages, she sat in her normal bar stool.

"Hey Lis!" waving to the white-haired mage, "How was the mission?" already knowing the answer.

"Lucy! Oh, it was…eventful." Rolling her eyes and leaning on her elbows towards the blonde, "Do Gray and Natsu fight all of the time?"

Nodding enthusiastically, "Yes, almost all the time,"

"Ugh, I had to yell at them multiple times! Oh, how was your mission with Bickslow?" wiggling her eyebrows at the stellar mage, probably taking note from her older sister.

"It was fine, I got a key out of it!" Pulling the bronze key out to show her.

Lisanna looked it over and was impressed, knowing that Lucy never had one of these before, "Wow, that's really awesome Lucy!"

The two talked for awhile until Mira needed Lisanna to help her around the guild, so Lucy walked over to one of the tables by the door. She had forgot to ask where her team was, too focused on their banter to remember.

[***]

Bickslow arrived at his teams usual table on the second floor, sticking his tongue out as a hello to Evergreen and Freed with a wave to Laxus, "How was the mission?" Evergreen asked from behind her fan.

"It was really chill," holding his hands behind his head with his babies floating around chanting, 'Cosplayer chill, fun time, again again,'

"Well, since you're back, we have a job." Boss man, always cutting to the chase, "It's a monster hunt out in Onibus, not too far so we can walk,"

"When?" Freed asked.

"Tomorrow, at 8 in the morning," Bickslow looked over the balcony to see Lucy reading in the corner of a booth, with her knees to her chest; her eyes wondered around the guild again then sighed before turning back to her book.

Not hearing a word Freed just said, Bickslow asked, "Can we take someone with us this time?"

They all turned to him, "Who and why?" Laxus asked, crossing his arms.

"Well, Cosplayer. She's very useful and she can learn from us. I feel like she just needs some time away from her team, she didn't tell me anything, but it just seemed like it," Shrugging, waiting for Laxus to say anything; it was really just a suggestion, it could be good for Lucy to be with another team.

"Okay, fine. We'll see how she is and maybe I can suggest some training to Gramps about it," he looked over the balcony to see if he could see the blonde, "Where is she?"

Bickslow glanced over to where he last saw her, but found the booth empty, "She was just right there," pointing to the table. Pappa floated up to his face, 'went home, too tired'

Puppu then stated, 'She told Mira that she was tired and went home." He simply reiterated for Pappa.

"Then lets go find her," Evergreen stood and was already out the door before anyone could protest.

[***]

Laxus and the Thunder Legion opened the door to the blonde's apartment, they hadn't even knocked and Bickslow found this to be a bit intruding but fuck it?

"Blondie!" Laxus yelled and then there was a out scream from the kitchen.

They found Lucy on the ground with a hand to her chest breathing heavily, "What the-"

"You're going to on a mission with us," Laxus told her while her mocha eyes found Bickslow and he shrugged at her.

"Okay."

I know this is long but I really wanted to end it here, but thank you all for following and reviewing! I appreciate all of it! tell me what you think! Until next time!