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Everyone stood in shock and awe, the crater she made was deep and huge, covering nearly the entire training grounds. There was an excited yell and everyone saw a flash of pink dashing to once again to take a stance in front of the blonde mage. She looked at him disbelievingly, "y-you still want to fight?" She asked him, sputtering out the words.
"Hell yeah!" He shouted.
She rolled her eyes, "fine" she told him. Her battle stance was different from his. He was hunched, knees apart, fists raised and fire ready to go, to fly across the arena and beat his opponent to a pulp. Her stance seemed more graceful, she had the hilt of her weapon in one hand poised facing away from her, and both arms raised outward, feet apart, digging them into the ground to stabilize her.
He leaped across the field and she swung the hammer around, she could feel the tension. Even though it was light, she could still feel the wind pushing against her hammer and it dragged her about an inch forward before she connected with his stomach, and there she released it sending him spinning across the field. He crashed into the ground out of the crater; everyone watching the fight looked even more shocked, and then laughed at the pink haired boys twitching body, the look on his face was priceless.
Lucy walked over and picked up her hammer; strapping it once more to her back as she simultaneously reached down and took the boys hand and helped him up. "That was a good fight!" He said rubbing the back of his head looking sheepish, "my name is Natsu!" He told her enthusiastically, she shook her head smiling. "Lucy" she told him.
"Oh I already knew that!" He laughed, I overheard you and Erza, I bet by now everyone knows your name!" He was still grinning from ear to ear.
"Well now; I'm going to have to get to know everyone else's then!" She laughed and with that she turned and headed in Erza and the old man's direction, he was smiling and Erza nodded at her, with a look of approval. Lucy faced the old man "Well, well, come inside!" He said brightly "we need to go ahead and give you the Fairy Tail mark!"
She had it placed on the back of her hand, pink, when Mira asked her, by now she knew almost everyone's names by the time she got inside. So many people were pestering her with questions but eventually she managed to politely shrug them off, and was now standing in front of the bar asking Mira for a strawberry milkshake. she felt a presence behind her and quickly turned around to see who it was and came face to face - or rather - boob to face with Erza who had been leaning down to examine her hammer.
Erza stepped back hurriedly, blushing scarlet red, apologizing profusely while bowing over and over, and asking her to strike her for her rude behavior. Lucy waved her hand dismissively laughing good naturedly "Do you want to see it?" She asked.
Erza nodded and watched the blonde girl pull the hammer from her back and hold it in her palms, towards Erza to examine it more closely "May I hold it?" Erza asked.
"I'm sorry, you can't" Lucy told her with an apologetic smile, Erza nodded, understanding, there were weapons of hers that she would not let other people touch, that she felt a sort of bond to. So she leaned close to inspect it, Lucy chuckled.
"You can touch it though," she told her, nodding at Erza to go ahead. The red haired mage wasted no time examining the hammer closely. The actual Hammer itself was huge, twice the size of Lucy's head, and resembled close to a cinder block, but was nicely edged. She ran her hands over it admiring the smooth glass-like silver sheen of it, it almost seemed to sparkle, on the top in the center she ran her hands over the spike protruding out of it, it looked deadly.
What she was saving for last though and what piqued her interest in the first place; was the hilt of the weapon. It was long, almost as long as the girl herself and it was made of a gorgeous dark wood and was etched in artistic perfection, large beasts, dragons, celestial images adorned the piece and blended altogether perfectly, the weapon was in harmony with itself. When she finally made it to the end she was holding a small violet ribbon made of leather tied in a knot. "My own personal touch" Lucy told her.
"It is a fine weapon" Erza commented "Thank you for allowing me to marvel its wonder" she said bowing respectively.
Lucy bellowed out a laugh causing half the guild to stare at her, "It's no problem" she told her grinning.
"What are you going to do now dear Lucy?" Master Makarov asked her.
"I need to take a job" she told him "I've been wandering around from town to town for about a year now, training in the outskirts and I'm finally ready to settle and establish myself as a part of something" she explained, he nodded his head in satisfied approval.
"If you would not mind, I would love for you and me to partner together" Erza told her, fist over her heart.
Lucy smiled; it was as bright as the sun "I'd love to!" She squealed.
With that the friendship and partnership blossomed between the two girls.
