A/N: Doing some editing on each chapter. I'm having someone beta read/fix my story up and I'm re-posting each chapter one FF. This chapter is one that they've fixed up for me. They said my story is alright and that I have everything that I want to say in my head, but my descriptions need some work. So I'm glad I have a beta reader which is my dad. He's an author of only one book that's sold in stores. His story is called "Blood For Power" by "Eddie Laine" If anyone is is into war and vampires than you should give it a read. Anyways he works and might not always have time to read over and fix my story so I'll be not posting for a while until all five chapters that are posted are fixed up. I'm still gonna work on chapter six and others in the mean time. So that's the reason why I'm posting the edited version of each chapter. Please continue to read and hopefully I'll post again. Look forward to it!
Cat Ears
dicloniouslove&YullenStarDust
Chapter Two
It was mid-day when Loki and Lucy walked through the front door of Lucy's home. The two found out that they had a lot in common when explaining their pasts. When Loki's key was in the hands of Karen a very abusive female master who had treated him and the celestial zodiac ram, Aries badly. She died while in a fight with another celestial wizard four years ago.
Lucy harbored hatred towards her father for ignoring her for almost all her life. Ever since her mother died her father, Jude had become colder towards her. She remembered the guild getting attacked by another guild in the country of Fiore called Phantom Lord. There were four members in the group, The Element Four. All were defeated although two of them changed their ways and joined Lucy's current guild, Fairy Tail. Juvia; the female blue-haired and blue-eyed water wizard who can turn her physical form into the liquid itself. She had a huge obsession with Gray as well. She obsessed to the point of stalking him.
Gajeel the iron dragon slayer who was raised by the iron dragon, Melalicana. He also has long black hair, piercings on his ears, chin, and nose.
Sol a green haired, black eyed adult male with a monocle, and a thin mustache. He can use earth magic.
Aria a bald man who keeps his eyes wrapped in bandages and only takes them off when he wants to drain his opponent of their magical powers. To wizards magical power is their lifeline. If they are drained of their magical power it can make them really sick or near death. He also has tanned skin and magenta colored eyes and uses wind magic.
Finally last but not least, there is Totomaru whose hair color is both black and white. He has black eyes, dressed in a traditional Japanese garment and uses fire magic.
She remembered Natsu saving her from a tower she had fallen from and Natsu happened to have come running and save her from falling to her death.
Later on the next day Lucy boarded a train traveling to her old mansion confronting her father following after the kidnapping to tell him how she really felt. She expressed her hatred towards Jude and the fact that he ignored her as a child. She then left the place she once called home hopefully for good.
"Well I'm glad we got those off our chests." The ginger-haired celestial spirit laughed as he removed his blue tinted sunglasses to clean them.
The blonde-haired neko softly gasped when she saw his hazel eyes in which the light softly reflected off of them perfectly. She began to feel her face flush red in shyness.
"What? What is it?" Loki asked curiously as he put his glasses back on. He was clueless as to why his now girlfriend was blushing.
Lucy shyly smiled and looked away for a brief moment. "Nothing… It's nothing. You just…look handsome without your sunglasses."
"Oh, you think so huh?" Loki chuckled, and then gave Lucy a tight hug goodnight.
Lucy hugged him in return moving her right hand onto the upper part of his back. "Maybe I should stop wearing them for the time being." He considered, but will still give it some thought into it.
The two then pulled back, but their hands were still wrapped on each other's backs. Loki then leaned in for a kiss and Lucy followed suit. The two shared a loving kiss before releasing their hold on each other.
"See you tomorrow, Lucy." Loki waved to her as he went out of sight. She had to admit, she was saddened to see him go and wanted to stop to ask him if he wanted to stay with her overnight, but decided not to. She was starting to grow exhausted from what happened earlier. She then went inside her bedroom, shutting the door behind her and not forgetting to lock it. She also locked the windows because she knew a certain pink haired dragon slayer might come in through there. He had a bad habit of breaking and entering through her window just to visit her.
Lucy sighed as she walked to the bed and plopping down onto the mattress not caring if there was dried up blood on her clothes. She didn't even know how it got there.
"I'm so tired" she said aloud to herself as she fell into a deep sleep dreaming of her and Loki together. The next morning Lucy woke up with her hearing sensitive again. "Could it be?" She said to herself. Her hand went up to her head to feel for her cat ears. They were there and so was her tail too that was now moving behind her.
"No way," She said in disbelief. "This can't be happening. The spell couldn't have worn off. It's supposed to last eternity! I'm only supposed to be a neko only once a year!" Lucy started bawling into her hands worrying about what the others will think of her. Will they reject her because she was a neko? Will they kick her out of the Guild?
Lucy sighed talking aloud to herself since no one was there. "Nah, they wouldn't do that, because they're all my friends." Lucy wiped the tears from her eyes and decided to take a shower to get the dried blood off.
Lucy turned the hot water making sure that it wasn't too hot. Lucy stripped out of her clothing and walked into the shower.
Lucy picked up the bar of soap and began scrubbing her entire body. "I still don't know how all this blood got on me," She said as she watched the red liquid go down the drain.
Lucy exhaled as to hope that the question that went through her mind would go away after she showered, but they didn't.
As she was thinking of the blood she thought the worst. "O-Oh my gosh…" she covered her mouth with her hands. "I…. couldn't have possibly…"
Lucy fell to her knees in the shower before finishing her sentence, resting her hand on the tile wall. Her breathing became more altered and rapid than before. When it went back to normal, she got out of the shower, dried off with a towel, and put some new clothes on. Taking the hairdryer she dried her hair and put it in a ponytail. She put a jacket on that came with a hood.
Putting on her shoes and socks she walked out of her apartment and towards the Guild yawning.
"Hey guys!" Lucy called out to her friends when she entered Fairy Tail. They all greeted her with a smile.
'How can they smile like that when I'm like this? It must be because they don't know the truth. I plan to keep it that way too' Lucy thought as she walked up to them.
"You're wearing a hood again, Lucy" Erza, a long scarlet-haired girl that was wearing armor said studying her.
"You smell different than usual" Natsu said standing so close she could feel Natsu's hot breath on her cheek.
"Get off me, you pervert!" Lucy yelled and threw him off of her, but her claws accidentally scratched his arm.
"Ouch, Lucy; that hurt!" Natsu said looking at the scratch marks on his arm.
"S-sorry, I accidentally scratched you and about the smell I put some new perfume on." Lucy lied hoping that would get him to stop asking about the smell.
"Let's look for a job to take." Gray said walking over to the job board.
Lucy smiled, since that would take her mind off of the smell question.
Gray scanned the papers to see if any sparked his interest. He finally found one and called Lucy, Loki, Erza, and Natsu over.
"Here" he said and pointed to the paper that caught his eye and read it to them. "A woman and her family are killed after a rogue wizard raids their house. It isn't known if the wizard is male or female, but he or she is very dangerous and will fire at anyone in his or her path. Also, the reason is unknown as to why, but that will be found out if anyone at this Guild takes the job.
Lucy saw that it was worth five thousand jewels. She sighed as she noticed that it wouldn't cover her rent since they all had to split the money between all of them.
'Wow' Lucy she thought to herself. 'It seems like we've been hunting down rogue wizards all this week. I wonder why…'
"Let's go!" Natsu shouted as he grabbed the paper and rushed out the door. All five of them including a blue exceed named Happy, an exceed is a talking cat with white wings. Although Harpy's wings weren't showing at the moment, but they do whenever he wants to fly.
"Natsu, Wait up!" Happy shouted and flew after his best friend. The others went after the two towards the train station.
Once on the train Natsu was between Erza and Gray looking horrible. "Uugh stop the train." It looked like he was about to throw up, but didn't. His face was pale, because of his terrible motion sickness. He couldn't handle any vehicle or moving thing what so ever. He could handle Happy carrying him through the sky since he doesn't think of him as a vehicle, but as a friend instead.
"You better not puke on me flame brain." Gray said looking at Natsu in disgust who only moaned in agony.
"I know a cure!" Happy said.
"Whaat is it?" Natsu asked not wanting to talk at the moment.
"Erza is the cure; right?" Lucy asked while laughing. She then saw Erza punch Natsu in the stomach hard enough to knock him out.
"So now that's out of the way. What now?" Gray asked looking out the window seeing the town that they are supposed to arrive in in clear view.
"I think we're here because the train is stopping." Loki said looking outside at the town as well.
The train completely stopped, but Natsu was still out cold. Erza lifted him over her shoulder and they walked off the train and into the town.
"Wow…this place is so pretty…" Happy's eyes beamed as the group was walking down the cobbled streets of the city seeing all the decorations and pretty buildings. He smelled the scent of fish cooking from a ship near the bay, and his mouth started watering.
"It seems we're in Hargeon." Lucy said looking around at the town that was known for its fishing industry and not for wizardry.
Erza what Happy was looking at and said "We don't have time, Happy." She told him a smile knowing how excited he gets around fish. "We have to find the house and see what we can find that the rogue wizard was probably after."
Happy pouted, crossing his little arms. He groaned out "Fine"
When the group wasn't looking, Happy ran off and stole a piece of fish off of the small barbecue that the fisherman had put out.
"Come back here and give me back my fish!" The fisherman yelled, but Happy ignored him and ran back to the group.
"Let's see where the house is," Lucy said to herself walking around looking for people to ask. She found an old man sitting on his front porch in a rocking chair.
Lucy walked up to him and asked, "Can I have a moment of your time?"
"Are you a saleswoman? I don't have anything I want to buy nor do I have any jewels to give to you."
Lucy's eye twitched in annoyance at the old man but didn't say anything.
"No. No. I'm not a saleswoman I just wanted to ask you a question," Lucy said.
"Go ahead then"
"Alright, do you know if there was a house raid nearby here in town?" she asked.
"Sure do. It's on Elm Street, but you better be careful. I heard that the wizard is still on the loose." The old man said.
"Thank you for your time, sir. Goodbye." She then left the house. The old man called out once again to Lucy as she departed. "Take that hood off! Only hoodlums wear hoods!" the old man stated. Lucy politely ignored the old man's comments making her way back to her group muttering "it's on Elm Street."
"Don't worry about what the old said about your hood, Lucy." Loki told her, resting his hand on her shoulder knowing that she was annoyed with the old man.
Lucy smiled shyly with a blush appearing on her cheeks. Natsu happened to see the affection between them and couldn't help but feel a pinch of jealousy. He had mixed feelings about Lucy. The celestial wizard he had met in the past when she first joined the Guild. Not wanting his jealousy to get the best of him he looked away, but couldn't hold back the furious blush he had on his cheeks.
They all finally came across the raided house. It was bigger than they expected. They assumed for it to be a regular sized house, but it turned out to be a mansion.
"Who would raid a mansion this size?" Gray said pondering to himself.
Erza cleared her throat causing the ice wizard's train of thought to go away, but the action wasn't caused towards Gray. It was towards getting ready to enter the mansion. She had the urge to knock on the door to see if anyone was in there. Possibly seeing if there was anything for the attacker to steal, but she resisted it and opened the door. It seemed to be locked so she tried again.
"Let me try." Natsu smirked and hit his fists together. A ring of fire emerged below him with his pink hair flowing wildly as he summoned up a fireball. He sent the fireball towards the door, but it only singed a part of it.
Gray exhaled in frustration and Natsu noticed. However he knew now wasn't the time for the two to bicker and call each other names. So the sigh was all Gray let out of his system towards the dragon slayer.
"Ice- Make- Arrow!" Gray called the words out one by one and sent a huge ice arrow towards the door. The group watched as the ice broke through, the pieces of wood sent flying in the sky and some falling to the ground.
Lucy, Loki, Natsu, Gray, Erza, and Happy dusted off any pieces that landed on them and went inside.
Lucy happened to notice the police tape where the bodies were found. The tape had given it away.
"Strange…" Lucy said to herself.
"What seems to be the problem, Luce?" Natsu asked her and didn't see Loki glare at him for a brief moment when he heard Natsu use his nickname for Lucy.
"There's police tape still here." The blonde neko pointed out. "Wouldn't it usually be gone after the police are done taking the bodies and have searched for any possible evidence of the crime scene?"
"Yes. Yes it would." Erza had one hand under her chin in thought thinking over what Lucy just informed them. One eyebrow was furrowed in pondering as well.
Erza carefully walked towards the tape and bent down to touch it. However she saw that it disappeared once her fingers slightly brushed up against it. She gasped and stepped back quickly. "What the hell?"
Erza then gasped one more time as the tape appeared again, but it wrapped around her, Gray, Loki, and Natsu. A small one was also used for Happy. The tape had bound them tight and lifted them up in the air sticking to the roof.
Lucy's brown eyes widened, as she couldn't believe what was happening. "Guys!" she yelled to them "What in the world is going on?" she was confused and scared for her group.
"I don't know!" Erza gritted her teeth trying to get out, but the tape on them didn't budge. "I have a feeling that the rogue wizard is behind this…"
"Did someone mention me?" They heard a chuckle come from the main entrance that the group had busted in from.
The rogue wizard known as Kenneth looked around smirking at what he had caused.
"My, my. You guys really know how to make an entrance." He laughed and removed the hood he had on his head. He had a cloak over his black magician clothes that had a hood attached to it.
Lucy sharply exhaled and so did the rest of the group. "Y-you are a-!"
"Yes, I'm a neko." Kenneth didn't have any problem revealing who he was. "And…I can sense that you are too. Weren't you the daughter of…?"
Lucy knew what he was going to say, which was about her father whom she hated. She had a feeling that he was about to threaten her neko mother, Layla too.
"You shut up!" Lucy hissed showing her fangs. Her eyes turned red in anger and her claws came out.
Lucy and Kenneth advanced into a blood-boiling melee. Lucy ended up suffering a lot of wounds with most being on her arms and legs, blood dripping down from the wounds itself. Part of her clothing were due to the attacks the neko sent at her, which her psychic attacks he used with his mind. It was almost hard landing any hits on him.
"Heh," Kenneth scoffed and Lucy had a bad feeling about this as she was trying to catch her breath. He planned on finishing her off as he was looking directly at the x-shaped wound he caused on her forehead, which was slightly bleeding.
"Don't you dare!" Lucy growled getting her stamina back. She ran at him with all her might, but ended up getting thrown back with her hood coming off and tail emerging from the slash on her pants that he sent at her. Natsu's eyes widened when he saw what happened and couldn't believe his eyes. He looked at Erza, Gray, and Loki. He saw by their faces that they somehow knew of what Lucy's secret was.
Lucy noticed as well what happened right on time and gasped in horror. She tried to put the hood back over her ears, but saw that it was torn up. It was too late.
"Oh, is the little kitty scared that her secret's come out?" Kenneth teased her. "You're such a weakling…"
"I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" Lucy yelled out running up to him with lightning speed. She was even faster than the rogue wizard who didn't have time to reach as she swiped off his head, blood landing on her and the floor as well.
Lucy turned towards everyone and glared. She didn't recognize them at all, but had a strange feeling that she recognized Loki. She grinned walking up to him with her fangs showing.